The Ordway new era., 1916-10-20

, eleventh hour! All right. Start In IL
, morrow. It's the first o the montf
, Think you can get up IN timer
six O'clock" Bibbs responded brisk
ly. And want to tell you-lm SC
Ing in cheerful spirit As you said
I'll go and I'll like itr"
That's your lookout" bis fathe
erunted. They'll put you back on tn
clippin' machine. You get nine dollar
week"
More than I'm worth, too" sai'
Bibbs. cheerily. THAT reminds me.
didn't mean you by Midas In tha
nonsense I'd been writing. l meant
Makes hell OF lot OF differenc,
what you meanT'
Il Just wanted you TO know. Goot
night. father"
"G'nlehti''
The sound OF the young mans foot
steps ascending the stairs became In
audible. and the house was quiet. But
presently. as Sheridan sat staring an
grIly at the fire, the shuilling OF pair
OF slippers could be heard descending.
and Mrs. Sheridan made her appear,
ance, her obliIue expression and the
state OF her toilette being those of a
person who. after trying unsuCcess-
! fully TO sleep on one side, has got up
! TO look for burglars.
-Papa"' she exclaimed. drowsily.
''why'n't you go TO bed? II must be
goin' on 'leven o'clock
She yawned. and seated herself near
him. stretching out her hands to the
fire. What's the matter:" she asked.
sleep and anxiety striving sluggIshly
with each other in her voice. Il knew
you were worried all dinner time.
You got something new on your mind
besides Jim's beIn' taken away Ike he
was What's worryin' you now, papa?"
"Nothin''
You sat up to see Bibbs, didn't your
"He starts In at the shop again to
morrow morning." said Sheridan.
Just the same as he did before?"
Just pre-cisely!''
"How-long you goin' to keep him
at 1t, paPaT' she asked, tlmidly.
Until he knows somethingr The
unhappy man struck his palms to-
gether. then got 10 his feet and began
TO pace the room. as was his wont
when he talked. Hell 20 back to the
machine he couldn't learn to tend prop
erly In the six months he was there
and he'll stick to It till he does learn
II! That boys whole life, there's been
settln' up o something mulish that's
against everything | want him TO do.
| don't know what II Is, but It's got
to be worked out OF him. Now, labor
aln't any more q simple question than
what II was when We were young. Ny
| idea IS that. outside o. union troubles,
| the man that can manage vorkln' men
Is the man that's been one himself
| Well. set Bibbs TO learn the men and
TO learn the business. and he set him
self to balk on the first job! That's
what he did, and the balk's lasted close
on to three years. II he balks again
I'm just done with him! Sometimes |
feel Ike | was pretty near done with
everything. anyhow
Il knew there was something else"
said Mrs. Sheridan, blinking over a
yawn. You better let It go till to
morrow and get to bed now-'Iess
you'll tell me?"
Suppose something happened t.
Roscoe he said. Then what'd
have to look forward to? Then wha
could l depend on to hold things to
gether? A lummix! A lummix tia
hasn't learned how to push strip O
zinc along a groove"
"RoscoeF" she yawned. You needn'
worry about Roscoe, papa. Hes tn
strongest child we had. never dI,
know anybody keep better health thai
he does. l don't believe he's even ha,
a cold in five years. You better 90 VI
to bed, papa"
Suppose something did happen t
him. though. You don't know what
means. keepin' property together thcs
days-just keepin' it alive, let alon
maxim 1t grow the way I do. I te
you when man dies. IL that dea
mans chuldern amt on the Job, nigh
and day, everything he built IL ge
carried off. My Lord. when I thin
o. such things comm to me, 1t don
seem like I deserved it-no man eve
tried harder to raise his boys rigt
than l have. / planned and planne
and planned how to bring 'em up I
be guards to drive the wolves off. an
how to be builders to build. and bull
bigger. tell you this business life !
no FOOLS job nowadays-a mans &c
to have eyes in the back of his heat
You hear talk, sometimes. ID make 20
think the millennium had come-br
right the next breath you'll hear som,
body hollerin' about the great unrest
You bet there's great unrestr TheI
amt any man alive smart enough
see what it's goin' to do to Ms In Il
end, nor what day It's got set to bu.
loose, but it's frothIn' and bubbIin'
the boiler. This country's been nllil
up with It from an over the world q
a ROod many yearR and fhA ntd - m,