Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1898 — Page 6

MANY THINK! •when the Creator said to woman, “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children,” that a curse was pronounced against the human race, but the joy felt by every Mother when she first presses to her heart her babe, proves the contrary. Danger and suffering lurk in the pathway of the Expectant Mother, and should be avoided, that she may reach the hour when the hope of her heart is to be realized, in full vigor and strength. MOTHER'S FRIEND so relaxes the system andasV Si sts Nature, —i!Aj that nec * es-iry change takes place tjr withe '' a - ■ nff’d Iff sea. Headache. , f \ ■ Nervous or V /a jKGximy F:re- - f g er an dthe trying hour is robbed of its pain and suffering, as so many happy mothers have experienced. Nothing but “Mother’s Friend” does this. Don’t be deceived or persuaded to use anything else. rrr onxhemark 2--d il. n irensmTr.er* r rai«e n higL..-.' —W. a. Karo a Co., Wtoiewnzhi Tex. Os draft- at ’’ -- - ' - ex; —— ox _ seer.:: :e ‘ - -t-. We inlormattoa tor az. Mothers. mxle-1 tree. Ike BradMd BevsLsur Ce.. Atliau. G*. C£UR D’ALENE. BY FIARY HALLOCK FOOTE. “Are ye listenin’?" Mike inquired, seeing- that Darcie was eying his papers in a me i.’cuve way. “Beca'se av ye are not. I’ll nc-t waste me breath.” “Go on,” said Darcie. "I was only comparing what I have said myself with what you are saying. It’s odd we should look at it in the same way. You're a hot-headed Irishman, like all the rest of them. Mike. Why aren't yon swearing vows against the oppressors?" "Beca'se I'm wan av thim mese-f. It's not a hobo I am. packin' me blankets from camp to camp. I’ve a shtake av me own in the counthry: and if this foolishness goes on. I'm clane ruined. There's to man can run a mine in the Cor ce 'Lane—no, nor sell it. av he was to give it away—the gait things is goin’ now. “Ah, it’s not a question av the miner st alii They wants to run things here the same as they does in Montany. Y’e wouldn’t believe the power av -he nnion in Butte. Things was gettin' mighty quire last spring before the mine-owners tuk the definsive. Faith, there was little law in the Cor de’Lanes that could howld above the law av the union! “Whin Hogan, the sluffbass, was murdhered in the Caltrop mine—shtabbed in the breast wid the prong av a miner's carle-shtick, an’ him cornin' cut o' the tunnel to the dhryin’house in broad day—there was plenty that saw it; but him that dene it was a tmicn man, an’ divil a witness c'u'd be found to say be seen it. They wouldn't dast. for the union can protect its own, be they lambs or wolves The hand av it was that heavy on tLe owners, a man couldn't be seen shpakin’ fri’ndly on the street with wan av them but the union tuk note av him for a thraitor. There was n:t a thing the mines c'u'd do but combine, or quit business, or be dictated to by the union bosses. like childher! Last autumn, whin the mines shut down by common consist, it was partly to get betther rates for transportation; but that wouldn't go down with the union boys. They h-ad it the owners had turned the tables on them, and gone cn a shtrike tl-ems- ves: and that wouldn’t do, ye know; f r the first principle av the unions is that nobody shall combine but themselves. "Well, the shuttin' down didn't work in all ways as they hoped. Fightin' it out is bad: whichever side makes the kick, the wrong ones is sure to get hurled. The best men: win* off seekin’ work where they could find it; the wans that shtayed an’ growled, they was the werst av the lot. and ail winter they was cussln' an* blowin* an' gettin' up shteam for a big fight. Take a town full av .die mem an' free whisky flowin' by the gallon, and a set av bullheaced chumps that never did an honest day’s work in tbelr lives talkin’ about the wrongs av the lab'rin’ man —ye know what'll be the end of that. 'The mines gev out in the spring they was ready to reshume. and published their scale av wages: three for urshkiiled and three and a half for shkiiled miners, the same as it was at first. And then the union put forth its last word: ivery man workin’ undherground sh’u'd get three fifty and no man sh’u'd take less and work wid his life in the Cor de ’Lane. Twas then the ovthiers shied their hat into the ring, and both sides shtripped for fiffbt. “Twas aisy bringin’ in men that was willin’ to work for three dollars, and glad to get it, but it wasn’t aisy ka.pl a' them here. They couldn't bide, the life they ied, with the union puttin’ its shpite on them. Some was sedjuced into Finin'. but more was scared out av t’ a counthry entirely. They leaked away faster than they was fetched in; and thim that stayed was tla ,t harassed an’ worried they couldn't do their work like min.

i “At last there was two boys workin’ in the‘Tale o'Woe'that had the sand to say they would nayther jine nor quit. They stud cut an’ tuk their punishment. Wan av them was an Amerikin, and he was diver wid his talk about his rights to work where he pl’ased. and for who he p’.’ased. under the laws av the counthry. widout I'ave av the brotherhoods. But they quinched him and his prattle about his rights. Him and the other lad that was workin’ wid him. they haled up the mountain by a long thrail. “ ‘tv here are ye fakin' us?' says they. “We’ll go out p’aceful. the way we come in. by the railroad.’ “'Ye might get hurted that way.’ says big Dan Rafferty, pekin bis cmy fun at thim. ‘Wallace and Gem is full ar excited min; it might not be safe for ye. We’ll take ye by a quiet road where ve'll meet wid no wan.’ “And they prodded the boys up the mountain, abusin’ th:m all the way: two hundhred mendhrivin’two •—b’atin' on ile-cansMid shticks, and cussin'them wid every foul name they could turn their tongue to. They shoved them out over the Montany divide, and the clothes half tore off them wid the handlin’ they mat. Twas the month av April, an’ the snows was cruel deep. They put them out on a fersaken road to wal!y threngh the drifts f rty-f.vemiles s f s ’ ■' - to the way. There’s nare a house but - -- - - i them for fear of the union. "And that’s how wan lab’rin’ man taches another who are his bosses in this free counthry. By the Lord above! if 1 come to have bosses over me. I'll not choose them wid the heart av an awl and the head av a han’shpike! Do they think thev’re doin’ the lab’rin’ man any good by such blaggard work as this? Faith. I think we re like to have a labor inquisition here, if things goes on. Tis too ma th power to put in the hands av men as ignorant as they is “Did the scabs get through ?" asked "Wan av thim got through an* teshtified in coort to what Fm tellin’ye; and vits by scores the owners got an injane-1 tion laid on the miners' unions, all an’ • siveraL for to quit intimidatin' an’ shpirin' in the Cor de’Lane. Bnt ’twas no use at ail. except t make thimmad: ye me igh; as well shake anold broom at •a srizzli bear. Y» knew the rest yourself. But that’s h :w guarded train loads av shcabs come into the Cor de'Lanes; and that’s how it is the mines is armed an’ barricaded—all but the Big Horn, sole anc 'one. which mver come intothe owners' as s relation at all. and gives the union all it asks." “What reason did Bingham offer, do you know, for not coming into the association?" asked Darcie. “He gev the reas: n that the Big Horn is a wet mine, which it is; but nayther the w ater nor the w irk in the mine iver kep' the Big Horn boys underground whin the union wanted thim on top.l They trots back and fort’ the same as they owned the mine. Some says the ould man's that tied up wid his own foolishness he can’t help the way things is goin*. Pether Banning, the foreman that’s in since Misther Bingham eome. . has the puil on him entirely. He’s a mighty man in the union, is Pete; an’ he's well acquainted wid the saycrets av the management. Tis he knows ail' about the commissions thecujdman has I pocketed along av ivery order for sup-. piles that he gets in; and a costly mine it is to run—for the comp’r.y—ye may lay your life on that. Times when I was workin' in it. I'd hear outside that the mine was doin’ poorly—not a hatful av ore in sight; whin I'd know meself there was bodies av ere bein' covered up by order av the manager, for reasons that he kep' to himself. Tether Banning is in all that, ye see; so the ould man has got to be fri'nds wid Pether's fri'nds." “Come. Mike, don't be scandalous." said Darcie. rising to his feet. “He’s a soaker, if you like: a coward, I suspect, an incapable if ever there was one, but not a common thief and swindler!” “Ah, ye know it well enough! Tis as public as the winds. The eomP’ny’s far away from the rumor av it, or ’twould have been known before cow. The oulu man's name is rife wid shcandals; and how he comes by such a darlln' for his daughter is a thing I can't cipher out meself. niver havin' seen the lady he buried —Mrs. Bingham that was.” “We are not discussing the ladies of the management.” Darcie demurred. “Dod. I’m not like a fasset. thin, to be turned on and off wid atwisht av the screw.” M.ke rejoined. “Ye can take me as I come, or I’avc me alone." “I'll leave you alone.” smiled Darcie. and tnen was silent for a long while; but ne was too restless, apparently, to return to his writing. Mike had a suspicion that his partner d,d not s.eep m ■;: h that night—not that he .ay awake himself to see; but somebody had been up. burning firewood in unreasonable quantities. Darcie. who never complained of his food, left his breakfast untasted, and Mike ruefully scraped into the Are the whole of a fine boiled potato soaked in ham gravy. “It's the heart av him shakin’ his insides so that he cannot ate. I have been that way meself. Ah. me little Darcie. ye’d betther have wint for the docther. or shtayed wid the ould man and put me to the proof, that has a girl av me 'own. I think I see ye this minute. Kitty der'in’; God's blessin’ on ye, wheriver ye are!” IV. A BROKEN REED. The threatened notice for Darcie to pack his blankets was not, in his case, I delivered in person. It appeared without visible human agency on the outsice of the door of the Biack Dwarf, and the language was such that it cannot be repeated here. Darcie and Mike worked close -together. and were never unarmed or off

' their guard. When M.ke. two or three > days after the storm, was obliged to go to Wallace for supplies, he avoided the . the railroad track andtock the old trail, and Darcie remained in the tunnel, with : his Winchester an ore-caron the track byway of barricade. He was . in his working-clothes, but he was not making wages, not even the wages of ■ trammer, according to company prices. He was still grinding away at that equivocal position from which, as he had volunteered to Miss Bingham, the next eastern mail was to release him. He was already free in intention, and his conscience toward her was clear, but evidence of his previous position was still upon his person in the contents of a certa’n letter which be kad written on the very day before the day that brought her to the cabin. To send it. or not to send it. that was the question. To whom did that letter belong? “I'm a broken reed.” be said aloud, and then he could rot help laughing, for he was in a curious case. His meditation went cn in the silence somewhat tc the following effect: “I can't do their work, and I won't take their money. They must send out another man: better not send a young one. By Jove, it's rough cn the old company! Pm the fourth one. and Tve ‘succumbed.’ as Mike says, like my predecessors. No. hang it—not like my predecessors. I thank the Lord I'm boodle-proof, and drink-proof, and proof, at r. pinch, against the seductions of the elk and the big-horn in their native wiids. When Singleton came out. the foxy old manager took him hunting. Happy 'r.ought: hunt first, investigate afterward. Big time they had. They git so chummy ever their camp fire that Singleton felt like a brother to the whole outfit; by the time he’d shot a brace of big-horn and lost bis money regularly a: poker with the boys, there wasn't a spot on the sun of his regard. It was a simple matter to investigate after that. Took Bingham's word fcr everything. “Poor Langley vent down with a run: what with the altitude, and the fancy potations they seduced him with, he drank himself silly, and was shipped home like a sheep. “Grant, they claim, never got any rearer the Big Hom than New York. That was a slander, I daresay. I didn't stop in New York: I never tempted the gods, and denied my weakness: I never professed to be girl-proof. I came straight on; thought Fd be safe when Td got into the mountains. “Comes a knock at the door one pitchblack night, and in she steps in he- wet skirt like a lily in its sheath—a rose and s lily Ln one. And lam gone, all at once. .. .. nothing to it: there’s not enough left cf me to wipe up the floor with. “Whit shall leal. it. mountain fever’ No; Langley said be bad. m suntain fever: mine is not the same kind. Say Tre struck t rich in the Black Dwarf ’’ No: the governor will ask for assays, and want to organize a company: no j I company wanted here. No: ITI give it ■ tc ’em straight: say thatthings are rot- I ten. rotten ss the de-ri'i; but Fm not the man fur a committee cf one to investigate Manager Bingham’s administration. Let them discover the reason for themselves; they wouldn’t believe mine if I gave it. I have told them there's a miners' war toward, and the time is not good for investigations.” Again Darcie spoke aloud, using. I regret to say. a strong expression in regard to the letter which-he held in bis hand. He flung it on the table: “Why in thunder didn't I send it the minute Lt was written? The information in it belongs to the company. Is it theirs—is it mine? It's on my conscience that it ought to go. Tae amount of systematic robbery, and lying, and corrupting cf the company's agents, that's gone on here is almost too picturesque for belief. I wonder what they would cave put up on me if I bad> come announced as the company's representative authorized to make a report? I should have succumbed a little more previously, that’s all. I should have looked at her and tendered my resignation on the spot. A curious fatality that we've both been here about the same time, and I never saw her till last night —I mean two nights ago. It is an age. yet it is the very present moment that I live in. Hang the letter! How can I send it after our little talk about her troubles? ‘I will trust you with all mv troubles.' said she. She shall trust me! If her notorious old parent is to be investigated they must send another’ man. We're a rum crowd ever there. A set of doting grandmammas were wiser. It moves me to tears and laughter. the faith that is in us when faith is downright si.llness. and the fantastic suspicions that feed upon us whenever suspicion's the wrong eard." Here a sound of footsteps crossing the dump from below was beard Darcie crouched behind the car and reached for his rifle: be listened sharply till be heard Mike's whistle, then he sang out: “ 'Are ye there. Moriarty?' " Yes: Mike was there, and he had brought news, of which be disburdened himself together with his bacon, and flour, and pail of lard, and matches, and candles, and coffee. He had. as he said, made a pack-horse of himself. “I dnnno fwhat country this is we're livin’ in now.” he began in his richest bass, shaking out a reef in his “r-r’s” till the timbers rang. “It's not a free country, be gosh! Call a man a foul name, and bate the Icife out av him—that's right! Thim anarchists rounded up wan o’ the Caltrop boys in town last evenin’, and settled wid him for a shcab and a thraitor. The gyards found him at daybreak, and tiEphoned to the manager. and wend come down he was to be sint up to the harspital on a han'-cyar. Tree av the Caltrop boys shored him up the thraek. and as they was bringin’ the cyar back the union, mln set upon them, and mishandled them, and two pot away and wan was left on the tbrack wid the sinse knocked out av b:m. And the mine showed it#guns to

i . purtectits mice whilst they was fetchuf ( him in. anc the women began to screech . that the m:ue was firin' on the town And al! the bigmouths wasta.k.n . anc I think the crisis has come. And that scriptur' they nailed upon the doo: outside, that manes business. Darcie dear. Tis a small private matther. but j I think they'll be lookin'afther us pret ty soon." “Why do you say ‘us,' Mike? Youi ( name is not in it." "I’m in whatever my pardner s in But here's the quarest go. and. by the cross. 1 dunno fw rat to make av Im none so fond o' the nayborbood av th< Big Horn, but it's the shortest way. anti the boys is mostly in town on this racket 1 was tellin’ ye. so 1 snaked a.ong us the tbrack. and as 1 was steppin’ up the thrail bv the manager’s ‘house, a rate little girl foregathered w id me. “‘ls this Mike McGowan?’says she. “‘lt's bound to be Mike.' said I •whin a purty gurl is passin’ the word. I'm thinkin’ 't was Abby Steers that'i housekeepin’ for Misther Bingham, but 1 thought her a good bit ou'der than this wan. But ye niver can tell; the; make themselves what age they please " ’Has that pardner of yours, Jac* Darcie. has he teflT says she. "'He has not,' says L ‘For wbv should he leave?" “ ’I heard he got notice, that's all.’ says she. There's a lady wants to se, him if he hasn't skipped: but she can’t go to him. and it’ll not be healthy for him to come where she is, if anybody happens to see him.’ " ’Does the lady wear number nines,’ says 'an' does she shmc ke the Seal o’ North Carliny?* And I giv her a wink. " tj’ ’long,’ says she; for what do you take me?' “'For somebody's darling.' says L ‘and for nobody’s fool.' And I axed her which av her fri’n’s was wantin' Jack Darcie. [TO BZ COMIM'IU.] ■ I W *s WexK Servous and Run [Xmn.’' I want t testify to the good Bnira's Cne has done me. I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when I commenced taking it; it has done evervthing for m- and I am now a new being. A nuir.ler <■: my friend- also > • gn ' ' t the good your | medicine has done them —it is indeed a grand remedv. Youre Gratefully, Mrs L V. < ’ 7 .._-. 91 1 Mass Av-.. Indianapolis. Ind. - accruing Brown's Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known f'?r the liver, kidneys and bowels. a positive cure fcr dvspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nerv isness. constipation and loss r -f sleep. If you suffer try thi- great remedy an i find health and happiness. Page Blackburn. Price 75 cents. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts | 15c. E4artte Tcer Roweb With CMearetflL O&ady cure forever ■ 10c.Sc. If ac C .. irzrz WUI History Itself? The safety drove the apparently perluaßeutly established ordinary cut us sight within a tingle year. Is is poasibfe to imagine a similar fate fee the pre#-—• pattern? Venly. it seems impcssiL.e.—American Cyclist.

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