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BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY.
Copyrighted by the nthor, and published
by arrangement -witn nun.
(CWsitiW from U-t ireti.i
CHAPTER XVI.
WHAT WILL THEV BRING
Days passed till they made weeks, and
weeks till they made months, and no change
came for the mills or for the lives of the
creatures who worked within their grim
walls, except the change f ro.n poor to more
poor.
His acquaintances saw new expressions on
bis face the open, boyish look had gone, and
hi voice had new tones of decision; his step
bad grown firmer and his eyes met a glance
with a new steadiness.
One morning the three men who had been
once on the flre escape committee met in the
doorway of No. 2 mill, restored after the fire.
They had left their work for a breath of
fresh air.
"Hois closer than bis father; he scrimps
and saves like a poor cuss trying to support a
family on $5 the week. What show is there
for usP
"Yell mind it's all jist as I told ye, Bill
Rogers," suggested Graves, the comfort of 'I
told you so' being left to him out of the
general wreck. "Jist as I told ye that night
more'n a six month ago in front of old
Breton's. As soon at- the lud feels his oats
that's the Inst of his kind heart."
"The boy's had hard luck since then," said
. Rogers, bundling his pipe out of old force of
habit. "Fr'ai he's punishiu' us for it. It
seems so strange somehow his changin' all so
sudden."
" Taint that," said Graves, as ho turned to
go back to work, and then lingering a mo
ment longer; "It is the natur of a ninn and
crops out as sure ns he gets his swing. There
ain't a one of us but would make a moaner
rich man than him. It conies easy to be a
labor reformer and radical as long as a fellow
is poor, and it's just as easy for a man to talk
beautiful if ho ain't looked to to do nothing.
But it makes a man drunk when ho feels the
reins in his bandi, and him nothin' but a'mau
of the same btuff as the rest on us. Look at
Cumin now; how much better'n the rest is
be? Ho deserted us at the most critical mo
ment. Somethiu' made him throw us up as
if we liad all of a sudden sickened on his
stomach. "We're ioor stuff, all on us, boys.
I never seen a liner feller than that Cumin
but he's lorgot all alxmt the wrong aim
rights he used to holler so purty about.
There's no clianco for us in any man's mercy;
we must depend on ourselves."
At this very moment Philip Breton was
pressing the little brass bell on his counting
room table. For an answer his paymaster
came in with his pen, wet from the ink, in
his hand.
"Do we pay our help enough?''
A thousand eager voices would have shout
ed a no to him that would have shaken the
foundations of stone, but Mr. Jennings, the
paymaster, put his pen behind his ear, took
it down, looked keenly at it, then in surprise
at the young mill owner.
"We can get 1,000 as good for tho same, if
that is what 3-011 mean."' Ah, what chance
have the poor mills people, when the young
master chooses such advisers as this.'
"No," said Philip, slowly. "It isnt ex
actly what I mean; can we raise tho wagesP
"Can j-ou; -w hy yes, I suppose you can step
right into the mills and give a 100 bill to
every hand. But you couldn't afford to do
that thing long, and I don't think it would do
anybody an- good. I wouldn't assume to
advise yon, sir, but whj- not just as well go
up street and insist on paying a fancy price
for your flourf
"Butilou't they lind it hard to live on what
we give them? And what a life it is at that,"
suggested Philip, sadly. Apparently he bad
not quito forgotten them.
"No doubt, no doubt r repeated the pay
master with the querulousuess ofj his class,
"but is there any sense in putting in your or
my fiat? You can't make a ninety cent
laborer worth a dollar and a quarter by giv
ing it to him. You insult him and damage
business by making it all uncertain with the
gratuitous element."
"I see you don't believe in benevolence, my
dear Jennings," and Philip smiled curiously.
"Yes, I do, for sick people and paupers, but
If you don't want to make paupers of every
body you mustn't"
"But I am not a pauper, and I never earned
a pennj- in my life till a few months ago."
Philip's eyes flashed at a sudden revelation.
"But, ah but that is different. Drop that
then. To make our clot h there are a number
of expenses: there is the mill and the ma
chinery, the money locked up in fabrics and
material. These are fixed; you don't think it
your ""duty to pay extra prices for raw ma
terial, nor make a gratuity with every dollar
you spend on machinery, no matter how poor
the man that sells to you. Now comes an
other element, labor. That should l as fixed
as the rest and all calculations based on its
market price. When you go to market with
your cloth you don't ask any gratuity, nor
does the buyer claim any; the price is fixed
better than the caprice of a moment could fix
it. The element of labor enters into the cost.
The difference between the cost and price is
your profit. If labor stands you in its mar
ket price your profit will reward your efforts,
and it will pay you to keep up your mill. If
you paid higher wages your profits would be
small; you would give up your enterprise
and all would suffer."
"I didn't know j-ou could be so eager. But
supposing they tell me my profit is too large,
that my labor pays me so well I ought to
make it up to them." The young proprietor
was looking musingly out of the window
where the autumn wind was chasing the
russet leaves in savage glee. Mr. Jennings,
the paymaster, had reached tho door, but
waited a moment to clinch his argument.
"Then if you lot money your help ought
to contribute. But it might not be at all
their fault that you lost, any more than it is
to their credit you succeed. Their labor in
quantity and quality would be just the same
What reason in c'aanging its valuation? No,
I am sure there is but one way, to measure
the value of your labor as you do everything
else, by what it will bring."
"Not quite everything," said Philip; but h
said it so low the argumentative Jennings did
not hear it. All he heard was just as he was
closing his door:
"Please send in the overseer of No. 1 weave
room."
It was but a few moments, during which
Philip did not move from his seat, before the
overseer came in, stroking bis apron defer
entially. "Mr. Bright, the men and girls complain;
they say they ought to be paid by the day
instead of by the piece."
"Which ones complain? Tho lazy ones, I
guess. Why surely, Mr. Breton, it wouldn't
be right to pay the best weaver and the poor
est the same."
"Why not.'" asked Philip, with unchanged
features watching the look of astonishment
that shone on the man's round fat face.
"Why not, if we paid them all the highest
price?"
"Well sir, it wouldn't be a month before
bad and good would all be worth about the
same, and that as little as the poorest of
them. It would be a poor way to encourage
them to be smart.''
"Does Graves work in your room?"
"Yes, but he is just going out for this
momin his"
"Send him in if you can find him." Philip
rose to his feet now, and was walking tho
room impatiently when John Graves slouched
in. He turned on him as if he was going to
do violence to his visitor, but it was only a
question he hurled at him.
"What do you think ought to be changed
in the mill? Speak up now, and let me know
your mind."
"I think we work too hard for our pay.
then," drawled the laborer, but his mind was
in an unusually excited condition.
"That is because the public want such
goods as ours so cheap."
"There's other things to cut on besides labor
forever and even Oh, no, ye cant bvy poor
cotton, it would show in the cloth; ye cant
wra on machinery, it would spoil yer sales;
bat if we carders and weavers and spinners
be cat, it dont leave a mark on the cloth.
Bat it leaves deen gashes in our hearts and
joys, yon b sure." Graves looked at the
yonocaMK to see if be mjebt go OB. but to
could not read his master's face. Me hesi
tated a moment and then he continued.
"There aintapoor bent girl in the mill
but might live a b'fe so happy it would make
a strong man cry to think of it We are of
more account than your machinery. No
beltin' or patent self acting springs could do
our work; it takes immortal souls, and intel
lects in the image of God to do it. It's the
same sort of work you do, and compare what
tho two of us gets. Wc aint fairly paid till
we gets, the weakest of us, a taste of the
sweet things in this world we have longed for
so long. I don't care what yer wise book
men says." Was the young proprietor ungry,
he stood so grave and still f What a change I
Time was when pity would have shoue on
ever line of his face. But he might have
been a statue for all appearance of melting in
him now.
"I pay you the market price, as much as
tho other mill owners."
Well, God have mercy on his poor children,
if Philip Breton could make that excuse!
The man sat down without an invitation, and
leaned his brawny elbows on the table.
"Now see here, you told me to speak my
mind,and Iamagoin' to. We are poor; we
ain't got nothin'; we can't by back and wait
for our price. We want somethin' to eat
today; we come to you for work; we
must have work, if it only earns us
a loaf of bread. Is it right, then, to value
us at what we can bo got for? If we could
haggle with ye, and hang off the way a little
ready cash lets a man do, there might be
some sense in it. But you never let us get
enough ahead for that. It's work or go
hungry with us. The poorer we gets, the
tighter ye can squeeze us, and I sometimes
wonder why ye gives us as much as ye da I
s'pose a man might live on a little less. And
it's all business, as ye say."
Philip had seated himself, but he said
nothing. Ho had given tho man the priv
ilege of his tongue, and he did not seem dis
posed to stop him.
"Is tho right price of a thing what a man
'11 give for it? If they had the money, men
would give $1,000,000 for a breath of air,
when they're stifled. Would it be right to
punip oft the air, and then let it on at $1,000,
000 a breathing' If you was drowning,
you'd give $1,000,000 to bo saved if it was
only to hold out a pole to yer. Is that a fair
price for holdin' out a nle.' We're starvin'
unless we can get a bile to eat. Is it any
more right to bargain n ith 11s for a life of
hard work, for just enough to live on! A man
wants somethin' more than food. He wants
to send his children to school, to get a loafln'
hour now and then, to make himself some
thin' besides a brute. He wants he wants
some such things and chances as you liave.
Why, squire, we're all men trgcther." The
man's eyes looked across at Philip with a
vague wilfulness, as if he were thinking of
the beautiful possibilities of a life so far all
drudgery and want.
"But what is there to do?" exclaimed
Philip in an impatient tone that put to flight
all the workman's fKlish fancies. The young
man's heart seemed changed to flint. "You
don't want to be objects of charity, do your"
John Graves straightened his arms along
the table; then he stood up.
"Charity! Well, no, not such charity as
picks a creature up today as soft as a baby,
and drops him to-morrow like a dog. But if
payin' yer help enough of yer gain so they
can know what life is if that is charity, as
you call it, give it to us. Ye needn't be so
precious fraid of hurtin' tho laboring classes,
as they call 'em, by treatiu' 'em too well.
They're sinkin' every day lower and lower,
and lots of fellows in specs keep a warnin'
j-ou not to spoil 'em, not to hurt their pride,
or break their spirit by givin' 'em something.
As if kindness ever hurt any human soul.
Not that I would call it charity; thoy earns
every mite yo'H ever give 'em.'
"But if the mills or employers don't make
such gains as you seem to take for grant
ed"
"If there ain't mone' made, why, nobody I
van find no fault not to get big paj All I
mean is when money is made, and that's
pretty often, we ought to have some share
in it"
"Don't go, John, I want to ask you"
"I must; I asked out for today," and the
door closed after tho man. For quite a while
after his last visitor had gone, Philip sat
with his eyes fixed on the door knob in in
tense abstraction. Was he angry at the
audacity of the common laborer? When he
pushed back bis chair and rose to his feet,
running his hands through his hair, he made
one exclamation:
"How blind.' But whom he meant,
whether his class or the laborers, did not
appear from his tone or from tho bitter smile
on his lips. John Graves would hare told in
a moment that the young proprietor meant
no good to his help. The man had had a
glimmer of hope that Philip Breton might
only be waiting for an opportunity, but this
interview had dispelled it from his mind.
It was some little time afterwards that
Philip left his counting room and made his
way up the street He was dressed in som
berest black, and his silk hat was subdued
with a wide band of crape. But his dress
was no more melancholy than his face.
When under pressure of business, one would
not have noticed it so especially, but the in
stant he was thrown back upon himself, his
face became as sad and hopeless as the face of
tho most wretched laborer in his milL He
was tasting tho most bitter dregs in life, he
thought. What soul could bo more crushed
than his? Tho timo was when it would have
been impossible for him to see a human crea
ture suffer without a thrill of sympathy. It
would have seemed a cruel and unnatural
stroke of fortune, which it was for him to
prevent or cure. But he bad learned better,
be thought Suffering was common to all;
there was no good of trying to patch up this
life or that; the terrible disease was forever
at work. Conditions made but little differ
ence: rich and poor, high and low, agonized
together over some form of broken hope,
some unsatisfied hunger.
The chapel door stood open, and he stopped
and looked in. It was here Bertha and he
were to have been married. And it would
have been before this but now. He saw the
place vthcre they would have stood together.
The church was empty and bo walked softly
in, as if afraid of disturbing the ghosts of bis
dead hopes, who haunted yet, perhaps, the
sacred spot they glorified in all the dreams of
his early manhood. He walked wearily up
the echoing aisle and throw himself into a
seat He bowed bis head upon the back of
the pew in front of him. Had he no shame
to come to the rescue of his broken heart!
would ho grieve forever over a woman that
bad become another man's wife? She had
called on the laws of the laud for her protec
tion; he had no right to even think of her
now. Sho was shut away from him forever.
It had become a siu for him now to long for
Lor. though sho bad been so nearly his own
wife. There was no place in the world for
unmated lovers like him. If she had not
married that man! How strange that be bad
heard nothing of that marriage; her note had
not mentioned it, and no one had spoken of
it since. Why, his belief in her purity was so
absolute he had not even thought to question
her marriage, and now it was like a guilt?
tbing. that he permitted himself to entertain
for a moment terrible fears. What vengeance
would be stern and relentless enough for him
who had wrecked the noblest womanhood in
the world, who had sullied a purity like an
angel's, and insulted a sacred dignity like
Bertha's? Oh, it could not be: no man on
earth could have been so bold, so impious.
How wild his imagination had become.
"Oh, I didnt know but it was young
Breton and that Bertha Ellingsworth that
was going to be married." Two graceless
women had come in and seated themselves
in a neighboring pew. Philip had been
thinking so intensely until now that an
earthquake would hardly have disturbed
him.
"That'll never be," giggled the other;
"you don't say you didn't know she eloped
with that Curran fellow, though it's been
kept pretty still r
"Do tell!" Philip shuddered. Why were
creatures like these permitted to touch names
like Bertha's? "Married another chap, eh?
Well, young Breton never was much for
looks, anyhow."
"Married!" Philip started at her tone.
"Who said she was married? The shoe's on
the other foot She aint married at all
Handsome fellow like him has a wife in every
town, such as they be. That proud ynin-r
is only one on 'em." How they rolled the
shameful story, like a sweet morsel under
their tongues, a if it relieved the blackness
of their contemptible souls, that one woman
more had singed her angel wings in the piti
less flame of disgrace.
Philip had struggled to his feet The
women blushed like fire and tried to look un
conscious, but he did not even glance at them
as he moved down the aisle. He could not
see very well Was the chapel fall as it
eemed? and was that an usher in white kide
who was coming toward !" sad saying:
"ft ctmisatetre; tfcs bridal cWpk
are just coming in."
Bolt upright he sat where be bad been
guided, and saw as in a dream a white phan
tom of a woman it seemed and a black
shadow of a man go by. "Married 1 who
said she was married? Ah! it was horrible!
Perhaps they two, those women fiends, were
all that knew the shameful secret Would it
do any good to pray them for the mercy of
God to keep it? Would money hire a woman
to keep a disgrace that had fallen on a fair
sister's name?"
"Aren't you going to salute the bride?"
smiled an acquaintance. "This is the mar
riage of Labor and Capital at last" He had
perpetrated his witticism a dozen times at
least, and this was the first bearer who had
not laughed. Jane Graves and Silas Ellings
worth, Bertha's father were they mad, or
washer
"I am ill," he muttered incoherently, as he
pushed his way almost roughly out
CHAPTER XVIL
THE OTCW STOCK COMPACT.
The terrible seeds of suspicion sown in
Philip Breton's mind bore the bitterest fruits
through the dreary winter months. No efforts
of his will, nor course of reasoning could com
fort him. For a moment he might find re
lief, but his torment would only return
afresh. Humanity are slow to believe good
of fellow creature?, but nothing seemed too
bad to be true. He thought It might have
calmed him to have been assured even of the
worst He believed that he might despise
the woman he had elevated to the highest
pinnacle of his ideal temple of womanhood,
if she had made so little of the most sacred
gift of God. But it would have been vio
lence to his feelings to inquire of those who
must know. Her father must know, but his
smiling face will reveal nothing, and his
ve.y reserve was peopled with horrors for
Philip. His wife Jane must know, too, but
be could not bear to think of the malicious
pleasure she would take In detailing the
shameful story to him. She would sate her
hate iu his misery. But what if it were not
a shameful story ? Still he could not form his
lips to ask. The humiliation of such a ques
tion from liira, a discarded lover, about her
at whoiu feet he had been proud to sit,
shocked him into silence. He even dreaded
lest they might speak to him of her, although
it had been months since he had heard Ber
tha's name once breathed.
One evening at tho very close of the winter,
Philip Breton called a meeting of his help,
and the old market hall was packed from
door to platform. Reporters were planted
by their tables, to catch every word of the
mysterious proceedings. Representatives
from all the factories in the country elbowed
tho crowd for their three feet of standing
room, eager to learn some new device for
making money out of their help as good as
the other. But the great audience was
strangely silent. It knew not what to ex
pect. Perhaps the economical mill owner
was going to announce a new reduction in
their wages; everybody said he was reducing
e-erywhere. The feeling in their hearts was
more of fear than hope, and it was a look of
piteous terror, almost, that they cast at the
slight form in black, that came forward on
the platform. They reminded Philip of a
flock of frightened sheep that had never had
a shepherd. Then he thought of a great
army massed before the smoking cannon
mouth, an army that had never had a gen
eral. He saw they feared him.
"I have been for a long time trying to think
of some way to make your lives more fair for
you, and yet be fair to myself and my class.
I have been cutting on expenses to make the
whole business machinery as economical as I
knew. Now, at last I am ready to take you
into my confidence and make you a proposal."
There was a stir in the great audience, as if
every man changed his position at the same
moment, so as to be sure not to lose one
precious word of the new gospel.
"I cannot feel that I ought to give you
anything. And I cannot see that it would be
reasonable to pay more wages than others
pay; that is, than you have now."
A hush had fallen upon the people like
deatlL There was no hope for them, then.
Still the speaker went on.
"But if your labor is profitable to me, so
that I cau pay you your price, and pay my
other expenses, and pay me for the time I
give to the business wbat'such service as I do
is paid elsewhere, and then have something
besides"
The reporters dropped their pens in aston
meut; was the man mad?
"I am disposed to think that you have
earned a share in it" He paused to catch
his breath, and one could have heard a pin
fall in that crowded room. "My capital
should be allowed for, too. In a word, I pro
pose to divide the profits of my mill, after
all expenses are paid, into two equal parts
hereafter, one for labor, yours and mine, and
one for the interest on my money. The part
which belongs to labor will be distributed
according to the worth of each one's year's
work. The one that earns the largest year's
pay will have the largest per cent of that
dividend. We shall all be stockholders
together, each with a share large or small ac
cording to the value of his work."
The building trembled with the roar of ap
plause that went up, and it was several ino
ments before Philip could make himself
heard again. He had thought there was
nothing left in his life, with lore gone out of
it, but as he stood that moment with the glad
shouts of the poor ringing in bis ears, and felt
he had led them out of bondage, bis heart
thrilled with a proud joy that was almost
ectasy. His wealth bad brought him a hap
piness that made eren a life like his worth
living, had conferred on him a glorious
uense of the dignity of manhood which lifted
him as on wings.
They must listen while be explained the
terms of his plan more fully. He motioned
to a dozen boys and took a printed sheet of
paper from the pile of similar sheets which
be ordered distributed among the workmen.
He then read aloud the following from the
pnper in his band:
The first divided will be distributed Aug. 1
for the vear ending July 1. The surplus is
SJOO.OOO"; 1100,000 is set apart as the allow
ance for capital invested, which leaves flUO,
C"J0, to be distributed to the labor in propor
tion to the wages or salary earned by each.
The whole amount of wages and salaries
earned in the mills was about $360,000. There
fore the rate per cent of dividend is about
37 7-10 to be calculated on the wages or salary
cf each man, woman and child as shown by
the paymaster's book for the past year. For
example, the man whom the pay roll shows
to have earned $300 for his year's work,
will receive 27 7-10 per cent on $300 in ad
dition, or about SS3.10 as his dividend.
The paymaster, who received a salary
of $3,000, will receive about $514,
and as manager worth a salary of $5,000,
) shall receive more than twice the dividend
cf the paymaster.. Certain restrictions will
be imposed. First, only one-half of the an
nual dividend will be in cash, for it
would hurt the interests of the mill
1o withdraw so much from the busi
ness. The other half will be in stock,
which will draw dividends as the rest of the
capital. Second, stock cannot be transferred
except to operatives, but will be redeemed at
the counting room, after notice, when
holders leave the mills, as stock will yield
dividends only while holders work in the
mills. Holders of stock may hold meetings
and choose a committee to examine the books
of the company.bef ore the annual distribution
of dividends.
When Philip Breton sat down a noisy hum
of voices followed as the people read and
commented upon the prospectus. The figures
looked anything but dull to them. The bright
possibilities that came up before their imag
inations as they read were such as no gentle
cadence of poetry could hare given them.
Apparently they would never hare tired of
reading the wonderful words of hope and
good cheer over and over, except that the
outer door swung open and tall man's form
entered. Philip Breton from the platform
saw it and the pride sickened on his heart
The crowd about the door psssed the whisper
around, and it was hardly one short minute
when the building shook again with cheers
as they shouted the name of Curran.
Yes, it was he who pushed his way well
into the room, and then stopped and took
one of the printed sheets, as if be were un
conscious of their cheering, and read till his
face, that had looked so stern and terrible,
softened like a child. Then be mounted a
settee for his platform and uncovered his
bead with a new grace that became him aa
well his strength. The old bitterness bad
gone from his lips; it had girea place to a
touching sadness that sobered erery face that
was turned toward him.
"He means to deal well by yon; he wants
to make yon shareholders in your work."
Philip had risen excitedly to his feet The
sight of the man who bad been with Bertha,
who came perhaps bat this iaetaat from the
at bat wren so terribly. wafts
first almost maddening to him. Ah, bow
grand and beautiful he was, with his deep
mighty chest and shoulders, and his limbs
like pillars of some temple. There were no
laws for such men as he; the holiest and
purest of women lore to make themselves
base and common things to win smiles from
his proud eyes, and men forget their venge
ance, and only remember how small and
mean they seem before him. But who could
look at his melancholy face and the calm
dignity that rested upon him always, and be
lieve he could be vile? Yet perhaps nothing
was vile or low to him, and even sin was
glorified in his eyes when it suited his caprice
to sin.
Philip had come to the very edge of the
platform and beckoned a friend to him.
"Do you see the man talking the man with
the auburn hair curling about his neck? no,
don't look yet;" his voice was husky with
excitement "Get behind him while he is
talking and stop him before he goes out I
must see him and speak with him; I would
rather $10,000 than lose bun. Quick, now."
As Philip sat down again and watched hisr
friend trying to make his way through the
close packed crowd he heard Currant voice
again. What was there changed in it? It
bad lost its old ring, there was a queer drag
in it sometimes, and when he used to raise
his voice till every nerve tingled for sym
pathy, be seemed now to let it fall, and his
long, sonorous sentences died down at the
end like a muffled bell
"If others were like him," be was saying,
"the reform I would dh for would come
soon, would be upon us."
How slow his friend moved. Philip actu
ally hated the people who were too stupid to
get out of his messenger's way.
Had Curran finished, was thb all that was
left of his eloquence? Yes, be was stepping
down and moving toward thi door. Philip's
friend was almost there, the man must not
escape thus, and plunge again with the wo
man whose life be had blasted into the ob
scurity he seemed to love. Philip leaped to
his feet and almost shoated to the people.
AH turned their face expectantly toward
him, Curran with the rest his pale worn face.
Philip's friend was come almost to bim now.
If Curran could only be detained for oti
moment more.
"It will of course be for the interest of all
of you," be knew be was talking weakly, but
it was no matter, "to earn the most wages
you can, to lose the fewest day, to turn off
the most piece work." Of course, he spoke
too stupidly; Currau turned on his heel and
moved toward the door. Almost instantly
then Philip Breton gave a sudden short bow
to the audience and disappeared back of the
platform. Ho bounded down the nanow
stairs, four at a time, and rushed around to
the front of the building like one mad, to
stare for a moment iu the faces of the e.-ap-iug
crowd. Thfn, wilder than ever at the
thought that Curran might have goiuout
among the first, he ran back end forth
after one group and another, but ull
iu vain. Then he forced himself to
stop and think, and forthwith made
inquiries for Curran's boarding place. He
reached the place at last and ran breath
lessly up the stairs. In another moment he
would know the timth if it killed bim to bear
it He must remove the poisonous shadow of
suspicion that was polluting all the holiest
precincts of his nature. Certainty was bet
ter far, for the nerves can brace themselves
against the clearly defined features of ever so
hideous a monster; far better certainly than
this crawling slimy terror that made him
ashamed of a manhood that could cherish it
Ho dared ask Curran for the truth, he did
not shrink from it. If the man were inno
cent be might strike bim down for the insult
to the purity of his wife. Philip thought
such atonement would seem just aud proper.
But if he were guilty, ah, if Bertha was
guilty through him what death was terrible
enough for his penalty!
A portly woman, with the unmistakable
expression of the expectant boarding luutrcs
on her face and iu her attitude, met the pale
faced young man at the top of the stain. She
did not recognize the proprietor of the Bre
ton mills, in his slight form. She would have
looked for a man of lofty stature and com
manding mien, and not a mere lad whom
nobody would glance twice at on the street
"Where is Curran? I I want him."
"Why, he's just gone; he drove off to Lew
iaton." "To Lowiston? Are you sure?" Why, this
must be some important personage after all,
he was so peremptory. Poor people can bully,
but there is a shamefacedness or an over af
fectation of authority that betrays them;
their self consciousness lets the whole secret
out
"Either Lewiston or Raleigh; I can't tell,
reallv, sir. Shall I get you a carriage, Mr.
Mr.r
"Two horses and a buggy; a driver, too.
Tell them it is for Mr. Breton; and," he
shouted after the woman, "if they give me a
poor horse he will be dead before they ever
see him again."
It seemed an hour before the horses drew
up before the boarding house door, and an
other hour before they had left the village
behind. Then the little patience Philip bad
forsook bim. He caught the reins from the
astonished driver, and at the threatening
snap of the whip the horses took their fastest
gait
It was a little past 9 o'clock the next morn
ing that Philip Breton, pale from a sleepless
xdght, knocked at a low studded door in an
ill ventilated tenement house, where they
told bim Curran lived. Within was Bertha,
the high bred woman, wonted to the costliest
luxuries of wealth. And she was willing,
then, to live in such squalor as this to be
with the man she loved. Could cbauge have
been cruel enough to have touched her? Per
haps an infant bung hungrily on her bosom,
and Curran, fallen back into his vulgar tradi
tions, lounged hi red flannel shirt sleeves in
her presence. Could he bear the sight? But
she might be alone; his heart beat faster with
terror and hope. She would lift her sweet
eyes pleasantly to him so easv it is for wo
"Where ia vour xcifef"
nen to forget the agony they have caused.
She would bold out her shapely hand to bim,
but it would be stained and worn from hard
ships. Should he fall at her feet! Would be
be able to remember she was another's dead
to him?
He knocked again, possibly no one was at
home.
"Come in." It was a man's voice.
As Philip opened the door be saw the man
he sought by the window, eagerly looking up
and down the street, as if waiting for some
sign. There was no guilty fear or shame in
the calm face that was turned to his visitor.
"Bretou." He gave bim his band with
hearty good will "Somehow I could not
speak last night, but you have begun a noble
work. Why, I had rather feel the proud sat
isfaction you must have, I would ratbaV be
in your place than the greatest man in the
whole world."
Philip was afraid to look about him. Per
haps Bertha had no wish to speak to biui, or
else she was not here; there was no atmos
phere of a woman's lore and care iu the
place, somehow. Bat Curran went on iu bis
quick, eager way, "The rich men have the
most glorious privilege ever men bed. Each
man of wealth can let the fountains of b'ght
and joy into the lives of a village in wme
way which shall make his name blessed for
ever. Instead of that, whole generations of
us bare to break ourselves in pieces iu the
effort to wear away their rock. We fail, as
the wretched 2,000 creatures who strike here
today will fail, to gain oue privilege more
for ourselves, yet our children may profit
from our sacrifices, perhaps, or their children.
Anything is better than spiritless, eternal
submission.''
Philip released his band from the man's
clasp and turned to look about him. No u o
man's shawl hung on the rack. No baby's tiioea
or toys were in sight A man's rude bauds had
set the chairs iaau awkward row. A man's
bands made the comfortless looking bed that
stood in one corner. There was o soft scent
of perrume, such as tscrtna would bare left
behind her if she had but lately gone. Why,
Bertha could never have breathed for m
moment there. Lovo cau do much, but it
cannot make a wcni.in over.
"Where is your wife" Philip asked' in a
low, breathless voire. "Bertha."
The eager look faded from Curran's tace,
.nd his blue eyes grew troublcL For an
instant ho did not answer, but stood with
folded arms gazing out into the street
"Wlua is a wifV?" he said at last "A
woman who loves a man and lives in bis love,
who pines in his absence and listens to the
coming of his foot steps, as the sweetest
music in the world to her; to whom all the
gifts of life would be nothing without bim;
to whom poverty uud disgrace would lose
their hatefulness if he sh?.rcd them. A wife
is a sweetheart, a hundred times tenderer and
happier." His voice grew bitter and bard
for a moment as he added, "No, I havo no
wife, Bertha has left me."
He beard a shout and a score of hurrying
forms rushed by his window. He turned
from the window iu a sudden passion of ex
citement "The strike has begun. What pity do the
rich deserve? Even their women are taught
only to break honest men's hearts. They are
beautiful as the angels or Leaven and cruel
and pitiless as the angelj of belL"
"But wait," cried Philip, catching bim by
the arm. Currau had not yet spoken the
longed for v.oni-3 to protect Bertha's name
from the insult or another suspicion thought.
But a shout roll! up from the street, and
another cud another in quick succession.
Cuivttu shook him off aud, catching his bat
from the table, sprang down the stair.
(Tobr Cent hived.)
CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR.
Lord Stanley, Alio Will Hacceed the
Marquis of Unidnwnt.
Recent changes in the deputed governor
of British colonies remove Lord Dufferin, a
former governor general of Canada, from
India, and place Lord Lansdowne, the
present governor general of Canada, in his
place. Tho Right Hon. Frederick Arthur
Stanley will take Lansdowne'i place. The
only oue of the knights who is moved off the
vic-eroyal chessboard is Lord Dufferin. He
goes to England out of a job.
Lord Stauley of Prestou, is a younger
brother of the present Earl of Derby. He
was born in Lon
don in 1S11, and is
consequently 47
years old. He was
educated at Eton,
and entered the
Grenadier guards
in 1858, in which
he reached the
rank of captain,
and retired from
tho military ser
vice in 1865. He
represented Pres
ton as Conserva
tive in the bouse of
commons, from
LOIID STANLEY.
July, 1SB5, till December, 1868, when he was
elected for North Lancashire. He was lord
of the admiralty from August to December,
1868, and financial secretary for war from
February, 1874, till August, 1877, when he
was appointed financial secretary to the
treasury. On April -, 1878, he became secre
tary of state for war, succeeding Mr. Hardy.
Ho went out of office with his party two
years later. In 1861 ho married Lady Con
stance, eldest daughter of the Earl of
Clarendon. He is heir presumptive to the
earldom of Derby, Two years ago he was
raised to the peerage with title of Lord
Stanley of rreston.
This catalogue of offices, this summary of
service is about all that can be said at present
of Lord Stanley.
The "Brooklyn Dlsatter.
Another contractor has been careless at the
cost of a number of lives. This time tho
disaster was in Brooklyn, N. Y., where, by
the falling of a section of elevated railroad
trestle aud the heavy derrick and boiler
resting thereon, a loaded street car was
crushed. The details of the accident are al
ready familiar. We may devote a line or
two, however, to the demand, which is be-
THE BBOOkCTC tfi&ASTXR.
coming stronger with every accident of this
sort, for the enforcement of the laws holding
contractors and others in charge of public
improvements of all sorts responsible for
lives lost by their carelessness. A few more
summary convictions for manslaughter, like
that which ent Buddensiek to Sing Sing,
would cause a wonderful increase of careful
ness on the art of every one concerned. But
the slaughtering will continue till the laws
are enforced.
A retrolenm Engta.
A vessel in use in the upper Thames
owes its motive power to the explosive
force of petroleum. The lwat ia started
by lighting a lamp, and the lamp must be
extinguished to atop the engine. The fuel
costs less thau coal, while the omission of
the boiler saves much space aud the ex
pense of a fireman and working engineer.
The ".raft is of American origin. Frank
Ltrslie'tt.
Never Dined Before.
Said an English woman of rank to an
American lady. "Was Buffalo Bill in
vited to dine out much when be was in
New York?" "He never dined in hia life
till he came to Ixmdon," was the reply,
"when lie was at home 'he had something
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"When men begin to glory in wickedness
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He that loseth his due,gets no thanks.
Try Moore's headache cure, it beats
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We are fools one to another.
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Frederick W. Pratt, 424 Washington
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William F. Bowker, Erie, Pa., was
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Tin; first Chinaman in Kansas applied
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Worth Knowing.
Mr. W. H. Morgan, merchant, Lake
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attended with a distressing cough and
running into consumption in its first
stages. He tried many so-called popu
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sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New
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a half dozen bottles found himself well
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No other remedy can show so grand a
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Life without a friend is death without
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The Babies Cry for It,
And the old folks laugh when they find
that the pleasant California liquid fruit
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taken and more beneficial in its action
than bitter, nauseous medicineB. It is a
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This world ia nothing except it tend to
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I am selling "Moore's Tree of Life"
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Try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
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use In case of accident saves pain and loss of wage.
Keep a Bottle Alwayaln tbe Stable- for
ae when wanted.
PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
Aii Otter Worthy Attention from
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