M'TTir! I f A TT A niir.V m." T?. iiDtf t v -ri- 10 f Wi fi t rj, ij, A tj h ,i, .;, j 5 I -. 1 s i, I IN THE DAY Of WORK. HY CLINTON ROSS. ,i. .1. - , a . . .... s -z' 'r' 'V 'J' ? ) '5. (Copyright, ir), by tho Author. 1 That morning it win nenr dawn the how superintendent was tired out. Kor the altuatlon was grave, and tho Inst days and night had been busy. Tho mrn were out In he steel mills and they wcro oh rough and 'mixed a lot as you Lould find. Tho new superintendent had started In n ono of the steel workers, and had mas tered his trade so well that now with little !rcvloiif mechanical training Delafleld had thought him the man for the position ut Otranto. Tho cutiso of the trouble hail been dun In a grest measure to tho old superintendent's, Hillings, lark of tact, ami Delaflelil. who had watrhed Dcnby from the first had considered him the man. for three, years ho hud worked among tho men -knew them from A to 'A, and had gone his way up mustering details. Ho rilil not pc p m to have a vice or a falling, though when ho had appealed at Otranto ho was a forry enough fellow. He had brought a letter from Ilronson, himself one of thu principal directors, recommending Mm to Dclaflcld'n good gracea. "I don't want any favoritism on account nf Mr. Hronson's letter," he had cald. "All I want is 11 chance to begin In tho mlllo nt tho very lowest rung nf the laddor. I am strong enough, or shall bo when I am myself again." Delafleld had looked him over, putting Mm down as a man who had gono to pieces, and thinking that ho would wear out. Hut ho did not wear out, and Dela fleld, watching him curiously, hail nccn him day by day. his faco growing strong, his fcllght, compact, muscular figure gaining r.race, that rough clothes could not hide. Ho was a gentleman, certainly. Delafleld de cided. Ilut ihe had no mall, no one In quired for hln.; whether Ms real namo wuro Deiiby or not nobody knew. He never accepted Dclafleld's Invitation to dine that came after a year. Ho was a curious, Iso lated figure, with, directly tho manager nav, the power to command men. The en gineer, with their mechanical school ex perience, men who brought a touch of iho city of Otrando, Bomo men from tho hophlati cntcd world, too, began to defer to him, und Delafleld, watchful of everything, saw It all. Directly he was advising with this man of 30, of whoso past ho know so little, but who was certainly an educated man. Onco his curiosity led him to ask (ho had asked no questions when Dcnby had ap peared): "You aro a connection of Mr. Hronoon's?" "No." "Or, cxciiso me, won't you? You wcro rent hero to learn tho business." "I camo hero bccatiFo I had to have work. That was all. My mnttors are of no conse quence, to anyone." Ilut Delafleld still had a private theory that this was soma one from tho powers who might suddonly develop Into a director, and, outaldo of his admiration for Denby'H pluck nnd aptitude, ho gavo him further deference. Hut Drnby required nothing; nor books, tavo those bearing on his trade; nor companlon nbfpj only his thoughts and his work, for filch ho had a Berserker rage. And now, nftcr three years, during which ho had not stirred from Otranto, ho waa tho now super intendent. Otranto Is twenty miles from Hyfleld, nmong tho wooded northwestern rennsyl- vanlan hills. For twenty miles about thero la nothing but rough hill country. The place has 5,000 miners and steel workers. Thoro Is no ono elso there, savo the. local tncr chnntB'ond the. groic shop-kerpomr nothing but (he high, desolate hills that Denby had grown to like. Now, after this hard day, out of sheer ex haustion, ho bad sunk hiH faco on his hands on his desk In tho superintendent's olTIco and slept. Klftcen hundred of tho steel workers worn out and all day a sheriffs poseo of thirty mon, tho superintendent, a few clerks, a few others who had not gonn out, had protected the company's property. Delafleld was In I'lttsburg. This morning a militia company would arrive. The nattcr would be knocked Into order of course, nut Denby must hold out. For a week ho had f-carcely slept. llo was dreaming of places far away, of events long past, when the sheriff touched him on tho shoulder. "They are out there everywhere swarm ing, Mr. Dcnby, and here is a man to speak to you." Donby, his biond hair In disorder around a high forehead, wheeled about. "Well, Lynch, what's the matter now?" Lynch shuffle! from sldo to hide, hla burly hands bulging his pockets. "I am not for burnln' and pullln' to pieces. It can't do no good." "Only hurt yourselves, of course, nut you mado us fight to keep you from your selves." "You have worked among us." "I work among you now." "Ilut for tho company." "So do you. Lynch. Well, what Is It?" "I havo been tnlkln' this among tho men, hut they aro mad." "I ought to know that." "And they arc madder about the sheriff nnd madder about tho soldiers. Why, If It hadn't been for you" "Don't mind me." If It hadn't been because many knew you hla head." He remembered that the sheriff had almost advised running. The sheriff of that county had regard for his own bones, and for a re-election, as well as for tho law, while the posse, he knew, more than half-sympathized with tho rioters. "Well, Denby. what aro you going to do?" camo a voice Hadford's. He could sco the man's dark, earnest face. In some '' er way ho felt like an actor In a play; the high hills, the dull, enraged mob, grouped there In that half-light, as If arranged by tho stage manager. "To fight you, my friends, If you won't listen; to save you, my friends, with whom I havo worked, it you will be saved. Kor you light hopelessly. You array against you the law. You weaken yourselves. You end by starving yourselves. Whatever the wrong In this difference, you ure not right ing It now. In nrotcctlnc the comnany. my employer, I am as well protecting you. Yes- teruay you burned buildings and the rail road bridge, and tore up some track. You destroyed J60.0OO worth of properly." "Kaslly." Jeered one. "Ilut you shall go no further. You havo honored mo bv liking me somo of you. Now I say back to your homes, for your women's sako for your children's sake. If you are wronged, as worklngmen, you have a power mightier than your muscles public opinion and the ballot. You can make laws; you can govern trusts. If you aro organized capably If you arc honest and true you red, brli'k hoiloe I' was m. 011 It was home- And tho finest g' nth-nan in all 'he world wnn walking there tho dear old gen- t er.il. whlln preseutly his mother drove up! In her phaeton and called to him, Hut he said ho hadn't time, because he was teaching Annie how not to "muff" a ball. Annie u a chubby-faced, small girl, who laughed at this and nald she knew as much about It as he. An then there were other scenes and other faces, his brothers and his sister, nnd alwayn somewhero In tho background that chubby girl, whose face, after a tlm to bo sure, grow lem, chubby, and when he was back from school she was almost "grown up." land didn't seem to think much of him or he Then, again. It wan school, and soon cal- lege; friends who had gone from him; eventw that were like dreams, Just as all life Is a dream to tho dead. Ho now was watching a boat race; now dancing at a "promenade" with Annie; now again In Far Westchester, und then he was In Ixmdon and all about your young man of tho world; noon ho was very much your man of many clubs and of tho town. Ho had two sides to his nature, one strong for tho Inherited sense of the gentleman, the other for pleasure, nnd hUbtly pleasure sap ped tho strength. It was Dcnby here nnd Denby there a youth to bo talked about. Annie now was n quiet young woman, of who ho saw little. But Llfo was the beat fun. Presently ho was doing things he once would not havo thought of dolng; and thoa more of them, and moro of them, until they spelt disgrace, nnd men began to cut him, for ho was full of forco and passion for what ever he did, and ho was not of the nature) to brook criticism. .Men told their women friends that they would not bo seen with can havo what you want. Now, I say, back blin. Annlc'a brothers, once his warmest "THEN, MY FRIENDS. WE FIGHT." to your homos back. Or back to work In these mills. If you wish you can como back. It's your prlvllego to work or not to; It's your privilege to organize not to de stroy." ."What If wc don't f" . " The' superintendent" took fronvTiIs pocket a long revolver, and held It, tapping it. "Then, my friends, we fight I for you, as well ns for this company. I have told you all this before as well as now. I am sorry heart sorry that jou give me no nlternntlve." In tho crowd Denby's words ns ho spoko them -had been translated into Hungarian, Polish nnd muny dialcctu to llttlo atten tive throngs. Already In tho rear many had begun to walk back down the long) street, nnd tho sun burst In Its glory over the frlngo of pines. As If Its advent woic a signal soveral In the front pushed toward the speaker nnd the mills, nnd It was thon for Denby's presence might have awed them that a number of tho posse, nervous nnd untrained, fired. A man fell, whllo a, dull roar of rage arose. The superintendent walked calmly back toward the mills, still tupping his pistol, not raising It; und then turned with folded nrms. As he did so the crowd began to break, -whllo some ono shouted over his shoulder it waa Graham, one of the bookkeepers "Company F came on last night. They snw that the road was torn up and took tho log pike- over Pelton's hill, and are coming down through the woods. They have found It out." "They certainly have," Denby cried, as ho watched tho scattering crowd. "I would give a hundred If that man hadn't shot." He rushed down Into the street. "Who was hurt?" ho asked, Ho forgot himself, though tho men be fore tho mills shouted after him. These were his people after all; ho understood them ho had worked with them. As ho rnn ho dropped hla pistol Into his pocket, and soon ho was In tho throng. nnd respected you, they'd had this thing ; nut though tho faces were sullen no fist over your heads long ago. "They'd burn the company') houses, I sup pose, If they had anywhere else to put their families," Denby remarked. "Yes," said Lynch, with a grim smile, "they would. Ilut now It's como to tho pass where- they can't bo held back nothln' can hold them back. Those, of 11.1 that has stood up can't nny longer." "Poor dovllH, poor devils why can't they know they aro only trying to starve them selves. They can't hold out." "Of course not, but that 'mounts to nothln' when their blood's up." "I know, but I want to talk to them." "They would heave rocks at you now." "Rnrtford la tho worst, of course?" "Yes, rorr." "I am going out to rpenk to them." "I wouldn't," said Lynch. "You mutn'i," said the sheriff. "No, no, Mr. Denby." Lynch went on. "I am hero to let you nnd tho sheriff's mon get awnj. It will bo slaughter. Fifteen hun dred againet no more than fifty and strong men with a lot of guns 'mong 'em. It's 011 your account this Is my bcln' here on jours. The men know you. They Know you nil tbey feel bettor for glvln' you tho chance; and the chance is yours." "I will speak to tlicm once more was raised. Hd was risking his life, If ho had known It. Ilut ho was not thinking of this at the moment. "Who was it?" "Radford damn you, Denby! They aro taking him to his mother's" "Damn me, or not, but get Dr. Fox. Quick!" He pushed his way Into a bare frame house. A number of men stood about, look ing nt him in sullen surprise. On the bed Radford's big, brnwny form was ptretched out. while n woman leaned over him. "They've killed hlm-my lad killed him my lad and thero ho Is thero ho Is to take him to prlRon!" One of the bystanders lifted his (1st with: "Get out rf here," and a number nf ad jectives thrown In. Ilut It was Radforl himself who protested. "Don't touch Mr. Dcnby: I've worked hcsldo him. Don't touch him. He didn't do it. It was that farmer o' the sheriff's." "I couldn't help finding out how badly you were hurt. I am dead borry. I camo here without thinking." ,nd It Is said to this dav that this Impul- friends, told her that peoplo fled from him ns ruts from a sinking ship, he said to himself. Ilut he had new friends, not such nice ones, to be sure, and soon, when certain successes he had had on "the street" turned to failures, these too, began tho "cutting" process "Fellows I wouldn't have in my house," Denby said. Then there came tho dreadful day when tho dear old general turned as adamant nnd told him bo had disgraced the family. Ilut his mother, In tho graveyard, could not know or did she know? In twon things went from bad to worse. If sullen prldo often held him up, there wero other days when shame tore Donby'a heart. Ills friends were gone; his family was gone: ho was snubbed at his clubs; ho had become one of those who "disappear. ou see thorn about for some years and then they vanish, and you wonder "where." Of n day at this perlol of his carcor ho passed Annlo somewhere near Washington square. Sho bowed as graciously ns ever. He replied ns stlflly ns ho could. Hut sho looked back and called out: "Why, Jim; why don't you ever call now?" "11 haven't time: nnd you know you know, you ought not to want to sco me." "I will prove that. You simply have to persist not to give up. It's work you want work work. As for you, Jim, I havo known you too long not to want to see you at any time under any circumstances," Sho spoke rapidly and her eyes and words were earnest, and ho was out of her class, utterly out of It a man unclasscd. Ho broko away ns soon as he could. Ho did not want to havo people see her with lilm; there was too much scandal, truo und untrue, about him; and, thank heaven, ho had something of the gentleman left. Ilut her words rang In bis ears, "It's work you want work." Ho had dawdled nnd fooled nnd thrown things away; but she had recognized him with no forced smile. And there was a way lnngi'l f r at time h a fb e Miiiy Yet at lait he had tiusieird himself in Ihe day of work.' - Now. waking with the gurgling strenm In his cars, Mil this past paraded, unit he sprang up. remembering "I have forgotten that Delafleld may want me." A short time after this Delafleld brought h!n n wire to the effect that the prtslilent of the company wanted the new superin tendent's presence in New York. "I don't care to go," Denby answered Yet. why shouldn't he? Ho wns sttong. sure of himself now. Ambition tugged at his heart, nnd then that longing for home, for the old ways, camo over him. If people chose to snub him, ho felt now that he could show them a man who no longer enred. He felt tho strong man he was; who had thrown all his passionate strength Into what ho had been doing. There were the people, the workers, as he himself had been, as ho was; the workers o often misled, so Incapacitated for seeing things clearly. He must use his strength for them; his strength that had como like tho steel out of the fire. "You would better go. They may want you for unanager," Delafleld laughed. Ho threw somo clothes Into n trunk and went. They wcre clothes rather out of date, but well made, ho thought. As ho drow to ward New York tho longing for the old things was stronger even to tho detail to sit once more In a club; to have a good dinner, served by good servants: to wear well mado clothes. Ho had gone down among tho people nnd now he belonged to both classed. Tho president of the company saw that as ho walked Into his office. "You have dono us good service. Mr. Denby. Not nil the good fighting has been In tho Philippines and the Transvaal." Ilrmson. too, entering the room nt tho moment, took his hand warmly. "Havo you been told?" ho asked. "No? Well. Mr. Delafleld Is to como to Now York as general manager. We want you, If wo can havo you, as manager nt Hyfleld nnd nt Otranto." Tho younger man's eyes met theirs pquarely and his faco was firm. "You aro ory good. 1 appreciate it. Hut as I can do best for myself nnd for you In acting according to my lights" He paused, thinking It waB easier to tnlk to tho men. "It's this," ho went on. "My speech began too warmly. I understand those men. I havo been ono of them. 1 will do the best I can for you if tho labor matter Is left to me." "It shall be." said Hronson quickly, for ho was tho principal owner; "you have our confidence and that of the men under you." That evening he stopped In tho one club ho had kept up as a small concession to pride. Ho felt afraid of no man now. Men camo forward nnd greeted him some charily, somo readily ns if ho had been gono but yesterday, as Is tho way. nnd they soon forget If you keep your head high. Rut he wno not thinking of them. An early morning train carried him to Far Wcstchrstor. An old man walking ncrots tho lawn saw him. It was as If It were years ngn almost; for, with a pang, he saw hew much older that old man had become how uncertain hla step. And then ho was beside him. "How I havo missed you; how I have longed for you. When you were gono I wanted you back. I was cruelly hard. If your mother had 'been alive " "Hush, hush, sir. Sho never knew, thank God. And I have been cruel to you." "Ilut If sho saw you now, Jim." "She docs, perhaps, sir," Jim said softly. "For I bollevo in heaven now. I believe tho whole old story." "Why shouldn't you, sir; you aro a Denby?" Ho nsked for his sister and his brothers, and then, as he askel, he saw her on tho lawn, almost 011 tho very spot where the chubby-faced girl bnd been In tbo dream, or tho memory. "Tho old houto Is about tho same tho people are, too," the general Bald, "ns they hue ri'oi I dun 1 know nivnh d,ffiri , Your ol I marc. Dully, is dead nut Jim bad gone to meet Her. "I have come back to you. Shall I go away?" he said. "t am so glad to see you. Jim so glad 1 have missed you. 1 never can forgive yoj for going away without calling" They strolled slowly tonnrd the red house. "You hurt us so much so much." "Did I hurt you, too as much as th others you, who stood by me?" "I did not know that I did particularly, but I could not believe all they said. ' "Even If you hsd believed-?" 1 "1 should have wanted to see you" I "Ah, my dear," he cried, out of his heart ' "I want to take yoli Into my arms and hold , you. I wanted to do It that day on the lower nvenue; but I was not worthy of you. It was the thought that you believed In mo that has mnde me work, and try." Sho was all red now, and her volco trembled. "Don't; they are coming out. They will" "What?" "Know." "Then I mustn't take you" "You goose you dear, Jim. If you havo wnltcd three years ou can wait." "How long?" "Well an hour." i:(;i.m:i;hi:i) tiium oit or tiuvv, IIimt Weil VlrKlnlii I.liiior Men Cot the llest uf tin- I'roliltiltlnnlftlft. "I reckon wo'o Eot tho oddest town in our state that thero Is in tho I'nltcd States." raid a West Virginia man to a New York Sun Reporter. "Ever hear of futlodcn'' I don't mean tho clans of Culloden described by tho poet Campbell. I mean Culloden. W. Vn. Well, sir, about half tho population of the town doesn't live in the town and can't vote In tho town, although they aro right in tho town. "I'll explain. Tho good people, nml they aro In tho majority, too, nro down on saloons nnd liquor in any shape. They got up a temperance meeting and purposed to drlvo the liquor men out of tho town. When you find a West Virginian who believer In liquor you find a man who Is ready to light for It. Tho liquor people got together and in oomo way got the confidence of the town engineer. 1 don't know whether he was a liquor man or not, but they got hint on their side. The engineer d covered that the town was not laid out light, nnd he got authority to ehang .h metes and bounds. When ho llnlshwl the lob the temperance people found out that they lived Just outsb'e tho line of tho tow.i, no matt"!' what part of tho towi' their ho iscs were In. A man coul l n'and In his back yard an 1 talk to the man whoso place wai rb' up against his pin- mid who was a Miter, lut tho first man hi! WiM his vote. "Tho linen of tho engineer excluded, as I havo said, tho temperance people. It took In tho llcenso folk all right. Tho map of Culloden ns It now Is looks a good deal like a sheet of paper after n fly with ink on Its feet meanders across it. You can tell how a citizen of Culloden S'tando on the. liquor question by tho plaeo where ho builds a house, If ho builds one, which doesn't often occur. In spite of Its zigzag boundaries, however, Culloden Is n contented community." "KI.HVATIMS" 1IOTKL lll'SI M'.SS. HrKiilntloiiH mill IN'iint I Ii-n l'rolilrl by I'tMinsj-l viiiiIii l.lcwimr Court. Judges of tho llcenso court In Fayotto county. 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Yet tho thoiisbt cheered him and he tcok pnlns for some days to return tinrliccrful iioda by those as uncheerful. Again ho be- 1 for answer, "hook to your men. Como on. Lynch." can to look at Denbv as of a line of mon uhn slvo net of Denby's did more than nnythlns I had led other men. lie dropped certain ac , elso to patch up tho troubles between tho . quutntanc(H who had shamed him. I company ami tin men. no micni nave ncen .nd ono day ho went to Uronson. who, nc sam ; torn to pieces ami no tiskpu it to sec now , knew him slightly. Bhorlff. i tho wounded man was. Radford's wound lln .. ... H n . Inn . mah 1 I 1 . . , . iid iiiuuu i iv. rAiMniiniiuiin. 11111 mil iiriin i whs but n sllKht one principally shock and ' son rcnuim ihom-tm Vn- tho m. fn ' .... n i ...ii mm w.r i-o.il uampnrss. i ne no was shortly arounu. i nenby was tho talk of the town, lie knew ' dawn was breaking over the high hills, but j On returning to tho street. Denby found his family. i ..... .u . iiiiiL-ii in rnnuow. me .that the mlittta were atreauy poncing tno "You think von ant tn cei nu-nv m i... ipacos beforo tho mill woro thronged with a somber throng, a silent throng now, and Denby know tho elgntfVancp of that Mlence. Ilefore the timidities men of the HioriiT'e crowd. At his omco Delafleld, the manager, i a trade met him. Kor tho ftret time In hla llfo the j "Whero I am quite unknown. I want an manager was demonstrative. , apprentice's chance that Is tho reaB.u I ' "Mv dear boy my dear hoy I can never nni hprtv I vt-nn n tnttrtr in nnn f i Vin stood at their mmkrtH. Th crowd behind ! av rnouch for your nluek." 1 inn nil fnr in n rnmnint viin n Pn It-it, sinl n seemed endless. Indeed. It continued up tho "it wouldn't havo nmounted to much if I -simply Introduce ne; "without saylns any long, narrow street, edged by Its ugly build- you hadn't turned up, and now I can't hold thlag In my favor or disfavor If you can Ings. They In that dim valley neemtvl a I up 1 mint get wcnie sleep." And presently , help It. And then. I want this mentioned to srnup out of purgatory, with faces upturned I he was tumbled on his bed. hln clothes all I no one to none of my family." to tho light. on, "Well." said tho other, after a moment, Denby stepped on a pile of castings that , Hours after he nwoko. The window was " wil ,, t." lie might better cnmmind the scene and tho open. It was wonderfully still. You could And Ilronson's word-hls word was bond eilllen facts. It was the name crowd ao yes- hear the enlashlng of tho little stream not had heen kent in thn inner. faraway. IIIh eyes, half open, taw the plncj j it bad been since nothing but "work, Th on the hillside. work." as tho girl who had been stanch to They Then It was not these things at all, but a him had told him. over long stretch of lawn, with beyond in old Old habit, old ways were joa, to b terday's, but no longor noisy. 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