The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-10

NN\r <I8.H "Just an able jawed liar sug-
N0AW gested Callahan through a
benevolent bluish-haze.
"Delaroos story wasn't any lie,
+,o,a," no,ttered Ncghbor a fellow would
think it was to hear it; he would, for fact
wouldn't he?" ~w = ~.-?:~
If you want him, quick and short it would be:
whiskers societies, statistics ana pug eoooc
Sampson.
Buntlv a wind bag; two hundred and seventy
pounds Of atmosphere Up benevolent fraternltles
I'D on politics. up the question: up on
everything. Seven Financial Conspracles en-
gagged Maize SIMPSONS attention pretty continually
and had for him practical application there were
mover less conspiracies atoot IN Meolche
Bend o make Maize Sampson pay up
Paw? Indeed he did pay. He always paying.
1t was not question of paying: Not at ALL 1t was
a question OF paying which is different.
The chdren-thcy brickbats Tow headed
puttyfaccd, wash~eyed youngsters OF all sizes ana
conditions. About Maize SIMPSONS children there was
but distinguishing characteristic; they were all
nothing but boys, and they spread all over o"'
Was there a baby over? 1t was Maize Simpsons.
Was there a child lost? Maize Simpsons Was there
a violently headed, coarse featured hang-dos'
Gathering chap anywhere around? In the
station roundhouse, yards stock pens! It was
brickbat of Maize SIMPSONS br1ckoat boys
The Simpsons at the end of the street. and
the end of the street up the mountain Maize
sampsou's lot "rared" as Neighbor put it-stood on
it's hind legs. His house had startling tumble-over
aspect you approached it. The back end OF his lot
ran up sheer, but he marked the line sharply
by kind horizontal fence, because the cliff just
belonged to the corporation that owned every
thing earth around Medicine Bend
Maize Sampson did propose to let any grasping
corporation encroach lines he built, and
added time to time cluster of things on the
hind end of his lotan eruption of small buildings
like pimples boys running down in size
from the barn dry goods box the boys had
heaved up the slope for dog house. TO add to the
variety, of the structures was always get
ting away in the wind and IT anything smaller IMAM
a hotel careenng across lots in a Medicine
Bend breeze it spotted without further invest-
CATION as Maize SIMPSONS. When the gale abated, Joe
McBrackcn, who conducted the local dray line, was
pretty sure o with hen house woodshed
or something likewise loaded his trucks headed
for Maize SIMPSONS. the whole lean-to of the
blew off, but Joe McBracken stood ready for
any emergency. met the maverick addition at the
grade, loaded it on his truck
htched four bronchos, crawled inside the struc-
ture and getting lines through the front window,
drove up Main street before wind had down.
photographed in the act, and afterward used
exhibit getting judgment against MAZE Sampson
for his bill
Now. a like Maize wouldn't be likely to have
very much Of Il very much of an engine. He
had 1854: old pop bottle with stack like
tepee turned upside down. For he had always
trains Number Twenty-Five and Thirty, the local
freights with accommodation train east Of Ander-
There times of stress frequently the
times when everybody first in first out,
except Maize Sampson; he always TWenty-nine
Thirty River A
Jogging cheap, jerkwater with rights to speak
Of not against respectable handcars. The only
things Maize Sampson did not have to dodge
tramps, blanket Indians and telegraph poes every
thing else sdetracked Twenty nine and Thirty and
Maize Sampson. Almost everybody on through trains
must at time have seen Maize Sampson putting
a siding Moore Mullen shot by Number
One or Number Two Maize was so big and his cab
little that when he got his head through the win
dow couldn't see very much of the cab for should
ers and whiskers and things From the cab window
he looked like fourteen old boy sprnging out
of ten-year-od jacket Three things only made
Maize tolerable. First, the number of benevolent
belonged to; second, Delaroo third Marte.
Maize Sampson a joiner a sitter up. He
would join anything the West End that had
ritual, grip and password, and he would sit up
night after night with anybody that had broken leg
fever; and, if nothing better offered, Maize,
go bed, would a with the
ache. This kind the off; but
he that peculiar he would sit all night with
sick and next day make everybody sick talk
ing the money question-at least everybody but
Delaroo. If Delaroo bored, he never showed it.
AS long as Maize would talk. Delaroo would listen.
That single word in fact, the key to Delaroo;
Delaroo listener; for that nobody knew
much about him.
wasn't a railroad by birth, by adop-
ton. Delaroo came from the mountains; he just
plain mountain man. Some said his father
trapper; if it explained everything-the quiet the
head bent inquiringly forward, the modest, unob-
trusiveness of deaf. OF size and shape
nothing remarkable, Delaroo-but great listener.
for, though he looked like deaf man, he heard
like dispatcher and marvelously from out the
ends of his silent eyes, Delaroo for all the world was
a trapper.
He into the service roundhouse sweeper
then Neighbor, after long time, put him at wping
Dearoo said nothing but wiped for and years.
and was in fair way to become liked, when instead
he became morning pitted with umbilicai vescles
and the DOCTORS with Dearoos brevity said smallpox
The boarding house keeper him out. bodily
Having better place go, Delaroo wan
dered into Steve Boyer's saloon, where he gene:
ally welcome Steve however, pointed hosptable
gun at him and suggested his getting away immedi~
ately from the front end of it. Dearoo went fron
there to the roundhouse with his umbcas, asked
%Neighbor what with the smallpox ought to do
with it. Neighbor wouldn't run, not*e even from the
sma pox-but she told Delaroo what It meant get
the smallpox started in the roundhouse, Delarco