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

open. big fellow pallied scared tottered after
them, and when they laid the dead down, half
fell at his side: it Maize Sampson.
It surprised everybody the way Maize Sampson
went to pieces after Delaroo killed. Indian
was carried back to the Bend and up to Simpsons
and laid out in od-forsaken parlor; but Maize
wasn't any good fixing things up that time. He
usually shone like occasions He was the COM
forter of the afflicted to extraordinary desree
he gave the usual mourner chance to up
But now his day one that is darkened
When Neghbor went next night to about
minor matters connected with the and the
precedence of the various dozen orders that
march he found Maize Sampson and Martie alone in
the darkness of the parlor with the silent Delaroo
Maize turned to the master mechanic from where
oelaroo lay. "Neighbor, you might we'll
it now as any time Don't you say Martie?
Martie, do you say?" Martie burst into tears;
but through them Neghbor caught the engineers
broken confession. "Neighbor-Tm color blind"
The mechanic sat stunned.
TRUE Gods word. You might well know
it now There's the that stood between and
the loss my job. It's been coming for
He knew it, that's why he stayed in my cab
He stayed because was color blind He knowed Id
git ketched the minute fireman come in,
Neighbor. He watched the sgnals-Dearoo I'm
color blind. God help me-" Maize Sampson sat down
by the coffin Martie hushed her crying; the three
ut wouldn't worry me so much if it wasn't FIR
the family, Neighbor. The woman-and the boys.
I amt much a-savin you know that. II you can
gp job I get bread an butter out of, give
it to I can't pull train; my went out with
this here. I wish to God it me- and him
standing A man that's color blind, and don't
know thing Gods earth but runnin engine
II dead man.
Neighbor went home thinking.
They buried Delaroo But then they were not
through with him. Delaroo had insurance in
order in the Bend, which meant almost every
earth There end to his benefit certificates
and known beneficares, but when they overhau1ed
his trunk they found every last certificate filed away
to the last paid assessment and the last quarters
dues Then shock. People found out there
beneficiary. While the fraters were busy MAX
ing their passes Delaroo had quietly been directing
the right honorable recording secretaries to make
the benefits to Neighbour, and dollar OF
his insurance Nobody more thunderstruck
at the discovery than the master mechanic himself
Yet Delaroo meant something by it. After
Neighbor had studied it nights the best of
month: after MAZE Sampson had tried to take the
color test and failed, as persstent1y said he
would; after he had to tnkering in the round
house and from tinkering respectfully and by de-
grees down the hill to wipng at dollar and forty
cents a day with time and huff for overtime
Neighbor bethought himself all of sudden one day
of paper Delaroo had once given him and asked
him keep.
He had put it away in the storekeeper safe with
his papers and the drawings Of his extension
front end patent-and safely forgotten all about it.
the day ehay had to into the county court
about the will that was not, when he recolected
Dearoos paper and pulled it out of its envelope
There only half sheet OF paper, INSIDE, with
this writing from Delaroo to Neighbour:
r. B. A.-What is coming to insurance
give Marty Sampson, wife of Mape. Give
trunk to P McGraw.
Rispk, p De La Roux.
When the master mechanic read that before the
probate judge Maize Sampson took attending:
Marte hid her face in her shawl crying again May
glimmer of what it meant for the first
time in her life over her. May be she remembered
Dearoo he used to sit with them under the kero-
lamp while Maize untiringly pounded the money
oolyiro bo1 and Mar
tie mended never-ending trousers. Looking from
Maize Sampson, heated with monologue, to his wife.
patiently stitching. No comments; just looking as
Pierre Delaroux could look.
Strange, Neighbor thought it, and yet may be,
not strange. 1t was all there in the paper-the
torn, worn little book of Dearoos life. She was
the only woman earth that had done him
kindness
Nobody at Medicine Bend quite understood it; but
nobody at Medicine Bend quite suspected that under
the barrenness up at Maize SIMPSONS ambition
could have survived. Way down under her faded
eyes and faded dress there ambition, and
that for the promising subjects in the Rocky
Mountans-the brickbats. Under the unending mend
ing and the poverty and the TOLL Martie, who
put of doors, attended a
church social, ventured free public
school show-had ambition for the boys She
wanted two biggest go the State University;
wanted them to go and get education And they
went; and Maize Sampson says them boys, airy
has forgotten about the money question than
knew. 1t looks if after all the brickbats
might out; bit Of money in Martie's hands
goes so Tar.
There a few soldiers buried at the Bend
Decoration Day there is attempt at turnout; a
little speeding and little marching. thin, stray
gle column of the same warped, bent old fellows in
the faded old blue. Up the hill they go and
around to the cemetery to decorate.
When they turn at Maize SIMPSONS place-there's
gate there now-Martie and more less of the
boys and Maize, kind of join in along and over
with them carrying a basket Of flowers and a
bucket of water. 49,, ~
The boys soon stray over. to where the crowd is,
III
down by grave somewhat apart and prods the
: drifting gravel u You would think she might be
,kneading bread there the way she sways under her
sunbonnet and glovesor her little boiled hands
= In gloves II +.$@.r>-< =
*:=Ss:tI don't know how much: good it does Dearoo