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

got the upper hand. This NAH might be- by
Distant he reflected p Q. W. of A,
f:atsr, a fellow, knight something like
when they stopped again to throw off crackers
car. lion-tamer, try lodge signals
and things him.. MAZE advanced and gave the
countersign. 1t not cordially received He tried
another and another. His passes were lost in the
air. The smallpox appeared totally unable to
come Maize with anything He was not only
delirous, by this time frightfply broken out
that MAZE have touched sound spot with
Masonic signal distress Finally the venturesome
engineer walked closer into the dark corner where
the sick man 1ay-and, by Heaven: it was the Indian
wiper, Delaroo
When MAZE Sampson got back into the cab he could
not speak-at least, not for publication. He was
tearing mad and sputtered like safety. He gath
cred up his cushion and water bottle and bottle
that would explode if water touched it, and crawled
with his plumber into the boxcar. Strengthened
Delaroo up out, and gave him drink, and, by
way sanitary precauton took one personally, for
he himself had had the s1nallpox-but once.
When he this little for De1arOo he finished
his rum and came back to hauling his pest
house The fireman quit the cab Immediately
after MAZE exposed himself; the conductor commune
Gated with him only by signals. The Anderson oper-
ator wired ahead that Maize Sampson was bringing
back a. man with smallpox Thirty, and when Maize.
bullying of the 264 cab, pulled into the division
yard nobody would come within mile Of him. He
the boxcar below the stock cross-lots
house up the hill, not being able to
get advice from anybody else, went nome to consult
Martie
Though there great women in Medi-
cine Bend MAZE Sampson looked to but one, Maftie
little washed-out woman at Sampson s-Wife
mother, nurse, cook, s1ave-Martie.
No particular color hair; particular color eyes;
particular color gown; no particular cut to it.
A plain bit of a woman, mother of six boys large
and small, and wife of great big windbag engineer,
big three Of her by actual measurement. BY the
time Maize had counsel and walked down town,
nonth us MAJ War
with shotguns. The city marshal, from behind
proof. asked what he going to do with his
patient, Maize reorted that he going to take
him home. He wasn't a NJ r. W. of T. nor a p S. e.
of w. E.. but he was a roundhouseman, and between
Maize and a roundhouse man, wiper even, there
bond stronger than grip password or jolly business
any kind. The other things MAIZE without realizing
it, merely played at; the railroad 1ay-if
railroad man was right sort, he could borrow any
thing the big fellow had-money, plug tobacco pipe
water bottle strong bottle, it made no odds what
And, the other hand, Maize wouldn't hesitate to
borrow any or things return; the rail-
road man who got ahead Of MAZE Sampson in this
respect had claims to be considered past Grand
the business. s. #* ss$$ =z s=5s S1, = @$
The doughty engineer lifted and dragged and
Delaroo home with him. They had all had the
smallpox at SIMPSONS, except the baby, and the
doctor had said lately the baby appeared need
something. They had really everything up at Samp
sons later; measles diphtheria. Group
everything earth except money And Martie
Sampson with the washing and mending and scrub
bling cooking, nursed the outcast wiper through
his smallpox. The baby took it, Of and Martie
nursed the baby through, and went just the same
.before-washing, mendng, cooking, scrubbing.
Dearoo when got WELL went to firing; Neghbor
offered the job kind of consolation price, and
he went to firing on the 264, for Maize Sampson.
then that Maize took Dearoo fairly in
showed him the unspeakable folly of trying
get through the. world without the comradeship
benefits of S. LIS of u, and the fraters Of
the Of the double barreled star of MacDuf.
Dearoo caught good deal of it on the sidngs where
they lay time lodging frstclass trains;
and evenings they got in from their runs
ha1in To TO
after supper, SIMPSONS. At SIMPSONS he would
sit in the shade of the lamp and smoke while Maize,
his sRirtsleeves, held forth the benevolent
ders, and one boy crawled through the bowels of
the organ and another pulled off the tablelcoth-
Delaroo always saving the lamp-and third ha
rassedfth dog, and fouth stuck pins in the fifth
and Marte sitting the dim side of the shade
the operation would appear too glazing, mended
at Maje's mammoth trousers.
Maize and
the heave of the with the boy and the cur
rent of the tabecloth with the lamp, the quar-
ter in which the dog chewing the baby, and
watch Martie's perpetual motion fingers for whole
evening, and go back to the boarding house without
passing word with anybody ON earth, he that
silent.
In this way the big, bluffing engineer gradually
worked Delaroo into all the benevolent
in Medicine Bend--that meant pretty much every
earth There always, however in
ton with the limitations of Delaroo hitch: he
never seemed quite to know whom he wanted leave
his insurance money to. He could go the most COM
plicated catechism without hitch every time, for
Maize spent weeks the sidings drilling him, until
it came to naming the beneficiary; there he stuck.
Nobody could get out of him to whom he wanted his
money to go
Had he no relations back in the mountains? No.
body up in the Spider country? No wives daugh-:
ters fathers mothers friends
Dearoo always shook his head. IL they persisted
he shook his head. MAZE Sampson sitting sup
per, would ask, and Martie when the dishes
sidetracked would begin and listen, and
Delaroo of course would listen, but by any
chance would he answer; not even when Maize tried
to explain how it bore on 1G to l. lie declined to
discuss any ratio or to any beneficiary what
soever The right honorable recording secretaries
fumcd and denounced it as irregular, Maize Samp-
holes in his elbows gesticulating but the
matter of distributing his personal share of
earned Increment Delaroo expressed no preference
hats nm; HE 1uoS. l;~