West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12
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with the stomach ache. This kind OF
took the cuss or. but lac was that pc
culiaT he would sit up all night with
sick uan aud next day make everybody
sick talking the money Qucstion-ut
least everybody but Dolaroo. IL De
laroo was bored he never showed II.
As long as Maize would talk Delnroo
would listen. That single word was. In
fact. the key To DelarOo. Dclaroo was
a listener: for that reason nobody knew
much about him.
He wasn't railroad man by birth.
but by adoption. Dclaroo came from
the mountains; he was lust Il plain
mountain maA Some said his father
was a trapper; II so. II explained every
thing the quiet. the head bent nquir-
ingly forward. the modcst unobstrusive-
ness OF a man deaf or size and
shape nothing remarkable. Delaroo-but
a great listener, for though he looked
Ike deaf man he heard like a dis
patcher and saw marvelously from out
the ends OF his silent eyes Delaroo
for all the world was n trnppcr
He came into the service ms round
house sweeper; then Neighbor. after n
long time, put him M wiplng. Dclaroo
said nothing. but wiped for years and
years and was In fair way 10 be-
come liked when instead he became
one morning pitted with umhllical vcs-
Icles and the doctors. with Delaroo's
brevity, said smallpox. The boarding
house keeper threw him out bodily and
az once. Having no better place TO go,
Dclaroo wandered Into Steve Boyer's
saloon, where he wns generally well
come. Stove however, pointed hos
pitable gun at him and suggested his
getting away Immediately from the
front end OF IT, Delaroo went from
there 10 the roundhouse with his um-
bilicnls and asked Neighbor what
man with the smallpox ought TO do
With IT, Nelghbor wouldn't run, not
even from the smallpox. but he told
Doluroo what II meant 10 get the
smallpox started In the roundhouse,
and Delaroo wandered quietly away
from the depot grounds, a pretty sick
man then, staggered up the yards and
crawled stupid into box car to die
without embarrassing anybody.
BY some hook or crook, nobody TO
this day knows how that car was
switched ON to MAZE SIMPSONS train
when II was made up that day for the
west. Maybe it was done as trick
TO scare the windbag engineer. If so.
the idea was successful When the
hind end brakeman mt the second stop
came forward and reported a tramp
with the smallpox In the empty box
car Maize was angry but his curiosity
gradually got the upper hand This
man might be by some distant chance,
he reflected. n +. O. w. of ~, or
fratcr. or n fellow. or knight or
something Ike. and when they stopped
again TO throw off crackers and beer
and catchup, Maize went back and en-
tered the infected car like lion tanner
TO try lodge signals and things on him.
Maize advanced and gave the counter
sign. IL was not cordially received.
He tried another and another and an
other; his passes were lost In the air.
The smallpox man appeared totally
unable TO come back at Male with
anything. lie was not only dellrious.
but by this time so frlghtfully broken
out that Maize couldn't have touched
sound spot with Masonic signal of
distress. Finally the venturcsome en-
glneer walked closer into the dark
corner where the sick man lay-and.
by heaven. II was the Indian wiper.
Delaroo
When Maize Simpson got back into
the cab lie could not speak-at least not
for publication lie was tearing mad
uuI qpuffaraI III, II. sx.4t.
cred mp his cushion ana n water bottle
and bottle that would explode II wa.
ter touched II and crawled with his
plunder into the box car He straight
ened Delaroo up and out and gave him
drink and 10y way OF sanitary pre-
caution took one personally. for he him
self bad never had the smallpoX-but
once. When he had done this little for
DelarOO he finished his run and came
back TO the Bend hauling his pest house
box car. The nroman quit the cab I'm
medlately after Maze exposed himself
The conductor communicated with him
only by signals. The Anderson Oper-
atOr wired ahead that Maze Sampson
was bringing back a man with small
pOx Oh 30. and when Maize. bulglng out
OF the 2Gl cab, pulled Into the division
yard nobody would come within
mile of bin. lie set out the box car
below the stock pens. cross lots from
his house up on tie hlll and. not being
able 70 get advice from anybody else.
went home 10 consult MartC
Though there were q great many wo.
men IN Medicine Eeud. MJJc Sampson
looked 10 but one. Mnrtlc The Httle
washed ont woman UP ut S1mpson's-
wife. mother. nurse. cook slave -Afsr-
tie.
No particular colT hair mo- particu.
lar color cycs. 10 particular color
gown; no particular cut to g. a plain
! bit Of " woman, mother of six boys.
large and small. and wife Of n great
| big wind bnR engineer big 8s three OF
her by actual measurement By the time
| MAZE had taken counsel md walked
| downtown prominent business men
were Tending on hls approach with
shotguns. The city marshal from be-
| hind bomb proof asked what he was
going 20 DO with bls patient. and Maze
retorted he was going TO take him
The sworn abatement Of thc nanufsc.
/ tuers protects you from opiates M Ken.