Eugene weekly guard., March 16, 1906, Image 3

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uhe Master
Mechanic’s
**■•. Ha want a M R. W of V. I twee: he aade kta passes- be sat
correspondest« sort that k t«!, he t I.
nor a P. 8. <■ nt W R., Mix he was a place What idmw could be r«qu
one
whole train Sy ma CVov. ie.v pulled r *
If
they
put
him
in
a
post
of
Lua
»
■Un»., ! .an a
and but wmu U i J o aud
&
tt
them, with i,sn Utawnr aoudaetor. and brief
l MUcaotl awn. a wl'str « v « m . there waa filled it with «a—< «Utfuity. If tax.
whatever «!•« ¡say Im said of tu.it pair the I
* bond atrouger ttmu gr p or password him to tr'aixl the outer portal be gn
they deliver tbc.r t.._m ou t.rne. Maji cut a
tt
or jolly biMiness of any ktnd The oth­ I ed we i It was iwriKiUH. rathar. fas
er UdUMi Maja. without reAkimg It. visiting fraxr er sveu u loan! taswtiar Sampson left Medicine Ho::.! wi;h 2. and
pant Lieiarvo if La wws at uuuu ou Lie rtgulnr rue aud tried U was
manaiy piayad at but a« to tha railroad to iry ictl
tt lay. if u railnael man was tha right rusty in the ritaal Not Maje Kaiuiseni get west. But between th.* soldiers lx- twist ■
son ha
borrow anything tlw L. g ^irnseif waukl watk the outer guard 11 nd Uau aud the steers sga.ast him hi gill »: V'
k > u lost every visionary right tie ei : .bey
fellow
bad
-
money,
plug tobite -o. pii<e. V .titotit the WRMWBSWV.I If be bie^s It
tt
ci.i
p«ta>aees. They laid L .i out uear’y say i
la
the
burry
st
ijeitmg
to
1-xtge
be
bad
water bottle, strong hot "la- It ramie no
Cej^ngM. MOO, Vu & S.
odzts what. And. on the other hand. to cool his Leela in the outer air till it every tulie of the way to toe end of th. I i Il­
HcClurt Ca.
r ;ti. At Stig .r Buiiua they held h ... an I I
Muje wouldn't bedtate to Isirriw any came back. Ih-iaroo was pit.less.
In the cab be w as in t.u turu as he thirty minutes for the Moulton sf eel:, Lows .
or nil of these things in re irn. Tl.e
to ¡-I - , uud. to c.
u I , iudiguiti,
It w.i .
railroad man who got ahead of Maje was in the imase or umier me
»1
kept
him
there
fif
evu
minutes tuoix
The
lump
at
SaiLisski«,
be
jaat
I.stems!.
!«rtl
Siunpeon in this respect had claims to
*•>
be considered a past grand in the But his tinug was above uuy mau'a waiting for a:i east’..<1Uul ch.'.p train I el. ni
aft<-rw.,-,l ciaimod
il. i| the «
who ever amscd tb«> 20i. l'eiaroo ma,’.« Simpson
with the stomach ache. This kind of btwinesa.
th. t t 1 w.-.s
The doughty engineer lifted an I more steam ou less coal than any man Barnes Tracy, tiie dis;
took the cuss off. but he was that pe-
It. v ns u gold Democrat, but this uevci mi dh
cuhar he would »it up all night with a lragged and hauled Felaroo home with lu tiie routi ,h *uw. Ne g ¡nor begau to was proved.
era ..’I
lick man mid next day make everybody him. If there w is no hospltnl, Martie hold him up as a mode, for the division,
It was uearlug dark when the crev ci'g-l
sick talking the money question—nt had said, uo pest house, no nut* Irg. uud the boys fouixl that tiie way to
of the local fre'giit 29 beard the
wl.b
«>• » .T W
least everybody but Delaroo. If De­ just bring him home. They had nil hn I jolly Neigh.•or was to my nice Viluiaa
roar of the Moulton special - . e! i
H~«#v4 te
l.renth
about
Delaroo.
The
head
of
the
mo
­
the
auiulipuv
up
at
8ampsou'a
except
laroo was bored he never showed it
through the c.iuyou of the Kat. A p; . < f U m *
ng.
As long as Maje would talk Delaroo the baby, and the doctor had said tive power w >uid brlgliU'ii out of a s i k
seuger train running through tl. ■ e.... i went 1
id • vir. i
would listen That single word was. in lately the baby appeared to iiis>d some­ ut the mention of De.ai'mi's name, aul
y hi ut uigiit comes tl.ru--.gli w„U t: . fasten
1 «■*•«'
fact, the key to Delaroo. Delaroo was thing. They bad really everything up he finally tiled up u surpme fur t' •
far roll of :i thousand iliums, deepen t.’tv k
if <f a ■ jt <w ’1hat
a listener: for «bat reason nobody knew nt Sa: paou'a sooner or later—mer.sles, ¡Italian man. One ulg’it after Delaroo
die
diphtheria, croup, everything ou eartfi came in Ne gbbor. in the bluff way he in.; Into a rumble of ,h;;nd.;-. TLeu ut i; was J,
much about him.
., ;
mogul
i.ke.l to use its promotiu< u man. to d ill. I O ,-r a i I ...IM’S lue tbrei.t«
He wasn't n railroad man by birth, except money. And Martie Snmuson
of :iic Stea.mug engine break eg into :•
flu 81/ k
The
but by adoption. Delnroo came from with the washing nn.-l mending nn.l Delnroo lie could have an engine; a
drew,
> ’"rt‘.<fi t 1 hroti’ii . h
the mountains; he •::« ju«t a plain ««•rubbing and cooking, nursed the ent- good one. one of tiie K «'lass, ns much st rm of e.chau is ualil, like a r.
tiie Lc.iulighi b-.ir Is streaming fr> .
tier of
JLii into
mountain man. Rome said his father ast wiper through his smallpox. Tl.e t.ner n machine tbnn the old 20i ns
the black walls, aiid Moore on ti.e Ml the eie
A
•dgvi tiK*
was a trapper; If so. It expln’ned every­ baby took It. of course, and Martie Dully s cbron.atieter was than a prtze
watch. Delaroo never said o. Mubeu w.di tiie M'S, or li„w.. .v,or;'.. snspeii
a* J ntk
* M » X
thing—the quiet, the bead bent inquir­ nursed ti e baby through and went on package
:n me riin, c .«r . a u i. / of .....
tilt a
I l‘<
ingly forward, the m xlo-g- u->ob-”ru-dve- f’.’«t the st : e ns before — washing, aye. yea or uo; be merely listened,
and a sweep uf u e over the Butti Throng
a
ness of a man deaf. Of a she nnd mending, cooking, si rubidng. Delnroo Neighbor ne er bad a promotion re-
■ witch, p;..-I taboo.-e uud th:ts un i grappli
shape nothing retnn-knble. Delam— but when !'•• got well went to tlrl'ig; Ne!gh- ceiveii in just that way; It marly give
I >xes and tiie 264 like fading light toppled
a great listener f >r tiiou •!) lie 1 >?kel bor offcretl the job ns n kind of con­ Liin the npoph X.v.
But If Delaroo treated th • prop >snl Just a »weep of uurkeaad glass and foretti ■
like a d'-.f man ho heard like a dis- solation prire. ntid he w,-..; to tiring
c oil'll
coolly, not so Maje Snniwon. When dead varui-h, il whirl
patcher and «aw nia-velou-iy f >ni out >u tiie 2'4 for Maje Satups.>n.
ks beating mauly at
Bendin
the end« of 1:11 silent eyes. Delnroo
It was then that Mr.ie took P'-laroo .lie news <>f the offer reached him. true!
un I the fast train is u»
tiling it.
fairly in hand and showed him the Maje went Into an unaccountable tlut-
for al] the worl-l was a trapper.
guile!
thought .
Tie came Into the service as n round­ unspeakable folly of trying to get ter. lie acted at first exactly ns If be
wanted to hold his man back, which
i wenty-ulue. l«x-ul. v. .» use,! tu ah t'rxp,
1)
house «weeper: then Neighbor, after a through the world wlthcrt the com­
was «lea l against cab ethics. Finally this. U.icd to tin- van.sliaig tail lights. tiie lion A
long tlm<*. put h'm nt wiping. D«-!aroo radeship and benefits of the B. S. I. 's
iie iti-.si-uteil. l-ut hi« cli'-eks went tl.ibby the measU.ed slukiUg of in sullen ua... hoard. I
said nothing, but wiped for years and •f V. and the inters of the oriler of
and hi- eyes hollow, an! lie sliowe.l tl.e s.l« u -e bliss..pg ug^.u over th. man nui
4'1
was in n fair w°y to be­ tiie double barreled star of MacDuff.
more wu- ■’ tb.iu Lis c eiiitoi's. Nolesly desert with, ih.s u-n-t. liite«a ¡..iujtes hlms.-lf .
come like«! when Instead he became Delaroo caught n goo! deal of it on un.lcrs i si it. yet tl.ere was evi lently
more to wait tor the eastbour. st s.-» is ru rt lid
on«* morning pitted w'th umbilical ves­ ike sidings, where they lay most of
truiu before they lia.ed open t.n
.ch. wreck :
their
time
dodging
first
class
trains,
icles, nnd ti e doctora, wi’li Delaroo'«
where tl.
I
itierea-v
'
iv
’
t
l
De'.ar
>.
the
Indlnn
fire
M
.je
Sampson
k.iled
the
tim,
l.y
g
iiug
brevity, «ni l smallpox. The boarding am! evenings when they got in from n::i'i Tai . .i I t c I'unaul in of the An­ back to tiie cali.sj”* to talk (.* 4
1»ehtroo
house keeper threw li'm out bodily mid t!:«-!r rtms Delnroo. having nowhere cient or«;«' ci’ Druids and Fluids, com­ with the conductor. It was a
I4*
-O I'illSC I
at once. Having no better place to go. else t > go, ttoed to wander after svj)- pletely t»>k neighbor’s bn-ith by de-
for him to put u.vay Qfteeu iuaiuies reni. S
it
p
t
up
to
Sampson
’
s.
At
Sampson
’
s
he
Delaroo wandered into Steve Boyer's
cl'nlug t'.ie new engine. That was a discussing the rights of man with L..,i u «■ t.iat
saloon, where lie was generally wel­ wottbl sit in the shade of the lamp nnd West limi woude". He said if it made self; and with uu angel of a :i . .....,i the lire
ou
come. Steve, however, pointed a li”s- «un.jke while Maje, in his shirt sleeves. I u ’ odds In- would stay on the 2G-L to watch tiie cub, wliy not? The 2t’>l der did
Ir
pltable gun at him an 1 suggested his 1. 11 forth on the lienevo'ent orders i The men al! w-'ulere l. Then «>me- spin 1'ug on the s-dlng w-is chew!:, Le. quite i
I
and
one
lioy
crawled
through
the
getting away ImmetUately from the
t!i!ng new came up. ami the tiling was cud as sweet us au old cow. with L: iy- can::'it
front end of It. Delaroo went from bowels of the organ ami another pulled forgotten. Ma e Sami s >u s cheeks fill­ la* 140 pouil is of steam t i the right oil S.in:
there to the ruuudhuuse with his um­ Ou th.’ tablecloth. I'« l.ir >> always sav­ ’d out agiln. be regained Ills usual the dial, maybe 150— 1 say may be. be l».i sed 1
bilical« aud asked Ni-lgiil-or what a ing tl.e lamp, and a third harassed the tie’ve an 1 .ore on the money question « ai.se no one bat Delaroo ever knew
man with the smallpox ought to do dog am! a fourth stuck pins in n tifth— harder than ever.
I when the sheep train whistled.
xx itli ft. Neighbor wouldn't run. not nnd Martie, sitting on tiie dim side of
After that It was pretty generally
Sheep—nothing but sheep. Car nft »:
even from thu smallpox, but he told the shade, so the operation wou! I not understoml that Delaroo and MnJe ca- after car. rattling down from t’l
Delaroo wiiat It meant to get the appear too glaring, mended nt Maje’s Sampson ami the ¿114 were fixtures. short Hue behind two spanking blr-
smallpox starte«! In the roundhouse, mammoth trousers.
Neighl'Or never gave any one a <h iucs eu-riues. They whistled, hoarse ns pi-
Delaroo would sit am! listen to Maje
anti Di-lnrco wan<ler««l quietly away
to decline an engine more than < e-e. rat«'« for the Butte riding, air’ rii'n«!
from the de|«*>t grounds, a pretty sick and watch the heave of the organ with Tiie boys nil knew. If Delaroo didn't, the 1:1’1 a ml!e w, t of It, Lu.-e ' iwn t! - ,
man then, staggered up the yards and pn* boy, nnd the current of the table­ that l.e would be firing a long time aft­ grade throwing Dnunali coal from botli j
crawled stupid into a bos car to die cloth with the lamp, and the quarter in er throwing that chance by. ami he stack like hydraulic gravel.
which the dog was chewing the baby, was.
without embarrassing anybody.
No one knew or ever will know how
By some hook or erook, nobody to end vat-'a Martie’s perpetual motion
Tiie combination came to lie regard­ It liapiH-ned. They cat luiuled um * u u :
this day knows liow, that car was ting rs for a whole evening, and go ed ns eternal, When tiie sloppy 264 the carpet n week about limt switch
to the boarding hot’s-' witi’mt have in sight little Delaroo aud Big The crew of ilie Moulton special teai
switched ou to Maj - S--:up«on's train
when it Was made up that day for th«' passing a word with anybody on earth, Maje Sampson were known to be be- fl«'d, the crew ¡ of the stork train tes.i
west. Maybe It was done ns a trick lie was that silent.
bin 1 the boiler poumllng up and down tleil. Maje Snmp«on testilii-l, his con
In this way the big. bluffing engineer tiie mountains, up ami dowu your lu
to scare the windbag engin« -r. If so.
ductor mid both brakeme i t«
the idea whs succ< -siI. When the g-’’’tally worked Delnroo Into il l tiie ami year out. Big engines came Into tie riHuJimisti-r and the sectiou b'¡
<-et
bencvolosn
orders
In
Medicine
hind eml bi-akt'man i«t «..
1 «««■;«
Hie d. vision aud bigger. All the time each testith-d, mid their men test i ■
nd. That meant pretty much every •be division was crowding on the mo- but however or what It was, wlielhe
came forwurd mid reported a tramp
• u earth. There i r . -e always, how- tive power and putting In the main- the Moulton sp • Lil f ■
with the «mnilpox In tin* enq>'y box
l.i > >.:1. i on v.Ita the Initiations mv'h types until when the 2i’4 was tongue, or whe'hev the p
car Maje was angry, but h!< curiosity
Del iroo on” hitch. lie never seem- stalled alongside a consolidated or a eugiue tlew the guard, or
gradually got the upper Load. Tali
man might be by some «listtint chance, ”<l qnlte to know whom lie wanted to mogul skyscraper she looked like an switch had been opened, or w!i -iher. I
he reflected, u I’. Q. W. of A., or a le;i ve Lis Insurance money to. lie could ancient beer glass set next an luiport- closing, the silp rail bad somehow fail­
fruter. or a fellow, or a knight or g> the most complicated catechism ed stein.
ed to follow the roil, the double lies le
soiuethiug like, mid w I h - u they stopped without a hitch every time, for Mi'je
With the 2G4 when the 800 or I li­ Stocker went Into that Butte »wit. U.
again to throw off crackers and beet-
1.100 da ¡s were concerned lt was slm- Into that Butte siding. Into the ] are
ply a case of keep out of our way or able old 204 nn 1 the 29. licaL Ilk«* :>
mid catchup. Maje went back ami en­
get smashed. Maje Sampson or no lyddite shell, crashing -er ng. ripping
tered the infected car like a lion tamer
to try Ixlge signals mid things on him.
M.'Je Sampson, money question or no scattering two whole t—tins Into blool
money question. Benevolent beneliu nnd scrap.
Maje advanced and gave the counter­
Destruction, nmdnea«
fraternally proposed or anteroom sig­ throe«, denth. silence: tb- n a pyre of
sign. It was not cordially received.
nals confidentially put forth by the dirty «moke, n wall of si -kenlng bleat-'
II«' trie«l another nnd another ami nn-
b:diilM*ade«l 264 were of no sort of cou- nn-l A «cream of hi««'tnr «team ove*
other; bls passes were lo««t In the nlr.
seqm uce with the modem giauta that 1 <K o sheep caught lu the sadden slum
The smallpox muu appeared totally
pulled a thousand tons In a string up u bles.
unable to come l«ack at Maje with
2.i«s> foot grade at better than twenty
anything. He was not only delirious,
Then* was frightened crawling out of
miles -in hour. It was a clear yet cold, the shatter««! cabooses, a liurryli'-r up
but by this time so frightfully broken
“You old tug, get out of our way, will of the stunned crews aud a bewilder
out that Maje couldn’t have touched a
voT’?"
And the fust runner« 111--” fn*y r»ni”i» '-f V ->«io
pnret.-«»
e<iVT'-’ «’«nt with a X’ --nr’«' «’**• ■*’1 eV
rr trie «T*
M > i
nnd Hnwksworth and Mullen of tin* «•:«-’< train liad Jumped a« tin'1’ i
htrHl fulnrf I
distress, Finally the venturesome en­
ami the Crowleys, Tim nnd Syme, had train split tiie switch. The train crew« ’
giueer walk««l closer luto the dark
from hand to
■ili t as much consideration for Maj« w«Te lutdiy shaken. Th«- head briki-
corner where the sick man lay—and.
Li-.t follow, pni
ami Ills financial theories ns their ma m-in of the sh««*p train l-ir torn In tin-
by him ven, it was the Indian w I jm - t ,
nf .-i- thou a
chines had for his machine. Ills Jim hnrlMsl wire fencing the right of w-ij
Delaroo!
i*1
«’.e.i'l n-.m f
ct . f « Iglit outfit didn't cut much uf but only one man was iui»»«ug. the fire­ It waj Ma,
ben Maje 8amfMou g >t back into
a tl -nre in heir track schedules.
the cab he coukl not ’speak—at least not
man of 29. Delaroo.
li surprit
• i iy l'o vay Jiaje
F-' the MnJe Sampson comblnatfcn.
for publication. He was tearing mad
“Fee «lid 80 Jumped west rriali pa»« Humpson u-
: - «w ftar Dalaroo
but
quite
as
brassy
ns
though
ft
had
and sputtered like a safety. II” gitb
Ing truck nn«l went Into fain 29. en­ w i« kllleil
i
i«-.: i trae carri«*
ri_'. of the first clan«, ilmle -.i th«- lilu gine 261. B:.<! spill. Delaroo, fireman
erv«l ui> hi« cushion ami a water bottle
bui k lo lil>- i . il .il i., > tiAl HtKun'S
f” I >ws up sn«f down the line pretty the 204. missing.” v irc«l Fugar Buttes
anil a l>ottle that would explode if wa­
III. . Liei ..
suce«*ssfully until the government be­ to Mcflfctnc B*-n«I n f -w mlnii’.«*« Inter.
ter touch««! It an«l crawled with hi«
lo.’, but Ml Je W
gin
push.I
g
ii
-ops
into
the
I
’
biHppii
us
plunder into tiie box car. He straight­
Neighbor got up there by 10 o’clock tb:..g< up tl i’ 'I-
Mo ’» «i ■ e
an.I there came days when a' ¡lucky with t«> t’> roa«1”' .-•«•r« mu! the wreck­
ened Delaroo up am! out ami gave him
on like 0Cr
ti» iht*. <-JUi
mountain sbes-p e >.¡¡-1 hsrdly have k«s)t ing outfit. It was «lurk as n canyon on
a drink and by way of sanitary pre­
fort er of th
si >a «a « am-irdf-
out of the way of the extras that tore. tl ” desert that night. Kene-’lct Mor !
caution t«x>k one personally, for lit' him­
miry degre-
” ine usuai tuui^ 'i
Ins-ing
and
liooniicg.
over
the
tnoun
self bad never iiad the smallpox-but
gnu's men tor«* spl!nt«-red car timber > er no «‘burn
up. But <uiw Lia
tains
for
Frisco.
For
a
time
the
traffic
once. When be had done this little for
fr > ii tiie debri« ni-d on th«- knolls back I day was u < ne t iia t le <lark«-t»>d Wh”n
car--«*
ti*>t
—
«<»
ista
we
wi
”
*
”
prwwwl
of the “I«!!' g ligt>t««l heaping bonfire« j Neighbor u a. up
Delaroo he finished bis run ami came
handle it. '1 tw-re was a goo«i tilt of that threw n light all night on the' a bout some nmor
back to the Bend tuivling bls pest Imuse
• klrmfshfr'K on tl»c part of the t” «»n dr« i.I pile «’-. king o:i tiled sert. The« 1 with the fuñera»
box car. The fireman qn’t the cab im­
ger department to g«*t tin* bnsine«« mid deg by th«- flame • f th«- fires nt th” the various dovei
mediately after Maje exj«*««! hlmsetf
/ » j T m ft>
tli»n tren-end'H»« akfrml«hinr •” >• g'aa- lly lienp Uil uiidtilsbL Then the ¡ march be fuun«l
The conductor communicated with him
tid
operating department to d.llver tbs moon r«>«e, nn extra cr«*w nrrfvel frori Martie alone tn
only by signals. T?1« Amleraon opes-
ff.' rllt «««
goods.
Every
broken
down
<*u«cb
In
the Bend, and they g'it the derrick ut parlor with t
ator wired ahead that Maje Sampson
'«■ria»
/ta<w.w sp u».u U"”«’ th« back yanls was «u-mbts-«! up far wark. Yet with nil the toll when day
was bringing buck a man witli siuaU- Hi
Maje turn« ”
t.aati jr r» tian
tie
«-«idler
train«
We
aim«-4
to
L
il
tiMn a -¿r<nA.
pox on 3l>, and when Maje. Lulgteg out
broke th«* confusion lonktMl vw- con from where I
“.f »ghf-jr
I- »
of the 264 cab, pulle«! into the division spent weeks ou tie* «idlmr< drilling him. Jest a« few a« possible of th« hoy«" es f ji isle l Tiie main line w: » so b«>pe- you might »«
>w it now 4 M
- . • ■ , -«>«. -.*
that
• • le- I-, bl - L'-1 that a layligbt a special
rard nobody won Id come wlthtn a until It came to naming tl>e I **m ticl.iry.
time. Don't ¡
*ta*1
II >w with t>« i»u<1 steel w: is r'.-n fn to lay
mile of him. Be set out the box enr ' There he Sluck. Nolsidy could get out have t«een n r’ltebiken mercy
tie, what du .
Marti«
J '
ever,
we
hr-.ndleil
them
well.
Not
a
below the «t«irk pens, erne« lot« fr«sn of tfm to whom he wanted hts money
n t«*mp 't-try tl*n> k ni ir-! til wreck,
Into tears. Li
man lu khaki got away from us in a
■t\’’'nr do 1 th'flk : or itr matterei! caught the «i
his house up on the MIL «nd, n«»t t>eing to gj.
--«kan
operator u«k ■ion “Neigh
Had he no relation« lan-fc In th«* wr.« k. and In the belglit of the push Ncig’il hit . wh«oi the torri
I
able to get advice from anybody else.
-r bllhd
we
put
urore
live
stock
into
S-aith
Ot:ia-
el blin for • r«q« -I . f < 1’allahan. “1 ma«t«-r meeb;
mountains7 Notxxly up In the Spiff« t
Went home to consult Murtie.
”<sd.
aes fur the scrap
Though there w«*re n gr*-nt nanny wo­ country No wives or daughters or fa- h.-. car for car. tbnn has ever g «ue In fii nk then ’«• tv
“True as (¡ s
i I i.
is'fure
or
«
’
r*--e
if wo can ever well know It
men in Medicine Bend. Maje Sampson hers or i.iothers >>r friends or any­
In «iglit—an«l •?-- 9
It wn« Nnvewitier and g«**nt weather find nnythlnc
about n rail that «-t'XMl be'
looked to but one. Martie, the little thing? Delaroo slwnya «book h's I «»ad.
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r.,R r””nlng an«! rh«'n tiie tt ’*« -
Neighbor pa us my job. It's
lion Sll«-e
wa«be«l out woman up at Sampson’s— it they pci .-listed, be shuoU b*.« i«* ad.
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er • nd survey th«- two years. II
wife, mother, nurse, cook, slave—Mar­ Maj” Somps-’n. sitting after sitpper. not «prlnclng tinder the soldier« wmi •M to
l«s - m J t '• •■ "w 1- riming umlsv ’tie fr! "f¡t ful Mf<it e.
stayed In my
would ask, an«! Martie, when the <!!«!■<■«
tie.
'-s en.s'lxnind. Muje t- - peon, with
No particular «-oinr heir: m> pertlcn- W'-re side track«!, would tief*--. * > . -,r «
the ifper.itor I was col «r !
>o,’
k»*>TM mik ! h>* mi«-M-r* nad !
|ar co|or eye«: no p«trtlcniar color nnd iiat-n. nnd iJelaroo, of course, hK
ketched fUe tn
D*l.aroo”
- to Ir
night ed fi rem mi. Luux
A plain would listen, but never by any clmur« 2 M and h?4
in. Ne'ghbor
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lx boys. won!-! be anawer, not «wen when Maje
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a great i trie«! to explain how ft bore on 1«> to 1.
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three of He drvlinr>l to <11 wu-« any ratio or to r'clita and nfljpr* faad th<*
Majo Simps
the tli pe ri.iine any beneficiary wbats<sn«*r. The TI • 2C! and hpr trnln to »k ’vfjat t*.
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OV tell it. I can’t tell
’ growled Nel ilibor.
■Oh, no. No. Tliat’s
your st« ry. Ne.ghlior.”
I ain’t no story tell
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•Just an able jawed
■«ted Callahan through a be­
lt bluish haze.
nroo’s story wasn't any lie,
," muttered Neighbor. ’ B it a
would think It was to hear It.
Now, be would, for a fact, wouldn’t
her
.it want him, quick and short. It
be—whiskers, secret societies.
•« and plug tobacco, the latter
worked up. That was Maje
ion.
itly. a wind bag: 270 pounds of
hiiere, up on benevolent fra ter
■ up ou politics. up on the money
pu. up on everything, The seven
pa! con.-¡rtracle ■ eng. ¡aged Maje
on’s attention pretty continual-
h id for him a practical nppll-
There were never less th in
■ ■■B
seven conspiracies afoot In Medlclno
Bend |<> make Maje Sampson pay up.
Indeed, be did . pay.
lie was
Pay
.
It was not a question
3. fl alwayi paying.
of pa? g: not at all. It was a ques­
tion Of laying up. which is different.
^^^|cbl!dren they were brickbats,
>aded, putty faced, wash eyed
tors of all sizes and conditions.
Maje Sampson's children there
.it one distinguishing charii' ter-
bey were all boys, nothing but
Id
tTaew!
I
[Maje Sampson's. Was there a
y large bended, coarse featured.
4. clattering sort of a chap any-
around—in the street, station,
nre, yards, stock ¡tens? It was
fbat, sure—one of Maje Samp-
^ickbat boy«.
nmpsons were nt the end of the
land the end of the street was
‘mountain. Maje Sampson’s lot
’ as Neighbor put it stood on
legs. Ills house had a startling
over aspect as you approached
back end of his lot ran up into
r. but he marked the line sharp
U kind of horizontal fence. Pc
|' «-¡iff Just al- ■ «.•<• Pel..: •: d to
ration that owned everything
- h around Medicine Ben 1.
ampson did not propose to let
sping corporation encroach on
so he built, and added to from
fine, a cluster of things or. th«
«1 of his lot—an eruption of
Hidings like pimples ou n boy’s
inning down In size from the
the last drygoods box the boy «
yed up the s! >pe for a doghouse
to the variety some one of the
?s was always getting away In
I. ami if anything smaller than
was seen careening across lots
Heine Bend breeze It was spot-
lout further investigation as
tupsou's. When the gale abated
Sr u-ki u, who c inducted the Io
line, was pretty sure to be
;Ii a henhouse or a wood shod,
thing likewise. Ion led on his
■ii-.idod for M.i jo Samp u'-
whole lean-to of the house blew
Joe McBrncken stood ready
emergency. He met the mav-
lition at the foot of the grade,
t on his house moving t:u«-k.
on four bronchos, crawled in
■tincture an !, getting the lines
the front window, drove up
leet liefore the wind had gone
oe was photographed in the
afterward used toe exhdot in
tslgnient against Maje S.amp-
lis bill.
man like Maje wouldn’t be
have very much of a run nor
11 of an engine. He hud the
d pop bottle, with a stack like
irned upside down. For a run
Iways trains Nos. 29 and 30,
freights, with an accommoda-
kh
,»t east of Anderson. There
»*• of stress frequently on the
times when everytxxly rau
R out. except Maje Sampson,
s ran Nos. 29 and 30 west to
er anil back. A pettifogging.
k water run with no rights to
not even against resjieetable
’’
- M.i
•i* tc|.-r.aph poles; everything
fli.««..«-. So-
Almost everybody on ihroU).U
•«t at sume time liaie seen
peon puffing on a aiding as
Mullen shot by on No. 1 or
t w’.
he v >• ’
-1
window you couldn t see
of the cab for shoulders and
and things. From the car
iooked like a fourteeu-year-
Tinging out of a ten-year-old
tree things oufr made Ma.e
First, th« number of benevo-
be belonged to; second, De-
, Martie.
rpson was a joiner and a
He would join anything on
ad that Lad a ritual, a grip
word, and he would sit
aigbt wtth anybody that
!ii «eg
a fever, aud, ;*
ter jfferod, Ma’«. ra’Jj'.r
bed, would tickle a Eia
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