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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1916)
The Car Kiaer By Walter Deianey (Copyright, 1918. by W. O. Chapman.) I was for years a train rider. Do you know what that means? It you do, you are wiser than the great ma jority, for the phrase is a new one ancT covers a calling somewhat unique. A train rider I was, with all its jar, risk and peril, and would prob ably be one today but for Imogene , peerless, patient, practical sharing all my joys. A train rider Is a man not listed as a railroad employee, but always on their corporate pay roll. He Is a spe cial officer. The pay is eighty-five dollars per month, and fifteen dollars extra for expenses. The work Is neither regular nor onerous, only the train, rider of a railroad division must be at the censorious and unalterable beck and call of the railroad at all odd, even or unusual hours. In a word, my functions were those: to proceed on order to a certain train, to locate a special freight car and un til that car left the end of the division not to allow It or Its contents to leave my sight for a single moment of time. When I turned my watch and ward over to the car rider of the next di vision my duties were completed, all except sending in a report of any un toward Incidents that might attend the transmission of the car of which I was the guardian. Sometimes it was a blooded horse, more often an opulent shipment of bullion, once a few small boxos con taining watch springs. Valueless seeming tiny pieces of steel, I was A Red-Faced, Excited Man Rushed Up. amazed when I learned that this pro clous consignment represented near ly a million dollars. I was notified to meet a freight at Hopotnn at noon one di.y uud present ed myself to find the train stutlonary on a switch ut the end of the yard. Iluyond this was tho residence sec tion and open country. My car was No. 4o21 A, I recall. I saw to the seals, made a memoranda of the traiiHlt curd and mounted to my pout on tho top of the car. It had a small grated window at either end and a niovablo ventilator trap about the cen ter of tho car. I opened this nnd In vestigated the Interior of the car, for it was a Blow run of Bomo eighteen hours. In case of ruin I was at liberty to go inside. I flashed my electric light tube down into the dark void be neath, made out what from experi ence I took to be a shipment of bro cades and velvets and marked out the spot where I would rest it driven to sholtor by the elements.' A call from the brakeman down the track sent me toward the iron ladder at the side of the car. Just as I reached the edge of the roof to de scend I drew back. A stranger, as cending, fairly forced mo back, In wondorment I faced a beautiful young girl, though palo and distracted look ing. She was gasping for breath and directed a frightened glance back over nor shoulder. She sank to the car roof as though exhausted. I noticed , that the filmy dress she wore was torn as if by brambles or fence wire. Bhe wore no hat or wrap aud nor hair was disheveled. "Does doea this train atart soon?" the panted out. "Why, yes," I answered, "but not with regular passengers." "I know, I know," she breathed hur riedly, "but couldn't I stay here and ride Just a little? I wouldn't make i any trouble. I'd keep real quiet," she added, with eyes full of a piteous en treaty that stirred my heart. Just then the signal whistle was repeated. "I will bo back in a minute and see what I can do for you," I said, marvel ing greatly, for at a glance 1 discerned that this was no girl tramp or that genus and I was at a loss to irnio the cause of her distraction. When I got to the ground down near the caboose the conductor was waving a paper. It proved to be or ders to belt road the car I was In when we reached a certain Junction. Just as I completed reading it a red- faced, excited nan rushed up. Potup ui, irascible, 1 think he had the meanest countenance and the most treacherous eyes I have ever seen. "You, men!" he shouted. "Have you seen anything of a girl?" and he rat tled out a description of the very per son whom I had left on top of my car. "Look in the caboose there's six way fares there," observed the con ductor, and I hurried back to my car to find no trace of the mysterious young lady who had, so recently ap pealed to my chivalry and sympathy. She was gone. I scanned the level stretch beyond the tracks, expecting to glimpse her flying form, for I doubt ed not that she was a runaway. I pitied her if the man I had Just seen was her guardian or relative. She did not drift soon out of my mind. So vividly had she Impressed me that I could reproduce her mental ly with clearness. We made our run and dusk came on just as we reached the junction. As we made up a new train and got well on to the belt spur I determined to open the trap In the roof and get inside and by the aid of my flashlight enjoyed the lunch I had tossed among the packages below. We were just passing an overhead bridge when I caught a fleeting glimpse of a descending form. In a flash my suspicions were excited, and rightly. A man had dropped to the roof of the car from the girders. He bore down upon me. Of course I realized what was do ing. A gang wore after the contents of the special car, and here was the forerunner of the group. Ho made for me and we collided. I went flat, and he, too. He was Intent on throwing me off the car and later cast the pre cious freight to confreres awaiting him farther down the line. I slid and, lying extended, Belzed the rod of the brake whoel. He would be upon me In another moment, when he uttered a sharp cry. Turning, 1 saw a figure beside the open trap. 1 saw the ankle of my enemy seized. He was swung backwards and then squarely over the side of the car Into space. The girl! In a flashing second I un derstood It all. She had got down intc the car hours before, doubtless fright ened into hiding from the man who was looking for her. She had thrown back the scuttle cover Just In time tc save the freight and myself. And now, having shown the cour age of a true woman, she became tim id and reticent. I could not influence her to explain her situation. "Only to get away from persecution!" she uttered more than once, and shud dered. "Only to find Bome socluded home, a shelter, a safe retreat for a single month!" I won upon her confidence during that strange night journey. When we reached the terminus I took her to the home of my sister. Sho told her everything, but the information was not imparted to me then, The company traced the man who had been halted so summarily in his scheme to loot the special car. They found him a cripple for life and broke up his thieving gang. Ey the end of the month my mys tery girl became my true love. In an other thirty days I was ordered by this Imperious little tyrant to abandon hard work and peril. "For I am an heiress, you see," said Elvira, "and the cruel guardian I was escaping from, bent on forcing me to marry his son, has no further power over your loving and happy wife." So I ceased to be a cur rider, but blessed the day ever that made me ono, whorohy I gained the lovo of the dear eat little woman in the world. APT DESCRIPTION OF AIRMAN Secretary's Bright Thought Abruptly Put an End to the Troubles of the Toastmaster. Tho toastmaster was preparing for his duties. He looked over the list of speakers. "Here is Von Soar," he said to his secretary. "He's the crazy airman, you know the fellow who does acro batic stunts In midair. I'd like to in troduce him in some original sort of way. Can you think of anything?" The socretary straightway looked thoughtful. "How would It do to call him the lark of the loop-tho-loop?" "Don't like it." "The soaring tumblobug?" "No. no." "The snipe of the somersault?" "I don't think he'd be pleased." The secretary looked more thought ful. "What does he really do?" "Why. he files upside down and cuts figure Si." The secretary brightened up. "Figure 8'a I've got it! Call him the Flying Pretiel!" "Fine!" cried the toastmaster. A Day's Work. What constitutes a day'a work? Hartselle Enterprise. Get up In the morning, dress, shave with a cheap razor, bring In enough coal for the day, hold the baby while breakfast Is bolng prepared, eat hurriedly, rush to town, work fiercely at your Job till dinner; then walk hurriedly home, hold the baby while the mid day meal Is bolng put on the table, then after eating, hurry back to the Job. After which, work till C:30 and go homo for the evening meal, and hold the baby while the cook and the housewife are preparing the meal. After supper put the baby to sleep, bring in some more coal, shut the water off. it it's a threat ening night bring the flowers In, put the cat out, and poke up the Ore. It that Isn't a day's work it 1 because It takes part ot the night to flulsh your task. Montgomery Advertiser. DARE-DEVIL OF MOVIES IK V i it Miss Mignon Anderson. Dare-devil ingenue who has a big following among movie patrons all over the country. Health Inventory to Prevent Disease Is New Idea A yearly health Inventory is the newest form of Industrial efficiency. Numbers of big concerns now ask their employees to submit to yearly or twice yearly physical examinations by qualified physicians. The Idea is to detect and prevent further inroads of preventable disease and the disorders that come from tho wear and tear of modern life. Too many men are dropping out at fifty who, had they heeded the rules of right living would still have a credit account of twenty years more of active productive life. They have gone on for years over taxing the human machine. Working it to capacity and not giving it the proper repairs. The inroads of pre ventable disease co-operate with this neglect to sow the seeds of Insidious disorders while tho victims still think themselves In good health. This Is why a prominent life Insur ance company recently found that 43 per cent of Its rejacted applicants gave evidence of disease of the heart, kid ney and arteries. Had these victims taken periodical health inventories the breaking down of their internal mechanism would have been discovered In time to per mit of patching and repairing. As a Child Thinks, So He Acts By SIDCNIE MATZNER GRUENBERG A Slnflle Child Was "Punished" by A MOTHER who took enough In terest in hor children to try to find out what thoy wero doing when away from homo made it a prac tice to ask them from time to time whother anything unusual . or Interest ing had occurred in school of late. One day the youngest boy, still in the kindergarten, reported that he had been made to sit by himself when the rest ot the children were having an "assombly." "And why did Miss Jenny make you It off alone?" asked the mother. "I don't know," said Donald, "I was saying something to a little girl, and MIbs Jenny told me to sit in the other chair and think." "Then what did you do?" "Then I thlnked. and I thlnked." "What did you thluk?" pursued the mother. "I thlnked about Santa Claus." When you say to a child, "Don't talk now, Just sit still and think," what do you expect him to do? Miss Jen nie probably expected the child to re flect on the enormity ot his transgres sions and to make solemn resolutions never to violate the rule again. But Donald, prohibited from carrying on Interesting conversation, was com pelled to think, and he most naturally thought ot the most Interesting torlc The failure ot the child to do what ia desired is very often our failure to make him understand Just what we do wish to have him do; and much ot the misunderstanding It related to the ambiguity and obscurity ot the lan guage we use. little girl who had had very lit- My Sore Thumb. I jabbed a jackknife in my thumb Th' blood Just spurted when It come! The cook got faint, an' nurse she yelled And showed me how it should be held, An gran'ma went to get a rag. An' couldn't And one In the bag; An' all the rest were just struck dumb To see my thumb! Since I went an' Jabbed my thumb I go around a-lookln' glum, And Aunt, she pats me on the head An' gives me extra gingerbread; But brother's mad, an says he'll go An' take an ax, an' chop his toe; Ah' then he guesses I'll keep mum About my thumb! At school they as't to see my thumb, But I Just showed it to my chum, An' any else that wants to see Must divvy up their cake with me! It's gettin' well so fast, I think I'll fix it up with crimson ink, An' that'll kenn un lnt'rest noma In my poor thumb! Burges Johnson, In Kansas City Star. . It never pays to try to save money on the equipment or food bought for rearing little chicks. They require the best If they are to live and develop in to the most profitable fowls. Never take the chicks out of the in cubator as soon as they are hatched, but let them stay p. the nursery under the egg tray for 24 hours and get well dried off, able to run around and strong. In damp seasons there is likely to be more moldy and musty material which hens and chicks can get hold of and an effort should be made to pre vent their getting such material be cause it will cause canker in many cases. When chicks are first placed In a brooder they should be kept under the hover most of the time for the first day so that they' will not become chined and so that they will get accus tomed to going under the hover for warmth. If the wings of little chicks grow too fast and hang down, they will require too much of the strength of the chicks to carry them around and the big heavy feathers should be cut off close to the wing. Feed only what chicks will eat up quickly so that they will be anxious and greedy for next feed. Provide plenty ot green succulent food. Sprout ed oatB, lettuce, rape, mangels, beets and cabbage are good green foods. They are as necessary for chicks as for laying hens. When each brood of chicks is hatched it should not be placed in coops or brooders until the coops and brooders have been thoroughly cleaned and dis infected with some good liquid disin fectant, it they have ever been used before. Being Allowed to Watch the Rabbit. tlo experience with "punishment" at home, was getting her first lessons on the subject when she went to kinder garten. Every irregularity in con duct was "punished" by the young woman in charge by imposing upon the culprit something equally irregu lar. That is, to the teacher the im proper act was followed by a punish ment, but to the child "punishment" meant simply receiving some excep tional attention from the nice young lady. When all the other children were playing la the ring, the child to be "punished" was distinguished by be ing permitted to sit In the corner and look on. While the other children were singing a song, a single child was "punished" by being allowed to watch the rabbit. This little girl came, in a short time, to report gleefully that she herself or some ot her colleagues had been pun ished, and it was very evident that there was no remorse or shame asso ciated with the experience. We cannot depend upon tho children to insure clear understanding ot our wishes and our intent. The responsi bility for this lies with parents and teachers, or others who have to do with children, it Is for this reason that we should hesitate to condemn a child for anything that appears queer or perverse In his reasoning or con duct, until we are quite sure that we understand Just what mental proc esses led to the conclusions upon which he acted. And it Is for this rea son that we should make a special ef fort to understand Just what and Just how the child thinks. DIVIDED INTO SIX RACES Differences In Branches of Mankind Are Marked Origin of the Semitic Peoples. . Sanskrit is the language which was spoken by the easternmost branch of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race. It cannot, therefore, be said whether the race or the language peculiar to that race is the elder, probably the former. The advent of the Celtic Aryan into Europe is shrouded in mystery. There are apparently not even traditions of their time of emigration. The Semitic race is one of the six races of man kind, and is distinct from the Aryan. The races are Indo-Germanic or Ar yan, white, of Europe, America, Per sia, India and Australia. The Mongo lian or Turanian, yellow and brown, Asia. The Semitic, white, Africa, Arabia, etc. The negro, black, Af rica. The Malay or Polynesian, brown, Australasia. The American Indian, red, North and South America. The Semites are supposed to be the descendants of Shem that is, the name originated in this way. The term was not in general use until the first quarter of this century, though it was used in Germany as early as 1781. It Is applied to the races akin to the He brew, such as Arabian, or Assyrian. Some authorities consider the primi tive seat of the race to be Africa, others Arabia, still others the lower Euphrates. The languages form an Important family, and are divided Into two principal branches, the northern and southern. To the northern branch belong the Assyrian and Aramean (or Syrian), and the Palestinian, (Hebrew and Phoenician). To the Southern belong the Arabic and the Ethiopic. DOG'S CHARACTER A MYSTERY Owners Unable to Determine Whether He Is a Detective or Inclined to Kleptomania. The Newlyweds out In Crescent Hill are wondering If Rex is a thief or a detective. Rex is a dog, a white, woolly dog, who 15 minutes after having his bath looks as If he hadn't had a bath for a week. Rex Is not a hunter. He doesn't know what game looks like. He doesn't even chase cats. He Is afraid of other dogs. He is so tractable that he makes friends with anybody who pays him the slightest attention. He would be on terms of intimacy with a burglar In two minutes. So it can be seen that Rex's owners had good reason for thinking him good for nothing, even if they did love him. Now they are wondering wheth er he is worse than good for nothing or a valuable retriever. A few weeks ago Mrs. Newlywed lost a purse containing $16 In cash. A long search failed to reveal it, and it was given up for lost. Last Sunday Rex walked Into the house with something In his mouth. He laid his quarry on the floor. It was the purse and the $16 were in tact. Now the question at the home of the Newlyweds is: Did Res play de tective and And that money for its legitimate owners, or did he return It after carrying It away himself? Rex's real character promises to remain a mystery for a long time. Louisville Times. Would Not Burn Diamonds, You often hear of people with money to burn, but so far none has ever attempted to burn their dia monds. The reason why, perhaps, Is because they will burn beautifully. "A great many people Imagine that diamonds are indestructible," said a jeweler, who was placing a load of gems In his safe for the night, "but as a matter of fact, a fire of diamonds would be the briskest, prettiest thing In the world. Diamonds are nothing but coal-carbon. Put a handful of diamonds on a plate and set a light to them. They will burn with a hard, gemle flame till nothing is left. There will be no smoke, no soot, and at the end the plate will be as clean as though Just washed not the slight est particle even of ash will remain." Don't try to thaw out your cracked Ice by fire. In a Bit of a Hurry. A very small boy was taken to a dental establishment to have some of his first teeth pulled. For a second or so, during which time four teeth disappeared, everything was fairly se rene, and then came howls of objec tions. "I didn't want them teeth to come out," cried the young patient, sudden ly recollecting something. "I want them to stay in." 'That's all right," consolingly re sponded the dentist. "They will soon grow in again." "Will they?" quickly rejoined the boy, with a brightening face. "Do you think they will grow In time for din ner?" Philadelphia Telegraph. How It Happened. "I understand, uncle, that there Is a young colored man In this neighbor hood who is turning white?" "Yaesuh. and 'bleeged to yo' for de 'terrygatlon. sah. He's muh son. Hun key, and he's not on'y turnln' white, but he's done plumb turned. Cuhnel Tolllver got a mess o' bull snakes and put 'em In his chicken house to keep de rats away. When Hunkey put his hand on one o' dem sarplnts In de night, and two mo' dumb up his pants leg an anudder qulled round his neck, he shouted like an evangelist and turned white den an' dar!" Kansas City Star. THE VALYELESS PUMP More Water Less Horsepower, Less Cost, Mont Efficient for Irrigation, Mininr. Fire Protection and Domestic Uses. Small, Liffht, Powerful. No Valves. No Piunirers. No Cylin ders. Destructive Hiurh Speeds Eliminated. Pump Runs on Low Speed. Will Pump Water and Air Simul taneously. Will Pump boiling water. Has rec ord for vertical suction Lift of 33.6 feet. Can be Installed by Anyone. Impossible to Make a Mistake. 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