Friday, October 12, 1934
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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Bums had a dog. a real dog. Sundays and overtime, I paid off
thia obligation in full in less than
a month. The engineer never
showed up to collect the $00 due
him. so it must have been hr who
set the mill on fire Just took his
wages out in revenge on Burns
and calk'd it square I never heard
from Burna and was glad I didn't
Changing the subject a little.
Since that time I have always
B.v <1. C. REYNOLDS
J some coal miners in Colorado, ered some chunks of fresh meat tried to avoid ¡tropic who poa-
It is said there are only 12 men close to where I was working full of ground glass Then we knew sessed ungovernable letnpeiM My
that without doubt that it was the
in the entire world who can under about 45 year« ago, found the engineer
’s work. And we knew own temper was bail enough und
stand Professor Albert Einstein's bones of a giant lizard in a gixul there was
no hope for thp dog He It took me years to overcome it.
theory of relativity I have done state of preservation. Scientists was doomed
a most agonising but it is my private opinion that
my darndest to be the thirteenth, were notified and at once came death When to
that
was made plain any person who has a temper they
but after two years study, must and took charge of the excavation.
Burns
wept
like
a
child. Many of can't control at all is as nutty as
give it up and call myself licked. Gentlemen, that was some lizard. the men went around
with tears the majority of the nitwits in the
When
his
bones
had
been
dug
up
For awhile I was getting along
in their eyes unashamed It was crazy house and ought to b»> sent
and
arranged
as
they
were
in
life,
fine. I can realize the shortest dis
decided he must be killed to put there tx'fore they injure somebody.
tance between two points is a they showed him to have been 85 him out of his misery, but not a To science and to science alone I
curve. I can understand that if I feet in length and a man six feet man wanted to be the executioner. give all the credit for gaining the
started out and traveled for sev tall could walk right through near I am sure I didn't. I have seen
eral million years through space, ly all the way. It was in this same men I had far rather kill than that
I would land right back here in section where the giant lizard was dog. But someone must do it After
Jackson county. Oregon And it is found I went through a rather a day and night, during which
easily seen that a train speeding bitter experience. I have a hard everything that could be thought
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60 miles an hour is shorter than head, but when experience pounds of was done to ease his suffering,
a
lesson
into
it,
I
find
I
do
not
one that is standing still But when
though to no avail, it fell to me to
Saturduy Only
Einstein says that a fall from any soon forget it.
fire the mercy shot. I went up to
This was in the early eighties him. petted him for a bit, then
height is not the result of gravita
KKN MAYNARD In
tion, but is caused by the earth when times were booming in the showed him my gun. He smelled
coming up and hitting the falling west. I went in with a fellow of it and his intelligent eyes
object, I find it too complicated named Burns and we bought a showed he understood. I said. "Old
for my feeble brain to assimilate. portable sawmill. For its size it Friend, I am going to do you a
In fact, I don’t believe a word of it. was a first-class outfit. We could kindness and put you out of your |
“PIRATE TREASURE"
If the earth were flat, it might cut 15.000 feet of lumber a day pain." He reached out his tongue |
possibly work out, but listen here: 1 and sell every bit of it for a good and licked my hand and I shot him
Sundaj and Monday
Suppose ar. airship several miles I price in cash, though we piled up square between the eyes. Then I
up was fal'ing over Oregon, and a the clear stuff in the yard to sea went off in the woods and bawled
balloon miles high in the air was son. after which it was worth a like a baby for an hour.
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fulling on the other side of the still higher figure. We had a dandy
A week later a dozen of us were
I
location
where
the
ground
was
just
world, ai’d a million other object
In
sleeping soundly in the bunkhouse.
were falling from different heights I right for logging and everything Bui ns of course was with his wife 1
else
was
just
right
except
that
we
all over the world, as happens
in the little_ shack they had to
were short of water. To overcome themselves. Three of the loggers
every second of time.
Do I believe that our earth this we built an enormous tank in who had families were at their
jumps up in different places a mil side the mill and by letting this separate camps nearby. A vivid,
Tumday luid Wrdnr»<hiy
lion times or more each second, to fill up at night we had plenty of bright light shone through one of
meet these objects ? I do NOT. water to run the mill, while the the windows in my face. Slowly it
Right there is where I quit. Pro surplus was stored outside for the penetrated to my inner conscious
fessor Einstein can take his rela use of the camp and to water the ness and presently I awoke. In a
tivity and go to blazes with it and 20 yoke of work oxen that we had second's time I was out of bed
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with RICHARD ARLEN
1 1-11
’11 study az.
something
else for
for a a purchased with the plant, and did reaching for my clothes and letting
change You see when the Lord our logging with. We paid our men loose a yell that brought the whole
SAI J. Y El I.EKS
made me something went wrong. good wages and everything ran as camp to their feet in a hurry.
He either didn’t get my head on smooth as clockwork for three
Our mill was a mass of flame.
Thursday and Friday
straight, or maybe put in a little months or so We worked hard, Frenzidly we rushed into a losing
mud where my brains ought to be, made money hand over fist, paid buttle and desperately we fought,
or something. Anyway. I have up what we owed on the outfit but nearly our entire supply of “The Crime of Helen
never had the faculty of gulping and began to feel like we were on water was in the tank inside the
down theories and statements like easy street.
Stanley”
mill and entirely surrounded by
mest people have.
Then our engineer got to buck fire. When morning came we were
There are, for instance, little ing. Every week he would want a beaten, ruined, wiped out. Nothing
with RALPH BELLAMY
theories like Joshua stopping the couple of days off to go and get left but a few pitiful thousands of
NH1RIJCY GREY
sun from going around and Adam drunk, which put us to a lot of our best lumber we had been able
being the first man that I never trouble to get a man to take his to save. When I went to bed that
could swallow, not even with a place, some of these substitutes night I could easily have figured
chaser. Other people by the mil proving to be unsatisfactory which myself $3000 to the good. After all
lion can eat that stuff, smack their of course delayed the work when was over, accounts settled, men
lips and call for more But as I they could not furnish enough paid mostly from the sale of our
have stated, something went wrong steam to keep us running steady. work cattle and what little clear
when I was being made. Probably My partner ordinarily was one of lumber that was left, we were in
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Satan threw a monkey wrench the finest men I ever knew, but debt $85 Bum's hysterical wife
Medford, Oregon
into the machinery. Anyway, thia had a quick, unmanageable tem had made him promise to take her
gift of gobbling down stuff with per that flared up in a second's back to her folks in Iowa. They
out looking to see what I am being time, especially if he felt he was had barely enough money for that
fed is something I have never been being imposed on. I never had any if they could induce me to assume
able to do. But if you want to trouble with him, as I usually let the $85 debt. One of the loggers,
know all about relativity, I’ll tell him have his own way whenever who was in fair circumstances,
S. C. PETERS
you.
possible, but he had heated quar said he would wait for the money
When a pretty girl sits on your rels with some of the men on oc if I would agree to pay it. I agreed.
(D.M.D.)
lap for an hour, it seems like a casions that it took considerable I found a job of rough carpen
minute, but when you sit on a hot tact to smooth over. Bums formed tering at a new minjng camp near
stove for a minute, it seems like a tremendous dislike for the engi by at $4 per day. By working
Dentist
an hour. So now you know all neer and after a couple of months
about it and can go back to your or so of vainly endeavoring to in
cabbage patch. The keenest mind duce him to straighten up and at
ed scientists living, men to whom tend to business, he began to ride
we owe all of our wonderful in him so hard on his return from his
Opposite Post Office
ventions. chemical knowledge and, weekly sprees that the engineer
in fact, everything of value in our quit. Now the laws governing labor
JACKSONVILLE
lives, have never ceased their en those days were far different from
deavors to unravel the basic law what they were in later years.
For Instance, if a worker quit
and couldn’t get his money, he
copld sue for it and get judgment.
But even at that, he couldn’t col
lect for 90 days if the debtor
wanted to be obdurate.
Consequently, when the engineer
demanded his wages, Bums pulled
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! of the universe Professor Einstein.
is called the greatest intel almost as Intelligent as a human;
TEMPER COSTS ! who
lectual Itnuinary in the world, will a big. beautiful dog that was loved
perhaps be the man who will dis by everybody In camp and he
cover it. He has nearly identified thought more of that dog than
PARTNERS SAW it at different Utnes and though it morning
many people do of their kids One
the dog was found to be
has so far eluded him by a hair's
bieadth, his perseverance is bound violently sick. Hunting around for
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thought to be poison, we discov
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me the truth of how in giving way
to fits of temper I was hurting
myself more than anyone else. And
for that selene»’ has my everlast
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casions when I partially lose my
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temper even now Hut these oc
casiona are few ami fur between,
(inly extreme provocation can rile
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does happen I find in every case
that 1 uni the boss which is much
more satisfactory than to allow
temper to do the bousing.
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