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Show I v TIMELY TOPICS THB OTHIR WAV AROUND There Is a little story about a bull moor and his mate and about soma railroad men who did a remarkable thing. - t . The engineer and fireman of a ' train on the Temlakamtng A Northern Ontario railway aaw the two mooso Jump a railway fence and tend equarely m a hot torn lea muskeg bog: The railroader could not stop, as their train was behind tlm, but they wrote a nqt on a plec of paper, wrapped It about a lump of coal and toeeed it to the foreanan of a section gang. The foreman and hla helpers pumped their handcar to the muskeg, where thy found th moo cow with only her head above tho aurfaee and tho bull submerged exrwpt for his forequarters. They laboriously eonstruetod a platform af timbers about the mired animals and after much effort succeeded suc-ceeded in freeing both of them. Perhaps th moose wore grateful in their moose way. They trotted away Into tha brush. Now thl la a notable Inetanoa, hecauaa many men when they se a wild moose think of nothing but killing It If they hare a gun the moo ha little chance for Its life. Theeo norm era railroad men were exceptions. They saw the grat animal I In trouble ' and danger and they wer movd by 1 sympathy. To aave the tortured animals rather than to deatroy them was their desire. I There will be no hero medale for the men Tet they probably worked as hard to ear two moose as many a hero has worked to save human life. In a sen they are very deserving. It la only natural instinct for a man to seek to rescue a fellow man. It is against natural Instinct for a man to labor to rescue an imperilled beast. Only men who are genuinely humane would take the trouble to build a platform to rescue two mooee and then permit them to . scamper away to freedom. Cleveland Plain .Dealer. |