Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14761610812)

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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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justlfv beating of donkeys, but nothorses. We sto()()ed to change our mules. In theroadway before the khan sat a group of Arabs.A servant supplied them with little cups oftea from a rude samovar. We saluted themand, taking our places in the circle, we wen*served in turn. Some one in the dark doorway\\as thumping away on a drum. A boy cameout of the khan beating a poor lame donkeycovered with fly-infested sores. I turned toone of my neighbors: Ts it not cruel for that boy to beat a lameass in that v>-ay. Effendim, it is the will of God! But you do not allow horses or camels tobe beaten thus. EfTendim. the donkey is not like the horse,nor yet is he like the camel. The reason is this:Upon a certain day the donkeys went beforeAllah and complained that they were grievouslybeaten by men so that life was a greater burdenthan they could bear. Then said Allah: Icannot make men cease from beating vou. It is
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74 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE no sin, neither does it cause them any great loss.But I will help you. I will give you so thick ahide that however much you are beaten youshall not suffer. So, said my informant, it is of no conse-quence if men beat an ass. So thick a skin didAllah give him that after Tie dies men use it inthe making of drums, and the donkey continuesto be beaten after death. Carelessness THREE important sets of papers passedthrough the hands of draft examiner B.B. B. and negligence incident to theirhandling resulted in a great loss of time. When these valuable papers were examinedby B. B. B. they were evidently relegated tothe waste basket, for, when he was called uponto produce the papers they could not be found.After a diligent but fruitless search he an-nounced that, to the best of his knowledge, thepapers had never been in his possession.Another search, involving the entire depart-ment, was instituted, and one of the men, de-scending to the furnace room