Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
AUNTY PARSONS STORY.
Why Her Church VIII Never Go
Boarding. Any Moro.

"Boarding" Any More.
| told ii zskiah--thats my man.
People mostly call him Deacon Par
sons. but he never gets any deaeou-
ing from me. We were married -
II ,kiah and A marian - that's
goin' on forty years ago and he's
Hczekiah to me, and nothin' more.
| VIII, rs was saving. says !:
''Hczckiah, we aren't right am
,nre of it," And he said: "Oi course
rot. w are poor sinners, AMY all
poor sinners" And | said; III ~
kiah. this poor sinner talk has gone
IN long enough. l suppose we are
poor sinners, but | don't see any use
IT b ing mean sinners; and there's
,ne thing think is real mean"
II was just after breakfast; and. as
he felt poorly. he hedn't gone to the
shop yet; and so had this little talk
with him to sort o'chirk him up. III
knew what was comm to. for we
had had he subject IN before. 1t was
our little church. IL, always said:
The poor people, aud what should we
ever do? Aud | always said: 1--WE
never shall do nothin' unless we try
And SO when brought the matter up
In this way, he just began bitin' his
tuothpick and sa Il: whats up
powP Who's meanP Amarah, we
ughtdt to speak evil one of
anuihcr' Flrz kiah always says,
poor Sinners and doesn't seem to
mni Il; but whom | occasionally say
mean sinners no somehow gets on
easy. Bat was started and | meant
to free my mind.
s. | said. says L. II was goin' to
confess our sins Dan'l confessed for
all his people, and was confeSsin for
MI oHr little church.
Truth is" says / tours is allus
called ot,-' ol tho fec bic churches. and
am tired about IT, Tve raised seven
children, aud at fourteen months old
very boy and girl of them could run
alone. And our church is fourteen
year, old. says !, "and it cant take
step vet without somebody to hold
on by. The b aard helps us. and Gen
crat jones' good maa, he helps us
helps too much. | think and so we
live along but we do not seem to grow
strong. Our people draw their rations
every year MS the Indians do up at the
agency; and it docsn seem sometimes
as il they ever thought of doing any
Thing else.
"'lhey take it so easy" | said.
That's what worries me. | do not
suppose we could pay all expenses,
= but We nigh act rs if we wanted to.
and rs II we meant to do all we can.
"a read" says l. 'last week about
the debt of the Board; aud this week,
rs understand" says |. .our 'ppli-
cation is going in for another year,
and no particular Effort to do my bet
p er AMI il frtts me. can't sle, y
nigh ;; and cap't take comfort san
4 lays, I've got to feeling rs if we were
, / kind of perpetual lauporS. And that
} was what meant when said. 1t is
real mean! suppose | said /, - lit
. lie sharp saws |. "but I'd rather be
| sharp than fla any day; and if we
, lou't begin to stir ourselves, we shall
+ be ftt enough before long, and shall
4 deserve to be. Il grows ON M. Ii
> has jess been Board. board. b ard
. for fourteen years, aud m tired Of it.
| never did like bparin'.' says |;
, land, even II we are poor, believe
we might do something toward setting
up hous keeping for ourselves.
q Wei. there ; not many of us; about
, II hundred, believe; and some of thest
| is women folks aud some is Jest boys
, and girls And we all have to work
: hard aud live close; but. " says |. 'le
1 Us show n disposition, if nothin' more,
, III zekiah, II there : any sperret left ii
I as let us show some sort of DISPOSE
ion
= Aud Hczekiah had his toothpick il
!. his teeth, and locke down at his boot
and rubbed his chm. rs he always doe
= when he's goin' To say somethin'. "
a think there's some of MS that shows ;
;, disposition"
= OF course understood that hit; bu
= KEEP still KEEP right on with m,
argument, and | sail: Yes, and
a pretty bad disposition il IS It's ads
position to let ourselves be helped
when We ought t. be helping our
, selves lis a disposition 10 lie still
= and let somebody carr ~ And VI
: are growing up crlpples only we don
:, grow.
n Kiah," SAYS l. do Gu hear mep'
lie Sometimes when | want to talk h
Y Isl shets his eyes, and begins to roc
N himself back aud forth in the old arm
chair; and he was doin that now. S
said: * nh. do you hear?' An
IN he said ''Somel' and then went or
'o I've got a proposition. says
AS And he sort o looked up. and sal,
OF HEY you? Well. between dispos
II ton and n proposition. guess tn
w proposition might be better"
o. He's awful sorcrostc sometime
r- But WASH going to get riled. n
les thrown off the track; so / Jest sal,
TX II $, do you and l get two shillin
worth week a niece out of tn