Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-01
I,sEN BARAB6As.


=, "a Reuben 10 my iord,
honor IT'S not much 10 pay,
INV fny II could;
scaree. and life's lottery,
,a,her may outliye bis son.
III ~ We'll, no more can
Inc risk on lower terms;
y, sou can't; and so good bye
"a angry, but was young and rash
on his seat, and bit his p
I'd at Reuben words OF hate ana
meanings. But he signed this
hard. won and degrading cash:
4, lightly parted with in bets and
and milliners' accounts
OF the passing hour
fancy and his purse 10 thrall,
4 chaueed-or hers, more Likely
BINS newer fool than he.
" he'd. Barabbas had dream
and housekeeping. as he tossed
estlessness, after q feast
d heavy for his body's health,
1, too many OF the sparkling wine
uleut traders sell for veuve
b.
Bin, but poisonous to GUAM.
accent brain was filled with
Its
n il By night as well as day;
III he had clutched, and bills o.
Strengthened out, and piled IN
Is,
n guineas In their time,
beneath his pillow ere he slept.
he labored In the mines OF hell.
Feeble, with golden crown
1uon h bald and shiny skull.
.nsunerab BILE; yainiy he strove
kom him in the agony
into his brain, right through the
ankle by golden chain
q, lden bali, as round and huge
i,.dealing bombs that ron sh ps
their ponderous and gigantic java
bstile fleets aud ornaments,
ioyn men as mowers NOV the corn.
N after him at every step,
frantic fiends with golden prods
internal everlasting mines,
pics-axe on the stubborn rock;
he stopped a moment In his toll
devils, eager and alert.
hiring streams OF limpid water ran
beside him; but whene'er hos
ed,
Ia, to guip the cooling draught,
Nervous LIQUOR thickenrd into gold.
Eripe clus ers. or what seemed -
he plucked them to refresh his
hem 10 his palpitating lips,
*iish trick would harden them to
|ng fiends that followed at his heels
I'm with golden daggers sharp as
Mood drops trickied to his feet
ha in hyperborean storms,
he pebbles on the burning ground.
Dor mercy. But the insat ate fiends
a tn. harder on his qulvering loins.
Ecrled Halt" - and threw him fierce
3wn,
b., on the hard and scorching mari,
Ssed him, as if he were m ule,
kn chains, and yoked him to vain
i and huge, high piled with granite
khlch the Internal nuggets peepe
khore
&rad ance that illumined hell,
him drag IL. But his limbs foe-
|brm Of blows came pouring down
Be- shoulders and s sinewy loius,
ed him t. action. 1t endured
e d.ous moment, till he fell
bus and exhausted. When he woke,
eks of pain, he found himself alive
|earth which he had done his best
Ito hell for other men.
Use returned he raised mself in bed
|one long. long gulp of water pure
ID beside the couch, and thought the
bght
Fth more gold than usury ever
ped
! pockets of despairing fools
b usury became a trade.
Istlll has cham bers near Pail Mall,
es on as briskly as before
able business. Clients come,
h of the need and recklessness,
for his or eff and perilous AID,
Ipt pleasu in the passing day,
i the woe and wa OF future years.
Gent. IS still his minimum:
Emaximum, why, that's as W de
st oceans and his yaster greed!
+ just. and daily makes him feel
Is he felt it in his dream.
is not the CHI G. of earthly good;
llth and strength, and wholesome
bite,
q refreshing sleep and human love
far more Il honest poverty
fhe treasures mother earth conceals
st bosom. Sleep deserts his bed,
Businesses h IN. Rheumat pangs
lis bo-es, and natural forces fail
lcommonest behests OF life.
feent.. Alas if five per cent.
common bless ,ngs of mankind
q honestly for daily bread
y ortion. he'd be rich indeed.
her methods with the evildoers:
GIT hand she pours them out the
4,
per left puts poison in the cup,
Per seeming favor les takes away
70 she gives. This truth Barabbas
b,
'bafaboas, env'ed OF the poor;
not cease to feel it until death
.smi,ses him. W thout his gold,
pllyion OF the living tomb
fnturily that lies beyond.
-TOudon World