Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-17

long. But OF course, il she doesn't
eat her dinner. it is all owing to alti-
tude, you think. Everything is alti-
tnde in this country. IL is all the
same II it is measles or cutting teeth,
contracted at this height above the
level OF the sen. ! remember being
tired myself when ! was n youngster.
The child is growing, that is all.
Agnes made no answer. She tuck
cd Bessie in her little hard bed. and
erooned IN old lullaby, as we'll as she
could for her tears, to sooth her. to
sleep
MIR. Hale sought his pillow soon
after, and the wife took the seat by
tine fire, trying for hours vainly TO
sooth an aching tooth over the Goals,
having no medicine for the pain.
The weeks dragged slowly by, and
II came the fall season. Still the
Bessie" lodge was obstinate, and
Agnes thought of the approach
Of winter with sickening dread.
She did her best 10 mike the home
comfortable and the daily meals APP
petizing; but every day the resources
diminished, and she felt the sure
approach OF singing poverty.
Mr. Hale was less cheerful now,
AMI was fast growing morose with
disappointment.
That Bessie was really sick was no
longer 10 be denied; but so gradually
had she weakened, that the father alb
solutely refused to look upon her dis
ease as serious.
Simply cutting double teeth" he
would answer, impatient!y, to the
mothers anxiety. ANY body but
3 you would see that at Il glance"
Il was long time since Agnes had
once spoken OF home. She had beer
too proud again 10 beg 10 go bacl
for her own sake; but now it was fol
Bessie, and she bcsought him mt th'
least 20 let her take the little on
back
"Our darling will die, and chang
and medicine would cure her Oh
Frank, could walk all that distance
with her in my arms, if you woul'
let me 90. =
Agnes. You talk like nn absolute
fool" aud the man STROBE ont of tn
cabin, concealing with these unmanl.
words a great pain ut his own heart
How could he tell his wife that eyel
he would gladly 20 back now, bu
that the bridges were burned behini
them: the little store OF money near
ly gonel The many essays otminera
had cost so much; then he had bee
} obliged To purchase pump Tor tn
mine, aud only two weeks before h
had secured an expensive drill, whic
. he felt sure would uncover the hidde
treasure at once. Alasl il, with il
great reputation had effected no ricl
, en- results than his daily laboriou
. Flooding. He had paid out larg
! amounts Of money 10 mn asslstnn
while he had il to pay but now j
, worked alone. day after day, an
i with desperation which was horr
BE to endure. Often the dark din
! NAL tunnel seemed full of little d.
mons ridiculing him at his worl
r Laughter - sinister mirth - woul
r come to his ears from the very clio
/. of his pick, and groans from the ial
ing rocks. Echoes from the dar
, depths beyond and below him woul
rench the worker like warning voice
and. driven fnirly TO desperation,
would rush out and stumble Wild
: down the hillside to his sad HON
. there To cover up his despair Wit
rough words and mn unkind name
: Even in the love OF his sweet chi
there was no longer comiort-rath
the reverse, for her delicate face WI
! n constant reproach. She had oite
now TO remind him al his old c
resses.
r Sitting by the fire one evenin
! ploomily smoking, her plaintive j
lie voice suddenly reused him:
x Papa, I'm so tied Wouldu
! YOU les hol' me little whi-ul?"
Then he took the baby girl iro
her bed, and never will keener a
- puish cut his heart than when he 4
|. how thin the tiny form had grow
, how pale and pinched the rosy FAC
. One day, after iiercer toll than
i, could remember ever having done
his lie. he found the result which
= had been dreading for days: the" ~
Sic vein 'pinched out"-was sudd6
J, lvlostl No more mineral was in sigl
"a nor could he conceive the slighte
\ idea. hy any mineral indication
\ where to set his drill once more
i uncover anything in the least degi
! resembling the old vein. The wa
= were uninterrupted cold, grayi'
:. white stone wherever his eye COZ
10 see.
Despair came with dull heavin'
II upon him. His body seemed sudd,
Il ~ to have been killed, and only
III brain left active to endure
In wretchedness of the worlds loss
lie was never nfterward able int
:. ribly 20 describe the experience
\ what he did. lie only knew that
~ niled his tools together outside
!. tunnel entrance, and started do
~ Tho mountain side, stumbling ahc
~ among the rocks md bowlde
= dreading to go home, and yet W
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