Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-07-25

Rather Remarkable story which
Carries moral TenchfEg

Rather R~narLsbBe story which
Carries Moral TeachfEg.
half dozen or NO men were sitting
out IN front OF an uptown hotel the
other evening telling stories, and a
Star reporter was taxing them all In
with an ayidity peculiar TO his class.
When ] was 81" said a tall man.
II had an ungoyernable temper and a
half-brother three years older than my
self. We We're both church members.
but that didn't seem TO bring MS any
closer together for he was a Method
list and ] was Baptist. You may
have observed" he threw In as a dec
Grafton 10 the story, that Christian
charity and brofherly love don't al
ways thrive on denominational feed.
However. as | was saying. we were
Of different nominations. and we got
along fairly well together until we be-
gan arguing on our respective faiths.
Then we got hot, and ! always lost my
temper. may say that he did very
nearly the same. but he wasn't quite
as bad as ! was In that regard
One day we were out hunting with
only one gun. squirrel rifle, between
w. anu iiha VIZ knhs dnu
here that we lived on farm. and a
one-gun hunting party was not at all
unusual. We had sat down on a rock
near the edge of a stream to rest. and
In some way l slipped and went into
the water. IL made me mad 10 begin
with. and when he began chatting me
and telling me that Baptist ought 10
be used 10 little thing like that, |
got ten times worse and lift him lick
In the face. He ran OF few yards
, and picked up bowlder about as big
as your double fist, while ! made a
grab for the gun, which | had set up
against a willow tree under the bank.
''0f course. we did not know what
we were doing by this Time: only
remember OF telling him IL he raised
his hand 10 throw the stone I'D shoot
him. He was neryy. though. and
hadn't more than got the words out Of
my mouth than he let the bowIdef
come nj me. and. trne 10 my word
] banged away al him. We wern'i
forty feet apart. and II was stand
of between the bowlder and the bull
lei rs 10 which was the more danger.
oiis. but providence. ! reckon. MAS
watching over US. for as ] fired the
4 bomldcr flew into n dozen pieces. AID
both Of H. We're laff standing booking
al each other In a dazed. helpless kind
/ Of way. Then. still rot understanding
what had happened. but realizing hoM
nearly our iempers bad brought us 70
bloodshed. we rushed into each others
arms and began crying over each
F. other.
I when we had got over the excite
+ ment and collected our wits sufficiently
10 make an investigation. we discover.
ed that by the mercst chance-by prov.
idential interference. ] mean-my bull
let and his bowlder had met in theil
flight and nullified each other On
+ one piece Of the broken stone we found
/ the blue mark Of the bullet. and in an
other place we found the battered hui
let. He took the bullet and ! took the
Z piece of marked stone. and we have
Kept them to this day, ms sacred souv
enirs. and as very potent reminders
never 10 discuss our respective beliefs
I I'm just as strong q Baptist as ever
and he is equally Methodist. hut we
both believe riiat greater than either
( Baptist cor Methodist is the providence
that watches over us all. Washing
i ton star.