Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-10-10

were softly singing sweet old Gospel
HYMNS. Each sabbath afternoon they
came up to the hospital 10 sing In the
corridors 10 the patients; and many an
aching head was soothed. and many
restless sufferer grew quiet, as the
sweet young voices floated In with the
sweet old words OF the hymns.
The man lay still and listened. They
were singing something with the re-
frain:
20, Beulah land, sweet Beulah land.'
As he listened. 1t all came back to
him--all the memory of his lifetime.
He could see that one short year OF
bliss with Rachel. he could see those
other years when he had toiled for RAJ
chefs child. He remembered his gold
en- dream of happiness: he wondered,
vaguely who was keeping the wooden
| box where the price of his happiness
/ lay. He thought of the fire and OF
his fight with the flames; he thought
/ of his Adah out ON Seventh street.
And then, he felt again the thrust OF
\ two light hands upon his breastofid-l
/ two light hands against his breast,
and the thrust OF heavy words against
his heart.
The doctors. making their afternoon
! rounds, found him free from fever and
rational. They spoke CHEEKY words OF
announcement and left him TO the
nurses. He lay quite still and pa
tent He asked NO questions OF any
one. He remembered nothing that had
followed the thrust of those two white
hands. He did not know that the fall
ing door of his own shop had nearly
crushed out his life; he did not know
he had lain many weeks In the hospi-
tai. Something about him felt like a
weight. He did not know that his
whole right side was paraly zed, and
that, although a partial recovery was
now assured to him. he would never
walk again. He did not know thal
while he had been unconscious or raw
ing in wild delirium the critical opera
ton he had been dreading for his child
had been performed successfully-that
tended by her faithful nurse, the sur
geon's instruments had done their fam
Gus work, and now, In that very hos
pttal. his Adah was fast learning u
walk. He knew none OF these things
and he asked no questions IL seemed
TO him that nothing worth knowing
I aUoQE COulu IOhoN hAAG NAAA A1h ~ t~@N0
little white hands.
The singing in the corridor hat
ceased. He lay quite still and watches
the glints of September sunlight a
they glanced in through the shade'
window.
Something brighter than the sun
slints was coming into the room
Something sweeter than singing wa
!, stealing TO his bedside. A low, wheels
chair, rolled by woman. fair youn
girl. with outstretched arms and plead
!. ing face.
) They had told her to be very cain
r but she fell upon his neck and wep
there a long while. Then she raise
n her tear-stained face onl yto lay
4 close beside his on the pillow.
r MY fatleri My fatber?' she sobbet
Il II love you with all my heart. neve
used TO know you In these other day
Il know you now. and love you. Sc
n fatherl I can really walk. am grow
y ing stronger every day, and Il Is IN
:. turn now to take care Of you all yor
e life"
: The white hands thar had thru'
\ him away from her were reached OF
e to him plcadIngly He took them
a his own and kissed them, then lai
IS them, as balm. on his sore heart.
10 v
or Many more weeks followed befol
pr the doctors pronounced cid Samuel ,
err well as he would ever be. Many mo-
is weeks followed before Adah's Gu
tn was complete. But there came d1
when a ship sailed out of small. su
" Lit harbor and steered straight for
e. far-Eestern shore. On the deck sat
to | white-haired man who looked like
s. picture OF the patiiarchs. BY his sl'
re stood a beautiful, dark-eyed your
% girl. whose every movement told
st love and tender care for the old ma
A gentle-faced woman was In the bac
lis ground They were sailing to the la
er The wealth of the wooden box W
= theirs to command. A mutual 10