The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-09-17
UNCLE ZEKE AND
UNCLE ZADOc.
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After i've years' courtship George
Toms, who was farmers hired man,
had married Ellen Williams, daughter
Of another farmer. Both Of them were
II religious nature and set in their
ways. but they had no serious disagree
nents during their long courtship. 1t
was only after they had been married
! month and were preparing to set up
Tor themselves that their talk one even
Ing drifted into Biblical affairs, and
the bride observed:
George. am glad you believe III all
there Is In the Bible. If you didn't I
should be an unhappy woman. Martha
Jones was telling me today that she
once heard you say that you didn't be-
lieve Daniel was cast into the lions
den. You do believe it. don't your"
He might have BEEN" was the
doubtful answer.
"But he was. and you know he was
II you thought he wasn't couldn't
i've with you another day"
well. we'll let it go and talk OF
something else"
| Nothing further was said for day
or two. but It ranked with the wife.
She believed in the lions den, and she
wanted the husband to come out fat
footed and say that he did. She there
fore returned to the subject, and when
he tried to dodge her she became an
noyed and aggressive and demanded to
know just where he stood.
you know my Uncle Zeke, who
moved away to Kansas year agow
he finally replied You know Uncle
Zeke was always reading the Bible
He was always getting up camp
meetings and REVEALS, and sometimes
he exhorted Couldn't be no better man
than my Uncle Zeke."
"Well, what Of him?"
"He didn't believe Daniel was cast to
the lions"
"And 80 you don't7-
II can't say as I do, but there amt
any need of bringing up the matter
and disputing.~
But there is," insisted the WIFE
you know my Uncle Zadoc, who
moved away to Indiana three years
ago7 Well, better man don't live
He's read the Bible through nineteen
times since he was married, and he's
considered higher authority than most
preachers. He believed that Daniel
was cast to the lions, and SO do l. If
you don't then we can't live together"
The husband felt called upon to
stick by his Uncle Zeke and the wife
to stick to her Uncle Zadoc, and at the
end of three days she went home to
dozen vain efforts were made by their
friends to bring them together again
No matter what the ministers In the
nearest villages said, they stuck by
their respective uncles. BY this time
most Of the Inhabitants Of the country
had heard OF the affair and taken
sides, and as the church to which they
both belonged was being harmed
charges were preferred against them.
and they were suspended.
No other families were broken up,
but there were argument and dispute
wherever few people were gathered
together. and what Uncle Zeke SAID
and what Uncle Zadoc said" became
the butt Of many Jokes.
After sixteen months Of separation
Mrs. Toms fell into the mill pond, and
Mr.. Toms happened to be on hand to
rescue her. They might have made
up then and there but for the fact that
letters were received from Uncle Zeke
and Uncle Zadoc to the effect that they
were coming back to settle the dis
pute. a5
"And you'll find that my Uncle Zeke
and l have been right all the time, :
said the husband to the WIFE,
Never" she replied. my Uncle Ia
doc won't be Eve minutes in convinc
Ing you that you've been oil wrong"
i TITS awful that you have stuck out
the way you have and kept us apart"
"And but for your obstinacy w
might have been happy"
The county waited impatiently fol
the arrival Of the respective uncles
They arrived The husband told BIZ.
story to his Uncle Zeke, and the wife
i told hers to her Uncle Zadoc Wher
Uncle Zeke had heard all he replied
4 George. what said about 1t wat
one day In the later field. What
said was that II Daniel was really cas-
among thu lions It happened that thu
critters wasn't hungry just then. II
been reading that no lion on a full feet
would tackle man. You'd better hus
tie over and see Ellen and make Thu
thing up"
i The wife told her story to her Unch