Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-24
The Evening Story
THE WIDOWS i
GOAT
b. N. QUAD
Copyright, l113. BY Associated Lit.
eraPy PraBs.

Deacon Carter Of the village Of
Romeo was good man and q good
neiRhbor. He never refused to lend
his hoe or bis wheelbarrow. aud his
wife Just dotted on lending her fiafirons
or washboard. The deacon would have
no more hurt persons feelings than
he would have Jumped OF the bridge
into Thornapple creek. and that he was
ever to be threatened with q lawsuit
was the last thing to he thought Of.
One day the deacon got message to
the effect that his widowed daughter
over ut Glen Dale was dying. and he
borrowed horse and buggy and drove
over. The daughter had no children
to mourn her. The father got there
in time to receive her last instructions
and to close her eyes.
The widow had neither dog nor cat,
but in place Of either or both had q
goat. It had been sent to her when
young from a distance. ana they had
learned TO love each other The goat
had made no trouble at all. and the
daughter charged her father to take
| Billy home with him and watch and
guard him and treat him with loving
kindness.
The goat was brought home ana
mnde to understand that IT'S future
lines were to be cast In pleasant places
1t was given the run Of the yard. and
for three days its attitude ELECTED sym
pathy and commentator. 1t really
shed tears over the mistress and the
home II had lost. and then 1t braced up
and became playful.
The dea con had a tomato patch, ana
he went out one morning to pick two
or three tomatoes TO so with his break.
fast. As he gathered them there was
c0ncussion. and 1t was ten minutes
later when his wife came out and found
him Just coming to himself again
"W.what IS II. Jeptha? she gasped
"Thc-thc goatr'
what about him?'
Game on the run and struck me
with his heady'
"Brt don't see how he'-
But she did see. The goat came
bounding on like cyclone and bowied
her over and over until she struck the
row Of sunHowers.
Two days passed quietly. but on the
evening OF the second the goat quietly
slipped his collar and slipped ont to |
see the sights Of Romeo. While rang.
Ing around he encountered six different
persons on their way to prayer meet. |
ing. He took them in rs fast as be |
came to them Some went rolling into |
the ditch and some against the fence.
but all underwent the same sensa don.
They thought a tree had fallen on /
them
Even good man can't escape conse-
0uences II he Is the owner Of butting
goat. Next day six limping people
wanted to know what Deacon Carter
was going to do about It. Like the
squire man that he was. he offered
them So apiece and made settlements.
IF 1t wasn't that had promised
Hammer on her dying bed" he said to
his wife as the last victim limped
away.
Il know. know. deacon" was the
reply.
We'll have to keep him."
1--WE will" ~
"Durn his hidew
"S-s-s-h. There he stands In the
door,
That night the goat was shut up in
the barn. hut there was a window
through which he jumped. taking the
sash and glass with him. Mr. Griggs
the erocer. had locked up and was on
his way home when some white OBJ. II
ject flashed before his eyes, and he
knew no more for half an hour. The
sexton OF the Baptist church had spent II
TWO hours sweeping and busting and
nad started for his fireside with his
,ands clasped under his coattails. He .
vent down like ripe barley before the
hcEle. His last impression was that
meteorite had fallen from the night
Ky and plunked him between the
'h0ulders.
There were half dozen others TINT
we're treated to various surprises and
sensations. and this time II cost Dea.
ON Carter $50 to settle.
We'll have to sell him." he said To
lis wife. with q Sigh
And Hammers ghost will haunt usr,
The goat was chained up, and for
wo days no was a quiet. reflective ami.
nal. He stood most Of the time with
lail closed eyes. as II seeing his past
nd hoping to see bis future.
Then Sunday came. and the people IL
'athered at the church. The goat
worked some sort Of hocus pocus on
nat chain and was once more at lib.
rU. The front doors Of the church
'ood wide open. 40 II inviting all the
oats to enter with the sheep. and
hin goat entered. He entered on the
un. and within three minutes he had