The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-07-03

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GREENE yawned dismally, and right
ed herself with injured slowness. "Ah
diffuses ter 'cep' 20 insult, Hickey
Snydah," she said. "Ah'd ruthah lose
NAH 1igion dan NAH laz'ness. En- All
'spises yo' spissable dissisition!"
Let us all rise," continued Hickey,
unmoved, "and sing Kingdom Com.
ing" And she struck up Justify,
beating time on the stump with a
stick, and the rows Of children Joined
in with JUNCTION, the colored contingent
coming out strong on the chorus:
De yerf shall be full OBJ de wunduhful
story
As watahs dat covah de seal
The clear voices in the quiet air
startled the fiuttering birds and sent
squirrel to the tiptop of an oak,
from which he looked down. flirting
his brush. They reused a man. too,
who had lain in a sodden sleep under
bush at little distance. He was
ragged and soiled and his heavy bru-
tai face covered with dark stubble
of some days growth, had an ugly
scar slanting back from cheek to hair.
Without getting up, he rolled over to
command a better view, and set his
eyes, blinking from their slumber, on
the children.
1--WE will now take up the collec-
tion," said Hickey. ("You can do it,
June. Use flat piece of BARK Re-
member that what we give today is
for the poor heather in-in Alabama"
The bark-slab made it's rounds, re-
ceiving leaves, acorns, and an occa-
sional pin. Midway, however, there
arose shrill shrek from the bearer
and the collection was scattered broad
cast. Rosebud Meredith" said Rick
ey witheringly, ut would serve you
right for putting that toad in the plate
If your hand would get all over warts!
I'm sure hope it will" She rescued
the fallen piece of bark and an
nounced: 1.-THE collection this after
noon has amounted to hundred dol
lars and seven cents. And now, chill
dren, we will skip the catechism and
l will tell you a story
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, a double row Of attentive white
and black faces, as Hickey with pre-
liminary bass cough, began In a drawl'
ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles Of ecstasy.
There were once two little sisters
who went to Sunday-school and loved
their teacher ve-e-ery much. They
were always good and attentive-not
like that little niger over there! The
one with his thumb in his mouth! One
was little Mary and the other was
little Susy. They had a mighty rich
uncle who lived in Richmond. and
once he came to see them and gave
them each a dollar. And they were
ve-e-ery glad. 1t wasn't a mean old
paper dollar, all dirt and creases; nor
battered Whitley silver dollar; but
1t was bright round gold dollar, right
out of the mint. Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking of what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
early next morning they went
downtown, hand in hand, to the store,
and little Susy bought bag of goober-
peas, and sticks and sticks Of striped
candy, and g. timber jack, and gold
ring, and a wax doll with a silk dress
on that could open and shut its eyes"
HUH" said the captious Cozy.
"You can't buy wax doll for dollar.
My littlest, littlest one cost three, and
she didn't have a stitch to her back!"
Shut up!" said Hickey briefly.
DOLLS we're cheaper then" She looked
at the row of little negroes, google
eyed at the vision of such largess.
what do you think little Mary did
with her gold dollar? She loved dolls
and candy, toe, but she had heard
about the poooo-r heather. There was
a tear in her eye, but she took the dol
lar home, and next day when she went
to Sunday-school, she dropped 1t in
the missionary-b
Little children, what do you reckon
became of that dollar? 1t bought a
big satchelful Of tracts for mission
airy. He had been poor man with
six children and wife with a bone
felon on her right hand-not child
old enough to wash dishes and all of
them young enough to fall in the fire
so he had to 60 and be missionary.
He was going to Alabam-to a canni.
bal island, and he took the tracts and
sailed away in ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were ve-e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any ship
wrecked sailors for long time, and
they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
a lot of wood to make fire and cook
him.
But Is had rained and rained and
rained for 80 long that the wood was
all wet, and it wouldn't burn, and they
all cried because they were 30 hungry.
And then they happened to find the
satchelful Of tracts, and the tracts
were ve-e-ery dry. They took them
and stuck them under the wet wood,
and the tracts burned and the wood
caught fire and they cooked the mis-