The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-02-18

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The Hired Man would be very glad
to hear once more the tolling of the
church bell. When the dead are pass
ing through the confines Of our city.
they are entitled to more respect than
we now give them. OF course some
people do not want to hear the tolling
Of the bell because it scares them and
makes them think of death. The Hired
Man does not want to advocate the
soaring of anybody into the churches,
for if they are scared into joining they
will have to be scared twice every
Sunday to keep them Joined. but that
sweet old practice of sounding tie
death bell was worth a good deal. 1t
ought to be arranged SO that the NOV
ing in the city of dead person could
be heralded by the solemn tones of
the muffied bell. We could all then
have a care, and halt in our mad rush,
and give a thought to that time when
we will be the star actor in a tragedy
of a similar kind. 1t will do US all
good.
One of the reassuring scenes OF
home life is an aged mother passing
her declining years sweetly and with
confidence in the home of son.
Grandmother Shelton. more than 80,
renewed in her heart every morning
at dawn, victorious in her Christian
faith and more than conquroer
through Him that loves her, her burial
garments folded snugly away in her
chest, lives with her son four miles
west of Caldwell, where she is the
guest Of honor, the princess of cour-
tesy and the much beloved and abund
antly cherished sweetheart to all the
members of the family. The calves
and the piggies and the horses and
the cows and. the fowls, all pay re-
spect to this quiet creature who lives
and talks with them. Her gentle pat
and loving stroke are soon to be no
more. The Hired Man wonders how
the stock will reconcile matters when
never again the fragile form passes
slowly among them. When even-tide
comes who will then answer to their
useless but insistent call? Who will
indulge the caress and say the soft
thousand miles from her native soil.
a child: Every moment looking to-
Chistian life. the anchored soul awaits
the bugle call from across the way,
and in the rosy coloring of her west
are the words which spake unto you,
while l was yet with you" Happy
day when the aged woman slips out of
the weary body and enters the pres
ence of the King!
The idea is to find out what percent
of the newspaper men believe In
praying. Some of them do and some
of them don't. They are just like
every other professional group. No
body can make the prayer of a dying
man when he is not dying; no body
can make the prayer of a sick man If
he is not sick. The hypothesis works
automatically. No body can make
the prayer of distressed man if he is
not distressed. No body can make a
prayer in earnest if he is not in earn
est. No body can make the prayer OF
a believing man if he is not believer.
You may say all kinds of nice things
to God and he may believe every one
of them, and still no prayer be made
1t is not so much what we think oil
God, as what God thinks of US. A
recitation might be ever SO complete
in logic and delivery, but recitation
is not a prayer. The Hired Man be-
!. iieves~in prayer, but he is not much Of
newspaper man.
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The people are beginning to get thi:
tidea: the Hired Man wants ten ques'
tons every week. Do not ask ques:
=, tons just for meaness. for such squib:
will not be answered. The question
brought up in the Hired Mans col
umns must be of vital interest to man,
, Tribune readers. and then they will
, l6nd place there. Have you an un
usual piece of news. if it suits thu
: Hired Mans space best. send it to hin
: care of The Tribune. If you are ;
business man and have jam-up goot
II story, let me have it. If you are pro
!. fessional man, give me the reall,
. queer and unusual happenings. If yol
$ are stumped by some bible teaching
send in your question. Has SOM
: friend who has just passed to tn
dreaded hereafter left sweet words a
the closing hour. let me have them to
1.-THE good of many readers. Is som
1 child getting the worst of it at tn
!. hands of one who should know better
r tell me about it. Is something wronl
n in your neighborhood? Report it ant
!. the proper authorities will see after il
: 1t is proposed to make the Hire
{ Mans columns so interesting tina
I every Tribune reader will go through
D them without a let up.
y A wife in Caldwell. the mother Q
E eight children. who last week bore
]. son, has certainly earned the media
for heroic conduct. Her husband is
poor man. is now in Payette doin
team work and has found 1t prett
d tough shedding. This wife goes on
V away from home to work. Here da
5 and there a day. This kind of wor
I one day. another kind the next. an
r so on. Well, that long expected an
}. Javn,,tt~ lab al for hour waS :