The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-24
THE HIRED MAN


old home. Susie goes away from home
day time to work for different
women, returns at evening to make
Bennie's life com Portable. The Hired
Man points to Susie and Bonnie as
together they labor along.
The Hired Man wonders how many
old timers here are about to forget
Dr. Wright. He is getting along up
in the 80s quite distance and can look
back SO far that few of us can see the
same things even with a spy glass. He
was here when a trip so miles in the
interior had to be made on the deck
of horse. for creeks had to be forded
and washes jumped. No trained
nurses were to be had. and the doctor
had to do it all. He helped to kill the
snakes and build the bridges. The
foundation of the first church edihce
in the city found the doctor an old
timer here and the irrigation canals in
all this region came along after he had
been over every foot of the country
either afoot or horseback, dispensing
relief to the early settlers and measur-
ing out doses of quinine and calomel
and counting out the old blue-mass
pills and giving worm lozengers to the
tots and worrying his brain for names
of new babies all the while. Today he
is active in certain business enterprises
Industrious in heart and as young
there as ever, while he passes the time
with his good wife who has made it
possible for the old timer to weather
the storms of many year here in his
pioneering. The happy old couple live
on the mesa east of town overlooking
the city, where they are spending their
, declining years in peace
( Now since one of the keenest and
shrewedest and moralist of editorial
writers in all south Idaho has come
. out in defence of the pleasurable and
healthy exercise known as the dance,
the Hired Man lays anything in the
: world that twenty young people want
to know right now what is his idea
!. about it. Well. cursed would be the
= Hired Mans lying lips indeed if he
= should say that all these good people
k who dance are bad folks; In Caldwell
i the very elite dance. The Hired Man
), has a book written by a wise man, a
: 1905 preacher, who has had brain
! Epower in his family one after another
= generation clear back to Adam and he
:, says look out for any one who dances,
but then he is radical. Not all girls
: who dance are bad, but all bad girls
q dance, every single one of them. Not
!. all boys who dance are bad. but all
bad boys dance, every single one of
y them. 1t gives the Hired Man the
\ ennui when he hears people cast
- broadcast condemnation over those
who dance. They very eclat of So
ciety would be after me instanter be-
Al cause Of tile pain or tic-doul-our-eu
n that | had given them Qook it up).
as He daac have stYcf thtc 70 cav thostoh
&c to the young Christians: You are not
W your own, you are bought with price,
IS therefore glorify God in your body
Ell and in your spirit, which are Gods,
or and whatever you do. do all as unto
ie the Lord. To the young people who
re are not Christians. the Hired Man
Id says: 1t is none of his business what
It. you do or don't do. only remember
n that God will bring you too, to His
or Judgment. The Hired Man has heard
u two hundred funeral sermons in and
it, about Caldwell in the last several
ne years, and cannot recall now that any
ne minister has made strong point of
til the dead ones capabilities for dane
d. ing, and has never heard anyone when
nc dying say she was sorry she had not
a put in more time dancing. Not all
rk the meanness is concoeted on the
rt dance floor, for the Hired Man has a
IS case before him right now and right
r.. here in Caldwell. too, where the evil
er was spawned on the road to and from
ed prayer meeting, and yet that is a
ne splendid place TO go. Discriminate,
Nv folks, discriminate.
US A Caldwell man is bothered about
W, his baptism. Years ago preacher IN
mt whom this man had much confidence,
re ata char
turned out to be bad, was perhaps bad
CHI at the time he baptized my Caldwell
friend The question is, is the Cald-
we'll man baptized? The preacher and
ed this man both believed in baptism
vn The man did, anyway. The Hiret
nd Man also believes in baptism. He
De- does not see, however. what differen:s
act it makes about who baptizes a man
of just so the man is ready, and means
,rk business To my mind it makes abou
/ as much difference what surgeon tool
rk- out your appendix, if the appendix haT
uts to come out and the man who took l
ner out did a good job. The appendi:
the and the taking out are all there is 7
er- it, neither is baptism all there is Z
zen it, but has about the same relation t
IN final salvation as the sore in the re
His gion of the appendix has to longev
pms ity. l know some men around her
ans Who were pretty thoroughly baptized
of and they will do just as many mea
do tricks as others who never were bar
bod tized. You can not tell that the ave.
len, age man has been baptized by h
lea, conduct. you must go dig up some Of
aid musty book hid away in the anti
can room to find out. Yet the Hire
ght Man firmly believes in baptism an
thinks repentant sinners ought to
the take the place Of the clean. white Ii
. OF afterwards. Some nights when far
eral the night awake and go to thinkir
.sed things over my imagination tells n
sing there will be great focks of men
the hell still explaining the good tn