The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-06-09
THE HIRED MAN

nah and Tilda and Mary Ann and Sa-
rah and Elizabeth and Jane? You
knew them. How about Bob and Hen
ry and Alonzo and Steve and Hiram
and Elijah and Rube? You knew |
them. We had just as many germs
then as now. but we had fewer germ
specialists and we didn't have so many
people making their living killing
germs and writing for the papers. The
world itself is growing worse and
worse, presume, just as the Scrip
lures say it will The good are getting
gooder but the bad are getting Bladder,
and it will stay that way until some
angel blows long trumpet-long as
from here to Jordan Valley. and then
a quietus will take place and we'll wish
we hadn't.
The Mired Man don't have much
use for squads They are good enough
to eat and do we'll enough to look at,
but | draw the line on the way they
treat their mothers. Just let a poor
squads mother come home with some
| ordinary food for her children, and she
gets particular fits. l know now why
She only has a SQUAD or two at the
time, and that is because they would
run her mad if she had half dozen at
time. The disobedient baby pigeon
will quarrel and fuss and fight at its
mamma whenever it is not we'll pleas
ed. The poor mamma will fly about
town all day gathering up the food
she happens to find laying around, will
look out for the boy with the .22 and
hide away from the cats, and all that;
but when she goes home with what
| she has been able to pick up, those
naughty babies of hers will act good
deal like some little children | have
seen. They will be just as cross as
any old bear. They stick out their
lips at their mamma and they kick on
a few weed seeds she had to get when
she could not find grain without taxi
ing chances on getting her own head
knocked off and then if she is gone a
little longer than that cross kid OF
hers thinks she ought to have been,
it raises fuss. | know what | would
do if were some squads mamma
would ;ust hire a hawk to come and
take care of it and let the hawk know
that | didn't care if it whipped it quite
hard.
| Over ON the edge of Boise a girl
came running to me and said brother
of the circulation manager of the Cap
ital News was dying and she thought
ought to run down and see him
Well the Hired Mans lot gives him
the joy and sadness of witnessing the
death of great many people, SO
went down to see this man die. The
manager of the circulation department
was there when l reached the solemn
scene. The poor young man wa:
breathing his last, with consumption
and was extremely happy. When thu
,, Hired Man sat down beside him there
was plenty to say The sick man hac
, plenty to say. saw that if | did any
, thing tangible | would have to do i
quickly, so l said, will you just d.
,. me this favor? When you see TIL
Apostle James in the morning, pleas
tell him that like the portion of tn
!, Bible that he wrote-more | believe
T than most any other Tell Paul whel
:, you see him tomorrow that am hold
ing fast to what he wrote and that
am getting good out of it." The dyinI
= man raised up in his couch and seize
my idea with the grip Of eternal lit
and laughed aloud with his sweetes
smile. and his frail laughter rings i
my satisfied ears to this day. Il shal
surely do it; shall surely do it. l ar
so happy now and shall be so happ
when | take your message over yon
r der" said he. In very few hours h
g was dead and before morning l dout
S not that he had told James and PAT
D ~ oIo,,t I eo;J and uha0 ore
n to see them they will tell me they &C
u my messages.
> Mr.. Austin of the Racket Store wa
. crossing the street bareheaded and
: his shirt sleeves one day this weel
:, carrying a pasteboard box CAREFUL
and with a broad smile ON his hant
some face. He was hardly talking
" himself, but was thinking sweetly
j. himself. The Hired Man intercepte
y him on the corner, whereupon M
:, Austin took a small oval looking art
- Gle from the box where it had bee
n resting with about 20 others of i
, kind. This" said he as he lifted tt
:. oval shaped thing carefully from i
y, Judgment this is the thing that pa
, the mortgages off the Kansas farm
e ana IL Is kOlHS W SoihS hoy P"J
>, the mortgages ON the Idaho farms
o Upon delivery of this sanguine prop
(, ecy the Racket Store man held in Il
,. hollow of his hand nice brown el
=. of hen and looked upon it with Il
>, financial admiration of one who is sa
y ing up his money to later go into Il
81 chicken business, but he better just {
on and keep on selling his goods
cheap that one would suppose he
N beating the railroads out of the freig
ct charges, and not try out the Idaho he
S The Hired Man is going to wri
1t ten brief obituary notices of living pc
ny pie am aware that obituary motto
re should be written after the peop
OF die, but in this age of speed and rapi
OF ity, want to write them while t
a friends are alive. Therefore no read
lie will suppose the people mentioned
an these obituaries are dead, for they a
n a. 4. L.