Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-19

He was the son OF dissoiute father
and a long suffering mother. He be-
came a clergyman and had been sent
10 diamond mining camp in South
Africa AZ his own request.
The laborers Of this camp were un-
der the supervision mainly Of unscru-
pulous superintendent and brutal
|overseers who used all s0Ets Of trickery
and treachery TO secure ITEM. They had
agents stationed at the nearby towns
where ships came to port and they
encouraged them in shanghaiing all
they could thus steal. These miser-
able men were sea tired fellows who
basely enjoyed their shore leave privt-
leges by hunting the white elephant
and paying their respects ana their
money to any person or for anything
pieasureable Whatsoever Regularly
these commissioned agents piled their
nefarious trade BY haunting these hui
nun shambles. the saloons and other
diverse dives where men could be
drugged under the show or friend
ship, and when completely debauched
could be carted of as so many hogs
They we're often delivered under
pseudo signatured contracts to the in
human bosses OF the works.
The flotsan of the sea became the
jetsam of the mines In very short or
lder: for little regard was given them
/ II was easier and much cheaper to
steal new men than to spend money
and time on hospitals and physicians
and medicines. The sick ones were
| left to perish in their misery, dying
without the tender touch of woman,
the consolation of religion on tho COM
monest decencies Of Christian civili-
cation. IN truth II was not civilization
OF any sort. Il was the extreme base
Iness Of the white mans depravitS.
Roderick Me Murtaugh had boen. a
jolly brawler in his paternal "Gtaskie''
town. .subconsciously recko n z
strength by the number of his years
defying all rules Of hygiene and diet,
he ute ravenously drank furiously and
lived an uproarious and vicious life
With absolute abandon, with the one
and feeble exccption---the love he held
for and the devotion he paid honestly
to his "Hieland" lassic, Jean. and her
hairnie, who bore his own name.
uno night In the cary los he with a
rough and riotous crowd was improp-
erlS doing a neighboring seaport town
when a lot of them were drugged, and
while helpless loaded onto an outgoing
schooner plying in southern waters and
bound for the Cape. His wife never
heard Of him again. She loved the
brawny and bearded Scot with the
pure devotion of the sinless saint she
was. Her Roddie, she said, was never
blamable or culpable, but always the
victim of the persuasive power OF 9th
ers. and this he, with his innate good
ness, could not resist. Womans faith
equals her love. let her once love you
and no one can bring any accusation
that will transpose her to the side oil
your accuser or defamer. Even though
telling the plain truth, the unhappy in.
former is wasting breath
Her hopes and her plans, her life
: land her eternity she now deposited il
her son. Roderiek, the last and only
link that bound her 70 life and its IN
lereasingly heavy duties. Many an i'm.
loved. brute beaten. despised and hui
miliatingiy insulted woman cllngs
|. tightly to what she IN desperation calls
her support but which Is not even !
defense. If IL were not that love has
the deathless elements Of final success
and victory in ii. it were the most
sonseless thing ana fact Of the uni
verse. But unselfish love Is retroact.
i've; lis greater effect being the reeoi
/, upon and into the one who loves. ina
is what makes God SO strong. Lassit
Jean loved her own Roderick and hei
God and had no other cares To then
she gave her entire devotion.
Deathlessly determined That the
name her husband lover had borne
should come - honor, she strongly re.
solved that thcir son should have eY-
IerY available atom Of her fcsourcefu
life Sfc placed him d The best Of tao
schools and supported MIN with hel
needle aud her Nashbdnrd He VA.
dutifp and responsive. She seemed