The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-31

prayer is answered. Then another
will make a little prayer, gets his an
swer and then decides that any prayer
will be answered. It's the rail story
over and over again. The scripture is
very clear on the prayer fact, and
that is this: Whatsoever a Christian
desires when he pray, if he doubts
not in his heart he shall have that for
which he asks. On this basis it is not
difficult few will understand how to
| though few will understand how to
pray.
A little lad was frozen to death
hookie-bobbing on the mesa above
| Boise this winter, some thoughtless
man hauling him far out into the wild.
The Hired Man sees how this might
happen most any day with a certain
class of men. 1t would seem smart
to one of this class ,to give the little
fellow the worst of it. This little vic
tim with his brother, hooked onto
first one wagon and then another. The
man who hauled them to the death of
the younger of the two will keep his
secret safely locked up in his own
breast of course. for even if he had no
brain nor heart on the subject at the
time he was furnishing them in their
delight, he will probably now have
sense enough not to advertise his own
depravity. 1t is positively unbelievable
however that any man with. gump-
ton enough to drive team and un-
hitch it at night, would be cruel
enough to treat lads in this manner.
!. Dumped off some where miles from
shelter, in half frozen condition,
hungry and lost, they were left alone,
while the strong animal who claimed
to be man, pushed on home in the
storm, laughing in his sleeves about
how he gave them what they needed.
The Hired Man overheard two men
talking over matters the other day
and they supposed some great flaw
, Ehad been discovered in the creation oil
| the world. They thought the rivers
/ ought to have been put on the high re-
r gions and not on the low lands. They
1 did not express it in those words. but
| that was the tenor of their complaints
t If they had their way about it they
! would have all irrigation water ruin ur
4 hill. The Hired Man got to thinking
/ about what it would do for this re.
e gion if somebody invented a head
: gate for the canals through which
r when water once passed it would
y thereafter run UP hill instead of dowr
e hill, as at present. Figure out which
y would be the best. What would yot
a do with your water? Mind you, it il
s mot to run up part of the time ane
: 4 then down a part, but up hill absolute
t ly. OF course if the rivers had al
o. been put on the highest levels, all w
:. would need to do then would be II
g stick pipe through the banks and &c
/ our water, but so many fellows woul'
l. go off to town and neglect to stop vi
e the pipes that we would be f1oode,
n out all the time below.
is The Hired Mans wife was ava
o from home one day this week, whic
IS is nothing strange, but tramp cam
t to the door for his breakfast. Will
" he was eating, he felt like telling IN
N something that would be good TO
er the whole northwest. and | give
IS here for what it is worth: They ha
er "children's letter day" over in Port
lie land, where my tramp was this wiz
Sc ter, and all the children were suppo:
he ed to write booster letters to all the
In friends in the east. They were
tell what paradise Oregon is. Wei
it seems that children did writ
We letters, but the great majority c
v? them told the truth about the coul
o. try. They said it did sometime
w snow and that it did sometimes g
in mighty wet because it rained II
nd weeks at the time and that it W;
nd really hard, sometimes, to make, Il
.et ing, etc But there were enough chill
re. rem imbued with the booster idea. WI
lir did write glittering epistles, and tn
ng together with all the other simil
lis material, that was sent cassidy the ca
We load. was so influential that again tn
lie winter the city of Portland, as W.
IF as other coast cities, got an overhcc
ull of men who wanted work, or ell
20 wanted to live where it was certa
ad, that people could get along witho
EN- work. This flooded the coast count
i'd: with many thousand men who had
MT be fed After a while the no
,u- came when this feeding ceased
The be virtue and then the whole flo
len that had been attracted there by fal
ng reports were to now git up and g
ess for is not prosperity everywhere rii
cir They shipped them here and tn
is shipped them there. My. man, W
yht was simply man out of work a
eu- afraid, was at first going to feel Il
,de he was in the presense OF some Gre
not ture austcre, when | sat down
our watch him eat some brown bread
an had put among the stuff ! gave hi
an He didn't know whether to say y
md sir" and mo sir" or whether it wol
the do Just to feel at home. | know j.
no how he felt. have felt that way n
co. self. He was out of q job ard cot
get not get one. He felt like evcrybo
len was better than he was, for was,
nc | not M de To hep2 Did he not sleep