The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-02-04
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THE HIRED MAN

miles from Caldwell was teliing inc
Hired Man last week how to keep
the boys on the farm. He had Just
heard the matter discussed from
every angle. He said that the boy
who had been encouraged to remain
one more year on the farm and make
two blades of grass grow where only
one grew the year before. and who
sold the two blades for a little less
than he got for the one the year be-
fore, was going to get tired Of grow
ing blades of grass after a while. he
thought the thing to do IT we would
keep our boys on the farm, would be
to prove to them that they could put
a dollar and half into it and get two
dollars out. The Hired Man stayed
i overnight with successful farmer.
last week. They keep dairy. At ex-
actly five o'clock in the morning, the
thermometer at three below, the farm
beds and yanked on their overalls and
gloves and headed for the cow barn.
At six o'clock a six-year -old-son was
up, dressed and ready for the happen
ings of the day. At seven we sat down
to breakfast. At 7:3O the real days
work had started. The boys enter
ed no complaint. No movie scene
haunted them, no patent leather en-
cased their feet. No siren song coax
ed them away. There is an iron-clad
law about that place and it is going to
be obeyed so long as those sons put
their feet under their dads table,
but your Hired Man guesses it will
some day be different for those boys.
The farmer stands alone in his re-
lation to every other man. Somebody
sets the price on all he sells, and puts
the price on all he buys. What will
you give me-" and what will you let
me have this for?" is his regular ques-
ton box. He agrees not to sell for
less than so and so, but the next day
he hears that Jones sold for less. and
he guesses that he can do the same.
He sells for less and Jone hears of it..
He guesses he can do the same. Smith
and Smyth and Smeyth hear of it and
they do the same and the union has
been knocked higher than Gilroy's
kite. The boy gets wise to this and
wants to go to town. You can't
blame him very much either. OF
course the boy supposes that all those
boys in the towns and cities are just as
happy as larks, but not SO. He has
heard the professor in college talk
about the need of getting an educa-
| ton so you can make living without
hard work, and be gets the idea. The
| Hired Man suggests for the boy on
the farm eight hours work, eight hours
sleep and eight hours recreation, and
that he will remember that every SEN
ator, every ex-president, every public
officer, every railway conductor and
every railroad agent and every hotel
man and every school teacher longs
! Tor the day when he can get out on a
little farm and rest and have no whis-
tie or schedule telling him when to go
to work.
Two different persons want to
know what the Hired Man knows
about the conduct OF ministers and
doctors and attorneys in reference to
their women clients; just how much
time it is necessary for these gentle
men to spend in the company of their
women clients. OF course the Hired
Man can write rules for all sorts OF
| conduct, and he does not balk at this
wherever the attorney makes his
home with one of his clients it is
carrying the whole thing little too
lar. He might be seen around on
| three evenings of each week without
leaving himself open for suspicion, and
without subjecting his client to critic
ism. Then again, of course, if there
IS whole lot of business to be set
| tied between them, the attorney
might go around some in the day
time.
A doctor can go as often as he
charges up three dollars for it, but he
ought not to go any oftener. The
doctors have little more freedom
in this direction than does a lawyer.
The doctor knows when he is needed
and the attorney must go a good deal
by what inquisitive fellows decide.
Whenever either doctor or attorney
has spread it on SO thick that peo-
A good deal of spicey talk is going
ne rounds about whether anybody,
liter all. should pay his subscription
@ local home newspaper. The Hired
Wan wonders if, after all, people
are getting to the place where they
vii not pay for anything they get in
Quantities less than nickle. If milk
{ot down to tour cents quart, why
should anybody pay their milk bin
after 1t got to be dollar and half!
bread was four cents per loaf. why
1ay the bill at the end Of the MONTH
1t local telephone call only costs
quarter of a cent, why pay no the
subscription price? When the home
PAPER is in our mail box, it is worth
three times what it costs us. When
we read the front page, it is then
worth about twice the subscription
cost Wh>n we are running over the
country personals, it IS then worth ali
1t is priced to us. then when we have
read, it and laid it down. it isn't worth
much: The last of the week when w.
wad 1t up and start a fire with Il il
isn't worth much. Later we question
whether, we should be honest with
the publisher and allow him paw for