The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-07-14

you want water sprinkled on you, or
why to be buried in water? Does it !
get you anything? If it does, and YOU
don't have it done, of course. YOU
lose just that which you were going
to get thereby. OF course your In
tentions were good, but they tell men
that the auto road to hell is paved
with good intentions. If baptism is
saving act, and your hypothetical man
riding with companion who had
little water in his bottle the last time
he took drink should now upon
readiness to baptize the repentant
sinner, find that every drop had leaked
out, where you'd your sinner get off
The man who has lived where there
IS water enough for anything, and
later gets far out in the wilds and
gets the notion he wants this or that
as saving act, just may not get what
he wants. | have seen folks who got
disappointed.
IF as some people claim Ct don't
know whether you do) a sinner cannot
be saved until he is baptized, and a
man heard some preaching far back
on the desert and was converted and
| started for creek miles away to be
| D"PtiENh vi DdPllolil Is burial Ill Wd-
teri and his horse fell and killed him,
how about it," Answer: | will an
swer you in the same way that a Phar-
isee would answer, and that is by
asking you a question: Suppose your
father had left You two hundred thou
sand dollars provided you would be
in Kansas City on the morning OF
July 10th. Now it takes forty Eight
| IN troi tN
to Kansas City. Suppose you were out
in the desert until you just had time
to ride your horse to Caldwell or
NamDa to catch the last train that
could possibly get you to Kansas City
in time to get your heritage and just
after a heated argument with some
man there in the desert who wanted
you to quit acting the fool in declin-
ing your heritage from your father,
you changed your mind and started to
ride for the train, whereupon your
horse fell and in both cases the vic
tim would be too late.
On the night of July Fourth Sher-
man Crawford was awakened by his
seven weeks old baby making an un-
usual noise. He turned on the lights
tas quickly as possible and to his CON
sternation he found great big cat
with both feet on the child's bosom
and its mouth close up to the tots
mouth and the child out of breath.
OF course Sherman did not put many
seconds in discovering just what the
cat was doing, but brushed it aside
inStanter and set to work to restore
the infant Within a short time its
breathing was improving, but the lit
tie fellow had a close call to that al
ways dreaded breath drawing act that
cats like so we'll to do. The Hired
Man has often heard of this work on
the part of the common house cat,
but he was under the impression that
the affection of the animal caused it to
get up close on the babes bosom and
that the weight crushed out the
breath. In the case of the Crawford
babe, the cat was actually sucking out
the child's life.
The Hired Man came into town one
day this week, riding behind nice
Middleton girl on the electric car. She
was beautifully clad and as sweet as
a peach. She was about eighteen, and
perhaps | should say more correctly
that she was clever looking young
woman We always say sweet as a
peach when we are talking about lit
tie tots. Well, on this nice young
lady's immaculate dress, running
around her collar, up and down her
back, thence back over her collar
playing hide and see, leap-frog and
pussy wants corner, was great big
bed bug. Horrors upon horrors! for
that was sure Middleton grill
have never seen the like before and
to have to admit that Middleton could
produce something like that made me
vince trihe. After my chagrin had
run to the last end of the limit, and
as | was nervous with sympthy fLr
my nice girl 10, and behold, | looked
again, little closer( and my bed bug
was not bed bug at ALL but was one
on these great big lady-bugs that arc
liable to fly and light on any body
anytime in the summer and my Mid
dleton girls came back to my usua
opinion Things are not always what
they seem.
The Hired Man and his wife took
luncheon with the McCulloughs on
near Huston the other day and Will,
there we found out who that woman
was on the Fourth who nearly go
captured by the flying machine at tho
fair grounds in Boise. She was this
same Mrs. Mccullough. Hundreds o
people saw some woman walk delibcr
ately out of the crowd and approach
the flying machine just before it start
ed and there scrutinize 1t closely. Thu
operator of the machine busily alb
sorbed in his business, turned on thu
steam, showed lever this way an,
yanked one that way, took deel
, breath. and away he sped like TIL
: wind. OF course any body knows tina
, flying machine must take run TO
} it, and this one was no exception. MI
I Mccullough in his auto, wedged i'll tn
throng wondered what under the SUI
would become of his wife. He though
1 she was liable to grab on to the biz
= birds tail and soar around with il
{ but when the blower began to max
| a storm and the wheels began Il
t buzz, Mrs. Mccullough thought o
} most everything else besides takin
! a soar. She turned to get away iron