The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-10-20
THE HIRED MAN

ception back at home was the funeral
services over his child The real thing
had come for the young man. Stag
gering under his own weakness and
trembling with grief the poor fellow,
half dead, bereft, and torn in spirit,
awed and bewildered by the seeming
| dream, the day wore away and night
came over the saddest of little homes.
| The prattle and voice of his child has
ceased and forlorn hope haunts his
weakness. He comes of the sturdy
| Corron stock, however, and within a
few days he will again take up the
burdens of life, along side him his
faithful wife, and once more sorrow
will yield to JOY and the good Lord
will give him beauty for ashes here.
One day last week the Hired Man
was taken into the offices of Cole
Miller-kaley, more dead than alive,
splitting wide open with pleurisy and
tossed like a boat on an angry sea.
God had afflicted him purposely and
tremendously. Faith hath no sorrows
that pleurisy cannot heal l have
never been more completely absorbed
i'll any one thing up to this time. Left
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each other up and down through the
didging the arrows with their poisons
and thrusts. Dr. Miller stuck listen
ing tube here and touched it there
He squeezed place here and punched
another there. He reached into a
chest and pulled out great big spool
of adhesive tape, and the second and
third strip were hastily cut off. In
two minutes Mr.. Hired Man was
bound so tight on the left side he
could not breathe. Indeed that was
Tust what Miller wanted He put my
left side out of commission and said
now sir, do all your breathing
through that other side" He sent for
some medicine and it went right to the
spot and that night | slept hope
God will bless the man who invented
sleep.
The Hired Man, in order to give
reliable information, wishes to get the
names of every family in this country
whose head is praying man at home
Let some member of the family write
me postal stating that father has
family prayers every day" In cases
where grace is said at meals but nc
prayers, let me have these name:
also. This request is made to cover
the county, in every church, and out
Of course great many men think
little prayers frequently, but that doe:
not cover the cases mentioned here
What we want is the name of every
head of a family who makes it hi:
daily habit to read portion of scrip
ture and pray. If this was formerl,
the practice and was stopped, let some
member of the family tell us wha
stopped it.
The Hired Man takes this para
graph to call attention of all the AS
= ISOLATED Charities workers in the cit,
and country around about to the fac
that winter is coming Don't go ant
burn up your spare buds and dom
store them away in the garnet t.
breed moth and millers Send then
down to the city hall. Send clear
things, for we have no way to cleaI
them there Call Mrs. B. w. Rice an
tell her what you will send or wha
, you have that she can send for. MI
} Sovereign at the fire station Wi
gather up all the packages you thro,
| down at any of the doors. Send you
: old or outgrown overcoats, dresse!
or shoes. Bundle them up and sen
them along. With the first touch C
winter will come the first call. w
give these articles away absolutel
: free. but they serve a purpose.
The Hired Man dreamed the othe
night dream that was not altogethe
' dream. He saw voter after vote
go into the little both this fall an
: open up the great big ticket and gt
r ready for action. The little bit of
( ticket, the most important one thi
: time, was laid aside unusually an
, only used one time in five. The voter
S filled up with pride just to feel the
| had done we'll Every voter flunks
J. he fails to vote the little ticket.
/ The Hired Man was talking ii
\ other day with middle aged woma
8 who is going to die with an incurabl
/ malady before long. This woman W.
4 not looking upon her plight as "mu
o die in spite of all that anybody ca
d do" but was happy and jovial abol
: it. To her it was simply chang
! that should have the right of wa
$ when the day came. 1t was for
r gone conclusion with her. and thel
Il was no whining about it and no fe;
+ connected with it. She had thougl
# the scene all over on which day 81
n should be the star actor and frient
n should be passing her bier with he
f. self and her shroud lying there. TIL
Is had no terrors for her. Old age W;
d to be deprived of its share of her lii
# but then she supposed old age cou
r. get along this time without just tn
= one more. There is nothing we C;
do for you" to her was not a dea
knell but simply matter of inform
N ton that she received with confiden
d and composure. No, hers has not {
IS ways been life of strength in con
II. dence, but she is having ample tin
is to meet the coming decree and jud
le p,ent that are before her She h