The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-02-11

The Hired Man was present at
funeral recently where an unmarried
man had slipped into the river of
death ard crossed the bar. For more
than fifty years he had fought the
battles alone. He had been a moral
man. He was good neighbor. He at
tended strictly to his own business,
and asked his neighbors 10 do the
same with relation to himself. He had
gotten hold of quite lot of this
worlds possessions. He could now
have lived without toll. At three in
the afternoon he felt pain in the re-
gion of his heart. At nine that day
he was dead. Six hours only had
been needed to do the job. That was
just six hours more than sometimes
it takes. He was a handsome man.
He worked too hard. Workmen were
remodelling and refurnishing his home
at the hour of his death. He was 60
ing to be more comfortable, His BODY
now rests in casket within a metallic
case. He was wrong in one thought. |
He wanted no wife, no child, weeping
over him at the end of the journey,
consequently he never married. There
was no outcry in the church, and no
black veil. The probable little white |
coffin that some times attends upon
welded life. had never graced his |
home and blessed his heart. His was
the saddest of all sad rites for the
dead. The assemblage wished it could
hear the moan of wife and the part
ing cries of children but it was
doomed to disappointment. The min
lister said the sleeper had made mis-
take. but that it his own business. A
brother in the flesh sat near choking
back unbidden sobs, thinking of the
old swimming hole. the old squirrel
rifle, the old door stone and of father
and mother and of the fears and
hopes and sorrows he had often talk
ed with the sleeper. His stout heart
and his thoughts rivited on
som ething all unknown to his many
friends. The minister advised all the
young persons present to marry at the
proper age and have wife and CHILD
hood about them here in this life, for
we do not marry in either of the
worlds to come and no children are
born there. The Hired Man sees that
the minister is right.
A reclamation man in Boise by the
name of Lund had dog. One day
they went down to town together and
the dog got his tail between a street
car wheel and the rail and got rid of
the flesh from the other half of that E:
member. He ran home yelping. The
kindly Mr.. Lund went home and halt
cred the animal, got on the bicycle
eading. his pet and started for town.
Everything went fine until an acuuain-
ance was met, whereupon Mr. Lund
ct 60 with one hand to tip his hat,
| he half-tail-less dog who was being
AIKEN to veterinary for repairs got
scared at some supposed danger and
an under the bicycle at this fatal
moment and threw the rider to the
pavement breaking his arm. | don't
'now, but suppose the dog finally 4,
got the necessary repairs notwith-
standing. The Hired Man sees three I
ways out of this difficulty. Mr.. Lund
'ould have backed his dog up to
tump and whacked the tail off with Z
hatchet. That was one way. He
ould have passed up the woman this
me time without lifting his hat. That
$ another way. Or he could have
topped his bicycle and got off. OIL
curse it his dogs skinned tail was
worth the mans arm its all right any
way. But that principle is what is
ne matter with our boy and girls to-
ay. They are nervous and wear |
.lasses and the girls are reading wig
igns in the papers and the bows are
if this hair dye they see
dvertised is SO. They stay I'D late
!! IN night, talk back to parents like the
lillian in the show. and want bananas :
Ut IN every grocery order. and think
ne store can send fifteen cents worth I'M
!, stuff two miles without getting mad, III
ne mothers commence putting pads
ere and there on their little girls III
nd the boys want mustache growing iii
'uft long before they should be able HI
face razor. Speed and conserva- iii
onl Our children are urged to read VII
what child should know" and Of Ill
"nat young woman should know" HI
40 what young man should know. XIII
,e huriy,burly OF the day has reach |
chiidlite. and We will have to call Hin
malt or the second generation from I'LL
ow VIII be bald-headed, blind, pal Ri
ed and broke at forty. lii
Two mothers have come to the Hi
fred Man to get him to tell them M
ny their grown children think SO Hill
tie of them. That is the way thew iii
It the question. One has single N|
n who gives her no courtesy and ||I|
It little attention. and the other has lI|I|
married daughter who has aImos, Till
rgotten her mother. They ali pe' Hill
L. here in TaIduaIi IT. " lDIt