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

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c. w. Cooper is going blind. I'm
less halt is called IN the progress Of
his eye malady in six weeks he will BIZ
in outer darkness. The cane that lead:
him now sounds sadness to all who
hear its patter on the walk as Mr.
Cooper feels his way along. The
specialists tell him there is no use. His
eyes are beyond the dead line. Strive
to look into the scenes ahead of him
as much as he will and there is bu,
little light. His silver cord is loosed
and his golden bowl is broken and our
fellow townsman is headed for his
long home. His light has gone out
The glimmer alone remains. No flick
er will yet brighten his path. The die
is cast and SO far as earthly aid is
concerned. there is none. Few men
see Mr.. Cooper without feeling a pull
at their hearts. The edge of the side
walk will be his path. where the stick
will answer for eyes. As he passes
about the streets we all mourn in sill
ence for his great loss. He is destin-
ed. Yet there is years of this life for
him. His has been an intense nature,
not altogether wrong. He strove for
principle. His has been a stormy
heart for what he believed to be right.
He drank his own hemlock. He pre-
pared it. His strenuous soul could
not bear the great wrongs he saw be-
ing perpetrated against the poor. To
him the system is wrong. He talked
and dreamed warfare against the sys-
tenn. He resisted what he believed is
evil in the system. He paid the actors
with his eyes. They have collected
the last farth ng. There is One who
hath said: "Ye cannot do it alone"
Inc Hired Man sorrows proportion
ately to his acquaintace with the blind
man, and has pointed him to the one
last chance.
This winter two stray kittens came
to the Hired Mans house. He got his
wife to keep feeding them a little once
in while until they made I'D their
minds they belonged with us, The
other day two little doggies came in
on us and proposed that they too take
up domicile with us until the flowers
bloom again. This is alright as far
as 1t goes, but there is difference of
OPINION on the plantation now. The
kittens hold that they were here first
and ought to have Our undivided at
tention and at least enough of our af-
lection to preclude any dog love. The
doggies don't seem to have any sense
OF the time limit and remind the Hi
red Man OF some human beings he has
seen. All four of the recent arrivals
must live out doors and this should
be room enough. but it isn't. They
are, trying to adjust matters, but it is
IS bad as any irrigation district muss
m the state. Dogology is being fire.
luently discussed and cat-tail-ology
comes in tor treatment almost hourly
Lake the only honest man on any
1itch-that is the last one-one of the
puppies seems to want to take il to
me district court or else sell out and
90 back to Arkansas. Now don't let
any one write the Hired Man and
want to know if l am poking fun At
you, tor no reflections are meant,
If any woman in Caldwell sings at
more funerals than Mrs. I'd Adam.
he Hired Man does not have the re-
ord. Every week she may be seen
ripping along the street with a counle |
u hymn books under her arms. head
q tor one of the places where sorrow
locks. She sings the old songs ard
he sings the new songs. She takes
Ter hands out of the wash tub and
'oes to sing on the shortest kind of
lotice. She drops her work in the
tore and goes to sing. She stays away
rom the party or the club and sings
or some dead one. If some poor I'M
nown dies, one of the singers is most
crtain to be Mrs. Adam, If a chorus
out. Mrs. Adam is there. If omar.
ct supplies, she is there. If babv
as taken his fight, Mrs. Adam sings
grandfather dies or grandmotber
asses into the great beyond, the sing
rs may count on her. When the in-
isible choir over on the Other side
9ecKs up its membership. the Hired
ian can furnish one soprano. and
Geneieve Garvin sleeps in her early 1
'mo. Her sweet tender spirit was ali
soon liberated by the gigantic iron
orse that crashed into her vehicle
I'd sounded the knell away across in
le region beyond Orion and Jupiter :
Id notified them to be ready tn
i've another innocent souI The az
ne driver personally need snffer ~
morse and need shed NO h;tter to-
Id no unseen hand need 70 ouIi a,
S heart strings. for he has dane na g
rong in this. He couldn't beln -
he great engine lives on and rrns ;,
S daily rounds between Hnn,;,a,on
d Boise, but aeons after he has so mn !,
the scrap pile and his material bas =
rroded into immea surable duet amd !
S been forgotten bv ner;sb;no y
fence little Genevieve will i've or Is y
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