The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-04-21
THE HIRED MAN

The Hired Man would like to know f,
what has become of the old-fashioned
mother who used to sit at the table |
with us and chew the food for the
baby and take out nice little wad
about as big as the first joint of her
thumb and put it in the wide-open
mouth of the anxious youngster. There
will be hundreds of readers of this
article over As years old who will
contend that this was never done, but
i they will slip up to their old
mothers and ask them if they ever
chewed their baby's food, they will
oct an answer about like this: 81
have chewed your food many week,
my boy" -, .. :,
There is another oldfashioned
mother who has persisted from the
earth in these latter days: She used
TO chew the goods to see it the color
stuck, smoked the pieces Of glass for
the children to see the eclipse of the
sun, creased our shoes at night after
we had gone to bed, tied little
chunk of asafoedida about our neoks
to keep disease away, scolded about
the cowlick in our hair, berated the
itch that tied a rough place in the
old mare tdti, lOohSd iSi oohiS DouJ
70 come when her nose itched, threw
ninch of salt over her left shoulder
r perchance she dropped the dish rag
on the floor, positively refused to
move the cat when they moved from
one house to another, spit whenever
Che saw big woolly caterpillar crawl
mo looked forward to seven years of
hard luck if one of the children put
hole in the looking glass, stormed
At the child ferociously if he brought
Garden hoe into the house, saw
sickness coming if she dreamed of lice
on one of her children, dreaded to
dream of muddy water, could put a
nair of old pants in the broken win
dow so as to make it permissible, be-
Ieyed everything she read in the pa
pers. thought that Mrs. Winslow was
real woman. drenched us with de-
solved pills in water if we could not
swallow one whole, cut our hair and
got most of it down our backs or in
our mouths, said Santa Claus was a
real thing, said grace when ever
father was gone, said: "We will have
preaching tonight at candle lighting
and made salt-rising corn bread and
fried eggs in sausage fryings. Those
we're good old days, but they have
gone forever.
lin Witherspoon had to shoot mag
pies on the sly and not let his WIT
know about it. until they were walk
ing along where sick hog was fight
ing for life. Whenever Jim woult
crack away and bring down Mr.. o
Mrs. Maybe, his wife scolded hin
h:,,1 70 ha careful
He would never think of shooting a
other birds, and Mrs. Witherspool
did not understand why he had S,
much spleen for the maybe. We'll
they took look at the poor sick ho
and then went on half mile. Afte
while they returned and the no
was dead, and the magpies had cate
his nose off. This settled it, and whe
lin made a flying maybe bite the dus
with folded wings, it had no terror
for his wife for she had seen enough
The Hired Man one time saw foe
of magpies after thin old horse
the spring, whose back had sore o
it. The magpies were after that sor
We were about to kill the horse
keep him out of his misery, but W
were in a strange place in the mour
tains and wisdom seemed to favor lie
ting the case alone. In few day
we returned that way and the magpi'
had worried him off his feet, and wei
tearing great pieces of flesh from h
live back. They say if you split
magpie's tongue, he can do pref
fair job at talking, but the Hired Ma
thinks the best split to make is
take off his head and have done wi
him.
A man wants to know how und
the sun God can be expected to wo
contrary to his established laws.
other words, how can he answer
prayera Why don't some body a
the Hired Man something difficult
answer? God works right along as
pleases him and never interiors WI
his laws in the least. Or if he do
interfere with them. he doesn't mir
Here is a fifty-pound rock lying
the roadside. There arc number
Gods laws effective on that stol
One law that is best understood
the law of gravity. This law hol
that rock where it is to tthe exte
of fifty pounds. | come along and
the rock aside. / have not ev
touched the law of gravity. U
ought to be able to do as much al
can. He can turn mountain up-si'
down, using the law of gravity to.
it, and yet not interfere with that !
in the least, or he can use one OF
other laws and not disturb gravitat
at all. Some people talk like Il
thought God would have to repea
law everywhere before He could
action on one OF His other laws.
matter OF fact Gods laws are wo
ing contrary to each other from
first to last, no two pulling. toget
no two in the same direction,
every two in opposition. If God wa
to answer your prayer He can q;
without uprooting Orion or spoil
Jupiter.