The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-09-08


Methodists are not saved. and in this
they are doubtless correct. There
also some Baptists who are going to
have pretty close shave on getting
into the kingdom. There is a denomi-
national prejudice in the world that
makes some of us have pretty funny
ideas, but then ideas are but foam
floating on the surface.
A man came to me this week and
said preacher had gone into the
moving picture theatre and seized his
boy by the crown of the head and
twirled him out and whipped him
every step of the way home, and the
about it. Now little story like this
puts people to thinking They start in
by trying to locate the preacher. They
say, now there is Ewing. He wouldn't
do kitten that way. There is Spring
er, he couldn't thump a colt. There is
Vance, he believes in different pro-
cedure. There is Dark, gentle spirit
and it couldn't be he So the folks
hold up all the preachers before their
heartless gaze and try to find the
guilty man. The Hired Man has
never seen the preacher whose name
was given me at the time, and l have
my doubts about there being preach
err in town by the name supplied me.
At least | have never seen him and
have never seen anybody who knows
him right we'll. Solomon said spare
the rod and spoil the child and this
old philosopher was a pretty wise man.
| some times feel that it would be
better to spoil the rod and spare the
child. But lets go right back to my
ali
out of one of the theatres, and he did
whip that boy along down the streets,
according to my informant. He did
blister him up a good deal Various
people saw the performance, and as
many as four have spoken to me about
it. OF course. according to law, l
guess, man can whip his disobedient
boy quite hard, but l have always
found it pretty difficult to whip the
grace of God into child, and if had
many such cases to attend to | would
take the victim into the wood shed
and avoid publicity all I could.
as Governor Alexander a Chris
tian?" Ask him. He gets around
pretty close to admitting that he is. but
nobody has heard him come right
square ou and confess it. He talks a
good deal about the "Redeemer OF
Mankind" but he don't say whether
he personally takes much interest in
that Redeemer. | think the governor
is a consistent Hebrew, but whether
he has forsaken the Law of Moses and
accepted the Law Of Jesus Christ re-
mains for him to tell you. Drop him
brief friendly note and ask him.
Il am a widow with considerable
money. | have seen several copies of
your paper. here in Boise. Should |
get married." If you are widow
with considerable money, you know
there is not much use asking me about
getting married You are not going
to do it any time soon. Your new
husband would have to have as much
money as you have, and if he has, some
other woman has picked him up be-
fore he got around to you. Your chill
dren, if you have any, will all the time
be telling you mother what's the use
you getting married, you have plenty
to keep YOU" You see they have an
eye to business But if | were you, |
should get married, if the proper man
presents his suit and suit case.
The Hired Man does not recall a
time since | was ten that | was not
waiting for something good and some
thing bad to happen to me. l was
patient about some things and I'M
patient about others. | was afraid OF
something, and had something work
ing with me of which | had no fear.
| always made myself think that the
reason | did not want to die was be-
cause it would deprive me of any OPP
portunity to do good here, and up to
chic lot | haua done enough
good to justify nature in numbering
the ground with me. really believe
that the reason | was afraid to die is
because did not have a good explana-
ton fixed up about why | had done
thus and So There is little buzZer
in the upper vertebrae in my back
bone that keeps throwing things into
my teeth and that is what makes us all
afraid.
The other day friend of mine here
in town had a sister-in-law In BOISE
hospital. A nice little baby came tc
them in the hospital and the same day
a colored woman across the corridor
also presented her husband with nc"
born creature from the negro eternity
In waggish way somebody proposed
they compare the babies. Now mo-
everybody uiiuerstaiius '"a' NO
babies are nearly white when they are
born, but a good many people do un
derstand that the babes OF white
women are some times pretty dark To-
few days. Well, they left these two
babies together for while, when. lt
and behold how could they tell which
was which? 1t would have been quite
a Joke If the babes had been swappe'
off through this happy idea OF com
pairing them, and the negro .womai,
had been compelled to worry along al
her life with a white baby. Then,
think these hospitals ought to b
pretty careful about switching ever
white babies around from one room t.
another. No mother wants to tax
chances on trading babies, notwith