The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-05-26
THE HIRED MAN

wanted to know if was the man who
takes part in keeping little children
from being abused. | told the child
that | was one of the men who did
such things as that-what was it she
wanted. She went on to tell me that
little eight-year-old girl here in Cald-
we'll was getting scandalous whipoings
and unusual cursings nearly every
day. Neighbors had seen it and it
was the talk of the neighborhood. The
shy little informant talked in sub
dued tone. for she said it was too
dreadful even to speak about. She
said the child's mother is doing this
inhuman work The Hired Man don't
see why neighbors would tolerate What
! this little girl sees nearly every day.
| OF course a mother has right, under
the law, to whip her little tot and thus
discipline it. but if there is law UNI
der which mother can tear into her
little girl and fog her numerically
four or five times a week, that law
should be changed at once. Of course
the Hired Man understands all about
this thing we call nervousness and
how it is used as an excuse for black
ing the happiness of other people and
to destroy the innocence of Adde'S
cents and their tranquility in the name
OF discipline, but nine times out of
ten it's the unnatural mother who
needs little touching up.
If | had ten questions to ask the
little ten-year- girls in this region,
here would be the questions:
Do you know that the crossest wo-
man in all this region began it when
she was about ten years old?
Do you know the woman whose
word cannot now be taken by her ac-
quaintances. storied about things when
she was ten?
Do you know that the sweetest act
ing woman in Caldwell, commenced
it when she was your age?
Do you know that the best house
keeper in Caldwell commenced when
she was ten?
Do you know that some women
at As are very sorry for the way they
talked to their mammas when they
were ten?
Do you know that when a little
girls mamma dies, that little girl when
she has grown to be woman, often
times thinks of the way she talked to
her mamma?
Do you know that mammas do a
great deal for their little girls and
that some little girls don't care if
they do?
Do you know that little girls grow
to be big women and that people are
, sure to remember just what sort OF
,, little girls they were?
What kind of little girl are you?
,, What kind of a woman will you
! make if you keep right on?
A man from one of the nearby
: towns stopped the Hired Man on the
street this week and asked him if he
believed that every persons final des
tination was sealed thousand years
! before that person was born. lr
= other words, how are we to make
: our calling and election sure, if it ha:
been fixed up for us long before we
= came on the scene? The Hired Mar
> thinks our election depends upor
whether we first get to be candidate
:, Therefore to make our nomination
, and election sure. is better render
:. ing. When we are nominated, ther'
, are just three votes cast on our case
: : God votes for us, the devil vote
- :. against us and whichever way w
;. vote, we are elected. The Hired MAJ
, cannot undertake to settle theologica
questions here that would make Yves
ley and John the Baptist and Calvi
and Campbell all turn over in thei
= graves, or make mighty racket i
n the sky with their indignation, but
d venture to say right here in seven
q point type that what God knows abou
q the matter does not have a singl
r thing to do with your business of gel
e ting right with God before the ur
- dertaker comes with his basket. If
: learned in early youth that | ha
~ been predeslined to hell, should hav
Pr just gone right on and got in undo
II the blood of Jesus Christ and beat tn
- predestination feature out of i
: hopes. would let Christ save me
o. .. spite of it. An old brother in tt
I south in an early day believed an
~ preached predistination, and mar
,a smarter men than the Hired Man ST
Il do it. This old brother had a swe
~ dear old wife who did not believe
wv at all. He was mounting his mule
ne ride fifty miles to preach, when
~ courier swept by on a horse all W
Nv Nv with sweat and said the Indians we
~, m thick as hops up that way. lie ask'
,c his dear old partner of joys and so
m rows to bring out the old fint-lo'
ID gun She said, dear, if you a
he right, and you are predestined to di
:" this gun won't do you any good, al
~ if you are predestined to live throus
rs it all, the Indians cannot kill you +
rn studied minute and replied as swee
eh as a morning breeze from lily hel
nv nv "It's this way, my dear. Suppose
rys meet an Indian and HIS time h
or come and l do not have this gu
he what will happen?" He thought it W
i his business to help God bring. abo
rec the Indians predestination. So t
,er Hired Man thinks you every o
'th should be busy helping God to Bril-
~ about your salvation. There will
~: coolies and coolies of people in h
70 contending, as they do here now. II
az it was all Gods fault, but it won't
ul-
nv One of the real brainy men of Ca
be well was telling the Hired Man Il
,es he had figured out a scheme. OF Sc
I'VE entertainment that is simply po
-; t;yety tremendous He will sit do