The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-05-19

W w uHleSS HtllC llllll neTeln READ
Justs matters. By the way, do re-
call that goodly number of the
church-goers, on that Sunday, were
ministers thought of all the carp and
| suckers both in the river and out.
If the Hired Man were permitted
to ask a twelve-year-old boy ten
questions this is what | would ask |
him:
| If you saw sharp nail sticking |
through the sidewalk, what would
you do?
If you saw bad word written on
the fence or wall, what would you do ?
| If you saw mans horse with the |
hitch halter lose, and you knew the
man thought he had hitched him,
what would you do?
If you saw some broken bottles and
barbed wire on the lawn where some
little girls were liable to play, what
would you do?
If you were out of sight and you
had stone in your hand and there
was window in the old shack near
| by, what would you do?
If your dog had freed cat on the
fence, what would you do?
! If told you truthfully that know
of two boys, in one Caldwell family,
who are sick and cannot do days
work because they smoke cigarettes,
what would you do?
If | told you truthfully that no liar,
big or little, old or young, could go
| to Heaven no matter what church he
belonged to, what would you do?
t If | told you truthfully that if you
commenced right now to make real
/ man of yourself, it would take you
r big or little, old or young, could go
If | told you that it is your mamma
: or papa who is liable next to die,
l what would you do?
Mr.. Smith, down in Lower Boise
4 region, used to work in the refinery
4 in Kansas City. He was telling the
Hired Man about it one day this week.
He was a good deal younger in those
days than now. A thousand men
E worked in the same institution and
{ nine hundred and fifty of them drank
n liquor copiusly. and seven hundred
= and fifty of them were habitual DRINKS
q and a good many of the wives were
:, just as handy at the jag business. Mr.
: Smith was sort of a go-between
q throughout the entire community
e They had confidence in him owing tc
n his liquor resisting power. When he
e got full UP to the third gauge, he die
&c it as the whale did Jonah, and he es
i capped the final fall. This safev valve
r. was his salvation, and he was able te
Il help his friends. Many time he ha'
- found a visiting family in some othel
- home, SO drunk thew could not travel
A. The man would be dead drunk. Mr.
N Smith would tug him along home. 81
!. back get the drunk wife and tug he
as along home and put her to bed, ant
n then 60 back and get the baby. AM
ID take ut home, open the dress OF tn
7 drunk mother and put the babe OF
: her bosom, tuck the trio snugly il
- for the remainder of the night, an
III then 60 somewhere else and repea
the performance. Many time he ha
q answered the call 70 some crying in
NJ FAINT and understood what was wrong
lie He would walk deliberately into tina
a house, pick up the neglected chile
straighten out its clothes and hunt u
the drunk mother some where abor
the place and tell her the baby wa
hungry and if she was too full to a.
tend to the child, Mr.. Smith opened u
es the holy place and set the youngste
wv to work on his rightful rotundity. M
OF Smith got used to such things an
wv went at it as matter of fact. He b.
ely gan to lose confidence in the traditio
is about dying unless you drank plent
be of LIQUOR to kill the effects OF the acl
Int in the air. He found that the ma
nix had to resist both the acid and tt
or LIQUOR, so he closed his cutout al
81 quit it instanter. He looks back no
TO- on those days of drunk mothers ar
as infantile neglect with a good deal
ay, disgust and recalls the scores
eat times that he was called upon to tar
les tear open in his anger the button'
cut territory Of reserve, that youngest
in might get his dinner, and tall to sie'
ow on the drunken milk OF misguid
,ad human flesh.
vas The Hired Man does not expect tt
Il. piece to get him single box OF MN
~. single neck-tie, single hanoekt
.Is chief. neither single hve-cent col
.,a, but laying aside the bouquet ieatu
.s. of saying things, how could 10Y
,a ever expect to get better set OF sue
' vs. clerks? If your purchase is nile
hhpp, cents worth of cheese, and on e.
no. dit at that you are made 20 leel I,
. Won are as welcome as Helen Hot
or Maude Adams No body waite
inc can ever tell whether you
cash or wether you are dangerous
near the dead-line of credit. No mi
ter if you are going to take the til
of a drypoods clerk for fifty five mi
utes while you decide whether Il
would look best or that suit 70
complexion better, that clerk will tc
die your affections just like YOU VOW we
the May Queen or Don Quixot
cousin. She appears to want to ma
YOU feel welcome. Hay Boone a
Co. have card up readings, If
spit on the floor at home, spit on
floor here, for We want you to teel
home" For genuine neatness a
- dispatch, for courteous treatment a
home-spun congeniality and suitao
D ness, commend me to the N wno' S, rt
r of clerks in Caldwell. NOW, marx
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