The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-10

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, ran like this: Mrs. Blank, you for
, get to state that those were YOU
words and that you came to my
: house and said them to me, and tina
remained silent. You forget tina
lyou said you had heard it, and tha
you asked me if it were true. anc
that | replied that | did not know
You forget that you pressed me fur
ther and asked me if | didn't think
there was some foundation for the
talk, and that told you had beer
called into court ON a certain case
and had heard certain questions ask
ed, indicating that person In
trouble had no money to hire coun.
sel and that an attorney in the big.
ness of his heart had taken the case
even tho the person had no money
to pay him, and that later on, the
person in trouble had handed the
lawyer diamond, and later the per-
son had died, leaving the diamond
in the possession of the lawyer whom
she intended should have it. I told
you this in confidence and supposed
that you were person of lofty mind
and that having learned this you
would seal your lips to further ex-
preston concerning 1t, for fear the
lady who was wearing the diamond
might learn where 1t came from and
lose all Joy of its possession"
| Good speech wasn't it! But it af-
fected the minister's wife just like
water affects duck. She retorted
that the plucky woman had confess
ed. and she pressed the situation
with so much cheek, it was very en-
barrassing for the plucky woman.
She couldn't deny having said some
things about the unfortunate woman
and the diamond. OF course, the
meeting ended badly. and somebody
must have gone to the unsuspecting
lady who was wearing the diamond,
and told her certain stuff about her
husband and where he got the dia-
1nond, for she took a trip around the
block to her former friend, the
plucky woman and gave her
blowing up" And the worst of
it was the plucky woman could enter
no denial. She had explained the
matter once and it had no eeffct,
so she took the roasting in humilia-
tion and silence. She had never be-
fore met preachers and preachers
wives who would put a person in a
hole that way, and she was stunned.
She stuck pretty close home for a
few days, and life was not very
bright. But plucky people generally
"come to-" If they have time, and
if you are going to knock them out
with something crooked you had bet
ter kill 'em the first round, because
they will come back.
Bad news travels rapidly, and the
whole town heard the story with all
the variations. 1t gave everybody
a chance. Any one who had a
grudge at the lawyer could omit
everything else and tell that he had
diamond that had belonged to the
character mentioned. Others could
make it worse and say that he took
it from such a character. Somebody
else could say he took it from dead
woman, for wasn't the woman dead?
You know it.
But that is a small matter. TIL
doesn't matter SO much what might
be said about man, and him a mar
ried man, for he is a fixture, settled
and happy. Think what they could
say about the mans wife! Omitting
everything else and just telling the
particular parts they wanted to
about her. caught with the goods
and all. Tough luck, Awful tough!
If there is anything tougher than
to have a community jumping at
conclusions and giving you fits from
all sides 1t is to have the church |
folks of the community doing it, for
people who don't really know them
believe all they say. And worse than
that, such people assume that the
church people are fair and state both |
sides. Forget it!
Well, the town heard so much for
a while that, fgurativel yspeaking,
it riz right up and turned over. The
things that were said about two or
three of the best people in the town
were enough to make corpse de-
scribe a parabola, whatever that is.
But things can't last always, and
no matter how much the town en-
joyed 1t or how much the victims
suffered, something new had to be
devised for a change, and the new
minister supplied it.
A grocery man pressed the min
lister for payment Of his account, a
very mean thing to do, and when
he failed to get the money he sued
the reverend. He got action all
right, and accepted mortgage on
the minister's automobile and 40
acre farm which he claimed to have
In Oregon. It was mean trick all
right, but grocery men are mean
And what made 1t ap-
pear meaner was the fact that the
had not received his salary
for couple Of months. But that
was like Swede Ole's misfortunes,
Is was not 80 VERY bad, for he
had not preached for quite while.
And one reason he had not preached
for quite a while was that nobody
came to the church and sat in the
pews. That made 1t look bad for
the people, but not so VERY bad,
FOR they remembered how he acted
about the concert, and there was
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