The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-09-11

: ward without great pain. When he
, was 16 he fell in love with a girl two
, years older than he was and wrote
some poetry and sent it to her. She
didn't do thing but show it to ev-
erybody else in the school and they
nearly guyed the life out Of him. He
had six fights as result and got
licked five times. Then the teacher
gave him hiding and his father gave
him another with strap when he got
home. When he was 20 he fell in
love with a grass widow 10 years old
err than he was. She led him dogs
life for couple Of years, contracted
store bill for $500, got hold Of all
the ready cash he had and then ran
away with a sewing machine peddler.
Eliphalet used to say afterward that
while it was tough to lose the money
it was one Of the very few bits of
good luck that he had ever expert
enced. That sewing machine agent
needn't expect any sympathy from
me- said Eliphalet. He bought a
farm, paying part down and giving
mortgage to secure the balance. The
first year it was so dry that they had
to prime the mourners at funerals be- :
for they could shed tears for the de-
parted. He didn't raise enough that
season to winter goat. The next
year the floods drowned out his corn,
oats and wheat and he lost two of his
best horses by a sudden rise in the :
creek. The third year he had bully :
prospect, but a hail storm destroyed :
Of his growing crops and
the grasshoppers took what was left. s
The next year his house burned down
and in attempting to save it he fell
,f the roof and broke his right leg, :
both arms and three ribs. That fall :
he CHAMBERS killed all his horses ex- f.
,ept one aged and swayback mare, so :
hat he couldn't pillow for wheat. That :
winter the mortgage on his land was :
oreclosed. He might have held OH s
or 18 months, but got discouraged q
nd decided the land to the mortgagors. =
'hree months after he made the deed
n oil well was bored on the land 4
nd 2000-barrel gusher was struck
Within year the lease on the land
I'D for 100000, but Eliphalet lacked
$50 of having any cash at all Then
3 got a job as railroad brakeman
nd the first night got mixed up with
collision in which he was badly
aided, had six teeth knocked out,
s collar bone broken and his skull
acked. 1t was 48 hours before he
covered consciousness and six
onths before he got out of the hos
tai. When he got able to sit up
ID take notice he discovered that
5000 accident policy he had been
FRYING for five years had lapsed the
" before the accident. A couple Of
ars after that he was watching the
an in flesh colored tights get ready
go up with a hot air balloon, got
ngled in the ropes and was carried
1000 feet. He hung head down till
g balloon finally came down about
mile from where it started. He de-
led to go to farming again and the
st year was nearly gored to death
bull and bitten by rattlesnake.
J had rich ANGLE who always SYM
thized with Ananias Eliphalet on
count of the name that had been
shed on him and his general hard
* and announced that he intended
leave Eliphalet quarter of mil
n in his will, but one day his uncle,
o was a powerful strong Baptist,
into q red hot argument over the
sstion of immersion, burst blood
'sel and died suddenly without max
any will as he had intended. As
sequence, Eliphalet didn't get
It. When the flu stuck Eliphalet's
ghborhood, he was the first one
take it and died with the pneumo-
On the way to the cemetery the
SEES that were drawing the hearse
scared at circus elephant, ran
ay and smashed the hearse They
nd Eliphalet's body in a ditch by
road an hour afterward. They
put on his best suit to bury him
and when they found the body the
was ripped up the back and COW
4 with mud. l say that there are
ows just naturally born to have
luck"