Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-02-10 | Page 10 | One by Blackburn

ONE BY BLACKBURN. Senator Blackburn gives this good story abut'"heaplng coals of Are": "I heard of a fellow In my State who was rather quarrelsome and n-.ade his home anything but pleasant. His wife, it Is said, was a good deal of a vixen, and one of the church ladies, full of charity and the doctrine of the law of kindness, attempted to reconcile the disturbed family. "The pt-ace-making lady called at the home of the fussy family and, addressing address-ing the better half, said: ' Now, my dear lady, how much pleasant r it would be if you and your husband would live together without these family Jars. Your children would be happier and these ugly stories about frequent quarrels would cense. It may be that you are not altogether blame-It blame-It ss in this natter. Suppose you try to find out what the law of kindness practiced prac-ticed toward your husband will do In effecting a reconciliation. It certainly can do no harm, an 1 you may succeed in touching the tender chords of his heart, and he may n new his old affections. affec-tions. You should try it. and if you do not succeed you will at least heap coals of fire on his head.' " -I don't know about coals of fire,' was the answer, 'but I've tried bllin' water, and it didn't do a bit of good.' "It in, perhaps, needless to say that the efforts of the peace-making lady i -eased then and thons and the Job was declared a bad on?."