Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-02
Price Three Ceais

were poor and hadn't clothes fit to wear to Sabbath school. Possibly, too, they had met with wicked companions and had been taught to swear he could not say but they might have sworn, although he thought that they would have turned out to be good boys had they lived.
 q am sorry that the case is so bad" said the health officer. q am led to believe that God has seen fit to visit you with affiiction in order to express his divine disapproval of profanity, and cannot help you. It i'll be- comes us poor, weak worms of the dust to meddle with the just judgments of God. Whether as an individual or as 8 quasi cor poration, it is we'll to allow the Almighty to work out his great plan of salvation and to avoid all carnal interference with the works of God.'
 The cid man went back to his desolated home and to the bedside of his only liVing child. met him yesterday and he told mo about it.
 ''I am not professor of religion" said he, ''but tell you, MT. Nye, I can't believe that this Board of Health has used me right. Somehow l aint worried about my little fel- lers that's gone. They was little fellers any way, and they wasn't posted on the plan of salvation, but they was alWaRs kind and always minded me and their mother. If God is using diphtheria agin perfanity this season they didn't know it. They was too young to know about 1t and was too poor to take the papers, so didn't know it nuther. I just thought that Christ was partial to little kids like mine, just the same as he used to be 5000 years ago; when the country was new admit that my little shavers never went to the Sabbath-school much, and wasn't scholar enough to throw much light onto Gods system of retribution, but told 'em to behave themselves and they did, and we had good deal of fun together-me and the boys-and they was so bright and square and cute that I didn't see how they could fall 1Tx1Tr sJ~.,S did. I could tell you lots of smart little tricks that they used to do, Mir. Nye, but they wasn't mean nor cussed. They wss just frolicky and gay sometimes because they felt good.
 Mind you, don't kick because am left here alone in the woods, and the sun don't seem to shine, and the birds seem a little backward about singin' this spring, and the house is so quiet, and she is still all tho time and cries in the night when she thinks I asleep. All that is tough, Mir. Nye-tough as the old Harry, too-but it's so, and I ain't murmurin', but when the Board of Health says to me that the Ruler of the Universe is makin' tower of northern Wisconsin, mow- in down little boys with sore throat because they say gosh, can't believe it. "I know that people who ain't familiar with the facts will shake their heads and say Pm child of wrath, but can't help it. All I can do is to go up there under the frees where them little graves is, and think how all- fired pleasant to me them little, short lives was, and how every one of them little fellers was welcome when he come poor as I was, and how rastled with poor crops and pine stumps to buy cloze fer lem, didn't care 8 cent for style as long as they was we'll. That's the kind of heretic nm, and if God is like father that settles it. He wouldn't wipe out my family just to establish discipline I don't believe. The plan of creation must be on a bigger scale than that, it seems to me, or else it's more or less of fzzle.
 "That Board of Health is better read than am. It takes the papers, and can add up fggers, and do lots of things that can't do, but when them fellers tells me that they rep resent the town of BaIsam Lake and the Kingdom of Heaven, my morbid curiosity is aroused, and want to see their stiff kits of election"