The Columbus journal., 1907-01-09
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WILLIAMS LESSON
IN Time oe Adveeslty He Cot 10 IN.
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Fsiends-Psospssity In Stsna-
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What y got there. Sis!' inquired
Farmer Williams, ~ he kicked Oh hin
felt boots and set them carefully be.
hind the stove to dry. That's what
I thought II looked like, one Of them
there Chicago catyloes. though I.hain't
seen q clost fer quite . few years
bach. Ne an your ma ust to buy
|. mighty. nigh everything We used out
Of them catylogs when We first como
70 Kansas. Land sakes. I have to
laugh now sometimes when I think Of
the way We would git ketched onct In
awhile. They's some cheap things In
them catylogs, an then agin they's q
lot t amt % cheap. Y never kin
ten tin they come. an then It's too
late to send EN- back. But % / VA
. sayinI, We hain't bought nothin' out
OF . catylog fer . right smart O years
now. an the way 1t come about I had
- Wen tell y. cause l don't think
y really remember much about II.
When we come to Kansas long IN
the flfst Of the sos We got along right
well. We was able to pay cash fer
what We got, and We got the money
fer everything We sold. We was pay.
in out on the place right along; crops
was purity good an We ~ . feelin'
Ike the Lord was . smilin' on our
efforts. and the happy home No
dreamed about when We first got mar
zied VA In sight.
But they come . change In Kansas
long in the last half Of the 'SO's.
Times got hard and KEEP . gittin'
tighter. Four straight years It was
30 dry y had to soak the hogs afore
they'd hold sWill-though I win say
they was some extry reason on ae-
count Of the swill bein' so thin-wheat
Jest died In the ground fer want Of
rain. and the hot winds billed the ever
lastin' sap out Of the corn. They
wasn't no pasture. no nothing. You
can know We was . feelin' purity blue
about that time. but We was young
and strong. and thought with the
chickens an hogs We could git through
anyway.
Then one day you got to complain
IN and lookin' 30 thin It worried us.
Your ma Is . middlin' good doctor.
:ake II al around. but nothing she
could think Of done you any good.
Well, You KEEP . gittin' pindlier and
pindlier. till you got so'st y wouldn't
10 nothin' but set n q chair BY the
xitchen stove. wrapped in your mas
Did shawl. an you looked 50 pitiful
hat We made up our minds to have
he doctor, even II It took tn last
chicken on the place. Wen. he come.
and after he'd looked at you awhile
an felt your pulse. he shet his watch
up with q snap. an says. quiet like: |
Better fix up q warm place fer her |
N the front room. don't have too much
tight nor any drafts to strike her. |
Then We knowed It want no small
sickness We had to fight. an when We
got you fixed up In bed I follered Doc.
out on the porch an I says: Well.
Doc.,' seq !. what's the matter with
our little girl?'
II don't want to skeer ye. Mr.. VII
liams,' says he, but I'm afraid she's
In for q siege Of typhoid fever ]
Well. after he was gone I went Gut
In the kitchen an told your ma, but
she says. brave a kin be: Well. Ezra.
II the Lord has seen at to put that
much more on our load We must bear
up an fight It out doin' our duty the
best We kin. leavin' the rest to him.
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our hearts brave an done what
right Z do.
The hardest thing was to figure out
where t git the medicine, an fruit.
an dainty things your sickness called