The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-01-25
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One Home.
FARMER, WILLIAMS lesson
In Time Of; Adversely He: Got: to- Tn
derstand Who Were His Real
6niends-ProsperitV in. Stand
ing Together:

Copyright, 1906, by. Alfred c.: Clark->
what y got there, Sis2" Inquired
Farmer Williams, ass he kickedi off his
felt boots and; set them carefully be:
hind the stove to! dry THAT'S what
T thought it; looked like, one of them
there Chicago catylogs, though hain't
seem one: clost fer quite a. few years
back. Me an your ma. ust: to buy
mighty nigh everything we used out
OF them catylogs when we first come
to- Kansas. Land sakes, I: have to
laugh: now: sometimes when Il think OF
the way we would git ketched: onct III
awhile: They's- some cheap things In
them oatylogs, an then agin: they's q
lot t. ain't So cheap. " never kin
tell till they come, ant them it's too
late to send. 'em, back: But as was
a saYin', we hain't bought nothin' out
of a. catylog' fer a, right smart O. years
now, an the way: it come: about had
as we'll; tell y, cause I don't think
y really remember much about 1T.
WHEN. we come. to: Kansas long I'm
the first; of the 80 s. we, got along right
WE'LL. 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 ant we. was a. feelin'
like the Lord was a. smilin' on our
efforts, and the, happy home we
dreamed about when we. first got mar
ried was in: sight,.
| But they come al change in Kansas
long: in the last half of: the SOS.
Times got hard and KEEP, a. gtttin'
tighter. -Four straight years it was
So dry y had to soak the, hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though L will say
they was some extry reason on &C
count of the swill beih' so thin-wfeat
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 a feelin' purity blue
about that time, but we. was young
and. strong, and: thought with the
chickens AM hogs we could git through
anyway:
Then one day you got to- complain
in and lookin' so thin it worried US.
Your ma is a: middlin' good doctor,
| take it all around, but nothing she
could: think OF" done you any good.
Well; you KEEP a gittin' pind1ier and
| pindlier, till you got so'st y wouldn' t
do nothin' hut set IN a. chair by the
| kitchen stove, wrapped in your mas
old; shawl, an you looked so pitfful
| that we made up, our minds to have
the doctor, even if it took tn last
chicken on the place: Well; he come,
| and after he'd: looked at you awhile
| an felt your pulse, he shet his watch
| up with a snap, an says, quiet like:
| Better fix up a. warm place fer her
in the front room, don't have too much
| light 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 fol1ered Doc.
out on the porch an T says: We'll,
Doc,' SEE I, what's the matter with
our little grip
IT don't want to sheer ye, MFR. VIII.
lfams,' says he, but I'm afraid she's
in for siege of typhoid fever
"Well after. he was gone went out
in the Kitchen am told your ma, but
she says; brave as kin be: Wen, Ezra,
If the Lord has seen fit to put that
much more ON our load we must bear
up an fight 1t Out doin' our duty the
best we. kim leavin' the rest to him.
An 1 thought SO too So we Jest KEEP
our hearts brave an done what
seemed right t. do
'The hardest thing was to figure out
where t. git the medicine, an fruit,
an dainty Things your sickness called
| / / Ez[Hl