The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-01-25
HIS EYES OPEN
Why There Are No Mail
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
FARMER WILLIAMS LESSON
In Time Of Adversely Ne Got TO Un.
derstand Who Were His Real
Enthusiastically In stand.
ing Together.

Copyright 1906. by Alfred c. ciark)
What y got there. Sis7' inquired |
Farmer Williams. as he kicked on his |
felt boots and set them carefully be.
hind the stove 10 dry. That's what |
thought % looked like. one Of them
there Chicago catylogs. though hain't
seen one clost fer quite 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 sakcs. I have TO
laugh now sometimes when think Of
the way We would XII ketchcd onct In
awhile Thcys some cheap things H.
them catylogs. an then agin they's
lot Z amt 30 cheap. v never klr
tell tlll they come. an then It's too
late 10 send em back hut as ! was
a sayln' We hain't bought nothln' out
Of a catylog fer a right smart o. years
now. an the way 70 come about ! had
as well tell y. cause ! don't think
y really remember much about H.
when We come 10 Kansas long In
the trst Of the SOS we got along right
we'll We was able 10 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 was fcelln'
like the Lord was smiln' on our
efforts, and the happy homo we
dreamed about when We FIRST got mar.
ried was In sight
But they come a change In Kansas
long In the last half OF tho SOS.
Times got hard and KEEP gittin'
tighter. Four straight years II was
80 dry y had 20 soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though will say
they was some extry reason on nc.
count Of the swirl beln' 10 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 a 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' so thin II worried us.
Your ma Is a middlin' good doctor.
take II all around. but nothing she
could think OF done you any good.
Well. you KEEP a gittin pindller and
plndller. TIL you got so'st y wouldn't
do nothin' but set In chair by the
kltchen stove, wrapped In your mas
old shawl. an you looked so pitiful
that we made up our minds TO have
the doctor. even n II 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
mp with 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 II want no small
sickness we had TO fight, an when we
got you fixed mp In bed follered Doc,
out on the porch an says: Wen,
Doc..' ser !. what's the matter with
our little grip
- don't want 20 skeer ye, Mr. VII.
lIams. says he. but I'm afraid she's
In for a siege OF typhoid fever
We'll, after he was gone I went out
In the kitchen an told your ma, but
she says. brave as kin be: Well. Ezra,
II the Lord has seen NJ TO put that
much more on our load we must bear
up an fight II out doin' our duty tho
best we kin. leayin' the rest to him.
An thought so too. SO we Jest KEEP
our hearts brave an done what
seemed right Z do.
THE hardest thing was TO figure out
where Z git the medicine. an fruit
an dainty things your sickness called