The Springdale news., 1907-01-04

an we'll carry you along till times come better for you. We're all in a tight pinch now, but if we hang to- gether things are all goin' to ocOme out rlkht in the end have faith in the country, an in the people that live here. an nobody's sick baby is goin' to suffer if l kin help any.
 Well, it was the same thing at Harlow $ grocery, an tn coal yard everywhere in tn town. Cert 'nlee, MT RyeStraw, we'll see you through on this It made me feel mean and small some way, though l don't know why. An often when they'd put iLl few oranges or s0methln' like that, sayin' in 'pologiziu sort O way,
 little somethIn' for the sick baby l Ryestraw, why some how It made d hard lump come up in my throat, and l had queer feelin in my eyes, kinder achY like, v know.
 Well to be short about 1t, fer eight weeks you kep' d gittin weaker 1 an weaker, an We kep' feelin' more n more hopeless. It was sad Christ mas in our home that year. Your ma was just wore out With watchini an tryin' to do her work between times, an l was so nigh sick with trouble and Encouragement t | ust to g0 around by the barn an jest cry like baby. But l never let on to your ma though, ner she t me. We tried U encourage each other though we knowed in our hearts t all our cheerful words was lies, an each one kH0wed the other knowed 1t too.
 Well, jest the night before New Years Doc called us outside your room. Oh, my heart sunk then. I don't want to hold out any false hopes to you people, but think with prop CT care from now on, your little girl is goln' to git we'll.
 Elsie it seemed like ton of hay had been lifted of my chest right there. As for your ma, why she busted down and cried as hard as she could. After Doc was gone we went out to the kitchen an kneeled down right there an thanked God for the most glorious New Years gift He ever give t anybody in the world the health Of our baby girl. You know your pa aint no ranter CT shout CT; yer ma bein' Baptist has fur nlshed most of the religion fer our house, but jest then I seen low it was that they comes times in peoples lives that they've jest got to have something bigger an' greater than anything human t turn to with great joy CT great sOrrer.
 Well, it was long time yet be- fore you was strong enough t play out doorS an It was hard winter. burned every post of the fence around the south eighty for frewood afore it was over. But 1t seemed like we had S9 much U be thankful for that we was strong U care fer any of tn smaller troubles that we come aeroSt.
 "It really haint so bad to look back at it now after th trouble is over, but them hare years in Kansas drove nearly all our neighbors U give up their land an move away, broke in hopes and poeketbook. Them of Us as stayed is purity we'll fixed now, but we it fer everything we got. and lit hard, too. An, O, yes about the catylogs. Well, after you was we'll an things begun t. take d turn fer tn better, one night ma brought out that Chicago book an' lad it on tn Kitchen table an says: 'E2ry, what do you want to do with thiS?' An 1 Sez: Les burn it. An your ma sez; Jest what was thinkin' too." An so we did burn It, an what's more, we ain't never had one in the house since, and we never send away fer anything we can get at any of the stores in Hustyn, cause we want to deal with them as has an interest Tn the country we live in, an in us peo- pie that lived clost by.
 Why, you needn't of put yourn in the stove too, Elsie; 1 didn't mean yes, | don't know but what it's jest as well v done 1t, after all. '-Francis Potter, Harrington, Kan.