The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1907-02-02
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Why There Are No Mail
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FARMER WILLIAMS LESSON
In Time Of Adversely He Got to I'm.
derstand Who We're HE Real
Frlends--Prosperity In Stand
Ing Together.

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Copyright. 1906. BY Alfred c. ciark)
\ What y got there, Sis?" inquired
Farmer Williams. as he kicked on his
felt boots and set them carefully be-
hind the stove to dry, That's what
thought II looked lipN one OF them
there Chicago catyiogs though hain't
seen .aDe clost fer qute lew years
back $Me as your ma usf buy
mighty nigh everything We Med out
OF them catylogs when we first come
to Kansas. Land saltes. have 20
laugh now sometimes when / think OF
the way we would git ketched onct In
awhile. They's some cheap things In
them catylogs. an then agin they's o
lot I Amt so cheap. Y never kin
tell TIL they come. an then it's too
late 20 send 'em back. But as l was
sayin', we hain't bought nothln' out
OF catylog fer a right smart o. years
now, an the way II come about / had
as well tell y. cause / don't think
y really remember much about IT,
when we come 10 Kansas long IN
the first Of the SOS wo 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 an we was a feelin'
like the Lord was a smilln on our
efforts and the happy homo we
dreamed about when we first got mar.
ried was in sight
But they come change in Kansas
long in the last half OF the SOS.
Times got hard and KEEP gittln'
Fighter. Four straight years II was
SO dry y had To soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though I will say
they was some extry reason on &C.
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 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 Il worried US.
u .
take Il all around. but nothing she
could think OF done you any good.
Well. you KEEP a gittin' pindiier and
pindlier. TIL you got so'st y Wouldn't
do nothin' but set IN chair by the
kitchen stove, wrapped In your mas
=. old shawl, an you looked so pitiful
that we made up our minds 20 have
the doctor, even II II 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 Ak up 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 up in bed follered Doc.
out on the porch an says: Well
Doc.,' seq I, what's the matter with
our little girl?'
"T don't want TO skeer we. Mr.. VIII.
liams,' says he. but I'm afraid she's
In for siege Of typhoid fever
"Well, after he was gone l went out
in the kitchen an told your ma. but
she says. brave as kin be: Well Ezra,
II the Lord has seen fit 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
An thought so too. SO we Jest KEEP
our hearts brave an done what
seemed right c do.
THE hardest thing was to figure out
where q git the medicine. an fruit
an dainty things your sickness called