The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-01-28
HIS EYES OPEN
Why There Are No Neil
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
FARMER WILLIAMS LESSON
n Time Of Adversely Hs Got to Un-
derstand Who Were His Real
Eriends-Prosperity in Stand
ing Together.

Copyright. 1906. by Alfred c. ciark.)
What y got lhere, slsgg inquired
Farmer Williams. as he kicked of his
felt boots and set them carefully be-
mind the stove to dry That's what
thought It looked like, one Of them
there Chicago catylogs though hain't
seen one clost Ter quite few years
back. Me an your ma ust to bay
mighty nigh everything we used out
Of them eatylogs when we first come
70 Kansas Land sakes, | have to
laugh now sometimes when think Of
the way we would git ketched onct fl
awhile. Theys some cheap things H.
Them catylogs. an then agin they's
lot t amt 50 cheap. Y never kin
tell TIL they come. an then It's too
late TO send EN- back. But as / was
a sayin', we haln't bought nothln' out
Of d catylog fer right smart O years
now, an the way 1t come about had
as well tell ", cause don't think
y really remember muth about II
When We come to Kansas long in
the iirst Of the SOS we got along right
well. We was able to pay ca0h Ter
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'
Ike the Lord was smilin on our
efforts, and the happy home 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 gittin'
tighter. Four straight years It was
50 dry v had to scat the hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though / will say
they was come extry reason on ac-
count Of the swill bein so thin wheat
jest died in the ground fer want Of
rain and the hot winds billed the ever
lassln' sap out Of the corn. They
wasn't no pasture. no nothing. Yon
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 enc day YOU got to complain
III and lookin' SO thin II worried Us
Your ma Is a middlin' good doctor
take 1t all arouaa but nothing she
could think of done you any good
Well yoa KEEP a glttin' plndller ant
pindlior, til you got so'st VI wouldn't
do noihln' but set n a chair BY the
Kitchen stove. wrapped IN your mas
old shawl. an You booked SO pltlfu
hat We made up onr minds to have
The doctor even Il It took III las
chicken on siie place Well. he come
and after he'd looked At you awhils
an felt ycur pulse, be sBef bis watcl
up with a snap, an says AQulet like
Better fx up a warm plase fer he
In the front roonl. don't have 700 mucl
light nor any drafts to strike her.
Then We knowed It want no Sinal
sickness we had to tight. an when W
got you fixed up 10 bed I folleTed Dec
out on the porch an ! says: Wen
Doc. sez !, what's the matter Will
our little glrlT
~ don't want 10 skeer ye. Nh VIII
liams, says he 'but I'm afraid she'i
in for a siege Of typhoid fever.
-well. after he was gone went ag
IN the Kitchen an told your pa. hl
she says. brave as hin ,be Well. Ezra
II the Lord has seen N 10 put ths
much more on our load we must bea
up an fight it out doin' our duty sh'
best We Kin. leasin' the rest to him
An though SO too. So We Jest kep
cur hearts brave an done wha
seemed right { do
The hardest thing was to figure on
where I git the medicine. an fruit
an dainty things your sickness callel