The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-20
HIS EYES OPEN
Why There Are No MoH
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
FARElR WILLIAMS LESSON
In Time Of Adversely He Cot TO Un.
derstand Who We're His Real
Friends-Prosperity In Stand
ing Together.

Copyright. 1906. by Alfred 9. ClarkD
What y got there Sis?" inquired
Farmer Williams, as he kicked of his
felt boots and set them carefully be.
hind the stove to dry. That's what
l thought It looked like, one of them
there Chicago catylogs. though hain't
seen one clost fer quite few years
back. Me an your ma ust 10 buy
mighty nigh everything we used out
OF them catylogs when we first come
to Kansas. Land sakcs, | have TO
laugh now sometimes when I think OF
the way we would git kctchCd onct In
awhile. They's some cheap things IT,
them catylogs. an then agin they's .
lot Z amt SO cheap. Y never kin
tell till they come, an then it's too
late TO send 'em back. But as / was
a sayln', we hain't bought nothln' out
Of a catylog fer a right smart o. years
now, an the way It como about had
as well tell y, cause | don't think
y really remember much about It.
When we come TO Kansas long In
the first Of the SOS we got along right
well. 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 q fcelln'
Ike the Lord was a smiln' on our
efforts, and the happy home 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 the SOS
Times got hard and KEEP gittin'
tighter. -Four straight years It was
so dry y had 20 soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though / will say
they was some 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
lastin' sap out OF the corn. They
wasn't no pasture. no nothing. You
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 one day you got TO complain
in and lookin' so thin II worried us.
Your ma IS middlin' good doctor,
take II all around but nothing she
could think Of done you any good.
Well, you KEEP a gittin' pindller and
pindller, TIL you got sost y wouldn't
do nothin' but set IN a chair by the
Kitchen stove, wrapped in your mas
old shawl, an you looked so pitiful
that we made up our minds to have
the doctor, even II II took IN 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 Il want no small
sickness we had 90 fight, an when we
got you fixed up in bed follered Doc
out on the porch an | says: Well
Doc sez !, what's the matter with
our little girl?
81 don't want to skeer ye, Mr. VIII
lams,' says he, but I'm afraid she's q
in for a siege of typhoid fever
We'll. after he was gone went out
in the kitchen an told your ma. but
she says brave as kin be: Well, Ezra
If the Lord has seen ft to put that
much more on our load We must bear
up an fight It out dom 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 { do.
The hardest thing was to figure out
where T. git the medicine, an fruit
an dainty things your sickness called