The state herald., 1907-01-18
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Why There Are No Mail
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
FARMER WILLIAMS LESSON
In Time Of Adversely He Got to Un.
dsrstand Who Were His Real
Friends-Prosperlty In Stand
Ing Together.

Copyright. 1906. by Alfred C. clark.)
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
I thought It looked like. one Of them
there Chicago catylogs. though hain't
seen one clost fer quite q 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 sakes. l have to
laugh now sometimes when I think Of
the way we would git ketched onct In
awhile. They's some cheap things in
them catylogs. an then agin they's a
lot 7 amt SO cheap. Y never kin
tell till they come, an then it's too
late to send 'em back. But as was
q sayin', we haint bought nothin' out
of catylog fer right smart O. years
now, an the way It come about / had
as we'll tell y. cause l don't think
really remember much about 1t.
when we come to Kansas long In
the nrst 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
i'm out on the place right along: crops
was purity good an we was feelin'
like the Lord was q 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 a gittin
tighter. Four straight years 1t 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-whea,
5sst died in the ground fer want Of
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 1t worried US
Your ma Is a middlIn' good doctor
take It all around. but nothing she
could think Of done you any good
Well. you KEEP a gittin' pindlier and
pindlier. till you got so'st y wouldn',
do nothin' but set In chair by the
kitchen stove. wrapped In your mas
old shawl, an you looked so pitifu
that we made up our minds to have
the doctor. even II It 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 snap. an says. quiet like:
Better fix up warm place fer her
= light nor any drafts to strike her.
Then we knowed It 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..' sez I. what's the matter with
our little girl7'
81 don't want to skeer ye. Mr.. WI
liams.' says he, but I'm afraid she's
In for n siege OF typhoid fever
well. after he was gone went out
in the kitchen an told your ma. but
she says. brave as kin be: Well. Ezra
II the Lord has seen 1T to put that
much more on our load we must bear
up an fight II out doin' our duty tho
best We kin. ieavin' the rest TO him.
An thought SO too. SO we Jest KEEP
our hearts brave an done VIVA,
seemed right L do.
The hardest thing was TO figure oui
where Z cit the medicine. an fruit
an dainty things your sickness called