The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-01-25

1hy There Are No Mail
Order Catalogues IN
One Home.
q Time Of Advsrsity He Got to Un-
derstand Who We're His Real
Friends-Prosperity IN STAND
ing Together.

Copyright, 1906 by Alfred c. Clark
what " got lhere. sis2T inquired
Farmer Williams, as be kicked OF bis
selt boots and set them carefully be
aind The stove to dry. That's what
thought it looked Ike. one Of them
here Chicago catylogs. though ] hain't
seen one clost fer quite a few years
back Ne an your ma ust 10 buy
mighty nigh everything We used out
II them catylogs when we first come
10 Kansas. Land sakes, I have to
laggh now sometimes when / think Of
hs way we would git ketched onct III
~ BILE. They's some cheap things d.
hem cstylogs. an then agin they's
lot t amt so cheap. T never kin
tell tiH they come. an then it's too
late 10 send EN- back. But as ! was
a sayin. we hain't bought nothin' out
Of catylog Ter s..ght smart O. years
now. an the way i, come about had
IS we'll tell y. cause don't think
y really remember much about IT,
When We come TO Kansas long in
lie frstof the SOS We got along right
we'll We was able to pay cash fer
what We got. and We got the-money
teF everything we sold We was pay
in out on the rlace right along; crops
vas purity good an We was a feelln'
ike the Lord was a smilin on our
eforH, and the harpy home We
dreamed about when We first got mar
Tied was in sight.
But they come a change in Kansas
long in the last half Of the SOS,
Times got hard and KEEP a gittin
tighter Four straight years it was
so dry y had to soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill-though | will say
they was some extry reason on ac-
count Of the swill bein' 50 thin wheat
Jest died ia the ground fer want of
rain. and the hot winds blled the ever
.astin sap out Of the corn. They
wasn't no pasture. no nothing. You
can know we was a feeiin' purity blne
about that time. but ne vas young
and strong. and thought with the
chickens an hogs we conld git through
anyway.
Then one day you got to complain
In and lookin' SO thin it 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 gittin pindlier and
pindlieF. tin you got so'st y wouldn't
do nothin' but set IN a chair BY the
aitehen stove, wrapped in your mas
old shawl. an you looked 80 pitlful
hat we made up our minds TO have
he doctor. even IL 1t teok th' last
chicken on the place. We'll. he come.
md after he'd looked at you awhile
an felt your pulse. he shet his watch
up viih a snap. an says. quiet like:
Retter tx up warm place fer her
p the front room. don't have too much
light nor any drafts to strike her.
Then we knowed 1t want 40 small
sickness we had TO fight. an when We
cot you fixed up in bed folleTed Doc.
out on the porch an ] says Wen.
Dec. sez !. what's the matter with
1ur little girlr
= 7 don't want to skeer ye. Mr.. VIII
liams says he, but I'm afraid she's
= for a siege of typhoid fever
Well, after he was gone / vent out
II the kitchen an told your ma. but
she says. brave as kin be. Well. Ezra.
il the Lord has seen ft 10 put that
much more on our load We must bear
ap an fight il out doin' our duty the
best We Kin. leavin' the rest to him.
An ! thought 50 too. So We Jest KEEP
our hearts brave an done wha,
seemed right L DO.
The hardest thing was 10 figure out
where T. git the medicine. an fruit.
an dainty things your sickness called