Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

The breakfast bell had just rung. and the farm hands were gathering aroEhd Farmer Browns table, this bright June morning. Breakfast at 6 men to get to work early. It had | always been Hiram Browns maxim: Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy l and wise" It had become second na- | ture. The feeding of the stock, milk ing the cows and other minor duties | were all accomplished before the sun was very high.
 Hiram Brown and his wire-Maria- were getting pretty well on the shady ] a daughter-having married and left 1 the farm. Their son had died when | a boy, They had many years before resorted to the hired man, although the daughter had been a great help to Mrs. Brown in the house.
 Being frugal and careful about mon- ey matters in general. Indeed, all that related to a we'll stocked farm | Hiram Brown was considered one of | the best of farnN\rs in Todd county.
 The evening before when reading his l Farmers Journal, he saw an item that
 caused him to think deeply, and | throughout the night in his waking hours he thought more than once of it. After breakfast he concluded to ask the advice of his wife. who had | dlWdyS Wlun ner on | important matters. It had been H.
 rams theory whenever a man cannot
 take his wife into his confidence he
 would be better off without one. He
 handed the Journal to Maria and she
 read the few lines with deep inter-
 est.
 'T just think you ought not to do it
 Hiram. We have reared our child and
 now to be bothered with some one else"
 But. mother. let me read that onc' tague I am Is years old and I an } tired of life. I can find no work anC
 have no friends. All my people arr dead and there is no one to car
 whether I live or die" You see, Ce , linda will be here this summer witt 5 her boys and many days, especial, during harvest time, I shall not b I able to go or either of the hired mel l to drive to town or through the coun
 try. and this will be a wonderful op l portunity to help poor outcast. H 8 will be of service, too"
 You know Hiram I have alway
 contended there is no use to try t q get blood out of a turnip. What d e we know of this boys percentage = What do we know of the blood tha
 flows through his veins"
 V Tut. tut! What do we know of any :! one for that matter. Why, mothe y have seen some of the biggest ras } calls that ever graced this cart
 descend from some of the so-calle
 blue blood of this land, and then
 have seen some of the finest men ths
 ever breather the breath of life sprin from the so-caIled red blood. I cor
 slider it an act of Christian charity {
 give this boy a trial. have nc Il forgotten the rock from which I we e hewn nor the pit from whence I wa ,e digged'"
 " TryUaII uirapo ir o1I +hasa ,-aorz
 have never been known to act COT
 trary to your wishes. and I will n, iI begin now"
 'a When breakfacst was over Farm, S Brown hitched the old gray mare . his runabout and went into town ,e insert this notice in the next issue n the Farmers Journal:
 Sf Fred Montague-I have just rea ii about you in the paper. If you wa "a a good home and friends, come to n In BROWN, Sunset Farm. Todd Tow ,a ship"
 1e The Journal being a weekly publ I66 oicatn, which came out every We
 nesday it was several days before 10 reached the eyes of Fred Having of money he sought out on foot for Su
 set farm. It was evening when n. reached there, the chores had all be- d done and Mrs. Brown was reading. H f 2 ram was sitting in the back doc to way smoking his corn cob pipe al it. looking into the west watching t
 sun sink behind the hills. Then t $. stars began to peep out one by O
 it seemed. and it was well on to eig Id o'clock when he awakened from I It reverie when repeating to hims ou ''The starry firT1ament above inspir xt our hearts with faith, hope and low, ". Yes. he said: my faith in God. , i'd hope for a life to come. and my To ut for all mankind. Suddenly he hea
 some one walking and quite near. .te looked up to see a boy, small for
 years, with such a frank. open cou nv tenance, standing before him. " Then he recalled his answer to Fr