The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-01-03

repairs, and that is the way I am put
ting i now. In other words you may
reach me care Park Sanitarium. Guth-
rte, Oklahoma, for there ~ where |
am going to be under Or. H. MI Con-
rad, and this is done at the advice OF
Pr. George Cleveland Hall, my regu-
lar physician, the man who has been
fighting bugs, for low, these many
years, but it seems to me that the bugs
are determined to get my goat, and
send me to my heaven.
have had Big time III Chicago
during the Christmas week and desire
to thank All those people who have
sent me Christmas presents. l am
really a happy man | wonder If
San name all the good things that
have been sent to me? Perhaps you
would not like To hear them. but let
me tell you some Of the things | have
seen and how much like saying fire
words | have felt, and YOU will join
others in praying for me, that I may
be on my feet to write the first letter
i'll January. for | am still III 1924 AZ
write this letter.
The year which is about to tell Us
good bye, has had its sunshine and it's
clouds, its rains and storms, its glad
ness and sadness. There have been
births and then there have been
deaths. but I am not prepared at this
time to say which is in the lead. I
do know that many a soul has died
this year that never died before and
will not be called upon to die no
more, and then many a boy and girl
have been born into the world who
were never born here before, and let
It's hope and pray that their parents
gave them the right to be born well,
since they were brought into the
world without their knowledge No
body asked me whether or not |
wanted TO be born, but I do know
that my mother and father gave me
a good healthy body and mind, and
if it has been abused it is my fault.
Turkeys, ducks. geese and chickens
have lost their heads during the
Christmas-in TACT they have been
doing that very thing all tile year and
will have to continue to do 20. They
have furnished big dinners. full
stomachs and happy men and women.
They came for that purpose, but no
one invented a song for them to sing.
Yet I hear that Old hen sing il some
times, but Mr.. COOLER il too proud to
sing Am | born to die, to lay this
body down: And must MY trembling
flesh 20 into a hot oven3" There may
not be much rhyme in this, but i
expresses the truth just The same. DO
YOU think ! would make a poet3 They
say poets are born and not made, we'll
| have been born
Dr. Edward F. Jones. was one IF
those who stepped out this closing
year. He was full Of ambition. hopes
and promises. but one day death
stepped in without warning and said
Jones, | came for you" He had but
To fold his arms and ~, for wife's
pleading and crying Of children meant
nothing, not even medical skill. for
God had spoken, and he had to obey.
He is with Us no more. I hope he is
with those who have gone ahead 81
him. Others must follow.
Side By side Jones and McKissick
walked in Mississippi. and they LETT
about the same time The Rev. DR..
Long, made a mess i'm preaching his
funeral. Well he j. just messy
preacher anyway. Instead Of trying to
land the saint in heaven. he took up
time telling those who voted against
him i'll Fort Worth. that they had sent
him to his grave. But | must not set
on that, may say too much.
| have told you about the death of
two noble characters, Mrs. Carrie A.
Tuggle and c. E. Bush. You have
the information, and then H. vi.
Bright, Norfolk, and James Redding,
Of Jacksonville. Fla. Redding was a
good man. He lived for his family,
and made them happy. In his home
were wife, daughter and son. The
daughter. Miss Leo1a "A. Redding. i
a Registered Nurse, and is now en-
ployed in the County Hospital nursing
all patients. She il wonderful young
woman. and is devoted to home.
When father was stricken, bread cut
off, it was this young woman who
went to the front and took the place
Of father in making provisions for
home. She had nothing for herself.