Show Fam neStr Family Is in Need of Immediate ate Help Those who are discouraged by one or two reverses and who ho ta take e the view that un an piece ot of hard luck Is more than they should bo called upon to en endure endure dure can learn a lesson In adversity from the ot of William Thomas and family A series ot of misfortunes coming In dis disheartening disc disheartening heartening succession has left lett that tam fam family I c ily destitute In every sense ot of the word Cold hungry ill deprived ot of Income surrounded y Ice and water and tar far from town the Thomas family Is ling Ung under more than Its share ot of utes lifes burdens The family Is living In a frame house near Tenth North and Thirteenth West est streets cloSE to the hanks banks ot of the Jordan river Thomas was compelled to quit work re recently to protect his s home against the floods ot of the Jordan river He worked day and night trying to build a wall of earth about his house and while at his labors a toot foot was frozen so that when the flood waters had subsided he was unable to return to work at Ills his usual vocation While Thomas was lying bing Idle about the house his foot adding pain to his mis misery ery two children were taken down with scarlet fever teer This did not seem to be bea a test of t sufficient severity for another r child was taken ill The house was quarantined and still sUlI further Isolated from the world All around It was Ice and water and desolation Bleak winds swept down from the north and west and sent I shivers rs through the stricken family Mrs Thomas struggled against adversity de da flying herself the scanty things that re remained In her gloomy home In order that the children might have the full benefit Cold and hunger then followed and the thu family was perfectly helpless No phy physician physician was attending the strIcken chU chil children dren no one was providing the necessaries necessaries saries ot of life lite and while Thomas was confined at home he was compelled to see the children grow cold and hungry and he could not move a hand Finally the county sent some coal and food but unfortunately the food tood was saturated with kerosene oil that had cap capsized sized d upon It In transit This further delayed the time when sustenance waa wa to be given the family Neighbors did what little they could but butas butas as this Is In a poor neighborhood fa from the part ot of the city where there ar arbetter arbetter better homes and more contented the assistance was meager to say the th least Efforts are now being made to get r rHet rl lief Het to tb the family The suc succession of re reverses verses erses has been very heavy and the fam fly lIy Is act actually ally destitute Neighbors sa say that words cannot paint the situation it Ir Its true light It Is expected that som relief will be afforded today as the mat matter matter ter has been called to the attention of relief Tellef organizations organization |