| Show HIS EYES OPEN chhy there are no mail iii order catalogues cataloguer Catal in one home FARMER WILLIAMS UMON LESSON in time of adversity Advent ty he H got cot to understand der tand stand who were his H real friends prosperity in stand aj n together copyright 1901 by alfred akrea C clack what y got there sis inquired partner farmer williams as an he kicked off his hie felt boots and set them carefully behind the atme to dry whit what I 1 thought it looked like one of them there chicago catalogs caty logs though I 1 halat seen been one dost fer quite a few years back me itle an n your roa ma to buy mighty nigh everything ever thing we used out of them catalogs cat logs when we first come to kansas land sakes I 1 have to laugh now sometimes when I 1 think of the way we would git duct lit in awhile tacy a some cheap things lit in them catalogs cat logs an aa then agin theys p lot it t aint so cheap Y never kiv tell tall till they corne come au an then its too late to send em cm back but as I 1 was a mayln we hain t bought bothin out of a catalog ter fer a right smart 0 years now an the way it como come about I 1 had bad as well tell y caute cause I 1 doa doat t think y really remember much about it when we come am to babias long la in the first of the 80 a 9 e got along right well we was able to pay cash ter fer what we got and we got the money ter fer everything we sold wo we was pay in out on the place right along crops was erty good an vi we e was a feelen like the lord was a on our efforts and the happy home we dreamed about then we first got married was waa in sight bight hut but they come a change in kansas long in the last half balf of the SOs times got bard and kep hep a gittin tighter pour four straight years it was so BO dry y had bad to soak the hogs afore hold bold swill though I 1 wll wal say they was some extry reason on account of the swill belu bein ho BO thin wheat jest died in the ground fer want of rain and the hot winds tiled ailed the ever bastin sap out of the corn they no pasture no nothing you can know we was vias a fealin blue about that time but we was young and strong and thought with the chickens an boss we could git through anyway then one day aou got to complain in and lookin so thin it worried us your nia la Is a good doctor take it all around but nothing she could think of done you vou any good well you kep a gitela gattin lier and pin tiller tilt till you got sost y I 1 do but set sn a y by the kitchen stove wrapped in your ma a old shawl an you looked so ao pitiful that we made up our minds to have the doctor even it if it took th last chicken on the place well be come and after he bed d looked at you awhile an felt your bulge he abet his watch up with a snip snap an says quiet like better fix up a warm place fer her in the front room dont have too much light nor any drafts to strike her then we knori d it want no small sickness we had to fight an when we got you fixed up in bed I 1 tollered toll foll ered doc out on the porch an I 1 says well doc I 1 sex 1 I the matter with our little girl I 1 1 I don dont t w went st tit to yf mr wil liams hams says ii lo 10 but im afraid ashes in for or a siege of typhoid to fever I 1 well after tie he was wae gone I 1 went out in the kitchen an told your roa ma but she says brave as kin be well ezra it if the lord has haa seen fit to put that much more on our load we must bear up an aa fight it out doln doin our duty the best beat we kin leavin the rest to him I 1 an I 1 thought so too so we jest kep hep our hearts brave an done what seemed right t do the hardest thing was to figure out where t git the medicine an fruit an dainty things your sickness called why mr williana hlll Wl ll J jest elit let Us U know what you want wan I 1 I 1 for we baan t been bradin much with the stores in huston bulla bula mostly from the folks y it tow low an so BO we have any credit thre there to speak peak of but I 1 t f roster loster th W druggIs tI an I 1 told him boa things was I 1 have bave no money t pay par fer th lh med leins an things an the prospects lr the yeah yea kas a as poor ek poorer thyi th last aby ceil nice mr air williams Wllliam a be says bays jest iest let us know what you wart an we well 31 carry you along alone till time tinier better fer you we wre re all tn in a tight pin panh it row but if S we tang lang t geeb or r things la Is all euln to come out in the end I 1 have bays faith la in th W aoun try an in the people that live here bare arv an nob odys sick kick baby N t a coln to buffer it I 1 kin bell any I 1 well it was waa tho the samo same thing at harlow B grocery an th col coal yard everda here in th town ur mr williams well vell see y through on ghisi this it made we iro feet feel mean an awall some bome way though I 1 dont know why an often when put in a few oranges or so methin like that sayin la in a sort bort of way little so methin tm for sick baby why somehow it made a bart jump come up in my throat in an I 1 had bad a queer teella in my eyes kinder achy like y enow well to bo be short abort about it for fer eight weeks you kep a gittin weaker an eaker an aa wo we kep a feelen more in n more hopeless ho bo it was waa a sad christ mos in our home that year your roa ina was jast J alst wore out with watch atchin ln as an triin train to do her aik voik oik between times aal an I 1 was wars so nigh sick dele ith trouble an discouragement it t I 1 to go around by the barn art an jest cry like a baby but I 1 never let on to your ma though ner sho aha t me we tried t C ent barage each other though vo ae knowel in a our baarts it t all our words was lies an each one knowel the other knowel it too well jest beat th night before new years doe doc called us ua outside your I 1 aez les surn burn it room oh how my heart sunk then I 1 1 I dont want to hold out any false hopes to you people he be says but I 1 think with proper care from now on S 3 our little girl is coln t git well I 1 lisle it jest like a ton boa of hay had been lifted off my chest right there As AB for fer your ma why she bhe jest busted down an cried as aa hard as she could after doe doc was gone we went out to the kitchen an aa kneeled down right there an thanked god ter for the most glorious now new ysais gift tie ha ever give t anybody in th tb world the health ot of our baby girl you know your pa aint no lanter er shouter eh outer er ma ina beta a baptist has furnished most ot of th for fer our house but lest jest then I 1 seen how it was that they comes times limes la in peoples peo plea lives when jest got to have so methin bigger an greater than anything hu man V t turn to with a great joy or et great sori boner or well it was a long lone time et before you was strong enough t play out doors an aft it was mas a hard winter I 1 burned every post poet of 0 the fence around the south eighty ter fer firewood afore it was wag over cut but it acebed like wo we i had so co much t be thankful for fer that we was strong t caie fer er any any of th smaller troubles that we vie come COMB acrobat it really faint so bad to jook back at it now after th trouble Is over but bat them hard bard years in kansas drove nearly all our neighbors t V give up their land an move away broke in hopes an pocketbook them of us ua as aa a stayed Is well fixed now but we fit for fer everything we got an fit at hard haid too art an 0 yea about to th caty logs logo well after you was waa well an things begun t C take a turn ter th better one night nia ma brought out that chicago book anzald it on the kitch hitch en table an says bays ezry what do you want V t do with this ibis an I 1 aez les leis burn bum it an your xua ma flea aez jest what 1 was waa th inkin too an so BO we did burn it an more wo we aint never had bad one in th house bouse since an aa we never send away ter anything we on can git alt at any ot at the stores in Hust cause we want to deal with them M has L 1 frest ir IP the country we live in in us ua amr ir blat at live dost cost b NI why VIty you needia t of 0 put yours in th tb stove too elsie I 1 didat mean yos I 1 don dont t know but what bat itt jest us W well ell y done it after all folk denounces MallOr fer idea Addres sh g a meeting of retail mer chants in jefferson i sty ity recently gov arnor folk of souil mid we are proud of our splendid cities and we want ant to Inci lucuas ase wealth and population and we alin vaut our country towns to grow wo ikaji lite he city mci chants to build up but wo flats desire the coultry to prosper I 1 do not dot believe lit in the mall mail order citizen it if a place la Is good enough for or a roan man to live tn in and to make his hie money in its good enough for him 0 to o spend his money to la no merchant can succeed without advertis f IV fai one way or another patronize your town p papera apers buld build them upland they will build the wan ut ua in increased trade and greater op poti do not be afraim that business Is i being to be hurt by the che re exposures of inn doing to in jhc thc horld orld |
