Beaver Press | 1912-11-08 | Page 7 | Puts Job in Second Place

puts job in second place A humboldt rancher returned from a years ayears trip through the east cast to find that a onetime one time neighbor of his a man noted for his perfect patience had been having a siege or of bad luck upon hearing the news he immediately sought out the neighbor to condole with him well john ho he said after greet ings had been c exchanged 1 I hear you lost all of your timber through the forest fires the other man nodded and they say th that atthe the river cut off your best bottom land that your hogs all died of cholera that your wife and children had been sick and that they have now foreclosed the mortgage on your other place john nodded again yes its all true he said looking about him at wha had once been his hig prosperous farm all true why sometimes 1 get gei almost dIsco discoursed urged ladles home journal