Show floru prom one of dr glen C ilav nys letar to bis lis fon ton puts put I 1 fished in lare lafe ire I 1 how a thriftless farmer F armer was reformed 1 I 1 if vou you Y have a place for everal everything shing thing and keep it in its place if it you have a ilme tune to do business I 1 and do it in its time you will find that i you yon will drive ill lAi business siness instead of business driving 11 you yon ardd arid d so will have le isire instead of I 1 constant worry it pains me to see some men undertake any business of moment they are as sure to become entangled entangle dy and thrown on to their backs their business atop a top of them as they are to undertake it take farming for instance now I 1 venture the assertion that two thirds of ail all alithe the farmers in this state are burning burnine green preen woo wood d this terrible cold weather go into their houses arld arid you yon hear the of the beech or maple or elm as like to the 1 death dirge of a cockroach as can be out of the chimney tops comes forth smoke dark as rus rug and their wives and hired fired alrig alris i 19 ls is are cross as bedlam these men child not find r d time to cut their wood and have it seasoned season rd now I 1 charge chare it on you that you yon fail not to have time to do ell all ail that you undertake in order every day accident st casualties catastrophes provi dences are arc taking place because men women and children have not time to do things as they on ht to be done dane I 1 must tell you a sto tto story ry which is a fact when I 1 was a boy boys there lived in my native village a family by the name ot 0 wison wilson there were four beya and four girls t iri lri irleand irl sand and they were exceedingly gifted not one of them thern was there who did not rank in beauty intellect and personal physical power a good way above mediocrity they all had bad more than common ed educational 11 catona cat ional lonal lac acquirements acquire allu aliu irementa ire lre ments for they learne learned I easily the girls all ail married early and to young men of promise the men all married and to respectable their pec actable table tabie women yet all remained poor their failure was directly attributable to a want of order not one of them was wag ever nver known to do a thing in I 1 n lis its time timp nor have a thing in its place with one exception and lie he is the hero of my story OF one of the girls I 1 may siy sly Y truthfully that for over thirty five years she has hag never seen the son rise always going to bed past midnight 1 I and rising pas pasi midday didday B but t to 0 in my story erastue erastus was a fa fanner me a shiftless ift less slovenly disorderly slipshod farmer the winds and ad the waters water the sun and rain darkness and broad day fay all conspired 2 ired to do him harm his ilia gates were his hoes hogs noses were nn wrung his sheep could leap h hlis is fenced like ilke wild leer deer his ilia cattle were seen with boards over their eves eyes great spiked chains on their necks yoke yokes s oo 00 and a nd tied head and foot ills his honses horses were as thin as a rhode island spare rib you could conid see sunrise q through them then his ilia windows win clows had old hats old coats old newspapers and shingles instead of or glass ills ilia corn was stunted bis his jis ris meadows half halt covered with grass and about him the spirit of decay seemed to brood bral yet lie he worked hard did not drink nor gamble nor lid quarrel ti arrel in fact he veis leis was wag a pious I 1 ous man but he did everything at the wrong wrong 0 time imle and in the tong wrong mong way thus he lived until his hair turned crey crex and coverty poverty sat at his table an acknowledged maem ber er of his family one cold december day he be was going to his barn and it happened hipp ened that he h lifted up his eyes and afar oft ott aftin in one of his lots lie he saw savy something that looked to him like deer liouns sticking through the top of a snowdrift ile he was all alive ile lie would make reake a conques so over the fence he be leaped and anade for the der deer he waded the drifted and anti tin un drifted enow snow till he reached the spots spot when beholds instead of the horns of a bucl buck bueki there stuck up the two handles of his plow he ire war wa very angry and started to zo ero back when lie he said he heard a voice as ag audibly aa as ever a voice 6 say erastus wilson ahson you deserve a good rood flogging for leaving your prow plow ont in the snow it is by buch such you have hay 0 come to ro poverty verty pick up your plow and take talc it to the barn 31 ile he immediately set about tt it and alid by what means he did it he never uever could tell dut but abroy that deep snow and over the drifts he dragged the implement to the barn once there ha he took a ra raw w hide d e stripped himself naked and arri addressed bim him himself seif self dra erastus Era etus wilson you area are a mean lacan dirty pov ov erty stricken man all your iong long c life you lve have bave been helen too lazy razy to save what vou you have avi earned or too careless to do it you deserve a fig alg flop ging gin gln here ia is your plow whose handles you yoa could never see sec till you thought them the dorrn of a deer then you wade drifts waist waid deep to get them you deserve a good flogging you yon careless blockhead and you shall have ury rry 11 41 and he be laid the raw hide on his body legs and feet till he h raised wales ha skippie skip pin pic round around the floor ficor naked and screaming while he would say leave your plow ont out bilyou wil wi lyou kyou pretty farmer farmen you yon are arc aint you lil ill aee sec if I 1 cant calt can cal teach you better 22 thus he flogge flogged ed himself most soundly drob sed hime himself elf eif and alli went in from that flogging he came forth a changed man lie lle wab was prompt 1 orderly saving and up with the th times ilis llla neighbors were surprised his ilia family were wonder struck ile he be began bean an to thrive and in less than thin three years no farm his flock flocks 3 all bore afie evidence of being under the guidance of a spirit energies were of the amplest order about this time be sickened and ana dad died |