Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners 1 I knew a man and his wife very strong characters very purposeful who frequently had such pio bounced differences of opinion that the dishes and the furniture suffered su offered from the force of the arguments gumen s they employed against each other their boys too were purposeful very had amon among g themselves select parties from which they came out with black eyes and sore heads sometimes the party included the whole fam ly and there was a bresch breach which threatened to be permanent tili til sor someone neone from the outside sided in with one faction or the other an then it became evident at once that they still fiill loved each other as a family the family ties were exceedingly cee strong blood was much thicker than water once when the old man and woman were conducting a heated controversy and dishes were flying with alarming possibilities a neighbor stepped in to help the weaker vessel when the two vessels united in giving him the whipping of his life we had a family quarrel in our family our anglo saxon family that was back in in 1776 some of the big boys had gone out with the consent of the he rest of the family from the old cold homestead and had taken up farms in america and getting new ideas from the new country they wanted to run their american farms in just jast their own way the people back home objected and they met for a family argument R I 1 lasted for seven years with much expense to dishes and furniture and then it was decided the boys could do just as they pleased but the feelings were not any too good and after nursing their grievances about 30 years they argued again that was in 1812 and the argument was an expensive diversion but the big boys were bigger still now and they made it very clear that they would do things in their own way their progressive way and they hoped the rest of the family would give up their out of date notions and fall in line the members of our big family still loved each other they could not help it the family tie is exceedingly cee strong and blood is i s thicker than water they preserved a boundary line between them more than miles long without a single clash for more than years but they know really how much they meant to each other till a big bully continued on page 8 the old settler continued from page 1 jumped on th folks in the old homestead and the family united at once and fave him a sound lic licking kine that was in 1914 this brought them almost as close to gether as they had been in the first place with the same language the same ideals laws almost identical and the same blod they were still one family when that big bully eMS treacherous and revengeful 4 ed himself with firearms and became a gangster a highwayman and tried to holl up the folks on the old homestead nothing else could have happened to bring the he family together as that did its one united family now things are in great reat commotion brothers are fighting shoulder to shul Jer with clench jawed determination to make a full cleanup clean up of the gangster before they pause for anything else ALBERT R LYMAN |