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y 1 A i They say that most all newspaper feature writers have “I” trouble, antL that is true, hut I have had real eye trouble for the past IH da\s. .Si.nie of* the doctors said it was cause i by straininjr by eye at short dresses, or perhaps at lon^r. thin dresse.'. Anyway, 1 ain't been seeinvr so well lately. , ,^s .tom O' 1 d..'Covered that my pwpers Were sub-normal, 1 looked up a spec inaki r. Me e\amim <l me for bi- fiH'als and several other focals, an! told me one day that 1 had the oxici- xolojristics of the retina. I told him 1 ’v^fis afeai’cd that ! had ket‘hed that terrible thing's frtim ''omeb ly. But ihc Very next day that very same doctor told me that he believed that 1 was sufferintj from zoxicitrli tl/dstox of the lids. 1 a^Mced with hin. that it was possibly lid trouble. M recommenrled more sleep, le.^s r(>adinj stewed ]ii uncs, raw i al)ba;re, and i pairs of his l.o-dollar spe.-s, and I tol l him I would look jirtfund and let him know what my bunker thoutrht of it. I dropj>ed back into his office the j followinjr «iay and he !»ut a pair of j axyokt^s liu-my- face, and made me .sit down and lopk iit a si>fn-board he had plastered over on the wall. Me insert ed all kin<is of lenses into the frame work restiiif on my nose and had me try to rea<l ‘’KCH,” which I di<l, but I coulden't rlo any g^oo<i with the next I did not l^(»w how well off 1 was in this worbis vToisIs till that doctor jfot a pair of specs ri>r^e<l uj) for me. The windsliiehi on my Ford is wortb over Th<- jrlass bottle sitlin>r on my desk ri^'ht now ou^ht to fetch StbO.Od. I asked him if h<‘ made his len.ses from any special kind of jclass. and he said, "Yes. 1 use double thick wirxiow jiancs," and of course that Kave me a finam ial pain. Now the frames that h<“ fixed up for me c ist only Tfi. TIh'.v were made of nulter-penha from Butemberj;, and the thing's you hook over your ears were made of celluloid fi'om Cellun- Ix'jr. The little brass rivets that were inserted into the frames to hold them to^retht-r came from (Jcddverjf, and that's why they cost .so much. We couldn't iroHsibly Rct alonj' without our s[)e( ialists, but 1 hope they will soon let a fellow furnish bis own jflass and the >;uttei>iH*rcha when he buys ■ jflas5f'srr~~^”~—^._r^ better From Mike flat nn'k. s. (’. may *Jd. ItHlI. deer mr. editor: 1 have been ;isked liy my manny friends to rite up my relijrioiis ex petieTit'-, and i will do sn a' follow ers; i was ciitu'eited cndiirini!: tlie earth- (piake in IS and '.ut and it l.i'ti'd fill nt'aily <lc. ember the ’J I when soni" boys ma ic like wlVat they want«'d me to drink Wics^cidt r when it was corn whiskcv a'lfll vtlun i woke up the fol lowing fiiday in ynampaws pasture, i was I ai k in sin aj;ain and overylio.ly knowed it. i want to bejf the people to be ware i of bad c< inpany, for you will fall as I sure .Is i^uu’.s iron if you keeji it. vvell.i the m\; time i pot religion was when i w.is took <jown with the typhoid fe ver and was pive ii)> for dead twiste, and it was betwixt tiiese times that i* made «uo my miixl that that was a pofnl time to make a ehanpe, and i r<'-, pented and put well. j i vcivthinp Went alonp all rite jind i kept up with all the prayer meet- ifip-s ami pive testimonies nenrly every time i went, but i ^old a ebler i f my ch.iich some luef tui creddick till the next sjuldav, this was in June, atul he never sed iiuthinp about payinp me for s.imc. so i!i november I jutn;u‘d on him about it and he struck me and i cussed him out. and that mil me ba.k with ths' evil I’rowil and i stayed there till i laid out 1 nipht and kelchcd new- monv. .S.0 me and the newmony hail it for a lonp time and sale plurisy sc' up in my liver and i wa.% apain pive un for the i;ra\eyard. but my former pasture i come to our house 1 day and et dinner' with us ami when i heard him askinp the blessinp, i chanped my life apain. i had been baptized .‘1 times up to that time and was sprinkled once, but this| time i manaped to pet my church let-| ter out of st. pall and put it in rehober where a puy couUl haek slide and pet over it. i i have tried to live a clean life offj and on ever since, and while i have ^ fell from grace a few times, i have] atuck pretty close to the narrow path and h6pi>e to hold out fa'Ithlul to the end. it has been hard to keep myself unspotted from the world as i sell beef andsoforth to different kinds of people who don’t try to follow the golden rule, but a always manage to ketch myself just befoar cussing, and the doctor told me that whiskey would bast my gall bladder, so i am still a consistent church member and will be gin giving something to the preacher as soon as i can collect, if you want to print this, plese rite or foam me for permission and i vvill give it to you. it j might help some other wayward sun. i yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. 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