Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-05


b a units! What if the company should fat
shah we be bankrupt Shallwe cotnplain,
if out OF Our abundance, in such a time of tri
al as this, NE lose with oth ers!"
"Yes, but.'' said George, ''the Influential
proprietor of the town, the judge of the
county, the owner and indweller of that
beautiful mansion, who held possession in half
the strroun ding landscape, the rail road
man, and bank director stopped short, as il
he did not know whaf TO say next"
"But what, George2n asked his pleasant
wife, laying her hand again upon his brow.
''I don't you want TO say, 'Don's get dis
| couraged.' >"
"Then don't give me occasion, my dear.
pledge you I viii not. But really con's
see why you should SO much dislike the
phrase, for out of it has grown much of the
success of your life.''
"And this is the very reason, Carrie
Man, when he gets the blues, don't love TO
be reminded OF his own weakness. But re-
ally, Carrie, will own up. That hopeful
heart of yours has kept me up through
Thousand misfortunes, when ] have stfhk
dowh in despair, and let the waves rollover
me. felt this morning about asgloony as
/ did when we travelled here on the prairie
with one yoke of oxen, q cow, and household
stuff in a cart, and ten dollars in a purse,
and looked over this lonely landscape.
sDo you remember how hard l begged
your consent to turn round and plod back!
how even accused you of unwifely disobe-
dience, and OF setting up your will, when
you declared you would rather make bed
of prairie grass, or sleep in the old cart, than
to turn about SO faint heartfelt"
ayes, remember it all.''
s.And how l sat down and growled in des-
pair, when the old OK died!''
"Yes.''
"And''-and he looked up with laugh of
half shame--s'when they located the rail-
road through my farm!' -
"Oh, George, George! one would dsuppose
you'd never have the blues again; for W ith
all these accidents, and they have been
many, which were grevious at the time, and
hard to be borne, we have had so much of
good luck and prosperity, that when look
back over the past, the mistortunes are SO
covered up with blessings, that see only
brightness and beauty over oil the way
So, 'Don't get discouraged, George. -
And she stopped again, and left her E.ss us-
on his brow as of old. -.ae-
And ID oagh he had lest hfs thousa nds,
though his heart was sore over the treachery
of trusted friends, though his plans of future
speculation had to be abandoned, though
his bank had suspended, and his railroad op-
erations dead loss-his heart rose from its
dependency, and seating himself by his
pleasant, vine covered window, in his ola
arm chair, with wife 81 his side, he bade
Carrie, the second, open the piano, and
play an accompaniment, while he sung the
following: 80 s4
when black lettere list the Gods presented
A list OF what fate for each mortal intends;
At string of it's kind angel reented,
three blessings. wife, children and friends
surly Pluto declared he cheated.
~ That Justce divine could not compass his ends:
And earih bScaine ne tse4s VIII wife, chilIreu, and
The biIsS when strangers hand ted,
%, \ he faRd i'll sesuIed ID OF npankrap,ey ends;
When drawnon the firm OF wife, children and friends"
The storm cloud had passed over, and
the earnest, etergetic man, full of power
and force. gathered up his strength and
went forth to his business, and righted up
in few days what he had, in his moments
of despondeneyS set tuwr as an utterly
bankrupt Concern. ~
There is many a man who sinks down in
helpness dependency, Tor the want of a
pleasant word and cheering look; many
cue;in time of powerful pressure and mis-
fortune, by cold words of reproack and mhr-
trtrins, has been driven from the peths of
duty and honesty to crime, insatIity; and
even ssiicides many enc, too, by feckiesss
t1ess and wild speculations by spuEning all
counsel and help from her, who is comPeil1
ed to be sufferer in all mistakes. has worn
out cheerful and faithful heart, and brought
upon himself tile torture OF a wailirg and
cruel spirit, that goaded him through all his
future years. spirit that might. had it been
ollo we'd to sympathise and cheer, had sta,d
nd strana.;,sena senad his steps through all the
changing vicissitudcs ct Life and gone down
with him, in trusting faith and 'cve' to the
end of earth's pilgrimage, blessing ahe De-
ing blessed.
in iiiiIS.es of trouble, let wives be cheerful
and ready to bear their puE1 OF the Durthens'
and husbands fail not to trust ana pohor
them with confidence and love.