The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-30
From Emory's Journal Of Agricultural
Don'f Ger Discouraged.
By MRS =. ID GAGE


"Oh, George, don't get discouraged" said sweet
Cfrie Linton, as she stood by her husbands side,
one bright moonlight evening q know the season
has been hard, and we have had trial upon trial but
we have had many blessings, too"
II should Ike TO know what you call blessings
. said the moody husband, hi head upon his hand,
and his chair tilted hack against the log cabin.
"Here we have been toiling and moiling for the
last year and n halt, on this bleak, miserable prairie,
mot a hill in sight, and the winds sweeping US ten
gDonthzs1n the year, like tornadoes. Last year | must
pave q ague, 50 that I could not tend my crops,
aud tint year the spring frost must kill all my corn,
am Shsh the drouth spoiled all my wheat"
80, well, George, these things may never happen
again"
81 know, that's the way you always reason. So
You sail last year, that luck wouh1 change, and kept
saying. 'Don't get discouraged IL II hadn't been
for you. I'd have quit last fall. and gone back to old
Oneida
"And what would you have done there, George,"
"DOnea darud sight better than I'll ever do here,
in this heather country ~ was the Dertish and almost
profIne reply Of the young firmer who had sought n
home for himself and his wife on the prairies of Illi-
nois. in the year IS
Carrie was hurt. A tear sprang to her eye, and a
quicker throb to her heart but she knew his mood
might be changed. aud she knew too, that were she to
speak one despouding word, he would give up utterly,
and insist upon returning again TO the haunts of his
childhood, where his situation would be that of 3
common Iaborer. So she checked the rising emotion,
and again answered with n tone Of cheerful encOur-
agement and mild reproof-
o don't speak so, George. I know we have
not been very successful, but then we are settling in
a new country, and beginning n new life We must
struggle on and not give up. After a few years,
our locust trees will break the wind, and the loss of
one planting of corn or wheat. l hope will not pros
trate us rs IL does now"
"But how an I ever to get where I can help N.Y.
self, Corn spoiled, wheat blighte1, and the COW lost
in the prairies; the wolves have killed my sheep. and
now my best cow must die. You may talk of bless
ings, but I don't, aud I'm determines to sell out to
the first white man that viii take it, and then quit
the country"
"Is not this a blessing 20 she asked, laying a crow
ing baby boy, the very image of his father, into his
arms.
The father smiled family his heart was really sad.
The hardships, trials, and deprivations of a new
cou1sry were more than he could bear but with his
VII, smile came his Acknowledgements
tor Yes. Carrie. Dick is a blessing
r And is not Carrie a blessing 30 she added, as she
y the warm kiss Of affection upon his brow.
fs Aye, and Carrie is a blessing was his response
oi q lighter tone
@sAnd is not good health a blessing.'
sYes, I suppose So said he, almost laughing.
And is not this soft, cool, this mellow moonlight,
and the star-spaugled heavens. a blessinga'
sOf course"
"See our beautiful garden how softly it sleeps in
the moonlight Did you not tell me to-day, that you
never saw such beets and cabbage, such onions and
sauashes, and shall we not have potatoes for our
selves and our ~neighbor, If we should be blessed so as
to have any 2"
"Nhy, CARRIE, SAID ne, taxing the soft hand IN
his. that was putting back the hair, scothingly from
his forehead, " one would think We had had nothing
but blessings, to hear you tell the story"
And 7 am not done yet I think I have a blessed
little home here in this clean, sweet, pleasant cabin,
and the blesseiest, good, kind husband in this pleas
ant world, IL he would not get the blues, and threat
en- TO leave this beautiful land. and go back to New
York every time the wind blows the wrong way.
Ave. George, don't get discouraged all will yet go
we'll, aud we shall bless the day that we stuck our
stakes on the prairie"
"welI. I suppose I shall have to stay, whether it
Is best or not, you are determined so to he blessed by
everything but women folks don't have TO suffer as
men do"
Carrie smiled to herself, as she took her babe again
upon her breast, aud remembered the hours OF toll
aud trial through which she had passed, of the nights
If weIrisome PATCHING aud care, Of the days Of cease
less exertions. often when scarcely able TO bear the
fatigue But she did not feel to murmur. There
was to her 4 joy in duty in being true and earnest,
in working out ones destiny. that made all the hours
and days worth living for, though there were here
and there. a. she looked over the past, dark shadows
fitting to and fro like the cloud shades over the bill
bsy prairie, while the sun gilded all the rest with
brightness
Long and earnestly they sat and chatted at their
reighbSr's door, and her gentle words and kind en-
enlargement lifted up his heart, and he rose ON the
morrow and went forth 10 his work with a renewed
resolution Z struggle and to conquer
Let Us skip over a score of years Do you see that
fine furnishing village, with n railroad track cours-
ing through its very center, Do you see those fine
- brick sclOOt-lOuSeS Win their DeilrIeS ana clear
sounding bells, calling together the hundreds of chill
dren. to teach them OF the mysteries Of science, and
put into their hands that weapon Of defence and power
for the future good common school education (.
Do you see yon imposing building in the distance,
with its massive walls and towering roof, That is a
college. Mark those church spires, that point heaven
wari ; listen to the hum of machinery, the mill and
the factory, the hustle Of trade. Have you taken it
all in
Now look again. See you that matronly woman,
upon whose brow forty summers have scarcely left n
f6ct print The glossy hair shows no mingling of
silver; the rose has not failed from her cheek, though
its budding brightness has expanded into full bloom,
and the red at the heart was not quite so deep; the
voice is still soft, and the laugh silyery and cheer
full
"Don't get discouraged. George, all will yet come
out right"
al have not heard anything else but Don't get
discouraged, George these twenty years, Carrie; l
am tired Of it. just think what n FIX | am in now,
after AL my struggling"
:. It is very unpleasant, to be sure; but don't you
uDmember how often, when We lived in the cabin
lWe, on this very spot on the lone prairie. you used
I'D 50, and threaten to leave and go back to the
h4unts, What If the company should fail, shall
De bsukrupts Shall we complain, if out OF our
4 ndance, in such n time of trial as this, we lose
NH otherss"
!. Yes. but said George, !" the influential propri-
4sr Of the town, the Judge Of the county, the owner
Id indweller Of that beautiful mansion, who held in
POSSESSION half the surrounding landscape, the rich
~9.Ilroai man, and bank director stopped short, rs n
d did not know what tn say next"
Bat what, George 20 asked his pleasant wife, lay
Ing her hand again upon his brow.
- don't want you to say. 'Don't get discour-
Aged"
:. Then don't give me occasion, my dear. l pledge
you | viii not But really Tdon't see why you should
% much dislike the phrass. Tor out OF il has grove
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" AMI tia. .. sss -rr rss.S.. Carrie. Man. when
he gets tue ssnez. tons love o. ss rem.nsri Q. "a.
own WeIkoc<xL Huf FrlIIU Csrr.o I'll. nm