The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-02-04

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Yes, Carrie, Dick is a blessing"
"And is not Carrie blessing?" she
added, as she left the warm kiss of afiec-
ton upon his gloomy brow
Aye, and Carrie is blessing" was
his response in lightened tone.
"And is not good healtha blessing|'
Yes, suppose So" said he, almost
laughiAg
And is not this soft, cool air, this mel
low moonlight, and the star spangled hea-
vens, blessing"
"Of 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 squash
es and shall we not have potatoes fer
ourselves and our neighbors, if we should
only be so blessed as to have anyY'
"Why, Carrie said he, taking the
soft hand in his, that was putting back the
hair, soothingly, from his forehead, Zone
would think we had had nothing but bles-
sings, to hear you tell the story"
And | am not done yet; think
have a blessed little home here in this
clean, sweet, pleasant cabin, and the bless
edest good, kind husband in this pleasant
world, if he would not get the blues, and
threaten to leave this beautiful land, and
go back to New York, every time the
winds blow the wrong way. Aye George,
Don't get discouraged;' all will yet go
well, and we shall bless the day that we
stuck our stakes on the prairie. "
Well, | suppose | shall have to stay,
whether it is best or not, you are so deter
mined to be blessed with eycrything but
women folks don't have to suffer AZ men
do"
Carrie smiled to herself, as she took her
babe again upon her breast, and rcmcm-
bcrcd the hours of toll and trial thro'
which she had passed., of the night Of
wearisome watching and care, of the days
of ceaseless cxcrtions, often when scarcely
able to bear the fatigue. But she did not
feel to murmur There was to her Joy
in duty, in being true and earnest, in
working out ones own destiny. That
made all tlfe hours and days worth living,
+ tho There was here aud sllerc, 1t, sh, lool;
ed over the past, dark shadows fitting TO
and fro, ike the cloud shades over the bill
lowy prairies, while the sun gildcd all
the rest with brightness.
Long and earnestly they sat and chat
ted at their cabin doo~, and her gentle
word, and kindly cncouracerents lifted up
his heart, and he rose on the morrow, and
went forth to his work with a renewed
resolution to struggle and to conquer.
let Us ship over a score OF years. Do
YOU see that fine fourishing village, with
a railroad track coursing thro' It's very cen
tire Do you see those fine brick school
houses, with their bclfries and clear sound
ing bells, calling together the hundreds
of children, to teach them Of the mystic
ries Of science and put into their hands
that weapon OF defence and power for the
future-a good common school education?
Do you see yon imposing building in the
distance, with It's massive walls and tower
ing roof? That's college. Mark those
church spires, that point hcayenward !;
listen to the busy hum of machinery, the
mill and the factory, the hustle of trade.
Have you taken it all in?
Now look again. See YOU that matron-
ly woman, upon whose brow forty sum-
mers have scarcely left footprint! The
glossy hair shows no mingling of silver
the rose has not faded from the check tho
its budding brightness has expanded into
full bloom, and the red at the heart is not
quite so deep; the voice Is still soft, and
the laugh silyery and cheerful.
Don't get discouraged, George; all
will yet come out right
81 have not heard any thing else but
Don't get discouraged, George, these
twonty years. Carrie; am tired of it
Just think what hX L am IN nov, "ftor
all my struggling
at is very, very unpleasant to be sure,
but don't you remember how often when
we lived in the cabin here on this very spot
on the lone prairie you used to say just so
and threaten to leave and 90 back to the
old hauntsy'
"What if the company should fail -
shall we be bankrupt? Shall we COM
plain if out of our abundance, in such
"a time of trial as this we lose with
others 2"
Yes, but" and George, the infuen-
tial proprietor of the town, the judge Of
the country, the owner and indweller of
that beautiful mansion, who held in pos
session half the surrounding landscape,
the rich railroad man, and bank director,
stopped short, as if he did not knew what
to say next.
But what, George" asked his pleas
ant wife laying her hand again upon his
brow.
/" don't want you to say, Don't get
discourage
"Then don't give me occasion, my
! my dear pledge you | will not. But
really | don't know why YOU should so
much dislike the phrase for out of it has
grow much Of the success of your
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I +" And that is the very reason Carrie