The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-30
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BIZ
HENRY NJ. WHITNEY. 5

That hopeful heart of yours has kept me up through
a thousand misfortunes, when l have sunk down in
despair, and let the waves roll over me. l felt thi,
morning about as gloomy as l did when we Travelled
here on the prairie with one yoke of oxen, COW, anG
household stuff in a cart, and ten dollars in a purse
and looked over the lonely landscape.
.sDo YOU remember how hard 1 begged your con.
sent 70 turn round and plOd back how | even &C
cused YOU of u~nwifely disohedience, and of setting up
YOUR will. when you declared you would rather make a
bed of prairie grass, or sleep in the old cart. than to
turn about so faint hearted
Yes. I remember it ALL"
Sand how L sat DOWN and growled in despair,
when the old OK died
YES"
And when the lightning burned the haystack 80
Yes"
eAnd"-and be looked up with a laugh of half
shame" when they located the railroad through my
farm?'
.Oh. George, Georgei one would suppose you'd
never have the blues again; for with all these ACCT
dents. and they have been many, which were griev-
Gus M the time, and hard TO be borne, we have had
so much of good luck and prosperity, that when l
look back over the past, the misfortunes are so COW
cred up with blessings, that | see only brightness
and beauty over all the way. So. Don't get discour-
aged, George" And she stopped again. and left
her kiss upon his brow as of old.
And though he had lost his thousands, though his
heart was sore over the treachery of trusted friends,
though his plans { future speculation had TO be
abandoned. though his bank had suspended, and his
railroad operations a dead l1ss-his heart rose from
its despondency, and seating himself by his pleasant,
uncovered window, in his old arm chair, with wife
by his side, he babe Carrie. the second, open the
piano, and play an accompaniment, while he sang
the following:
"when the black letiered lis: to the Gods was presented,
A list d what fate for each mortal intends;
At the long string % lis, a Kind angel relentel,
And cast in three blessings, wife, children, and friends.
In vain surIy Pluto declared he was cheated,
That justice divine could not compass his ends:
The scheme os mans fall he maintained was defeated.
Ag ea@bh 1-m~e heaVeu with WIFI freu and friapIz
"rhe stock Of our bliss. when in strangers hand vested,
The fund III secured on ia bankruptcy ends;
Eut the heart issues bills that were never protested,
When drawn on the firm Of wife, children and friends"
The storm cloud has passed over, and the earnest,
energetic man, full of power and force, gathered up
righted up in a few days what he had, in his mo-
ments OF dependency, set down as an utterly bank
rupt concern.
There is many a man who sinks down in helpless
dependency, for the want of a pleasant word and
cheering look many 4 one, in time OF powerful
pressure and misfortune, by cold words of reproach
and murmuring, has been driven from the paths of
duty and honesty TO crime, insanity, and even sui
eide; many n one, too, by recklessness and wild spec
ulation, by spuruing all counsel and help from her,
who is compelled 10 be a sufferer in all his mistakes,
has worn out a cheerful and faithful heart, and
brought upon himself the torture Of wailing and cruel
spirit, that goaded him through ali his future years
spirit that might, had II been allowed TO symDa-
thize and cheer, had staid and strengthened his steps
through all the changing vicissitudes of life. and gone
down with him, in trusting faith and love, to the end
of earth's pilgrimage, blessing and being blessed.
In times OF trouble, let wives be cheerful and ready
to bear their part of the b%urtiens, and husbands fail
not to trust and honor them with confidence and love.