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

A man, when he gets the blues don love
to be remainded of his own weakness
But, really, Carrie, will own up
That hopeful heart Of yours has kept me
up thro' thousand misfortunes when
| should have sunk down in despair and
let the waves roll over me. | felt this
morning about as gloomy as | did when
we travelled here ON the prairie with one
yoke of oxen, COW and our household
stuff in cart and ten dollars in my purse
and looked over the lonely ladscape.
"Do YOU remember how hard | begged
your consent &c turn round and plod
back? how | even accused you Of unwile-
" disobedience and of setting up your
will when you declared YOU would rather
make a bed of prairie grass or sleep in the
cart, than turn about so faint hearted Z"
&" Yes, remember it all. y
"And how sat down and growlcd in
despair, when the old OK died :"
"Ycs."
"And when the lightened burned the
haystack Z?
"Ycs.
"And d,-he looked up with laugh of
half shame-when they located the rail
road tho my farm p
"Oh George, George. one would think
YOU would never have the blues again; for
with all these accidents and they have
been many which We're gricvous 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 mis-
fortunes are so covered up with blessings
that see only brightness and beauty
over all the way. So, Don't Get discour-
age George And she stopped again
and left her kiss upon his brow as Of
old
And tho he had lost his thousands, tho
his heart was sore over the treachory Of
trusted friends, tho his plans Of future
speculation had TO be abandoned, tho
his bank had suspended and his railroad
operations n dead loss-his hcrat rose
from its dependency and seating HIM
sell by his pleasant vine covered window
in his old arm chair, with wife by his
side, he badc Carrie, the second, open
the piano and play an accompaniment
while he sang the following:
"whcn the black lit,oIcd list to the Gods vas
presented,
a list of what fate fer each mortal intends;
.Afs'se-lqpS F-i~- Of iaas. kind angel rr-
Tented. y
And cas-, in three blessings, wife, children and
friends.
&" In vain, surly Plato declared he vas cheated,
That justice divine could not compass his ends
The schme of mans fall he maintained, was de
f,a,cd,
And earth becomes heaven, with wi,c, children
AID friends
"Tho stock Of our bliss, when in strangers
hands vested,
The fund i'll secured Oft in bankruptcy cnds;
But the heart issues bills that were never pro
When drawn on the firm Of wife, children and
friends"
The storm cloud had passed over and
the earnest energetic man, full Of power
and force gathered up his strength and
went forth to his business, and righted up
in a few days what he had in his
moments of dependency set down as an
utterly ruined concern,
There is many a man sinks down in
helpless dependency, for the want of a
pleasant word and cheering look many
an one in a time Of powerful pressure and
misfortune by cold words Of rcproach and
murmuring has been driven from the
path of duty and honesty to crime, insani-
ty, and even suicide many an one too
by recklessncss and wild speculation, by
spurning all counsel and help from her
who is compelled to be a sufferer in all
his mistakes, has worn out faithful and
cheerful heart and brought upon himself
the torture of wa ling and tried spirit
that goaded him thro all his future years
"A spirit that might had it been allowed
to sympathizcd and cheer have staid and
-sron sthencd hio eteps thro' all the chang
ing yicissitudes of life and gone dow
with him in trusting faith and love 90
the end of earth's pilgrimage, blessing and
being blessed.
In these times of troubles let w;'es be
cheerful and ready to bear theirpart OF
the burthens, and husbands fai not to
trust and honor them with confidence and
love.