The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-17
OKOLONA, MISS, JUNE II, 1858.


only son, not knowing what to do, bega1
mischievOusly to climb the mast. HI
had got half way to the top, when turn
ing bis eyes below to see how far he WA
from the deck, he suddenly grew dizzy
II am falling, l am falling" he cried
"Look aloft," shouted his father, who a
that moment was leaving his cabin. Tht
boy, accustomed instantly to obey thai
voice, looked up to where the maintrunl
swung against the sky, recovered heart
went on and was saved. ..I i.
| We do not give the anecdote as new
Doubtless every one of our readers has
heard it before. But the story has a sig.
nifcance not always noticed. Others
besides the captains son, have been saw
ed by looking up. There come times in
the experience even of the bravest when
the heart is ready to give up. Perhaps
a fayorite child has been suddenly strick-
en- down. Perhaps a terrible epidemic
has destroyed more than one little one.
Perhaps the wife of his bosom is no more.
Perhaps by one of those catastrophes
which occasionally occur, his entire fam
lily has been swept into eternity in a mo-
ment of time, in the twinkling of an eye.
He feels as if there was no longer any
object for him in life. In the first shock
of his agony he would not care even if
news was brought to him that his for
tunes were bankrupt, that he was dis
graced beggar. But by -and-by, a still,
small voice within whispers, "Look up"
He sees that the sky is still as bright as
ever, the breeze as blessed, the trees as
beautiful. He hears the waters run, leap
ing and laughing down hill side glisten-
ing in silver as they go. The earth is
not less lovely than before, the stars are
as numberless, the ocean and mountains
as sublime. His fellow. creatures have
the same kindly heart toward him. He
owes them the same old duties. Gradu-
ally he realized that he has much yet to
live for. In time even he regains SUBJ
dued and quiet happiness. He has learn
ed to "look up.''
A wife or mother is unhappy. She
has a husband addicted to intemperance
man with talents perhaps, who might, if
he could resist the cup, rise to eminence
and wealth. Day by day her heart is
breaking. But let her not despair. The
erring one may yet reform; thousands
have done it before him; patience, kind
ness, tact, and affection may finally re-
call him to himself While there is hope
of his restoration let her not give up
Or mother sees her son going to ruin.
She bewails, in secret, the hour he was
born; and bowed down with shame she
shuns society. Oh! if she would but
." look up" While there is life there is
hope. While love can pray and watch,
there is chance of repentance. Take
heart, wife or mother. After the night
comes morning. Look up!
A great financial crisis overtakes the
strong man in the midst of his schemes.
He gathers up all his resources, contend
ing gallantly desperately long after hope
is over; struggling for his family rather
than himself twill not do. The mighty
whirlwind, whose outer eddies be has
been striving to resist, wheels down upon
him in all its power; he is torn up in an
instant; he is hurled on the ground, he
is left breathless, bruised, and seemingly
dead. At first, when he regains sensa-
tion after the overwhelming shock, he is
without hope. He has neither strength
nor wish to resume his work. He is will
ing that the tempest shall sweep the
wrecks of bis fortune out of sight forev-
er. 1t is useless, he says to himself, even
to try to regain what he has lost. At
last gentle wife or sympathizing friend
bids him not to dispair. ".Look up"
they say. He looks. AT once he is a
new man. He RECEIVERS his name and
fortune. R8A9AIN
ALI if all would only look up. But
some never hear the cheering Words
Some disregard them. Of the thousands |
who have failed utterly in life, or met |
only a secondary success, the majority |
owe their n1isfortunes to not locking up.
In sorrow or disaster, remember the boy |
upon the dizzy mast, and ".look up T.
Petersons Magasiae.
ii" Paired Of."-Col. Benton, in speak
ing Of Congressional matters, says be
never "spaired eff but once in his life,
and that was with young woman, the
night he got married. e
FITTING UP.--A letter to northern
na mar from Kansas save.
/" Emigrants are pouring into Kansas
by thousands. Steamboats, cannot be
made long and large enough to carry all
that apply for passage. This boat refus-
ed more than two thousand yesterday,
and still they come. Six boats per day
leave ST. Louis, with an average Of two
hundred passengers each, for Kansas and
Nebraska. .nfaS9 Hsss a*sa gM eEss sF'