Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-05
vol. XII.
From Emory-s journal of Agricultural
DON'T GET DISCOURAGE


=. "Oh, George, don't get dlscourag ed, ,,
I said sweet Carrie Linton, as she stood BY
her husbands side, one bright moonlight
summer evening. 81 know the season has
been hard, and we have had tria upon trial,
| but we have had many blessings, too.''
''I should like TO know what you call bles.
| SINGS" said the moody husband, his head
upon his hand, and his chair tilted back a.
gainst the log cabin.
s'Here we have been toiling and moiiing
| for the last year and half, on this bleak,
| miserable prairie, not hill in sight, and the
winds sweeping us ten months in the year
| like tornadoes. Last year must have the
ague, so that could not tend my crops, and
this year the spring frost must kill oil nv
corn, and then the dreuth spoiled all my
| wheat.' *
"Oh, well, George, these things may nev-
er happen again"
81 knew, that's the way you always reas-
on. So you said last year, that luck wodld
change, and kept saying, .Don't get dis
couraged.' II it hadn't been for tou, I'D
have quit last fall, and gone back to old One
dia''
"And whas woeld you have dong there
George!''
"Done a darned sight better than l'Il ev-
er do here, in this heather countryn' was
the pettish and almost profane reply of the
yonng farmer who had sought home for
himself and his wife on the prairies of IIli-
nois, in the year l8-.
Carrie was hurt. A tear sprang to her
eye and quicker throb, to her heart; but
she knew too, that were she to speak one
despendfng word, he would give up utterly,
and insist upon returning again to the haunts
of his childhood, where his situation would
only be that of a common lahorer. So she
checked the rising emotion, and again an
swered with a tone of cheerful encouragement
and mild reproof-
"Oh, don't speak SO, George. know
We have not beenvery successful, but then
we are settling in a new country, and be-
ginning new life. We must struggle on
and not give up. After few years. our To-
Gust trees will break the wind. and the loss
of one planting corn or wheat, l hope will
not PROSTATE us as Il d1es now."
stBut how am ever to get where can
help, myself! Corn spoiled, wheat blighted
and the COW lost in the praries; the wolves
have killed my sheep, and now my est Cow
must die. You may talk of blessings but
don't, ard I'm determined to sell out to the
first white man that will take IL and then quit
the country"
"fs not this blessing?" she asked, lay
ing Growing baby Soy, the very image of
his father, into his arms.
The father smiled family; his heart was
really sad. The hardshes5 trials, and de-
privations of new country were more than
he could bear; but-with his faint smile came
a low cknowledgement-
sssYes, Carrie, Dick is blessing:''
''And is not Carrie blessing!" she added
as she left the warm kiss of affection upon
hls brow --z=.-is
s'sAye, and Carrie is blessing was his
response in lightened tone. .--...
Sand is not good health blessing!'
eyes, l suppose so;'' said he, almost
laughing.
"And is not this soft, cool air, this mellow
moonlight, and ihe star spangled heavens
ablessing!''
s"0f course: p
"See our beautiful garden; how softly IL
sleeps in the moonlight. Did you not tell
me to-day; that you never saw such beets
atia cabbage; such onions and squashes!
and shall we no, have potatoes for ourselves
and our neighbors; il we should only be SO
blessed as to have ahy2''
''Why, CARRIE said he, taking the soft
hand in his, that was putting back the hair
soothingly irum his forehead, 'sens would
think we had nothing but. blessings to hear
you tell the story"
''And am not done yeti think have
4 n;.,ss,.cd little home here in this clean,
sweet pleasant cas:.n.- LIN and the blessedest
good, kind husband in this aleas.s worid'
if he would not get the blues, and threaten
10 leave this beautiful land and go back to
New York every time the wind blows the
wrong way Aye. George. Don't get dis
couraged;' all will yet so 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 determin
ed to be blessed by everything; but women
folks don't have to suffer as men dos
Carrie smiled to herself, as she took her
babe again upon her breast, and remember
ed the hours of toll and trial through which
she had passed, of the nights of wearisome
watching and care, of the days OF ceaseless
exertions. often when scarcely able TO bear
the fatigue. But she did not feel to muir
mur. There was TO her Joy in being true
and earnest, in working out ones destiny
that made all the hours and days worth live
ing for. though there were here and there
as she looked over the past, dark shadows
over the billowy prairie, while the sun guild
~ IL IL
Long and earnestly they sat and chatted
at their humble door, and her gentle
words and kind encouragement lifted up his
heart, and he rose on the morrow and went
| forth TO his work with renewed resolution
TO conquer.
Let us skip over score of years. Do
you see that fine fourishing village, with q
railroad track coursing through its very GEN.
tre.. Do you see those fine brick school
houses with their belfries and clear sounding
bell, calling together the hundreds of chill
dren to teach them of the mysteries o. sci-
ence, and put into their hands that weapon
of defence and power for the fpture-a good
common educatione Do you see yon i'm
posing building in the distance, with its
massive walls and towering roof That is
college. Marx those church spires, that
point heavenward; listen to the hum of ma
.chinery, the mill and the factory, the hustle
of trade. Have you taken it all in!
Now look again. See you that Taron-
ly woman, upon whose brow forty summers
have scarcely left a foot print! The glossy
hair SHOWS no mingling of silver; the rose
has not faded from her cheek, though its bud
ding brightness has expanded into full
bloom, and the red at the heart was no
quite so deepi the voice is still soft, and tn
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