Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

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ems, a blessings" a e. .--a. -
"Of course" a
"See our beautiful garden; how softly
sleeps in the moonlight. Did not you tel
me to-day, that you never saw such beet
and cabbage, such onions and squashes
and shall we not have potatoes for ourselve
and our neighbors, if we should only be 81
blessed as to have any
"Why, Carrie" said he, taking the sof
hand in his, that was putting back the bai
soothipgly from his forehead, lone woult
think we had nothing but blessings, t.
hear you tell the story"
"And l am not done yet; / think
have blessed little home here in this clean
sweet, pleasant cabin, and the blessedes
good, kind husband in this pleasant world
if be would not get the blues, and threaten
to leave this beautiful land and 90 back tt
New York every time the wind blows The
wrong way. Aye, George, Don't get dis
couraged;' all will yet go well, and We
shall bless the day that We stuck our stake.
OH the prairie"
"Well, fsuppose shall have to stay
whether it is best or not, you are SO deter
mined to be blessed by everything; bu'
women folks don't have to suffer as mel
do"
Carrie smiled to herself as she took hel
babe again upon her brest, 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 beal
the fatig de. Bat she did not feel to mur.
mur. There was to her joy in duty, in
being true and earnest in working out ones
destiny, that made all the hours and days
worth living for, though there were here
and there, as she looked over the past
dark shadows fitting to and fro like the
cloud shades verthe bllowy prairie, while
the sun guided all the rest with bright
ness. -
Long and earnestly they sat and chatted
at their neighbors 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 res
olution to struggle and to conquer.
Let US skip over score of wears. Do
you see that fine four,shing village, with
a railroad track ceursing through its very
centre? Do You see those fine brick school
houses with their belfries and clear-sound-
ing bells, calling together the hundreds q
children, to teach them of the mysteries Of
science, and put into their hands the weap-
on of defence and power for the future-a
good common school education? Do you
see yon imposing building in the distance,
with its massive wall and towering roof
That is college. Mark those church spires
that point heavenward; listen to the 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 foot print! The
glossy hair shows no mingling of silver
the rose has not faded from her cheek, tho
its budding brightness has expanded into
full bloom, and the red at the heart was
not quite so deep; the voice is still soft,
aud the laugh silvery and cheerful.
don't get discouraged, George; all will
vet come out right"
81 have not heard anything else but Don't
get discouraged, George these twenty
years, Carrie; am tired of it. Just think
whata fix am in now after all my strug-
Cling" -a-sss r -ss
at is 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 feel so, and
threaten 10 leave and go back 10 the old
haunts? 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 rs this, we lose with others q
"Yes, but said George, the influential
proprietor of the town, the judge of the
county, the owner and indweller of that
beautiful mansion, who held in possession
half the surrounding landscape, the rich
railroad man, and bank director stopped
short, as if he did not know what to say
next.
"But what, Georgew asked his pleas
ant wife, laying her hand again upon his
brow. sos.
81 don't want you to say, Don't get dis
couraged." s'f
"Then don't give me occasion, my dear.
pledge you will not. But really don't
see why YOU should so much dislike the
phrase, for out of it has grown much of the
success of your life.
sand that is the very reason, Carrie
Man, when he gets the blues, don't love to
be reminded of his own weakness. But
really, Carrie, l will own up. That hope
full heart of yours has kept me up through
thousand misfortunes, when have sunk
down in dispair, and let the waves roll over
me. l felt this morning about as gloomy
as did when we ira yeled here on the prairie
with one yoke of oxen, COW, and house
hold stuff in cart and ten dollars in a
purse, and looked over the lonely landscape.
"Do you remember how hard l begged
your consent to turn round and plod back
how even accused you of unwifely DISC
bedience, and of setting up your will, when
you declared you would rather make bed
of prairie grass, or sleep in the old cart
than 10 turn about so faint hearted!"
"Yes, l remember it all" asltes
"And how sat down and growled in
despair, when the old OK dieds" ae..I
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