Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-15
From Emory's Journal Of Agriculture
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.

BY MRS. ?. D. GAGE.
"Oh, George, don't get discouraged" said |
sweet Carrie Linton, as she stood by her hus-
bands side, one bright moonlight summer eve
ming. a know the season has been hard, and
we have had trial upon trial but We have had
many blessings, too
g should like to know what YOU call bless
ings," said the moody husband, his head upon
his hand, and his chair tilted back against the
log cabin.
Here we have been toiling and moiing for
the last year and half, on this bleak, misera.-
be prairie, not a hill in sight, and the winds
sweeping US ten months in the year, like tona-
does. Last wear | must have the ague, so that
l could EOt tend my crops, and this year the
spring frost must kill all my corn, and then the
drouth spoiled all my wheat
Oh, well, George, these things may never
happen again"
=" 1 know, that's the way you always reason.
So you said last year, that luck would change,
and KEEP. SAYING, Don't get discouraged If
it hadn't been for you. IA have quit last fall,
and gone back to old Oneida
" And what would you have done there,
Georgel"
Done 4 darned sight better than I'll ever 10
here in this heather country ~ was the pet
tish and almost profane reply Of the young
farmer who had sought a home for himself
and his wife on the prairies Of Illinois, in the
year Is
Carrie was hurt. A tear sprang 10 her eye
and O quicker throb TO her heart but she knew
his mood might be changed, and she knew too,
that were she to speak one desponding word,
he would give up utterly, and insist upon re
turning again to the haunts Of his childhood,
where his situation would only be that Of
common labOrer. So she checked the rising
emotion, and again answered with a tone
OF cheerful encouragement and mild reproOl-
Oh, don't speak 50, George. l know we
have not been very succes ssfUl, but then We are
settling in 4 new country, and beginning a new
/ life We must struggle on and not give up
/ After a few yeaIs, eur locust trees will break
the wind. and the loss Of one planting Of corn
or wheat, hope will not PROSTATE 4
does now"
! But how am l ever to get where l can help
myself Com spoiled, wheat blighted, and the
COW lost in the prairics the wolves have killed
my sheep, and now my best COW must de
You may talk Of dressings, but don't, and
I'm determined TO cell ont to the first white
man that will take l., and then quit the coun.
try"
{" Is not this blessing 2" she asked, laying
growing baby boy, the very image OF hi
father, into his arms.
The father smiled family; his heart was re
ally sad. The harlships, trials, and depriva
tions OF a new country were more than he coul,
bear; but with his faint smile came low &C
knOwedgment-
:. Yes, Carrie, Dick is a blessing"
" And is not Carrie q blessing - she added
as she left the warm kiss of affection upon hi
brow.
AYE, and Carrie is a blessing" was his re
sponse in lightened tone.
"And is not good health blessing i'
Yes, l suppose So said he, almost laugh
?'And is not this soft, cool air, this mellow
moonlight, and the star-spangled heavens,
blessing z"
"Ofcourse"
.s See our beautiful garden; how softly
sleeps in the moonlight. Did you not tell ID
TO-DAY. that YOU never saw such beels and cab
bage, such onions aud squashesl and shall W
, no: have potatoes for ourselves and our neigh
b0rs, if we should only be so blessed as TO hav
any!'
, "Why, Carrie" said he, taking the soft han
= in his, that was putting back the hair, soothing
" from his forehead, " one would think we ha
had nothing but blessings, to hear you tell th
= story"
e And l am not done yet; I think have
j. blessed little home here in this clean, swee
pleasant cabin, and the blessedest good, kin
husband in this pleasant world, if he would N
e get the blues, and threaten TO leave this beaut
d ful land and 20 back to New York every tin
the wind blows the wrong way. Aye, Geory
Don't get discouraged all viii yet 60 well, al
we shall bless the day that we stuck our stak'
on the prairie
"Weli, l suppose shall have to stay, wheih
It is best or not, you are so determined 10
? blessed by everything; but women folks don
have TO suffer as men do"
Carrie smiled 10 herself, as she took her bal
again upon her breast, and remembered the hOu
of toll and trial through which she had Passe
= Of the nights of wearisome ySatchlng and care,
the DAYS of ceaseless sxertions, often wh'
ie scarcely able TO bear the fatigue. But she d
Is not feel to nurmur. There was to her JOY
=. duty, in being true and earnest in working o.
= ones destiny, that made all the hours and da'
worth living for, though there were here Al
e. there, as she looked over the past dark SHADOW
9 fitting to and fro like the cloud shades over q
30 billowy prairie, while the sun guided all the re
4 with brightness.
Long and earnestly they sat and chatted
Is their neighbors door, and her gentle words Al
Y kind encouragement lifted up mis- heart, and
N rose on the morrow and went forth to his wo
with a renewed resolution 10 struggle and
conquer.
ie Letu skip over score Of years. Do you s
that fine fOurishing village, with raiiro
IN track coursing through its very centre! Do "
IN see those fine brick schOolhouses with their b;
D. fries and clear sounding bells, calling togeth
le the hundreds of children, TO teach them Of q
ID mysteries Of science, and put into their hani
G. that weapon Of defence and power for the iutu
T. "A good common school education Do y
- see yon imposing building in the distance, wi
n its massive walls and towering roof! That IS
n college Mark those church spires, that POI
l. heavenward; listen TO the hum OF maehiner
a the mill and the factory, the hustle Of trade
DO Have you taken it all in
nj Now look again See you that matlon
lie woman, upon whose brow forty summers ha'
J. scarcely left foot printl The glossy bar sh oV
he no mingling of silver; the rose has not lad
On from her cheek, though Its budding bnghtne
h has expanded into full bloom, and the red
on the heart was not quite so deep; the voice
he still soft, and the laugh silvey aud cheerful
ng "Dont get discouraged, George all Will y