The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-29

ward listen 10 tne Huh VI MEtchiueIys VIC
mill and the factory; the hustle Of trade
Have you taken it all in? vi"
Now look again. See you that matronly
woman, upon whose brow forty summers
have scarcely left foot print? The glossy
hair shows no mingling Of silver the rose
has not faded from her check, though its
budding brightness has expanded into full
bloom, and the red at the heart was not
quite SO deep the voice is still soft and the
laugh silvery and cheerful.
'Don't get discouraged, George; all will
yet be right" -
Il ha,e not yet heard anything else but
'Don't get discouraged, George these twcn-
ty wears, Carrie; am tired Of it. Just think
what fix am in. now, after all my strns-
Cling
1T 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 to leave and 60 back to the old
haunts! What If the company should fail,
shall We be bankrupt Shall We complain,
il out of our abundance, in such time Of
trial as this, we lose with others.'
'Ycs, but,' said George, the influential
proprietor Of the town, the judge of the
county, the owner ahd the indwcller Of that
beautiful mansion, who held in possession
half the surrounding landscape, the rich rail-
road man and bank director, stopped short,
rs if he did not know what to say next.
'But what, George = asked his pleasant
wife laying her hand again upon his brow.
Il don't want you to say, Don't get dis
couragcd.''
'Tbcn don't give me occasion, my dear.
| pledge you will not. But really don't
sec why you should so much dislike the
phrase, for out of it has grown much Of the
success of your life.'
'And 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, will own up. That hopeful
heart ofyours has kept ne up through a
thousand misfortunes, when 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, a COW, and house
hold stuff in q cart, and ten dollars in a
purse, and looked over the lonely land
scape.'
Don't you remember how hard begged
your consent to turn round and plod back
how l even accused you of un-wifely diso-
bedicnce, and of setting up your will, when
you declared that you would rather make
bed of prairie grass or sleep in the old
cart, than to turn about SO faint hcarted?'
Yes, remember
Sand how sat down and growled in des-
pair, when the old oxen died:'
'Yes.'
'And when the tightening burned the hay
stack
'Yes.'
'And'-ani he looked up with a laugh Of
half shame-'when they located the railroad
through my farm?'
'Oh, George, George! one would suppose
you'd never have the blues again; for with
;sil these accidents, and they have been many,
were grievious Mt the time and hard to be
bornc, we have had so much of good luck
and prosperity, thus when look back over
the past, the misfortunes are so covered up
with blessings, that sec only Brightness and
beauty over all the way. So, 'Don't get
discouraged, George.'' And she stopped
again, and left her kiss upon his brow as Of
old.
And though he had lost his thousands,
though his heart was sore over treachery of
trusted friends, though his plans of future
speculation had to be abandoned, though his
bank had suspended, and his railroad oper-
ations IL dead loss-his heart rose from its
dependency, and seating himself by his
pleasant, vine covered window, in his old
arm chair, with his wife by hissside, he
bade Carrie, the second, open the piano, and
play an accompaniment, while he sang tho
following;
when the black ctercd list to the Gods prcsened,
is, ofwhat Fate for each mortal indends
At the long string of ills a kitd angel reented.
And cast in three blessing wife, children and friends
In vain sI,rly Pluto declared he was cheated,
That justice divine could not Compass his ends
The scheme of mans fall he maintained defeated.
And earth becomes heaven, with wife, children and
friends.
The stock o bliss when in strangers hand vested.
The fund Ill secured ,dt IN bankruptcy ends;
But the heart Issues bills that were never protested
When drawn on the Arm Of wife children aud friends
The storm cloud 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 few
days what he had, in his moments of despon-
dency, set down as an utterly bankrupt con-
cCrn.
There is many man who sinks down in
helpless dependency, for want Of apleasant
word and cheerful look: many a one, in time
of powerful pressure and misfortune, by
cold words of rcproach and murmurins, has
been driven from the paths of duty and hon
| csty, to crime, insanity, and even suicide ;
many one, too, by reckless and wild spec
ulation, by spurning all counsel and help
from her, who is compelled to be sufferer
in all his mistakes, has worn out a cheerful
and faithful heart, and brought upon him.
self the torture of a wailins and cruel spirit,
that goaded him through all his future years
"A spirit that might, had it been allowed to
sympathizc and cheer, have staid and
strengthened his steps through all the chan.
ging vicissitudes of life, snd gone with him,
in trusting faith and love, to the end Of
earth's pilgrimage, blessing and being bles.
sed.
In time of trouble, let wives be cheerful
and ready to bear their part Of the burthens,
and husband fail not to trust and honor them
with confidence and love.
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CT a Jerseyman writes: was over If
your eity-New York-the other day, anl
dropped in at gallery of dagucrrotypes.-