The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-05-21
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.

SHs '1oi h'' diSSCaA htSAi
said sweet Carrie Linton, as she stood by
her hus bands side one bright moonlight
summer evening. II know tho season
has been hard, and we have had trial
upon trial; bu, we have had many bles-
sings, too
Il should like to know what you call bles
sings, said the moody husband, his head
upon his hand, and his chair tilted back
against the log cabin. Here we have
been toiling and toling for the past year
and,a-half, on this bleak, miserable prai-
re, net hill in sight, aud the wind
sweeping Us ten months in the year like
tornatoes. Last year must have the
ague. 80 that / could not tend to my corn
snd The drought spoiled my wheat
"Oh, well, George, these things may
never happen again.'
know, that's the way You reason
So you said last year, that luck would
change, and kept saying, Don't get dis
outraged If it hadn't been for you, d
have quit last fall, and gone back to old
Ourida
AID what would you have done
there, GEORGE"
"pot.a darn'd sight better then II
ever do here, in this heather country T.
was the petti,h and almost profane reply
Of the young farmer. who had sought &
home for himself aud wife on the prairie:
Of Illinois, in the year Is.
Carrie Was burt A tear sprang te
her eve aud a quick throb to her heart
but she knew his mood might change
and knew, too, that were she to sPcai
one lcsryndtnG word, he would give uE
utterly, aud insist upon returning agar
to the hsunts of his chill hnod, where hi'
situation would only be that Of common
Iaborcr She checked the rising emotion
aal ayaia answered with 4 tone Of cheer
! fui encouragement aad mid reproof:
Ooh. don't speak SO, George. kno"
we have not been very successful; ba
then we are settling in new country
and beginning 4 new life. We utas
struggle aud not give up. After teV
/ years, our locust trees will break th'
wind, and the loss OF one planting 0
! cora or wheat, | hope, will not prostrat
u as it does now.
:" But how am | ever to get where
can help myself Corn sPo'led, whea
/ bligh,ed, and the COW lost on the prsiries
the wolves have killed my sheep, an
now my bes. cow II ust die. You talk 0
blessings. but dou's, and am deter
+, mined t. sci. out to the first white ma)
that will take it, and then quit the conn
try"
"Is this not blessng?' she asked
laying growing baby, the very image q
his father, into his arms.
The father smiled family his hear
was really sad. The harishIps, trials
and deprivations Of new country ~er
more than he could bear, but with hi
| fain, smile came a low Acknowledgment
"Yes, Carrie, Dick is blessing -
"And is not Carrie blessing ST.
added, as she left warm kiss Of atiectlo
upon his brow.
"Aye, and Carrie iss blessing, vi
his response in lightencd tono.
Aud is not good health blessing
"Yes, suppose SO, = said he almo'
laughing =,
aAnd il not this soft, cool air, th
mellow moonlight, aud the star spangie
heavens, blessing =
"Of course
!. See our beautiful gsrden--how eottl
il sleeps in the moonlight. Did you NJ
tell me the other day, that you never "a
auch bee,s and cabbage, such onions an
sonashes !? aud shall We not have potato
for ourselves aud neighbors, II We shouj
bo SO blessed as to have any r
"Why, Carrie" said he, taking Il
soft hand in his that was putting oae
the hair suloothingly from his forehsa'
.sone would think We had nothing b'
blessings. to hear you tell tho story.
"And am not done yet: thihk
have a blessed little home here In th
o,eon sweet, pleasant cabin, and II
blesscdest, good, kind husband IN tn
nlaasant world. If lie voulo not get II
hines. and threaten to leave this oeao'
ful land and 20 back 10 New York eve
{ time the Wind blo-s the wrong way
. Ave- George sdont get discouraged ];
! IN vet 90 well, and we shall yet Die
. The dsy that we stuck our stakes on i
nNen. I suppose ] shall have to 81
xbe,her il is best or not, you are dels
mined to be blessed by everything, D
woman folks don't have to suaer ever
J thing es men do" :.
Carrie smiled to herself, as she to-
!. her babe again upon her breast, and
/. membered the hours of toll and tf
. through which she had passed, OF :
!. nights ofveprisome Watching 'na oars'
the days Of cesseless exesston' oi.on "n
), barely able to endure fatigue hus .