The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-29
From Emery. Journal Of Agriculture
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.

From Emcry'' Journal Of Agriculture
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
BY MRS. F. D. GAGE.
ooh, George, don't get discouraged,' 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 trial upon trial but we
have had many blessings, too.'
Il should like to know what you call bless
ings,' said the moody husband, his head up
on his hand, and his chair tilted back against
the log cabin.
'llerc We have been toilinr and toling for
the past year and half, on this bleak, mis-
erablc prairie, not Il hill in sight, and the
winds sweeping US ten months in the year,
like tornadoes. Last year must have the
aguc, Sc that could not tend to my corn,
and the drouth spoiled my wheat
'Oh, well, George, these things may never
happen again
Il know, that's the way you always rea
son. SO you said last year, that luck would
change and kept saying, Don't get discour-
a.eJ.' If it hadn't been for you, I'd have
quit last fall, and gone back to old Oneida
'Anl what would you have done there,
Georgc!'
Done darned sight better than III ever
do here, in this heather country!' was the
pcttish and almost profane reply of the
Young farmer who had sought home for
himself and wife on the prairies Of Illinois,
in the year IS
Carrie was hurt. \ tear sprang to her
! eve and q quicker throb to her heart, but she
knew his mood light be changed. and knew,
too, that were she to speak one dc>pondng
word, he would give up utterly, and insist
upon returning again to the haunts Of his
childhood, where his situation would onl Y
be that of ii common laborer. She checked
the rising emotion, and again answered with
tone Of cheerful encouragement and mild
ieprooI
/ .Uh, don't speak so, George. know We
have not been very successful, but then we
are settling in new country. and beginning
Il new life. We must struggle on and not
give up. After a few years. our locust trees
/ will break the wind, and the loss of one
planting uf corn or wheat, hope will not
PROSTATE US as it does now
| 'But how am | ever to get where can
help myself? Corn spoiled, wheat blighted,
and tn COW lost in the prairics the wolves
have He'd my sheep, and now my best COW
must die. You talk Of Blessings, but |
don't, and I'm determined to sell out to the
first white man that will take it, and then
quit the country
'ls not this blcssing?' she asked, laying
a Growing baby boy, the very image his
father, into his arms.
! The father smiled family: his heart was
really sad. The hardships, trials, and depri-
vationS Of a new country were more than he
could bear, but with his faint smile came !.
low acknowledgements.
'Ycs, Carrie, Dick is blcssing.'
Sand is not Carrie 4 blessinS?' she added,
as she left warm kiss Of affection upon bis
brow.
'Aye, and Carrie is blessing was his
respoucc in n lghtened tone.
'And is not good health blessins'
'Yes, suppose so,' said he, almost laugh
ing.
'And is not this soft, cool air, this mellow
moonlight, and the tar-spangled heavens, a
blessing?'
'Of course
'See our beautiful garden; how softly it
sleeps in the moonlight. Did you not tell
me the other day, that you never saw such
beots and cabbage, such onions and squash
es and shall VIC not have potatoes for our
selves and our neighbors, if we sho.ld be SO
blessed as to have anyS'
! 'Whv, Carrie said he, taking the soft
hand in his that was putting back the hair
smoo,hingly from his forehead, zone would
think we had nothing but blessings, to hear
yon tell the story.
'And am not done yet think have a
blessed little home here in this clean, sweet,
pleasant cabin, and the blcssedest z good, kind
husband in this pleasant world, it he would
not get the blues. and threaten to leave this
beautiful land and go back to New York ev.
cry time the wind blows he wrong way
Aye, George, Don't get discouraged > all
will yet go well, and we shall yet bless
the day that We stuck our stakes on the prai-
re.'
'Well, I suppose shall have to stay
whether it is the best or not, you are deter.
mined to be blessed by everything, bu,
women folks don't have to suffer as mer
do
Carrie smiled to herself, as she took he,
babe again upon her breast, and remembered
the hours of toll and trial through which sh,
hadpasscd, Of the nights Of wear:somc watch
ing and care, of the days Of ccaselcss cxcr
ton, often when barely able to bear fatigue
But she did not feel to murmur. There wa.
to her joy in duty, in being true and car.
nest, in working out ones destiny, that made
all tho hours aud days worth living for
though there were here and there, as sht
looked over thc, past, dark shadows fi,tin:
to and fro like the cloud shades over the bill
Iowy prairie, while the sun guided all th,
rest with brightness.
Long and earnestly they sat and chattes
at their cabin door, and her gentle word
and kind encouragement lifted up his hear
and he rose on the morrow and went forts
to struggle and 20 conquer. -.. .. II
/. Let Us skip over score Of years. D,
you see that fine aourishing village, with
railrond track coursing through it's centre
DO you sec these fine brick schoolhouses wit
their beifrics ard clear sounding bells, call
ing together the hundreds Of children, t.
teash them Of the mysteries Of science, an
: put into their hands that weapon Of defenc
t aud power for the futuEs---a common sehec