The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-08
!. . - elihpss Of Frontier Life.

GiyDden, has not been settled q wear.
yes they ;hareF aptnally raised money to
eatablish % 1:public library" A hun
dred doiiars' worth of books have al.
ready etRe, and frst on the list is 'sTal.
@aags'ssAbpminstiols of Modern 80.
cisty This 10 : good thing to have out
here ansl laynds4s gTheir ''sooie.y," con.
sistl4B B.as " does! !fof the most part, of
trapPetb ha4Eers,S fsAioou keepers and
6wsdish, seryant gitla, is in great danger.
The, place, being situated in the midst
pi g perfectly Hat prairie, receives broad
sidesu wind that are fearful from all
E1ifectt s1l ctt0hss Twas nearly blown from my
ieet IN trying to navigate among the
bulldlngs-l will not say streets. One
inexperienced, can hardly imagine the
terrible f"rco Of the wind that sweeps
over t'osa bleak prairies. Glyndcn needs
three seedlings moro than library. I'm
less thern ls IL break wind provided, Ii
ornry AMI n!l will some fue morning
awake 10 hul itself ten miles or 50
iooutn east VI It's present location. That
wouid. DO bad for town lots. unless they
conld go also. unl from tho way the
wind las blown lately, it looks as though
they oould.
La walking about the happy village OF
the plain, butting against the mcrciless
wind much as o madman would against
stubborn barh-door, I ohanced into tic
Office OF the Red Riuer Gazette, tho next
TO the last paper upon the frontier This
little journal. hanging upon the verge of
civilization. as it were, presents a very
credita ole appearance. The editor, his
wife and children do all the intellectual
and mechanical work. The print.shop
ls coy little structure Of Que room,
and answers for dwelling as well. In
one corner are the cases, in another the
cooking stove, table and dishes, in an
other the press, and in the other a bed.
in the middleis another stove. It takes
two stoves to have any effect on twenty
square feet of this climate.
The editor was not in, but his good
wife and one of his children were. Tho
wife Was writing editorials and making
pies, while the child kept up fires and
SGT type. 1t wac happy picture OF di-
versltied industry. BY way of introduc-
uon' bought few copies of the paper
nnd sat down before the fire, on an ink
keg. to thaw out my fingers.
"inis ls rather cold day." I OBJ.
served. aud, by-the way, this is the man,
~. ner always open conversation up here.
There Is no other way, unless man says
us dreadful cold. and that only applies
when the mercury is forty degrees below
zero or more
"Oh, don't know" she said as she
|'Iald down her manuscript. and took up e.
tnine5 pie, I'VE have been thinking it
Was quite pleasant. It is a great i'm.
proVement on tho weather we have had.
You were not here last month";" she
continued.
told her l was not, which accounted
for my being on hand in the flesh, as it
| were.
"oh, you wouldn't have frozen" !" she
replied, cheorfully, t'unless you had
been out in our terrible storm. That
| was awful. Human beings could not
stand it,"
"Were any frozen here2" asked.
'i~o. she replied. Right ont
there, (pointing out Of the first window,
we ionnd the body Of Mr. Christopher.
son after the storm"
$50 near this houee?"
"Yes. right there, with houses all
/ around them. But tho storm was 40
binding. the air so full of SHOW, that
mau could not sec more than ton feet.
dc had come in that morning with
load OF wood. bringing his two children.
When the storm approached, he started
back, although begged not to do SO,
leaving his children. He never reached
his Lome. although he lived out but
mile. All we know is that his dead body
was found right out there after the
storm. Mr.. Norris saw On object mov.
ing about on the snow, which hs thought
was q wolf, and started out with his gun
to shoot it. Getting closer, be saw i.
was dog, and near it the body of
frozen man. The faithful dog had
stayed with the body Of his master for
four days, through nll the storm, and had
paved AWAY tho snow from tho body as
fast as it fell. Tho poor man had got
lost, and wandered about, no telling
where, until at lust he died right in
town, and did not know it. His oxen
were found inbedded in snow drift,
nothing but their heads protruding.
They were not dead. but died afterwards.
The chain was carefully wrapped around
the yoke. Mr.. Christopherson had
given them chance to save themselves
when ho found that he was lost.
"The other case WAS that Of Mr.. james
Berry, who lived six miles of here. uo
had entered farm, a,l was preparing
homo for his widowed mother, who lives