The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-06-16
GAZETTE
AN INpErENpSNr JOURNAL,
DEVOTED TO HAWAIIAN PROGRESS
a wONAx's xxrxRlxScE IN NEBRASKA

n a VIVIAN , aaAA aAsAa@NN4 - lNaAAAANNAa
Twas O. = Jaauayy night that woman
sal alone IN cabin, which stood solitary
4 Upoa = Nebraska pvisrie-Slone, except for
the presence q a chli, a yeAr Ola, which
lsy Sslesp in rude cradle, warm and sat.
iSsed. unconscious Of want IS Of evil
1 She was awaiting the return Of her huS.
had. who bad ridden On horseback twenty
rai.es 70 the neANsS, town, 70 purchase a
I jag q u,o'&SseS and see If there were any
lessers for them in the PO~t-ofiee-
The noon shown down upon an endless
sxpsnSe Of snow, which had melted by day
and frOzen by night, until /, SG,tered like
one Vast lake OF Ice, and vas As hard
There was not cloud in the sky-the
moonlight was almost IS bright as day.
light; but keen wind went moaning.
shrinking srd how6ng over the endless
monotoay Of snow, IS If ST the invisible
spirits q we were let loose. There is
always $ wind on the Nebraska prairies,
Tue woman, who sat by table on which
! sing's lamp barred, and whose foo; was
On the rocker OF the cradle, rad for
awhile in one Of the hAltdOzen books
piled near At hand Bu, she had read
every word Of each volume 4 hundred
times, sud they could not vile her into
even : moneutary foryesfulpess Of the
wind sad snow-the haunting wind, the
binding snow. Just then bust Of air
shook the poor window as if determined
TO come tn-the door rattlei-the carpet
rose and fell and rose and fen aloug the
foor-and 5 hiiious concert Of walls,
slghS and scresns began in the chimney.
The woman put her fingers in her ears.
Ii the wind does not cease Some time,
1 shall 20 mad = she said, aud meant
what she said
There was lUll in the wild music, and
thenit began sgain-afar Of, faint, ghostly,
rushing ever nearer, until it broke over
the little cottonwood cabin in storm of
anger. Then there vas comparative 81
lence through which the nervous, long
suffering listener could hear steady, i'm
placable torce pressing, pressing against
the west end Of the house. She had heard
that dull wind pushing against her
home for days, weeks and months. twas
pressing against her brain, too, and yet
she could not get away from it; she had
10 reIsf-she endured torture.
She got up znd went TO the window.
There was nothing to look II but snow.
She had seen that until It was hateful to
her; she could not bear the sight Of It.
She hsd 10 ueighborS within the range
Of her vision; no fcrests-only an occa-
sionaI cottonwood tree 50 loaded down
with snow that II made no break in the /
p4lId landscape.
She had spoken to no one but her hus-
band sud her baby since some time in I
November, when she went TO the town
for some yarn to knit stockings for the lit
tie one.
The no1otony was terrible, and becom-
ing danger6as- In the daytime her hus-
band, except On Sundays, was out st work,
cutting wood for the fire sud attending to
odd trifss about the prairie farm, which
be had preempted
Their food was bread, molasses and
coffee without milk It was always the
same thst winter, with but few excep-
tons, when some Wild creature came in
the way Of the mans gun. They had no
COW, and butter vas not TO Be had, for
Ouahs then was : city Of canvas houses.
They hzd no money to buy the seant lux
uriss which the new town afforded. It
lad cost them their last dollar to immi-
CRATE and to set Up their cabin They
had arrived too l1te IN the summer to
raise crop on the unbroken land-they
had not even potatoes
The woman was pretty and young. She /
hzd been reared In I comfortable Eastern
home, a1d been the pet and PRIDE OF we'll
TODD parents; she knew something about
music, could chatter French, and hzd been
to large circle Of friends, 5
Injurious table and two new six dresses !
year. She had married clerk, and lived
n New York clearinghouse for two
years thereafter, aud her baby vas born
there Her Charlie had lost his situa-
ion, and s7ue enthusi1st-it may have
been some specuIator-hzd painted the :
charms Of Western life, the certainly of
speedy riches, the blessing of having
none Of his own Charlie had repeated I
he glowing sketch to bis young wife, who
I'D consented, for his sake, TO leave {
friends. city lie, old associations, every
hing but Charlie snd the baby, and ego l
West With him
Tie sale Of soma Of their snail posses {
ions, the piano among other things, had l
-iven them means for the journey. They i
lad selected their farm, built their shauty,
eautiIy furnished With articles which they
l1d brought With them. and we're nov