Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-13

A young woman day riding with two little boys in the same car with me. Her tired and discouraged manner moved my sympathy. At first talked with her boys, and then to her and said they soon would be men, and be support and comfort to her. To this she replied: ''Yes, and I have two girls" That is better yet" said I. "With your four children, it will not be long before you will have all the help you need" With 8 half sad assent, she added, II have five dead" She went on to say that she had mar ried at sixteen, had come there and lived in dug out'' ever since. She had had nine children, and was only thirty one years old. She had worked out of doors and ln the house and, as she said, ''had an awful hard time." She said her husband was a good man and
 helped her all he could, but he had to work hard, too. When the farm was fenced they were to get better house. With an evident desire to leave better impression on my mind, she said ''We never suffer for any thing. We always have all the milk and cream we want. We raise great many chickens, and we never sell one, and chickens are good whether you roast lem or stew 'em or broil em and the broth is good for chil- dren, D to all of which I assented as far as | food was concerned. But the worn soul that ! looked out from the discouraged eyes of this woman, old before her time, told how greatly ! she needed the things that do not perish with the using. She was representative of many 1 others.
 l At one place we found comedy young l woman, a college graduate, with two small children, cooking for eighteen men, besides | those who came as transient travellers She l had but two rooms below and two apove. She 1 did the family sewing, was county superln' i tendent of schools, and with brave courage | looked for better times.
 Another young woman, also college grad uate was established in sod house, sever ! miles from any other dwelling. She llneo I the whole with white cotton cloth, put ln hel ! piano, and kept up her studies, and this year l seven years from the time she first took uI ! her abode there, she attended the teachers 1 institute of her county, and was the soul of It l She presided at the organ, made speeches
 and good ones, and kept her children Wltt
 her, as she had no one with whom to leave ! them. Nebraska is dotted all over with sucf I women. In spite of drawbacks which those ! in older States cannot comprehend, these
 women are planting the finest civlll zatlon IT
 the far West.
 There is a great deal of wealth in Nebras ka, farms, cattle, sheep, horses and hogs | There are fine houses in the cities, but not l "Queen Anne'' anywhere. The sod houses
 in the Swede settlements, have shlngied roof
 and brick chimneys. Elsewhere these house
 are alI of sod piled up solid, and they ar' said to be warm in winter and cool ln sum mer. Most of the houses back on the prairie ! are small, with one or two rooms. You vii pass hundred houses Of one story, with n'
 possibility of chambers, to one With ever ! attic room. In every settlement there IS l school house and one or more churches, wltl l as fine intelligent men and women as yo' i will find anywhere. They are trying to settl 1 the question whether men shall continue u govern women without their consent. Tn , l motto of Nebraska is 'Equality before law. l On November 7th we shall see whether tn 1 men of that State can make that motto fact