The Nevada picayune., 1885-03-05

only thing that looked a bit home like, except nue." she added, with a proud glance through the tiny west window. "You ought to have seen the time we haa to make lem grow at first. They was hemesick I guess, like us. But now they're happy an contented, like us."
 "You found it hard, then, to |2eavs your home and settle in Da. kota!" I asked.
 "Hard! 1 was that hOmesick the first few months I came near dyin' |af it. It all come about from that we named our place the Hitherto Claim Mehbe you wouldn't mind hearin' about it, if you ain't ill g aurry. I'll get my work, aE' you set there an rest"
 settled myself in the ample rocker, with such sense of com fort as I had net known since l had been settler.
 "YOu see twas a year'n more ago, a year in April, that we came out here. Things had got pretty dall in JohnsOnville lle-that's whsre we lived. Want any business goin' on, an Reuben was out O work months at tine. He worked in a wagon factory, Reuben did, an a master hand he was at it, toe, if I do say it." Another glance to. ward the corn-held, where could see brOad-saouldered, middle-ag- ed man at work
 "we'd heard of the 'Isakota fev. er,' but nobody from our place had gone, an Reuben used to read ev. erything he could find about Dako' ta, for he'd lots of siihe, bcin' out Q work, an one day he says to me: Sarah says he, don't you think weN better go to Dakota an take a claimr We'll, I was so upset at the thought O leaving Johnson' vile, where I'd been brought up, an where my folks all lived, that just couldn't answer &s first, but at last 1 see how much better 'twould be tor us to go somewhere, times bein' so har.l there, so l said, brave as I could: Yes, Reu ben, if you say so,' hopip' all the time he'd change his mind; but he didp't, an so l got ready.
 1t was hard, though and the coarse sewing dropped from her fingers, as she wiped her eyes on a corner of her green gingham apron; lit was hard, for besides leavin' my father an mother an sisters, Reuben an had laid in JOhnson- vi,le Cemetery the only child We ever had. Well, we come out here an it was worse'n I'd any idea of. We brought all the money we had an we knew we couldn't make it last much longer'n fall, when we calculated on good crops to keep us through the winter. Of course we laid by the s200 to pay for sse claim st the end O the six months it being apreemption. But thecrops ddr't any ways come up to what we'd calculated on. Twas hot an the potato, bugs come, an the cab bage- worms, an the golheds, an rabbits, an everything that could come, So we see from the first we'd got to be savings possible We'll, tgat was & terrible summer, an homesick! Why, it did seems if I'd die, an sometimes 1 didRi care if 1 should. I was sure we'd got entirely beyond the Lords care an He'd forgotten all about us. l got cross an sick, an helpless. But my! I didn't say much about it to Reuben, for once in a while he'd say: Sarah, we aia,t got beyond the Lords providence yet. Remem' Der that mottp.' But like'o not l wouldn't answer, I was so home sick and discouraged about haNin' to live go. Ite motto he spoke o' yes one te'd bought just before we came arsy from home: it was cardboard one, an l worked it in shaded red worsted, pice as could be. Ii said: Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.'
 T knew what Reuben meant Thefp Thefp he told me ,to remember thHt mot to, but he was so patient an kind that I couldn't bear to tell him thai it didn't mean much to me those long days. H's wonderful goo d man, Reuben is, but it just seemed to me the Lord had forgotten all