Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-14

"Only have three seasons spring,
summer and early fall
He was Dakota pioneer and lived,
as he said, fifty miles from any place."
What do you do for doctor when
you're sick?"
Never sick"
"But you can't help it sometimes, can
your"
Certainly. 'Tain't possible. We won't
get sick, and there's no two ways
about it.
"How far is it to your nearest neigh
bor's?"
Fifty miles"
You don't have much society, then,
do your"
"Don't need it. There's five of us
mother'n me n the the kids. That's So
ciety enough. amt it?''
How far must you go to church,
"Have it right in the shack every Sun
day. Got an organette, Joe has, and he
turns crank and grinds any hymn you
ever heard tell of just as nice as you
please. Then Marthy and all the rest of
us sing, then read something from the
Bible, then we sing again, an pray-an'
church is out"
There was something pathetic in this,
and it went to my heart.
"How about cIops?"
"They're big, tell you-that is,when
we get 'em. Three years ago l had ev-
cry promise of splendid crop. Had
lots of snow that winter-ground was
plenty wet an the wheat was loOkin'
fine when, all at once. we had hot
south wind that burnt everythin' up
slick an clean"
"And the next year?"
"Things looked just as promisin'.-
Wheat was waist high, yeller as gold,
an / was goin' to cut it in a few days,
when along came a hailstorm an beat
the whole field down."
"Then the oext YEAR,"
"Got nipped by the frost"
"And the next?"
That's this year, stranger, and just
look at the wheat around We. Nothing
could be finer than the outlook. Guess
I'll have good crop this year, but if l
don't" He paused.
"Well?"
swell, if DON'T" he said, with a
quiet smile, "I'l mortgage my horses
to get seed an try again. It'll be
be hard pinchin', but didn't have any
thing when came here, and I'll stick
to the country as long as l can live in
it. A man can't have hard luck always,
you know. Things are bound to turn.
It's long lane that hasn't crook some
where"
wrung his hand warmly and rode
away.
BEECHER's GREAT DREAD.
Mrs. Beecher, in the April Ladies' Home Journal.
Mr.. Beecher thus devoted his vaca-
tions in part to lecturing for the pur-
pose of paying for the building of his
summer home. He wanted it free from
dobt, because he wished in his later days
to have it as permanent home where
he could rest when he ceased to preach.
He was accustomed to say that he would
retire from the pulpit at 20 years of age.
His fathers mental failure during the
few last years of his life caused Mr..
Beecher great sorrow, not only for his
fathers sake, but also anxiety for him
self lest the same calamity should be-
fall him; and while speaking very sell
dom of 1.-THE determined-if spared from
that calamity until he was 70-that he
would resign his charge of Plymouth
Church and retire to the farm.
1t was not like Mr.. Beecher to borrow
trouble, but this fear he subdued often
with great difficulty. ]
Not many months before DR.. Lyman
Beecher's death he came to dine with US.
In both words and acts his mental fail
ure was more apparent than had ever
seen it, and 1 saw that Henry was deep
ly grieved by it. After dinner walked
home with his father. When returned
Mr.. Beecher was lying on the sofa look
ing very sad. L knelt by his side in
quiring for the reason.
81 have been thinking of father, and
praying that if God should see best to
bring me so low he would give me
strength to bear it. 1 can think of no
other cross he may lay upon me that
could not say from my heart, THY will
be done But this-this 1 could not!-
could not!'