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Show V All Throuqh Life's Journey.... I egan to walk the floor of the t car from one end to the other, looking through window and door. They told me if he was left he would come on the next train. But I was afraid the Indians had got him, for he had the money, tickets and our valuables on his person. Finally 1 stood by the door. I suddenly jerked it when I crossed the platform to the other car. I paused in the doorway for slowly coming through the car was my husband. He looked sick and felt blue. He had lost everything he had fore we left New York. Travelling was very slow at that time. Baggage Bag-gage and everything the emigrants emigr-ants had was on the same train for the west. One day when the train came to a stop, the children sitting by the ! window screamed, and came run- j ning over behind Mary and me. On looking out, a sight met our eyes. "It's Indians!" was shouted through the car. Yes, there they were, all in their bright - colored trimmings, some with a crown of feathers around their heads, others with feathers from their foreheads down their backs. It was a beautiful sight, though our children were peeping from behind our skirts. The men piled out at every stop to see what was going on and also to get food for the family. My husband went for food. After the train had been going for some time, and he didn't show up, I sent Rasmus through the cars. He came back without him. I knew not what to think, so (This is the fifth installment of the life story of Mrs. Cecilie Sven-I Sven-I ning Skeem, early Oasis settler, j who died in 1920. In preceding j parts she has told of her early I life in Denmark, which was both happy and sad, her father's death her .short schooling, and her engagement en-gagement to an apprenticed wea-! wea-! ver. After three years, they were ; wed, and did well in the weaver's i trade. Children were born, and the ! family prospered. Later the fam-! fam-! ily was converted to the LDS church, chur-ch, and resolved to sail for Amer-! Amer-! ica, and come to Utah. The story ended last week, with the birth of a baby girl to the couple just before their ship docked in New York, July, 1880. The baby was 1 named Atlantic Wisconsin, for the ocean and the ship they sailed on.) : Mary Karen took care of me. i Everything went fine until we reached New York. Our husbands and children had to leave us on the ship.Anything else would have i been better than that. When the emigrants had all marched off the ship, the sailors unloaded and cleaned and scrubbed for three days. Our cabin being on the end where everything had to be thrown thr-own off the plank, it seemed like it all had to be bumped against our cabin. There was great hammering, ham-mering, pushing, shouting and yelling. yel-ling. Mary Karen got so mad at times she could hardly control herself. I thought at times we : would go crazy. One day she was carrying a j bucket of water in when some-: some-: one bumped into her and tipped over her bucket. She came in fur-' fur-' ious and scolded me for leading i i her into such a hell.. My temper ! j rose and hot words followed. We w were sullen and subdued for hours When Mary said she was sorry, I readily forgave her. We had been unhappey over it long enough. en-ough. Things were dangerous. We only had a few hours of peace toward morning. I was so dizzy at times I couldn't see straight. stra-ight. The third day I told Mary the racket had given me such a headache everything was swimming swim-ming before my eyes. She sent for the doctor and he gave me something that put me to sleep. He was the only one allowed to come on the ship those days. He informed my husband I was alright. al-right. When at last things became quiet, I listened patiently for foot-steys foot-steys At last the door opened, and may husband came in. I raised rais-ed up and reached out my arms to him, crying out, "Hans, Hans, you never looke dbetter to me in your life." I loved him so. He told me the children were fine. I was happy again for I had worried a lot over them. I loved them all better than anything any-thing else in life. "May I see them soon," I asekd "Yes" he replied. re-plied. "I will be back in a little while and have you removed to the train where we shall have one end of the car to ourselves." So they carried me to a bed on the train where Mary and I were again united with our loved ones. I thouht New York was an adventurer's heaven.' That first glimpse I had of it was so different diff-erent from Copenhagen. It was indeed new with the trains running run-ning up over the streets. The children were so excited in telling me what they had seen they all talked at once. I improved improv-ed wonderfully fast after being moved. I sat up in a chair be- |