Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-11-21
Gnnr West.

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Scarcely a day passes, in which we do
not see covered wagons, singly, and in
trains, passing through our streets. fill.
ed with people of all ages, from the child
in its mothers arms, to the grey-haired
grand parents, all moving towards the
setting sun All the eastern and ives
tern thorughfares, the railroad cars, and
STEAMBOATS,, present the same sight. So
great has been The immigration from the
older states within the last few years,
that there has been little if any increase
in the population. Ohio is no exception,
norris Trumbull County. Our whole pop
u alton are afflicted with the western fe-
yer. 1t is not confined to the Young and
unmarried, but the middle aged and the
old, all share it. To those who are suf-
fering from an attack, We commend the
following sensible advice, from Life H.
Illustrated.
4 STAY WHERE You ARE.--In the West
we have met with persons Possessed for a
mania of clearing land. As long as their
farm afford unlimited opportunities for
choppIng down huge trees and burning
up huge logs, they cork away with the
aIdor of passion /; but the they
have made their farms tillable and their
houses inhabitable, they take no further
interest in them whatever, and are eager
to sell out and plunge deeper into the
woOdstoply again the axe and the brand.
Thus the country is cleared rapidly but
the blood of the people is fevered, and
the passion for change continues after the
good done by it has been accomplished.
Then necessity foI a rapid clearing of
land has ceased. We have cleared fas-
ter than we have appropriated. The
Eastern and Middle States present an ex-
panse, almost unbroken, of half cultiva
ted land, dotted with attractive homes.
A large number-probably a majority
OF those who occupy those homes are, at
least, willing, if they are not DESTROYS, TO
sell their farms and try their fortune in
a newer legion. They know that the
burden oflile is heavy to be borne where
they are they hope it will be lighter
somewhere else. They forget that The
life of no honest man is easy. They omit
from THEN calculations all the unseen
and spiritual advantages OF a permanent
residence. They overlook the fact that
the real nutriment of a tree or man flows
IN from the minute tendrils of the root.
scarcely visible TO the eve, which. a re-
moval rudely tears away. They have
neglected 10 make their homes charming,
by planting the ornamental shrub. the
Shading tree. the beautiful flower. They
have not enlisted in lheir corps of coop.
orators the next to o~mnipotent aid Offset
ence nor bound themselves to the fields
they till by the interest of varied, intelli-
gent Experiment. They do not know that
new lands, though they give a large in
crease, yet draw large tribute from he
men who go TO live upon them. The
forest and the prairie do not yield with
out a struggle, nor without impartins
some OF their wildness 10 their conquerors.
1t is a game oil Give and Take between
civilized man and wild nature.
To most of men oven twenty-five years
of age, who have good footing upon their
native soil, we believe the advice is good.
Stay Hhere you are. and determine to
stay as long as life lasts /! P~ersevering
toll, guided by IA thinking head and emo,
bled by a worthy purpose, wiH reduce
the NOR gage by degrees, and beautify
the old home and %fertiiize the sterile field.
and drain the TOO fertile marsh, and con
vert stone into stone fence, and make
the farm the pride Of the township and
the delight OF It's owner. Stay where
you are, and Try il There are those who
should remove-the young, the strong,
the ~uncaniialed, the one too many in a
But, i possible, such should Ie-
move but once. seeking not a stopping
place, but a permanent home in which,
and around which, all is best in their tina
may gather and centre.