Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-08
For the Gazette.
DiaIoGue--IIusband and
Wife.
BY sHELLRocKER.


4 Hasband--I have notion to sell
out here and try some other place.
/ WIfe-Sell out? why you have tried
selling outn two or three times al
ready.
HI know that, but Iowa Is too
cold for me, and the seasons are too
short.
| W.-Iowa is no colder than the
New England States, nor are the sea-
sons any shorter. Don't you remem-
Der how we used to complain of the
deep snow and cold weather there?
| HI know 1t was cold but there
were hills and forests there to stay
the cold winds.
W.-Yes, remember those hills
and hill-sides, and I remember, too,
how you used to sweat, and foam,
and swear, when with your oxen you
were blowing amongst the rocks and
stumps, and how your fingers used to
bleed from picking stone, and how
you used to dull your scythe.
H. know all that, but thousands
do live there and make money.
Yves, and / know how they
live there and make money. They
make 1t by working from daylight in
the morning to as long as they can
see ut night. They never go any
where; they never spend cent;
they never see anything without il
comes to them; and they never have
more than one good laugh In whole
lifetime. .s
/ H.-Well they seem to be satisfied
/ W.-Satisfied because they never
saw anything else. Satisfied to farm
there all the days Of their lives, and
buy their flour. Satisfied to raise
that little, miserable, eight-rowed,
Yankee corn. Satisfied to work IL
hours out of "a. Satisfied to be 0
serf, and work for the aristocracy
there--work not like white man,
but like q slave, and then carry home
on their shoulder the proceeds of each
days work. Satisfied TO settle with
their Boss" and ut the end of each
year find themselves in debt, for you
! know there are two classes there az
there Ia i'm England, and you know
the lower class is much the largest
| H-Well, they have good schools
there anyhow.
i W.--That is true, and so may we
have good schools here. Books are
cheap; Children's heads grow just al
large here; their eyes are just a:
sharp; their ears just as broad; the
branches taught are all the same
and, now, all we want Is the wiu.
H.-They can raise fruit there.
I Yves, and so can we raise frai
here. But we don't go ut it as il We
meant to succeed. We plant out q
few trees without reference to vari
ETY. or quality, browse them with the
sheep and cattle, and then, because
they don't grow like they did in
Gathers orchard" and each bear Q
cart-Ioad i'm two or three years, We
raise the cry that this is no fruit
country. Our fathers didn't succeed
i'm that way, nor shall we.
H-Have it all your own way.
W--Havei it all my own way; thai
is what you had when you sold ant
come here, and now You are here you
want to pull up stakes and try il
again.
H.-Well, we could try 1t some
where else and If we didn't like il
we should not be obliged to stay.
W.-We have tried it somewhere
else too often already. We are here
now, and have just got going. W.
are growing old, and / don't like this
unsettled condition. and besides W.
have no assurance that we should bt
J any better off in any other locality
than here. =..e ..s...~ s.a--..% al.
1--we could tell by trying.
W-Trying? Thatexperiment hal
been tried by legions, already, wht
| have sold good farms here for cheal
song, and have tried Kansas, ant
J Missouri, and Southern Illinois
, many of whom are glad to get bacl
! here, and many, who, for want o
} cash or health can never come back
They have battled with the gnats
; and chiggers, and reptiles In summer
and have shaken with the chills In
winter, inhaled the poisoned atmos
phere and drank the un-wholesoms
water until they are the picture o
! dispair.n aa a
/. H.-How do you know all that?
VI know it by the honest con
LESSONS and general appearance 0
, those who have returned. Look a
, their sallow faces. Examine theil
headed, untutored offspring, whe
. drawl out their words as though eacl
} utterance was their last, and wht
have not vitality enough to raise ,
smile. And / know too that thes,
families always return with less thar
they take with them.
H.--Their seasons are longer ant
they raise better corn.
W.-Better corn, but poorer wheat
and oats, and potatoes, and pork, anS
beef. How would you like to ex
change your light bread for "corr
dodger.n Our winters are none too
long for you. Your logs, your fenc
ing, and your wood are not hauled
yet. @ a
H--Why you talk like lawyer.
VI am lawyer enough to SEE
that man makes nothing by NOV
ing about; that if he goes into any
new country with little else besides
his hands, and secures a home, he
will be obliged to endure some severe
privations, and after he has exhaust
ell his energies in getting ready te
live, 1t is usually loosing game tt
sell and run the risk of finding bet,
ter place. Besides he must bear In
mind that all the good or bad things
4 - tl.;a xx-,rIl ora not f,nnl IL, IN IN