The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-06-29

remarkably good. The atmosphere is dry
and favorable to consumptives, and the
Winters are not so severe in this latitude
as in the more Northwestern States, while
for grain and stock raising Kansas COM
bines happy medium between the fertile
States Of the Northwest with their long,
severe Winters, and the dry, hot Sum-
mers of Texas.
A person accustomed to life in the East
ern States, where everything wears sub
dued, domestic lock, would find much that
would be distasteful to him here. But his
deprivation will be more in appearance than
reality. The rough element we are accus-
toned to associate with the far West life
will not be found here, but it is still further
toward the setting sun. Railroads are
great civilizers. The most intelligent and
enterprising of Eastern society control
everything here. Every town is filed with
its lectures, lyceums, agricultural societies
and other institutions of an advanced civil
cation. And when we cease to look at the
newness and a great deal of unavoidable
uncouthness, which shocks our cultivated
Eastern tastes. and examine society in it's
moral and social aspects, we find the very
cream of the old States here, and alas, miss
only our loafers! We search in vain for
our old familiar friends and they are not
found. Their seedy gentility and comfort
able resignation, as they bask on the cor
ners, in bar-rooms and public throughfares
in our old settlements, their resigned con-
tentment acting like a soothing syrup to
the hurrying, chatting business driver, are
missed here; and we involuntarily sigh for
a look at their familiar, take-life easy coun-
tenances.
An enterprising man, with q few thou
sands i'll hand, can grow independently
rich or become millionaire in compare
lively short time at stock raising; while
he could enjoy the comforts of good society
at the same time. There are millions of
acres of prairies in the great West, which
afford the best of pasture for tens of thou
sands of cattle, and which are free pasture
If the nucleus of herd is started and
properly cared for, it will in a few years
increase intellectually. Herdsmen can be
hired for $40 month and board, and two
herdsmen will attend large herd of cat
tie, which will yield annually by the sale
OF surpluss stock, in many instances, ten
or more thousands of dollars. This, like
all other business. requires some capital to
organize, and ordinary business abilities to
carry out; but there is nothing uncertain
or difficult to accomplish, in achieving
entire success in the stock business. There
is no part of the United States more favor
able for the enterprises above named than
Southern and Western Kansas and Colo
RADIO, while the facilities for education at
nominal cost are unsurpassed. In few
years the whole face Of nature in this
region will be changed, and the now beau
tiful prairies will then be not less beautiful
waving corn and wheat fields, while young
headland and bluff which pierces the hori-
ION; and the man with a little surpluss
capital who makes his home in these regions
now, keeps this inevitable future of the
country in view, and makes his arrange
ments accordingly, may acquire a princely
fortune, insure his children classical edu-
cation and assist them to comfortable
homes and useful, honorable position
among their fellow men. The vast expand
ing West is the inverse ratio of the con-
tracted East in everything.