Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-19

expense and anxiety, which necessa-
rily arises from a legal trial, are
saved the county. Our young limb
of the law sees with dismaY that
there is no call for his advice: he
finds living expensive; his money
giving out, and nothing being done
towards another supply; as he has no
inclination for manual labor, his pa
tienee becomes soon exhausted, and
he returns to the East.
The experience of
YOUNG PHYSICIAN
differs little from this, except that
he stands better chance to make
enough to support him in decency,
if he is something of a surgeon, and
understands the treatment CT shot
wounds, knife-cuts and bruises. He
will find but little else to claim his
attention, as the country is blessed
with remarkably healthy climate.
THE MINING EXPERTS
are astonished to find hundreds of
iTiterate men who know far more
about mines than they with all their
theoretical education; and that a
rough but practical prospector will
be first depended on in all questions
of mineralogy, although he knows
nothing of ages or strata, for his ed
ucation has been gained, not from
books, but from experienced pur-
chased at the price of long years of
patient, constant digging. He can
not mystify by throwing out lot
of technical phrases, but he can con-
verse. soundly on lodes, veins, dips
and spurs; and, if any situation be
open, he will receive the preference.
While such men as this are so plenti-
full, is it any wonder college-made
scientific characters are at dis
count? T
But the most numerous, by Ear, of
this second class of immigrants, are
the many who rush for the Far West
with the expectation of finding stu
ations where
LITTLE WORK SECURES BIG PAY.
They have received something of an
education, write fair hand, and
may have had some experience in
stores and offices; so can all be plac-
ed under the general head of clerks.
They have been trained to look on
anything resembling hard, manual
toll as far beneath them, and their
condition is almost pitiable, as they
find themselves in a strange land,
without money or friends. Such
work as they are seeking is hard to
find, for all men engaged in business
send East for their own relatives and
friends to fill all vacancies, Plenty
of odd jobs are to be found, at which
they might, did they feel inclined,
earn a livelihood and lay the foun-
dation for fortune in the future;
but as they are totally Opposed to
all mammal labor on principle" they
prefer trusting to luck, instead of
their own endeavors, for something
easy to turn up. Il is out of men
like this that ,"road-agents'5' are
made, and they furnish the material
for gamblers and desperadoes. Dis
appointed on every hand; they are
forced to choose between work and
crime; and the numerous deaths
throughout the West by lynching
and violence prove that many prefer,
the latter. w
The numerous beats that are con-
'tinually hanging around railroad
stations, waiting for a chance to
jump on an Eastern bound train,
may be taken as a fair average of
those too lazy to work and too cow.
ardly too steal. After many short
rides aud long walks, they find them.
selves East again, sponging on the
neighborhood unfortunate enough to
be claimed as their home, there to
remain and die, never higher than a
clerk, but always having the great
est contempt for a "mere mechanic
Such men as already mentioned
are
NOT WANTED .
in the Far West, and their lmmigra-
ton to it will end, as it should, in
unhappiness, misfortune and vain
regrets. What is needed is capital,
muscle and brains-not slip-Shod ar
istocracy, fops and winners. Good,
strong constitutions, healthy minds
and willing hands, professional or
otherwise, can always find plenty of
employment; hut they must be pre-
pared to rough it, perhaps for years.
Still, the knowledge that fortune
and independence will surely crown
their efforts in the end, oughtto be
sufficient inducement. Men are
wanted in the Far West who, on
finding nothing to do at their own
particular calling, will be ready and
willing to accept anything, be it in
the shape Of pick, shovel, ak orplow.
All over the plains can be found
lawyers and doctors stoek-raising
and herding, while the mines have
many college graduate to whom
Greek and Latin are familiar
tongues, 5 -eliae7 i--a
Last spring l had the pleasure of
visiting South Pass, and while there
was the guest of the Probate Judge
and the Clerk of Sweetwater county.
They are young men in years, but
old in frontier life, and as such, kept
"BAoHELoR's HALF
in its most primitive state-doing
their own cooking, baking, house
cleaning; and doing it we'll. They
preferred this to hotel life, and were
greatly the gamers by it, not only
in purse, but in public estimation. 1t
is not stinglness or love of money
that makes them live in this way,
but they find it the custom of the
country, and as they started out to
gain success, they knew they must
"do in Rome as the Romans do"
They were reared in every luxury,
but their sound common sense show
ed them the foolishness of their city
airs in land of sand, sage-brush
and savages. Such men as those