The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-28
For the TRLKaRAMK.
lettings From the West.
NUMBER THREE.

In changing circumstances and places,
we can OILY become aware, how essential
q part they have been of us Education end
association with long habit, often lead us
to eonfound q means with an end. John
Chinaman can see no way Of wearing his
hair so convenient AZ his pigtail. Leng
after 1t was demonstrated that he might
divide bis crist, and save the luggage, the
Dutchman put the stone in one end of the
bag that lay across his horses back. and the
grist in the other end. How much we all
carry the same thing in metaphor, we our
selves are poor judges. Put us In q new
country, with new surroundings, and We
instinctively begin to reach for the old
means, and In the absence of these, are apt
to conclude that 1t Is "no country to live in"
In regard to the prairie country of the
West, we are frequently asked. "wbat are
we to do for wood for fuel and fences"
and even when we dad substitute here for
less money. people feel lost and uneasy
without timber. If the same money that
would supply US wood here would supply
us there with coal or corn, if half the money
that it takes with US for fencing would hire
all your stock needed, or soon give you a
good hedge fence, from habit You would
governed by the principles of Political Econ
omy in our selection OF home, as well as
by failings and prejudices, we shall be salts
fed with guild pro quo, getting the worth
Of our money, having the same amount of
money go as far here as elsewhere. Though
Nebraska, as hardly any other country,
offers IN ducements to men of small means,
yet in no place is the principle more true,
that "MoneY ensureth all things" While
different places may offer greater induce
ments perhaps, the common sense principle
must ever be borne in mind, the more money
the better anywhere.
Another error Is to be guarded against
in every new Countrywide expectation of
making money too soon. How have settlers
always made their competency, if they have
one? Not by tumbling into 1t at once ,
but by holding their land while it rises ia
value and often amid struggle and priya
tiop, "holding their own" and 'growing up
with the country"
There is no Paradise GU earth. especially,
for the man working his way toward com
potency. Those who can bear a few rough
blasts in new country, rather than remain
in the older, and live from "hand to mouth"
men, "hewers of wood and streams of wa
ter" have the stuff in them, that has made
AL our wealthy pioneers. There are no
forests to fell, no quarriea of stone covering
the country, no tussline with beds of roots
and gTubs, before the land can be plowed or
8 crop harvested. All that unassisted Ma
ture can do. has been done, with the most
lavish prodigality, in Nebraska. This
"Great American Desert" only waits for the
assisting hand Of man, in order to "reiolce
and blossom as the rose Germ thrives
tolerably well, but the great staple Of the
country for the present is wheat. The soil
seems the most perfect IN its natural con
stituents for its production and there is
one popularity In 1t / have never noted
elsewhere. The straw stands straight and
strong until harvested. have never seen
"a piece of lodged" wheat in Nebraska.
This suppose results from the silison in
the soil, in the proper quantity, to give
strength and frmness to the straw, as well
as the cool nights, with which the country
is blessed, even in the hottest season of the
year. 1t 10 not here s'ths golden wheat" of
poetry and song. but an actual, substantial
reality. The rich, golden tinge Of the straw
unburnt, unshriveled, and unblackened by
heat, does one good to look at, and shows
this natural wheat country. But this
country of all Others, is destined to be q
stock country, at no distant day. The
high, dry, rolling land, has been proven the
natural range for sheep. In the young
state, darles are already springing up to
rival onr own, whose natural makers will
be westward. Stock anG dairy products;
giving greater value for less bulk, from the