The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-12-28


which such advice is Always 4ceompa.
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Hear that David, says Mercanus
Hear that. McroSnss. says David
well. there are some things 70 bc
sd or the ether side q tie question. :
sid Mercunus 1T viii he a long
tine before California wiiI rival the
East 10 us culture and refinement. and
The charm Of home lies more 10 these
than in anything else: flowers and fruit
add sunny skies are 81 very well but
they Only make the lack 10 other things
more peroepuble. I've sometimes
thought I've heard more downright
Billingsga,e from the mistresses Of
Of stately mansions 10 San Francisco
than | would have ever dreamed posi-.
tie from their cooks, aad about some
little faBeied grievance in connection
with their Chronicle or Call"
I'D have come a kind Of Boomerang
game on them said Arthur. lust
waited til the next murnidg. and then
sent their old paper flying round the
house two OF three times and then
down the chimney and up stairs aud
into their ugly old mouths as they lay
asleep with en- wide open"
II could as well as not. said Aler-
eorius impressivoly, but | was too well
brought up ia my eastern home, No,
| believe when get my fortune made,
III 90 East, marry girl / know all
about. and have been to school with
and settle down where folks know me,
and where fellows honest ancestry
amounts to something"
BE sure aud have your house
warmed with furnace. and have
plenty of money for the coal bills
said the mistress. with SILVER.
1t seems to me it would be easier
aud cheaper to bring the girl here, y
said the Argonsnt. "lts the woman
that makes the home; get the right one
in your house and you won't know but
you're back in the States, only you
wont have near SO much tending fires
to do, and you know Artemus Ward
told the Prince of Wales that made
sights Of trouble in families"
"l'm more anxious at present about
getting the money to found tho home
with" said David.
Everything is so overdone in Cali
fornia, said Mercurius There are
three hundred lawyers and doctors
here in this little town Of fifteen
thousand people The merchants and
grocers crowd each other down to
starvation, and the streets are fairly
thronged with people, both men and
xomen,, looking for job"
"l ut the farmers don't crowd each
other, said paterfamiias Nowhere
do | see 50 strong contrast between
the East and West as when riding in
the country here such long, lonely
stretches of road between the farm
houses, and such thriftIess, cheerless
looking homes as most Of them are
The California ranch and the New
England farm do not seem to belong
to the same genus"
Get some ground, boys, by all
means" said the Argonaut, who never
had tried farming at all himself"
"But like commercial lile," said
Mercurius. Zone gets so horribly
nasty and shabby out on ranch. II
takes attrition to keep US bright and
sharp, don't want to bury myself. )"
Surely it isn't necessary to be a
hermit or boor because Que is a
farmer" said David. zone needn't &c
far away from town, and with O
little effort one could still be mar
among men,"
"Yes. and among women" said the
mistress Get some land, say, and
90 to raising something. pigs or pota
toes, chickens or celery. ducks or as
paragus- only do it intellg emily, using
your brains az much as If you were
practising law. and you'll make il
pay
ooh. have ducks I" cried Mabel
little ducks are perfectly lovely"
ooh, yea, ducks by all means, :
echoed Arthur, II admire perfect
duck" with lingering glance a
| Wolverine
There must be money in poultry
farm, I'm sure" said the mistress
with turkeys of moderate size selling
for three dollars piece ard a little
half grown chicken for seventy five
cents I"
"Of course there's money in IL.
said the Argonaut. "or in anything
else that you boys will undertake
For you're honest aud industrious, and
with plenty Of good, hard sense, anc
above all you keep clear Of the saloons
/ There's where the California boys
MAKE shipwreck Only let liquor
alone, let liquor alone" he said with