The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-12
THE KANSAS PACIFIC"
The Rocky Mountains and San Francisco.

The Rocky Mountains and San Francisco.
The coachesn on this road are vastly
more comfortable than the street cars
of Damascus" as Mark Twain found
them. In fact, we may glide over the
seas of prairie with scarce jolt; we
may settle down in velvet cushion,
hang our head out of the window and
gaze at the most beautiful landscape i'm
aginable, and, without hyperbole, ex-
claim, all the worlds a farm all the
worlds flower garden Travelling and
and sightseeing are pleasant on a road
like this. The chance is that after
trip over the Kansas Pacific Road, you
will want to spend your evenings in the
city library reading up on natural his
tory and determine to acquaint yourself
with botany, SO that you may more fully
crafty your love for the beautiful when
you again snuff the odors of those
floral beauties rare.
On this journey you pass over lands
once known only to the red men, the
buffalo and the prairie dog-so says ira
dition. Now, poor Lo,' like his COM
panions-buffalo and prairie dog-have
Uacdted before the match of the pale
face" and civilization. And that fig
ment of the imagination, "the Great
American Desert where is it? We've
been looking for it; have had our
geography on our knee and carefully
noted and compared it with our latest
maps by authority of U. S. Survey, but
that desert, like the baseless fabric of
vision" doth not appear! The parel-
lels of latitude and longitude run through
and bound luxuriant crops of corn, rye,
barley, oats and wheat, and totally put
to flight even the idea of desert. May
earth's remotest bounds echo with fer
cest anathemas on the miscreant who
promulgated g the Great American Des-
ert." And let every scribbler view the
prospect o'er-beautiful fields are waving
-bountiful products greet you, and fair
cities, where the busy hum of the work
men and throngs going to and fro, tell
of life and activity. We cannot wonder
at this, for there is great agricultural
wealth surrounding these towns, and
plenteous reward for labor
Cowper says of labor:
"Tis the primal curse,
But softened into mercy made the pledge
Of cheerful days and nights without groan."
The opinion too commonly entertain
ed, that the cultivation of the ground
meets with scanty remuneration only,
compared with other occupations, is
altogether erroneous. 1t is true that
agriculturists, for labor, do not receive
as high wages as are sometimes paid to
first-rate artizans, and particularly con-
fidential clerks and accountants in large
mercantile houses, banks and insurance
office. But then, it should be remember
ed, that while here and there a person
receives large salary for personal
services, several hundred receive barely
sufficient to meet their personal ex-
penses. We will not institute any COM
parison as to what each class feels
necsssitated to eXpend for living and
comfort Owing to the usages of society,
the ordinary laboring farmer, however,
has been known to lay up more money
though receiving but two hundred
dollars year-than clerk in city re-
ceiving six hundred. We may not
change these usages, however we may
oppose them. Each class has its hard
ships. Clerks and merchants are often
bankrupt, and oh how such changes
test the moral courage of these how
they destroy the physical energies and
mar the social affections We are too
well acquainted with such scenes. Let
young men in rural life, inclined to be
dissatisfied with their condition, think
of all this before they resolve to change
their occupation.
The Kansas Pacific Railway is the
Grand Trunk Road from Kansas City,
on the Missouri river, to the city of
Denver, at the base of the great Rocky
Mountains. 1t is ia miles the shortest
between the two cities mentioned; the
best line to the San Juan country the
favorite route of the tourist, and is also
the connecting link of the most pleasant
all rail route to San Francisco. 1t has
opened up one of the most beautiful and
fertile districts on this continent, the
development of which, by the sturdy
agriculturists, is unprecedented. The
Kansas Pacific Homestead is very
interesting paper, giving statistics and
other valuable information about this
country, and can be obtained free by