The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-22
NUMBER 9.
GO " EST!
THE BEAUTIES OF WESTERN FARMING
NOW / DID NOT SUCCEED WITH
sIy FARM AND WHY.

Go West be an agricultural community,
Follow not the Ral1e's Progress, but the
| Westward Hoe. So says DIR. Loring and
other tillers of the soil aud soilers of the
till, who never ploughed the soil or soileo
| the plough.
/ went West.
/ pre- empted a hundred and sixty acres
of Government land, in sequestered nook
af the Sierra Nevadas and took possession
l wrote DIR. Loring for advice on the sub
jcct of irrigation, because my land was
somewhat thirsty looking and knew thai
granite boulders, to be fertile, should be
moistened some.
The sage agricultprist replied briefly.
! Dam any mountain torrent.'
L Informed that eccentric blasphemer
| that ! subscribed to the perdition of any
and every kind of torrent, but it didn &
/ seem 10 help my prospects. He explained.
! set to work and found stream teu
miles up the mountain. 1t was running to
wards the Pacific, and ] lived on the At
| lautic slope. | built Chinese wall and
turned its course. 4 friendly freshet aid &C
my design, and at length my work was
done, and / turned Oh the faucet. Ny
Chinaman, employed in the field as pic
! tenn searecrow, Was picked up in the Gulf
| of Mexico three months afterwards.
Then L fenced my farm. ] built rail
road to the nearest settlement aud brought
a lot of lumber over the L. j. r. II. II may
| explain that fencing is not done out West
! as you see it performed, with tin swords
( by theatrical supes). At the end of two
years had nice substantial fence, clap
boarded, shingled and painted. The root
Of my barn was bnt a rude structure, anG
did not keep out the rain very well, which
was, perhaps, the cause of my failure as AT
agricutuTist.
Then | dug several artesian wells and
filled them respectively with oats, flour.
onions, soap, biscuits, raisins, candles, anC
other vegetables, covering the whole will
/ layer of SuperpEosphate, according to the
directions of my Practical Farmer an6
Agriculturist's Manual
L had then expended three years and a
small national debt on my estate. L waited
for my fruit to sprout. 1t didn't.
Theu | wrote again to the DOCTOR.
He told me that sub soil ploughing
! would bring them up.
! i imported a steam shovel and set it 60
ing, Still they didn't come up. i again
sought my authoritative guide.
lie suggested more irrigation. | turned
on the faithful old torrent, and it carried
away all my farm buildings and half of
that new and fiuurishiug canvas town,
! Empire CITY, This rendered me un-
| popular with settlers. They began to him
/ their dislike. ] felt Kurt by Sheir sights
and bullets, and inuenaoa, and knives,
/ and things and after they had burned my
house doRa, and killed all my cattle not
previously stolen by ihem, left the settle
/ ment.
"Empire City," otherwise ''Seven Up,"
is deserted. So is my farm. The mad
rong" and the ''hacieI4}a'' twine around
/ its deserted walls. and the song of the
! long "posado' is heard in its blackened
roof-tree.
Still l believe in the Great West.
say to the young and the old. the rich and
/ the poor, the strong and The weak, the
stock-jobber and lie honest man-Go
! West
y. B.-Gentlemen DESTROYS of settling o.
an eligible location in the Great Wesl wi
! find it for their interest to consult the I'm
dersgned, who has 1G0 acres of excellent
I land, well wooded and waieIed, aud within
! five minutes walk of the hostile tribes
young man FROM the country preferred.
AN ALASKA RoMANCE.-A young man
who was III Alaska some four years ago
fell in love with the only Young lady on the
! island, a giTl of fifteen, who was possessed
of extraordinary beau:y, and whose hair
! fell below her knees. But he was unable
! to communicate the odd, old story" toher
! for she did not understand word of Eng~
lish, nor did she speak Russian. In his
dilemma the arrival of the priest on his
| Ooce-ln-sHO years NlSlt was gOd-SSnq
| aud to him lac made known his love. The
priest, knowing The young man to be
possessed of \ high character and a fail
fortune, thought it was a lucky chance TO
the young lady 10 escape from life ol
such iSolatila, and he willingly persuaded
her no her (her father being dead To
consent to the match, but the young lady
herself was not to be PEI Isuaded. She ar
gued that she had never spoken to tn
V, ung man who express, d such desire u
he her husband, aud only seen him twice
aud he had been pu the island only forty
eight days, but her objections were over
ruled and tie marriage took place. After
living in Alaska sevel al months, the young
man brought his bride 10 his home in
Cleveland, Ohio. She was astouished at
the fashions she saw, aud declared that
nothing would induce heI to wear her hair
1 q. herwISe tlian Rowing she had always
worn 1t. But before tweufy-fOur hours
had passed her motheI-in-law had PEI
suaded her to try the effect Of braids
| around her broad aid shapely head, and
now she dresses much in the fashion
As any lazy in Cleveland. Last year her
husband went to Alaska again and brought
home the younger sister who is eleven
yesls of age, aua Promises TO be as beanti-.
ful as TIE older. The mother, bereft of
both her Children, still clings - her home
! un one of the islands of AlaSha.-I'0r I'0rfLand
(OregoH) Transcript.
Il CORRESPONDENT speaking Of The diff
culty of swine diving. says il is as easy as
whistling. af'eT soI know how, TO Wit .
To the end of a tout cerd tie an ear of
corn drop it in font of the pig, to within.
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