Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-06-10
HUMAN NATURE ON THE I-e SHELL.

newsbov that has swallowed chew of
tobacco, writes us as follows from
River Falls, Wis, where he is getting
we'll. Ed.
| am up here in River Falls, Wiscon-
sin. patiently waiting for the snow
banks to wilt away and gentle spring
to come again Gentle spring, as 90
to press, hath not yet loomed up.
Nothing in fact hath loomed up, rs yet,
save the great Dakota boom. Every
body, from the servant girl with the
symphony in smut on her face and the
boundless waste of freckles athwart her
nose, up TO the Normal school gradu-
ate, with enough knowledge to start n
grist mill for the gods, has "a claim
in the promised land, the great Wild
goose orchard and tadpole aquariam of
the new northwest.
The honest farmer deserts his farm,
around which clusters thousand mem
cries of the past, and buckling on his
web feet, he fees to the frog ponds of
the great northern watershed, to mako
n "tree claim" and be happy.
Such is life. We battle on bravely
for years, cutting out white oak grubs,
and squashing army worms on
shingle, in order that we may dwell be-
meath our own vine and plum tree,
and then we sell and take wings to-
ward wild, unknown country, where
land is dirt cheap, where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary
are ut rest
That is where we get left, if may
be allowed an Amerlcanism, or what
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more we emgratc the more worthless,
unsatistied and triilng we become.
have seen the same family go through
Laramie City six times because they
knew not OF contentment. rhe first
time they went west in Pullman car
''for their health" The husband rash
ly told the sad-eyed man that he lied
and in little while the sun was OBJ
scured by loose teeth and hair. The
ground was torn up and vegetation
was killed where the discussion was
held.
Then the family went home to Tole-
do. They went in n day coach and
said Pullman ear was full of malaria
and death. Their relatives made sport
of them and lifted up their yawp and
yawped at them insomuch that the
yawpneSS thereof was rs the town
caucus for might Then the tourists
on the following spring packed up two
pillows, and a pink comforter, and q
change of raiment, and gat them unto
the emigrant train and iourneyed into
the land which is called Arizona, where
the tarantula climbcth up on the inner
side of the pantalOOn and tickleth the
limb of the pilgrim rs he journoyeth,
and behold he getteth in his work and
the leg of that man is greater than it
was aforetime, even like unto the leg
of n piano.
Well to cut n long story short, that
family got to going TO Montana by bull
team and every time the light OF hope
was III their eyes, the tint OF Joy for its
future was on their cheeks. Sometime
one of the children would die, but the
kind angels would fork over another
one and all would 90 well again, but at
last they had to 90 on foot. | saw the
old man not long ago starting for
Dakota. He had set of store teeth
that didn't mash by an inch or two and
looked as though they were made for q
! larger man than he was and he talked
! like one whose Vulcanized rubber roof
didn't tit his mouth, and who is little
skitlish for fear the sealing wax gum of
his wisdom teeth will get mixed up
with his tonsils and shut off his wind,
but he was hopeful and almost tickled
to death with the idea Of going up into
the wild goose country and communipg
with nature and living on frogs legs
and angle.worms. The more think
! a thnQn 1 no I A
rather have contcntment and porter
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