Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-31

in England and here in France very
anxious and despondent over the
gloomy state of affairs. 1t is the fact
that the too frequent, almost continu-
Gus rains of the past three or four
months have ruined full one-half of
the whole crop, by preventing sowing
in many cases and in others by rotting
the seed which has been sown. This l
know from observation and from per-
sonal interviews with farmers and with
merchants. Every farmer in America
should put forth his best efforts this
year, for Europe will ceartainly need
more than every bushel of grain and
every pound of beef and pork we can
send them this summer and the sum
mer following. l believe the spring
will open with s heavy emigration to
the United States, and labor for the
handling of crops will be abundant,
viii the acreage sown will, undoubt-
edly be the heaviest made,
Paris is beautiful to look at. The
houses are elegant, uniform in archi-
lecture, but-well, every one of them
seems to have been built to serve as a
fort or barrack us much as for resi-
dence. The front doors are like heavy
armorcd gates, have cross bars or iron
shutters. The statues on the public
monuments are figures of war or victo-
ry. The ornaments are cannon, guns,
swrods, shot, shell and battle flags. 1
see no figures representing peace or
plenty, surrounded with wheat sheaves,
horns of abundance or plow shares.
The great public buildings are palaces
and barracks, and every tenth man is
serving as soldier, with a bayonet or
sword in his hand, while most OF the
others are worn-out veterans of past
wars decorated with medals for the
slaughterings they have survived.
This is what | see in the cities. AS
pass through the rural districts, l see
the land covered with novels surround
! ing chatteaux. Every squire inch of
soil is being coaxcd to bring forth some
little mite of product. The trees are
shorn Of their very twigs for fuel.
! Worst of all, l see women in crowds,
toiling in every field with hoe and spade,
and in every wood and thicket with axe
and bill hook, working to keep the man
in uniform for war. Such state of
affairs may have lasted for centuries,
but it is steady growing worse and
can't last alway:. The people are learn
ing, and knowledge viii make them
restless and at last resolved They will
hear-they are hearing-of Texas with
its 274,OOO square miles, and Dakota
with it's $4,000 square miles of virgin
soil Combine Montana and Dakota,
and they will raise more wheat than
Great Britain and France put together,
for they are especially adapted to grain
production. 1t costs more to manure
an acre Of land here than an acre of
magnificent land in the great nerth-
west costs to buy outright.
There are lands in England, held by
tenant farmers, whereon the rents
tithes and nlanuring costs e36 per year
per acre, the bulk of it being the rent
which the duke or earl exacts. The
scenond heaviest item is the tithes fol
the support of the aristocracy Of reli
gion; and thirdly, the fertilizer. There
are thousands of acres of land in Dako
TIA, northern Nebraska and Wyoming
which will yield forty to fifty bushels
per acre without any sort of manuring
whatever. AS some one has cleverly
said of those magnificent acres, winch
may be counted by the millions: "Y OF
with a harvest
; Alexandria Herald: Some weeks agi
we made mention of the fact that al
least seventy-iive young ladies were
each the owner of quarter section O.
land in Hanson county. 1t was widely
copied by our exchanges, and we art
now in receipt of letter from New
York stating that syndicate, com
posed of seventy-tive young mel
has been organized there, to suppl.
these young ladies with matrimonial
bonds, asking us to furnish their names
We have given them to understand
that they will be named and LOCATED
upon receiving certified checks o
$1,000 each and guarantees of goot
character When the amount is re
ceived then the Herald and Homestead
will be enlarged.
Fargo Republican: Two men diggin.
a well near Spring Coolie, McLeal
: county few days ago, struck vein o
: Ignite six feet thick, through whicl
they passed and had reached consid
cradle depth below. One worked a
the bottom while the other turned tn
crank of the windlass at the top. On
day after dinner one of the men wa
lowered to the bottom in bucket Il
usual and after a little time his com
panion noticed he was not Working
Fearing for his safety he drew up tn
bucket and in in it was the man dead
His death was caused it is supposed b
!. coal gas.
e Union County Courir: Z. w. Mile
: returned on Monday from Grand Forks
! where he had been representing the Od'
7 Fellows lodge Of this place at themeet
e ling of the grand lodge. After express
} ing himself as being well pleased wit
J the meeting, he is very emphatic in hi
l comparison of the two sections, mort
: and south Dakota. lie places q hig'
5 estimate on our own country over tina
I OF the north, and says that he woui
a not give 160-acre farm in Union soun
!, ty for ten thousand acres up there. an
!. be compelled to live on it.