The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-11-06

prairie grass stretching away in endless
succession as far as the eve could reach
remember distinctly the first spell |
had OF sinking Of the heart. 1t was
when saw, in the midst of a vast plain,
"a lone, forlorn, little speck away OF
toward the horizon, that was some one s
home, not another dwelling i'll sight in
all that wide lonely prairie the next
was when we reached LaWdsdale and
found that the city consisted of two tents
and a Wocdshed. 1t was evening when
we passed through Morehead and Fargo,
and the luminous oalls of electric light
shining high over the latter city looked
werdly beautiful.
We reached our destination in the dim
twilight of a summer morning, and stop
ped to get breakfast and rest little be
fore starting on our tour of investigation
preparatory to taking up eur claims.
somehow 1t did not seem so easy as it
had at home, and not as quarter as ro-
mantle, but ThompY was us enthuiastic
as ever, and when said that ! wished |
had brought few trees along in my
trunk to improve the landscape Il little,
She said it was wilder Withou. and What
we wanted was the Sunshine.
After interviewing the land agent. and
a lot more work and bother. we finally
started over The prairie on an oN-caIt,
The agent said be thought he knew a
Pldcc we would IKE, Wherc we rould
nave our iand joining and the othel part
OF the section occupied 10y a man from
New ork who had his family along and
| ms Drother-in-laW Did yuu ever ride
after an OX-t1am | hone so for if Won
| nave you WlH appreciate many privileges
'Ddt you "ouI' maps otherwise pass
over as hut SilGhl advantages. we
in"Ved lhlough the pralIle (hut that was
a'i) ana l"oked AT me Wide in"h"t"nous
i"h'lSodPV' .AiNei 'lt lllSI houF re-
| ,Ii"I he'' 10 h"NilE mat ih"uGht we
il'l oetttf (" INTO camp on the wagon,
a. we seemed [" pc ABOUT aS 'ar as wien
we sIa'leo but lhonpy sad she liked
| H. IN'tl Sne NaS always aiIaIt II last
horses ana she could set as much eXer
ciSe = "nt N"h'eo' ana lhth 'ilal fAas-
Pefa'lhg Slll puiitd oQt q microscope,
ana pi"cteded to ana!>Ie Towers, Just as
a4SfaVa'lnEIy cheeT'u! anG happy as
'h"GTli S!if were al u picnic,
Along IL tiie AFTERNOON W. came 70 'he
| pidCe oi me man from New f"iE, ana
heie we S"' solne dilher ana were SHOWN
Iie SI"ifS q 500 hnNSe- w" LaH seen
(lleih al d uiS}daee before, hIit not!lng
me- TINS his was a Eerlt&ble palace
"l u sou mouse, WIN real WINDOWS and
| bdheleu walls, wan paltillonS ct uN-
olcaChtN !nusIlh t!Mmtd with lGiktN
Ied' tEat locked very pretty ANA home
iih"- lh"ihpy Went INTO faFtures over
H. aii, regretted deeply that we had NOT
oFru9nt SonletulnE along Ior oar walls.
| olont see as she needed to display oar
| ignorance before That strange WoHlan,
oot 'iial was juSi hcf al over not hit
81 proper pride.
After dIhner we went vita the OK
team t"inspect the other part OF the see
'IoIl' Wnlch the woman sand she hoped
we Would ilke, as she wished We might
De helghonrs Shc fonld It rat her ionely
oeihg el2ht miles from town ana no
nci@hDolS. cGUun ! set as i made any
| ullleTehce where we TOOK up our claim: :
II 'll Ioohed allNP TO me, auu was be
Elhilhg 70 thihk that 1t might prove a
"!ite eiepLaht anyway
we went 70 Gown e get the necessary
| papers ana man u Ae!p get the houses
- :
an" we wanted |" lllveSllg2te the !lttle
STORE l ne woman rom Ne" lo'h,
"hCse name was Herder, said that per
iiuSoaiid ana br"thcf would do al they
cou'd 10 heIp us and IN snort time our
| houses We're ready iof Us To enter ana
take possession OF our long lfealNHd-of
cIal'ns- ihfy dldnt look very inviting,
J can tel you. we fouId mo DO paper
| 10 cover lle unSl4htlN walls, ana our
lurLlture was q the seantleat. We
oouId not make bofh houses iook InVlt
! lng; SO we used mine ter q Kitchen, though
| we c0nsclentlou&iy sept III 1t halt the
time. They were very near together
ana not tar from our nelghbors.
hen We were fairly settle and had
| h&d oar llTst meal, told Ghompy that |
ielt ilke the SWISS Family Robinson she
| laughed ana SAD she dldnt see ho" |
cou!d 1eel IKE the Whole fanny without
having stable IN the house, as they al
ways dld. Now think it shows an eh-
vlous disposition to always he making
nun OF a romantic ldea lust because you
dldn't happen to think Of it Yourself, but
punished her ny putting my revolver
IN SIGHT III a hole III the wall. She dared
not take 1t away, 50 she always passed
by on the other SIDE OF the room. We
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