The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-18
Restless Emigrants.

Restless Emigrants
! A correspondent of the Tribune thus
| describes the class of settlers of the new
territories, who never are contented to
remain in one place: The farmer him
self is the most fascinating adjunct OF q
Kansas farm. It IS here that the con-
tented steadfastness of the population
of the far Eastern States has met half
way the disorder and turbulence of the
far West, and the meeting has resulted
in a type of character which [ believe
has not its counterpart elsewhere in the
world. His history has usually been
somewhat as follows:
He was born and raised" in Ohio.
When lie reached mans estate--the es-
tate, by the way, being lacking-he
"struck out" for the West and settled
perhaps in Indiana. Thence when
things got too thick" he migrated to
Illinois, and after q s%ojourn of a few
years in that State he swept on with
the tide of emigration into Missouri,
where as he vii tell you, "the rebels
We're to rank, and so he soon hitched
up the family schooner, embarked the
1amlly goods II gods and crossed INTO
Kansas.
On his travels he has somewhere
picked up Il companion to whom a GER
tlficate, carefully preserved n a frame,
shows that he has been married by a
justice OF the Peace, and OF whom he
myatlabiy speaks as his woman"
lie and ms woman" have managed
TO accumulate a family. more OF less
numerous ana hungry III the supefla-
ave degree.
me spirit OF unrest that has con
tToileu nm hlthertofore has yielded to
the desire OF middle life for quiet, and
no 1eeis as though ne was settled now
,hl LOOKS onward only very vaguely to
TO q clam IN Colorado ora farm i Iowa
wheh the tendencies OF his carrier days
nave again gathered force to stimulate
nun TO push on. There IS no such
thlns, however, as contentment among
a certain class OF h younger men; they
intent 7 o pre,empt that clam IN Col
ofano peiofe the and IS all TOOK up"
while waiting at a little way station.
OF the Kansas Southern kallroad, re-
Gently l hoticea on Fhe platform a
young farmer, l. took nm to be, who
with Ibis woman" and family of three
children seemed to be also waiting for
'he traln.
Wen" l SAID to him." are you off
for Colorado"
NO SAID he, "loway.'
.Golng to settle there?' inquired.
Yes" he replled;"l was up there in
oep1emoef and seed a NEE little farm
mat L took notion to, andso l thought
that II l could sell out here for any
thlng IKE what that farm would cost
me- l would go and buy. Wall, a fell
low came along and offered me ten dol
lars an acre for my eighty, and that
elSnty up thar IN loway wasn't but
we've dollars an acre, n SO llnvested."
We'll" said l, SIS the Iowa farm q
better farm"
L dunno as it IS any better" he an
sWered. Maybe the builden's amt
quite SO good, but then me and my wo-
man was sorter tired of Kansas, and
then she had the shakes, she did, and
60 we Thought that we'd move
"Howiong have you been in Kansas?"
rive years gong on next April"
Mher did you came from before
1hat!
"Nepraska."
Where were you raised?"
Illinois,"
We'll, my friend," saidI "don't you
know that you are moving out
OF the part of Kansas which Mr..
6reeley called the Garden OF Eden?
Bccordlng to your own showing, you