The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-02-09

Ho! For Dakota Nancy Ann.

H0! For Dakota! Nancy Ann.
Say, Nancy Ann! Let's sell the farm, and to
Dakota go.
We certainly can't come to harm where the land
is free you know.
just at the present, Nancy Ann, our homestead
here will bring,
Enough to pay the mortgage off. bod gaet the
pcsky thing!
Go, fetch that sock from tween the ticks; let's
see how much we've got
Laid by to reach that next note with; five hun
dred to dot!
Besides, we've got the team, you know, and
there's the brindle COW,
There's Cherry, too; and Crumplc- horn-your
heifer, too, vow.
Four fair-to -middin' shoats we've got, of chic
kens sev'ral score,
Of wagons, plows and harnesses, we don't need
any more.
About car load, take them all; Of things we'd
need to take,
With what we'd pack in chests and trunks, a
fair outfit would make.
Now let's look back dozen years and see how
much we've gained,
How working, shaving, we have pinched, how
ev'ry year we strained
To meet the payments OH this land the interest
as we'll,
And still we lack thousand cool, those mort.
gage notes will tell.
Two hundred dollars in a year, is all we've ever
made,
Above our interest and our bread, and that has
only paid
But just one note Of all the ten, as each yea,
came and went,
While scarce a nickel or dime, have we for pleas
ure spent.
We've rose and went to bed at night, exactly
With the sun,
I've milked the cows and plowed the land, ant
you have wove and spun;
We've read the county newspaper, each Sunday
afternoon,
And tho't we'd got tho latest news from both tn,
earth and moon.
But while we've MIXED and plowed, and wovt
and spun ouc lives away,
The mighty West developing, has grown from
day to day,
Till regions that when we were young; wer,
marked as ''unexplored."
On maps we studied, now are States, with eplen
did records scored.
The Mississippi river now no longer marks th
place.
Where Indians and white men met, in blood,
deaths embrace,
Instead of that, an hundred leagues, now fairl,
intervene,
Between it's banks and solitude, as reading her
I've seen.
Somebody, wife, has sent me this, paper from
out West,
And here's a map came with 1t too, to help c1
plain the rest.
Law-sakcs alive Why Nancy Ami This maj
here makes it out,
That there's as many States ont West as dow,
East hcrcabcut.
out there as he.e,
do dcc'u.c! Why, Nancy Ann! We've beer
asleep, fear.
Why! There's Dakota az l live; three hundred
miles or more
Beyond st. Paul, that used to be almost unknow,
Dakota has its railroads too, it's cities and it
AS thickly sprinkled over 1t M spots on Barnum'
clowns.
Then j-u-s-t See here! This paper says, SIRE
homes to all who co.
A.d live five years on land cut there! That
cheap enough know!
Then for two hundred dollars more, 1t says tha
any man
Can get himself another farm. Let's go thcr
Man, Ann!
Wc'll get us half section there, worth half
county here,
And what is better We will have no mortgage
| to fear.
Well keep the money in the socks and tell oil
Gripper Hart
That he may foreclose on this farm next pa
| day. Then we'll start
For Wonderland, where farms are free, wher
farmers are not slaves.
Where we can own the land we till, at leas
enough for graves.
I'm sick of working day and night to fill som
other purse
The East is not the place for me, Dakota can
| be worse.
So pack the traps, dear Nancy Ann. I'll go an
zee old Grip,
And tell him where we're going to. and then to-
let cr rip.
60 to Collister's for all kinds o
lumber.
The new seats have been placed il
the Baptist church.
For quiet game of pool go to Gus
kelly's.
Harley Shelving came in from hi
ranch yesterday.
Call on the Cuskelly Bros. if yo,
want good cocktail to drink.
VIM. Gibson is confined to tn
house with a severe cold.
If you want lunch go to the Vii
lard House.
Mrs. Robert Fuller is sick will
pneumonia, at the residence of J. B
Russell.
Call on Fennell at the Big Sign 70
the best aud cheapest goods.
The pay car came in from the ives
last Tuesday and distributed it,
checks to the boys.
If you want fine cigar ask for til
Grand Republic at the Willard House
II. S. Davis, came down from Gler
dive Sunday to attend the weddin