The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-04-11
Rsstlsss Enisraats.

a correspondents OF the If1Oun0 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 a
Kansas farm. Il 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
fer West, and the meeting has resulted
in type Of character which I believe
has not its counterpart elsewhere in the
world. His history has usually been
somewhat Is follows:
He was born and straised" in Ohio.
When he 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 sojourn Of . few
years in that State he swept on with
the tide Of emigration into Missouri,
where a. he vii tell You, "the rebels
were to rank, and 90 he soon hitched
up the family schooner, embarked the
family goods and gods and crossed into
Kansas. s.5
On his travels he haa somewhere
picked up companion TO whom . GER
tiacate, carefully preserved in Q frame,
shows that he has been married by q
Justice Of the Peace, and Of whom he
invariably speaks as "his woman"
He and "his woman" have managed
to accumulate . family more or less
numerous, and hungry in the superla-
tive degree.
The spirit of unrest that has con-
trolled him hithertofore has yielded to
the desire Of middle life for quiet, and
he feels as though he was settled now,
and looks forward only very vaguely to
to claim in Colorado or . farm in Iowa
when the tendencies of his earlier days
have again gathered force to stimulate
him to push on. There is no such
thing, however, as contentment among
. certain class Of the younger men; they
intend to pre.empt THAT claim in Col.
orado before the land is all took up"
While waiting at little way station.
on the Kansas Southern Railroad, re-
Gently, I noticed on the platform a
young farmer, I took him to be, who
with chs woman" and family of three
children seemed to be also waiting for
the train.
WELL" said to him." are you off
for Colorado?"
NO." said he, "Ioway."
"Going to settle there?" I inquired.
Eyes" he replied; II was up there in
September and I seed nice little farm
that I took notion to, andso I thought
that il I could sell out here for any
thing like what that farm would cost
me. I would go and buy. Wall, a fell
low came along and offered me ten dol
lars an acre for my eighty, and that
eighty up thar in Ioway wasn't but
twelve dollars an acre, and SO Invested"
"Well, said I, "is the Iowa farm q
better farm?"
Il dunno as it is any better" he an
swered. maybe the builden's amt
quite 80 good, but then me and my wo-
man was sorter tired Of Kansas, and
then she had the shakes, she did, and
80 we thought that we'd move"
Glow long have you been in Kansas ?"
Give years going on next April"
Where did you came from before
that?"
"Nepraska."
where were you raised?"
illinois," RI
"well, my FRIEND" said I, "dont you
know that you are moving out
Of the part Of Kansas which MI.
Greeley called the Garden Of Eden?
Bccording to your own showing, You
won't better yourself any by going;
your wife will be Is likely to get the
chills in Iowa as in Kansas; you are
running in debt ON your farm; you have
all the trouble and expense Of moving,
and the probability is that it will be
years before you will be as we'll of
again as You are now"
"Wall," said this specimen Of west
ern go-a-head-ativeness, INV folks do
tell me that q rolling stone don't gather
no moss; but then I tell them that q
settin' hen don't git fats I had NO an.
swer this, for / had never reflected on
the drawbacks which the setting hen
may have to encounter. 4.
This restlessneas il the most charac-
teristlc feature Of the Western native
farmer Of tho middle andpoorer GLASSES.
He d always uneasy never satisfied any
whore. He Il always going 70 settle
somewhere, but cart find The place
whese he i williag 10 admit that he
means 20 live and de- Hal olp to de- 4
velop N immense amount ,Gk the ooun.
ny. hut cant bring himself y tlsany-I
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