Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-11-21
DAKOTA.

DAKOTA.
Her Numerous Advantages for In
dustrious People.
BY EPHR1AM WOOD.
Those of us who have come to mature
years, VINO have spent the best part of
II lives in the eastern states or in the
over-crowded towns and cities of the old
world, a recall to memory the very
trying circumstances in which we have
been placed TO exc out a scanty living
for ourselves and families. Having
heen compelled to undergo privations in
various forms, and submit to the tyran-
ny of hard taskmasters, we can now
look back with feelings of thankfulness
and joy that We have escaped fro n the
bondage that we were held in and in the
assurance that all these things have
come over us for the purpose Of fitting
and preparing us to inhabit a land
where we eau exercise our freedom to
the fullest extent.
Dakota is land of promise to those
who have come to her with the full de-
termination to reap the hidden treasures
that lie Ill her soil and climate, abound
ing with every natural facility that Is
requisite for the making Of a great agri-
cultural and manufacturing country.
Her soil surpasses i'll richness the valley
Of the Nile, and is capable of giving
bread to millions Of the human race.
Her climate is.superb. From the mid.
die of March to the first of November
we have the most beautiful weather that
can possibly be imagined. 1t has not
the sultry, choking atmosphere of the
southern, nor yet the cold, chilly, misty,
foggy atmosphere of the Atlantic and
eastern states, but her air is invigorating
and refreshing, and gives to the sy stem
a rejuvinating power, and also to the
vital energies, and builds up and ex.
pands and develops the muscles IN such
a way that the consumptive from other
parts. if not too far gone before coming
here, in a very short time, under proper
treatment. finds himself a whole man.
And this great land Of our adoption is IL
grand school for the development OF
qualities which, under circumstances in
which we we're placed in older countries,
we had not the chance or the power to
display; but here we have every facility.
We are not governed or oppressed by
those richer or higher in position, but
we can associate with the most learned
in Il familiar way that would not be tol-
Grated elsewhere, and imbibe principles
and cultivation that u latent and now
expanding energies are in need of.
Then, again, we are a people free
from the m vices that are the
bane and downfall Of the intelligent and
accomplished of other countries. In
fact, it may be said that Dakota is a
land where virtue reigns, where vice ie
held in adherence by the great masses,
and although it sometimes occurs that
some serpent in human form has crept
in unawares and fastened his fangs on
some unsuspecting victim, he is speedily
and summarily dealt with.
Dakota, the land of our adoption, is
very beautiful to behold and has many
attractions for the capitalist, and al.
though her age can only be reckoned
by u score of years at most, she has
within her borders all the practical evi.
dences Of mature and developed oivili.
zatlon. She has her railroads and tele.
graphs, verging and diverging through
the broad expanse Of her lanl,
and ON her lakes ana rivers may be seen
gorgeous and p%alatial steamboats, which
would do credit to any place. She il
also IL land Of schools and churches, and
in her towns and cities vii. be found
beautiful structures in the shape of UNI.
versities, colleges and public schools,
Education is especially one ot the grand
at,ainments Of this land, and no fathe,
or mother can have any excuse not to
have their children educated.
Men who came to Dakota ouly a few
years ago without a shilling in their
pockets, are now, under good manage.
n1ent and industry, the happy posses.
sers Of $50 acres Of land, with from loo
to 400 acres under cultivation; with the
necessary teams, machinery and nipple
ple,nents; with good homes, barns and
graneries. surrounded by everything that
goes to make man comfortable and
happy.
BARTLETT, Oak, Nov. II, 1885.
For Thirty Days.
Ten per cent discount on all leather
goods at Stoughton's. ct