The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-03-30

When a boy my feet clambered with the
feetness of deer over their steep sides with
intense dslght, and the charm It possessed
for my youthful spirit has not lost Its pow
er even to-day. If It so happen in the near
future that ] suddenly turn up under the
majestic brow Of old Pulpit Rock" and
thence sally forth TO meet and greet famll-
lar faces, and in my ramblings perchance
drop into your honored sanctum, do not
get wonder-struck. Speaking of going
East and meeting old acquaintances recalls
the following incident: When my wife
was back four year ago and visited the quiet
little hamlet of Berlinsyille, the home of
her girlhood days, she met former ac-
quaintance and neighbor, an old gent, who
had a rather magnitudinous idea Of the
distance To Nebraska. 'Well," said he,
in Pennsylvania Dutch, "wee long worsbt
du oof de karsP" She answered, "dri
dagh." Said he, in great astonishment,
"I-Yi-vi, sell wor tsu long" and then quick
lY calculated, "husht net kuta missa2' IL
took mighty effort on my wife's part to
keep from laughing. This man. like
great many others whom know in Eastern
Pennsylvania, that have the means, would
amazingly profit by a little travel either
West or South, and get to know more about
Uncle Sans wonderful domain, and at the
same time cultivate broader views. The
spirit of travel is developed to far greater
degree in the average Western man than
| In the Eastern man. You will rarely find
young man in the west, out of his teens,
who has not been over several STATES, and
is remarkable well posted in the geography
of the country, while it is really common
thing in the east to find people well on in
years who have never been very far be-
yond the confines of their native county
There is no doubt that this travelling -fea-
ture, which brings them in continual con-
tact with others accounts largely for the
intelligence and acuteness of the western
people as a class, and imbues them with an
amplitude of vim and progressiveness.
The rush for homesteads, tree claims, &C.,
TO the western part of this State and Kan
SOS and thence into Colorado, has about
subsided-the best Of the land is taken.
But the excitement for land was intense
four years ago. When the land craze was
at its heighth l was forcibly reminded OF
the great oil craze in western Pennsylvania
twenty years ago, and the subsequent slate
fever craze in eastern Pennsylvania. The
Iii. L.. Tr1f
will in the near future be thrown open for
settlement and when that time arrives there
will be rush for the occupancy of those
lands heretofore unprecedented. As soon
as everything else is settled it will require
q proclamation act of President Harrison
before the people dare occupy it. Abroad
a large population is awaiting this prom
ised land. 1t is said the hot winds of wes-
region, and when the virgin prairie soil is
once broken up there and luxurant crops
cover the vast area, the much to be dreaded
hot winds will be thing of the past. Dur.
winds, so destructive to vegetation, have
been experienced in Nebraska, but before
Kansas was so generally occupied, settler.
here suffered similarly. Hot winds, o
, western Kansas was almost roasted by their
In 1888. These drawbacks cannot alwny!
exist and there can be no question but tha
this beautiful and inexhaustibly rich sol
! wil, in 1ass than q nra rt ar of a coptnru no u,
annually splendid crops. When the stroni
prairie sod is once overturned and the tre
claim plan of the government has been sue
I cessfully accomplished. it is augured as
scientific Tesnlt that there will be suci
e climatic changes as to give this Who'll
/ prairie country copious rains at the prope
q times. 1t is a self-evident fact to ever
A christian at least, that Providence neve
e designed country so grandiy beautiful an
composed of soil unexcelled in fertility Of
the face of the globe to lay forever a barrel
n waste. The benifcent Creator will in du
}. time bring about all the necessary changes
o so that this once pronounced desert "sha
s rejoice and blossom like rose" and smil
e in luxuriant produc:iveness under the be
. nign influences of Providence's inscrutabl
+ dispensations.
Il The past winter has been the mildest an
d, pleasantest 1 ever experienced in my lif'
8 II was SO singularlY free from blizzard
e wind storms and extreme cold that one a
n most felt here in Nebraska like dwelling
the genial atmosphere of a southern clim,
B. We had few SHOWS of reasonable deptl
e that fell unaccompanied by wind, aud col
" sequently covered mother earth as even
p as could be desired. Aside from this
ii was balmy sunshine all last fall and winte
y The roads remained as even and smooth I
20 a race course, SO that a stranger living wit
al us the past winter could not help but fail
Ie love with Nebraska.
lie AS native of the Keystone State, / a.
y heartily glad that its present Legislatul
Of has voted in favor of submitting the pr
d. aibitory amendment, 20 that the questic
c. will now 60 before the people for ratific
u tion or rejection. l would like to see Il
a. q. prohibition forces rally and put the de
ne old State in throes and commissions uni
Id the election day in June, so that the pc
~ ~ Pile may become educated and enllghten'
in to vote for God, home and native Ian
d. Our Nebraska Legislature has also adopt'
a submissive prohibitory amendment, b
according 10 our State constitution Il
question cannot come before the people t
the fall of 1890. We have an old gram
of Republican Governor here in Nebrasl
er who, although he was nominated on
w promissory submission platform, and W
ol- elected with the belief that he would She