Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-03-12

ItihuNtbI hitof uVe years ABSENCE IN VRrl-
Gus sections Of the far Wild West. Doubt
less few words In regard to the much
"boomed" and over-rated advantages of
the West, may he Of interest TO many
who have never visited that country west
OF the Missouri river. Perhaps this may
catch the eye Of some one who, like my
self, has been deceived by the highly
colored literature and reports, issued by
western railroad companies, to lure peo-
pie away from comfortable homes. The
American people are naturally rest
less, as have seen miners in Montana
have good gold diggins, when they were
making three dollars day, pack up and
travel over barren and deeoate country
for five hundred miles, on a mere flying
report OF great gold discovery. 50 II Is
no wonder that when people read the
printed matter Issued by those western
corporations, everything being figured
out to certainty, it all looks so rose
tinted that one eees at once fortune
within their grasp. After spending a
few months in Missouri, l passed into
Ksneas; the country was far poorer than
what expected.
To sum it all up, Kansas can raise
corn, that is, when che IL blessed with
good season and the drouth does not
kill It; but when ] think Of her poor
water and her terribly hot August days,
her blizzards and sand storms, | say, let
poor Kansas bleed but | don't care to
leave any OF my blood there; no, not
even enough to ill one of their seven by
nine mosquitoes. | saw many line farms
with good substantial buildings, but
many more sod houses with very poor
SURROUNDINGS. A small creek Will rice to
| lao 80 a., L.,
hours without drop of rain. Large
numbers of Texan cattle are driven to
Kansas TO he fattened on corn before
being shipped to market. BY sinking a
well from 100 to go feet, they say good
water can he found. Fuel OF all kinds lie
very scarce aud consequently brings very
high prices; wolves and dog-towns are
still quite plenty. Before saying good by
to Kansas, | cannot but recount one In
stance d at came under my observation,
and II Is oRly one of many singular cases.
In the upper portion of the State passed
a plight with a family by the name OF
Smalley; after a supper composed OF
bacon, bread and what passes In that
country under the name Of tea, Mrs.
Smalley informed me that they had been
On the same farm for the past four years.
She and her husband bGiOe induced to
leave their pleasant and happy home 10
Pennsylvania, where they owed no man a
dollar, aud where their little farm and
all belonging to It was all their very own;
besides they had come money In the bank.
When made Mrs. Smalley's acquaint-
ance, she was a pale, delicate hollow
checked woman. Her health had been
completely wrecked by years of hard in
ceeeaut work and grief caused BY the
loss OF her two children The farm stock
and all the farming machinery was fully
mortRaged Tor its iull value on which
they had been paying is per cent. inter
est up to last year, and that all they
could now call their own, was few ar
ticles OF furniture In the house and their
clothes. The TO lowing Spring they con-
templated giving mp everything and NOV.
ing to Dakota, here Mr.. SmGlley had a
brother. III the morn ne, when ! babe
them good bye and taking the poor and
feeble hand of that worthy woman In
niue, | thought her lie Of unhappiness
and suffering WAS drawing TO close, and
that loug bfiore the Spring time she
would be resting beside her two dead
children, thousands of miles from all her
kindred. Her poor husband could then
continue on still further West, alone IL
the world, health ami property all gone
I
cali him husband or fdhher. II was in.
deed sad case. Bstoi c leaving the house
although against their wish, | drop
ped two silver dollars on the tab,
TO pay for my fare, thinking, had
l only the mystic power to change each
one of those dollars into as many thou
sands, what n comfort 1t would have been
10 them and what a happy man It would
have made OF me. 1t was many hours
before big lump would go down my
throat; II seemed to hand and stick there
just as hard boiled egg would If you
gulped It down whole at railroad res
taurant, If the train you intended taking
should start unexpectedly and you had
to make run for It.. II all reports arc
true there are thousands of families IN
Kansas who are not as well oil to-day, az
regards this worlds goods as when they
first entered the State.
For the past two years Thousands oil
people have rushed TO Oregon for nc
other reason except that Oregon was hay.
ing boom. oregan has thou ands Of
miles Of fge prairie lands, interspers.d
with great belts of timber, streams thai
are navlRable for the largest vessels fol
many miles, vast agricultural Il Ida and
mountains of precious metals, with 8
climate so warm aud sticky that the PEG
Pile have but little or no desire for manua
labor. The cities are crowded with emf
grants, men, women and children, home.
less and destitute, their money ali Ronf
aud work for the men hard TO procure
Should good fortune emile upou them
and they are able IN save little money,
they migrate to come other far OF vision
OF greener fields and pastures new.
Oregon is good place for capitalists tc
invest their money, but no place for q
poor man. They have more rain 10 the
square mile IN Oregon than any country
under the sun and / sm half Inclined
to believe that could you pull the boots
of the feet of some OF the old inhRbi
tants you would find them to be web.
footed.
Gentle reader, If you have grudgt
f against any man and his family, aud you
wish TO get square with him, let me give
you pointer-don't go to lS-w, because Il
will cost you money; don't Use bad lam
Fuage, because II don't sound well-just
skip home, draw up your writing mate.
rails and send letter to any one of thu
many land agents of any railroad In
Dakota, simply telling them that yor
think your friend contemplatss going
West, and they will shower upon hin
reading matter by the bushfs; he will
: also RI ceive call from some of tholI
travelling agents, and 1t is ten to one tina
In SIX months time he viii sell out and
move to Dakota; ard II he and bis iamil,
can manage 10 live the first winter with
out freezing, the second winter will likcl,
wipe them out. A correspondent to the
Philadelphia Times, now in that Ter
ritory, thus truthfully describes the bllz