Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-08-11

1t, and sinks as suddenly out of sight
with such glorious sunsets, / feel as
though | can not take in enough Of
their beauty. The days are hot, but
the deicously cool breezes that come
from the mountains, skipping over
the foot hills and plains Of North
Dakota and Mimi, kiss the nodding
piumes of the ripening grain until
farther than the eye can reach the
vast wheat fields become "bilowv
bays rolling in sunshine and shadow. g"
A single hot day with no cool breeze
might greatly damage the wheat crop.
The eye becomes accustomed to see
ing objects at long distances here like
/ sailors on the ocean. Sometimes in
early morning the mirage shows Us
villages and timber claims twenty
miles away, and occasionally the hills
Of Dakota. The headlights Of en-
/ glnes can sometimes be seen twenty
miles. The air is dry and bracing.
and residents say that they can en-
dure a temperature of 10 degrees
with less suffering here than we can
20 degrees in Vermont. Much of
the land is owned by capitalists in
the cities and by eastern banks. The
farmers have to pay 10 per cent in
terest on their loans, and in default
of single payment the whole be-
comes due. Yet with all these draw
backs there are some extensive land
owners. One neighbOr has a thous-
and acres of wheat. Dalrymple of
Dakota has $4,000 acres, yet he be-
gan with but one shilling in his pocl-
ct. The expense of harvesting is
great, so much and SO expensive ma
chinery is needed, so many teams
and men during the season, and no
work in the winter months. Every
wise man has his crop insured against
hail and lightning, which fact shows
that silver cloud may have a dark
lining. But such a soil 1t would
make the heart of the New England
farmer leap for Joy, and their "fields
laugh with abundance. Everything
grows so rapidly. This year, the
first of June, the fields were bare and
dry, now so beautiful. O, the wild
roses Roses grow every where in the
cultivated and wild lands. The coun-
try is full of beautiful lakes, evident
ly the remains of larger bodies Of wa
ter. Some cultivated lands were,
only eight years ago, lakes of consid-
cradle size and depth. Every town
ship has SO sections, and every 10th
and Both are school lands, which eX-
plains why teachers can be paid bet
ter than with US. The principal VIII
lage does not take the name of the
township as in New England. Her
man is a village IN the town Of Logan.
Norcross of Carton.
We find many New Englanders
here, whose longing eyes look loving
ly towards our beautiful hills and
lovely valleys, vet have no desire to
return for permanent homes. Though
so many nationalities are here-Nor-
wegians, Swedes, Russians, Germans,
English and American-they are all
brothers, quick to feel each others
grief; quick TO lend helping hand.
What about the "big Winds" You
ask? As we left st. Paul the news
came that Fargo was all wiped .
out by cyclone, but as we nearcd /
the scene of desolation the facts were
less frightful. The next came a cy-
clone in Vermont with all the attend .
ant horrors a few days later a terri .
bic disaster to a Sunday excursion .
boat below St. Paul, Mimi, July p; /
while at Elbow Lake, the county seat .
of Grant County, fierce storm came .
up, of wind and rain and hail, which .
again spent its strength near Fargo;
a terrific thunder storm at Norcross,
when the heavens were sheet of
flame and the thunder like a regiment
of artillery; then later, two cyclones
near Lawrence, Mass. All these
caused me to feel that "the wind
bloweth where it listeth," and safety
is only of the Lord.
The people have learned to read
the signs of coming danger, and tho
they tremble with fear, preserve a
calm exterior. During a fierce wind
storm one lady, with her children,
was frightened and said to her hus
band that She thought best to take
shelter in the cellar. lie calmly re-
piled, "Wait until I've eaten my sup
per"
When | left home | thought ] was
going West. but | find | am only on
the borderland. The veritable West
is only where the sunsets are.
A. b. O.
Jamaica Ginger is nowhere, beside Johnson's
Anodyne Lniment for all summer troubles.
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