Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-07-24
A GLORIOUS PLACE.
Southampton Becoming a FASH
iOnable Summer Resort
Its Superior Natural
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
From White.
Correspondence of the Ledger.


July 1--we came East over the
Chicago & Atlantic R. R. via Chi
cago and return the Vandalla route.
This gives us a chance to see
some of the finest scenery in the
United States. The more we travel
and the better acquainted we be-
come with the country the better
we like Missouri as home. We
overheard a very interesting con-
versation in the cars near Boston
a day or SO ago.
The conversation was carried on
by an Eastern, mi-Western, and
Western man. The one tells how
in the country denominated "away
down East" by the Western men, a
farm of a hundred acres, more or less,
having good houses and barnes,
fences, and an abundance of good
firewood, can be purchased for a
few hundred dollars; in fact, for
less than the improvements cost.
This is not the case in this section,
as the city people are buying here
for summer cottages. He tells us
that the farms are deserted be-
cause the young have gone West to
grow up with the country, and the
old are quietly passing away. He
tells us that many of these places
are veritable spots of beauty, the
surrounding scenery superb, and
that only the bone and sinew OF
young and ambitious manhood and
womanhood are needed to make the
country blossom as in the old days.
He also tells us that advantage is
being taken of this state of affairs to
colonlze foreigners on these desert
ed farms. We wonder if all this
is true, and if so why do the young
people 60 West VIXEN the East
affords such inducements. Ifsuch
be the case, then would Horace
Greely's advice be reversed, for ii
should be "Go East, young man.
and grow up with the country"
In connection with this I might
repeat a little story once heard.
Some Western men were once
travelling through the hills of New
Hampshire and Vermont, and
stopping for few minutes at one
OF the stations, one of the party
engaged an old farmer in coversa'
ton. Said he: "Old gentleman,
do you manage to make living in
these hills?" After an affirmative
reply, the Westerner said that the
farmer should sell out and move to
Kansas, where, without so much
hard work, he could soon save
enough to make him independent
EYES," replied the farmer, "I've
heard all about that !; in fact, I've
saved enough, farming these hills
to get mortgages on several o.
those good farms in Kansas. p
"But," said the Western man.
"the farmers of Kansas throw away
more in the course of the year than
you can possibly raise in this
country" EYES," replied the ole
farmer, "and if they did not waste
SO much, probably l could get my
interest more regular.
The other tells of the Centra
States, where fortunes are made il
increased land values, where the
young men who have left the oldel
States have attained enviable posi-
tions in the broad acres where uset
to be the great American Desert
and where little further on, th'
mountains are made to give VI
their golden treasures, and th'
mountain SHOWS are turned from
their swiftly running courses ant
guide through interminable sys
TENS OF canals to water rich land
which give forth bountifully of tn
kind to which they are sown. ID
also tells of the encroachment o
the farmer upon the great cattl
interests, and that gradually tn
immense pastures are being cut u
into farms, and that instead of tn
; weekly brawl of cowboys reckles
in daring, there are being erecte
temples for worship and school
for learning. And again the othel
being resident of California, tell
of the orchards of lemons an
oranges, with their burdens c
golden fruit, where a man who ha
ten acres of bearing orchard has a
income sufficient to provide all th
!, comforts of life. The great field
, of alfalfa and small grains provid
J the food for thousands of domesti
| animals, and the fruits of th
, State are seen in the tar Ea'
} wherever canned goods are used.
l This is truly great country-t'
great country. We have an ide
+ that God has intended this countr
as the last and this government th
3 best, perhaps. There is no mol
country to be discovered and whe
He has worked out His purpos
here, then what? The milleniun
! perhaps. How many east or ives
: north or south, are preparing fl
the great change which will surel
!, come, to some sooner than other
g This is busy, busy world, but '