The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24

alphabet is too limited This part of the
country belongs to laws unknown TO the
United States, but which obtain all the
world over, to the New England story and
the ladies who write it. You feel this in
the air es soon as you see the whitc-painted
wooden houses left out on the snow, the
austere schoolhouse, and the people, the
men of the farms, the women who work as
hard as they, with, it may be, less enjoy
ment of lite, the other houses, we'll
painted and quantity rooted; that belong
10 Judge This, Lawyer That aud Banker
Such-anOne, all powers in the giddy
metropolis of 6,G0O folk over there by the
railway station. More acutely still do you
realize the atmosphere when you read in
the local paper announcements of chicken
suppers" and church sociables" to be
given by such and such denomination, sand
wiched between paragraphs of genial and
friendly interest, showing that the country
side live land live without Staying each
other) on terms of terrifying intimacy.
The folk of the old rock the jewellers in
the older houses born and raised here
abouts, would not live cut of town for any
consideration; but there are insane people
from the south-men and women from Bos-
ton and the like-who actually build houses
out In the open country two and even
three miles away from Main street.
which is nearly 400 yards long and
With the strangers, more particularly il
they do not buy their groceries lin the
street, which means and is tie town, the
town has little TO do, but it knows every
thing and much more that goes on among
them. Their dresses, their cattle, their
views, the manners of their children, their
manner toward their servants, and every
other conceivable thing is reported, dI-
gested, discussed and rediscussed up and
down Main street. Now, the wisdom of
Vermont not being at all times equal
to grasping all the problems OF everybody
else's life with delicacy, sometimes makes
pathetic mistakes aud the town is set by
the ears. You see, therefore, that towns
of certain size do not materially differ all
the world over. The talk OF the men of
the farms is of their farms-purchase
mortgage ard sale, recorded rights, bound
airy lines and road tax. 1t was in the mid
die of New Zealand, on the edge OF the
Wild Horse plains, that | heard this talk
last, when q man and his wife, twenty
miles from the nearest neighbor, set up
half the night discussing just the same
things that the men talked CT in Main
street, Vermont, U. S. a, in almost the
same words.
There is one man in the state now who is
much exercised over this place. He is a
farm hand. raised in hamlet fifteen or
twenty miles from the nearest railway and.
greatly daring he has wandered here. The
hustle and the turmoil of Main street, the
raw glare of the electric lights, and the
five stored brick business block brighten
and distress him much. He has taken
service on a farm, well away from these
delirious delights, and, says he: 'l've been
offered S25 month to work in a bakery at
New York. But you cont get me to no
New York. l've seen this place an it lust
scares me-" His strength is in the draw
ing of hay and the feeding of cattle.
Winter life on q farm does not mean the
comparative idleness that is so much
written Of Each hour seems to have Its
sixty minutes of work; for the cattle are
housed and eat externally; the colts must
be turned out for their drink, and the
ice broken for them if necessary; then
ice must be stored for summer use.
and then the real work of hauling
logs for firewood begins New England
depends for its fuel upon the woods. The
trees are "blazed' just before the fall of