Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-08-03


duction and beef. pork and wool exports,
and wind up with rounded sentences
about our "vast natural resources. Well.
they are vast everything about the Da.
Gotas is vast. There is nothing narrow
or contracted within their borders--cX.
cept the currency.
I remember we'll all the horrors that did
loom up before my vision when emigration
to Dakota was first proposed. What! Go
out there to live on the prairie without q
tree to shelter your head from the MONDAY
sun, or any fruit in your garden, and mile
from neighbors, and miles and miles from a
doctor And then tramps and Indians!
Never
But tho fever wnxed hotter in Mr. Bark-
er's" veins. and he declared that nothing
but change of climate would cure him. He
was too good man to die off prematurely,
and gradually ceased to protest.
Whit a revelation awaited us! The miles
and miles Of billowy prairie coaxing the
vision into doeper distances than it had ever
strayed before; tho bluffs shimmerng in the
may htuAObPuCtc VI luuuu Luo
lonesome cry of the coyote at evening" and
tho jackrabbit with his ludicrous gallop, all
were new and strange. And then tho won.
derful quality of the prairie air, which was
constantly affording surprises! In the morn
ing, when the dawn is yet gray, the early
riser is rewarded by one of the most
beautiful things in nature--the mirage,
You are tempted to yonder knoll for bet.
ter view; you 60 from point to point, drawn
on iresistibly by tho unwonted splendor
You trail through the dew and beds of wild
roses, stirring up perfumes that excel Lund-
borg 8; you revel in the morning air Us in a
| most refreshing bath; you outstay your
| time and 60 back OF length to breakfast and
your humdrum du ties with an intoxicating
| sense Of q new lease of life. These morning
treats are worth getting up for, and they
usually augur n fine day. The languor
which we used to feel on n sultry morning
in the east is q total stranger here. The
dry, crisp Dir is more invigorating than u
draught of wine, and cure in itself of pull
monary diseases in the earlier stages.
This is not sport of fancy, but sober
fact During q residence of twelve years
we have not heard of any one dying of con-
| sumption who did not have it before coming
here, and many who had it then have COM
pletely recovered. A teacher in on Illinois
school, who annually comes to the Dakotas
to spend her VACATIONS complained of the
effect of the close, heavy air which struck
her noticeably upon going out Of the Dako-
tas. North Dakota lady who visited in
the east last year tells mo she was surprised
to find there 80 many sick people. She re.
allied then as never before how healthy we
are here in the woolly west Physicians
recommend the sun bath for invalids. Why?
Because the sunshine kills microbes The
disease germs die by thousands when ex-
posed to. the rays of the sun. This is why
our long winters, though cold, are so free
from catarrhal affectlons. coughs, colds and
fevers; the bright sunshine and the bracing
air effectually destroy the floating germs of
disease. We can be reconciled to some un.
pleasant contingencies for the sake of su-
perb health. "And what shall it profit
man if he gain the whole world and lose".-
his health? Jay Gould would no doubt have
sacrificed his millions for few years more
of life, with the ruddy health of cowboy or
plowman.
If we are in hurry to store our closets
with canned fruit. and have not the patience
to wait for it togrow,'we can raise chickens
enough to buy the fruit needed, Poultry
raising is profitable and healthful. moro SO
than broiling over hot fire in SUNNI er max
ing preserves and jellles.
The unshaded houses of these prairies are
as cool in summer as the tree-begirt dwell
ings Of the east. owing o'the1coo1 breeze
which is seldom absent. 1t is true we often
regard the wind as a drawback, but where is
the land without drawbacks? If anyone will
prove the existence of such place we will
emigrate think that Providence intended
these windy days for holidays. The average
farmer has far too few holidays When the
wind gets on spree and holds all out-d doors
in high pandemonium let our good man say,
'If it was raining as hard as it is blowing
would not work in the field to-day, SOL will
pretend that it is raining" Then let him
look over his accounts aud bills, read the
papers, rock the baby, or do the churning--
anything, in fact, except to whine about the
| COuulAy, dAu bcV uAu CAtAoluk ulS uhC, uuu
rub dirt into instead of out of his eyes, and
wade about the premises, making about as
much progress as chip on pail of water
Nature, as we know her, is full of freaks.
One day she frets and worries US with her
angry moods and the next she comes smil-
> ing and invites us out of doors, and pats and
r soothes and flatters us, and gets up the most
: wonderful exhibitions in sunset and rainbow
and northern lights until she woes us into
I an angelic mood, and we are ready to forgive
s oil her misconduct
f And then there are our delicious summer
a nights. A sister, after living several years
in the Dakotas, returned to Illinois. In q
{ letter she says: You can't think how
0 dreadfully hot it is here. In the Dakotas,
c no matter how warm the days. the nights
4 were always cool, but here they are almost
- as bad as the days. We do not get the
breeze as you do there. We get up in the
f morning almost as tired as when we went to
, bed" Indeed, people may sleep in the open
), air here without experiencing any graver re-
- suits than On astonishing appetite and gen.
e ereal toning up of the nervous system. AS
o to tramps and Indians, doubtless the latter
9 may be seen at the reservations, where they
are more civilized than some whites. Dur.
ing our sojourn here we have had but one
8 genuine tramp, who was sufocatingly po
l. lite, and, judging from his rotundity, he
:. could not sympathize with the New YorI
tramp who said that he was so thin that
J" when he had pain he couldn't tell whether
e it was In his stomach or in his back