Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-15
NORTH DAKor.

AavhAc Oil u small amount
oi money which is the chief canse
~ 80 many people going there
Like elsewhere some succeed
Ihey tell some fabulous tb;n1s
aDont that far away land of three
months Of summer, where it is not
warm enough in twelve months tn
produce a roasting ear. Those
who have been there saw # 10
remarkably fertile for the raising
OF wheat and oats and some other
things, and that the length of a
summer day is from three O'Clock
In the morning till ten O'Clock at
night, all day light, and that in
the winter, the day light is from
ten In the morning to three in the
afternoon, and the thermometer
goes down to 45 degrees below zero.
sometimes, but isn't colder than
when at zero in Pennsylvania.
The billiards. are so fierce that a
farmer can't see from his house to
ms barn, and to keep from getting
lost during the time of a blizzard
when he goes out he ties one end
OF a rope to his house and the other
to himself so that he can be pulled
IN out of the cold that isn't colder
than in Pennsylvania. That you'll
go out on plain when the sun is
shining and in an hour after the
pesky storm is so dense that YOU
become lost and are wanderer all
that night, or perchance frozen
icicle the next day when your
friends find you. 1t is a place
where double windows and doors
are necessary, at the same time so
genial for horses and cattle that
they take care of themselves all
winter. 1t is a grand place.
Seven months in the year the peO-
pie do nothing but hole themselves
in their houses and wait till the
summer comes again. OF course
they must have their house well
stocked with provisions and fuel.
That seven months rest makes
them anxious for work, and one
man and a team of horses does
more work in a day than he'll do
i'll old Pennsylvania in six days.
The ground freezer to the depth of
ten to twelve feet, and that insures
an abundance OF ice water at all
times in the year. The wells are
all sunk below the ice. They be-
gin blowing in the early summer.
Just as soon as enough ground has
been thawed TO enable Il furrOw
to be made by a plOw. The ground
from one season to another remains
frozen at certain depth, and
that insures Il constant evaporation
that gives the crops moisture to
grow between the frOsts that come
every month in the year. The
society is first class, with the vari-
atiOns, there are noble .Ien and
women there, as elsewhere, and
the variations may be learned from
the statement that at a meeting in
a church in one of the towns,
wag at the door shouted, here
comes the sheriff, which caused
half the men to jump out of the
window and many women to
scream. But time and space pre-
vents further continuance of the
delightful subject of the winter
delights and advantages of resi-
dence in North Dakota. The sum
mer season has its delights and
advantages in many respects over
the winter. OF course if it were
not for the summer, life in winter
time would be impossible, subsist-
ance would have to come from
some place else than Dakota. The
activities of nature in summer are
marvellous. Things that grow there
and develOpe do so with rush,
things are scarcely planted till they
are grown and harvested. Sowing,
harvesting and threshing seem to
come in a bunch, and great deal
of money is made by threshing.
But it is land of wonderful eXag
eratiOns. 1t has not yet been de-
termined whether only eXageratOrs
move there. but some how every
thing that comes from that country
seems to be tainted with eXager
alton. Even the accounts of the
number and variety and strength
of insects of that country are eXag-
Grated, which may be learned of a
man who returning from there and
spoke of the mosquitoes. You may
think that Just because you have
spent a summer in the New'Jersey
lOwlands you know something
about mosquitoes, but unless you
have lived beside a Dakota slough
-''slew," they call it out there
YOU haven't an idea what mOsqui-
toes can be. Nobody in that for
lOrn land attempts to sit out of
doors in the evening without the
protection OF the smoke from a
..smudge' fire. However, as to
the story the gentleman from
North Dakota tells. He was out
on his farm one day, when sudden
| ly he was taken by a cloud of mos
quitOes. For protection he crawl
ed under a big iron soap kettle.
Even that gave him inadequatepro
lection, for one by one the mOsqui-
toes bored through the kettle till the
! inside br;stled with their-what
do YOU call them, by the way! their
bills, their stings-their-well, },
their sine qua mons, one may say.
But the congressman was prepared.
Taking a small sledge hammer