Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-01-15

4 gentleman living in Kentucky
writes asking some advice. He lives
on forty acre farm the soil of which
is none too good. lie has wife and
twelve children, all under age. He says
that it is hard "oy TN % ;.G..c l:v
ing from this poor little piece Of land
and wants us to tell him where to go
so that he can better his condition. He
can scrape up about $1,000 to start
with somewhere else. 1t is delicate
business attempting to advise man
so situated, and about all we feel like
doing is to state a few facts for his
consideration In the first place, we
notice that southern bred people sell
dom feel at home in the nOrth-less so,
we think than northern people who
seek homes i'm the southland for this
reason it would not seem best for our
friend to seek home in the north or
northwest. 1t would look as though
with such family he would be spe-
cially well fixed to get hold of a truck
farm in the south, where early yege-
tables and berries could be produced
for the northern market. There are
much profit ana reasonable safety and
certainty in this business, which is be-
ing developed at a rapid rate in North
Carolina and many of the Atlantic
formed that 4 very fair quality of land
-timbcrcd- can lie bought on easy
terms contiguous to lines Of railway
and tiat Tie three crops Gf strawber-
rics, potatoes and string beans can be
raised and put on the eastern markets
so early that more clean money can be
made from twenty-five acres in such
crops than can lee made off the best
eighty acre farm in the west. \ man
with such n family has no right to so
locate that his children will be de
priycd of all cduCa tiOnal advantages,
and frontier location too often in
wolves this. There are other good loca
tionS in Louisiana and Arkansas
where fruit raising and poultry keep
| ing could bc made very profitable. The
| trouble is that men situated just as our
! friend is do ret know just where to go,
| anu lfl all N'l' - ~ Nll N'll''l w N'hi1
advise s"udiu@ for all the literature
| which can l." obtained descriptive Of
! those localities where land is cheap
| This literature may bc obtained of the
passenger. or land agents of any of the
railways. Of the state land commits
sioncrs or state auditors-in fact, al
lncst any citizen will give information
| touching his locality when written to
! Get all this information together, then
! decide where 10 look first and make 4
personal inspection. The chances are
that you will thus find the place yor
r"ck.
The Hawaiian as a Diver.
The working crews of the Hawaiian
| Islands were quartCrCd in suitable
camps near their field of labor. They
were natives, good fellows, willing
workers, admirably adapted to the
| duty required of them, which was
| largely in boats and in the water. |
well remember one who cXcclled in
diving. On Il certain occasion, when
the placing of Il deep water mooring
had just been accomplished, it became
necessary to dctach under water the
end of Il hawscr, which had been made
fast to the submerged part of Il spar
buoy about forty or fifty feet below
the surface of the sea The man was
told to take his sheath knife down
with him and cut the hawscr as near
its end as he could. so as TO lose as
Iittln &c noSsiblp of thp Vg Ina blp On bile
| Taking his knife in his teeth, he dis
appeared beneath the water and re,
maincd out of sight so long that he
was almost given up for lost, when
he suddenly rcappcared, and on being
asked if he had cut the hawser as he
had been told to reported that he had
unbent it without cutting off any part
of it whatcver.-Jamcs ID. Hague In
Century.