The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-09-12
NORTH DAKOTA.
No State Is Her Equal in
Prosperity, Healthful
Climate and Pro-
gressive People. .

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on. Thousands and hundreds of
thousands of acres Of golden grain
is gone down under the steady
march Of the self hinder. North
Dakota is one of the greatest states
in the Union. She raises more
wheat to the acre than any state,
she raises the best quality Of wheat
that millers can buy, AMI her wheat
brings the biggest price. Of course
North Dakota is laughed at some.
Eastern papers sheer at the "Pe-
runa Belt" and often cartoon the
North Dakota farmer with a five
gallon jug in his hand, asking the
druggist to fill her up-got the
tooth acher!' But in spite Of sum-
tuary legislation, North Dakota is
probably the most prosperous state
in the Union, her people have good
crops, plenty Of money, good health
and the enterprise that is not sur
passed anywhere in the world. It
is this time of the year when North
Dakota welcomes tens of thousands
Of strangers, men from the east and
from the south to help harvest the
crops. Foot ball players, store
clerks, preachers sons, college grad
yates, foundrymen, lumber jacks,
and men in every walk and condi-
ton Of life are here saving the
crops, and every one goes back
home with a tale of wonder and adj
miration for North Dakota. They
all do a good days work, they get
a good price for it, they eat three
hearty meals a day, and sleep like
infants in ther mothers arms.
They put on flesh and muscle and
the ozone of the atmosphere makes
them glad to be alive. The North
Dakota harvest fields are better
tonics than the sea shore and surer
health builders than the mountain
resorts. Blistered hands and ach-
ing limbs are temporary and signs
that these men from the east are
truly men, and a large percentage
will one day be permanent and
prosperous inhabitants of the state.
In North Dakota the farm hand is
reused from slumber at from four
to five o'clock in the morning. He
gets a good breakfast of ham, eggs
and spring chicken, coffee and
bread that nowhere in the Union.
can be excelled. The air is cool
and invigorating-then as the day
warns and the reaping and bind
ing, shocking and stacking goes
merrily on until dinner and from
dinner until at night one of life's
greatest pleasures is to eat ones
supper at dusk so hungry that ev-
erything tastes as good as though
fashioned by more than human
hands. And sleep! nights always
cool, always restful, always free
from storms. No wonder the spin
die legs Of eastern boys grow TO
tund and shapely, no wonder that
narrow chests grow broad and
manly, white skins brown and
healthy. The experience of one
harvest season in North Dakota
makes everyone homesick for an
other. The boundless, fruitful prai-
RE has a charm that every harvest
hand acknowledges. He wants to
return and thousands do return,
many permanently. The story Of
a great state is being written these
happy, pleasant harvest days. A
thousand harvest hands will go
eastward and southwark in a few
months, all missionaries, praising
the fairest land their eyes have
ever Toasted on. Be good to the
stranger. By being good, we mean
be happy, cheerful and smiling.
He will work all the better under
smiling eyes and hearty laughter.
And when he goes, bid him come
again and stay longer.-Litchville
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