Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-25

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oaf6eficaiiy: DO you think America
should treat her English cousins so,
and at the same time receive with
out question or protest thousands of
unskilled and ignorant foreigners?"
Here, also, were two returned by
the government officials as demented,
and so unfit for acceptance by our
country. Again, a young Swede,
several years in America, workman
in chair factory in Massachusetts,
| is en- route to Finland for a six
months stay in search of health,
leaving wife and child behind.
But the failures are the exceptions
to the rule. Here is a young English
man, a painter by trade, native of
Stratford, who informed me with some
pride that he had done" Shakes
peare's house just before he came to
America. He also assured me that
his sister was a servant in the home
of Miss Corelli, the well-known nov
lelist. He is going back to England to
stay till after Christmas" and is
dressed from head to toe in manner
calculated to cause considerable ex-
citemcnt in staid old Stratford.
A Polish farmer, with a wife and
child IN Poland. the owner of a farm
of IS acres burdened with a mortgage
decided three years ago to leave his
loved ones and try his fortune in far
famed America. He is returning now.
bringing his sheaves with him." for
he has paid the mortgage and is
eagerly returning to join his family in
his fatherland. He informed me that
he did not expect to return to
America. With his farm clear of in
cumbrance, his beloved but ensIaved
Poland was good enough for him. He
might well say: America is a good
country" He said in broken English.
America is good country for
young man, but bad place for an old
man." Perhaps he was right.
A young Irishwoman, sent to an
aunt in America when a child, is now
returning to her parents, bringing her
Massachusetts-bOrn husband with ner.
He is a prosperous young merchant,
and left the arrangements for the trip
in the hands of his wife as one ex-
perienced in ocean travel. Why
should the thrifty Irish girl, who went
out steerage 10 years ago, waste
money on the style Of the second
cabin?
Here is a bTight-faced, rosy-cheeked
Swede girl, for year or more a resi-
dent Of the Back Bay as second girl.
She likes Boston very naturally, we
all remarl). She is going to visit her
parents, who are farmers in Sweden.
With her a young Swedish workman
from Denver, with the western noun
tain atmosphere in his voice and talk,
is returning for a visit. He rebuked a
fellow-Swede, returning from visit
to his sons in Minneapolis, for daring
to express his opinion of America, by
saying: why. you haven't seen
America at all, if you've only been as
far as Minneapolis"
Last, is en- old Irishman, for over 90
years a resident of the new world.
He is 70 years of age. but straight and
strong as a man of 90. He is making
his first and last trip to his birth
place. He told the simple but heroic
story of his life:' Il have always been
a laboring man." said ne, ''but have
saved my money, accumulated prop
erty, and educated my son for the
priesthood" l asked him why he had
succeeded where so many fail. and he
said: "For two reasons; first, / have
let drink alone; and, second, have
always been faithful to every duty as
signed me-" Although entirely IN
schooled. he was most interesting and
intelligent in his conversation upon
the political and commercial affairs
of the day. When he found that was