The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-02-25

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A. H. LOGAN, Manager.
There are quite number of nephews
and neices of the deceased living in the
locality and the nearest living blood rel
ative there is half brother now about
seventy years of age. They are all
people of the highest character and
greatly respected by their neighbors.
From Boston we took short run to
Bucksport, Me. where we born (several)
years ago and where present acquaint-
ance after so many years absence is
naturally rather limited, but we found
few survivors of the distant past and
enjoyed nenewing the old friendships.
We also had brief visit with some
relatives in Maine and about Boston.
We also spent pleasant evening with a
friend at Boston to whom we had said
goodbye over forty years ago in Valpa-
raiso, Chilli, then hard-up sailor boy
of about twenty and now one of the
solid men of his native city.
1 JoTTINGs BY THE WAY.
The New Englander is no longer lean,
Elong and gaunt. He is getting round
faced and chubby. He wears bus-
ness air and is full of his business.
The peculiar dialect of New England,
though the native tongue of this way
.farer, was very noticeable. A boy went
through the train calling his wares for
sale among which he loudly and persis
tanty emphasized "Pi 'p' M is" which
is New England for pepperments. No
down-east Yankee even dying with
thirst could ever ask for drink of
water, he would insist on having "watah."
On the other hand he would use the "r''
that he saved from the water as an ad-
dition to his ':idea-r''
The dwelling houses of the rural 10 xns
everywhere are more than double the
size on an average than in similar
western towns. Most of them are
equipped with blinds and often the
house is painted white and the blinds
green. Mos of them show oldtashion-
ed building but are kept freshly painted.
But when one does find an unpainted
structure Like barn then the age is
plainly shown by the moss and dark
tcolors caused by the prevalent moisture.
The great,amount ofwaste landstrikes
the westerner. Here, though the land
may be unoocupied it still looks as If it
might at least produce and does produce
hay il nothing else. There the land is
all fenced into small fields from one to
ten acres, but the western man wonders
why they are fenced at all unless to
keep stray cattle from wandering in and
starving to death.
But 1t is pretty, and in that way looks
good to US who see but fiat prairies.
Now just an item about farming.
When in Bueksport, we met a young
man at the hotel who had jmst returned
from Boston where he had been selling
his crop of potatoes for thirty-fve cents
q bushel. We asked him about the
methods of cultivation there and he
told US that most of his neighbors put
S35 worth Of fertilizer per aero
on their lands but he had used $3.50 on
his own farm that year. Just think of
that you North Dakota farmers who
have land that newer needs fertilizers
and that you would perhaps sell for less
money. He said also that Re could
raise crop of oats ON the same land
this season and by also sowing grass
seed with the oats and plowing' in the
grass the following year that he could
get another crop Of potatoes without
more fertilizer. Which Of course would
be letting the land idle one year. It is
almost needless to add that we told him
Of q much better proposition for raising
potatoes than the method he wastpursu-
ing.
The big cities with their rushing
crowds, noisy cars, dense smoke and
vast varieties Of smells arc good places
for the country fellow to 60 to and SEQ
how the other half Of the world live and
die, but week OF, two is enough for ono
time. A big department store Is fine
place % find : variety and usually cheap
prices, but q the stranger tho process
Of wandering oil over several asras oe
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