Morris tribune., 1911-09-08
VISITS OLD HOME.
FIX. Deming Writes of Scenes
i'm the East.

While visiting in Connecticut, my
native state. in the month OF July and
other points where my ancestors once
dwelt, l jotted down the events and
the things that came to my obserVa
tion daily in my memorandum book
and if you think at this late hour the
news is worth reading, you may give
it publication.
To visit the state and to sleep IN
the very house where you first saw
the light of day no tongue or pen can
describe your feelings or emotions
that come over you. Your mind is
filled with thoughts of your boyhood
days. We never expected to meet
many people that we kneW-tho l
met a few of them-that were boys
and girls when I was a boy. Many
of the enterprising ones went west
many years ago to help build up that
vast domain that Uncle Sam has CIV
en- to them so bountifully. Some of
them have made good, while others
have failed, like many others in the
human family. We visited an an
cient burial ground (for there are
many of them in the New England
States) under Canaan mountain,
where many of our ancestors that
bear our name, that dates back as
far as 1895. With solemn respect,
with hat in hand and under the shadow
of this vast mountain, we read the
various epitaphs inscribed upon their
tombstones of those who are now
sleeping the sleep of the just, that
knows no awaking until that last call
when all shall arise before the judg-
ment seat of God. These ancient
sepulchres are. sadly neglected but
it matters not to them. They were
brought up under the environments OF
a country that required bone.
muscle and sinew to build up. courage
which many of the New England peo-
ple inherited from the defendants of
the Pilgrim Fathers that moored their
bark on a storm beaten New England
coast. so we'll known to every school
boy who has studied the pages of
American History.
The price of land in many parts of
these colonial states has no value,
and why is this? Forty years ago or
more, thousands of acres fell into the
hands of spectators and the manlpu-
lators of land when emigration moved
westward. 1t has been tenanted out
year after year, robbed of its fertil-
ity without restoring any of nature S
requirements to keep the soil in
productive condition. Such will be
the fate of our western land, unless
we are able to meet with the obstacles
that have destroyed many an eastern
home.
We have three distinct classes of
people regardless of nationality. 1st.
that class that congregate in large
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ing at the entrance of their home.
End, class that are constantly on
the move like the Arabs, looking for
that Ell Dorado they will never find ::
this class belong to the railroad COM
panies and spectators, ready to
move at the first bugle call, when
one starts the rest will follow to that
land where the winters are not too
long and summer too short, where
there is perpetual money making and
no adverse conditions 3rd, the class
that are bread winners, that stay in
one locality and build for themselves
and their children homes. If they
have good crops they rejoice and are
happy, if their crops are poor. make
the best of it. solve the problems of
nature in the community where they
live and in the end accomplish what
they have aimed to do. This class
furnish the commodities of life for
the other two and being in the minor