Semi-weekly herald., 1914-04-20
his generatlon.

$50 ShSA6sAohs
Thsi side of Winnemucca we see
come irrigation. The soil is very
white, hoS fertile could not learn,
but the methods practiced are worthy
Of note, being different from those
used at home. Instead of running the
lateral bitches to conform with the
contours of the land, they run them
| in tangents, building dikes to carry
the water over low places. With a
machine they then divide the fields
into beds by throwing up ridges,
These they flood, allowing the water
to stand until it soaks away. Wheth-
er this method is easier of accom-
plishment; conserves water; prevents
erosion; or is betted adapted to this
particular soil, we could not find out.
Reverting to our advice to the
young man, it seems to be attribute
OF the American to not be satisfied
with places or conditions until he has
learned from experience. In this re-
spect he is different from the Euro
pean, who seems to know a good
thing when once possessed, and to be
content with good enough.
have been many places, many
times, and everywhere have found the
country or place, no difference under
what fanciful name it was known, to
consist of earth, in some places plen-
tiful, while in others like parts of
Florida, scarce, and of quality re-
quiring constant fertilization; of
houses or segregation of houses,
some better, others inferior; Of trees,
whether palms or cottonwood; of wa
ter in varying amounts and quality;
of hills, high or low; of valleys or
plains, narrow or broad; peopled
scarcely or densely, all striving in u
way, satisfactory or not, according to
the individual ability or inclination,
but not varying so much on account
of the locality as from the individual
qualifications, SO that no difference
where you go, you will succeed more
from knowing how and doing, than
where you go; earth is after all but
earth.
This eternal dissatisfaction is what
takes the boy and girl from the farm,
attracted by the glamor of the city,
and finally lands she or he in two
or three small boxes called apart
ments, but in an deliberately arched
front with the name of one of the
humble fishermen of Galilee with
SAINT prefxed carved over the en-
trance. But these modern monu-
ments erected to the memory of the
departed followers of the humble Ma
zarine, fill the longing of these young
people for a glitter, even though il
be twinkle and permit them in 6
way to ape the homes of millionaires,
by having their half-cooked food and
stale eggs hoisted to lift by mod
ern life, that requires but little eff
fort on the part of the doll he calls
wife, or the cigarette dude, he usually
becomes, whom she calls husband
But on the coast, especially, signs
of the inevitable reaction, that must
sooner or later come as the result OF
this over congestion. Those who arc
able are buying small tracts Of land
and building homes, some elegant
Others humble, but a home with an
assurance of living many who left
the former home have caught the
fever again by seeing others com
fortably housed instead of Gagged, and
the greatest ambition of the salaried
man and even the laborer is to get a
few acres and gradually improve it,
and build home Of his own.
Some Of the finest mansions in
southern California are miles in the
country, but belong to and are occu-
pied by the wealthy of the cities. The
automobile and the trolley makes this
possible.
Some of these thoughts have been
expressed in rather crude and forcible
language, if so, / beg to apologize
by saying ! believe all have said.
DIR. w. w. M'EWEN.