Year: 1869

uals learn to like each other here, geis
in the habit Of il and like It, People
contribute to public enterprises cheerfully.
This county has an estimated valuation
Of about one half as much as Addison
County. Next year q Court House is toi
be built at cost Of $4,000. How will
the Addison County Court House coms
pare with it, Your people are more cou.
servative and contented. Convenience
and expediency are matters Of pubic
economy and wealth and luxury in pub.
lie affairs. This is the matter with you,
With us it is quite the contrary. Ch'
mate helps to make the difference The
effects Of your climate is 10 make one feel
a sense Of perpetual want. Here a man
without farthing, feels rich If he has
good health. A man cant rust out here,
He would sooner take fire and burn up.
If he should put his fortune in sheep he
would never sit down and watch for a
thousand dollars to creep over it. Be-
cause he would have no faith in the prin.
ciple. His only faith is in activity, and
sheep raising is not activity but passivity
and some times incidence How DO
know these things l know many man
here who is as active and nimble ass
child. Who, East, was too languid and
lazy to live. Breathe here he must. BE
active he must. If his blood represents
twenty generations of sloth he may, be
beyond recovery even here. Otherwise
he will have the appearance of enterprise
whether he possesses it or not for an ener-
getic way of doing nothing is better than
an indolent and lazy one.


Really you should come out and see us.
Leave your revolver at home. Most pee
pie who come here from the east for the
first time, bring pistols in their pockets,
and then begin 10 look out for Indians and
rufians. The consequence is that
they are taken for the ruffians
themselves. You can go where you
please here, Nobody viii hurt you unless
you do them. am sure you will be
surprised at many things you will see
No log houses, no ruffian, scarcely an ln-
dian, all civilization. Churches, school,
houses, academies, Colleges, asylums.
Society itself in some localities rs refined
and select as can be found in Vermont.
Do you like business and enterprise and
public spirit you will find them all here.
Everybody is doing something. Nobody
is dying up and blowing away in driblets.
Speculations of all kinds are active, and
while some are getting poor as the In
evitably with gold up to their ears, others
and the majority are growing rich. There
are, however, some distressing feature
connected with the state Of its society
Questionable calls" for instance, in max
ing which both parties generally male
hypocrtes Of themselves by neither want
ing to see nor be seen Personal emnity,
growing out Of political strife, in which
the greatest BLACKBOARD is always the most
admired. Railway trains, 50 slow that
Weston might compete with them. igh
prices for boots and calico, in which la
ter commodity | have constantly in.
creasing interest. But in these respects,
Minnesota is scarcely more unfortunate
than her sister states, and, On the whole,
| do believe that all things considered, il
is the best state to live in on the Cont.
neni, But have not time to write more
this time, hoping by the next to succeed
in adopting style less prosy, and to find
topics for discussion of more general
interest. NJ. ID. l.. c,


Faribault MINI, February 23, 1869