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Southwestern Nebraska a Country Where Prosperity Follows Effort
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OST people living east of th.
MiMourl river naturally think
of Nsbraska aa being pretty
much alike all over. They will
tall you that there are vatleya
and highlands, and there are
n landa, wheat landi and grass land,
j that the atate aa a whole la pretty
ch the aame.
ehraska present a striking contrast to
y common and natural k"ea.; The state
; i't be thought of ae aomethlnic double.
( the eastern and central part taken In
itral, make one of the (treated grain and
1 growing dlatrleta of the world. On
j other hand, southwestern Nebraska Is
, ;a different character. Aa the eastern
i .-thirds Is for (rain and general farming.
! h a reputation for the raising of that
; ss of products that rise higher as time
i ses, so the southwestern part Is begln
i K now to be understood aa being
i ally valuable for Its specialty. It Is the
at grating country of the United States,
; ha causa for this division Into farming
: i graxlng lands, Is not artificial and In
! ded, but natural. The plateau that con
: iutea U.s. jrface. of the atate. slopes
j rtly at the trage of ten feet to the
j e, from the toi.lourl river up to the
! of the Rocky Mountains. The general
) face la nowhere absolutely level, and with
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II they had. pushed on into the vented plcturesaue phrases where with bet-
l lay of the land for the purpose of ag- region that old freighters and frontiersmen ter and more briefly and emphatically to de-
.Uture Is so perfect that a convention of called the high plains. scribe the alleged God forsaken country they
j-nera could not agree upon a single bene- These people all wanted to farm In their had tried and abandoned. This was the lt-
al change. Nor la there any dreariness aixustomed way, to Improve the quarter uatlon In which some fifteen years ago.
ibm wide landscape. It is diversified at section they Had chosen, break the sod, a region was left which today has within It
ost regular Intervals, by broad, shallow reap the harvent, establish the borne and more possibilities for out-of-door money
'am, and all these have wide valleys, remain in the country as farmers exolu- making than any other within the present
,10 was not long ago, when these valleys ively, with no other resources, Thero boundaries of the American union,
e believed to ba the only areabla grain came to the plains country a farming sea- And thero is another story, a newer and
duclng landa of the state. That notion, Bon without a flaw. The crops on the newly -better one, about thla same country that
h hundreds of others, has now utterly broken sod were as fine as heart could was condemned. More than this, the pres
sed away. wish. Such seasons have occurred before ent Is the legitimate child of the story of
he soil of all thla country Is alluvium. and Blnoe- They will occur again, but not calamity so widely , spread and so often re-
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education created by the state, which is The country ronrt wind among the hilts
among the bet. If not the best, that has and through the valleys, called here, divides
been organized since the idea of public and draws, hard and smooth, winter and
echools was born. Each statement here summer.
thouKands over the face of south western made applies to the remotest corner of Distance does not much count. Footmen
southwestern Nebraska. One cannot set nlonir these roads are almost unknown. It
snow was llirht and passed awav oulclclv,
was onoa the bad of a aea. In most wlth certainty, and there Is the only trouble, peated. The attention of the visitor is es- The made the discovery that cattle, with Nebraska.
r countries, the terra aoH, applies to But tne of thl ear PraJ wide, and peclally' directed to these often brief but the cotrarlness of all their kind, wandered And It must not be forgotten that he has away from the schools and the church. It Is the land of the saddle, the buggy and the
I aurfaca only. In Nebraska, owing not VDl "ho had nothing of capital, but in- plain and pointed records made by men away from the cured hay, to the draws brought with him law, order, social life, may safely be said that thla country does light wagon. Nothing is thought of little
,.hance, but to atrange history, the dirt dut"'y nl hPe' flocked by thousands to who live on the ground. For to some men acd hillsides, to graze upon the cured and the preacher, the teacher, the church, the not much represent anything the newcomer boys and girls riding ponies each day to
Ul soil, from the surface down to the the supposed last discovery of the new rich, who were already there and to some oth- curled herbage of the plains. school houne and the home. The state of ever saw before, looked at from a view school and distance a little greater or loss
i, wherever the hoiisontal ladgea may 'I"nn' country, Intent upon the one best era of the shrewder and more adventurous A little later the reign of the cattle barons Nebraska Is the least illiterate of any In point of a place in which to make a home, does not matter in the least,
j There are good farming regions In tnln ot llfe- home ot own-! CPltal enterprising kind, who were looking was Infringed upon by the general', run of the union. One of the surprising dlsap- Some of the pictures herein contained, all Already this country is extensively crossed
ity In the United States whose farmers cauht tn f9ver nd invested millions In for opportunities, the question arose. If mankind. The man with a bunch of. cows pointments of the visitor to the west, w ho reproductions from photographs, show the by rallvoads and on these roads stand the
no particular reason for complaint, on farm mort8e"- t southwestern Nebraska is not a farming began to come and take homesteads or bu(y Is looking for excitement and something, characteristic landscape, together with prctty little country towns. Here ara
aa aurfaoa the general soil ot south- Th ,torv need h"'y ba further told, couptry. what Is It? It was covered with a mortgaged quarter and make himself a new and western. Is that he cannot find any whatever of life the picture was Intended Bchools. often one of them a high school
..tern Nebraska would be worth X cents t'ter followed. The western region be- the grasses already mentioned and the home. This man had his lesson learned of these things that are described In west- to represent. The vast landscape lies be- e-tabUshed under the Nebraska law. In
pad for fertiliser. yono certain line Decame tne land or naii-iorgotten lesson or the buffalo came from the experience of his predecessors, em stories. There is energy, quickness of fore the eye, roll upon roll, ending at last th8 caae f a COunty seat there Is nsually a
,ne gradual
sour! river.
, risa of the surface of tha b,astfd ""P1 Tne u,e wnt "" ack. Then as a first result, 'the cattle He was not looking for a grain country, appreciation and actlbn a
to the Rocky Mountains is ny' "tory ' rosP,,r'tr ver doea- Th Karons came-men who were financially His business was going to be the cattle There Is also courtesy hosp
nd character, with ihe rim of the horizon, but it Is not COurt house, better than the average one In
hospitality, eduta- a flat plain. A huge snowdrift, broken into eastern states. A feature regarding tha
j cause of tha natural division of tha mlna or ten" ot th0""1" wer turned able to try extensive experiments and they business and all the general farming he uon. good manners and good clothes. Peo- heaps and hollows, represents it, If She dcpot ig an extensive stock yard and cuttle
in9 two part. Omaha, on tha Mis
ri, is 10W feat abova tha sea level. The
i jneme wastsrn part ot Nebraska has
ut 3,30 feet elevation. Tha soil of thla
; rated highland la aa good as 'any In
i eastern two-thirds ot tha state. It lacks
i Maiy of seasonable rains for ordinary
' ja, solely because of Its elevation. This
j only difficulty aa a farming country,
j to compensate for this, nature ha
fhed thla region with grasses that run
varieties and qualities unknown ex-
to suoa an elevation. There remains
.his connection, a fact that must appeal
'tha common sense of everybody. Tha
falo are gone, raw now living who
'f them as they wera forty years ago,
j tills waa buffalo land, where they
!d In mllUona, and spent tha winter la
again to me oenet mat tne west was a were tne nrst to occupy the land In the wanted, waa for roughness. This is the pie who know the facta are moving to snow were green and brown and were mag- cute.
uen. mild ..u, m iu.n.in.i. csiue inousiry. i ney aei.ionsiraiea mat man w ho haa a rule related the experience western Nebraska every year, with young nifled In size some thousands of times.
Not willing to blame themselves, they in- the winters wera short and mild, that the referred to, and he Is now scattered by families, largely Induced by the system of There is no mud and there are no swamps
t Gossip Concerning People of Note
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Howell's Tribate to Mark Twain..
UT of a nature rich and fertile
beyond any I have known."
W, D. Howells in Harpers,
the material given him by the
sole. Incomparable, the
literature.
Lincoln of our
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Duiulale Dean Said It First.
Like most New England ministers of the
time, relates Youth's Companion, tha Rev.
beginning of the school vacation, reports
the Philadelphia Times,. He had not In
tended to return to school, but was hope
ful of becoming a real journalist. One
day, abput three weks after he had begun
the work of police reporting, an Incident
happened which extinguished him as a re
porter. Magee was a good observer. He
was not such a good reporter, fur he did
not have the "news sense " What he had
mystery that makes a man and Vr gftmue Deane, who was born In 1733 "en h told hl" rtval they covered their
then leaves him to make him
self over, ha wrought a character of high
nobility upon a foundation of clear and
and died In 18U. and who for many years
was pastor of the First church at Port
land, Me., was a practical farmer. He was
s grass country ef southwestern Ne- ,0"d tru,h- At u,t d'y he not a man of learning also, and a wit. Profes.
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fherc land will grow alfalfa. It Is a
feral conclusion that little. If anything
her la necessary la the business of rsls-
have to confess anything, for all his Ufa
was the free knowledge of anyone who
would ask him of It. The searcher of hearts
will not bring him to sham at that day.
sor Kittradge, in his delightful miscellany.
"The Old Farmer and His Almanac," says
Mr. reane, while a tutor at Harvard, made
one jest which has since bean falsely
round of the police stations. Magee for
got the Incident for he saw no news In it.
His rival did In his colleague's newspaper
appeared a column of Magee's recital on
hau nothing.
"1 see you were scooped,'
As a' rule, there 1st nothing about these
western Nebraska towns that is sordid, de
cayed and tumble-down. Paint and tiling
era used without stint. As one approaches
them by train, it is carious at night to
see twinkling far away on the horiii tha
rows of electric lights.
In summer this wide slope Is green, starred
erkahoo Clothes In Campaign. with a substance that prevents the diges- with yellow; In winter It is brown, some-
mh OMEN as congressional cam- live juices rrom permeating ine lining 10
Quaint Features of Every-Day Life
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palgn managers in Mississippi do their work. 1 Tha sand acts simply as a In early autumn brown clumps that are
have demonstrated their use- scourer." stacks of hay dot the same for miles. Tha
stock. While tha Nebraska nllinat 'or dld not ,ry t0 ntd ' tne things
credited to minv irun
soil seam especially favorable to It, tha or wmtn " "en D1"erl otT'-
fulness in the summer time. sinning leaiure ui a ", e.-i-
Polltical aspirants are not ad- ' Mothered a Kooater. teied groups of grazing cattle that even
vised to place their destines in n rrm 4 We,t "urley. N. Y., two tn mid-winter dot the landscape. Thla
the hands of the gentler sex during the " " '""' grass woum noi iu m same suanger com
colder months Mary Jane Brunson, a win- root of their father's barn, tried the ex- uf much value if he taw It In mid-summer,
some brunette of twenty summers, put Pcrlment of putting a hens egg under a It was not thick on the ground and waa
..r..... u i ,.,,, n rrm tli Sixth p'geon and then, boy-like, forgot all browner than It was green, yet, here It. la
the first page next day. Magee's taper CoriKreBK0nal district of Mississippi over about it. s the winter choice of beasts who usually
J. R Tally, by 1,231 votes In the second t ne larmer one aay ai ainner saia, unuersianu meir own aypeuio.
said the city pl-inry. ' "There's the queerest peep on the top of There is a charm In this plains Ufa and.
The chief assets of Mary Jane Brunson in the barn, sounds most like a cnicken, out besides, the country Is a healtn resort ai-
dlfflculty la In getting a start a good
la an undeniable fact that men learn
experience by unfortunate experience,
.fly. The history of this western coun
i haa been enough to condemn It In tha
,da at tha majority of tha American peo-
He knew where the responsibility lay.
A visitor to whom he was exhibiting the
curiosities In the college museum, noticed
editor to Magoe.
"Oil. no.' sail Magee. "I knew about u ijri.r,n ramntlm were open-work it beats me how one could ever get up most If not aulte. uneuualled. It is not ad-
that. 1 told Scott y, of the Post." hosiery and gauzelike shirtwaists. When there." The boys looked at each other vertised as such. People thera are not
The city editor said nothing. A few l .h v..rnr. an audience In hor tknA than riaahjxl nut nf th hnnu mnA kepnlntt lummM hfital And tu'lntine analysis
and he took a man share of It bravely, but a iong rUBtv wordi and uktll to whom It m,,nth" Utr h came to Magee's desk, bewitching and cool summer garb, the Tally climbed up to find a wee rhicktn peep'ng of mineral springs, yet it Is a known fact
not the less feaslessly he left the rest of had belonged.
ma answer 10 me uoa wno naa imagineu
men.
"I believe," replied Mr. Deane, "that It
was the sword with which Balaam threat-
"it la In vain that I try to give a notion ened to kill his ass."
ot tha Intensity with which ha pierced to But," objected the stranger. "Balaam
It la at tha same time, a history that the heart of things, and tha breadth of had n0 sword; he only wished for one."
witn more rorea than fatherly Interest: icn na,i to succumb. Then, too, she had mogt piteously. It waa trembling in the that the asthmatlo and the prospective con-
'Magee, you are not through school yet, a une ot argument against trusts, com- cnu Rir an(j tne boys' first thought was sumptlvo can find no better place.
You are going back, aren't you?" blnes, high tariff and scandals In mighty or Wttrmtn. A, th, "faIy cat was nurs- tine of the first questions that ever arose
Magee looked at his superior and fcaw circles that was hard to get around. ,nf pump ,itt. quart.t of kittens, here was the question of water. When in
that this Interest was a discharge. Ha Certain girl acquaintances assert that chlokla wa, ,ucked ln wUu them, and the early times of the freighters, the Plkea
said: "Oh, yes, I am going back." He left Miss Brunson would never have landed her ,... nm,B,.nll inwnP, , hroa.l Peak emigrants and fortv-nlnere did not
during the winter.
misunderstood that Is based upon an vision with which he compassed the whole "Very true," aatd Mr. Peane. "This Is tn Paper, continued in school and later man If the campaign had been fought out enough to covcr the little shivering bunch find running streams for each day's march
eminent in uia first placa. and that world, and tried for the reason of things, "s swora ne wisnea tor.
pd additional evidence to support it In and then left trying. ' We had other meet- There Is another specimen of tha doctor's
experience ef a period that oame a lit- Ings, Insignificantly sad and brief, but the humor. In his own handwriting. Portland,
later In the actual history of the coun- last time I saw him alive was made mem- tnn Falmouth, was burned by the British
,-tna atory of tuoeo words in large let- orable to me by tha kind, clear. Judicial vl commander. Mowat. In 1778.
'i across the map of the United Statea sense with which he explained and Justl- There was Intense indignation, and Ir.
t labeled all west of the, Missouri "The fW the laUr unions as tha sole present suggested, aa an Inscription for a
at American Desert." It is too Ht. help of the weak against tha strong. u uwn i""""" snomy siiw,
la-ell upon, and too mistaken to refute.
Stir Kl I.AB It ,HII k.a . - .
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nJnds of ttie present generation, 'for.
became a lawyer.
He Matched It.
After ten years he returned, footsore and
weary. His wife met him at the door.
"I thought you were dead," she told' him.
"You should have known bitter than
that," he said. "Do you remember that last
brief statement of facta In which Captain P'c of net I tried to match tor you? Yiw
"The next I saw him dead, lying In his Mowat waa described aa "that execrable scolded me because there waa a difference
ffin admidst those flowers with which scoundrel and monster of ingratitude." At of 1ntn ot n ,nch In the width of the
of feathers, while the boys provided corn- tliey called the country names, mere ar
Hand PHirToTll -spent Ira. muuh and juicy worms. streams In considerable numbers, streama
"Commen sand, sterilized properly. 1. a The chicken grew to be a loud self-asser- frequent enough
r..av for dvsoensia and Indigestion tive rooster, but whenever the foster- In the olden times, but there are not enough
troubles til
of digestion
a man
'any years ago I used to sit at my - d"d with windmill, now that to th.
i ku H.,nu iM dull. mark Ner arles Date. panserby they are a feature of tha land-
u-.. umihuw v. . nhnIM ..ll
in me luiure j&ukusi ju win oe inaoe me i.it:. - - - -- " v..-.
medy for dyspepsia and indigestion tive rooster, out wnenever tne roster- ''""''"-.'- ' " Zl
than any medicine. It Is the means mother cat appeared In the barnyard the to supply all the near-by water tha profit
... .o..., - ,i n whv not mek would tnit un eloH tn her and sh seeking modern cattle man wants. A
mao?" says William A Grausteln. would rub against him. purring her pr de remedy was found-a better one than ria
ay milk dealer of Boston. In such a stalwart son. ' can furnish by herself. The Country
l who wanted thera were farmers, lin
ed by what tbey deemed a few of the
Meieadera' Wat chance, Thaac men.
krew them all sages, poets, seers, critics, changed his whole career.
humorists; they were like each other and Mayor Mage, took a position on a Pitta
like other Uteiary men, but Clemrna waa burg newspaper tn tha summer at th.
has worn the sample away some. It
heavier when I started out.
"I suppos I tan n.a".-- It do." she said.
Newark Neva
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maaa , Merearter an important transacuons in uiu ut mt reuuua i mo muu u nw-
The solution is simple. If the stomach the hhut. borne will take place on doin of diseases of all domestic animals, or
Is not in perfect order, lis lining 1 covered August 30. the, plain cattle.