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Show Stay In Emery County Why neea men grow restless in Emery county, and wander away to some unknown un-known land, when everything requisite to happiness can be found here. Our lands will produce an abundance to feed and clothe every man who is willing to work, our public schools are on an average with others of the state and our Academy has better advantages in a great many ways, compared with many of its sister institutions. To the man just beginding in life this country beats all others. It furnishes land and water at a reasonable price, and after two years cultivation it doubles in its value. What more can man want? Some people are like horses, they may be feeding in grass up to their knees in the pasture, but still will stretch their long necks over into the neighboring field to get a nip of the tall grass. Turn them out of their own pasture for a while and they will, nearly always, come back to bed. Some of our people ought to take a few lessons from a boy of sixteen in this county, who being left when fourteen four-teen years of age by the death of his father, to support hi3 mother and quite a number of brothers and sisters, accomplished wonders. Five years ago he and his little brother, age seven, worked their own : field. Neither were large enough to i harness the big horses without getcing on a fence, but they managed it without with-out a murmur. One of the Nebraska seed men pissing piss-ing this field late one night, when the moon was shining in the east, heard thes two happy little boys whistling a tune as they shocked the bundles of yellow grain, and remarked, "My G d, what happiness, they will surely succeed." suc-ceed." At last the crop was up an J threshed. The bins were full of wheat and oats. They had corn for the hos and hay for their faithful team and $750 worth of alfalfa seed. By the time all their fall work was done it was very late. School had been in session some time but the boys starteJ t school and kept up their good records. In the spring the older boy graduited from the eighth grade with hi.cn nonors. Last summer they did exceptionally well on the farm and the young man who graduated last spring from the eighth grade will pass from the ninth. Such courage and happiness is wortn consideration. There's no better place on earth to be happy than this, and that, after all is the greatest thing in life. |