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Show The Best People In The World. Dr. Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, now a member mem-ber of the faculty of the University of Wyoming, in the, Nylande tells why the people of Norway like to emigrate from their native land. The doctor says it is because notwithstanding the beauty and rugged majesty of their native land, and their love for it they love each other too little; that there is such an oppressive spectral atmosphere, of narrow-minded intolerance, of unloving un-loving readiness to raise teacup storms, of coveting, covet-ing, of insolence private and political, of clerical and aesthetic arrogance, that the Norseman, though scarcely knowing why, longs to get away from it all and to breathe a fresher, sweeter air. "No wonder the people emigrate," she says. "There is a peculiar hardness and unbendable-ness unbendable-ness in the Norseman's nature, and the mild virtues vir-tues of forbearance grow but sparsely in his surroundings." sur-roundings." We suspect all that is true. It has come from poverty and the in-breeding of people in immediate imme-diate neighborhoods. In the old days there wds a trail across the Isthmus of Panama over which mules had walked in single file ever since Pizarro first crossed there. At one point it crossed a broad ledge of chalky rock. There the winds had blown away the rock that had been ground to dust under the feet of the mules until it had worn a. groove three feet deep in the ledge. In the trail the feet of the mules had worn deeper holes with their feet, and once there If the mule got his right feet in the left-hand holes, he was obliged to stop, back out and get his feet in the right holes before he could proceed. At the same time, when in that groove Mr. Mule had to attend strictly to business and keep his eyes -on the path before him, or he would get his feet wrong. It is the same way with the life trails over which the poor of Norway walk. And it is not peculiar to the people of Norway, except In degree. They are more stubborn than some of their neighbors, which makes their prejudices and their fixedness ' of purpose more intense; but the same spirit attaches at-taches to all the people of Europe who grow up fortuneless. They get to working in grooves and follow them until it becomes second nature and until a good many of them got to defending it as the best path that can be walked. There Is very much of the same spirit manifest in our own eastern states. Tell a mountaineer in eastern Kentucky or Tennessee that he is not bringing j9 out all that is best in him, and that he should 9 educate his children better, and the chances arc j9 he would close the debato by taking a shot at the missionary who was trying to improve his enndi- tkn. The late Senator Vest told with great glee that once traveling in Arkansas, he came upon three or four teams all stopped in a narrow road in some woods. Walking forward, he found a small tree had fallen across the road, and the lfl men with the teams were debating how they could got the. obstruction out of the way. Vest sug- il gested to two of the young men to take their axes :9 and cut off the tree on each side of the road, and then roll the log out of the way. An old man in 9 the party grasped the idea, then, looking at Vest, '9 he reached for his gun, exclaiming: "A Yankee, by gum!" -9 If a hundred of the brightest and most enter-prising enter-prising young men go west together from some county in Massachusetts and settle in the west, 'H it does no good to tell thoir neighbors that the fl west was settled that way by the best young men 91 of all tho states; they never will believe that it , '-H is not wooly and wild. 'H Hence our belief is that tho very bravest, ' brightest and mosf r'-o.us people in tho world, 'H the broadest-minded, most considerate and the clearest-brained pie in all tho world, talc-ing talc-ing them as a wholu, are the men of the western states of our republic. They havo suffered enough to make them considerate of othors. They jjm have mingled with all classes of people and learned that the chief differences among men core of different educations and environments; 'M they are not envious of wealth or contemptuous of poverty, and the most of them believe in a square deal. 'M |