Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1914 — SPRING FEVER IS HEALTHY [ARTICLE]

SPRING FEVER IS HEALTHY

It Indicates Fresh Hopes and renewed Buoyancy of spWfc“ |ijrs* • • g?3bfe*s OH* " Hhwvwmdelliilly tight the spring .wanderlust for the countryside grips -,±* Spiring fever, with all of its healthtulness, is the harbinger of fresh hopes and a buoyancy of spirit. I noticed a passenger on a DetroitChicago train the other day who had started oat on his trip with the evident intention of becoming deeply taken with one of the best sellers, that he might shorten the trip between tiie two cities. You have done the same thing yourself. But his book had been cast aside. He had read only a few pages. His Interest in it had lagged. From the car windows he was counting the fields now bared of snow. The ditches were carrying away the water and the still less sluggish creeks were now streams bearing the overflow to the rivers. The farmer, in his shirt sleeves, was repairing the fences after the winter drifts; the cattle showing proof of a winter’s stabling and now heading here and there toward the meadows, seeking the new-green patches of grass; the farm help, in field and stubble, was putting into repair this and that necessary feature, here looking after his plow and there his harrow, and on all sides were scenes which reminded the traveler that spring was here, at last! As the train sped onward and glimpses of the painter as he worked on the weather-beaten buildings were revealed, the interest of the tourist was aroused and, when I asked him the reason, he answered: “Spring iJ here and I feel its blood flowing!” The truth was, that like many 'others, he was planning the work he was to do the coming summer. He was going out to the farm —his farm In Western Canada. He had his wells to dig, his horses to get into shape, his grain implements to fix up, his seed grain to prepare, and other details for the land that was ready to receive it His was what might be termed an “unrest" —to get to the farm! Thousands in Western Canada today are making the preparations that this interested man contemplated. Their summer fallows are ready for

the -wheat, their spring plowing is being attended to, fences are being rebuilt or being put Into repair; indeed, the entire country is one great hive of industry. Railroads are in readiness to take care of a great rush of settlers, those charged with the reception of whom are prepared to extend every courtesy and thus meet the rush with judgment and without the least friction. Thus, the enjoyment of the opening of spring is fully met. At many of the stations throughout many of the middle western states, trains of settlers’ effects are in readiness to move to Western Canada. Not only in these states are scenes of this kind to be witnessed, but also, on either coast and throughout the eastern states there is the same activity among those going to Western Canada this spring. The crops have been heavy and all reports are that the winter was enjoyable; also, that the prospects form satisfactory*year were never better. There is plenty of land yet to be had by homesteading or otherwise. Adapted, as Western Canada is, to small grain farming, it is especially adapted to cattle raising and many of the farmers are placing small and large herds,: as their Individual means will permit. _ . ■ . The illustrated literature sent out by the Canadian government agents tells the truth clearly and the inquirer should send for a copy and if you be one of those who has an ambitious interest, you may be the gainer by a perusal of such information — straight, cold facts in themselves. — Advertisement. Our funny language—A man feels put out when he discovers that he has been taken in.