"GET A GOOD READY." 437 



outset, the present generation of reformers would have the 

 satisfaction of knowing that the sores were cleansed, and that 

 moral and physical disease was not being propagated to suf- 

 focate their children ; and even although some of the present 

 multitude of evil-doers might not be reclaimed, most of their 

 children certainly would be. It is more profitable to raise 

 farmers than convicts. Instead of building jails to hold men 

 in life-long mildew, our artisans might be building steamers 

 and cars, to carry their products to the seaboard. 



"GET A GOOD HEADY." 



Of the immense and almost boundless tracts of Western 

 land that invite the emigrant's choice, the larger part can be 

 homesteaded and pre-empted, and the remainder purchased on 

 favorable terms from the different railroads. The competition 

 among the latter for immigration has induced low prices and 

 superior facilities for examination. 



Where a number of families are coming together, the best 

 way, as a rule, is to select commissioners from the number, to 

 go in advance, and spy out the land, which can be done at 

 comparatively trifling expense. On giving satisfactory proof 

 of their mission, such representatives are nearly always able to 

 secure low rates of fare and freight. In this way, two or three 

 reliable agents can select a district in which a colony may set- 

 tle, and make all the necessary arrangements for its transpor- 

 tation, and each family save a number of dollars, which will 

 give back compound interest in the new home. 



" Get a good ready " before starting, and have your route 

 plainly mapped out ; otherwise, you will buy experience at the 

 sacrifice of many a useful dollar. And pray that your flight 



