90 LOM'S EXPERIENCE 
erated on right off. You are well enough off here ; 
you own a splendid farm and have a charming home. 
Your parents are here, and it would be a sad blow to 
them to have you move away. You mustn’t think © 
of it. If you have any surplus money to invest, go 
and talk with Sam Bright, and see the scheme he is 
working up to do good and make money at the same 
time. ‘There are openings of the same sort for you, 
without moving away from your pleasant home and 
associations. But see, it is away past your usual bed 
time, so good night.” 
‘No matter about the usual bed time. We don’t 
often have you here to talk Dakota to us. Good 
night.” 
SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH. 
And so it went on from day to day and night to 
night. There was an eager desire among all classes 
to learn the truth about the Territory into which 
people are so rapidly flocking. 
“ We can get circulars and pamphlets and no end 
of other documents,” said one, ‘from railroad and 
land companies and real estate agents, but of course 
they are interested parties, and we don’t know how 
much of their stories to believe.” 
A CALL FROM A MECHANIC. 
I was deeply interested one evening ina call from 
a Mr. John Harmon, a carpenter. He was a quiet, 
unassuming man, well liked by everybody, who had 
as much work at his trade as he could do, and was 
supposed to be in comfortable circumstances. 
