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have seen, even most of the rainfall occurs at night. Only during 

 portions of June and July, and occasionally the last weeks in May, 

 are there any continuous rainy or cloudy days. During the re- 

 mainder of the year, the sky is remarkably clear. All the stupen- 

 dous sun force that is here exhibited is now wasted, except the 

 minute portion that is used for the processes of organic life and the 

 production of the winds and rains. These wasted energies must, 

 in the nature of things, hereafter be utilized. Some time in the fu- 

 ture, the manufacturing establishments of the East can be run here 

 without coal or water power. Probably the East, because of its 

 murky skies, can never change its motive 'power. Coal and water 

 power will always be in demand there. Here the now wasted en- 

 ergies of the sun will be utilized to produce the motive power need- 

 ful to manufacture the cotton, woolen and other fabrics which a 

 population of many millions will consume. 



Probable Future of the Race in Nebraska. 



This question often suggests itself in a newly settled country; 

 what kind of an abode is this for humanity? Will the race here 

 go into decay, remain stationary, or advance? It is taken for 

 granted that that people is the most advanced where there is the 

 greatest happiness of the greatest number. When the causes that 

 produce a great people are sought, we invariably find that they are 

 complex. Among them, however, we always find some of the fol- 

 lowing: Good government, good climate, fertile soil and a good 

 geographical position. Nebraska possesses all of these, as we have 

 seen by the preceding discussions, in an eminent degree. That 

 environment helps greatly to make character is now universally 

 admitted. The Englishman of New England, the Dutchman of 

 New York, and the German of Pennsylvania are all exceedingly 

 different from their ancestors of two centuries ago, and from their 

 distant kinsmen in Europe at the present day. The new world 

 with its new conditions has made a new order of men. Wherever 

 there is freedom character is multiform. In the older States the 

 families that live on the ridges, on naturally barren soil, are inferior 

 in culture and social life to those that live in the fertile valleys. 

 The latter occupy lands that yield them a better return, more 

 wealth, and as a consequence there is more time for study, more 

 means for travel, and for the cultivation of the amenities of life. 

 It requires more than mere physical labor to better the conditions 



