Northern Michigan As A Home

I uotice an inquiry frota a young man asking if Dakota or some other western country is not a better locality 'or young Michigan people than Mickgan. I Lave known bosta of men who níet with total Gnancial ruin by being oo credulous and going soutb and west to find a better and more congenal climate. It is a hardship to keep till when I read such inquirios from discontented spirits, looking with longng eyes to the "glorious bonanzas out west," with the probability of reaping he same harvest oí' disappointment, íumiliation and heart-break, which ies before 99 íd every 100 of those who with limited meaus, try the experiment of swapping Michigan for the bird in the bush." If we could once cnow of the exact number of men in Michigan who have sold out and moved southward and westward since 1870, o return crushed and ruined flnancialy and inentally, utterly broken down ecause of the fatal move, I assure you t would furnish a most appaling aggregate. Permlt one wbo has been through ■he mili, one in a wretched and forlorn ïest, to advise these discontented spirts ; go slow and ponder well before ;urniugyour backs on Michigan. Af ter ïaving passed 20 years and upwards in ,his state, though you spsnd years of searching and experimenting, though rou travel all over the west in search )f a better land, there is not one chance n a thousand that you will find a place Which raken all in all, you can settle for life and find as happy a dweiling place. "Michigan iay Michigan." Knoyving whatl doof discontent existing in nearly every school district iu southern Michigan and the anxiety to "sell and go west," I should be unjust to my convictions if I did not also refer to the vastnumber of disappointed ones who have returned and arenow climbing hand over hand to a solid competence imong the maple groves of Osceola and adjacent counties. The work of these sturdy pioneera, ;he evidences of prosperity whieh they tiave cut and written down in broad care3 of clearing, tlieir üne Hoeks and erops, and, not the least, the perfect healtli of the inliabitants, are all to be seeu as no glaring red letters on guady sheets of pasteboard enn auccessf nlly advertise. The story of the plow and the ax can not be talked down, and it is under the eye and within from one hour to oneday'sride of the (Uscontented hosts, so near in fact that it seems actually incredible that the truth could have escaped the notiee of thousands of inquirers so long. Had it been 1,000 miles instead of 100 miles more or less, what an eager multitudo would have thronged into these, beautiful foresta. I advise these inquirers to send to our State Emigration Commissioner at Detroit and get for a single three cent stamp a copy of "Michigan and its Kesources," a work recently issued for the benefit of all seeking homes in tlie United States, and read "Experiences in Northern Michigan," .Again 1 say to the discontented home-3eekers of the south and ea?t, go slow ; think long and hard before yon leave oíd Michigan behind you. Try and learn of a section at your very doors before trusting your destiny to dista nt lands. It will pay. Kvart, Osceola Co., February 1882.