Excerpt from Life in the Mines, Or Crime Avenged: Including Thrilling Adventures Among Miners and Outlaws

With nothing but himself and family, and with the whole world before him from which to choose a new home, we find him, after a careful consideration of the possibilities of his surroundings, located upon a small farm near the thriving town of Kirwin, Kansas.

For the first two years he did well. He improved his farm, gathered considerable stock about him, and, comparatively speaking, was quite prosperous and happy.

But, alas for the ambitious hopes of the Kansas farmer! The drought and the hot winds came, when the fields of waving wheat and tasseling corn, bowing down before the withering blast, died.

But the Kansas farmer, though an inveterate grum bler, was not to be baf¿ed by the failure of one crop. It but all the more determined him to try again.

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