. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. omed houses quickly erected, my hus-band chose one for his home. He then bought thirteenbig straw hats and thirteen pairs of overalls, and withhis twelve pioneer farmers began to measure off thewoods. In this undertaking he had the expert helpof the surveyor from Dennisville, the nearest were real pioneer times! With just a blanketand pillow under each one, all thirteen slept right onthe floor. Certainly nobody could accuse my husbandof being an aristocrat or behaving like one! He was scrupulously car
. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. omed houses quickly erected, my hus-band chose one for his home. He then bought thirteenbig straw hats and thirteen pairs of overalls, and withhis twelve pioneer farmers began to measure off thewoods. In this undertaking he had the expert helpof the surveyor from Dennisville, the nearest were real pioneer times! With just a blanketand pillow under each one, all thirteen slept right onthe floor. Certainly nobody could accuse my husbandof being an aristocrat or behaving like one! He was scrupulously careful of every cent he wasobliged to spend of the Funds money. He alwaysfelt that money spent carelessly might deprive anotherimmigrant of the chance of becoming a farmer. Whiletraveling about, looking for land, he and his three asso-ciates economized even on their food. Instead oftaking their meals at a hotel, they would buy a fewsandwiches and milk from a neighboring farmer. In a few months new applicants began to arrive. ByNovember and December, 1891, there were sixty, all. [X, OPENING OF WOODBINE TRACT 59 picked men. A widow, with several children, cousinof one of our farmers, was given the use of the othersix-room house just opposite the one my husbandselected for a home. She was to provide food forall those who were willing to board with her. A bigbarn was erected for the sixty men to live in tem-porarily and a great stove installed. Those sittingclose to it felt warm, while the rest had to use theirimaginations a good deal. So much for the accom-modations. A practical farmer, Frederick Schmidt, was engagedas assistant to my husband. He had very hard workat the start, surveying and dividing the land into of the farmers was allotted thirty acres of land,which he was to clear for himself. In order to avoida suggestion of pauperizing the settler, the Fund paidhim for preparing his soil for cultivation, inasmuch asthere was no other method of gaining a
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