The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-12-27
Meanwhile the Village grows; two law

Meanwhile the Village grows; two law
yers hurl Cooke upon Ltteton," at eacf
other, in the Justices Office, for our ole
Farmer is esquire" now, two doctors ride
pei nell over the country, where only one
rode before; and one thing is little remark
able: the healthier it is the faster they 20
the gait is a galIop, and the gallop is like
"old Virginia" The one store has been
multiplied by six; high School is perched
over the Post Office; the Post Office has
boxes" and the Village, daily mail: the
mud wagon has turned into a COACH and the
long lash whistles over the ears of the four
| finland
There's a Mlliner come and Daguerreo-
typs', and Telegraph Office. The guam
dom "Station" "has claims, that's the
term" has claims" to the County Seat.
just look at the map! Right there in the
centre. Just look at the County. Right
there in garden. Just look at the census I.
A thousand if there's one
The Flag Station" has become regu-
lar stopping place they water there, wood
there, change iron horses there there are
hosts to get off and multitudes to get on.
The trains begin to treat it with more res
pect; they whistle good while before they
reach it, and ring the Leil for full halt
freight car is left on the "side track "
the Depot has grown longer and fuller; the
farm is cut up into gardens; So-and-so Sta
ton drops the Station and becomes plain
So-and-so. A creation Of the Railroad, it is
no longer an appendage; it canTgo alone !;
1t sets up an ind pendent existence, and il
establishes a newspaper to prove it; a
newspaper with this strange device: " indc
pendent in ererything-neutral in nothing
or something about No pent-up Utica
contracting ITS powers; or an axiom from DR..
Franklin, or a line from Washington Fare
wei Address.-And from that paper they
learn the State Of Europe, and the price OF
butter; the war in India and the prospect
OF potatoes. In process of time, the Vii
lage has Poet, and there in his corner
on the first page Of the paper, he sits dis
guistd. His. An that's the question;
why not hers; and if hers then ,chose; and
so the wonder runs, and whether school
ma ain or IA reliant, lawyer or doctor, the
verses are declared - first rate, and there
IS Ii,ags fame, and the Milton is neither
mute nor insiorious,' and happy lie who
has no longing beyond the blue horizon that
rings il in.
A year ago, that Station was in the midst
Of farm; to-day it is in the heart OF
thriving town. Broad brcad,hs of land
have been plou:hcd beyond, and wide
sweeps Of grain have waved in the summer
wind, and the wilderness has grown auIIble,
and musical with the voices Of busy civil
ZatiDn.
1t j. the work Of the Rai;road-the Rail
road that paused not there, but went thun-
derins on still farther into the bosom Of Ma
ture, and along IT. line, ere now. otder Ni-
lag have c-ystl'z j, and mr. harvest
songs have been sung.
And 80 rapid has been the process, 50
much Ike tn marvel 0 ! c)niursr's wand,
that we have ,oked t. sec h Nilllge di-ap-
pear, masicaliy as it -ame; bat As the en- lie
proclt.in' on coming, we look out at tie
window, and there It Is right ia th- path
To b. sure the Depot that had ''>iIaiteI"
exactly on the tracl, gets up and moves
gently away as We near II the warehouse
Tor whose front o We seem . be pIungin-,
wheels Slowly about, a. If Il Ia! heels OF IT'S
own the row OF b X stores rctgacts SIX
vanis'', and IS we lcavc IN Il. tehfid, G ,rt-
house, Depot and sto-c resume their old
stand in the midst OF the track, and even 4
youn. orch1rd comes down from the BIZ!
win sn 1t fox + sheep and clusters
thereon.
Bat the Village viii be tlcr. when we rc-
turn-tne Xailroad Ni,!ag- with no yest,r-
day 10 it-but il viii have omribuses; is
streets Will DC named itS Alderman will
meet once 4 week; the COut House will
,rown the hill, there viii two papers instead
oi one; ''Da = instead Of none. And yet
nothing VIII be old, not even thu people; no
moss on In roofs; no si.Err-Er. y walls. lie
sky is red in the West, and it viii be a