Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-09-25
LANCASTER. WISCONSIN, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER Is 1879.
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sweetheart to an interested notice Of
them. But effort was provokingly
futile, He was mol looking for land.
He had home-in Kansas. too. lie
was telling the pale little lady in
black alpaca, who sat near him, all
about il; how lie had pre- empted it
five years before, and paid for it with
two years crops, and built a snug
house OF three rooms and beauty
of buttery; and how the front
yard was sodded and evergreens set
ont, and wisterias planted by the
south porch. He was telling her also,
of the young woman who was to be
queen OF all this, and who was com
ing that morning to claim her crown,
if she hadn't got left, or the cars didn't
run off the track, or something else
didn't happen to her.
MAY be you saw her at st. Louis.
Did you notice young woman there
in drab gown, cut goring, and
sleeveless jacket, and a brown hat
with two red roses and bunch of
wheat heads on artificial, YOU
know That's the way she wrote me
she was going 10 dress
"A smallish young woman, with
large hazel eyes?' asked the lady in
alpaca.
'Yes, yes he replied quickly and
fondly.
Il did see such a person looking
among the baggage returned the lit
tie lady in alpaca remarked her,
remember, on account of her elegant
little feet. Are your young woman's
feet small and trim-about two's, |
should say 2
He dropped his head, blushing,
and said in kind of hesitating un.
dertone--the big, bashtul, simple
thoughted tellow-'I never noticed
Clara's feet No, indeed. For
aught he knew, or cared, her dra-
perry might have concealed the fnny
wonder of mermaid. He worshiped
her, that he knew and she was un
speakably sacred to HIM; and of
course he had never noticed her feet.
She gave some one letter to mail
for her
sYea, he interrupted, I'll at was
for me. No, it couldn't have been
for me, either; she wouldn't have
sent me letter when she was com.
ing right on herself No, it wasn't
for me- and he appeared lost in
puzzle of thought Then, directly,
he looked up again, and remarked,
with quiet earnestness, Il don't think
that was Clara
But to drop generalties and come
down to details, | heard Markley
saying, Sin these six counties with
the red marks around them, there
were in 1870 only about hundred
settlers, and there was little of any.
thing raised but the hair of casual
immigrants, who fell into ths hands
of the Indians. Now there are more
than $4,000 people living there, and
they have in cultivation over 100000
acres OF land, own good houses with
books and pianos in item, and the
women folks wear pull backs, and all
that sort OF thing Just here lad
ed, pinched and calico clad old wom-
an came in with a basket of apples,
and this afforded Markley an excuse
briefly to commend the rare advan-
tages of Kansas as fruit country.
You know we have already taken
several tirst-cass premiums in the
genealogical line; and I'm sure you
saw our fruit display at the Centen.
NAL Exhibition-everybody saw it.
And we haven't hardly begun yet.
Wait few years, and wen astound
yen; It's mere question of time.
Then he purchased a half dozen of
the old woman's apples-carefully
choosing the larger ones, could see
and divided them among his aud
itors and he said to her very kind
ly, as she made change for him,
'My good woman, you ought to 90
out into Kansas, to higher, drier
latitude; you look as il you were
suffering.
Thank you, she answered, I'm
as well as common. It's kind o.
warm, and I'm a little down heart.
ed like; that's all, | guess
| Speaking of ague,' Markley con.
tinued, without further notice of the
shrinking old apple woman speak
ing of ague, | don't see how any
body can stay where it is when it's
so easy to 60 to Kansas
But you have ague in Kansas
the same as in every other country,
don't you?' inquired Mr.. Wabash.
Only as it is brought in, tempo
rarily, from other States Markley
politely responded st is not indig
enous. We have no malaria Our
atmosphere is rich in ozone; and
ozone is natures own purifier. Ho-
mer mentions it in the Odyssey, you
recollect, where he speaks of the
atmosphere being quite full of the
sulphurous odor' That's ozone.
Il presume the atmosphere of the
internal regions is also quite full of
sulphurous odor' ozone said
Mr., Wabash, with chuckle.
Yes. | suppose So Markley re.
torted, promptly; put there, no
doubt, to tantalize the fellows with
suggestions of Kansas Sorrows
crown of sorrow you know, is re.
Numbering happier things But as
was about to say, ozone dispels
malaria and keeps the climate tree
from bilious conditions. Besides,
the ague is really matter of morals
rather than physics, you under
stand.
Bu. we did not so understand 1t.
and he therefore gracioesly proceed.
ed to enlarge upon the statement
| for our benefit:
The ague also hovers about low,
i fiat lands, where the soil is thin and
Ijaundiced. looking, ana where the in
habitants 90 on voting for General
Jackson for president Take those
quinine river bottoms in some of
the western states-I sha'n't call
names where the men gather at the
saw mill every Sunday TO pitch horse
shoes and shoot at a mark there's
where you'll find ague every time.
Then move out on the high, open