Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-09-25

| On the dgue question
It's considerab' y due to our schoo
system, our free press and our nu.
merous churches, tell you-alded
10 the abundant ozone--that we are
so little bothered with the thing in
Kansas. We have four million dol.
lars worth OF school houses, and
nearly two handred newspapers
and churches I'LL you can't rest
There's no foot hold for the ague
among such things--and a sky full
OF ozone hanging over them. Its
very much a matter of civilization,
this ague business. It's the differ
ence between the sallow squirrel
hunter, with his rifle on his shout
der and a gaunt hound at his heels,
and the clear complexioned, gram
mar respecting man of the new era,
with books and papers on the table
aud canary bird swinging in the
window. They had no ague in
Athens, you may be sure; they
have no ague 10 Boston-to speak OF.
The notions were so novel, and
pr sented so earnestly, that every
body IN the room was Obliged to
listen. Even the young man wait.
ing for his sweetheart forgot him
sell q few moments, and gave sur.
prised heed. Only for few mo-
meats, however. Then he took up
his dropped conversation with the
little lady in alpaca, who seemed TO
be humoring his worship OF the com.
ing wife as if it had been relig
ion-and who shall say il was no, ?
This is Clara's profile he said,
timidly, reaching out little moroc
co picture case. Il don't want to
brig about her, but, honestly, |
think she is awful nice
'Irs real sweet face remarked
the little lady in alpaca
III never quit wondering how it
came about he continued q have
not the slightest idea what makes
her like me; | am not good enough
for her. She does like me, though.
Her leaving good home and com
ing so far, all alone, to marry me, is
enough of Itself to make that certain
I'd ought to gone after her, know,
and l offered TO, but she said it was
MT any use 10 60 to that expense.
do wish | had gone as far as St.
Louis to meet her, though But
reckon she'll surely be here on the
other train. One trains in from St.
Louis, and she didn't come on that.
| suppose it's silly to borrow trouble
over it, but | can't help feeling shaky
about her, to save my lite. If any
thing should nave happened to her
Perhaps she's given you the grand
bounce Markley suggested, with a
teasing pretense of alarm.
The young man drew himself up
as If his very existence had been
challenged. The color came and
went in his cheeks, and his lips were
set in rigid scorn.
Bounce nothin' = he said, haueh.
tily, and walked away.
you'll notice, Markley made haste
to urge, that the average yield OF
corn per acre, in Kansas, last year,
exceeded that OF any other state. But
we don't want to make Kansas corn
state We have higher ambition.
Our bright particular thing is wheat.
Last year we raised more of it, to
the acre, than any other state be
tween us and the Aileghanies. And
we've only just started. When We
90 to work to our full capacity, max,
ing wheat our main crop and corn a
mere side issue, Kansas will be the
rainbow of the Union
Wabash and both laughed in spite
of ourselves; and Marley himself
let his face relax into broad smile
as he proceeded
'You don't see the point do you
Very well, recovering his earnest.
ness OF manner, what constitutes a
state Men-high.minded, tough. sin.
ewed mer. And what makes such
men !? Wheat bread, gentlemen, wheat
bread. Corn does for sroughness,' SC
to speak-hogs thrive on it--but i,
takes wheat to win in the long run
Now, | have no doubt that the north
finally triumphed in the rebellion be.
cause her soldiers lived on wheat
bread. The soldiers OF the south were
brave enough, but they were loose
jointed and lacking in that finer, con
quering strength of muscles and
brain that comes from wheat; they
lived on corn bread or
the raw corn, you see. Granting al
other things to have been equal thi:
difference in diet alone, was sufficient
to turn the scale. Mind what | tel
you-tnere's destiny in wheat. And
look what an abundance OF it wei
be able TO produce few years from
now. There are $1,000, 900 acres o.
land yet unused in Kansas-first
class wheat land, all of it. A perfec
empire. Now, taking the present
average-about fifteen bushels to the
acre--look how many bushels this
land will yield in the aggregate every
year, when it all comes to be cult
vated.'
He sharpened his pencil to max,
the calculation, but, much TO his cha
grin, he bad to deter it, for a locomo
tive whistle uttered its warning
scream down under the river bluff
and a quiyering, widening belt o
steam, glittering in the sunlight, sho
up like a comets tail among tn,
branches of the trees. The station
waiting-room was vacated with
rush. The StLouis train was coming
1t was curious to watch the youns
man waiting for his sweet heart. Fl,
stood apart from the rect of as, at tn,
extreme eastern end of the station
platform, Obvious of everything bu
the slowly approaching locomotive
Very likely the world stood still ii
his tense thoughts, while that grea
putting, hoarse throated thing drew
itself toward him over the creakini
! rails /; for was not she coming with il
to make life long, glad song to him
1t was not strictly happy look h
J had, however. 1t seemed rather I
! indicate that sharp sense Of Joy whicl
! has touch OF fear in it, and so be
comes in part pain. And when, a
length, the train reached the platforr