Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
Especial Correspondence St. Paul Globe.l

there was more snatching to determine
who should be its ma, between the repre-
sentatives of freedom and of slavery, than
has ever been known among the sisters
when they came to lay aside the blbs,
short frocks and soft shoes, for the much
coveted State gown. But, in the end,
Mother Lawrence, from Massachusetts,,
lugged the fresh infant addition to Uncle
Samuel's flock, off, though Father Lee
compton, of Missouri, made bloody old
row, and hung to the nursing bottle and
diapers with the grit of parental dispair.
Years have passed away, IN which
Kansas has developed into comely
maid, and is just now budding and bios
soming into rare beauty and fertility.
Her raging Kaw," and her Smoky and
Saline rivers, are bordered with rich and
plenteous haryests in field and stack,
while great wealth of agriculture lines
the waters of the treacherous Missouri,
the shallow Arkansas, and their numer-
Gus tributaries. Her prolific acres,
now beIted and re- belted with rib
bons of iron and steel, to which
railway enterprise is constantly making
additions, will soon develop her full re-
source and cause her to commercially
bear frultage from center to boundaries.
Her cities, although at present uncut dla-
monds, will soon be wrought out into
priceless richness and beauty by the in
dustries and tireless laPidary, Time; her
many mines but await the magic touch
of capital to bring to the surface their
lodes of bitumious treasure; while her
present population is enterprising, social
and as thoroughly mixed in race as board
ing house hash with spice and ingredient.
Wide-awake business men; weather
crowned and horny-handed farmers,
droves of swine and dealers in cattle and
horses; delivers in the hidden earth; hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water; all are
here, while the ebon faces of the recent
exodus are as plenty as blackberries on a
Kentucky side hill.
HE FINDS A NEW BUG.
Here, the wicked flea no man pursueth,
but the chigger, an insignificant, though
rascally little red bug, having headquar-
tiers in the damp prairie grass beneath the
shade of the cottonwood tree, making
Stanley explorations in stocking leg claims
to sink artesian wells near the human
muscles and tendons and plant the star
of empire and habitation there, fully
makes up in torture for the absence OF
that nimble insect acrobat, Indigenous
to so many other localities.
APosTRoPHE TO THE KANSAS ROSE.
As settlement. and the pioneer advances
Westward and the aboriginee fees before
them, the wild flowers of the prairie seem
also to disappear Yet the wild rose of
Kansas still fingers behind to charm the
eve and sense, and frescoes the highways
and borders the railways with a wreath
of loveliness that vies with the rose OF
Sharon, where sweet perfume is really
waited to our nostrils by the pen of the
sacred historian and ON the wings of the
sweet cadences of glorious song.
AN OLD FRIEND IN SMALLER DIMENSIONS.
Yet what a pearl of Renaissance of
our boyhood days, upon New England's
hill and rock-bound soil, drops from the
oyster of our observation here, reviving
rare memory blossoms of our mothers and
grandmothers gone hence beyond the
stream whose shores are lined with
"fadeless green" or still patiently wait
ing on the farther confines of life for the
implacable summons of that grim ferry
man, death. The old sunfower, planted
so often in the olden time by
the good housewife in the
cradle States of our nation, to drink
up the malaria and noxious Accommodations
lurking in the vicinity OF the kitchen
drain, as well as oftentimes to serve the
double purpose of hiding her busy form
and domestic labors from the too obserF-
ant eyes of the village gossip, just across
the way. Again, in her charming simple
ity, carefully reared as the choicest floral
ornament to the front yard, standing six
foot sentry beside the moss rooted porch,
or to queen 1t above the lowlier blossoms
and vegetables, the summer savory and
the sage bush, in the homestead garden.
Can we ever forget the whole days
spent in our youth in the attempt to de-
tect the imperceptible revolutions of these
heavily freighted black seed-laden discs,
crcumferenced with, narrow, delicate
fringe of yellow leaf, in their in
dia-rubber feat Of always looking
old Sol plump in the face, from
his appearance in the eastern
Skies W LIS utkdTtuIC VIC DUHip duO
panoply of his journey farther west
FIGHTING TARE.
Yet our Kansas sunfower is net the cul-
sivated blossom of the East
but rather a Darwinian pro-
genitor thereof by many back
ward removes-a monkey beside man;
a pigmy beside a giant. Yet, what il
lacketh in body and height of stalk, and
in circumference and diameter of flower
it fully compensates for in power OF
propagation and aggressive properties Of
seizure of improved acres 1t may be
truly said of it. that while it seems to
luxuriate upon the unbroken sod of the
wilds, it rides upon the plowshare of the
pioneer and seweth its seed from the
beam, as if weapon of natures frantic
resistance to the husbandman soaring
the virgin breast Of earth with blade Of
steel and tooth of iron, wherewith te
provide himself and the world with the
Indian maize and the life sustaining
cereals Woe be to the settler who leav.
eth his pleughed land for single season
out of cultivation, for he will literally
find that "the enemy hath sown tares
while he hath slept" to rout whom there
from will cause the breasts of his beasts
of burden, chained to agricultural char.
lots, to bleed from fierce wounds inflicted