The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-28

his first visit to the rejuvenated town.
remembering we'll the status of tho old
and attracted by that legend of former
/ days, Saloon would demand ''suthin'
| to drink
| 1t would have been difficult, on tina
first occasion such an incident occurred,
to have determined which was the more
astonished, the gentle girl or the rough
cowboy" The words OF the latter
were not always couched in the choicest
language, either, as he was directed TO
the we'll near by and rode off, his huge
spurs juggling and nearly drowning che
oaths he was muttering over his disap-
pointment and chagrin.s
! remember the view that fall during
| the initial term of school as ! stood one
/ DAWN October on the absolutely level
plateau surrounding the isolated and
curious building 1t was picturesque,
beautiful and worthy tho most serious
contemplation. 1t was a remarkable
representation Of two distinct civiliza-
tions, strange, temporary blending;
one, the new, marking the ''course of
empire" in its raststless march vest
ward, the other, that of the aboriginal,
i which, like q ID 2ssolying VIEW was
soon to be oblitersted by the scene that
was rapidly usurpirg its place.
| The box-alders aaa cottonwoods COW
eriffg the ssbettoInaee rapidly dom
ming their autun z, Dress of russell, and
the mirage had already commenced its
fantastic play With the landscape, On
! the sides and crests of tie hills thou
sands of buffalo, were grazing in com
pany with herds of Texas cattle, y
wilhelm the broad valley small flocks OF
antelope were quietly Illuminating their
morning meal. In the distance, far
eastwardfy, train of cars was seen APP
! preaching the struggling town. and on
| either side of the track, as far as the
| eye could reach, the fresh sod in many
places had been turned up-"the empire
OF the plow' was established, and the
maddening march of immigration in its
| s'hunger for the horizon" begun.
/ A short distance from where | stood,
under the grateful shade Of the largest
trees on the creek, about twenty skin
lodges were irregularly scattered; on
the level bottom" herd Of q hundred
ponies were iazily feeding, while
troop OF dusky little children we're
chasing the yellow butterflies from the
dried sunfiowers that so .conspicnously
marked the broad trail TO far of Santa
Fe. These Indians were the remnant
Of once powerful tribe. and their few
lodges contrasted strangely with the
peaceful homes dotting the great ocean
of prairie around them like whitened
sails; true argosies of the new civiliza-
ton that would soon sweep the red man
before it, as chat before the wind
The Indians, 1.-THE buffalo, and 1.-The
quaint surroundings OF that primitive
school have long since gone forever;
the old building, in which that young
girl who was its presiding genius must
have felt like Atlas hearing the whole
world. now worn oft, crooked in all its
lines with bloody as well as peace
full history;-emp and neglected, it has
been relegated to that past OF which IT
was suchSa conspicuous landmark.
From that primitive OF primitive
schools has been evolved in less than
two decades, in the city OF Larned
alone, three magnificent structures
comparable to the wealth and import
ance OF the place; in style and architec-
ture equal to any in the State. In the
county, once included in that one dis
trict, are more than sixty districts with
their separate and beautiful buildings.
Those thirteen little scholars have IN
creased to nearly two thousand, ana
their girlish but pluclxy teacher, now
stately matron, has left school
| teaching and wen new success in tins
| broader field Of hucation-- journalism
Henry Iuman, in Kansas City Star