Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-12-01

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Of life giving fluid has caused the
seeming miracle and the green carpet
OF meadow stretches over the floor OF
the desert.
De Not Trust to Nature.
The telephone pole and the rural
mail box have begun their invasion of
the sage brush. The coyote and the
jack rabbit are still retreating. There
is no waiting for the annual rainfall
in this country. Man has passed the
point where he waits upon the tardy
and uncertain movements of nature.
He no longer trusts to the wind to
carry his commerce nor to the rain TO
moisten the earth that he may SOW
and reap. He goes with the wind
when it goes his way, butshe holds his
course despite wind and wave. he
divertS the currents OF streams, he
builds great dams and reservoirs. to
correct the wasteful habitSof untaught
nature; he holds the life giving foods
against the time Of need. Why, trust
blindly to chance in working out the
great problem OF food production?
This is the vital question OF the
twentieth century. a5z zssziE-ai = .s
Everything Is the Best.
1t is the intensity rather thar the
density of the western. population
that appeals to the observer. What
ever is done is done better than else
where In mining, the best man and
the best machinery must be had; in
farming with expensive water it is
waste to plant poor seed. The cattle
on the ranch are the best that can be
secured, and SO on through every line
of industry. .t.---....s .afog,rs
The western towns are unique in
their thrift and prosperity. They
are all picturesque communities, pre-.
Senting an interesting mixture OF
architectural, social and business
conditions, busy with commerce and
buoyant with hope aud prospects.
Merchants, miners, railroad officers
and professional men unite in their
endeavor to advance each striving
town, while an undertow of the
picturesque Mexican laborer, cowboy
Chinaman and sporting character
still give each placeFa distinctive
western flavor. Each western city is
thoroughly alive to municipal i'm.
provement and development. Electric
light and street car, Waterworks
schools, churches and public buildings
abound. There is hardly a place OF
equal population in the northern OF
southern states which could not learn
useful lessons in tree planting, park
making and public comfort from these
live western towns. s'sss'. + '''.5. -z.s.
Passins Of the bad Man" zs7-
| II any one Of our readers should
still retain in his mind as type Of
the western citizen the bad man with
SLOUGH hat,s flowing mustache and
quick acting revolver, he is at least
ten years behind the times, Whether
from the magnificent climate condi
tions which include healthfulness OF
from the fact that he represents the
survival of the tittest, he comes very
near the highest type of an American
citizen. Self-reliant, unaffected, well
built, we'll dressed, we'll read and well
travelled, he is man of resources and
action available for any emergency.
The west is no longer an unknown
aud undeveloped region to- which
civilization is a stranger. II one
would fathom the inaccessible and
test the real experience OF The pioneer,
he must go beyond the west-to the
land Of Yukon. : 49, '--s.'. '''s'., -
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Miss Elsie Cresey, who will appear