THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



can be held out to the prospective settler 

 who desires a home and a living for him- 

 self and family. On a few acres of irri- 

 gated land they are in no danger of star- 

 vation and there is no reason to complain 

 of lack of market for the surplus product. 



^l "In the City of Washington 



Foreign only a very crude conception is 

 Critic, actually entertained about the 

 West and its resources, while in Austria I 

 think we can tell you the population of 

 Denver." Such was the expression of 

 Baron Von Hengelmuller, the Australian 

 ambassador, while on a western trip in 

 February. What a commentary on the 

 American people and their ways! Should 

 we be obliged to wait for the representa- 

 tive of a foreign nation to come here and 

 tell us that we know less about our own 

 country than the inhabitants of Europe? 

 Will the East ever get an accurate concep- 

 tion of the West ? Will it ever fully real- 

 ize that west of the Missouri river, omit- 

 ting Alaska, lies a country, not only larger 

 in extent than all of Europe, excluding 

 Russia, but greater in natural resources 

 than any other section of the globe? Will' 

 the Eastern Senators and representatives 

 in Congress stop dickering about a post- 

 office in Podunkville and give a few 



minutes of their valuable ( ?) time to the 

 consideration of irrigation and western 

 development, or will the members of Con- 

 gress from the Western States drop parti- 

 sanship and private enterprises for a while 

 and become a unit in insisting that the re- 

 cognition to which it is entitled be ac- 

 corded the larger portion of the country ? 



What Kansas, the irrepressible, is 

 Kansas again in the saddle. It does 

 is Doing. no t purpose to sit idly by and 

 watch the tide of immigration flow into 

 other sections without an effort to stop a 

 portion of it in the valleys and on the 

 prairies of the Sunflower State. The 

 Kansas Immigration and Information Asso- 

 ciation has been formed for the purpose of 

 disseminating reliable information relative 

 to the agricultural, commercial, manufact- 

 uring and mining interests of the State. 

 W. C. Edwards, the Secretary of State, is 

 the president and moving spirit, and 

 Frank D. Taylor, secretary. In the hands 

 of such efficient men the movement cannot 

 fail to be a success, and it is being sec- 

 onded by Gov. E. N. Morrill, Col. John E. 

 Frost and many other leading men. Al- 

 ready public meetings have been held in 

 Illinois and Indiana, and arrangements for 

 others are being made. 



COMICALITIES. 



A BIRD that can't sing, and will sing, 

 should be made into a pot-pie. 



THE YOUNG man just out of school adver- 

 tises for a "position," but after six 

 months of hustling he is mighty glad to 

 get a "job." 



"Tnis is the biggest jump on record a 

 Providence man has jumped the State." 



" Oh, pshaw! that's only Rhode Island! 

 Now, if it had been Texas ." 



HANK BITTERS. How are you goin' to 

 the masked ball tonight, Ike? 



ALKALI IKE. Thought I'd keep sober 

 and 



HANK BITTERS. That' s disguise enough, 

 nobody '11 know you! 



TEXAS JACK. I guess we'll have to run 

 that tenderfoot bank cashier out of town! 



BRONCHO BILL What for? 



TEXAS JACK. You know the last feller 

 we strung up for horse stealin' ? Well, 

 that cashier actually wanted the man 

 identified first! 



MR. ISAACS (at the skating rink, excit- 

 edly}. S'hellup me Fadder Apraham! 

 Dat poy vas neffer learnt nuttings. He 

 neffer vill get de vort' of his moneys, any 

 dimes. 



MRS. ISAACS. Vat' s der matter, Fadder ? 



MR. ISAACS (in agony). Vy, schoost 

 look at him! I bays me feefty cents fer 

 him to skate on der ice, and he goes 

 apout on von foot most of der dimes. 



TENN DE FOOTE. I heah they give a 

 man plenty of chances in the West. 



COL. YELLOWSTONE. Well, it depends 

 on what he has done. Ordinarily he has 

 a chance with the vigilantes, and a chance 

 with the judge, and a chance with the 

 jury even after that he has a chance of 

 the rope being shot in two before life is 

 extinct. 



' ' How did you like it in the West ? ' ' 



" Not very well. It took too much at- 

 tention to find out just when to throw up 

 your hands and when to lay down your 

 hands." All from Puck. 



