IN DAKOTA, 85 
“Yes andno. If I could make the climate I am 
to live in, I would have it neither too hot nor too 
cold, too wet nor too dry, but just right. I don’t 
like a blizzard, and I would rather the mercury didn’t 
get down quite so low as it does out there sometimes 
in the winter, nor go quite so high in the summer. 
And if I could have the rain just when I want it, 
and just enough of it, and never too much, that, of 
‘course, would be delightful. But we can’t have those 
things just as we want them anywhere that I know 
of in this world, and so take it all in all, I like 
‘the Dakota climate better than I do that of Illinois. 
We seldom have any mud there in the winter, and 
‘not much in spring or fall. And the climate is in- 
vigorating and healthy. With many persons it acts 
like a tonic. I never knew but one case of chills and 
fever there, and in that case the man brought the 
malaria in his system from New York, and, like some 
of the evil spirits of old, it gave him the worst shak- 
ing up just before it left him, for it did leave him, 
and he has had no sign of the disease since, and that 
was more than a year ago. 
DOES NOT CURE EVERYBODY. 
‘Still the climate does not agree with everybody. 
Some cases of nervous troubles grow worse there : 
‘the doctors say the air is too stimulating for them; 
but other cases get well. There isn’t as much rheu- 
matism in Dakota as there is in damper climates, and 
yet some rheumatic cases grow worse there, The 
