IN VAKOT A, 8Y 
saw one of the latest improved power printing presses 
_run by steam, and printing a paper larger than any 
you have in this part of Ilinois. What a magnifi- 
cent population that will be ina few years! I don’t 
mean great in numbers, although it will be that, too, 
but great in the moral power that carries a people 
rapidly onward and upward to the highest and best 
in civilization.” 
AND SATAN CAME, ALSO. 
“ But I suppose you have saloons out there as well 
as churches and school houses,” he said. 
“Yes, [am sorry to say we have. ‘And Satan 
came also among them,’ was said of a notable gath- 
ering a good many thousands of years ago, and he 
has kept on ‘ coming’ ever since whereyer anything 
good was going on. But you seldom see a drunken 
man. Anda vigorous effort is now being made to 
have a prohibitory clause engrafted on the constitu- 
tion when Dakota comes into the Union as a State. 
It may not succeed now, but it can’t be put off many 
years.” 
“Well, Tom,” continued Rob, “you’ve told me 
_ more about Dakota to-night than 1 ever knew before, 
and what’s better I know it’s, all true. It wouldn't 
take much more to carry me into a regular fit of the 
Dakota fever.” 
EMPHATICALLY NO. 
‘No, Rob, you mustn't take it. If there was any 
way of being vaccinated against it, ’d have you op- 
