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to make some impression. She crossed the Mississippi River 

 and entered the great State of Iowa, which means beautiful land, 

 and she found there a great corn country without a market, for 

 it was a Prohibition State; and in Wisconsin she found that 

 cranberries and beer had made it famous ; Minnesota was raising 

 wheat, and the Dakotas the home of cyclones and the origin of 

 underground caves; Missouri was the land of muddy water, 

 malaria and train robbers, where they raised Battle Axe to- 

 bacco and didn't milk because they didn't want to and because 

 they thought they didn't have to. 



Arkansas, full of tall timber and travelers; Nebraska, 

 meaning Shallow Water, noted for alfalfa and wind, and through 

 which the Platte River runs, of which Mark Twain said, ''i^« 

 stream that was a mile wide and an inch deep, with large circu- 

 lation and little influence." 



Kansas was not overlooked; the home of Populism and; 

 Free Silver and the origin of enforcing prohibition with a 

 hatchet. 



Colorado, the land of sage brush, cantaloupes and Social- 

 ists; Montana with its greatest interest, mining; Washington, 

 claiming as its greatest attraction potatoes and prunes; Idaho, 

 copper; and Oregon, salmon and sheep. We finally reach the 

 western terminus, California, which, like Florida, offers para- 

 mount to everything else, oranges, grapes, lemon orchards and 

 salubrious climate. 



A change has come over the dreams of many along this 

 trail. The influence of this forerunner of civilization was felt 

 long after her entry into these different States, like the boy who 

 made fun of his grandfather's shirt and was told that boys that 

 made fun of his shirt couldn't ride on his knee, after a little seri- 

 ous thought looked up into his grandfather's face and said. 

 ''Grandpa, I'm beginning to like your shirt." 



These people all along the line who used to make fun of 

 the cow are beginning to like her. They come to this conclusion 

 that they were on the wrong side, as indicated by the little girl 

 on the occasion of her grandmother's first visit, when she said 

 *'So you're my grandmother?" and the reply was, "Yes, I'm 

 your grandmother on your father's side." The little girl said. 



