Wet Or Dry--which?

The Grass Lake Xews remarks : "Is it desirious to have an end to drouths ? Then blot out drainage laws, kill the drainage commissioners, fill up the public ditches and pull all tileing out of the marshes and low lay ing lands throughout the west. Supplement this by planting forest trees in generous tracts, and nature will restore to earth her spring and summer and fall rains, the fields will again "be arrayed in living green," and the influences be stayed that are converting uplands into deserts. "And it is well to be warned that low lands will speedily approxinaate a like arid condition. In many cases exainination shows that low tracts on either side of public ditches are becoming too dry, and really need the water distributed through them that is being carried away through artificial channels. Fill up the ditches wherèby the former areas of inoisture will be restored and there will be an end of dry falls, April without showers and rainless summei's." That is excellent in theory, and may be the true reason for the drougths. But is there not enough water surrounding the state without having a nest of fever and agüe breeders every few miles? And then again why will not the same thing apply to Ohio, Indiana, and other surrounding states, which have had plenty of rain this year, while we have gone dry ? Softly - Iukerman's ads get bigger every week. How can he pay out so mach for big ads? Hardly - By making 'em bigger every week.