St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-10-24
MAINE PaAlRlE.-Last week We PAL


MAINE PaAlRlE.-Last week We pait
q flying visit to Maine Prairie the regio'
Of sieh lands and rare cultivation. Nc
other part Of our country is SO thick'y set.
tied aud we'll titled, not even the famous
Sank Valley. Its dwellings are comfort.
able it, grsncriss literally growing. 1t
polled ~ votes this fall all Republican
but /, and 7 years ago Mrs. Martin Gree.
lev, the first white woman. went to the
settlement. Mr.. Greeley still lives in the
low log house built to shelter his famll y
before the plow could start, ana has made
sdditions in tho same primitive style Of
architecture until lis establishment is a
rcgu]a, Americanism and did our eyes good
70 look upon, with its low portal, broad low
rooms and substantial home comfort, Its
we'll sweep at the door, the ample sheds
and pens to shelter aud keep stock, ito
troops Of domestic animals, the large two
story granary and cellars full Of vegetables.
1t looks like getting on 10 the world, aud
With a good coating Of white wash and
climbing vines at the corners would make
q picture which an artist NJ. ut travel
West to sketch. A beautiful forest lies
between il aud Pearl Lake, a sheet Of spark
Ling water some five miles round, aud in
the edge Of this forest nalf a mile eastward
lies tho home Of our god friend, +. At.
wood where We were Visiting, TIE road
between these two points is principally
natural avenue between tall trees, grand
and beautiful exceedingly with glimpses
Of the lake peepirS through the foliage
on one ride and broad sweeps Of prairie,
dotted with thriving homes, on The other.
There 10 one Of these avenues on the bor-
dsrs Of Grand Lake aud they suggest to
us tho idea that the ladians Of this re-
g;ou have formerly had some kind OF We
hicis and travelled in some style requiring
q broader road than those We now rccoss-
nice As Indian Trails We cannot other
wise account for road ten feet wide ca
tirely free from all distractions following
the curSSss Of lake ST. ore. through dense
.~nslsd forest from one prairie opening to
another 4, regular and beau. iful rs the csl-
,ivatsd taste Of landscape gardener could
devise. They certainly did not come ty
chance. The Indians would not have
made then, IS matter Of taste. They
must have been their highways aud their
mode sc travel must have been such as to
prevent the. growth Of tiwser on road
ten or twelve feet wide. ."
MI. Atwood has put up his Homestead
in modern style with the comfort Of rooms
arranged IN genuine New England order,
with smooth plastered walls inside and the
plsasantness Of white paint out, covering
IL. neat angles and I'LL enclosed with
= fence behind which native shade trees,
planted out in the hurry Of his first year
On bis farm, are giving promise Of shelter
% that side where nature has not provi.
ded it in abundance. In few years Mr..
A. will have, at cash outlay Of some two
or three thousand dollars, home which q
p.iseo might envy Is summer residence.
The lake with its fish, the forest with its
, game the broad prairie with its uudula.
ting >icw. Of grass and grain aud its in.
-iu,it.blc roads. II. s: Fowler drove US ont
sud with his crack team whi2zed over the
ss,een miles, with three beside himself in
s'.i.tls over two hears aud on all the prai.
he part pt,the road the motion vas like
tie M Of . railroad car. We doubt if
ever suy nax cepnty Was % blessed
With csni.sr rods IS is M'ouesota. We
naAo 20. call on one or two friends bat