Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-11
DELIGHTFUL DAKOTA.
THE GL0RlES OF AUTUMN ON THE UP
PER MISSISSIPPI.
A Fairy Land Of Lakes and ChYstaI
Streams-The Wonders of the
Arabian Nights
ecIipsed.
Correspondence Of the Globe-DemocraL

In all the guilt-edged guide-bookS OF
fashionable tourists there is no mention
OF the transcendant glories of autumn
on the Upper Mississippi and in the far
Northwest; no hint of the charms and
delights OF the trip l have just taken
through the Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Dakota iairyland OF lakes and dells and
crystal streams in all the wild magniii-
cence OF frost-wrought coloring. Lam
guage reels, weak and hump-shouldered
under an attempt to describe il. All
the peucils and brushes of all the Titians,
Turner's and Claude Lorraines that could
be stacked between here and Popocata-
petl or the Eads Jetties would be incom-
petent to knock chip off the shoulder
OF an effort 10 depict it.
Do you remember that wonderful pic
ture OF "Autumnal Scenes in the Cats
kills." on which Cropsey bankrupted his
capacity for colors? When it was ex-
hibted at you st. Louis Exposition two
years ago, one of your most accomplish
ed belles-hersei fit subject for a poem
or a painting-exclaimed: at would
be exquisite, If it were not impossible
And vet, if that picture, with all its gor-
geOus and seemingly supernatural rich
ness and variety OF hues, were stretched
a thousand miles in length and multi
piled to infinity in tints, 1t would scarce
iy give YOU and overdrawn idea of my
recent flying journey. Beautiful as
this
PARADIsEAN LAKE REGION
always is, il is never so enchanting as in
the fall, Just after all the pleasure seek
ing, fashion-following summer tourists
have left it, October is, of all the year,
the queen month here. She comes
dancing over peak and prairie, lake, vale
and deep-tangled dell, scattering beauty
and brilliancy unknown 10 dwellers IN
less favored realms. The hutter OF her
many-colored gauzy robes is like the
dazzle of celestial kaleidoscopes. Her
artist fingers weave mantles OF autumn's
brightest tintings for the woods and slOp-
ing lake and river sides. Romantic Lake
Pepin, Minnehaha, It. Anthony, OcOnO-
mOwoc and the wild rapids OF st. CroiX
and Wisconsin flash back unnumbered
CLEANS of borrowed crimson and purple
and gold. The whole air is resonant
with the slumberous melody OF falling
waters, and resplendent with the glories
of million shattered rainbows as the
last sunbeams OF summer, tangled IN the
meshes of the spray and mist, die like
ethereal dolphins in blaze Of many
tinted pain. Nowhere else beneath the
skies, not even in the Adirondacks or
amid the Virginia and Corolina noun
tains, can such infinite variety and rich
ness of cOlOringbe found. Nature abso-
lutely seems TO empty
ALL THE PAIST-PoTs or HEAVEN
on the landscape. Earth dons her most
gorgeous apparelling OF myriad-hued
tapestry. Creation seems buried In
prismatic splendors. The forests, re-
jolcing in their new outfit OF endlessly-
varied and bespangled toggery, toss their
heads jauntily, swing their long arms,
bend, scrape, and chuckle, and put on
as many airs as dandies at rural ball.
The redbud bushes at the wooing OF
Jolly Jack Frost, who comes pinChing
her cheek and nipping her nose with
the rollicking insOlence OF a true devil
may-csre. The willow and cottOnwoods,
chestnuts and laurels, in their delicate
draperies OF green and gold, tlutter and
simper with coquetish delight at the
whisperings OF the amorous west
breeze. The hickory, poplar, beech and
ash, in their sweet out modest garbs OF
stylish russet brown, look like fair
young brides in their second-day dresses.
The pompous oak, in his crimson coat,
bows like a grenadier to the slender ma
pie in her wrappings of dainty canary,
and the majestic elm, like a gilt-broider-
ed courtier, mods grandly to the flame
vestured creeper that Clings 10 his feet.
The haw displays her scarlet jewels, and
the poison-vine twines necklaces OF blue
black beads on fiery strands around the
snowy birches!'
THE EVERLASTING GREEN
of the tall sentinel pines and the leath-
cry ferns, the solemn hemlocks, the
ivies and the tuited-cushioned mosses,
lends a relieving tinge to the grand
chrOmatiC dress parade. Amid it all
and through it all, in silent grandeur,
rolls the majestic Father OF Waters.
Above bends sky of transluce mt azure,
beauteous as ever beheld itself reflected
back in the blue waves of Naples. And
over the whole enhancing landscape,
sleeping in the mellow autumn sunlight,
over hill and valley, mountain, lake and
plain, over Crag, rock, riyulet and cas-
cade, the mystic Indian summer spreads
her soft veil of blue and lavender hazy
Grape. Oh, it isa realm OF enchantment,
a snatch from the land OF the fairies.
God himself could scarce have made
anything more beautiful. Send your
nature-loving, y-worshiping read
ers hitherward after the fashionable
tramps have tlown-aiter the cat-gut
music and the dancing, the vapid twad-
die and Irritation have vanished with
the mosquitoes and the summer gnats-
while the autumn glory lasts.
But it Is not in beauty alone that this
region surpasses description or belief.
Ii is
TRUE WONDERLAND
in its progress. Such growth, such
thrift, snch universal push and pros
perity, ] have never seen anywhere else
in the peerless new world. Emigration
from every land beneath the sun is
pouring in like ceaseless Hood. The
whole vast territory Of Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Dakota is being dotted with
new cities, towns and homesteads. Mil
waukee is miracle Of advancement.
-, D,,,l ,pI NT;ppaarp1ia ,p.r. fr,ufiar
villages ten or fifteen years ago, are
magnificently built cities OF from 5000
to 60,000 inhabitants each. From Chi
cago to Fargo flourishing towns. Min
nesota, which was SWEPT by Indian
raids and massacres in 1862, will come
in under thet next census with more
population than Virginia or North Car
olina, and her property values, at pres
ent rates OF progress, will in a few years,
surpass those OF any two Southern
States combined Call the roll Of States
and Territories, and the whole mighty
Northeast is rising, rushing upward and
forward with rapidity that astounds
the senses and battles comprehension.
And just now
DAKOTA Is THE MASTER MARVEL
Here the wonders OF the Arabian
Nights become tame and commonplace.
Here the unreal creations Of Aladdin's
magic lamp find their real and substan.
tial counterparts in towns and cties
built, popuated Ond adorned with every
circumstance OF elegance and luxury, in
little more time than mushroom or
Jonah's squash requires to grow.
Think of a region which, only six