The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-03
A Frontier Yawp.
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The wild, fervid imagination of the west is
something Of which everybody has heard, but
of which the Deadwood Pioneer is the only
proper representative. There is probably
more fancy, more adjectives and more en-
thusiasm lying around loose in the office Of
that civilizing medium than could be found
in Boston and Chicago together. There is a
breeziness, an aromatic freshness about the
editorials in that journal which remind one
instnctively of the broad, free life, of the
cowskin boots and the untutored chivalry of
the great, throbbing, wide west. Occasion
ally the talented young man who jerks the
leaders for the Pioneer mounts to high levels,
but he has seldom displayed an altitude like
that reached in recent essay on "a Glorious
Land" meaning Dakota, to.wit. In this pro-
duction, which caused profound sensation
throughout the northwest, he approaches his
topic guardedly. He demands first that the
prairie dogs, the miners and the oxen, the
plow- beams, the ore-cars and the women and
children shall drop all holds and chassez out
into the open, where they can see Gods green
Garth, blue sky and other appurtenances
Says he:
''On all the beauteous, pendant globe, no
fairer, richer realm unfolds itself to tempt
the angles down. No mightier treasure.
houses of royal ore rear their proud heads
heavenward in any land or zone. No
greener pastures, no more fertile fields, ever
Toasted the frolissome mule-colt, or gladened
the heart and pocket of sun-browned hus.
bandman with hundred fold harvests. No
bluer skies bend their sapphire arch above the
far.famed, beggar. hemmed and fea.girt Bay
Of Naples, or the Lake of Como, on whose
enchanted shores lay the bogus rancho Of
Claude Melnotte."
As to the brand of moonlight which foods
the Black Hills, one would infer from the
following that 1t has considerable froth on It
"No softer moonlight battles in floods OF
silvery sheen the orange groves Of Andalusia
or lurs the gushing gosling to amatory
sauash-swapping with his sdored.and-ador
able Nancy Jane"
There are men and women in other les
favored lands, Of course but the adoptd SON
and daughters Of Dakota lay over any othe
kind Of human beings anywhere. These ar
the kind of clothespins they are
"No sharper, nobler, wide. awake, long
! legged, big-booted, straighter.tobscco. spit
ting, more wholesouled, enterprising, gener
Gus and true-hearted men than ours ever lei
their stoga footprints on the golden sand
Of time. And no brighter, dearer, loyelie
creatures ever fitted through oriental poet
raptest dreams Of paradise than our littl
dimity ducklings-our homemade Gallo
seraphs-our patent inaatable gunjun.rubbel
hustled dsrlings--our sweethearts, wiye
mothers-in- law, grandmammies and cousi
Po!y-Anns, who are counted over ever
nightas carefully as our chickens or spoons.
Aswe remarked in tho exordium, there
some very remarkable language in this effor
1t sbounds in such adjuncts as bunkidorio,
and crystalline. The adjectives are, NOR
over, very gregarious; they are found alwav
in patches Of six and eight, reminding
somewhat of knights of Fythias processio
with the nouns. and verbs acting as Ii
supreme grand kings and imperial grar
worthy exchequers at the head Of each iodo
Tho talented young man who inscribed II
Dskotan pean on the brazen walls OF Far
Is especially fecund in conundrums, and
affects the style interrogative where more G
say him nay. This probably arises from
Diet which no explains to exist solely
cattle, yellow-legged chickens, com,