Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-21

exceedingly falr to look upon. our
narrow wales shelter race who have
cut their cye-teeth, !; race who love the
almighty dollar, and are willing to work
for it, when they can't get it without
And they have TO work for it, for dame
Nature is clothed in rugged garments
in that region. and her smiles are hard
to win. She gives but niggardly to
those who solicit her increasingly, with
continuous effort of all their strength
of mind and body, but to the indolent
and incompetent she turns forbidding
a blessing to all, becomes something to
be endured rather than enjoyed. Your
green wooded hills and grassy wales;
fyour dashing streams and quiet dreamy
lakes; your quaint, roomy homes, in
sheltered hooks; your pleasant villages,
with shady walks and fiowers-I well
remember. But painted more vividly
than all other scenes upon the tablets Of
my memory, is the gorgeous glow of
your autumn forests. l see before me,
draping the sloping wales, crowning the
billowy hills, fringing the winding
streams, a network of color woven by
the deft fingers of decay, aided by the
thrill in the chill breath of the north
wind; wide-spreading naples, smooth,
silvery beeches, graceful, dropping elms,
with all the lesser tenants of the forest,
vying with each other in Kaleidoscope
combination of every tint and hue, from
| paleSt pink to tiercest crimson, faintest
ash to greenest emerald, forming pic
ture grand beyond conception-SO glori-
Gus that, to compare with feeble inven-
tioa Of human loom or easel, were silli-
est mockery. But, alas, another picture
one which destroys the enchantment
of the tirst-is also there engraved; for
in all your pleasant wales stalks the
spectrer of disease. Natures snowy
garments are but the gliding of a sepul-
chre. Fell consumption saps and mines
the foundations of your fairest fabrics.
Your mantels are loaded with a multi
tude of bottles, of various size and
/ shape-impotont battery to defend the
citadel of hcalth-whose labels attest
the virtues of the decoctions within,
balms, eliXirs, paneceas, and liniments.
| Out-houses and attics are cdmbered
with those that have been emptied by
defmct generations, while every care
full housewife has a perfect arsenal Of
simples, root, bud and leaf, laid away
for use. Life is valucless under such
conditions, and would beseech you to
fly, fly to a land which doubtless lacks
some Of the snowy qualities of your
motherland, but which, in all substan-
tial things, all that goes to make life
worth living, is a land which holds the
it to the heart, a land whose arms are
loaded with precious gifts, health, ease,
competence, long life; whose lips are
extending to you the heartfelt invita-
ton to come and partake. All that she
possesses is yours, if you chose to ask it,
with moderate eXertion, and with but a
tithe of yonr old-time enterprise and
economy. Dakota asks you to come,
for your people are of the salt of the
earth, who thrive with much thrift
wherever transplantcd, and in her soil
they take root readily, and put forth
many branches, which in due season
are well laden with fruit, and their
riches multiply until they become a
proverb in the land. Come, and you
will have but one cause Of regret, and
that is that you had not seen it before
and "gcbbled" your quarter section
; years ago, and not wasted the fitting
years where endeavor is fruitless and
existence a succession of woes.-Car,
2jngton Neacs.