, 1885-03-21
DELIGHTFUL DAKOTA.
THE CHARMS OF THIS FAVORED RE-
cioh AHTlsTicALLy DESCRIBED.


lCol Pat DOMAIN to Philadelphia Clover C1ub1
Dakota Is the newest, worst treatsi and
grandest OF the territories OF the Union.
the garden spot OF the confinenf, the imperial
wheat belt Of the globe. 1t is a more than
royal realm. which ten years ago was unsx-
plored and almost unknown, which but i've
years ago was almost wholly a region OF
romance and OF fable. 1t is a peerless bu,
modest land, that never sounds the fishhorn
OF it, own fame- Ii Is the worlds true won
derlnnl, who're no storms and tempssts ever
blow, and where all the breezes arc trained
to sing psalms In tunes in pinnissimo style
and in even better time and rhyme than the
rendering OF Hrhe Order of Full Moons l
heard just now.
Our widest billiards, as unenlightencd
down-eastars sometimes term them, are used
by gentle mothers to hull their babes TO sleep.
The sun shines over with n mellow splendor
that calls to mind the far-famsd Happy
Valley OF "Rasselas, y and there is just frost
enough In our winters to turn the elm leaves
golden. 10 ummer drouths or winter floods
spread devastation over the fields and hopes
OF our husbandmen. No army worms or
g-rasshoppers sweep those fertile plains and
valleys with nibbling desolation- No hail
storms rattle their destroying muskstry upon
tho grains and fruits and plate-glass windows
OF that elysium-except now and tLon, Just
IA1ukA ~ ~ HIS NAfA " u hLIUINIOHH
young home hail insurance companies.
Bananas bloom In November, and young
oranges are picked the day before Christ
mas. Raisins, striped stick candy, tin
horses and india rubber dolls ripon always
just in time for Santa Claus pedler wagon,
with his reindeer team and his nlittls round
stomach that shakes when he laughs like a
bowlfui Of jelly" Pineapples and figs grow
spontaneously on Canada thistle bushes
everywhere, while the cottonwoods and dog
fennel trees yield bro ok trout, nsctarinos and
peraImmons, of large size and flavor, a
canalhoat-load to the acre. Spring roses
blossom on the plain, gentle Annie, for New
Years posies, and potatoes grow as big as
beer kegs at the roots of every tuft
Of prairie grass. Cabbage heads OF
full congressional and senatorial siza
give forth the fragrance of the les
anime and honeysuckle 10 humming.
birds as large as canvns-back ducks and
clad in all the prismatic glorios Of the au-
rora borealis We hatch our own wild
geese. OF such dimensions that tenderfeet
from Pennsylvania, for instance, are liable
to mistake them for winged hippopotami on
Lakes Of new er-freezing rose water and CO
logne.
bllzzards, tempests, tornadoes and rascally
political breezss come to that modern Eden
only as dimly understood wailings from dis
tant regions and peoples who do not know
enough to find their way to the sole remain
ing quarter section OF paradise in all I'll
western world. There no wave of troubl
ever rolls across the peaceful breast, and
tue prosperous people who raise infallibly
from twenty-five to seventy five bushels Of
No. ! hard wheat to the acre OF land, that
cots item nothing and get S1.S5 a bushel
for it. can calmly smile at Satan's rage and
face a ~frowning, because less fortunate,
world