The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-07
DELIGHTFUL DAKOTA.
The Charms of This Favored Region Ar
tistically Described-The Newly Discov-
cred Site of the Garden of Eden.

The Charms Oh EdNOreu
tistically Described-The Newly Discov-
cred Site of the Garden of Eden.
Dakota is the newest, worst treated
and grandest of the Territories OF the
Union, the garden spot of the CONT
nent, the imperial wheat belt of the
globe. 1t is ! more than royal realm,
which ten years ago WAS unex-
plored and almost unknown, which but
five years ago was almost wholly re-
zion of romance and of fable 1t is a
peerless but modest land, that never
sounds the fishhOrn of IFS own fame.
In is the worlds true wonderland
where no storms and tempeSts ever
blow, and where all the breeZes are
trained to sing psalms in tunes in plan
issimo STYLE and in even better time and
rhyme than the rendering OF The Or
der of the Full Moons l heard just
now.
Our widest billiards. as uncnlight-
ened down-EasterS sometimes term
them. are used by gentle mothers 10 hull
their babes to sleep. The sun shines
over with a mellow splend0r that calls
to mind the far-famed Happy Valley of
''Rasselas," and there is just frost
enough in our winters To- turn the elm
leaves golden. No summer drouths or
winter floods spread devastation over
the fields and hopes OF our husband
men. No army worms or grasshoppers
sweep those fertile plains and valleys
with nibbling desOlation. No hail
storms rattle their destroying musketry
upon the grains and fruits and plate
glass windows of that elysium-eNcept.
now and then, just enough To furnish
business to our ambitious young home
hail insurance companies.
Bananas bloom in November and
Young oranges are picked the day be-
fore Christmas. Rai>ins. striped stick
candy, tin horses and india rubber
dolls. ripen always just in time for Sant;,
| Claus peddler wagon. with his reindeer
team and his little round stomach
that shakes when he laughs like a bowl
full of Jelly" Pineapples and figs grow
spontaneously on Canada thistle bushes
| everywhere. while the cotton-woods
and dog-fennel trees yield brook trout.
nectarineS and persimmonS, of laI ge
size and flavor, canal boat-load to tue
acre. Spring roses blossom on the
plain. gentle Annie. for New Year :
pos:es. and potatoes grow As big a
beer kegs ut the roots of every tuft OF
prairie grass. Cabbage heads. OF full
| Congressional and Senatorial size, give
forth the fragrance of the jessamine and
honeysuckle to humming birds Is large
a canvas-back ducks and clad in all
the prismatic glories of the aurora
borealiS. We hatch our own wild geeZe,
of such dimensions that tenderfeet from
PENNSYLVANIA, for instance. are liable to
mistake them for winged hippopotami
on lakes of never-freezing rosewater
and cologne,
Billiards. tempests. tornadoes and
rascally political breezes come to that
modern Eden only as dimly understood
wailings from distant regions and
peoples who do not know enough to
| find their way TO the sole remaining
quarter of Paradise in al the
Western world. There no wave oil
trouble ever rolls across the peaceful
breast, and the prosperous people who
raise infallibly from twenty-five to
seye nty-five bushels of No. bard wheat
to the acre of land. that costs them
nothing and get Sl.35 a bushel for it,
can calmly smile at SataL's rage and
face frowning, because less fortunate,
world. Colonel Pat DOMAIN.