The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-19
DELIGHTFUL DAKOTA.
THE CHARMS OF THIS FAVORED RE-
GION ARTlSTICALLY DESCRIBED.
The Garden Spot of the Continental More
Than Royal Reaim-An Enthusiastic
Song of Praise-a Modern
Eden Described.

[Col. Pat DOMAIN TO Philadelphia Glover Clubl
Dakota is the newest, worst treated and
gran lest Of the territories OF the Union,
the garden spot of the continent, the imperial
wheat belt Of the globe 1t is q more than
royal realm, which ten years ago was unex-
plCred and almost unknown, which but five
years ago was almost wholly a region of
romance and of fable. 1t is peerless but
modest land, that never sounds the fshhorn
of its fame. 1t is the worlds true won
derland, where no storms and tempests over
blow, and where all the breezes are trained
to sing psalms in tunes in pianissimo style
and in even better time and rnyme than the
rendering of "The Order Of Full Moons"
heard just now.
Our widest hliZzaris, as unenlightened
down casters sometimes term them, arc used
by gentle mothers to hull their babes to sleep,
The sun shines over with Il mellow splendOr
that calls to mind the far-famed Happy
Valley of "RaSselaS and thore is just frost
enough in our winters to turG the elm leaves
golden. No summer drJuth5 or winter floods
spread devastation over the fields and hopes
Of our husbandnsn. No army worms or
grasshoppers sweep those fertile plains and
valleys with nibblng desolGti0n. No hail
storms rattle their destroying musketry upon
the grains and fruits and plata-glass windows
OF that elysium-except, now and then, just
enough to furnish business TO our bilious
young home hail insurance companies.
Bananas bloom in November, and youn,
oranges are picked the day before Christ
mas Raisius, striped stick candy, Tin
horses aud India rubJel DOH Tipeu always
IN t. in time for $ .Eta Claus pedler wagon,
with his reindeer team ana his little round
stomach that shakes when he laughs like &
bowltul Of jolly Pneapples and fig, grow
spontaneously on Canada thistle husles
everywhere, while Tie cottonwoods and dog,
fennel trees y.eli bro TX trout, nectarines AMI
persimn1nS, Of lag, Sizo ani flavor, a
canalboat-iaad to tie acre. Spring roses
blossom on the plain, gentle Annie, for New
Years posies, aud Potatoes grow as big as
beer kegs at the roots Of every tuft
OF prairie grass. Cabbage heads Of
full congressional and senatorial sis
give ior5h the fragrance of the jos
samine ana honeysuckle TO humming.
birds as large As canvas-back ducks and
clad in all the FrismGtic giOries of the au-
rora borealis. We hatch our own Will
gcese, Of such dimensions that ten !erieot
from Penusy wanna, FOR instance, are liable
to mistake them for winged hippopotami on
lakes Of uever-freozing rosewater and CO
logne
Bl!zzsrds, tempe5ts, tornadoes and rascally
political breezas come t. that modern EieI
only as dlmiy understood wailings from dis
tant regions and peoples who do not know
enough to find their way to the sole remain
ing quarter section Oe paradise in all thu
western world. Tuer, no wave of trouble
ever rolls across the peaceful breast, AM
| the prosperous people who raise infallibly
from twenty-five To seventy-fve bushels Of
No hard wheat TO the acre OF land, tina
20 Is them nothing and get $l.35 a bushel
Tor it, can calmly smile at Satan's rage ana
face a frownng, because less fortunate
world