The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-17
?. DOMAINS PICTURE
OF GLORIOUS AUTUMN IN THE FAR
AWAY NORTHWEST.
A Place Where mature Seems to Empty
All the Taint-Pots of Heaven on
tie Landscape"-An Invita-
ton Extended.

Devil Lac ID. IT, Letter in New York SUM-
Thou an IS of really sensible people,
caught by the garish glitter of society frlv-
olities, fall into line and follow the aimless
pa tbs OF fashionable numskullS and nobod-
les. They choose the same routes and times,
endure the same bores and deliberations,
whirl AMI paddle through the same scenes
along the slms beaten tracks, go into me-
cbanical ec,tacies shout, grunt, growl and
damn through the same unending gamut of
rambling stupidities, and miss nine tenthS
of all creations grandest and most glorious
| displays.
In all the gilt-eiged guide books Of fash
ionable tourists there is no mention of the
| transcendent glorieS of autumn on the upper
Mississippi and in the far northwest; no
hint of the charms ana delights of a trip
| through the Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Dakota fairyland of lakes and dells and
crystal streams in all the wild maguifcence
of frost-wrought coloring language reels,
weak and hump-shouldered, under an at
| tempt to describe it. All the pencils and
brushes of all the Titians, Turner's and
| Claude Lorraines that could be stacked be-
| tween Minnehaha and Popocatepeti, or
Winnipeg and the Eads jetties, would be
incompetent to knock chip off the shoulder
of an effort to depict it.
SUPERNATURAL VANITY.
| Who that has ever seen it does not re-
member that wonderful picture of "Au-
tumnal Scenes in the Catskills," on which
| Cropsey bankrupted his capacity for colors?
| When it was exhibited at the St Louis
| exposition, some years ago, Nellie Hazsltine,
| the belle of that village-herself a fit sub
| ject for poem or a painting-as she stood
| with me before it, exclaimed, at would be
exquisite, if it were not impossible!' And
| yet if that picture, with all it's gorgeous
| and seemingly supernatural richness and
| variety of hues, were stretched q thousand
miles in length and multiplied to infnity in
tints, it would scarcely give an overdrawn
idea of a journey at this season from st.
| Louis or Chicago to Minneapolis, DaviPs
Lake. or the Yellowstone, over any of the
| great northwestern railway lines
Beautiful as this paradisean lake and
river region of the new and golden
northwest always is, it is never so enchant-
ing as i'll the fall, just after all the pleasure
seeking acknowledging rabble of summer
| tourists have left it. October l., of all the
year, the queer month here. She comes
| dancing over peak and prairie, lake, vale
and deep-tanged dell, scattering beauty
| and brilliancy unknown to jewellers in less
| favored realm. The fiutter Of her many
| colored, gauzy robes is like the dazzle of
celestial Kaleidoscope. Her artist fingers
| weave mantleS OF autumn's brightest
tintings for the woods and sloping lake
and river side<. Romantic Lake Pepin,
| Minnehaha st. Anthony, Okob1ji, Min
netonka, Minnewakan, and the wild rapids
| of st. Croix and Wisconsin flash back I'M
numbered CLEANS of borrowed crimson and
purple and gold. The whole air is resonant
with the slumberous melody of falling
| waters, and are resplendentswith the glOries
| of q million shattered rainbows, as the last
sunbeams of summer. tangled in the meshes
of the spray and mist, die like ethereal
dOlphins in a blaze of many tinted pain.
THE PAINT-POTs OF HEAVEN.
Nowhere else beneath the SKIES not even
| in the Adirondacks or amid the western
Carolina mountains cen more infinite va
| riety and richness OF colorng be fonnd.
| Nature absolute seems to empty all the
paint-pots of heaven ON the landscape.
Earth dons her most gorgeous apparelling
of myriad hued tapestry. Creation seems
bathed in prismatic splendors. The forests,
rejoicing in their new outfit of endlessly
varied and bespangled toggery, toss their
| heads jauntily, swing their long arms, bend,
scrapa, and chuckle, AMI put on many
airs as handles at rural ball. The red bud
bushes at the wooing of jolly Jack Frost,
who comes pinching her cheek and nipping
her nose with the rcllicking insolence of a
true davil-may care. The willows and cot
tonwoods. aspens AMI laurels, in their deli
cate drapsries of green and gold. futter and
shipper with coquettish delight at the wills
perings of the amorous west breeze.
The hickory, poplar, beech, and ash in
their sweet but modest gowns of stylish rus
set brown, look like fair young brides in
their second day dresses. Tue pompous oak,
in his crimson coat, bows like grenadier to
the slender maple in her wrappings of dainty
canary; and the majestic elm, like a gilt
broidered courtier, mods grandly to the
flame-vestured creeper that cliugs to his
feet. The haw displays her scarlet jewels,
and the poison vine twinss necklaces of
blue-biack beads on fiery strands around the
snowy bircheS. The everlasting greens of
the tall sentinel pines, AMI tho feathery
ferns the solemn hemlockS, the ivie5, ami
the tuftsd. cushioned MOSES lends relieving
tinge to the grant chromatic dress parade.
ENHANCING LANDSCAPE.
Amid it all and through it all, in silent
grandeur toward the southwark rolls the
majestic Father of Wa ters, while toward
the orthwarl, toward the mystic borders
of the aurora borealis and the northern pole
the far famed Red River Of the North me-
anders, like a rowing truant among floods.
7 Above ben Is a sky OF translucent azure,
beauteUus as ever beheld itself reflected
back in the blue waves of Naples or the
Golden Horn. And over the whole en-
trancing landscape, sleeping in the mellow
autumn sunlight; over hill and valley,
mountt'a ,E, and plain; over crag, rock,
= rivu,et AMI cascade. the mystic Indian sum-
mer spCol l. her soft veil of bus ami laven
der hay Grape. woven from the smoke OF
th-usau Is Oh Thousands OF miles of prairie
fires.
| L l. a aim of eDchautment snatch
from 20 In Of the fairies. God himself
cou! scarcely have made anything more
beau fIL let all real nature lovers AMI
b.au-Y Yocshipers como hitherward after
tie a .i.In3Sls tramD5 have fown-after