St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-24
OPERA OF The PRAIRIE
That Is What Budd Reeve
Defines the Blizzard
to Be.
He Elueidates It's Origin and
the Nature Of Its
Mission.
It Is an Enjoyable Scene
When Viewed From
the Inside.
Winter a Period of Social
Joy and Big Thing
in Dakota.


in Dakota.
Special to the Globe
BUXTON, Oak, March o.
Who KNOWS, but He whose hand the light
ming forms,
Who heaYes old ocean, and who wings the
storm,
Pours fierce ambition in Cssar's mind,
Or turns your Ammon loose to scourge
mankind?
Better for us, perhaps it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air nor ocean felt the wind.
That never passion discomposed the mind.
But all subsists by elemental strife;
And passions are the elements of life.
The general order, since the world began,
Is kept in nature, and is kept i'll man.
WHAT Is A BLIZZARD?
I don't know whether | can come as
near telling what blizzard is as the
Irishman did to defining life" This
untutored philosopher said: Bread is
called the staff of life, but whisky is
life ITSELF"
A blizzard is storm at sea on land:
Dakota, now the beautiful queen OF
prairieS, was once the bed of a rolling
ocean. The waters which once Sparkled
here have gone, but the wind is left. 1t
seems to linger here from mere force OF
habit, or as matter OF second
nature; and finding no waters or
waves to toss and heave and
play with, in memory OF old
times and centuries gone, this lone,
lonesome, widowed wind, left like the
last rose of summer, turns the snow
into pillows and white caps, the frost
into sea foam and waves, and wells the
heavens in crystal hurricane. LII
seems to be distracted because its COM
panion is gone. Why did its compan-
ion leave? There are great many rea-
sons why companions leave. Some
times it is because they are kissed and
caressed too much, and sometimes not
enough. Sometimes it is because they
are pounded and driven around. And
then it is sometimes the case that the
companion takes an out and out dislike
to fellow for various reasons, and just
deliberately walks off and leaves him.
When there was an ocean here,
it is hard to say why the water departed
and left the bed to turn into green
prairie. 1t may be that when the water
was sparkling with light, and
BEING SwEETIY KISSED
and caressed by sunbeamS, it became
tired and disguised try having the wind
come and swash it around. and wrinkle
and darken it's beautiful face, and cast
cloud sover it's loneliness. This of itself
would be sufficient cause for any COM
panion to get up and leave. But no
matter what the cause, the water is gone
and the wind is left; and when with
angry fury you see it filling
the air with snow from earth
to the clouds like rushing
whirlpoolS, don't get frightened or faint
with alarm; the bottom OF the good ship
Dakota is too broad and strong to upset
or give way. 1t strikes me, if man
were on board ship at sea. in the midst
of wild and terrific storm, where the
waves were rolling and tossing, and
foaming, and crashing, and bowling,
mingled with thunders, and the terrors
and shrieks of all on board-it
strikes me, if at this moment
he could only feel safe, and know be-
yond doubt that no harm could come to
him, be would not only be happy but
delighted with the situation. AS the
roar of the storm filled his ears, if he
knew the spars would bend but never
break; if he knew the ship would heave
but never sink, seems to me he would
be wild with delight as he witnessed the
mighty struggle between natures
giants, the winds and the waves.
Imagine yourself in ship at the bottom
of the ocean, with waves rolling and
tumbling hundreds of feet above you.
Imagine, in this condition. you were all
safe and free from danger, and could
look out the windows and see sharks
and whales and all the inhabitants of
the ocean darling and swimming around
YOU. Don't you think as you faced
the shark and looked down its cavern
Gus throat, you would laugh to
see it come near and not be able to get
you? And as it turned away in angry
disappointment, don't you think it
would be fun to
DECORATE ITS TAIL
with ribbons, such as the girls wear on
their hair and around their neckS for
streamers, and with this kind of a varie-
gated tail, see it go flying away through
the water like kite?
If YOU could only be sure of absolute
safety and security, you would enjoy a
home on the bottom of the ocean, where
YOU could spend your time solving mys-
teries, and picking up treasures among
the wild, wild waves. | never was in
an opium joint and never experienced
the fascinating charms and dreams re-
lated by opium smokers, but L have
been in blizzard. That is, l have been
inside when the
BLIZZARD WAS OUTSIDE.
was never Oh the same side with the
blizzard when could not get in when [
wanted to.
have been, as it were. in the ship at
the bottom of the sea, where the shark
gazed in at the window and where I
could see the bowling monster in all it's
fury. And in full sight OF him l have
lain down and fallen serenely asleep
and left him lashing his tail, shrieking
for blood. When you are fixed and for
titled there is fascinating charm
about a blizzard. To enter into
the full enjoyment of it you
must have a bin full of coal,
a full meat and flour barrel, plenty of
water and feed under cover for the
stock, and the family in good health. If
YOU are fixed in this way you can appre-
ciate Dakota'S charms and enjoy your
reserved seat at the
GREAT PRAIRIE OPERA.
If you are prepared as you should be,
ferocity doeSn' tadd to the terrorS and
dangers of the blizzard. The higher the
snowdrifts the safer and warmer your
house.
AS you look at the raging elements
without. and see the snow whirling and
twirling; as you hear the wind blowing
blast after blast, like an invincible war
rior commanding his hosts; and at every
command, as you see wave after wave,
and column after column rush forward,
in charge after charge, and when the
first assault fails, as you hear the shout
of the king in command, in wild and
determined frenzy returning on double