The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1890-09-27

grandeur as Mt. Rainier, that rears
It's proud head almost to the azure
blue of heaven, with it's crown COW
cred with perpetual snow. If you
seek to try your metal with noble
game, brave the grizzly bear, the
broad horned elk, the fleet footed
deer in the almost primeval forest of
the Pacific coast. Seek not the grapes
of France till your lips have kissed
the luscious juices of the western
fruits. IF you seek for beautiful farm
ing lands, gaze as have done, upon
the valleys of the Puget Sound coun-
try, teeming with the grandest gems
of vegetation, where the roses and
the violet, the lily and the golden
rose bud, blow in the open air, and
the atmosphere is heavy with their
fragrant fumes; where the cattle
browse in meek content among the
grasses that reach their TANKS; where
they stand knee deep in the crystal
flood and quench their thirst in the
cool springs that gurgle and spout
from the hidden streams that find
their way to the surface and form
streams to feed the meadow lands,
where they are lulled to sleep by the
sweet music from the tiny Threats of
birds of brilliant hue; where the trees
grow to such majestic proportions as
to cause the kings of Virginia pin
cries to bow their heads as it were in
subserviency. What a prospect of
Joy it must be to the farmer who re-
sides in Kansas, Dakota and Colorado
to gaze on such country as Wash
ington, devoid of all crop destroying
pests, to see the surrounding mountains
that shelter the dwellings and fields
from the devastating and pitiless tor
nado; where the soil is so rich in
the natural phosphates that every
branch of husbandry can be carried
on; where the luxuriant grasses
grow in profusion, tinting the land
scape with green and gold, with pur-
pie and crimson; where such is the
marvellous luxuriances of nature that
each tree or vine weakens or actually
destroysits neighbOr by excessive pro-
duction, unless the watchful eye of
the farmer prevents, as it's bearing
powers are greater than it's space will
permit; to see the mountains covered
with dense forest that can be uti-
lized for his home, his barns and
fences; where the hand Of generous
nature has deposited in the rocky
Businesses of the earth great stratas
of coal to warm the body; surrounded
with towering mountains, teeming
with metallic wealth, sufficient to
have stricken speechless with amaze
ment the Ph9nician miners of Cad
mus and Jason; nature having made
its wealth so apparent to the naked
eye that the miners will come and
cause the valleys to vibrate with the
metallic ring of the hammerand steel,
and by his reward share with all the
avenues of trade within the gift of ma
ture; where there is no such grim
spectre as overprOduction, for by the
aid of deep water courses the Pacific
kisses the golden decked sands Of
Washington, and natural harbor is
given for the great ships that will be
built from the timber grown on Puget
Sound soil, and under the glorious
stars and stripes they will bear the sur
plus product to the less fortunately To-
Gated climes of China, Japan and Aus
tralia. Truly Puget Sound is an en-
igrant's Eden. Every spot is gar
den and every garden is production
Of fruits and flowers of all kinds
every fruit of luscious sweetness and
every flower bearing it's own sweet
perfume. And while our lands of the
eastern States are rObed in the pitt
less mantle of white, and the birds
and cattle SILVER in covered hooks,
where the hand Of the farmer is prac-
tically paralyzed by the ice and frost,
and he sits restless and fretful for the
return offspring that he can begin his
planting, is all different on Puget
Sound. The valley lands are green
and fruits and flowers grow and add
beauty to the scene. The air is filled
with sweet melody from the tiny
Threats Of birds, and the children
romp and play, warmed by that won
derful freak Of nature-the soft CHI
nook wind"
only ask your readers to take the
above strain of eloquence into consid-
Grafton. Coming from the source
they do, they are gems of thought
worth preserving. These two extracts
virtually cover all necessary ground
of information relative to Washing
ton. d. MEADE WOODSON.
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