Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-07-17
C0UNSULAR APPOINTMENT.
Hon. johnson Nickeus Said to
be Selected for an Important
COnsulsllip.
Wild Cat Specializing in Pacific
Coast TOWnsites. Reaction
Necessary.
County Matters. The Northern
Pacific to Pay Taxes Oh Its
Lands.
G.. A. II. camp Echoes.

To the veterans now stretching out
their limbs under the shade of Spirit
wood lake trees, the following exquisite
bit of word painting, by Senator Ingallt
of Kansas, will not be inappropriate read
ing. Thedweller on the pralrles Of North
Dakota is intimately acquainted with the
utility OF grass. The luxuriance and
beauty of it's growth this year means
everything to him. 1t means fat stock
plenty of hay, possible loss Of all by fires
and is the accompaniment Of bountiful
crops. 1t takes on a most practical sig.
nifcance besides that given it by the
senator, who 90 eIoquentiy says:
Next in importance to the divine pro.
fusion of water, light and air, those three
physical facts which render existence
possible, may be reckoned the universal
benefcence Of grass. Lying in the sub
shine among the buttercups and dande-
lions of May, scarcely higher in intelli-
gence than the minute tenants OF that
mimic wilderness, our earliest recOllec-
tions are of grass; and when the fitful
fever is ended and the foolish wrangle of
the market and forum is closed, grass
heals over the scar which our descent
into the bosom of the earth made, and
the carpet of the infant becomes the
blanket of the dead.
Grass ia the forgiveness Of nature
her constant benediction. Fields tramp
led with battle, saturated with blood,
torn with the ruts of cannon, grown
so
forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic
become grass grown like rural lanes and
are obllterated. Forests decay, harvests
perish, flowers vanish. but grass is i'm
mortal: beleagured by sullen hosts of
winter, it withdraws into the lmpreg.
nable fortress Of it's subterranear vitality
and emerges upon the first solicitation
of spring. Sown by the winds, by wan
denng birds, propagated by the subtle
horticulture of the elements which are
its ministers and servants, 1t softens the
rude outlines of the world. 1t invades
the solitudes of deserts, climbs the in
accessible slopes and forbidden pinacles
of mountains, modifies climate, and de-
termines the history, character and des-
tiny of nations. Unobtrusive and pa
tient, 1t has immortal vigor and aggres-
sion. Banished from the thoroughfare
and field, it bides its time to return, and
when vigilance is relaxed, or the dy-
nasty has persisted, it silently resumes
the throne from which 1t has been ex-
PEELED. but which it never abdicates. It
bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the
senses with fragrance or splendor, but
its homely hue is more enchanting than
the lilly or the rose. It yields no fruit
in earth or air, yet should its harvest fail
for single year, famine would depopu-
late the world.
Register of Deeds John D. Black and
Clerk Of Court A. J. Henry, OF Barnes
county, joined Msssrs. Blackwell and
Dickey here this morning and the quar-.
tette got an early start for the lake.
They were we'll supplied in the commls-
slonary department and for additional in
splration carried snare drum and fife.
At an early hour Tuesday a large
number of campers pulled out from this
city for Spiritwood lake. Vehicles Of all
kinds got an early start with happy loads
of men, women and children.
The Topsy had seventeen seats en-
gagged on its first trip today.
Capt. William Gleason and his cannon
will do duty at the camp.