The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-08-11
Camp Pomre De Terre.
Mr.. EDITOR:
July 29th, 1892.

GUY Z5tu, iOOG'
Mr.. EDITOR:
I have a secret! will you let
me share it with you and your
many readers? Its too good
and too big to carry alone, and l just
can't do it. Would you all like to
know the secret OF happiness? A
secret that no navigator ever brought
from the sea; a secret that no mer-
chant prince was ever rich enough to
purchase? I will tell you. The
secret of happiness is the appreci-
alton of the beautiful in nature, the
appre ration of Gods unwritten
poetry. All, you are disappointed!
You expected me to tell you how to
make a fortune; how to become
famous. Do not be mistaken. The
secret of happiness is the love of the
beautiful. This love OF the beautiful
another name for poetry-this
worship of the beautiful, is the best
tiaat is in us. How g BOD is the good
God! for beauty is as free for us all
as the winds of heaven; the flight of
bird gracefully curving through the
air, the shape and tint of single
autumn leaf; the sweet curled moon
in the heavens; the still far stars; the
presence of proud, pure woman, the
lfted @ace-the proud lifted face, as
she looks into space for God.
What was poetry before poetry was
written? Beauty! beauty of soul,
thought, form, passion, expression
beauty, visible and invisible. The
fight of bird was a song. The
sound of the wind through the trees
of Paradise, when every bursting bud
was a miracle, as it is now; when
every leaf was an inspiration, as it is
now; those were the minor poems
read and understood by Adam and
Eve in the beginning of the world. Oh!
this is beautiful world. Only let
us have the capacity to see the beauty
that is in it, and we shall see nothing
that is ugly at all, nothing that is
| evil at all. This is the great secret,
and have told it to you just as it
was told to me, by as sweet singer
and as kingly a soul as was ever
hedged in by the "muddy vesture of
decay" But it is oni " within the
past week that | have truly been
lifted up into the light and strength
of this great fact-converted, born
again.
Last Monday se-en of us, forsak-
ing the heat and dust o: your bcauti-
full town, .camped right here on the
eastern shore of a gem Of u lake. SO
fair, SO fair, that it was named at
sight, Pomme de Terre. We have
been dwelling for tho past week in a
| veritable forest of Arden, aud each
day has been an act in the play of
CAS- you like it" for everything has
been to Cur liking. The weather has
been all that could be desired, and
we have enjoyed all the comforts Of
home. We arrived in camp about
noon, after a delightful ride of ten
miles. Nothing seems to have been
forgotten that would add to our
pleasure and comfort. There is
something but little short of genius
and providence in the ones who di-
rect our iaoEements and anticipate
our wants, What delicacies and sub
| stantia Is too, does cur harder contain.
Our menus would do credit to the
Ryan Or the West; such snowy
; bread and delicious butter, such
doughnuts and coffee, boiled ham,
pickerel and bass fresh from the lake,
with eggs, cream, peas, beans, buckle
berries, pie, lemonade, cake fit fur the
angels, and raspberry nectar. o! We
Olympian Gods! your famed bower
age should not be mentioned on the
same day in comparison, although
served by your own fair Hebe. After
dinner we spread our rugs upon the
fresh, green grass and read, talk,
sing pr sleep, as the mood SEXES us.
In the morning, after glorious bath,
we take a boat ride and fish. We
found a glorious bathing place; the
water is CLEAR as crystal. the boz
tom is like velvet to our feet, short,
soft moss covering the same, like
Body BRUSHES. In the evening we
sit upon Tic second story porch OF
a six roomea cottage, now owned by
one of the Zahl brothers, and vacant
and study the stars, watching Mars.
noE SO near and yet SO far, march up
the eastern sky. Arcturus, Antares,
Affair shining like rare jewels in the
sky; while Vega, in the constellation
Lyra, just over our heads, sheds her
steel blue chaste rays over us like q