Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-05-31
A SOAKING RAIN.
Missouri Slope Blessed with Soaking
Rain, that Does Untold Good
to Crops.
Storm is General Over the Slope.
But Does Not Extend to
u 4 jamestown.
Comparison Of Rainfall During this,
and Previous Spring Seasons
Crop Information.

The prayers of the righteous have
been answered in the way of a rain
that is: general over the Missouri slope,
one of those rains that falls steadily
from a heavy and leaden sky and
soaks the parched earth with grateful
moisture. It is a genuine rain, none
of the passing showers that emits a
few drops of water and passes on 1t
is a soaking rain, and wet raj n the
rain that patters gently on the roof
and rustles through the leaves Of the
trees; that the thirsty grass drinks in
greedily and that gladdens the grain
and the flowers. It is one of the rains
that Nature bestows to prove she is
still kind and thoughtful mother,
who has the welfare of her children
at heart, and has only scorched them
a little to cause them the more to ap-
preciate her bounties. ut was still
raining as this peroration was rounded
out.) 25
1T is a generous rain, that brings a
smile to the beaten face of the honest
farmer. It is rain that makes the
blades of grass laugh and the flowers
lift up their Threats to drink in the
drops that fall gently, steadily, COM
fortingly. 1t is rain tnat makes the
leaves Of the trees hang heavily, laden
with drops Of crystal water, and that
makes the water spout flow a plenteous
stream, into the barrel where the
housewife sees soft water accumulate
for the next weeks wash. 1t is a
rain that makes the cattle hump up
under the trees and the cat crawl un-
der the house, while the man without
an umbrella skins along the street be-
tween the drops. It is the kind of
rain that happens when you have left
your umbrella and macintosh at the
other end Of the line. 1t is a rain
that is worth millions of dollars to the
state Of North Dakota. 1t is certi-
fcate OF deposit on the banks Of Ma
ture for countless thousands of dollars.
(As we went out to cash our certifi-
Gates it was still raining.) Ill., s.,sz
1t is a beautiful rain. 1t is more
beautiful than beautiful snow 1t is
a rain that trickles down through the
parched soil, down to the roots of the
wheat and the oats and the early rose
potatoes and bids them get hump on
themselves. Such an easy rain, too,
as though it could rain the same way
every day if it only. wanted to, So
wet it is. as it ripples down over the
brim of the straw hat that is caught
away from home and makes tu1nors on
its top. How the water streams off the
edge OF the umbrella down the neck of
the comrade you have taken in out of
the wet and shared your umbrella
with. How the little rills run off on
his shoulder and down inside of his
white collar and make him think what
a good fellow you are, and so generous.
Gas: AS We reached this point, it stopped
raining,} =. ss-.,.....-..
WEATHER NOTES. 4
General Williams, who returned
Tuesday from a trip to Williston, says
that prairie fires were raging between
Williston and Minot and the prairies
| iss IN that section were as brown as in
autumn.
Mclean ltl'sa county and the region north