Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
IN THE OTHER DAKOTA.
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

; the thermometer rise at Grand Falls IN
the warmth and heartiness of the APP
plause with which they greeted the inn
mortal name OF Robert E. Lee and when
General Gordon follows me there next
week he viii receive welcome that viii
warm the cookies Of the dear old he
ro's heart.
The thermometer was trife shy Of
I "a degrees below zero at Grand Forks
this morning, but the people insist upon
going about their business with unbrok-
en- regularity and speak Of it as q nice
sharp day
The climate is unquestionably provo
cative of the strenuous life" These
people are obliged to live it. If they
didn't they would freeze to death. Theo-
dore Roosevelt formed his shibboleth and
his habits in this nipping air. A man can
work all day here without fatigue. for
the atmosphere. when 1t Is still, is like
champagne, sparkling and inspiring, and
like acid when astir, eating and piercing
and keen. God sets the climate to the
necessities of the soii. No lax or lag
gard hand could pluck these acres from
J the wind and cold, and the atmosphere,
which is the providence OF God. quickens
the pulse and hardens the muscle to he
! roic effort.
There can be no finer and loftier tribute
to the spirit of the south than the record
and miracle of its industrial recupera-
Il
our country do not quicken men there.
as it does here with the material impulse
/ of endeavor.
But the God who made US breathed in
| to us that something better and higher
than physical impulse-that thing which
dominates me flesh and all material
things-the high, fine ana deathless spir-
/ il of aspiration and ambition, which
rides triumphant over languid pulses, de-
de< the tempting suggestion of tha-soffer
air and conquers in the power or an IN
ner atmosphere of purpose as high, nne
and inspiring as the freshest breeze that
ever blew from the ozone OF the northern
SHOWS.
And so the southern fire matches every
/ where the northern ice, and II the one
| solidifies the mind and muscles to efrec-
tive strife, the other melts all opposition
in its consuming fame.
And when IRE and ice move from their
| separate spheres TO operate in harmony
upon material or on finer things, reason
| and enthusiasm are linked in union
| benefcent and irresistible forever.
am tired of the long winter and of this
unbroken cold. The brace of the north
west has already persisted in my spirit
| ana turn with almost querulous reac-
tionfto the softer zone in which my treas
/ ures lie.
| THE other night in the union depot in
| ST. Paul, as 1 boarded the train for North
| Dakota, 1 shook hands in parting with
ichance acquaintance leaving on Bur-
lington sleeper with a through ticket Tor
| Th6masville Ga There came to me the
/ well known picture of those two fun
| rugged ships heading in opposite direc-
tions. and the suggestive lines beneath
/ them. Under the one:
This brave ship goes
From lands Of sun
To lands OF SHOWS"
And under the other: s
This happier one
Its course is run
From lands of snow
To lands Of SUM-"
| And as I set my foot on board, with
| sails all posted and set toward the north
| ern star. my longing heart went swiftly
| with the ffuttering sail that bore toward
| the South wind breathing over vioiets.'