Great Falls tribune. [volume], March 12, 1887, Image 2

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GREAT FALLS, MONTANA.
GREAT FALLS is located at the Falls of the Missouri which furnish the greatest available water power on the Continent. Is within seven miles of the most extensive COAL
and IRON district in the West, immediately beyond which are rich GOLD, SILVER and COPPER districts. It lays tributary the best agricultural and grazing part of
the Territory, and the pineries of the Upper Missouri and tributaries. . It is especially adapted by its natural resources and geographical position to become the leading
MANUFACTURING CITY between Minneapolis and the Pacific, and the principal RAILROAD CENTER of Montana.
The trip to Great Falls will amply repay tourists by the beauty of the scenery on the way, and they will find here the most magnificent series of waterfalls in the world,.
while the surrounding country is rich in picturesqe scenery. For further information address H. O. 0 HOWEN, Agent.
GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
NATURE.
Written for the Tribune:
Nature is interesting in some form or
other to almost everyone, but more partic
ularly so, as a rule, to the cultivated and
refined, who, enjoying more knowledge
than their fellows, can better appreciate
higher things, gaining from their inter
course with them rich, pleasurable funds
of intellectual power and moral culture.
Those nobler souls who, not content with
grovelling in the dust, rise above the scum
of everyday surroundings, long for better
things, are possessed by an unquenchable
desire after knowledge and wisdom, seek
ing the truth for its own sake must, bythe
very example of their lives, have a bene
ficient influence upon posterity; and such
are those who have stood highest in Liter
ature, in the Arts and the Science.
None will deny that humanity in its
noblest examples is far removed from gen
uine puriety. Where, then, may we find
this spotless virtue unalloyed? In Liter
ature? No. In the Arts? No. In the
Sciences? No. Where, then? Innature
-it is there we find the nearest earthly
approach to the true, the pure, the beauti
ful and the sublime. Nature is from God
and man's whole works are but represen
tations of the ideas he has caught under
various aspects and accumulated in the
course of ages from nature, and we all
know that the puny efforts of man can
never possibly compare with the wonder
ful creations of his Maker. Moore beau
tifully illustrates this too patent fact when
he says:
Thou art, 0, God, the light and life
Of all this wonderous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught trom thee!
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.
Therefore, if we want to hold commun
ion with the best of all good we must
court nature; we must go into the fields,
the sighing woods, the proud-peaked
mountains, wander by the banks of mighty
rivers, harken to the song of the. foam
crested cascades, recline on mossy beds be
neath the leafy umbrage bordering the
purling brooks, become acquainted with
the wonders of the mighty deep and learn
to read the stars above. Our greatest poets
have appreciated this, and O the rapturous
songs they have sung-the heart-thrilling
melodies of men dwelling in harmonious
intimacy with the very soul of the Uni
verse. "Seek, and ye shall find. Knock,
and it shall be opened unto you," says the
Great teacher, and, verily, some men have
sought and not in vain-finding, they have
knocked and it has been opened unto
them: they have entered the Elysium en
joyed by a small minority and have had
their very souls unutterably stirred by the
passionate love that filled their beings, the
moment they passed the mystic veil to the
delightsome fields beyond, prepared by
the Creator for all who can love his mar
velous works.
Tennyson says in his poem entitled
"The Mystic:"
Angels have talked with him, and show- A
ed him thrones:
Ye knew him not; he was not one of ye,
Ye scorned him with an undiscerning
scorn:
Ye could not read the marvel in his eye, 1
The still, serene abstraction: * * *
Such a description is equally applicable 11
to the searcher after the secret mysteries c
Nature, for it is seldom that the average I
mind can understand such an one. Any- i
thing that is placed before boisterous a
mirth and jollity is regarded as folly, and
people prate.about having a good time
and lots of fun. They forget that these
seekers after wisdom enjoy life and have
just as good a time as the jolly crowd does.
They forget that tastes differ. Then, any
thing that is placed before fortune hunt
ing is not only astonishing, but it actually
provokes ridicule and scorn. 'Tis said
that money is the root of all evil; it is also
the root of much good, and the man who
has not his eyes open to this fact is not
only blind.to the "main chance," but must
be also sadly ignorant of the duties and
necessities imposed upon him by the civ
ilization of the times. Money is &pleas
ant thing to have, and I would not legard 1
my purse as trash unless it was empty.
And, to go further, an empty purse, is bet
ter than no pause at all, tor there may be 2
Ilways the hope of filling it; moreover so
nany men judge by superficial appear
mces that a purse, full or empty, occas
dionly displayed, but kept judiciously clos
ad, counts much to the credit of the pos
;ess)r. If this is practiced, however, when
he purse is empty, it is veritable dissimu
lation-an evil to be avoided, the world
groans under the weight of it today, prac
ticed, as it is, in every trade and profess
ion, as well as in the lives of private indi
viduals. Men should learn to judge all
matters with less haste, endevoring to ex
amine that which lies below the surface
of things, rather than forming their opin
ions by a glimpse of the outside, for, not
only is it not all gold that glitters, but it is
not all dross that presents an uncouth, un
promising appearance. Men say to this,
"why, that's old; we hear it every day that
we live !" Yes, so they do, and the more
shame to them that they do not make good
use of these venerable precepts!
But to return, once again, to our text.
Byron was a great poet. He was preem
inently the poet of passion. His was a
passionate nature; his was a powerful intel
lect. Can we wonder then, that his spirit
-all passion, all fire-was the key-note of
all his poetic utterances. His passions
were many-sided however, and why? be
cause he loved many things and when he
loved it was with his whole soul. One of
his many passions was the love of Nature;
he had communed with her and learned to
love her in every mood. Listen to his
words in "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:
"Like Caldean, he could watch the stars,
Till he had peopled them with beings
bright
As their own beams; and earth, and earth
born jars,
And human frailties, were forgotten quite."
"Where rose the mountains, there to him
were friends;
Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his
home;
Where a blue sky and glowing clime, ex
tends,
lie had the passion and the power to roam;
The desert, forest, cavern, breakers foam,
Were unto him companionship; they spake
A mutual language; elearer than the tone
Of his land's tongue, which he would oft
forsake
For Nature's pages * * * * * *
Again
Are not the mountains, and the waves, and
skies, a past
Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Is not the love of these deep in my heart
With a pure passion? should I not con
temn
All objects, if compared with these? and
stem
A tide of suffering, rather than forgo
Such feelings, for the hard and wordly
phlegm
Of those whose eyes are only turn'd below,
Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts
which dare not glow.
The poet well understood the feelings
inspired by familiar intercourse with Na
ture, and beautifully expresses his senti
ment in the following.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lovely shore,
There is a society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
1 love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all
conceal.
I lhi:<.k ai! ,n be said that every true
Ina::;::i; is a poet. He may be unable
t,) i:;: up hiA voice in songs of praise, but
hi- h-:a.:i t..',h!o as it hears the sounds of
nmi;y wvatrs: Ihi eyes sparkle at the sight
of the joyous flight of the birds, at the
blue sky, at the trees and brooks, at the
leaping, silvery ,ith, at the green herbage,
and the mauy hiund Howers.
Speaking of the flowers, those emblems
of simple grace and purity, of which
Horace Smith has said with undying elo
quence:
"Your voiceless lips, 0 flowers, are liv
ing preachers;
Each cup a pulpit, every leat a book,
Supplying to the fancy numerous teach
ers
From the lonliest nook.
"Floral apostles! that in dewy splendour
Weep without woe and blush without
a crime,
Oh! may I deeply learn, and ne'er sur
render
Your love sublimer'
rOWe cannot but take eognizance of the
vast quantity of literary effort of all de
grees of badness and goodness, prose and
verse, that they have elicited from the
minds of men. Ever since the time when
man began to accumulate legends-the
foundation of our earliest history-down
to the present time, the poets have sung of
the flowers and to them, and the philoso
phers have loved to illustrate many a les
son by them. There is something in the
heart of man that warms him to the flow
ers, more especially so, where his soulhas
not been greatly contaminated by the hard
ening influences of the world. All child
ren love flowers, from the little naked
savages in Africa to these brought to light
amid the effeminating inflences of the very
hot-beds of so-called culture and civiliza
tion. These bright gems that studd the
bosom of mother earth in the genial spring
time, and bask in the glowing warmth of
the summer's reign have been likened unto
the stars. Goethe's saying that "flowers
are stars of the earth" gave rise to the fol
lowing beautiful lines from the pen of our
immortalized national poet-Longfellow.
"Spake full well, in language quaint and
olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhrine.
When he called the flowers, so blue and
golen,
Stars that in earth's firmament do shine.
"Stars they are, wherein we read our his
tory,
As astrologers and seers of eld,
Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery,
Like the burning stars which they be
held.
"Wondrous truths, and manifold as won
drous,
God hath written in these stars above:
But net less in the bright flowerets under
us
Stands the revelation of his love.
"Bright and glorious is that revelation,
Written all over this great world of ours,
Making evident our own creation
In these stars of eartb.--these golden
flowers."
Dr. Darwin, that great scientist, addres
sing the stars said:
"Fowers of the sky! ye, too, to time must
yield,
Frail as your silken sisters of the field."
- The German poet, Rampach, says:
a "The stars show fairly in the darksome
e night.
t They gem like flowers the carpet of the
sky."
And, listen to the words of Firdusi, the
Persian poet:
"The bright sun sank down into the ocean:
The black night followed in haste;
The stars came forth like flowers,
And heaven was like a garden."
The study of Nature has an enabling influ
ence upon the soul; it stimulates the mind
to the acquirement of useful knowledge; it
warms the heart and makes a man love his
fellows and all things created, by bring
ing him into close intercourse with the
Creator, through His works. Therefore,
it is a noble study and worthy the consid
eration of all.
Montgomery puts into the mouth of his
dying Brahmin these beautiful words, so
worthy of rememberance:
"All that inhabit ocean, air, or earth,
From one Eternal Sire derive their birth.
The Mind that built the palace of the sky,
Formed the light wings that decorate a fly;
The Power that wields the circling planets
round,
Rears every infant flowe'ret in the ground;
That Bounty which the mightie.st beings
share,
Feeds the least#Gnat that glides the even
ing air."
F. W. A-DERSON.
G EORGE W. TAYLOR.
Attorney-at-LaW.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Special Attention
Giveu to Real Estate and Land Entries.
CHABLE GGRIFFIT EDMUND INGOESOLL
County Surveyor
GRIFFITH & INGERSOLL,
Civil Engineers & DeD). U. S.
Mineral & Land Surveyors,
Irrigating ditches and ranch surveys a specialty
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