Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 18

en SS as 8 GRAND RAPIDS, AN ALBUM OF RARE EXGELLENGE. A Revelation of the Fascinating Scenery and the Bounteous Gifts of Nature in Favored Itasca County. This book reveals the beauties and the resources of Itasca county as they really are, and it is a showing that every resident has reason to be proud of. The handsome illustrations ap- pearing so profusely throughout these pages afford abundant evidence of the excellence of a land righ in natural re- sources, where home-seekers are greet- ed by the pleasing sight of crystal wa- ters dancing in the sunlight amidst the fringing environment of alternat- ing woodland and meadow. Where are the homeless millions while these bounties of nature beckon for their coming? Where are the rent-payers who nev- er ate bread under their own roof, and who never sat beneath the foliage of their own dooryard and breathed the healthful ozone that was floating in the breeze across the cool and spark- ling waters of the adjacent lakes? Where are those who strike the iron and hew the wood and dig the ground and sway and beat and lift in constant toil, and yet are not able to accumulate against the coming ‘‘rainy day,”’ or the declining years of advancing age? For these, and also for investors and the well-to-do, is this book offered. Its handsome and instructive con- tents will protect it from wanton de- struction. It will adorn the center table in thousands of homes in the East as well asin the West. It will not be destroyed the day after it is- published, like a daily newspaper, but it will be saved to continue its work as the months pass by. It will be loaned to friends as a thing of value to be returned and loaned again to other friends. It has been prepared with conscientious fidelity to the truth, but even those who might otherwise doubt cannot accuse the camera or the en- graver of exaggeration. For this rea- son the illustrations have a necessary use to perform, and add much to the value of the work. One reason why clover does so much better here than on the prairies is said to be that the heavy prairie soil heaves a little during the intense cold of win- ter and kills the roots of the clover, while in the lighter soil there is no heaving to disturb the roots. RESIDENCE OF F. T. BUENEMAN. ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA, RESIDENCE OF I. D. RASSMUSSEN, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT. RESIDENCE OF SHERIFF W. C. TYNDALL AND COUNTY JAIL. }| Ht