448 SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY. 



earth. Joyfully the streams murmur their soothing songs as they 

 hurry on to be embraced by the father of waters. 



I peer into the future where my faltering steps cannot go 

 and these eyes will be ever closed, and there will arise a vision of 

 loveliness, when the labor of art will combine with that of nature, 

 and human skill will match the beauty of land and sky, and 

 Minnesota will shine as the fairest star in the galaxy of our be- 

 loved land. 



Col. John H. Stevens— first settler of Minneapolis. 



