The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-04-08
GRQyE LAKE, April 1st, 1889.

GROVE LAKE, April lst, 1852.
EDITOR JouRNAL.--I sec your CORES
pondents have nearly all left you or found
some more engaging business than writing,
for tho present. Am little disposed to
DO like Peter, and declare that though all
your contributors desert you, yet will not
I. Why then do you not write oftener
you say. Well, for various reasons. You
would DO short Of attentive readers If all
were from tho same source. ..,
Then ] have been reading the woman's
rights question and the Capital Bill, and l
think Gov. Marshall was = man to veto
the last, but think hs would be wo( ed nan
should he veto the former when he has an
opportunity. !!
Last and principally, Elder Bowdish has
been holding series Of revival meetings
at this point for nearly four weeks, aud
my evenings have been spent there. These
have bean Of: very interesting character !;
eight persons have been converted, and
four reclaimed, besides many poor, sick,
wounded, hospitable housed soldiers of the
cross have reported for duty.
The snow 10 going rapidly, the land ap-
pears, and in 4 few days more the sower
will 60 forth to SOW. With the demise Of
sleighing, fencing is postponed, and such
pickup work as all farmers have to do is
being attended to. Pope County farmers
believe in doing things At the proper time.
Just here lies their success, just why 70
many broad acres have been subducd and
bear the golden fruits Of autumn.
Political affairs are somewhat interesting
just now. The town is to choose new OFF,
GERS soon, and nobody wants to be that.
We have no aspiraLts, except for the 'Post
ofs." How strange that Nasty can so be-
wilder whole nation, that the burden of
their song, and the u1timatum' of their
work should be p. NJ?
Our county is doing tolerably we'll on
the finance question. The expenses of the
county have been heavy-too heavy I
think-but we have now only $6S3.65
floating debt in unredeemed orders, while
there is an uncollected tax Of $l,728.91.
We can see daylight coming. Farewell,
old debt!
We shall have several new school houses
this summer, ready for June schools. The
people arc; alive to educational matters.
We need several good teachers, commod-
ity always scarce on the frontier. We
are, however, providing for this in the fu.
ture. We have within two miles of where
now sit, ten lncipient schoolmaams, all
under three year. Of age, only: three Of the
boy persuasion in the same territory. We
are in favor Of wouan's rights, $50 soon
as by and BY" when 10 don't have any
men to do the voting for US. Our people
think with Poor Richard:
"of all the crops farmer raises,
Or capital employs,
None bring such comfort and such praises,
As stock Of girls and boys"
We contemplate with pleasure tho school,
mann question, but when we proceed
little'it is with fearful apprehension that
some must live and die unwilling old maids.
If any community surrounding hos q num-
Der Of boys sufficient to restore the equi :
librium. Please relieve our anxie.y by in
forming us. We hope the crinoline manu-
facturers will prepare to enlarge their pro-
dacing facilities, for these young misses
must be provided for, by some means.
II idolize BABIES! They are fairies!
They spiritualize this world of ours"
'B;tter Sweet" 10 not the grandmother of
any Of these juveniles. And here I would
say that if have written anything disre-
spectful to age, l humbly ask pardon of
the venerable dame at Lakeside. May her
years be many, aud the joys Of her heart
be multiplied as years and silver hairs in
crease. am glad that as the frosts of age
are come. the leaves Of connubial love are
still green, and joyous offspring surround
and grace the parent tree, as ivy adorns
the time-scarrcd oak.
=, Exit, JUVO.