The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-08
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From the Virginia University Magazine.l
: HoRTATUS.

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Knock of the chains Of Doubt. God sends His
grace. " = - II
Not by His Angel. Reason but by Trust,
Therefore our souls, that yet shall see His face,
Are wrapped by His own hand in clouds Of liv-
ing dust. = .,-'
Therefore we feel. but cannot understand,
Therefore we call and seek, and call and weep,
Like children lost at night, until Hand
Takes theirs and leads them safe through for
ests wild and deep.
There Is a Life beyond this life on Earth,
Hope was not given the living Soul to mock;
Where Is the home Of all the Sons of Worth,
II In Ohlivion's sea we strike Deaths awful
rock:
Say not that Friendship is a sunset hue
That tints the evening sky and dies with day;
Nor think, because one heart has been untrue,
Love is the hooking isle which desert plains
display.
For there are Friends who still the name will own
When Fortune spreads her tickle wings to fly:
And there's heart to live for thee alone,
A life of love as deep and boundless us the sky !:
Strive on while plodding up the Alp Of Time,
Though rocks betray and ayalanches fail;
Such chances fill with poetry sublime
The epic of each life-and they must come to
Endure, though Sorrow claim thee as her own,
Though OH thy heart some cloud must ever lie ::
The heavens are lovelcst when the clouds arc
str0wn
Like snow-clad mountains far around the Sum.
Mer sky!
Pause when you feel the rcius of Conscience
draw,
And daily find the peace good deed brings;
A smiling Conscience makes Il bed Of straw
Soft as the silken couch OF cmperors and kings
University of Virginia, 1853. A.P.M.
THE AX4MEN HEARD FROM
EAGLE LAKE, Blue Earth Co., Mimi,
February 2, 1877.
EDITOR ADVANCE: In late issue
of your paper, we see an extract from Il
letter written from Seward township,
and we are not surprised at his with
holding his name. We know his name,
we have heard his bray and seen the
prints of his hoofs before, and we brand
the following statements as bare-faced
lies made out of whole cloth. lie says:
During the month of October last,
several letters were written to sources
from which relief is supposed to come,
to inquire if help would he furnished
this winter, but rs answers were unfav-
Orable, five or six families moved to the
woods to earn living through the win
ter and were getting on finely until the
Governors visit and Il prospect Of IA
lions. Now they are out Of work and
out of everything and coming back be-
cause they can beg better than they can
work."
The facts are: we did come 10 the
woods, because we thought it better to
earn an honest living than to stay there
and beg. We are not out Of work; we
we are not begging, and are not COM
ing back until it is time to put in crops
The Cove rnor's visit has made no diff
ference in our work or condition. We
think it better to come to the woods
and work for our board than to stay in
Seward and whine because we cannot
rule the town AID receive everything
that is sent for the relief Of the needy.
The most contemplate part of his let.
ter is what lie says of the quartermaster.
Because he was not entrusted with the
articles for distribution, he must SLAM:
der the men who carefully and honestly
did the work.
G. w. II.
J. f. w.
II. II. BooTH.
j. PARsIAL.