The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-08-01
TILE STATE EAR.

FpAaA uNHfeIhCIf's Nr't e'NSoA'Sts>s ~ WV
fathers of tile church in Ohio.
THE STATE FAIR.
The Secretary Of the Agricultural So
eiety sends us i copy of the Premium
List of the 2QtA annual FAIR of Min:
pesota, to be held at St. Paul, beginning
Monday, Sept. 2, and continuing all the
week. II liberal preparations and ri:
val fair at Minneapolis are any indica=
tions of success, this fair will lie by all
otlds the best exhibit ever made in this
State. Parties wanting information or
premium lists should write to the Seq
Fetary, II. &. Judson, at Pennington,
MINI,
NARTEST.
Farmers in this part of the Suite are
in the midst of wheat harvest, and esti=
mates vary, of course, with the fields
WHICH are being cut, We believe, after
inquiring Of farmers from all parts Of
the county, that the yield will be much
better than was thought week ago.
Some farmers put the average for the
county ut from II to Is bushels to the
ecre. Late wheat and early wheat have
pot been seriously injured where the
ground was we'll prepared, but wheat
sown between early AND late, it seems,
was just passing into the dough when
the hot and lligh1ips weather came,
and this wheat has Geen injured most.
we learn that even on low ground,
where land was we'll prepared and the
grain sown in good season, the wheat
is good and the yield will be fair.
Other crops, the farmers tell us, are
''simply immense" If frost holds off
and there is no preventing Hroyidence,'
we will outll.inois Illinois, ani| South
Western Minnesot; will establish a
reputation us u corn country.'
LOWPRICkS.
The n. Y. Public gives table
showing the prices of staple articles
from 1925 to 1873, and says:
These figures show that the same
quantities of the a: ticlts given could
},ave been purchased May /, 1873. tor
81 ,C23.7h. that would have cost 81 tets.
" in ]o77. According to this method
or calculation. prices are now lower
than at amy time since the opening Of
the war, or indeed ut amy time since
1928, excepting 1913. six years after
the panic Of 1887. 1t is not yet five
years since the panic of 1878, and the
disturbing question Wal be suggested
to every one by these figures. '.\.n
we still on the upWn-yr;l.ie of in,l.>-
trial depress;on?' The r;blit does uot
think we are. 1t holds that the al r.
age of prices has not fallen 50 far be-
low the special level that there is good
reason to hope that bottom has been
touched, and that Il radical improve
ahent may hereafter be expected.
GENIUS
Reading the recent account of Bea-
constield's reception in England and of
his triumph i'll the Berlin Congress, and
also reading the many accounts of VIM.
Cullen Bryant's life, on tie occasion of
his death recently, reminded us of the
stupid notion which has prevailed so
long that literary men are impractical
and unfit for affairs"
"A few years ago we knew of Beacons-
field Tor Disraeli,) only as a brilliant
novelist. Within q few years he has
risen to he Premier of the mighties
nation on earth, and within a month
past has come out OF u tilt with the
statesmen Of Europe as the master spir-
it of them all. Now, why didn't Bea-
constie}d show hi mself to be sentiment
tai and impractical, us the world is
bound to have literary man he, if pos
sible? Why does he thus run contrary
to all the old notions that writing books
is wholly inconsistent with great execu-
tive and practical ability?
And there was our own American
Bryant, u poet, WHO had the audacity
to builA Np = great city newspaper iii
New York, and hold the thing in his
own hands for over fifty years. living
AL the time like prince, and leaving
On estate worth $3.50, 900, when he should
haye let lis ha'r grow long, wearing
shabby -genteel clothing, and exciting
the sympathy of the world by showing
in his own unhappy person hoY cruel
the cold, cold world is to poets.
And going further back, there was
YIN: Shakespeare, thp prince of poets,
the man with the largest soul among
great souls" the Man with the most
robust mind Of my member of tile
race" even this prince Of Literary men
retired with fortune: Why, if he had
known his PLACE in the false ideas of
the world, lie would have been wander.
ing about with harp ora flute, leaving
future generations to gather up his bal
lads and print them. lie would have
died III rags, and school girls would
'liayc shed tears for centuries over his
mls{ortunes.
But these examples SHOW that genius
is tile element of success to whatever
applied. Genius applied to literature
succeeds genius applied to politics sue
ccecds; genius applied to war succeeds
rs did Napoleon.
?4I1E Mi1NNEAPoL1S TRIBUNE
Those who want Minne apo!ls pape,
must Of course take the Tribune, as il
IS the only paper in that city that has !;
State circulation. The daily is a large,
ably,co"ducted paper, aud tile weekly is
All excellent paper for farmers, as it
combines with it the farmers Union
and thus devotes large sl,are Of its
space to agricultural matters.