Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-29
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.
Hong the saint Paul & siour city Railroad

SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.
Along the Saint Paul & siour City Railroad
THE Mennoaites. etc, etc.
Correspondence of the Globe.
WINDOW, Cottonwood county, Mimi,
April 25th, 1873. This portion of the State
is settling up very fast. It is a fine county
of land, and a good class of people are COM
ing in to possess it. Quite number of
large farms have already been started, and
purchases have been made for others that
will be opened this season.
Window is the county seat, and
numbers population of four or
five hundred people. full of hope and grand
expectations. All along this line of road
farmers are tiiling far more land than ever
before, and the sod will be turned for double
the area another season. Window is located
on the Des Moines river, near the southern
boundary of the county, It is thrifty,
bright looking town, and the people have a
Yankeefied, intelligent and business appear
ance. They support the necessary
number of business houses, lawyers,
doctors, preachers, town and county
officers, and they are a moral, orderly, well
disposed community themselves. Quite a
conspicuous school building looks down
upon the town from a commanding eleva-
| ton, and pretty little church greets the
pilgrim as he wanders out in search of
the droppings of the sanctuary. The Win
dom Reporter. a bright seven column folio
sheet, published by S. & E. c.
Huntington, and edited by the
latter gentleman, is one of the live en-
terprisises of the place. There are three
hotels all well spoken of. Hyatt house,
Window hotel, and Mankato house.
The former, kept by A. Warren, is GER
tainly very pleasant place to stop at. AT
the School House hall, teachers institute
has been in session for the last two weeks,
conducted by Prof. Kirk, an instructor high
ly spoken Of Twenty-f five or thirty teach
ers have been in attendance, and the interest
manifested is almost equal to an old
fashioned religious revival. Saturday OF
this week concludes the programme.
-Four and half miles northwest of here
at little town on the railroad called Bing-
ham Lake, the Mennonite colony is located
They are an industrious and frugal people
honest and remarkably peaceable. Law they
shun as they would fiery dragon. Churches
and schools are fostered and the young be
gin to talk some English. Many families
have their houses and barns under the sam.
roof, separated by partitions of course. It ii
an economical way of lining but not yer,
stylish. In addition to their cultivated
fields, each family has its well Titled garden
and what it produces goes far towards sup
porting the family. Men, women and children
are healthy looking, cheerful, and appear t
see only the bright side of the picture The,
are farming as if they were in earnest thi
year, and with favorable season they vii
raise enough for home consumption ant
have a little to sell.
This county is more rolling than the coun
ties on either side of it, and the lakes, o
which there are large number, have bolde
margins and are of greater depth. Thes
peculiar bodies of water, pure and sparkling
are the glory of this wide stretch of prairi
country. Skirting nearly all of them NOR
or less timber abounds: fish and water foW
inhabit them in large numbers: they reliev
the monotony as the traveller wanders owe
the treeless and trackless region; finally the
are the reservoirs that hold the surplus wa
ters against the day of need to be distribute
over the country by the law of evaporation
and condensation. They are the inexhausti
BILE fountains that help swell the grea
arteries Of the continent: and around them
rich and prosperous people will cluster, an
[ | C1tlCS Will grow Oil uucIT DOTucfS, duu Iue pTC
life soil of the intervening country will give
its mighty increase when quickened by tn
hand of industry. This is not visionar
dream, a chimerical speculation, it is a
within the bounds of reasonable probability
and it requires not the mind of a seer to rea
the facts in the signs of the times. All thi
northern region is rapidly settling up wit
hardy, intelligent and enterprising people
a people with bone and muscle and brai
enough to subdue matter and conquer tn
| primitive condition ofthe country. The gres
preponderance of the worlds intelligence
wealth, and numerical power, lies north of
parallel corresponding with the southern
boundary of Minnesota. That warm climate
, produce effeminate nations is universe
law of the human race. Labor is wha
makes noble men and women. In warn
, climates animate nature is merely dream
existence. There is nothing in the natur
of those countries to stimulate to exertion
Among northern nations the law of labor
the corner stone they build upon.
G. l.. HALL.