The Worthington advance., 1881-09-08
WORTHINGTON AGAIN.

WON1d1NGlON AGAIN.
<ts seee by DR.. Peebles--A Breezy,
HEALTH CITING, Beautiful Little Cily-
Her Citizens, Business, Lakes, etc.
Last week we published an article
upon Worthington from our friend
Burt Day, of the jackson Republic.
This week We give DR.. PEBBLES i'm
pressions of the place:
fFrom the Banner of Light, Sept. Sd. ]
My tent was pitched !. few weeks
since in breezy, health-giving Worth
ington, Minnesota, the highest point of
land IN the State south Of st. Paul.
It is invigorating III a hot summer day
to breathe these pure prairie winds.
The town. with its churches, banks and
hotels, with its hopeful and wide-awake
citizens. is nestled near the feet of two
crystal lakes, surrounded by most rich,
rolling farming lands. These regions
are comparatively new to spade and
plow. Owing to scarcity OF timber,
settlers for a while burn hay, and some
times corn, for cooking purposes. I
clipped the following from the MiDne-
apolis Tribune: "It is estimated that
in Minnesota $4,000 of the population
burn wood, 80,000 coal and Is. 900 hay"
Next to Seed-sOwing, tree-planting is y
hont the first business of these sturdy
t0i|ers. Some Of the best blood of Ohio,
New York and New England has dot
ted these prairies with prosperous and
lovely homes.
PROMINENT CITIZENS.
In the above named city I had sever
al most interesting interviews with
General Miller. formerly Governor Of
the State Of Minnesota. While = cul-
tnred and catholic spirited gentleman,
he is liberal in his religious convictions.
and deeply interested in the growth of
the great West.
Governor Miller, as he is familiarly
called. as we'll as good Bishop Whipple.
not only deeply sympatlize with the
remnants.of the Indian tribes. but they
deen'y deplore the cupidity. duplicity,
and oftentimes downright dishonesty,
that have wrenchel from the red men
many Of their choicest lands.
In this beautiful prairie -embosomed
city resides A. p. Miller. Esq. editor
Of the Worthington ADVANCE. This
gentleman. q graduate of the Virginia
University. is not only able asan editor
hut gifted as poet. The late Epes
Sargent gives him considerable space
in the new "IIarpers' Cyclopp-
dia of British and American Poetry. -
Here are some gems from his poem on
"Consolation:''
Keep faith in Love, the cure of every curse-
The strange, sweet wonder of the universe!
Cod loves II Lover, and while time shall roll
This WONDER Love shall save save the human Soul:
Every soul has one Almighty Friend,
Whose angels watch and tend it from it's birth,
And Heaven becomes the scrv mt Of the Earth!
What G er betall our Spi its live and move
In one vast ocean OF Eternal Love!
y OWondrous race: this human race Of ours,
So Isl small M in space: $" li.ni'ed M in powers:
Are drawn toward " by resistlesS love!
Man is SO fashioned that his faintest sigh,
Draws down a god to help him from the sky:
AS once sang. again sing to night
OF that ineminY =; 2, Day whose purer light
Already fills the sky. Even now the sun
OF the New Age is up and day begun:
Roll on, y slow wheeled Years! and bring the
day
When men shall gather wealth, to give away;
And spring to help when temptel nature falls,
A. when i! builder drops from city walls.
When to do good alone. men shall be bold:
And seek out ST ifrring rs they seek for Gold!
When Christian women shah not wipe their feet
Upon heir fallen sisters III he street:
And Ca'umny, sh''' be a crime unknown.
And each shall make his neighbors wrong his
BE gone! o Hate and Wrong ard War, he gone !:
Roll on this way, Q Golden Age: roll on!
When Men and Angels face to face shall talk.
And Earth and !iraven arm i'll arm slal! walk
When Love shall reign, and over sea and shore
The Peace OF God Shall rest forcvcrmore
The American Navy is also here rep
resented. Il. Is. rlotts> Esq, a Navy
officer, with the rank IF Lieutenant, is
Il resident of this tlnuriShing city. lie
is an avowea Sniritualist, influential
and hospitable; and Mrs Plotts, clair
voyaht, c!airaudient, and gifted with
healing powers, ranks rs an excellent
medium. She is a native Of Texas. and
connected with one Of the o'l-tinle fam
lies of the South. Her mcdiums!ip
dates from childhood.
Prof. II. +. llumiston, formerly lee
turer upon Chemistry i'll the Cleveland
Medical College, and IL Fellow Of the
Royal Society, London, led Il Colony Of
settlers out to WorthingtoE III 1872.
This Colony had 4 contract with the
original st. Paul T. Sioux City Railroad.
The real purpose Of the Colony WAS to
make this city Il centre Of education.
Prof. uunliSton while here hpclme u
writing medium and Il Spiritualis,.
After time the contract was annulle.l, !,
aud the Colony Partnership coMbina-
ton proved Il failure.
Mr.. Ogle edits the Wortlington Jour
nal. an ably conducted weekly. This
gentleman. Il thoughtful, clear headed.
liberal minded Methodist preacher,
made handsome reports Of my lectures
upon travels in Oriental lands. Many
of our clergymen, naturally catholic
and charitable III their religious con-
victions. would manifest vastly more
liherality if ignorant, hiyotcd layman
wonld permit them to do SO.
The Rev. Mr.. Hart, CongrC gational-
ist minister. attending the course regu.
larly, moved il vote Of thanks 1T the
conclusion, coupled with an invitation
for me to return and give Il second
course. While the city of Worthing-
ton is alive with enterprise, thorough
ern portion Of the State suffered terri
bly, " few years ago from an inundation
of grasshoppers. They were consi sider-
ed species of the Egyptian locists.
Sailing in deep serried columrs through
the air, at times they partially darken-
ed the sun. 1t is supposed they came
originally from the Rocky Mountains
or Red River regions. This pest COM
menced in 1872 They often in Il few
hours transformed the most promising
green fields into barren wastes; and so
thickly covered the railway track that
they literally stopped trains of cars.
This plague, now fortunately Of the
past, operated seriously against the
success of the Humiston Colony. One
family assured me that certain of it's
members broiled and ate some of these
grasshopper-like locusts. Many Ori-
entail people would much prefer eating