The Worthington advance., 1882-03-30
THURSDAY, MARCH 10. 1882.
DEATH or LONGFELLOW


THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1882.
DEATM or LONGFELLOW:
Henry Wadsworth Longtellow, the
p,ct, died on Friday last, at his home
in Cambridge, Mass, in his 10th year.
lie has been. for many years, the most
popular American poet, both At home
and abroad. lie was the only one of
our poets who was an artist, in the
critics meaning Of that term, and in
this respect his rank was next to that
Of Tennyson among the poets of our
time. He outranked all of our own
poets as a National Poet, using that
term in the sense OF one who selects
his themes from the several phases Of
the nations growth and history
Thus, his Courtship of Miles Stand
ish and The New England Tragedies
celebrate phases Of New England
history; his Evangeline pictures the
primitive life of Acadia and is rich in
descriptions Of wild American scenery
from Canada to the Gulf, while his
Hiawatha is an admirable rendering
Of Indian Legends and history into
verse, catching the spirit Of the poet
ic and heroic side Of the Indian char
acter and preserving the musical In
dian names.
Longfellow was not 4 national song
writer in the sense that Burns, or Be-
ranger, or Hcinc were. Only as re-
lates to the past, only with respect to
the primitive history Of the country,
can he be called National Poet
As to the Ncw-World, Democratic
ideas in politics, religion, society, lit
erature, ETC., which are working like
yeast in the great Peoples Nation, he
had none Of them. The American
Poet, the Poet Of the Modern, as
Walt Whitman expresses it, is yet to
come. Whitman has broken the
ground and sown much new sced.-
Whitman is the morning star herald
ing the coming sun, and the Ameri-
can People are waiting for the poet
who can "body them forth" in poetry
JUDGE cox.
The Minnesota Senate, sitting as a
court Of impeachment, found Judge
Cox guilty, on Wednesday last, and
the judgment removes him from Of
flee and disqualifies him to hold any
judicial office in the State for the term
three years. Twenty eight out
"f the 80 Senators, it seems, voted
him guilty on the charge Of drunken
ness.
Here is temperance lecture for
YOU. The Minnesota, Senate, by this
vote, declares that drunkenness is
misdemcanor and that Judge Cox is
criminal The next step will proba-
bly, be to pass Judge Sevcrance's pro-
posed bill making drunkenness a
crime the same as theft or arson.
One thing about this impeachment
looks clear enough to us, viz: that if
Judge Cox drank to such an extent
~ to unfit him for the duties Of his
office, he should in some way have
been removed. That lie did this, or
that it was proven, is not clear That
he was as hard a drinkcr as Daniel
Webster or Stephen A. Douglas, or a
score Of other great men were in their
day, We do not believe. That total
abstinence fanaticism and political
party spirit had good deal to do
with his conviction, we do believe
That Judge Cox will come out fresh
and strong and 60 to Congress yet
from Minnesota, VIC predict.
salt AND WHEAT
We spoke last week of sowing salt
on wheat rs means OF securing a
crop, and Of Mr.. Valentines expert
nent on his 500-acre farm. Mr.. V.
says Of using salt:
ST. PAUL, Dec lSSl.-My expert
ence in the use Of salt on crops has
now extended over two seasons, 1880
and 1881. l am fully convinced that
salt has a value for agricultural pur-
poses far greater than is generally
known, and rs a result Of my expert
ence will state that fully believe the
following results from it's use can bc
relied upon:
It will increase the yield Of wheat,
oats, and flax, from 20 to so per cent.
in quantity; will give Il much better
quality Of grain; will prevent rust in
wheat and oats; will give a strong,
healthy straw, that will not crinkle
down as soon as ripe; will largely pre-
vent weeds from growing; will pre-
vent to large extent the ravagcs Of
worms and insects, and generally will
pay back better per centage on the
Investment than anything else in the
agricultural line. u. II. VALENTINE.
4. S.-Perhaps you had better add
~ a no.e to my letter that l sowed
about 2M pounds per acre on wheat,
and about loo pounds per acre on fax,
sowing in each case Immediately after
grain and seed were sown.