St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-06
ON LAKE MINNEWASKA,
Glenwood, a Charming Summer
Resort, Fittingly Depicted---The
w. @. Il. U. and Farmers Insti-

w. @. T. U. and Farmers Insti-
tute.
A farmer writes the GLOBE from
Hubbard, Mimi, as follows:
SPY to-day's mail l send to you a
specimen of worm taken out of 0. A.
Manter's oat field. These worms are de-
strOying whole oat fields, and we would
be very thankful if you could tell US
what kind of worm this is. The same
destroyed last year hundreds of acres of
nice oats.
Mr.. Manter cut down twenty acres of
his oats and ploughed the ground.
Blackbirds and crows are eating all the
worms they can get. They are in about
ten or twelve oat fields and appeared
last Sunday. The ones received by the
GLOBE are the ordinary cut worm, which
is generally familiar to farmers East and
South. 1t lies in the hot sun, and the
weather the past week has probably
aided the efforts of the blackbirds and
crows to eXtirpate the pests.
Beautiful! ''it whiStled itself" as I
stepped out of the cars Oh the prairie
fronting Glenwood. Hope that little
city down there is really as clean and
attractive as it appears from this
"Olivete over Jerusalem" Ever
it is that distance lends enchant-
ment to the view, but the local habi-
tation and name must correspond in
data. Just see Lake Minnewaska
under the silvery iridescence, and it's
curving shores of sand. and the oaks
bending like a bow away from the
village, scattered just enough to
REVEAL A FLORAL CARPET
on that terraced bank. sparkling with
water drops from the late shower like so
many diamonds set in green emtOss-
ment. See the long, trailing forest pro-
Jecting to the waters edge, and beyond
it in meadow chain of sunny bayous,
and to the south and west a woody cape,
lutting out, heavy with somber foliage,
that hides the lake all but the rim, that
stretches like an arm toward the sunset.
See the slope of forestry on the left.
mantling the whole hillside and almost
arching over the lake. the limbs and
leaves STOPPING low to the wavelets that
leap up to kiss them. See the fields
yonder, dotted with
ROWS AND PILES OF SHRUBBERY,
the darker green better rejecting the
lighter. See it, the land beyond de-
Scending to plain, treeless, contrast
ing and subordInatiag the woods on
either side. The artist can learn here
how nature paints her cOlors, how she
balances her darker shades in front and
lighter back, presenting scene whose
far-away is the impressment of heaven
out from the shadows of earth into
the dazzle of holy light.
During my stay at Glenwood. hotelled
a the sEAIiunewaSlyo ,, / oft
along the shore where the little boats
lay at anchor Graded among the reeds,
westward to the highest points, and
from every angle of observation caught
new and Kaleidoscope views of this
UNIQUE DIG OUT
of the prairie" as my unpOetical bust
ness friend called it. Descending into
a ravine or gulch, densely wooded and
matted over with empowering vines, l
listened to the song of of the brook
gurgling over moSS-clad rocks, and
leaned against an old elm, musing,
dreaming, half awake, of what our world
might be to us all were we closer
students of nature, learning true art by
her lessons in form and beatty.
Glenwood is the county seat of Pope
county, has population of about 500,
and is fast becoming one of the most
POPULAR SUMMER RESORTS
in the state. The lake is six miles long
and two to. three wide. Its water is very
clear and aboundS with the best qualities
of fish. Of course, sail upon its bo-
som is most eXhilarating, and every
body improves it. Viewed from mid
lake, the location of the town
is perfectly charming, and so is the
town itself, built upon the second table
of the valley and covering a portion of
a hillside on the east. Its background
to the north is a vast crescent of lofty
bluffs, clad in green. and sprinkled
here and there with trees. These bluffs
the lake and very imposing, lying side
by side in great swells and mounds, be-
tween which are wooded dells and ra-
vines, every one of which has spring
darling down the slope. Some of the
springs are very pure, others tinctured
WITH IRON AND SULPHUR,
others so highly charged with lime that
grasses and leaves trailing close to the
water become encrusted-living vegeta-
ton externally crystallized. One of
these pure springs has pressure of 1875
feet fall, and supplies the vii
lage water works anda pretty
fountain just in front of the
court house. What otherwise adds
to the attractiveness of the place
is the eight-mile drive under the forest
trees, along the shore, down into the
cool gorges and by the windingS of the
great bluffs. Glenwood is l20 miles
northwest from Minneapolis, and has
the advantages of two railroad stations
about 800 rods distant on the prairie
the Northern Pacific and the Minneap-
oils & Pacific. What would particu-
larly build up this town, aside
from its being summer resort, is the
endowment of some popular institution
of learning. 1t has good schools
now, but what l mean is college of
some kind, SO that everything about the
place shall harmoniZe, the educative
with the beautiful. The Central Min
nesotian, edited by E. II. Fish, a literary
gentleman, is working to this end
and otherwise earnestly engaged in
whatever contributes to public progress.
On the first day of my arrival here a
session. 1t was largely represented. and
enthusiastic. The lady speaker, Mrs.
Wells, made happy moral impression
upon the masses. Your correspondent
had special invite to
ATTEND THEIR PICNIC
the next day, held in the pavilion on the
ldho SIolc. anu hugely ouJOycu luo
sociability of the occasion. 1t has got
so nowadays that a fellow must mind
his p's and as, lest the breath or a grog
blossom on the nose exclude him from
lady society, and he might then as well
be annihilated. These women are
INTENSELY IN EARNEST,
and every one of us is weighed in a bal
ance. Immediately following the con-
vention was the farmers institute in
full force, holding it's sessions part of
the time in the lake pavilion. A large
representation of intelligent men and
women of the farm and town attended.
The flashes of thought told plainly that
the seed of the agricultural gospel was
sowing in good soil The workers were