The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-04-21
EASTER THOUGHTS

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grass appeared and the birds sang;
then did the laughter of the Saxons
grow merry, and to their gopdess they
brought their gifts. Easter therefore
is not of Christian origin, though the
idea, like many other heather ideas,
has been appropriated by Christians
and is now utilized for the celebration
OF a more concrete and higher type of
resurrection than the resurrection of
nature. The display of flowers last
Sunday in all the churches in town,
with the motto, He Is Risen" over
hanging them, demonstrated the way
in which the idea is made use of in a
Christian country and age. Men, or
perhaps women rather, brought to the
house where the name of the risen Re-
deemer of the world is heralded, the
flowers that have risen out of the earth.
To some minds this may appear too
ritualisticy yet to the mind of the great
mass of men there is doubtless an ad-
vantage in having the great fact of
Christ's resurrection represented by
external symbols once in a while, just
as there is undoubted profit in having
a similar representation of his death.
But if we set aside the purely relig
ious Idea of resurrection and look on
the spring time from a layman's view
point as it affects ourselves in our own
circumstances in Redwood Falls and
its vicinity, there are thoughts of a
rising that occur to every contemplate
i've mind.
Mems spirits are found rising. The
anticipations and hopes of men in the
present favorable spring weather have
risen largely in the last two or three
weeks. In the whole history of Red
wood county there has never been a
brighter prospect for putting the seed
into the ground. With plenty of win
ter frost for fertilization; plenty of
snow and rain for moisture, there is
the most reasonable hope that plen
tiful harvest will be the result.
The price of land is rising. Specu-
lators who purchased farmslast spring,
or even last, fall. can now get SIS an
acre more than they paid, and in many
cases much more than this. The de-
velopment of the county in the sale of
land, in new breaking, and in the in
coming of farmers to settle down, is
greater this season than it has been in
many years past. And on this the
prosperity Of our town depends.
Buildings in the town are rising,
though not nearly equal to the de-
mand. In its history there has been
no time when SO many people are
found on the hunt for houses, aud I'M
able to get them. At this moment
there is not an empty house within the
city bounds of any description, and if
some dozens moro were built they
could all find tenants in a very short
time. With the rents so high as they
are now, a man with money to in. est
could not make surer investment
than in building a block or two of
dwelling houses.
The city water supply is rising, or,
if it has not yet begun to rise in any
great quantity, the discovery of its
presence up the river bit has been
made, and all arrangements are COM
p'ete for beginning work, perhaps ere
this is in print. The Water Works
contract amounts to nearly $4,000,
and though large proportion of that
money will necessarily be carried out
of the town, the work entailed by it
must give a good lift to the towns
people, and the water itself perma-
nent lift to the town, in the greater Sc
curity of property against fire.
The sick are rising. Not for many
a year has there been so much general
sickness in the Northwest as there has
been this winter, and the town and
of Redwood Falls has
been no exception. With grippe in
early winter, and later on pneumonia,
typhoid fever and measles,the doctors
have sometimes not known what hand
to turn to. The first mentioned of
these diseases has now entirely disap-
peared, and the others are fast disap
pearing. The adult invalids are near
ly all ready for their work again as
the sun begins to shine and the larks
sing; while the children once more
make the teachers faces look brighter
as they fill up the class rooms in the
public school,.
With all these risings, Easter is a
suitable time'for the gratitude of men
to rise, and with heartfeltimpulse to
say as the poet of the Hebrew time
said, "Oh that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness and for his Won
derful works to the children of men"
No Cl.yelandism Here.
The question now comes forward to
what other objects shall these surplus
es Ii. e., surplus revenue be appropri-
ated, and tho whole surplus of imposts
after the entire discharge of the public
debt7 Shall we suppress the impost
and give that advantage to foreign ov-