The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-15
rHEa WORLD oEAMUsEMENT.

& coNcLUDED.
ia ~ " " Cor. Chicago Tribuns
saL On Thursday morning., the 2Sth of July
4 the Free and Easy Club might have been
seen making good time from the Pro-
peTFef Meteor at Duluth; along the afro.
cious shingle of Minnesota Point, putting
the fair agate-selling Nah'mis behind
them, leaping mud holes, and lodging
dogs, &C., to aEdecrepid little steamboat
called the Lottie Bernard, which was i'm
! patiently whistllng near the mouth of
she St. Louis River, bound for Fond du-
Lac. The Free and Easy Club by this
ltime looked very ,rnuch as if it had been
ldrawn throughta knot hole, and, sjjud g1ng
! from the rest Of the passengers On the
4 boat, knot holes were plenty IN this re-
igion. There, were Norwegian laborers,
sandy haired, long legged, and each son
Of Thor had a perfume Of his own. There
4 were freshmen gloriously uncertain after
their deep potations Of behzine at Du-'
Hath. There were Jew peddlers, with
ltheir packs of paper collars, suspenders,
hair oils, and Dlacking boxes, the inevi-,
table necessities of embrionic masculine
fertilization: The female gear of hair,
tpins, corsets, hoop, skirts, whale bones,
,itooth brushes, and paper copies Of Lucille,
land the cook book will follow soon
4 enough. There we're greasy. looking
gam blers. There those ,blear eyed pests
? Of every town-thc. whisky specuiators
p EAnd if the asth1natic patched up boiler
4 Of the Lottie Bernard had blown up,
there would have been al assortment Of
. humanity sprinkled along the amber
~ Y
worth looking after O" q Resurrection
y and Easy Club, who being ticketed to
st. Paul would probably go where St.
Paul was, We Had u four or Ave hours
ride up the st. Louis, very pretty river,
With d tortuous e annel, rttnhing through
: low lands covered with wild rice, its
borders spangled With whole fleets Of
4 white lilies riding" ut anchor IN its coves
and inlets, with little to attract the eye
however, except now and then flight of
scared ducks, or some stolid Indian pad;
ding along in his bark CANOE We reach.
ed Fond du Lac, an old ,tur post, Just now
IN est,sn,is morris, about noon, and we
dined there on ham and whortleberry pie
the staple food of this region, prepare
tory to a nine-mile walk to the then ter.
minus Of the Lake Superior e Mississippi
Road, After seeing the stage, which was
a. dilapidated mud wagon; after seeing
some passengers who mad just come III BY
, 4 it in. the most forlorn and pitiable CON
4 dition, having been jolted over stumnilp5s
showered with, mud, tipped out into
gullies and mud holes, and beaten about
until they were black, and biue all over
we made up our. minds to walk. =, 24oae !: ! !
a The most of our walk was along the
level road bed and was comparatively
easy until we came to the ravines, sever
or eight in number, which were spanneo
ii by trestle work. The,aYerage1 depth o.
these ravines was about 1876 feet, thu
leverage width; r175a feet. To get oyel
ithese great chasms by descent and as
IL cent was simply impossible. o The uppei
81 string timoers were3on, but no ties were
ID laid, and our only path yona this giddJ
IA height was over this slendur thread of "a
ulslngle1 beafn.9 "A single mtsstep, and tht
I11plunge waste certain deathin the huge
,bI gorge below, which Cwasl filed with, |,
al dense mass OF rocks, trees, and timbers
ID The nerves of eHr3 ladies were in GOOD
I'd order, however The heads Of the gen
I tlemen were steady!nThe trumpeter blew
# 4 his blast with no q uncertain . sound
= Strong hands held the weak hands. Il Yol
n must look down no further than th
oil beam on whichyyou stand. o Don't Stop
ngI Keep going. TOfo course, 9youi can hea
d3Iyour heart beat, and you keeprstep to ii
playing its solnbre march, which wild ON
day stop at gulf more impossible THAI
Qlthese. STEADY, steadylis Now you ar
do|right over the center, of)the chasm. ri
ii you could only stop and look down 4 tn
re- sheer descent of one hundred and fit,
sd feet 9dBut, iflly9u STOP the nerves will
up and unstring. the hands will
il tremble and the feet grow unceg tain
L There are three words you must no
fashion inyour mindful should
/ Then,agaln, there is deadly fascination
in danger of this kind which binds tn
and lures on to obstruction
ID But the ground ascends. The. long
o 4 slender beams which uphold the struo
Il ture grow shorter. ioq The tops Of the tree
,m are under our feet. "a few more step
cd and you are on, terrG. 6rmG, and you draw
nd the first full breath you have taken sine,
,d You started. After crossing four or fy
ii of these, spider webs we become a littl
ii 4 osStSuStottieSt " eueni; anu, On tAe cSHIer o
ID one of them, nature compelled moment
"A airy halt, for, on the right hand, was, q
I'D magnificent forest interior, full of olIgh
N and shade, varying tints and rYerdure
III and beautiful combinations of trees
Il rocks, and water, and, on the other, til,
St, Louis River, plunging along in boil
ing cascades Of blue and, ambre-sucl
rapids as you can see nowhere else, no
& even at Niagara. 1t was only moment
look however, for it wasn't the Mace r.