The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-20

inclined to regard it with sanguiGa ex-
/ pectations should recognise that Mr.
Erewen is anxious to explain these
views TO the Chambers of Agriculture
But who, ii may be asked, is Mr..
trewen, and what claims has he TO
! speak with authority on such a ques-
! ton rs the national food supply? Mr..
Frewen would be the last TO depreciate
inquiry, either about his mission or
himself. The apostle Of Fivepenny
Beef is a citizen of the North est,
therefore he Is an enthusiast; and this
Is, perhaps, as we'll, for TO push hui
mainly into new and strange courses,
however reasonable or desirable, re-
qulres something more than sincere
and earnest conviction. 1t requires
enthusiasm in England. Mr.. Ere
wen's enthusiasm is Of an order that
will commend itself to practical men.
The United States has justified almost
any flight of the Spread Eagle by re-
ducing the price OF -four fully fifty
per cent; and, on the face Of it, the
cheapening of wheat was not more i'm
probable than that of beef now it. Mr..
trewen will find it harder, however,
to persuade the farmers that re-
duction in the price of meat is COM
patlble with an increase Of profit, than
to convince the consumer that the free
Importation of 4 healthy beast from
Wyoming will save his pocket. The
farmer, however, may be impressed by
the account that can be given of Mr..
Frewen himself Hardly six years
have elapsed since that aegis of civ
ilisation, a Log House, was piled on
those desert prairies which are shad-
owed by the snow clad SUBMITS of the
Big Horn Mountains, first notice of
ejectment served by pioneer hands on
Indians and bufaloes But in that
brief period a perfect colony of Brit
ons have followed the Frewen inyas-
ion, sweeping down upon the immense
region tributary 10 the waters Of the
Yellowstone Now that this colonis-
alton is completed, these nomadic
hordes are asking to return home,
their energies undininished, bringing
their herds with them. Mr.. Frewen
himself is young man of hardly thir-
ty- Ten years since he was carrying
the horn of the Cambridge Drag
hounds, aud attaining ii that best of
schools proficiency in the art of
tumbling over stiff timber, which he
was shortly to turn to account in the
happy hunting grounds Of the Mid
lands. Wellington used to say that
his closest battles were won in the
Fairgrounds of our public schools. Mr..
Frewen may be pardoned for think
ing that colonial successes are achiev-
ed in those pasture lands which have
made the very traditions Of Melton so
dear to all its sons. And why not?
Riding we'll to hounds developes,
above all things, energy and quick de-
oision, and these were the two attri-
butes which the greatest Of English
philosophers regarded as indespensa-
ble, not merely to colonial success, but
to every success in life. The success
which has attended Mr.. Frewcn's own
work is unquestionable. He is no
needy adventurer, who comes to Eng
land in order to deceive the credulous
His credentials are unimpeachable.
But it is not as wealthy man that he
appeals to the British public. The
British public may like him none the
less because his wife is the sister of
Lady Randolph Churchill, because
his manners are those of Belgrayia
rather than Of the backwOods. They
will be influenced by him because of
his knowledge Of his personal &C
quaintance with the stock business, Of
his capacity to prove what he says.
He has already received substantial
encouragement. 1t remains to be
seen whether it is in his power to
improve these hard times, and to earn
the gratitude of Englishmen. But,
first, he must have the opportunity,
and if by energy and system the UNI
exampled growth of agricultural Am
erica can be selected in England, this
latter day pilgrimage to the prairies
by our young men will be an omen of
happy augury to the nation.
Chippewa Falls was visited by a
very destructive fire last Saturday. 1t
commenced in the Cobban opera house
and took the business part of the city.
The opera house block was entirely
DESTROYED, the Sherman House and