Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-09
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ALONG LAKE SUPERIOR.
BIT Ne IN N. Y. Msreary.

red hot mud, yapor and other campaign
documents, Duluth is quite 3 change. The
/ ice in the bay at Duluth was thirty eight
inches in depth when / left there the last
week in March, and we rode across it with
the utmost impunity. By the time these
lines fail beneath the eye Of the genial, cour-
teous and urbane reader, the new railroad
bridge across the bay, over q mile and
half long, will have been completed, so that
you may ride from Chicago TO Duluth oy,r
the Northwestern and Omaha railroads with
great comfort. l would be glad to digress
here ard tell about the beauty OF the Gum
mer scenery along the Omaha road, and the
shy and beautiful troutlet, and the dark and
silent Chippewa squaWlet and her little
bleached out psppooselet, were it not for
the unkiud and cruel thrusts that would
invoke from the scenery cynic who believes
that q newspaper mans opinions may be
largely warped with q pass
Duluth has been ioked good deal, but
she stands it first rate and takes it good ma
turedly. She claims l6, 900 people, some of
whom met at the opera house there. If
the rest of the 10000 are as pleasant as
those | conversed with that evening, Duluth
.
has very pleasant and beautiful opera
house that seats 1000 people. A few more
could have elbowed tn cir way into the opera
house the evening that | spoke there, Oat
they preferred TO svHer on OF home.
Lake Superior Is one OF the largest aggre-
cations Of fresh weiuesS in the world. ii not
the largest. When stop to thiak that
some day al this cold, cold water will have
to be absorbed 6y mankind, it gives me a
crsDp in ne geographical centre.
Around the west end Of Lake Superior
there is . string of towns which stretches
along the shore for miles under one name
or another, all waiting for the boom to
strike and make the northern Chicago.
\ gu cannot visit Duluth or Superior without
feeling that any moment the tide of trade
viii rise and designate the point where the
future metropolis Of the northern lakes is to
be. firmly believe that this summer will
decide IT, and my guess Is that what is now
known as West Superior will get the benefit
For many ye rs destiny has been lowering
ever the west end of this mighty lake, aud
now the iayorite poiut is going 10 be desig-
mated. Duluth has past prosperity aud
extensive improvements in her favor, aud
in fact the whole locality is going to be
benefited, but if it had q block in West
Superior with roller rink on it, | would
wear my best CLOTHES every day and claim
to be a millionaire in disguise. Ex-Presi-
dent R. B Hayes has large brick block in
Duluth, but be does not occupy it. Tnose
who go 10 Duluth hoping to meet Mr.. Hayes
will be bitterly disappointed.
The streams that run into Lake Superior
are alive with trout, and next summer pro
pose to go up there and roast until have
so thoroughly saturated my system with
trout that the trout bones will stick our
through my clothes in every direction and
people will pegsrd me as beautiful tooth
pick holder.
Still there will be few left for those who
think Of going up there. All l will need
will be barely enough TO feed Albert Victor
and myself from day to day. People who
have never seen q crowned head with a
peeled nose on il are cordially invited to
come over and see US during Office hours
Albert is not at all naughty, and | Intend
to throw aside my usual reserve this summer
also-for the time. p Wales son and |
will be far from the cares that crowd so
thick and fast on greatness People who
come 10 cedar bark Uigwam 70 show us their
mosquito bi;ss will be- received as cordially
as though 10 great social chasm ysSned be-
tween Us
Many will meet us in the depths OF the
forest and 60 away thinking We are Just
common plugs Of whom the world wOts not;
but there is where they will fool themselves
Then when the season Is over we will come
back into The great maelstrom of life, he to
wait for his grandmother's oYershoes and
to tkrill waiting millions from the rostTan
with my Tale OF the Bronco Cow. And
, so it goes with us all Adown Rfss rugged
pathway some must toll on - from daylight
20 dark 10 earn their meagre pittauce as
kings, while Others ere born to wear q sgal
low tail coat every evening and wiring tears
of genuine anguish from their audieucss
They tel me some rather wild stories
about people who have gone up there total
physical wrecks and returned stronS aud
well. One man said that be knew q young
college student who was all run down aud
weak 90 up there on the Brule and eat trout
and fight mosquitoes o few months and
when he returned to his Boston home he was
so stout and well and tanned up that his
parents didn't know him. There was man
in our car who weighed 300 pounds. He
seemed to be boiling out through his clothes
everywhere. He was the hsppiest looking
man ever saw. All he seemed to oin this
life was to sit all day and whistle and laugh
and trot his stomach, FIRST on one knee aad
then on the other.
He said that he went up into the pine for
ests of the Great Lake region q broken
down bypochoudriac and confirmed con-
,umptive. he had been measured for
funeral sermon three times, hs said, and
had never used either one Of them. He
krsw > clergyman named Braley, who went
rp into The region with Brigh:S Justly csle-
brated disease He was so emaclated that
he couldn't carry q watch. The ticking of
the watch ratified his bones so that it made
him nervous, and at night they had to pack
him MP in cotton go that he wouldn't break
Of leg when he turned over. He got to
sleeping out nights on a bed Of balsam aud
srruce bOughs and eating venison and trout,
When he,came down in the spring he
Passed through car fell Of lumbermen, and
ere of them put warm, wet quid of tobacco
in his plug hat for a Joke. There were 8
hundred Of those lunbermen when the
preacher began, and when the train got into
Eau Claire Tiers were only three Of them
well enough to go around to the office to
draw their pay.
This is Just as the story was given to me,
and repeat it to show how hracing the
climate near Superior is. Remember, If
YOU please, that 90 not want the story to
be reuested as coming from me, for have
no'hiug LETT now but my reputation for YER
acity, and that has had very hard winter
Of it.
The Throat BrocaS BrVHchidl TOcAsS" act
directly on the Organs Of the voice They have an