The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-06-05
NUMBER Ia.
BILL NYE ANDP WALES SOW
They Propose Comparing Mos
quito Bites in the Wisconsin
Woods this Summer.

WOODS this Summer.
N. Y. Mercury.
| have just returned from brief
visit to Duluth. After strolIing
along ibe bay of Naples and watch.
ing old Vesuvius vomit red mud.
vapor aud other campaign docu.
nients, Duluth is quite change.
Lake Superior is one Of the
largest aggIegations of fresh wet.
hess iu the world, if not the longest.
When | stop to think that some
day all this cold, cold water will
have to be absorbed by mankind. it
gives me cramp in the geograph.
ical centre.
The streams that run into Lake
Superior are alive With trout, and
next summer | propose to 90 np
there and ro0st until / have so
thoroughly saturated my system
with front that the trout bones will
stick out through my clothes in
every direction and people will re.
gard me as beautiful tOotbpick
holder.
Still there will be few left for
those who think of going mp there.
All | will need will. be barely
enough to feed Albert Victor aud
myself from day to day. People
who have never seen crowned head
with IA peeled uOse OH it are cordi.
ally invited to come over aud seq
us during Office hours. Albert iS
not at all naughty, and intend to
throw aside my usual reserve this
summer alsO-tOr the time. p,
Wales son and | will 5e klr from
the cares that crowd so Thick and
fast on greatness. People who
come to our cedar bark wigwan to
show US their mosquito bites will
be received as cordially as though
no great social chasm yawned be.
tween US.
Many will meetns in the depths
OF the forest aud go away thinking
that we are just common plugs OF
whom the world w0ts not but
there is where they fool themselves.
Then when The, season is over We
come back into the great mael.'
stroon of life, he to wait for his
grandnother'S overshOes, and | to
thrlll waiting millions from the Ios.
trum with my stale of the Bronco
Cow" And so it goes with us all.
Adown life's rugged pathway some
must toll on as IRON daylight TO
dark to earn their meagre pittance
as kings, while others are born to
wear swallow-tail coat every eve.
nlng, and wiring tears Of geuuIue
from their audiences.
They tell some rather wide stories
about people who have gone up
there total physical wrecks aud re-
turded strong and we'll. Que man
Sdld that he knew young college
student who was all run down aud
weak go mp there on the Brule. and
eat trout and fight mosquitoes a
lew months, aud when he returned
10 his Boston home he was so stont
ipd well and tanned up that his pa
rents didn't know him. There was
4 man in our car who weighed 800
pounds. He seemed to be boiling
)ut through his clothes everywhere.
He was the happiest looking man
ever saw. All he seemed to do in
his life was to sit all day aud
aud laugh and trot his
stomach, first on one knee and then
)n the other.
He said that he went Up into the
llne forests of the great lake re-
slOn Oroken-down hypochoudriae
md confirmed consumptive. He
lad been measured for funeral
sermon three times, lie said. aud
lad never used either one of them.
de kuew a clergyman named Bra
ey who went up intO that region
win brlght'S justly celebrated dis
ase. He was so emaciated thai
e couldn't carry watch. Tha
licking OF the watch ratified his
ones so that 1t made him ueryous
nd at night they bad to pack him
cotton so that be wouldnit break
d a leg when he turned over. He
OF to sleeping out nights ON 4 bed
DalSam aud spruce bOughs aud
itlng veniSon and trout.
When he came down in the spring
g passed through car full OF lum.
and one of them put "A
arm, wet quid OF tobacco in his
lug hat for joke. There were a
indred Of those lnmbermen when
'e preacher began, aud when the
aiu got into Eau Claire there were
liS three OF them well enough to
around to the Oflice aud draw
cir pay.
his Is just as the story was
ven TO me, aud | repeat it TO show
w braeing the climate near So
nor Is Remember, if you please,
at do not want tue story to De-
leated as coming from me, for I
we nothing left now but INV rep-
alton for veraeiry. and that has
d very hard winter OF il.