Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-08-27
Reeuperatlon on Tan.


Lake Superior is one OF the largest
aggregations of fresh wetness in the
world, if not the largest. When I
stop to think that some day all this
cold, cold water will have to be alb
sorbed by mankind, it gives me a
cramp in the geographical center.
The streams that run into Lake
Superior are alive with trout, and
next summer I propose to go up
there and rest until l have so thor
oughly saturated my system with
trout that the trout bones will still
stick out through my clothes in ev-
cry direction, and people will regard
me as a beautiful toothpick holder.
Still there will be O few left for
those who think of going up there.
All 1 will need will be barely enough
to feed Albert Victor and myself from
day to day. People who have never
seen a crowned head with peeled
nose on it arecordially invited to come
over and see us during Office hours.
Albert is not at all naughty, and 1
intend to throw aside my usual re-
serve this summer also-for the time.
P. Wales son and I will be far from
the cares that crowd so thick and
fast on greatness. People who come
to cedar bark wigwam to show us
their mosquito bites will be received
as cordially as though no great social
chasm yawned between US.
Many will meet us in the depths
of the forest, and go away thinking
that 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 mael-
strom of life-he to wait for his
grandmother's over-shoes, and 1 to
thrill waiting millions from the ros-
trum with my 'Tale of the Bronco
Cow" And so it goes with US all.
Adown life's rugged pathway some
toll on as from daylight to dark to
earn their meagre pittance as kings,
while others are born to wear a swal-
low tail coat every evening, and
wiring tears of genuine anguish from
their audience.
They tell me some rather wide
stories about people who have gone
up there total physical wrecks and
returned strong and well. One man
said that he knew a young college
student, who was all run down and
weak, go up there on the Brule and
eat trout and fight mosquitoes a 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
on our car who weighed three hum
dred pounds. He seemed to be
boiling out through his clothes ev-
erywhere. He was the happiest man
I ever saw. All he seemed to do in
this life was to sit all day and whittle
and laugh and trot his stomach-frst
on one knee and then on the other.
He said that he went up into the
pine forests of the Great Lake region
a brokcn-down hypochondriac and
confirmed consumptive. He had been
measured for funeral sermon three
times, he said, and had never used
either one of them. He knew cler.
gyman named Braley who went ur
into that region with Bright's justly
celebrated disease. He was so ema
ciated that he couldn't carry a watch
The ticking of the watch ratified his
bones so that it made him nervous
and at night they had to pack hin
up in cotton so that he wouldn't
break off leg when he turned over
He got to sleeping out nights on /:
bed of balsam and spruce boughs
and eating venison and trout.
When he came down in the spring
he passed through Car full of lum
bermen, and one of them put warm
wet quid of tobacco in his plug ha
for joke. There were a hundred
F of those lumbermen when the
preacher began and when the trail
got into Eau Claire there were onl,
three of them well enough to q
, around to the Office and draw thei
| pay.
= This is just as the story was givel
f to me, and I repeat it to show hov
{ bracing the climate near Superior is
Remember, if you please, that 1 d.
not want the story to be repeated a
coming from me, for l have nothin.
left now but my reputation for verac
lty, and that had very hard winte
of it. BILL NYE.
The 25th Great st. Louis Fair.
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