The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-09
ALONG LAKE SUPERIOR.
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to Dulush. Afsex stroIline along sne Bay of Naples and watching old Vesu- wins vomit red hot mud. vapor and other campaign documents, Duluth is quite 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 ik with the utmost impunity, By the time these lines fall beneath the eye of the genial, courteous and urhane reader, the new railroad bridge across the bay. over mile and half long, witl have been ecHRlesed. % that yon may ride ffom Chicago to Duluth over the Northwestern and Omaha railroads with great comfort. l would be glad to di- gress here and tell about the beauty of | the summer scenery along the Omaha road, and the shy and beautiful troatles, and the datk and silent Chippewa squaw- let and her little bleached out pappoose- let, were it not for the unkind and cruel thrusts that l would invoke from the scenery cynic who believes that news paper mans opinions may be largely warped with pass
 Duluth has been joked a good deal, but she stands it first rate and takes 1t good naturedly. She claims Io GOO peo- ole, some of whom l met at the opera house there. If the rest of the io GOO are as pleasant as those 1 conversed with that evening, Duluth must be pleasant place to live in. Duluth has a very pleasant and beautiful opera house that seats 900 people. A lev more could have eioowed their way into the opera house the evening that spoke there, but they preferred to suffer on at home. | Lake Superior is one of the largest az g1 egations of fresh wetness in the world, if not the largest. When stop to think that some day all this cold, cold water will have to be absorbed by mankind, 1t gives me cramp in the 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 aud make the northern Chicago. You cannot visit Duluth or Superior with out feeling that any moment the tide of trade will rise and designate the sint where the future metropolis of the north ern lakes is to be. firmly believe that this summer will decide it, and my guess is that what is now known as West Su- perior is to get the benefit For many years destiny has been lowering over the west end of this mighty lake and now the favored point is going to be desig. mated. Duluth has past prosperity and expensive improvements in her favor, and in fact the whole locality is going to be benefited, but if it had block in West Superior with roller rink on it, would wear my best clothes every day and claim to be million aire in disguise. Ex Pfes- ident R. B. Hayes has large brick block in Duluth, but he does not occupy lt Those who go to Duluth hoping to meet MT. Hayes will be bitterly disappointed.
 The str cams that run into Lake Supe- rior are alive with trout, and nsxt sum mer 1 propose 10 go up there and roas until have so thoroughly saturated my system with trout that the trout bones will stick out through my clothes in every direction and people will regard me as a beautiful toothpick holder.
 Still there will be few left for those who think of going up there. All will need will be barely enough to feed AL bert Victor and myself from day to day. People who have never seen a crowned head with a peeled nose on it are cor dially 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 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 cor dially 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 maelstrom of life, he to wait for his grandmother r's oyershoes and to thrill waiting millions from the rostrum with my "Tale of the Bronco Cow" And SO it goes with us all. Adown lite's rugged pathway some must toil on as from daylight to dark to earn their meagre pittance as kings, while others are born 10 wear swallow tail coat every evening and wiring tears of genuine angsish from their audiences.
 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 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 a man in our car who weighed 300 pounds. He seemed to be boiling out through his clothes everywhere. He was the happiest look ing man l ever saw. All he seemed to do in this life was to sit all day and whis- tie and laugh and trot his stomach, first on one knee and then on the other.
 He said that he went up into the pine forests of the Great Lake region broken down hvpochondriac and confirmed con- sumptive. He had been measured for a 1 G.. Sk k