The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-13
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makes thlr,y or forty dollars per day.
Duluth is especially proud of her beautl-
full school buildings and her wonderful
school facilities. Public schools are GER
tainly superior in the west. They are
more progressive. / never knew what
progress in this line meant till | had a
chance to compare the eastern and west
ern public schools. Duluth tore down q
$50. 900 school house not long ago IN order
to erect on the same ground new one
costing quarter of million dollars.
And that is only one of her many hand
soN2e school houses.
West Superior is the Brooklyn of Du-
luth, and thriving city in which mil
lions have been made within few years.
Ashland is very delightful city at the
terminus of several roads, all OF which
have vet other termini elsewhere. A
railroad likes TO have several terminl, so
that if one should give out or be disabled
trains could be run just the same.
This country is wealthy one. The
sawdust town is sneered at by the iron
town when the mills are idle, and then
the sawdust town jeers the iron town
when the mines are filed with water
and when a great big dividend paying
mine becomes mighty cistern curbed
up with assessments.
1t is a healthful region too. l got
some more health here. l look now 1877
years younger than my published por-
traits, and roguish little twinkle may
be seen in my eye. All day go abo
singing merrily and skittish horses
come unmanageable and run away and
jump into the lake.
The air is extremely bracing, the resin
Gus quality Of the pine scented, blue,
crisp air is especially adapted TO the
rapid oxygination and acceleration of
the circulation (See billiard on Torts,
vol. ii, p. 1870.
Electricity pervaded everything. You
walk across the carpeted room and touch
the gas jet or the steam radiator and a
big, big spark explodes at the end Of
your finger. Some one told me | could
hight the gas that way. / never had
done that.
have now.
That is why am wearing big rag on
my finger. The doctor says that the nail
sort of thick and hump up in the middle
like nice fresh pecan meat.
We pass through Hudson going south
from st. Paul and Minneapolis Hudson
is handsome little city on the shores Of
Lake st. Croix. She makes speciality
of great men. Also good pickerel fish
ing. Ex-senator Spooner lives at Hud~
son. Also Commissioner Taylor, when
not at Washington or closely scrutinizing
the United States railway system by
means of special car. Every year he
goes over every mile of railway in tho
United States as commissioner, and when
he gets back in his special car to Wash
ington it is safe to say that over all that
great mileage of road not sardine can
or an empty beer bottle is left to offend
the eye. He is one of the most careful
and painstaking railway commissioners
that we have ever had Some charge
him with being over nice about his rail
roads and too fnnicky and pernickety
about always having the road bed made
mp with the head toward the engine, but
he is careful and conscientious man
and his heart is in the work.
Judge Humphrey lives here also. l
do not lay down any rules of conduct for
my boys at home. 1 just in a general
way tell them to be like Judge Hum
phrey. The man who goes into Wiscon-
sin and criticises Judge Humphrey is
generally arrested on suspicion and held
till they find out what his record is.
1t was at Hudson that we used to bet
on the date when navigation would open
in the spring. There were no railroads
then. When the first boat whistled in
the spring people left their business, and
sometimes broke off in the midst of an
eloquent prayer-full Of statistics and
timely gossip and mere mention, news
summary, baseball news and household
hints-in order TO run down to the land
ing and see the first boat come IN.
Messrs. Coon q Platt kept a grain
warehouse then on the landing. and one
day in winter they made bet on the
date when the first boat would come up
the river to Hudson. Ii consisted of a
pair of fifteen dollar boots. One day IN
early spring Zeph Platt was alone in the
warehouse. and he thought he would go
up in the cupola and with his glass take
a sauint down the lake on the sly. He
was fat man, and when he got up to
the top of the stairs he found that he had
arrived there two or three minutes ahead
of his breath. Finally he secured it,
however. and hastily running his bin
ocular tube along the horizon he saw,
Just below Catfish bar, the dark smoke
and gray steam of the first boat.
1t meant a pair Of boots on him, or
rather on Coon at his expense. He
turned s1i~l-lv NILE. then he started up