The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-13
NOTES BY BILL NYE.
A Young Man Can't Be a De-
bauchee on S35 a Month.
HOW TO LEAVE THE HOME NEST.
The Opening of Navigation at Hudson
Kipening of the watermelons, and
the Moonlight Harvest.
Copyright, 1880, By Edgar W. Nye.

In THE SUPERIOR COUNTRY, March o.
Especial Correspondence. Duluth is re-
marSable city. Ten years ago she had
$40 souls. Now she has, with her sub
urbs, $1,000 souls, and there are over a
hundred real estate men besides. 1t seems
TO me only few years since this country
was perfectly wild. Indians were more
plenty than Scandinavians are now. 1t
seems to me only few years since was
arrested in Barron county for shooting an
Indian out of season.
| wish that the Down Easter could know
the West as know it. wish the South
erner could know the North as he should
know it. and wish the Northerner could
know the South as it would pay him to
know it. Ignorance of the actual posi-
bllities of this little republic of ours is no
doubt keeping many young man and
many a rusty gold dollar back in the
gloom and fungi of idleness.
Instead of saying Young man, go
West" would say Young man, find out
more about the country you live in. "
Every day old judges and merchants and
divines and bakers are saying good-by to
busy life and vain world.
Young man, tit yourself to follow the
grip and I'LL the place of great man.
You can do it, but you'd rather take at 20
the leisure which would be due you at so
if you succeeded. You wish to retire
business before you have had any
business. You want to lead double
life on $11 per week. You are too
apt to want to be a rooey on the money
you oughc TO pay TO your laundress, and a
debauchee on $50 per month.
Il 40
man. Leave it more in sorrow than in
anger. Study first the growing towns of
the Union and then plunge in where you
like it best.
This country is q wealthy one. The
sawdust town Is sneered ut by the iron
town when the mills are idle and then the
sawdust town jeers at the iron town when
the mines are niled with water and when q
great big dividend-paying mine becomes a
mighty cistern curbed up with assess
mcnts.
1t is a healthful region, too. got some
more health here. | look now 1S7 years
younger than my published portraits, and
a rOguish little twinkle may be seen in my
eye. Ali day go about singing merrily
and sklttish horses become unmanageable
and run away and jump into the lake.
The air is extremely bracing, the resin
Gus quality of the plne-scented, blue,
crisp air is especially adapted to the rapid
oxyginaton and acceieratlon of the circu-
lauon. (See Hilliard on Torts, vol. ii, p.
1871
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 I could light
the gas that way. / never had done that.
l have now. That Is why l am wearing a
big rag on my finger. The doctor says
that the nail will grow on again, but that
it will be 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 a speciality of
great men. Also good pickerel fishing.
Ex-senator Spooner lives at Hudson.
Also Commissioner Taylor, when not at
Washington City or closely scrutinizng the
United States railway system by means of