Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-14

Everything else is in proportion. No
flour was produced ten years ago. Now
there are GS4. COO barrels. Lumber was
represented by 35.01O,OOO feet. Now it
is 275. 900, 600.
1t seems to me ONLY a few wears since
this country was perfectly wild. Indians
were more plenty than Scandinavians
are now. 1t SEEM to me only few
years since | wa arrested in Barron
county for shot; an Indian out of
season.
Ten years ago Da.ath had six passen-
ger trains per day. Now she has 1874.
Lots of people d. not know that Du-
luth leads all other titles in the amount
OF her wheat receipts. If my memory is
not at fault, she shorrs a footing of &C.
49,, 624 bushels as against that of Mime
apolis, viz, 80, 30 1862; Chicago, 81 ,O3S.-
454, and so on down the list. | could
give other figures with which | am thor
oughly conversant, but space forbids.
l wish that the down easter could
know the west as know it. | wish the
sOutherner could know the north as he
should know it, and l wish the north
erner could know the south as it would
pay him to know it. Ignorance of the
actual possibilities of this little republic
of ours is no doubt keeping many young
man and many rusty gold dollar back
IN the gloom and fungi of idleness.
Instead of saying, Young man, go
west" l would say, Young man, find
out more about the country you live in"
Every day old judges and merchants
and divines and ba.:crs are saying goodby
to busy life and = vain world.
Young man, fit yourself to follow the
grip and fill the place of a great man
You can do it, but you'd rather take at
twenty the leisure which would be due
you at fifty if you succeeded. You want
to retire from business before you have
had any business. You want to lead
double life on eleven dollars per week.
You are too apt to want to be rOOey On
the money You ought to pay your laun-
dress and debauchee on thirty-five dol
lars per month
Leave the home nest, my dear young
man. Leave i more in sorrow than in
anger. Study first the growing towns of
the Union and then plunge in where you
like it best. Duluth is a good place. So
are many Others. Here | met q boy |
knew in Wyoming, working then in ne
boiler shops for $3.50 per day. Nov. he
makes thirty OF forty dollars per day
Duluth is espe cially proud of her beauti-
full school buildings and her wonderful
school facilities. Public schools are GER
tainly superior in the west They are
more progressive. l never knew what
progress in this line meant till l had a
chance to compare the eastern and west
ern public schools Duluth tore down a
$50, 900 school house not long ago in order
to erect on the same ground a new one
costing quarter of million dollars.
And that is only one of her many hand
some 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 yet other termini elsewhere. A
railroad likes to have several termini, so
that if one should give out or be disabled
trains could be run just the same.
This country is a 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 filled with water
and when a great big dividend paying
mine becomes a mighty cistern curbed
up with assessments.
1t is healthful region too. | got
some more health here. | look now 1877
years younger than my published por-
traits, and roguish little twinkle may
be seen in my eye. All day go about
singing merrily and skittish horses be-
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 oxyginaton 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 l could
light the gas chat way. l never had
done that.
have now.
That is why am wearing big rag on