Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-11

beloved here in the northwest rs the
Little Short Neckcd Norwegian, once
the duskv warrior had his home, and in
the crisp spring weather his fiancee
Strained the golden maple sirup through
her blanket. vet warm from her bronze
shoulders.
What changes have came here" rs
one of my Pop friends said last evening
Forty-two years ago l came to this coun-
try and found it in the very slough of
barbariSm. Indians without suitable I'M
dvrClothinS for this rigorous climate
roamed up and down the St. CroiX and
violated the game law with IMMUNITY.
No white mans life was safe 1t has
taken me over 40 of the best years of
my life to bring about change, but in
that same valley there are now 4 thou
sand schuolhouSeS. one nominal school
in this congregational district, as my
Pop friend says, and $50 churches that
arc almost self supporting.
One can hardly believe that here
where now we sit surrounded by all that
can go TO cxalt and embellish life, a
few brief years ago the nasty Indian
campei ont and lived joyous and jag
less He did not know that by sin death
came into the world. He knows it now;
also that pneumonia comes with log
houses and steam heat. late hours and a
crock full of Saltwater wassail.
Since then we have come through all
the various periods and strata that go
to build the geological abutments upon
which rest civilization and appended
It's. No one had appendicitis when
came here on the stern deck of a horse
in 1852. We had no comforts, no pare
sis, no cSoteric research, no acute gas
tritis, no erotic poetry outside the lum-
Der camps, and l was baptized by the
same man who shod my steers. Those
were grand old days. and no one hesitat-
ed about being immersed by man who
| could staEger stag with one blow or
hold the hind leg of n clay bank mule
till the ornery brute ruptured himself
| with suppressed wrath
! tell you these pioneer expounders of
| tbe Scriptures never drowned anybody.
I've seen Il 800 pound man immersed in
the klnnic kiuniCk, and after playing
him few moments the preacher landed
him on the bank. jumped up out of the
water, cracked his heels together and
called for another. 1t was March. and
| Ch0A anu tALoAA - ~ pStAl0A &ShhC Va ASS
would hit the parson in the back, but
= the rosy old apostle liked it, and we Of
ten had to go into the river and pull
him out by force. he liked it so we'll
Then came the vast appetite for real
| estate, when every one was excited, and
even the preacher said one day in an
absentminded way as he opened the BIZ
BILE. Brothers and sisters, today you
will find my text in the n. W. Il of
the s. W. i of section 8. township SO,
range IS. west"
The little upper Mississippi steam
boats came up the river after the ice
went out, aud ono long foot of the whis-
tie would empty a church in eight min
utes. Some of these little boats were
like the Georgia steamer with the one
horsepower engine and IL horse whis-
tie. / remember Il little boat with a
pocket engine and 4 calliope, and every
time the calliope played the boat stop
ped. Sam Jones says there are too many
Christians like that When they ''hol-
ler'' amen, they stop.
1t was near this spot where i am
writing that my brother. now persecut.
ing attorney of Minneapolis, once invited
me to come with him and participate in
a cyclone. 1t did not last long. but the
tailors now make one of my trouser.
legs three-eighths of an inch shorter
than the other.
People now come hundreds of mile.
to view the spot. 1 have referred to thi:
accident before. and probably by refei
ring to it again now those few VII
did believe it will 20 over to the m.
jority, but l can prove it by two phys
clans, both of whom set my leg, and
third physician who reset it about
week later when my bed fell down
was placed on cheap bed and q
extension put on the leS-that is,
piece of adhesive plaster was put ON Il
sole of the foot, and to this cord WI
attached which passed up over the TO
D of the bed and over n pulley to n coup
of fiat irons which kept my limb pulls
out to its full capacity all the tin
when the bone was knitting. One day
!. heaved a sigh, and as l did so the b
fell with loud report, leaving my TO
in the air.
Gosh, how it hurt!
a nurse and my fond wife were Their
but they could not pull me out from Il
chaos of bed and shattered legs A
they could do was to wiring their ham
and put cologne ON my brow.
1t was one of the saddest situations
ever accepted. Finally my wife, wi
is a woman of quick intelligence. su
gested that / could be slowly elevate
by an educational process. She got tv
sets of cyclopsdia and some Of my ON
literary works, and with these abe ma
aged Co build up under my giant fran
N want M ora ona eihoyY nj n time.