The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-27

as here. On June rs 1t was 112 degrees
In the shade. That Is, of course, ex-
cepttonally hot weather. In that re-
gton one wants to be heavily clothed,
but blankets are sufficient covering
at night The best wrap at night is
paper. found paper warmer than
any blanket.
I had compass and had to keep
track Of it every hour in order to keep
on straight path. I did not learn
that until I had Travelled some dis
lance and found I had gone in cir
Gle, and was where started two days
previously. On my way out I met two
men who thought they were on the
Nelson river. was going along as
fast as I could when I heard a shot
fired, and to my surprise I discovered
two men shooting a bear. They We're
both happy, though ragged, and i'm
agined they were several hundred
miles from where they were. They
could not understand 1t until I ex-
planned that they had not corrected
their compass when they should have
done so. 1t Is strange thing that
though there Is little in that country
for white man, it has a fascination
for one who has visited 1t and he wants
to go back. 1 suffered great hardship
there, but I ann already impatient to
go back, and expect to do so this
winter or in the spring. 1t is the same
with others to whom I have talked.
But no one wants to go to the country
between the Great Slave lake and
Hudson's bay. It Is perfectly barren,
and the explorer must take his own
fuel along with him. There Is not a
stick of timber there.
II started for home June II, and it
was several days later when I heard Of
the war with Spain. I didn't know
anything of events in the civilized
world. While I was in that country
smoked nothing but birch bark, and
drank nothing but birch tree sap, which
I found more palatable than I imag-
ined. The country in which I spent a
large part Of my time contains some
of the greatest forests I ever heard Of.
In one part more trees can be found
in ten square miles than in the entire
state Of Minnesota. You may think
that an exaggeration, but 1t is the
truth. They are spruce forests and the
most difficult to get through. At every
step one has his clothing torn, and
the fallen trees make it almost I'M
possible to go any distance"
Mr.. Norris said that when he reached
Edmonton he was black, and 1t re-
quired a great deal of soap and water
to remove the mask from his face.
His beard was three feet seven and
half inches long. But he had some or
it cut off and looked more like be-
ing from civilized community. His
season was successful and he made
little money from his trip. He went
to Chicago last night His home is in
that city.
Mr.. Eric Stone, whose business for
years has made him familiar with con-
ditions in the whole southern half Of
Minnesota, has just returned from
trip over the Hastings & Dakota, the
Southern Minnesota, the Iowa and
River divisions Of the Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway in the interest OF the
state fair.
He states that the crops are good and
mostly harvested, and that the farmers
are more prosperous and more hopeful
than ever before in the history OF the
state Everybody Is enthusiastic about
the fair, and he looks for the largest
attendance ever known from the entire
southern half of the state.