| Show mm it la cot sate to analo cal prophesies proctor knotte tha kentucky braur during his congressional ertic ienco made sarcastic laudation of duluth minnesota which he designated in ridicule as the city by the unsalted od aea with all ali e fervid imagination which belongs to natives of his state lie pictured dumith saving alie word fell upon my oar with a peculiar and indescribable charm like the gentle murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the of rows or alie sott sweet accents of tin angela whisper in the bright joyous dream ot bleeding bleeping Ble inno canco Duli illi alie name for which my boul biad panted for i ears as the hart mantoth for the water brooks but where waa duluth my limited my vision been by boning the celestial word in print and I 1 felt humiliation ia my ignorance that its dulcet syllables had never before lavished ravished ravi shed rny ear I 1 was certain abo draughtsman in thia bill had never of it or it would hae been as one of the termini of this road I 1 asked my friends about it but they knew nothing of it I 1 rushed and examined all the maps I 1 could find I 1 discovered in one of them a delicate hair like line diverging from the mississippi near a place marked prescott which I 1 sup closed waa intended to represent the river st creba but could nowhere find duluth nevertheless I 1 was confident it existed somewhere and eliat ita discovery would constitute the crowning glory of the present century if not of all modem times I 1 knew it was boand to exist in alie very nature of things that the symmetry and perfection of plan etuy system would be incomplete withof it that the elements of maternal nature would long since have resolved themselves back into original chaos if there had been such a inglus in creation as would have resulted from leaving out duluth 1 in fact sir I 1 was overwhelmed with the conviction that not only existed hut eliat it was it was a great and glorious place I 1 waa convinced eliat the greatest calamity eliat ever befell alie benighted nations of the ancient world was in their having passed away without a knowledge of the actual ex istenic ot guluth that their tabled Atlant iSy never seen save by the hallowed vision of the inspired poesy was in fact but another name for that the golden orchard of alie was but a poetical synonym for the beer gardens in the mcginity I 1 was certain that herodotus biad died a miserable deatle because in all his gravels ravels and with all his geographical lie biad never heard of duluth I 1 knew eliat if the immortal spirit tot homer could look down from anellier lihaven than eliat created by lna own celestial the long lines of pilgrims from every nation of the hartli to the pushing fountain of poesy opened by the touch of his magic wand sf he be permitted to behold lie vast assemblage of grand and productions duct ions of the lyric art called into being by liis own inspired strains he would weep teara of bitter anguish that instead of lavishing all the stores of ins mighty genius upon he fill of not been his more blessed lot to in deathless song hie rising glories of duluth yes air biad it not been for this map kindly furnished me by alie legislature cOlinne sota I 1 gone down to my anil humble grave in an agony 0 despair I 1 could now hero find had ench iny melancholy fate I 1 have no doubt that with the last feeble pula alion of my breaking heart with the last faint exhalation of my breath I 1 should have whispered where is i ant to the beneficence of that band 0 ministering angels who have their bright abodes in the far off capital of minnesota just as the agony of my anxiety waa about to culminate in the frenzy of despair this blessed map was placed in my hands and as I 1 unfolded ita resplendent gheno of ineffable glory opened before ai I 1 imagined burst upon the enraptured vision of the wandering peri through tho opening gates of paradise there there for the first time my enchanted eye rested upon alie ravishing word duluth luth this map sir is intended as it appears from its title to illustrate alie position of duluth in alie united states but if gentlemen will examine it I 1 think they will concur with me in the opinion that it ia far too modest in its pretensions it not only illustrates the position of duluth in alie united states but exhibits sta relations with all created things it even goes further than this it laita the shadowy vale of futurity and haffards as a view of the golden prospects of duluth for along the dim lista of ages yet to come 1 I will examine iti they ft ill find duluth not only in the center of he gnap but represented in the benfer of a of concentric circles one hundred milea apart and some of them as inucci as four thousand miles in diameter embracing alike in their tremendous sweep alie fragrant savannah sav annaa of lia sunlit y auth and the eternal solitudes of snow that mantle the icebound ice bound north how these were produced is perhaps one of those primordial mysteries that the most skilled sever be able to ex alaio siut the fact ie sir duluth is eminently preeminently pre ft central point for I 1 am told by gentlemen who have been eo reckless of their own personal safety as to venture away into those awful where ii supposed to be that it is so exactly in alie crater of the visible univ eiBa that the eky comes down at precisely tl bame dis lauce ull around it 1 I find by reference to map eliat is near alie i estern end of lake ru bat as there is no dot or other mark indicating its exact location I 1 am unable to gay whether it id actually confined to any tular or whether it is anat lying around there loose I 1 really cannot tell whether it iq one ot ibo e ethereal creations ot intellectual mote intangible alian ho tinted clouda of A sunset one of airy exhalations exha lations of the speculators brain which I 1 am told are very flitting in the forms of towns and cities alon tese linea of railroad built with got eminent the unwary as tio of alie desert inree lie unwary traveler on and cpr on until it fides darkening horizon or whether it h a real barna fide substantial city all staked olf willi the lots marked v ith owners dames like the proud commercial metropolis recently on the desirable shores of sin domingo but however that may bo I 1 am Balia ded is fiejo or thereabouts for I 1 we it here on the map that it la exactly thirty nine hundred and ninety leilea from liverpool I 1 no dffutt lor alie baku of convenience veni ence it will ba moved back ten eo as to inako the distance an eten four thon gand jut mark how iraln a alo lias ant librn down a little with doubtful doubt fol cita in the time of knolls amusing lou lias into dulath a big city with bigger prospecto baat year that town spent nearly avo million jd ollars for permanent and year her people anre preparing for a belill larger i history repeats tha great for pany tears aidon ft aa the object of entire auito ilay her amused and amusing chitica find that all which they kroph egied in ridicule 18 true la reality |
