Superior Chronicle (Newspaper) - February 12, 1856, Superior, Wisconsin NUMBERS CM I I AT Superior las county Wisconsin SUPERIOR DOUGLAS COUNTY MORNING r 1 n TWO DOLLARS A YEAR r f I t f T II M S in u nr 00 t Home A Story Katy don t -2 uo wonder she did For three i i have my own counsel singing all the while my Through the no iv i 1 1 Wl III 1 fl 00 no on nml of Mining II ti fr cull ill mi ft nl of J n on nml nt in tt mi ill tliC warm nights of August 1 have sung and the branch of the old that I love so well but now the days are saddest of the year that erewhile fell so ly comes glittering and cold on limbs and 1 know tho time has arrived when i sleep perchance to wake no more If dull mortal ears interpret my weird language I will toll you why I sing those words summers come and gone since I was cradled on the tall old tree be- tho Around the low and the gray were going in sorrow to l His uncle scouted at the idea of his tne grave Messengers were and ding the fair Linda with her very but no tidings of the lost one Death ata fortune telling him that waved is dark wing and wealthy fellow as then brushed the old farmer s name from Slocum could pick a millionaire heiress the records of life M almost every bush J hey laid him in quiet bi travel and the wife he loved and sadness and aristocratic and wealthy ness brooded over it until the first tints of rope Arctic Regions Meeting of the j known to the the The these tid im open space sea The side of Greenland remained to bo I came back Then came ton j but merry laughing Kate no more White i ns a and as still her husband bore her past me from the carriage to the door whose threshold she had Jety but 1 knew they bore her to the little room where she had spent so many happy hours I knew too that she was dying and erelong I sang a dirge saying ever Katy's dead Katy's dead My voice is growing faint but still as I sit in tho long green grass beside i her his sudden j vanity 81 followed hii uncle's advice setting sail with a high heart to cross the ocean for and cess He dropped a careless note to his telling her of his determination to travel leave her free Somehow or other remittances to the Arctic regions Af Alex ford the President of the Society entered the Dr Kane leaning on his arm Mr Bradford called the meeting to order after which the minutes meeting were read and of the la that our little vessel could not escape lie had then nino feet of solid ice under her oni winter's freezing When we to leave our vessel fn preference to starving or submitting to dangers from tho we found an mi- in evening grave I shall sing that requiem How in the jasmine by the porch and far head until ny note is stilled by death up where the branches bend over the KATY I loved so well or in the white bush by the gate I have kept my watch each year and found it still grew dour to me i loved the white-haired old man who often sat to listen to my song at ing I loved too the form so frail and i II i the i n ro K M I i- ii tlir i r in Heaven I i- -t 11 ail wait llico for I nir v ami ami thought the face so sad that sometimes sat j him but 1 knew that it was passing It was the wife he had brought from jne Jong ago a blooming bride A rich old Uncle and a Fever Linda Hay was scarce seventeen as an houri of course all heroines are Hut more than this Linda had a mind and heart of goodness as well as personal was the scholar of Mrs and was the joy of her Of the policy of leaving our vessel I 1 his wilt that to among bis old friends helped to carry our sick and lent or us If been and that he Mr Bancroft that their dogs whon or died from b was cut on Without even u He himself was the i to ho the h- -I ini tho will being mudy in of Linda presentment he could make We came nd her successors here to-night take him by tho hand an father the pride of her mother Linda's youthful once rescued The discovery was maddening but worse God be praised tor his safe tin nail the rich old uncle had thrown apco and return us after u which aw ugly wig and the hump on his i himself and upon his bark and bis wooden leg and he stood up to depend much upon our guns to us with food At times this liey extremely dreary tho village nnd tho of tho house Her light step wiis near me IM sho gathered the lusos or trained a vagrant who I i i with UK U engaged to young nti embryo lawyer of fashion and sumo talent who had only the slender income of his profession to depend upon but which added i i r 11 went to the modest little fortune of and I held my breath to listen for fear my enable the couple to live quite com- bonny Kate would be won away from me j Many were the vows I heard breathed on It was now in the fitful month of April the soft but all in The Juno was to witness the brU ose who en- joy the it threw poor int a billions fever which nearly ted his which also put mo in of the tb ivo little episode I being the who carried him over the bridge of sickness to the terra firma of health there waa no portion of thai lime that were oppressed by hunger were then compelled more food than Dr Kane rose and was greeted Kight diem there is an ordinary reception of associates 1 hern only to in plied with all the food we finally i reached there first heard of the kind action and f I nf oM niiiimt.-iiti iii mile Don't Depend on Father Stand up here young man and let us tall to have trusted alone to the four father's or to his your influence or success in an unostentatious manner a simple story of of our government for never forget tho manning of the ging and the threw cheers that us back to social life nnd love The illustrious navigator here sat down amid loud applause here asked how far north my cruise to the Arctic regions both for your interest and the interest of the great progenitor of the expedition now before to Henry Grinnell I have here a chart of Greenland and the Northern regions upon which Twill base my about the mountain ranges of the North These ranges skirt the coast of Greenland and reach an j 20 tude of three thousand feet Froni these j people He had l rare divine lit in till I me from my leafy homo to the soft i moss of tho woods and Kate was lost to me until again the grain was bound in sheaves and the harvest moon old rily I bach and saw the fair face 1 loved so well once more But her brow i was sad for the old man sat alone now and her gentle mother was no more Sho very tender and loving to the lonely old Think you that father at- eminence in his profession but by d or that he has amassed Queen of glowing with freshness a fortune honestly without energy and this coast extend towards the north and with joy upon the back of her j You should know that the faculty than generally supposed It was this idea matchless most for the acquirement of fame and in part that led Mr Grinnell and our fnl piece of horse flesh to be lighted on by i 1 i IL r a fond and indulgent Young was by her was the were Dr Kaiie said he had found them at were a migratory From these people He had seen their huts beyond mountains we cm that the lands of j the point they rcache'd man now and it to see how dear j Linda's bay I she was to him His step had grown more i flying through I slow and his voice more weak descanting upon tho beauty of the ing when suddenly the latter you have no b from his sight like the morning rucks than a gosling fortune is essential to nay inseparable from retaining of cither of Suppose thai father has the in j dance if you never earned anything for him business with with a and crnment to make the search from which 1 have just returned After leaving New York made the const of Greenland at its most southern point We then on our voyage Q How far north reindeer As far us the reindeer Mr How have you found tho we went we found do you i u in my I to mine limn nn into u star I- l- ll it mi high i i liccn told Ho tin inU if 11 but slic was ever beside him to hand him his staff or adjust his in the porch where he loved to sit Thus were they one hot August afternoon the old man had fallen had taken flight and was tho air scarcely touching if I e allows you to meddle with them till you have their by your own to and then to Smith Sound On reaching Smith Sound we expected have i an open sea the thU upon can only consider to a great open area at the at further north it in or opinion to reach this opcu la it possible in sea with boats his white hair just lifted now and then by a passing breeze while Kate sat besides him her needlework in her lap but her thoughts far away The but well known click of the garden gate attracted I my attention to a stranger who entered He wore a hunter's and two or three birds attested skill Ilis i gray felt hat turned from a dark but handsome face and his voica was the paving stones at a fearful speed ind he perpetrates untold A.boat was launched nnd landed on j explore it She will certainly be thrown and i An I if the old gentleman is lavish of his the nearest great inland to lay Ur is coining rather near killed nml heart ns he towards you while he allows you to provisions to fall back upon in case of re- as hard as 1 to reach i is awuy your time you'd better leave him treat and then we pushed our ship farther but failed Laughter I only got an akin to run away sooner than be made an im- j to the northward From boat there I think with becile or scoundrel through so corrupting an sel up to our winter I j proper f organisation however it might be Sooner or later you must learn need not tell the members that 1 have no doubt it will yet to icly on your own resources or you will age pur vessel encountered great hardships be explored not be anybody If you have never helped It extreme strength that gave us yourself at till if you have become idle if her safety When we reached you have eaten broad and this winter harbor the difficulties of I tor and smoked father A cigars and a j farther north were great ed where his have with a feeling despair When however Slocum arrived some three or four miles further towards the edge of the city a scene met his view that called up other emotions than those of pleasure at the safety of Linda was seated on the turf reclining against the trunk of a tree A tall some stranger was bending over her laving brow with water and pouring the I It only uji and as he craved a draught of wa- j magnetism of warm life into her from Kate's fair hand The old man i 1 still slept while she gracefully complied and his great brown eyes rested admiringly Misc IM MI 1.1 that they both started i I an to my leafy home she laughing ii in in the v i i- i swell buggy and tried to put on j addressed me a letter requesting a return influence and reputation you might was with ratl er have been a poor canal boy the and I a or a j to the request At this have a we could not swap with you glazier out With look pf poor motherless great wo were to of soul tig soul which i Miserable your are to depend j travel by in this way parties your parents paying ng Slocum J for ing That ion heras he cd between them when Linda t I am full upon him young Slocum dan What in the name of reached the latitude To save her I answered Katy like a disagreeable nightmare f IM i ii i 1 i i 3 i street with over -i i in- that it always Her and and i inculcated I have where the father was a r where liis fur his for their welfare were yet ho had not the mairie power r that tlie mother had they iiim would in his not with the sweet that seems tube arc quick to detect flaws 1 even in their mot tier and and find fault peculiarities they will i- tho strong motive fur mothers to careful of their example for and to guard and that it may be safely by my shrill cry her father un- closed his eyes wearily but an electric j spark seemed to dance in them ns he be- held the handsome stranger Starting to his feet he pointed to the i Voung man there is the gate Tho j soil of should know ter than ever to enter here With a ing eye and clouded brow the young man turned away while the astonished girl stood as if transfixed by the scene i Why all she said for he grew ghastly white and with bending turned to enter the house saying His father Kate was my most bitter enemy Once my friend he deceived and betrayed me lied my good name away and came between me and my love This sou is his not in mind as well as body Then softening as he spoke Kate I have none but you now promise you will not let your heart be lost to me for such a one Katy sighed I for Iliad marked ig glance that followed him She head but with an spot in her away leaving the old man to seek his rest vs best he might need at length how tho day the tall handsome or your or both and be wn the girl he had Doji have it to boast of that you i after her i ha grown in your father's after The next ger called upon cued death to inquire Some how or other it was full three hours before the call was concluded Time had passed so pleasantly in that easy flow of thought and where soul met its kindred and both were flight Again and again they suet always ing ns though they had been friends for- ever so unconstrained easy was the thought between It generally happened too by some stran chance that on fishing excursion or something of the mot sense arc you thinking Go to wurk with cither your hanil Salt Region following article descriptive of the suit region of Minnesota in from the Vt Louis there is not a richer salt re- face of the earth than the DUD The territory is considered to be valuable for its agricultural however can j erroneous True its natural alias set out id exploration and in this way we wealth is probably second to none in wealth up J northern point has less extensive and valuable point our parties were compelled to the latter its salt stands return I of region lies between and north eminent Tho your you ns other but let folks know that you count one Come off with your coat clinch the the scythe the axe the at its rapid pH the that will en- which are now deposited in the office of the to stir your around and Our alcoholic thermometers your jacket rather than be the passive we found to be utterly unavailable and the recipient of the old we could Urui V ttt wnu a I ical of that wilt region was from a soldier in the expedition He t t l ier than play dandy at by a comparison hire to some potatoe patch let this with V 1 t 1 J 1 ige you to stop hog holes or watch tho bar j seventy and eighty tine i and when you think a degrees below ut spell do it own was whenever the tall handsome stranger called you have no other means of having the in which we his with empty barrel arid made our Our first party dd the temperature fays been traveling instruments I a vast rolling plain with im trees Our lowest recorded orl the troops and horses wort between seventy nnd thirst when tlley came bowed her of an brings to a head a that has been festering within a month Jones was left high i- j Ly who believe him to stranger wooded her and how she 1 and even making to his words how him lane uith the but Jones said he or rippling brook Need I tell the care if did compare him to lover's arguments that fell on my ear or the promises she made and retracted as soon as Ah remarked very quietly one Calmly the moon looked down it be well peaceful and pure on the fair girl as she Vol to that you stole like a culprit from he fathers to Judas while the old man lay dreaming of hw I'M Judas likes i youth Creeping stealthily down the steps and out beond l or her stolen bridal and I rang out my people to be man's window but U corrupted from Katy broke her promise infancy and them for he woke hot and her sealed n which education them what is to ba concluded from Morning came at last and there was to and fro strangers flitted but that you makd and the door and from their T I that gmf bid done work I Mi i The middle of May arrived The ding day way near In a maze of bewilderment the young betrothed awaked as sudden dream Do I love enough to become his wife asked she of her own heart in that young heart A deeper depth than the shallow of the hope to But the spirit had taught her meaning of the word love he had gone as suddenly came had called him to a distant country and clime True he had never love but when he was gone had found to her dismay that he had taken her heart with him and that Slocum seemed to her now nothing more than a sort of automaton brainless and heartless But I will be true to my honor and my said the Linda I will marry him and make him a bury my and my duty faithfully A rich old uncle of the tho Bought his Slocum lawyer a wok o in morning a put your head into it and hollow into it and foil down hill and for don t make the old gentleman furnish everyn and live at your ease r you smooth Who ore they that have wealth and influence in society Are who have always depended alone on the old or are that have climbed their way to by their own industry aud en- erg True the old funds or influence may secure forms of let lose property or die you A miserable ling of flesh up in the care of 1 gain we say wake ut n round at least bre the old mun give and then a generous lift in the leap how take the lead don't depend evci on being led and and you hare no idea lion the discipline will benefit Do this and our word for it you will seem to breathe a nt w atmosphere possess a new tread a new earth awake to a new destiny and may begiD to aspire to hool off then that ring from your lilly brake lip hold up mechs never nor was They Storing overtook and they back to the three ber amputation tind two It was three were able to start out again and when we did so we found that the coast of Greenland did not at this point rua course represented on the maps but it presented a const running almost east and west Here we discovered This waV flanked b'y lofty two- thousand eight hundred feet iu height and out apparently far to the north The tor tins travel was ing We us a and over found an open water which open Polar Sea This water appeared iceless It was apparently without a particle of lined its shores At an altitude of three hundred feet as far could see an open sea met our eye A gale of long duration swept but brought no drift along AU re- sorted to these waters i Jin upon its the from every i direction n coold troops li when tlley came denly sliore beautiful half sunk down It resembles more a height the lino tta it MI salt as pura and white as snow waters of the lake we're liko So strong coming u few covered with of suit it I to be a projected into it the country of undeveloped wealth nmrc more and more regions beyond the We aro it very short distance below th rock in a strata like coal or lime rock Anthony in copying tho stated same hike covered by time of the Stevens The region lies a little west from St Cloud at a distance of about one cnty miles hundred and f 7 jf 1 V country affords a good natural froin St resorted tlu route noi of
