Life — March 15, 1900 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

returned should enclose a stamped and addressed return envelope. Each manuscript. may bear a pseudonym, which will be printed with the argument. The Eattors of Lire ure to be the sole Judges of the merits of the argument. Duluth. est city inthe United States? ‘s y, for there is but one city in this country, or on this globe for that matter, where the people are as learned, honest, courteous and well-to-do, as in the city of Duluth, while the city itself is meanness par excellence, the Honorable Proctor Knott concurring. The location and climate are the essentials, we are told by the ‘‘boomers.” In the first place, there's the climate: Nine months winter and three months late in the fall— covers that. And such winters—rain and slush this week, and forty below next. And such falls—a lawn dress with a sealskin coat accompaniment in the morning, a straw bat aod a pair of white ducks for the afternoon, and a coal fire, with hot toddy on the side, in the evening. And the location—built on a side hill so steep that the property owners are compelled to build retaining walls on the lower side of their lawns, or be prepared to defend a suit for dam- ages on account of their lawo sliding down ioto the next lot and ruining their neighbor's mountain pine shrubbery. And the zepbyrs which rub themselves into your marrow, the gentle zephyrs at about sixty miles per, sometimes with and somctimes without snow or rain, or A SPIRIT MEDIUM. * POOR, DEAK JACK, 1 bp TO RRFUSR HIM.” “WHY 80 MUCH sYMPATAY?”? “1 knew We wit both. Talk about mean jes, why a man of Swedish extraction, who had lived in Chicago and thought he knew more about the Inferno than Dante, or of the North Pole than Perry, went to Duluth recently and stayed a few months, but simply because he was without funds and it was too far to walk to the next town, bas struck it about right. After returning to Chicago, he was asked about the winters up north, and replicd thusly ‘De vorst vioter a effe spen en may life bean von sommor vat a leve en Dulute, Manasouta,” and he was right at that. If more arguments as to its being the very meanest city on earth are wanted, 1 MARRY THAT JEDEINS OIL" apply to any one of the Weather Bureau men who were formerly stationed at Duluth, but now sojourning at Minne- sota’s home for “ daffy ” weather guessers. Frozen. Face ke, Overdoing It. NE dispiriting result of the South African war 1s our Waning fatth In British truth, The size ‘and the persistence of thelr falsehoods concerning the tors brings Kadness to every American home. They are still accusing the Boers of firing on hospitals and on fags of truce; of doing every- thing, In short, that decent people abhor. And they do It na small, persistent, plausible way. Does thts go to explain the universal sympathy, with the silent Boer?