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A BULL ON FLY ROD.
LIVELY EPISODE OF A DAY'S FISH
JING IN IN CALIFORNIA. :
The Red Shawl of One of the Ladies In
the Party Started the Fun, and the Skill
ful Angler Gave an Exhibition Not Com
mon on & Trouting Trip.
“Traveling overland from Santa Bar
bara to San Luis Obispo,’’ said a tourist
recently returned from southern Cali
fornia, ‘‘our journey as far as Los Olivos
was by stage. Of the beautiful land and
water scenery along the route of our
stage ride two features particularly im
pressed me. One was the backward view
from the summit of the coast moun
tains, with Santa Barbara, 12 miles
back, clustered on the left and right of
its white Main street, the islands be
yond and the bluae Pacific.
“The second was the river that we
forded shortly before arriving at Los
Olivos. It was a type of water course
common in California, with a wide,
deep bed, perfectly dry, except where a
clear little stream rippled its way along
a narrow channel through sand and
gravel, winding and eddying round bars
and bowlders. A man might leap across
it in many places, and the water did not
come nearly to the wheel hubs as the
stage rolled through it.
““At Los Olivos, which we reached at
5 o'clock p. m., one of the dishes served
at our excellent supper was trout,
caught, as we learned, in the pretty,
clear stream we had crossed. That deter
mined us to stay over a day at the sta
tion to try the fishing. We got out our
tackle and had a day of great sport. To
reach the water we had to get down the
steep river banks and follow the dry bed
through which the little stream seemed
to pick its way. The trout we caught
were of the black spotted mountain va
riety, ranging from 6 to 14 inches in
length and averaging about three to the
pound. Smaller ones we put back in the
water.
‘““‘But there was an experience more
exciting than fishing to come before the
day was ended. At noon the ladies of
our party came by wagon to join us at
luncheon, and they accompanied us in
the afternoon’s fishing. Toward night,
when we had worked well up toward
the mountains, some cattle came down
to the stream to drink, and without ap
parent provocation a lively young bull
began to paw the ground and bellow un
pleasantly and followed these demon
strations up by charging upon our party.
Looking up from my fishing at this
juncture, I saw that it was the red plaid
shawl of one of the ladies that had ex
cited the animal’s hostility. Callirg to
her to throw down the shawl and for
them all to run, I threw stones at the
bull to divert his attention, while the
other gentlemen of the party helped
them up the steep bank, where the bull
could not follow. The bull stopped at
the shawl, tossed it about in an ugly
manner, and then, turning his attention
to me, gave me a sharp run across the
sands to the bank. I got there all right,
carrying my rod, with the line and
leader flying behind, but just as Istruck
the top of the bank I felt a sudden jerk
of the rod’s tip, and turning saw that
one of my fly hooks had caught the bull
in the nostril.
“It was one of the queerest catches I
imagine that ever a fisherman made,
and I literally played that bull with a
fly rod for a quarter of an hour. I owed
him no good will, and besides I wanted
to save my tackle. The nostril of a bull,
as you probably know, is exquisitely
sensitive to pain, and with my strong,
flexible split bamboo rod, duplicating
reel and stout gut leader at the end of a
hundred feet of braided silk I managed
to hold the big creature under control.
He couldn’t seem to make out what had
got him by the nose, but he knew that
it hurt him worse whenever he tried to
break away, and to increase the mystery
there was all the time dangling and
switching before his eyes a big, bright
red bass fly that I had left on my leader
as an experiment in trout fishing. He
would strike at it with his horns, and
his rage at finding he couldn’t hit it,
anG that it came back at him every time,
was comical to witness—from a place of
safety, of course.
““From time to time the bull wounld
charge upon the shawl and toss that
about, and then I had to work the reel
and tip for all they were worth to save
all my tackle from going by the board.
At last, in one of these furious charges,
as he lifted the shawl on his horns I felt
something give away, and at the same
moment the shawl went up into the air.
The hook had torn loose from his nostril,
and two of the hooks on the leader
were fast in the shawl. I dropped the
rod and pulled line and shawl in, hand
over hand, like a Cape Cod fisherman
hauling pollock. The bull didn’t tumble
to the situation until I had got the
shawl nearly to the bank, and then he
came for it, but it was too late. I whip
ped the shawl up to where we were
standing just as his head butted the per
pendicular bank with a thud that
brought down a shower of earth.
‘““The shawl carried a good deal of
sand and had some holes in it, but there
was no disposition to complain on the
part of its owner. We thought we had
enough fishing for one day, and leaving
our enemy down in the river bed pawing
sand and bellowing his anger we took
our wagon thankfully for the hotel. ”’—
New York Sun.
Headache bad? Get Dr. Miles® Pain Pills.
WHAT THEIR DUTY IS.
The Registrars Will Have to Be Very
Watchful.
Tue Npgws announced last week
the zppointment of Messrs. M. C. Ed
wards, C. M. Harris and M. G. Statham,
by Judge Griggs, as registrars for Ter
rell county, uader the general registra
tion law which was passed at the last
session of the legislature.
There are but few people wko seem to
know what the duties of the registrars
are, as they have never been told in the
public prints of this eity. Under the
new law it is the duty of the tax collec
tor to keep a list of those who desire to
be registered to vote. This list is to be
kept in a book prepared for the purpose
so that a list will always be on hand.
From this the tax collector is to prepare
a list of those who are seeking to vote by
means of registration.
This done the list goes to the county
registrars. In the meantime a second
list is prepared to go to the registrars
with the list from the ‘ax collector. This
list is that of voters who are disqualified
from voting. The tax collector, the
clerk of superior court and the ordinary
have this list in charge. It is their duty
to look into the list prepared by the tax
collector and to look over the proper
records and determine what persons are
disqualified. There may be some who
are disqualified by reason of non-pay
ment of taxes or because of some men
tal incapacity or on account of having
been convicted of some crime.
Both of these lists are turned over to
the registrars. whose duty it is to exam
ine them carefully and make any cor
rections that are necessary and to hear,
if necessary, any testimony that is sought
to be introduced by any voter who be
lieves that he has been disjualified
through mistake or otherwise. This
revised list is then given to the election
managers and they are to be governed
alone by it. The registrars meet fifteen
days before the election and receive $2
per day while actually at work. It is
provided, however, that if the county
commissioners see proper this amount
may be increased. The term of the reg
istrars is two years, but the judge may
remove them at any time he sees fit.
CHARLIE Is LOST.
And His Dear Aunt Mopes For the Re
turn of the Wanderer.
Charlie’s aunt came into police head
quarters the other day and wanted the
department to go out and hunt for Char
lie, whose last name is O’Brien. Miss
ing children are reported every hour of
the day at headquarters, and they did
not see anything unusual in Charlie’s
disappearance until the facts came out.
They turned Charlie’s aunt, who lives
at 12 Sheldon street, over to Detective
Swan.
The detective, with due regard for
the sorrow at the thought of the lost
Charlie, prepared to ask a number of
questions. Tears almost welled up in
his eyes as he pictured the little lost
one wandering helplessly about in the
streets of a great city.
‘“What time yesterday did you miss
him?”’ he gently inquired.
““Sure, it wasn’t yesterday at all I
missed him,”’ said Charlie’s aunt.
““How long ago was it?’’ softly asked
the detective.
‘“Three years ago come last Monday, ”’
was the answer.
Mr. Swan fell back in his chair with
a dull thud. ‘“Three years, did you
say?’’ and he looked out of the window
s 0 he could have a laugh all by himself.
‘““Have you a picture of him?’ asked
Mr. Swan, and the caller produced a
tintype of a clever looking little chap.
““That was taken some years ago,”’
said Charlie’s aunt. ‘‘He was 6 years
old then.”’
‘“And how old was he when he disap
peared?’ asked Mr. Swan.
‘“He was over 17,’’ was the answer.
Mr. Swan gasped again. ‘‘And then
he’s about 21 now, ’’ he remarked. ‘‘And
then he’s been missing three years, and
you don’t know where he is, and we’ve
got the picture of a boy 6 years old to
find him with. That picture looks about
as much like Charlie as I do. The best
thing you can do if you want to find
Charlie is to advertise.’’—Providence
Journal
It May Do as Much tor You,
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irwing, 111., wiites
that he had a Severe Kidney trouble for
many years, with seyere pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af
fecied. He tried many so called Kidney
cures, but without any good result.
About a year ago he began the use of
Electric Bitters and found relief at once.
Electric Bitters is jespeciall adapted vo
cure of all Kidney and Liver troubles
and often jgives almost instant relief.
One trial will prove our statement. Price
only 50c. for large bottle. At Sale-Davis
Drug Co’s.: |
Energy In Matter.
It is estimated by Professor Dolbear
that a lump of coal weighing a pound
has in it energy enough to lift its weight
1,000 miles high. He says that this en.
ergy is inherent in matter; that every
particle of matter is constantly exerting
its force on every other particle, and
that if not prevented they will come to
gether, no matter how far apart they
may be.
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STORIES ABOUT RATS.
They Are Sald to Be Great Trawelers.
Methods of Rat Catchers.
[Special Correspondence. j
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—*‘l shall not soon
forget,”’ said a man whose eyes were
shaded with green goggles on a subur
ban train this morning, ‘‘how thor
oughly I was startled by thecurious ac
tions of a chap who one day came into
the office in New York where I was
then employed as a bookkeeper. Al
though it was broad daylight, he had
in his hand a builseye lantern, his
shoes had rubber soles, so that he could
walk noiselessly, and he was without a
coat and wore in place of a vest a sort
of long sleeved, closely fitting short
jacket. He walked up to the big safe
without a word, suddenly threw him
self flat on his face and began to peer
under the huge iron box, using the
iight of his bullseye to assist him in
his search for whatever he was after. In
a moment he was on his feet again and
had left the room. My fellow clerks and
myself were all much puzzled, and it
was some time before we learned that
the fellow was a rat catcher, and the
object of his search under the safe was
a possible rathole. Before the day was
over he had visited every part of the
building from subcellar to mansard,
and he made exceeding short work of
the rats that had grown altogether too
numerous for the comfort or convenience
of the human tenants of the place. I
have been moved to relate this little
reminiscence, '’ continued the man, tak
ing off his goggles and wiping them,
‘‘by reason of the story I read a day or
two ago in the newspapers about the
overrunning of the old Boston mine in
the anthracite coal regions near Wilkes
barre, Pa., with rats. I have been some
what interested in whatever I read
about rats ever since that New York rat
catcher gave me such a start.”
““Well,”’ said a typical Chicago man
who sat in the next seat, ‘‘rats have
given me much trouble a good deal of
my life. My business, you know, has to
do with shipping in the season, and
when I was younger I used to sail the
fresh water seas myself. Sometimes we
would have a great many of the rodents
aboard at the beginning of a trip and
very fow at the end, for rats will some
times desert a vessel en masse while it
is lying in port. No, I have no faith in
the suilerstition that desertion by rats
foretells coming disaster, for I have
known rats to leave in such great num
bers at Milwaukee, say, that we would
be free of them when we got in here,
only to be well loaded with the pests
when we left this port. Rats are great
travelers. They often go the length and
breadth of the lake system to my knowl
edge. Many an old rat has seen every
port from Buffalo to Duluth, in my
opinion, and there are salt water sailors
who will tell you that rats sometimes
circumnavigate the globe.
“There are more rats than human be
ings in the world, I'm told. A profes
sional rat catcher of my acquaintance
estimates the number in the United
States as five times as many as that of
men, women and children.”’
J. C. SEARING.
The great Christian feasts or unrise
mas, Easter, Ascension and Whitsun
tide are said to have been ordered to be
observed by the whole church all over
the world as early as the close of -the
first century.
Some of the little bronze images of
Chinese deities are supposed to have an
antiquity of 2,000 years before Christ.
Winnipiseogee is the ‘‘beantiful lake
of the highland.”
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most remedies for children are composed of opium e¢r morphine ? ;
Do You Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons >
Do You Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted. to. sell nareotioy
without labeling them poisons ?
Do You Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your chikd
unless you or your physician know of what. it i 8 composed ?
Do You Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of
its ingredients is published with every bottle ?
Do You Know that Cactoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher.
That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than
of all other remedies for children combined ?
Do You Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word
“ Castoria ”’ and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense ?
Do You Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protaction was
because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless?
Do You Know that 33 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 3§
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Do Youn Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may
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