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The Commoner.
OCTOBER I, 10
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Big Lake, near Blgelow, Mo., Oc
tober 2. When one hasn't "wet a
line" all summer long it means some
thing to get away into the big tim
ber and rusticate on the bank of a
pretty body of water.
Big Lake is shaped like a' crescent
moon and is about six miles long by
from half to three-quarters of a mile
wide. Its peculiar shape is due to
the fact that years ago and not bo
very many, either it was the bed
of the Missouri river. One night the
river took one of its wild notions
to "cut across lots" and "when it got
through the river was about four
miles further west and Big Lake had
been born. Four years ago the river
rose unusually high and flowed
through Big Lake again, and the
people in the vicinity feared that the
river had come to stay. But it
ing fun. And the older you get the
more fun it is. The Biggest Girl
wants to do all the rowing, and Dad
is perfectly willing. Tho fun of row
ing a' boat ended for him a long
while ago. He is content to sit in
tho back end and troll for bass or
pickerel, or recline on his folded-up
coat, with his hat over his eyes, and
his faithful and fragrant old plpo
sending up its Incense skyward. As
a matter of fact that's about tho way
most of the time is spent. Tho fish
are not suffering much on account
of our visit.
But, say! After an afternoon out
on tho lake, with an appetite sharp
ened by the autumn breeze, isn't it
bully to row into tho little anchor
age about 7 o'clock in tho evening,
wash up and then hike into tho din
ing room and eat fried ilsh and roast
sweet potatoes, and apple sauce, and
pork gravy and home-made bread,
and strong coffee, and lucious pump-
didn't; it had merely come on a
visit. One result of that freshet was ""u ","u ?rt"i ' i, V V '
in n.lo , 1nlr of mnRR ami vnnk- In PiO topping all Off With a foam
ing beaker of sweet milk and then
with nature. Funny, isn't H, that
while wo aro thus enjoying ourselves
down hero, the people who Hvo horo
aro asking us all about the city and
expressing tho wish that they could
spend their vacations there. Wo
can't understand how they can figuro
out any fuu in a big city but I sup
pose they think wo aro Just a little
bit nutty because wo biko back to
the'solltudes to have our vacations.
Fish? Yes, wo'vo caught a few
enough to prove that thoro aro still
fiBh in tho lake. And wo havo all
tho fish wo want to cat. And that's
enough. Heaven protect us against
tho man who is a fish butcher. Wo
always meet up with that kind, but
so far wo'vo managed to avoid tho
necessity of chumming with one.
When that time comes we'll quit
fishing.
Tho Biggest Girl interrupts horo
for tho purpose of insisting that I
wrlto tho solemn truth, which is that
she has caught two fish to her dad's
one since wo started in bore.
W. M. M.
to clean the lake of moss and yonk
apins, and as a result bass fishing
was not so good for a year or two
afterwards. But the good fellows
who frequented the lake planted
moss and sowed yonkaplns again,
and the fishing is getting good again.
It tickles the writer to hear some
of the Kansas City and St. Joseph
fishermen telling about the nice fish
they have caught in Big Lake dur
ing the past twelve or fifteen years.
It has been just about that long since
Big Lake began to achieve some
fame .as a fishing resort. But away
back yonder in 1882 and '83, when
the writer was a youngster and
learning the printer's trade, he and
his boy companions used to slip
over to Big Lake and get such fish
as the Kansas City and St. Joseph
sports only read about. There were
no German carp in the lake then.
That reminds us that we'd like to
have the privilege of inflicting the
proper punishment on the man that
invented the German carp. Of all
the detestable things that inhabit tho
water to inflict the genuine lover of
rod and reel, the carp takes the
premium. He is a scavenger. He
soon rids the water of all other fish
tilting one's chair back and stoking
up the old pipe whilo wo rehearse
the day's doings? Talk about your
private yachts and your house
parties and your week-end parties
and all that sort of society dope
m? ;or the rustic lake where I can
wear overalls on the front porch and
smoke a pipe strong enough to start
the shingles on, the roof.
We are not alone down here. In
the next lake house to us the Family
Physician and the Political Enemy
are- quartered, and when we've noth
ing else to do we get together and
tell about it'. Tho Political Enemy
is a mighty fine fellow who has been
a personal friend for a quarter of a
century, and the Family Physician
has been present when we received
a couple of members of the family.
The Political Enemy tells us of the
fight he had with the big muskie
last summer, when he was camping
in the Minnesota woods. We know
HER VIEW OF IT
An old gentleman who owned a
fine estate not far from tho country
seat of the Duke of Devonshiro
(which is open to tho public when
the Duke is not there) one day drovo
with a party of friends to this fa
mous residence, taking with him his
housekeeper, Martha, a good old
soul who had been with him a great
many years.
Arriving at Chatsworth, they
passed slowly through room after
room of almost priceless pictures.
But Martha spake never a word, al
though It was evident that she was
not missing anything. Each and
every picture that her eyo lit on un
derwent a most rigid scrutiny, much
to tho amusement of the rest of tho
party.
At last her master turned to her
and said, "Well Martha, what do you
think of it all?"
"Why," exploded Martha, raptu
rously, "I canna see a speck o' dust
anywhere! " Lippiucott's.
A LABOR SAVING DEVICE
Joseph H. Choate, at a recent ban
quet in Now York, praised Attorney
he had it, for his hands still bear General Wickersham.
the scars of that fight, and the huge
thirty-two pound muBkie, stuffed
and mounted, adorns the wall of his
office in the Nebraska state house.
AtwI wo Utro tn "hartf Mm tall ofiniif
save the gar and the spoonbill cat. ,t t f next to catchIng a blg
He is not good to eat. There Is only m'uskIe' tne mo8t f un is to catch one
one way to provide him for the table.
Here is the recipe as furnished by a
friend:
"Soak the carp over night in
strong salt water. Pour off the salt
water and soak in fresh water until
about an hour before supper time.
Clean thoroughly and split. Have
an oak board about two feet long,
eighteen inches wide and an Inch
thick. Spread the carp upon this
board and tack lightly around the
edges to prevent curling up under
the heat. Put the board in the oven
and bake until the flesh is thoroughly
done. Spread with butter, season to
taste and then withdraw the board
from the oven. Remove all the tacks,
then gently lift the carp from tho
board and throw It In the ash barrel
and then eat the board."
I've never tried this recipe, but
I'll readily agree that the board Is
the more edible of the two.
And the writer caught a twenty-two
pounder up in Lake Ida a few years
ago, and he'll travel many miles on
the assurance that after a week's
fishing he'll catch another one just
like it. The Family Physician tells
no stories of big muskies, but he has
caught tarpon off the coast of Flor
ida and sea bass off Cataline, and
ho knows how to relate his exper
iences without appearing to be draw-
ins the long bow. Then the Political
Enemy will show the reel and the ferociously, 4I cut it out bo'b I
hook that caught the big muskie, (-wouldn't alius be havin' to shut It In
"When this able man fights," ho
said, "feathers will fly. But he
won't fight until he has a grievance.
There will bo nothing spectacular,
nothing burlesque, about his bat
tles." Mr. Clioato smiled.
"No," he said, "wo shall see noth
ing of Broncho Bill in Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham. Broncho Bill, you
know, had only dne eye.
" 'How did you lose that left optic,
Bill?' a young tenderfoot politely
asked him.
" 'Loose it?' Bill thundered. 'Did
you say 'lose it?'
" 'Why-er-yes,' faltered tho tenderfoot.
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It was Saturday noon wben tho
writer stolo away from official and
Journalistic cares and boarded a
train for Fortesque. The Big
gest Girl went along this time,
and it wu great fun to watch
her as she enjoyed herself. Say,
about the best fun there la in this
life is-to watch the youngster hav-
and I'll show the reel and hook that
caught my big muskie, and the
Family Physician will show his reel
and hook-r-and by that time the stars
are shining, the Biggest Girl is top
pling over in her big rocking chair,
and the three pf us are yawning and
wondering if it will be good Ashing
in the morning. Then we fill up at
the pump at the pump, mind you
and hike off to Dea, wiin uiai weu
feeling that is bo pleasant.
Wo trouble to go to sleep down
here. No worrying about officlar
matters; no worry about work to be
done. Jnst eat and sleep and en
joy yourself for the three or four
days you are permitted to commune
drawin' & bead."' Omaha World-
Herald.
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REASON FOR IT
"Why is Maude so angry with the
photographer?"
"She found a label on tho back of
her picture saylngr, "The original of
this photograph is carefully pre
served." -Boston Transcript.
IDENTIFICATION
(at door) "Well,
my
Mistress
dear, what is it7"
Little Girl "Please 'm, our kitty
is losted. Did you see a kitty go
past here by the name of Nuddles?"
Boston Transcript,
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AROUSED CURIOSITY
"Beg pardon," said the hotel
clerk, "but what is your name?"
"Name!" echoed tho indignant
guest, who had Just registered.
"Don't you see my signature there
on tho register?"
"I do," answered the clerk, calm
ly. "That Is what aroused my cur
iosity." Chicago News.
AFTER HIM
"Satan is represented as runnin'
after folks wif a pitchfork," said
Uncle Eben, "wben de truth is dat
so many folks Is pullin' at his coat
tails dat he ain't got time to chase
nobody." Washington Star.
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