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A TERRIBLE BIG TROUT
Ho Was Cunning and a Hard Case
Too Was This Fish
We were camping In northern Wis
consin and one evening after our sup
per of black bass and bacon we lay
j under the pine trees smoking and tell
ing Hsh stories In which It was always
the bigger bass that got away The
guide listened with the gravity of a
man who knew all about Hsh stories
uuri finally he knocked the ashes from
his pipe and vtold us a story
Once long ago he said there was
a terrible big trout up In Smiths
pool Every fellow who fished in the
pool had hooked him one time or an
other but he always got away bit off
the snood or something
I tried to catch him myself a dozen
times One day I was sitting by the
pool when splash a young robin
fluttered out of the nest on a limb
above the pool into the water below
In a minute there was a rush a gleam
of yellow and the old trout had
thrown himself clear out of the water
and had swallowed the young robin
whole
What did I do Well I climbed
that tree In short order got another
one of those young robins baited my
hook with it and threw it in just as
lightly as I could In a minute there
was another rush another gleam of
yellow and again the old trout jump
ed clear out of the water as he swal
lowed the robin and In a minute more
I had him hooked
It was lucky I wasnt fishing with
any of this newfangled rigging these
boys use and that I wasnt bothered
with a reel to look after or I would
have lost him sure As It was it took
me a devil of a time to get him out
Good to eat Great Scott We
didnt try to eat him He was so full
of hooks we sold him for old iron
you know
That ended our fish stories for that
night J J A in Chicago Tribune
PRIMITIVE ANCHORS
Stones and Wooden Tubes Filled With
Lead First Used
There appear to be two ideas which
have led up to the invention of the
modern anchor first that of attach
ing the vessel by means of a rope
or chain to a weight sufficiently heavy
to keep the vessel from moving when
the weight has sunk to the bottom of
the sea and second that of using a
hook instead of or in addition to the
weight so as to catch in the bottom
The English word anchor is practical
ly the same as the Latin ancora and
the Greek angkura meaning that
which has an angle from the root
ank bent
The earliest anchors made on the
hook principle probably only had one
fluke instead of two In the Sussex
Archaeil Coll there is an illustration
of what has been surmised to be an
anchor made out of the natural forked
branch of a tree It was found with
an ancient British canoe at Burpham
Sussex There is in the British muse
um an interesting leaden anchor with
two flukes bearing a Greek inscrip
tion Its date is about 50 B C and it
was found off the coast of Cyrene
The Invention of the anchor with
two flukes is attributed by Pausanius
to Midas by Pliny to Eupalamas and
by Strabo to Anacharsis Diodorus
Siculus states that the first anchors
were wooden tubes filled with lead
while another classical writer says
that before the introduction of metal
anchors lumps of stone with a hole
through the middle for the attach
ment of the cable were used
The form of the anchors used by
the Greeks and Romans is well known
from representations on Trajans col
umn and in the catacombs at Rome
as an early Christian symbol This
form does not seem to have changed
materially for quite a thousand years
as is shown by the Bayeux tapestry
The Girls Were Still One Ahead
A young and bashful professor was
frequently embarrassed by jokes his
girl pupils would play on him These
jokes were so frequent that he decided
to punish the next perpetrators and
the result of this decision was that two
girls were detained an hour after school
and made to work some difficult prob
lems as punishment
It was the custom to answer the roll
call with quotations so the following
morning when Miss As name was
called she rose and looking straight in
the professors eye repeated With
all thy faults I love thee still while
Miss Bs quotation was The hours I
spend with thee dear heart are as a
string of pearls to me Ladies Home
Journal
Respect at Last
Briefleigh is I think one of the
greatest lawyers in this state
Why I heard you say once that you
didnt consider him any good
Oh that was years ago He used
to give me pointers on legal matters
without charging me anything because
we happened to have offices adjoining
each other Recently he has been
charging me a stiff price every time
I have gone to him for advice Chi
cago Record nerald
Long Winded
It takes you a pretty long while to
Bhave yourself doesnt it
Not so very long I can shave my
self quicker than my old barber could
I dont believe it
Its a fact You see he stammers
terribly Philadelphia Press
Studying how to help and benefit oth
ers will build up your own fortune
Baltimore American
It Is what you are not looking for
that gives the spice of variety to life
Detroit News
First Filipino
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Legislature
HE first political campaign in
the Philippines has passed
and the time is approaching
when the first national assem
bly will be opened Secretary William
II Taft who is so popular among the
Filipinos Is planning to visit the ori
ent with the view to taking part in
the inauguration of tills experiment in
the training of these new wards of
the United States for self government
The elections for the national assem
bly passed off quietly but the vote
was small It was about 00000 out of
a total Christian population of nearly
7000000 The Moros who arc Mo
hammedans and more or less barbaric
in their customs and mode of life were
not given the privilege of voting The
proportion of those who were entitled
to vote who registered and cast their
ballots for members of the national
assembly was small Various reasons
are assigned as the cause of this The
mass of the people it is said take lit
tle interest in politics and are chiefl
interested in the daily problem of get
ting enough to eat Many conserva
tives and representative merchants did
not vote being satisfied with the pres
ent condition of affairs A large pro
portion of those who did vote belonged
to the barely qualified class The Na
cionalistas the part demanding imme
diate independence cast the most
votes Next in number were the Pro
gressistas who in their platform said
We will willingly wait until Uncle
Sam is ready to grant independence
Among those elected to the assem
bly was Dr Domiuador Gomez the
rabid agitator and alleged chief of
ladrones
Secretary Taft before his departure
from Washington said that he was by
no means downcast over the result of
the elections for the first Filipino as
sembly and that while the radical ele
ment seemed to have the advantage
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WATEB CAItRIER IN THE PHILIPPINES
many of the Nacionalista delegates
were to his knowledge men of good
judgment
American control has accomplished
in the Philippines one thing that it also
accomplished in Cuba that is better
sanitation As a result of this the
records of the Manila board of health
show that for the preceding six months
not a single contagious disease has
been conspicuously in evidence This
is the first time in the history of the
American occupation or for that mat
ter in the history of the islands that
such a statement could be made
There were fewer deaths in the city
of Manila during June than ever be
fore under American control
Forty five of the 100 young Filipino
students sent to the United States by
ineir native government tour years
ago to be educated in American col
leges have returned to the Philippine
Islands with diplomas in their pockets
prepared to aid their countrymen in
solving the problem of self govern
ment The others have decided to re
main for the present at least on the
continent of America Every one of
them carried off some kind ofhonor
or prize in the colleges in which they
studied The only trouble with them
was that they studied too hard and
could with difficulty be restrained from
overwork Every one seemed to be
thinking of the day when he would be
assisting in the conduct of the Filipino
government The anxiety of the new
Filipino for education is one of the
things chiefly to be noted about him
In a large number of municipalities
the inhabitants have contributed freely
of their money and labor to the erec
tion of public schools The municipali
ties are clamoring for authority to use
their funds for school purposes There
are at presont about S00 American
teachers on the payroll in the public
schools and about 500 Filipinos of con
siderable intelligence and education
All these are paid by the Philippine
government In addition there are per
haps 4000 native Filipino teachers in
provincial schools paid from provincial
treasuries who have but little educa
tion and speak very poor English
The Filipino is becoming somewhat
accustomed now to the use of tools
The American or European style of
dress is coming more into vogue and
toilet articles like the toothbrush are
growing in favor especially among
those natives who desire to be eleeant
and up to date
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THEY GAVE THE BALLS
And
the People Danced to Pay tho
Debts of Louis XIV
In 1712 Louis XIV favored the
opera then established In the first
salle of the Palais Royal there have
been two with a special mansion for
the better accommodation of Its ad
ministration vchives and rehearsals
This hotel is situated In the Rne
Nieaise The building was generally
designated under the name of Maga
sia whence the term Filles du Maga
sin not du magasin which was applied
not only to the female choristers and
supers but to the female dancers them
selves It so happened that the king
forgot to pay his architects and work
men In order to satisfy tlieni the
Chevalier do Bouillon conceived the
mea oi giving nails m the opera
house for which idea lie received an
annual pension of 0000 francs He
was paid but the kings debtors were
not for although the letters patent
were granted somewhere about the
beginning of 1713 not a single ball
had been given when the most mag
nificent of the Bourbon sovereigns de
scended to his grave
One day shortly after his death
dArgenson the then lieutenant of
police was talking to Louis nephew
Philippe dOrleans the regent Mon
signore he said there are people who
go about yelling that his majesty of
blessed memory was a bankrupt and
a thief Ill have them arrested and
have them flung into some deep under
ground dungeon You dont know
what you are talking about was tho
answer Those people must be paid
and then theyll cease to bellow
But how monsiguore Lets give
the balls that were projected by Bouil
lon So said so done and the people
danced to pay Louis XIV s debts as
according to Shadwell people drank
to fill Charles IIs coffers
The kings most faithful subjects we
In s service are not dull
We drink to show our loyalty
And make his coffers full
Loudon Saturday Review
A SERIOUS LAUGH
Penalty of Mirth at an Ancient
Church Celebration
There was a church celebration of a
rather exciting nature many years ago
in Lynn Mass The occurrences mark
ing the dedication of the Old Tunnel
Meeting house in 1GS2 are recorded
by an eyewitness and quoted in
Ldiah Oldpaths Lin After the form
al ceremony of dedication a feast was
held
Ye dinner was in ye greate barne of
Mr Hood While we were at table a
rooster flew to ye beam over our heads
Mr Richardson ye Newbury minis
ter in a very loud voise and stately
mien proclaimed that tho ye house was
a noble temple it yet was but a fit cas
ket for yc godly jewel of Lin Where
upon a most lusty crow was set up by
ye old cock on ye beam and he flapped
his wings sending ye dust down on to
ye table
Ye companie hurled apples at ye mis
behaving fowie but not being of good
aim did not hit and with a whirring
noise it flew to ye ground as if in dis
gust
Mr Gerrish was in a merrie m oJ
Not having his thots about him he en
deavored ye dangerous performance of
gaping and laughing at ye same time
In doing so he set his jaws open in
such a wise that It was beyond his
power to bring them back again His
agonie was very greate and his joyfu
laugh was soon turned to grievous
groaning
We did our utmost to stay the an
guish of Mr Gerrish but could make
out but little till Mr Rogers who
knoweth something of anatomie dil
bid ye sufferer to sit down on ye floor
and taking his head between his legs
turning ye face upward as much as
possible gave a powerful blow an i
sudden press which brought ye jiws
again into working order But Mr
Gerrish did not gape nor laugh much
more neither did he talk much
that matter
for
A Felicitous Aside
A senator describing a campaign
wherein he had outgeneraled a rival
said
When it became plain that victory
Avas mine when my opponents face
began to grow darker and more for
bidding I smiled to myself I could
have muttered to myself some such
felicitous aside as that which came
from the small boy who was being
spanked In the course of his spank
ing the boys mother paused to say in
sincere tones
Tommy this hurts me far more
than it does you
And thereupon in his odd face
downward position the boy winked
and muttered to himself
I was afraid that hard board I put
in the seat of my trousers might in
jure her delicate hand
Got It Overboard
Once while in a foreign port Admiral
Dewey ordered the heaviest hoisting
tackle in the ship to be got out of the
hold without delay Nobody knew
what it was for as there was nothing
just at that time either heavy or
light to be taken on board or sent
ashore After two hours hard work
the tackle was in place and Dewey
then ordered that a large chew of
tobacco which had been thrown under
one of the guns be hoisted overboard
and dumped into the sea
Helpless
First Deaf Mute If you objected to
his kissing you why didnt you call
for help Second Deaf Mute 1
couldnt He was holding both my
hands Harpers Weekly
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