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THE OMAHA DAILY 11EE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1902. 0 . 1 - ! BASE BALL COSSIP OF WEEK Omaha Roosts on Top Rail in Western League Race. ' NICE WORK BY ROURKES ON LONG TRIP Istr Per Cent of Gimn Flared Wo by th Team la Despite Of Moat Adrfrat Coa dltlons. ; .! t . . t . . . , ;. . - -v-tv . ... , Tat do you think of that? Earn old team, sams old place In tba Standing table. And the borne knocker, of which peculiar genua of bate ball crank Omaha haa a. lovely bunch, have -sent their little , hammers 'lo the shops to get new' tips. '. Back la the lead again after taking Kansas City's duet for more than a month, after running third to Denver's second for a few days, and by steady, honest con sistent playing. Robbed by Incompetent umpires, roaated by Incompetent writers 'and battered by the most vindictive gang of borne roasters that ever maligned a team, the Rourke family baa gone forward with its work to a conscientious, careful man ;aer that baa delighted Ita ardent supporters. .'When the team left Omaha It was after the hardest posalble run of luck. Five suc cessive defeats on the home grounds had pulled It down and the first game away 'from home was lost, making Denver within easy reach of second place. Three defeat 'at Denver did the trick and then three at Colorado Springs seemed to clinch the mat ter. But the turn came after the team bad lost twelve out of fifteen games. On the trip which ended Friday evening at Kansas City the Omahas played twenty three games, winning thirteen, losing nine and one was tied. That Is a good enough record for anyone. It Is over 59 per cent and Is mighty close to championship form. The gait Is the best possible answer to the croakers who raised that Joyful chorus of VI told you so" when the team was losing. It looked so easy, then, to aee history re peating Itself that many bets were made that Omaha would not be better than fourth oa Its return. It Is needless, perhaps, to sy that none of these bets went begging for takers. And hers the team Is at home again In first place, with a series of eighteen games on the home grounds. It will be mighty queer it Omaha doesn't lead the league race for a few days, at any rata. Denver has been doing the slide ant with the greatest vigor and persistency of any. It will ba something to wonder at if the Grizzlies, which left home In second place i for a short trip through the east, get home any better than fifth. Milwaukee has al , ready pasaed Denver and holds third place, 'while St. Joe la In fifth and Is apparently the only reaaon that will prevent Denver from falling- out of the first division bunch ) expedition. When fit. Joe started Its little ' runaway by taking four straight from Omaha and three out of four from Kansas City. The Bee remarked that the pace was. a trifle fast for the McKlbben crowd, which, on public form at least, had ao right to be turning off quarters at the rate they were. The soundness of that judg ment has been proven by the performance of the Saints lately. Milwaukee haa gotten together a good .team and Is playing first rata ball. Moreover, the people of Schllts vllle are slowly swinging around to Duffy, and bis gate receipts are Increasing cor respondlngly. Des Moines is out of last place now and la putting up a gams, that ousht to send It still . higher up In- the table.-- Peoria has the booby prize for the present," but Colorado Springs Is a bidder for the place. Bill Bverltt Is hustling for : players,' though, and may get his team In better condition. His bunch never did 'look fast, though, and gives uo sign of re covery. Just bow steadily consistent the game presented by the Omahateam Is can be told better by the figures given herewitn: BATTING AVERAGES. Last A B. R. II. Ave. -Week. 139 Stone Stewart Graham Dolan ., Qnnlns , Carter Calhoun) ..... Sondlng Illckey Thomas Owen S.lloway Brown .2.U .. Kl ..217 ..212 ..233 ..1M ..218 ..220 .. 90 ' .. 63 .. 41 .. 55 21 . 53 . 39 .! 83 7' .2S ' .27 10 ?S .24 .291 33 81 .21 .27J 39 61 .2'.l .its 49 6 .257 .?79 2H 47 .212 .2-13 21 61 .231 .216 2S 47 .213 .214 10 Id .177 .173 6 U .174 .153 8 6 .146 .166 t 8 .00) .102 FIELDING AVERAGES. Tnrt P.O. A. E. Tot. Av. W'k. ..4 64 1 fc .8S3 .979 .651 11 tfl .11 .91 .322 77 404 .975 .978 .120 7 4 131 .W9 . - 87 4 t 74 . .9M .9.1 ,. t 69 i 70 .957 .9S7 ,.163 193 19 .947 9 13 ,. 15 63 4 71 .941 .0W .. BS 8 8 97 Am A11 .. 8 23 S 130 .3' .92 ,. 8 4 6 2 .9 3 . ,.130 .163 88 S28 ' .! .S9J ,. 73 116 2 218 .668 .74 Alio way . Calhoun , Bonding , Thomas , Btone Brown .. Stewart Draham Carter Oenlns .. Owen ... &olan ... lokey . One of tbs really amusing features of the race Is the cheerful consistency with which tba Denver faithful refuse to see any other team In the league than Kansas City. "If Kansas City Is out of the way Denver will win It" Is the contlnusl cry or tbs Psckard contingent. To a man up a tree just now, barring Omaha and Kansas City, there are two other teams in ths league that will beat Denver out unless the makeup of ths Grizzlies is greatly changed. They ars Milwaukee and Des Moines. Predictions, unsafe at any time, are especially so st this half way stage of ths rsce. If pub lic form la to be taken aa a basis for calculation Omaha ought to be a cinch, for It has won a majority .of games plsyed from every team but Denver. This performance-under all known forma of making defce. gives Omaha first In ths raes. Kan sas City under the Sam rule Is entitled to second and the. other places are open. Just What changes the second half of the rsce inay bring about only time can tell. It Isn't too fats to turn ths standing upside down,' for none of the teams ars In an abso lutely hopeless hole. - 1 The league meeting at St. Joseph wss productive of nothing of real Importance. The magnates resolved on what most peo ple bad already admitted, that the league will live through the season. Official action was taken to put on the blacklist three or four playera who jumped from the Western association Into the Hlckey fold. "Wizard" Herman is Included In this bunch. Tbs magnates also derided that players will have to pay their own Ones hereafter. This move was taken In the interest of better discipline. It doesn't look good to an outsider, for any manager who haa mads a practice of paying the fines Imposed on unruly members will easily find a way to continue. It Is alleged that overtures from the Hlckey Ites looking to a peace agree ment were received, but Just why such action should have been taken lan't clear. Neither side has anything to gain by mak ing peace now. It muat be a fight to the finish, and the beaten party will have to get out of ths other's territory. In this connection It Is good to see how George Tebeau's Judgment Is backed by events. He abandoned Kansaa City, giv ing Dale Oear and his Wisconsin col leagues all the results of his season's la bors there, including the certainty of a fight, and went to Louisville with noth ing. He leased grounds? erected a base 11 plant and scraped together a team which Is not only making a procession of the American association pennant race, but Is drawing more Kentuckians to ball games than have turned out since ths Colonels won tbs championship of ths old American association twenty years ago. Tebeau Is the only magnate In the bunch who is making any money. Not one of the other towns Is drawing psylng at tendance, Columbus having dropped oft when the team took Its slump. If the league should go to pieces sow, the wreck would find Tobeau on top with a nice lit tie sum of money to the good, and with the nucleus of a good ball team ready to start another league nett season. It Isn't all luck In Tebeau's case. He Is one of the brainiest men in base ball today, and calling him a pirate doesn't change thla fact. Joe Qulnn got home after a winning trip with a kick at the umpires. Maybs tbess much abused individuals are not so fsr wrong after all. Winners and losers allks grumble at the decisions, which leads to the opinion that the umpire muat be right at least halt of the time. plaint and that was John Rsynor, who pro tested the last best In ths 1:18 trot, ssld to the secretary before ba left: "Thomas, I cheerfully withdraw my protest and you can pay the money as the Judge decided, for t see you fellows ars treating everyone alike. I am going to ba sure and taks In Omaha again next year." Although ths Millard Hotel stake for 1 55 pacers waa not decided. It being on Friday's program, ths association lived up to ths rules and sot only paid back the entrance' fee of $28 to each starter, but gave tbem the same amount additional. This Is strictly accord ing to a rule that some associations try to get around. Charles H. Oelo, the best known horse writer In ths entire west,' wss 'present' both dsys of ths meeting. The result of bis visit Is a strong article. In the rurrsnt Horse Review, predicting a bright future for Omaba race goers. The friends of ths as sociation Will bs glad to know that In spits of ths rain tbs club will corns oat about )1C ahead. It was the hope of ths men Interested to make enough to entirely overhaul the grounds. From present Indi cations they will do It anyway. As the horsemen gathered around the secretary, Al Thomas, to wish him goodbye and good luck, for bs Is a brother trainer, he said to tbem: "Gentlemen, If we can get a ten years' lesss on these grounds we ars going to have a five or six day: meeting next year the week following the Denver meeting. If we get the lease the track will be almost entirely rebuilt. By next spring aleo the barns and sheds now standing will bs almost entirely rebuilt. Some of them will be torn down alto gether. When you come again next spring you will not know the place." LOCAL HORSE NEWS OF WEEK gome Aftermath of tba Race Meet ..that Was Rained Oat on Third' Day. Since yesterday evening the Keystone farm has presented a lonesome appearance, A special Arms palace horse car, new from the shops In Chicago, was sidetracked on the farm switch snd a carload of almost sixteen trotters was loaded for Des Moines. Besides the aged horses, such as George Castle, 2:1H4; Bachelor Maid, 2:25tt; The Merchant, The Medium. Ths Orphan, Confidence, etc., were the 8-year-olds, The Critic, The Clerk, Conscience and Consider, and two yearlings. Tbs first stop Is Des Moines, where the races commence July 15. From Des Moines the car will go the next week to Freeport, 111., then Jollet and Oalesburg, 111. From the latter point the horses will go through the Grand cir cuit, eastward, striking Terrs Haute, Ind., Cincinnati, O., and finally Hartford, Conn Turning westward ths Keystons string will make a long ship, to Lexington, Ky., and will end tba season at the big Memphis, Tenn., meet. At Lexington Ths Crttlo will meet the crack 1-year-olds of. ths year In the rich claaslo event, ths Kentucky Fu turlty. . The Omaha management Is receiving great encouragement through the boras press for ths clean, up-to-date meeting Juat given In Omaha. Although, on account of rain, only two days' racing could bs given those two days showed horsemen that the meeting was bslng conducted in a fair, buslness-llks wsy. The only horseman who would have ths slightest ground for com TRACK MEET AT Y. M. C.A.PARK Dlreetor Barnes Announce the ransjements for Amateur Athletic Contest. Ar- The fourth annual athletic carnival, un der the auspices of the Omsba Young Men's Christian association, will bs held Satur day, July 19, st ths Ames Avenue park, under sanction of ths Athletto League of North America, and will be open to any registered amateur. Entry fee will bs 23 cents for one event and 10 cents for each succeeding event. Entries close Wednes day, July 17, at noon. All entries and com munications should be addressed to F. B. Barnes, Y. M. C. A., Omsba. Handicaps will bs published July 18. The events ars: 100-yard dash handicap; 220-yard dash, handicap; 440-yard dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; running high jump, handicap; pole vault, handicap; running broad Jump; twelve-pound hammer throw, handicap. Special events: EO-yard dash for boys under 12, scratch; 100-yard dash for boys under 18, scratch; ons mile relay race (four men per team), five to enter, four to com pete; pursuit race (between two teams from 'Cross Country club); half mile relay race for boys under 12 years (four boys In each team, each running 220 yarda); tennta tournament (members only); boys' tennis tournament (members only); baas ball time. Suitably lettered medals will be awarded for first snd second places. Relay races only ons medal to each member of winning team. Valuable Time Saved. Slight Injuries often disable a man and cause several days' loss of time, snd when blood poison develops, sometimes result In the loss of a hand or limb. Chamberlain's Pain Balm Is an antiseptic liniment. When applied to cuts,- bruises and burns 'It causes them to heal quickly and without matura tion, and prevents any danger of blood poison. The Last Straw. 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A fish storyt Now, there's an expression s eomuion sa ' any phras that can be Imagined, yet bow many people can tell a good one 7 Just go out and spend a half a day asking yonr friends who are well known to be ardent fishermen for fish stories, and note your success. It Is stsrtllng to find bow few fishermen can tell a fish story. A good fish story T Let me sse. Well, 1'vs fished and fished und spent dsys snd weeks about fishing camps and In parties of that' kind, but I cannot seem to recall any fish atory Juet now.". That's a good sample of the. answers you get, snd It mesns a world of Insistence and persistent tickling of all tbs corners of an angler's memory before you can entice ao much ss a single anecdote, true or false. And It Is not because the people aren't shlng. Omsha fishermen havs never angled more madly than during the month of. June, despite the fact that the weather bas been more unfavorable for that sport thsn In cy previous summer for ysars past. Twen ty-Are rainy days out of the thirty did not ufflce to check the exodus to the vsrlous fishing grounds known to local sportemen, nor did the steady hover of clouds during the remaining" small portion of the month dampen' ths enthusiasm of the wlelders of line and rod. It would seem that the rainy pell even heightened the fishing fever, and when Its rsrlty Is considered this csn be understood. The reel rollers probably looked at the matter philosophically and mads up their minds thst the rain assured them of water to fish In at least, so they went at the game with good will,, rejoicing at ths cool, weather, and adding-only waterproofs nd possibly rubber helmets to their outfits W.th which to guard against ths discom forts of a drizzle or a downpour. In any event, from whatever cause, it la certain that a horde of Omahans have dons their little stunt at casting or trolling or a till -fishing ths last month, and though the luck bas been on the whole rather bad this has not dampened their ardor sufficiently to pre vent their returning In good spirits.' But, once again, ask these people for a good flsh atory and they stand mute, helpless. A fish story, t'mmmrnmm. Well, say. ask me again tomorrow, won't youT I ought certainly to know some, but I'm at a loss to remember one just now.'! This was the wsy" Judge Munger, the veteran of the northern lakes, met the proposition. But he had ene the next day, all right, and here It Is: "Now, I'm about to tell you a fish story that will be the best you ever heard," said the Judge, "Not especially because of its unusual features, although It bas them. No. ths greet merit of this story lies In the fact Of its absolute truth. The tale Is remark able. Ths incident did not even occur on a fishing trip, strictly speaking, but there are plenty of fish In It. "The gist of the story Is that I one owned a dog that caught fish with ease and avidity. You needn't take my word for it In my desk I havs a stat.ment to that effect. detailed In every particular of the catching. and signed by three witnesses snd sworn to before a notary, I'll show It to you. This dog was not rsised for a fishing dog. and I neve knew k waa a fisherman till he had attained, a considerable age. Dash waa born and bred a hunter, In fact. and as such I. had always. used him. His first fishing -experience resulted from a bunting trip, too.. . It was in ths fall of 1895 and I was after ducks out In Dodge county near Robert Patrick's farm,' with Fried of Fremont and some others. I was using Dash to retrieve that day, for be was al ways a fine water dog, although be wss an Irish setter. We had worked tip along past ths lake near Patrick's farm to the far end and had been unable te land any ducks. 80 at tha end we took a shot or so at soma snips and went over to pick up a few that fell. , In doing this we came across an fso lated pond, knee deep and clear, that bad evidently - been formed during high water, when It was a part of the lake, and had been separated by dry weather later. "This pond wss simply alive with bsss and pike. It looked like the pools at the fish hatcheries, the fish were so thick in there. They were big, too, and without a word we Jumped In that pond and went after the fleh. We bad the water riled up shortly, but despite that we scooped out the big fellows In armfuls, "tossing them snto ths bank. . "Meanwhile Dash had been looking on and suddenly be splashed Into the pond. He stood there, eyeing the surface of the water and then a finny back showed near him. He Just grabbed it and went to shore. After laying It safely on tha hank he returned. Ws wsrs dumfeunded, but that beat fish ing, even by hand, so we left off and Just watched that dog carry on. He landed fish after flab tbs sams way, and when be once got a grip on ons be never let loose till It was on terra Arms. "It was a remarkable exhibition. The dog bad simply mimicked our actions In th water." Clerk of United States District Court Hoyt wss present to bear this tale. "Well, be vouchsafed, when It was ended, "that may have been the first tlms a dog sver caught fish In that manner, but It wasn't ths first time men ever did by a long shot. Back In York stste years ago when I was a kid ws used to do that sams trick In th Erie csnal. That place was at times fairly alive with fish, especially at the sea- Son of the freshets. They would come rushing down the canal In great swarms and ws would wade in to meet them. All we had to do was to stand In the water facing ths rush snd grab, throwing armful after armful out on the bank. Of courss I do not mean to ssy that this occurred every day, nor thst I sver threw out more than a ton or so of fish at ons fishing, but the great profusion of fish In ths canal wss th best preventive of any poverty or suffering in thst neighborhood that could have been had." "My fish tale will have to be a bard luck story," ssld R. U Bush, ons of ths eloverest fin teasers In Omsha, who was approached last Mondsy. I bava Just returned from Lake Washington, where spent eleven days. C. W. Babcock and fished together during that time, and by last Saturday nlgbt ws bad landed a good sited haul, desptts ths unfavorable weather. We were making our headquar ter at Pat Eheeaa's plsc, and sach day as ws finished up w. would ssvs out our choicest fish and put them with our pile In a corner of Pat's les house. We were to start bom Monday morning, so w completed th pll Bundsy and counted a beautiful mess of lot big ones, bass and pike. When w cam In to get tb string Bundsy morning and stsrt for ths -station across country tbs whols thing was gcaie. Ws were mighty sors and could not oxplaln It at first. Thsn ws remembered that greet crowd of people bad coma down from Bt. Paul and Minneapolis for ths ons day's fishing on Bundsy, and ws decided thst one of them bad swiped jour string on leaving Sunday night la order to make a swell showing wbn he returned boms. Hs cer talaly waa In snap to soaks tb showing all right, for is bad-lb -tesult t our PAPA Ob, what a palnl I bllev I bave a fever In tb heart M8 MAMMA Nonsense, it Isn't your heart. It's your stomach. Every tim you at, tbl bot weather, you oet a sour stom ach full of bot oases and aclda, and you wll up until your heart hardly baa room to beat If you were cot so obstin ate, you'd tak my advice and keen your' lnaldes cool by taklocr CA8C ACT Candy Cathartlo every night before going to bed. Thev work while you sleep and keep you regular In the hottest weather. best efforts of eleven days to offer as a day's catch." "O,' cheer up," said Tom Brennan, who was standing by. "You ought to be mighty glad to have had such good sport. You wers fortunate to have the opportunity of catching so many fins fish. When you hear my troubles you'll feel ashamed that you mentioned yours. I have been to Shell lake, away up In Wisconsin more than 600 miles. Now, let me say to you that after days and days of persistent fish ing I have come back from that place that Is touted so big as a fishing field with Just four fish and only one of those Is mine. What do you think of that? Ride all night and all day on ths train to reach real prize fishing grounds and make that kind of a haul. But that wasn't the worst of It. I hsd Insult added to Injury. As I was on my disconsolate way back a party Joined the train from Lake Washington, not half as far away, and one man in It had 100 fine fish. And he was bringing that string to Omaha. I felt Inrgs and important with my little four fish." "I cannot remember a flsh story proper," said Harry Homan when approached, "but I remember a little Incident which oc curred on one of our fishing trips which wss far more interesting to me than many fishing episodes, both from a sclentlflo and a personal standpoint. The vslue of the occurrence Is chiefly In the fact that It goes to show so plainly how strongly we are affected by the mere thought that cer tain things are so, or how easily the mind can deceive Itself. "This was some years ago snd we bsd a party of women with us. The men were sleeping on ths ground in the open air, on blankets. The women had a tent. It was In a southern state and reptiles sbounded. The women soon found this out, and when It came time to go to bed they became frantic with fear, refusing to He down or even alt down for fear of snakes, tarantulas an centipedes. We were at' a loss as to what to do with them, till the guide for the party came to the rescue with a bappy thought. "It Is well known that no varmint will cross a lariat rope of twisted hair. It Is rough snd prickly and they refuse to slide over It. Cowboys always make use of thla fact and ring their hair lariats around them when they sleep In the open air. This guide explained this to the women snd said be would run bis lariat around ths 1 tent They were contented, but : Insisted on seeing It done. ;Here came the rub. There wis not a hair lariat In the camp. We had, however, i a short bslr rope on the baiter, and the 1 guide played a good bluff with this. He gave me one end at the front corner of the tent and he walked paat the entrance with the other end. It Just reached around the other corner, and he dropped it there out of sight of the women, who were watching through the flap, but be kept right on walking round. Finally he reached me on the other side snd told me to tie the ends. The result was that ths women went to sleep and rested sounaiy, sais in meir own minds snd so In reality. There were a few masculine members of that party, how ever who lay awake nearly all night, so as to be sure and get that rope away before the women bad a chance to discover the hoax In the morning, ss ws all knew It wasn't safs for us to play on their credulity and let them find it out." "That reminds me of the way some of ths mors mischievous ones in our crowd would scars the other sick when I was a young man," said Robert Patrick. "We had a fine fishing place about twenty miles from home and a party of us used to drive over In a big wagon, with provisions and cook ing utensils, and stsy a few days. Ws always slept In the open air, and that was our chancs for fun at ths expense of ths sleepier ones. The fsvorlte trick was to wait till some serlous-mlndsd fellow fell fast asleep and then to shovs ths wsgon close up to bis bed. Then we would grsb ths trace chains on the doubletree and rattle them like mad, yelling all the time. Whoa, there!' The effect was Indescrib ably funny. Ths noise would wake the sleeper suddenly and the words, ths sight of the wagon right over him and ths rattling, which sounded Just as the chains sound when the team la at a loose gallop, would make blm sure that the team was running away and was right on top of blm. No matter how often It waa repeated, ths result wss always a cinch.- The victim never failed to go straight up In th air, frightened to our hearts' content." "I think I hsve won mors bets as a result of one lone fishing trip thsn In any other way," said Harry Townsend, "and I still stand to win more any tlms, for I always havs the means with me. All I do Is to bet that I one saw a frog with a leg fourteen Inches and a half long and I Invariably win. I'll bet you th cigars on that sams proposition right now. You don't want It? Well, you're wise, for I always carry ths bones of that leg with me. Here they ar. from toe to top, and they will measure what I say." And Harry fingered th treasure tenderly as bs replaced It In th envelope in which It waa carried. Tb bone was as big as a leadpencll In tb heavier part of the leg. "I got that In 1838," continued Harry "My brother and myself wers fishing and hunting along Silver creek. In Mitchell county, west Texas, In what they called tbs great American desert. The first night there w heard the roaring of a frog that mad a nolss far deeper and louder than that of any bull. We could hardly believe It was a frog and only knew It was because the noises cam la short fragments. Ws remarked thst It must bs a mighty big frog. Tbs next day ws were working up creek with our guns, looking for ducks. when I saw the frog on th opposlt bsok. Hs was a monster, sitting ss high as a pug dog, and was a beautiful green . color We watched him a moment, amased, and then X crawled up for a shot Ths frog 1st m get closs and a chsrgs of No. sbet planted blm whsr be sat. "That night ws sack at a lag and they Jwer aa pig at a two-pound at tak, J savtd ths bones from mine, stripping it clear down to the toes, and took tbem back to town When we returned. There I almost broke the town. We would tell the story of tbs frog, ssy thst It weighed twenty pounds snd bad a leg fourteen Inches snd a half long and offer to bet on ths latter proposition and prove it The game was easy. "It might be Interesting to you to know, by the way, that this crsek where we got the frog was the famous disappearing creek, worshipped by the Comanches, Its banks being tbelr favorite camping ground and rendezvous. AH along the first por tion of Its courss it would run a little way and then dive under the sand, coming out a quarter of a mils or so farther on. For this characteristic the Indians venerated it After ten milea, however, the tributary springs were so numerous that It disappeared no more." "I can tell you something that Al May hew of .Waterloo, Neb., did one tlms that you'll not believe," said George A. Hoag land, "but It can be proved by three wit nesses. Fifteen years ago Al sunk a hoopnet In the mouth of the Elkhorn river at Valley when the flsh were running up stream. The next day he pulled It up with eight catfish in It. They weighed Just 2,100 pounds, a little over a ton. Their else was fairly uniform, each weighing something less than 300 pounds. Can you beat that?" "That was a great catch that three of us made at Webb lake, in Minnesota, two weeks ago," ssld Judge Fawcett. "In ono day we pulled out 600, pounds and threw back innumerable pickerel that kept both ering us. It's good fun to flnh like that." Five miles below Council Bluffs, on tho Missouri river, there Is a veritable fisher men's Utopia. Few anglers know of this spot, but those who do make many visits there. It Is called Augustine's place, after the man who owns It, and It Is not so much for fishermen exactly as for those who bave a taste for flsh, which are generally fishermen, so It amount to the sams thing In the end. And this Is what you can find at Augus tine's: Absolute quiet, the river at Its prettiest, a beautiful grove on Its banks, a cool breeze of pure air, a mossy sward,. and the grandest kind of a flsh supper at the day's close, prepared at an open fire be fore your eyes and eaten out of doors. Augustine owns a little farm, but hs Is a born fisherman, and you never bave to tell him you are coming, for he always has the flsh part of the program on hand. Just put a basket of broad and butter sand wiches and a few bottles of beer In the back of your buggy some afternoon and drive down to Augustine's. He has some smooth quott grounds snd you csn play at ths gams if you like, or loaf or read. At dusk Augustlns will start his open firs near by and throw a peck of potatoes In the em bers. Then he will bring a few handsome catfish from a hoopnet near shore and will proceed o cook them by an original method. He runs a sharp, long stick through each flsh from end to end, then shoves the stick perpendicularly in the ground before the fire. As one side of the flsh thus impaled Is broiled he turns the stick, and by thus twisting now and then the Job Is finished. Thoss who bave eaten there eay it Is the finest piece of flsh broiling to be had in the country. Lately a few society people bave learned of this stunt, and ssveral times parties havs gone to Augustine's. Ed George In parttc ixron roil atkd nx.oM.rH. 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