Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-22

sought, and there again he was directed to Margaret river 8 tributary of the lower St. ! Lawrence. The fishing of this river, how ever, he found was private right claimed by the English nobleman through whose grounds it passed This was putting the fishing pro pensity to pretty severe strain, but finding himself the next year on the Pacific coast he could not forego the pleasure of seeing the Columbia river. The salmon Of that river and it's tributaries all but too plenty The Indians spear them in cruel sport and leave them to taint the mountain air on the banks. Unfortunately the river was swollen by great freshet and not fish was seen But the disappointment was more than com pensated by the magnificent scenery. h. deed, salmon and fishing were quite forgot ten. A person who could sail this mighty river, especially the fifty miles where it cleaves tho Cascade Mountains in twain, and think of anything but what he saw-say of fishing-would deserve the fate of Jonah who, by the way, lived on internal revenue for his full term, and it is said, came out ar honest man-a preacher of righteousness. With like success he traversed the waters of Puget Sound, whose banks are studded with frs of gigantic growth, and whose surround ing hills as they recede rise higher and higher into mountains of great grandeur, covered over with pure white mantle of which the
 summers never disrobes them. Over
 these delightful seas he saile1 many times,
 oblivious of the swarms which reveled in the
 waters beneath. Bat there small lake
 situated some ten miles distant in the dense
 forest, which was reported by the few who
 had visited it as abounding with speckled
 trout of rare proportions. Here he might
 sport and no surrounding mountains would
 fro VII on his levity. And yet this fountain
 of waters not unimpressive. It is sur
 rounded with those immense fir trees whose
 tops froic with the skies, which in turn send down their light and color into the deep transparent waters. The lake, fountain, ADko .Ir, h.,x, aok lnyNfh
 and it's inhabitants are as clearly seen as if in glass jar on one's table. Another pecuiari- ty is the mysterious source of the water. For while it sends out a stream both broad and deep it has surface in flow, but at the bot tom may be seen two three dark spots like well holes. These are the inlets. There Is no commotion in the water, but the steady flow and upward pressure for ages has formed basin several rods in diameter as perfect in form china bowl The only fish in these great bowls IS the trout. They all of large size, for in the absence of other food small fish visiting these aristocratic abodesis instantly devoured. Some plucky little fellows who enter too young maintain their position with the loss of only their tails or bit of their noses. Not to visit this mysterious lake would be lamentable mistake. The party was com posed of 0 dozen or more. On reaching the border of the lake, the company, having trusted to kind Providence for the Substan ] tials of their fare, divided itself at once into fishermen and ax men, for all were hungry l and all must have lodgings. AS it almost never rains in that country in summer they l took no tents with them, and therefore they | were much puzzled to understand how a kind Providence should visit them just then and there with protracted rain But notwith- standing the rain, the party dined that after noon on trout and Delmonico's was not once thought of.
 ! After breakfast the following morning 8 council was held and it was resolved to fight | it out on those lines until twelve o'clock ! then if the rain did not give up the contest 1 they would. And so at the hour named they l entered upon the trail homeward. On re- | turning to their respective homes they were 1 greeted by their household companions it
 may be supposed with the peculiar tender l ness that succeeds solicitude. If there was | any exception it was in the case of one whose lady friends piled him with questions which ! seemed to him invidious. ''How many fish | did you catch ?" was pressed upon him again l and again after he had told them that he and George together caught more, and he and ! Burnham had caught larger fish than any
 three men of the crowd. But being not l quite satisfied himself with his success he re- | solved to visit that wonderful lake again. ! Having secured two stout boys to row the
 boat they reached the lake by the Nisqually ! creek which flows from it. Giving the boys ! a ramble in the wood he had the boat and the ! fake all to himself. And now, floating quiet l ly upon the bosom of those weird waters, l watching the myriad beauties now still or ! gliding now here now there, now darting out
 of sight like the lightnings flash, and now
 massing themselves lovingly in schools-such | a sight of living beauty behed under circum-
 stances so wild and romantic was enough to ' quite counteract the love of his favorite
 sport But then, how would it be when he
 got home and should be asked again, What I have you done with all the splendid trout
 which you caught Thus he was driven to
 secularize 8 scene which Sir Izaac might have
 been willing to come all the way back to be-
 hold. Now, reader, how to you think he
 succeeded? Did three trout jump three feet
 out of the water together to seize the tempt
 ing bait? Did two do it, or even one? Or did he lower his bait down into the water and
 carefully swing it into their open mouths ? f And did they accept his kind offers, or did
 they elevate their dainty noses and back off ! with an air of ''shoo f1y' disdain I pass I over what happened when he returned home 1 to speak of one more remarkable lake-Lake I Cushman, whose inhabitants have been al-
 lowed to grow and increase from the begin ! ming. It is situated in the Coast range noun ! tains in Washington Territory. Its approach
 is difficult, not to say dangerous. The Indi-
 ans have tradition that their ancestry on
 two occasions tempted by the abundance of fish, built their fires on the borders of this
 lake, at the sight of which spotted devils rushed upon them and devoured half of
 
 rtory say that those who may wish to visit this lake should go well armed, as grizzly
 bears are numerous and are foe which men
 should not carelessly approach. They also ! report elk and deer as numerous and to be ' seen at all times. This lake must be great
 attraction to the adventurous. Few places ! can boast so many remarkable surroundings studded with giant trees, and other wise hedged in by wild beasts, wild Indians, spot
 ted devils and other game in abundance.
 ' fyNr ,nS,k ! ton that the fascination of fishing is not so ! much in the catching as in the trying. Wit
 ness first the example before us. Repeated 1 efforts through many years have not
 quenched his passion; great expense and 1 thousands of miles of travel have not
 daunted his efforts and yet it does not ap pear from the rather ambiguous account that | he ever caught more than half dozen fishes | Or take another viaw of the subject. Cod
 and mackerel fishing is an occupation which, ] viewed aesthetically, would rank exceedingly ! low. To stand and hook them up at the rate l of ten in 6 minute by the hour is not
 branch of the fine arts. And if trout wer, ] taken with the same facility the pleasure 1would be as little Who, then, will attemp ; { to controvert the proposition that the pleas ure of fishing is not in the catching, but il
 the going fishing. It is on this ground only that Sir Izaao escapes heavy responsi bility. AN OLD CoRREsp poNDENr. Fasl.son,s Latest Foilies-PIaying tn, Fiddle and Praying a Rug the New Agontes in Gotham
 INew York Letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer r Two new idiosyncracies of fashionable If , are to play the fiddle and pray on rug a l These two joys of New York young woman y ! hood are somewhat dissimi]ar and must no mix them in description. First, then, a to fiddling. It is not rare now to meet ] finely dressed woman carrying one of thos 7 black, coffin shaped boxes which formerl, were lugged by professional musicians only [ She is on her way to or from her violin les ? son. Pretty soon, if not already, she vii o stand up before the guests in her papa's par
 Tor, tuck one end of 8 fiddle between he r chin and breast and proceed to torture tn 0 company's ears while delighting their eyes h However horrible may be the noise produced : she will look well during the process o V making it-and that is some comfort, at leas }. to herself. There is something masculin
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