The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
A SUDDEN CHANGE.
The Circumstances Which Made IN An
CELLO Man Become Hog.


The Circumstances which Made IN An
Gelic Man Become . Hog.
Incver knew just how mean q man
could be until the Fiat Contributor"
who used to be very, very funny man
on tho Cincinnati press, came along and
asked me to 60 up North on q fishing
excursion. Iloved and revercnced that
man for years before l saw him. On
the way up to Petoskey I was willing to
die for him. He was 50 modesto
bland-so open-hearted and gentle! l
sat and looked at him and wondered il
Heaven had an angel to compare with
him. and when l thought that some
other man had been elected President
10 place of the Fat Contributor, l won
dered what the public could have been
thinking of to permit such a wrong.
The next morning after reaching
Petoskey was up betimes to inquire
about the best fishing spot 1 soon dis
covered that the Fat Contributor had
been an hour ahead of me. He had
rented the only dock from which fish
could be caught and fenced it in. He
had engaged all the fish-worms old
Petoskey had on his land, and had
bribed the only boy owning a minnow
net not to catch any bait for.a any one
else. l met him coming up to the hotel
through the sand. and called him a
bully boy and explained under what
obligations he had placed me.
"How?" he asked.
''Why, we'll have the fishing all to
ourselves"
"Wer'
''Of course"
There's no we about it. have
made my arrangements, and you can
make yours"
''And I'm not to fish with youp''
"NOt that know OFF,
l had to submit. l sat on the bank
and saw him pull in bass and pickerel
by the dozen, and if l moved down on
him he uttered the most awful threats
you ever heard. On one occasion he
drew his revolver and menaced me
by firing over my head. The bland,
gentle, angelic Fat Contributor had be-
come a hog. When l remembered
how l had reverenced his name and
praised his talents kicked myself
''You needn't look SO ugly about it."
he said to me as he came up to the hotel
with fourteen fine bass. '.When l 90
fishing permit no one to interfere with
me. You can go over to Elk Rapids or
Traverse City and hire dock for
yourself, and you'd do it if you weren't
SO selfish. You seem to want all the
fish in Lake Michigan. It's wonder
you didn't get up at midnight and hire
the whole lake 'front.'
looked around for a way to get even.
There was an Indian up there named
'.Man-who-fell-in," and he had a dog
about foot high and seven feet long.
The owner would tie this canine to a
stake and let any person throw stones
at him for cent throw, and every
time you hit the dog you got a toy
basket full of maple sugar ! went
over to see the red man, and without
stopping to inquire how he fell in or
how he got out hired him and the dog
for three weeks, with the privilege of
contracting for three years. We start
ed in that evening, and it was the proud
est moment of my life when the Fat
Contributor wanted to pay for a hun
dred throws, and was blandly informed
that it would cost him one thousand
dollars throw. let everybody in Pc
tOskey have shy at the animal, and
the press of st. Louis, Louisville and
Chicago were presented season tickets.
We took the dog down on the shore,
and the Fat Contributor had to give up
his fishing. He'd have given more for
ten throws at that lodging dog than to
catch whale, but it was not for him.
''See here" he said as he came to me
one afternoon, ''what have ever done
to you that you should use me thus?''
Nothing" ! answered, ''only, when
charter dog l permit no one to inter-
fere with me. You can 90 over to
Chicago or Milwaukee and hire dog
for yourself. and you'd do it if you had
any manhood about YOU"
We never spoke after that. We took
the same train home but did not sit in
the same car.-M. Quad, in Detroit Free
Press.