The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-09
The eAiLosorhlc ANGLER.


Some Fishermen Catch Nothing
Our valued friends, Mr.. Opie P. Read
and Mr. Stanley Waterloo, have invited
Us TO go fishing with them. Beginning
in mere infancy with the artless but
glltterlng minnow, we have worked oul
way up and along the ascending scale
thousands upon thousands of pumpkin
seeds, dace. perch, bullheads, eels. pike
pickerel and bass falling victim to on,
Incompatible art. We have been i'm.
portuned 10 write book about angling
publishers have come to us and besoughi
US with tears in their ewes to give the
world the vast benefit Of our knowledoe
But we have resisted these temptations
FOR the reason that, knowing that onr
proficiency IS a gift rather than an &C.
complishment, we believe that the trus
fisherman is born, not made.
Some who have scrutinized our meth
DDS assert that the secret of our unpar.
alleled success is due largely TO the fact
that we invariably spit upon our bait
Others maintain that we catch fish be.
cause we never swear, and others still
Impute our success to the circumstance
that under no circumstances whatever
VIII we go fishing on a Sunday. There
are those, we repeat, who honestly lay
our success 10 these secret causes, but
they are all in grievous error.
Our remarkable accomplishments do
not depend at all upon these trivial
things; we catch FISH simply because
we were born with that subtle. indefin-
able genius for catching fish which can
net be compreherded save congenitally
or by the mysterious process Of neredity.
The question which arises is whether
1t would be righteous of rs 70 prostitute
this noble genius 10 the ends which
Messrs. Read and Waterloo suggest.
Would II not be criminal waste of time
for US to devote from SIX to eight hours
4 day 10 that lackaGaisical fooling which
those misguided friends of ours call fisi1
ing: 1t strikes Us that we could be much
better employed than at the question
able sport Of doddering about in an awk.
ward yawl il pursuit OF emaciated perch
and neurasthenic pickerel. When We
Hsh we want to fish, and we are not con
tent with cadaverous lilliputian prey
We demand heroic game.
Messrs. READ and Waterloo are very
clever gentlemen, but they have yet &c
learn that just as rolling stone gath
ers no moss, so rowing angler compre.
bends no game. These two amateur
sportsmen nc sooner get into boat and
cast their lines than they are filled with
the absurd conviction that the best fish
ing isto be found mile away. under q
distant bank; Yet no sooner is this far
of spot reached than they are possessed
of another and more violent conviction
that a still more desirable angling spot
is the PUSHES against the farther shore
of the lake. And so from one locality
to another they must be transported,
never content to try the present waters, 4
but always goaded on by the insane
nope OF finding enormous success else I
where.
Life IS full Of this spirit Of impatience
and unrest. and that Is why there are SO /
few fish caught. As for Us, it contents
Us TO push ont from shore, drop the .
anchor and cast our line; no worry. no .
fretting. 10 laoor-sImply equanimity .
ard repose and success. What sweeter .
thing Is there 10 be practiced or imagined .
than this sport as We pursue it? We lie .
in the bottom OF the boat, our head pill .
lowed upon 4 cushion at the bow; .
green umbrella ferefends the ardor Of .
the sun, and with a companionable book .
the hours are beguiled The humble
Tut serviceable bob apprises Us when it .
IS time for action Oh. TINS is fishing
that Is indeed fishing. Why toll hithe-
and thither over the rEffed expanse
when fruiuon comes easier with respose:
The veriest ciod can row and sweat, but /
only genius can philosophize and catch
hsh.-Eugene Field in Chicago News.
The BIoodhounds of Uncle Toms oabin."
have heard it said that Mrs. Stowe,
IN her Uncle Toms Cabin" did much
toward bringing upon the bloodhound
his disrepute. To see II this were so ]
read over Mrs. Stoves book recently
and was surprised TO find that she only
once alluded 10 blo0dhounds in all her
highly colored narrative, and never
single time brought Them on the scene.
sue idA Dti-tt fbIFJL> u. view NltEoUR
going out CT he- way 70 mahEn a family
Of dogs. But these who dramatized
Mrs. Stoves story used the bloodhound
with great realistic effect. and none Of
the wandering troops which have played
this drama has been so poor that II has
not had a pack Of dogs. But I have
never known a troop 20 have pack of
real bioodhounGs, Instead they have
uongrels Of various kinds. but always
nongrels that locked savage and blood
thirsty. the bloodhound Is not only not
savage. but does no1 look 80. On the
contrary, be Is aIn;able in disposition
and has G siuGularly dignifed and be
nevolelt expression. -Christiau Unioa-
sSs, % Wrecked Vessels.
The number Of wrecks i proportion
atalv ia-ra- for -la-- vcssaIs rTan for