St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-15
CHATS WITH TRAVELLERS.

Among the transients at the Mer-
chants yesterday was Charles N. Per.
kins. of Denver, Col. Mr.. Perkins is
probably one of the heaviest silver mine
owners in Colorado. Yesterday fore
noon he accompanied Col. Clark Cham
bers, of Owatonna, to the state fair
grounds. concerning which he expressed
himself well pleased. Mr.. Perkins is an
ardent advocate of the white metal, and
favors the free coinage of silver.
This he considers to be the
only disposition of silver that can
BE made without doing injustice
to Colorado. He is emphaticalfy in
favor of the repeal of the Sherman law,
/ as 1t treats silver in the light of com
modify, and not strictly as a money
metal.
Mr. Perkins states that all the big
silver mines are shut down. which has
thrown thousands of miners heretofore
earning big wages out of work, and that
InlS means loss of many millions of
collars TO his state. The residents of
colorado generally. he says, would
favor re-enactment of the Bland act,
unless something more favorable to
chem can be secured, but the people
would like to see silver restored to the
place 1t held before the decentralization
III 1873. Colorado people felt that if
this could be done the principal indus
try OF Colorado would soon be restored
to its old-tlme vlgor. ana with itwould
come an era of prosperity.
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John Mccarthy, of Saltwater, was IN
the city yesterday. He is fond of re-
lating good story on friend. you
know that Capt. Hardacre, of the St.
Paul postotfice department of the gov
eminent service, is living at Lake Elmo
this SUMNER" he said at the Merchants
hotel. ''Well, the captain is one of the
most enthusiastic disciples of Izaak
Walton west Of the Adirondack mount
ans, and he is All interesting rac0nteur
OF experiences he has had in hooking
the finny tribe. But let me tell you
what L found out the other day.
went over TO Lake Elmo with a friend
for little outing, and we stopped at
farm house. The owner is an Irish
man endowed with the proverbial
wit OF the sons Of the Emerald Isle. He
gave Capt. Hardacre's little game away.
He told me that he was mighty glad
that the captain was out at the lake,
for he had become the best customer he
ever had. The farmer is. it seems. a
fisherman who actually catches fish,
he has big ice box, and it is always
we'll loaded with fine bass. The cap
tain gets boat and spends day on the
lake, and then buys an elegant string of
bass. OF course he distributes the sue
culent food among his friends with
graphic descriptions of the way in
which he caught them. Let any one
ask the lptain about stall-fed black bass
and be Will walk away with nothing to
say"
I've got another on the captain"
said bystander, who happened to be a
stranger to the party.
Tell it." cried Mccarthy.
well, I'm not very we'll acquainted
with the captain, but the story is harm
less. / was cut there "Wednesday, and
was told the episode. Capt. Hardacre
took boat and his first-cIass equip
ment- He has reel. rod and line that
cost him $40, by the way. The captain,
1t tranSpires, had been working pretty
hard that forenoon and felt somewhat
fatigued. He had his usual luck. He
sat an hour without bite, and then he
began to nod, and shortly fell off into a
doze. A whoppins big bass took
peremptory advantage of the situa-
ton and ran off with the whole
thing. The captain was awakened by
the splash as his pole went out into the
lake, but he was helpless. What did he
say? 1t wouldn't sound well in polite
society, but will add that he has never
seen his rod since. 1t must have been
a big fish that captured the prize, for he
LOOK 1t beneath the surface, and, unlike
the humorous cat, never came back"
.... A.
a Ordinarily the crop prospects in our
Locality seem favorable" said NJ. Maui
rim. Of Cold Springs, in The Merchants
lobby last evening. "Wheat and other
cereal should pan out well, with usual
weather, but the corn and some OF the
other crops are very backward, and only
remarkable weather Will bring them
out OF the way of the frosts.
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al. E. Juston, wife and daughter. are
lit the Merchants. MIR. JuSton is en-
route for the worlds fair, and will
likely extend his trip TO the leading
Eastern cities.