The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-23
BILL IS COMING HOME.
HE TELLS SOME RARE FISH FARMS
no KEEP HIS HAND IN.
Railroads and Whisky go Together-Blcss-
ings Are Not Wholly Unmixed-The
Bad Follows Closely tho Good.


! corporosity is given to seeing double and
! treble like Jack Faistaff? DIR. Hunter
| Cooper, of Atlanta, came here the other
day with his friend Murphy Gambler. They
| have been fishing all over the state and
wound up at Clearwater. They came from
st. Petersburg last and the doctor alarmed
us about the horrible sawtish that he helped
to catch there at the end of the wharf.
He got excited with his narrative as ne
told how, when the monster was hooked,
the ALARM *aa gwen and every man and
boy In town ran uown see, and after
the fishermen had tangled ropes and log
chains all over it it took every able bodied
man In town to draw it to shore. 1T
actually weighed" said he, cover 500 pounds
and Its saw was The most venomous weapon
l ever beheld. 1t had been broken or a
foot or two, but what was left measured
five feet and eight inches" "Oh, mercy"
said my wife, 'lsent it awful. Girls, you
must not so in bathing any more. every
day somebody would tell about these awful
creatures-devil fish ana sharks and sting
arees and sawlish, 1t is a wonder they
have not got some OF us before now"
DR.. Cooper is a tirst-class gentleman and
came from good, Old Baptist stock. NE
stands high in his profession and in his
stockings, and is handsome and he knows 1t,
but 1 noticed that every time he told j big
yarn he appealed to Murphy for conGrma-
ton. 'ISent il so, Murph? You saw that
fish. pledge you my word it was the
biggest monster ever laid my eyes On
'Murph' simply nodded assent as the doe
tor branchcd off on another narrative. MIR
phy is a Presbyterian ana his Official posi-
ton In the Agnes Scott institute Is ever
before him, but still ne would not 80 hacK
on mis- friends, especially when so far away
from home tie aifectiouately calls TIE
doctor Hunt" and the doctor calls him
''Murph,' and they coincide on every Ting,
except that Murph says ltunt plays too
much crOquet WIKI the pretty girls along the
route. and sometimes h9y mss tram ty
1t, which is very provoking. and ,lunt
said that when pretty i,.rs pursue 'yan
ii is very bad manners to run away from
them. Ally wife remarked that n'@Et after
We retired that she nked them both very
much, very much, indeed, and after i pause
she said II wound be- a right good law If
every handsome married man wneu ne went
far away from home should have to Wear
a ribbon on his hat with '1&miy man
printed it. just q warning to foolish
girls. you know. i diGent answer, but
snored little as if | heard her not. But
still / dident altogether diScredlt the saw
fish story The doctors appears to Murphy
were only a circumstance badge OF trdGd,
as The lawyers say. Nevertheless | was
jealous Of St Petersburg. | G.dent like TO
have Clear Water outdone in any thins-not
even III monsters, and SO the next DAY /
took particular notice of the doctor
a. ''N'' AANAAA-i9 80 "''N f'''NH'' Ni''9
nosed him. lie begun to play the
seven men IN bucklam suits. The first repu-
table trout he caught he declared 10 be a
slN-pounaer and uIcd to prove it by our
49, -, .,i' .t a.. ~ on m t,,l,
"-'ii'O'S' N"1 vas" 10y ~ mo- O" ~
poun1s, but he IS d vine visn." in Cooper
quArreled hHn out OF another pUunu, and
so they fuaseu about every uSh until WI
more surrendered, ana when unc doctor
caught i Len-puUnuer the SWede said, DOT
vlsn way more u.tu any ten touilus--ne Is d
nIUccu- pound vlsn, certain. Tins suited
TAO doctor ) turn exactly, and that night ne
was gushing III his praise OF tne honest
oWeue. L heard unat lie oVcrpAid aim fer
hI boat and nae him Keep It. Our cottage
ali had glorious Sport. lney Caught sever
al ht5ndieI POUNDS III me n4n. Our young,
ext c.rlgnt the largest grouper il WeigneN
long. lie aorsor and Mr.. tandt1q straus
the four largest on an oar ana t0ced them
from the dock up TO the town ana the load
made uheln WrisSle AMI twist their legs
Of the peope. They left their burden on
the plank walk and | had 10 hire u wagon
to haul them away. After Z. glorious tisn
suvper they spent the evening with US re-
co1lting tine successes of me day and bolb
3.cio ro.I n ma, tte l,ast AN my ,ad haI
T., t,Io,,i,{., -
80, ~ In, ma dooto~ sold 4, so++o ,,ooa
Now Noja1 WIN Won i'm voilr. letters
tho. c.i,l,,,Il, dea4, ,S1t. e1,a.,l, ~ ~. 49,
~, evfan,ate m ee/ II al
. an - ilo]itre ga tT4iue''e' p ~ 81 - tI
w WI ~ LCol no. Dj'i I 'le. - -
an your marvellous aFHs about C!eitr MaseI
ana can now 90 So WlDA mere SelL-feSpecL
man heiT f1 aa i YOU SioIto iiGe1 a
voucher Io4 any ttlAilS 49, WltlS ~ ot1I A'lo
sign my name 10 II. Clear w alter hafDoL
is the loVeAtst ElllaSe OF the plan, ana /
tsna4l certainly brinS my 4a4Ally here next
winter. About that cloQuet business, don't
speak of ii. 1t is only one OF Mufphs nu-
nIerols Yagaries. lie imagnles that because
lie is a Presbyterian AND Cunt TALL from
grace that he is prIvli, 5ed 10 Tell white lies.
but the devil is the father OF Hes Of all
uUiOrzs and Murpn hau better De careful
1t was a gOodly company THAT day ana we
We're greYed to part with them. Nh Can
dler says he wants a bay front here by the
ides OF September
Another week will find us iourneying
bomeWatd. and that will bring another
plt.asure-the reunion with kindred and
FRIENDS the poor rejected and detected
hermit hermit was maize to say:
"And what is friendship but a. name
a charm that luis to sleep
eha1n maj follows waaIrn or fame
Ent leaves a wretch TO Weep"
A'
ua,a. ,s NOT GO That was hut the utter
anre ~ r hToken-hearted love. Friendship
"a a ioe ,'1tot sa1tnrv reaIItv ana naxt 70 ne
- a &c ti@ 9n eayth> T6ere are not many