The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-21
Epistles TO ST. Paul.,

"I don't know about it being such very
gentle art" said AL Fischer, speaking of
angling. 'If old Ike Walton had ever had a
fight with thirty-fve-pound muscalonge and
the fight had continued until every muscle in
the old mans body ached and he had finally
succeeded in landing the monster by shooting
him through the head with rife he might
not thing it SO gentle as he found it pudding
around in a seven-inch stream catching
sinners"
Mr.. Fischer had just returned from the
wi,ds of Wisconsin, he and his friends, Joe
Henry, Net Putnam and Dudley Finch.
They brought with them the finest catch of
big fish that has been brought into this town
in many a day, and the prognostication OF
The Philistine that they would bring a story
with them was more than made good. They
went to Lost lake, about twenty-five miles
southeast OF Hayward. Wis, last Thursday
evening. They fshed day and half and
brought back and put in evidence eight mag
nifcent muscalonge, weighing from eight to
thirty-fve pounds each; 300 pounds of wall
eyed pike and 100 pounds of black bass
And" said Mr.. Henry, as he checked off
the weights, eff we had wanted to put in our
time catching bass and pike we could have
brought back a thousand pounds" and every
body stood for the statement, because they
had done things to fish that other men had
eve had magnificent sport" said Mr..
Fischer I'VE went into pretty wild coun-
try and had a long drive over vil,ainous
roads, but we We're repaid. The musca.onge
fought like demons. We used small tackle
altogether. l used a six-ounce steel rod and
the other boys used about the same. We
went after the muscalonge with spoon hooks
and frogs OF course landing a muscalonge,
even the smallest that we caught with the
tackle we used without first killing the hsh
would be impossible. They have tremendous
power and 1t took Joe Henry twenty minutes
to get his big one landed and Put played
twenty-five FOUNDER for twenty-five minutes
before bud shot him. The only way to land
them at all was to get them played until
they were exhausted, and then plant Blu let
just at the back of the head"
The biggest of the musealonge weighed
twenty-five, thirty-two and thirty-flve pounds,
and some CT the pike and bass were OF mon
strous size. The party returned yesterday
afternoon ard the fish came down by express,
consigned to Billy CARING, and almost every
fisherman in st. Paul had heard about the
catch and had a lcok at the big fellows last
night.
A pathetic incident of the war preparation
was witnessed by few people on the Shell
ing bridge Sunday afternoon. An extremely
handsome young woman, blonde, with lovely
blue eyes, dressed in fetching costume got
off a car from the city at about a O'Clock
and started across the bridge Half way over
she met a soldier whom she stopped and
spoke to. An instant later the people at the
end of the bridge heard shrill scream and
TIE young woman fell in dead faint She
was brought over to George Harris and re-
vlyed after some time. but she took on badly
after she came too and it was thought that
a physician would have to be sent for. She
finally recovered her composure and came
into town the next car.
She did net give her name. When she met
the so disr en- the bridge there was a very
brief eoiloouy. The result tod the story She
asked the man.
do you know Mr.. so-and-so at the fort?"
The man said that he did not and asked
if re was enlisted man.
Yes" she said. he enlisted last week in
the signal corEs."
oh said the soldier, "the men in the
signal. SQUAD left here yesterday fer San
his blood run cold, he said afterwards; theo
she gave that scream and collapsed
neck speed, while trolley c rs and vehicles re-
every kind for blocks ahead NJ de frantic e.
forts to keep out of hsT way. She r,de a
/ bars low and seat elevated But unfortr
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p.e pee. TO dan amond frame: It YVES tlack
at least not when she first turst in:o view
Later it was divided in several places.
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against the chain of TIE wheel and If was
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rapidly that meGe tie byStapders sce star.
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seat IN the gutter ana occupied il. Her
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her Eluo-e2vered SHIRT wsi;- 1 s an ly pa~ed
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crowd made le,narks.
Tho Philistins