The age-herald., 1900-10-04
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

T niver knew amy thing so dead. They ain't been so much as a black eye give or took in tn ward, an it's less thin two months to tn big day.
 '' Twill liven up," said MT. Dooley. q begin to see signs iv tn good times comin' again.'-Mr. Dooley on the Troubles of Candidate)
 MT. Dooley does not live in Atlanta, for there are so many political good times there, that if he did, he would possess so many black eyes that he could not see how to write. The office of Mayor in Atlanta carries with 1t so many free drinks as per ouisites that every citizen with red nose and an abnormal thirst deems himself eligible.
 Not only are there candidates for Mayor at the approaching election, but the citi- zens are to exercise their inalienable right as freemen, and vote for aldermen also. The political atmosphere is at white heat and the air is full of rumors of personal encounters.
 The Constitution has been jumping on a gentleman named Atkinson and referring to MT. BeuteIl as "treed coon." MT Atkinson not being a member of the Pick wick Club refers to an editor of the Con-
 
 original sense, and the Constitution in reply charges BeutelI and Atkinson with corruption and invites them not to pistols and coffee, but to sue it for libel.
 
 Then the Atlanta Journal not to be out of it when libel suits are flying through the air jumps into the arena and hits the Constitution blow in it's solar perplexus' yyb ba lat bas tc ho tttrs, is occupied in throwing mud at Atkinson, and birthstone at Beutel. Truly the cam paign is livening up. Some mutual friend ought to step in and separate the com hatants. A few black eyes don't amount to much, but when the combatants begin to hurl libel suits at each other, the affair is getting serious. There is blood on the moon, and some one ought to take a cake of sapolio and wash 1t off, else it may get on the candidates noses.
 A new element of danger has entered into the occupation of cashier. Hereto fore when cashier of a bank was robbed, the robbers were content to take the money and leave the cashiers life. But recent robbery in California has started new precedent Here the robbers placed a pistol to the cashiers head and ordered him to unlock the safe Now there is nothing so stimulating to the brain as the muzzle of pistol. Coffee and tea are not in 1t. No matter how absent-minded beggar a cashier may be, he can always remember the combination of a safe if you put a loaded pistol to his head So it was with the California cashier He did not have the least trouble in remembering the combination, so he obligingly unlocked the safe, and the robbers like set of hogs took everything in sight They did not even leave the cashier car fare home. But as the reader will presently they knew he would not need 1t.
 After taking about $500 cash and some papers supposed to be bonds, they ordered the cashier to step into the safe and with a fiattering inference that he was very valuable, proceeded to lock him up They then departed, while the cashier unused upon the dangerous livelihood he had chosen and wished he had been prize fighter or dynamite manufacturer.
 The cashier tainted from lack of air but was rescued the next morning This scene being very pitiful, the curtain falls at this point.
 Florida now comes to the front with a fish story. At Charlotte Harbor two girls and boy were in TOW boat near Punta Rossa. A great Jew fish got tangled in the anchor rope, and started to sea. The girls and the boy tried to row the boat against the monster, but to no effect. He kept steadily out to sea for forty miles, when the boy succeeded in killing him with a harpoon. The party were picked up by Jew fisherman and brought back home. The moral of this story is-avoid Jew fish as a motive power
 Another fish story comes from Denver. A. man had hatchery on Beaver Creek To keep the fry in the pools he put screens at the lower ends. Bits of liver which he used for food caught in the meshes of the screens a few days ago, causing an overflow and permitting the escape of 10000 trout.
 Planning to capture the whole lot the fol- lowing day, he went to look for a place where he could build dam further down the stream. He was surprised, he says, to find that the whole school of little fish were following him as he walked along the bank. He turned back and the fish turned and followed him. He kept on until he reached the pool from which they escaped, had the screen let down and made the whole school once more prisoners. His explanation was that the school was huu- gry from twenty-four hours fasting and instinctively followed the man who had previously fed them. The explanation given by others is that the whole story is a lie.
 This story, however suggests a method that ought to be employed in the public schools and that is, have the children fed by the teachers. Prohibit their parents giving them any lunches and have supply of ginger snaps furnished the teachers by the state Children can be bribed even to come to school and learn their lessons by a piece of candy or ginger snap.
 Those who saw the wonderful exhibition of the trained seals in Forepaugh and Sells circus will understand the method to be employed. These seals did every thing from blowing a horn to balancing a bail on their noses, but after every little trick they were rewarded by a piece of fish. Crhis is not a fish story, but the truth) The fish were tossed to them and caught on the fly with wonderful agility which showed either a natural aptitude for baseball or the effects of long prac-