Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-04-25


carp is nuisance and has got to be
exterminated or the othet fish will be
The muskellunge is Ii Nolf of the
waters. and hates carp. The muskel-
lunge will not allow carp to live in
the same lake with him. He can
smell carp mile away, and will
chase the carp until it jumps out of
the water and catch it by the tail
when it comes down and shake it as a
terrier does a rat. When and where
the vendetta between the muskellunge
and the carp started no one knows,
/ but the feud between them is more
bitter than any Kentucky unpleasant
ness ever recorded. The idea of the
/ fish commissioners is TO put few
able bodied muskellunge into each
lake and river, and watch the carp
pull out for quiet place. 1t will be
like turning ferret loose into a bur
row with mess of rabbits, and YOU
know when that happens you can't
see the cottontail for the dust he kicks
up. The only thing the commission
has to fear is the state humane So
ciety. If that august body, whose
speciality Is TO create a sentiment in
favor CT mauling man with sled
stake who kicks a horse with pointed
toe shoe. gets on to the proposed fight
to finish between the muskellunge
and the carp, they will probably get
out a two-dollar injunction against
! the fish commission to prevent them
from shedding gore, but the great
body of the people are with the com
mission, and will stand by them in
their efforts to rid the waters of the
state of fish that is no more calcu-
lated for human food than an excel
sior mattress, and which has the APP
petite of tramp, and is about as use
less, fish that will lie still. with its
sucker mouth open. and take in any
thing that comes along, asking no
questions as to whether it is food or
wearing apparel. The carp is not a
producer of anything that's good. 1t
breeds like a rabbit, and only fills the
water with more appetites- There is
as much difference between the mus
kellunge and the carp as there is be-
tween the protected cruiser and the
Chinese junk, the race horse and the
goat, the thoroughbred hustling man
and the weary Willie. What tramp
is to a farmers wife the carp is to the
fisherman, thing you want to set the
dog on. The muskellunge is the
blood hound that will trail the Grimm
al carp to his lair, and chew him.
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A certain gentleman over in an adj
Joining county united with the church.
He was made uperintendent of
Sunday school, and, wishing to leave
a record Of which he could feel Justly
proud. he got up an excursion. The
excursion did not pan out very well.
aad $50 represented the sum total Of
! the gross receipts. BEING somewhat
disappointed, but not without hope.
he took that $50 and bought himself
some red and blue chips in a poker
game then going on in town.
When he got up from the table in the
gray dawn Of morning. he found he
was $500 winner. This $500 he took
to the sunday school with him and
moved that il be expended in pur-
chasing a library. This was done.
I Every body was astonished at the
amount realized from the excursion.
knowing that but few peopleattended
it so they began TO inquire where the
money came from Finally it leaked
out, aud the church didn't do a thing
but call that MEMBER up on the car
pet and expel him Tor gambling
But they didn't give back the library
She had just finished telling her old
maid sister how Jack mad proposed
to her. and subsequent events. so dear
to the young girls heart, when the
old maid sister heaved "a happy sigh,
and said: Yes dear. know ali
about it; last night"
You. Last night. Why. you
never had beau in your life
NO: but understand the delight
foi feeling, though, for last night
got shut up in the folding bel And
once again she sighed and stared
dreamily into space.
:
Are YOU holder Of a ticket % the
owl3 II not. Fred Burr will enGght-
en- you Help the poor boy out