Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-30


And yer take yer .fishin' tackle
An yer wormin', Squirmin can,
Go a-fishin' and a-wishin'
Tn 1oy-ful-est mani
Did yer ever go a-fishin
With bulky. bulky lunch,
Trudge a-fishin' and a-wishin'
With big bite bunch?
Did yer ever go a-fishin-
oh what madden. sadder Fate
To go fishin' and a-wishin'
AND FERGIT YER LIQUID BAIT?
CA
Once again the season is upon us
when the tired and retired city toiler
with grip full of flannel shirts and
bacon-rind bait HES himself to some
ideal spot in the pastoral wildwood,
where he can listen in rapt enthu-
siasm to Munchausen tales of how the
fish bit just before he arrived and
how they will surely bite before he
goes away! The farmer sits on the
veranda and between whiffs of an old
dudeen tells how pure the air is and
how it knocks the city bacilli out of
a man. His good wife, in her alpaca
runabout, ladies out great gobs of joy
as she dwells upon the comfort you
will take sans coat, sans vest, sans
collar, sans everything except a few
minor underclothes, a negligee shirt
and pair of pajamas. Having
braved the menu, consisting of soda
crackers, dry Clipped beef, store cook
les with white frosting, and a few
other delicacies of a like character,
you take on appreciation of the purity
of the air. From 81 to SIS per day
for pure air naturally calls for high
ly clarified atmosphere, and you be-
gin to feel light-headed. When you
are so full of air and soda crackers
you can remain anchored no longer,
come home and bury your Office boy.
With highly inflated lungs you return
to the city, stepping high and having
a sunburn that, like the smile, won't
come off,
In your sadder and more commun-
istic moments you recall that your
dream of bacon and eggs, fresh vege-
tables, wooded hooks, big fish catches
and a quart or two of just rest was a
nightmare. You firmly resolve to in
troduce bill in the legislature COM
polling all country resort keepers,
farmers especially. to furnish photo
graphs of surroundings, map of lake,
certificate of fish catches, together
with sample menu by mail, to all pros
pective boarders who, upon arrival,
will demand as further protection,
a good and sufficient bond binding the
resort liar to tell the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth" during the entire season.
But you get busy bulling the market
or keeping the market from bulling
you-and forget your resolves. Next
year you go out and work off your
enthusiasm in the same way. Pure
air comes high, but we must have it.
Curious how some men make hits
in this world, isn't it? Sad, too, how
many times the placard, HE was a
good boy, but" has been attached
to the tail of young mans coat.
When at school this second miniature
genus homo was a favorite with the
teacher because he always knew his
lessons, was neat and tractable, never
devilish and always reliable. Along
side of little Johnny Green, whose face
was ever suggestive of a night in the
slough, whose hair was tangled and
had a cow-lick in it, who never missed
an opportunity to "can" a dogs tail
or stick pins where they would do the
most good for the greatest number,
the good boy, but" was a para
gon of promise. In later life, he de-
veloped into an honest milkman with
occasional dabbles in working round
A good boy but" he became a
good man but" He belonged to
that great aggregation known as The
that never set the world on fire
Little Johnny Green, to the contrary
notwithstanding, took firm hold on
the seat of his trousers and lifted
himself past the canned" dogs into
the realm of success, where he is now
busily engaged counting his money
and wondering where he will build his
next summers "box" by the tapping
lakeside. The "box'' usually turns
out to be a 100000 cottage" at Rub
bernecks' Roost, or some other fash
ionable neck on the coast. The woods
are full of just such examples. II
never pays teacher to scoff at heI
dullest scholar. He may some day
clean up her preserves with mort
gage, or come to lecture in her town
and be met by a committee Of ten, OF
which she will not be one because she
was not sufficiently urged. When a
boy we often failed to get our algebra
lesson because of the interior work
ings of genius. Look at us now! A
living example of our argument. You
can't tell by the looks of a frog how
far he can jump for a fly. The teacher
who looked disdainfully at us is moth
ing but an old maid to this very day,
while we are married and haven't
learned an algebra lesson in thirteen
years. Morale good and you will
be happy.
at is better to be low and humble
to eat pie with knife and say then
people, than to be ruler of reyolu
tin kingdom and have a cold, glitter
ing steel clandestinely introduced
into yer anatomy. Be thankful fel
small things. "-Uncle By.
A New Jersey preacher has organ
lied choir of thirty whistlers. 1t is
time for the old hard-shell deacons tc
turn over in their graves again.
A modest Boston girl made a quill
of her old stockings, but she used
only that part of them ordinarily Wis
ible to a mans naked eye.
Though the mills of the gods GRIND
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