The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-17
SOME VERIFIED FISH sroRles.

at the quarters of the organization
Henry Graeter occupied the chair, hi:
colleagues being Messrs. Joseph Demand
James NJ. Weldon, Theodore Biedingel
and Col. ]. Foster Miiiiken.
The duties OF the committee. by the
| way, are often of an onerous and invari-
| ally of an arduous nature. They con
| s-st for the most part of a careful sift-
ing of fact from fiction in the matte,
OF fshermen's anecdotes. A pierhead
Jamaica Bay, Kill Won Kull or other
yarn being accepted by the committee is
thereupon entered in the Book of Truth
o: the League Attempts to corrupt OF
poliute the truth are severely punished
! II see," said the chairman that in
last Sundays papers there is a story
about woman catching tommies with
green peas. How say you, gentlemen
does that go or doesn't it?''
The colonel says that he knows the
grocer who sold the woman the peas -
remarked Mr.. Biedinger. That's good
CROUCH for me. and l move the tale be
1 approved and entered
Il was.
1.-THE truth is murmured Mr.. Wee
! don, that even at this late date we
know mighty little about bait That is to
say, we are aware of a few things that
fish like. but We don't know anything
about the many things that they like
better. The subject of bait, gentlemen,
is one that the world has sadly neg
lected-''
Tut. tut interrupted the colonel.
| fishing, and incidentally bait. have
! been ever since the world began. In
the British Museum is fragment of an
ancient clay tablet upon one face of
which is a cuneiform inscription to the
effect that when three days from port
Noah detected Shem in the act of swip-
ing the only two worms on the Ark for
bait for porgies. 'Whereupon,' says the
Inscription, Noah smote his son Shem
grfevously and cursed he them that cause
to be catched creatures of the great deep
saying, BE they afflicted with a belly
that rumbleth for food that it hath not
and a place for the sitting upon wherein
shall smite the cold waves of the
aters.' -
Why snorted Mr.. Demand. that's
just ordinary fishermens luck. And
empty"
I'VE are all acquainted with the pro-
verb" said the chair, with a rap of his
gevel. so. Brother Demand, you needn't
call up painful memories by repeating it.
The colonel's clay tablet is to go on rec
ord"
''Harking back to what 1 was saying
about our not knowing much about
bats" said Mr.. Weldon. reminds me
that Harry Semple was also of my way
OF thinking. You all remember Semple--
lumberman who got into wheat
in '9S. make pile and turned globe
trotter. But wherever he went or wher-
ever he was, Harry either caught fish or
studied 'em. Well, one time ne was
stopping at little place in the Tyrol-
l forgot the name, but anyhow, it had
lake just chock full of trout and
couple of old-time churches, each of
which owned chime of big bells. Now,
Harry, when loafing on the lake i'm his
boat, noticed that whenever the chimes
struck up the water got all dimpled and
wimpled with fish backs and fish heads
This set him thinking.
so, one day he took a cowbell out on
the lake, set ii going. and, to his intense
satisfaction. got trout rising all round
him. He had discovered that Tyrol fish
trout, anyway-have keen ears for music.
A week later he procured from Vienna
a set of four small attuned bells These.
by simple contrivance. he could ring
as he pleased. Sinking them in the wa
ter. he began to play upon them In
five minutes or so he chucked his lines
overheard and stopped the music.
The results were astounding. Talk
about your cumming? Why, those bells
and that tune seemed to have collected
every blessed fish in the lake under the
keel of Harry's boat They simply fought
to be hooked. Harry only ceased when
he tired of the slaughter. The Tyrol au-
thorities now forbid the use of musical
instruments of any kind whatever by
anglers, fearing the depletion OF their
lakes
The rest of the committee breathed
hard as Mr.. Weldon concluded and
lionel, cautiously:
You spoke about cumming Is it not
true that in August last certain mem
Der of the league used the thirty-seven
quarts of shrimp at 60 cents per quart
for cumming purposes and caught one
weak fish of the value of IS cents?''
Mr.. Weldon colored and looked uncom-
Portable.
"Why put that question to me. colo
nel?" he answered.
Because" replied the warrior. Il
would suggest that the next time the
said member goes a-fishing he chums with
bells instead of shrimp. |
| move. Mr.. Chairman, that the truth |
Of Brother Weedons story being so APP
parent. it be put on record without dis |
custom
1t was so ordered.
On fish puts me in mind of the kindly. |
but i'll considered. methods of the late |
j. Lindley, of Detroit. be- |
gan the colonel. "Elph was a very dear |
friend of mine. l loved him because Of /
lis tender heart and exquisite skill with |
rod and line. Unfortunately for his well |
being as an angler, there was a constant /
struggle between his humanitarian In 1
stincts on the one hand and his desire |
to catch fish on the other. No man more /
han he enjoyed the ecstacy of feeling |
l fighter on the far end of the line. But |
,nce he had landed his victim he expert
sEced agonies of renorse.
Why so gentle a being was Eph that |
ne invariably ctloroformed his bait be-
ore impaling it on his hook. But one day |
/ happy-as he thought. poor boy-inspir
alton came to him He put II into prac-
-ical share with the aid of a mechanic
IN brief. the contemplation was a sort of
hypodermic syringe and fish
nook The syringe was filed with q
Der cent solution of morphine. and was
20 arranged that when fish bit at the
,ait the needle shot forward and dis
,harred a liberal dose of the drug into
lion of dreamy content on the faces OF
lis morphined rnesses brought tears OF
oy TO his eyes.
The colonel paused.
Go on commanded Mr. Biedinger. |
Who was now wide-awake.
Gentlemen" continued the colonel. his
-oice breaking somewhat, let US drink
n silence 10 the memory of Elphinstone !
Lndley-a victim Of his own tender
leart He-he contracted the morphine
labit by eating his own fish and died i'm
,overished mentally and financially, less
han a year age
Moral is stick 70 sandworms. shedde-
rab et al, remarked the chair. sol
maly. Meantime We will hold cu' that
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