The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-16

caught his eye. what in the world is
that?"
That was soon seen to be big bill
board Below huge lion with a bright
crimson mouth and bushy tail advised
everybody to wait for the big show"
while above was a design calling peo-
pies attention to the Importance of saw
ing your chewing tobacco tags" The
mill had entirely vanished
The Grown Up Boy was almost ready
to weep or curse. He stopped his
horses in front of a little store building
and went in to ask what had become
of that great stone mill which he had
left twenty years before towering up
above all the surrounding landscape.
she's right down there behind the
billboard" said the young storekeeper
They built a new addition on to her
last year and she's twice as big as she
used TO be-"
Alasl for the splendid palaces and the
great buildings of youth How they
dwindle as we look al them through
the inverted opera glasses of middle
agei
The miller was there in his old place
finishing up the same job of tying the
mouths of paper bags that he had just
begun when the Grown Up Boy had
left him twenty years before. At any
rate, If he was not the same miller no
effort was made to correct the error.
Illusion, surely. And inside the mill
was unchanged. There was the old
pleasant gurgle of water as it turned
the wheel, and the same sweet clear
smell of newly made flour.
A single glance out of the mill win
dow was enough to settle the mill dam
and the tremendous mill pond which
had been so thoroughly believed in for
a score of years. The dam looked like
toy and the mill pond would hardly
make a good mud puddle for Captain
Streeter's private park Down below
the dam little stream ran pickering
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10 the dimensions of good sized peb-
bles. The Grown Up Boy determined
to have a try at those immemoriaI
Dickerel and bass
He fitted a reel on a light steel pole
and commenced to cast with a smallest
spoon in his tackle box Presently
freckle faced, small boy with an open
mouth and wide blue eyes, came down
from the store and sat down on the end
of log to supervise opera TONS He
said nothing, but watched the fruitless
casts with grim and amused silence.
"Catchin much nowadays?" asked the
Grown Up Boy in an effort to establish
fraternal relations with brother fisher
man.
MOT with a hook big enough to catch
shark on. we amt" said the boy
That's the smallest hook I've got,
said the Grown Up Fisherman.
You kin git plenty over to the store,
eff you've got the price" said the boy.
ne was given d qudTteT Win a re-
quest to go over and buy supply of
the proper hooks He came back pres
entity with some minnow hooks and a
can of worms.
Put on one of these here" he said,
land try it down there jest below the
apurn."
A moment later the Grown Up Boy
felt bite. He commenced to reel fe-
verishly. while the small boy snorted in
contempt.
"Yank her out" he commanded. The
| Grown Up Boy yanked and landed a
sinner about five inches long.
That's a purity good sized one said
the boy. PA says the fishins better
here this year than it's been in %
years"
After all, it may have been the same
/ miller, else how would his memory
I stretch back that far to shatter the last
of those long cherished dreams.-Chi-
ca on Tribune