The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
THE NONPAREJL MAN

Charles Bradford-Why4 some People
Do Not Enjoy Grover cieveIand's
Favorite Pastime-Flshlns for Little
Girls as a Sport.
Charles Bradford 'The Determined
Angler is now in the city, ahead OF the
cheerful DeWolf Hopper. Mr. Bradford is
SO good on fshy stories that the Putnams
are getting out another book for him
called THE Anglers Secret. We yio-
late no confidence in stating that this Sc
cret is not the location of the fish mar
ket. Mr.. Bradford catches them himself,
If it takes two weeks.
Mr.. Bradford's first book has had the
o. K. of Grover Cleveland, master angler
of the three Americas. who says that, in
his esteem, Bradford and Walton Qzaak,
not Ed) are running neck and neck.
We do not wish to say anything against
fishing, for there are a whole lot OF nice.
sensible and companionable people who
enjoy it as pastime. But just for jolly
and to fill up space on "a dull day, we will
tell you how friend of ours feels about
! it personally.
| Suppose a whole lot of bright and joy
Gus little girls, say from to 8 years
of age, We're playing tag, laughing and
/ screaming and having a glorious time, in
/ his back yard. Then suppose he was con-
cealed on the top of the porch with
stout pole with q clothesline attached to
] it. On the end of this line would be 4
/ strong steel fishhook, about as large as a
! hook to hang clothes on. This fishhook
! is baited with a chocolate caramel. We
/, will pretend that the little girls think it
! is some kind of game and that if they
/ can catch the hanging caramel in their
| mouths it is theirs. He throws the baited
hook over. They all run after it and
/ finally a dear little girl of years, in fluffy
hair and a pretty red dress, seizes the
bait in her mouth. The angler gives the
! pole a sharp jerk. She is hooked! Glor
ious sport! He plays her carefully and
i enjoys her. struggles Finally he pulls her
| UP screaming and groaning with pain. The
other little girls all scream and run.
! The pleasure we would get out of fish
ing for fish would be somewhat similar to
thatahe would get in this angling for lit
tie girls.
4 Now, mind YOU we are not saying that
fishing for sport isn't all right for those
who enjoy it. We. as is our right, do
not enjoy it, and that is all there is to it.
But you eat fish yourself says some
objector.
No. we don't. But not because they are
caught. but because We don't like the
taste of them. Now, please do not go off
and call us vegetarian crank because VIC
do not enjoy killing It's no such thing.
We are able to eat our section of beef
steak with more or less gustatory pleas
ure, but that does not argue that We en-
joy numbering the cow.
1t is permissible to slip out the door and
: stand on the curb when the street car
starts to whistle on it's fingers and to
r catch a ride on the cowcatcher of the fast
| freight train
: The Chicago News claims that every
, first-c,ass liar owns a dog. Let the dog
!. owner apply the rules of logic and he
E will at once see that not every dog owner
is a liar, even conceding that every liar
: is a dog owner. It's rather subtle.
The Chicago grand jury is after the
4 plumbing trust. Doubtless the trust goes
n up to the house. looks over the job, goes
back to the office for tool, returns to
II the house, goes back after another tool
O ETC., etc, charging time for the trips.
: It is such plumbing as this that endan-
: gers our free institutions.
+. Some of the boys Who have como back
d from the stock show at Chicago claim
a that E. w. Randall was badly tangled up
S in that city. When he returned TO his
is hotel one day from the show he made a
n stout claim that the Grand Pacific hotel
lie was on the wrong side of the street. Sew
is eral stock fanciers who were strong in
l. argument sat down with him and en-
al deavored to convince him of the unten-
ableness of his position but they were
III unable to do so. Mr. Randall had the
e. evidence of his senses that some scoun-
,y dre had moved the hotel across the street.
in Going out a little later he found that the
l. Monadnock building had been turned
around that the board of trade was
i'd facing the wrong way, and that the depot
er positions were also fatally twisted. After
or awhile he got next to himself and solved
m the matter of directions. thus. If he
a wanted to go anywhere he stood and
ne thought in what direction it was, and then
rs went exactly the other way. This always
DIS brought him to the place he was after.
~ Croker is credited with urging Bryan to
ld run for president again. What for?
to If the president of the senate would al
a. low Senator Morgan to be ehloroformed
no
he The native of Somaiiand is said tc
MT the most sef-satisfied man on earth. He
not only suspects that he is the only oasis
ne n the desert, but he knows it. An Eng
X lish traveller has recently given lttera
e translation of q Sonali poem. 1t run.
te as follows:
e .Will you see a man? Then behold me. / an
t. a Somali, Perfect in size and form Adam
ut was after God had breuthed into him his fmmor
nd tai soul. Look how beautiful my curly hair is
n and how majestic 1 look when wrapped froo
he head to foot in my white jungle coloret
nc. tobe altho there is sometimes only one small
- piece of money to it. My home is the desert
e and l am born free man. Free as the wind
n 1 know neither king nor master. j am Adam
se was, my own master and king. In the jung
se ] tend my cameIs and sheep: my only labor is Il
mt watch them feed. In my kerrier. my wife. m,
r. dear slave, does all the manual work. Hiil
-, tending my offspring, and woe 10 her if she for
an an gets to prepare my evening meal. The jeda
lss twhp) shall then have it's turn to make her re
e member for next day. In such state is an!
man happier than 1:
en- Self-assertive Itness was never sung ii
ell more fitting words than these. The Sam
fr. ALI chidlike, tells exactly what he thinks
ew Possibly if we would all do the same ther
In might be found other examples of a muci
swollen-up pomposity. now skilfully con
cealed under the veneer of civilization!
Let's stop and see what we are real1!
thinking about ourselves.
an
ae- A hearing is now going before tn
mis- superior civil tribunal of Paris. in TIL
er- ca Sc of the Swedish Baron de Adelswar,
an and a Count de Warren, Belgian VIII
Lu- are accused of carrying on the practice o
devil worship in their apartments. wher
they We're caught by a raid of the police
me 1t is said the count and the baron ha
OF dedicated room to Lucifer. and there
OF with skulls. crossbones, birthstone am
lg- other devilish devices initiated neophyte
zen into the worship of his Satanic majesty
Devil worship cult has not secure
:, a yfoothold in the new world yet, tho ther
ne are many people who do the works Q
- their father. the devil. and many other
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