New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Connecticut anglers dynamiting the frozen
earth get for trout fishing. the season for
which opens Friday. That patron saint Of all
good fishermen. Izaak Walton. never was forced to
such extremlties. Here is his advice as to bait:
Let your bait DO big red worm as you can
ind. without knot; get a pint or quart OF them
In an evening IN garden walks or chn1ky commons.
after a shower Of rain and put them with clean
moss we'll washed and picked, and tho water
squeezed out OF the moss as dry as you can into an
earthen pot or pipkn set dry. and change the moss
fresh every three four days for three weeks or
month togetheri then your bait will be at the best,
for IL will DO clear and lively. II IL to DO feared
that with the pools and streams frozen over and
the ground hard as a rock. the gentle. poetic meth
DDS OF Izaak Walton will scarcely apply to Con-
necticut angling at the opening OF the season. But
the angler is q man OF resources, and even frost
and fee cannot keep him from his favortts sport.
Mrs Bacon-I by this paper that the average
family in he United States has four and seven
Mr. Bacon@I suppose I'm the seven-tenths IN
this famy.-CYonkers Statesman
Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that
Pittsburg entitled TO relief from the suffocatng
showers Of ore dust which the principal iron and
steel works havo been pouring upon that afflicted
city. The sooty and grinly metropolis OF VuIcan's
smithy breathes sigh and thinks the news may De
too good to be true.
BALLAD OF THE EASTER BONNET
Oh TSman w RSn SoQ with i66H trembng gleq
Though Il be high or low, or fiat,
or round or square. II there be
No shape 20 it that one can see.
Upon it in rich revery.
You always pick the price mark first
It may be woven like n mat.
Or show the leaves OF vine ana tree'
or one With skinny tendency;
Bright ribbons may be Haunting free
Or in a meshy veil immersed;
But this great truth is known by me
You always pick the price mark first.
You saw "I do not care for that
CThe price mark says 1--WE forty-three''l
AT Tnt NV! You Si ind t" that YOU agree
On s9mething Pr z,cSs ava up IN
To all your ways they hold the key
You always pick the price mark first
EEnvoi.
Princess or maid of low degree.
BY this peculiar trait you're cursedi
You always pick the price mark first
SO Judge,
She Thought So ToO e BrOther Their you
Leave the room this minute. you impertinent
little boyr'-Punch
The Lonsdale mills in Rhode Island univer-
sally considered ranking among the model
manufactures of the world. The owners Of that
valuable property decided TO until further
notice. only FIVE days in the week-one of the many
unfortunate results OF the recent extravaganza spec
ulation in cotton.
A Radcal.-''He poses as a reformer. doesn't he?,
unset the whole social and business world. He
saws II he had his way he'd put in jail everybody
who ought TO be there."-(Philadelphia Press.
One of tho English weekly papers tells good
.caddie' story. A distinguished amateur came to
the links with the air of one who has only to come
and see in order TO conquer. "Haw, caddie." he
said Yes, SIR" What is the length OF this
hole7" Two hundred yards. sir" "Haw see.
Just drive and putt" He addressed the ball.
swung, and drove it couple of yards. Moo"
said the caddie moo for the dell o. a putt?'
A-FTSHING.
Now is the time for the Turing fly.
Spring Is awake and the waters high,
Hackle and Doctor and Montreal,
Bend to your cast that a king may die
Armed with a gar and clicking reel.
High Jack boots and an empty creei.
A yard of gut, "A split bamboo.
Beginners luck and hsherman's zeal
Over tho hills at the rise OF day,
Through q OF mist when the world Is gray,
j HE IN down to the rivers bend,
Where the shadows gloom and the rippies play.
Then all the length Of afternoon.
The light reel sings to a thrilling tune
Till he basket gags with the speckled trout.
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