Evening star., 1905-08-20

products. sparsely populated by the old
timers, who have always exhibited the
greatest antipathy to the negro not one of
"fom has been allowed to locate there
ana they even object TO their traveling e
across their district. Formerly this coun-
Try was heavily timbered and its chief
products were cordwood and the best oak
barrel stuff and railroad ties that were
cafted TO the river landings and boated to
81 Louis; but these trees were cleared out
twenty-five years ago. and, the hills be
well adapted for fruit culture they. intro
dtced numerous orchards, and now export
large quantities of our Ben Davis or Red
Missouri apples
Up 10 ten years ago the Kingdom of
talhoun did not contain a telephone, tele-
graph or express office and toda, bas no
railroad. while the boundary counties are
netted with them. Neither does IT afford
any game fishing streams or lakes. For
trhs reason. having nothing to do but wait
lor the slow tow of a heavily loaded barge
OF machinery up the river I grew I,ary
weary until thought of Juggling. for which
the stage of the Mississippi was particular-
iy favorable al that time
Simple Tackle REQUIRED
IL VIII be understood. as the name i'm
piies' that this sport simply requires a
dozen or so of corked jugs. to the handle
or each of which is secured stout cotton
line about No SO. three feet long and a
Catfish hook baited with almost ANYTHING
from old meat to spoiled cheese rind. Mar
ketmen generally use tin cans or dry white
pine floats for this purpose 1 found this
.ackie .9 at one OF the stores, and from that
uhe untli my departure l supplied free of
cost all the town of Hamburg with the fin
est channel catfish. which, by the way is
tSceiieht eating. especially for people who
enjoy a buffalo or even Dutch. earn
herman is too respectable a name for
thls contemptible class OF the flnny tribe
re Illustrate the details of this sport
VIII give an account of one of my most
successful trips. explaining that for ia ST
and comparatively easy work 1t is hest for
one to be accompanied by helper: but not
being inclined TO the companionship of any
OF the ioahng natives brier root was
enough company.
Iaklng my skiff, | rowed I'D the river
about three miles. then batting the hooks
dropped the jugs across the channel about
~ ~a"fut-I'e rect apart and dropped behind,
waiting results. In calm weather when
the water Is smooth, a one-pounder will
| DoD the hoat perceptiby and larger ones
WIN yank them around at lively rate. but
IL requires big hsh to sink them for more
man haif minute. and another thing Is
that the game seldom escapes-once hooked
they are there for good
haa only had time to pipe up and re-
gam my wind after the arduous exercise of
rowing until the fun commenced, A Ing
D0pped and after II l went, pulling in
apou. Il three-pound catfish. BY the time
the hook was rebaited and thrown ha ~,
| into the water two Jugs wera ,,,r,mi. =
around so the sport was growing excitin 2
and somewhat laborious ''''s
The Fish That Got Away.
This continued for about an bour Will,
l was floating down stream. securing more
imam dozen fish OF from two to fifteen
| pounds when something surprising occur
red One of the jugs went down as a
piack bass takes cork. Presently IL an
peared some distance away. sliding rapidly
over the water Grabbing the oars, put
after 1t. running bow on and jumping to
the front. only TO see 1t sink quickly and
scoot OF under the surface. Again and
again l went for IT. with the same results.
Noticing that the disappearances were
growing shorter, which indicated that the
car was getting tired. well as myself
| l rested. while the fish still kept going with
| less efforts until the noat was nearly sta
ticnary. Then quietly padded aionssi