Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-22

ing out of the car windows. one saw
corn a foot high, this in northern Wis
consin. Saturday morning, in Marshall
county, Iowa, looking again out of the
car windows. one gazed on corn stalks
eight feet in height, and thousands
of acres all tasseled out, in some cases
the silk on the ear showing. All this
on the 14th and 18th of July. Up in
Wisconsin the owner of the farm paid
IS an acre, this including the lakes,
timber, stunps and porcupines. Also
the deer and few bears. Also pedi-
greed mosquitoes. This Wisconsin
farmer works all OF his life to clear
the farm, then his children come into
possession of a farm that raises the
finest timothy grass in the world, it's
worth SIS ton there now. Duluth
wants 1t that price. On this cleared
farm grows big wheat and oat crops,
but the man that bought the farm at
So an acre, gets none of this. He's
dead. Grubbed himself out and into
his grave. His wife living up there in
the woods, twenty miles from no.
where, If she managed to keep
out Of the insane asy-
lum, finally died of loneliness. Those
WHO nave IGdu I1dulllIl SIdIldIu SlOI.
les of farm life in Wisconsin,, can be
assured they are not exaggerations.
Even the children in this woods have
no use for money. Nowhere to spend
1t, nowhere to go. An offer to r.
year-o boy of Is cents dozen for
frogs, didn't enthuse him little bit.
Don't you want to earn some money
for the Fourth of July?" mot going
to the Fourth was the reply. "Going
to the Fourth" suggested to him six
teen mile tramp thru the woods to
where they celebrated. And what's
the use?" Frogs are hard to capture.
No way to spend the money. Too young
as yet to walk the the new town of
seven buildings. five of them beer sa-
looms, and "have good time" Aud
then with all this for an afternoon car
window picture to wake up the mex.
morning and look out on the Iowa
prairie, to have a personal knowledge
in the Iowa farmers life of comfort.
wealth and luxuries. once more came
the thought, why doesn't everybody
live in Iowa?
There can be only one answer It's
the fishing up there that makes life
worth living. Who wouldn't live in
state where found pound black bass
will jump up a foot out of
water, grab a frog on NEEDLESS hook
and line, caught on dead tree limb,
projecting out over the lake. There is
some excitement, expecting every
minute to hook a forty pound muscul-
lounge, while the half breed Indian
rowing your boat, tells how that young
lady, with her rich father sitting in
the boat, chad a strike" from big
"musky," the fish line was entangled in
her dress and she was dragged over
board and drowned. And then just as
the guide reached thd climax, to see
with your own eyes not ten feet from
the boat, the very fish that did it, or
one that was big enough to drag any
one out Of the boat, jump out of the
water and rush off at a hundred mile
an hour gait. The tenderfoot ON his
first trip, has only words of scorn for
the half-breed Indian, that, after
"musky' is hooked drags him thru
the water with a fast row boat and
browns said "musky" before he tries
to get him into the boat. ut is not
sportsmanlike." eff I get musca-
lounge on my big spoon, with strong
line and Bristol steel rod, I'll play
him awhile, and then when I've tired
him out will bring him up side of the
boat and haul him in" Just SO. But
just the some, Mr.. Tenderfoot, when
he hooks even little five
FOUNDER, does not stop the
drowning process, and never protests
when the guide brings out the rifle and
shoots the "musky" ten feet away. 1t
is then anyway to get him. Different
from catching bull heads.
There's story UP that way that
Wisconsin has a state law to prevent
the shooting or trapping OF porcupines.
The reason for such a law is that men
lost in woods, can easily kill these
"porkies" with a club, thus securing
fresh meat and avoiding starvation.
And no one need die up there for want
of fresh meat. Our party saw twenty
Of these "amoosin' little cusses" OIL one
forenoon trip. They are no more afraid