The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-10-01
Wherein We Offer a Suggestion.

Wherein We offer Suggestion
Ordinarily. we would hesitate long be-
fore we offered a suggestion TO that John
Wesley Gaines Of Notwithstanding by
this. Of course. TO refer TO It's deep learn
ing and its ability 10 give anybody IN
formation about aaything-the Houston
Post Many Of our contemporaries that
have been houted and jeered at because
of their natural ignorance Of some of the
marvels Of Texas. discovered by and
known only to the Post, or who have
been contradicted and browDeaten and
buliied because of some wholly obvious
and clearly accurate statement made by
them, VIII appreciate our feeling. we are
sure. Under usual circumstances. we
would be as likely to attempt to pull the
cOckleburs from the tail Of a Brazoria
County mule as to tender anything as
news 10 the Texas paper. To do so would
be to intimate that there is something it
does not know. and we would expect as
great a manifestation of gratitude and
appreciation in such an event as in the
case Of the mule. and. doubtless. of much
the same sort However, as the matter
at present in hand concerns others than
the Post. we shall submit it. and shall
be prepared to meet the consequences, be
they what they may.
Briefly. the rabbit OF Texas. once one
OF the most numerous of the wild ami
mails with which the early settlers had
70 contend and still recognized as a
fierce. treacherous, and unprncipled beast,
ever ready to take advantage of a single
moment Of lack of watchfulness on the
part OF the men who have learned TO
subdue it, is being rapidly exterminated
by reason of its widespread use as black
bass bait Now, from our standpoint,
this is not as it should be. We should
remember the hunters. most eminent of
whom is our energetic President The
Louisiana-bred bear expert Of the New
York sun thinks Mr.. Roosevelt will be
disappointed in the bruir output Of the
Pelican State canebrakes, and everybody
knows that big game is becoming scarcer
and sCarCer elsewhere each year Some
day there viii be no more. and what will
the hunters do then. poor things? We
submit. therefore, that the rabbit, de-
spite its bad record be not exterminated
by such cruel and bizarre methods as
are now resOrted 20 by Texas fishermen.
but preserved and permitted 10 roam the
plains so that, in the days to come. there
viii be bis game for the big hunters TO
hunt OF course. we would not have the
bass fishermen forego the pleasure Of their
sport, and we realize that the bass is not
20 be lured as are some other fsh-the
famous Houston mudcat for example. but
we have a solution for the problem those
facts present, and here it is;
Use limburger cheese. instead OF rabbits.
for bait
Before the doubling Thomases can even
prepare to shrek their incredibly as 10
the efficacy Of the material we have
named. we herewith append the inGubi-
table proof. in the form OF a dispatch
from Stamford. Conn, TO that always rc-
/ liable journal. the New York Times:
"Limhurgsr cheese vas tried as fish bait here yes
terday by Nicholas Holauder. William Christie, and
l. G. Zantov, an ven-known citizens.
They were fishing IN Long Island Sound for black
! tsh. snd their supply q worms and small sinners
gave out There happened 20 be piece Of limburrcr
on the boat, and Z1nr0w playfully baited bis *
] WIN IT.
The fish bit at IT greedily. and the party was
sept busy hauling IN fsh until The Emburger also
gave out Tie cheese seemed % attract dogash
chiefly, but few blackash evinced liking for it
and were hooked
Having thus discharged what We believe
to be our duty in this matter. we pass
on to other things. pausing only 10 say
this. The Houston Post need expect only
failure if il experiments with the new
| bait in Buffalo Bayou anywhere above
the San Jacinto battlefield The fishes
/ such as they are-which are fated 10 IL
habit that stream are. naturally. so ac-
customed TO its odor that they would be
neither attracted nor repealed even by
lmburger cheese. The preliminary tests.
to be fair, should be conducted elsewhere.