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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
ANOTHER FISH STORY.
Enormous Twin Pike Said to Break
All Records for Size and Length.

ST. Paul.-Two huge pike, believed to
hold the worlds record for size ana
length, have just been taken In Gull
lake under the authority of the state
game and fish commission, and are now
being mounted to become permanent
exhibit of MinnesOta'S supremacy In
game fish. One of them will be placed
in the state museum at Willowbrook
hatchery in ST. Paul, and the other will
be placed in the st. Paul headquarters
of the game and fish commission.
The two pixies are twins, and surpass
any of their species ever before taken
in Minnesota. Both weigh eighteen
and a quarter pounds. Each is thirty
two and a half inches in length. The
jaws of the two monsters have suffi-
cient opening to close easily over a
mans clenched fist. Between the dorsal
fins and the gills each is as large as a
mans leg. While there are no official
records. it is believed that each sur
passes the largest pike previously taken
in Minnesota waters by four and a
quarter pounds.
State Superintendent of Fisheries
Sam F. Fullerton states that it is very
probable that still larger pike inhabit
Gull lake.
| Last season." he said, "our men
took two pike while gathering pike
eggs, that weighed fully twenty
pounds each. They were returned to
the water after they were stripped
The two we are having mounted are
not quite that large, but are still OF
exceptional size. They were taken at
the same time and are probably
twins 1t frequently happens both
with pike and bass that after one fish
of unusual size is taken, his mate OF
equal size will be taken in the same
place
There is no way of telling how old
| these two are. They are most remark
able fish and probably of great age
| The sturgeon, our sloweSt-growine
fish, gains but pound a year. even il
he weighs 200 pounds. Pike probably
make a better growth, but these two
even allowing for that, are without
doubt, early settlers in the Gull lake
| waters They were taken by JEFF
Saunders, superintendent of the Glen
wood hatchery, and break all Mime
sofa records so far as | can learn, al
though eight, ten and twelve-pound
| pike are frequently taken. They were
caught while going into Home Brook
to spawn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
The CHAMPION ANGLER.
Darlington (Mass) Cor. Chicago Inter
ocean,

Harrington (Mass.) Cor. Chicago Inter
ocean,
At 10. Homer Down of Monterey will
attempt to break all previous fishing
records in this section. Last year was
the most successful in all his life. but
still he has spent the winter quite we'll
and people can look forward to see him
make strenuous effort to land more
than LOLA pickerel, the number which
he took out of Lake Garfield last sum-
mer.
Down is a very interesting character.
He lives like a hermit and makes
enough by fishing in the summer to
keep him through the winter. He does
rot fish through the ice The old mans
heart becomes light as the ice Is washed
off the pond in spring. He lives in a
little hut on the edge of the lake, and
no man living has made a study of a
sheet of water like he has of Lake Gar
field. For his entire life he has been a
resident of Monterey and only for a
very brief time, when about %. did he
go away.
His main ambition has been 10 catch
pickerel, and $4,000 is the number he es-
Inmates to have taken out of this lake
with a hook and line. No nets are used
by this old fisherman. OF all the catches
he has made he relates that the largest
was in company with his brother about
thirty-five years ago, when 1876 were
caught in six hours.
That was in his younger days, when
he fished through the ice. No character
in Berkshire county towns or around
the resorts is better known than Mr..
Down, and with warm weather ap-
preaching he will again reap pleasure
after spending the winter months al
IN nj W N
Rice-Caesar Concert Co, Saltair to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
Making a Noise.

Charley" said he, I'VE want to make
noise that will be long and loud;
that will begin at once and continue
until the first of November Meet me
tonight at the Fifth Avenue and decide
| if you will undertake a real old fash
toned circus boom for the peoples can
didate for president, and If so, on what
terms. This much is important, you
are to begin at once, can have all the
! help you want, and will not be stinted
as to money for expenses"
| One morning a switch engine kicked
the boudoir car Etelka Gerster down
through the road and into a quiet cor
ner of the great shed Of the old Forty
second street railway station. The
placard Private" displayed on each
platform kept the traveller away, but
supply wagons came and went. Hen
ry Pickett, porter in charge, with cook
and waiter. checked off the supplies as
they arrived. But it was not until
General Butler, with Colonel Abergher,
his secretary, paid a visit and was en-
tertained at luncheon that the start
ling truth dawned on the political
world.
The New York daily newspapers gave
the outfit a colmun description each
the next morning, and in spite of the
usual press agents efforts at secrecy
kept it IN, with remarks both humor-
Gus and lurid, according to the political
creed of the various editors.
From a room in the Fifth Avenue no.
! tel the work of manufacturing a boom
/ soon extended TO the offices of the Mann
Boudoir Car company, then to the gen.
eral offices of the New York Central
railroad, where bundles of printing. all
packed were addressed to station
agents along the lines on which con-
tracts had been made for the hauling of
the General Butler Special" These
agents, instructed from the operating
offices of the different roads, sum-
moned the local bill posters, and in
one weeks time the dead walls and bill
boards of every city, town and hamlet
in the state were covered with great
posters announcing that the hero of
New Orleans, the peoples candidate for
| president would speak either in OF
near the towns wherein these announce
ments appeared. A score of agents
started through the state Git had been
decided to confine the campaign to the
then supposed doubtful state of New
York;. organizing reception committees
to work up interest in the speaking
dates, engage bands of music and, in
fact, insure crowd Thus. by the
adoption of circus methods the candi-
date of the Peoples party was eager
ly expected all over the state. and the
cause of the common people began tc
assume important proportions.
The general was billed to speak al
Saratoga Oct. Is at IL o'clock a. m
Where he would arrive from or how
was not stated.
The country was then ready for the
campaign to open in earnest. The
scare" head line For He Is Work
ingman." the full descriptions OF the
cost and elegance of the car, the fac
that IL cost $4,000 and was chartered
at $3.50 a day until election. and the
list of supplies for the tour made the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
WORKING THE
WORKING MAN
Reeollections of Ben Butler Presiden-
tiaI Campaign in 1884.
(New York Herald.)


Nearly a quarter of a century ago the
national political situation strikingly
resembled that of today. Two great
parties arraysd against each other.
with the ever present prohibition issue
and one or two lesser ones on the out
side, gave promise of battle royal at
the polls in the following November
Through the clever manipulations of
two of the most astute politicians the
country has ever produced. the old
greenback party began to sit up and
observe under the title of 1.-The peoples
party" with General Benjamin f. But
Ter as it's candidate and fusion for its
object.
IMPORTANT headquarters were opened
at 10 Union Square, New York, and it
was soon evident that an experienced
head was at the helm. Campaign lit
erature began to flood the mails, and
the knowing ones began TO smile when
the name of William A. Fowler, as
chairman of the executive committee,
appeared on the circulars. w. A. Fow-
Ter had been chairman Of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Democratic party
during former campaign and his abil-
ity and energy had at once been rec
ognized.
Speakers were engaged and sent out
in all directions: money flowed lavish
ly A sort of underground connection
between 10 Union Square and the Fifth
avenue hotel and the interest shown in
the Peoples party by some prominent
politicians soon caused the report that
the campaign was Republican party
side show, thinly disguised.
One morning l went to the office of
the old Park theatre, now Lew Fields
| Herald Square theatre, and was hand
ed a note, being informed that the mes
senger who left il had called back for
an answer the second time. The note
bore the heading of the Peoples party
and requested me to call at the Union
Square office. AS it was signed by w.
A Fowler I at once went to the head
quarters and was soon in consultation
with the keen old manipulation of men
and things
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

Carson City. New. July 25.-The affairs
of the State Bank & Trust company are
again being investigated. and 1t is stated
that the, investigating body may return
more indictments against the director of
the defunct bank. as a result of the SEN
sational statements made in the report
of Receiver Willis.
The attorneys for the state in the case
against the directors and officers of the
State Bank & Trust company are pa
tiently waiting for Judge Langan to re-
turn a decision in regard to the demur-
rers offered by the defendants in oppos.-
ton to the complaints.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

people of the state eager to see the
gilded band wagon of the party and
hear the griZZled warrior speak; and
the stories flashed over the wires were
all used by the upstate press and read
by the upstate people. often to the
exclusion of more important matter.
The Boston Globe and the New York
Sun vigorously supported the move
ment.
Oil for the Whistle.
On the occasion of the generals first
visit TO the car the suggestion that he
sample the liquids provided for the trip
was met with an inquiry as to what we
had on board. Anything you wish tc
| order" was the reply. We'll. give me
a little Medford rum came the answer
| like fash. Now. although the, or
rather a. list of our supplies had been
published and commented on in no
complimentary way flor we had an
| extensive stock). we had NO Medford
and the quiet smile of the old general
| showed his satisfaction. He loved vic
tory. The next day a cab halted be
| fore the door of the largest provision
house in the city.
Have you any old Medford RUM"
asked
Il think we have a little And they
had just one case and half of very
old Medford.
Whats the price,
Three dollars a bottle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
philadelphia Ledger.

philadelphia LEDGER
"PIaze. ma am, an how will be know
in whin the puddin is cooked"
"Stick knife into it, answered the
skilled housewife. land IL the knife comes
out clean the pudding is ready to serve
''Yis. ma am"
And, oh. Norah." continued her mis-
tress 'lf the knife does come out clean.
you might stick all the rest Of the knives
into the pudding
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
You will always look well groomed II
your clothes are regularly
Regal'Cleaned
REGAL
Main Office First South and State.
Spend today at Ssltair.
ALAS!

oh, all my pleasant, peaceful joys
Are now replaced by woes:
l cannot love the daffodil
Since / have smelled the rose.
Where once perfection I beheld,
Alas. defects / mark,
l cannot love the bobolink
Since l have heard the lark
/ was contented all the day,
But now | ever pine:
l cannot love the draught of milk
Since l have tasted wine.
No more I'd bide in Arcady,
] weary OF the scene.
I cannot love the shepherdess
Since have seen the queen.
E,;ro xaoaS CoItair fnuiohf 1fc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
Fine races, Saltair. tonight. 10c
ONLY S1.0O

To Ogden and return today via Oregon
Short Line. Use any train except Los
Angeles Limited. Returning, leave Og-
den 2:05, 5:15, 5:45 and $40 p. m.
|. Musical treat at Saltair today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
(St. Louis Times.)

Barber-Razor all right, sir?
Customer-My dear man, il you hadn
mentioned 1t, Ia never have known there
was razor on my face.
Barber-Thank you
C>stomer-I thought you were using a
file.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
PORTLAND SELECTED.

indianapolis, Ind, July 25--The ma
tional convention of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians adjougned this evening. af-
ter selecting Portland, Ore. as the me-
ing place for the next convention In
1910.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
INDICTMENTS PROBABLE.

Mr. Leon Rice of New York, tenor
Saltair today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

Bloomington. Ill. July 25.-Adlai f. =
+ Stevenson. former vice president of !
\ the United States. tonight announced =
y his candidacy for governor OF IL \
4 linois on the Democratic ticket
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
NOTHING TO SAY.

Oyster Bay. July 25.-President Roose-
welt said today he had no comment to
make at this time regarding Governor
Hughes announcement that he would ac-
cept a denomination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
Amusing Incidents.

General Butter stood high in the ia
vor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers. and if / am not mistaken
was a member of the order. Several
times during the swing" he was in
vited to ride in the engine cab over a
pleasant road. and his enjoyment of
these trips was almost childlike.
Occasionally some ardent political OPP
ponent of the peoples party creed
would refer to General Buffers New
Orleans record. and the ofr-repeated
charge of stealing the old Creole silver
service would be revided, but to the
best of our ken no word of II ever
reached the old general. At Elmira. the
stronghold of the once strong green
back party. the peoples candidate had
many strong admirers. and when our
car reached that city the evidence of
their work was everywhere visible. Ma
tional flags and bunting decorated
many buildings; an arch over the prin-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
ADLAI A CANDIDATE.

Fine races, saltair. tonight. lOc.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
SORRY HE SPOKE.

Musical treat at Saltair today
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26
MERELY A SUGGESTION.

Big concert. saltair. p. m. today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

F'rcet bath'7~ IN tn world at saltpir
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

Rice Caesar Concert CO., Saltair to-
GaV
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-26

Fine races. Saltair. tonight. lee.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
MISTAKES WITH EGGS.

Some of the most careful poultry
men are the ones who send stale eggs
to market. During the warm season
a visit to any store or market where
eggs are sold will convince the most
skeptical that the merchants have
great difficulty in securing strictly
fresh eggs. Purchase a few dozen
and take them home for examination,
and the result will probably be that
some of them are unsuitable for use.
Now this condition of the egg market
in summer is one that has always ex.
listed, and is due to lack of system
in managing. If the hens are COM
PEELED to lay in the poultry house and
the eggs collected daily, there would
be less liability of stale eggs finding
their way into the basket of fresh
eggs; but when eggs are picked UP
in the fence corners, in the horse
troughs, under the barn or from
other places than the poultry house.
the chances are always favorable to
mistakes, and if one bad egg is found
in a thousand, the whole lot is then
injured in reputation to a certain ex-
tent and cannot be graded as strict
ly" fresh eggs. The eggs in market
are largely sold on confidence" in
their quality, and no mistakes can be
allowed, as customers will always be
suspicious of the merchant or farmer
who allows a bad egg to be sold by
him.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
POULTRY NOTES.

The Bronze turkeys are the largest
breed of the turkey family; the stand.
ard weight for cocks is thirty-six
pounds, and twenty pounds for adult
hens. Yet there are several breeders
that are producing them over stand
ard weight.
Perhaps great many beginners in
duck culture are not aware of the
fact that as a rule ducks cease to be
profitable as layers at from three to
four years of age; at the same time
there are exceptions to this rule.
The best method of preserving the
poultry droppings for fertilizer is to
mix it with land plaster or dry earth;
the droppings should never be mixed
with lime, but thoroughly mixed with
dry earth, to prevent firing of small
plants, in dry season.
1t is useless to keep the turkey tom
with the hens during the entire sea-
son, as one union of the sexes is suf-
ficient to fertilize the eggs for one
clutch of eggs, or until she has layed
out her laying.
There is no definite time to be
given for eggs to be fertile after mat
ing. We have noticed if females are
laying when the mating is made up,
the third or fourth egg will be fertile,
provided the male is strong, vigor-
Gus fellow. But if the hen is not lay
ing, and does not lay for week or
so after mated, the first egg laid will
usually be fertile.
The supposition that thunder in
juriously affects eggs is fallacy, and
has no foundation; no more than that
COWS have hollow horn or hollow tail.
These are all superstitious ideas
handed down from one generation to
another.
1t is a common thing for over fat
hens to lay soft shelled eggs. Where
fowls are supplied with a variety of
foods, grit and water, and the hens
continue to lay soft shelled eggs, you
can safely reduce the food, and bring
about a prompt correction. Some
times it may be due to diseased owl
duct, but nine times out of ten it can
be traced to over fat fowls.-J. G.
Clipp, in the Indiana Farmer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
SHADOW SKETCHES.

Nature was the first artist, and
shadow sketch was the first picture
made. She is still spreading hel
beautiful designs wherever beauti'
full object stands in the sunlight, and
we are about to learn what she car
teach US of her method. In going
along country roads and paths, have
you not admired the shadows thai
the flowers and all graceful plants
cast on the ground? Those of leave:
and vines actually display the out
lines of the plants to even better ad
vantage than can be seen in the OBJ
iects themselves, because shadows
have no perspective and no shading
An easy way to arrange a vase OF
flowers or of leafy tWigs for drawing
is to study their shadow on wal
while the vase is slowly turned, unit
the shadow shows them to be sulta
hIy nIaced. :" = x
AS a rule objects like large leaves
and birds nests are best for simple
outlining, while delicate and com2ll'
Gated shadows like those cast by
vines and by most flowers are best
for the blackened surface Of the sll'
hOutte. Shadow outlines make good
records Of flowers and plants II ac'
companied by the usual notes on
color and habit.-From Nature and
Science, in St Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
TINY WAS INSULTED.

A great elephant named Tiny re-
Gently disturbed the orchestra at the
Theatre de Varieties, at Beziers, II
France, under exciting circumstances
The conductor offered him a carrot
as he was making his bow from the
stage, and in stepping forward rather
too hastily to get it, the elephant
brought down the front of the stage
and, accompanied by two zebras
which were performing with him
crashed into the orchestra below. The
elephant caught the conductor round
the waist with his trunk, and, after
waving him in the air minute OF
two, threw him out into the audience
There was a small panic, but Tiny's
keeper persuaded his charge to clam
Der up an improvised gangway to the
stage again.-American Cultivator.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
First Aid to the Uninjured.

A young lady had rather embar-
RAISING experienced in a London church
last Sunday. She accidentally let her
handkerchief fall. By repeatedly
STOPPING to reach it furtively she at
tracted the attention of the gentle
man in the pew behind, who thought
she was about to faint. With the
best of motives, therefore, he took
her gently under the arms and raised
her up, greatly to her surprise. As
she tried to release herself another
gentleman went to her assistance.
and before the lady knew what was
the matter they were moving her out
into the aisle, and, indeed, carried
her into the vestibule before she
could recover sufficiently from her as
tonishment to find words for protest.
The finale, of course, was ludicrous
in the extreme.-London Tribune. :
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
CHuDREN'S DEPARTMENT.
KNIVES ARE TINY SAWS.

Knives, no matter how carefully
sharpened, are little saws; the grind
ing away of the steel, done bJ the
stone, is not an even work, but when
the edge gets thin, is a process OIL
tearing away tiny bits of steel by the
grit of the stone. This tearing
makes the teeth.
A fine stone makes fine teeth, a
coarse stone coarse teeth. A carving
knife, used on meat, is sharpened on
a coarse stone or a steel, and has
coarse teeth, although its edge is
thick. It's action in parting the meat
is more that of a saw than Of a fine
wedge. No matter how soft it may
be, it will not cut easily unless it Is
drawn over the meat, and not simply
pressed down.
A razor, with it's paper like edge,
will cut into flesh with a simple pres
sure; it is a wedge dividing the fibres
of flesh just as a wedge of iron di-
vides the fibres of the log 1t splits.
But razor is saw, too, only, as 1t
is ground on the finest stones and
later finished with a leather strap, its
teeth are very fine indeed-hundreds
and hundreds to the inch OF blade.
And yet the edge is still a very line
saw, as can easily be seen by eXamln-
ing it under a strong magnifylng
glass.-St. Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
THE CROSS SQUIRREL.

Once there was a squirrel that did
not like his home, and he used to
scold and find fault with everything,
His papa squirrel had long grey
whiskers, and was so wise-besides
which he could shake his whiskers
quickly. He said to the squirrel, My
dear, as you do not like your home
there are three sensible things you
could do: leave it, or change it, OF
suit yourself to it. Any one of these
would help you in your trouble"
But the little squirrel said, "Oh, ]
do not want to do any of these; had
rather sit on the branch of a tree and
scold."
We'll" said the papa squirrel, iii
you must do that, whenever you want
to scold, just go out on branch and
scold away at some one you do not
know"
The little squirrel blushed so much
that he became red squirrel, and
you will notice that to this day red
squirrels Go just that thing.-BoltoD
Hall, in ST. Nicholas.