Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-23

ma that it is true. Today the sun ,avs fall vertically upon the Tropic of Cancer and the longest day of the ,eay has arrived. Once more His Golden Majesty will begin his appaI- ont journey southward and before many weeks elapse we shall note an appre- .isble difference in the length of our days.
 If summer continues to deal as gent ly with us as has Miss Spring we shall not regret her arrival nor wish to has fen her departure, and from present indications there is every cause to be- Eeye she will.
 Rnt as summer advances no doubt inc average man will make at least one fishing trip, of course he said last mmmer that he would never go again, hut he has forgotten that firm resolve, and since it still stands, it must be broken. He must assert his indepen' aeuce. He will not be bound by any ueh flimsy thing as last year reso' hutton. Anyway, resolutions belong to New Years Day and nobody has any business making them in the summer time.
 Having thus worked himself into the proper form of mind he gets up some morning in answer to the call of the wild. or the call of the foolish, or may he the call of his wife, who is keeping breakfast waiting, and decides that hem go fishing. If he lives in the sub prbs he rushes out in the garden, seizes s spade, and proceeds to dig up half the garden hunting for bait. Then ne finds that Johnnie has used his fish line to play horse and hurries down town to buy another. But the smooth tongued salesman does not let him off so easily. He seizes his opportunity by the horns, 80 to speak, because he nas heard that Opportunity knocks but once at every man 's door and he does Tt intend to send her away without inviting her in. So he proceeds to sell off what he can of last years stock, persuading MT. Fisherman that only by using all the latest equipments can he hope to entice the cunning fish.
 Finally he is ready and sets off Tor some place where fish was reported AS having been seen not more than two or three weeks ago. Arrived at the place he probably finds he has forgotten his bait. If at the scashore or some popular fishing resort he can probably buy some, but if not he must do the best he can to dig up some earth worms with sharp stick or with ms poeket-knife.
 At last he sits down on rock or Tn some leaky old boat and proceeds to fish. but while he sits waiting for bite he begins to think it's the hottest day they we had since he lived in that particular part of the country. lie didn't know the sun could get so hot and he can't see how he and the other boys used to have so much fun hsh' ing with bent pins down at the oid swimmin' hole.
 He didn't bring much Of lunch with him because he counted on broll' ing nice fresh fish but when the gnawing pangs of hunger warn him that it's away past noon aud he has not yet succeeded in landing the coveted hsh he makes the best of what he has and goes at it again, and finally succeeds in getting few.
 All this time the sun has been merel- lessly beating down upon the exposed portions of his anatomy and his neck and shoulders feel as if they had just left the hands of a laundress, while ms nose and ears resemble nothing 80 much ss Holsters just ready to serve. He starts for home with his little string of dusty sun dried fish and feeling like the last hope or a lost chord or some thing like that. He forgets what he said about resolutions and makes an other, and all the next day whenever one of his friends comes along and gives him friendly slap on the shoui' der he keeps on renewing it and may be says things that wouldn't look well in the society columns. Alas! the frail- ty of mere man. His wife consoles hum by saving she told him so and she never did see what pleasure man could See in sitting on an old stump hold ing stick in his hands all day unless it was to get out of doing something useful.