Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-20

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9 Johnnie. please take that squash
! on the kitchen table over to Mrs
Rast's right away. Il told her yester.
day morning that would send it over
ny you,. Mrs. Walker said to hel
9uelve-year-old sor,; one pleasant
spring forenoon.
eMay Igstop and play:" the boy
asked.
why. yes, for an hour" the moth.
eT answered.
The Walkers lived on the south
side OF the North Fork Of the Umpqua
River, a mile from the Rasts, who
Hired half mile up the river on the
Skher side of the stream. The Ump-
S Suz flows through the little COM
rnnnIty of Winchester, In Western
Oregon, a large mountain stream,
famed throughout that region for the
salmon and trout fishing oftits eddies
and rapids
. So wide is the stream that the only
means OF crossing is by boat or rail-
road or wagon. bridge three or four
hundred yards below the Rast house.
HardIy a hundred yards below the
bridge is the, power station for the
electric light and water works, which
supplies Roseburg, town OF four
thousand inhabitants, five miles dis
tant- The power is generated by mo-
5ors, the water for which is held back
by twelys-foot dam. On the power
station end OF the dam a big "crib"
Stands to protect the motors and
other machinerys
AS Johnnie walked by On his err
rcnd, he looked with longing eyes to
this cri0. which was an especially
good place for ashipg. No one was
there
\. Mrs. Rast was glad to get the
sguasb. but Ger son Charlie had gone
Np the river with his father. John
nj hrst was disappointed, but he
xhoHght he could spend the hour fish
ing Just as. well, and SO said he did
MOt care much.
Wait minute, John!" Mrs. Fast
exclaimed. as he turned to go back.
! Your sister Annie wanted something.
Wait until l get 1t.
She brought back small, dark
red box for the sister and e piece OF
nie for the lad. - i.9
NOV. don't lose that she said.
lyon GETTY this In your hand ali the
way Your sister wants itmore than
anything in the world As
A,sn3 An right, ma,am," Johnnie an
dutifully
p Nov, don't you lose. that. If you
DO, yonr sister will be the maddest
En gu1 eyer saw. she. repeated. as
The boy passed through the gate.
johnny looked at the red bog care
fully On the back was a jumble OF
-nsmss, suggesting some kind Of medi-
-cine, as nearly as he could tell.
Mus. be for sisters throat he
Thought. q
From the bridge, with the three
spans Of nearly a hundred feet each,
and one approach equally long, the
river looked most enticing. The por-
tiDn above the dam was CLASSY, the
bottom revealing every pebble and
stone, except in the deeper parts. Be-
Low the dam the. stream ran. like a
lni1Lrace as far as the lad could see,
heyond,the railroad bridge, down to
the bend, under a frowning noun
tnin-
Afy. but thought saw a salmon
jumg just below the dam! {" he unused
tohIHiself. Then he hurried or.
When helcame TO the power house
he hesitatsd, then determined to go
0ut on the crib to see who was fish
Ing No one was there. he looked
round A piece of fshline was tied
Dsan iron bolt. He stuck the red box
with its precious contents into his left
pocket
The boy bad only two, and both
were In the front of his trousers
opening upward, not like the usual
side pockets. The right one had q
hole IN it, and the left had been sewed
up SO near to the mouth that the
box, when ne stuck it in, barely
slipped down half its length. When
ne had pushed 1t little farther down
he pulled the fshline up. d
1t was Of unusual quality, there
being on the end an Undated double
gut No, 5 hook. On the other side Of
the CRIB, where the water came GU;
from the motors, was the best achut
hole" in the vicinity. Severa, small
chunks ofSsalmon egg we're scattered
ON top Of the crib.
The boy wound up the line, and
haisea the hook with one of the
chunks. He fixed the length that ht
needed, and in small loop abou
eight Inches in diameter rolled the
several extra feet Of line round hi
wrist
Then he slipped to the edge OF thu
structure, next to the club hole, ant
gently dropned his bait, the eggs