The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-30
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Inc t1SucrnlAn ana ISIS "ncS.-NhN 10 IL tnat mon
VIII" arc otherwise truthful arc given to stretching the
truth when it comes to describing their fishing ca
perienccs?
Its "a queer twist of human character. These men
not only fool their hearers, hut they fool themselves.
When a man starts telling his pet fishing story and
says that the fish was so long t--). and the next time
i'm telling the same story says 1t was 80 long (-),
and a year after in telling it again swears the fish was
s" long t-------), he really believes it every time.
And what fisherman. pray tell, ever had his fish
scales tested
Fish sra1cs-no, tho scales that clothe the fish but
those that weigh it-are fearfully and wonderfully
made. Probably if the law against catching six-inch
trout induced fishermen to carry a pocket rule. that
rule would contain inches only two-thirds the conven-
'l"na' size. And IN" fisherman would swear till he
was black in the face that if any other rule had inches
ON IL longer than his, the other rule was wrong and his
~ child vas born the other day in the parish pre-
sided over h. Rev. William Chalmers Covert. a we'll
known pastor of a prominent Chicago church.
The proud parents. Of course. wanted to know how.
much the baby weighed. but there was no scales handy.
So they borrowed Or. Covert's fish scales, he heing
an enthusiastic angler. And they weighed the baby on
these scales.
The baby. much to the amszemcnt of the proud
parents. weighed ,hirty-six pounds.
And this particularly fisherman is a Clergyman. too.
Duluth Herald.
Olaf Rihh is putting up a sid" dish to his editorial
column i'm the Mountrail County Promoter headed.
Spare Ribs Rihh has a distinct style of his own and
is a good mixer of the serious and the ludicrous. This
week he paid a brief compliment to mother thusly:
YOUNG man, when the leap year girl has put the mo-
ment"us question TO YOU, never say yes" unless YOU
arc sure she WILL make a good mother for your chill
drcr. If YOU have chosen ono of these Won will rise up
and call yourself blessed every morning Of YOUR life
oven if she is AS honely as q last wears straw pile.
HomelN did Ne say. We beg pardon. There is MOTH
inc more eautifnl, under the sun. than a good mother"
a passenger on the 500 line repeated the old Joke
at Courtenay q frw days ago when he tried to- mount
his train after il was we'll under way. AS a result he
made a hne exhibition. He showed the spectators how
I" get down on all tours: he stood on his head: rolled
over, ploWcd mp the right uf way with his nose and
did so many stunts that he held the audience in breath.
loss suspense, finally dSa ppointinc then, by faiIipe to
get kilt"
Up at Masrath. Alberta, they have a new stunt for
helping the church. In order to replace the $40. 900
tahernacls of the Latter Day Saints. recently DESTROYED
NY fre. members Of the organization began last Sun
day giving toward the fund all the eggs laid by their
hens on the sabbath day. II is thought that sufficient
money Will he realized by harvest time to rebuild the
structure. wouldn't that be tainted money, earned by
labor on the Sabbath day?
lh"N are WORKING tn" trouble incubator overtime
out IN Fittings county and each week brings forth a
nice hatch. Billings promises to rival Ward comfy for
the production of political troubles.