The Prescott daily news., 1914-07-27
Cast Your Money Upon the Waters. It Will be Gathered up Many
 Days Hence"
 By John Tweezer.-

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 Notwithstanding least we should offend them, go thou to the sea. and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of money that take, and give unto them for me and thee"
 This is what Christ told his disci- ples to do when they were held up for their taxes, and found that they were short of the Hong green" Some of us now are in the same old boat our deciples were in, and have been looking into the mouths of fishes in the hope of finding a few sheckles to pay our taxes with. Just how many of us have been playing that little game of reciprocity with the fishes, 1 don't know-and won't know until the grand jury ceases operations.
 1 once read about an old "guy" by the name of "Cain", who caused a great deal of trouble during his admin istration. Now we hear a great deal of talk about Caney. I don't know whether they are related or not, but l have slight suspicion that they are, as 1 hear so much gossip about little Caney. From all reports if lit tie Caney could be persuaded to run endwise through the middle of the county instead of zig gag through the Southern portion, Gall of which will be done when the legislature meets,) it would be better for some of us tax payers, all that we would have to do, would be to cast our nets, then take few punks from the mouths of the fishes and pay our taxes.
 Now, who do the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea belong to? God said let man have dominion over them. I think that's what the law should say, instead of making fish out of some of the Counties and fowls out of the others.
 l used to coon hunt when I was a boy. We had little flee that was al ways barking up every tree he came to, and that's the way with some peo- pie when they are turned loose in community; they look up the wrong tree and get themselves and lot of their neighbors into trouble.
 I have heard it rumored that fish have been caught out of Caney Creek Now on the stump" who ever knew of fish being caught out of that stream, there is not enough fish in Cany to fill a small sardine box. have fished in Caney and battled with mosquitoes on its bank for the past thirty years. l have sat doubled up on a cypress knee for hours at a tune, watching the moscuito-hawks, ride around on the top of my big red fishing cork until it looked like merry go-round at a country fair. Then I have watched big red, white, and blue, moccasin climb up my fish ing line. then balance himself on the end of my poe and dive off into the water like I used to do when l was boy. l was not scared of the snakes, I knew it was a delusion, l always have them when l go fishing. l have tried every fishing device in the waters Of Caney, known to man, everything from a fly hook to dredging machine. I have bailed the water from the pock cts of the creek with wash pan and examined it with microscope to see if I could find a trace of fish spawn.
 I have drunk of its water to see if it tasted fshey, but never found any thing that looked fshey until the grand jury cast it's net and hauled in a carload of suckers.
 Now my brothers, it seems that big fish has been prepared to swallow us. The pillows and waves may roll over us, but if we will only keep kicking, and hold a stiff upper lip, the fish will vomit us upon dry land in three days and three nights, or sometime there about.