Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1889 — What the Trout Brought. [ARTICLE]

What the Trout Brought.

A story of a Maine judge’s love for fishing and shrewdness in gratifying it is told by the Wilton Record. He was on the bench when word came that the trout were biting at Weld Pond, and he had a case on the docket for trial. It -was a divorce case between an aged couple who had lived together for forty years, and now wanted to be released from the bonds ®f matrimony. There were many witnesses, and tine Judge foresaw that if the cake came to trial it would be four or five days before he could get away, so he sent for the old couple and talked the matter over. He gave them good advice, ;and they finally agreed to try once more to live together in harmony and went away happy. The next morning the Judge started for Weld, and last Friday he landed a twelve-pound salmon. If our judges did less divorcing and more fishing, perhaps society would be quite as well off.— Lewiston Journal.