Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — SETH GREEN GOES FISHING. [ARTICLE]

SETH GREEN GOES FISHING.

He Does Not Hear the Babbling ot the Brook or Watch His Friend. Rochester Democrat “In the first place, when I go fishing Igo fishing. I don’t hear the babble of the brook. I don’t see the fluttering bird nor the silvery leaves, nor the -beautiful sky. Neither do I fish anybody’s elee’s line. I fish my own, and 1 don’t watch my companion, if I have one, to see whether ho bite or not, I don’t cam whether he gets a bite or not. I am attending to my own business, and looking for a good place tocast. lam looking for the fly that is on the water; and to see if them is a rise. I see one, no matter if it is ten rods away. I mark the place, and make for it.l don t run,but move quietly along and keep fishing, and when I get within casting distance I drop my fly a little short, and if 1 don’t get a rise the next cast is made exactly on the spot on which the fly’it.My fly does not go with a thud as though I wanted to hit the bull’s eye, but it touches the water as lightly as a fond mother’s hand touches the brow of a lovely, coaxing child that she loves better than I can find words to express. lam just as sure ot a rise, too, as the fond mother is that the child will roll its loving eyes up to her face with an expression which says to her, ‘I am yours.’ I feel when my fly drops so’gently on the water that it does not make a ripple, that the fish is mine. That is the secret of fishing.”

The Germans and, French Secrets. London Daily Telegraph Paris Letter. A curious fact has j ust been brought to light at Arras. For the past four years a M. Lieb has been acting as foreman in a large candle . factory in that town. He was active, intelligent and much esteemed. A few days ago the police asked him to show them the documents establishing his identity, in virtue of an investigation which has lately been set on foot by the government with a view to ascertaining the number of foreigners residing in France. M. Lieb left Arras the same day for Belgium,and an inquiry havingbeen promptly instituted it was ascertained that he actually held the rank of a captain of German Uhlans. His friends than remembered that he had been in the habit of rising early and taking long walks about the fortifications. Bovee: A sound discretiofi is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.