Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 August 1897 — Page 6

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SOME FISH STORIES.

TOLD BV A VISITOR TO SANTA CATALINA.

A Gaest of the Pasadena Ananias Club on a Pacific Inland, Where It It Always Cool Catching a Two Hundred

Pounder.

[Special Correspondence.]

AVALON,

SAXTA CATALINA, CAL., Aug. He was a genial gentleman. He never told a lie, But when be went a-'flshing he—

Why, be prevaricated, that's

all—at

least his neighbors said he did, and BO some of them started the Ananias club and made him its president, and .when I was in Pasadena and casually met him he told me, with tears in his eyes, that he was no more entitled to the honor than I wfls, but I was skeptical, and so he finally said: "Well, if yon don't believe my fish stories just run over to Santa Oatalina and see for yourself. If yon don't come back with stories equally big, why, I'll eat all the fish you catch Now, I rather like a good story myself and would never think of inquiring as to its authenticity

A MORNING'S CATCH.

provided it were well told. Still I concluded to go to Catalina, not so much to verify the fish tales as to wet a line.

Leaving Los Angeles about noon, we reached the harbor of San Pedro an hour or so later, and taking steamer there at 0 o'clock were entering the harbor of Avalon. The island of Catalina is twenty odd miles in length, by from two to eight miles in width, a detached mountain of the Sierra Madre which rises from the waves some 80 miles distant from the mainland.

It is rather a congeries of hills and mountains, with some peaks nearly 2,000 feet in the air, wind swept canyons, precipitous cliffs and white sand beaches. Lying, as it does, just far enough away from the mainland to be •wept by cool breezes, and with the sheltered harbor of Avalon facing the east, and hence protected from the sea fogs, it has become the favorite retreat of the southern Californians when they wish to escape the heats of summer.

But there are two things you must not more than mention in southern California—that is, if yon intend to remain here and wish to enjoy unrestrained intercourse with the inhabitants. These are the heat and the sea fogs. The people here will admit that the sun warms things up a little during the day, for that is what he is here for, but they will not admit that he overdoes tho thing a single degree. I have yet to find tho place here that, is not cooler in summer and warmer in winter than any other place on tho coast.

And as to fogs, the earth may be enveloped in mist, so thick that you can out a tunnel through it with a knife and objects that you know are only a few rods away rendered invisible to the naked eye, but you are assured that such a thing is exceptional, even though it happens every day for a week. Now, Santa Catalina possesses what every other resort claims to have, a "high fog." A high fog is one that sails over the hills and mountain tops, tempering the heat and glare of the sun, but never descending quite low enough to make itself objectionable. Cool breezes, then, and a high fog of daily occurrence combine to make the climate of Santa Catalina about perfect.

That is why so many hundreds and thousands of dwellers on the heated main fly to Catalina when summer comes on •—that, and the fishing. Everybody here greedily swallows the delicious climate of Cataliim in largo doses, aud everybody also goes a-tishing.

As the ste.uner sailed up to the only wharf at Avalon we could see it covered with men and women, girls and boys, ©very one with fishing pole in hand and every one iutent upon the business in hand also. As the boat was niafle fast to the wharf there was a commotion among the fishes:, aud I heard a cry of "Boy overboard!"

There were a splash and a swirl of the water. One of the youngsters had got a bite that was all. None of the other fishers more than looked at him as he was yanked off the wharf and into the water, 20 feet below, but redoubled their attentions to their lines. A small boat put out from shore and made after

LANDING A FIFTEEN POTTSDER.

the bor. 'who was fast being towed out to sea, yelling lustily for help, but never letting go of his pole. The man in the boat reached ont and grabbed the boy and yanked him into tbe boat, still hanging on to the pole for dear life. "It's a yellertail," he spluttered. "He's big aa a whale, I wouldn't lose him for a farm." "So you shan't, aonny," said the boatman. "Here give me the pole. "No yoo don't," gasped the urchin. "He's my fish, and I'm goin to play him myself."

And play him be did. so scientifically that in" about *0 minute# be wai

brought to gaff and landed. When boy and fish were taken on shore, it was ?een that the former was only a few inches taller than tbe latter as they were stood up together to be photographed. The fish was a 45 pounder and didn't weigh very much less than its captor.

And the people on the dock went

on

with their fishing as though the yanking of

small boyB into tbe water by big fish was of daily occurrence. Of

course

I had to try it myself, and the very next morning went out to the seal rocks, some three miles below the beautiful harbor of Avalon.

Shorty was my boacman, and, though then almost incapacitated by reason of being ro love, yet he rowed me to the haunts of tbe yellowtail. There are fish here of almost every variety, such as albicore. mackerel, tunas, jewfisb, rock bass, barracadas, sharks, etc., but the gamiest and most desirable fish are tbe barracadas and yellowtails. These last are as trim, as handsome almost and as gamy as salmon. They run from 18 pounds up to 50, and their flesh is exceedingly fine.

I sat in a chair about amidships, facing tbe stern, while the boatman rowed gently along within a hundred yards or so of the shore. In my hands I held a split bamboo rod weighing about 12 ounces, with a large reel, on which was compactly wound a line some 600 feet long. A primitive arrangement attached to the reel acted as a brake, to be pressed against the line by the thumb when the line should be pulled out by the fish. A large hook about the size of a cod hook was baited with a fresh sardine or smelt about six inches long, fastened on with fine wire to keep tbe mouth shut, and the head toward the fisherman.

Shorty gently pulled the boat along, bumming to himself snatches of love songs, while Iran out about 100 feet Qf line and watched the water. An hour passed and the sport was beginning to get wearisome when suddenly the line seemed to fetch up against a rock. "Back her!" I sang out to Shorty. "The line has fouled." "Fouled be he yelled. "That ain't a rock. It's a yellow tail. Don't try to hold him, sir. Let him have the line—all he wants—or he'll break the rod. That's it. Keep her taut. Don't let him get any slack."

Whiz, zip, swish, sang the line as it ran off the reel faster than a steamboat could have taken it. Four hundred, 500 feet of line was out, and I began to put on the brake. Gradually, after nearly wearing the skin off my thumbs, I brought the fish to bay, and then we fought it out for nearly 20 minutes "nip and tuck" between us.

By keeping the line taut I slowly' brought him toward the boat. Then he would make a spirited dash and reel out another 100 feet or so of liue, which I had to reel in again as best I could. My arms got tired and my fingers ached, but still the fight went on, the rod bending, the line singing and swishing through the water. At last, after many a dash and sullen tng at tbe line, I brought the silver sided fish up to the boat, when Shorty gaffed him and took him in. He was a 20 pounder and the largest I caught, but only a few days after a lady, fishing from a boat near the wharf at Avalon, successfully landed two yellow tails weighing respectively 45 and 50 pounds.

But these are not the largest fish. There are the great sea bass, or jewfisb, sometimes weighing up to 600 pounds, sometimes of 250 pounds weight, and sharks almost as large as whales. A jewfish weighing 200 pounds was recently lauded on a light rod and a 15 strand liue after a prolonged fight of nearly five hours by a skilled angler. Two friends of mine caught in three hours' fishing 15 yellowtails, weighing in the aggregate 450 pounds.

They are both members of tbe Ananias club. One is the president the other is secretary. No, I am not a member yet, as this is my first season.

FRED A. OBER.

STEAMBOAT REFORM.

Plans That Will Interest St. Lawrence River Tourists. [Special Correspondence.]

MONTREAL, Aug. 9.—Steamboating on the npper St. Lawrence is going to be revolutionized before next season opens. The steamers which have been in the tourist service for nearly half a century are to be remodeled, aud an en-4 tirely new system is to be introduced.

The change will be good news to the tourist, because every night for many years each of the steamers which make the trip from Toronto to Montreal has carried from 25 to 800 tired men and women who could not get staterooms. Every stateroom has had two occupants or more, aud hundreds have slept on the cabin sofas, on chairs, on cots, on the floor.

Now it is proposed to change the system. as I have said. Two large steamers are to be built by a Detroit concern for use between Toronto and Prescott. The old steamers are to have their upper works tern out, the staterooms removed aud »n extra deck for passengers built. The dining rooms will be placed on tbe main deck, and the three decks will be opened so as to make them observation decks. Lightened in this way, it is thought tbe steamers will not draw more than four feet of water.

The new boats will transfer their passengers to tbe old ones at Prescott for a daylight run through the rapids.

A great many thousand people in the United States who have taken the trip from Toronto to Montreal will look back with interest, no doubt, to the time when men and women sacrificed their comfort for tbe privilege of view ing the wonderful rapids of tbe St Lawrence and when the cabin of the Sardinian or tbe Passport at o'clock in the morning was a dressing room.

GRAXT HAJULTOS.

Moat Fatal Pfawwt.

Tbe moot fatal disease in England to bronchitis, then phthisis, then heart disease, pneumonia and acarlatina.

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TEBBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1897.

t.lying Beyond Income.

Many people are living among luxuries which are suited to tbeir tastes and their desires, but are not suited to anything else about them. Tbeir circumstances—would we could thoroughly apply that word—are not their real surroundings, not those of their proper standing.

Tbe false start is made with the wedding presents. Foolish friends give tc the bride of the young clerk or bookkeeper articles of luxury suited to an establishment that should expend $10,000 a year. It would knock out a great deal of tbe sentiment no doubt for wealthy and liberal well wishers to send a check expressive of their interest, but it would give a little freedom to tbe newly married folks to put it away for a future demanding more expense. Of course the foolish bride might instantly spend it in some personal or furnishing finery—might feel under obligations to the giver to do so, when the money should be considered rather as a "nestegg."

As it is now, everything is made hard for them. They are expected to compete in church and out of it with incomes five times their own. They are asked to contribute with the rich to every charity that is going. They have never studied the economies of housekeeping or cooking, and neither of them knows how to save coals or how to teach the ignorant servants who come into their service.—Good Housekeeping.

Curious Freaks of Razors.

The fiuest grades of razors are so delicate that even tbe famous Damascus sword blades cannot equal them in texture. It is not generally known that the grain of a Swedish razor is so sensitive that its general direction is changed after a short service.

When you buy a fine razor, the grains run from the upper end of the outer point in a diagonal direction toward the handle. Constant stropping will twist the steel until tbe grain appears to be straight up and down. Subsequent use will drag the grain outward from tbe edge, so that after steady use for several months the fiber of the steel occupies a position exactly the reverse of that which it did on the day of purchase.

Tbe process also affects tbe temper of th» blade, and when tbe grain sets from the lower outer points toward the back you have a razor which cannot be kept in condition even by the most conscientious barber.

But here's another curious freak that will take place in the same tool: If you leave the razov alone for a month or two and take it up, you will find that the grain has assumed its first position. Tbe operation can be repeated until*tbe steel is worn through to the back.—

Strand Magazine.

The White Whale's Tall.

Looking at the white whale at the aquarium a person not familiar with water animals might be mildly astonished to see that creature lean outward when swimming around in a circle, instead of inward. Seeking the oause of this, tbe observer unfamiliar with whales would discover that the whale's tail is set not in a vertical plane as is the case of fishes, but in a horizontal plane.

Set horizontally instead of vertically, the whale's tail is of the very greatest assistance to it in diving, and especially in rising promptly to the surface, which it is necessary for it to do at intervals to fill its lungs with air.

Going over again to the wall tanks, tbe observer may note again, and this time with anew interest, that all the fishes there have tails up and down, in line with the body, in a vertical plane, and he learns upon inquiry that all fishes have tails in a vertical plane, and that all aquatic mammals, of whiob tbe whale is one, have tails set exactly the other way, in a horizontal plane.—New York Sun.

Salvation Army Marriages.

In speaking of the Salvation Army marriage bureau which he recently established General Booth says: "I would that we had some such arrangement for every soldier in our ranks. Beyond question it will come to that. Indeed I shall not be surprised to find myself looking down from heaven in future years and seeing the whole business of the selection of partners for marriage intrusted to councils of the wisest, most experienced and spiritual of our officers, who will arrange not only who each officer and soldier shall marry, but tbe time of tbe event, and, in certain cases, whether they shall marry at all, instead of the business being left to the haphazard, accidental, irrational system— or no system at all—of individual choice as at present."

£ngiiBa alienors nave in tne main been better paid than on the continent Few oountries, like Norway, pension a poet as Ibsen has been, or, as in Hungary, pi.ivide a residence and income by the gifts of friends as bas been done for Moritet Jokai, tbe Hungarian poet

Out of 250,000 men who joined the Bussian army last year more than 800,000 were unable to read or write.

It Take* Win**.

I knew Dantel Drew when he had $19,000,000, and he died in debt I knew a gentleman who at one time had $8,000,000 in tbe bank who is now earning about $1,300 a year. Tbe $3,000,000 was in cash, in addition to his investments of various kinds. There are a dozen men in New York who ask me for occasional loans of from 50 cents to $o who, when I Jiret came to New York, were among tbe rich men of tbe town. —Cbaunoey M. Depew.

Mot All Do it.

"Any fool can write a novel, "said Griggle. Yon can make things come out just as yon want them to." "Very true," replied Dixon, "but yen must admit that there axe some fools who do not write novels,''—Boston Transcript

Clphe* Writing.

The art of secret writing, or writing in cipher, was, according to Polybius, invented by ./Eneas, author of a treatise on tactics and other works. He produced 20 methods of writing in cipher, which no person codd unfold, but we doubt much whether tbey would preserve tbis quality at the present day. It is no less strange than true that tbis art, so important in diplomacy, as long as couriers are liable to be intercepted, was held in abhorrence by the elector Frederic II, who considered it as a diabolical invention. Trithemius, abbot of Spanbeim, bad composed several works to revive tbis branch of knowledge, and Boville, an ignorant mathematician, being unable to comprehend the extraordinary terms be made use of to explain his method, puMisbed that the work WHS full of diabolical mysteries. Poissevin repeated the assertion, and Frederic, in a holy zeal, ordered the original work of Trithemius, which he had in his library, to be burned as tbe invention of tbe devil.—Harper's Round Table.

Substitutes For Glass.

Tectorium is the name of a material manufactured in Germany as a substitute for glacs. Bicbromated gelatin is laid over both sides of a kind of wqb of galvanized steel or iron wire and can be made into sheets one-sixteenth of an inch thick. It is unbreakable and is said to be lighter than glass. It bends easily, is a poor conductor of beat and cold, and is not difficult of repair. However, it is liable to become soft in hot weather and is inflammable.

Hornalos id much like tectorium, only more transparent and harder. Manilla paper soaked in boiled linseed oil until it is both waterproof and translucent is used as a substitute for glass in hothouses. It comes in long rolls, is durable, requires no shading from the hot sun, and, it is said, costs about onehundredth as much as glass.—New York Tribune. ine nroHtable Part.

Customer—So you sell these watches at $2.50 each. It must cost that to make them.

Jeweler—It does. Customer—Then bow do you make any money?

Jeweler—Repairing them. —Boston Traveler. Fair Proposition. "Don't you throw off anything because of tbe big heles in these doughnuts?" asked the new wife of the baker. "I'll tell you," he replied, scratching bisohin. "Eat the doughnuts, and we'll make a liberal allowance when you return the holes."—Exchange.

The only possessions now left to Spain besides Cuba are Puerto Rioo, in the West Indies, and the Philippines, in Oceanioa.

Education.

According to the order of nature, men being equal, their common vocation is the profession of humanity, and whoever is well eduoated to discharge the duty of a man cannot be badly prepared to fill any of those offices that have a relation to him. It matters little to me whether my pupil be designed for the army, the pulpit or the bar. Nature has destined us to the offices of human life, antecedent to our destination concerning society. To live is the profession I would teach him. When I have done with him, it is true he will be neither a soldier, a lawyer nor a divine. Let him first be a man. Fortune may remove him from one rank to another as she pleaseB. He will always be found in bis place. —Rousseau.

In cases where dandruff, scalp diseases falling and grayness of the hair appear, do not neglect them, but apply a proper remedy and tonic like Hall's Hair Renewer.

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In this workaday wox*ld few women are so placed that physical exertion is not constantly demanded of them in their daily life.

Mrs. Pinkham makes a special appeal to mothers of large families whose work is never done, and many of whom suffer and suffer for lack of intelligent aid.

England has one member of parliament to every 10,250 electors, Ireland one for every 7,177, Scotland one for every 8,894 and Wales one for every 9,618.

At the Prince of Wales' own particular olub in London neither gas, eleotrio light nor oil is commonly used, but in most of tbe rooms shaded candles.

"What Tommy Said.

Uncle John—Well, what do you mean to be when you get to be a man?

Little Tommy (promptly)—A doctor, like pa. Uncle John (quizzically)—Indeed and which do you intend to be, an allopath or a homoeopath?

Little Tommy—I don't know what them awful big words mean, Uncle John but that don't make no difference, 'cause I ain't goin' to be either of 'em. I'm just goin' to be a family doctor an' give all my patients Hood's Sarsaparilla, 'cause my pa says that if he is a doctor, he's 'bilged to own up that if he is a doctor, he's 'bliged to own up that Hoods' Sarsaparilla is the best family medicine he ever saw in his life.

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CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice Is hereby given, that on the 3d day of August, 1897. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for tlie improvement of the portions unpaved with concrete of tho sidewalks on Seventh street from Lafayette avenue to Eighth avenue, by grading and paving the same 6 feet wide with cement concrete the said improvementto be made In all respects in accordance with the general

of Improvement of said city, and accordng the plans and specifications on file In the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners and becomes due and collectible immediately on approval of the final estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed in writing, to be filed with said plans, to waive all irregularity and illegality of the proceedings and pay nis assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will be received for the construction of said improvement, at the office of the city clerk, on the 7th day of September, 1897. until five (5) o'clock and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold sureties or equivalent security, in the sum of two hundred dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duiv enter into contract and give bond within five days after the acceptance of his bid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of sucn Improvement may file such objections in writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 4th day of September. 1897. and be heard with reference thereto at the next regular meeting of the common council thereafter.

CHA8. H. GOODWIN, City Clerk.

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Cincinnati Excursion

SUNDAY, AUG. 8

A SPECIAL TRAIN

of Pullman Sleeping cars, elegant parlor cars and day coaches will run through to Cincinnati, leaving Terre Haute Union Station at 1:25 a. m. Iiate. to Cincinnati and return. $2.50. Tickets good returning on all regular trains including train leaving Cincinnati 7:15 p. m.. Monday, August 9th. Seats in parlor cars 50 cents each way.

Reservations and tickets at City Ticket Office, 654 Wabash avenue, telephone 37. or Union Station.

GEO. E. PARRINGTON. Gen'l Agt.

MONEY

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DAILEY & CRAIG

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Give them a call if you have any kind of Insurance to place. They will write you in as good companies as are represented in the city.

pAAO BALL & SON,

FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

Cor. Third and Cherry streets, Terre Haute Ind., are prepared to execute all orders in their line with neatness and dispatch.

Embalming a Specialty.

JOHN M. VOLKERS, ATTORNEY.

Collections and Notarial Work.

581 OHIO STREET.

JjTRANK D. RICH, M. D.

Vigo Count National Bank

Office and Residence 210 N. Sixth St. TERRE HAUTE. IND. Diseases of Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat. Hours—9 to 12 a.m., 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday* 9 to 10 a. m.

REAL ESTATE, LOANS

Collecting Agency and Accident and Life Insurance. Loans promptly made on city property and farm land at lowest rates.

Thos. A. E. Cantwell,

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Mr. & Mn. Henry Katzenbacb,

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gAMUEL M. HUSTON, Lawyer,

Notary Public.

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