The Holly chieftain., January 19, 1900, Image 8

About The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987

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OLD LETTERS.
The houss was silent. and the light
Wag fading from tas wesiern glow;
I read, till tears had dimmed my sighs,
Some letters written loug ago.
The voices that have pamed away,
The faces that have turned to mold,
Were round me in the room today
And laughed ard chatted as of old.
The thoughts that youth was wont to think,
The hopes now dead forevermore,
Came from the lines of faded ink
As gweet and carnest as of yore.
1 laid the letters by and dremamed
The dear dead past to lite again;
The present and its purpose seemed
A fading vision tull of pain
Then, with a sudden shout of glee,
The children burst into the room;
Their little faces were to me .
As sunrise in the cloud of gloom.
The world was full of meaning still,
For love will live, though leved ones die;
1 turned upon lite's darkened hill
And gloried in the morning sky.
—Prederick George Scott in Boston Transcript.
SALMON FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Stories About This King of Fish by
an Experienced Angler.
“A salmon doesn’t take the fly as a
trout does, and it never rises to oue while
it is passing up or down stream,” said an
experienced angler for this king of fish.
“It is only while the salmon is lying at
rest in pools, the reposing water at the
foot of some rapid or the silent starting
place of such a rapid that it will respond
to the fisherman's cast.
“Salmon may be moving along by the
thousand in the deep stretches of a
stream that extend perhaps for a mile be
tween rapids, but the angler might drop
his flies above them for a mouth if it
were possible without even being reward
-4 by a single rise. The pool is the place
to whip and the time early morning or
late in the afternoon. If the epicuresn
denizen of the pool is so inclined, there is
sport ahead for the angler. He drops his
fly lightly on the water, and then the sal
mon in the bumor will rise to it and seize
it at once. Then the excitement begins.
It is divided between the fish and the
angler. The more the salmon tries to get
out of trouble the deeper he gets the fish
ermaa in. The fish no sooner feels the
hook in bis jaw than he secms to realise
that he has got to get it out as soon as
possible, Then things begin to boil.
I'he first thing the fisherman knows a
hundred feet of line has spun from his
reel, and he thinks Le is in for a long
chase down stream. when suddenly the
salmon doubles and dashes straight back
toward the boat. Then there is work for
the angler if he expects to reel in the
slack of the line and get it taut again io
good time.
“No sooner is the line taut once more
than the salmou feels its tension through
the hook in its jaw, and the chances are
that he will shoot upward and out of the
water his entire length and more. Tak
ing his header, he dashes madly down
iuto the depths again, tearing this way
aod that way, darting around and around
and making lively work for the fisherman
and the handler of his boat. After an
exciting series of maneuvers such as this
the mad fish may take it into his bead to
start down stream like a steam engine,
putting the guide at his best to keep the
boat near him. The salmon may lead a
clinse of a miie in this way, then stop
suddenly and resume its leaping and dou
bling tactics.
*“The fight may last an hour or more.
and if the angler is skiliful and cool and
his guide or gaffman dexterous and
watchful the contest should have but one
eading, and eventually the glittering
prize will be stretched at the bottom ef
the canoe. If the angler is not skillfal
aad cool, the fight will aiso have but one
ending. The glittering fish will pot be
stretched on the bottom of the eanoe, but
in a very short time will be at the bottom
of the pond. no doubt congratulating him
self that his foeman was not worthy of
his steel.”—Washingten Star.
A Philadelphia Scheme.
“Give me a glasa of sherry,” he said to
the man behind the bar. “Don't fill the
glass too tull.”
T'he bartender winked at me and put
the sherry bottle and a winegiass on the
bar. The middle aged man felt carefully
in the tail pocket of his coat and drew
therefrom an egg. Breaking the shell,
Le emptied the contents into the wine
glass and poured enough sherry on top ef
it to fill the glass to the brim. T'hen he
tossed the drink off, laid down 10 cents
and walked out.
“That beats me,” 1 exclaimed when he
was out of hearing. “Ever see it done be
fore?’
“Yep, several times by him,"” answered
the bartender. *“One of the sort that
plays 'em close, you know. Saves 5 cents
every time he takes a drink, for the regn
lar price of sherry and egg is 15 cents, as
you probably know. Where does he get
the eggs? Search me. Guess he must
have bens or else stand in with a man
who does, for the eggs he brings here all
look just as if they were newly laid.
Good day!"—Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Country With One Policeman.
There is one country in the world, and
probably only one, which gets along with
a single policeman; that is leeland. lce
land is peopled by the descendants of
vikings, including many famous warriors
and heroes, but they are so lawabiding
that they have no need of policemen.
The solitary officer, in spite of his great
responsibility, has a very easy time. He
is maintained more for ornament and
dignity than for use. The Icelanders
think it would uot do to have a capital
without a policeman, and so they keep
one. This police force is large in ome
sense. [ts member is six teet high, broad
shouldered and haudsowely uniformed.—
Green Bag.
An Amusing Vreak.
The Fat Woman—That living skele
ton is a great humorist, {sn't he?
The Dog Faced Boy—Yes, he's got »
lot of funny benes.—Kansas City Ia-
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