Life — March 5, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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POOR LO SNATCHED BALOMEADED, joined our party, ‘but let me tell you, Doctor, that AN ENGLISIT paper tells this story of how the Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of the Leland I saw a Digger Indian catch more fish in an hour Mad Mullah worked one of the "miracles" which tanford, Jr., University, who has recently discov. in this stream than you've landed all day with your drew many waverers to bis banner: “An English ered a number of new varieties of fish in the fine flies.’ man-of-war was sent to demonstrate off the coast streams of Hawall and the Philippines, Is a great “What bait did he use?" I asked. and at night threw a searchlight on to the jungle. sportsman as well as a conscientious ichtbyolugist. “ ‘Live grasshoppers,’ replied the old man, ‘but covered mountains, Abdullah was in hiding there. As might be expected, he uses the most approved he didn’t impale them, From his head he would and, knowing from bis visits to Aden what it was of modern rods and files in fishing stoically pluck a hair and with it bind the strug- that bis followers hailed as a new star, told them T bave met some fishermen, even among profes- _gling insect to the hook. Almost upon the instant that the light was secking him. When the electric sional sportsmen, who prefer old-fashioned meth- that this bait struck the water a fish would leap for rays actually flooded his encampment, he cried ia ods,” said Dr. Jordan, “and though the ancient it. After landing him the Indian would calmly re- triumph: ‘Will you deny now that I am under tb story of the farmer's boy wbo catches fish with a peat the performance of snatching a hair from his eye of God?’ The Somali fell on thelr knees, beat bent pin fastened to a piece of twine where full- head and affixing a fresh grasshopper to the book. the earth with their foreheads, and replied: “Thou d sports from the city fail to get a bite bor: “LT became fascinated,” continued the narrator. art truly the Elect, the Chosen, the Mullah, the » the mythical, I have actually witnessed in- ‘After the Indian had landed in quick succession a Master. Our goods, our existence, our souls beloog of success with back-number outfits where mighty string of salmon trout he suddenly stopped. to thee. We place ourselves entirely at the disp modern appliances failed to land the game. I called to bim to go on with the exciting sport. sition of thy will.” A few weeks later came “One day in Callfornia I had had a remarkable | but he merely smiled grimly and pointed signif- . news of the rising of some 4,000 of these Som run of luck, and that night as we sat around the — cantly to bis bead." —Exchange. camp-fire I took occasion to say that my success ‘What was the matter with bis head?’ I was duo‘to’the:superior tie of Sles:T had tised ked," said Dr, Jordan Wom the politicians wish to destroy, they “You may flatter yourself on the string you've ‘He had plucked It bald,’ replied the old man.” first. nominate for President on the Democratic brought in to-day,’ sald in who had Saturday Evening Post. ticket.—Penn, Punch Bor. Live Is for sale by all Newsdealers tn Great Britain, The International News Company, Bream's Butiding, Chancery Lane, London, F.C., England, AGENTS. Two Sides Aside from the cheer and Established (823. WII SON comfort it gives to life Hunter WHISKEY Whiskey That’s All! is friendship’s pledge in THE ‘NILSON DISTILLING ©O., happy hours, Ralumere: Wa. Laxautay & Sox, Baltimore, Md L — e/bendld BLACK, STARR ana Constable PC, FROST, White Goods. 438 FIETH AVE., NEW YORK. Mercerized Cheviots, Basket Weaves Embroidered Butcher Linen, Linen Etamine and Crash, Embroidered Mull, Nainsook and J Mul . Swiss, Silk Gingham, Madras, —7 Embroidered Piqué,Croquet Checks, Figured Macclesfield, MAPLEWOOD Cocoa .o CHOCOLATE |{ 0“ Crcanic sna suit maaiininaas || BROWNS Unsurpassed for PURITY cal, Sanatorium estabilsned in 1835 for the ptt Bronchial Troches ano Deliciousness of FLAVOR Broadovouy B 1908 ot, [unas Alcoholic Addictions, Toos|— Promptiy Retlove Conghe, Hoarsencss, kands having failed elsewhere have been cured ‘Throat and Lung Troubles. sold by by us, Home Treatment if Desired. . @ROCERS ERYWHERE. NEW YoRK. Address Tux Dx. J. L. STEPHENS Co., Nothing excels this simple remedy. Lxesaxon, 0. ROYAL L, LEGRAND 032126 irEy eee so et soon comicbooks.com