Next week the first instalment of “The White Company,” a serial story by Sir A. Conan Doyle, will appear in the Magazine Section of theCentre, Democrat. Part 2. MA GAZINE SECTION. The Cendre 1] * CAUGHT MONSTER FISH. LADY ANGLER LANDED BIG JEW FISH OFF SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA. Fie» y Monsters of Three Hundred Pounds and Upwards are Now Caught With Rod and Reel-Jew- fish a Gamey Fellow, Women who enjoy angling, and, in fact, everybody who likes to hunt and fish, will be interested {a the exploit with rod and reel of Mrs. A, W. Bar- rett of Los Angeles, Cal. The fish in the case was a black sea bass, or Jew- fish, of the Pacific Ocean, weight 368 pounds, caught off Santa Catalina Isl- and, Cal., last month by Mrs. Barrett after 53 minutes of strenuous battle, The black sea bass of the Pacific— one of the gamiest of its kind-—is In season on the Southern California coast from about April to November, and affords favorite sport to anglers of both sexes. Owing to its great size, it cannot, of course, be pulled with rod and line into the boat, so, after one ie hooked, the plan is to play it and tire it out and then, as it comes exhausted to the surface of the water alongside the boat, the boatman thrusts his gaff into it and tows the conquered levia- than ashore. Up to twelve years ago no one dreamed of landihg these monsters of the deep, except with heavy hand lines; but since General C. D. Viele, U. 8S. A., one summer day in 1894 managed to se- cure one with rod and reel, no true angler thinks of fishing for them in any other way than with a rod. A well-known fisherman, in describ Ing his experience with this fish in the Nature Library states that he has seen a 200 pound black sea bass or jewfish snap the largest shark line like a thread, and large specimens straighten out an iron shark-hook, while at the | same time skilled wielders of the rod catch these giants of the tribe with a line no larger than an eye-glass cord. His first experience with the Call- fornia jewfish was a most remarkable | one. “When we got out to the fishing | ground,” he stated, “the anchor was tossed over, the rope ram merrily out, and the hook baited with a 6-pound whitefish, went hissing down to the big submerged rock. “ ‘Sometimes he bite, sometimes he don't,’ remarked Joe: ‘but whether he do or not, we have the fishin’ all the same.” And he looked at me inquir- ingly, to see if I was of that variety “I was an old shark fisherman, hav. ing eaught many of these monsters in the Mexican Gulf, and had taken a Florida jewfish and a tarpon; and I saw that work of a similar kind was before me now. The line jerked heavily in my hand, then began to run steadily. When about 6 feet had gone over the gunwale 1 stopped, gave a glance at the coil to see that all was clear, and whea the line came taut jerked the hook Into my first jewfish, “1 have every reason to believe that the latter was astonished, as for a single second there was no response; then came a Jerk that almost lifted me from the boat, and the line went hiss- ing over the rail like a living thing, playing a merry hornoipe of its own composition. Nothing could stop such a rsh, and I simply waited, while Joe pulled up the anchor. When the latter was in, 1 grasped the line and braced back for the tight. The light boat whirled around like a top, aud away we went, like a tug surging through the water, an owluous wave of foaw rising high around the bow. “A 10-foot shark never pulled harder than this gamey fish, and for 5 minutes it was a question who was master. I took it in with the greatest difficulty, raining 10 feet, only to have the fish rush toward me and then dash away with an impetus that was more than irresistible. Then I would stop him agnin, slowly making foot by foot, hand over hand, taking a turn on the cleat, slacking and pulling, in attempts to tire the monster—tactics that for a while were of no avall “One of the tricks of this fish was to stop aid jerk his head from side to side violently, a proceeding that pro- duced an effect equivalent to striking blows at the holder of the line—tre- mendous jerks that came, one, two, three! then one, two, three!—then the line would slacken as the fish rushed up. Amd if I took the line In quickly enough to prevent a turn, well and good; if I did not, the fish would turn | and dash at the bottom, making every- thing hum and sing. “Giving and taking, hauling and eas- ing off, for 20 minutes, I was almost satisfied that I had done my whole duty in the premises, when suddenly the fish rushed up, and recov.ring, I | took in slack, and with a final effort | brought the black glant to the surface, For a moment I saw a pair of eyes as large as those of an ox, a rich chest. nut black, and then, with a tremen. dous heave, the fish threw itself over deluging me with water and half cap sizing the boat. It was the last struggle. 1 kept my hold, and with another haul had the king of Pacific | coast at hand's-length, where it rolled GIANT JEWFISH CAUGHT BY MRS. BARRETT, of fishermen who are never satisfied unless the fish are always on the line, It so happened that 1 found pleasure in the mere anticipation: and we sat sllent for half an hour, I holding the throbbing line that the ebbing tide played upon as the string of a musical instrument. * * * [I glanced at my companion, and was wondering if In his veins ran the blood of the Aztecs or of the Indians whom Cabrillo and others found here centuries ago when Santa Catalina was an empire In It self and owned by them, when sud denly 1 became aware that wie ten- sion of the line I held had Increased to a steady pull; then cate a jerk that carried my band inte the water, “Jowfish, sure!’ whispered Joe, awakened from his reverie by my ex- clamation, ‘Slack! “I paid out the line, while he seized the anchorline and made ready to haul up. “Give him 10 feet, and then hook! were my orders, n and tossed, Its huge tall bathing us with spray, protesting against its eap- ture, “What a wonderful creature It was! The experience of the moment, the sensations, could not have been pur- chased. It was worth going a long way to accomplish. Imagine, you casters of the black-bass fly, a small mouthed black bass lengthened out to six feet, bulky In pfoportion, a giant black bass—one Increased to a size that tips the scales at 347 pounds! Imagine this, and you have the Jew. fish, black sea-bass, of the Pacific const—n noble fish, a gamey fellow, “It has always been doubted that a large Jewfish could be taken on a rod; but during the summer of '4 1 went to the Jewish grounds one August day with Major Charles Viele of the United States army, and watched him bring a jewfish of 14 pounds’ weight to terms, on a Tufts—Liyon yellow tall rod of 16 ounces and a No. 21 Cutty- CANNON AT SEVENTY. A GREAT ADO MADE OVER THE ANNIVERSARY OF “UNCLE JOB’S’’ BIRTHDAY. Greeted With Hearty Applause on the Floor of the House and Honor- ed With Reception Which all Official Washington Society Attended. There were great doings in Wash- Ington town last month when “Uncle Joe" Cannon, the “Czar” of the House of Representatives reached his seven tieth year. In the first place a great storm of cheers greeted the Speaker when he appeared on the floor of the House, Both Republican and Demacratic members applauded the Illinois states- man long and loud, Mr, Cannon ac- kvowledging the salutation with a homely bow. In the evening, official washington honored the Speaker at a reception tendered him by the House of Repre- sentatives, where some 1500 guests were luvited. That the passage of “UNCLE JOE' CANNON. time was not worrying Uncle Joe was manifested by the hearty hand-clasps | with which he greeted his friends, as well as the salutations extended to those who confused years with age. Uncle Joe was “seventy years young.” President Roosevelt Joined in the ovation, offering the Speaker his hearty congratulations, not because be was getting old, but because he was doing It gracefully. Mr. Cannon did two things which might worry many a younger man. First he hadeto sign something over a thousand photo graphs of himself, which were given to the guests as souvenirs, and again he shook hands with the guests upon re- celving an equal number of personal congratulations, There were many sly digs and re- marks regarding the buzzing of the presidential bee around Mr. Cannon's head, and one of the throng remarked {at the close of the reception, “Any man who can stand and shake hands with twelve hundred or more persons be- tween nine and twelve o'clock, and not show signs of fatigue, is well fit to enter the presidential race, and ought to enjoy the prize If he wins it." There were many friends present from Danville, Ill, who had sent a number of handsome wreaths and floral decorations, Mr. Cannon, how- ever, Is a native of Gulliford, N. C., and If his friends have their way the Speaker will be the first Southern man since the war to become a White House occupant. Spenking seriously of the presidency, Mr. Cannon sald, “No man would de- cline to become President of the United States, but not all men can af- ford to be a candidate for the place. The bee is not bothering me. 1 want to do my work as Speaker; that will be glory enough for me, and If 1 were a candidate I'd have to lie about my age, and I'd have to live constantly In fear and trembling, not as to whether I'm doing my duty, but as to whether, by doing my duty, I wouldn't give of- fense to somebody, “I guess I'll just go along and ‘tend my own business.” Ea BASEBALL AT WASHINGTON. Games Played Before Cabinet Offi. cers, Diplomats, and Congress. men. At the base ball games In Washing- ton, the learned Justices of the United States Supreme Court, law makers of both Houses of Congress, miembers of the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps, sit side by side with the merchant, artisan and government clerk, all keenly enjoying the national pastime. The big men of this and other nations In the eapital are base ball fans of the highest degree, and are glad to eschew court decisions, rallroad and other legislation, national and Inter national toples for the less welghty decisions of the diamond. As soon as business ean be transacted at the Capitol and In the departments it Is customary for these distinguished base ball enthusiasts to hetake them- selves to National Park for an after noon of enjoyment, rooting for their favorite teams and resting from af. fairs of State, The different teams throughout the country like to visit Washington for the privilege of playing before the most distinguished spectators to be hunk live, In Just 2% hours) found In any country ou the globe, mocrat. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics. Members of the local teams very quickly recognize the faces of the on- lookers and take pardonable pride In pointing out to the visitors the big guns of the nations. It is an impartial crowd too, which sits In judgment on the work of the athletes on the dia. mond and good play is appreciated and applauded no matter which side makes the exhibition. There are nine judges on the Supreme Court bench and a majority at the ball park Is not an unusual spectacle, A quartet is a cer. tainty, comprising Assoclate Justices Harlan, Day, McKenna and White, who can often be seen engaged In discussing a knotty point regarding a foul or strike, or close base play, showing as much seriousness as though some Intricate problem re- garding the flag, the Philippines or the tariff was under question. Justice Day Is probably the best posted on the national game of any of his asso- clates on the Bupreme bench, for he bas played it, and never misses an exhibition when he is In the city, and un ball game Is advertised. ARDENT CONGRESSIONAL FANS. There are nearly five hundred con. gressmen in the two branches of the national legislature and it Is pretty safe to predict that fully one-half of this number are interested attendants | during the championship season. They are not at all dismayed at the pros- pect of a long season of Congress when sure of an afternoon's recrea- tion following a long-drawn war of words at the Capitol earlier In the day. President Roosev- it a few weeks ago, was presented with a golden pass, entitling him to free admission to ah ball games in the National and Ameri- can Leagues and circuits. He prom. ised the presentation committee to en deavor to occasionally visit the ball park In Washington and witness the ball games played there. Frequently his son-in-law, Nick Longworth and his wife occupy seats in the grand stand, preferring to be among the en- thusiastic gathering than to a+'il themselves of the President's pass and a seat in the private box. When waere Is a eall of the House or Senate and the sergeant-at-arms is charged with the duty of bringing In absentees the first place to which the deputies are sent, If the base ball sea- son Is on, Is out to the ball park. One of the most picturesque spec. tators at National Park is the Chinese minister in flowing oriental robes, usually accompanied by his little son. When he* was a student at Amherm the Chinese minister played on his class team, and he is initiating his heir into the mystries of the Amer ican game. MIGHTY ONES OF THE LAND. Three of the President's official fam. iy, Attorney General Moody, Posxt- master General Cortelyou and Secre- tary Metealf of Commerce and Labor, dispel the irksome routine of depart. ment life by going out to the bal game whenever they can steal away from their desks. They generally sit together and, being pastmasters in the art, keep score and compare notes as to base hits and errors. Attorney Gen- eral Moody has a warm spot In his heart for the catcher, having played that position when he was a collegian, Vice-President Falrbanks wants a front seat when he goes out to witness the national game, his favorite place being just back of first base, where he can command an uninterrupted view of the entire fleld. Surgeon General Wyman was a pitcher In his early days, and when not busy with quarantine matters or | other detalls relating to the public heaith he finds his greatest enjoyment in witnessing a championship contest between two evenly matched teams, One of the first things Prof. Willis Moore of the Weather Bureau looks for In bis morning newspaper is the base ball record. This Is contingent upon the fact, however, that he has not been a spectator, for the professor never falls to answer present when he ean get away from the study on prognostications. Moreover, he is fre quently inedemand, e rlier in the day, to predict if the weather can be de- pended upon for a gawe. A Kindly Smile, Mrs. Coxe has the same kindly greet. ing for every one, whether he be the miner, blackened with the grime and dust of the mine, or in a higher sta- tion of life. She suggests to the parent that in the home there should be im- portant training of the children, but the idea 1s never advanced excepting in a spirit of kindliness and of the broad- est kind of sympathy. Her love for the masses is not simulated; it is the joy of her heart. She has paid the rent for many a widow and orphan; has helped out go that the little ones may attend school, and has provided the mother with employment so that the home may be kept together, Mrs. Coxe's home, like her life, Is the paragon of modesty; she leads the “simple life” in all its real simplicity. Her chief alm seems to be to assist the poor and needy. She has no pet phil- anthropies; there art no endless calls upon her time from society folk; there are no wonderful gowns, no costly mil. linery; no splendor of jewels, laces or sablos adorn her person. It Is not, after all, the charity which she dis- penges that has won for her the love and admiration of the tollers of the mines, and that of their wives and lit- tle ones, but it la the partly of her character that constantly teaches a beautiful lesson, not only to the mining town, but to the world at large which may study to its own Jmptovemeg) the generous, unselfish, sacrificing life of this noble woman. ————— market Zh ES 1 can any ig A SURE SAFEGUARD. CO-OPERATION AMONG PRODUC- ERS A FOUNDATION FOR ANEN~ DURING SOCIAL STRUCTURE An Address by George H. Maxwell at Bloomington, lil, Showing How This Principle Will Overcome Op- pression by Combination of Capital. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention i= I am a profound believer In the capa high destiny of which it Is capable If its genius 18 rightly directed. I am a most extreme optimist in my only equal rights, but equal opportun- all our people of the highest averag standard of life of which all are ca able and which can be brought within the reach of all Unless this Is accomplished boasted civilization will be but wave on the great ocean of time, ris ing into a brief existence, only to be submerged, as all the civilizations that have gone before us have been sub- merged, beneath the rottenness and corruption which has followed In evitably in the wake of vast accumu {lation of wealth, and the gradual ab- sorption of the land into great estates. HANDWRITING ON THE the nd he a hand- who Already In this country writing is on the wall, runs may read he warning iyron painted Ir rds when wrote: «oped he isa Tis but the same rehear First freedom, at f He ere ntlor tots vhs & ption—barbarisa alth, vice, at Inst And history, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”’ Our history will not be written on | that page, and I am here i1 you | why, and to tell you that your mos ment in the line of co-operation is on of the reas we will escape the fate that has at last destroyed all the great nations of the past | But we have already reached the stage of “wealth ] corruption.” No one who knows what goes | country that for a mx | If any one questions it he should read {the recently published entitled { “The Shame of the Citi Steffens, How are these dangers to be safe guarded against? THE CAR OF JUGGERNAUT. It cannot be done by purifying the cities, because they cannot be purified, Man will not rise above his environ ment or the dominating influence that environment, and the | which controls all things in our mod lern city is the mad race for wealth It is a car of juggernaut which crushes public and private integrity and morality and every just conception of patriotism under its wheels as it rolls ruthlessly onward, driven by the multitude who are ready to sacrifice not only themselves, but the'r country in the great gamble for quickly gained wealth, We closed up the Louisiana lottery in a burst of righteous public indigna tion, because it w the gambling mania and people, The district attorney of New York has recently set the machinery of the law in motion to stop the operations of {a gambler named Canfield. Wes orr y ms why Vice on int " mant doubts nnen book * by Lincoln 18 encouraging corrupting foul brood of bribe-givers amd bribe takers has been held and disgrace, and a few of them may be punished. COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH ut we have gone so far that cor ruption has become a business system and conditions in our cities wili breed {two corruptionists where one is pun ished. worse as the profits of preying upon the people become greater with the and our political and social institutions are rotting at their very sours The corruption of our cities will In. evitably taint and in the end control our national politics and the adminis. tration of our national government-- Unless And here Is the only safeguard Ugless we plant the great majority of our people on the soll and maintain it there, and the people themselves learn to do for themselves by co- operation, so that in the end we shall eventually become a great co-operative commonwealth, 1 am not proposing soclalism, as its devotees understand it, or as It Is usually defined and understood, as a remedy. Vy am proposing the exact opposite It. I am proposing the very highest form of Individual rights, opportunity, activity and development, Socialism is to dream about doing things, and to begin at the wrong end and fall, Co-operation is to do things, and to begin at the right end and succeed. Cooperation Is evolution—not revo- lution. ’ Evolution is the law of God. Evolution is the natural law which has controlled the creation of the earth and all that there is on It It Is the law of the development of the human race, and we n only to learn its lessons=and study it as a method for the solution of every social problem to save the people of this nation from the social and political dangers that confront them to-day. The trouble with most theories for the reform or betterment of social con. ditions Is that they are too radical, Reformers of that class plan an at 0 city of the human race to work out the | expec. | tations of what the people of this na- | tion will eventually accomplish in se- | curing in fact as well as in theory not | ity for all men and the achievement Dy | Pp WALL. | which | { training of influence | erate with | | individual m up to derision | Those conditions get worse and | increase of the population of our cities: | tractive theory, and then urge its adop jon all at once as a substitute for social conditions which have been a slow growth through the centuries, GROWTH MUST BE GRADUAL. They would create a tree instantly and have it all complete and perfect at its creation, doing It while you watch them, like a Hindoo juggler. They are not content to plant the acorn and let the sturdy onk of social strength grow gradually in accordance with the law of nature and as was intended by the all-wise Creator, jut we cannot nwa, They change Nature's are as unchangeable as the | stars, Whatever men may do they must first learn to do. Every oppression from which producers of this ¢ountry or any other sufferer to-day is because they have not learned or been trained to do for the things which they leave it to others to do for them, And those to whom they leave the themselves guch | things to be done, plan to make the our | | for doing them. greatest possible profit to themselves It is human nature that they should and always bas been and always will be 80, POLITICS. protect RIONS8 n DELUSIONS The delusion that lucers from Sud pres laws or by electh OF You h « can by ng of multitude » | tion of doing thing | | CO-Oper itive methods from tl » land » question of profit ane » glow awaker is something more Ng oO nt, who Is just beginning i rength, and when raised himself up to his ht, and trained his mind so it can direct for his own protec that | tion as the faculties which God has given him, he will look back with surprise and astonishment at the days when he imagined he was bound hand and foot by the Liliputians by Was a a whom be | surrounded. OF THE GIANT. is the awakening and of this glant—a symbolical embodiment of the abilities and ener- gles of the people themselves, which AWAKENING And It in | is the bope of this nation for the future, ——— You cannot oppress a man who | draws the rewards of his toll straight { from nature's treasure vaults—gets it from the land itself—land which he owns-land on which no money lender holds a mortgage—provided, always, that that man bas learned to co-op- iis fellow men of the same for themselves the things beyond the power of the an to do for himself—the h require the combined tive effort of many men class, to do which It is thi and coopera ngs whi to accomplish, {THE the | | problems PHILOSOPHY broad solution of our social which 1 am presenting to you contemplates the creation of con this country under which we will carry into practical effect the OF RUSKIN. The ditions in | sound philosophy of Ruskin when he In St. Louis and Grand Rapids the | a A a 4 said: “But since we live In an epoch of change and too, probably, of revolu- | tion, and thoughts which are not to { be put aside are In the minds ef all men capable of thought, I am obliged to affirm the one principle which can and in the end will close all epochs of revolution—that each man shall | possess the ground he can use, and no more.” It contemplates as a part of our | public school system that every boy should be trained so that be will know how to till the land for a livelihood. It contemplates that the rush to the cities shall be stopped by the better- ment of all the conditions of rural life —good roads, near-by neighbors, rural telephones, net works of electric rail- ways, rural free delivery, thickly settled communities and towns and villages in close proximity to every farm home, so that every farmer may enjoy as well as the city dweller the advantages of schools and churches and lbraries and gymnasiums, and where art and music may be studied for enjoyment in the home as well as in the cities, It contemplates that wherever the thing to be done for the benefit of such a community requires the effort of more than one man, that those who require to have the thing done for them, whatever It may be, shall com- bine together and do it for themselves, provided It Is within reach of the united and cooperative energy and capital of the aggregated number of individuals who require to have the thing done for them, In this category are creameries, Inundries, rural telephones, associa. tions for the cooperative purchase of supplies, associations for the sale or disposition of the products of the soil, and many other associations which 1 might mention for mutual economy, mutual benefit or mutual protection. In sections where Irrigation Is necessary, cooperative canal systems and irrigation works come within this category; and In many parts of the Sumy where Irrigation Is not now generally supposed to be necessary, co-operative pumping plants might be blished farmers for “the esta “among Irrigation of lands avhich they could
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