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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 13, 1908. 3 pa WW) J 13 Jw BT WALTER F. FACKt'S. THJ-3 Is the season of dreary waiting for the angler, for It seems u though Mother Nature, as well as the State Legislature, has decreed that fish shall not be caught during; the Winter months. With long continued rains she keeps the mountain streams so muddy and swollen that surcessful fishing Is qutte out of the question. Some of the most determined anglers ulll try to solace themselves by going after selmon trout, though comparea with fly fishing, this sport Is a very tioor excuse Tho sandy eddies along the Columbia River usually harbor few salmon trout and every Sunday n-ill finrt a. hunch of never-give-up fish ermen scattered along the shore. Some stlokv salmon eggs, several sets of rods and lines and a large bottle of UniiM heat" usually constitute the fisherman's equipment. The ssnd Is always cold and wet. so that squatting on It for hours while waiting for stray fish cannot be called very exhilarating sport. There are several other grades of fish besides salmon trout and when the riff-raff of the finny tribe begin to munch the Juicy salmon eggs It fre quently keeps the angler quite fcusy. Especially when he has two rods and fJve hand lines In commission, as some times happens. A man may start out In the morning with the firm resolve to catch nothing but salmon trout, and In a few hours acquire a collection of chubs, suckers and mudcats that would make the heart of a Chinese fish merchant fairly Jump with Joy. Vhose who enjoy this sort of fish ing may have all they want of It. For my part, there Is another kind of sport which might be termed 'Indoor ang ling.'' that appeals to me more strongly. The poles for this sort of fishing should be made of good dry fir with the bark on. about 10 or IX inches thick, and at least I feet long. About three such poles blazing merrily in the open fireplace will be found most ef fective. If the angler desires, he can wear his regular fishing coat, although I have noticed another style which seems more popular. The coat I mean Is usually made of soft plaid material. It smells as strongly of tobacco smoke as the real outdeor coat. and. being cozy and comfortable, finds great favor with the fireside fisherman. As to shoes, he need not worry about the respective merits of calks or hob sails. A smooth-soled, easy-fitting slipper, tastily embroidered with pink and red roses, will make him forget all the nasty tumbles for which the lieavy boots were held responsible. With these Items assembled, and oc' cupylng a strategic position In a com fortable arm chair before the crack ling fire, the Winter angler Us ready for the fray. It U then that the favorite fly rod brought out for Inspection a battle scarred veteran of several seasons' use. with one Up In a badly fractured condition. And as he critically exam ines the broken bamboo Joint, it brings back to his mind the thrilling bout and its unlucky ending. He sees again the deep, foam-flecked pool, with the sun flitting through the branches of the t:g firs on the bank. He sees, also, tie big brown boulder behind which the old trout was hiding and the rocky reef which proved the rod's undoing. He seems to feel again the fierce strike as the fly, drifting over his domain, was promptly seized by the hungry fish. And then the mad struggle, back and forth, up in the air and down in the depths, with the fish always trying to reach the shelter of the broken reef of rock running out from the shore. Then the last wild rush of the trout, the too-sudden strain as he reached the reef, and the heart-rending crack of the breaking rod are all brought back, as though they happened but yesterday. And the angler sadly won ders whether the faithful old tip is beyond repair. The reel also comes in for Its share of attention. Almost every angler has been told that a reel should be taken apart and thoroughly cleaned at least once a year. In some cases this is a most serious op eration, as some good anglers are mighty poor mechanics. It is with some misgiving, therefore, that the reel Is very laboriously taken apart and every tiny cog and bearing brightly polished. And when it comes to putting things back, his troubles begin. He wonders where the deuce this pinion belongs, or how In heck the handle fast ens on the Inside. And quite often ends up by taking the hopeless mess to soma friend who has a knack of putting things where they belong. In the fly book, however. Is where the dreaming angler finds his greatest pleas ure. The lines and spoons all look alike, even aft -r hard use, but there Is a certain Individuality connected with the battered old trout files that cannot be denied. Bach torn and ragged veteran is lovingly cared for, with a history of Its captures during its brief career. Here, for instance. Is a badly mussed up patch of gray and brown, with the following Inscription: "No.- . Gray Drake. Killed 35 Rainbow trout on Clackamas, near North Fork, July 18, 190S." As the angler Angers this little fly he sees again the long, broken riffle, swirl ing in and out among the moss-covered boulders, and remembers how eagerly the hungry rainbows dashed for It at almost every cast. Then here Is another and larger fly of which nothing remains but a few strips of its white wing and peacock body. "No. 4 Coachman, hooked 14 large trout in Rogue River ranging from four to seven pounds each, September , 1908." A rec ord to be proud of. Indeed. What a story this fly could tell; of the heavy plunging strikes: of the wild trips under water, fast In tho mouth of a frantic fish; and of the dying strugles as the gamy fish slowly gave up the fight. How many anglers, even the ones who rroless to use nothing but the fly, have ever seen one tied, or know how they are put together. The general Impression sterns to be that all ordinary flies are n.ade by some kind of machine, while only th better grades are made by hand. This Is a mistake. All flics, even the very cheapest grades, are tied by hand, gha vert cat-ore cf sV.XyJscoinpasn parts make machine work Impossible. The dainty hackles and wing feathers would never submit to the automatic handling of a machine human fingers alone can make them take their proper places. The greater part of the flies used every season are tied by girls In the large KALANIANAOLE AND HIS WIFE WINTER IN WASHINGTON. r -t . If, w . 7 i .' " 5 - y - L J - - Y y , ,-f-s, "--i NEW YORK, Dec. 12. (Special.) Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, of WalkikI, and his wife accompanied' ex-Queen LJHuokalani on her trip to this country recently, and are now on their wiiy to Washington with her. Prince Jonah (or "Prince Cupid." as he Is better known) is the delegate from Hawaii to the United States Congress. He is a cousin of Queen 1,11. He was created a prince by royal proclamation in 1884. The princess was Elizabeth Kahanu V,invl rimiorhter fit . chief of the ToloTiil r,f IVTfi 1 1 T Tho nrtned ao rpn. Tenanted TTawall 1n thres -Cob cresses. tackle factories, but the really hlgh crade files, the kind known to anglers all over the country, are made by men I who have devoted a lifetime to the trade Via.,,, itjM.AtAit d 1ifnt1.ua tA tliA tt-ario ' and In every instance these men are, or have been, most ardent fishermen them selves. Viewed in an offhand manner, fly tying WILL -- " : ' PMCTiCAL RMS, ALSO D8EAM5. BY AN EXPERIENCED 'FttHERMAN CONCffiMHG UilDAY TOT M : WINTER-' Is a very tedious sort of Job, and would seem to require an unlimited stocki of patience. It must be .made a labor Imra a loclr ontnrari Into hflnrt Anrl K ( love, a task entered Into heart and soul, in order'to turn out really artistic work. Any one familiar with the recognized high-class files of today can tell at a glance who they were made by. Each man has some littie trick of tying which makes his finished fly recognized at once, while the better grades of factory flies all seem to look alike. ' So with fly-tying and rod-splicing and possibly reel-oiling; the Indoor angler can while away many long Winter evenings. Then, too, there is all the planning for next season's campaign. He has learned many things in the seasons gone by. A certain stream Is absolutely no good until the middle of June several fruitless trips early In the season have convinced him of that. And how well he remembers a trip after trout in Aprll. A stream well up In the mountains was selected and the fol lowing Sunday was the day appointed. About the middle of the week the rain began to pour, and a conference was held with a view to postponing the trip. But a very optimistic member of the party settled it with the following remark: How, see here, fellows, we know it's raining pretty hard, but up in the moun tains where we are going there's so much big timber that the rain is soaked up and the river rises very slowly. So I move we go." Consequently they went. And after what seemed an endless drive they reached the stream and found it very high, and oh so muddy. Whereupon the same man cheerfully reminded the party "that It always rained more up In the mountains than at home, only somehow he hadn't thought of It before." While this Is the close season for catch ing fish It Is also the open season for tell ing fish stories, and as you doze in front of the glowing hearth you think of the fearful tales you have been asked to be lieve. There's the fellow who remarked that he had been down at Columbia Slough the day before and caught a snub nose trout, two shovel-mouth pike and a catfish 1H1 gave j Htt'hnrlt Ilka ring- I of . r' ' when he removed the hook from Its mouth. Yes, sir; actually barked. And then the fellow who had such a good tip on Eagle Creek. He hal been out the Sunday before, fishing with bait, and If he had only- had a small copper FATHER AND SON UNDER ARREST FOR THE KILLING OF EX-SENATOR CARMACK : j i y f r 1 11 1 .' These are the two Coopers father and son under arrest at Nashville for the killing of ex-Senator Carmack. Colonel Cooper had been Carmaek's employer some years before and he resented the criticism of his political course which Carmack made in the paper of which he was editor. Meeting Carmack on tho street, the Coopers killed him. Robin, the son. fired the shots which killed the ex-Senator, but his father is also held for the crime. T?nhln was wnnnrled hv MY r.rm.rt In spoon, could have filled a washtub with trout. And he went on explain that the creek was fuir of small brown leaves and that the trout were eating them yes, in deed, actually striking at leaves with open mouth and swallowing them. Why he had picked up two dead ones that had choked to death" from eating too many. Fact, and If some one would only go the encounter. there with a small copper spoon there would be nothing to It. Well, cr, no, he himself couldn't go next Sunday had to go to church but some one (accent on some one) ought to go out and make a killing. And then there's the man who never gets left who always gets a good catch. He doesn't believe In taking long, expen sive trips. He Just dube around the creeks close to town and (to hear him tell it) always gets more than the follows who go on the three-day trips. Why, on the first day he got 83 in Johnson Creek; yes. sir, 83 fine trout and was back In town in time, for lunch. Oh. why will they do it? Why do they persist In telling the most impossible stories to their brother anglers? A per son who had never seen a trout might be lieve some of the milder yarns. But to tell them to another fisherman, who probably has one of his own Just a little stronger, does seem very foolish Indeed. Verily, the man w-ho wrote the follow ing lines must have been a fisherman himseff or a very near relation of one: "Behold the fisherman; he rlseth up early in the morning and dlsturbeth tho whole household. Mighty are his prep arations. He goes forth full of hope. When the day Is far spent he retumeth, smelling of strong drink and the truth is not In him." Seven Days (Ag'es) In the Creation of the World Tbe Development of Unman Con sclonanesa Out of Our Mortal anil Immortal States. - BT J. I JONES. THE account of creation in the first chapter of Oenesls is not a descrip tion of the formation of the physi cal earth, which has always existed, but is a record In the language of sym bolism of the development of the Immortal gods (the Elolilm) out of the earth or soil of the mortal humanity. There are seven stages In this creative work. The last Is the Sabbath or state of rest, which Is completeness or perfection. Till this time comes there is no Sabbath and therefore no man can keep the sabbath. All the days are evil. God said "Let there be light" and there was light. This light was Jesus, the Christ. The manifestation of deity In human form projected into the dark ness of the natural world. He is the beginning or head of the process of creation and is called the first day. The second day or degree Is the em placement of the firmament or division between the waters above which sig nify the Immortals, and the waters be low which signify the mortal human ity. Jesus was an Immortal, one from above, the only one, the only begotten Son of God. The first step toward im mortality Is to recognize tills, and the second is to understand the nature of the firmament or great divide between the mortal and immortal man. This might be more easily Intelligible if the waters above the firmament were called fires. In the Janguage of sym bolism the terms fire, water, rock, mountain, fountain, river, tree, serpent and many others are applied to God because he is all these things which are merely attributes of his universal being. It must also be remembered that there are two firmaments, one of the heavens and another of the earth. But in the Copernican theory of the uni verse, there Is no firmament at all. Everything has got loose and gone wild. The third day or degree is the sep aration of the waters below the firma ment from the dry land, the wet coun try from the dry. The waters signify the mortal humanity in the state of sensual propagation and dissolution, continually dying and being born. The dry land, called continents, sig nifies the mortal man, advanced to a state of celibacy and chastity which is continence. The casto or celibate per son is one who retains the seed or sub stance of life, and thus holds together, resisting the sensual tendency to con tinual corruptible dissolution. This lat ter Is the state of infirmity, or Insta bility, which is the opposite of firmness or everlasting endurance as implied in the word firmament. Continent or con tinence means containing or holding to gether. The fourth degree or day is to com prehend the different qualities and ori gins of light in tile firmament of the heavens. The sun and moon corres pond to mens and anlma. Mens is the reasonlnK or Intellectual mind; and anlma, the animal soul. The mind sees; the soul fpels. Mens stands for wisdom; anlma for love which Is blind and only feels. . These two, wisdom and love (which Is merely the desire for wisdom) are the primary origins of life and tho poles of the universe. Wisdom Is masculine, love feminine; hence here Is the origin of sex and the desire of the woman to the husband. The fifth and sixth days typify the development of consciousness up through the metallic, mineral, vegetable and animal stages to tha eompleta or absolute consoiousnesB of the Immortal man, which Is all the same -as the Im mortal gods, both singular and plural, both masculine and feminine Including everything, earth, air, fire and watar, and denoted by many apparc-nt'.y con tradictory symbols. The biblical account of the creation Ij a word picture or hieroglyph, representing the development of consciousness from outer or utter spiritual ignorance, the lowest material state of the mortal man, up to the perfect man In the image and likeness of God. of which we have at present no specimens on exhibition. Their entrance on the stage of actuality will be the climax of the drama of creation. The dead know not anything of abso lute truth. There is neither device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave. This is the state of the mortal man. Mortal means dead. Mortal man Is a dead man. He Is merely a phantom or shadow clothed In gross flesh. Ho does not breathe the breath of life. His case Is fatal. There is no health in him and the only cure for his unrest (disease) and tho only salvation Is to go through the six fctaes of creation described iu this story, for he Is not really created at all. He is formless; that is, he has lost the form and likeness of God. He is void, which means empty. The true life is not in him. This is a partial statement of the Ko reshan doctrine of immortality as I can express lt Of course, it cannot be abso lutely correct, because dead men cannot tell tales correctly. We cannot have an absolutely authoritative statement till some one opens the door of the sepulcher and comes out alive. , And we must note yie distinction be tween the words earth and world. The physical earth is eternal. World's are always changing, being created and de stroyed. A world Is'a period of time, an age, a day, or a state of consciousness. The next world will be merely a new age or day or dispensation In this same oid earth which endures forever, per saecula saeculorum. Corvallls, Nov. 17, ,
