El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 270, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1892 Page: 5 of 8
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El Paso Dally Times, Wednesday November 23,1892.
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THIS IS GREAT SPORT
DUCK SHOOTING AT THE LOWER
END OF LAKE SUPERIOR.
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Fine FIhIiIi -f u,„l Splendid Shooting.
Growth of >.«ult hie. 31,trie.
[SpeHal Correspondence.]
Haci.tStk. Makik, Mich., Nov. 17.—It
is more than two and a half centuries since
the Jesuit missionaries established one oi
their wilderness outposts in the little
Indian village which then occupied the
site of this city. The (ijibways were not
unfriendly, but the mission was after
ward removed to Mackinac. The French
name which the priests gave to the rapids
remained, and today it is hard to find
one of the degenerate half breeds win!
linger around the locality who can tell
what the original name was. At all
events, 1 have not learned it.
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IN T1IK BUND.
It seems a little strange that in all the
many years that have since elapsed the
fame of the place has not spread more
widely among sportsmen, for there are
few places so easily accessible as this
where such excellent sport may be had
with rod or gun. It; is true that, the trip
hither from any of the eastern cities iH
rather a long one, but it is far from
tedious, and the true sportsman will cer-
tainly not regret the outlay of time oi
money after he reaches here. A few
days on one of the lake packets w'll
bring him to the famous canal, where be
has only to step ashore, hh-e an Indian
guide and paddle or sail directly into
the wilderness.
For it is a true wilderness that be
reaches in another day, though “The
Soo" has grown from a small garrison
village to a thriving city since the civil
war. He may ride around the city in
electric tram cars, hut passing the city
limits he will find good use for his
guide's wood craft, provided, that is.
that he goes with gun instead of rod.
Unquestionably the fishing is the
sport par excellence. The lower end
Lake Superior, which drains through
“The Soo,” is called Whitefish hay, as
any one may see by the map, and geN
its name, naturally enough, from tho
abundance and excellence of the white-
fish there. Numerous as t hey are, how-
ever. the trout—both the lake and the
brook trout—are to the full as plenty,
and. at least to my taste, far preferable
both for catching and eating. They grow
to a size that must be seen to he be-
lieved. I certainly shall not imperil my
reputation, such as it is, by telling how
large a fish I have caught with light
tackle.
Winter is already here, though, and
although the fish remain and the fishing
is as good as ever in the lake, the rapids
and the countless streams that How into
Whitefish hay from either shore, tho
weather is too cold to admit of enjoyable
angling. The climate is severe enough,
and the summer residents, of whom
there are a goodly number, have mostly
flitted southward. Only a few remain.
I having the luck to he one of them, and
find in the excellent duck shooting
temptation enough to prolong the stay
not that ducks are tho only game to he
shot, hut that just now we are having
the fall flight, as the bronze beauties ar-
flying to their winter quarters, and they
are so abundant as to preclude ihe
thought of seeking other game.
There is a natural reason why this par-
ticular locality should he, as it is, one of
the very best of places in North America
for fall duck shooting. To appreciate
this reason it is necessary to look again
at tho map. Whitefish hay, it: will he
seen, is an irregular triangle at t he lower
end of the great lake, with its lower
angle pointing southerly. Now the duck,
as he (lies from the northern winter, will
fly hundreds of miles over land, of course,
but he prefers to keep in sight of water
as much of the time as he can. and in-
variably seeks a place near tile shore to
spend the nights of lti.s pilgrimage. Hug
ging the shore, then, of Lake Superior
brings him to Whitefish hay, where just
now a few gunners are lying in wait for
him.
A few sportsmen from Detroit and
other of the lake cities have learned
the attractions of the neighborhood, and
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there are, here and mere on me iane
shore and on the islands in the Ste. Ma-
rie and Detroit rivers below the rapids,
quite a number of summer cottages.
The most of thesq are exceedingly primi-
tive, being mere shooting boxes, but a
few are used for family homes through
the short sn miner.
The sportsmen who come singly or by
twos to try i he shooting will not, unless
fortunate enough to claim acquaintance
with the oh tier of one of these places,
get so good accommodations, but one of
the churn, of the sport consists in
“roughing and no place is better
adapted to pleasant camping out than
the Lake Superior shore. There are
scores and scores of sheltered nooks
along the coast (which is rocky, s indy
and well wooded in turns) where a handy
Indian guide will rig up a tent or a hut
ajnl make a party comfortable in true
backwoods style.
There is no trouble in securing a pair
of these guides, for they prefer to work
in pairs, in or near the city, and their
charges are not unreasonable, though
they vary considerably with the nature
of the expedition. For a few days or a
week of duck shooting they will make
quite elaborate preparations, and will
take the party to some one of the coves
mentioned, where a sportsman may
find all the fun he wants.
Tho cam]) is hidden tolerably well in
the first place, for the duck, even in the
wilderness, is wary and shy, and will
pass your tent at a distance if he sees it.
But it may readily be placed among the
trees or behind some friendly rock not
far from tho cove where the ducks will
settle at nightfall.
To get your birds you must go through
the same discomforts that duck shooters
always have to face, excepting here there
are no game laws that forbid you to
shoot after nightfall. At least, if there
are any such, there is no one here to tell
you about them. Your Indian guide will
profess the densest ignorance on the sub-
ject if you have the curiosity to question
him, and naturally enough you are not
over anxious to press the query.
Bo, if you choose—and you will choose
—go to the blind at the water’s edge
in the afternoon, when the raw air
does not nip so cruelly as before dawn
in the morning. There are sho >t<-rs
here who use the siukbox, but the
conformation of the shore makes the
blind equally effective when it is well
placed, and it is vastly to he preferred
lor comfort.
Your decoys are out, and your guide,
close by. but hidden, as well as yourself,
will cull th** birds with an imitation of
their notes so exact .as to startle you.
They come in swarms. It is a true
“flight,” and you need hardly look for
pairs or single birds, though these como
too.
Wheeling in toward your decoys they
come, twenty, fifty in a hunch. It will
test your mettle. If you prize your sport
in proportion to the slaughter, you will
have no trouble in bagging half a dozen
or a dozen at a shot. There are gunners
even here who will shoot at a flock on
the water and follow the shot with an-
other before the buds have risen. Tic-
single birdshot, however, may do as well
hero as anywhere else on earth and keep
his conscience clear.
From early dusk to dark you may
have an hour of good shooting. It; is
enough to whet your longing for more,
and when at an unrighteous hour next
morning your, guide arouses you it >«
with no laggard steps that you follow
him to the water's edge. Your coffee, or
it may he a taste of something a little
stronger, 1ms wanned you up, and for a
whole forenoon you are tingling wiui
tho delight of good, wholesome, manly
sport. C. A. Dams.
THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
A SrhoolmiHi* Gins lU‘iiiinlsceiic<s of
I.illio mho.
[>p< i-ia! (\>rrespondence.]
Yon kicks. N. Y.. Nov. 17.—Whenever
I read of the doings of our American
Duchess of Marlborough 1 think of her
as I first saw her at school. 1 was at that
time a resident of Troy, N. Yd, and so
was slnn We were both day scholars at
Mrs. Willard's famous seminary. She
was plain Lillie Price, tho daughter of
a poor retired naval officer. They were
of a good family ami very proud, if they
were poor. Lillie had a quiet little
dignity oi' her own. It was a quiet one
indeed, wjiieii makes it more surprising
that sic* now can he a leader in the
highest Lnglish society.
Sue v:.s slender, anil wore her light
heir straight hack from her face. It
was held there by a round comb, and
was cut off short behind. It seems to
me now that she almost always wore a 1
dress of red, green and blue plaid. It
was made with a plain waist sud plain
short skirt. No trimming was on either.
You see site was a poor girl, if she was
of good family. Her manners were
always ladylike, and she spoke in a
sweet voice. She had a fair complex-
ion. with dark blue eyes. The pictures
of her which we see in the papers do not
look at all to me as she did then. The
only point, of resemblance is her hair,
which she still wears off her forehead.
There was no regular course of study
laid out at Airs. Willard's seminary.
Each pupil took what she chose. So we
did not go through with the same girls
year after year, and sometimes were in
only one class with each one. I was in
the history class with Lillie Price. We
studied a history of the world written
by Mine. Emma Willard, the founder
of the school. It was there we learned
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or Queen Aimes present to tne nrst
Duke of Marlborough, when he won the
battle of Blenheim. Little did we girls
think, as we glibly told off the story of
that battle and the queen's gift to the
conqueror, that the quiet little girl iu
red plaid was some day to bear tiiat war-
rior’s name, and to go to live in that very
castle. She was just like the rest of us
then, only more timid than some and
more ladylike than others.
One of the greatest anxieties she had
during her school life was a fear that
she would not pass the regent's exam-
ination. We younger ones were exam-
ined together. It was a very hard ex-
amination. Some of the questions would
have baffled older and wiser heads than
ours. Walking down the street together
afterward, talking it over, she ex-
pressed the greatest concern for fear she
would not pass. When we all had our
certificates she was the most delighted.
It may be she thought the day might
come when she would have to support
herself by teaching school, and she was
‘ anxious to he thus well armed.
Many girls have graduated from Airs.
Willard's seminary who afterward have
become famous, but none has had such
a remarkable change in her life as came
to quiet little Lillie Price.
Alns. J. W. Hartt.
COHASSET’S VENERABLE PASTOR.
For Iltflf a Century He Huh Preached
(lie Cionpel.
< )n ;h«- 17tk of July, 1842. Rev. Joseph
Osgood preached his first sermon in
Cohasset, Mass.,
and with very
rare exceptions
he has filled the
same pulpit
w e e k 1 y ever
since. There was
........... therefore great
interest as the
fiftieth anniver-
■'' sary drew near,
and the church
rev. Joseph osgood. was closely pack-
ed. He took for his text Leviticus xxv,
2, “A jubilee shall the fiftieth year be
unto you,” and preached a sermon that
interested all New England and now at-
tracts some attention elsewhere.
It was such a wholesome, hopeful ser-
mon. He declares that everything and
almost; everybody is getting better, and
especially that "there never was so much
progress made in pure Christianity as in
the past century. Men are making dog-
ma and ecclesiastical forms subordinate
to the great central idea of holy living.
In all the great denominations of Chris-
tendom this great central idea is advanc-
ing—that, after whatever a man may
think and whatever forms he may adopt,
character, good living, a life of hon-
esty, justice, love, a life devoted to the
highest and noblest ideals, is the essen-
tial thing in practical Christianity.”
He was horn in Kensington, N. H..
Sept. 22, 1815. and was graduated from
Harvard divinity school with the high-
est honors of his class in 18-12. He went
to Cohasset to teach and was called to
preach. In 1844 he married Ellen Dev-
ereux Sewell, who is still with him, and
thej’ have living nine children and sev-
enteen grandchildren. Among othei
reminiscences he gave these:
When I came here to preach there
never had been a carpet on these aisles.
We had no organ: an orchestra assisted
the choir. There were people who could
distinctly remember the Revolutionan
war. Last spring a couple came to ms
to he married. The groom belonged to
a family for whom I had performed pas-
toral duties for either funerals or wed-
dings in six generations, and the bride
also belonged to a family in which I had
had the same experience, and performed
parochial duties for six generations.
There was no important business
then except fishing, about fifty vessels go-
ing out in the spring to fish. This gave
employment to a great many, including
coopers and saihuakers, while many
others, by rigid economy and hard work,
made a respectable living on their farms.
In those times the Congregational soci-
eties were state societies. Men wen
compelled to pay for support of minis-
try. and to pay their taxi s for support of
preaching, as they were for all other
needs of the town.
-GRAND
LOTTERY OF JUAREZ
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How tlic 1 ulicd States Has Grown.
An idea of the rapid growth of the
United States since tho beginning of the
civil war may l:e formed by some com-
parisons of the total vote in different
years. When Abraham Lincoln was
elected president of t he United States in
1 SOO lie received l.sfiVdd votes in the
thirty-two state which then constituted
the Union, In the presidential election
of 1888 the total vote of New York state
was 1JS2U.1< :i. New York's lotal r ote
tins year is nut vi rv far from the entire
vote cast for Air. Lincoln in the whole
United States thirty-two years ago.
Money in an 01*1 Shoo.
It seems that some people have a
mania for concealing valuables in odd
and ridiculously unsafe places. A par-
ticularly odd case was brought to light
recently. While looking over the effects
of the late Alonzo Betts in his room in
Reading, Alich.. a sister found in a
cheap memorandum book these words,
“You will find money in an old shoe.”
Off in one side of the room she found an
old pair of arctic overshoes, and in
them was $1,200 in money, checks and
notes.
NEXT DRAWING
December, 7, 1802.
EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING.
WHOLE TICKETS $2; HALF TICKETS $1; QUARTERS
.TO CENTS; EIGHTS 25 CENTS.
SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING
$32,000.
For Two Dollars
The undersigned will at his counter pay any prize drawn in this lottery
MAX MULLER, Cashier.
Agency El Paso National Bank—Cuidad Juarez, Mexico
AGENTS WANTED-rFor club rates or any other information write
to the undersigned, stating your address clearly, with state, county, street and
number.
COMPANY.
C. JUAREZ, MEXICO. VIA EL PASO. TEXAS.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 270, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1892, newspaper, November 23, 1892; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth580104/m1/5/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.