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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-03-22, Page 7.$$ --hTfra, • F HE RIVER. CHARACTERI$T1 OS Of THE NLAN RIVER FISHERMEN. ItabItt ut a People That Enjoy Lift and Out or sootou—Somotblas. About the Kotbollt t Catobbtx nee Itorte,, Iinut Vox ugui nunwoot. • IA hi ifh ; $ •‘; s' nWrit3, p die tee tee voitelete neeiran awe, ale ieenan siex, 0 en :urea, stem fneke Der nab eittee such are net rare exception tithe Out they stick to their profeesione wi • Persistence that is not warily uncle ;:ood, and tlieir wives and children ar ei a rule, well cared. fer.—Oeverly 0/awl titziamiuee in Atlanta Sunny So* Troublesome Telephones. While the telephone in the drugeta is a useful and essential feature of t business, it Is placed there more as accommodation to the public than as a aid to the druggist. Like the Directory the telephone bas become a pharmaceutie ' eel fixture, and no drug store is consid- wed complete without both a telephone and a City Directory, The Directory usually speaks for iteelf, but not eo the telephone, The average lady who comes in to use the instrument b ignorant of it mechanism, and courtesy compels the diSegist to assist her if not to do the taneina. I never saw a lady yet who could walk in and work the telephone without some assistauce. It is really funny to observe how a lady goes to work at the inetrument. If she can call up the party she wishes to talk to, she usually does it in this way, after the connection has been made: "Is that Mr. $o and So? No. Won't you please tell him to come to the telephone, I 'would like to see hien a minute?" The lady always wants to "see" the person she desires to talk to, although the per- son may be miees away. Really, the public has no idea of the time and pa- tience it replies from a druggist to at- tend to the telephone in his sane. Not only does he have to answer thousands of questions for those who come in to use it, but ho is expected to receive messages and deliver them to neighbors in his In. When the unoWs have melted of the mountains and the waters have become warmer, .when the buds of the reg stemmed water maples that line the bakso • the rivers, and streams begin to swell; and when the warming infin- enee of the sun draws out the "frost' froin the bluff sides, and the first spring land slips incur; then the river fishermen take up their work. .They are nota pushing, rushing, hur- rying set of men—these fishermen; they tire rather on the Waltonian or reflective style; they can drive a bargain as close as anyone, but their sad lack of indus- try keeps them poor. But a jollier, wore, life enjoying people never lived. I call them a people; they are a distinct class of men from their neighbors, even those of like "social" stet:ding, In the winter they subsist on the Little, the pitifully little provender laid by during the busy summer season, by basket making and chair bottonizg. Some of there occupy themselves during the winter months in a kind of desultory progressional hunt- ing. Rabbits, squirrels, quails, turtle • doves, field larks, ducks, geese, water chickens, coots, robins, sparrows and a • variety of email birds, which, if known by their right name, would not 'be teethed, but, served up fictitiously, are relished exceedingly, are the victims ee these conselenceless hunters. • gotexise AND NETTING. But the principal occupation of this clash of meu is, as I have said before, fishing. They use what is tailed a"net • line," and as most people aro unfamiliar with such a method of fishing I will ex- plain. It consists of a long tar enameled .1'01 cotton cord1. about a quarter of an inch in tbickness, and it reaches across, or nearly across, the river. Dangling from, It, at a distance, of a yard or so apart, aro short linen lines or linking. These are supplied with one or more hooks, each of varying sizes. One fisherman I generally has four or five Such lines, and with a dip net and catch net his outfit is complete. Tho dip net is a fine meshed Contrivance, with a frame shaped like le, the letter Di the part of the frame corre• aponding to the perpendicular stroke in the letter resting on the ground. The net :behoved up the mouths of springs, creeks, branches, etc., and is designed to ' take in all crawfish, minnows and other I unfortunate small fry which unluckily fall in the way. The catch net is an. in- etrument, with the use of which nearly every one is familiar. The best and favorite bait is stuall, tender crawfish, or "craws," as they are alled. These the giant red horse, the red tinged sun perch, the mud cats, the floundering buffalo and their kindred of the finny tribe take with avidity. An- other reason 'for the popular use of this article for bait is the fact that it cannot be nibbled off by the sundry minnows, oharlies sand molly hogs that always in- fest baited mounds. Tad poles, bull. frogs, molly hogs, rot guts, grubs, grass- hoppers and eei meat all make very tempting bait. Some fish, as for instance the buffalo and the r,a, horse, require a special line and a special hook. The buffalo line is short and very strong, and is provided. with specially made buffalo hooks. The red horse always swallows the bait, and hence it needs a very slender hook. The fishermen, as a rule, are very expert in their profession. I a The hunter and trapper make wood- craft a rule art. They have the habits and peculiarities of the tiver.designers. ' s They know the singular traits of the black perch; have watehed and studied the drum in all characteristic doings. They' listen, perhaps, with a pleasurable emotion to his weird yet reale:tic drum- raing under the gliding keel of the yawl. They aro naturalists in a true i• eserise of the word. erems nave Theuebt Vier inner. A. Danger man has a bright little niece, over whose head but a few years have rolled, and who when saying ber r, prayers the other night repeated a line OA in the Lord's Prayer, "Ilarrowed bo 14 r" name." The little one was kneeling by. 0, her mother's knee, and the latter said; .4" "Why, darling, you don't mean 'bar - owed,' Harrowed means broken up and they 'hammy ground,' You should say; re liallowed be thy name.' Renewed le means holy." The little girl thought for au a moment and then her Awe brightened n and she said with a smile: "Well, 3114M- xna, the Lord must think I'm awful tunny, for I've said. `harrowed' for ever so. long."—Portland Argus. °nifty. Oh, the telephone is a great in t deuce, similar in style of architecture to stitutiqn, but it often makes the druggis wish it had never been invented.—Drugs gist 43, Globe -Democrat. Another Discouraged Nan. Ile -waded through the snow up the front steps and rang the door bell. And when the servant girl answered his ring, he said: I must see the lady herself on very important business." The lady appeared, and he continued. " *edam, can 1 contract with you to clean off this snow?" "Why—T—how much do you want?" "Only twenty cents." "Well you may clean it off." • "Thanks. Have you a snow shovel?" "There's one in the shed I believe." "Thanks. Is there a boy in the neigh- borhood whose services I could secure?" "For what?" "To clean off the, snow, ma'am. I am acontractor—not a laborer. And, ina'ain it is my rule to begin bossing only in the morning. If you can wait until to -mor- row I'll be arOund at an early hour. My rule is to collect in advance, ma'am, and if you happen to have a bit of cold tur- key and a cup of coffee and an old suit of clothes I shall feel under many obliga- tions." She shut the door on him and he went off declaring that it was another evi- dence that honesty and industry didn't pay in this community.—Detroit Free Press. "Shoot the A ministeronce announced sahib text: "The slothful man saitb, there is a lion in the way," As he paused he heard a lad in the gallery whisper: "Shoot the lion." With ready wit he turned to the boy and said: "You have given in three • words the sum of my sermon, and that all may remember, I will repeat your ' summary," Then turning to the con- gregation ho said: "The slothful man saith there is a lion in the way." After a pause he went on:" "My young friend in the gallery says, 'Shoot the lion.' this es the exact thing to do. Lotus, pray,"—St. Louis Republic. Nary Anderson's American Dame. Mary Anderson, the actress, owns a valuable farm of 820 acres on the Lafay- Dette township knobs, about five miles from New Albany. On the farm is a . SUTHERLAND'S fine orchard and a building site, from Nelda can be had a magnificent view of STOVE and TINWARE ROOMS the Falls cities and the distant Ohio. It is said that Miss Anderson contemplates at some time erecting on the summit of tp Havinn purchased the stock of HINGSToN & SONS we are Off . GREAT BARGAINS IN STOVES I 4 JAS. W. INGLIS, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER INJ Figs Gutters, Sleighs, Ituggies, &a., 4m. ° Repairing of all kinds attended to, Zr PRICES VERY MODERATE. . GIVE ME, A CALL. STOVES AT HALF PRIOE. . the lugh, lull a magnificent countiy resi- • 33rer Cable Cipher. His daughter was going to Europe. He is a very rich nian, but a millionaite will always make up a telegraphic code to save money. It would be nothing to him if she sent a hundred words, but he will always get as much as he can for nothing any way and he will have a telegraph code. I don't know, though. Perhaps he thought she might take as many words to say a thing by telegraph s ladies ordinarily do in conversation, and that would bankrupt a millionaire. Let us acquit him of economy-., Let us ay that by confining her to one word ho would understand what she telegraphed, whereas if ho left her to express it her yen way ho might never have found out what she meant. He left her to make out the eode. She made one quite to the oint on all important matters. She ee- ected the words herself, wrote it all out and handed it to him when She left. He ocked it in bis desk and it was (alright. est week he got a telegram from her. t consisted of one word—"Laugh." He neighed. It seemed to be something uite pleasant. 'His code was at the ouse. Ile went up there in the best ,of inner. He got out the code and ha "Laugh—Send mo $500." — San rancisco Chronicle. Counterfeit "No matter how expert a bank teller ay become in detecting bad money, ere aro counterfeits extant which will tamp the best of theni, 1 was or ratiey ears a 'United States treasury expert, here haiidled all the famous counter - its ever Made. 1 have in this roll of 1 ills $5,000, about one-half of wheel t ood and tho rest worthless. I often test hank tellers by offering this money for °posit, and you would be astonished to Den how large a proportion of the , unterfeits ate passed by some of their:genuine, genuine, In fact 1 have never found o e who rejected every' bad bill, wine of 1 on accepting as much as $1,700 of it, d d from that down. I have been testing me Itarisas City bank men today, with trying results. Four hundred doll= t as the twist counterfeit passed by any *0 them, and me bank, if it had taken e teller's decision on the money, would y tee been stuck for more than $1,000." r vett gailliee city Journal. FREER WATER PEARLS. 1 People who have dealings with emit- L try storekeepers limy have noticed a I 6 statement on th • d 1 ffect that. they buy and sell fresh water c, pearls. The river fishermen are the men 11 'that collect this now (utak) of eem- h 331Cree. In some counties in the "back r country" statistics show that the pearl- r g industry hes done more to enrich. certain counties than any other com- ennerce. ee The fishermen. choose a mussel bed of m the desired. quality and thee begirt the 43 of opening mussels, The most et favorable localities are generally la the y neighborhood of fine sand and shallow a water. The 1=1 is formed, according ee to the discovery of the river naturalistss b by fine eand, working in between the g glands of the mussel's biceps which pro- h daces a, secretion that ultimately moults in pearl. A perfect pearl is smooth, le opaque and hard. Their value depends co upon their clearaess and "grain." The fisherman himself, however, le on neipre worthy our attention. Ilia optle- th lrelb. is ever topmost; hi good naturoand jollity are characteristic. Times may be so with the bricklayer, the enrpenter, 4 the farmea and the market.) are w alwaysopc'n for liah, and wheu aa un- of eitamonable time comes, he knows of its th coming. VA can, 11' he ei,h, prepere in ler it, some of the castles she saw during her stay in Europe.—Louisville Courier -Jour- nal. Zest in Deleon, round Imoston. There should! be a moral with a sharp point to the following episode, and, un - .1E , itbe appended, but left to tae'reacler to affix. A Fall River gentleman was last spring in Detroit. He went on Sunday evening to attend a fashionable church, taking with lam his religious views and a handsome silk um- brella. The latter he left in the inside vestibule in an umbrella stand with numerous others, while the former he kept with him. The service being long, he went out a few seconds in advance of the be di ti , and, looking or a umbrella, found it not. So, being' an honest man, he took the next best one and went to his hotel. Last Friday whilo ' Bostonsteppe into the., Parker house. There with others on,a large settle hat reek stood his umbrella,. He knew it, for besides the peculiar handle there on the gold plate were his name and address. Ile claimed his prop- erty, explaining to the clerk at the desk. So the two watched for the man who should ware in and take the umbrella. Soon he came, lighted a cigar, buttoned his top coat, took the tunbrella, and was stopped. "Whose umbrblla is that, you want to know," he said when asked. "Last.spiang I was in church one even- ingen Detroit, and some sneak stole my umbrella out of, the vestibule, where I left it, and I took the next best one. Next morning I. found a fellowa: name on it, but that didn't make it leak, so I kept it." There was an explanation,and while the Fall River raan got his um- brella back, the other one got a new one at the expense of the man from the city of spindles.—Providence Journal. An A/alnuna Ghost. A ghost has caused a divorce suit and broken up a once happy family in Monet county, Alabama. About five yeaes ago James Martin married a Miss Noel, one of the belles of the county. The young couple went to live at the old Martin home ind all went well until about a year ago. Mrs. Martin, naturally very timid, heard a ghost rambling through the old house one night and was badly frightened. She told her husband about it, but he could hear nothing, he said. From that timo 11 becanao a nightly visitor at the Martin home. • Mrs. Martin wanted to leave the old house at once, but her husband objected, declaring the strange noises heard were made by rata. Several times Mrs. Martin, so she says, saw a white robed figure wandering through tho,old house, and soon hei nerves Mad ealth began to give way under the strain. She was finally pros. trawl by her feat of her ghost, and went to the home of her parents to recover her health and strength. Fear of the ghost overcame love of husband, and Mrs. Martir refused to live with Ifim again. Martin tried in vain to induce fie wife to returit to the haunted house o live:, but she refused, and he filed a snit for divorce On the ground of abandon- ment—Ohiettge Times. Eanout Seaman. At a seaport in the south of Prance, nit 14 salt had his kg ereshed during the :lunch of a man -of -wale Ile had to int - ergo imputation, and bore it all with. mt speaking a word and smoking his ipo the while. The surgeon was about h) Leas when the sailor, ,Inalting ati ;tort to rise, Called him backand said: , "Bog pardon, major, for not showing on out, bat sem sco it'a your fault.."-.- .*Autorite. for the next 60 DAYS. COAL and WOOD STOVES in Great Variety, and at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Owing to the number of Furnaces put in this year, we bave some SECO.ND-HAND srovEs as good as new, at LESS THAN HALF COST. A SUPERB STOCK OF CHOICE LAM? GOODS. BEST PROCURABLE COAL OIL. READY-JIADE TINWARE, HEAVY STOOK AT VERY LOW , PRICES. For ORDERED WORK, A SPECIALTY. WARE ROOM AND SHOPS ;. Opposite Exchange Hotel, corner Josephine and Victoria Streets. -OUT OF THE FIRE • 1 • HAVING FULLY AS BORT ED THEIR STOCK, MESSRS. McINNES & TALBOT HAVE OPENED OUT IN - Henderson's Old Stand, AND OFFER SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS IN READY-MADE CLOTHIN, GROCERIES BOOTS A SHOES, AND GLASSWARE Calmed 41/A Whits Shirts TRT UMW ear GREAT BIG BARGAINS, EVERYI3ODY OUGHT TO 1:1 OBSERVE AND PROFIT BY.