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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22

keeps so near the bottom that he might
almost be said to canter along on it.
When the halibut starts of with the
hook, the fisherman gives his whole at
tention to the line, taking good care
that it does not become entangled In
paying out.
As soon as the fish stops, the man be-
gins 10 haul in. When the fish darts
away again, he must let 1t go and pay
out as before, for it would be worse
than useless to try to hold on.
This proceeding is continued for a
time, perhaps till the fish has made
seven or eight runs and stops, and the
fisherman as many trial hauls.
Then the game shows signs of ex-
haustion, and is drawn slowly up with
out resistance. Contrary TO what one
would suppose, the smaller halibut
make more trOnble than the large ones.
Apparently from their very size, the
latter are sooner wearied out.
AS it is drawn near the surface, the
tish-if large one-w0ighs so heavily
on the line that the man in charge of it
calls for help. and one or two pairs of
stout hands take bold to pull with him.
A CLEAN of white appears in the water.
Higher and higher it rises, and the hal
ibut's ugly face and eyes emerge into
the upper air, its great mouth wide
open, and the fatal hook fastened deep
down in its throat.
Instantly one of the men seizes a gaff
and strikes its armed end into the
creatures head, Its open mouth in
dicates that it is past struggling, or
drowned" as its captcrs say; and a
smart blow across the snOut with a club,
like policemap's billy, dismisses the
last remains of life. Then a grand tug
altogether OH gaff and line, and the un-
wieldly prize lies securely in the boat.
A party Of two or three men will fire.
quen:ly take several halibut at sim
trip, some weighing perhaps no more
than fifty or sixty pounds. A three or
four hundred pound fish is good days
work for them.
Coast fisherman require no very
elaborate or costly preparation for their
trade, for they usually dispose of their
"catch" at once. Covering their fish
with canvass to keep Off the sun, they
are able to bring them in fresh and
sweet to the wharves, where dealers,
knowing their usual time of return,
are waiting to purchase. But when
crews or large companies engage in
the business (as those who supply the
great markets of New York and Bos-
ton, and the distance is very far from
the fishing ground to the place of de-
livery, larger vessels Of course, are
used,and quantities of ice must be taken
on board in which to pack the fish.
The mode of operation and process of
capture are, however, substantially the
same.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
Quick Conversion.

A hard old customer was Badge. He
was never known to attend church, and
was considered the wicke lest man In
the small town in which he lived. One
night his old COW was prowling about
the house seeking what she might
devour, and stuck her head in the swill
barrel. at the time the barrel was
so far in that she made blind rush to
free herself from the incumbrance. As
luck would have it, she struck bee
line for the house, and directly for the
front door.
The old man was sitting inside telling
his family all about great murder trial
when the COW gave frightful below,
which was prolonged by the empty
barrel into roar. At the same time
the front door crashed from Its hinges,
and the COW, with her uncommon head
gear, bolted into the room. "Old
Wickedness" gave one agonized look at
the frightful demon which confronted
him; each separate and individual hair
stood on end; shivering feeling
crawled up and down his back; his
eyes protruded from his head; alto
gether he was picture of object terror.
Suddenly his tongue loosened and he
screamed: "FOr heavens sake take
Mary! She's better prepared than l
am"
Since that eventful the man has Joined
an easy going church, which is one step
progressive, and he only swears now
when he sees old Brindle or the swill
barrel. The old cow "ietched him."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
Bringing Drowned Bees to Life. {.

A lady In Providence relates the fol-
lowing story: "Her father once brought
home molasses hogsheGd, TO be used as
water tank. On washing day her
mother said: Let's throw the suds
into 1t, to soak the molasses from the
bottom The instant she had done so,
she exclaimed, 'Oh! / have drowned
hundreds of our neighbors' bees.' The
hogshead was black with bees that were
busily appropriating the sweets from
what they must have considered an
enormous blossom. The good lady
made haste with her skinner to skim
the bees from the top Of the water, and
spread them on board in the sunshine /;
but they seemed drowned, and nearly
dead, and she was very sorry.
"The bees that we're around the hogs
head had flown away at the dash of the
water-but In few minutes they re-
turred accompanied by scores Of others.
Then began curious work. They i'm
mediately went to work upon the un-
fortunate bees, turning them over and
working on them constantly with their
heads, feet and antenn@. The result of
their busy labor was that one after an
other gave signs of life, stretched its
limbs and wings, crawled about and
dried itself in the sun and flew away.
The lady said there was half pint at
first, and that there remained only a
dozen hopeless cases beyo ond the humane
efforts of their brothers."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22

and they ragged and called for ven
geance.
"Open! Open" they screamed.
"Open, feet-water :"
81 cannot" cried the feet-water. 81
am scattered on the ground and my
path is down to the lough."
"open, open, wood, and tree, and
beam," they cried to the door.
81 cannot" said the door, "for the
beam is fixed in the jambs, and | have
no power to move"
"Open, open, cake that we have made
and mingled with blood" they cried
again.
81 cannot" said the cake, "for | am
broken and bruised, and my blood" is
on the lips Of the sleeping children"
Then the witches rushed through the
air with great cries, and fed back to
Slieve-namon, uttering strange curses
on the Spirit Of the Well, who had
wished their ruin; but the woman and
the house were left in peace, and
mantle dropped by one of the witches
in her flight was kept hung up by the
mistress as a sign of the nights awful
contest; and this mantle was in the
possession of the same family from gen.
GRAFTON to generation for five hundred
wears.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
The Cuisine In Sweden.

The habit of lunching I'm the very
presence of dinner, Of going to side
table and eating your fill of anchoyies
raw herrings, smoked beef and cold eel
pie, while dinner is on the very table,
still prevails, and is hardly conducive
to health. 1t is said that the habit Of
taking Il "sup," as the Swedes call it,
arose from the scarcity of delicacies.
1t was hard to get enough of any one
nice thing to make meal of, so you
were first delIcately innuendoed of to
the brandy table, as it is called, and then
allowed to sit down to dinner. The
practice is universal in Sweden. Pri-
vate houses, hotels, and boarding houses
all feed you on preliminary scraps, and
woe be to you if you innocently turn
away from the proff'ered luncheon
You fare like an ascetic, and feed your
self on odors. The ordinary routine Of
dining in Sweden seems to be in wild
confusion. Soup sometimes ends in
stead of beginning the dinner. Iced
soups and cold fish are dainties to the
Scandinavian palate. Much the soup
nauseously sweet, favored with cherries
raspberries and goOseberries, often with
macarOOn cakes and spikes of cinnamon
floating wildly about in it. This is often
as a sort of dessert, and is cold and often
beautifully clear. If Heine bitterly
reviled the English for bringing vege-
tables on the table an Rdtaret there is no
such complaint to be made here.
Heaven, earth and hell are eaten with
sauce--sauces red, white and blue,
green, yellow and black-sauces celes-
tial and sauces Internal. Strange COM
binations of ice cream heaped over
delicious apple tarts, or strange dishes
of berry juice boiled down and mixed
with farina, sugar and almonds, then
cooled, moulded and turned out into
basins of cream, to be eaten with crush
ed sugar and wine, appear at the end of
dinner. The Swedes share with the
Danes and Arabs passionate fOndness
for sweetmeats. Everything is slightly
sweet; even green peas are Rugared, as
well as the innumeraLle tea and coffee
cakes. so that long before the unhappy
tourist has finished his tour he is hope
less dyspeptic or raging Swedophobe.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
How Halibut are Caught.


Each fisherman baits his hooks with
thinker" split lengthwise into two or
three strips. Then they throw in,
reeling of four or five fathoms of line,
according to the depth, until the hook
and bait lie on the bottom, and con-
siderable quantity of loose line besides.
Thisprevents a too sudden strain, which,
from fish of great bulk and violent
manner of biting, would be destructive
to the strongest tackle.
Presently the halibut sees the bait.
He seizes it In his big mouth, hook and
all, with a furious grab, and-as one
old fisherman expressed it-"runs like
a horse" His gait, in fact, is not so un-
like the gallop of horse, being a sort
of plunging, see-sawing race, and he
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
The Mechanic.

The Mechanic is a machine which
illustrates the manner in which all per-
sons aae taught to ride horses for the
circus, and also how children are made
to perform difficult feats on horseback.
The Mechanic consists of large up
right pole in the centre of the ring,
near the top of which projects pole
at right angles like the gaff Of ships
sail; at the end of this is block,
through which passes rope, and this
again is fastened to broad band
around the waist of the person forced
or intending to learn to ride. A horse
with padded back is then brought for
ward and the learner hoisted upon 1t
so that his feet just touch the horses
back. The animal then starts. The
machine revolves, keeping the learner
up with the horse. The amusing part
is when the rider falls off and remains
suspended, gasping, kicking, and vain
ly striving to regain his position while
revolving around after the horse.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
Feminine Peculiarities and Nioknames OF
Cities:

-
A very general impression is that the
quietest, most refined, and lady-like
girls Of the Union are to be found in
Philadelphia-the Quaker City.
The smartest, most stylish, the best
dressed, and the gayest, in New York
Gotham.
The most self-sufflcient and intellec-
tual. in Boston-Modern Athens.
The sweetest and prettiest, in Balti-
more-MOnumental City.
The most prudish, old maidish, and
craziest on army officers, in Cincinnati
the Queen City.
The most Frenchy, the most Ian
gushing, the longest hair, and the
most striking dresses, in New Orleans
the Crescent City.
in Washington-the City of Magnificent
Distances.
The worst flirts, the most atrocious
man-deceivers and heartbreakers, in
Chicago-the Garden City.
The widest and most daring, in De-
troit-City of Straits.
The most dashing and fastest, in st.
Louis-the City of Mounds.
The gaudiest dresses and the coolest
coquettes, in Louisville-the Falls City.
The most coquettish eyes and the
loveliest brunettes, in Nashville--the
City of Rocks.
The dullest, in Quincy-the Model
City.
The poorest and most anxious to get
married, in Salem-the City of Peace.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22

But il was just as much like man as
you be, an you'd a said the same thing
If you'd seen IL.
The train stopped.
An then, sir, what dye think hap
penedY
Well, sir, that thing justgrew thinner
an thinner, till it seemed to blend right
in with the fog that was all around it,
and the fust we knew twas gone!
at ,SoS a ghostl" said Jimmy, in a
whisper. 81 knew somethin was a
goin' to happen, cause felt so queer
like"
They come a crowdin' up TO find why
I'd stopped the train, an swear never
felt so kind o. queer an foolish as | did
when | told 'em what I'd seen cause |
knew they didn't b'leeve in ghosts,
most likely, an they'd think | was
drunk or crazy.
ale see it, too," sez /, pointin' to
Jimmy.
eyes, fore God, did," sez Jimmy,
as solemn as if he was a witness on the
stand.
"This is pretty how-d'ye-do," sez
the conductor, who didn't b'leeve wed
seen anything. "Pm surprised at you,
Connell; thought you was man o.
sense"
81 thought so, tOo," sez |, "but |
can't help what | see. If was dyin'
this minnit I'd swear see man on the
track, or leastwise the ghost was one.
| thought twas real man when
whistled."
"An' SO would l." sez Jimmy.
The conductor couldn't help sCein'
that we was in earnest, an b'leeYed
what we said.
"Take lantern an go along the
track" sez he, to some o. the men,
An they did"
An what dye s'pose they found?
Well, sir, they found the rails all tore
pjest at the spot where the train would
shot over the bluff into the river If it
had gone on!
eyes, sir; they found that, an tell
you there was some pretty solem' -loOkin
faces when itgot among the passengers
how near we'd been to death.
81 never b'leeved in ghosts, j" sez the
conductor, "but | bleeved you see
somethjn', Connell, an you've saved a
precious lot o. lives. That's a sure
thing"
Well, sir, they went to huntin' round
an they found lot o. tools an things
that the men who'd tore up the rails
had left in hurry, when they found
the train wasn't goin' over the bluff as
they'd expected. An they found, too,
when it come light, the body o. the man
whose business it was to see to the
curve, where it had been hid away after
bein' murdered. An that man was the
man whose ghost we had seen.
Yes, sir. He'd come to warn us o.
the danger ahead after the men had kill
ed him, an was waitin' for us to go
over the rocks to destruction. An'he'd
saved us.
/ found out afterward that there was
lot 'omoney on board, an Is'pose the
men who tore up the track knew it.
So that's my ghost story, an it's
true one, sir.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
How To ACT fin Case of Fire.

Better than all elaborate and costly
apparatus for extinguishing fires are
constant care and watchfulness, and
quick and intelligent action on the part
of those who first discover fire in pro-
gress. The fire which at its beginning
could be smothered with p >cket hand
kerchief, or dashed out with bucket
of water, neglected few hours, lays in
waste millions of dollars worth Of prop
erty. If there is any time in which
person should be cool and calm, in per.
feet command of himself, it is when he
discovers a fire that threatens the de-
struction of life and property. The
first thing to do is to learn precisely
where it is; the second, to consider the
chances of extinguishing it. Of course
in cities an alarm should at once be sent
out, but at the same time vigorous
effort should be made to put out the fire
with the means at hand; for sometimes
what the ire-ehgine is unable to ac.
complish when it reaches the scene, can
be done by one or two persons who act
promptly before the flames have had
time to gain headway.
First, then, do not be alarmed on ac-
count of smeke. Frequently there is
great deal of smoke before the fire has
made much progress. Remember that
one can pass through smoke by keeping
his head near the floor, or by envelop-
ing it in a wet woolen cloth. On en-
tering a room to fight down fire single
handed, keep the door closed behind, If
possible. A pail of water and tin
dipper in the hands Of resolute per-
son, can be made to work a miracle at
the beginning. If the fire has pro-
gressed too far to admit of this course,
and it is necessary to depend entirely
on outside help, then see to it that every
door and window is closed. By so do
ing, where there is fire-englne in the
neighborhood, 1t will often be possible
to confine the fire to one room. Every
person who stops at hotel should take
special pains before retiring to note the
location of the stairways, so that in case
of an alarm he can find his way out
even though the halls aESRdadnN4|
smoke. Never leave room w "a W.
Is an alarm of fire without first Y NJ
wet towel, or, ifpossible, wet 4. Y N
or piece of wooden cloth throlAl \.
to breathe. If escape by IlI NJ
cut off, seek an outsida R & a IA N
stay there till help CO. +.
things be cool and have es'sSdt
you. When lady's dress takes fire,
let her fall on the floor at once, and call
for help, in the meantime reaching for
some rag or wooden cloth with which to
smother the flames. There is nothing
new in this advice. 1t has been repeated
in one form or another hundreds OF
times, but 1t will bear repeating thou
sands of times.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
TIE VOYAGERS.


No longer spread the sail,
No longer strsin the oar;
For never yet has blown the gale
viii bring us nearer shore.
The swAying keel slides on;
The helm obeys the hand
Fast we have called from dawn to dawn,
Yet never reached the land.
Each morn we see its peaks
Made beautiful with snow;
Each eve its wales and winding creeks
That sleep In mist below.
At noon we mark the glesm
OF temples tail and fair;
At midnight watch its bonfires stream
In the AurorAl air.
And still the keel is swift;
And still the wind is free;
And still ~ far its mountains lift
Beyond the enchanted sea.
Yet vain is all return,
Though false the goal before;
The gale is ever dead sstern,
The current sets TO shore.
o, shipmates leave the ropes;
And What though no one steers,
We sail no faster for our hopes,
No slower for our fears.
Howe'er the bark il blown,
Lie down and sleep awhile;
What profits toll when chance alone
Can bring us TO the islei
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-22
The Horned Women.

A rich woman sat up late one night
carding and preparing wool, while all
the family and servants were asleep.
Suddenly knock was given at the door,
and voice called:
"Open Open !"
"WhO is there?" said the woman of
the house.
81 am the Witch of the One Horn, ("
was answered.
The mistress supposing that one of
her neighbors had called and required
assistance, opened the door, and wo-
man entered, having in her hand pair
of wool carders, and bearing horn on
her forehead, as if it grew there.
she sat down by the fire in silence, and
began to card the wool with violent
haste. Suddenly she paused and said
aloud:
"Where are the women9 They delay
too long"
Then a second knock came to the
door, ana voice called as before:
"Open! Open F."
The mistress felt herself constrained
to rise and open to the call, and imme-
diately second witch entered, having
two horns on her forehead, and in her
hand wheel for spinning the wool.
"Give me place." she said, 81 am the
Witch of the Two Horns"
And she began to spin as quick as
lightning.
And so the knocks went on, and the
call was heard, and the witches en-
tered, until at last twelve women sat
around the fre-the first with one
horn, the last with twelve horns. And
they carded the thread, and turned the
spinning wheels, and wound and
wove, all singing together an ancient
rhyme, but no word did they speak to
the mistress of the house. Strange to
hear and frightful to look upon, were
these twelve women, with their horns
and their wheels; and the mistress felt
near to death, and she tried to rise that
she might call for help, but she could
not move, nor could she utter word
or cry, for the spell of the witches
was upon her.
Then one Of them called to her in
Irish and said:
"Rlse, woman, and make us cake"
Then the mistress searched for ves-
sci 10 bring water from the well that
she might mix the meal and make the
cake, but she could find mono. And
they said to her:
Take sieve and bring water in it,"
And she took the sieve and went to
the well; but the water poured from it,
and she could fetch none for the cake,
and she sat down by the well and wept.
Then voice came by her and said:
"Take yellow clay and moss and
bind them together and plaster the
sieve so that it will hold"
This she did, and the sieve held the
water for the cake. And the voice
said again:
\ "Return, and when thou comest to
Dwkh angle of the house, cry aloud