Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-17
Esquimaux Duck-Spearing.

"a Most novel and interesting
method of bird-catching is practiced
during the spring and early summer,
while the ducks aud geese are molting
and unable to fly. The Esquimaux
puts his kyack-tbat is his seal.skin
canoe-on his head, like an immense
hat, and repairs to the big lake, Or the
seaside, where he has seen the helpless
birds swimming and feeding in the
water. Here he launches his frail bark,
and, when seated, which is not always
accomplished without ducking. takes
his double bladed oar in his hands, and
at once starts in pursuit of the game.
Before him, on his hyock, where he can
seize it at the proper moment, lies his
duck-spear. together with other imple-
ments of the chase. Cautiously np-
preaching the featherless flock, he
sometimes gets quite near before his
presence is observed; but even then,
before he is within striking distance,
there is great splutteripg in the water,
as the band scatters in every direction,
vainly beating the water with the curl
GUS looking stumps that soon will wear
their plumage and once more do auty
as wings. Some dive below the sur
face and come up great way off, and
always just where you are not looking
for them; but as the flock takes alarm,
the hunter dashes forward, feeling the
necessity for speed rather than for eau
ton. He is soon within fifteen or
twenty feet of the struggling mass, and ,
seizing curious looking spear, with
three barbs OF unequal length, he
poises it for q moment in the air. and
then hurls it with unerring aim at the
devoted bird, impaling it with sharp
ened iron or bone spike in the center of
the barts. The handle of the spear is
of wood, ana floats on the surface OF
| the water, so that the hunter can re-
cover his weapon and the game at his
| leisure. - Col. Glider, in Scribner.
- Whatever things q man sees and
hears and is affected with. these are in.
snuated as to ideas and ends into his
interior memory without his being
aware of it, and there they remain, SC
that not anything perishes. The inte-
rior memory. therefore. is such that
there are inscribed on it all the particu
lar things which lie has at any time
thought, spoken or done, even such al
have appeared to him as but a shadow
together with the most minute circum
stances, and this from his earliest in
fancy to extreme old ago. A man hai
with him the memory of all these thingt
when he comes into the other life, ant
is brought successfully into recollection
OF them. This is the book OF his life
which is opened in the ether world
and according 10 which he is judged
A man can scarcely believe this, bu'
still it is most true. All bis ends
which are even to himself in obscurity
all THAT he had thought, and likewis'
all that he had spoken and done, as de
rived from those ends are. to the mos
minute point, in that Book, that is il
the interior memory Swedenborg.
all moral excellence is based upol
four primary principles or rules of &C
tion: acknowledges, self.government
self.discirline and self.denial. Thes
are the elements of moral character
and thorough understanding of the
is the foundation of all self-improye
ment.
A Boston lawyer says; "And here
take occasion to remark that invariably
if woman own large landed estate
, she is sure to get married from time t
time, as often as death affords an OF
portunity, thus making great embal
rasGments in trading titlag -"