Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-12-18
GEO. o. BARNES in SCOTLAND
"PRAIsE THE LonD"
PErERnEAp, SCOTLAND, I
NovrNfurp OC 1900

NOVEMBER 20, 1898.
Pe.erhead Is Hauked by pleasant
patches Of meadow running out for nearly
mile on radisting roads wondered
q, seeing 90 much grass land and 90 little
cultivation 20 near q city, until learned
that these stretches Of pleasant green are
reserved for spreading the nets Of the her
ring fishers in the "season." "AIl these
fields are cotton and cork" said our worthy
chsperone, John Buchan, sin July and Au.
gust" An acre rents for about co for the
s weeks. When not in use for this indis.
pensable purpose, the grass IL psstured 10
the city folk who keep cows. Thus the
owners realiEs better income than II the
land were carefully cultivated 1t certain.
ly adds to the beauty OF the quite pictur-
esque landscape In the rear and to TIE
sides Ct our pleasant city. Tie herring
are not caught by dragging them out en-
"asse In the bag of the net, after our man.
ner Of seining our rivers and ponds at
home; but the nets, made Of very fine
strong cotton about like carpet thread (I
send an old fragment picked up in the
street az specimen) each 10 fathoms deep
100 feet) BY 20 fsthom' long (l20 fest) are
coupled together, 80 Ia a row, and let
down, stone, at regular intervals, acting az
sinters and circular corks, inches in di
ameier and ] inches thick, are placed al
frequent INTERMEDIARY Is or is Inches
for hos'eu. The fsh run sgsinst the nei
IN shoals, run their heads through the
meshes and stick BY the gills; the nets are
lifted BY sections, the fsh shsken Of into
the boat and the net dropped overheard
again for fresh haul. The ineness Of III,
thread used was a wonder to me. Cotton Il
used for It's elasticity. Linen thread would
cut the heads Of the 6sh of with its I'M
yie'd ng sharpness. Cod, ling and haddoct
are taken with hooks Of various sizes ane
lines Of various strength. The bait for In.
latter is email, yellowish mursel, taker
In great quantities In the different Firth
below-brought up and planted among III,
sea-weed covered rocks on the jagged beach
where they take hold by their anchorin,
tentaculsl and are taken mp as wanted b,
The fisherman. Esch boat hiss lie own plan
Of bait, marked out by a row Of stone. G
other well-known Identification. The CO.
and ling (s,ill larger) must have a dsinti
er bait and are 6shsd for with herring, 4
bits or whole. The winter fishing l. preca
rions and disappointing. ot.times. A
present paddock are beirg taken and III
weather for the past week has been goo
for fishing and cOre.pondingly bad "a
fishers Of men," But winter is the be,
season for holding meetings along III
cosst.
Wherever we 90 Of course we fall in wit
particular people, who are with us MOI
than others. Here among the fisher fol-
the man who seems to have taken a speci,
interest Ia us, and we, also in him, is job
Buchsn. The name is a common one
Peterhead. The district is called that an
the village one mile north. where l preach
cd the frat Sunday alter we came, is calle
Buehanhaven. The one two miles below
Bodim and there the name Of Stephen pr,
dominates. This gives us as the two mo,
common patronymics in Peterhead III
Stephens and Buchan. John IL one Of IN
latter tribe and an Israelite indeed, in whou
Is no guile" A short, thick-sei, muscula
man, with honest gray eyes and grir1le
} hair, face deeply pittsd with small POI
} gait regular sailors roll, as II on boat
deck meeting the motion OF a rough sea;
pleasant but not too broad Scotch brogu
perfectly posted 10 maratine matters an
always willing 10 communicate his vsrie
stores Of sea-lors; above all, dear saint {
the LORD, aud the very man we like I
meet and talk with,A day ortwo ago be asl
ed the girls and myself, as We were out fc
walk 10 come TO his house and see how
plain fisherman and his family hvet
"The Rhonehsads" where Johns cottage 4
Lies next the beach, and none bat fisher
men inhabit lie precincts. The HOUSES ar
hesped together with narrow, and at pres
en-. muddy lanes, guil,less Of pavement
for passways and inteuectiug at msny an
giles Up one Of these We picked our wa,
10 a doorway In high wall that shut Of
Johns little enclosure from the public eye
An irregular quadrangle Of about 80 fee
II squared, with enc eide occupied by ID,
front Of the hshsImsn's house, aud the op