Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-04-19
Salmon Catching in the Co
lumbia River.

Salmon Catching in the Co
lumbia River.
Upon both banks of the Columbi;
river, between the upper AID lower
| Cascad, $, several queer looking ma
chimes are being built. They re-
s"mble the old fashioned under
shot water wheel-which they are
in fact-but are very light in struc-
ture. They are being quilt upon
projecting rocks or en- banakm nts,
so that the wheel will be in The
water when the stream in the spring
| The wheels are constructed with
plank paddles so that the water run,
ming down and striking them Sc 5
them in motion. Within these
wheels are two large network or
latticed scoops, which revolve w tn
| the wheels When the water rises,
a it will next month. and the wheels
| begin to turn, and the salmon COM
mences 10 run up stream, there w il
be lively times in the vicinity of
these fish scoops. The salmon COM
ing up stream will be scOoped up by
these whirling wheels, and as the
struggling fish come upward and the
wheel whirls them over they fall into
chute, down which thev go, tum-
bling into b Xes arranged 20 receive
them on shore This novel mode for
taking salmon was successfully est
ed last summer on the south side -
the Columbia river, db0ve the lower
Cascades. A man named Williams,
who is said to be the inventor. real
izei quite a snug pile of m oney dur
ing the salmon season by the aid of
one of these wheels. One wheel
scnopei upon the shore 4, 600 pounds
in one night and day. The owner
was kept busy hauling his fish to the
cannery. This season several larger
and improved wheels are being
erected and a cannery has been pre-
pared TO take care of the finny ca J.
tives. 1t seems like an unnatural
way of taking fish from a stream,
and it must, no doubt, astonish the
spOrtive salmon 10 be so unceremoni-
ously scooped up out of the water
and dumped on shore. As there in
at present no law to prevent it, these
wheels, will, no doubt, increase is
in the vicini V of the Colum
bia river rapids.-Pacifc Lii
A Cincinnati WON an knocked her |
husband nscles with copy of the |
bib'e. The old version is good and |
stong yet.
At a recent donation party tn e
preacher received a large quantity
IF half-cooked bread, and he says
now he doesn't want any more
'doughnatiOn parties in his.
The pen msy be miehtier than the
sword but when a religious editor
has rivet fitted to a couple Of
swords he can beat dozen pens in
getting up original matter.
The stockton Independent advo-
Gates the Introduction OF the English
pheasant into Northern California
md Southern Oregon.
Before this is done our people
must be taught to obey the laws for
heir presentation. AS we stated
asst week the Chinese or japanese
pheasant has Obtained focthold
n Oregon, because in that State, and
n British Columbia, they make even
he Indian obey he law passed for
he propagation of any new species
If birds, fish or animals. Let some
,ublic-spirlted man put out a con-
ignment of English pbeasants, the
loblest of game birds, and the law
ess, unchecked vagatondism of
California would like no better fun
han to shoot them at sight.
1t is claimed, with just satisfaction
hat IN these times of periIous de>
)artures from the faith of the faith
ers, Methodism stands firmly by its
and ancestral faith. But
here are other and not-less-to-be-
deprecated dangers, that are at hand.
nd the more to be dreaded because
hey are latent and insidi0us. Open
leresy is a virulrnt poison, which
declares itself, and may lead to the
application of remedial antidotes;
,ut worldly mindedne>s indicates Il
pisitual atrophy, the wasting of dis
.ase without such acute symptoms as
o cause alarm. To that point the
IT. ention of those who watch for the
Church's welfare and for the saliva
ion of souls should be earnestly di
'ecteG. The incoming of The danger
,us heresies may be caused, not only
~ teaching false doctrines, but
carcely less surely by failing to de-
.lare the whole truth. Any doctrine
If the Gospel, respecting which the
pulpit shall be silent for quarter of
century, will, at the end of time,
rave ceased to be felt Or recognized
~ the people; and if, as some affirm
s true, the Methodist pulpit has
ceased to emphasize the guilt and
peril of sin, to disclose the certainty
If perdltion to the imponitent, and
he utter incompatib,lity of worldly
with the Christian call
ng, then quite possibly the peril
smo1g us from the dry-rot of formal
ty NAV prove to be not less disas-
rous than the gangrene of heresy.-
Dr. d. Curry in N. 7. Oh. Ad0-
Washington never made speech
In the zenith of his fame he attempt.
ed it, failed and gave it up Genius, d
and abashed. In framing the Cons
Iiiution of the United States, the
labor was entirely performed in the
committee of the whole, of which
was the charm IN. He
made two speeche, during The CON-
" ntlon, however, acknowledged the
master spirit, and historians affirm |
that, had it not been for his great |
and the thirty words Of |
his first speech, pronouncing it the |
best that coulp be united united up
on. the Constitution would have been |
rejected by the people. Thomas
! jefferson never made a speech, he
couldn't do it. Napoleon, whose exc
cutive power was almost without pa
ralell, said that his greatest difficulty
was in finding men of deeds rather
than words. When asked how he
maintained his influence over super
los in age and experience when
commander-in-chie of an army in
Italy, he said by reserve. The great
ness of man Is not measured by the
length eff his speeches and their num-
her ErchQn0e