The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-02-18

toned the echoes, saying: "Where is
Emperor Titus who sat here?' The
answer came: 'Gone to Judgment"
"Where is Emperor Trajan who
sat here?" Gone to Judgment"
"Where is Emperor Maximinus
who sat here?" Gone to judg-
ment." ''Where are all the m%ultitudes
who clapped and shouted and waved
flags to let the v%anquished up. or to
have them slain, put tumbs DOWN." The
echoes answered: 'Gone to Judgment"
| inquired: "All?" And they answered.:
GAIL" And | looked up to- the sky
above the ruins and it was full of clouds
scurrying swiftly past, and those clouds
seemed as though they had faces, and
some of the faces smiled and some of
them frowned, and they seemed to
have wings; and some of the wings
were moon-gilt and the others thunder.
charged, and the voices of those
clouds overpowered the echoes be-
meath. 'Behold, he cometh with
clouds and every eye shall see him"
And as | stood looking up along the
walls of the Colosseum they rose higher
and higher, higher and higher, until
the amphitheater seemed to be filed
with all the nations of the past and all
the nations of the present and all the
nations of the future, those who went
down under the paws of wild beasts.
and those who sat waving flags to let
up the conquered, and those who held
thumbs down to command their assas-
sination, and small and great,
o-1 aDanarnr and claua anA
pastor and people, and right
eous and wicked, the amphitheater
seeming to rise to infinite heights on
all sides of me, and in the center of that
amphitheater, instead of the arena of
combatants, a great throne stood, rising
higher and higher, and IN it sat the
Christ for whom the martyrs died and
against whom the Diocletians plotted
their prosecutions, and waving n
hand towards the piled up splendors to
the right Of him He cried: Come, We
blessed" and waving the other hand
tow ards the piled up glooms on the left
of him He cried: Depart, We cursed"
And so the Colosseum of Rome that
evening of 1889 seemed enlarged into
the amphitheater of the Last Judgment
and passed from under the arch
of that mighty structure, mighty even
in it's ruins, praying to Almighty
God, through Jesus Christ, for mercy in
hat day for which all other days were
made, and that as / expected mercy
from God, / might exercise mercy to-
ward others, and have more and more
the spirit of "Let-him-up" and less and
less Of the spirit of Thumbs down"
We may not all be able to do a sum in
higher mathematics, but there is a sum
in the first rule of gospel arithmetic
which we all may do. 1t is a sum In
simple addition. add to your faith
virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to
knowledge temperance, and to temper
ance patience, and to patience godli-
ness, and to %godliness brotherly kind
ness, and to brotherly kindness char
ity."
A MIGHTY HAUL OF FISH.
Fold About by an Alaska salmon Packer
Who Likewise Talks of Salmon.
A salmon fisher and packer from
Alaska told to a fellow patient in a
New York hospital the other day a
wonderful story of what is perhaps the
greatest single salmon haul on record.
The company to which the narrator be-
longs has its headquarters at San Fran
cisco. and sends each rear to one of the
Alaskan rivers a schooner bearing sixty
men, all of whom are busted in making
tin salmon cans during the voyage.
The point at which the camp was made
last eason is three hundred miles from
the nearest post office. The season
lasts from May to October, and the
pack of the company on that particu-
lor ri,ar rx-ao 49, pasl1ta- o,l &C. l,a
dred thousand pound cans
On the day of the great salmon haul
enormous schools of salmon were dis
covered in a reach of the river. The
stream was guarded at three points
with traps, and the fish were driven
toward three great nets. The school
was SO thick presently that 1t was diff
hcult to run a boat through the en-
closed pool. Great fish leaped out of
the water and struck the bars from the
hands Of the overs. At length the
haul was made, and at least seventy
five thousand fish were drawn ashore.
Two.thirds Of the fish were liberated.
as it was impossible to cure at once
that were saved. The fish averaged
nearly eiBnt pOunuS eacn.
The salmon pack of this concern goes
chiefly to Europe, and is sold especially
to British workingmen. The fact that
there is a demand for a delieacy Of this
sort among English mechanics leads
the narrator of this story to believe that
the w~orkingmen of the British isles are
better paid than Americans suppose.
The salmon syndicate of the north
west, the state Of Oregon and the
United States government are all busted
in encouraging the Pacific coast salmon.
The syndicate alone turns loose into
the rivers of Oregon fifty million salmon
annually, and as the Industrious female
salmon lays nine hundred eggs to every
pound Of her weight, the prospect of
the fish seems good. Throughout the
whole Pacific northwest the salmon is
about the cheapest fish going, and is
not esteemed a delicacy. The Alaskan
salmon fishermen still make a mystery
of the salmon, though his habits have
been pretty well cleared up by scien-
tiic investigation. According to popu-
ular belief nobody knows what the sal
mon feeds upon. 1t is also firmly held
that the salmon returns to it's hatch
ing place but once, at the age of
five years, for the purpose Of spawn
ing, and then goes back to the sea,
there to die, or at all events never again
to visit the river of it's birth.-N. Y.
Sun.