The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-15
FISHING IN THE NORTHWEST.

FISHING IN THE NORTHWEST.
One Of the Sources Of Future Wealth for
the state of Washington.
Whoever passes along the main retail
street of Seattle and happens to notice
the counters in the principal fish store
will be astonished. In tho chromatic
display of the captive creatures Of the
sea is the text for another chapter on
future wealth for Washington. They
have the salmon, though that catch IL
credited to Oregon and Alaska. There
are in the northern waters cod banks
thousands Of miles in extent; halibut,
Goldfish, rock-cod, sole, sea-bass, smelts.
shrimps. herrings, and oysters are ali
abundant Apparently the fisheries
outweigh those of the cast, as the tim
Der belt excels that which once inclosed
the great lakes Candor compels ms TO
say that the Pacific fish, with one exccp-
ton. are inferior to the same kinds Of
fish In the east, yet they IRE not want
ing In fine qualities Tho halibut Of
Washington and the north is, believe,
the finest sea fish for the table that ID
known in America. The tiny muddy
oysters, the size Of dime or quarter,
are the meanest product Of that sea,
but they find ready sale and are ad.
mired. Since that " SO, hope for nil
the rest should b. rampant. Their
crabs, on the contrary. are not mere
samples; they are Wholesale products,
batter for that, since they make good
food. The fishing that must in few
years .deck the waters OF the Pacific
with sails Is scarcely begun. There is
only q million Invested in It. and only
million year is produced by it-Juliaa
Ralph, In Harper's Magazine.
The public schools OF Chicago EN-.
ploy $500 teachers, ninety-five per cent
OF whom are women, and between 400
and 500 OF them are married.
Union Theological seminary, New
York, has recently received gifts
amounting to elT5,OO0 D. Willis James
gave slOO, 900 Of the amount
There is, It is claimed. "a human
element in the Bible" However that
may be, and whatever 1t may mean,
there is none to doubt that there Is ON
inhuman element in men.
President Harper, of Chicago uni.
versity, proposes to locate the great
Yerkes telescope at Lake Forest, sub
urb of Chicago, provided the trustees OF
Lake Forest university will make that
institution department of Chicago
university.
Bishop Hurst says the ninety.two
acres bought in Washington for 9 site
for the proposed Methodist university
have increased in value until they are
worth 100000 He reports also that
subscriptions to the 10000, 900 fund
continue to como in
The contest for the position Of pro-
fessor OF modern languages at West
Point military academy, position with
q salary of $4,000 per annum and the
rank Of colonel, has ended in favor OF
Capt =. E. Wood, OF the eighth cavalry,
the present assistant professor Of Span
tsh at the academy.
p ID. Armour will invest nearly
$4,000, 600 in manual training school
in Chicago which will be as we'll
equipped as any institution of the kind
in the world. The Armour institute is
valued at $500. 900 and Its endowment st
81, 400. 900. The school will be opened
September I, next
AT 9 conference just held at Methu-
en-, Mass, Rev. DR. Judson Smith, one
OF the secretaries Of the American board,
stated that only little over one:half
OF the 800, 900 pledged to the board at
Pittsfeld had been paid In. He also
said that there would have been seri.
ous deficit last year II there had not
been large increase of iegaciea
God has given you infinite faculties
OF enjoyment But He has given
you with these tho higher trust Of be-
ing manly and OF caring for your fel.
low man and their miseries and sina
Oh, don't think It vulgar thing to be
. preacher. or even priest, and q
fine thing to be an artist II you
do you will not be true artist, but an
srtificer to please the world.-Rev. B.
d. Maurice
When death enters Christian
home and soma member OF the little
circle ID taken away, each one feels
that he wishes to be alone with God,
that like the disciple Of John he may tell
Jesus OF his sorrow. The family, too,
naturally come together around the
family altar-near TO each other. near to
God: the loved dead seems almost with
them sgaini
The American board has put up
q 200. 900 a. its goal in annual receipts
tor foreign missionA II hopes 10 reach
this mark by constant advances, and as
the missionary impulse grows stronger
In the Congregational churches. The
Aethodists have fxed their high water
mark at q, $50. 600 for home and foreign
missions. snd they win reach it The
Prssbyterian church has proposed
q, ,ooA 100 for IT. aim. II y creeping up
slowlyto that point having oontributed
ever 100000 lsst yesr.-Nisaiaaesy