The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-09-07

supply ourselves with any pieces ~ old
potatoes. cabbage leHyeo, stale bread,
applied meat, or anything We come a.
drst. Our experience has taught us
that Il does not pay 90 use up good,
wholesome food upon them 1.-THE CARP.
Then again we are glad our friends
prefer carp fishing. for we do not have
to tramp around much. We know where
every sewer from the city empties into
the river, aud we anchor ourselves right
there add never move, only to make
room for the pile of fish as IL increases
In size. You can catch all you want In
five minutes. SO you see there Is great
saving in time, for everybody is SO busy
enjoying the "change" lin the fish, that
they cannot afford to spend all the time
fishing. II you catch more than you
can get away with. you will either have
to throw them back into the water or
give them 10 some poor Chinaman, for
they will not pay you anything for them.
They will tell you. Me heep saby
Mellican mans fishee. Why you no
catchee suckers They heep mutchee
good" And you can believe me, u
Chinaman knows what he is talking
about. A sucker" is far superior to
them in fineness and sweetness of flesh,
and the carp has nearly as many bones.
He is the scavenger of the waters, and
the more polluted the stream the better
he thrives. He makes war upon the
small fry of all other kinds of fish and,
like the nationality Of the people from
whence he takes his name, he is most
persistent in his efforts. There Is no fish
more prolific, and he is the most vora-
cious feeder known to the fish family.
They have done to our waters what the
Mongolian would have done to the
country if his ingress had not been
stopped. We could stop the "ycllow
boy" but not so with the carp. Like
the locusts in the days of old, nothing
can stop their advances. They are
everywhere, even out in the meadows,
away from the waters edge, eating
grass roots. They eat like hog and
"root" like hog, but are not as clean,
even if they do take bath every day.
Several miles below the city the coun-
try is quite level, and the overflow of
the rivers form lakes in which the wild
ducks, geese and swans used to congre-
gate in countless numbers 1t was the
sportsman's paradise, but it so no
longer The little Dutch boy" has
been there and got his work in on every
used to feed, and they have moved on. !"
| hope you will pardon me for pursu-
ing the line of thought in which have
written this, but after passing through
the same experience that we have, and
which am forced to believe you will,
think if Isaac Walton was as much
success at profanity as they say he was
at prevarication, he would have raised
his voice so that it could have been
heard from center to circumference,
and would have damned the man who
took advantage of the one little item
that was overlooked in that Mckinley
rObber tariff" measure and sneaked in
the German carp free of duty. If you
prefer quantity at the expense of quality
then, i say, give the carp half u chance
and you will have to enlarge your lakes
and ponds in very few years, or else
stand guard with something more
effectual than a gattling gun. They
will live for days ont of the water and
seem To enjoy the sunshine with as
much relish as a "pickaninny" with "A
watermelon, and even more so. But
by all means keep them out of your
lakes il you desire to retain the many
choice varieties of fish with which
know they now abound. They are all
right in your ponds and swamps, for it
will not be long until the frogs and
polliwogs will be thing of the past,
but build wall as high as the great
wall of China across the outlets of your
lakes, for they will follow up stream
no larger than the pencil with which
| am writing this. 1t has been said
they have been seen to travel on a
good sized dew
But every cloud has its silver lining,
and out of all this evil there must come
some good, in order to prove this old
adage true. And so it is in this case,
for from this particular source many
family can provide themselves with
meat Qike the boy after the woodchuck),
while they are wearing Cleveland
" badges" and singing praises to him
for their deliverance out of bondage.
Allow me to subscribe myself,