Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-22
THE voRAcIoUs CARP.

Clever Ruses by Which It Is Exterminat-
ing Black Bass.
The German carp is a vicious fish aft
er fashion, and the kind Of brains it
has is described by W. F. Meehan in
The Fishing Gazette. Says Mr.. Meehan:
zone day in early June in 1898 or
1894, in Montgomery county, Pa, I was
watching the spawning bed Of black bass
in Perkiomen creek from bridge over
head, when along came number Of
large German carp. One made feint
toward the nest, and when attacked by
the black bass fed While the bass was
in pursuit the remainder Of the carp
darted in, and in twinkling devoured
the spawn in the nest. waded out to
the bass nest later and found scarcely an
egg in it. was told afterward of a
similar case in the same stream. -
The Pennsylvania report of the state
commissioners Of fisheries says that
ssthere are few fishes more heartily an
athematized by American anglers than
the carp. They fail to see redeeming
feature in the creature, and charge 1t with
many bad ones, the most serious Of
spawn eater than the eel, :" and the an
glers fear that it will in few years
practically exterminate all the valuable
food and game fishes despite the efforts
Of the various fish commissioners.
The carp furnishes the angler little
or no sport, because it refuses to take the
ordinary lures offered. Its flesh is not
popular with American fish eaters, as
it is in European countries, where as
early as 1927 it was cultivated in Aus
tria.
It is not known exactly who first in
troduced carp into American waters, nor
exactly when it was done, but Mr.. Poffe,
a Californian, some time before 1870,
is believed to have been the man. He is
regarded in much the same light as the
introducer of the English sparrow into
the United States, and the misguided
men who turned English rabbits on to
Australia
King by Trade.
While in Geneva in 1891 Judge 7. J.
Mackey of South Carolina was selected
by the American colony to deliver
Jul I'LL VI July vi dUlOA q OC04uOU
given in honor of the day. It was at
tended by all the foreign consuls, and
among them was the consul general Of
Austria Hungary, who furnished for
Judge Mackey's address the following
anecdote and vouched for it's anthem
ITCHY:
A number of Americans residing in
Vienna in the year 1910 united to cele-
brate Washington's birthday, and in
vited the Emperor Francis of Austria to
honor the occasion by his presence.
That genial monarch, a true gentle
man, although "eyery inch a king"
overlooked the disregard Of established
forms into which his would be hosts had
been betrayed by their patriotic zeal,
and made this answer in his own hand
writing:
nGentlemen. thank you for your
hospitable invitation and the gratifying
terms in which you have expressed your
desire that I should attend a banquet
which you propose to give in celebra-
ton Of General Washington natal day.
"But you must excuse me from unit
ing with you to honor the memory Of
your illustrious countryman, since I
could not do SO with sincerity, for Wash
ington scorned crown and did more
to bring royalty into contempt than all
men who have ever lived, and am q
king by trade. Youths Companion.
My pen is at the bottom of page,
which being finished here my story ends;
tits to be wished it had been sooner
done, but stories somehow lengthen
when begun. Byron.
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