Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-02-16
THE GOLDFISH.

ing fish, and so guileless an nm
suspecting that il falls an easy prey
to man, aud thus gets into trouble
and much salt.
Those who have studied the ways
of the mother Goldfish. tell rs that
brood of eighty million offspring
10 no unusual achievement at q ain
gle sitting, and that. with all her
motherly care and watchfnlness, q
few of the brood die young.
II seems to me that the mother
goldfish is worthy Of more thought
than msck:nd has been disposed to
bestow upon her,. Let those who
are weighed down by the cares of
just one slightly disobeaient child,
think for q moment of the much
heavier cares OF the mother Goldfish
With eighty million minnnw of
spring, all needing maternal guild
ance and COUNSEL
just try TO imagine the amount
of worry she undergoes, and the
haunting fear she has that some of
her little ones are wandering out
in the way Of big fish with fancy
for fresh cod, or eating unripe worms
The family cares Of che mother
Goldfish are indeed hurculean, and
must be exceedingly trying to the
strongest constitution. and vet the
mother does not complain. Very
likely she may say once in while,
co very dear friend, in her own
simple vet expressive way
What trial children are, to be
sure - But she does not mean it.
Next season she goes on her nest
again, and in due season, behold
her eighty millions more !.
The Goldfish loves its hsme. The
scenes Of It's happy minnowhond are
ever dear to it. IL leads a quiet,
peaceful life among its relatives
anl friends. not FIR from where IT
first learned to swim, seldom wan
dering away from this happy spot
unless is bites at the deceiving bait
of man. and is ruthIessly pulled in
out of it's moist bat saIubrious ele-
ment
The term ''cpdfish aristocrary'
is base libel on the codfish, for
the Goldfish never puts on airs; new
er pretends to be anything more
than it is Who ever heard of
codfish incorporating IA a shad. or
sp' OK led trout. or as any other
high toned fish
In truth, the co fish is always
plain and unassnming. moves con
tentedly in the humblest walks OF
fish society. and is silent even in
the presence of those who turn up
their nose at it. have much res
pect for the Goldfish until man. with
Fermentation aforethought, salts It
and dries it aud seasons it so that
it NAV b. handed down through the
endless cycles of time. and be mark.
etable Ia any age and sny cline
IL rs then ! turn away from the cod.
fish with FEELING that ! cannot be
sociable with it.
But the condition of the salt cod
ish 1T commerce is not the fault of
the fish. Man must shoulder the
blame For mercenary motives he
sends throughout the land this
product of the seas. so fixed by his
diabolical ingenuity that the pei
son who eats of it is soon over
whelmed with an irresistible desire
to drink up the entire water supply
Of the town.
A sort of health food is said to
be made of the oil that comes from
the liver of the Goldfish. II has n
taste that a person can wear a whole
life time, aud thea hand It down, TO
his children.
A doctor once advised an irasei-
BILE friend Of mine, named Jeremiah |
McGinness, To take cod liver oil.
aud led him tn believe. by preyari-
cation, that it was pheasant to the
taste. MeGinntss was IN the last
stage of consumption. bit in less
than two minutes after taking tn.
first spoonful of cod Ever oil. he
wss able tn get out of bed aud break
two Of the Doctors ribs in one
round. This lttlr incids mt re-.
doubled the doctors faith IN the
magical ,ffrcts of cod liver oil on
the human s. stem, but he was after
ward more cautious in the use of |
verde when speaking to his patti
ents of it's rare old flavor.