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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
THE WAYS OF SNIPE.
modern Hunter More Of a Naturalist
Than His Forefather.

IMAM tbs Forefatner.
Those who have followed and stud.
led the long billed mystery of he
marshes know that, as a rule. the bird
rises some yards from the intruder's
boot, attains top speed with a few
sounding wing strokes and speeds
away in a peculiar zigzag or twisting
flight. which may be continued for
few or many yards before the bird
settles to its swift but steadier ad-
vance. Every experienced snipe
shooter remembers how battling was
that flight during his apprenticeship
to the gun, and how often the artful
dodger in feathers saved his life by
his apparent craft. Fifty years ago.
the great majority of even accom-
plished sportsmen merely were de-
stroyers. Excellent gentlemen, ac-
cording to their lights, they were
prone to measure their enjoyment by
the size of their piles of slain, and
precious few of them knew ar cared
much about game except during the
actual shooting season.
Reliable books about birds, now so
numerous, then were exceeding few,
so about all the average man knew
of his game was what he personally
saw during few lively days each
year. Today. things are different At
least one-third. and l hope one-half,
of our shooting men are more nat
uralists than sportsmen of the old
school. They have read more and
closer because there has been more
sound reading open to them, and that
reading, as it should, has taught
many useful things.
Perhaps 1t merely aroused the Gu
riosity of the readers. but in any
event it accomplished a deal of good
by encouraging folk to keep their eyes
open and carefully note the hitherto
neglected little things of its day
afield. 1t is human nature, to try to
catch 'tother chap lying, or tripping,
so when the man half educated in
craftsmanship found a new fact In a
book he was skeptical, yet watchful,
because it would be feather in his
cap to prove that book incorrect
The fact in question may have been
about snipe; and he, a veteran of
that field, had killed thousands of
snipe, yet never saw such a thing as
the book described. The next time
afield he would be loaded for snipe,
and, incidentally, for writer's. That
time be was observant. Because he
was looking for small thing, his
eyes weFs vide open, and most likely
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
Reed Birds-How to Cook EN-.

Reed birds are skinned and cooked
whole, but rarely cleaned. The most
approved way of cooking them is to
put three or four on a skewer and
broil; or wrap them one by one in
salt pork or bacon-put on a skewer
and roast seven or eight minutes In
a hot oven and serve on slices of fried
hominy, with watercress on nice.
white chicory. Sometimes they are
cleaned and stuffed with little sweet
potato before wrapping in bacon and
broiling. In nearly all the larger
cities the most of the reed birds
found in the markets are sparrows.
When these have been fed on grain it
takes a connoisseur in game to dis
tinguish the difference.-Washington
STAR
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

he saw that very thing, and possibly
few others. Instead Of roasting the
book, he reread it in quest Of other
small matters. He was now fairly
started upon the true trail, for he
had tried the observation habit"
which really is the most satisfying
thing connected with field sport.-Il.
Illustrated Sporting News.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

The standing timber OF Canada
equals that OF the continent of Eur
ope and is nearly double that Of the
United States.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03
STRANGE TRADES IN PARIS.

Jog Barber FIourishes in His Stand
on the Banks of the Seine.
1t is astonishing with what zeal
every means of earning an honest
penny is piled in Paris. No city in
the world has so many queer little
trades by which those practicing them
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

Our total trade with Alaska for the
fiscal year was: Import, $10,225. 900;
exports, $9,497, 900,
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-12-03

New OrleaFs and Galveston now ex
port more 4heat than New York,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

One-fourth of the Migrants in Ed
inburgh are of Irish nationality.
One of the streets at Montpelier,
France, is to be renamed the Rue
Emile lola.
The Belgians are the greatest po
tato eaters in the world, and the Irish
come second.
Six hundred members, including
many of the nobility, have joined the
Austrian A%nti-Dueling league.
Twenty-siX pounds was paid for d
pack of German playing cards dated
1858 at Sotheby's recently.
Some years ago SO of every 100 chill
dren in Egyptian schools were affect
ed with granular ophthalmia. This
percentage has now been reduced
to IA.
Ten g%uineas damages have been
awarded at Edmonton county court
to a servant who sued the employer
of a workman who looked for an es-
cape of gas with a lighted match.
The National museum at Belgrade
has come into possession of a collec-
ton of $4,000 Roman copper coins re-
Gently %unearthed near a Servian vii
lage. The oldest of them belong in
the time of Caracalla.
Twenty-three years ago a fraudu-
lent bankrupt fled from Buda-Pesth to
America, where he amassed a small
fortune. Becoming homesick he re-
turned recently to Austria, where he
was recognized and promptly ar
rested.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
ORIGIN OF BEAN FEAST.
IL Is Explained by an Old English
man-HOw "a Workman Comment
GRATED a WOOdmnn's Charity.

Why is a feast without beans called
a bean feast? An old resident at
Woodford explained it to me the
other day, writes a correspondent to
the London Leader. Years ago a
workman lost his way in a part of
Epping Forest. After wandering
about for some considerable time, he
at length heard the sound of a wood
mans ak, and directing his footsteps
towards the noise came across a
woodcutter in the act of delivering
q final blow to a tree. "Fair lop,"
e%jaeulated the woodman, as the tree
fell, then turning to the workman,
asked what he required. The man
told him that he had lost his way i'll
the forest and vas hungry and tired.
"Sit down FRIEND" said the woodman,
''and share my meal" at the same
time bringing out some beans and
bacon. Not long after the workman
was fortunate enough to become a
master blockmaker, and to comment
crate the charity of the woodman he
used to take the workmen once a
year to the Fair Lop Tree and give
them a feast of beans and bacon. The
beans have been dropped, but the
feasts still remain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
MY WOODLAND PATH.

How well i know my woodland path,
Its greetings and its aftermath,
Its windings and its vistas dim,
That stretch beyond the forests rim;
Its fragrance in the wild rose time,
Its mingled scent of fern and thyme,
That rise like incense where l tread,
AT purple dawn or sunset red.
] know its leafy coverts where
The brown thrush n the cat-birds are;
And where in spring with Joy are heard
The first notes of the hooking bird,
And all the blithe bards of the wood,
In roundle, RUNE and interlude.
l know where emerald MOSES edge
Its ribboned course through briar and
sedge;
Where partridge berries shine between
The clustered leaves Of the wintergreen;
and where the morning sun breaks
through
The cedar boughs to drink the dew.
And there at noon, on languid wing,
The nto breeze goes wandering.
/ know its cradle hollows deep,
Where winter long the violets sleep,
Quiescent till the gales of spring
Blow off their leafy covering.
l know its restful shady spots,
Its turnings where it runs cross lots,
And skirts the meadows grassy edge,
Meath fringe of wild flowers in the
hedge.
So well ! know its time-worn mark,
My feet will trace it in the dark;
And, from it's source to where it ends,
! love it as l owe my friends.
&C. H. Doing, in Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
DANCE BEFORE THE VIRGIN.
Picturesque Time-HOn0red ustom
of Spaniar dS sanctioned by
the Pope.

In the great Spanish cathedral OF
spectacle may be seen at the Feast
of the Canonicals. 1t is the famous
dance before the Virgin which caused
so much comment at one time. A
procession of priests passes through
the church to the high altar. They
are uniformly tall, fine of figure,
and with intellectual faces. Their
robes are a rich and gorgeous pur.
pie and the gems of their vestments
are priceless. At the altar there ap.
pears a company of boys, about Il
years of age, arrayed in plumed hats
and with touches of silver brighten.
ing the courtier dress. Music begins
to play in slow, minuet time, and the
boys a stately dance. 1t
is a graceful, quiet measure, and
their is solemn, showing the
reverence with which they regard
this ceremony. Many years ago one
of the priests announced his belief
that it was ~irreverent, and besought
the pope to have it forbidden. The
kind father of the vatican, knowing
it was an ancient and loved custom
of the church, said he must see the
dance in order to judge Of it's char
acter. He summoned the little boys
to Rome where they danced for him,
The pope was at a loss. Finally he
said that the practice might be con
tinued until the costumes were worn
out.
A willy canon who managed the
service arranged that this should
not come to pass, by replacing now
a coat, now a hat, again another
part Of the dress. So the service
still goes on in old Seville where
travellers are the delighted specta
tors of this picturesque scene and
thankful for the preservation of the
time Sonored custom.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
HOW NAPOLEON WAS SPANKED
story of How the Famous French
man Was Punished by His
Mother.

Just as a mar is no hero to his
valet, SO he is likely not to be a hero
to bis mother, or rather not the sort
of hero that the world knows, but a
hero quite of her own conception. AS
boys, the great men who are to be
lesser favorites of fortune. When
Napoleon was in exile at Elba he told
a story of how his mother spanked
him, relates the Youths Companion.
One day his mothers mother was hob,
bling along the street in Ajaccio, and
Napoleon and his sister, Pauline, fol
lowed the old lady and mimicked her.
Their grandmother turned and caught
them in the act.
She complained to Madame Letiti-s
Bonaparte. Pauline was at once
Spanked and disposed of. Napo.
leon, who was out in his regimentals,
could not be handled, for a uniform is
as sacred as the flag.
His mother bided her time.
The next day, when her son was
off his guard, she cried, "Quick, Ma
poleon! You are invited to dine with
the governor"
He ran up to his room to change
his clothes. She quietly followed, and
when she judged that the proper time
had come, rushed into the room,
1iezed her undressed hero before he
guessed her purpose, laid him across
the maternal knee, and belabored him
earnestly with the fiat of her hand.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
H THE HERRING RUN.
Yarmouth the Center of h Indus-
try. Receives 50,0O0,00 Fish In
a Days Catch.

One of the most interesting seaports
of England is Yarmouth, perhaps the
chief fishing town of the Kingdom, and
certainly the great herring center On
November IL the high water mark for
arrivals was registered, when 5O,00O,-
600 of these fishes were landed on the
wharves of the port. This n days
catch sold for $125,000, so it can be seen
that the fisher folk have an abundance
of shillings-at least, in the fishing sea-
son. On this day the fleet spread for
three miles along the harbor, says the
Philadelphia Press.
1t is said that the herring season this
year has never been equaled. Certain
it is that the twin towns of Yarmouth
and Lowestoft present a busy and ami
mated scene. The port at this time is
as much Scotch as English, for scores
of the boats come from north of the
Tweed. The streets are full of broad
shoulderd, ruddy-faced girls who APP
peared with the fleet. They are not
the least of the picturesque sights, as,
stripped of superfluous clothing, bare
headed and bare-armed, they dress and
cure the fish.
These girls are mostly Scotch, and
have a peculiar dialect of the Tweed
fisher folk. They are CHEEKY and sing
at their work, and are always ready for
fun when work is over. They are the
heroines or the objects of many stories
that never get into print. There are
probably 1900 of these iassies in town,
and they are experts, for they follow
the fleet in its migratory quest like
gulls follow a school of fish.
When the fleet looms up in the har-
Dor the girls repair to the warehouses
and get ready for work. The girls
work in crews of three, two cutting
the fish with a small knife, which they
use with wonderful dizziness, and the
third packing the fish in barrels of
salt. These girls receive their railway
fares and a guarantee Of $3.50 Il week,
and a bonus of ~ cents for every bar
rel filled.
The work is hard, and when once
the fish are in hand it has to be a r
ried on to a finish. however late the
hour, for the herring is a very perish
able article, and any delay in the proc
ess of cutting and sailing would be
ruinous. The girls often cut their
hands badly, and the salt with which
they have to work makes the wounds
exceedingly painful. But a brighter,
healthier set of workers will not as
lily be found anywhere than i'll these
curing yards, where they may be heard
singing to one another, and where even
in their spare time they are not idle,
for you never see a fisher girl with
out her knitting needles.
Herrings are cured in several other
ways, the work in most cases being
done by m Akipper, than which
there r few greater delicacies, is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

you + the n to look out for
what you say" replied Uncle Fulano,
having recovered his composure. IF
you do not prove your denunciation,
and you can't prove it, L shall send
you to Jail as a slanderer! These
pumpkins were mine, for | raised
them in my garden of Egiddo, and
no n can prove otherwise!"
"Now you shall see!" said Uncle
Buscobeatas. untying the handker-
chief and tossing its contents to the
ground.
Scattered about the ground they
beheld a multitude of fragments of
pumpkin vines, still green and drip
ping with sap; the old gardener, seat
ed upon his heels and shaking with
laughter, addressed the councillor and
the crowd as follows:
Gentlemen, have you ever paid
taxes? And have you ever seen that
big green book which the tax-col-
lector carries, from which he cuts off
receipts, leaving there a stub by
ivan VI NiiiNh hC Sal tCI WutluGT
such and such a receipt is false?"
You are speaking about what is
called a stub-book," gravely observed
the councillor.
"That is precisely what l have here
the stub-book of my garden; that
is, the ends to which these pumpkins
were joined before | was robbed of
them. Now, if you don't believe it,
look! This stub belongs to that
pumpkin yonder; no one can deny it.
This one belongs to that pumpkin;
this to that one. Exactly! Now, this
belongs over here"
While speaking, he had been fitting
a peduncle, or stub, into the Xcava
ton of each pumpkin, and the specta-
tors saw with establishment that the
irregular bases of the stubs fitted
exactly into the whitish cavity of the
pumpkins.
The bystanders all squatted down,
including the policeman and the coun-
cilor himself, and assisted Uncle Bus
cobeatas in his singular v~erification,
calling out to each other in boyish
Joy, There's no doubt about it!
See? This one goes here! No, that
belongs to this one!"
Their bursts of laughter and the
shouts of the grandees mingled with
the whistling of the small boys and
the imprecations of the women and
the tears of the old gardener. The
policemen were already impatient to
take the convicted thief to Jail.
1t is unnecessary to state that they
had this pleasure; that Uncle
Fulano saw himself obliged then and
there to return to the retailer the
$15 he had collected from him; that
the retailer delivered the sum over to
Uncle Buscobeatas, and that the lat
ter returned to Rota supremely hap
Ply, saying to himself on the way,
How beautiful they were in the mar
ket! I ought to have brought Manu-
ella home with Inc to eat tonight and
to save the seed!"-Translated from
the Spanish of Pedro Antonio de Alar-
con, by Edgar Allen Forbes, in Farm
and Fireside.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

a herring split down the back, gut
ted, picked in brine for half an hour
or so and then smoked for a few
hours. A bloater is an unsplit her
ring and is kept in salt for the bet
ter part of a day before being
smoked, while the red herring is red
because it is first sailed for some
weeks on end and then smoked for
as long, the result being that it is
very highly cured.
The net profits of each boat are
divided INTO 16 shares, of which
seven &c to the owners and the other
nine are split up among the hands
in proportion to their standing.
Thus the master will take enc and a
half or II and three-quarters share,
the mate one and a quarter or one
and a half, and so on down to the
last-joined boy, who gets a quarter
or even one-eighth of a share. A
share in a lucky boat may run to
close on 1000 for two months fishing.
The new stream driftcrs are fine
boats, about GO tons, so feet in
length by Is feet in the beam. In
the old days the nets were not more
than two miles long. But now
every steamer has at least ITO or
$50, or wen 200 nets 80 yards wide
by Is or 20 score" deep. A score
is a score of meshes, so that taking
a mesh as an inch the depth is some
80 feet, with an aggregate length of
three miles. The nets are fastened
together to form a continuous sur
face, and are floated by buoys. There
are, in addition to the Yarmouth
boats, oven 500 Scotch sailing craft
and about so Scotch steamers. The
gulls betray the whereabouts of the
fish by day, a lovely phosphorescence
by night. Hither come the boats
with their millions of meshes, and
when night has fallen the nets are
paid out, the lights lit and the vast
feet lies quietly drifting with the
tide, twinkling red, green and white,
like multitudinous fragments of
some d~ismembered rainbow.
A good catch is ten lasts, though
II and Is have been taken in a night.
1t must be remembered that though
a last is nominally only 10000 fish it
is really 1920, for a hundred counts
1872. Twelve and fifteen hundred lasts
are sometimes landed at Yarmouth
fish wharf in one day, and they are
all off by night.
The world comes to Yarmouth for
it's herring. Steamers of 500 and
1000 tons lie in harbor heaped up to
the top of their bulwarks with bar.
rels of packed fish for export to
Hamburg, Rotterdam, and other
ports of Germany, Holland or Bel.
GUM.
BY a fortunate provision of nature
the herring makes its appearance al
different parts of Scotland and Eng.
land in succession, so that for the
enterprising Scotch fishermen who
go to the Lewis and Shetland in Nav
and June, who fish out of their owr
ports on the Moray Firth in July,
August and September, and who
come down to Yarmouth and Lowe.
stoft in October and November there
are three rich harvests.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

They We're just concluding a series
of first aid to the injured lessons
in one of the settlements, and the
worker in charge thought it might
be a good idea to have d written
test. Among other questions she
wrote:
''How would you restore conscious,
ness to a person who had been res,
cued from drowning"
In answer to this a maiden with an
affection for polysyllables wrote.
when the resuscitation of ANNA.
tion is complete plump the person On
d barrel till he is thoroughly eE
hausted."--N. X. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
individuality Of the American

AhulN Va h HiISEIsaH UIIl,
The American girl has often more in.
dividualcharacter and strength of mind
than any other girl in the world. She
knows what she likes, what she wants
and what she dislikes and detests. This
alone is a comfort when it comes tc
being associated with anyone in a so.
cial way. The colorless damsel who
shippers out: Anything you like
please" when you ask her what she
wants for luncheon, is by no means a
joy forever. The American girl knows
what she wants to eat, what she needs
to wear, what she cares to read. II
she likes walking or riding or boating,
shevwill say so, and if she doesn't like
them she is quite likely to announce
her predictions. = Woman's Home
Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

Before the second administration of " Washington had drawn tx a close
France had turned from friend to foe of the nation it had helped to build,
and early in the administration of President Adams began a series of such
as amounted practically to a declaration of war. The Ameri
can people demanded that should be declared against France, then
ruled by the directory and N November 49, 1897, the president recommend
ed preparations for hostnities, and in the following March congress u
thorzed the recruiting of a regular army of 10000 Ten an the calling out
of the militia, Washington was appointed commander in chief of all forces
and his commission vas delivered to him n his fields at Mount Nernon-b
the secretary of war. He announced his willingness to accept any service
his country might call for, but requested that he be not called upon for
active service until needed, and suggested the name of Alexander Hamit
ton as acting commander in chief until he should be needed. The war
clouds dispersed and Washington never took the field.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

Personal illusions are never safe,
and seldom effective or happy. An
anecdote that illustrates this fact is
that of a solicitor for a charitable
institution who went to a woman's
door and asked her for 9 contribu-
ton.
eve have" he stated, earnestly,
hundreds Of poor, ragged and VI
cious children, like those at your
gate, and III object is"
Sir" interrupted the indignant
woman, those are my own chill
drenl'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
A sheer Waste.

Deacon James-Don't you think il
wrong for your husband to go fishing
on the Sabbath?
Mrs. Brown-Wrong? It's positive
" wicked the way he wastes his time
and his money On tackle and bait, and
hardly ever brings home more thsn
mi or two mean little tshes.- Boston
Transcripts
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29

Mutual Friend Tries to Reconcile
Q~uarreling Lovers and Ia
SIuelched by Both.
The lovers had quarreled. I

The lovers had %quarreled.
"Ill never speak to you again!'
she cried.
perhaps you'll give me back my
ring he retorted, scornfully.
Il wouldn't wear your old ring fol-
a thousand dollars" she asserted.
"This is the end" he said.
wait u minute" interrupted the
mutual friend. Don't forget that
these are the days of arbitration, so
let's arbitrate this affair.""
Hes entirely in the wrong" she
insisted.
"It's all her fault he replied.
well, let's have a statement of
the case from each side,' said the
mutual friend.
The girl thought it over, and her
face grew red.
Eff | tried to put it in Words she
said to herself, "Td be posing as a
little fool"
Somehow her grievance wasn't
tangible, says the Buffalo News.
The youth thought it over, and he
began to feel uncomfortable.
I'D be a jackass to tr yto explain
this thing to a cold-blooded mortal"
he said to himself.
"Well, let's hear what it isl said
the mutual friend.
Nothing" said the youth.
"Not a thing" said the girl, 'and
I'd like to know what business it is
of yours, anyway"
IF you. annoy my fiancee any
more" said the youth, "Tll break
your head. Here's your ring, Oracle"
you're so good to me, Ralph"
said the girl.
go away, can't you?" they both
said to the mutual friend.
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