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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-17

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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-17
DAILY THOUGHT.

To forgive fault in another is more
sublime than to be faultless ones self.
George sand.
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TIE sUN, SUNDAY. APRIL Is, 1903.


srs who ere occupied With their business
or work during the week. With paint pot
and brush. hammer and saw they start out
to repair the damage wrought by winter
storms. Families are already beginning
to take uptheir abode In the deserted houses
and the creek Is already resounding with
the soft voices of women and shouts OF
childish laughter. By the middle OF May
many Of the colony will DO permanently
located for the summer.
High tide from the bay sweeps the salt
meadows on which this quaint cluster Of
houses stands. I Waters surge back and
forth under the foorr, tapping the piles.
When the tide recedes it leaves field Of
wet meadow grass and soft ooze. 70 that
al low tide or high tide all communication
from one house to, smother Ia either by
boat or the narrow, raised footwalks that
zigzag from the rear Of one house to
another. This isolation Ia one OF the
charms Of the place. Instead Of locking
their doors to cut OF communication with
a next-dpor neighbor all that Is necessary
is for the occupants OF the houses to take
In the sidewalk Then they are free from
intrusion, at least by land
On the water way II Is different. Women
and even children 60 calling In boats. OF
which there are several fleets of big and
little crowding both banks OF the creek.
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! without its myriads of heads and horns
about the walls. and as for the hunting
| lodges, they are filed to overlooking with
| specimens of taxldermy
Il believe I have seen all the most noted
| collections in Europe, and l know that IL ID
no exaggeration to say that their combined
value, at present market rates. il close on
to s25 100000.
-0n his Hanoverian preserve Emperor
William has what consider the finest and
largest collection Of horns In the world.
It consists not only of specimens of the
German stag and Of the roebuck, but Of
hundreds of heads and horns Of foreign
animals.
Every American animal Ia represented,
and to secure the specimens the Emperor
has spent thousands Of dollars through me-
shame the combined half dozen biggest
collections owned in this country.
After a months inspection OF the En-
peror's entire collection several years ago
estimated its value at nearly g 900, 600
And several OF the Emperor's subjects
have collections almost as costly.
Fact h. the taxidermy business In this
country would about 60 into bankruptcy II
il were not for our mighty hunters and
fishers. They have lately begun TO use II
to back up their seemingly. tall stories OF
experiences with rod and gun. o..
This is especially true Of the fisherman
When he catches a black bass weighing
eight pounds he doesn't eat It, as was for
merly the custom, and thus destroy all
evidence Of veracity of the story Of the big
catch that he relates TO his friends.
Instead. he sends the black base to a
taxdermist. who prepares It for preserva-
ton at the rate Of 81 a pound. And then
when the fisherman has his story doubted
by his friends all that he has to do to prove
his words Is TO lad his hearers up to the
black bass. mounted on an appropriate
base.
THE freak horn collector also contributes
toward keeping the taxidermist In business,
The average American seems to think that
a pair Of horns Is not W nth owning unless
II be abnormal in some way.
IF a bull mooss has twisted its antlerS
into some unnatural SHAPE we can dispose
Of them for two or three times the price we
ask for a perfect pair. which the expert
collector would rave over. Why. for one
pair Of exceedingly freakish moose horns
l received 81 900. or nearly double the money
II got for one OF the finest pairs Of moose
S,tlers I've ever seen;
and showed fory-three points. Bus freak
collectors passed them by without >~cond
glance. and II took me nearly FIVE years TO
dispose Of them. The freak horIls / sold
In lees than two weeks after receipt In
deed, I cannot keep up with the demand
for freak things.
.Of late years the mounting OF Florida
specimens has made considerable business.
Alligators are brought up North In great
numbers by the wealthy, who have de-
veloped the hobby Of scattering the hideous
saurians In life-like attitudes about their
mansions. For one New York millionaire
alone I stuffed a score OF alligators last
year, and he wrote me lately that he was
forwarding me ak mora specimens.
Buffalo heads? No sale for them.
The only man who makes any money out
Of buffalo heads b the plainsInan who has
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mana ged to secure several heads by hook
or crook. He dispoees Of them to the
hunters from east of the Mississippi. who
take the trophies back home with them.
ard then calf in their. friends and say:
See what i killed on my hunting trip
West. The guide told me was a very
lucky man-probably killed the last wild
buffalo on the plains.
Eyes, the hunter prefers paying $500 or
81 900 for a head out West than $3.50 for a
much better specimen in the East. That's
why I've q stock Of twenty buffalo heads
that I've been unable to sell since bought
them, four years ago.
.Dd you ever stop to think that the
march OF civilization is great aid TO tax
dermy? Take Siberia. for example. Ten
years ago we had scarcely any specimens
Of the Siberian ibex and roebuck in either
Europe or America.
-Since the railroad has been opened
by the carload. The prices are still high,
however, A fair pair Of ibex horns will
bring 500 in the market any day.
Alaska In another country that OF late
years has been sending rev specimens to
the taxidermist. They. too. are costly,
but the European collectors do not stop
at prices, and 80 we are doing a good bust
ness in Alaskan heads and horns.
But, say, II we could only induce the
American millionaire to take an interest In
heads and horns, the taxidernist on this
side Of the water would not have to depend
for q large part of his income on renting
fun specimens Of bear and other fur-bearing
anifnals to the furriers during the fur wear
ing season at from $3.50 to $1,000 q rental.
played by Euro eans over heads and horns
could be transferred to this country, we
struggling IA xidermists would become men
OF afiiuence within a few years.
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ttrs was attempted. Instead. the CON
glomeration Of boat houses. fishing clubs
and summer homes are thrown together
IN happy confusion. Viewed from dis
tance 1t seems an II the entire three hundred
houses were thrown out along either side
OF the creek In hit or miss fashion. But
al the houses are built for comfort. They
are watertight. will weather the showers
Of summer and the bleak storms OF winter.
Every place is equipped with camping
outfit Of beds, cooking utensils and other
neoessary articles. 80 that when the season
opens hundreds Of women and children
take up their abodef in the apparently
ricisety buildings, c8ntented and happy.
and settle down 10 spend the summer.
Many Of the ho,ises are owned by two or
more families and they either take turns
week about OF staying at Ramblersvil'e
or they all find accommodations within the
narrow limits. It speaks well for the COM
munity that the families thus bunking
together are just "a good friends at the
closing as they were at the opening Of the
season. In the fall they leave their sum
mer homes with regret and eagerly
look forward to a reunion In the coming
year.
just now Ramblersville Is undergoing
the usual spring overhauling. Most Of
of this work is done on Sundays by the own
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What 4 moro. the women handle the boats
themselves. Pushing OF from the banks
Of the creek. TREY bend TO the oazp IKE
professionals. Even little children be-
come experts In handling q boat. and. ~
everybody at Ramblersville can swim, at
high tide the narrow creek Is alive with .
happy crowd Of women and children. They
roll out Of their homes right into the fresh
salt water and splash about until the tide
begins to fall. A drowning accident along
the creek has yet TO be recorded
Spanning the creek at narrow point Is
a homemade drawbridge. which Is swung
TO and fro In opening something like D
door. This bridge. which Is built OF drift
wood, Is about four feet wide and will Just
admit Of the passage of two persons. not
over stout, going In opposite directions.
Ernest Gertlinger. an aged German and a
veteran OF several wars. Is the bridge
tender He In known "a the Mayor OF
Ramblersville, and his word on matters
pertaining to navigation of the creek and
bridge etiquette Ii law
Mayor Gertlinger is one Of the attractions
and fixtures OF Ramblersville. BY way OF
collecting toll he has a cash box posted
on the bridge and Passengers going to and
fro make whatever contribution they desire.
On opening his box following busy Sunday
last summer the Mayor found that some
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banks Of Haw Tree Creek. The creek
Ssrves as a highway. speedway and bou-
, Ryard to the aquatic population. who
each year leave the noisy city and Join
the colony. Known as Ramblersville
and with a summer popula, ion Of about
one thousand. which is augmented on
Sundays by another thousand, this little
colony Ia without government. politics.
police, churches or regulations OF any sort
rave good will to each other And Il Is
probably one Of the happiest and most
harmonious communities in the greater city.
Haw Tree Creek is an arm jutting In from
Jamaica Bay. II takes its name from an
old haw tree at the head Of the water way.
Passing through RamDlersville: the creek
winds in and out in a way much resembling
the letter S. Along it's sinuous banks for
about q mile undulates Ramblersvie.
When the tide is low Ramblersville Ii left
high and dry on it's tall stills. When the
tide Is food the front and backyards OF
the settlement are Submerged and the
dIorsteps are awash.
This novel community has been four
teen years In building and getting together.
Oscar Rust was the pioneer. He planted
. small fishing ion on the creek. and
now the name Of the station appears on
the railroad time table and trains stop at
the little plat form sta ion on their way to
and from Long Island City. Years ago
the community grew up to the railroad
track. where il was halted. Now the place
can only grow one way and that Is down
the creek toward the bay, and the tail end
Of the village is now being heightened
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26
WOMAN AND THE PROVERBS.
Crimes OF which an International Jury
Has COnV let ed Her.

Awonderf,l similarity exists In the say
ings about women current in the various
nations.
The Spanish rhyme has It; Were woman
as little a she il good. a pea pod would
make her q gown and hood
An old English saying: If man lose a
woman and farthine he will be sorry he
lost the farthing.-
The French adage: "A men Of straw n
worth av N Of gold
The &c There are only two good
women In 40 ~orid-one dead and tho other
can't he g. nd
The seotch say Honest men marry soon.
wise men never
In Fife they say: The next best thing to
no wife 10 a good wife
The Arabian declares Words are womsp:
deeds are men,
:. The Persian sage eays that q woman's
wisdom IL under her heel
The German affirms that every daughter
Of Eve would rather be beautiful than
good.
The German also Asserts that whenever
there Is mischief brewing q woman and q
priest are at the bottom OF II.
Tho Persian asserts that women and
dragons are beat out of the world
The Corsican says: just a. q good and
o bad horse both need the spur Q good and
q bad woman both need the stick
The Hindoo: "A man Ia not obeyed by his
wife In his own house. nor does abe con-
slider him her husband unless he beats her,
Another Hindoo proverb says; Drive Q
out . woman's nature with pitchfork and
V VIII return again and again:
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ACROSS THE SEA TO HARVEST.
Italians VINO Work In the wheat Fields
Both Of Argentina and Italy.

Thousands Of Italian laborers are able Ia
work every year in the wheat harvest both
Of Italy and Argentina and make good
wages by so doing. The fact has often
been menti Toned that in one or anot her part
OF the world the harvest OF wheat Ia In
progress every month in the year. Argen-
tina, being in the southern hemisphere,
reaps its wheat several months after our
crop has been gathered and most Of il sold.
The Italian harvest begins In May, in-
GLIDING not only wheat but other cereals
and also hay. So the Italian field hands
are busy from May through the summer
months. After the hard summer work at
home Is over thousands Of them buy steer.
age tickets for Buenos Ayres. which cost
only about $40 or Sl2 in United States cur.
rency
The harvesting and other hard farm
work OF Argent ina begins In November
and ends In March. About 5000 Italians
make this journey to Argent ina every year.
and after the harvest season Is over they
return home all ready for the harvest On
the Lombardy plains.
The fact that so many Italians go over to
Argentina only to remain during the har-
vest sea- on helps TO swell the 81 a, istics both
Of Argentine immigration and emigraiion
In the ten years ending in 1902. sOs.i75
immigrants were recorded a. entering
Argentina; these figures. however. arc
somewhat misleading, for they include
many thousand of Italians who crossed tho
ocean merely 10 work in the harvest fields.
In the same ten years there is a record Of
$50 .572 emigran,s from Argentina. These
figures suggest the idea that the emigrants
must have found some, hing undesirable
in Argentina and so returned TO their father
land, the fact being, however, that about
a third Of this emigrat ion is accounted for
by the Italian farmhands who 60 home 10
do their usual summer work in I,aly.
Most OF the immigrants who settle IN
Argentina are Italians A recent lecturer
before the American biographical Society
said that the Italians in Argentina are
superior In every way to the Italians who
have come to this country.
This IL true, but at the same time II Is no
reflection upon the class of Italian laborers
who come here, for they are very indus
trious and well-meaning people. They
came. however. for the most part from the
mountainous regions Of the Italian PENN.
sula, where they have been scarcely able
to procure bread for their families; while on
the other hand practically all the Italian
immigrants into Arg, ntina are from the
great Lombardy plain Of the extreme north
OF Italy. where work Ii abundant, wages are
better than further south and the farmers
are more proeperous, accustomed to better
food, enjoying some educational advantages
and living under conditions that have de.
veloped, on the whole. more energy and
intelligence.
Having worked on wei-tilled farms al
their lives. they follow the same occupation
In their new homo, while most Of the Italians
- Ia l. -
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just enough 20 be happy and well-fed the
year around. The rest Of the time We
enjoy ourselves
And we sleep soundly at night. instead
OF lying awake and trying to scheme how
we'll do the other fellow when the sun
comes up. We don't chase the almighty
dollar twenty-four hours In the day and
wish. when the last hour is gone, that the
good Lord had made the day twice as long.
.No, sir. we're content to live natural
lives, and there you have the reason why
every baby who has ever been born In this
settlement and lived here all his days has
not been compelled TO think seriously Of
the other life until he was well In his nine
ties
The last deaths in the colony occurred
last wear In each case the mans age was
his hundredth year.
the settlement have gone out into the world.
every one of the six families that formed
a part Of the colony a hundred and fiftv
years ago has been unbrokenlv represented
since that time bv one or more fishermen.
Tim and John Campbell. both strappine
men and finely educated, are proud OF the
fact that the settlement is said TO have been
founded by Campbell Of whom they are
direct descendants.
Indeed, pride Of ancestry il strong with
these fisher folk. and the sayings OF the
great-great and at-grandfathers are
handed down by word Of mouth from
generation to generation.
The settlement also takes not little pride
in it's full blooded collie dogs, Of which il
has a half dozen. The collie has been the
settlement dog for nearly twenty five wears,
and, as no mongrel. or any other kind OF
dog, IL allowed around by the fishermen.
the strain has been kept pure. The lover
Of collies would have to search long before
he could find better specimens Of the breed
than those In diminutive Alpine.
There has ben no Accession to the colony,
except by birth. for nearly seven,y-five
years. About five years ago an Irishman
built himself a hut a half mile further
one has come to adding himself to the shad
colony since the Quinns moved In three
quarters Of q century ago:
Don't you ever long TO have a new face
among your Mclean was asked. after he
had had :, dil + . upon the oolony's ability to
.well.- he replied. when we do, IL there's
any unmarried man among us, we send
him over to Brooklyn TO get . wife; and then
for the next ten year., or % we find plenty
OF opportunity for talk In discussing her
why do We 60 to Brooklyn for our wives?
just q habit. The colony's been doing
II since before my father was born. Brook
Ign women seem to take TO the quiet life
we ead as easy as a shad TO water, I guess
our forefathers noticed that fact, and, not
wanting TO be stirred on to undue effort,
decided TO secure an easy exist ence 10 them
selves and their descendants by estab-
fishing the custom Of going TO Brooklyn
TO get married
BE that as II may. il is beyond question
that the little colony OF less than q dozen
houses. scatter a among the protect ing
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Thomas Mclean. the head OF the settle
ment, believes In studying literature be-
tween hauls. He can converse well on
almost any subject sprung on him. and
when 1t comes to Shakespeare and the poets.
he can quote them until his breath gives
out and his hearers depart.
The rest are like Block and Mclean
Even the children abstemiously refrain
from dropping their g's and mixing their
lenses. They are as precise Of speech
as the far-famed youngsters Of Boston.
Yet with all their culture the handful OF
men who have hung their homes on the
side Of the Palisades do not lack picturesque
ness. Physically. they have imbibed the
ruggedpess Of the cliffs that hug them
about ard Isolate them. Despite their
high standard OF education they believe
that their Oldest house. which. tradition
says. was used as headquarters by Lord
CORVALLIS during the Revolution. and
was certainly occupied by Continen-
tai soldiers, il haunt ed: ard they 20 to
Brooklyn. instead Of Yonkcrs, just across
the river. for their wives.
The unusual qualities possessed by these
fishermen are also evident In the fact that.
while they be lieve treasure lies buried
undef the house that figures in Revolu-
tionary history. they have never laid plans
4" dig II up. They are content now and
then to rick out from the rubbish few
ar Gent pieces Of money and a Revolu-
ito airy button. and let 1t 90 at that. Their
attitude on treasure is largely that Of the
head Of the co'ony
Perhaps tire sure Is there. and perhaps
not no said. III we dug and found moth
ing. shouldn't we be exaggerated to think
that we Ind lost 80 much time when we
could have been making money with on r
nets?'
The colony has firm belief, founded on
family records, that more OF its members
can die before he has passed his eightieth
year, and that from then on the chances
are that death will not overtake him until
the century mark has all but been reached.
That Ia why no funeral Is looked forward
to In the shad settlement for the next thirty
FIVE years. Then Thomas Mclean will
be OIL. Mclean says that he has no inten-
ton Of breaking the oolony's record Of
longevity "a. ..
Il don't intend to die In my babyhood, =
he declared the other day. sI've some
pride in our settlements enviable reputa-
ton. ..r- ESQ.,. . ,.-
why do we live 80 long1' he repeated,
as he attached pole ring to his net. Be
cause we're not greedy. Look across
the river and Mclean nodded In the d.
reotion OF ,Yonken. whose noises Of kusi-
mess could be family heard at times across
the mile Of water. They're working their
lives away over there. because they're
too greedy for money and comfort. 80,
MANY Of than get money, but not many
comfort. for just about the time they dis
cover they can take things easy. they find
themselves worn, out and then they de-.
"But over here we catch four or Ave
thousand shad apiece during the season.
80 after eel and bs~s q Attls. and work
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ALPlNE'S SHAD FISHERMEN.
A QUAINT COLONY on THE HUD-
son OPPOSITE YONKERS.

u Has Been There IsO Years-Its Members
scholars and phers-Long life
the Rule With Thenl-They Follow
n Old Customs and Live In. Comfort.
Midway across the Hudson River the
boatman spoke:
Come to Yonkers to 60 over to Alpine.
Ell? Selfish fellers, those Alpine shad
fishermen They don't seem TO want to
die.
The old folks live to be nigh on to 100
before they give their sons a chance. And
they've been living there. father and son.
pretty near 200 years. just catching shad
all the time
That was all the man vouchsafed until
the boat, few minutes later, scraped the
shore at the foot Of the New Jersey PAIL
sades. Then. as his passengers disem-
barked, he shifted his quid and broke
silence.
Il calculate you'll find 'em darned inter-
sstink he said briefly.
True to the riverman's prediction, the
fishermen Of Alpine were found exceedingly
interesting. for they are not only skilled in
the ways of fishing, but they have built
their doll-like homes on historic ground.
and every one OF them has the culture that
70 looked for in Boston drawing room
Because OF their scholarly attainments
and other qualities equally unusual among
shad fishermen they are probably the most
remarkable of all the thousands of men
engaged in this years shad industry.
Ask an ordinary shad fisherman a ques-
ton which he fails to grasp and he will
hconically query:
sHey?-
Put the same question In the same way
. TO one Of the dozen men In Alpine and he
viii reply
Beg pardon. but fear you will have 20
o.. ne that question again. didn't quite
Understand you
The colony's attitude on education h
aptly Illustrated in William Block. Clad In
the garb Of the man Of the waterfront, he
was standing idly by the colony's net dry
ing poles when he beheld the man with the
camera Instantly he became all attention.
May ! examine it?- he asked.
Then, as he looked the instrument over,
he talked learnedly Of photog Mphy In gen.
eral and Of artistic photography In partic-
ular.
II soon was learned that this rough look.
ing fisherman. when II isn't profitable for
him to, cast his nets. arruses himself by
making art photographs, and his little
house. built by his great grandfather at
the beginning OF the last century, holds
many picture that, u placed on exhibition,
would attract comment
But William Block Is not the only one of
the colony who has not neglected his Cd
portunities.