Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-15


pairing for their annual visit to the
sylvan streams Of the moorland val
Ieys.
The lordly salmon is peculiar in his
habits. Delighting at one period of the
year to roam through the ocean wilds,
at another he seeks shallow rivers, in
whose murmuring fords he scarce finds
room to turn his portly frame.
And the law protects him most 5eal-
ously.
In theriver he Is guarded like king,
and when he clusters at its mouth,
lazily making up his mind to try
change of water, as a monarch might
visit Homburg for a change Of air, he
can only be caught under certain Sc
we're restrictions.
He must not be netted within so
many yards of the seward limit of
the estuary He may not be caught
wholesale. The nets must have max
imum length of 400 feet. They must
not be set between D. IN. on Friday
and Z: a. m. on Monday.
Viewed in every aspect, the salmon
is given exceptional chances of longev-
ity. His price is high as his culinary
reputation, and the obvious sequel to
an these precautions is that certain
nefarious persons known as poachers
try every artiflce to defeat the law
and capture him.
A Pavorite dodge is TO run out a large
quantity of nets in just such tide
-rraxy.a flla Foot ~ tho a1;Ff oravurod h1y
Grange House. None can spy the OPP
eratiUns from the land, while a close
watch seaward gives many chances
of escape from enterprising water bail
IFS. who, moreover, can sometimes be
made conveniently drunk.
When Philip hurtled into the placid
sea, his naked body shone white, like
the plumage Of some gigantic bird.
! Indeed, a man who was leigurely
pulling a coble In a Zigzag course
while two others paid out a net so that
its sweeping curves might embarrass
any wandering salmon who found him
self within it's meshes-marked the fall
ing body in its instantaneous passage
and thought at first that some huge sea
fowl had dived after Its prey.
( But the loud splash startled the three
men Not so did a eormorant or a
white winged solan plunge to secure
an uuwary paddock.
] The net attendants Strengthened their
| backs, the oarsman stood up. The dis
| turbance was so. near, so unexpected,
that it alarmed them. They looked
Aloft, thinking that rock had fallen.
! They looked to the small eddy caused
by Philips disappearance to see if any
sign would be given explanatory of an
unusual occurrence.
! Were Philip thrown from such a
| height when in full possession of his
senses in all likelihood such breath as
| was in his lungs at the moment of his
( TALL would have been, expelled by the
| time he reached the water
He must have resisted the rush of
air, uttered involuntary cries, strng-
gled wildly with his limbs.
| But as 1t CHANGED Mason's rough
handling &n carrying him to the bal
| cony made active the vital forces that
were restoring him to consciousness.
He was ON the very threshold of re-
newed life when he fell, and the
l downward flight helped rather than re-
1 landed the process. Indeed, the rush of
[ air was grateful. He drank in the Wig
( orOuS draft and inflated his lungs read
! fly. His sensations were those of a
man Immersed In warm bath, and
the shock of his conclusion with the
surface of the sea in nowise retarded
| the recuperative effect of the dive.
OF course he was fortunate after fall
lang from such q height in striking the
cyater with his right shoulder. No por-
| ton of the human body is so fitted to
bear heavy blcw as the shoulders
and upper part OF the back. Had he
dropped vertically on his head or his
feet he might have sustained serious
injury. AS 1T was, after tremendous
dive and curve q many yards be-
Heatl the sea he bobbed up inside the
salmOn net within a few feet Of the
boat
instantly the fisherman saw that it
was man, an absolutely naked man.
who had thus dropped fr0m the sky.
They We're amazed, very frightened
indeed. but they readily hauled at the
aragging net and brought Philip near
err the bOgf Even at this ffxal stage of
his adventure he incurred terrible
risk
Unable 10 help himself in the least
degree and swallowing salt water rap
Idly now, he roIled away inertly as the
net rose under the energetic efforts OF
his rescuers. There was grave danger
THAI he should drop back into the
depths, and the2 he must sink like a
stone
Wearing their heavy sea boots, none
of the fishermen. though each was an
expert swimmer. dared TO jump into
the water. But the 0arsman, being
person Of resource ahd reasoning rap
idly that not the most enthusiastic
salmon bajliT in England would pnr-
sue him III such manner. grabbed 4