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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

l have become greatly interested in the halibut industry during my stay in Alaska. The fish is one of the most interesting that swim the seas. It is the largest of the flat fishes I have seen many which, if stood upon their tails, would reach high above my head and some which I venture are over three feet in width. The average hali- but weighs about 100 pounds, and some have been caught that may weigh as much as 300.
 The halibut swims on the bottom of the sea, and chiefly on banks, several hundred feet below the surface. It de- yours all sorts of fishes One of it's favorite foods is the herring, which is caught here in great .quantities and frozen that 1t may be kept and used for bait.
 The herring are found in nearly all the waters of Alaska. They move about in large schools, some of which cover several square miles. Twice year they swim to the shores to spawn. They come by the millions, and in such large schools that they can be scooped up from the water right into the boats. Last year a great haul was made along the face of the dock of the New Eng land Fish company at Ketchikan. One end of the net was made fast to the wharf, and the herring were dragged out by the thousand At that same time more than 2OO0 barrels of herring were taken up by four seines in the Tongas narrows.
 One way of catching these fish is by driving nails into a board so that they stick out several inches. The boards are then dragged through the shoals and the fish catch between the nails and are pulled by the boardful into the boats. In one year more than a million pounds of herring were caught at Prince Rupert and frozen by the cold storage plants to be sold for bait, something like 125,000 pounds of cod fish are annually taken for the same purpose.
 The most of the halibut are caught with the hook and line. The fishing, however, has nothing gamey or sport. ing about it. The lines are dropped down into the sea in such way that the bailted hooks rest on the bed of the ocean. The lines are of great length. Some of them are 60 miles long, so long that when loaded with fish it takes the steam engine on the fishing vessel the better part of a day to wind them up. They are divided into sec tions, each section having float or buoy that rests on the surface and is marked by flag in the day time and at night by light. The line lies right on the bed of the sea. Attached to it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

ing apparently and she Is holding her audience as surely as ever Demosthenes held his. Each hand is in the clasp of four white fingers and smiles wreathe the countenances of the entire group. Got any love like that down there?
 Take a trip through the St. Mich olas, the Biltmore roof and other in door ice skating rinlSs in New York any of these evenings and you will see more heroes and heroines on tho ice than you will find on the battle fields of Europe. The craze Is grow ing steadily and it is difficult to find a place on the ice unless you are an early arrival.
 Just as the majority of the 70-year- olds had mastered the new dance steps this skating fad broke upon them, and now they have to learn all the steps over again-on skates. And many new steps in addition. It re- quires real heroism as the falls of many result in serious injuries. How ever, if the popularity of the sport grows to any greater extent the dan ger will be materially minimized as there will not be room enough on any of the rinks for anyone to indulge in full length fall.
 The new Fourth avenue subway is now being operated regularly, but it seems to be patronized by people who didn't use any subway previous to it's advent, as there are no more vacant spaces to stand in on the Broadway and Bronx lines than heretofore.
 In the New York Telegram tafter- noon) I read yesterday the following advertisement: "Wanted-Small fur nished room with widow or small fam ily.''
 Of course. we are somewhat accus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

pert is the baby port of the northern Pacific but it has already become one of the fishing centers of this part of the world Nevertheless, the town is only six years of age, and the Grand Trunk Pa cific railway, which connects it with the east, has just begun to run it's through cars. The place already has more than S, 5,500.00O invested in it's fisheries, and in- cluded in that amount are B canneries and seven large cold storage plants. Prince Rupert has hundreds of sailing vessels that are now going back and forth to and from our fishing grounds. It has 99 gasoline launches used for the same pur- pose and fl fishing vessels moved by steam. There are about 50 American boats that land cargoes of fish~here every week, and each train that goes eastward over the Grand Trunk Pacific railway carries carloads of fresh fish to the cities of the United States. More than quarter of a million pounds of halibut were recently sent to New York and Boston in single trainload, and over 100000 pounds of that fish have been landed here in one year. The fish are packed in ice the moment they are LdheH lTo1il tIo Sed dlie dio hepl in cold storage cars until they reach the market, which is less than two weeks from the time they leave the hook. I am told that fish can be kept perfectly fresh for month by the present methods of catching and packing.
 The most of the fresh fish shipped in this way are halibut, which are caught throughout the year. Fresh salmon are sent only during the months of the sum- mer, when the salmon are running. They are exported in a frozen state from the cold storage plants throughout the win ter The exports of Alaskan halibut are rapidly increasing. It used to be that all the fish of this kind consumed in our markets came from the Atlantic ocean. Eighty-f1ve per cent of it now comes from the Pacific ocean, and the bulk from the fishing banks off the coast of Alaska. Alaskan halibut is now used in almost every part of the United States.
 The fishing center of the territory is still Ketchikan and there are also fleets that make their headquarters at Peters, burg, Juneau and elsewhere. The extent of the fishing grounds is enormous. There are some banks that seem to be paved with halibut and the vessels bring them in by the thousands of pounds A single party has been known to catch 100000 pounds in day and 50,O00 day is not uncommon. Not long ago one of the boats that went out from Ketchican brought in more than a quarter of million pounds of fish. The whole cargo had been caught in one week, and every pound of it had been taken with hook and line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

Smelling of cookery and frumpery, Housing dish watur and Gretchen; But now-Heaving born pantry
 You hold treasure-a regular divinity, Who ras dissipated thy cheep perfummery And maid of thee hallowed plase-by gmminy. "Dwell5 now in the former home of hash A being of sumwhat wilowy proporsions; Upon my poor hart she's maid mash Which twists me constantly with contorsions; Wheere theere was potatoes by the peck, Now resides angul with sorrel top I'd have for mine own, by heck And to do so I'll keep upon the hop. "Oh, home of ancient cheese, thy past is rich AS the larder of things that feed the body; But glorius thy past is, you saw nun sfch As thy fore walls hold.
 "Time changed thee and thy fashion And brought me upon the crewel sceen; Now am consumed with burning passion And wandur hopeless with an aching bean. "Oh. Orderus habitat of departed soup, Wheere skullery made gossip while statesmen tarrie For your historick self care not whoop, If, in aftur yeers will have married Your successCe-who came direct frum Heaving Sllmtime about IS SiXtvSeVyen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

are hundreds of hooks and each hook is baited. The halibut swallows the bait and is caught on the hook and These fish always feed on or close to the bed of the ocean.
 Some halibut fishing is now carried on direct from the ship. A few years ago it was all done in dories or small boats, which were taken out for the purpose in large vessels. The men would go out in the dories to set the lines and later bring the halibut back to the vessel.
 The fishing parties usually stay out from 10 days to three weeks. They carry ice with them and the moment the fish 7 arc taken from the hook they are cleaned and put in the ice and kept there until sthey reach the cold storage plant They and shipped in cold storage cars direct to the markets, they may be kept for sometime before shipping. In the latter case they are put into freezers, where they remain for 24 hours at temperature of 10 or 20 degrees above zero.
 The next step is to dip each fish four or five times in fresh water, until it be- comes entirely incased in a thin sheet of clear ice. It can then be held in cold storage at a temperature of degrees be- low freezing until it is needed for export. The fish get a fresh coating of ice before they are shipped. They are then wrapped separately in vegetable parchment paper, and are packed in paper-lined boxes of 375 pounds capacity and sent eastward in the cold storage trains.
 The bulk of the halibut fishing is now done by independent fishermen in small boats, although there are fishing com panies with fleets of large vessels. The companies buy from the independents.
 The fishermen who go out with the steamers are often paid by their catch; and medium-sized halibut vessel dis purses about $5O,0O0 year in wages. The men get on the average from $1OO to $125 a month each, although on some of the ships they are paid at the rate of cent a pound for all that they catch. Many of the independent boats are run in part nership, the fishermen dividing the profits.
 Fresh halbut is now selling on the wharves of Prince Rupert for cents a pound. The most delicious are the small ones, known as chicken halibut. Such fish usually weigh less than eight pounds. The fish sent to the east run from eight pounds to so pounds or more. The fish are shipped on express trains in cold storage cars; and it takes from six to 10 days to get them to the markets in the eastern part of the United States. They are consigned to wholesale dealers, who usually have their sales on Fridays so that if they arrive earlier in the week they have to wait until then before they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
Cupid Always
 Wins
If she'll be mine-happy I shall be, And unless she is, I'll plunge into the See,"

If she'll be mine-happy shall be, And unless she is, I'll plunge into the See," By good fortune this sonnet feel into my hands and pass it on to posterrity unexampuled gem of the purest ray. Moor than that, she fell for it. and reciprocated in kind She rote few sentimental consuming the history of the past present status of the bed chambur the thurd floor back. And thus in the and yeller-or closely bordering theereon-two soles maid and sunshine brought into the lives of two peepul who had than theere share of gloom All through the in- ginuty and deftness of that foxey little guy-Cupid. He's devil, alright
 And this Is proper and rte-I am glad that all this happened evven if it was lat In cummng-if it weer not for the activities of Cupid how dreary this notonous life would be. If Cupid did not butt in what swell time would have of it-with nuthing to do but work-and pay bills. It takes him to smooth out the rinkles and tighten the burdens this celebrated mundine spheer of ours, otherwise devoted to book agnts cannydates and hostillities. Long may he
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

Prince Rupert B. c. fSYV HAVE come from Alaska to I4I III British Columbia to write of k@66.1 an international complication t8eN&y regarding the placing of Alas
 kan halibut and salmon on the breakfast tables of the people of the United States. This business has been rapidly growing. The fish have been caught in Alaskan waters, put upon ice and brought to Ketchikan, from where they were. shipped to Seattle At Seattle they were put in cold stor- age cars and sent over the American railroads to the markets.
 Now the Canadians have established new fishing port at Prince Rupert. B. c. This port is the terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway It is 60D miles nearer the fishing grounds than Puget sound, and it is claimed that fish from our Alaskan waters can be landed there and be transported through Can ada to our cities two days sooner than when shipped via Seattle. This means that, if other conditions are equal, most of the fresh. fish caught in Alaskan waters for shipment to the east will be shipped from Prince Rupert, and that 1t will become the headquarters of the Alaskan fishing industry. Our fishermen will come here to live and they will buy their fishing supplies from the Ca nadian stores In other words, the Ca nadians, rather than the Alaskan Amer jeans, will get the chief profits out of the business
 Tn order to bring this about the Ca- nadian parliament has recently passed laws enabling American fishermen and American vessels to land their cargoes at Prince Rupert free of all duties, and to send them in bond over their rail- road through Canada on the way to our markets. The citizens of Prince Rupert are doing all they can to encourage tho industry, and as a result the peo- pie of southeastern Alaska are greatly excited. The town council of Ketchikan and its commercial club have requested Secretary Redfield of our department of commerce to give them protection and bills to that end will probably be in troduced into Congress this session. The Alaskans demand that all fish caught in Alaskan waters, if shipped free of duty to the United States markets. shall be sent out from American ports, and they say that the Canadians railroads which carry the fish can easily send boats to Ketchikan. which Is only half day away. for their -cargoes.
 From what see here the fears of the Alaskans seem well founded. Prince Ru-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
There Was Danger

T rom the PhIIadeIphia Record.
 rather heavy storm burst over a suburban town, and a young wife, startled by particularly sharp crash, made dive from the porch to the dark ened parlor.
 q won't stay here another minutew she exclaimed in terrified voice. You can't tell what may happen next"
 You are foolish, dear" responded the hubby, following her into the house Don't you know that thunder cannot hurt anybody"
 You are mistaken, Harry" positive ly rejoined the young woman. "Haven't you ever heard of people being thunder struck?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

are now catching black cod, a fish of about the same size as the ordinary cod, but darker in color. The flesh is much richer in oil, but it may be prepared in such way that it Is delicious It has been eaten for many years in Alaska, and they have been recently shipping it to Seattle, where the restaurants make special feature of barbecued black cod. This consists of the backs of the fish, which are kippered or smoked, after being salted. They are served with drawn butter.
 There is prospect that an extensive in- dustry will sometime arise in the shelifish of Alaska. They have oysters near here as large around as saucer, and there are many places among the Alaskan islands where you can catch crabs as big around as dinner plate. There are clans, large and small; little butter clans that are delicious and others good to eat as big around as your hand. There is a man at Petersburg who has shipped this year 60 cases of one-pound cans of clans; and clans and clam juice were formerly packed a Klawak.
 l am told, however, that one has to be very careful as to the source of his clam supply Some of these bvalves feed in the water near the copper deposits, and the copper poisons their meat The cap tain of one of our coast survey steamers, in speaking of this recently, told me how his life was saved by pussy cat. Said he:
 ''It was narrow escape I had bought a fine mess of clans and was just about to eat some of them raw when decided l had better test their edibility by giving one of them to my cat. The pussy ate it. and moment later she rolled over and went into convulsions. She kept on kick ing until every one of her nine lives had departed. The clans were poisoned by copper, but they looked as sweet and healthy as any have ever seen Had the cat not been near. I would have tried them without question, and I really be- lieve that that cat saved my life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

fI |N1STUR EDDITUR: Theere is no use talking, WI the human rase, collectively and indviduel- 6g&XM ly cannot successfully combat the wies and
 infewances of that foxy little guy-Cupd.
 No matter how secure ndividuel feels -aftur yeers of immunity frum the shafts of sed Cupid, in the end he will surely fall the shines and the coectur calls for his dividends. The crusty old bachelor who has successfully weethered menny campains may think he is safe; he may rest secure in his beleef that no woman can make slave of him. he will not dange at the end of enny old matrimonial chain-he has passed up and refused to fall for the charms of hundreds of debutantees and uthers, and he feels chesty it a chicken hur furst pair of theese furr topped boots But in momint of careessness sum dame will turn hur lamps him and frum that mint he's the goat In the end she'll have him eating out of hur hand and his life and libburty air no Iongur his.
 The same is trew of the opposite By accident l lerned of the history of couple heer. Both the and the in the have no gold medals hung aboard for buty The lady disappointed in yuth in love affair, and had dspossion dill pickle. The gentulman had experienced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

Washington, D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

HAVE come from Alaska to
 British Columbia to write of an international complication
 egarding the placing of Alas
 kan halibut and salmon on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
By FRANK G. CARPENTER 1916 hv Frank G. Carpe

Prince Rupert, B. C.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16
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by BILL cox

We sometimes hear IN stentorian
tones the call to humanity Prepare
20 meet. thy God" There are even
Messages in scripture which seem to
hear out the idea OF our absence
from deity. According TO the uni
versal conception OF God among in
teJligent and thoughtful men We are
forced to conclude that IL the scrip
lures are the revealed word OF Je-
hoveh. then and passages therein
seemingly leading one 10 believe
there could be such thing as meet
ing God they are misconstrued. That
God Is co-extensiYe with iliimitable
space IL automatic and needs no dem
To confine Him 10 any
given Limitation Of space would be
10 deprive Him OF one OF his rec
ognized characteristics. omnipTes-
ence. To take from Him the attri-
butte omnipresence would take from
Him another attribute, omnipo-
fence. for no one can act upon any
given object without being in reach
OF IL. To take from Him the two at
tributes, omnipresence and omnipo-
tencc. would deprive Him OF another
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16

Of J. r. solomon and wire 49, 49,.
"a 60, the night. Joe is a gooa
,.,.or and has done some thinEin..
- - ON hook and We had a goof
- NJ solomon is q good COOK
80 aid not 20 hungry. They nave
100 children which is sooI
49,, sor family. over at Ovilia |
no, aud reinstated l.. L. Pogue- ne
- ,,cty 10 have me there for MIS-
pague Is a good cook and | was IT.
ahie ~ drop in at any time. After
r,o,inc few games Of forty-t"o
ron, home win W. d. Lindrop
Co. dinper Mrs. Lindrop fed Us
ou "a aeon left very happy.
go shont 10 forget to mention that
W. navenpor, has fine new oiack-
NTH sbop There are two new
dvoI,ines in the town and met a
naw Doctor but / somehow some
,;ras forget names when they ars
NOT on my list Down on uroNe
creek met J. n. Howard ana jim
t,.ason Of york on a garden fence.
linn took out little insurance
against ignorance Of current events
Nc uoward and Mrs Hudson were
at the house and Mrs. Howard eo'
ON NV list. She learned rug maKlh9
not long since and had just return
cd from Lisbon where she WISH
cd and taught several. she SAN
she had sold about 81 worth oil
eggs already this year. On the way
home I rode on load Of corn with
Dee Bunch and brother and then
was picked up by Joe lsom IN MS
auto.
Saturday | did business with A
b. Lowry, W E. Walker, James
Nash. w. r. Saunders, f. +. VII
Iiams. AT Red Oak last week
mot Rev. w. H. Harris, who told me
he had performed the marriage Ger
emonv for j. A. Wade and MIS-
Clara Williams at the home OF Mr.
and Mrs. ]. A. Marshall. the prey
ious Sunday. There was a consider
able attendance Of friends and rela
tiyes and all wished the young PEG
nile a pleasant Quincy through lie
BILL cox.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16

heye the worst cough or cold Bron-
chlal Asthma Bronchitis Group.
EoarsenesS and Whoopiug Cough.
Ono bottle will make enough home
made medicine 10 probably supply
the whole family. Children like IT,.
IL Is SO pleasant 10 take II is un-
like any other medicine and posi-
lively contains no chlorotoym opium.
morphine or other narcotics. as do
most cough mixtures. Keen il on
hand in case of emergency and stop
each cough before il gets a firm hold
The above druggist. in fact any drug
sist in this city. viii return the
money tlust the same as is done
With Schifimann's famous Asthma
don IA every single ease where t.
does not give perfect satisfaction or
is not found the best remedy ever
used. Absolutely no risk is run in
buying this remedy under this POSI-
tive guarantee - ADV
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16

]. l.. PLANT authorizes the air
nouncement that he is a candidate
for constable of precinct No. /, sub
iect to the action of the democratic
primary. Mr.. PLANT has been resi-
dent of Waxahaehie number OF
years and is well known to many OF
the voters of the precinct. He IS at
present city marshal of WaAshacniei
filling the unexpired term of City
Marshal Jones, resigned. His term
will expire the first of May.
Mr.. PLANT has made the city q
good officer and if elected constable
he will render efficient service. ht
asks the voters TO give his claims
due consideration.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16
FOR BRONCHITIS, SEVERE COUGHS
COLDS And WRO0PING COUGH
Medicine rcaspoonsru

@"nry spent for the old style.
rs dr-made medicine usually sold in
bpele7 holding only 10 sis ounces
tlC 60 "a ,easpoonsfuD is largely
wasted. because most Of them are
composed principally of sugar and
V0tcr. lci you have 10 pay the same
price as it it were all medicine. Stop
w3stjce this money. You can make
better remedy for bronchial al
fe itas 3; home al One-fiith the
cU-f. Ncrcly 20 10 Curlin'S drug
stores and ask for ounces (50c
WORTH of Schiffmann's New Con
oaftraieL Expeetorant. which they
gueTantcc wil give perfect satistsc-
tiUu OF money viii be refunded Mix
tbs with one Iant of granuisted
sugar and oue-half pint of boiling
wntor, which makes a full pint 1eS
tfa-roorr gll This new, simple.
l..s--- v1sdy j, guaranteed 10 re-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16
PRESIDE RESIDENTS
PREPARE FORDEFENSE.

Preside, Texas, March 16.-All
Americans have assembled in one
place, prepared to protect themselves
from Mexican raiders, following out
breaks which occurred among the
Carranzista troops at Oiinaga, across
tie border, last night.
The situation. which has grown
steadily more serious for several
days, reached climax today when it
was practically confirmed that Gen
eral Roias, Carranza commander at
Ojinaga, was either assassinated or
2 refugee at some place on the bcrd-
err.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-16

of Des MONIES. H.. sahi. in an inter.
view today
If each person IN this country would
take an occasional iaNliiyc dose. our
hospitals would ls,Se thousands upon
thousands af patients"
AIR Olson further stated that he was
familiar with and had scll ali the "a
riols iaNayiveS. and That IN his opinion.
keNiii orderi,es Is the n,o>; Pheasant
and sure remedy i,r constipation