Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-18
Investigating the Investigators.

In the excitement Of watching Tom
Lawson and Me upd Colt, and listen
ing to the gladstone song OF prohibition,
we plumb forgot to observe II our
strict accountability note TO the L. j.
dog fish eaters had brought forth a
scrap Of paper-until we noticed that
.veritas" had butted in: then we hunt
ed and found the following III the
Saturday edition:
Here is the argument of this tragedy:
First, the Kennebec Journal said 1t had
received report from the Depar.nle en-
packing OF dog fish. I'VE are much
obliged" said the K. j., "but don't send
us a sample"
To this the Lewiston Journal replied
eating. Our cartoonist stone, mao
cooked them fresh from the water ana
had much enjoyed them. We. theretore.
invited the kennebec Journal down next
summer to have some.
TO this. the X. j. replies as follows:-
This is so sudden! But we accept.
We are of open mind-and tummy. we
are ready to be convinced. II Harry
stone or other of the l.. j. folk can eat
dog-er- gray -ish and live to tell the tale,
we can. Whenever we receive the l.. j.
wigwag from the sea shore we're gonna
be right on hand. as lank as grey
hound. But-we want stone to take q
! photograph of our enjoyment, not one OF
his pictures" We expect to come OUT
of this engagement more shagreened
than when we learned that brother edl.
tors had been robbing the h. C. OF l. or
it's venom by living on ground SHARKS
while we had been fooling ourselves with
the notion that we lies as soon nave
chicken as to have i'm We had been
misled. maybe, by our old friend DAVIS
of dogfish fame. He told US that the
acid in its flesh than any other sharK,
/ that il produces young almost daily TOT
nine or ten months in the year-a-a-hd,
he told as other things that had sort or
prejudiced us against gray1ish -put YOU
| display the come-on signal next sum-
mer and see what happens.
Now. hear US again. This time on tine
/ fecundty of the dog fish and the free
'ithic acid which our esteemed e con
| temporary says exists in the dog nsh
For the latter suggestion we are deeply
obliged to our Augusta friend because II
affords us the solution OF great lnyS,
terry Ever since we ate that cameo
! dog-fsh last summer we have had no
rheumatism. Our joints. which were
! then swollen to enormous size, rapioly
reduced. We did not know Wnat ocGa-
stoned it; laid it to absent treatment by
/ an old gent who wore a snake skin
around his neck Now, we know. "Llthic
acid" O. remedy for rheumatism Dog
fish is the sovereign cure! easy 10 take
Affords nourishment and heaith an d.
once, Reduces felons. warts, swollen
! FONTS: Dog-hsh stew put Up in pints and nd
1 quarts for hospitals and OLD laoies
! homes, Dog-fsh lithic serum for use In
the army and on polar expeditions!
To be sure Of our point we asksa oG n
looked like a big thing to him II the 1acts
we're nroyen. He said he did not know
much about the acidity Of fish nut II
| that of the dog. fish were free ne would
to find out? We asked. Taste It, said
he. "If it is Sour, 1t is acid. ~
! Thus once more, we ask the r. D. 70
come TO the seas. Let him come as he
! is. ring-boned. spawned. swoiieh Jol Il;.S
and we will both feed and cure him with
buffalo Initiated dog fish.
/ Az TO the fecundity of the dog hsh we
do not know. The encyclopedia says
that our common dog fish (spuaius acam IN,
thus) is oviparous. l. e., produces s by
eggs, So do cod fish A single cod fish
has been known to produce 9Wo.uV eggs
at once and the cod fish have young rom
| October to. April continuously, a mateer
! of seven months Fish in general seem
70 he rather busy mothers and fathers
! and We do not know that one variety
! should be taken and another left on tnat
:. account-the only argument against the
dog fish being that he has free lithlc acid
i ana we teel tlldt VIC ihl'S "'"f>~
! that objection.
I So come on. come to the fount and be
! nourished and restored! Throw away
your clutches and come
We are not surprised that the L. j.
doefish editor dWells on the Free In
this season when his income tax is in
demand But he must remember that
Friend Davis was talking about the
ma Tor qualities of dogfish before the
l.. J. folks began reducing the supply
and increasing the demand. We fear
this enthusiastic advocate of something
free for his now doggone rheumatism,
has erred in diagnosis of his own In
firmities In our tumble opinion 1t was
housemaids knee from which he was
suffering, and caused by kneeling to
Neptune.
We don't know anything about ma
rine hotels de Fido, but the Britannica
says that the small-spotted dogfish or
Rough Hound and large-spotted or
Nurse Hound are ovoviviparous-o
dong sound) vo Qong sound) vi dong
sounO vip (short sounO ARGUS. &C.
cent on the antepenultima.
However that may be. when the sub
marine hot dogs are ready, say the
word.
The request of a western town of Salem
upon Salem, Mass, that the latter