South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-05

Beware, YOU prOfiteersi Are Amer
leans an aggregation Of all day suck
ers2 In our wild rush and desire
for commodities bearing foreign
brands or trade marks. we encourage
deception and collision on the part
OF prohteers. who sell US substitutes.
Tor which we pay most fancy prices.
Russian caviar. esteemed as an
appetizer or served with chopped
onions, tickles the palate of epicures.
supposedly imported from Russia,
we find upon the container. a Rus
sian eagle, with extended wings;
in circle Of hieroglyphics is the
face OF the deposed Car: all indicat-
i've of direct importation. All doubts,
IN the mind Of the purchaser is dis
PEELED. when he notes the American
retailers price OF $3.50 marked in
Ink on a three ounce can ImPor-
tant product is the consumers men
tai verdict Few realize that Rus
sian caviar, commanding such fancy
price, is a Mississippi river product
Sturgeon or "hackle- back" are cred
tied with the best caviar spawn.
Until recent years the sturgeon has
not been considered a food fish. It
Is now smoked, dried and treated
until all semblance OF the original
and Objectionable flavor is elimin-
ated by the smoke route Sturgeon
spawn or ovaries are washed. run
through sieve, clearing the eggs
of membrane, ibres and fatty mat
teri and properly sailed The roe
is packed in three gallon cans and
shipped east for final treatment.
Recanned in three ounce containers.
which are covered with foreign
eagles hieroglyphics and imported
insignias. This product then retails
at $3.50 for a three ounce can. Fish
ermen receive 81 per gallon for the
original product. A worlds delica-
cy, caught in the waters of our
grand old Mississippi river, TO receive
the finishing embellishments in an
eastern market, enabling profteers.
at some jump in the road, TO reap a
golden money harvest from the de-
luded consumer.
Diamond back terrapin. You
have seen this cafe luxury on the
menu, scheduled at SO 10 s. per por-
ton. You have no doubt wished for
the unattainable. Did you know
that this piece de resistance" swims
in our native waters? He is now
pulling OH your home latch string
/ insisting upon recognition AS guest
at banquets, where terrapin was
I served, you have felt your import
ance. knowing the host was playing
the sky limit. Terrapin represent
I ing the acme of expenditure on cuI-
mary entertainment Until the pro-
/ ductive turtle fields of the west were
/ developed, terrapin were caught in
limited numbers, an excuse for ex-
! cessive price.
All sloughs bayous and streams.
! adjacent and running into the Mis-
sissippi river, have for centuries
been the home of the Diamond Back
Terrapin, masquerading under the
nom de plume of swapping turtle.
Those ossifed birds" have been
subjected 70 disdain and aversion of
unappreciative fishermen. When a
snapper was found in the nets.
neither carefully selected or euphon-
ious language was applied. Their
ancestors. were also brought into the
malediction This four-legged imi-
! tation of a German war tank, was
I universally hated by fishermen and
boys, being an art''tic bait thief. If
hook was accidentally jerked
through his ossified lip, he put up a
/ battle royal, while protesting against
being tOwed ashore. once on terra
frma, he was properly man handled,
| pounded TO a pulp with a club or
smitten with a stone, until his spirit
was released from its armored
| home, departing on its way TO the
realms of turtle heaven. II might
| be stated. Mr.. Turtle is ever ready
TO attach himself to any exposed
| portion Of his asSailants anatomy,
holding on with bull of dog tenacity.
Marooned upon Black Hawk
Island, during a freshet, John Sloan
and Archey Mingles of Keithsburg,
Ill, crowded by necessity for food,
essayed the eating Of an old snap
ping turtle" They captured this
moss-cOvered, mUd-hiding, hibernat-
ing, bait-stealing, semi-land lubber.
Cracked his shell. cooked the meat.
with an inward assurance" that
the snapper was unpalatable. spread
the meal Their favorable culinary
report was then made. seven kinds
succulent and desirable meat CbOth
| blond and brunette steaks) were
found within the shell of the much
despised snapper, under his arma-
/ dillo roof. The Mississippi river
diamond back terrapin, imme diately
came into their own as a table deli
cacy Usually captured during the
winter months, they are dragged
from alternating quarters. (about
Is inches deep in the mud, near old
sunken lOgs), with a divining rod.
/ Barreled. shipped east TO be treated.
re-packed and hipped west, TO be
sold 10 a credulous public as Dia-
mond Back Terrapin. Oh! You
profteers. look out for the wrath
10 come. Uncle SAM has your num-
Der.
ADD TRAP AND GUN ROD =. ...
FISHING