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Japanese Train Birds
To Become Fishermen
Cormorants Are Taught When Quite Young
and Work Well Up to Fifteen and Even
Twenty Years of Age-Catch $50 Per Hour.

A MoNG the special entertain
"A ments offered to visitors to
Japan Is a sight Of the curious
sport Of fishing with cormorants
on the River Niagara, near Gifu,
in the province Of Dwarf.
It has existed in japan from
time immemorial, and always takes
place on moonless nights and by
torchlight. The cormorants arc
trained when quite young. They
will work well up to fifteen. and
even twenty years Of age, and each
well-trained bird will account fer
an average of about $50 fish per
hour.
Seven boats are employed in ths
fishing operations, with four men
in each boat, one Of whom. at the
stern, simply propels and guides
the craft. The master fisherman,
distinguished by his peculiar hat,
stands in the bow and handles no
fewer than twelve trained birds
with great skill and coolness. An.
other fisherman, Of the second
grade, situated amidships. handles
four birds only. The fourth mem.
ber of the crew is situated between
the two fishermen. and Is armed
with a piece Of bamboo. which no
strikes to keep the birds up to
their work, at the same time en-.
couraging them by shouts and
cries; he also looks after the spare
fishing gear and is ready to give
aid IL required.
Each cormorant has a ring OF
metal or bone around the base OF
its neck, which permits the swal-
lowing of the smaller fish as food,
but effectually stops those Of mar
ketable size. Round the body Of
the bird is a cord, to which is at.
tached in the middle Of the back a
short strip of stiff whalebone. with
which to lower the bird into the
water or lift It out again, and
thin rein of spruce fiber twelve feet
long.
The master lowers his twelve
birds into the sea at the fishing
ground and holds the reins in his
left hand, manipulating them with
his right as occasion requires.
The second fisherman does the
same with his four birds, and thon
the fourth man begins his volleys
of noise.
The birds start diving and duck
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ing with wonderful swiftness as
the astonished fish came SWIM
ming toward the blaze Of light.
The master now has a busy time
handling his twelve strings and
taking care that they do not foul
one another while the birds are
dashing hither and thither. His
eyes and hands work almost au-
tomatically. When one Of the birds
becomes engorged It swims about
in a foolish, helpless way, with
head and swollen neck erect, and
then the master hauls IL in and
lifts II on board. He forces its
bill open with his left hand. still
holding the other lines, and
squeezes out the fish with his right,
after which he returns the bird to
it's work. This is all done with such
admirable dexterity and quickness
that the other birds have not tirae
to become entangled. and imme-
diately the whole team is again
perfectly in hand.
Each bird has his own number,
and knows 1t. No. 1 or 'Ichi," is
the doyen Of the corps, the senior
In years as we'll as rank, and his
companions. according to their age.
come after him in numerical order.
Ichi is the last to be put into the
water and the first to be taken out,
the first to be fed, and the last 10
enter the basket when the work is
over. Ichi has the post Of honor In
the eyes OF the boat. He is a sol.
emn, grizzled old fellow, with a
pompous air. Ths others are placed
alternately on either side of the
gunwale, according to their rank.
and II haply the lawful order OF
precedence be at any time violated.
a terrific rumpus occurs among
thenE
After the fishing is over, as ench
cormorant is taken out OF the
water, the master can tell by its
weight whether 1t has had enough
to eat during the hunt, and II not
the bird is fed with the inferior fish
that have been caught.
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at her slowly. then smiled and
said:
Hello, Irener
The boyish prisoner tried to
smile back as the sheriff reminded
the patient that he was dangerous
ly injured and requested that he
make an explanation OF the shoot
Ing. The lads eyes slowly SWEPT
the circle Of faces then rested on
the agonized features Of the Girl
For q full minute there was
silence; then he said, clearly and
with evident effort:
Irene did not mean to do n
It was an accident. I ask that no
charge be brought against herw
Again the smile, and the eyes
closed. The boys beau gests"
was done. Irene Granstedt sway
ed against the sheriff. then re-
covered herself with an effort ss
they led her back to the auto
mobile and the prison.
MOTHER ALSO IN HOSPITAL.
By queer twist Of destiny's
threads, Mrs. J. c. Galloway,
mother Of the wounded lad, was
In q nearby room of the hospital,
awaiting the birth of a child. She
was not informed Of the shooting.
Back In the Granstedt cottage
the girls father, Theodore, WHO
keeps the local store, was mending
a drainpipe. Asked what he in.
tended to do to help Irene, he
answered curtly:
Irene Is my daughter. I don't
know the circumstances Of the
case yet, and I won't talk about
it."
Inside the cottage the fear
shaken mother Of the girl said:
my husband never liked Irene,
and now he blames me for this
trouble. But maybe II he hadn't
been so harsh with her I would
not have been so easy.
He never wanted her to go to
parties. She was afraid Of him.
Do you think she would have come
homo in the night and crept into
bed with that terrible thing on
her mind, II she felt that she could
have come into our room and told
her trouble to her mother? But
she was afraid Of her father.
don't know the whole story. but I
can't believe that she meant any
wrong. I don't believe that she
meant to shoot anyone"
MOTHER RECALLS BEATING.
The mothers eyes filled, and sho
recalled her own girlhood on
Kansas farm. where she had grown
up in terror Of her parents. adding:
once, I. too, went out to a
church party without asking per-
mission. because I knew wouldn't
get II. When I got home wss
met with q long black horsewhip,
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"Last night I wanted to see
him. They say it was because he
was out with another girl and I
was jealous. wasn't. 1t would
have been all right with me if he
had gone with another girl. But
I wanted to see him. / was lone
some and sort Of sick. hadn't
slept for three nights worrying
about US and what was going to
happen and all that. I went over
to Curtis Morgan's because /
knew he had a gun. Don't blame
Curtis for me borrowing the gun.
He didn't guess what I was going
to do with it. Neither did !.
IT wanted the gun to protect my
self because II was a two-mile walk
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to where Harold was. No,
couldn't have used It even II a man
had attacked me. because don't
understand guns. and I'd be afraid
Of hurting anyone. But there was
a sort OF sense Of protection IN
having the belt buckled around my
waist and the gun in the holster
had on my overalls and my
knitted cloak thrown over them.
SHOOT, I'M NOT YELLOW"
when got before the church
a boy had given me a lift there 10
his carl hid behind a palm tree.
Harold came out with another boy.
He had heard I was there. I
caught my foot in my cloak and
stumbled. He heard me and came
up to me.
"'oh. SO it's you he said. 4
was looking for YOU And I an.
swered:
"'oh, thought I was too low
down to be recognized in public
IAN I wanted to do was to scare
him. Then he said-"oh, I forget,
I forget what he said! But I had
taken the gun out OF the holster
somehow and I told him not 10
come near me when he tried to.
He said:
"'Shoot! I'm not yellowr
IT answered him:
''1 wouldn't waste the lead on
your
"I don't know why said that
But he grabbed the gun and sort
Of pulled the barrel toward him,
and something on II went down
and something else went up.
don't know what It Is that makes
1t work. and then he was lying
there.
''I was crazy: I had my arms
around him, kissing him.
That's all right, Irene. you
didn't mean IT, he said. Oh, he
was so kind to me then.
ALWAYS WRITING POETRY.
They almost carried him into
the church and wanted to put hot
water on the wounds. But I said
that that was bad; they must use
cold water to stop the blood. ]
don't know how I knew that.
Guess I read it some place. ]
read everything, from Darwin to
Porter. love reading better
than anything else except writing,
when ] went to Harold with that
gun my overalls pocketc were
stuffed with poetry.
1T remember some of It. can
say It by heart. Listen:
Youth builds castles in the air.
Some seek love and beauty there.
Others all through life have
dreams,
Ambition seeks but youth Il
seems;
Youth sends ships across the sea,
Ambitions materialize the keyr'
But, oh, I didn't mean to hurt
Harold, for I love him! love
hit,np'
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Punching o. X, But
Judge Bars Kicking

I .oNDoN, May 1S.-The unwrit
ten law permits an angry
father to hit a young man who
keeps his daughter out too late
but doesn't permit him to kick
him afterwards.
IT shouldn't have minded sr
much II you had Just given him t,
punch" said the magistrate tt
the father, but after knocking
him down. you kicked him. Ths,
will cost you two pounds"
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CHILD FOUGHT TO AID.

When the dying lad was taken
to the Red Cross Hospital and
the dancers, who had been in
terrupted by the tragedy sifted
home in frightened groups. the
girl stumbled out across the
fields to her own little home.
two miles away.
She went to bed without un-
dressing and without speaking
TO her parents Of what she had
done. At dawn. the sound OF
hammering on the door startled
her. She heard the voices Of
her parents in angry protest
and then the call of the impa-
tient sheriff:
"Oh, open up and bring out the
murderess. What do you think
I'm here for?"
GIRL RAN TO HER MOTHER.
In that gentle fashion was the
news broken to Irene's mother
and father. Panic stricken, the
girl ran down the stairs into the
open arms Of her dumb-stricken
mother. The sheriff pulled her
away and lifted her into his car.
throbbing in the roadway. Ten
minutes later, before the family
could grasp what II all meant,
Irene was in San Jose prison, in
the custody of Probation Off,
Ger Katherine Brattan, pending
the result of Galloway's injuries
and the action Of the grand jury
and the county prosecutor.
She told Miss Brattan that she
and Harold had been sweethearts,
and that he became Jealous when
she went out with another youth.
They had quarreled. He had de-
clared in the schoolyard that she
was $50 low that he wouldn't
speak to her again in public"
He had not invited her to the
parish house nor had any one
else.
WOUNDED LADS GREETING.
Humiliated and angry, she said.
she had borrowed the pistol from
q neighbor's boy. Curtis Morgan,
and had gone to make Harold
apologize. In the dispute she had
threatened him; he had dared her
TO shoot, and then as he sought
TO wrest the weapon from her
the cartridge was exploded.
Hysterical at the recollection Of
Il. she insisted that 1t was all IN
accident.
with the Sheriff. the school
principal, the county physician
and the probation officer. Irene
was hurried to the hospital TO face
the dying boy. Gulping. she at
tempted to speak, but the words
would not come. Young Gallo
way. conscious temporarily, started
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Clinic on Wheels

HALIFAX. Can, May IA
- travelling dental clinic will lie
instituted by the Nova Scotia di.
vision Of the Red Cross, TO operate
among the school children In the
rural districts-
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CMHs MoIgA1

mother said. his freckled face pal
ing as he thought Of the shooting.
An odd phase Of It Is that the sher-
If is finding It difficult to get any
witnesses to testify against Ireno,
for. despite the throngs at the
dance. all assert that they were in
side the building or far from the
scene when the pistol flashed In
the darkness.
This In particularly odd, because
Irene's affair with the older boy
had brought public censure on
them months ago. Complaint has
been made to the juvenile court.
and young Galloway's parents had
been considering the advisability
OF sending him to the city to break
off the infatuation. But the elf
ish beauty Of the girl. her poetic
precocity. and her hoyden spirit
had won her q warm place IN the
hearts OF the townspeople. even
though they shook their heads over
her "wildness"-ands she seems not
to have lost them since that black
night in the Mountain View grove.
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LOVED EACH OTHER;
/ MEANT NO HARM"
SAYS GIRL, i'm TEARS
'T Wasn't Jealous, But Only Lonesome and
Sick" Declares Heart-sick Maid Who Sho.
Youthful Sweetheart.
By IRENE GRANDsTEDT,

(Ths Schoolgirl Who Shot Her Boy LoUer)
KIT DIDN'T mean to hurt himl I love that boy
love him more than I love any else
l. except mother I never loved any other boy,
Oh, went with other boys but he was always the
only one.
"First when started going with him, they told me
that he no good, and they said he smoked and
drank and hung around the pool rooms but wouldn't
believe them. And he quit smoking just because ]
did not like it. And he never drank. I'd have done
anything for him. No, he never spoke Of marriage
to me.
II met him first year ago when was in grammar
school Then entered high school and were still
going together couldn't nsgne not being with him.
People talked about us-sure. We couldn't help that.
We loved each other, and that about all, guess
QUARREIED BUT MADE UP.
"And about two weeks ago another girl and went
out with some other boys. They didn't mean anything
to me- and I'd have stayed home if Harold had asked
me. But instead, he over to my house after
ward and called about every name he could think
Of and got wild. slapped his face. Then he came
back after a while. We made up, but there was
in
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SLURRED BY BOY LOVER BORROWS GUN AND SHOOTS HIM;
TOO LOW FOR ME" HE SAID SHE ANSWERED HIM WITH BULLE
CCHooL GIRL POET SHOOTS BOY LOVER


- old
a tina h ten h borrowed
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"I DIDN'T MEAN IT."
SHE CRIED AS LAD
FELL AT HER FEET
Quarrel That Ended With Boy I'm Hospital is
Followed by RemorSe and FOrgiVeness-T
Love Himg' MOurns Irene, as Boy Won't
Place Charge Against Her. 4

"HROUGH the shadows of the grove around the
Mountain View Church night recently the
throngs Of young people going in to the dance
saw slim figure fit behind big palm tree. They
thought 1t was boy, little boy in overalls, with
toy pistol dangling from q wide cavalryman's belt
around his waist, come to play pranks on the merry
makers-and they laughed at the youngster until Har
old Galloway, seventeen year-od high school student
went out to what the child was up to.
There was rustic Of leaves the figure, lodging
fell. Sharp words came fast and then
"Oh, thought too low for you to speak to in
public!''
SPURT OF FLAME SEEN
1t the voice Of girl in hot anger, but before
they could identify it squirt of flame ilumined the
struggling couple, and the boy crumped up in heap
among the leaves When the dazed crowd streaming
out OF the parish house, reached them the little over
allied figure shaking with sobs, and in the glare of
flashlights they recognized Irene Granstedt the four
teenyearold sweetheart of the wounded lad She was
weeping.
"Oh, didn't mean to hurt you, Harold. It went off
by accident Please speak to me!''
She was dabbing at Of his bleeding finger tips
with handkerchief but when the unconscious youth
was carried into the parish house. it found that
the bullet, after clipping the end off his finger drilled
into his abdomen, perforang his ntestines in twelve
places. Death, the doctors said, only matter of
days.
CHILD FOUGHT TO AID.
Irene, at pathetic and ludicrous in her overas
a slip of girl who looked two years younger than the
fourteen accredited her. fought for opportunity to
help. With violet eyes sparkling in grief and terror
and blond bobbed hair sreakng across her tearspat-
tered face, she appeared distraught child and they
did not even bother to summon officer to arrest her.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-11-30
A Timely Suggestion.

This Is the season Of the year
when the prudent and ca efui
housewife replenishrs her supp
~ Of thaBberIain's Cough Re
IL dy. IL Is almost certain to
be needed before the winter is
O4er and resUits are much more
prompt and satisfactory when it
IL kept at hand and given a.
soon as the first indication OF a
cold appears and before it has
become settled n the system
There j. no Danger in giving IL
to children a. it contains 10
opium or other harmful drug,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-11-30

them out ana glum the turkey AMI
Paieg's iagon OF tirewater.
indians Took Part.
Peleg would nonchalantly wander
over TO the fireplace and throw a hand
ful OF gunpowder into it and the In.
dian would make a dash for the creek
nesr by, angIily pursued By his burn
ing h~reechclout.
Peleg would return to the feast and
say. For what We are about to receive
let us he truly thankful" And ne received
it quickly. A noble redman poked his
arm through the window and nrmi.
niCked Peleg On the bean with a tom
myhawk. Being a hard-headed Furi-
tan, Peleg would go on with his din
ner after throwing the t~o.nlnyhawE
back over his shoulder and catching
Mr.. Shinnecock just below the Adams
apple.
The afternoon was given over t.
meditation and reflection.
Celebration of Today.
But nowadays they gather in some
jazz restaurant and the host says
For what we haven't had during the
past year under the Volstead act, let
us be" well, anyhow, something like
that. The waiter does not reach
through the window and tap him with
a rommyhawk, but he hits him for a
S56.15 check and a $40 tip.
And instead of spending the after
moo in meditation and prayer, as
peleg did, his great great-great-great-
sreat-grandson sits In a grandstand
with 1900 other heretics and they
yell:
"Freshwater's got the ball" .
"Freshwater, Freshwater, zip, boom,
bah! F%reshwater, Freshwater, rah
rah, rah"
Go it, Cornsilk Now, boys, the
Cornsilk locomotive:
Northumberland rah-COrn
silk, Cornsilk--hip, hip, hip, hip, hip.
noorah!"
Ana after the game Peleg's descend
AMI accompanies a young f1apper to u
hotel for dinner, where he gets d piece
of turkey through which he can read
the name Of the cafe and make out it,
cOat-of-alms in the center of the plate
and calls it d feed.
The only folks funnier than the old
ones are the new ones.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-11-30
Commencing at 10 Il. m,

The Following Property:
10 head OF cattle consisting oi
) mich COWS, and lrOan Dlrha u
Dull, one yearlng heller, 4 Jer
seya and / red cows. all will be
fresh III spring, all but II are
giving god flow Ut mllk. farm
impl, nents, | wagon. set doubl.
harness, moving machine and
lake, opliIIp tooth harrow, break
my pl.NS and double shovels,
aud other farm tools, loo bushels
corn III crib, = stat Ks bay, z
stacks bundle wheat, household
goods consisting OF, ! dresser,
cook stove, organ, kitchen
cabinet, book case, sewing mach
iue, / bedstea1, 2lable-, 1 chairs,
| rocker, | set single tlarueSs,
and other thing not mentioned.
Terms-All sums OF $40 and
under, cash; on all sums oven.
$40, 9 months time will be Civ
en- ON bankable note bearing 8
per cent interest from date. No
goods to be removed until the
terms of sale are complied
with.
Mrs. l.. c. Letsinser.
ROY r. DENNIS, Auctioneer
G. G. FREEMAN, Clerk
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-11-30
OF YE OLD TYNE
Humorous Description of Thanks
giving Celebration
Somc Difference Between the Ops:rv-
anc> Of tire Day Then and the
Festivities Of Today.

From picking the stu.hng u OF a
Wild tuT:;ey 70 kicking the 3~rui.ins oul
VI a wild football! PLAYER. THANKSGIVING
day observance has uuisI=.ne Il de
clded Change, even within the ken OF
the present writer, who, al that, Is
quite ola enough to gain a permanent
home among the mumMies at tie Me.
tropOlirdn Museum Of Art, Roy X.
5ioultcn writes ia the New YORK Eve
ming Mail. There were days away back
In Puritan times when people had 4
lot TO be thankful for and enough
sense to be thankful for it. 1t is still
true that a portion Of our great metro
pOiitan population find time to render
thanks in the old-fashioned style. but
the rah-rah Thanksgiving has been
with US ONE twenty years now, and
ii s-eias 10 be gaining momentum,
In the old days hey used to leave q
platter strewn with the bones VI wild
turkey. and now 1t is the general Gus.
tom to leave the gridiron strewu with
arms, legs. ears and other more or less
lLApSI NAtl iUpGJiAuSAta'
Tie history OF a Thanksgiving day
used to be ser down by the church
clerk, and now it is set down in Jazz
b. the sporting "riter, all of whil
goes to show that civilization is NOV.
ing though We can't always deciie
which way.
We Ode Tyne Thanksgiving.
Know .e all men by thefe p%refentf
That /, M~uEepeace W~harburton.
governor, do nominate Thurfday, y
twenty fi3th Of November, to be d
day Of thanksgiving and d day Of pray.
ct IN remembrance Of the great bleff-
ings We have received during the part
. year. Ali and fundry Of the pol ula
profoundly render thanEf for peace
and PROPERTY or pay penalty on the
pillory the ducking fool or the ftocks.
"MAKEPEACE WHARBURTON.
Governor"
Those we're the days Of real Thanks-
giyings. Pelag Prouty did mol have 10
90 to d butcher shop and barter his
soul, his house ana lot and his Tod
for d turkey. He kissed his wife, Pru-
darce and rho L;du good.hy for ,novb,
the last limo and 90, forth for q .cild
,,rrey us orr;.d ov.r his sbouidar
an ez.no,,d siurdsrtp.s Win a snrin.
klsr s~rtachmar, an m. mnzzrs wb,ct
v,o,,ld scat,ar .h,t over a fan. sized
toypshin Ind ,.nuid kick peleg for .
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-11-30
Hyde Issues Proclamation.

Governo, Arthur NJ. Hyde,
acting ia conjunction with Presi
dent Harding. issued a Thanks
giving proclamation setting
apart Thnrsdsv, November SOth,
a. Thanksgiving day and ceiling
upon ALI MlSSourians to repair
tn their affairs OF worship aud
there render thanks to \ ghtN
God far dis unfaliiny bounty
The proclamation follows;
Whereas, bv the reyeient
custom Of our t~oretstters une
DAY IN each war has been set
apart tor and dedicated to pub
lie acknowledgements and thanks
giving to Almighty God for
His many blessings ana mercies
II US as a people ami,
Whereas, the President IT
the United States. Warren q
Harding has OH tally designed
aud set apart Thursday, Noyem
Der seth as a aay of Thanksen
my and devotion for the year
1922, and
VII reas, in cQnmen With
the people OF the other states at
the uuIoa, the people Of THIS
state have been blessed With
hounlifui crops, with richness
ii natural resources and wealth
of material secession Dnrlng
the past Year 10 war has di,tur
bed Us. No pastlance has attic
ted Us. No national disasterhas
overwhelmed Us. Peace anu
plenty Surround US 1t Is, there
fore, appropriate that for one
day We lay aside our daily tasks
uumbly aud regerently to give
THANKS TO our Crea,ur aud Su
preme Ruler for that He has
showered upon Us blessings and
served US As = people;
| N ", therefore, |, Arthur NJ
HYDE. governor of the state OF
Missouri, act ug IN conjunction
Win The president Of the United
States, DO tI=te by set aside
Tau Siay, November both 1922
IS IhaUHsEivirg Gdv. ANA | eIT
nest!y urge 'n' pc p!r OF III
state ~ Missouri to repair I,
their a'tars OF Worship and there
render thank 10 Almighty 600
Tor his untai!.AE bounty, II j.
also appropriate, that, having
rendered thanks Tor our mater
lal blessings ana possessions,
eack. of Us should give thought
TO the condition of unrest aud OF!
class consciousness, which l.
omiuous!S growing am"ng out
people and hi My resolve that
through the r. generation Of our
own hearts W. shall diligently
and patrioticaljy labor during
tue ensuing year tor d broader
Justice and fraternity among al,
the citizen, of our state aud
uatlOn.
'iSlgn=dD Arthur NJ Hyde gov
ernor.'