The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 17, 1904, Page 6

Oe THESE FISH INSEPARABLE. hen One Sea Trout Is Caught There Is Bound to Be Another Close By. WERE PETRIFIED INDIANS. Minnesota Backwoodsman Exhumes a Pair of Perfectly Solid Redskins, Up in northeastern Quebec the writer was casting for salmon the other day | when a handsome pound sea trout made off with the fly. As the fish was led out of the salmon pool to be played it was noticed that it was not alone. Its mate, a fish of equal size, ran alongside, jJump- ing at the same time, diving with it, and showing a determination to share its } lot, whatever that might be, relates a | New York Sun correspondent. When at last the stout tackle ran the hooked fish on to a sanéy point the other fish actually stranded itself for an in- stant in its endeavor to accompany it further. The faithful thing hovered near while the fly was being removed, and at the first cast in its direction, rose, was struck, and after a little fight was safely landed also. In the Lake St. John district a well-| known angler reports that his expert guide actually netted two fine trout et one sweep of the landing net, only one | of which was hooked. On another occasion a large trout, probably weighing three or four pounds, elected to sulk beside a rock in a clear running stream just after taking a fly, which was struck into its upper lip. In an instant three or four other fish were alongside, apparently nibbling at the imprisoned fly. At least, that was what the fisherman thought. The guide of- fered another explanation, however, “Those are his friends who have brought the fish doctor to draw the hook,” he explained, And there ap- peared to be no reason why the theory might not be the correct one, About here the faithfulness of the sea trout to their mates Is well known. If one is taken in a pool the correct thing is to whip the fly back into the water as speedily as possible for the other, which is pretty sure to be waiting for it, At times three, four or five fish will follow the hooked one around to the end of its fight, and will probably be taken also, It was noticed the other day that sev- eral fish taken from one hole in quick succession differed greatly in appear- ance. Two of them were of a light sil- very appearance, and were probably fresh run from salt water . The others were denizens of the brook, of a darker complexion, From the manner of their capture it was pretty evident that the candies from the sea were, from their bright ap- pearance, fascinating to the more sober colored trout, which had remained at home all winter. That these trout are polygamous is well known, and the real sea trout would appear to have an ad- vantage over those whosesides have not been burnished by the ocean, Although this is the time of year for bottom fishing in streams, the angler in salmon water, will find that the most handsome trout, thatis, thosefresh from the sea, scarcely ever take bait, though they rise readily to fiies. Their flesh is creamy, like that of the salmon, and they are exceptionally fat. Like the salmon, too, they seem for at least the first few miles of their jour- ney up the home rivers to live upon their own spare adipose tissue and to take in artificial flies only for amuse- ment or as curiosities. They may be seen lying in the pools at the bottom of waterfalls, wong with the salmon. They spring up the cas- cades as the big fish do. Occasionally they annoy the salmon fishermen by rising to his fly, and by their vigorous fighting when hooked, they disturb the royal fish and prevent their biting. But it is seldom the trout- are seen singly. They are nearly always in pairs, or there may be two or three fe- males to one male. Where are trout are to be seen gayly leaping out of the water after food it will be found that they are not from the sea, though some of these more digni- fied, fat fellows may be near by. Why some in the same stream should go to sea and others should stay at home is one of those things which have not yet been made clear to us. American trout, or trout hatched from America ova, invariably seek the sea when placed in British waters, and very often fail to return at all. From this it has been argued that our native trout is naturally a seagoer when found in waters contiguous to the sea. The present duke of Argyl, once gov- ernor general of Canada, has made re- peated efforts to stock his streams with the American fish, but {s assured by his game-keepers that this he will never accomplish until he has discovered some plan of inducing the fish to either stay at home, or, at least, to return from the sea to the streams wherein they have been placed, to spawn in the spring. Probably it is the length of the jour- ney down our great rivers which de- ters any of our trout from going, as does the salmon, to the ocean after spawning. Joe De Champ, a backwoodsman, liv- ing in the Thief River falls region, in northern Minnesota, has lately been en- ged in removing the remains of In- | dians from their graves in the lands soon to be opened to settlement. The bodies he reburied in places outside the ceded lands, says a gilnpeapolis re- port. - Among the stories of his experiences in the former cemetery of the aborigines is one regarding the finding of several perfectly petrified bodies and the un- canny feeling which one has when he listens to the account is intensified at the end when it is repeated that one of the petrified aborigines was used as a@ hitching post, while another served as a cigar sign. Eight men worked with Joe digging for the bodies of the dead Indians. Joe receives $14.50 for each corpse from the government; therefore, he is ex- ceedingly industrious. The moon- beams, filtering through the branches of the pines, shone down on Joe one night as he labored with pick and spade. About him the razed fence that had been built about the final resting place of the tribal leader formed a decorative festoon. Dig. dig, dig, stopping only to wipe the perspiration from his brow, Joe labored on, He heard not the croak- ing of the frogs in the pond near by, nor paid any attention to the echo- ing calls of the animals that roamed abroad in their nocturnal search for food. Encoutering what appeared to be a stone, Joe laid aside his shovel, mopped his swarthy face, and then set to work with a pick. Joe isa callous man, used to looking composedly on grinning skulls and heaps of bones, but when he saw there, in the uncertain light, the grim countenance of a real red man, sticking up in the hole he had made; he fled for his assistants, aroused them from their sleep, and enlisted their serv- ices in calming his perturbed mind and in completing the removal of the body. Finally the report reached the Chip- pewa village and thep there was more trouble for De Champ, who had various heart-to-heart talks with inquiring red people. The upshot of it all was that the clear sign and the hitching-post have heen de- cently burled—if, indeed, the bodies were ever used for that purpose. It was almost perfectly preserved and was removed from its shallow grave ( with difficulty. Near by another body : was encountered in the same condition, and the two were laid aside while the work of removing the other mortal re- mains : progressed. It so happened that De Champ Is a great joker, and when the story of the petrified Indian and the aboriginal hitching post got around, his friends began to ask about his resurrection op- erations with mock seriousness. Altogether, Joe has taken up 113 In- dians. Of the number 26 were of the Catholic faith and were reburied at the agency. The remainder, who were old-time pagans, were taken across the Beltrami county line for burial. The Catholics when taken up were found to be incased in wooden coffins, but those who remained loyal to the old Indian faith were wrapped in pitch bark, Thus far only the two petrified bodies have been found. EEE OE Ne Es BRIGHT GIRL AT THE ZOO. She Knew What She Knew and Fur- thermore Proved That She Did. : On their way to the elephant house a writer in St. James’ Budget says Ethel halted abruptly. “I'd nearly forgotten!” she ex- claimed. “I must get some buns for the rhinoceros.” : “The rhinoceros doesn’t eat buns,” said the professor. “He will for me,” said Ethel, con- : fidently. “My dear,” said the professor, with a sage smile, “it is a matter of com- mon knowledge that the rhinoceros, belonging as it does to the odd-toed set of ungulates, has a gnarled skin thickened sv as to form massive plates, which are umited by thinner portions forming flexible joints. Fur- ther, the animal in question, although fierce and savage when roused, is a vegetable feeder. In fact, he may be said to be herbivorous.” “IT don’t care!” said Ethel, defiant- ly. “All animals in the zoo eat buns.” “I can tell you three that don’t,” the professor placidly returned. “Tl bet a shilling you can’t— straight off,” challenged Ethel. “There is the electric eel, the ce~ cropian silk moth and the cocoanut crab,” the professor instanced, promply. So Ethel paid for their tea then and there, and as they were leaving the tea house for the elephant house she Monk of Royal Blood. Brother Karl, of the Benedictine order, who was recently buried at eS WHERE TREES MUST HURRY Speedy Growth Necessary to Keep Ahead of Accumulations on Mississippi Bars. FASTEST OF QUADRUPEDS. The Whippet Can Outrun Any Four- Legged Animal That is j | Known. Research into the origin of the whip pet shows that it is a modern type ol dog, and, considering how good it is in its way, it is a wonder, says Town Top- ies, that it is not more generally known and appreciated. The word is not io Webster’s, nor is it to be found in many encycloped.::. Dalziel failed to trace the etymok : y of the word, but fancied it to be a ; ~~ vincial name expressive of the diminu .-e size as well as the quick | acticn of ticse dogs. The old writers who mention it evidently have in mind a very differ-nt animal from the one as “towheads.” now reen at our bench shows. Halliwell | A tree which grows in such a place; says it is a cross between a spaniel and often has to push up faster than a dry-;| & greyhound, which could not produce land tree would find it possible to do,| the present type. John Taylor says: in order to keep ahead of the ground; “In the shapes and forms of dogges; of for the river at each rise deposits more | all which there are but two sorts that and more sand and silt about its roots. | are useful to man's profits, which two A recent examination of the willow; are the mastiffe and the ‘"‘te curre, trees growing on the Afigelos bar, below whippet or house-dog ~¢ rest are Cairo, Ill, showed that some of them, for pleasure and recreation.” + which were but six feet tall above The me’ern whiprs* is a greyhound ground, had stems 16 feet long under- | crossed w’ : a small terrier, so as to re- ground, reaching down to their roots. duce the sive of the rrogeny. and by se- That represents their growth in their lection the terrier tyr? has been oblit- contest with the river. erated and t>at of t!e greyhound pre- Sometimes when the land on which a| fetved. This cross goes back 60 years or tree stands is overwhelmed by a sin-| more, during which time a record of gle great flood and a deep ceposit is; Some sort has been kept, so that a stud made, the tree adapts itself to the| book exists. But the dog has not been change by putting out new roots near popular in shows, because, being bred the new surface.of the ground, A queer] to race, its appearance is of little conse- result of such an occurrence was a log} quence. which for a long time lay on the head| There ts nothing cruel about dog rac- of Beef Island—Island Number Forty—| ing. and, although it is not known a few miles above Memphis. A gum} 8mong wealthy sportsmen, it is a pop- tree, about 16 inches in diameter, had| War pastime of a large class in tho evidently been overwhelmed and sur- manufacturing districts of England and rounded by a new deposit of earth ten| this country, In England as many feet in depth, It had thereupon put out | 8 500 dogs are entered in one handi- a new set of roots ten fect above the o'd| Cap and a thousand pounds will ones, and continued to grow. When] Change hands on the result. at last the river in another change} The course is usually 200 yards, and swept it entirely away and cast it up the races are run in heats in which on the head of Island Number Forty, the | three dogs compete. The winners of lower trunk was still 16inches indiame-| these trial heats run against each ter, but above the second circle of roots| Other until there are but three left the bole was nearly 30 inches through.| for the final. There are races for The irregular trunk, with its two cir- puppies, maiden races, handicaps and cles of roots, altracted much attention] faces with penalties and allowances from steamboat passengers. It was] The dogs are held at the start and run close by the landing at the head of the] Past the judge to their owners. island, and was the target for many] The whippet is the fastest four- cameras when boats ran in to deliver| le#sed animal, in proportion to its freight or take on a bale of cotton. weight, that is known. A good ono The hurrying growth of the willows] Will run 200 yards in 12 seconds, and cottonwoods is a great boon to the} Which is at the rate of 16 2-3 yards government engineers, for they cut] Per second. A race horse, running at them in huge quantities to weave into] the rate of a mile in 1 minute and mats with wire cables, which, sunk be-| 49 Seconds is covering only 17 3-5 low water-level and ballasted by heavy| Yards per second. The dog weighs stones, form the basis of the “revet- about 20 pounds, and strides about 15 ments” which protect the banks from feet; the average stride of a race horse erosion. is 21 feet. CANNIBALS DIDN'T LIKE HIM|SACRED ISLE OF POOTOO. Take a Taste of a Missionary’s Leg | Ground Whereon the Foot of Woman at His Own Request and Is Never Permitted Let Him Go. to Tread. The waters of the Mississippi are atall times so full of the seeds of plants and trees that wherever the current slack- ens enough to allow them to be depos- ited they germinate, if the water gives them a chance, and send up platts in an incredible number. A sandbar which is left long out of water, says Youth's Companion, is quickly covered with a growth of young willow or cottonwood trees, which shoot up tall and slender, and so close together that they appear | like yellow hair on a man’s head; hence | the sandbars so covered become known A missionary of an adventurous dis-| There is one spot in the whole world position was given an exceedingly diff-| Where woman's feet dare not tread, It cult post on one of the Fiji islands.||s the sacred isle of Pootoo, in the Chu- He was instructed to limit himself to} san archipelago, on which are 80 tem- one island, and not attempt to exend| ples, and for 1,000 years, it is declared, his supramacy, as he would probably|a@ woman has never touched foot on become the star feature of a cannibal] the soil. pate de foie gras or something worse.| Pootoo is barely three miles across, The missionary obeyed instructions for| and its wooded peaks rise to a height awhile, but his zeal for conquest over-| of 1,500 feet, with more than 80 tem- came his prudence, relates an ex-| ples niched in its ravines and valleys, change. He started off in a little boat} perched on its sea fronting cliffs, nestled and went to another island on a tour|at the foot of the hills, and crowning of inspection, He reached the island,| their summits. but before he knew what he was about] There are yellow-tiled, imperial tem- he was in the hands of the cannibals. ples, built and enriched by Emperor Luckily, he had just recovered from an} Kienlung, and these golden roofs still attack of fever and was thin and ema-/gleam in their neglect and decay ciated, The shrewd cannibals declined] among sacred groves of trees that are to kill him immediately, but gave him] alone enough to make the fame of the the best they had to eat to fatten him|island shrine. up for the festive occasion. Days passed Enormous camphor trees of unknown by until he reaches the stage of per-|age look to be the most venerable of fection, and the chief announced that} their kind, and cedar and ginko (salis- he must prepare himself. Now, the} buria), or maiden-hair-fern trees are as missionary was a rare diplomat, and he| splendid in their development. The started to argue the question. company of priests has dwindled as rev- “Do you know,” he said to the chief, ehues were withdrawn, and pilgrimsare “that I do not believe you will like me| not as many now as a century ago. after you have killed me. I propose| The whole island is sacred ground, that you taste me, and try me, and if you}and no woman may live there, or pre- like me then kill me. If you don’t like] sumably defile it with her presence, but me, it will be a great waste to kilJ| many women pilgrims do set foot on me.” the’ sacred isle and make the round of The chief acquiesced, and the mission-| the neglected tem; les. Even foreign ary rolled up his trousers leg to prepare] women have been there on rare occa- for the knife. The chief carved off aj sions, when an excursion has been ar- generous slice and immediately put it] ranged and-a steamer chartered from into his mouth. . He make a wry face | Shanghai. % and passed the remainder of the morsel ———_— around to his head men. This con- Would Not Be a Mouser. tinued ‘on down the line and all made] Owing to the enormous increase’ in gestures of disgust when they tasted the| the number of fielt mice on the estate food. The chief then nodded sorrow-| Of the chairman of the local school fully to the young missionary and told| board of Negouitz, in Bavaria, that him that his life was saved, as he wae] gentleman gave the school children too poor to eat. The missionary had a cork leg. Where They, Got “Baltimore.” Baltimore, in’ Maryland, gets catch the rodents. On the teacher re- monstrating, he was told that if he were “a decent sort of fellow” grew up about the big house,” and the ivy-covered ruins of the very remark- able big house that was once the stronghold of the O’Driscolls. It ‘s situated upon an imposing height, a World. \ Useless Plunder. Bought some buns. Prague, was of noble blood and had “Now "1 ” she sai a remarkable carcer. As Prince Ed- Bi 6 ‘0 O° | ward Schonbers he was handsome, And so he did. In the elephant and of rare promise. But at houne the rhinceeroe, took. his buns, | 38 & change came over his spirit, and not with the resignation of the cap- one day. he rode straight to the ab- Oe aaa | letom, eae et “ rt ” i) ie 8 Oe ee mission. ‘The head of the order at first the King. refused, but the prince broke his hodt Known as | BTOTS: Snpew Bway his epaulets g26 pernape lag decorations and begged for a monk's charming sone, | habit. He afterward went to Rome, studied theology, 3 remember when I used “mouse holidays” to enable them to he ite] would help the children to trap the name from a small and unostentatiouz| mice. After waiting some days he had fishing village in Ireland. The word) the children’s parents fined for not Baltimore signifies the “village that] sending them to school, with the re- sult that he:was himself prom; derivation is plain when one sees the} dismissed from his vost anion London jeweler recently had a ther- sentinel ovér the numerous little} mometer stolen from his shop, and the and deserted life. From the village of | dividual whotook the thermometer with- Baltimore enormous catches of mack-| Out leave the other day please return the same. He has made a mistake. It can be of no use to him in the piace to which THE FIRST AMERICAN COINS. | They Were Copper Half Cents and Were Issued from the Mint in 1793. The treasurer of the United States on May 6, 1903, redeemed two half cent pieces. This is the first time in the history of the country that such coins have been presented for redemption. | It is more than a century since the first half cent piece was coined, and it is nearly 50 years since the govern- | ment discontinued minting them, says the Gateway Magazine. Possibly not one person in a thou- sand now living in the United States ever saw a half cent piece. The last annual report of the direc- tor of the mint, page 82, shows that 7,895,222 of these coins, representing $39,476.11, were issued. For almost half a century each annual report of the treasury department has included them among the “outstanding” obliga- tions of the government. The half cent piece was the coin of the smallest denomination ever made by this country. It enjuys the distinc- tion also of being the first coin issued and also the first whose denomination was discontinued. The United States mint was established in 1792, and cop- per half cents and cents were issued in 1793. Half the total number of haif cents issued were coined previous to 1810, after which year their coinage. with few exceptions, was limited. None was coined for circulation from 1812 to 1824, nor from 1886 to 1848. Final- ly, in 1857, tneir coinage, with that of the big copper cent, was discontinued. On account of their Imited issue in the last years of their coinage they practically had disappeared from the channels of trade. The needs of adopting the half cent as the lowest value computing factor for a coin were made in the early days of the republic. Colonial half cents and British farthings of the same com- mercial value were then in circula- tion, and many articles were priced and sold in half-cents. With the orog- ress of the nation values rose and the needs for a half cent disappeared, and their use following the first decade of the century was almost entirely con- fined to multiples, While all other discontinued types and denominations of United States coin have found oblivion, the half cent is the only one of which the treasury reports do not record some portion of the issue redeemed. This singular and unexplained fact has been one of fre- quent comment and inquiry from mint and treasury officials. Large stocks of half cents are to be found in the stocks of coin dealers. The most common dates are sold at a& good premium and the extremely rare ones are worth their weight in gold. Farran Zarbe, of St. Louis, was the man who sent the two half cent pieces to Washington for redemption. He now prizes highly the little voucher calling for “one cent” which was sent to him with that amount of current coin in exchange for the two half cent pieces he had forwarded. HARVESTING BUTTERFLIES. Trees Containing Them Are Wound Up in Gauze, Presenting Fes- tive Appearance, Travelers in Berlin visiting the ad- jacent country in the spring are sur- prised to see the trees in the woods gayly dressed in gauze as if for a ball. The gauze, which is put around the short branches, is tied up near the trunk of the tree and is not intended for decorative use, but ts the work of the butterfly harvesters. $ It is well known that many butter- flies are valuable, and unique speci- mens in good condition will bring good prices. In catching a full-fledged but- terfly there is always danger of injur- ing its delicate wings and destroying or lessening its value. To obtain the butterflies in the most satisfactory manner the collectors raise their own caterpillars on nests of leaves they re- pair to the outskirts of Berl, and place the worms on the limbs, where their cocoons, present a peculiar appearance. Home of Bird of Paradise. specimens, and they choose the woods for the grazing ground. With boxes of they will have a sufficient quantity of food of the proper kind and live under natural conditions, The gauze is placed carefully over each limb after a suffi- cient number of the caterpillars have been placed on it, and left to make when the harvest is gathered. Trees dressed in this way Probably no famous bird has a smaller habitat than the bird of paradise, whose beautiful feathers are so highly prized in the milinery trade. No one knows why the varieties of this beautiful bird are confined to the island of New Guinea and the neighboring coasts of Australia. There are many other islands not far away where the conditions would seem to be equally favorable to their exist- ence, but they are not found among Disastrous Wrecks. Careleasness is responsible for many a railway wreck and the same causes are making humaa wrecks of sufferers from throat and larg troubles. 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