Newspapers / The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) / April 19, 1883, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
ill 111 SMITH, HEBANE & WILLIAMSON. COD WILL HELP THOSE WHO TRY TO HELP THEMSELVES. Editors and Pflblishcrs. VOL. III. HALEIGH, X. C, THUKSDAY, APRIL 19, 1883. NO. 8. ECHO. I haunt the woods' Dmp solitude, Wher. the foaming till With winding flow And Toices low, Steal down from the hills; Where the clustered flowers Ob whispering bower. Bang sweet with dew, And the drowsy air Breathe odors rare The summer through. When morning's beam 8teals into dream Of the forest deep, And musie breaks Erem the bird that wake From happy sleep, I repent his song As it floats along Among the trees; My Toice replies And melts and diet In baunonies. And when from afar The evening star, On the solemn night, Looks down from the east, Where the storm has ceased, With holy light; When the measured knell Of the evening bell, From the distant bill, With iret'ow beat, Makes musio sweet, In the darkness still I echo the hour From my rocky tower, Where I watch alone; I slumber deep, But I wake from sleep At the softest tone. When winter piles The forest aisles With drifts of Bnow, And through tlio lines Of roaring pines The ice winds blow, About my eive The tempest rave, Xiike storms at 03, But none can break My walls and take My voice from ms! I fmind uiy birth When heaven and earth Frjm clmon rose; And not till Death Steals Nature's breath My life shall close. Ernest V. Shurtlfgr. WO KINDS OF CHARITY, " It's not only strange, but downright meanness. What's the use of trying to excuse it? Here are the facts: Only a few days i!g the Benevolent society met and Mrs. lienson sub scribed twenty dollars. I was speak ing of her liberality at the close of the meeting; and now we find Iter refusing to pay a fair price to her washwoman and seamstress, the latter having a poor mother and three helpless chil , dren to provide for from her scanty earnings." " Well, Annie, such inconsistencies are far from being infrequent, and the longer you Jive the more you will be Impressed with incongruities found in human nature. Let mo tell you of a lesson I had once, many years ago. "It was a cold day in December, and a keen, rough wind blew the sharp, frozen sleet in my face as I walked with a quick step down one of the streets of our leautiful eitv. Iliad been caught without an umbrella, and when I overtook Mr, Blank, and was Invited to walk under the shelter of his, I to;k his arm, nothing lotlt, I as - 81ire yirttrile Avas an old friend, though his wealth can led him into circles where, as thepon pastor of an humble flock, I should have hardly found ad mittance. After the Drst greetings, he told me that nothing would have tempted him out in such a severe weather but the meeting of the ' be nevolent Association,' of which I think he said he was president. And then be added: You had better go with mo and become a member. There is no estimating the amount of good we are doing in this place.' " When we came to the steps of the old stone church, my attention was arrested by the sound of a child's voice, which was borne to us by the wind, in low, broken sobs. " Curled up under the shelter of the broad, stone arch was a child of seven or eight years, whose dress was such an odd mixture of girls' and boys' costumes that it would have been difficult to guess the sex. "A poor, pinched face, set off by fine, dark eyes, and a profusion of dark hair, which was partly hidd n by the old comforter tied around the head. An old overcoat, patched and worn, a red petticoat partly hiding some black pants, gray stockings and girl's slippers completed the dress of the forlorn little object. "I said: 'Let us see what lithe trouble here, and what we ran do to relieve it.' "Mr. Blank stopped with an Im patient air, and passing a contemptuous glance at the child, wh just thrn looked up and cried out piteously, said: 'Oh, never mind, I have no interest in a thing of this kind. I have to do only with the broad, general principles of humanity.' " When he found I would stop he wrapped his elegant coat close around him, saying carelessly: 'It's all a trick ; these beggars understand their business to perfection. Come, or we shall be late at the society. Do not be misled by your sympathies j with us you can work in your accustomed way. " ' I will not detain you,' I replied, 1 and, if possible, will rejoin you in a few moments.' " ' Very well, sir, If you persist in this I must leave you, for my duties are Imperative, and the wind which sweeps round this corner is terrific;' and, with a stately bow, he hurried on. "I went tip to the child, and asked, perhaps a little thoughtlessly: 'What's I the matter, my little maid or fellow? I am sure I cannot tell which you are.' "The figure straightened up, and before a word was uttered the red iv"..-t was gathered up by the half "rozea hands and hid under the dilapi dated overcoat. "I ain't a girl I'm Willie Hale, and I've iost my way i' and then the mends went up to tho face, and the '.'enuisi'd skirloropped down into sight I i-gain. j ' ''rtl me where you live,' said I, I and t will take you to the street.' ; " I don't live on any street only ; way off by the water, and I can't find toy way back, 'cause the storm comes in my face so.' ! " I took his stiffened fingers in my ! warmly-gloved hands and bent over ; him so as to shut out the blast, bidding ! him cheer up and think of something j which would indicate the-direction of , his home, and I would take him i there. j " Finally, he thought of ' a great big j chimney,' which, ho said, went most . to the sky,' and added, quaintly: If it should ever fall down it would ! bury us up so deep we could never get I out but I haven't told mother of it, I because 'twould worry her, you ! know.' i " 1 drew him closer to me, for he I had touched my heart by his thought I fulness of his mother. I told him I would take him to the big chimney and then he could find his mother's house nimseir. lie Kepi nrm Hold or mv hand as we started off, and said with "a happy look into my face: You can walk fast and I can run, and we will get there quick, won't we?' "Curious looks were cast upon us as we trudged along the slippery street, but we heeded them not, and so much interested did I become in the'dtile fellow that I forgot to leave him when he came to the place he had designated, and the first I knew he wits leading me into a long narrow . itue. and stopped before a miserable Jwel'lng. I followed the child up i some rickety stairs and soon found j :rye;f in the presence of a sick woman I who was propped up in bed, trying to I sew. i " 'I could not find him,' said the cliild, ' and I got lost, and this good man brought me home.' " She looked up wistfully into my f.ice. 'Thank you, sir, for bringing my darling back to me; it's something new for him to go out alone, but I am helpless now.' Sho kept on with her work, though iter hands trembled and her race was covered with tears. " It was a different scene from any I had met with in my short experience or. pastoral me, out my sympathy, ex pressed in words and manner,' soon drew from the p tor woman her story. It camoout by degrees broken in upon by sobbing and weakness. As is often tho case, 'it was not til ways thus.' She had begun life with fair prospects, but after a few years of great happi ness her sorrows commenced with the loss of her husband, by a terrible acci dent, lie ha I always been prudent and Industrious, but when she paid the last cent due on his burial she had scarcely a dollar to help herself with and three children dependent upon her. After she buried iter baby she took the other two, a girl of seven and Willie, who was then four, and came to this city, because she had a brother living here who was sure to help her, if he only knew her necessi ties. A frail hope, as she found. He had acquired wealth and position, and was troubled with . .poor relations. They, luul- had the saiie chance to make tueir way in life that he had, and if they had been careless and im provident he was not going to suffer for them. " 'His wife gave me some sewing to do, but so scanty was the pay I might have starved on it, only for the assist since of my neighbors who, though poor, are very kind. When my little girl died I sent for him again, and he helped me, through tho Benevolent so ciety, with the understanding that I should keep our relationship a secret and let him alone in future. I would not have accepted it,' only to keep my darling girl from being buried publicly by the city.' "She wept during the recital un controllably, and at the close added bit terly: 'I understand that my brother, Howard Blank, has the reputation of being exceedingly generous, and that he is connected with all the benevolent enterprises of the day.' '"Is Howard Blank your brother?" I asked, in great surpris . "'Yes; do you know him?' " 'I thought 1 knew him well, but I find there is a wide difference between reputation and character. With your permission I shall see him, and try and influence him to do something for you. Perhaps I can touch his pride, if not his heart.' " 'It will be of no use, said she; ' lie will say I have broken my word in telling you; but you were so kind, and I so desolate, that I opened my whole heart to you.' "I promised to be tareful of her secret, and to tee her again before night. "I went directly home and told your mother all but the circumstances connected with the brother. Her kind heart was instantly aroused, and while I was talking she began to gather up different things which might be needed! in the. sick-room. In less than two hours there was a cheerful tire in that attic room, the bed was comfortably arranged, Mrs. Halo was well cared for, and Willie had dined like a prince. ' Toward night I took my way in the still-Increasing storm to the house of Mr. Blank. I confess my h art rather misgave me when I remembered this particular case was not humanity in general.' I accused myself of un charitableness in judging my friend, ami brought to mind the old adage: ' There are always two sides to a story.' In my eagerness to exculpate him I began to doubt the word of the poor woman, "I found him surrounded with every luxury. He gave ine a Cardial reception, but when my errand wai made known his manner changed. It was long before I could make any im pression upon him. He a if ecU d to believe their suffering feigned, b xause Mrs. Hale had refused to take anv more work from his wife. I told the reason, wnen he replied : lou liavj been an easy dupe to a designing w man. Hero is ten dollars, which I give under protest, knowing it will be foolishly squandered. And now, my good sir, please never mention th'a ! subject to me again, or I shall be obliged to drop an acquaintance that I have always found exceedingly agree able.' "Perhaps I said a little more to him than became a poor minister, but as 1 looked around upon his magnificent drawing-rooms I could not help think ing that were it not for the publicity of his donations they would be with held, and that his published contribu tions did not proceed from a generous heart, but from a contemptible desire for popularity and fame. And I did what is not alwavs wiso. .nb. mv rim..,ri,t. ni,i ' 1 ' uvuiuiLuniurc giaYCiy Willi 1 Has taking upon myself 'one of the pre - nnH,'aa tl,r... TT1I. ...I.. 1 l ITa l.Amin.ln.1 mn .. . 1 .. 1 . T . . Afctti.nto in UID JUUrtfc ingu wneii 1 he bowed me out in the most self-pos- sesseti manner. 1 lost inv position soon after through his influence, and ' since then our ways in life have sel- j dom crossed. i "Mrs. Hale recovered soon, thanks to careful nursing and the effect of careful food. Several became interest ed in her, and as soon as she regained her strength they put her in the way of earning enough to support herself and Willie. She gave him a good edu cation, and he has done a great deal for himself, and is to-day one of the most promising young men of my ac quaintance. That is only one of many instances which have come under my observation throuch mv lonir and varied experience. To be just to hu man nature, I think this a little the worst, or else I became familiarized with inconsistencies and they did not make so deep an impression upon me. remaps you will judge Mrs. Ben son more leniently when I tell you she has but carried out the result of her early training, for you know she is Judge Hadley's daughter, andheisthe Mr. Blank who figured in my story. And, Annie, perhaps there will be no better timo for me to talk with you on tho subject which has given me no little anxiety. Within the past week two young men havo called on me, seeking my permission to win to them selves my heart's bLst treasure, my only daughter. Annie, darling, will you show mo your heart, that I may know how to answer them?" No words came from tho restless little Iflgure, who had suddenly found so much to be done in the other part of the room. Every book had been dusted twice ovir, and still she lin gered, with her face turned from her father. "I am waiting, Annie." "Well, papa," under her breath. " Come here, darling, where I can see your lace; who knows how long tney win let me have y u with me; n i7; , ,7i V i ' "". one is neb, educated a. id excp din"lv I I..- rr , I.. ' n ' I ' Vliitl I full vaii f mi 'J VI', .11 lpiuiii. no mis no pruicsion or business, and you would think he j would never need any, ai h is an only ' s;m ; but if by some su Men stroke of fortune his father's winlth should be ! swept away, the young man, with his j dainty and expensive habits, would J find it difficult to tako cire of I himself, and, much more, a wifi set myself up to judge the motives 1 s Bllm."s which "had actuated him.' I cauno ' V'ohn consequently this branch say who had the last word, but I know of c'lllnI'y be earned I never felt so angry in my life as I 0"! h- " 7 xt'r did when I stepped from his door, and x- . JT"' , 8:1 1 Ml; Tunier' a Paul Hadlcy is in love, or thinks lie is, I the purpose of traveling a short dis with Annie's prettvface and eiuramnir tancc. He had no money -a fact manners, l tie present prospects are that she would have an elegant home, every luxury that wealth can bestow, and, while her beauty lasts, a portion of her husband's heart. William Benson you have known all your life. Ho has just finished his profession, and has his way to make in the world. And he will do it, for he has true courage and perseverance, correct habits and a high aim. He may never lie rich, as things are counted here, and his wife will have to take her share of the burdens of life, but she will have a husband of whom any woman might be proud, and his heart, tender and true, will be all her own. It so happened that the two chose tho same hour to visit nio. William came in first, but was hardly seated w hen Hadlcy was announced. They merely exchanged bows, though I know they must have known each other at school. Hadlcy said his business was urgent, and asked to see me alone a few mo ments. I confess his errand took me by surprise, for I l.a I only thought of my home pet as a child, while others havo found out, it seems, that she is a beautiful young lady. When we entered tho parlor again I said: 'Per haps you two gentlemen don't know you are cousins.' John Hadley threw up his head contemptuously and re plied: ' You must be mistaken. Judge Hadley is my father, you know.' " ' Yes,' said I, 'and Mrs. Benson is his own sister ; you must thank me for giving you an aunt and cousin who stand so high with the best people of our city. "He muttered something and was gone. William looked chagrined, but I told him 'twas time his secret was divulged, and there was no chance of being accused of having mercenary motives now. " You must have guessed that he is the Willie Hale Benson of whom you have heard. As soon as you cai, give me an answer for them both, for ac cording to their own accounts they will suffer untold agonies while they are kept in suspense. As to your choice in this matter, I trust you per fectly. There, I didn't tell you a mo ment too soon j for here comes Wil liam j Will you stay and give your own answer?" " Oh, no, papa, dear." She put her face close to his. "You can tell Willie I liko him, just a little, and but don't tell him this, I wish he was rich, for , wealth and ease look verv t.imntina" As she made her exit she heard her father say. "Inconsistency." But her heart was light and happy. Making Fiddle Stria?.-- The name "catgut," as applied to the animal-fiber strings used on musi cal instruments, is altogether a mis nomer. The cat is in no wise respon sible for the string, and, much as the fact is to be deplored, tho manufac turers of such strings r fuse to utilize cats for the supply it "iheir material. Aminadab Sleek, amended to accuracy, should speak of "they who scrape the hair of the horse upon the bowels of the lamb" not the "bowels of the cat." Violin, guitar and banjo strings, and in fact all sorts that come under the general head of "gut," are made tu",l""" r lH oi i um ami caute, from the entrails of lambs irom the ilelieate threads used for sewing racket ball covers up to the I ...lf i,7,.l, l ' ' , ' IdlllO IS thick round belts. After a seven months old its entrails an porter, "have any idea of the many uses to which gut strings are now put. They are used to hold up clock weights, for belting, for the laoini on lawn tennis and racket balls, for la crosse scoops, for weaving fine whip covers, for jewelers' drills, and for it thousand things. I suppose, that even I do not know of. Anglers' leaders or snells ? Xo, not at all, although most people have an idea that these are made of gut. That material would never do for such a purpose. It would get soft in tho water in a few minutes and the fish would eat it olf. In fait, I don't know but what it would be a good bait. Most so-called ' gut' lead ers are made from silk and the best from a marine plant. "All tho work of making gut strings is about the same, but greater care lias to be exercised in preparing those intended for musical instruments than others. The process of manufac turing those is comparatively simple, but far from easy. When the entrails, for which a good price lias to be paid, are thoroughly cleaned, they are split with a razor. Only one half is fit for use in violin strings. That is the upper or smooth half. The lower half is fatty, rough, and of unequal thickness. Tho strips are put through rollers turned by hand for eight or nine days, to tako all the stretch out of them. Then they are spun, or twisted. Five or six strands go to make an E string, eight or nine an A string, and twenty are put into a D string. Then they go through a bleaching bath of sulphur fumes. After that they are twisted again. Then they are softenod in pearlash water, again subjected to the action of the sulphur fumes, twisted again, dried, and finally rubbed down smooth with pumice stone. Alto gether it takes ten or eleven days to make a string. When done they are seventy-two inches long four lengths for a violin and thirty of them coiled make up . 4 . 1 the 'bundle' of the trade." ami Favored tho ria'nlilT. An Arkansas man who was ejected from a railroad ear shortly afterward brought suit for damages, and after a long and interesting hearing of the case the judge delivered the following eharire to the jury: The plaintiff boarded Hit. train for which ho frankly confessed. There was plenty of room in the cai, so the I Ltintiff was in no one's way. The train was in the habit of traveling the roadin fact, it Ins to go along there. 'I h train would have to.arrive at its destination just as soon if the plaintiff bad not been on board. The machin ery would not have been worn any more by hauling the plaintiff. The president of tho road would not have been In the least injured. And now, in view of all these facts that tho train had to go any way, that there was plenty of room in tho car, and that the train would not have been in jured by the plaintiff I charge you to bring in a heavy judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and then, as a healthful example to all parties concerned, tho conductor be sent to jail for six months, and also that the clerk of this court furnish the president of the road with an account of these proceedings, together with an opinion that he, the president, don't live far enough up the creek to tramp on the coat-tail of this court. Chief or the Cattle Thieves. John Kinney, leadi r of all the New Mexico rustlers and the man who has proven such a terror to the cattle iuterests of the Territory, is about thirty-two years of age, live feet seven inches in height, stout, rather bloated, weighs 1G5 pounds, florid complexion, light brown hair, blue eyes, fud, round face and light moustache. He is a braggart, taiks loud, drinks hard, lacks prudcii'v, bus killed two men, brags of killi g others, h. bold, but lacks nerve. He isbTevfd to be an Irishman. Kinney has been operating in Southern N'ew Mexico, Texas and old Mexico for three years. He was formerly a soldier in the Eighth Uni'.ed State cavalry. He has a ranch in a cotton wood grove south of Bincon, where he has spent most ''fhis time since leaving the army, luit-.hering and shipping stolen eatll". Kiuney is a sort of major-general, having.oniraand ovei all the rustlers. civ j.uin. iimiiuiacuirer. io a isiui re- A PECULIAR COMMUNITY. A PBEE KEPOELIC WITHIN THE BOR DERS OF LK-iaiASA. A ,1tn! r lli'i"''iit f I'i.Urrni:' i Iilinii n Yi'otiiiittn It Jl .mil C.-itlit. p. olisimi in I'e !' For years past most r.-inarkablc re ports about a Malay settlement at the mouth of a small bayou running into Lake Borgne on tho extreme southern limit !iave been in circulation. Tales which would have furnished material for many volumes of sensational liter ature have been twice told about this peculiar spot, until the passage of tims and the absence of accurate detail con cerning this terra incognita gave to them the corroboration of general ac quie cenee, and St. Malo was regarded by those who hear 1 of the settlement as akin to the buccaneers' resorts of the Caribbean sra, or the mysterious n treats of th smugglers of, the Span is'i main. It is tiu", now and again some indefatigable amateur hunter or fisherman would stray into Its neigh borliood.but they never remained long, and their short visits served rather to heighten the co'.or of pie-t rumors than to tone them down to the na'ter-of fa 't standard of to-dav. All that was definitely known was that many years ago a number of na tives of Manila, one of the Philippine islands, north of Java, had established themselves in a village on a piece of land in the sea marsh of Louisiana, near 'a -bayou, and there with miles and mill's of nulling rushes and retds between them and civilization had built up an autonomy of their own, holding allegiance to no power or po tentate, and, though within the geo graphi' al boundary of our State and the 1'nited Sta'es, yet beyond tho reach of ils laws. A stern and rigidly enfercol ft.itule of the colony was that of complete exclusion of the fe mal ' six, and many were the ghastly traditi ns of tho enforcement of this ordinance. According to the whispered story, shortly after the settlement was made, and the small-eyed natives of the l'n ( d ie begun to thrive with their fishery, one of tin ir number, following the ex ample of the average American citi zen, as well as the dictates of a seini Mongoiian tast". carried thither a wife, and establishi d her at the le ad of his little household. Within a lew months afterward unplcaunt r.'ports began to spread in the village, at first against the chief, and then against thesina'le t and most insignifi 'ant fisher's assistant there, (iossip, with her idle tongue, invoked private enmity w here brother ly love existed before, and old friends found themselves separated by somo nia'i;ning slanderer. Tends were created. Th" crease and tho knifo were resorted to, and th ' peaceful St. Malo threatened to 1 ecome a place of sickening deeds. The o'd t heads gathered together and discussed this unlooked-fer change in tho affairs of their microcosm. The logic of facts, by a very simple induction, pointed to the woman as the cause, and her fate was sealed. Traditions i Terns to the means taken to bring about the d sired result. One has it that she was tiel out in the mar-lies to a stake for the mosquitoes 1 1 suck out her life-blood; anoth-r tells of the short shrift of a knife and a severing of the bloody limbs from the headless trunk. It matters little w hich may be true, the result r mainid, and woman n'vr more s t eyes on St. .V.a'o. Tho fishing is conducted by com panies, each of which is composed of a captain and four er five men. The captain is generally the owner or the seine. They start out. in line weather down the shore of Lake Borgne and haul the seine until a sufficient quan tity is caught to till their cars. AH return to St. Malo, wdiere the fish are bunched and sold to luggers which ply between that point and New Orleans. The first share go 'S to the seine, and then all take share and share aliko of the proceeds. Each man, when lucky, clears between $15 and $18 per week. They do not care for the cold, and work winter and summer, although summer Is the best fishing season. The men live on rice, lisli and beans, anil oie e a week they get meat. They are all con tented without wives, and seldom have trouble with one am ther. When they first came they built their houses with latanier (palmetto) leaves and with straw from the marsh; now they are built of cypress. Xo such thing es a warrant of a court, a tax bill, a lawyer, a doctor er an election is known there. Their only judges to settle their disputes are arbi trators selected by those who dispute the property in a skiff, a hunch of fish or a pirogue. When a man gets drunk on liquor brought on the luggers fro.n tho city,, and he g ,ts no sy, lie is imme diately t iken down to a hMi car.which Is simply a large skiff, some ten feet long, decked over with open scams about an inch in width, so that when It is afloat the water will flow through it to keep the fish alive. The drunken man is put in tho fish ear, the sliding door on top is closed and a peg inserted. He is then safe. If he becomes too obstreperous the car is pushed out into the water until it is half filled, the cold bath effectually quitting the ardor of he prisoner.--New Orleans Times. Trials of every kind may await you, sterner and darker than any yet ex perienced. Do not anticipate them, but do not forget their possibility. Do not. as you prize your own soul, forget that your strength for every conflict depends on your being girded for e ich as it o imes, and n?ver b:dng careless or weary. The postal money orders in the conn" try last rear aggrega t e 1 f 1 20.000,000, of which ft),500,000 were on foreign acj pount. The net profit to the govern ment was $105,020. President Arthur and one brother. has five sisters SCIENTIFIC AND IMHSTRIAl. Baron Xordenskjoid is to undertake an Arctic expedition to Xorth Green land this ye - Tennes-i manufacturing establishment,.,, operating a capital of ;:2'ViUJ,b45, and employing 22,445 hands. The largest pump works in the world are at Senesa Palls, X. Y Two hundred and sixty hands are em ployed. M. Janssen lias found the high desert plateaux t Algeria to lia'u u atmosphere s re oartaibiy cleat thai the moons of Jupittr are visible to the naked eye. A deep, brilliant biack upon iron or steel may be produced by applying with a line hair brush a mixture of turpentine and sulphur previously boiled together. The Wisconsin leisYatuifc ha passed a bill which provides that al. goods manufactured by convict labor shall be distinctly marktd a? such be fore being put upon the market. Ibre is a li nt by Dr. O. Boeck which may be of indiisi.'ial value. J! potato's arc pce'.fl ami treated wi'n eight parts sulphuric acid and 101 1 parts of wa er, and thtn dried and pressed, a mass is o dained very UK- celluloid, an I which can be used in stead of in.', r .eiiauiii or ivory. It i not stated whether the iuvt utiun i protected by a patent or not. i Professor U 'insch thus gives the re 1 suits of his resean h s regarding th manner in which coal has be n forme i 1 He had evaminid with the microscopt not less than 2.00J sec. ions of eo:ii and had tome to the conclusion tli i co;d ha I not been forni-d by the alter ; , tion of accumulated land plants, bti that it consisted of micro.!, opic forms of a lower rder of i rotoplasm, and although he had car 'fully examine, the ells and other r 'mains of plan of a higher order, he computed tie. they have contributed only a fraetio. of the mass of coal veins, however nu merous th -y may have been in some : instances. l'acillc Coast Sal num. Mr, Lelioy J. (Jates, of Eureka, ' Humboldt bay, on the Pacific coast, ! states in a comuiuuication to the San ! Francis; o E.nmin thatllie valuable ! salmon wid virtually become extinct if the can -os of tiie diminuitioi: are ; not remedied. The reason ot rate great ! falling off in the she'; of salmon in the rivers Mr. dates states as follows: By a resort, to relays of help the seines j are kept running night and day, and i the streams nr.! swept from bank to j bank as rapidly as possible, when the fish are suiliciently plentiful to make it pay even tho expanse of running. : This is continued without rest except ; for a limited period on Sunday. Such fish as escape the first s 'in s are apt to get picked up at fishing grounds above, or are followed up the stream to their spawning grounds and cap tured there. The fishermen generally provide themselves with a line meshed net for the young salmon and a large meshed one for the grow n fish. The average catch of young salmon on Eel river, at the best period of the running season, lias been known to reach the enormous number of 20,'.n0 a day. Sturgeon are fed to lu gs, given away and even thrown away. The fisher men do not want them in the river to bother the seining, and are clean ing the river of them as fast as possible. Besides this, it is known that a large number of Chinamen are engage I along the coast south of the Columbia river in netting and can ning the small Jislie--, upon which the salmon are dependent for their subsist ence. These young and small fish, including young salmon, move along the shores in schools, and by means of fine-meshed seines and nets are caught by the millions and canned and mar keted. This system of robbing the salmon of its food threatens to de prive the people of the Pacific coast of a most valuable ami favorite fish. The salmon were s abundant in the streams of Xew Brunswick and Maine at one time that the lish did not bring a dime apiece. The reckless practices were permitted to go on there till the fish became so scarce as to bring the enormous price of a dollar a pound. Finally a law was put in force in Xew Brunswick which prohibited the sein ing of salmon, with severe penalties, and the result is that the supply of salmon in the river is again large. Catching the Eye of the Speaker. The order of morning business (says ! Ben Perley Poore, in writing in the 1 Century of Congress and the "Capitol j at Washington,") is unintelligible to ; strangers, and is merely the successive j recognition by the speaker of those j members who have obtained from him j a promise that they can have the j floor. In keeping these promises the speaker often pays no heed to members in the front s-ats who are ' endeavoring to attract his attention by cries of " Mister Speaker I" in every note in the gamut, accompanied by frantic gesticulations, and "recog nizes" some quiet person beyond them. " I have been a member of the House three successive sessions," said an in dignant Tennessean who had vainly tried to obtain the, floor, " and during that time I have caught the measles, the whooping-cough and theinflueu.a, but I have never been abie to catch the speaker's eye." She Didn't Give Anythirg. "Madame," the missionary began, as he lifted his hat at the front door, " I am soliciting for home charities. We have hundreds of poor, ragged and vicious children like those at your gate and our object is " " Sir I those are my own children ' A., .1 1L.. .1-... ' sue ii'ierro t, to, aim ino nay mat front door slammed his toes jarred every hair on his scalp-lock. Fret "re. ! THE CHIMNEY'S SONO. Ore- 'I e chimney the uiirlit wiiulsnnjr And the chanted melodj uo one knew; t .o woman stopped as her bibe she to sel, And thought of the one rl.e had long since tot, And said, as her teartlropa hack she forced " I hate the wind in the chimney." Over the chimney the night wind sang, And chmred a melody no one knew; And the childrto said, ns they closer drew, " 'Tis some whcli that U cleaving the black night throagh 'Tis s fairy that justrhen blew, Aud we fear the winuNai the chimney." IHer the chimney the nij,'t wind sang, And chanted u melody no one knew; Aud the man, as he sat on his hearth below, Said to himself: " It will surely snow, And fuel is dene and wa.'es low And I'll stop the leak in the chimney." Over the chimney thatiir,lit wind sing, And chanted a melody no one knew; But the poet listened and smiled, for he Was man, womin and cliild all ttiree, And he said, " It's God's own harmony. The wind that sings in the chimney." Hret Harte. HUMOR OF THE DAY. If you don't want to loss your gun, never let it go off. Voti can't well sell your eyes, but you can often lend an car to a good purpose. A bonnet coverel with birds does not sing, but the fellow win has to pay for it whistles when the bill comes in. Xew York Commercial. Some of the old railroad men are thinking of a process to paralyze and petrify tramps so that they can be used as cross ten.--Pictiyune. The orator remarked, " What lias this country to expect after the Forty seventh C ingress y and a hoarse whis per from tie gallery responded, "The forty-eighth." When a man and h s wife engaged in a debate the other night and the dog g.t up and scratched to be let out of the room, they concluded that it was time to stop the discussion. Did you ever shake bands with a beautiful girl about twenty years of age, who, instead of letting her hand lie in yours like a sick lish, gave you a good, hearty grasp? If you have, you know what solid comfort is. lloeluder Express. Fashionable young club men of Xew York, sans aims and sans br,ains, who ape the British snob in their dress, are , called " dudes." We do not see much economy in the new name. The old titl", "idiots," contains only one nioro letter. Norr blown II end' I. There was a man lie had a clock, His name whs Miutlu'w Mciirs ; lie wound it re.nlar every day For four and twenty yt :vs. At last his precious timepiece proved An eight -day clock to be. And n madder man than Mr. Mears You'd never wi:-li to see. A man uptown made a wager with a lady that he could thread a needle quicker than she could sharpen a lead pencil. The man won time, fourteen minutes and forty seconds. It is thought the result would have been different if the wo nau had not run out of lead pencil inside of five min utes, Iforristoim lhmld. A man was quietly munching on a piece of pie in a saloon, Friday morn ing, when a look of distress suddenly displaced the serene expression op is face. Taking something from be tween his teeth, an I looking at it, lie cried to the waiter, "lb re you, there's a stone I found in this pie 1" Tin waiter took it, glanced at it critically, and handing it back, briefly said: "It's t ! good to us ; you can have it." Ih'ihuri News. "And what, in the name of good ness, is this?' asked Mrs. David Davis, as the senat 'i' lugged something into the room and dropped it at her feet. " This is my shirt, darling, and i will be greatly obliged if you w ill sew on a button for me." "David Davis," said the lady, sternly, "when you bring nie your shirt 1 will sew on a button for you, with pleasure, as becomes a loud and dutiful wife; but just now, sir, I must insist upon your removing this circus-canvas from my apartment." Cincinnati Enquirer. A remarkable woman: Dr. Abe: ncthy, the celebrated physician, was never nioro displeased than by hearing i patient detail a long acvouGt of .roubles. A woman, knowing Aber nethy's love of the laconic, having burned her hand, called at bis house. Showing him her hand, she said : " A burn." " A poultice," quietly answered the learned doctor. The next day she returned and said: " Better." " Con tinue the poultice," replied Dr. A. In a week she mad ) her bust call and her speech was lengthened to three words: "Well, your feaV" "Nothing," said the physician; "you arc the most sen sible woman I ever saw." Harper's Bazar. Youthful Suicides. Becently a writer, making some general observations upon French s (fairs, remarked upon the number of children, of the ae of twelve and un der, that annually commit suicide in Paris. The writer speculated upon tho motive that cotihi have induced the little unfortunat s to co iimit the act. But youthful suicides a'-c to be found in (ho United States, also. If statistics were taken, tho result would probably be discovered to be startling. Shame and fear have sometimes been the motives, mingled, perhaps, ith feelings of indignation. Thus chil dren, aid particularly boys who had received or who expected to receive severe corpor.tl punishment, are fre quently found to exhibit little or no hesitation ir compassing their own death YVe annot, suy that the evil is on 1 he increase in the l.'nited Stares, but it certainly does not seem to be de r-ing. New York TeUgram. .1 ft: f: Ir t: fi ' - 1 i ' r, rt i !: -V. if
The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 19, 1883, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75