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X MT official capacity as Master Fish
Warden of the state, accompanied by
Henry O'Malley. United States Fish
Commissioner for Oregon, and Mr. H. L.
Kelly, United States Fish Culturist, I
made a trip to Wedderburn, Curry Coun
ty, Oregon, to visit the private hatchery
and feeding plant of R. D. Hume; my
desire being to learn all I could relative
to the feeding and rearing of young sal
mon, until such time as they were largo
enough to protect themselves against
their natural enemies before being plant
ed. Mr. Hume has been actively engaged in
the salmon industry for the past SO years,
both as a canner and in the propagation
of salmon, and is considered by eminent
authorities to be the best-posted man in
the Pacific Northwest in this work. In
fact, he is often referred to as the "Sal
mon King of Oregon."
Our trip was a most hazardous one, as
Children the Best
Know What Stories They Like
ARB the boys and girls who draw
books from our school libraries
and from our public libraries de
vouring the good and bad when they
can get it capable of sane criticism?
Kate Doqglas Wiggin, who created "Re
becca," says of children's opinions upon
books: "Well nigh infallible, a public not
to be bribed, not to be entreated, not
to be overawed."
C. G. Leland. superintendent of libraries
. under the New fork City Board of Edu
cation, asked that the children send In
to their teachers their opinions concern
ing their favorite books and their rea
sons for liking them. As a result Mr.
1. eland says "Take them all In all I be
lieve the boys and girls are the sanest
critics and the most reliable."
One of the librarians in the public li
braries who has had observation of chil
dren's literature says that she Is deter
mined to read over some of the books
that a certain class of children seem to
admire in order fo find out why these
books are popular. "Now, for instance,"
said she. "take the Elsie books. I am
Inclined to think that many children are
not responsible critics simply because
they like that sort of thing. Unnatural
and exaggerated sentimentality giving
false ideas of life and esoecially false
notions of the child's relation to adults!"
A teacher in a public Bchool of the
olden time, in speaking of the effect of
reading upon children, tells this story
of the influence upon one of the girls of
the Elsie books. "This child, as far as I
could see. was very good in school. I
never had to correct her, but at the
end of the day she always 'reported her
self (that was the abominable rule in
those days) as having communicated a
number of times. Her reports when sent
home worried her mother very much in-
deed. Finally she questioned the child
about her conduct in school, and what
do you suppose she found out? This too
conscientious young miss, for fear of for
getting one or tw5 nods of the head or
an answer given off hand to her seat
neighbor, would add two or three marks
to those she could account for. The ex
treme goodness of Elsie Dinsmore, had
permeated her entire life."
In the New York City public school
libraries and in the children's rooms of
the public libraries the Elsie Dinsmore
books and the works of Alger. Castle
man and Oliver Optic are being grad
ually eliminated. When the copies which
were a part of the former system are
worn out they are not replaced.
The following criticisms made by boys
and girls who have read some of this
literature will show Just why these books
are being replaced.
"Elsie Dinsmore was very religious and
her father was not." says one. Then
this young reader goes on to tell of the
refusal of Elsie to play the piano on
Minday, even though her father made
her sit on the piano stool until she fell
off. As a climax to the thrilling tales of
the cruelty of the father toward Elsie tho
reviewer says: "All the books written
about Elsie show how dearly her father
loved her."
"Elsie Is a very good child and has
very few faults. There are twenty-seven
books in this series, but I have read
only three of them." writes another girl.
The alluring "get rich schemes" in
nw of these books appeal especially
to the East Side boys. "From Tramp
to Millionaire," says one of them, "tells
about a poor boy who became a million
aire. He worked and only earned $5
a week when he was 12 years old. But
he found a purse filled with money and
Jewelry. When he returned It to the
owner she told him to keep it because he
was honest." One dreads to think of
the wornout stocking knees and the ach
ing backs of the small boys, their eyes
peeled for lost purses, should this book
be allowed to circulate generally.
"Only an Irish Boy" impressed another
youthful reader immensely. He relates
the story of this son of the Emerald
Isle and finishes by saying: "And when
he became too old to work he found out
he was a millionaire."
Here Is a "penny thriller" admirer and
this synopsis of the story is given in his
own words, punctuation and spelling. The
title Is "The Murder of Chunder Sen."
Chunder Sen was a Siamese and was
a prince. He thought of the diamonds
his father had so he got them and
smuggled them Into Chicago. He fell in
to the hands of a gambler, his name
was Philip Pauls. Nick Carter the de
tective was sitting in his office when
a telegram came In. This telegram came
from Siam saying that the Prince has
escaped from Siam with a box of dia
monds and described him. saving that he
had an ebony hand. The detective began
to hunt up this man but could not get
him. One day a man was found dead.
The man who was found dead was taken
to his friend. Mr. Pauls. Mr. Pauls paid
all funeral expenses. In the meantime
Nick Carter the great detective had been
looking up for Chunder Sen. Nick Carter
had his assistants looking too. Nick went
to the grave where he was buried He
looked for the hand and it was missing.
A Swedish man took the hand and Nick
went after him. After a good chase
Into an opium Joint Nick followed he
entered and hit the pipe. To his sur
prise he was watching a chinaman lean
ing over the Swede. He was dead. The
aiiuoosed to be chinaman had robbed the
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well as one of the most delightful I have
ever made. This was our itinerary: Ar
Xivlng at West Forks on the main line of
the Southern Pacific, on the morning of
June 10, we were met by the mail car
rier, who had saddle horses ready, and
we started over the Coast Range Moun
tains, on a rough trail, for the ocean 90
miles away. The first day we rode " 50
miles through the prettiest section of
country, I believe, in the state, although
so sparsely settled that the Inhabitants
get lonesome, and are pleased to see a j
stranger or a neignDor at any time, me
last 30 miles of the trip is made on a
gasoline launch, the Grayling, which car
ries the mail, during low water stage,
down the Rogue River from a place called
Agulss to Wedderburn, making the round
trip in two days. When we arrived at
Wedderburn, Mr. Hume was on hand, I
having notified him when to expect us,
and did' everything in his power to make
our visit pleasant, as well as profitable.
We first inspected his hatchery, which
Critics of Books
and Can Give Reasons for It.
hand and killed both Chunder Sen and
the Swede by a needle with poison lately
Invented in France.
What chance have the mysteries of al
gebra, the dates in history, spelling and
otlter unimportant details when they have
to divide the honors with Nick Carter?
Here's the story of "The Messenger
Telegram Boy."
There was once a telegram boy who
earned only enough to support his mother.
One day he had to go to New York with
a telegram. On his way he fell Into an
accident. He was Just crossing a bridge
when it was broken down. At the same
time a carriage was crossing. The horses
got frightened and Jumped over with a
lady and girl In the carriage. The lady
was crying that some one should save her
child. Harry Jumped over and saved the
child. About a year later Harry and the
girl met. The girl said that her father
said she should marry him for the brav
ery. Then about a month later they were
married.
That these books do not lead in popu
larity is shown by votes cast for favorite
books by children in whose schools there
are libraries. As a result this list was
made up:
1.
Little Women (Alcott).
Sara Crewe (Burnett.
Uncle Tom's Cahin (Stowe).
Black Beauty (Sewell).
Bird's Christmas Carol (Wlgain).
Robinson Criieo (Defoe).
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wig-
2.
8.
4.
5.
6.
7.
gin).
8.
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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
10.
17.
18.
1.
SO.
21.
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23.
bour).
24.
Old Fashioned Girl (Alcott).
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Evangeline (Longfellow).
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll.
Little Lord Fauntleroy. (Burnett).
Little Men (Alcott).
Revolutionary Maid (Planehard).
Five Little Peppers' (Sidney).
John Halifax (Mulcck).
Bow of Orange Ribbon (Barr).
Tnder the Lilacs (Alcott).
David Copr-erfleld (Dickens).
Hope Benham (Perry).
Trinity Bells (Barr).
Eight Cousins (Alcott).
For the Honor of the School (Bar-
Girl of -76 (Blanchard).
Ivanhoe (Sco
ut).
28. Little Lame Prince (Mulock).
Si. Oliver Twist (Dickens).
28. Ramona (Jackson).
29. Story of Betty (Wells).
30. Anderson's Fairy Tales.
31. Donald and Dorothy (Dcdge).
3'J. Lady of the Lake (Scott).
33. Merchant or Venice (Shakespeare).
X4. Christmas Carol (Dickens).
35. Blue Fairy Book (Lang).
S6. Huckleberry Finn (Twain).
87. Julius Caesar (Shakespeare).
88. Man Without a Country (Hale).
S. Fatty Fairfield (Wells). '
40. Robin Hood (Pyle).
41. Tales From Shakespeare (Lamb).
42. What Katy Did at Schcol (Colerdge).
43. Beautiful Joe' (Saur ders).
44. Gipsy Breyton (Phelps).
45. Jackanapes (Ewlnr).
46. Miss Lochlnvar (Taggart).
47. Search for Andrew Field (Tomlln
son). 48. Wonder Book (Hawthorne).
Shakespeare seems to appeal especially
to children on the East Side. They not
only read and ponder, but they commit
to memory and play the characters.
Seton Thompson, Long, Burroughs or
Kipling do not seem to appeal to the
children. The following review of one of
Long's hooks may explain the reason:
"This book is calculated to interest chil
dren and grown folks too. The grown
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A BILLIARD REVOLUTION THE OVAL TABLE.
Is the oval billiard table the table of the future? That Is the ques
tion that is agitating the minds or cueists at the present moment. The
oval table Is the outcome of the revolt against the "anchor stroke." The
general impression seems to be that the new table, if it comes into gen
eral use will lessen the great gulf frxed between amateurs and profession
als, as Its oval shape precludes the use of many "pretty" and intricate
strokes.
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folks will catch the writer's meaning."
Very often the girls and boys' will pick
up in their homes books lying around
and read them. A girl found "The Mar
riage of William Ashe" and says of it:
"Thus book is by one of our well-known
writers, Mrs. Humphrey Ward. -1 did not
care much for the book as it was very
hard to understand, but I saw the play
and understood It better. The best part
of the book Is the ending because it
Is the most pathetic part." '
Children are Indifferent as to the au
thor of a book. According to one girl,
"Coleridge wrote the famous story called
'Sam Crewe." Coleridge has written a
number of books, and most of them are
Actions."
Marion Crawford has something to
learn about himself from this criticism
of "The Palace of the King;" "One lit
tle thinks when he peruses the pages of
this novel that Marlon Crawford is a
man reared on our Western plains, used
to fighting Indians and acting as a guide
to the United States Government. One
wonders how, reared as he was, he could
write so authentic a story on Spanish
history. In my estimation he would
have greatly excelled in stories of our
Western plains of the Wild West, for
he is rightly called our 'cowboy poet.' "
There is a difference of opinion in the
statements concerning "Uncle Tom's
Cabin." Says one: "Every point in this
book by Mrs. Stowe is a true fact and
Mrs. Stowe must have had much trouble
In gathering the facts tobether," Con
trary minded is this girl: "Perhaps the
one fault of the book 'is that Harriet
Stowe takes one side of the question,
and that is the cruel treatment of the
slaves. Not all of the slaves were cruelly
treated. Some of them were treated as
If they were the slave owner's own chil
dren." The works of Mary Mapes Dodge are
all popular. Perhaps first comes "Hans
Brinker" and next "The Land of Pluck."
One child's opinion Is that ''the stories
in the 'The Land of Pluck' are easy to
understand. The moral which every story
contains Is so easily recognized that im
mediately, whether you want to or not,
you will be on its path. The illustra
tions are so beautiful that they them
selves give an idea of the story. Some
of them are so funny that they make
one laugh afterward If he reminds him
self of them."
Athletics in the public schools have
created a demand for stories of sports.
In all the reviews by the boys it is the
fairness, the evenness of the match and
the Justice pervading the stories that
most Impress them. It is noticeable that
"Tom Brown's School Days" does not
seem to be generally popular, although
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many of the boys read it. The story
of the fight is almost invariably chosen
as the favorite part Captain Charles
King's "Cadet Days" impresses one boy
because he can't lay it down until he
finishes it.
THE ARMY
AND NAVY
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cess in organizing Indians to. serve as
adjuncts to the regular troops, had al
ways been a great friend of the red
men, and they apparently had given
him their confidence. He believed thor
oughly In the possibility of utilizing
them as soldiers. His experiment at
tracted a great deal of attention at the
timo and his murder was a sensation.
Admiral Casey has had a long and
Interesting: career. He was graduated
from the Naval Academy In 1860, and
the next year found Sim serving; oft
Pensacola In engagements with the
Confederate batteries. Ha was execu
tive officer of the Wissahickon on the
southern blockade and in several en
gagements with Fort McAllister. He
was In two attacks on Fort Fisher and
with Du Pont at Charleston. In our
"little war with the heathen," in 1872,
Casey commanded the sailors from the
fleet when, with the marines, they
landed, defeated the Coreans with great
slaughter and captured their forts,
fighting against enormous odds.
,
The famous Porter family, celebrated
through so many years and genera
tions in the naval service, is repre
sented In the Army by Captain Alex
ander Porter, retired, and in the Jfavy
by Lieutenant C. P. Porter and Cap
tain David Porter of the Marines, and
by Captain Theodoric Porter of the
line. Captain Theodoric Porter en
tered the service too late to play a
part in the Civil War, and during the
Spanish War was in command of the
training ship Adams. Captain David
D. - Porter of the Marines entered the
service Just at the outbreak of the
Boxer trouble In China, and was at
once dispatched to Taku. where he re
joined the expedition for the relief of
the legations. Lieutenant C P. Porter
we found to be a building 40x80 feet, con
structed of rough lumber, as all hatchery
buildings are, and fitted up In the usual
salmon hatchery style, there being five
levels of troughs and room enough to ac
commodate 7,000.000 eggs. The troughs
used are 8 by 12 Inches. 1 feet long. The
hatchery Is merely used to hatch out the
eggs, after which the young fish are
transferred to his feeding ponds, as
shown in the Illustration. These ponds
are built in hard earth, it being a cement
gravel, and so Arranged that they form
a chain, the water being used from one
pond to another, with an independent
supply from a flume into each pond. The
ponds are 10 by 16 feet and 3 feet deep,
containing at all times about two feet of
water.
The, United States Bureau of Fisheries
supplied Mr. Hume with LSOO.OOO Chinook
salmon eggs last December, which were
shipped to him via Portland, thence to
Marshfield by boat, there lying in cold
storage some 25 days, owing to Mr.
Hume s inability to get his boat in over
the bar. hen the eggs finally arrived
at the hatchery they were in bad condi
tion, the packing having dried out and a
portion of them hatched, which caused
fungus to develop, entailing a heavy loss.
At the present time Mr. Hume is feed
ing 1.000.000 young fry. all that is left of
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has been but a short time in the serv
ice. In the Revolution David and Samuel
Porter, brothers, were prisoners in the
Jersey prison ship moored in the Wal
labout. Samuel Porter died in the foul
prison, .but David escaped to fight the
English, and his son was that Captain
David Porter who made his celebrated
cruise in the Pacific in the War of
1812. The Porters have been fixtures
in the Army and Navy ever since the
days of the escape of the first David
Porter from the prison ship, serving
their country always from father to
son as a matter of course. The story
of that Admiral Porter who held the
family post during the Civil War is
a matter of well-known history. It
was the father of Admiral Porter of
the Civil War who put David Glasgow
Farragut Into the naval service. That
was Commander David Porter, whose
father, also a naval officer, had died
In the house of Sailing Master Farra
gut in Louisiana. When David Glas
gow Farragut entered the naval serv
ice he already had a brother there,
William.
Rear-Admiral William H. Emory,
now in command of one of the divis
ions of the big fleet in the Pacific,
is a son of that William H. Emory
whoj as a captain of the Engineer
Corps of the Army, distinguished him
self In California under Commander
Stockton, when that gallant naval offi
cer fought several brilliant engage
ments with a force of mixed Army and
Navy people and accomplished the
"conquest" of that territory along
whose shores Emory recently sailed in
his high command. Afterwards, as
General Emory, the captain of engi
neers made for himself a fine reputa
tion in the Civil War. The Stockton
family is still represented in the Javy
by Rear-Admiral Charles H. Stockton,
and In the Army by descendants
through the female- branches. These
Stocktons are of the old New Jersey
family of that name, the Stocktons of
Morven, the family of "The Signer."
The name has for many generations
been found, as a rule, on either the
Army or Navy list.
Another prominent service family rep
resentative with our big world-girdling
fleet is Captain Alexander Sharpe, In
command of the battleship West Virginia.
He is a nephew of the great General
Grant, also represented In the service
very prominently by his son. General
Fred D. Grant. During the Spanish and
Filipino wars the great General had two
the original 1.800.000 eggs shipped. As this
hatchery Is so close to the sea and salt
water, and so far away from the natural
spawning beds, Mr. Hume has to depend!
on the Oregon Department of Fisheries,
or the United States Bureau of Fisheries,
for his eggs.
The fish he is now feeding are three
months old and are in fine condition.
They are- about three inches long, and
fat, and well able to take care of them
selves against the larger fish. Mr. Hume
has been experimenting In his feeding
operations. In some of the ponds he has
been using a mixed diet of canned salmon
and mush, and in others he has been
feeding straight canned salmon. The fish
fed on the mixed diet were much health
ier than the others. The canned salmon.
used for this food is made of the heads.
roe and welts of the adult fish, and is
considered by Mr. Hume to be so much
better than the liver, which he formerly
used for feeding purposes, that he has
decided to use it exclusively in the future,
mixing it with cornmeal one day and
middlings or shorts the next. Liver feed
ing has always been a problem, owing to
the fact that it is so very costly,- and
sometimes impossible to secure, in quan
tities large enough to depend on. On the
other hand, the salmon food can be
packed at the same time the commercial
salmon is being canned, and at a cost not
to exceed one-third of the cost of liver.
In order to feed 1,000,000 young salmon
successfully, it requires 200 pounds of
food per day, and the constant care of at
least three men.
The supply of water used in operating
this hatchery is secured from a turbulent
mountain stream, the temperature at this
season of the year being 58 to SO degrees.
In the early days, when Mr. Hume first
located on the Rogue River, he claims
that he used to catch only enough sal
mon to pack several hundred cases of 48
pounds each, but by persistent hatchery
work, which he did on the upper Rogue,
and following out his Idea of feeding a
portion of the fry until they were finger
lings, he has developed Rogue River to
such an extent that today it is one of the
best salmon streams in the state. The
run In the river this year is short, but
he attributes this to the fish not being
able to pass the dam at Grants Pass four
or five years ago.
Mr. Hume for years operated his hatch
ery on the upper waters of the Rogue on
Elk Creek, but several years ago turned
it over to the Government, arid estab
lished his present plant, after first being
assured by the United States Bureau that
they would furnish him with eggs. He
has spent a lifetime In this work, in addi
tion to thousands of dollars and his ex
perience, and daily contact with salmon
has taught him more of their life and
habits than the average man will ever
learn, and Justly entitles him to the title
"Salmon King of Oregon."
grandsons also on the Army list, U. S.
Grant and Lieutenant Sartoris. Though
he did not belong to a service family
himself Grant married Into one, the
Dents.
Cameron McR. Winslow, who now com
mands the battleship New Hampshire and
is preparing to take her to the celebra
tion at Quebec Is a son of the Winslow
who, in the Kearsarge, sank the Alabama
in the famous fight off Cherbourg: Paul
Allyn Capron is a young Lieutenant of
Marines; for generations the Caprons
have been a service family, generally an
Army family. One fell fighting in Mexico,
one was killed at San Juan Hill and an
other died from the hardships and ex
posures Incident to the siege of Santiago.
The Cresap family, descended from
Michael Cresap, captain of the First
Rifles In the Revolution, Is represented In
the service by James and L. Cresap. the
one an ensign and the other a midship
man, both too young to have a history
as yet. The Cresaps also represent,
through marriage, the Ord family, di
rectly represented by one Major who
bears the name of his father. General
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, and Major
James Ord, retired. That the General's
father was a legitimate son of George
IV and Mrs. Fltz Herbert there is little
doubt.- That General Ord served the
United States well there is also no doubt.
The old General's father married a
Cresap.
General Fremont, "the Pathfinder," is
represented in the Navy by a son. John
C, a Captain, and the Captain's son,
John C, Jr., an ensign not long out of
the Naval Academy. The father entered
the Naval Academy in 1868. In the
Spanish war he made a reputation for
himself by the dashing manner in which
he handled one of the small boats of the
blockading squadron off Havana and by
his general good service. After the war
he was for a time supervisor of New
York harbor. He Is now in command
of the new battleship Mississippi.
These are only a few of the best known
service families picked out at random.
There are many more with as good a
claim to notice, though outside the serv
ice itself they are not known. For gen
eration after generation, perhaps, the
met) of these families have been doing
quietly and faithfully the work assigned
them, and been doing it well, though no
happy accident has ever sent the light
of fame their way.
(Copyright, 1908. by Associated Literary
Press.)