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TDK Mtll&M AS TORI AN. SATl'RUAl, OCYOBKR 14, 1899. 6 THE WHITE FISH OF LAKE MICHIGAN large Sums Inivrsiid la the Businrv ofCakhinsaiiil MmkriinTbrD). FAMILIAR API'LIAMES ISED Gill .cts and IVund Aeis Same as oo Columbia Kher, Rut (lie io diwr) mall b) Comparison. Chicago Times-Herald. Through All the northern waters of take Michigan Just now the trout are; running. In schools, In shoals, in warms these silver-sidej wanderers are flashing to the feeding grounds. It is lh'. time of their Beini-aunual mi gration. Only twice year do they give the fishermen a chance to make a clow? acquaintance with ihetu. In the early spring they came suddenly Into human ken, remain six wveka and dis appear. On or about September 1 they return once more to shallow waters and nH riddi n reathe. Where they to in the meantime, where they live and how! fou,,J tn's country, four to ten mllea out from the foot of KiKMy-thlrl utrwt. He ileana, when not In a hurry, seventy pounds of ixreh an hour, and w ill hack himself to clesn eighty pound for money. The Innljos of Augunt's hands are a line network of soars and new gashee. There are thrv main Ashing point whore the dweller In Lake Michigan are oapturvsl. They are IVtoakey. St. James and ManlMlouv. S't. James ia known siwiotimea as Heaver Island. tnd here there is a Ashing colony of 400 men. with their wlws and children. At these plact trout and whltetlsh and some sturgeon are taken. Nobody pays any attention to perch. Hill nets are used anil. In the shallow waters, pound nets. The ivuin.l net iaI:m lt inu from the enclosures In citle wherein stray animals are confined. It is a circular net with opening at the bot tom through w hich the fish enter. Once in, they cannot find 1helr way out and are lifted In masses and unresisting. This Industry Is one of the mot thriv ing and valuable In the nonhwvt. In Its effect upon the health and well Ik ing of the people at large It Is one of the moat important. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are Invented and the annual take Is something enormous. It runs far Into the thousands of tons' In weight and into the hundreds andj (thousands in value. Invented at the I 1 thista It.ili.fa manrLuul I.. ....... ....... ....- r .v ...I nui.ii-M iihht limit l.'iO.COO. It h.is betn put Into miles of nets, inta steaauers, Into tuus, into sail ing bivits, likto donkey engtm. ice tatiKs, refngr-ritor cars and kindred i tMntts. The total poulation deriving aj living from the white nsh and trout' I Industries is more than Cve thousand. I More picturesque places are not to Bach morn-1 DYSPEPSIA. Uiey live the man is not alive who can l"8 tn,v,? m" ateann-ni leave IVtos- ay. Old fishermen, who have spent k"y f,,r vlslts t the gill nets, which the best years of their lives along the j h-'ve not lkt,n sine the day be- Slunny toaols of the lake, profess to' 'oie- ,n ,Hic,, " ls a donkey engine, believe thai the trout and the white! WD Jwer 1 uaed to lift the nets, fish ko through the lake system and Their ""l''Bht when loaded lth fish is Into the Su Lawrence and thence into bt''ond the strength of the men aboard. I ti e sea. It is a certainty that thev ; vuarier-iune alter quarter-mile of the! th mesh ls lift,fd fr"m a B1 'l'lh,; NERVt!S ofjana It omes to tlie surfucv showing j ueiy un tne nsn. it l.Kks like an 1 !.L r duappear apparently from all of lakes at some seasons. They, course, do not put to sea. Thev are1 fresh water fish.. The most reason-1 enUless anJ broaJ ril'b"n t a nu-Ulllo .. . ... .......... ,,v able hpcthesis is that they retire to lust0r' a'ld wnen !he '"orning sun;5'uuN " lA K hM'.l l the c-ntor of the lake, where the water! K' s u 's a "guiarly beautiful is deepest and least disturbed, and ! thin Tne fish flvm the gill net are there think for months at a stretch, j aU r,'niovl by hand, and it is a tedious The food fishes of Lake Michliran arei 43 ue" as Painful pness, but the not of numerous species. They are the ' Pan,J ne' Is simply liftl to the sur whiteflsh, the trout, i!he sturgvon. the face RnJ lls caPtlv? are etwped up in JACI'TK INFLAMMATION OK TIIK XKUYICS jcKXTKUKD .uiorr tin: stomach, tiik STOMACH IS A OKKAT XKKVK I'KXTIIK; WmiOL'T 1IKAI.THY, YKioKOUS CANNOT DHJKST ROl. TIIK AND oIICANS OK TIIK P.OHY AUK IMI'OYKKISIIKI) r.LOoD. OYKIiWOKK, WOKUY AND CAKE KXIIAKST ; XEKYK EXEIKiY. i perch and the herring. Stunreon arei larire "''n snove.s. Near the bow of rare. So, comparatively, ls the herring. ! rh of ,hese boa,s la a larS compart The whitefiah and trout are in acres.! n""nt h,,1'lln8 lc- a"J the fish are There are no bass, no muskellunge, no! tnrou" lnt0 't in a stream. It ls the plice. no pickereL There Is reason to!ofcJ,;ct 10 ehm tht through at one believe that ail of these fishes once ex-! a,,J by the time lne reucht s luted In the lake waters, but they d!-i"nore tney dead cold. They appeared. Probably they were allini disembowled, but. are not cleaned caught. It seems impossible that they i otDerA,?e- Many a housewife has should t- exterminated by man, but 1 wished that the company would remove there is no explanation for it. Fishi the alf', but thw woulJ be too much depopulation happens more frequently ' troutle toT the company. Also, to than Is generally known. Old Chicago-1 "me ex'-e t would detract from the ads can remember that as boys thy ! aSsate weight. The man w ho buys ned to go to South Chicago. thenia wnlteflsh pays for the scale. Just known as Calumet, and catch a wagon j w a man wno bu'8 a P3!' fr load of whiteflah whenever they wish-' the bone- When the fish have been ed. They are not very old men at! drawn ihy ar placed into large that. It Is probable that not a white- WJ jare wxes, ioe-pacKea, which are 6sh has been caught off Chicago In the' tPrmert "carta." These carts in turn last five years. They were very infre-iare put lnt0 th cars and 80 they are quert ten years ago. That which Is! hauled to Chicago. ThJs city takes locally true of the whlteflsh ls true also, I n"arly a11 the Michigan catch, in lesser degree, of the trout Ocea-i Milwaukee used to be a large fish marv sional'y they are taken hereabouu. but 'ket but " nas d?cl" late years. l ne nsnermen or the upper lake waters ar- reasonably well paid. Manv ..f them work for the Booth company. aiil have no capital in-stel. Boats, nets and other accessories are furn- Others own miil !mt a"J siets and simply sell their nrxduct ; searcn direct to the company. The take of fish from Lake Michigan' And from the other bodie of water con nected with it has been so enormous .and so long continued that there was' , a: one time grave danger that both th ' wiiltflsh and the trout would be ex- ' terminated. Some years ago. however. the national government came to the: fill fur a while, and one more disan-; rescue and now the national hatcheries pars. I."e, tt has been ascertained be yond doubt, goes to the deeper and un troubled waters of the central lake. He If s prdue under the ice all of the PAINE'S Celery Compound Cures Dyspepsia uo-s not occur oxten. They ustd to hi plentiful About the only lake fish which is left to the Chicago man is the perch. This sport flourishes. Whoever wanners along the city's lake front and s'es the fishermen raising their circular lshed t0 them- nets m.:y know that they are after perclu There is nothing else for them except minnows, which are used only for perch bait Tht-re are in the city, however, Z'Jt, mva who derive their subsistence w hol ly from catching perch. They do tery; well at It while It lasts, but the s-ason 1 li short. The perch also comes in the' spring and goes away and comes In the. To avoid ill health and the more serious diseases, it is necessary that the hlood be kept pure and full of nutriment. Tin ndvves give life to the human system. Nerve tissues are the first to weaken from overstrain and abuse of body or mind. Paine's Cel ery Compound makes nerve fibre, nerve force, pure, rich blood and gives health to the body. J. 15. lussey, Clinton, Mo. writes "After using six bottles of I'limes Celery ComiKjimd, I nni say I feel better than I lime for five years; When I commenced taking the Compound I could hardly e;it anything; now I can cut anything I want. I would not take five thousand dollars for the goo 1 aine s Celery Compound has done for me. ' been taken, tfeough the average weight and our mission under the flag. It Is; Is under four pounds. They wdl b-gln to move In to the shores of the lake about to the middle of next month In of spawning grounds. Th y will disappear Into deep water about December. The slaughter of them will be, hs it Is always, tremendous. Oill nets wUI be sec for them In what are known as "gangs," that Is, a cluster of many nets, making escape practical ly impossible If the fish Invade Lho wa ters infested by the nets. The average 'take" of pounis. are doing everything possible to kwp up the supply. The lake fish hatcheries are placed it Cape Vincent, S. T.. Put-; Chicago Times-Herald. ! in-Bny, Ohio, Alpena and North ville.i President McKinley's reception In the Mich., and Duluth, Minn. At N-rth-j West is the grandtfrt proof we have vllle fO'-O.OftO trout are hatched each; had of the utter XuUUty of the "antl-1 yea:. Last year more than 95,(K)fl,00i imperiallt" propaganda. There Is of whiteflsh fry were hatrhed by the practically no sympathy In the great commission and liberated In suitable Mississippi valley region for the shame-! wa'ers. The enormous increase in the ;ui ,)0iicy of retreiL The West Is for unstlted sea are bigger than he, number of the whlteflsh thus attained ' nroeress and exDannlon. It abounds and thoy line on him merrily. ny be appreciated when It is said' in a perfect faith In American lnstl- TV. a fl.l i r, . ... 1 t S A I lit. A. M . ..I v,..ieagu percn nsner um a gill ' 'ee noeraiea iry Dy rar tne tutlons and alms, la persistent optl winter through, deep down where not a sigh of the howling winter wind can reach him, but how he lives is another mittf.r. There Is nmthlig out there which he can catch. In fact, all of the ther finny denizens of that part of the net. The commls-' quatalnet government will be Against ita tremendous successful In vigor and enthusiasm, ite exultant na- a pin net is six feet wide and U0 rger part win reacn maturity. The mlsn . In Knenrv. lf-is.llan. ajirt fet long. From one side pf it depend hatching of whltefish eggs long ago courage. Moreover, its hopea will be .unes 10 wnica are attached heavy progresses irom tne experimental fulfilled and the weights. That Is the bottom side. stage. It is now exact. From the top side come lines to which' "'""era are much more largr floats are attached. Whm th- natcning than are the unaided fish gill net Is set the weights rest upon themselves. Under natural conditions the bottom and the floats nn the sur-i on'l' a very small percentage of the face. It stands up about 21 feet under' eBg hatch. Though artificial propa the surface, like a fenc. The shoals j gaUon from 75 to 95 per cent are pro of perch strike It In their quest for ductlve. The microscope Is a great aid food. The meshes are large enough to to th fish culturlst, enabling him to let the little ones pass through. Those! determlne the exact percentage of dead worth taking can get their heads' ef?s an"l In many Instances, the cause mrougn ana mat is all. Tney attempt "l "iure. in orcier to provide, least hint at the Philippine to araw oacK and the thread or the. ' ' uncertainty or the seasons Tfcey see no transgression of the rules mesh slips under the gill. Ttore they; anu to insure a sufficient supply of r.f MnnHiv in ih.i hi, .h- J are. Struggles are useless, and In fact,! "Pawning flub, it has been the custom they struggle very little. Th-y Just re. of the cmimUsl-ners to capture and malr qulUy and resignedly station- P" numbers of healthy fish In season ary, anchored by the gill, until the; aml kP them until they have spawn man who owns the not comra out In a' They are penned In large crates little boat, lifts tt and removes them through which the water flows freely, by hand, tossing them Into the bottom Tne e are hatched In specially made of his craft, where they flounder until lan kePt at a uniformly prop -r tem they can flounder no more. When he P'rature. reaches laid he will Ret about cleaning' -hkagoaris do not know it, but every them, and the expertness he develops Friday they devour tens of thousands Is nothing short of wonderful. It in' of whitish and trout bred by their his business to remove not only the en-; paternal Uncle Samuel. The whiteflh tnto from the perch, but the scales, of Lake Michigan reaches a larger size' the demonstrations wherever he stop- o.nv. siugus.. mwik, ...,..,1111011, iiian any oiner species of white fish who has been a Chicago fisherman for( In the United States. Examples welgh twenty years, has his gill nets set from Ing more than twenty pounds have such expressions as the following that have been the most loudly applauded: "I like this monument. I like this symbol that I face today the defense of the ilug. That ls what we do when ever and wherever that flag la assailed. And with us war always sleeps when the assailant of our flag consent to Grant's terms of unconditional surren der, j "Our flag, wherever It floats, does not chanie In chanurter. Tt Is the' a gang in November Is 1,000 same under a tropical sun as It Is In! your own United States. It represents wherevtr lis standard la raised II her-1 M'KINLET IN THE WEST. ty an aavancement foT the peopk, There are responsibilities, born of duty, that can never te repudiated. Duty unperformed ls dishonor, and dis honor brings shame, which ls heavier to carry than any burden which honor can Impjse." It needed no Interpreter to explain the allusions. As clearly as If they had adopted formal resolutions the respon sive auditors announce their approvel of the words of the administration's i course. They caused It to be known far and wide that they were for the ! suppression of Insurrection, for a ful fillment of a duty to civilization, for I the sovereignty of their country In , every land where that sovereignty has ' been asserted. OREGON INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.. OPENS IN Portland, September 28 CLOSES October 28, 1899. Horticultural and Agricultural Products of Oregon. Washington and tnano in greater variety and profu biuii man ever oeiore. 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