Yh Jlankets sizes 80 inches long by 60 ght $1.95 pair. hirts and Drawers arly sold at 50c. FO-NIGHT 35¢. EACH Kid Gloves and ha Gloves lar values 1.00 and over. O-NIGHT 65c. PAIR. \ildren Combination Suits ASINS men, Boys and Girls ED IN PRICE rd to have a pai Mocs es pair of these 6 to 11, $1.00 » 3 t0 6, 5c. 1 to 2, 65c. | to 5, 75c¢. < less than cost. -------------- ry YEAR 74. PT ASEE-------- --_-- SECTION. HE DA ILY BRITISH KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1907. CANADA'S GREAT BY PERCY ST. CLAIR HAMILTON (Copyrighted by The Canada Newspaper Syndicate.) The immense importance, and, enor- mous values of the fisheries of Canada, are comparatively unknown to those not directly, or indirectly interested in the business. Foreign countries, espec- ially the United States, pertinaciously cleave to any right or privileges which by treaty, or other arrangement enable them to use what are properly i as the Canadian fisheries. Bven though the actual place where fish are taken are beyond the territor- ial waters of Canada, by liberal mod: ern interpretation, their adjacence to the shores of the dominion, and the fact that these shores form the natur- al, and most useful base of opera- tions, makes the Canadian fisheries the leading industry of the kind in the world. From the time of the early attempts of France to colonize in America, the rich harvest of the sea wis the chief temptation. When the British "'came to stay," France held out for, and re- Tr : mon. For instance in 1884, the cod FISHING INTERESTS catch was officially valued at over six and a hali millions, while it is now under four millions a year. This is not due scarcity of fish so much as the diversion of capital and enter- prise to other branches of sea-fishing, which prove more remunerative. The cod fishing industry of British North America, in Canada and Newfound- | land, is over three centuries old. The has exceptional means of judging, | fine fish and marvelous stories of pro- | told the British Association, at Mon- | ductiveness taken to England by Sir {treal, in 1884, that the local con- | Francis Drake, has much to do with sumntion was fully as much as that |stiumulating the ambition of the exported, hence the figures given offi- | British to become possessors of North cially would really have to be doubled | America. There are two branches of in order to arrive at the true value of | the industry, known as "bank" and this engrmous industry. Prof. E. E. | "shore" fishing. The bank fishing is Prince, dominion commissioner of | carried on by schooners, whose fisher- fisheries, considers this estimate too | men caten with hand lines from the high, and places the value at nlx |decks, or set trawls. The latter ave about ten millions a year, or one-half | long lines with baited hooks tied on greater than the official figures. Even | at intervals. These lines are sunken, at this lower estimate, however, it | the ends buoyed. Men in dovies--flat- will be seen that the toilers of the | hottomed boats, which can be ""nest- waters of Canada have produced $1,- |'ed" or placed inside of each other to 050,000,000 since Confederation. some space on the deck of the schoon- Considering these stupendous figures | op--set the trawls, and periodically before one begins to realize something | $isit' them, take off the fish, rebait of the value of an industry, in which | and set them again. This continues dy leads the world, and vet one | until bait rns out, and it is time to is carried oh so quietly that take the fish to port. The cod are few visitors have any idea of its | gplit, salted and out in the hold from macnitude. The dominion, with its | day to day. As they will take up =a magnificent forest, ranks third among | 550d deal of salt, and are a long time 'who will derive great benefit through 'done in traps, oblong slat boxes with in pickle the "bank" fish are not so highly esteemed as the "shoe fish," Bank Fishing Vessels in : | . - ceived the right to a share in the | the world's wood exporting countries, fisheries off the British-American cbast, held certain islands and gained the privilege of using certain parts of the. Newfoundland shore during the fishing season. Fully realizing the Yalue of the fishing industry, France to this day pay¥ a generous bounty on every quintal of French caught fish Re United Beaten Tad boon using | fishery production already, but she Canadian privileges, and Cana- "Watery: for five vears without per- mission, and an international com- mission at Halifax heard evidence, and awarded Canpda and Newfoundland five and a half million dollars for that five years' use of the fisheries. 4 ic fishi ressels are now al- : i 2 American ishing vessels are no - too, is that of the south shore of lowed the privilege of Canadian lantic ports to obtain supplies, and tranship their catches on payment of a tonnage tax. The government of Canada utilized their share of the fishery awarded from the United States to pay their own Atlantic fisherman an annual A Modern Motor Fishing Boat er-------------------- bounty. The Americans paid ug, ir 1877, but it was not until 1852 the idea of using the interest for bounty purposes was acted upon. In | spe that year $150,000 was sct apart for {of our people a$ that purpose, but in 1801 the aporo priation was increas d to £160,000. A a matter of fact, the appropriation from the first has been exceeded. Ves sols are paid at the rate of §1 per ton to the owner, 86 to each vesse fisherman, $3.50 per man to boat fish erman, and $1 per boat to the own ers. The number of v &. receiving 2 . 3 bounty is about 800, with a tonnage and the convenience of their undis- | k which caught not far from land, are taken to port and dried without much The dangers of bank fishing ean hardly be exaggerated. One only has to visit some of the fishing villages of Nova Scotia, and see the number of widows to realize the perils of the calling. "Bank" fishing is also large- ly carried on from New Fngland, whose shore fishing is less extensive and productive than that of Canada. Their vessels are chiefly manned and captained by Nova Scotian, New- foundinnders and Portuguese, There is a very pretty and touching annual ceremony in the New Fngland fishing ports--Decoration day. The graves of coldisrs and members of fraternal or- ders are remembered on land. and strewn with flowers by loving hagds once a vear. This cannot he done where the dead are entombed in the dark waters of the Atlantic, so once a vear the women and children gather Russin and Austria being the only at the water side, the dead roll is countries exporting large quantities | yond, and the 'raves are decorated by Yet Canada's fisheries have given an | drovping flowers into the sea The out» average vield of three million dollars | cong tide takes them off where hus- a year more than her lumbering. bands and fathers have perished in the fog. or heen enculfed by storms, The death roll is fraquently appalling. Pcrt of Yarmouth, N.S. World's Lobster Supply. y C i n immense Not only has Canata a n Murderous Coast Fogs. salt delay. of little motor boats are replacing the sail boats, or rather a large num- ber of the owners of sail boats have put motors into their vessels. Thus they can be, to a large extent, inde pendent of the wind, even doing their best work, in , calm weather, which would have completely tied up a sail boat. The increasing price of gaso- lene is quite a tax on the fisherman, and they will be among the people having denatured 'alechol so cheap- ened by removing taxation and re strictions on manufacture, that it can replace the dangerous and cxpensive gasolene. The third fishery in point of value, and of especial importance to Canada is the lobster. In olden times, these crustaceous were taken in a special net, an iron hoop, having a loose coarse net stretched across it. Pieces of fish bait were attached to the meshes, and the affair was lowered to the bottom. Periodically, the. net was raised," and the lobsters which had crawled on to it to eat the bait were removed. How Lobsters Are Taken. Now most of this kind of fishing is setted openings, like the entrance to a wire rat trap at each end. These traps are baited and lowered to the bottom, the lines being buoyed. The fishermen go out in motor boats, small steam boats, sail boats, and even row boats, if not too far from Hauling In Nets In The Bay Of Fundy. land, draw up the traps, remove the lobsters, and place them in cars, sunken wooden pounds. When the time for shipping comes, the lobsters are put in slotted crates, and taken to the port of shipment. There crack- ed ice is put on them, and they are hustled into the steamer's hold. This is what is called the live lobster busi- ness. The small ones are sold to . the canneries, As 1 have already said, the chief supply of North America, and the only remaining lobster fishery of any great extent in the world, is that on the Atlantic coast of Canada. Great efforts are being made to re stock the depleted lobster fishery of is ly fortunate in that some The causes of loss of life are varied, important branches which have be- but fog is dircetly:and indireetly the come oxtinct in other countries are chief factor. Fach dory i= worked by still yielding rich returns to the do- | two men, and it must be remembered minion. For instance, pbout theonly | important lobster supply the world now has left is that of the Canadian | Atlantic coast. The most productive, Nove Scotia, whence they can he transhipped at once to the United States alive. In British Columbia there are salmon fisheries of marvel lous productivity, and in the far north bordering on the shores of Hudson's Bay. and the Arctic ocean, are the richest whaling grounds in the world, and the last home of the levia thans, Walrus, sea trout, the inconnu, pike, sturgeon, and others also abound in these far northern waters. Away back in 1870, the late Hon Peter Mitchell, then Canadian minis ter of marme and fisheri€s, wrote follows of the: dominion fishinginter- ests : "As a national possession they are inestimgbte, and as a field for indus- try, they are inexhaustible. Jestdes their general importance to the coun- try as a source of maritime wealth - and commerce, they also possess a special value to the inhabitants. The great variety and superior quality of the fish products of the segs and in- land waters of these colonies afford 5 ; 3 1 | nutritious and economic food, ad- | Oiten In the deadly cold of winter, | mirably gdaoted to the domestic when the fog lifts, no sign of vessel in, and they now row hour after hour, 1 that | wants of their mixed and laborious | can be seen. What trifie" of food or | population. They are also, in other water they had with them--if any at | respects, especially valugble to such all--is soon exhausted, and starva- i vided to their other perils. { time pursuits, either as a distinct in- Sometimes they go mad, drink the dustry. or combined with agriculture. | salt wat end throw themselvesin- The principal localities in which fi te the sea; agein they are found iroz- ing is carried on do not usually pre- |en to desith in their dories. Then, un- sent conditions favorable to hus | fortunately, the fishing grounds are | | bandrv. They are limited in extent | just in the track of the great ocean anit fertility. and gre subject to cer- grevhounds, plying between Europe tain climgtic disadvantages. The | and North America. Captains have wrolific nature of the adjacent waters sords to make, speed contracts to ep to, and there is no time to.slow wre engaged in mari- | tion 1 A S R63 ag ¥ DAREA~ i eo y. Ove if this really of over 25,000. The number of boats turbed use gre a necessary compensa. | down in the for. even if this really is. increasing, and something 14,000 received © bounty. The total like tion for defects of soil and fisheries to | would ldsen the danger--which it 1 | which British subjects have claims on | would not. The steamers can keep out rusher of boat and vessel fishermen this continent are of peculiar value." | of each other's way by a system of annually drawing bounty is about At that time the total field of the |'whistles, and by similar means can 90.000, Since 1882 the total amount fisheries of Canada. only amounted to | generally avoid the schooners. But paid in bounties has reached nearly $6,500,000. To-day the estimated value | the poor souls in a dory--a mere speck four million dollars. Produced Great Wealth. The official retirns of the value of is $30,000,000 a year: the capital in- [upon the ocean, which can be neither vested is about 814,000,000: the nupn- | seen nor heard by the look out in a ber of men employed nearly £0,000. |fo;--they suddenly sec a huge coaster The largest single product is that [rushing at them; the thud of the en- of salmon, in British Columbia. easi- | gines, and the sound of the rushing the fish products of Canada since |ly the most prolific salmon fishery | waters, drowns the cries of the upc Con'oderation show that the harvest A Modern Lobster Steamer. tee of the segs, rivers ahd lakes amon yield of over $5,000,000, The fishery is felt bv the passengers snugly sleeping accompanied with comvaratively no |in their berths on the steamers, vet oy been taken to convince the incredul- | ers 'anfl tears into the outgoing tide one, and it is no exaggeration to say [next Decoration dav. that the fich were shown to he «so |" numerous as to fairly conceal the wat- er. The catch is very largely used for Motor Boat Fishing Now. British Columbia is known in every | #kill. hardihood, and bre land of the world, fraucht with such peril fishing. Until recent ve: is ng the bar Cod Liver Oil For World. od to over sven hundred million dol: | gn the banks of Newfoundland. and |onet a wack, or oftener. I hese sail lars. Yet these figures, enormous | other prolific tho they odo not All. the \ ground wa ee ot ory. L. Z. Jones, M.B., who Old Style Haid Tine Fishing From An Old Print. that fogs on the banks come up very | certain times of the year, by the laws suddenly. The men are unable to get | back to their schooner, nights sets | for protective purposes restricted to ever known, and giving an annual |fortunates, the impact is not even danger, and little hardship, clinatic [out there, in the cold and dark fog, conditions being of the pleasaniest, | the splinters of a little dory float in and the runs of salmon =o plentiful {the foaming wake of the steamer, and as to seem fabulous to those who | there are two more unknown graves have not seen them. Indeed, at times | to be remembered when wives and or- on the Fraser river nhotooraphs have | phans on the distant shore drov flow- canning, and the tonned salmon of Shore fishing, while calling for | big round basin of net hang on poles t | with only one entrance. The who! convenient fishing | ing boats were pecessarily dependent was of the largest in walde, | upon favorable wind and weather, and | trap. If the fish knew enough to turn | exceeding even British Columbia sal- often lost much time. Recently, flects |'about they would swim right out ling wrens. New England coast, but those of the old world, once so productive, are practically "beyond redemption. The mackerel fishery is confined to of nature, as the lobster fishery is | certain months by the laws of man. | The mackerel] are what is known as migratory fish. Where they come | from, and where they go to, are among the vet undolved mysteries of the fishing cult, about which various | theories are offered, more or less | plausible, but none absolutely comn- | vincing. As far as Canada is concern { ed, they appear in the Bay of Fundy | "Gn May 18th." * Many fishermen claim that this date is the exact one when the fish first appeared there. | Certainly they invariably show up at | about that time. The methods of | catching mackerel are by hand lines, from the side of vessel or boat, purse sening and trapping. Hand lining is less in vogue than formerly. With the New England fisherman svining is principally used, but with Canadians the trap is preferred. The purse sein- ers pursue, the fish in open sea in their schooners, and when a "school" is overtaken two seine boats are sent out, and the fish are surrounded by a seine ot net held between the boats, Nova. Scotian Fish Traps. When the two boats have made con- nection the seiné is pursed, or drawn together on the bottom, and the fish taken out into the boats. These boats were formerly propelled by oars, but again, but as it is, they keep swim- ming round and round the traps past thé dger they came in by, and where hundreds more are still crowd: ing in, like jays at the entrance of a big circus tent. At low tide, the fish- ermen row out into the trap, and di up the fish in big long-handled land: ing nets. When the wind is blowing on shore during the mackerel run bi catches are a. but should the wi blow off shore for any length of time, during the season, when the fish are on their travels, the result will be un- fortunate. -- Emptying the trap, when there are several hundred barrels of fish there is qn exciting experience. In addition to the mackerel there will be sharks, savage dog fish--the wolves * of the sog--splendid salmon, horrible look- ing ecnlpins, and in fact almost evervthing that swims, which either followed the mgpokerel to prey upon them, or were . corried along by the crowd. The sharks and dogfish have to be fought and d tehed with axes or boat se. It is unlawful to ship the dalmon, and they are sup: posed to be turned loose to continue their immigration towards whatever river they are bound. There may be some fishermen who strictly obey the law in this respect, but as thev bring a fine price in the Boston and New York mgrket about that time, and are among the most delicious salmon that grow, they usually reach the mgrket carefully pooled in ice, and perhars described (as 'white bass." The element of luck enters very large Iv into this mackerel fishery. One trap will mgke monev. while another, not half a mile away, and what miocht be called a preferred location won't vay wages. Om one occasion a tr-» off the - south coast of Novy Scotin, took a thousand barrels of mackerel in * one night, while none other on the copst had anvthing re- markable. Mackerel were worth $30 barrel-fresh on ice--in the New Foo land merket just then. The trap owners shipped their fish, a few hun- dred barrels at a time, from day to dav. leaving the balance alive in the trp. and cot pretty nearly the full value of their fish, instead of destroy- inz the market by putting the whole night's catch on at once, it may be said. however, that $30,000 for one night's catch of a mackerel trap, is not sufficiently common to make all the fishermen rapidly wealthy, While the inland fisheries of Canada are undoubtedly of great commercial value the sea fisheries are those which produce the larger returns. Novy Scotia, jutting out into the Atlantie, with her numerous safe, and conven- int harbors, close to the fishing ~rounds, has naturally headed the list, up to ga recent date, with an amnnpl. vroduct of 'eirht or nine mil: lion dollars. On the te wide of her Pacific fisher has long been a record vielding between six and seven million dollars per year, and dying the vear inst closed has taken rst place. While this is largely due to the galmon. the development of deep sea fishing off the coast is moving on, American comppnies being especially busy with the halibut and other catch- es, which are actually shipped right to the Atlgntie cities, and gre becom- ing an serions competitor to the Atlantic catch Epidemic Grip. New York Herald. Grippe is prevailing in true epidemic form in large cities throughout the United States almost every other person in Greater New York has a "eold"' of some sort, while hundreds are suffering from influenza in a mote or tess pronounced degree. The wick- passages at first and especially the throat; then come chills, headache ing. But worst of all, pneumonie com- arrest the epidemic. It must spend it to treat them at the start. Chinese Boycott Extending. goods, British Columbian Politics. now the ubiquitous "chug chug" 'is in evidence, and most sciners carry motor boats. borers, 2. The dissolution of t The fish traps so. much used on the house took place on December 24th, Nova Scotia coast, consist. of "lend- | and was primarily eaused by the Hon. » lors," rviz. : a fepee of codrse netting R. F, Green resiguing from the Me- | fastened on poles anchored with Bride ministry. Both Green and Me- | stones, and running out from the | Bride have been rénominated. buoys and headlines. At the deep end : - of the leaders is the trap proper, a A big bottle of cough syrup, €om- posed of wild cherpy and tar, a sure eure for conghs and colds, only 20e., { apparatus is based on the knowledy rs, this work | that mackerel only move in one direc was done on the Atlantic coast al- | tion, and never turn back in their | London have had only ., seyenteen . : most entirely bv men in small sailing | tracks. The schools moving along the (hours, sunshine between them. 2 At one time the cod fishery of Nova |eraft, who usually ran into land their | coast, and pursuing the squid, which Seotia--oarried on off the shore and | fish. and get more bait and provisions, | are their food, come to the netting - Yence caused by the leaders, and hog further out, where they swim into the On St. Stephen's Day itis an old at Wade's Drug Store. 1]in Christmas week, BROADBRIM Letter From Greater New formation furnished reproduced by papers the people of the United States are so immigration, that Japanese children on their way to school were beaten; and stoned by streets, The honest of California, (and there are thousands of them) never endors- ed or sanctioned violence on a Japa- nese child and when hoodlums in the dards of modern tho continent. British Columbia, with § plications are becoming alarmingly frequent in neglected cases, We cannot matter a few we self. The only thing to be done is to shun the initiative "cold," by avoid- ing draughts and the like and when The first catarrhal symptoms appear Washington, Jan. 19.--Consular re- porte show that the boyeott of Am. erican goods, which was recently re- vived at Canton, is spreading all over China, especially the east and north, The boyveott was originally started when the United Statet government refused to modify the exclusion act. The efforts which were made in Shang- hai, Pekin and other leading cities to induce the Chinese newspapers to re ject advertisements of American manu- facturers, has . been successful, and none are how appearing. It is stated that Germany and kngland are, at present, profiting to a considerable extent, by the boycott of American To show on what tune sometimes depends, my will remember that our president went out on a hunting expedition, his par: ticular prey being bears. But as luck would have it bears were scarce. discovered a den in which thete were two beautiful little cubs, which he se- cured, A French sculptor got a comi- | cal idea. He moulded a small statue of Teddy, bringing home his game | Open from 10.30 a.m. to 3.00 Another genius Sut on he, idee ol pn BH Lane dune ey al edly bears; they sold by the thous- orte little girls, threw. away their aes : wnsiatly: og. dolls to get Teddy bear, bovs swapped off marbles and tops for a Teddy Bear, ond the lucky inventor cleared twenty thousand dollars. Victoria, B.C., Jan. 19.--The nomin- hanging by the leg. ations of new members of parliament were received, to-day; the elections will take place on February 2nd, and the new house will meet on March Sth, The nominations received up to twelve o'clock are: Conservatives, 15; liber- als, 16; socialists, 5, and liberal-la- State of Ohio, City of Toledo, } County. §es. Frank J. Cheney makes rh on he doing business in otinty and State aforesaid. rm will pay the sum of each and every case of Catarrh that cannot he cured by the use of Hgll FRANK for | The past twenty Christmas days in As a rule, 80,000 to 900,000 Christ- mas trees pass through Cavent Garden custom in the Isle of Man to go hunt: MONUMETAL LIAR NOT A NEW FEATURE IN AMERICAN POLITICS. The Story About Japanese Child- ren Being Beaten and Stoned-- Danger That Will Result From the Fast Ain--Line to Chicago. Correspondence Letter, No, 1,547, New York, June 18.--The Japanese question, involving our fidelity to our treaty obligations, is still a matter of absorbent interest, though not as was a few weeks ago. The monumental liar is not a new feature in our American politics, : proof that the class exists, is evidenced by the in- the public, and in Japan that it comes to the of our treaty obligations, honest democrats and honest republi- will be standing shoulder shoulder, and heart to heart to main- tain the honor of the and inseparable, now and forever." The disreputable elements Japanese question such prominence have endeavored to r up with owr relations with China. Between the two nations there can be parallel. No nation of which history records ever made such a rapid advancement in modern eivili- ration as Japan, Her bravery on the battlefield is unquestioned. In peace or war, in statesmanship and finance she measures up to the most elevated stan- thought. It is for i reasons that she has won ler right to recognition. Her population at the present time millions. The population of China is about three hundred and fifty millions. China olings to Confucious, while in to republic "one that have into is about seventy losophy of libraries of of Aris. by "side with the' Pentateuch of Israel and the Sac wed Scriptures of the Christian faith. It is only sixty years since an Ameri can man-of-war dropped her in the harbor of Tokio and invited the government of Japan to a closer and more friendly relationship. The tation was accepted and that friendly compact has never heen broken. Jap- an has been faithful to obligation, and she may rest assured government of the United States will keep its honor untarnish- anchor invi- every treaty Artemus Ward, who measure of safety against railroad accidents that of the board of directors be fastened the cowcatcher. Tt is not certain that the arrangement would be tual. It is only a few days since Mr. Cassatt, one of the best railroad men United States was killed in ness appears to attack the upper air fone of the worst wrecks of the year. I call attention to this because the parties having the mats fover and "aching of the bones," the | ter in hand are pushing ahead gnd are latter showing true syktematic poison- | giving the public the assurance that in a very short time the airline Chicago will be the greatest railroad success of the century: I spoke of this ago, and there is the road will be through, and it is equally true ha the minimum speed will be sixty miles an héuwr. Admittine gll that is claim- ed the investors want to know where the profits come in: the time is hours to travel a thousand miles and the fare ten dollars. there are thousands of timid people. who would mot ride on a sixty-mile- they were carried for nothing, I believe that the liability to accident will be quadrupled and single accident involving great loss of life would sweep away the profits of ony effec. matter now, believe that lucky chance for- ~BROADBRIM. ol . the Cit 's Catarrh Cure, HENEY Sworn to before me and subscribed in my nresénce, this Gth day of December, A. W. GLEASON, Publics ., Toledo, Oy for consti to at ten i 1 dies to aro afflicted with | diseases, David Blum, Box A, Bedford Station, N. ¥., Nov. 8, 1005." Copter Le SE EE Ee complete treatment a trial po eo Ri pe Rll J im Remelies and ai recommend them Conant, Box 81; 14, 1908. : gE Jewels , w.teh und Olosk ° renliring 4 our scecialty. 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