THE DAILY BRITISH RE i FEARS THE FRIGATE BIRD. | WHIG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1012 la roy hy a ll a PAGE EX% [fiw " w IF CE ---- PLINY'S COUNTRY HOMES. The Famous Roman Loved the Luxu- rious Life of His Day. LI -- a -- E------ fie { The Booby Even Cagches Fish to Feed r 1 His Merciless Master, i { ® PACKED IN ONE FAPLES [CHD | THE SALMON HARVEST AND BURNED a---- inte: On Arms and Legs. Caused Running Sores. Would Tear Himself Till They Bled, Like Open Wotinds. CuticuraSoap and OintmentCured. B3 Stewart St, Toronto, Ontario "When my baby was gine months old he had a lot of pimples on his arms and % lege @hich used to come i, then break and cries sores. They "| were hit red Spots, which dtabed and burned #0 . ghat he would tear hil iil he made them bleed and they wers all like open wounds They wort of his face " and arms so bad that I did not ike to takes him } 11 out. He could not sleep "LIN or rest anywhere. | tried several things at liome and lots of different things people used to advise me, but he did not grt a bit better, "1 bathed each place in warm water and Cuticura Soap and then [ put some of the Cuticura Ointment on and bound them, up in soft rags and he slept better that night than he had for three weeks. and he did not scratch himself once that night. 1 did that for three days. night and morn- ing, when we noticed the sores were get- ting drier and healing, so I bought a eake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Catl- cura Ointment, and after a week and a few days there was not a blemish on him." (Signed) Mrs ©*. West, Feb. 29, 1012, Cuticura Soap and Cutleura Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere. For a liberal free sample of each, with 32-p. ok. send post card to Potter Drug & Chem, Corp, Dept, 300, Boston, U. 5. A, Livery Stock Of Cutters, Sleighs, Robes, Blankets. The tabargain at Bibby's Garage BROCK ST. i made right Tue TRUE FLAVOR----AND Pure. TRY IT! LABATT'S INDIA PALE ALE XXX STOUT Made and matured in the old way THE IDEAL BEVERAGES JAMES McPARLAND, Agent, . 830-341 King Street East. T 1S WORTH MORE TO B.CATHAN THE GOLD MINES. The Gathering of Sea Food Along the Rocky Pacific Coast Has Been Going on for Forty Years amd Is Growing to Enormous Proportions --How the Yield Is Prepared for the Consumer. 14 is now over two centuriesseince the early explorers discovered the wéalth of salmon in the waters which flow into the Pacific. It is forty yeas since man started to commercialize these fisherie: by establishing the first salmon cannery. It was an ex- periment, but one which initiated an industry which has grown to be one of the greatest food supplies of the present day. In 1869, the year of the beginning of this industry, the pack- ers shipped 100,000 cases of canned salmon and thought they were doing a pretty good season's business; last season, the greatest in the history of the industry, the pack amourted to the enormous total of 7,000,000 cases, valued at about $35,000,000, and. ex- perienced salmon packers say the end 18 not yet. These figures prove that the average daily consumption of canned salmpn has now reached the enormous total of nearly one million pounds per day, and that the demand is growing rap idly. Not only is the per capita conv sumption . steadily increasing in the countries which already consume large quantities of this appetizing and nour- ishing food, but the palatable salmon is steadily conquering new lands, more especially in the Far East, and its introduction is followed by a stead- ily increasing demand. Despite this tremendous consumption, there is not any likelihood of any immediate di- minution of the Pacific coast salmon supply. New fishing grounds are con- stantly being exploited and artificial propagation, already begun on a large scale, is being increased from year to year. The waters of the Pacific are ona immense marine farm. 'There are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught," is an aphorism, and, also, there are just as good salmon sites left as those that already have been located. Every summer, men start out looking for these locations, prospect ing for unknown salmon streams in exactly the same manner as men search for gold, . Alike has the history of the seeker of golden metal and the seeker of sib ver-sided fishes been marked with its failures and grim tragedies. It is claimed by the miner that gold taken out of the ground is the cleanest mo- ney extant--that there is no blood up- 'on it, that it has made no man poorer and caused no heart-sickness and pov- erty. But this is also true of the re- sults of the labors of the fish pros. pector, for he adds to the world's food supply and helps to alleviate the hun- | ger and poverty of the world. Consumers of canned salmon, espe- leally those living away from the fish- eries, do not generally understand that there is a generic difference be. tween the salmon of the Atlantic and the salmon of the Pacific. The At lantic fish is of the genus salar, and there is but one species. The flesh is of a uniform color and the mature fish of a uniform size and weight. The Pacific fish is of the genus oncorhyn- cus, and there are five distinct species. Eliminating the Latin names, which are of interest only to the naturalist. These species are: Sockeye or Red salmon, Spring salmon or Quinnats, Cohoe or Bilver salmon, Dog salmon, and the species known as Humpback lor Pink salmon. The Sockeyes, weighing from five to ten pounds, form the most valuable part of the catch. The flesh is of a deep red, very firm, and they are finely proportioned. They run in all the mainland rivers and in most of those on Vancouver Island, but they are most abundant in the Fraser Riv- er. The Quinnats form the largest art of the pack, but owing to their ihter oolor they are not quite sc valuable as the former. They are a fine shapely fish, weighing from twen- Ay to thirty Joards, and - were for ears salmon used many y for shipment in ice to Europe. Until recently the Dog salmon, so called b of their dog-like heads, were A SUFFERER FROM and Nervousness : TABLETS CURED ME " have Desa & fri and I Youd: . HE --. Be VR EE ent of your ill health a ar ao a Tablets of small value, but they are now find- i market in Japan, The in a [Hu Pacific salmon, weighing from three to six pounds, and are usually found every second year. They are of little | value except for the Orient trade, Actual analysis has proved that the difference in nutritive value in the entire list is very slight, the despised Humpback possessing food values equal to the prized Sockeye. Nover- , it is this difference in color {which controls the market price, the ivalue of the salmon in the market be- the order of red, medium red, pink, and pale. ; Another Tire hi 4 : For mT; i 3 fi i i Sh Forgive your enemies: if you have Se enemies forgive some of your ing graded according fo their color in|! distinct difference be-| ' ntic and the Pacific]. Pliny gives us a minute and loving picture of his country homes--of Como, where Be was born and which be loved with the tenderness of Cowper: Soehes tbat soothed And chimed me young; DO longer young, 1 fing i gun aadtiing and of power to harm me still; ' of his elaborate and splendid villas In Tuseany and at Laurentum, which he describes with a detail of shagular in- terest to the antiquarian, halls, baths, libraries, porticoes, sitting rooms for the" day and for the night, for com- pany, for privacy; chambers looking out upon the wide prospect, sea or stays, chambers hidden and secluded, "where 10 noise of busy people comes, po murmur of the waves, no tumult of the storm, por glare of lightning+-nay, if you wish; not even the light of day, whers thé shutters are closed." trim gardens, with flowers and fruit and shade, and ovef the whole dwelling gladsome vines, creeping from roof to poof up to the highest peak of all They knew what luxury* was, those wealthy Romans, and Pliny was by no means one of the wealthiest. We hear not only of Pliny's abodes, but of his friends and hd was a man 'to "have many of them, The most august was the Emperor' Trajan him- sélf, and a collection of letters sur- vives exchanged between the two when Pliny was governor of the prov- tnces of Bithynia and Fontica. The niost interesting of these deal with the treatment of the Christians and ; show the attitude of a humane and | kindly Roman gentleman toward those | who, he felt, must be punished, not because they held outlandish beliefs, put because the refused to recognize the supreme control of the civil an- thority ~Gamallel Bradford, Jr, in Yale Review. ORIGIN OF A FRENCH DISH. 1 | The Order Michelet Received and the Way He Filled It. The names bestowed upon certain | dishes have often an origin entirely dis {tint from technical consideration. This is true of the well known epl- grammes d'agneau a la Michelet or a la Tunlouse, as it was more frequently called. Michelet was the cook of a young French marquise of the century who was note@ for her lack of educa- tion. On « certain occasion she gave a din- ner to the officers of the regiment Chaiseul-Cavalerfe. During the func- tion her guests spoke of a banquet that they had attended on the previous evening, at which the host had enter- tained them with many new and brik ant epigrams. The marquise supposed | that "epigrams® referred to culinary surprises. Consequently she summoned Michelet, her cook, and ordered him to prepare some epigrams for dinner on the following day. Michelet was greatly troubled as to how he was to obey the order. He recol- lected, however, that he had in the larder some very spperior lamb. He braised the breast, removed the bones, cut the meat into pleces and bread crumbed and fried them. He then cooked the cutlets, arranged them on a dish alternately with the braised breast and served them with a suitable gare | nish under the name of epigrammes | d'agneau a Ia Michelet, by which name, or a la Toulouse, the concoction has since Deen known. The Tongues of the Balkans. Too many languages are spoken in the Balkans. A traveler in that region writes of the babel: "Turkish, Bulga- rian, Serbo-Croatian, Roumanian, Ar menian, Greek, Albanian, Kulzo-Wal- lachian, Chingeni, the language of the gypsies; Spaniole, the language of the Jews of Spanish or Portuguese descent, and the language spoken by the Ger man, Austrian, Roumanian and Rus slan Jews. Add to this Arable, Persian and Syrian, largely spoken in Constan- tinople; Italian, on the northeast coast of the Adria; Russian, in the northeast ern parts of Roumania; various Austro- Hungarian idioms spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Caucasian I of the Circassians and Geor- glans" Not one of these languages is of common use. i oe A Vicious Fish. South 'America there is a small not only attacks its fellows = The booby bird pever leaves the broad seas, where his harsh cry is heard from the Hebrides to the Fares snd from the cliffs of Scotland to the coast of Norway. He revels in the storms and screams above the roar of the séa. The booby has green feet, yellow eyes and a defiant head cov- ered with a yellow cap. Each of its wings 1s three feet long and ifs beak is so stiff and so strong that it fears no enemy but the frigate bird, The frigate bird is the terror of the birds of the sea, though he ignores all but the booby. Owing to the breadth of his wings, the frigate cannot fish; be is forced to remain in the alr. But a8 he cannot get fish in the air and as he requires fish for bis nourish. ment he presses tbe booby into his service. When hungry he swoops down upon the booby and gives it a vigorous thrust In the throat Then the booby's mouth opens and the fish caught in it drops out The frigate has only to give one peck at the booby's throat to get his dinner. It happens occasionally that the booby attacked by the frigate has nothing in its mouth. When the frigate' pecks In vain he belabors his slave with his beak and drives him, bruised and terrified, into the sea to ! cateh fish.--Harper's Weekly. COLORS IN FLAMES. 2 And Why Candle or Lamp Light Ape i peirs White to the Eye. i There is a relation between the color i of flame and the energy of the combus- tion causing it. The more vigorous and comp! the combustion the higher the refrangibility of the light A flame burning in a tardy and restricted way | emits rays that are red. When burn ing in a more complete and effective manner the emitted rays change to vio: let. The flame of a candle or a lamp con- sists of a series of eccentric luminous shells surrounding a central dark core, These shells of flame emit light of dif- ferent colors, the inmermost one--that in direct contact with the dark core-- being red and having a temperature of exactly 977 degrees F. Upeén this and in thelr proper order of rafrangibflity are shells of light which are orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The reason that such a flame does not appear to us as a pest of cones of different colored light 1s this: When we look upon such a flame all of the rays issuing from the different layers or strata of concentric luminous shells are received by the retina of the eye at one and the same time. This can only im- | press with the sensation of neutral or white light. The Nine In the Calendar. The figure 9, which came into the calendar on Jan, 1, 1889, will stay witb us 111 years fron that daté, or until Dec. 31, 1900. No other figure has ever | had such a long consecutive run, and the 9 itself has only once before been in a race which lasted over a century-- that in which it continuously figured from Jan. 1, 880, unti Dec. 31, 000, a period of 111 years. The figures 8 and 7 occasionally fall into odd tions, but neither of them has ever yet served for a longer period than a hun: dred consecutive years in our calendar since the present mode of calculating time was established. It is also clear that from their relative positions among the numerals it is an imposs)- bility for either of them to appear in date reckonings continuously for a longer period than a century. mbina. Nation With No Language. The Swiss, alone of all the peoples of the world, may, in a sense, be said to possess no language, a fact that ls all the more remarkable In the light that theirs is the most intense patriot ism of any. About 75 per cent of the population speak German, while "the remainder divide four other languages among them, mainly French and Ital ian, these tongues varying, as a rule, according to the proximity of the peo- ple to the country whose language they speak. Public documents and notices are printed in both French and German. In the Swiss parliament the members make thelr speeches either In French or German, for nearly all the members understand both these lan- guages.~New York Press. i § r England's Motto. i "Dien et Mon Droit"--"God and Ny Country"--the royal motto of Englasd, whs the parole of the day given by Richard L (he of the lion heart) to his arty at the battle of Gisors, In France, on 20th of September, 1198, when the h army was signally defeated lose its edge if you use it onn chicken" young man than a paying one. *JATTER WHAT COFFEE YOU AND TWO L POUND CANS ONLY, pow drink, it can't cost over a cent a day extra to drink the finest coffee in the land. This is Seal Brand grown from selected seed Eddy's Silent Parlor Matches Made of very best corkey pine. match. Every 8 under the best agricul- tural conditions. . Every stick a match a light. 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