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v’a<»r.-‘a-M:Pf<5"m...wvr. . , s .-. . We. .avm ow .... .. -. 2:22;â€" AHERIGAK L AK}: FISHING. Borne Stathtlet That Will Open the Eyes artful-radians. But few people, aside from those engaged in the business, have any idea of the immense fish industry of the great lakes in the United States. In fact, until within comparatively recent years, men engaged in the trade knew but little of the great quantity of fish in the aggregate, that was caught, as no systematic gathering of statistics was in- augurated to place in the hands of the peo- ple correct information. As the fisheries clause of the treaty of \Vnshington expired in 1855, the government of the United States was desirous of having in its posses- sion facts relative to fisheries on the borders that would enable it to conduct negotiations intelligently regarding matters of import- ance connected with fishing adjacent to Canada. Statistics, including 1885, with additions since then, have been embodied in a recent report. Facts of interest have been also gathered by the writer, which are given here. One city alone (Sandusky) handles more fresh fish than New York city or Gloucester, Mass. The number of persons employed were 10,355; number of steamers, 164; value, $561,150; number of vessels and boats, 4,536; value $307,519 ; number of pound nets, 2,525; value, $706,220; gill nets; 96,906; value, $539,936 ; hand seincs, 304; value, $30,192. The fishing is embraced in Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, St. Clair and tributaries, Erie and Ontario. Lakes Ericaud Michigan lead in the industry. On the former Were employed 4,298 men; 33 steamers, valued at $178,000; vessels and boats, 1,483; value, $120,537. On Michi- gan, men, 3,378; steamers, 82 ; value, 3267,- 200; vessels and boats, 1,320; value, 869,- 975. Pound nets, Erie 928 ; value $252,285; gill nets, 22,644; value, $75,507; handl seines, 71 ; value, $8,320. Michigan, pound nets, 710 ; value, $252,540; gill nets, 58,516; value, $326,902 ; hand seincs,.87 ; value $9,- 650. The amount and value of primary products was : ‘ \Vhitefish, Herring, pounds. pounds. Superior. . . . . . . . . 4,571,947 324,680 Michigan . . . . . . . . 8,682,986 3,312,493 Huron . . . . . . . . . . . 1,420,380 1,265,650 St. Clair and trib. 41,125 1,208,150 Eric. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,531,855 19,354,900 Ontario. . . . . . . . . . 90,711 403,585 Trout, Sturgeon, pounds. pounds. Superior. . . . . . . . . 3,488,177 182,760 Michigan . . . . . . . . 6,431,298 1,406,678 Huron. . . . . . . . . . . 2,539,780 215,500 St. Clair and trlb. .- . . . . . 227,780 Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,900 4,727,959 Ontario. . . . . . . . . . 20,510 386,974 Of all other species of fish, there were taken in number of pounds : Superior 258,216, Michigan 3,864,693, Huron 6,010,- 860, St. Clair and tributaries 708,740, Erie 23,734,912, Ontario 1,496,686. Of caviaro there were 477,020 pounds, isinglass. 7,297, oil, gallons, 17,435. Total number of pounds of fish 99,842,076. Total value of product $2,762,948. The species of fish caught are : White< fish, piclrerel, pike, bass, catfish. bullhcads, herring, muscallogne, perch, sturgeon, trout, scugers, sunfish, suckers, carp, red horse and eels. ’ One of the most alluring methods of catching fish is with pound nets. While gathering facts relative to these nets it. was learned that the first pound not introduced in the western chain of lakes, was by Spen- cer &. Diedl near Saudusky, on Lake Erie in 1851. In the year 1857 the first pound not was sel; at the head of the lake named near Jamestown, by George W. Quick of Toledo. Many improvements in these nets have been made. The not now used consists of a. bowl, or crib, or pot 28 to 30 feet square, with 3-inch mesh, heart or tunnel 14 feet long, with 5~inch mesh, and leader nets or strings 3 to 6-inch mesh. The leaders are set in water from six to fifty feet deep, the crib being at the outer projection. The fish run against the leader and work their way along ituutil they enter the heart and thence to the pot. The boats that take the fish from the pot or crib are manned by from two to six men. The nets are held in place by stakes and weighted at the bottom with stones, made fast by strings. The leaders reach into the lake, sometimes three miles. Thomcn kccp pulling the bowl not up until the fish are in small compass, when they are lifted into the boats with scoop nets. Gill nets are extensively used, more so on Lake Michigan than elsewhere. There are two kinds of gill nets in useâ€"one with meshes, 4} to 41; inches for pickerel and white fish, the other with meshes 3% to 3} inches for blue pike, herring and sangers. These nets are lished in any do all: of water and sometimes 25 to 30 miles rom shore. The nets are five feet deep and from 33 to 7A! fathoms long. The boats used for lift- ing these nets are both steam and sail. The steam craft are similar to tug boats with a receptacle in which to put the fish, The lifting begins at either end, and as the fish are taken out the nets are replaced by others. There are always two gangs of nets. At stated periods they are taken out and dried The nets are kept down with lead sinkers and kept spread and afloat by small wooden floats. ' he nets must be washed and dried on reels or otherwise, at stated periods. Gill not fishing is prosecuted nearly all the your round, while pound nets are fished only in the spring and full. Scincs are kept in position similar to that of gills nets. They are run out into the rivers or lakes and drawn shoreward to a platform or on the shore, either by wind- lass or horses. Fyke nets are also used to catch fish. They are simply set nets with wings or loaders. When the fish have been taken from the nets the boats steam or sail at once. As: soon as the wharf utthe fish houses is reacln ; ed the boxes on the steamer, which hold‘ about 100 pounds of fish, are hoisted by I block and tackle and placed on trucks, run into the fish house and weighed. Fish in sail heels or in gill net steamers are scooped into large boxes and lifted to the trucks. Fish intended for immediate shipment are placed in barrels with ice and sent out by express to New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chica o, and many other points. Those intenfed for saltin are split and cleaned. and have their he s removed, on long tables, which have open boxes about three feet apart. These boxes ore filled with sawdust. Men shovel the fish on the tables, the fish are rubbed in the sawdust and made ready for the cleaners. The heads and entrails are dropped through holes in the tables into barrels. The fish 30 from the tables to big I troughs filled with water, which is renewed from a hose. The fish are washed and then packed with salt in large tanks. After~ ward they are put up in barrels, half bar- rels and him. Herrings slit down the front are called ciscoes; those cut down the back are sold as herring. For keep- ing fish in a fresh condition, they are frozen. They are first washed in troughs and then put in zinc pans, with covers, eighteen pounds whitefish and twenty- pounds herring to the pan. The pans are then put- in ground ice and salt, similar to that in an ice cream freezer. The pans are left in the salt and ice for about eight hours, or until the fish are frozen hard. The pans are then put in a trough under run. ning water, to take the frost out of the pans so as to release the fish from the pans. They are then placed in the refrigerator ata tem- perature of 15 to 20 degrees, F. , and may be kept in the cold storage house for any length of time by re-charging with ice. There are six firms in Toledo in the fish trade. Altogether about 250 fishermen and semi-professional fishermen are employed. They fish about 240 pound nets, four or five seines, and have nearly 10) boats, large and small. The number of steam craft is six in the busy season. Capi- tol invested in houses, nets and boats, $130,- 000. Last year gill net fishing was begun here. One steamer is regularly em ployed. The‘product last year amounted to nearly 2,000,000 pounds. SEE IS A I'IOKLE COUNTRY GIRL. Two Dead and One Awaits the Gallows for Halo Adams. A despatch from London, (Eng) says :â€" A frightful tragedy has disturbed south- western \Viltshire. A country girl named Lizzie Adams was courted by a young man named Louis Hamilton. Lizzie was general- ly acknowledged to be the prettiest girl around the village of Milksham, and she had half a. dozen suitors, amou whom Hamilton was the favorite. 0n last Vednesday Elam- ilton unexpectedly met one of his rivals. named Richards and Lizzie Adams walking in the village street. Richards smiled in a. sneering way as the discarded lover passed. Hamilton said nothing at the time, but after watching the leave-taking of the twain he sprang upon his rival, revolver in hand, and exclaiming, “ You shan’t have her, Henry Richards. I will have your life first,” shot Richards dead. ‘ Lizzie Adams fainted. When she to- covered Hamilton had disappeared. The police and people united in a general search for the murderer. . He was not seen until to-day, when several policemen, led by Sergt. Mulden, went to arrest him. Hamilton drew his revolver, and said that: he would kill them if they dared touch him. The police made a. rush, hoping to seize him, but he was too , quick for them. He aimed directly Set-gt. Mulden and fired. The sergeant fell dead. Before Hamilton could fire again : the other policemen were upon him, and in spite of his frantic efforts to discharge his weapon again he was disarmed and landed in jail. Lizzie Adams, whose ficklcness was the cause of the death of one lover, is in a. you to take a11V An Important Warning. To the Editor:â€" Dzss. SlB,â€"The following paragraph, which recently appeared in the legal re- ports of the Toronto newspapers, is of vital importance to the people of Canada : Q. a. and c. r. nivxsroxs. Before Street. .1. Fem-om) v. HOWELâ€"lloyles, Q. C.. for the plaintiff, Geo e’l‘aylor Fulford. of the town of Brockvillc. ruggist. moved for an in'uuc- tion restraining the defendants. 8.1; {owe and W..\. llowc. from selling pills in imita- tion of those sold by the plaintiff under the name of " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," and thereby infringing the plaintiff‘s trade mark for such pills rcsrisrered under that name which. the plaintiffallcgcs, by rcuson of his extensive advertising. is well known throughout Canada. Judgment granted for a perpetual injunction. An old adn e has it. that “imitation is the sincerest attery,” but when imitation takes the form of palming off upon the public worthless, perhaps positively harm- ful drugs, in imitation of a popular remedy, it is quite time the public is aroused to a. sense of the injustice done them. There is no other proprietary remedy in Canada to day that approaches Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills in the esteem and confidence with which it is regarded by the people. And justly so, as this remedy has to its credit cures in cases where even the most eminent men in the ranks of medical science had pronounced the patients incurable. These cases have been thoroughly investigated by such leading newspapers as the Toronto Globe, Hamilton Times, Spectator and Herald, Halifax Herold, Detroit News, Albany Journal, LeMonde, Montreal, and others, and their accuracy vouched for. Thus Dr. \Villiams’ Pink Pills have achieved acontinental reputation, with the result that we find dealers here and there imposing upon the public by selling, in their stead, for the sake of extra profit, worthless imi- tations. These imitations are sometimes given names somewhat approaching the original, while in other cases the dealer, while not openly offering an imitation, im- poses upon the customer by declaring that he can give him something “just as good." In still other cases Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are openly imitated in size, color and shape, and are sold in loose form by the dozen or hundred as the genuine Pink Pills. Against all these imitations the public should be constantly on their guard. There is absolutely no other pill, or no' other remedy, that can take the place of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills as a. nerve tonic and blood builder. . To purchase any imita- t-ion, any substitute, or any remedy said to 1 be “just as good” is a worse than useless expenditure of money; The public can protect themselves against all imitations of this great remedy if they will remember that Dr. \Villiams’ Pink Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or hundred. They are always put up in neat round boxes about 1 two and a. half inches in length, the wrapper at . around which is printed in red ink, and bears l the trade mark, “ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.” If offered to you in any other form depend upon it they are worth- less imitations und should be rejected as such. If your dealer does not keep Dr. “'illiams’ Pink Pills do not let him persuade substitute he may say is critical condition, and with characteristic “1‘13” ‘15 300d" DP- inuiams’Pink Pius inconstancy,_is plunged in grief over the probable fate of Hamilton, who will prob- ably have to swing upon the gallows tree. .â€"â€"â€"â€"v--.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- A return of the export of horses, hay, barley, sheep, eggs and potatoes for the six months ending January 1 was submitted to the Dominion Parliament on Monday as fol- lows :â€" may be had by mail, post paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents a. box, or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing the Dr. \Villiams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. or Morris- town, N. Y., The great fact is that life is aservicc ; the only question is : \Vhom shall we serve? “WARMING.” ask your Druggist for GIB- Grcnt Uniteal BONS’ TOOTHAGHE GUM, take no Britain States. 5 SUbSUWtO- ‘ n Horses................. ..... 521 2.819 ' A-P- 60 . Sheep .............. 30.792 254.115 Eggs ((102).......... ........ 3.283.111 3,197,100 I Barley (bush) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,780,606 1,939,011 W Potatoes (tons) ............. 6 33,700 The export of potatoes in the some period to the Spanish West Indies was 239,000 bushels, and to Newfoundland 34,000. The explanation of the heavy export to Cuba is that the duty there is lower than the duty on going into the United States. Every man’s powers have relation to some kind of work ; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do bestâ€"that to which his powers are best adaptedâ€"he finds ment, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.â€"-[J.G. Holland. Germany has discovered a simple yet efficacious method of stopping the czar’s systematic exile of Russian JeWs. It has given notice that none of the exiles shall be permitted to pass through the Kaiser‘s ter- tory. If other nations emulate this sagac- The coinage of the world now absorbs nearly two-thirds of the gold and more than half of the total stocks of silver annually The coming giant is an eighteen-year-old boy named Myron J ilson, who lives at \Vhit- tingham, Vt. He is six feet ten inches in height, weighs 200 pounds, and isstill grow- lug. To be selfish is to sacrifice the noblcr for tho meancr ends, and to be sordidly con- tcn t.â€"[Hugh R. Hawcis. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been more than confirmed by_the plen- ssnt experience of all who have used it, and the success of the proprietors and manufac- turers of the California Fig Syrup Com- pany. The needy mun. while affecting to imitate the powerful, comes to ruin. “ l "are "all Rheumatism for years, and Ncrviline is the only remedy that has done me any good." So writes Thomas hchlnshan, North Pelhsm, July 24, 1890, and his testimony is supported by thousands of others who have experienced the wonderfully penetrating and pain subduing powrr of Nerviliueâ€"the great nerve pain cure. Nervilino is just as good to take as to rub on, and is the best family remedy in the world. Nervlllne is sold by dealers everywhere. Let him that would be at quiet take heed not to provoke men in power. Nature‘s Creative Powers Surpass all the arts of man. fearless of contradictiot St. Leon mineral water has proved its su- periority. Used freelyasa table water it absorbs those secretions that quench life. Also St. Leon soothes, feeds, and tones up the nerve and vital forces, is so full of that mysterious life sustaiuin fluid can be ignited. The charmed, refine feelings that flow steadily on when St. Leon is imbibed hose only can tell who try it well. that which will give him the best develop- l l NOON BEIIEO, Thank You! 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