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16 TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1900. .-yj , -v c !EVRYTA1RV " GUARANTEED SUPERIOR to ail other! Corset In lightness, flei-j Ability; fabrics,, 'wearing! Qualities, fit and detail. cf! finish. Boned with pliable: )-ust-proof metal .boning. ".Every length of waist Ircadth of .hip and bust) "measure perfectly fitted ini (all the' new shapes, atj prices from?1.00ofagQ! per pair; "BO YOU MAKE TOPEKif I THE NATIONAL HOTEL ANNEX. Since annexing the "Walker Building' to the National Hotel I am prepared to accommodate the best trade coming to Topeka. COMMERCIAL MES TAKE NOTICE. I have added 18 new large, light and over half this number are especially ar- 0 ( ranged for v Sample Rooms. The best and most convenient place V for the commercial man TO SHOW 9 GOODS is the National Hotel. t It will pay you to stop at Y No Better Location in the City of Topeka o CHAS. E. WOOD, Prop. oooooooooo a O'ooaaoooa' 5 K A s Si THE COPELAND, Ninth Street and Kansas Avenue. J. C. GORDON, Owner, Manager and Proprietor. t Cuisine Unsurpassed. Strictly First-Class r 'i . ,n every Kespecc Rates, $2.00 " per day and yfca-i upward. Located in tlic Xew Business Center, 1 Block from State House, Topeka, Kas. o o o o o o o o Hotel Oxford and Restaurant, ! 7 FRAM LOAG, Manager. 526-528 Kansas Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS. Lunch Counter in Connection. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. V One Half Block From Postoffice. AH Cars Pass the Oxford. Meal Tickets, S3.25 per week. Our Sunday Dinners 25c WHEN THE SALMON RUN. '.'.13 4 - J Fifth Avenue Hotel Topeka, Kansas. A. T. PIGG, Proprietor. CENTRALLY LOCATED. $1.25 per day. Across Street From Postoffice. ?:gW:4iL h ."'It tas iustly won its laurels." Soups, :wnf . r3sn ame, Hot and Cold Meats, etc., are given a most delicious flavor by using: i"r' given a most delicious flavor bv usinsr pywwi Wtaw y m , MI J tti Vi SAUCE y cr This siciiatera is an evenrtntfld From the Portland Oregonian.l The sails of the fishing fleet again dot the broad mouth of the Columbia, and from now until August 12 one of the prettiest spectacles on the lower reaches of the great river will be the trim little boats, each with its flat spritsail, its two or three men, and its canvas-covered nets slashing the water, on its way to or from the fishing grounds. The boats used by the Columbia river fishermen are, like the fishing craft of every country, the result of an evolu tion which has gradually fitted them exactly for the service in which they are engaged. They are all of the same general plan, sharp at both ends, hollow bowed, built to ride waves like sea gulls, and to increase in buoyancy as their cargo weighs them down into the water. They carry a spritsail which can be shortened merely by unshipping the sprit, and taken in entirely at a moment's notice. This is necessary, for the winds that blow at the mouth of the Columbia are subject to violent in creases on short notice, and the fisher man must be able to get his craft under bare poles in the nick of time or capsize- and struggle in a water-logged boat until help arrives. As long as the weather is pleasant the life of the salmon seeker i3 tolerably enjoyable, as such lives go. He is in the open air, he never knows what ill health means, and the constant excite ment of his quest and friendly rivalry of daily races with other fishermen keep up his interest in things. But when drizzling rains pour down, week in and week oiit, when a driving gale sets in from the ocean and the swell grows heavier and heavier, till the little boat is totsed about like an egg-shell, it is by no means an easy or a safe pursuit. Last year the Columbia liver salmon pack was 340,000 cases, valued at $1, S00,755. and nearly 10,000 men are em ployed in the various branches of the work. Passengers on the Astoria boats, on awakening in the morning, find their attention drawn to teams of horses, wading apparently in midriver. and at tached to some invisible burden. To the uninitiated this spectacle causes no small amount of wonder, and the rail of a steamer is usually lined with the orizing passengers until an obliging offi cer explains that these are s?ining grounds shallow tracts of water where large seines are taken out into the river in boats and their tow lines hitched to horses, which then pull them ashore, with not infrequently a big haul of bright, silvery "chincoks." The sein ing grounds worked or leased by the r owners are among the most profitable and easy means of fishing, none of the dangers of the men who fish out toward the sea being risked by the seiner. Nestling under the rocky point that mariners look for when they want to locate the mouth of the Columbia is Baker's bay, and Baker's bay bristles with piles. There are thousands of them, stretching in every direction as far .as, and further than, they can be counted, and obstructing, so navigators allege, the channel, by forming innum erable bars on the bottom of the river. These piles are the skeletons or frames of fish traps, with which Baker's bay fairly teems. The traps are ingenious affairs, being simply long guiding nets, stretched on the piles, and intended to deflect the salmon from his cruise to the spawning grounds and steer him into a maze made of more nets, from which he can no more extricate himself than he- can walk on a pair of crutches. He must keep on swimming right along, if he ex pects to get anywhere, and his destina tion is an open space, in the midst of a group of piles, driven in a circle, at the bottom of which is strong net, at tached to gear by which it may be pull ed clear from the water, salmon and all. Every morning the owners of the traps, in their boats, haul up the nets, and, in a good season, find them alive with the floundering salmon, who have been butting their heads into the piles and nets all night, in a vain struggle to escape. Sometimes a big, powerful fel low actually rends a net and escapes, but he usually finds himself in another trap in a few minutes. The money invested in traps in Baker's bay is enormous, as each trap is an expensive affair, requiring many feet of net, and the driving of a large number of piles. Most of the traps in the river are in Baker's bay, whose wa ters are within the limits of the state of Washington, and the amount that is paid into the state every year for licenses is very large. Here and, there along the Oregon shore of the Columbia, almost as far up as the Cascade Locks, are to be found a few traps, but their num ber is nothing like as great as that of the traps on the Washington side. The most deadly of all the foes of the salmon, however, await him further along on his journey ftp the river. That is the fish wheel, an ingenious contriv ance which was invented on the Colum bia river, and which gives the salmon sowed, and gradually the run of fish has decreased, till it has threatened to cease altogether. This has been prevent ed by the inauguration of methods of artificial propagation, which it is now admitted has greatly Increased the runs of late years. What becomes of the young fish after they leave the river is something no one knows. Whether they journey around the world or spend their time coasting along the shores it is impossible for any human being to say, but certain it is that they return in a few years to the stream from which they came to spawn and die. For, after they have swam hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles inland, battled with rapids, leaped falls, evaded the thousands lures that are spread for them along their way and deposited their eggs, they pass into a swift decline. Their snouts contort into long, hooked beaks; their fat, round sides shrink, and their once strong tins wag feebly and listlessly. They have fulfilled their mission in life, and all that is left to them is to die. HUMOR OF THE DAY. who enters its long "lead" absolutely no determined "I shall never speak to him again," she declared. "Why not?" her chum asked. "When we were at that concert the other night I told him if he didn't take me out of the crowd I would faint, and he would have to carry me away." "Yes?" "Well, you'd have thought his life de pended on getting me out of there in a hurry!" Chicago Times-Herald. "I will die," said the rejected suitor, "and then she will see how much I loved her!" "Don't go to extremes," said his friend, soothingly. "Couldn't you indi cate your feelings by taking to drink?" Puck. "But," pleaded the more or less elder ly lover, "if we were wed, I am sure you could learn to love me! Or I could learn to unlove you, at the least," he continued, after a moment's pause. Indianapolis Press. "When Buller is doing nothing else he can work up a little financial amuse ment." "How?" "By cashing his checks on the banks of the Tugela." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mary had a little lamb Whose legs to Wall street took him; There he was so sadly shorn That Mary up and hook him. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I see that Mr. Blimer WTOte your reference for you. If they appreciated you so highly, why didn't you stay?" "Then you never met Mrs. Blimer." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I don't wonder the public got 'sore' at you," said his intimate friend. "Why not?" asked the defeated po litical boss. "Because you have been in the public eye too much." Chicago Tribune. "You seem to like his attentions. Why don't you marry him?" "Because I like his attentions." Brooklyn Life. Judge I see you lost a couple of front teeth in the fracas. Prisoner No, your honor: I didn't lope them. Judge But they are missing. Prisonei- Yes, but I swallowed them. Chicago News. Wilkins was reading aloud in the bosom of his family Sir H. H. John ston's famous 'British Central Africa." and came upon a discription of a "wing less goose," so he stopped and said, "Ah! we have nothing like that in Eng land." "Yes, we have father," said the eld est, "I saw a wingless goose yester day." "Rubbish'" And the diFpute waxed high. At length the boy said, "I'll bet you half a crown'." "Done! Now, where was it?" "It was a tailor's goose, and it was at " And two and sixpence changed pock ets. Ally Sloper's. "Don't you want to hire a porter?" "Yes." "What's de job payin'?' "Six dollars a week." "I'll take it." "You? Why, boy, you're not half large enough." "I know it. But I've got a big brother what's strong and hain't got no head fur business. You pays me de sal an' I gets him to do de work. See?" Chicago Tribune. "Mr. Grouch," said the toastmaster, "will now respond to the toast, 'The Ladies.' " The Savage Bachelor arose, pale and WARE OF lH IT AT lOXS. chance for his life. Up the Columbia, from Rooster Rock to the Cascade Locks, and again in the vicinity of The Dalles.these wheels scoresof them may be seen working any day during the fishing season. Sometmes, when the run is large, they are pitching salmon out of the river faster almost than the attendants can take care of them. The wheels consist of large, shallow nets, arranged about central axles, like the fans of a windmill, and dipping In to the river like an undershot wheel, the current turning them slowly around. Long "leadways" are built out into the river to deflect the fish into the chan nel under the wheels, and, as they swim up stream, they suddenly find them selves lifted into the air, shot down in to a trough, and thence to the slippery rtr-r-k of a scow or platform, where a pile of their fellows are breathing their last. ,. . The spring Chinook salmon, which comes only into the Columbia river, is admitted to be the finest fish of his kind that swims in Pacific waters. Although his average weight is between 10 and 20 pounds, the Chinook sometimes run as high as 60 pounds, and the man who gets one of these fellows in his net us ually knows that he has caught some thing before he gets him out. He is worth the trouble it takes to get him, however, for at 6 cents a pound he is worth $3.60 at the canneries, and will bring a great deal more than that in the Portland market, where big fish are highly prized. The spring run of fish is the mainstay of the canneries, although the run of "silversides," which comes In the fall, always goes to help out the pack. Th "steelhead," the finest fish of all for freezing and smoking, runs in the win ter, and a sprinkling of them comes with ths run of Chinooks. These are the fish that rise to a spoon at Orange City, and for which Rudyard Kipling angled at the Clackamas hatchery. The "blue backs." a small but delicious fish, coma with the last of the Chinooks. They are not of sufficient size to be of much com mercial importance, but they are a line fish for the table. In the early days of the settlement of the country along the banks of the Co lumbia and its tributaries, salmon. In the spring season, were actually so thick at the head waters of the streams as almost to justify the statement that a man could cross the water upon thoir backs and hardly wet his feet. So great was the rush to get up stream that in shallow places many fish in the great schools were forced clear out of the wa ter by their fellows and died along the banks. But year after year the fishc-r- laan has been reaping where he never 'The ladies," said he. "The ladies- God bless them, nevertheless." Indian apolis Press, He I always take pains to deny the Chills MAKES f AS FAT A 5 - I i MAKES 4 Ch!LBRE"i AS EAT A J2 . THE BEST PEESCRIPTIOiJ IS Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle hence you know just what you are taking when you take Grove's. Imitators do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any'reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called Tasteless Chili Tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect.. You 'are not experimenting when you take Grove's its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50c ACTS GENTLY .rr .i VE KlD BOWElS OVERCOMES nAT.,- hABmiiLcoHf pa:,on PERMANENTLY. ITSBE&EC15' BUY THE GENUINE -MAN'F'D BY (&IRRN1A jTG$YRVP ( fOP SALE BY an QPUGGISTS. PRICE SOe.PtR gOTTLL statement that women can't throw straight. She That is noble of you, my dear. He Yes; I have to remember with what accurate and effective aim you threw yourself at me. Chicago Record. Kxpert Opinion. "I'm so glad that the poor fellows at Mafeking have been relieved." "Yes. Why so?" "Because now we'll find out what they think of the starvation cure." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sunday School Teacher Robert, tell me why it was the children of Israel built a golden calf. - Robert I don't know, unfess 'twas that they didn't have gold enough to make a cow. Life. "Ha! All you young fellers think about is yer appearance; now, when I was a boy I was satisfied with the looks that nature gave me!" "Yes, father, but you were always easily pleased." Boston Traveler. Smith Say, Brown, how is it that your wife always dresses in the latest style, while your clothes are generally seedy? Brown Oh, that's easily explained. My wife dresses according to the fashion books, and I dress according to my bank book. Chicago News. The Bachelor I don't suppose a man's name changes when he gets mar ried. The Benedict Oh, yes it does. Before we were married my wife called me "Dearest," and now she says, "Here, you!" Philadelphia Bulletin. Neither Gets Them. "You seem to have a great taste for poetry," re marked the copy hook, observing the office goat sniffing around the editor's waste basket. "Yes." replied the g:at, "but I like my poems well done, and I seldom find that sort here." "Huh!" exclaimed the copy hook, "the well done pcem that comes to me Is very rare." Philadelphia Press. Poverty. Here a frail woman in a tattered shawl entered and laid a penny on the counter "Give me two and one ha'f pounds of 'Sunday newspaper." she said, in a hollow voice. After she had gone out the proprietor of the place told us that she would make such a meagre supply of this staple necessity sutfice for a family of fourteen persjns. Detroit Journal. Quashing an Alibi. Defence advocate "Sir, the officer charged with being intoxicated while on duty, is above the breath of suspicion." Police Commis sioner "Sir, your statement is ill timed: the accused is even at this mo ment munching cloves." Judge. Curios "These are genuine Havana cigars," said the connoisseur. "Oh," said the man who always likes to be of importance, 'and here are some genuine Havana postage stamps." "What's in teresting about them?" "Nothing, ex cept the fact that they are genuine." Washington star. Brown "That is a beautiful medal Smith has." Jones "Yes; that's for beating the bicycle record." Brown "What is his record?" Jones "Ran over 17 men in a week." Harlem Life. Her preference. O'Brien "So Casey and Coatigan fought for Miss Kelly's hand, and Casey won? Thin Oi suppose Casey got her?" O'Rourke "No; Casti gon got the prize! She said she wanted the mon she could lick aisiest, begor rah!" Puck. His Reason for Gratulation " 'Tis very fortunate," remarked Mr. Grady wisely,"thot hay be not as hivy as coal." "For whoy, Pat?" "Shure, a ton av the shtuff would weigh so much thot a poor man couldn't afford to kape a cow." Judge. Special Service. "Big fire down on the street," said the .sub-editor on the thirty-ninth floor of the new office building. "How do you know?" asked the chief. "Just got a special dispatch from our staff correspondent on the first floor." Philadelphia North American. "Maw, what's de difference between er politician and er statesman?" "Well, honey, a mushroom's good, ain't it?" "Yes, 'um." "And a toadstool is pizen. ain't it?" "Yes, "um." "And dey bof look alike?" "Yes, 'um." "Des same dif ference from a statesman to a politic ian." Brooklyn Life. A question of Surgery. Mrs. Wagger "Have you moved into your new house?" Mrs. Changer "Oh, yes; but v:e are not settled -yet. The carpenter has to make so many alterations." Mrs. Wagger "I thought everything would be just right." Mrs. Changer "So did we. But we found that scarcely one of our old carpets would fit." Harper's Bazar. "Have you read this sermon of the Rev. Dr. Highflyer? It's rank heresy." "Yes? Perhaps his press agent has rec ommended heresy as the most effective form of ecclesiastical advertising." Brooklyn Life. Had Been a Change. Kansas Man (visiting in the east) "We have lots of near neighbors now." Friend "Why, I thought your nearest neighbor was 20 miles away." "Yes, but we've had a cy . clone since then." Harlem Life. -K -tc -X -X -X X X -X -X GAS STOVES AT CO SL CO Kansas 5o X- -- X- x--x-x-x- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- MMMMMMMMMMMH : Smoke the Best 5c Cigar on Earth. Manufactured by Geo. Burghart. J The Fine Quarter Sawed Oak Counters IN THE CAPITAL BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION J. TIM -WERE MADE BY THE- liAS PLANK Telephone 422 3 Rings. e ill One hundred of its stenographers holding positions in Topeka. Dement's famous system. Instruction strictly, individual. Actual experiene pupils receiving their own earnings. Bay ana ment sessions i. rojinon urui to its graduates. 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