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(I the carp evicts Native fish. ( I 1 H in common with other things Amer-'t I csn. the true, gamey, native American i Iare te;ng crowded out of American f l.i'ers The invader and supplanter i I j the car? 's now one of the most c Iccmm R in American lakes and t |rvers It is steadily usurping all the! c [fishing gr>unds and in a comparatively \ href time the native American species, 1 rite finest fish in the world, will be a 1 ' th ng of the past. f The carp question has a commercial r i'l racial >iJe which prevents suita- I Ke action f<>r the defense of American I f-sh. The carp is a favorite of certain r communities uhere large quantities are c consumed, and defenders of American r ? thi< invader have been v II n it;-""' Iin tied to d scover that they are not t I th a fish question at all, but, t lvjfh a rac question, full of danger it points 'd fraught with animosity t Dearborn Independent. If c I The carp is generally known as the p [ German carp," and has been regard-1 a ej as a native of Kurope and Germany ! i especially. This, however, is not true. E The carp is really a native of China [where it is found in profusion. Three t hundred years ago it was first brought i: to Germany and there reared in ponds. t t Hence it gained the name of German i c carp, which it retains in this country. 1: That the carp should have been in-1 t troduced into this country is a marvel, f for there was absolutely no necessity fi for bringing it here. Our waters teem- n ed with fish of all sorts and varieties, n However, foresight was lacking and so o the fish was w ished upon us like the o Pnoiich ?nnrrow. the Norway rat, the o I Johnson grass and the Hessian fly. g The first specimens of the German carp s are said to have been brought into : Ii this country by Robert A. Poppy "in f the year 1S73. There are those who aver that the first carp were brought fl to America from France in 1831 by v Henry Rohinson.of Newburg, Orange , b County, New York, and thfft they were | P planted in the Hudson River and flour-! r ished there. At any event, they were ( b introduced; and then the fun began. P In 187? the Fish Commission of the c United States undertook the propaga- P t;on of the carp. The spawn was dis- tl tributed free to all comers. It was ntot J fi long before a carp craze swept the fl country. This miserable foreigner fish j ii would thrive in the most disgusting s sewer hole. If a farmer had a duck , n pond filled with drainage,or a reeking e mud-sink in his back yard he conceived n the bright idea of planting it with carp, e Every available ditch was stocked. In the prairie country the carp met with t wide acclaim and lakes and streams v that had never known fish life tof any | b great value were planted. By the year ; t 1885 the streams of nearly the whole , s Pacific Coast of the United States were c stocked and later overrun with carp. P To say that today the carp owns the P waters of the United States is to say tl the very least. A female carp of about ii seventeen pounds may carry as high c as 2,0(X),(Xk) eggs. David Starr Jordan n ?tatcs tnat something like 700,000 eggs a I -9 . been taken from one of the spe- s Hcies. A five-pound carp will produce h about 60,000 eggs. In the face of this f stupendous increase going on unabated C it is a wonder that our native fish life a S bas not been entirely wiped out of ex- 6 istence; but that it is speedily passing t nil anglers know to their sorrow. t Nothing is done for the reason that c "rough fi>h" give impetus to our inter- r H nal commercial fisheries; the control of I H many of these fisheries being distinct- t H ly of a racial character. Only certain t reop!c eat such fish as the carp, the a I tucker nnd the red horse, indeed they a H esteem them as delicacies. Anyone H visiting the fish markets in the East c I Side of New York City knows this. 6 9 see the hundreds of thousands of \ I C3rF there being handled and ab- f S'fbcJ daily is to realize more fully h 'be meaning of it. Carp and other t IH rtlliah fieU ?? - ..ci, .11c 10 certain types of peo- s I pie as dear as life itself. We are giv- ( 'nc over nur beautiful waters, permit- j 9 ' ie fish to inhabit them t and di stroy all precious life in them r to sat sfy a crude foreign taste, not h '' fa thousand Americans ever r tauthing n carp as food. This is e t concrete fact. n Threw varitics of carp arc found in c H<his country, the most common being e I 'he -called scale-carp whose body t H is thickly covered with large scales, t fl variety is the mirror-carp, t which may be told from the others by H the preset :eof some three or four rows t scales in the neighborhood of Itsjs H lateral The mirror-carp goes the 11 H' 1 n weight and will attain SOjr I more. Warm,- stagnant f "Itcn produce gigantic speci- r ' 'his fish. h 9 rs, red horse and buffalo fish a 9' v to our waters. These three, s ' aa a fourth, the carp, con- p 9 * ie lower element of our finny g 9 Bowery toughs, so to speak, t I 'tic Mississippi River on its s 9 ters, is given a special and < n 4 name by East Siders, being! s 9' the Mississippi "sweet fish."] i 9 ing operations are carried t >n along the Mississippi River between i X'inona and St. Paul; "sweet fish" arc here in abundance. Probabiy it is the 1 efuse from the great cities on the riv- s >r that make for the particular "sweet- ; tess** of this choice delicacy of the t leep; nevertheless it forms an indus- f ry that as to commercial importance I :annot be belittled. An idea of how c ast are the numbers of the carp and ; g iaw great is the market in the East ma\ , >e gathered from the following: The , ish that are captured also include vaious game fish, but these are thrown a lack in the water, only the rough fish i ;ept. The rough fish are loaded into F efrigerator cars, 50,000 pounis to a a ai, una orien as nign as rive cars are t nade up, totaling 250.000 pounds, vhich make their way over the rails r o the big cities, where they pass, j hrough various hands, finally reaching c he stalls in the fish ntarVe's where i' hey are purchased by consumers. The t ish are packed in the cars in an un- ii leaned condition. Many cars are es- ? iccially equipped with tanks of water 1 nd the fish are kept alive in these; R ndeed, they are often sold alive in the a Last Side markets. The seining of the rough fish from e he Mississippi and other muddy ri\ers n s good work and no fault is to be 1 ound with it. But the fact that the 1 arp is found now in all clear water ii akes gives another angle to the mat- s er. Lakes, too, are profitable fields ii or commercial enterprise in rough n sh and are being given over to this R lore freely than ever before. This li leans but one thing?the elimination ti f our choice native fish as factors s f importance. In the past, hundreds F f thousands of anglers have annually , s one to the clear water lakes, hut toda\ a ome of the once famous fishing ikes see but a handful of boats on the a ace of the waters. | c Our lakes in the respect of fish and h shing are blessed heritages not to be tl .'antonly desecrated; but they have. n een desecrated; our waters are now r Tactically free of choice fish life. The , tl ough fish, such as carp, suckers, ii ufTalo and red horse, are increasing s rodigiously and the fish and game ommissions of the various States ap- tl arently cannot be moved to attempt a he netting of them to spare the better c ish, although letters pour into the of- C ices of these officials clamoring that t be done. These letters are not an- b wered. If they are answered the a nain thread of the protest is skillfully >i vaded, a promise indirectly being nade that the condition is to be "look- t d into." c A written protest against the condi- a ion of rough fish in those waters f i-here they should not be permitted has een turned down by newspapers in wo States. The question is a botherome one. It should not be. The fish an be removed from the lakes by sim- c ly running a net through them in the J radical and efficient manner of which F he seiners make use. But the feeling p s apparent that the better fish do not t ount, for they do not represent ready N rioney; the rough fish represent money a nd therefore are permitted to increase ? o that when the netting is made the t laul will be one entirely satisfactory 1 rom the speculator's point of view. 1 )ur commercial fisheries are import- a mt, but there are waters restricted for e uch fishing and these waters should be t he legitimate grounds for the indus- c ry. Reference is here made to rivers if a muddy nature, of waters which are 2 lot fitted for the gamier native fish, s Jtter harm has been brought about by he overrunning, of the beautiful lakes ?y the rough fish which goes on undated and without anything being done ibout it. In States such as Minnesota, Wisonsin and Michigan, once the home of iOme of the finest fish that abide in the waters of North America, the better ish are vanishing. The rough fish lave taken possesion; have destroyed he better fish by destroying the pawn cast on the spawning grounds. Canada has more wisely met this iroblem by taking the utmost care of he waters and keeping control of the ough fish so that they constitute no larm to the better grade of fish. This epresents to Canada annually a vacaion and resort business going into nillions of dollars. Canada will be- * Ome the nlavprnnnH of American nn?- ^ T? simply because our waters have c teen almost completely turned over to " be organized rough fish men, conrolled as they are by one clas*. Everything is being done to protect he rough fish; the native game fish re gently pushed into the back ground. 0 ^n official of the Fish and Game Comnission of Wisconsin stated anile I ^ rankly that the rough fish represented rtoney value and that the gam.' Ash J lad only a sentimental value. An cx-1 . mination of the fish laws of Wiscon- 1 Q in will show that the rouRh fish are irotected with Rreater care ?han the am? fish. It has came to pass that n he slimy sucker fish has attained o uch importance that Wisconsin will j f' lot permit you to have in your possesion at any time a sucker under nine! nches in lenRth! To the averaRC man. his may seem as nothinR; to the man kho knows fish this will seem ghastly. I \Phen the anglers and people who o\e our waters come into full poscssion of the facts they will swing into iction. Our beautiful lakes, once eeming with noble game fish, have ;assei into alien hands for exploration, t is a part of the re-Americanization tf America that our native fish be [iven a chance for life. Edison 75 Yearn Old. Thomas A. Edison, famous inventor ind scientist, was 75 yean old last Sattrday. Referring to this event, tr.e Philadelphia Electric Company issued i list of achievements that are credited o him. They include the first electrical vote ecorder in 1868; the acquisition of a ob paying $300 a month within a year >f arriving penniless in New York n 1809; the invention of the stock icker, for which he received 540.000 n 1870; assistance m Scholes. inventor f the typewriter, in 1871, and from 872 to 1876 the inventor of the motoraph, the autoquadruplex, sextuplex nd multiplex telegraph systems. In 1876 he invented the carbon tel? phone transmitter that made a commercial possibility of telephony, and in 877 invented the phonograph. In 879 he perfected the invention of the ncandesccnt electric lamp, and in the ! ame year made radical improvements n the constructon of dynamo-electric machines, making them suitable for enerators for systems of distributing ight, heat and power. In 1881 he esablishcd the first commercial incandecent lamp factory at Harrisotf, N. J. Tom 1880 to 1882 he invented and intnlled an :i *? " iv, iaii*uy iur ircigm nd passengers. He commenced the operation in 1882 t New York of the first commercial entral station for distributing light, eat and power. In 1891 he invented he continuous tape-like film that lakes possible the manufacture and | eproduction of motion pictures. In! he years between 1900 and 1914 he nventcd and perfected the alkaline torage battery. In 1914 he devised a plan for synhetically making carbolic acid, doing way with the difficulty caused by an hief source of supply, England and iermany. In 1915 he aided the textile and ruber industries by making mybrane, niline oil and aniline salt, formerly mported from Germany. The last two achievements meaioned by the electric company are the rcation of the Edison questionnaire, nd the fact that he continues to work rom twelve to sixteen hours a day. 15,000 Acres Timber Bought For $825,000. Sale of approximately 35,000 acres ; if timber and timber lands by the /loore-Keppel Company, of Garland, i 'a., and the Cacapon Lumber Com-; iany, of "West Virginia, to the Winches-, er Lumber Corporation, headed by Villiam B. Cornwell, for $825,000, was innounced on authority of Mr. Cornveil. He confirmed reports that had teen in circulation for several days, fhe land is situated in Hardy and, Hampshire counties, West Virginia,! ind a relatively small portion in Fred-1 Tick county, Virginia, and is estimated : o contain at least 200,000,000 fret i if virgin timber, mostly white oak. The new owners at once will install !0 sawmills in the timber and begin rawing and cutting. The mills will >e situated at different points along he Winchester and Western Railroad, if which Mr. Cornwell is president. The company also will manufacture vaious kinds of lumber, hardwood floorng and cooperage materials, the latter or the benefit of the commercial apile growers of the Shenandoah-Cumlerland district. The Winchester Lumber Corporation, vhich has been chartered by the State , Corporation Commission, will have of- i ices in the general office building of he Winchester and Western Railroad j jompany there. Mr. Cornwell is presdent; Fred L. Glaize, one of the argest lumber dealers and builders in his section, vice-president; G. Frank: Cutsler, of Cumberland, Md., is; reasurer and general sales manager, j ind T. D. Kenny is secretary. The1 lirectors consist of the officers and R. Cray Williams, president of the ihenandoah Valley National Bank; Jerbert S. Larriok, president of the Commercial and Savings Bank; John V. Rosenberger, extensive lumber lealer, and Ward Orndorff, the latter f Wardensvllle, W. Va. Mr. Cornwell is a brother of former lov. Joh:i J. Cornwell, of Romney, W. fa., and practiced law at Romney unil he began work on building the Winchester and Western railroad. He as since become a resident of Winhester. Doan's Regulets arc recommended by angy who say they operate easily, withut griping and without bad after efects 30c at all drug stores. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C A S T O R i A IN GAME OF LIFE The Winner Is He Who Concentrates on His Aim. Success Means That One Must Make All Sacrifices, Keeping in Mind the Great Object. If you desire to be au expert In tbe game of lUe. you uiust concentrate on your aim us an expert chess or baseball player conceutrutes on his play uml game. Hahe Kuth's skill lies In the fact that he hus studied batting und groat batters. Napoleon's tremendous power lay in hia ability to saoritioe everything which coutllcted with the one uuwaveriug aim. Nothing could stand lu his way?society, friends, wife and amusements?everything must give way to his mighty ambition. To succeed, we must pay the price und sucrlttve?sacrifice u great many things we are fond of fqr the great aim and ambition in life. Life is usually what we make it, und we get out ?f life Just whut we put lu it. Many great meu in life have rnude good and were huiulicappcd from the start. Voltaire, with his many tits in childhood, ill nil his life; l'ope sewed up in a canvas jacket each morning, that he might sit up for his work; Caesar with tits; Napoleon with tits a tat the itch; Keats, sickly, a consumptive; Foe with nerves that tormented him, yet with all these things against them, they had the grit to jiersevere until they made good. Gypsy Smith, coming from a gypsy tent, with the use of a Bible and dictionary, has made good as a great evangelist. A man must play to win and overcome everything thai would deter hta progress. Sacrifice makes great men. John Forsythe, who was the owner of a large leather company, was hurt with a number of his men. When the ambuhtnee came, that would only carry three, Forsythe said: "These men must go first," although he was more severely Injured. Sir Itobert Sidney on the battlefield, pushed away the eup o? water, making a wounded urivate drink his share. lie knew he muBt die, but he died knowing that even the love of life had not conquered In his aoul. He realized that the rule of life, others must come first. Really great men have self-confldence. It is true, great men full to accomplish what they set out to do; hut, in the main, they succeeded. The timorous man only wags his empty head, and says It can't be done. Bill McAully Is a type of man that can can the can't. A few years ago there was a riot In a little Texas town. The sheriff sent aa 8 O S call to the governor to send a troop of Texas Rangers. The governor wired back: "Rangers en route." The sheriff anxiously met the train. One lonely ranger (Rill McAully) got off. The sheriff threw up his hands In despair. "Oh, Lord, where Is the rest of your outfit?" ha cried. "Rest, li?11" replied BUI, as he carelessly took a big chew of tobacco. "You ain't got but one riot here, have you?" This Is the kind of timber and confidence that It takes to reach the top and win the game of life.?Pittsburgh Dlsputch. Germs Combat Paresis. It is reported that ruther remarkable results in the treatmeut of general paresis have been obtained In Hamburg, Germany, by Inoculating the patient with the germs of malaria and recurrent fever. Professor Weygandt made this announcement concerning his experiments at a recent meeting of the Hamburg Medical association : "As a result, the remissions and the Improvement were much more marked than they bad been previously, when the cases were left untreated or were treated by the older methods. In the 50 cases treated for from four to 22 months, the following results were secured: "Ability to resume duties of calling, 2 per cent; partial resumption of calling, 22 per cent; ability to work at something, 10 per cent; ability to work part time, 0 per cent; domiciliary cars now sufficient, 22 per cent; no Improvement, 10 per cent; progressively worse, 2 j>er cent. "Accordingly, there was a remission In 88 per cent and a marked remission in 48 per cent. The neurologic and serologic Improvement waa not equal to the clinical and practical progress." Where Her Thoughts Were. A tall,^blonde, handsome fellow, Just raturned^from "over there" came In quite frequently to see my boss and naturally I became Interested In him. One day, during dictation, while tny bowa was deciding what to say, my thoughts became centered around this young man, whom, for convenience, I will call Mr. Smith. At this Juncture my employer said, "Will you please rend whnt I have aid fto fnr?" And t<> my discomfiture and Ids in tense amusement I said, "Referring to attached letter from Mr. Smith"?Instead of the correct naip?. He laughed and said, "So that's where your thoughts are, young woman."?Chicago Tribune, Out West. "Is that a genuine cowboy?" "Yes. you can always tell 'em by the cactus spines n-cllnging to their jeans." "I see. Out here the chaparral proclaims the man."?LoulsvllJe Courier Journal. - ?? m DR. FAHRNEY DIAGNOSTICIAN Specialist in chronic diseases. I make study and treatment of any kind of diseuac the fam' ily l>oetor is not curing. Tell me your trouble and I'll tell you what is your disease and what can be done for it. I'll aend blank and siteciiuen case, (live uiu your nuine. HAOKR8TOWN, MD, m Uqu 2t Cfrom \IJftfiiAil jclj u. oil an iiamou. Haled or loose, delivered either at the ' railroad or at my place ot business. Also good CORN, tor which the highest cash , price will be paid. 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Black Lamb's Foot Harness Oil. rhe Perfection Blue name Wickless Oil Stove?safest. The Four Leaf Clover Cream Separator, where the milk is not mixed or diluted with water, leaving it pure sad sweet for family use. Wall Paper furnished on short notice at reduced prices. Reduced Prices on Haying Tools and Barn Doors .Hangers and Track. Porce Pumps, Deep well Pumps. Qalvanized Bucket Pump ana Walei Purifier, I X L Chain Pumps. A Large Stock of Cooking and Heating STOVES to burn coal or wood. Also Repairs furnished for all patterns el stoves.' l Hie Keystone and IX L Cider Mills, Copper Kettles, Apple Parers, <&c. Bicycles for sale and repairs furnished. Tin and Galvanized Roofing and Speeding put on by experienced worlrsna in the best manner. White Enameled Iron Bedsteads, AO Steel Spring Mattresses, Wire Cotn, Hammock Chairs and Swings. H. C. Marten, Shepherdstown, W. Va. I Prices to conform to the times?Very Low I lljjgggg^JJ ' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo LEGHORNS | >4 Egg Strain ? *gg breed by test 6 ;aeh to 200 g 3ers write. |&? ft t pril 5th, 6p per chick. No J.aty C ur orders early or you lese. ? y and Hatchery :ion, West Virgpnta ' ooooooboooooooooooo^