The Rice belt journal., September 25, 1908, Image 6

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the town had earned a All the labor of handling the fish has been sys
vital place in the life of teomatized, as it had to be in a business where
the colonies, and many the bulk is so great. There is no wasted effort
of the ships that went carrying the fish into town. nor is the dirty
out to do battle with the work permitted to mar the beauty of the city
fighting craft of England proper. Everything is (lone right at the wharves,
rwere built and fitted out where there is ever at hand a limitless supl)ply of
in Gloucester, a large water to do the vitally important final labor of
part of the money that cleansing.
made them coming from When a two-masted schooner, laden to the gun
patriotic contributions wales with its cargo of fish, comes into the
Son the part of the own- wharves the fish are carried to great tubs. Over
ers of the big fish in- these stand a company of experts, men who have
..dustry. The town had to cleaned hundreds of thousands of fish, and who
h "w . . :.. ,:'." .ear "t a
.ite the brunt of an aat- can make the quick cuts, and do the scraping
tack by the British tdur- with incredible speed. Running to each tub is a
. ,. ing the revolution, but hose, and after the waste has been removed, an
the ships f the enemy instant undthe heships o the pressurenemy instant under the high pessue of water from
were repulsed by the the hose cleans out the fish completely and makes
,: . ,, , " hardy seamen. it sweet and ready for the next step in the opera
During the war of tion. Codfish is dried and salted before being
OT r 0. . ' .ZI dRc 'YG GROUYD 1812 a number of priva- sent to the market, and the work is also done on
AVE you acclimated yet?" in
quired a genial tourist of another
tourist of the same genus, as
they awaited a train in the
depot at Gloucester, Mass.
"Acclimated?" asked the G. T.
of the second part. "To what?"
"To this codfish smell, of
course," answered G. T. No. 1.
Even the air is fishy in Glouces
ter, but nobody complains, for it is the coast city's
way of earning a livelihood. It is not the smell
of fish in the process of decay or of salt fish, but
it is the exhilarating ozone of the Atlantic, for the
fish that you smell in Gloucester are freshly
caught. Gloucester has really never known any
thing else, for since its beginning approaching
three centuries ago, it has always had fishing for
its chief industry, and to-day it is the greatest
fishing center of the United States, and, according
to the belief of many, of the world.
Nothing more picturesque can be imagined than
this quaint New England town. where from the
ocean the 30,000 inhabitants get the greater part
of their sustenance.
Gloucester is 31 miles from Boston, and it in
cludes the villages of Annisquam, Bay View, East
Gloucester, Freshwater Grove, Lanesville, Magno
lia, Riverdale and West Gloucester.
The magnificent harbor, large and affording safe
water room for the largest ships of the world, has
had the effe-t of encouraging traffic in other things
besides fish. Salt, coal and lumber are largely im
ported. There are interests in granite quarrying,
drop forging, brass founding, the manufacture of
fish glue, anchors, machinery, oil cloth, nets, twine,
sails, cigars and shoes. Moreover, Gloucester also
as shipbuilding plants worthy the name.
But after all it is the fishing that interests the
thousands of visitors, not only those who actually
spend the summer in the vicinity, but the thousands
who visit Gloucester while passing through Massa
chusetts in the course of the popular summer tour
of the New England states.
It was not until the beginning of the eighteenth
century that Gloucester became especially promi
nent for its fisheries and its shipbuilding industries,
but by the time of the outbreak of the revolution
teersmen that wrought
deadly execution on the commerce of the enemy
were sent out from Gloucester, and many of the
grizzled old salts, who attain a most venerable
age in this healthy climate, can tell from tales
told them by parents or grandparents of rich
prizes taken by the Gloucester fishermen turned
fighters.
The great storms that sweep the New England
coast have ever found a favorite vortex in the
vicinity of Gloucester, and many shipwrecks have
taken lives near by. The large sunken rock
called "Norman's Woe," which is well known to
every visitor, was made famous by Longfellow
with his poem, "The Wreck of the Hesperus."
Gloucester has been an incorporated city since
1873, but in many respects it is hard to think of
it as anything but a fishing resort, a little village
by the ocean side.
For one thing the flavor of olden times clings
to it. Among the some 6,000 men who do noth
ing but fish there are many who have passed the
70-year-old mark, and some who have numbered
as many as 80 years, yet they are still able to
bear their share of the work in going after the
cod and mackerel. This fishing Is both arduous
and dangerous.
It is done from sloops and schooners, which
go out to the fishing grounds daily. On each
schooner is a nest, so to speak, of dories, a series
of small boats, differing in size so that one can
be comfortably stowed in another, and therefore
not take up much room. When the fishing-ground
has been found the sailors spread around in the
dories to get their catch.
Often in the fog some of the small boats get in
the path of the swift-moving ocean liners, for the
favorite fishing banks are directly on a line with
a much-traveled route. Often not many details
are obtainable of the tragedy which ensues. Only
a few lines in the newspapers tell of a small boat
or a number of small boats with their crews
lost at sea. A hundred thrilling tales of narrow
escapes can he picked up in the course of a day
Spent with these hardy men of the sea, but the
experiences never seem to daunt them. They
are ever ready for the day's trip and its hopes
for reward of a boatload of the shining, squirim
ing. panting fish.
All the labor of handling the fish has been sys
tematized, as it had to be in a business where
the bulk is so great. There is no wasted effort
carrying the fish into town. nor is the dirty
work permitted to mar the beauty of the city
proper. Everything is (lone right at the wharves,
wheq'e there is ever at. hand a limitless supply of
water to do the vitally important final labor of
cleansing.
When a two-masted schooner, laden to the gun
wales with its cargo of fish, comes into the
wharves the fish are carried to great tubs. Over
these stand a company of experts, men who have
cleaned hundreds of thousands of fish, and who
can make the quick cuts, and do the scraping
with incredible speed. Running to each tub is a
hose, and after the waste has been removed, an
instant under the high pressure of water from
the hose cleans out the fish completely and makes
it sweet and ready for the next step in the opera
tion. Codfish is dried and salted before being
sent to the market, and the work is also done on
the wharves. Here are ranged hundreds of
tables, exposed to the bright sunlight. The
cleansed fish are piled up in such a manner that
the warm rays get a most admirable chance at
them. This summer has been so hot that the
fishermen have had great difficulty in drying out
the cod. Instead of taking the water out in the
gradual normal manner, the sun has been so
fierce that it baked the fish, and in this manner
many of them were cooked so hard on the out
side as to be virtually worthless for the market.
But this is a rare occurrence, for under ordi
nary conditions the climate of New England is
ideal, and the sun does the work of drying in a
manner far more satisfactory than could any
agency of man's production.
From the open-air drying tables the fish are
shifted to the boxing and packing establishments,
which are also located along the water front, and
then they are made ready to be shipped to all
parts of the world.
Gloucester regards its fishing industry with the
same traditional pride that a native of Brussels
might regard the lace industry.
From generation to generation the families of
noted fishermen stick to the business, and noth
ing is a more familiar boast to some grizzled old
follower of the sea than to be able to say that
his son and grandson are both fishermen, and
that there is a strong probability that a great
grandson just beginning to master the fine points
of the business will be better than any of them.
The cod, of course, is the most admired of all
the fish that fall to the lot of these deep-sea Izaak
Waltons, though the mackerel is also regarded
with great respect.
The deep-sea fishermen look down upon the
clam diggers, but the latter can afford to ignore
this contempt, for there is plenty of money to be
made in the sale of the bivalves. They are to
be found in plenty on the sandy shores of the
neighborhood, and at all hours of the day, but
especially at low tide, the clam hunters, turning
up the beach with their rakes, can be seen at
work. Clam shucking is an expert feature of the
work, and many of the old hands make phenome
nal records in dissociating the luscious clam from
its protecting shell.
. . lIOY began his composition
A on "The Horse" thus: "The
horse is the most useful an
. mal in the world; so is the
cow." The boy is the most
interesting subject to write
about; so is the girl. As a mem
ber of the genus man he has
his defects; as a specimen of the
species boy, he has the merits of
his defects. He may be white or
black or red or yellow or brown, but
he is seldom green and not often blue.
He travels light. Life's task has no
terror to him. He does not know
where he is going to fetch up, and
does not always care where he fetches
up, and sometimes does not care
whether he fetches up at all. His
task is to take J.te fairest vision that
can be made to unroll itself before the
imagination, transfer it to the interior
of his soul and reduce it to character.
At ten, he is butlining a program for
middle life and at 16 deciding what he
is to be at 60.
All the world looks on and some peo.
THE MERITS OF HIS DEFECTS
BY J. S. KIRTLEY, D.D.
Author of "The Young Man and Himself," etc.
pie hold their breath, notably parents,
aunts and teachers. Fate and fortune
fight for his attention, while he-goes
swimming or skating. There may be
possibilities in him as vast as life and
as delicately uncertain as the zephyrs,
but he keeps on swimming and skat
ing and playing and hunting and fish.
ing. He may be making decisions that
send vibrations to the farthest shore
line of his oceanic future, but he ever
hears the imperative call of the field
and the forest and the stream. His
motto seems to be:
"Gather ye the rosebuds while ye may;
Old time is still a flying;
And this same flower that blooms to-day,
To-morrow may be dying."
The meaning of this apparent blend
ing of stupidity and conceit and sev
eral other things is that he has an in
side sensitiveness to things that are
really preparing him for his future and
that he is actually making some of his
momentous decisions, as a sort of side
issue-"while you wait" and hold your
breath. He can do two or three things
at once-can play, eat and make a
noise; at the same time, decide affairs
of destiny. His defects do not set up
an agitation in his gray matter. He
knows them not.
The burdens of the future are not
swaying down his back. Edwin Mark
ham rose on the nation with that dark
poem on "The Man with the Hoe," in
which he represents the laboring man
as reduced to the level of the ox, and
some one has written a travesty on
that poem entitled, "The Boy with the
Spade."
No weight of age bears him down,
That barefoot boy with fingers brown;
There's nothing empty in his face,
No burden of the human race
Is on his back; nor is he dead,
To joy or sorrow, hope or dread;
For he can grieve and he can hope,
Can shrink with all his soul from-soap.
No brother to the ox is he
lie's second cousin to the bee.
He loosens and lets down his jaw
And brings it up, his gum to "chaw."
There's naught but sweat upon his brow,
'Tis slanted somewhat forward now;
His eyes are bright with eager light;
He's working with an appetite.
Ah, no! That bq" is not afraid
To wield with all his might the spade!
Nor has he any spite at fate
He's digging angleworms for bait.
No precautions disturb his plans any
more than his toilet. His very impris
onment in his own impromptu pro
gram is a providential form of protec
tion. The future has no chance to ne
gotiate to him large loans of trouble
-not yet. Uncrushed by the tragedy,
untroubled by the riddle and unterri
fled by the greatness of life, he ap
proaches it blandy and blindly, more
ready because of those facts.
(Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
SHE GOT HER MAN-HAPPY.
Indian Woman Not Likely to Be Left
Far Behind in Life's Battle.
Writing of the f;nuit '-s iean Kaye
of Topeka. in SulbttIan life,., Paul .\.
Lovowell. sa.<s:
"Dl)ean Kinvely hat; h:1 int Iresting ex
p(-Iri'nce5, duriniL hlii sonljourns In the
wvilrderlness. ()O et an Indiain woman
canme to his (.aliq.
" 'You 1mlrryV.' she asked].
"'Yes,' sand the dean, I can marry
folks. Hlave you ;ot a man?'
".\gain the woman grunted, and de
parted. About sundown she returned,
draging with h ur an apparently
abasheid and reI't.lant h brav.\'
"'Got himu.' sth remathrked, l' onical
ly, produ'ini:" h r nma'rrine license.
The man kow tn, I:uie lish, but the
woman liroullpteid himi whi it, became
necessary for him to rive his assent
to the dean's q'uestions. When it was
over the sqluaw paid the minister his
fee and led hier hbshbal away in tri
um ph."
DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA
Could Lay Slate-Pencil in One-Hands
in Dreadful State-Permanent
Cure in Cuticura.
"I had eczema on my hands for
about seven years and dturing that
time I had used several so-called rein
edies, together with physicians' and
druggists' prescriptions. The disease
was so bad on my hands that i could
lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks
ana a rule Ilaced across the hand
would not touch the pencil. I kept
using remedy after remedy, and while
some gave partial relief, none relieved
as much as did the first box of Cuti
cura Ointment. I made a purchase of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my
hands were perfectly cored after two
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one
cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W.
II. Dean, Newark, Del., Mar. 28, 1907."
ONLY A COW.
Artist (who has been bothered by
rustics breathing on him all the morn
ing)--My good fellow, I assure you
that you can see the sketch with more
advantage from a little distance!
Microscopic Writing.
A remarkable machine made by a
lately deceased member of the Royal
Microscopical society for writing with
a diamond seems to have been broken
up by its inventor. A specimen of its
works is the Lord's prayer of 227 let
ters, written in the 1,237,000 of a
square inch, which is at the rate of
53,880,000 letters or 15 complete
Bibles, to a single square inch. To
decipher the writing it is necessary to
use a 1-12-inch objective, which is the
high power lens physicians employ for
studying the most minute bacteria.
Populous Chlra.
The population of the Chinese em
pire is largely a matter of estimate.
There has never been such census of
the empire as that which is
taken every decade in this country.
But the estimate of the Almanach de
Gotha for 1900 may be taken as fairly
reliable. According to that estimate,
the population of the empire is, in
round numbers, about 400,000,000. It
is probably safe to say that if the
human beings on earth were stood up
in line every fourth one would be a
Chinaman.
A Carlyle Wedding.
Craigenputtock, where Carlyle's
"Sartor Resartus" was written, has
just been the scene of a notable wed
ding. The bride was Mary Carlyle of
Craigenputtock, a grandniece of Thom
as Carlyle, a farmer, of Pingle, Dum
friesshire, a son of Thomas Carlyle's
favorite nephew. Pingle is about four
miles from Ecclefechan, Carlyle's
birthplace, and this village is the
original of the Entuphl of "Sartor
Resartus."-London Standard.
AFRAID TO EAT.
Girl Starving on Ill-Selected Food,
"Several years ago I was actually
starving," writes a Me. girl, "yet dared
not eat for fear of the gonsequences.
"I had suffered from indigestion
from overwork, irregular meals and
improper food, until at last my stom
ach became so weak I could eat
scarcely any food without great dis
tress.
"Many kinds of food were tried, all
with the same discouraging effects. I
steadily lost health and strength until
I was but a wreck of my former self.
"Having heard of Grape-Nuts and
its great merits, I purchased a pack
age, but with little hope that it would
help me-I was so discouraged.
"I found it not only appetizing but
that I- could eat it as I liked and that
it satisfied the craving for food with
out causing distress, and if I may
use the expression, 'it filled the bill.'
"For months Grape-Nuts was my
principal article of diet. I felt from
the very first that I had found the
right way to health and happiness,
and my anticipations were fully re
alized.
"With its continued use I regained
my usual health and strength. To-day
I am well and can eat anything I like,
yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part of
my bill of fare." "There's a Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
pille," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
ONE KIDNEY GONE
But Cured After Dctc c Said There
Was No Hope.
Sylvanus O. \::
says: " i\e tea t .. : . ry
Sad
of Doan's Ki(rn I
ing thoem. O)n- i,,,..
:inl fr':' fr ntI I ' "
,Olterl i il. :n cy(.:: , I ', N
LEST HE FOGPCET.
No Roseate Postcard Without Its
Thorn of Sujceticn.
Ilarotls i t. t ! ',l' ; I,. , . h lh ar.
old -vv( a l'( l :, ba af : ti' , h ' bav
in luarI ll n , i , " ii. . .. ' ::'h t un
stiu ,stanl iial ('n ! :' hi , ,.: l ist rs.
In spit(, of tht, i),.n :H ,',I dhi.(ltions
1\ithl w hich ( lift~ f iT, ln,,i ll('il, of
fil1al l ': t" l it( 1i;1(l nut 'eaced
to hiiibarld l.ii. iH  ro,~c ll I thor was
far froni sit" th::I , :r ( 'ff s would
have aiiv lastitn .1.
11 rv (' \ui v a':: i'i:, o or less lis.
turbe(d )y the('t ih,:l'-. hut before
she laniled (in the ,h, silo 1 she ihad
deterinin(,tl on a oil.( of iaction. Like
all small hoys. I! ar)li is most, cov.
otous of )i(' iure1 I st'aids and had
looked forwardl to a hirvl(st from his
mot her's trip. i]i got it.
Every day s she n at at least (one
card. And whatever else it bore in tho
v:ay of inscriliption there was not one
which failed of this intr,,llOcetion:
"Just as soon as you ,.-(t this go and
brush your teeth."
SPOHTN'S DIST'EMP1'R CITE will
eiie any I,,-k iljir (::"e ,it DI)sT 'EMI 'ER,
PINK E}YE, anIt the !'.,e ,illng horses
of all age<. and )pr'c, lo . all others isn the
smth e stable fro l. hl%:n the ( ei-e. Also
Thre ('ken clst ha(r. anotd log distanper.
Anstead of going to tat fashi. or senablnd
restaurant," urerso. i ,nd:i . a thrift
swain. And, he ted e ok. Smentally,
Mtdihal Co., saved. - us Diseasesty Jour
Goshen, Ind.
,She Lost Out.
"I'd rather waltz than cat," confided
the summer girl.
"Then we'll just have another dance
Instead of going to that fashionable
restaurant," responded the thrifty
swain. "And," home added mentally,
"saw that's $6 saved."-Kansas City Jour
nal.
Actual Facts.
For upwards of fifteen years Hunt's
Cure has been sold under a strict
guarantee to cure any form of itch
ing skin troubles known. No matter
purhe and e--less than one per cent. of
thar size 25purchasers have requested theirs.
the work.Cause of the Break.
"hat caused that awkward breakher.
nMadam (to the nurse maid, who hasne
drpchanged the subjchildren look siFranc I lastco
saw them! Are you qurgonaut.e sure they
Argonaut.
The
General Demand
of the Well-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; a laxative which'physicians could
sanction for family use because its com
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
Leather Trimmed Runaboute, - 483.25
RoadWagons. . .... 31.25
Top Bag le .- - - - - 40.80
.i DIreet-4-ave Mosey. Elirbten yer'eosow
tiueQdueee k OMabled us to produce theec artlQoe
alder th"M. I K."reglim at such prices direet to the
boeumer. The bPlerome.t vehricle ctalogu eveurluei
I1 lthloutl litres for tealkukln. Writeforo It ow.
Moeh.t* oEsller Co., p,.. w, UOUUW, TrmW