Bellefonte, Pa., June 24, 1927. SALMON’S WEALTH GREATER THAN GOLD Fish Lead in Exports From Far Alaska. Ketchikan, Alaske.—From the island dotted waterways of Alaska’s thou- ‘sands of miles of coast has come a ‘wealth more precious, more vital even than gold. It is the wealth of the sea it8elf—of the teeming millions of salmon that have been taken from the bosom of the North Pacific and placed on the world’s table. Since Alaska was purchased from Russia, sixty years ago, salmon has led the list of exports from the terri tory, with $610,750,038 to its credit— a figure which multiplies nearly eighty-five fold the price which Uncle ‘Sam paid for the territory. "The romance of the Klondike has not dimmed in the hearts of the Alas- (kans, nor has the gold fever of the late nineties, which sent thousands into the territory, been forgotten any- where in the United States. But, de- 8pite the mineral wealth of the terri- tory, the salmon exports lead those of gold by $250,000.000. Best Source of Revenue. With * agricultural production prac- tically negligible, it is not for the (Alaskan to gain his wealth—or even Ito earn his daily bread—through till- ing the soil or trekking about on a sort of hill and valley hegira seeking “pay dirt.” Rather it is his mission ito don sou'wester and slicker, boots jand gloves; to board his boat and te steer for the tishing banks. Thousands of men, many of them native Alaskan Indians, are engaged in salmon fishing or canning and sub- sidiary industries. The number dur- ing 1925 was estimated at more than ‘25,000. The Investment at that time ‘was set at $55,400,000. 3almon fishing is permissible in sev eral ways. Legislation, of course, pre- vents taking salmon from the mouths of streams when they migrate each |#6ason to spawn, and recently, under thie regulations perfected by the bu- u of fisheries, closed seasons have Been in effect at the height of the |summer season in order to allow more |salmon to get to the spawning |grounds. This measure is being taken ito assure perpetuity of the supply. The most common form of fishing Is the traps. These are built by various individuals and corporations at points | approved by the government. Through a series of wire meshes migrating salmon are caught by the thousand. Once and twice a day the traps are brailed (depending” upon how the fish are “running”) and the salmon taken to canneries in the vicinity. Another side waters, allowing hooks and lines to drag behind. “spoons” ring. : Traps Largely Used. The operations of the seine boats iargely have been displaced by the Natives, however, in the south- eastern section still operate their boats. Larger crews are required for these boats, which throw out huge nets, the edges of which have cork floaters. When the ends are joined the net is hauled in and—if good for- tune has played its hand—hundreds or even thousands of salmon are taken in one haul. Xetchikan offers an interesting traps. These are baited with : designed to represent her- TWO DUKES HAVE KING AS LANDLORD Make Annual Gift in Return for Estates. Woodstock, England.—In spite of housing shortages and rising rents there are two persons in England who can live without fear of waking up some morning to find that their rents have been doubled. They are the duke of Marlborough and duke of Welling- ton and their landlord is the king of England. Both noblemen hold their great estates as grants of royal favor from the crown. But the gift is not out- right. Some return must be made and 80 it is that each of these noble lords must go once each year on a solemn pligrimage to the king of England at Buckingham palace to make some gift which will insure his tenure for the following year. The selection of the gift is by no means left to the personal fancy of the giver. It is carefully set down in Blackstone's “commentaries” that the two tenants must render to the king annually “some small implement of war as a bow, a sword, a lance, ar arrow, or the like.” The duke of Marlborough’s estate, Blenheim palace, at Woodstock, was given to the first duke of Marlborough as a reward for his victory at the battle of Blenheim in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704. It was begun in 1704 and completed in i722, The total cost of the palaee was £300, 000, of which £250,000 was defrayed by parliament. Similarly, Stratford Saye house, near Reading, was presented to the first duke of Wellington by the nation, in 1815, following his victory over Na- poleon at the battle of Waterloo. Soviet to Preserve Chapel of Virgin Moscow. — Cathedrals, churches, mosques and synagogues of definite historical or architectural interest are to be preserved intact by the Soviet government, This was indicated by the commlis- sariat of education in refusing the pe- tition of a Moscow borough govern- ment seeking the demolition of the famous chapel of the Iberian Virgin, which the devout consider the most sacred spot In Russia. The borough claimed it impeded trafttic. structure,” said the “has every claim to be preserved with the rest of Russia's monuments, be- cause fit represents a definite his- torical, artistic period in the life o* | ! P | dangerous to a foreigner who attends the country.” i at the entrance to Red Standing > i like a fool toward the natives. One Square, the diminutive editice was made famous by its ikon of the lberian Virgin, reputed to have miraculous powers, and by the fact that all czars during the last 300 years invariably went there for inspiration and bless common form is trolling. Small boats NE before ascending the throne. manned by one or two men travel in- | ‘Get Thee Gone,’ Divorce Decree in Turkestan —Turkestan is {one of the few remaining Moslem | Tashkent, U. 8S. 8. R. countries where the system of tem porary marriages prevails. As in the new Turkey, a man may divorce his wife by saying in sub- stance: “Get thee gone!” free to try matrimony with another. But the woman, under Islamic law, cannot remarry until 100 days have elapsed after her divorce. If she does so, she is cast out from Moham- medan society as a sinner. Among the natives of Turkestan the penalty for infidelity in a wife is both severe and humiliating. To show her He is then . and consideration. Don’t always want to know where he is going, and if he | somes home a little late be agreeable ' An omnivorous eater of all growing Crude Water Heaters : Used by Old Romans Even so generally used and useful a thing as hot water in generous quan- tities is a development’ of very mod- ern times. For thousands of years primitive, laborious methods were the only means for having hot water. This condition was but little impr.ved up t less than a generation ago. The first water heater known dates back some 2,000 years. This was the “ahenum” of the Romans, a crude bronze kettle with a handle for swing- ing over an open fire. The “focolus,” an apparently later device, was a metal container into which hot stones were put to heat the water surround- ing them. This seems to have been the best water heater the early Roman” were able to devise. During the Elizabethan age in Eng: land the people were notoriously un- washed. Perhaps it was because the teakettle was their only source of hot water supply. In 1809, when gas for fuel and light became a public utility. the desire and need for hot water be came easier to fill. With the develop- ment of the gas stove, hot water begar to flow more freely. East Credited With Idea of Gunpowder Gunpowder was made in the Middle iges much as it is now, except that the processes were not so refined, and the product cruder and weaker. Gun- powder is a mixture consisting = of potassium nitrate, sulphur and char- coal: The’ origin of ‘it’ is involved«in considerable uncertainty, but it is be- lieved to have been discovered in the ancient East. As far as Europe is concerned, (oger Bacon, the Thirteenth-century alchemist and philosopher, is some times spoken of as its inventor. At any rate he set down the formula in this fashion in 1270: “Mix together saltpetre with lura «0p cum ubre and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the mode of mixing.” The four zeemingly meaningless words in the middle are simply a transposition of the letters of carbonum pulvére or charcoal, Morocco a Safe Country fhe days of roughing it, exploration, freedom of action, are gone—as far as Morocco is concerved. Fifteen years “This precious Sixteenth century 580 & man could take a pack outfit commissariat, | : ever fancy led. No more; the French and a bunch of natives and go wher- snd Spanish are in control, says Ad venture Magazine. Morocco is not, nor ever has been. to his own business and doesn’t act can’t insult & man in America. with ' out taking. a chance of getting licked or killed for it. Morocco and everywhere else. The same applies’ in: There ! tas pever been an “open season” on | foreigners. { lest 20 years has been European ' propadanda intended to warrant for- i eign control of the country. All that wild news of the Only a Dream Hubby listened intently. His wife and her mother were talking. The iatter was saying: “You have indeed secured a splen did husband, and I think you ought to treat him with a little more tact and wait until he explains before you begin asking a lot of awkward ques- tions. He's just the sort to appreci- ate any generosity on your part. Be kind to him.” Hubby stirred uneasily, trying to ' against them, first in a | arena, where the earwig was victori- ' ous, and then in the fields at large. HISTORY OF TRIBES CARVED ON BLUFFS Records Found on Sides of Guadalupes. Carlsbad, N. M.—Pictographs of an aboriginal race that antedates all known southwestern tribes are min- gled in the Guadalupe mountains near here with the more recent sketches and paintings of the Apache warriors who hid with the wily Geronimo, and with the initials of the pursuing so)- diers under Gen. Nelson A. Miles. The Guadalupe range is perhaps as little known as any in the United States, much of it never having been explored by white men. But the little that has been examined promises a field of archeological investigation for many years, Carvings on Sides of Bluffs. The hieroglyphics of the ancient tribe are carved and scratched on the bluffs and in the caves they inhabited inthe mountains, and no attempt has been made to decipher their mean- ing. Unlike most Indian carvings and paintings the pictographs bear no resemblance to animal forms, but are in almost every case arrangements of geometric figures in friezes or panels, reaching in places to a height of eight feet. The friezes stretch to lengths of 100 feet or more horizontally until marred ror broken up by the decay of rock strata into which they were cut. In contrast to the maze of mark- ings’ etched by’ the ‘stone :tools of the ancient race are the huge, gaudy draw- ings fashioned by the Indians during the last 150 years. One particularly brilliant painting is above a ledge high in the hills where, tradition has fit, one of Geronimo’s warriors fortified himself for a lone stand against the white troopers in the early eighties. Iiany Soldiers’ Names. The painting depicts a warrior pointing up the canyon. The faint outline of a horse is close beside him. The picture is translated as a warn- ing to his tribesmen that mounted enemies are approaching through the canyon. Indications of the passage of white, soldiers through the mountains are plentiful. In many places initials and names of soldiers serving under Gen- eral Miles are carved in the rock. In a cave in a remote section is carved the name of W. M. Bonney, | better known as “Billy the Kid.” Incites “War” to Kill Pests Among Insects Seattle, Wash.—Important to hu- mans, although almost unnoticed by the general public, a war of extinction between mortal enemies in the insect world has been going on in the Pa- ‘cific Northwest for four years and the | end is not yet in sight. The warfare was instigated by Prof Trevor Kincaid, professor of biology at the University of Washington, in an attempt to control a serious infesta- tion known as the earwlg, a species "of harmful insect, by importing para- sitical tachinade flies from Europe. The tachinade flies are natural ene- mies of the earwig. Roth came from : Europe originally. When poison bait and other weapons railed to check the encroachments of the 1lies were pitted laboratory the earwig, things, the earwig also ensconces it- ! self snugly in clothing or shipments of goods and does considerable damage. 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The canneries. some of them located near the steamer landings, operate night and day dur- FSS TS Tr guilt, her face is blackened and she is , Fear more, when—he awoke. placed on a donkey, with her face to- | ing the season. Most of the work is | ward its tail, and led through the done by machinery. bazars of the town. Salmon fishing, however, is not con — | fined to the southeastern part of the | territory, but is more or less common all along the coast. Due to the nature of the country, however, southeastern Alaska is more adaptable both to the salmon and the agencies which seek to can them. In addition to canning, mild curing and the packing of fresh fish offer employment to hundreds the year around. During 1925 the value of these products was set at $1,751,369. The total number of salmon taken from Alaskan waters during 1925 was for Best Safety Essays New York.—In 1926, there were 5,- 921 highway grade-crossing accidents - in"which 2,492 persons were killed and 6,991 injured. In 1925, there were 5,- | 479 accidents in which 2,206 persons were killed and 6,555 injured. In an effort to interest the public and especially the younger generation, in preventing grade-crossing accidents, the railroads, through the American Railway association, have announced an offer of three prizes in a nation- wide contest to be awarded to school and college students. The prizes are to be $250 each, one for the best essay prepared by a grammar school stu- dent, one for the best, by a high school student, and one for the best, by a col- = Our Entire stock of Men's and Young Men's Bog! fii She had been turning over every . article the weary salesman had placed Judge Insists. | oefore her on the counter, but noth- White Plains, N. Y.—Wouléd a wife i ing seemed to be exactly the thing refuse alimony? Asked by Justice | ghe wanted. Morschauser how much she wanted, | “I am afraid there's nothing here Mrs. Wilhelmina Lechmann said: “I | .0 suit,” she decided at last, and then, don’t want any.” “Oh, yes, you do,” | in ga burst of confidence, whispered: said the justice. “I will make your | wgoy see, tomorrow is my husband's husband pay $100 8 month and you | pirthday and 1 wanted to surprise must take it.” nim.” The weary man behind the counter | gave her a scathing look. “Well,” he suggested in icy tones, “why not hide behind the armchair Suits grouped for quick selling in = = Le Sh Two Price Groups $22.50 $27.50 Fea) SRS So SR LA = —- J Ef be and Me Se SH =f ho le Si Shoshones ‘Bury’ Beds 477,600. In 1922 th as . and yell ‘Boo’ at him?” ne 2.870 o the Lumber. X of Dead Warriors y : lege student. The subject in all cases | fie All Suits formerly priest ir from Le WO Ly Fort Washakie, Wyo.—Mod- : i8 to be “Cross Crossings Cautiously,” Al $35 t $50 ee 1 , ern customs and ancient beliefs Blissful Beginning and each essay must be not more than | Jr; = 10 IOW aT Military Barracks have clashed with weird re- Owing to the absence through fll | 250 words in length. Detailed plans |g Ue for the contest have been arranged by J. C. Caviston, secretary of the safety section of the association, with head- quarters at 30 Vesey street, New ! York. The contest closes on June 1. 200 Rattlesnakes Killed by Charge of Dynamite Hot Springs, 8. D.—Guy Keyes, a for- est ranger whose station is near Key- stone, in Harney national forest, forty miles from Hot Springs, saw a rattle- snake glide along ahead of him as he rode over his range, and disappear in a crevice of boulders a short distance away. sults In the Wind River burial ground near here. The old idea that the Sho- shone Indian should have his personal effects buried with him was workable in the days when he slept on a buffalo robe, but these modern beds present a problem which is generally solved by leaving the bed above ground. The burial place was estab- lished 43 years ago by Rev. John Roberts adjoining his log mis- sion, which still stands. At that time the funeral ceremony con- sisted of placing the body of the deceased on the back of a pony which was led, followed by a cortege, up long trails to a mountain top. There burial was made in the crevices of a rocky point. A Shoshone legend says the tribe 18 descended from a big aess of the woman who taught the senior girls’ Bible ciass, the young as- sistant minister was asked to under- take the duties for the day. He consented, but before beginning he said. smilingly: “Now, girls, I want to conduct your class just as your teacher does, so you might tell me what she does first.” A short pause, then the answer from a pert miss of sixteen: “Well, she always kisses us all round!” 2a] Now Used as Hospitals Stockholm, Sweden, — Transforma- tion of Sweden's empty military bar- racks into modern hospitals, historical museums and insane asylums has been recommended by a committee appoin®- ed by the government. The problem of what to do with the buildings arose from the army reduc- tion decided on two years ago. In Stockholm the collections of the 4dtate historical museum have long overcrowded the space hitherto avall- able and the government antiquarian, Dr. Siguard Curman, has found that the heavy artillery barracks can be reconstructed into display rooms. In the provincial garrison towns use of the empty barracks as sani tarilums or as regular hospitals is proposed and in Sala, Orebro, Ven- ersborg and Jonkoping the committee favors the transformation of the bar- racks into institutions for the care of All Suits formerly iid from $27. to $35. now - - - - Chl ue . $22.50 SAIS] att ft Set oem et rs tb Se Sem mms —— Sn EL San La Sale Starts Friday June 10 and lasts one week only. CREE or Le Mahomet’s Career Short Don’t miss it! It’s like finding money. Mahomet became a prophet and an nternational figure after he was forty years old, and finished his epoch- He followed in order to kill the rep- making career in 23 years. At the | tile. On coming close to the rock he sge of forty he began to get the “vi- | saw a great mass of slowly writhing salons” which gave Lim the precepts for | snakes in a recess in the boulders. the Koran and commanded him to Realizing that he could not cope preach them to the world. “There is | with such numbers, Keyes rode to his only one God, ani Mahomet is his | station and secured dynamite, which prophet” is the keynote he gave to | he used to blow up both rocks and SoS Raa Sere SH on So FAUBLE'S idiots, imbeciles and the insane. coyote. : the religion he founded—a religlon | snakes. As accurate a count as could Ue A= whose adherents today number more | be made afterward showed that there Mi (HE than 220,000,000. RL See ot i —Subscribe for the “Watchman.” 1] were about 200 snakes killed.
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