Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1918 — The Triumphant Herring. [ARTICLE]

The Triumphant Herring.

Herrings were sold at three for a penny at Berwick-on-Tweed, Scotland, recently. They were landed in such large quantities that in’ the forenoon, asserts a correspondent, the townspeople were getting supplies free. Owing to the Mortage of labor the fish curers weft unable to deal with the catches, which sold at ridiculously low prices. What a feast the people of Berwick must have had on that day! What appetizing incense arose from thousands of sizzling frying-pans and gridirons! Men would be lured from their labors by the smell of the succulent fish. What if the beefsteak of old England has gone to the bottom; it has emerged from the deep in a rich —nay, richer — “silver harvest of the sea!” The sportive little herring is Immune from the torpedo, and laughs at Tirpitz’s shoal of ruthless sharks. The besieged inhabitants of the seagirt isle may yet be saved by the smell of a herring. It would indeed be poetical justice if a mere sprat should be the means of throttling the all-devour-ing submarine. For, the herring are the most democratic of fishes; they are the common people of the sea — the masses —and are the most beloved by their prototypes on land.