Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 August 1928 — Page 7

Salmon Range Widely

Anacortes, Wash.— When you eat salmon this summer you may wonder whence comes this food fish. It is 4^ still a question mark. Salmon life in the Pacific ocean is still a mystery. How does the salmon fry find its way to i te feeding grounds in the salt sea? Where does it learn to return again to the parent stream, or one contiguous thereto, as it has been proved many of them do? Where are these feeding grounds of the vast silver hordes that cot te up yearly in summer front their home in the deep? How far do they travel, going or coming? What do they live upon? No one '■‘.nows, exactly, but some facts have been ascertained. The salmon domain is almost Inca! culable in its immensity. They range all the way from Monterey, Calif., as far northward as the Arctic circle and even as far easterly on the top of the world as the Mackenzie river on the American side and from Japan to the northernmost streams of Siberia on the Asiatic seaboard of the Pacific. It is generally believed that the young of salmon lay off the continental pla teau to a depth of about UM) fathoms and find their feeding grounds there Just what they feed on never has been ascertained, but the king and a few species of salmon when the old home movement is at its zenith — Bouffant Gown 04 Black is one of the favored colors In chiffons, tulle, lace and taffeta as well as the heavy moire used in gowns of the type that stand alone. Doris Kenyon chooses a charmingly designed bouffant gown in black to wear in “The Hawk’s Nest” It is strikingly executed and adds a colorful note in the cherry red velvet ribbon trimming as well as the novel bunches of cherries used as decorations in place of flowers.

Span Grand Canyon With Large Bridge

Salt Lake City.—From the precipitous walls of the Grand canyon, 130 miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz., what appears from afar to be a slender spider w’eb gradually is being stretched across the top of the great chasm. 1 This web is actually a massive structure of steel designed to be the highest highway bridge in the world. The height from the waters of the Colorado river to the roadway grade is 467 feet. Completion of the big span about § Nebraska Schoo! Uses £ § Account Book 50 Years | @ Nebraska City, Neb —A treas- ® ® urer’s account book which had ' @ been in use in one school district ® § for 50 years was recently ® brought to the office of the coun ® g ty superintendent here. The ; ® first entry in the book was made ® in May, 1887, and the volume. ® neatly bound in. leather, contains ® ® entries of every expenditure of . ® the district since then In com ® § paring the teachers’ salaries ® ® paid during the half century it ® was found that In 1877 the • teacher was paid S4O a month; g ® in 1880 the salary was reduced ® to $25. where it remained for ® several years. The present fig- ® ure is SBO. 6®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®

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shortly before they reach the river mouths—will snap at a spoon troll with avidity. Trolling for these big fish is an industry along the coast from Seward, Alaska, to the Columbia river With the exception of those caught near the confluence of the rivers with salt water, salmon — like shad, herring, mackerel and other migratory fishes are never found at sea. They just vanish. * When salmon fry go to sea that is the last seen of ihetn. But when the onshore invasion of mature salmon commence It begins to the westward along the Aleutian Islands, because there they are found and netted early in May. Canning companies in operating floating canneries plan to leave port In time to reach the northern haunts of salmon and lake some of the first comers. They are fat, heavy and well treated. The large thirty-pound king salmon come first and are followed by the sockeye, or red salmon. Soon after they appear in Cook’s inlet near Anchorage, then in Prince William sound off Brit isb Columbia. Along the coast from June to July, salmon appear in regular cycles of various species. In Au gust, Puget sound, the Fraser rivet and other streams are tilled with ttie rushing salmon trying to reach spawn ing grounds. The Columbia river is the last of the fishing streams to gel salmon runs. By tagging six or eight-inch salmon fry before releasing them from hatcheries the fisheries bureau has been able to check the return of many species of these fish. Even in midocean an occasional tagged salmon has been taken in herring or mackerel nets, but little light has been added to its life of three to four years absence. Most salmon experts believe the Alaska and west coast fish are endowed with a sense the human does not possess. Their theory is that when the off-shore movement commences salmon f^-ent fresh water from afar and follow the scent until either they enter the stream of their nativity or one very close to it A distmet difference between the Atlantic und Pacific salmon is that the former atter spawning in fresh water returns to the sea. while the Pacific salmon, after making arrangements for a myriao reproduction of its kind.

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September 1, and of the approaches about January 1, 1929, will bring into communication two vast regions hitherto inaccessible to each other except byway of a river ferry and a dangerous strip of mountain road. The new route will eliminate the historic Lee's ferry, which has been in service since 1572, six miles above the site of the bridge, where John Doyle Lee built a cabin and acquired the ferry rights formerly possessed by the Mormon church. Lee’s first ferry was a clumsy affair, the first more serviceable boat being constructed in 1873 by John L. Blythe. This was a barge, 20 by 40 feet, capable of carrying two loaded wagons and teams. After changing hands several times ' the ferry and all rights were acquired by Coconino county. Ariz., which now operates it under toll. The new highway structure open* up a region that is little known to tourists and in which travel has been for the most part limited to traders and Indians. A strip of painted desert lies along one side, between Flag staff and the bridge, and on the Utdh side are the Bryce canyon, the Kaibab National forest. Cedar Brakes. Zion National park and the scenic beauty of the Grand canyon itself. The main span is a deck arch of 618 feet, the arch being of the three tiinge type, with battered trusses de signed with reversal stresses for cantilever erection. The bridge will be 833 feet long.

dies. Once It leaves its feeding grounds in the salt water salmon takes no food, and in fact, it is believed to become incapable of eating. On rare occasions, male silver salmon will take t trout fly and steel head salmon will bite at salmon eggs in late winter. Elaborate olans are being worked out along the Pacific coast fishing ports, sponsored by the fisheries bureau. for more accurate knowledge of salmon. WHAT THEY ARE FOR ; By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK ; * Dean of Men, University of < . Illinois. I HAVE at one time or another in my * life joined a good many things, attached myself to a considerable number of enterprizes, become a member of groups or an advocate of movements. Sometimes this relationship has been developed so rapidly and so without deliberation that 1 have not had time seriously to consider what it was all about. I am paying dues in organizations now whose halls I have not visited since the night I was Initiated, and sometimes I stop and ask myself what they are nil for—these groups of which I am in many cases so ineffective a part. I am sensible enough to realize without much thought that no man is justified in allying himself with an organization of any sort wholly or even in large part for what It will do for him, but rather for what he may be able to do for the benefit and the advance ment of the group. Grant came into my office not long j ago wearing on his lapel a tluitering yellow ribbon which indicated I knew that he was an adherent of an undergraduate political party which was nt that time pretty deeply involved in the throes of an election. There was an opposing organization whose colors were white indicating. I presume, pur ity of purpose and action. “Why the yellow ribbons. George?” I inquired. “What are the noble pur

AeARkJ HOKUMS) ( XU CP WAT MOSW | J fl mas H Jo Siam, Land of Freaks

Washington.—Fish that climb and crawl on land, reptiles, birds, insects, mammals and plants, many of them new to science, are making Slam a collector’s paradise for Dr. Hugh M Smith, honorary curator of zoology oi the National museum. Doctor Smith, who formerly was Lnited States comissioner of fisheries, is now director of fisheries for the Siamese government and has been able in the last few years to send many valuable natural history specimens to the Smithsonian institution, which su pervises (he museum. His own house and garden in Bang kok have proved excellent places for collecting amphibians and reptiles. A tree near his veranda is the home of a green bamboo snake, and his <ond is a resort for water snakes, which feed on the fish and amphibians that Glendon Reappointed ’• W 1 M i®M ' L KkAl i II 1 1 Richard Glendon. Sr., has been reappointed head coach of the Annapolis crews.

Shortcake for 4,000 Persons Y a! .KICTWWfw T, ■ Here is the largest strawberry shortcake In the world, which measured 30 feet in length and 14 feet high. It weighed 2.000 pounds, and required 2,(MM) eggs, 300 pounds of flour. 700 pounds of sugar, 50 gallons of cream and Tt>o quarts of strawberries. It was made for 4,000 persons who attended the farmers’ and merchants’ annual picnic near Seattle, Wash.

poses which actuate you in this political campaign?’’ “Well, I hope,’’ he confessed, “that If our party wins, as it looks to me lust now pretty sure to do, some of our sophomores ami juniors will be able to cop off a few fat jobs.” One belonged to a political party George thought for the sole purpose of getting out of It for himself or his friends something worth while In a social, financial, or official way. It is a point of view which Is not confined to the adherents of college political parties. Walter had Just Joined a fraternity t.nd. having moved into the house, was taking a good deal of liberty with the furniture and making more 'lls turbance as he went about the place j than the head of the house thought best for the development of proper study conditions, and he thought It wise to say so to Walter. “Well, what’s n fraternity for?” was the freshman’s query, lie had con reived the idea, not unusual 1 must confess, that a college fraternity Is a i place for freedom, for rowdyism, for • doing as one pleases, lie had not yet gotten the conception of responsibility | and co-operation which one assumes ;

come there to breed. The house itself has its reptile invaders, little soft bodied lizards called “house geckos,” which take up their abode wherever moths are attracted by lights. Many of his specimens are drawn from the numerous odd forms of fish that thrive in Siam, where the dry season have forced them to adapt themselves to withstand its rigors. Some, as described by Doris M. Cochran. assistant curator of the division of reptiles and batrachians of the museum. spend as long as four months in damp soil. As a result, fishing in Siam often resembles the old-fashioned method of placer mining, the popular “serpent heads” being dug out of dried-up marshes frou a depth of two or three feet. The climbing perch is described as the most remarkable of the fish in this class. It can climb steep canal banks with its tail and large pectoral fins and goes overland from one body of water to another, traveling as fast as a man walking slowly. This variety also is popular in the markets, being sold alive in moist baskets. Moons Retain Secrets of Sun’s Heat Changes Berkeley, Calif.— If there are any variations in the heat of the sun, Jupiter’s moons are uot ready to tell scientists about it. Dr. Joel Stebbins, director of the Washburn observatory at the Uni versity of Wisconsin, and Dr. T. S. Jacobsen, assistant at Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton, tried to find out by sneaking up on Jupiter’s moons with long range and powerful telescopes at night, but they announced they learned nothing from the reflections. They suggested trying again by catching the sun's rays as reflected from the planet Uranus, saying Uranus has a more uniform reflecting surface, slower motion across the sky and less shadow.

HL j S *5 ‘trN'v''l6' Question ten men an< ’ nine of them will te ” you thnr ‘ of what they are entitled to in this old world of ours. when he Joins such a group. It was for his own pleasure only that he Joined. Men think of the church often In the same way. It is to them an opportunity to advance their business Interests by coming through membership In It into contact with the best people. Or it may be a sort of Insurance association to protect the member in the next world against the consequences of his Irregularities In this world. Too often It does not occur to us ’ that membership in any group is | primarily for the good of nil rather , than for profit to the individual. <©. l*2S. Western New.’nancr Valon ) Children Find 800 Coins Buried in Stone Jug Zuldlaren, Holland.—Children play- ‘ Ing on the excavated site of a new hospital h» re found an ancient stone jug containing Soo coins, mostly of the j year 15GS. Archeologists believe the treasure was buried at the time when the duke of Alva, the Spanish “bloody” govs ernor. imposed a capital levy on the inhabitants of the Netherlands, which was one of the causes of the Eighty Years’ war. Begun under William the Silent, it led to the emancipation of Holland I from tin* Spanish yoke, and tie e.s---i tabllshment of the House of Orange ' ns the Dutch dynasty. »

Wins Long Fight k tv' * J .a! 'X ' Kjtrkwnra Mrs. Grace A. Fendler, now e'ght? years old, who has won a sixteen pea* fight in the courts for royalties totaling 5781,891 on the profits of the pl-» “Bird of Paradise.” Richard Watson Tully, playwright, and Oliver Morosco producer, were the defendants. Mrs. Fendler. who started suit in 1912, claimed the play was pirated from ! nr novel. “In Hawaii.” O jOOOGOO oc-ooc-oc 00000-o o-o-cx o- | DIPPING INTO | g SCIENCE g 0 6 0 CCOCOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOO 0 o o ■ § Mirages Are Rea! § ’ 9 A true mirage is not purely a g o freak of the imagination as we o 1 2 have often been told, but is de- 9 6 dared to be the real image of 0 q an oasis in some distant place £ o which is reflected from the sky c I p as a mirror, placed at the cor- S 9 rect angle, might give off the V 6 reflection. A ' Q <©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union ) V ooooooooooooooooooo<Hawx»

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