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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH How Eskimos Catch Eels to Feed Dogs Dip Nets Used Through Holes Cut in Ice. Saint Michael, Alaska. Early every winter vast numbers of eels come down the Yukon river toward the sea, and the methods used by Eskimos to catch them for dog feed is novel. The lower Yukon freezes early In December and when the ice is about Inches thick the Eskimos watch for the arrival of eels. Eskimo villages are scattered along the lower river up to Anvik, the dividing line between ' the Yukon Indians and Eskimos. Anvik is 350 miles from the mouth. The villages have from six to twenty families, each with five or more children. The natives prepare dip nets 18 Inches in diameter, of seal or walrus hide, the size of a leather shoe string, and made with mesh, fastened to a willow hoop and tour-fopole. When the Ice Is strong enough the Eskimos who own dogs find the river eddies where eels have regular lanes of travel year after year. Holes Cut In Ice. Each dog owner cuts a hole two feet square In the Ice, then some distance further along another one, and so on until five or six are made, all In a line up and down the river, crosswise to the current. Over the holes are placed grass mats piled with snow to prevent freezing. A stick is frozen upright near each hole as a guide and warning. Near each hole heaps of dry woods are piled. Eels do not run In small numbers first, they Increase to the high peak. They come in a wriggling, writhing mass of snakelike forms. They pass a given point in from seven to twenty minutes, a few stragglers follow for half an hour. They are 18 inches long, dark brown, with a leather-like-fi- n on back and belly. Each has seve- small round holes the size of a pinhead on both sides of the skull and a mouth like a sucker. Their digestive organs are in the head. The backbone is a hairlike gristle running the entire length of the body. They are all fat, not a trace of lean meat to be found on one of them. When the Ice is six inches thick the natives are ready for the greatest event of the year. The tribes have an unaisual system of notifying each other hen the eels ot -' have arrived. Four young men are senr to watch at a water hole three or four miles beyond their village, day and night, until eels are sighted. Sleep Is impossible, for if they should miss the eel run the natives would be minus dog feed for the long winter. The river water comes up through the ice holes to within two or three inches of the top and as the wriggling masses of eels come down stream they push water al ead of them so that each hole overflows. This Is the sign to the watchers of the arrival of the anticipated hosts. Much of Work at Night Eels run so close to the shortest days that it Is generally night work harvesting them. It is the queerest of d northern sights to observe 30 to 50 Eskimos and many dogs on the ice, the rows of small wood fires burning brightly at the wa- M-- H i i n 1 M-l-- M ! .H-H-- H l : Man Held Fast in Bed of Asphalt All Nig& .. After being imprisoned in a bed of asphalt a whole night, John Emery of Canton, On was freed by a rescue crew which chopped at the material with axes for two hours. Emery fell into the pool while it was warm. He was stunned, and the asphalt hardened before he could es-cape. I .. .. I ! I ! ! i ! ! " ; I 1 I tents upon the Ice, then another plunge, another net full. The last hole cleaned, the Eskimos gather to inspect their catch. Each family has from five to seven or eight piles of eels already frozen stiff, the sum total caught numbering well up In the hundreds. The piles are left on the Ice during a great part of the winter, except when a sled load is wanted for dog feed. Eels are cooked with dried dogfish and the native sledge dog receives one full meal per day, which Is served at ter holes. As the water begins to rise In the night. The eels are too fat even for the hole, an Eskimo ''plunges his dip net in. At once It is filled with writhing Eskimos, but the grease is for used conhe eels; cooking and lamps. pulls it up, dumps the fur-cla- snow-covere- d oil-lovi- Frenchman Swims River Under Earth Takes Life in Hands to plore Stream. Ex- Paris. Some interesting and thrilling stories are told in connection with the feats of some of the unsuccessful candidates for the grand prlx of the Academy des Sports, but they are overshadowed by the publicity given to the feat of the winner. The prize for 1923, recently awarded to Alain Gerbault, a noted tennis player, went to him only after a spirited debate of the jury, some of whose members favored Norbert Casteret, a student at the University of Toulouse. The prize Is awarded annually to the man or men accomplishing a sporting exploit In France, by a Frenchman or foreigner, or abroad by a Frenchman alone, likely to result in a Jnaterlal, scientific or moral progress for humanity. Gerbault won the prize by making a trip across the Atsloop. lantic in a In the region of St. Martory, department of the Haute Garonne, a brook enters the north side of a mountain 1,500 feet in altitude and emerges on the southern slope. On August 23, 1923, Casteret, a strong swimmer and expert diver, decided to explore the brook. Before taking the leap into the unknown, Casteret made his will. Then, armed only with candles, adequately protected from the water, to dispel the darkness of the subterranean cavern, the young student dived in. The distance between the spot where the water disappears into the mountain to Its outlet on the other of a side measures awaitfriends mile. For three hours, ed In anxiety at the mouth of the grotto. Suddenly, dripping with muddy water, disheveled and haggard, but with the grim smile of victory on his features, the student was shot out of the mountain into the arms of his friends. He told a remarkable story. Fighting against the current, swimming to the vacillating light of the candle, Casteret, in many places of the grotto where the water met with the roof of , stone, had to halt. Ignorant as to whether the brook, which In these spots assumed exactly the appearance of a huge pipe completely filled' with rushing water, would again after a few feet widen and tile swimmer find open air above his head, he had to decide whether to turn back or to chance the long swim under water. He chose the latter. His courage was rewarded, for, after a swim under water, which he reckoned at about seventy feet he emerged into a dry gallery about 600 feet long and quite high above his head. In the grotto Casteret declared he discovered a wonderful prehistoric museum. Upon the walls of the cavern, engraved as If with sharp instruments, or painted, were mysterious characters, in a language Casteret had never befiore seen or heard of. Statues of clqk shme of them well preserved, deputed animals which have long since disappeared from the surface of Europe. three-quarte- rs ishment of all England has been elected lord mayor of Norwich. It is the first time a woman has been elevated to such an important position, but she fills It capably. FORGIVE WRECKER OF FORTUNES : Friends Give Him an - Ova- tion on His Return. of Tunica, Miss. After an absence he played time which 11 years, during merthe role of chauffeur, clerk andUnited the in cities chant in various forStates and Canada, Leo Lesser, banker, mer planter, cotton factor, remanufacturer and philanthropist, lehis turned home, was forgiven by courts and angion of friends and the to repay determination nounced his dollar creditors, varied and his many countless sums, almost for dollar, the when he lost they small, large and went away and left a score of wrecked business firms and a trail of worthless paper. Hundreds of Tunica county citizens, homeapprised in advance of Lessers and with the at train him met coming, one voice bade him welcome. Whatever odium followed in the wake of his departure in 1913 was forgotten in the rejoicing over his return. Although he was charged in eight indictments with embezzlement, forgery and fraudulent breach of trust, dozens of men and women recall that Leo Lesser had befriended them in the days when his meteoric career was cast across the sky of the financial and business world. Hundreds of notes bearing the signatures of his friends and Indorsed and paid by him were found by the receivers who tried vainly to salvage the business enterprises he was accused of wrecking. Lesser went before Judge W. A. Alcorn to face a charge of embezzlement in connection with the failure of the Bank of Tunica, of which he was the president. A petition signed by 600 citizens of Tunica county, and asking that the charge be dismissed, was presented to the court. The embezzlement charge was not pressed, and Lesser left I Immediately for Senatobla, Miss., in an effort to effect a reconcili Instead New Brazilian Law Safeguards Inventions Rio de Janeiro. A new law governing patents on inventions went into effect in Brazil recently. In the words of the minister of agriculture, commerce and industry, who proposed the change, it will protect the public as well as the inventor. Under the former law, patents were registered in each of the 21 Brazilian states and If the inventor failed to register his rights in any state he received no protection in that state. The new law requires one registration with the federal government. The new' law is expected to be of special service to foreign manufacturers. 11,941 Eggs From 100 Hens Ind. Mrs. Fernando Anderson, Woods is one farmer who apparently has no complaint to make about a poor year in 1923, She said she gathered 11,941 eggs produced by 100 hens, and churned 1,517 pounds of butter from the milk of five cows. Mrs. Woods lives on a farm just west of Anderson. ation with his wife, who has been teaching school since her husbands disappearance. Discover New Method of Making Crystals Tokyo. A startling invention by a Japanese is given prominence In local newspapers. Two professors of the Tokyo Imperial university have perfected a method of manufacturing perfect artificial crystals. Instead of $1,500 the new Invention dibrings down the cost of a ameter crystal ball to $1. The artificial crystal is made by melting white stones by electricity at a temperature of 2,000 degrees. The special kind of stone is found in abundance in northwestern provinces of Japan. The inventor declared: If we use selected raw material, we can easily manufacture lenses for spectacles, as there is no need of grinding them. It is just as easy for us to make artificial-veine- d quartz and ameas to produce method thysts by this artificial crystals." large-sized of Kalsomine or Genuine Alabastine Wall Paper aitiac Alabastine colors, which add to much to the'beauty of your home. Good decorators use Alabastine. Nearly all stores selling paints cany it in stock. Ask your dealer or decorator to show you samples ana explain the Alabastine. Opaline Process the newest and most beautiful method of interior decoration. Became only genuine Alabastine will give you those soft delicate, The Alabastine Company Grand Rapids. Mich. Missing Persons Found Embarrassing Moment A shy young hostess, In an effort to One metropolitan newspaper which a Missing Persons Departaside the conducts led comparative genial, je stranger, whose name, somehow eluded ment reports that in 1,260 cases in which aid was requested in finding Her. N Look, she said, Ive paired you off missing persons, 163 inquiries were with that lady in the corner. Will you successful and that many persons were lake her in to dinner? My husband, reunited with their relatives and naughty man, says shes a bit of an old friends. It is said, however, that this frump, but shes got lots of money, does not represent the total of the and one of his clever friends has just missing who are found, as many of the married her for it, so we musi; be nice responses are made direct' to the into her. quirer and the cases do not become I am sorry, madam, said the guest, public, but I am the clever friend in ques- i 30-fo- Miss Ethel Colman, daughter of the late J. L. Colman, M. P., to the aston- hinted in Red on Every Package of tion." d i , Seldom Seldom does It happen that a woman Is both beautiful and intelligent. Thats how nature protects men. Or Mittens Teacher (after giving the class a And should we go lesson on snow) out on a winters day and look about us, what might we see on every hand?" Gloves. Small Boy They Can't Put You in Jail for That!" Cant, eh? said the man, Well, Fm here! 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