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Show he Futer- Mountain Rp publican SALT LAKE CITY, Pages UTAH, SUNDAY, JUN E 3, 1906. 1 to 10. | males have surely some suggestion of an | anucipatory smile at the ends of their Stupendous months. Some wise man wroté that the smile developed from) the habit of baring the teeth <« |; Of food. . Still they come, | against the wind. A buzzard, too, |s dropsky ) We leave the repast ‘to the pelicans and {pole the boats along the shore, picking up j the miles of neiting, "here is still much to be done 1 netting all secured shall anchor the boats in-the open wa ter, except that containing the fish. which | will be. doWed™back: by thedlaunch. toward the camp, Where a vessel from the fish house, loaded with fee, will recefve our eatch and take jt back to the distributing ) center of St. Petersburg, "How much ef this will you retain for Fr men's food supply?! I ask the capain. "They do not éat fish," he replies Then 1 remember that the little fish camp Is filled with canned meats , Jams inland in the up put rations other and ne that, surprising It Is not towns. pie an aimosphere of fish, they should | choose other diet. | The sishermen's life js hard, bu ;Means so unpleasant as he | Seem. o begin with, he ts. almost ;own master. He fishes on shares. third of the value of the catch the captain, who. {s the owner - boats, nets, etc. The remainder vided equally among all. A fish () () a Ana to t tides, He averages $25 month In addition to his board. But there are' prizes in this following which impart the element of chance, One day last fall 120,000 pounds of fish Were loaded Each rah man made over $250 during that foriously Improvident, and the sea with its teeming hordes is always at. thelr beck and call, The {clhow!tng prices. rule in. general for fish: For b -that say, sheepsh redfish, groupe ic! ' ).| ceive 2 cents % cents, mack. The a pound, A Ss pompane. fishing season Muli re from 5 "lasts: Du "DACKTIIG ALT: LLIGTFRTTL: TFT SF cents, 10. 1 E a of Sharks attacking the. nets from outside juSt as. the fishermén. were hauling | them in, breaking. them' into pieces' and destroying or releasing the haul. The man who uses the stop net. looks LE LY T LIOKIE | upon the. gill-netter muéh as he' catt leman of the plains. regards the sheep aL FC ~ | farmer. A gill Js a.nét with ~ 4-fnch | minutes afterward, it threshed its big tail) ™Meshes Instead of the, Sinch mesh of, the ittempt -to win to.deep water, |} Stop net. It Is so called because: thé fish, |} seemingly unconscious. of th hideous | darting their 1cads -againat It, remain to which it had been subjected. | caught -by the glils and. are ‘unable to not look back at-it again escape : : : iunwhile the ‘o¢cupants of the stop A cheap way of fishing; and one ‘ealbeen turned loose Into: the outer! cUlated to run, off thé° fish says ithe the seine, which was, in-its turn, | captain with contempt. ~ "With stop - net : { I are captured, *but contracting. Now the > water bub-| four-(f{ths of the t he bolled violently, and became a gill nets do not hold one-tent All eaping squirming sh "her y do {ts to scare the. fish Into. other or, 2 é of gill-netting, nder haul-trout, s : 1dvantages f : P y hojvever an mackerel, pompano, mullet and the| 4re that it does not require ‘so great. kinds, a § well.a redfish or the! ©Xpenditure nor. so. largé a' crew AS a : flounders and grouper But | rule three or more boats engage in gill with thes ere multitudes of an/| netting sometimes one-man in a in" , kind-toad or balloon fish, jacke boat will take o is (gil ret = 1 ited he nm until ine 1e vile stingare a huge, | he has en Irele 1 the mo monste r with a long, animal-like tall, rhe fish house at St. Peter sburg, view sting hardly, less deadly than of which are shown itn the Illustrations » rattler. The sailors I ve neither time |/S the distributing center of an enormous ‘ rgja, Alabama purpose to wage the sea hey are turned,;40d South Carolina In addition to. the the nets and glide away Into Dine or ten boats plying between Tampa ' the fish of edible| Bay and Johns Pass there re also plying tossed into the. boats, which boats engaged in the red y r t hither from the place wh} cre LIEVERPIBOTAG on 3. to € 6 eke ts <= eet Se, ed uns are falling for they are rR from the cloudy protected undeg ils apy rch ne's ipparentiy possessed by the thelr human, copartners in scheme have been at work this to - provide them with their they sit upon the -water~ in and fifties, waiting for us to de: ish | consistin iP or then to any injured fish the netting. patriarchs, The and IN THE Thus. by the!) n. concluded, | been. formed | n which are} I ween , the to. urla ' rement tide 1 A the fisher- thelr wnoon tide the fish Vellow A Ha i is r j circumferer have nit >} t ' Liat j ishermen I 10 ex-| g a n , ‘ aU The | F ht a . ) l 1oal the -remain= e.r ne of rre ed. wn th wl h 1 i atal ff wa I id a dull eyes unwinkinely long Pe s stinetivelsy ve shark iv con\ ' eelin iptain feet) Outside und a pe et rigged th ( } ) ims t} r Iris the and " im perhay hs rpos¢ ame Pp end mnected ‘ t bads the forward pe ne t he In Bey and.down, i t glk 0 kward entangled row el of teeth mot th sh c Paddy unclasps heavier | unon the sand . : inusual | etknife. t net nut hateful as these monst l'fe there Is methiy territ plure es 4utomata, t the they dle Almost ind rreed, r befo « jt were, of cruelty ruff almost t ! of the tremor a ated ft xt Wi i nol M aly aflor ‘ i leaped r ple tire "wefo wu y th/ i1 n the i tl t ‘t er ‘ ind from dt Onct white-| brown fe-} § yinbo! they dle tins. from = 9 ; nui 24,000 let to wah 39,000 1 x carload pounds Victor « Rou PUBLIC LIBRARY. way in which. .the titles of are oftentimes mixed up, and changed around 1id the is oftentime the cause of quict laug » here back of the , nortion 7 however, I tructed, tire th r é the selnes; a few, as well.and da seas More the wate males, the ) . | "But the woman who came in Ia | summer and demanded ‘Good Re | turned' as a piece of summer fiction | pus ‘d the whole of us.. She declared |that a friend of hers had had this book from our library, read {it , enjoyed sterdhay a woman came in, and/it; and en t back the day befor confident Smile, as} ced for ""The}| Then st esther Wat-| might be that Laughs y A Credit Check A h t That tumped. me for a min-|on the returned shelf and comparison vhen I questioned her if. s} with her friend's library card brought that wi the titic she wanted} out the fact that the book 1@ realls d so emphatically. that. it) wanted was Clain and CounterI took a minute or two to} claims.' Although the associatior f ver All at one the light, idea was a far-fetched ony indeed, id when | brought her "The/| for a man to achleye, ther ts no doubt Mirth," by Edaith Wharton but that the counter of the -titie w hat it is all right, Just the in the woman's mind, at any rate ‘ ver as they showed her in th dry goods counter, and that th title mea smiling ‘Thank you')| of the book in some way or other caway satisfied."' ferred' ta merchandise returned." you were luckier than I was "Long ago, when Iwas ayoung day," rejoined his colleague. | clerk in a bookstore, contributed the y girl demanded Cross | gray-haired man, "Eiardy' novels nd seemed some-|}were having a tremendous run am Le inoved I told her we hadi the girls in our town, Was not ver title catalogued, either in re-! well posted.just then, being green fy rks or fictlon. She could not| the business,, and when ‘the the author's name, either, | belle came in one-afternoon a id not help the ituation. a| quired, ‘Have you "A. Pair: of Finally, after looking | Eves I blushed. and stammered and 1e card index with her with-| said: I rather thought. that: mine were ‘ aid that it had ap-| brown. She explained that it was the illy a little while ago ina | book. she wanted, and-L-have always and a happy thought on-my.| felt grateful to that.girl for not-telling ht out ‘Four Roads to Para-|the story broadcast, for it really' was h proved to. be. the -book }avery...good joke "upon me, you Jknow." |