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Ckri ar r 1 IJ/C %JUk 4 | 1 UL.ACIIAN?" The old Indian turned his face from *'1C camp lire and HN fixed his bead-black .'fy eyes on mine. ' "Oulachan," I reK=^)M\| pealed. "Why ?lo men Fv^vir.S call,you Oulachan?" I 'I He turned his wrin""^^j kled face to the fire again and wo sat a w h 1 I e In silence. Then, in the deep gutturals and short, broken words of his native tongue, he told nie. "Many summers ago," he said, "the teepees of my father's tribe stood where wo sit tonight. The white man was not hfjro then"?he pointed up the river toward Kelso?"the woods and tho open wero the Indian's. The Indian hunted and fished and was happy. But white men came up the big river in canoes and they brought with thorn the black death. Warriors, klootchmen, pappoos;es, all aliko sickened. Many died. When the rain and the winter came, no deer meat, no fish hung beside the teepees. For when the frost drove the blac k death away, the hunters were weak. They could not go to the wcodr for deer, and the salmon had pa: <-d on up the little river. The Indian was very hungry. The klootchmen and tho pannooses crii-d for meat. And when the Indian was r< idv to fold his blanket around him and lio down to the long s!< [>, the Great Spirit saw and sent, f'-od. From the north it came, l'roi i uu i< r the frozen water. Swimming tugcther. A long rope?hip? many .miiis long. Many little lh;h swiinanlng at the bottom of the big water?"the Pacific?"along the bottom of the big river"?the Columbia. "They came here to the mouth of the little river"?he pointed to the Cowlitz flowing past us in the darkness to the Columbia?"and here they came to the top of the water. My father saw . ? ...? r~ ??. I. II *, jt't~HL>y / v-Vr thorn and shouted. 'Oulaehan.' J In klootchnien wont into the water and joulachan with tholr hands. 'Oulao shouted. They made potluch and won .that hour was I horn. My name is O The oulachan still runs in the C uvfiy year mere is a leasi, mil 11 is whit? men; tho Indian tribes havo from (lie rivor. Durinj; tho early mon let- Portland and all tho cities and to reach of tho fishing grounds look forv feast. In tho old days when Portlat only market fishermen scrambled fo tat tho run. A wild race of the deopup tho Columbia followed, and the til to roach tho market sold, smelt for si! .for weight. Ilut since railroads and cars have put smelt fishing on tho practical Industry, the first run of tli does not bring more than 20 cents th the northwest* rn retail markets, tlioiif first to arrive are eagerly sought at p what higher. Known commercially as? the Colli smelt, the king of pan fish has seve Ichthyologists classify It as thleichthy <of tho smelt family. The Indians of bia river region knew It as oulachan .1 neer fishermen called it the Eskimo In shape it resembles the smelt of atates and Europe, but Its rich yet d wweet flavor plaei'R If far above them nation of tho epicures. Indeed, ent.hu: that as a pan fish It Ik superior to ti Wnd. Per unnumbered years tin oulachai the Cowlitz river its spawn in, gru course the Columbia river 1 .i.iii we use it for food. During the nni:i t the fish in v?Ht quantities drying mi thorn, and rifled, actually tin* ! tin r Jn their teepees For so much i th. oil that, with n -?rip of bark run thr dried fish * ill burn with a clear i at to tail. fit the early month.-; of the nor' a or fho oulaehan ;ather In uncouti' i: at flomn unknown >t in Bering their southward : vii . Always clo. .? t bod, traveling in the lorm of a mon; In length, they paws all the river nr. ! lugs along tlio coast -ntll the in . i lumbla Is reached. Then, so clbf? . ! river bottom thnt kil' not? are ill | to reach thorn, they i .;iko for : ? few Hps up from ti mouth Hint strl : tho shallower v iter, and rotno roach of tho salting Ji:ihormon. From In.linn tlnvon until thr\ nro( last season tho method of flshin ' *< naitio, A lx>ut. or a canon to fish Jiet with a long handlo for ft hinj $ f y ff-f< W zv>r /. 1? I S* J ?>/JQHN BMND^P f i r~ wwu,^ v v " :>:- ^ ; V Vv~w':' -r<^y^f<'<'*X7>'4 -. I W'Z' >: %* *' I that ' II mmmmmmam aim i n m. ?''^H i I, ' <->V//^W^r"/V f herah Coluni titers and eagles, gulls and hawks, folic caught tho of the living rope of fish ai han,' they dead as thoy come to the surfa > filled. In ermen gather by liurdreds In ulaehan." the fishing grounds and feel Dwlitz and with the pole ends of their di u feast for pole strikes the small, wrlgg vanished nilng along the river bottom ths of win- it is simply dip and fill, empt wns within boat, dip and All again, until vard to the no more. There is not much id was the Is just about as exciting as r<> the first to run up tho Lewis and tho S hoy caught of tin run up tho Lewis, 11 y< td smoking fiii 1 > a small run of main fish n for light tin- fishermen made their sea julachan In Lewis. About once in eight yi >uirh it, tho uji Ili< Sandy, apparently it from nose Cowlitz run, as tho number i: lei. <m <| At the time of tli torn win- Sandy a : rtv of rortlnnd men n< millions nets. < > man lost his dip and begin old, ru ' discarded bird cj.i 111< oct'iin f il l m a polo nnd scored ? rope miles tho oth< : During tho satr.o fi<.r?1 opon- their vvi ; into the stream of iho Co- of fifth and hauled load tftei lUf.--i:i c tho chards to I's-.o as for"Jl/.cr. >ut u.-oless, Portland market some month Cowlitz. A tinct.ly 1y flavor and rove river (hey some of i! thrifty agrtcultui within i.isy lo their l.og f.ast. <"ti-ion tho Cowlitz 11 > it ctuch or lag ground of tho fcroateHt V :? tlm known t>> fishermen who huv 'Up nc>88 over t*ent.y yi-firs. /M ' o river had yielded over 10 * <s<4 * | |\ |\WL Is necessary. One D.000 tons of oulac not even need tho about eight to the net to catch a the way of the mar for the river is Tho fishing gro lly alive with ou- tically the only on< i and children oft- caught in paying .11 them out of tho some few are cau with tin cans, get- river is deep and f< half fish and half beyond the reach c Where the wa- caught they have s Hiinimw cnmiKii 01 m? mesnes, so can even bo caught competition with tli the bare hands, as long-handled dippc skin is not slimy eight or ten miles in the water. was on the map th o run is always been dircctly oppr led far down the ellic depot now st ibia by flocks of town has driven th wing in the wake catches are now im ill picking up the Hot ween the smal ico. Then the fish- and the fishing gro their boats along during the runs, g along the bottom turning laden with p nets. When tlio ployed in. the lndui ling bodies swim- boats. in solid phalanx. It seems Strang y the net into the superior to the eas the boat can hold the eastern markc sport about it. It BO-pound boxes fo clam digging and catches sell in th miitv caught, and $2.r>0 to $.">.00 the I :it full to the gun- season the ordinar e the smelt fisher- $<r>0 for 200 boxes? iring the runs fish- are several men v, the fternally gob- other fishermen, i sated. Whin (he and chip direct to fishermen ainuso wholesale buyers < It for the gulls to the greater part o the wing will gn?b through them. At I Loss and reverse it as far east as W 1 first in the wink that with cold stor: !?<? JTPfltlv iiir?rr?n?< r tho first requires no moro skill. Quj laden boats quickness in dipping one'a bo st boatload vales of flapping little fish ar vor, weight man's ideals of sport. And di refrigerator ermen, fish oat< rs and e von basis of a bling seagulls aliko bocomo io onlachan gulls are at all hungry tho e pound in themselves by tossing up sou ?h tho very cateh in tho air. A seagull on rices some- a fish by tho middle or tall, \ in air, and gulp it down boat inbia river of an oyo. rai names. Most of tho flsning Is done s paciiicus, seems to scatter tho fish, bu !>.? Prtlnm. .I.irlnn ?? ~~ ? ... vwiui.i uui iii.s i ii*- *11 li1m ?stt?i irnl the plo- keep at their work with tfood candle fish. there uro two nun to each I the eastern arc filled In fin incredibly shoi lelleato and last season two Kelso nton fill in the ?-Hti- to Its capacity of 2,2f>0 pounds blasts insist at the rate of 50 pounds a rr rout of any of lrt.000 pounds in one day a quent n has made While 'he Cowlitz river Is iixl and of spawiunir around, the ouhichn at night. Daylight s.irdlnos has novo t even in daytime opinion of experts son (ho flshormon count tho Imported results. As a rule, ally demoralized e boat and tho craft Htm hy schoolboys, t time. Ono night boats with fish an led a power launch buyers. Often, too, ? In 45 minutes, (,r tho river in boats, linute, and catches their fish for whato nd night were fro- regularly engaged a licensed ono, on t tho only constant The growing 01 n has boon known seem, on the faco ( andy. At the titno (hot on the fish >ar? ago, there was Increases year aftc in the Cowlitz, and apparently knows son's catch in tho broke all records ear; there Is a run Is loot ing forward >dependent of tho coming winter, wh n that r<ver Is not. the streams will ag f las* run in the i went out with dip ?et hut found an "Was she overc i?o. lie tied It to death"1" 111 iTijuiii < ;nrii Willi <>n, yes. HMfi run farmers drovo now hall gowns."? , dipped them full * loa<l to their orpork sold in the "pho married ai later had a dis- "I went one bett tiled the fart that aviator who is a ml i its had fed smelt Har . or was the spawn- Utile Tommy (o i mi ?>i sin cm i over - Mamma, why doi boon in the I>uh1- Mamma?IiOdloH (ho { ason's close Tommy (triumph ,000,0oo pounds, or boforo KthH??Tit than. and na tho fish average pound 80.000.000 of them went ket and tho frying pan. c unds of the Cowlitz aro praci>s where the oulachan can bo quantities. On tho Columbia Kht by gill nettorB. But the >r tho most part the fish swim >1 im- wmi-31 IK'l, U.VJ,'!! WIll'Il to !) picked ouo by ono out putting the gill Hotter out of 11 ie Cowlitz man and his greedy, K r. The grounds extend but ? in the Cowlitz. Hefore Kelso n e best location said to havo s isite where the Northern Pa- | K amis, but tho growth of the a e fish farther up and the best C1 ide two miles above this point. s I floating docks of the town J unds boats ply day and night oing upstream empty and re- j fish. Over f>00 boats are em- I stry, about 75 of them power ;?> that the oulachan, no far torn smelt, liita novor reached j ts. Tho fish nro packed In r shipment and tho earlier ; e \\ holosalo market at from I l?ox; but In the height of tho r v fisherman gets only about -10,000 pounds. On tho river " nu nuy in wiese prices rroni Maintain boats of their own retail markets. Portland has > ? :?n tho ground, and probably ! f tho retail trado Is supplied 11 Kelso smelt have been shipped !l laconsin The llsherinen Bay nge facilities the output could 1 ad. Canning In the form of j r been tried, though In tho j the flah ao treated would dia- ^ sardine. The market i? uau i iirly In the fivo months' sea- j who go out, load up a few ! * id become an oaay mark for i , Greeks and Italians come up slay a day or two and sell B ver they can got. and the men 11 in tho trade want to make It l his account. | itput of tho oulaolian would j p >f it, to domnnd a Qlfford Pin- ' y commission. Hut tho supply ! r year with tho domnnd and ! " no limit. Last year's run 1 ami tho Cowlitz smelt fisher v in happy confidence to tho j I'll tho deeps and shallows of j ain bo filled with oulachau. " ... I y Sad Blow. onio by her husband's sudden ' r. had Just bought half a dozen ' Birmingham Age-Herald. 8 _ . (i Soaring. (I n old man who is very rich." er on that. I married a young , inonainv I'olo Mole. .'i d to Convince. Idest of Ihf family, at dinner) ' n't you lx.lp mo before Ethel? imiKt always come first. antly)- Then why was I bor? ^ Kits. v ^Lirarj: DWA POULTRY HOUSE PLAN leslrable Features of Structure Are Sanitary Method of Feeding and Watering. An oxcellent plan of a poultry house i given by James J. Elliott In Mis- [ ouri Valley Farmer. Ho says: "The house la covered with red rope J [7pp| rx/8 ? I y 9*? i p 1 i??I?*-?l i ???I???. > .. I Ground Plan of House. noflng,* which costs about $1.75 per 00 and exclusive of tho paper will ^ ost about $75. The features I lilto D| est about the house are the sanitary m let hod of feeding and watering, the E andlness In cleaning, the store room ^ nd entry, I he coverB for nest boxes ? o keep out the droppings, and the exra warmth given by the building pa or. There are nix one-sash windows long the front between roofs affordig sunlight to north side." The ground floor plan of the house 1 explained as follows: Ground dimensions 16 hy 24 feet, louth side of house 5 feet 6 inches to aves. North side 4 feet G inches, 'wo compartments on south side 7 by* 2 feet. One on north 7 by 18 feet, lloy 2 feet wide. Entry can be used 3 store feed in. No. 10 heating stove, ipe ranging along down one side of lley way and up the other. Nos. 5, re nesis lor silling nens. inosi. ooxea lay l?o added clear to roof. PartiIons are made of poultry netting oxopt along alley way. Netting stops S Inches from floor and partition is nished with strips of wood 1 inch rjuaro and 2 inches apart. Chickens nn reach their heads through to eat nd drink from troughs placed in al?y. Nos. 7, 7, 7, are doors for chickns. Above these doors are one-sash ! * am windows nn hlntros In norm It nf ; '' lirowlng out manure. Nob. 8, 8, 8, I re light slat doors betwcn apart- J s1 ionts. Xo. 9, entrance. n The following Is an explanation of " tie end view of the house: Perches are hinged to studding and JT" ; h Ci-L-iu ii rz*c?t> ' i rr/fCHes ; i 1 _J c End View of House. R ii unv bo raised and hooked to roof by o traps, Nos. 3, which are nailed by r no end to rafter and have ring in K ther end. Strap is put around out- tl ide bar of perch and ring hooked over g pike on other side of rafter. Xos. 1 r n> nest boxes placed along either side f alley. They have covers hinged to tudding, screen door hooks and eyes asteu them up in day time, tho eye h ieing screwed in edgo of cover. s r\ASIB TSW \IATrH " uuuuiu mux i Scald out the water receptacles oc- 0 asionally to kill disease germs. c When litter becomes soiled remove p t and put In 11 fresh supply. If desired to storo eggs for long :eepliiK take away the roosters at o nco. tl In nearly all cases tbo hens that uoult early niako the best winter lyers. Vi Fowls cannot thoroughly digest li liflr food unless they have plenty of Tit. Substantial brood coops with good loors that will protect the chicks rom the dam;; are always best. Feruling frequently and a little at a lme Is always better than overfeedng. A chick which cannot get out of the hell without help Is too lacking In vlality to make a profitable fowl. Get rid of all your surplus old stock, 'ou will not only gain money by their ale. but also have moro room for our young stock to thrive on. i an t you raise a pound or gooso neat as cheaply as a pound of pork? f you have a piece of waste land, with niter In It, why not raise geese? Sonoma county, California, Is said o yield a greater number of eggs than iiiy equal area in the world. Last ear's record was f>,312,000. One advantago with late hatched mlletR Is. tli-.it if kept growing they ,re ready to begin laying at opening if the breeding season. Fowls that must be fed In summer hould bo fed regularly. If fed twlco . day, roud ll^liily in the morning and II they will cat at night. The way to kill contagion Is to kill ho very Kirk birds, Isolate those that ire not so had, and ubo preventives >n thoso which are apparently In ;ood health. 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They have not ad many opportunities to take the litiative In tho world's history and tiey have not always responded when lie opportunity came, but when a rlsla, such as that In 1901, when the truce and the revolutionary outbreak i Russia took place at the same time, ccurred, they proved they could lako peace by doing it. Not until Inglanri and the United States find tie women helping them to boar some roat. trouble will they give them the ight to vote. Scandal. Mrs. Slmmonds glanced at the scare eadllne: "Bank Robbed! Police at ea!" and laid down the sheet. . "Naow, look at that, Ez!" she ejaclated, repeating the headline aU>ud. Here's a big city bUnk broke Into by urglurs, and th* city police force nil ff fishin' somewhere! What a Bean ai!"?Judge. Youtli is Invariably present in tho Id ago o fa great inan. Ho never omplotoly loses life's first elixir.? rot'. Harris-Bickford. 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