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FISHERS , IN THE SEA (Continued Iran first page.) were to learn a few things about fish f and fishing that they never had read in \A Blaclcstonc nor in pedagogical treatise., V nor heard of in fie conrer.ations of the \A most knowledgmble fishermen, amateur * or semi-professional, with whom they \i had heretofore swapped fish yarns. The . skipper hauled out of a locker a bit of jg machinery like that the butcher has atV tached to his counter, for manufacturing J hamburger steak, which he attached to 'a the side of the boat, outlet over the ' water. A large basket full of menhaden i had been provided, and these fish were . hamburged, as"1t were, one at a time f and the pieces dropped directely Into the 'g sea. The solid portions sank to the botf torn, six or seven fathoms belows, and on k the surface the oil in which menhaden * are so rich, spread over a considerable k area, and made the water smooth. This ' was continued for about half an hour jt when results began to show, and slowly the whole time they were fishing. The ^ remarkable clearness of the water made it possible to see objects five or perhaps ten feet below the surface and slowly there came up from the bottom which ; is their natural habitat, sea hass, porgie, croakers, flounders and others. The bits ■ of menhaden sinking through the water I had left a trail of oil, and fish at the bottom, after devouring what had fallen, rose long the oily lanes in ordgr to find the source of this rich food. When they reached the surface in sufficient numbers. 'the fun was rejfdy and some real fishing in sight. Both Smith and Brown had eagerly dropped over their lines when the boat first anchored and did not realize the full meaning of the pkip per's hnniburging operations. The mystery vanished, however, when the fish began to appear, but meantime iBrown in . endeavoring to get in his line after a light "bite" which he thought may have taken the clam bait which he had used, found it fast and immovable and after i several efforts gave up trying to release I it, saying to Smith, "There .must be a log down there, and ray hook has caught I in it. Guess I'll have to cut my line." The skipper overheard this and said, "Hold on there. Let me feel it." He slowly manipulated the line and finally ■ said, "TKere is- no log down there, noth- t ing but a bed of scallops extending for miles, which makes this a great feeding ( ground for fish. A big flounder's got you ; probably and he is lying flat, holding on . to the bottom by suction. You remem- ( ber playing with- little leather squares ( when you were a boy, don't you ? You soaked them thoroughly in water, attached a stout cord and by pressing the ( leather firmly down on 8 brick you were ( able to raise it up by means of the suction. The flounder is play™" this game now and if you will patiently harry him . awhile hell yield slowly and you'll get t I him. He's a big one or he would not ( j hold out bo long, so when he comes loose , play him careful like." Brown did as he | was told and soon had his flounder com- , I ing. He was in the boat in five minutes ^ ! or so and he was a whopper, weighing , perhaps 15 pounds. j No sooner was Brown's fish landed j than Smith, who bad begun to pull in l line preparatory, to rebaiting, began t excitedly to yank at it. It seemed to 1 something on the other end of it j fully as much, excited as was Smith , The skipper noticed the commotion and said, "Not so wild, man. YouH break , line and lose your fish. Easy now. e Keep it taut. Don't pull so blamed hard. c Let 'er go when he strikes that way. f keep her coming man, the fish is r swimming this way. Keep her taut, j you'll lose him if he gets a slack like t that again. There he is. Quick now," $ and with a sudden lift the beautiful T was over the side and as he landed t on fV of the boat, ho brought e his jaws together with a snap and bit [ off the line as neatly as you could have j done it with a razor. He was a snapping j mackerel, about eight pounds, and was 1 probably prevented from severing the c line before by Smith's heavy pulling. , This, however, was all merely a side issue to the real sport. As soon as these « big fish had been disposed of, the I ■ skipper baited up with bits of menhaden 1 his bamburg machine, and told the j ° 1 friends to do the same. He then dropped ! a his line overboand into the swarm of fish j 0 | now gathered by the "slick" or men- i * h« deii oil with which the wall* was per- p I mealed, and almost instantly a big sea ' p I bass at which it had been directed, 1 1 grabbed it and was hauled on board. Th - ] e amateurs caught the idea at once, J b and a perfect rain of fish poured into I n the boat, including specicmns of all the ' varieties enumerated above, each of the fi three catching them almost as rapidly j o as possible. Smaller specimens were 1 n»t permitted to take the bait, if it could helped and as they could be seen.* it p was quite easy to flip it away from them I and. in the direction of larger fish. An s hour or two was all of Jhis kind of sport j p that the amateurs needed and with sev- j t era] hundreds of pounds of fish aboard, t skipper ordered th a mud-hook e hauled aboard and started his engine for . t the homeward voyage. b Regular fishermen or folks accustomed o

to sea sights and sounds aad movements become indifferent to them, but thou, whose trips are not'numerous, enjoy tli. . whole exhilarating experience and find 4 something new to see or to thrill on each occasion. The wind had gone dow.i to a mere zephyr when our boat turned ~~ its prow . shoreward, and the sea was ih quite smooth, merely heaving, the surin ^ face undisturbed anywhere by any break '• At such times sharks can be seen clearie ing the water like a clipper ship, the ,r dorsal fin visible above the surface. Tin y | unwieldy sea turtle wallows along oe casionally in plain view, the flying fish >f j flip out of the water, rise about a yard t- | above it and dive back again. The oil g ; and fish debris, called "slide" by fisher - o men, which our skipper had scattered in e his "chumming" operations, had atn traded multitudes of sea gulls and sea c pigeons from near and from far It is e one of the mysteries how these birds di*e cover such things, but "chumming" of - this kind invariably draws them by 0 hundreds. Then there are always these a and many other sights to interest and e attraetthe spectator. It is a peculiarity » of the sea pigeon, by the way, that he r seems to stand on the water rather than T float in it. " As the boatapproached the shore, the - great pound nets came into view, but ' attention was attracted from them bv an exclamation of Smith's, "What do 1 you suppose did that?" • "What do you mean," said Brown. 1 "See that line of coots there," said " Smith. "1 see that line of birds, ducks or • something, if that's what you mean," ' said Brown. "They're coots," said Smith. " godfrey. there goes^another," he added. ' "What do you mean," said Brown. 1 "Why, something has taken two of 1 those coots right out of the flock and 1 down into the water. See that, there goes anutlier.'" "1 sure did see it.' said Brown. "Just taking a dive, though, I guess." "But they don't come up again, 'and the flock doesn't seem to know it,' said Smith. "Ah„ there goes another and that scared 'em. See 'em fly," said Smith. "What I o yon make of it, skipper,'' said Brown. "Not sure," said the skipper, " but it is most likely a coot fish, as we call it. I have beard it named satchel- mouth and head-fish, too, because it is like a satchel in some ways, and is qearly all , head and mouth, the latter with rows of sharp and vicious looking teeth. They , are about three feet long, and the mouth ■ extends almost the whole length, open- • ing like jk satchel. It is said that as as six coots have been found in , the stomach of specimens caught in the , ocean- pound nets, and as many as fifty pounds of fish."* "Go 'long skipper, you're foolin' ua. . Certainly no such monster as that was , ever seen in these waters," said Smith. . "Uh-huh, seen 'cm myself," said the , skipper, "and anybody who follows fishin' ] in the sea for a livin' can tell you fresh j water lubbers, many a true yarn, about . th<* strange things in the sea, that you , would scoff at. A city man, born an! ] in a big city has a great deal more - learn from the man who lives in the . open places, than he can teach him. , There's one of the ocean pound nets, over - there. We have plenty of time and we'll , go oxer and see them operate. The boat , just come out to get the fish and if , this has proven a good day, they will , take in a hundred barrels or 20.000 ( ] ounds of fish. How's that for fishing, , you land turtles." ] "That's fish trust fishing, my merry j viking,' said Smith. "With a hundred ( such nets along the Atlantic Coast, , catching fish at this rate every day for ( or five months, the Lord knows how j many menhaden steamers, and two or ( many manhaden steamers, and *.w> or e three hundred of you fellows with v.ui' j Scahriglit -k'r's, scooping up ir. your giil t nets all the fish which cndenor te .n»<-r the bay fore pawning purposes in the j spring, then those purse fisrermen tak- ( ing whole schools at once, how long do j. suppose 'here will be fi 'i for an) - j • to catch "Makes no difference how many aie t caught," said the skipper, "til-, re >v. 1 1 s! t be plenty left." j "Moonshine." said Smith, "Salmon are ( scarce because they are being caught n . c isuch • numbers in' the waters they fre- g quent. Sheepshead, which were numer- - j ous in these waters up to twenty years g ago, are almost unknown. Rock, also, r ! once numerous, are novelties. Blue fish, j j which were plenty enough to make it t pay to keep a' schooner here for hire to e I parties for trolling trips, hardly known „ | to the younger generation. Isn't this g | enough to show that the fish supply will 1 a thing of the past if these things arc I not halted ?" I "Naw." said the skipper. "Begn fishin' hard as they could for hundreds I of years. What's the use o' kickin'. cant help it anyhow." This little verbal battle ceased as the pound was approached. This net was a half mile long and a line running southwest and northeast, at an angle of j perhaps twenty degrees from the end of | the pound would strike the harbor enI trance, a mile and a half distance. The shoreward end is at least a mile from the beach at Holly Beach. As the Senbright approached, a much larger boat of the same type was seen bobbing up y

and down by the side of the pound d stakes. She had a capacity of about a hundred barrels, or ten tons of fish. The r pound had a weir or entrance about a quarter of a mile long, held in place by wire-rigging. This leads into - the pocket which is about forty by fifty feet. Fish enter this pocket at the ape\ of a' triangular opening and never have ' gumption enough to find their way out J again. The vessel alluded to lay alongi side this pocket -and men were engaged in scooping from the netted enclosure int to the vessel, the catch of fish, using a large hand scoop net made expressly for J this purpose. They were not enjoying 1 themselves, for there was a lot of "trash" 1 mixed with the good fish. By "trash" • is meant any sort of fish not marketable On this occasion there were jelly fish, which seem fatal to all edible fish when ■ confined with them, some swell fish or : • common puffers and also some satchel 1 fish. Several of these latter, more hid1 cous in appearance than can be made [ clear in a description of them, had been taken out by means of a pitch fork, and our skipper asked that one of them be 1 tossed aboard his boat for examination. I The two guests were fully convinced of I ' the truth. of the skipper's previous de- j 1 scription and of the existence of the coot 1 or satchel or head fish, which ever you i please, and stared in a fascinated way at • the monster, as it, once or twice, opened | - great jaws and showed its formidable 1 teeth. They gave it a wide berth and , ■ were glad when the skipper thrust it | overboard with his big hook, kept for j big fish, when caught. The I 1 pound net men were finding their trouble : with the puffers. The pocket net was raised from the bottom, in order t-> j the fish it contained within reach, j the fishermen began operations - with their scoop nets they sought out these puffers, to rid the net of them. rubbing of this net against the under j side of these fish caused them to puff : agreeably to there nature, to double . their normal size, and the scoop net be- j go tightly fillet! that it was very , difficult to empty it. The jelly fish, too, were hard to handle but had to be removed as soon as possible. Our skipper a puffer thrown into his boat and showed his guests a valve in the mouth, which when tripped permitted to esthe air which filled the puffer to abnormal size. The pound crew overtheir difficulties, loaded their vessels, with several tons of fish, and our once again directed its course to the entrance of the harbor and home. Smith and Brown had a.'-led to their of Die mysteries of the sea i and registered a vow that they would another trip some day and look for I further wonders. •Probably of the Mmily of aennthop terygian fishes, know® as Oiiasmodon- ' niger, found widely distributed according to the authorities, in the Atlantic , They have an elongated subcylindric or slightly tapering form: - subconic head; deeply cleft mouth, reach ( beyond the eyes with numerous long, sharp and, in part, movable teeth, naked skin, two dorsal fiins. anal fin the second dorsal, and thoracic ven- < tral fins. Noted lor its voracity and the ] enormous distensibility of tlicir stomachs | ( sometimes called the black swaUower. 1 1

ld AS TO ASSEMBLYMAN a STEVENS' BIL *" le Perish the thought that Senator L, • Jt tine is weary of his job in the Unit. | j„ States Senate. But what does Asseii.« to j blyman Stevens, of Cape May, mean tf v suggesting that the Governor be er.-> j powered to fill any vacancy that ma 4 ,e occur in the New Jersey representath » it 1 of Federal Senators ? Stevens is a R • , -. ■ publican, and scarcely -can be in Ma. « ^ . tine's confidence. — Public Ledger. I Assemblyman Stevens' bill proposes s I a interim appointments, only, dntil ti > )r machinery of ♦lew Jersey laws tor d • „ rect election by vote of the jieOple ce * !« be put into operation. p | COHEN— MAYER. ^ Reuben Cohen, Jr., son of Mr. and Mr % n' Reuben Cohen, of Seventc -nth and Bain-i bridge Streets, Philadelphia, will he ma • ried on St. Patrick's Day, at the res i dence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Jacc> e J. Mayer, 4248 Spruce Street. The pro - n pective bride is Miss Leaua Mayer. A d reception will be given at the St. Jame^ ' g Miss Mayer is a very beautiful gir j ( and of a very fine family. The newl / j married couple will make their residency _ j at 5110 Sanborn Street, where elegacA t apartments have been secured. . u The Cohens have for many years beil t ! one of Cape Hay's most esteemed col* j j tage families. e I SEA ISLE WINS GAME, The Cape May A. A. journeyed O Sea Isle City last Tuesday night an® r were defeated in a one-sided game bj ^ the score of 54 to 15. * j REMODELS BOAT. 1 1 Capt. Lewis Smith, is now remodeling I his Urge yacht and will discard ma*£ 4 and sail. An eighteen horse power er*- « ' gine has been installed and awning' top '■ has been added, which will be apprre r j ciated by the summer patrons of ihtH ' . popular boat. I SEWING CIRCLE QUILTS. r ' The Chapel Sewing Ciicle met at tli» ' home of Mrs. Charles Willis on Broai - way this week and made two quilty r which will be sold for the In-nefit of till I Chapel. Legal Forms of all dewript.nn in ' stock. Special forms made to order a 5 short notice. Star and Wave Stationery Department . ' On March 17th. (St. PalncU'-. t?ay) ; Miss Camp will give a benefit j 'ght ai the Opera House for the benefit »f tlo I I Altar Fund, of St. a-ary'a K. ' hnrcb. THE SUCCESSFUL PtEMEU I Money saved to make needed imprvv*- | cured, will enable you 10 obtain improve ' | ed machinery, more slock, or home conv forte; that will make the farm yleT-J greater return* and make life belter worth the llvtnu. The Security Trust Co. will serve you A ST. PATRICK SUPPER. Class No. 3 of the First Presbyterian Sabbath School, will give a St. Patrick's supper in the basement of th3 church. Tuesday evening, March 17t'a, 1 Ticket* 25 cents.

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