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HOW ESKIMOS CATCH EELS TO FEED DOGS Dip Nets Used Through Holes Cut in Ice. Saint Michael, Alaska.—Early even winter vast numbers of pels come down the Yukon river toward the sea, and the methods used by Eskimos to eatcli them for dog feed Is novel. The lower Y'ukon freezes early In 1 #cember and when the Ice Is about aix Inches thick the Eskimos watch for the arrival of eels. Eskimo villages are scattered along the lower river up to Anvik, the divid ing line between Ihe Yukon lndlupn 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 one quarter-inch mesh, fastened to a willow hoop and tour foot pole. When the Ice is strong enough the Eskimos who own dogs find the river eddies where eels have regular lanes of travel yeur after year. Holes Cut in Ice. Each dog owner cuts a hole two feet square In the Ice, then some dis tance further along another one, and so on until five or six are made, all in a line up and down the river, cross wise 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-llke tin on hack and belly. Each has seven small round holes the size of a pinhead on both sides of the sktdl 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 yeur. The tribes have an unusual system of notifying each other when the eels have arrived. Four young men are sent 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 w ater comes up through the Ice holes to within two or three Inches of the top and its the wriggling masses of eels come down streum they push water ahead of them so that each hole overflows. Tins Is the sign to the watchers of the arrival of the antici pated 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 northern sights to observe 30 to 50 fur clad Eskimos and many dogs on the snow-covered ice, the rows of small wood fires bunting brightly ut the wa ter holes. As the water begins to rise in the hole, an Eskimo plunges his dip net In. At once It Is filled with writhing eels; be pulls It up, dumps the con tents upon the Ice, then another plunge, another net full. The last hole cleaned, the Eskimos gather to inspect tlielr catch. Each family has from live 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 night. The eels are too fat even for the oil-loving Eskimos, hut the grease Is used for cooking and lamps. Elephants Poor Sailors; Sea Voyage Sickens ’Em Hamburg.—“Old Hose,” an elephant ninety years of age, suffered most from sea sickness of ail the 300 trained ani mals which Bailed from Hamburg for Montevideo p.s part of a circus now on tour In South America. There were nine other elephants beside "Old Hose," who is queen of the herd, and all bore up very well indeed until the leader herself became ill and kept the veterinarians and trainers up every night for a good part of the three-week oceun trip. The elephants at first were kept up on deck, but sight of the waves and the constant rolling und pitching of the vessel agitated them and resulted in so much bellow ing that they were soon moved below decks. Writing home o'- their experiences, the animal trainers say the voyage was a nightmare which lusted several weeks. The snakes were the only quiet things aboard the ship during the stormy weather, they said. Ban* Banana Song Budapest.—Bands and orchestras In Hungary are not nllowed to play “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” As the tune reaches each country of the Balkans It Is translated to suit local tastes, but the Hungarian words to It are m naughty the authorities have baonei the air. FKKNCH PEOPLE DYING FAST (By The Associated Negro Pro**) Paris, France, May 16.—Accordim to figures compiled for the first quar ter of 1923 only! one city In Francs Strasbourg, showed a birth rate lsrg *r (han tbs death rats. In ten of tlx tir|Nt dries in ths country death; lam mil by MM, this etty being o*u Sport slang' Curious sort of in stitution, isn’t it? And did you ever stop to ponder over it; ever stop to wonder where it all came from? Some of the classics of the ball lot were coined by none other than Ping Bodie, now playing center field for the Dea Moines Boosters. “Ping, you know, was the well ■ known wop fence buster and one-time "roomie” of Babe Ruth. It was dur ing the Bambino’s biggest home run year that Ping was selected to keep tabs on Ruth—wander around with him at night to see that the infant didn’t do anything that would be bad | for him. So, then it was Ping, himself, who first referred to a baseball as an onion. Later he called it an apple. 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