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.
Still later he spoke of it as a tomato.
“Well, sir,” Ping was wont to say,
“I ain’t so fast on my dogs any more
when it comes to chasing them fly
balls, but 1 certainly can caress that
old apple.”
• * *
Ixmg Mutt Williams, the pitcher,
who probably would be one of the
greatest flingers in the game if he
took life a bit more seriously, always
has a lot of smart cracks on the end
of his tongue. Mutt, who probably
measures in at about six feet, four in
ches, always takes delight in telling
some unsuspecting victim about the
time when he was an actor. The
elongated one says he used to play
the tree in the forest scene in Way
Down Hast. Mutt generally winds up
by confiding to his listener that this
all happened back in the good—yes,
way back in the goodvear rubber com
pany. Williams is now starring in the
Denver line-up and will be seen in
action in Omaha ere long.
I’RGE PENSION EOK
WIDOW OF COL. YOl'N'G
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C., May 166.—The
Senate committee on pensions has al
ready made a favorable report on the
bill for the relief of the widow of Col.
Charles Young, according to informa
tion contained in a letter from Sen.
Royal S. Copeland, New York, to Wm.
Pickens. Colored voters are urged to
remind their representatives of the
necessity for the passage of this meas
ure.
Mrs. T. P. Mahammett returned on
Tuesday from a three months’ visit
i withi relatives in California.
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