In time the Hansa prosperity de
clined, and the Dutch fisheries,
greatly stimulated, became a
source of new wealth and power
to the Netherlands. The Dutch
In the late sixteenth century de
veloped a method of curing and
barreling the herring that gave
them an unusual advantage in the
trade with .Catholic Central and
Southern Europe.
Despite the fact that in our own
history the fishermen and mer
chantmen did not much intermin
gle, and that when our navy ex
panded during the war of 1812 it
drew most of its recruits from the
latter, it has been the experience
of both England and Holland that
a great fishing trade is closely
allied with a great merchant ma
rine, and these in turn with a big
navy. There is little doubt that
generations of fishermen furnish
ed excellent material for the ma
rine, and that tlie great impetus
to the sea which originated in the
fisheries was carried over into the
merchant service and the navy.
In helping her fishermen by stim
ulating the demand for their
product, France, therefore, is prof
iting from this lesson. But such
is the number of the inland fish
ermen who sit by the river banks
forever, that to encourage them
would probably result in paralyz
ing all work—and probably in no
increase in the numbereof market
able fish.
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The Mother Of Sir John MillaU
"I owe everything to my moth
er/’ s^id Sir John Millais, the
great landscape artist. To her
sympatny, to her kindliness, to her
teaching, he acknowledged, he
owed the beginning of all that
success that has left his name im
mortal.
