Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY,. SEPTEMBER

15, 1894 1

presslon that "B

of the

louse, Monday Jeans.” Joseph of life tn the The play has It Is one of successful native written. It Is sensational, realistic, but alng charace pasa story of the public Is tty much ev he saw-mill for the 1m

Words by BARRY CORNWALL. Allegro vivace. (J~ 126.) mf agitato.

FREDERIC H. COWEN.

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Come and murmur in mine ear How thou lov'sta-

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Love me if I die,

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irtiej 1 _ etroaig. Several of elated with the piece

•*Jl Ride Foe The attraction i Opera House next l - Idonday, wilt be "A Its new scenic Ills effects. The playj Walter Fessler, that It Is entlrel; t tlonal methods In t a number of be Introdu Robinson -known pror ta, Who wer

HHHHRHHlHa sf feet fn construction

devices st» conduct (a claimed^that a J befone seen on ai the entire front* of 1.600 wheels, coys, are used in the it. comes torthis city phia, where It u some weeks ago, , triuenph. i Amongcompany are Walt Kingsley. Miss Ma more, J. P. Wlnte 3>rew, HOgh For ,W. H. Palmer.

is a pondery, the play t bit of reaithe piece is and farce as on of amuseiujjcts will be Uun at the n under tj te author, wl that purpose, be unusually have been, assoIt first saw the ven on Tues,y during the tlnue for the F • ' .v. - i-i English's, ish-s . Grand

lag with

r Life,” with A mechanical thing new by.*’ Olaimedfor^tit' v from convencidents and ent of nfre l inyentldns direction of , ,;K. Nhaent, iauvar,” .*‘A MetropoHs” the sensa-; *' iuon that it et was never> This bccilpies

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ores.

death to me So that thou art nigh.

Once I loved thee rich,

Now I love thee poor;

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continue for the w< WeUnc.sday and Salt

‘‘Cell 22”.

Madame ‘Neuvlll®

ville will be at the) ■Fair week, opening

Inee In their new

iL sensational come

Imd abounding in Neuvllles j carry largely, and the

“CeU 22" will be git and four night perfor With Monday after

Baturday “The B duced. This piec„ •een In this city. “Th« World”"

Kittle's version of 1 World,” will be the r pire Theater next _• ' hP-an old-time pla

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comes In "

>*«; and over,

fel

im: Pbllade? tly produced ^ it scored a w frs of the

rk. |.ugustin Neu ■•heater during ‘Monday matbn’i8“ elaborate, 'aur matinees t»ginhi8g ^ay and be prore* been

Ah! what is there I could not For thy sake endure.

poeorit.

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Pay me for my pain;

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.. entire stage

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aeason.

employed

any time, an the actors s«

? untn he was ■ !L p reasonable figure,1

result was that hi now playing foHc the amount that the ed at Jthe begiilnini

And evati with

their experieucea. number df compar year will be greatly : fast year. And that | the actor this worst.

ffe;

NOW.

■hg to Tgettr 3Us effects on

by the gentheatrical uce mana-

1 w 1 ® present 1 of actors uafin the market

■I almost any ! :j

work,

of actors or two-!

I ha

salarlegi i ''-w^r j prospect iter._ Many ile»ed , by

rsfe*

pfi-il-

sensoh for thirty'

the case might be, aMl ■■ M with their manager* to thk; effect. The

usually contilned what is

. „ the professloh as the ”two1 *' flause. under Which it could be

either party on two weeks’

tiotioe. 'v r ^. n * ?' j Under this contract nsbqpy suits Jjavi

:ht by diachaa»d actorr, ary iclfcliy in the fkses of womet have been ngm against the

been

ry to g an sided affal

day night, and proved a success, according to a dispatch from that city, which says: jjl “It consists of three acts, the first of which As laid in Tombstone, Ariz., and the Suacerding two in New York. The B “ sa ® ia ® ifi£ ** fc ^the vicissitudes of Good- *“■ “black sheep” of an , Mudd, whose Tomb-

“f[ot 3tuff.”V ia beupon condition of his

.1 tour as a prelimintosing him tat© a pre- . for Ms pretty cousin, life in Tombstone and

of the bequest, until the editor of the ^n. The last two showing Ms trahs-

a man of fashion, while all the characteristics to be a good fellow in

the second act is an

..uanoe of the Mory bein the third act da given C the latest society fad ite vaudeville performJis that the specialties ob- ' unrestrained sway, and latest, best and brlghtn was the Hot Stuff, afice of that difficult : Mr. Hoyt’s selection of for IBS enaracter. Joseph FranWUTlain Devere, Harry l^Mikstone, “■ k and Agne^ LaneJK deserve careful and Intetfigstti work. waS'Calted out and forced to eech at the end of the second W*s also repeatedly called b*curtain at the finish of the

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Sad Fate of Mnnoln. , :,.agk'' : fCJl>l.c4EO Herald.

l The ssnf fate of Marlon Manola, so long fa popular fkvorite, probably occasions more regret than surprise, particularly among those familiar with the highstrung nervous temperament of the lady. She is an American, and was bom in Ohio atbout thirty-five years ago, but before she appeared first in New York her success had been made In London. Her first New York appearance of importance took place at the Casino, when Jtke.played the role of the Countess in the original production of “Erralnie.” She was at that time the wife of Carl Irving, a be sso who sang in the same eom- — afterward in

left him by a relative, time subjected to the ma-

(Slbi* SUf fjT even

of this

roost of the contracts stated that;/

women,

iched to satU1 no redress his contract, snt, as there s for its Satlshave passed ■ tdingman*

• people by

tag them for

of actors to puraue tag It, In distinctly

“hired” at so is no ‘‘two-

document.

:Um to make

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fare very

tag

> managers, are simply can be disIn any part > no shadow

Tree Co ml a* to America. Tree, who, with the excepIrvtng, ip the most conin England to-day, Is to itry during the coming seawlU make his first ap-

‘ s at Abbey’s Theawill .to from there Opera House. He

him his entire Haymar-

n) company. Including ucce«i in the leading

y to that of

£7 V*. ^ Wl,|X Ur? JM. t," the mueh-dlscussifd

i American ; ot the - -

Sheep.”

: " A Tor the first i last Mon-

pro*

prima

the only Dos- P^ny with her. She sang afterwai enerally W “hAlka” and other qf the Casino enerauy nau ducttotn(; and , atfir became the p

donna Of the McCaull Opera Company, ereatlng with them the principal soptaiio parts In “Clover” and other of the German operettas, which they gave in English. De Wolf Hopper, Eugene Oudin and Mathlkle Cottreliy were members of tlie company at that time. Miss Manola and her husband were divorced while she was staging with the McCaull company. Later she sang with De W olf Hopper in “Castles In the Air.” About three years ago she was married to John Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Mason acted together in musical comedies and sung in comic opera without particular success. Their last appearance here was at Hooley’s Theater in “Friend Fritz,’’ a dramatisation of the Ackermann-Chatrian story of that name, and it was favorably received, but was not a profitable undertaking. During the past summer Mr. and Mrs. Meson have sung in Boston in operetta* and various stories of their adventures and misfortunes have from time to time reached this city. It was announced some time ago that Mrs. Mason was to sing at the Garden Theater In “Little Christopher Columbus." but the negotiations fell through. The latest reports Are that her malady is of such a nature that there is but slight hope of recovery. It would seem. Indeed, from all accounts, that the indications point

toward paresis.

claim an estate

and is for a . pHRIJpiJJ

chinations of various rascals. In the last act there is a pugilistic encounter in which the hero is, as In .all else, suc-

cessful,

Richard Mansfield has changed his play for the opening of the new Herald Square Theater, New York, next Monday. Instead of his new play, "Japhqt tn Search of a Father,” he will produce “Arms and the Man," reserving “J&pttet” for the end of the season. Mr. Mansfield has engaged Amy Busby for hls^company. -The coming tour of Joseph Jefferson will begin in October and will comprise sixteen weeks only, being divided, as usual, into a fall and spring season. This is all the work the veteran comedian cares to do in one year nowsfdays. He

^ •

this season. He wUl not appear In New

York.

The march of realism in the drama goes steadily on. The tank is now to be supplanted by the electric chair and the death of a criminal by electricity. In a new melodrama, called “The Temptation of Money,” there is to be a reproduction of the death chamber in Sing Stag prison. This has the advantage over the tank that the hero rune no risk of catching cold from wet clothes. Olga Net befools, the English actress who comes to this country under the management of Marcus R. Mayer, is now traveling in the English provinces with her own dramatic combany. Miss Nethersole is presenting on her tour “Moths," “Diplomacy,” “Transgressor,” “Fedora” and “Romeo and JuUst." No

shown less adroitness In his dialogue, which is steadily bright and terse with sparkles of. w't and flashes of humor, and phrased with an apparent faithfulness to the period. In the matter of the delineation of character perhaps the greatest success has been won with Mrs. Shirley, a hi^h-spirttod royalist. If all dramas of the,romantic or picturesque vggtcty were presented with such unl-

and si

raric

fdrra finish and sgioothness as character ized' the performance under notice there would be no reasftn to complain of the decljne of the stageto America, so far as the technicalities ot. the theater were

concerned.”

Sir Afthur Sullivan is about to return to the Savoy Theater. London, with a now opera, to be brought out under the direction of Mr. D’Oyljr Carte. The li-

• ~ Mr- F, ‘

will present “The Cricket on the- brettist will be .Mr. F. U- Burnand, the Hearth,” as well as “Rip Van Winkle,” editor of Punch, which promises a com- ‘ * * blnation Of words and music which will

be looked forward to with much interest.

None of these

plays, except the latter, will be presented by Miss Nethefsole during her American

engagement. StViart Robson

will begin his season

Smart Robson will begin

next Monday. HI* repertory for the early

part of his tour will include

Notes ot the Stage.

Emma Calve will come to this country next year under the management of Fred “Off the Earth.” Hat^MgR burlesque by John Gilbert, in wl. i’oy U,

r "^“"“““ffiition tn Mil-,

starring, had its first ,

waukee this week, Edward Ktmenjf vegetarian. Ha food for a dozen tag stronger than c

: touched tosh

_ and drkijka llbth-

Ser water.

• _ v»*»t in i^ev/olf ,

Wives of Syntax.” OperatfO burlesque

Is a new

Uee of work for Miss Ccidthwalte. At Sing l^ng, on Monday evening last, John L. SuTUvan produced his new com-edy-drama, In three acts, from the pen of Edmund. E. Prke. of New York city. The play is called "A True American,” and depicts thf advent ares of an Irish athlete who comes to this country to

part of his tour will include Buckstone’s three-act comefly, “Leap Year; or, the Ladies* Privilege’ 1 (in which he will be seen as Dionysius Dimple, and Mrs. Robson will take the part of Miss Sarah O’Leary, a young Irish heiress). “The Henrietta” and “She Stoops to Conquer.” Later on In the season Mr. Robson will

produce a new comedy.

Messrs. Abbey & Grau will. Just six

weeks before the grand opera .season in New York, start a brief concert tour. The leading vociilists will be Madame Melba, Madame Scalchi and Mons. Plancon. Signor Ueviganl will conduct the orchestra, which is to be brought over from England, probably to remind the orchestra players on this side of the water that they can not overcharge Abbey & Grau more than once in succession.

Miss Johnstone Bennett, who returned

last week from her European pleasure trip, has told her friends that at the end of the present season she will retire from the stage and marry & French army officer. to whom she became engaged while abroad. In announcing her withdrawal to private life Miss Bennett takes the modest view that as she can never be a Bernhardt or a Duse, It is best for her to retire before she has worn out the popu-

larity she has already attained.

—kills Vane Is engaged to marry George Goodrich. Miss Vane is a well-known actress. She met Mr. Goodrich on the New York bound for England, the first

«o£ Un ^. - !^ He iS * NeW Yoik busl-

ness man. widower, young, handsome and rich. Some years ago Miss Van* was engaged to Samuel Pratt King of Snnm °' * rh e > teft her about WO.Oto out of a fortune of JlSAOOO. Mias v- a ik Mr. Goodrich are both in N*w York. Miss Vane was leading lady f or N. C. Goodwin in “In Mezzoura” here

last season.

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall will begin their “The Second Mrs. Tanquerav." Diirm* their ensragenierst they will be seen for J„ he fi i? t , t, . m ® ,J n this country in Tom Taylor’s historical comedy-dra-ma, “Eady Clancarty.” The company this season comprises Messrs. H. Cooper Cfitffe, Josenh F. Graham. Norman Forbes. Alfred Bucklaw WtUlsm Lugg G. P. Huntley H.j; QwVHhP. F. Ames. Herbert Cathcart. Misses Florence Cowell. Marlon Lee, Nel-

pctuoTi in aih-j * Aiarion i^ee. rselwell received*- - he Campbell, Ada Barton, Minnie Cath-

loitnist. cart and Barbara Huntley.

to have made a flattering success. The scene is laid in {South Carolina In the days of the revolution. The Boston Transcript says: “The location and the

.. .. . ■

moment are skilfully treated,: and

the the

historic characters »r types are served with rare dleeretion. Considered as a comedy of Intrigue alone, the story .and Us dev-topment wbow great ingenuity, with so f*w conventional or familiar eftmaxes that lijias the pervading flavor of freshness, f’ethaps this flavor would sot be so pronounceU had the author

This is nqt the first time Sir Arthur Sullivan and thb editor of Punch have been in collaboration. The new Savoy piece will indeed be a reconstruction and written up to date of a piece in the production of which they collaborated many years ago. It was called “La Contrabandtsta.” a name that will be revived. But to ail intents and purposes the opera will be a new one, scarcely a third of thd original work being used by the librettist

and composer.

The sixteenth season of Daly’s Theater and the twenty-sixth year of Augustin Daly’s career as a theatrical manager were simultaneously begun last Monday, evening, when a large and distlngufirtied audience assembled to pass upon the merits of “A Night Off" as Interpreted by a company to which several important additions had been made. The enthusiasm manifested by the ladles and gentlemen who completely occupied the handsome auditorium left no room for doubt as to the judgment shown by the manager in choosing new elements of strength for his comedy organization. Mr. Henry E. Dlxey.the leader among tho recruits, was received with a prolonged and earnest demonstration of welcome, was recalled to the stage three or four times during the evening and scored a

marked success.

SOME GREAT FINDS.

A lockkeeper on the St. Dennis canal, in France recently found in the water a package containing railway shares worth $22,000. * i John Schmucker, who bought the old Cadwallader place near Tiffin, O., found a lot of money—$20,000 it is supposedwhile repairing the attic. There has been a lawsuit over It, but the courts say it is Schmucker’s. A Spaniard recently arrived in Amaca, Mexico, secured permission to search for the buried treasure of an old band of brigands. He found an iron box full of coins near the foundations of the cathedral. Rumor puts the contents at half a million. B. S. Sanders, of Indian Bay, Ark., went squirrel hunting oa the Cartwright place and found, where a big oak was uprooted by the wind, a hoard of $10,000 In silver coin. It is supposed to have been hidden by John A. Murrell, the outlaw. S. A. Murrell, one of his relatives, once searched the Cartwright place for it. . Bat It Is Not Becoming. Atchison Globe. We have often wondered what pretty girls had to look sad about, and have at last found out because it is becoming. Cosmopolitan. A King’s Daughters’ Circle In San Francisco is composed of eight Chinese women, two Japanese, two Syrians, and their two American teachers.

Day Dawn. A fresh breeze wakes over land and sea With the dawning of day, A trouble, a travail, a newness beginning to be as tho mints roil away; And the young <>od, his pennons glancing with roseate light. ■—•an Routs the cohorts of Night. And the dark shadows curdle and then grow gray. Then a sound as of wing a Divides the thin gloom as It melts and is harried away; Some eentl nel sings. And proud with the conqueror’s pride for Ue victory woo, Koith Issue- the aim. / —Lewis Morris.

Snowy crystals, made from argols, form the basis for cream of tartar. Cream of tartar is foundation for the best of baking powders. None so strong

•r pure as Dr. Price’s.

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WARNING. Beware of Patent frinyement. To all Public 1 and the Official* thereof, to all Manufacturer* and the Public generally, a* well as to all Agent*, Employe* and Partie* telling “PME EXTJKGUISHL'MS.” Your attention 4* called to the following: The records of the Patent Office at Washington, D. if,, show that on April 1, 1886, John A. Graham, of Lexington, Va., administrator de ^ bonis non, of the estate of Wm. A, » Graham, deceased, owner of patent No 205,942, of July 9,1878, “Method of and apparatus lor extinguishing fires” (Carbonic Acid Gss—better known as Graham patent), transierred same to the ‘FIRE EXTINGUISHER MAN* UFACTURING COMPANY,” and the title to said patent is vested in said company. IMPORTANT NOTICE No Fire Extinguisher can be SOLO or USED using Oil of Vitriol (Sulphuric Acid) or any other active acid in combination with Bi Cari ate of Soda or any other strong bonate in solution with wafer, out infringement of the Ga Patent(No. 205, 942, July 9,1 PURCHASERS ot such infring^ ments, as well as SELLERS are amenable to us, and punishable for as for contempt of court. The validity of the Graham Carbonic Acid Gas Patents (No. 205,942, July 9, 1878,) has been affirmed ; by several United States Courts, but more recently in the suit of the Fire Extinguisher Manulacturing Company vs. William K. Platt, of Philadelphia, and Platt’s appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania. Before:—Dallas, Circuit Judge. Wales and Green, District Judges. The decree of the Circuit Court was affirmed. It having been brought to our notice that irresponsible parties are trying to sell (and in some instances have sold) Fire Extinguishers, which are direct infringements ot Uiis Company's patents, as shove, this publication is made to warn all parties SELL* ING, BUYING or USING said infringemints will be prosecuted wherever found, FIRE miSCOISUER M1N0FACTM6 CO. By A. a INGRAM, Manager. Chicago, September, 4, 1894.

OUTLOOK FOR THE OYSTER

HOW ITS CULTURE IS CONDUCTED AT HOME AND ABROAD.

■ " / li Mach

Not so Mach the Growth of Coneamptton That Affects the Mark-

ets as Bad Management—Public , and /private Beds.

Copyright, 18H by 8. S. McClure, Llm. The threatened extinction of the American oyster (an Idle threat, it would seem In the face of ‘the fact that the production to-day is greater than it has been before in the history of flsheries)has led the United States Fish Commission to make many experiments In the line of artieial propagation, and to examine carefully the system of oyster culture followed abroad with a view to ifs adoption at some remote day in the United States. The French people believed fifty years ago that their supply of oysters was; inexhaustible; but they have had to resort to the most remarkable artificial means to restore their fisheries. The abundance with which nature has blessed the Chesapeake waters may not endure through the next half century, especially If no attempt is made to protect oyster beds by legislation. It is likely that there will always be public oyster grounds in the United States, as there are in England. Oyster culture In the older country is an important industry, but the attempt to interfere with the rights of fishermen on the oyster banks has always met with a strenuous and partly successful opposition. Limitations have been placed on the public fisheries to the extent of prohibiting the marketing of deep-sea oysters between June 15 and August 4. and there are regulations which have been in force since the seventeenth century prohibiting the taking of small oysters ai•together. The British fisherman still dredges for oysters on the public banks, and he probably will continue to exercise that privilege for all time. The same spirit of independence Will preserve to the American fishermen the right to the public fisheries, though certain concessions are made even now to those who wish to enter on the industry of oyster cultivation. Already all of the Atlantic coast States have enacted laws setting aside sea bottom for pre-emption or lease by those who wish to enter on the cultivation of oysters; and most of the northern oysters come from private beds. It is estimated by Mr. Stevenson of the Fish Commission, that the available sea-bottom on the coast of the United States will always be able to over-supply the local demand for oys-

ters.

Tfce Oyater Abroad.

In other countries the supply of available ground Is sp small, comparatively, that oyster farms are established under conditions which would be regarded by the American oysterman as almost prohibitory—certainly as commercially valueless. In Italy, for example,the available sea bottom is let in parks only fifteen feet square (the Maryland oyster#nen complain that the limitation of five acres on pre-emption hinders cultivation). and the Italian oyster farms are cultivated on the Swiss mountain plan— vertically. In France muddy bottoms, which are generally considered impossible on the American coast, are adapted to the Industry and are made to produce large crops. Now Flrance is calmly considering the possibility of sell-

ing seed oysters to our oystermen.

There is no doubt that artificial cultivation like that of France could be adapted to American conditions. But the proposition ciu tatroduce the French system in this country has always met with a commercial obstacle. With the enormous natural supply to meet almost any demand, with the comparative ex-

■ -**’■ - ^ • mis country.

travagant cost of labor in tl—

would oyster culture pay? The answer has always been that Ihe foreign system

States; that only the limited Industry which has been established along the New England coast could be made profitable as yet. When the oyster beds of the Chesapeake show signs of exhaustion there may be a profit in bringing up oysters by hand; until that time It will never be a very important American industry. We produce to-day nearly six times as many oysters as all the rest of the world. We ship one hundred thousand barrels of oysters annually to England. We have oysters to spare an>at prices which no other country can even approximate. Business of Cultivation. The business of cultivating oysters and fattening them for the market began with the Romans. Sergius Oratcr has been considered by most of those who have written about the Roman industry as the originator of the oyster culture; but Professor Dean, of Columbia College, believes that he was only a very successful culturlst, whose extensive business brought him Into prominence. Sergius Orator lived two thousand years ago. How much longer the oyster Industry has existed no one knows. It has been practiced in Italy since ’ this early Roman period; and from Italy forty years ago It spread to France. It is practiced now in Italy, Spain. Portugal, Germany. Holland, Belgium, France and England. The Chinese have an oyster Industry Of their own of independent origin and of doubtful antiquity. . There are three distinct branches of the oyster industry; the collction of the “spat’* or spawn; the protection of the young oyster through natural growth, and the fattening of the oyster of marketable size. In some countries all three of these branches of the industry are carried on in the same place and by the same people. But there is a large trade in ovster seed (the developed spat) Which Is monopolized by France and Holland; and Belgium devotes her attention exclusively to the fattening of oysters which are grown in other countries Extremely Prolifle. It has been stated that twenty-five oysters under perfect conditions could produce enough young to • supply the whole Connecticut coast. A female oyster will produce 9.000.000 at a time; and one authority says that a particularly large American oyster may produce 60.000.000 eggs at one time. The European oyster is less fecund and produces only 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 eggs. But from the conditions surrounding the eggs the spat and the young oyster. It is possible that from these millions of eggs but two fullgrown oysters will result. Mud Is fatal to the young oyster, and may kill the oyster full grown. The crab, the star fish, the oyster bird are all destructive influences which prevent the development of more than a minute percentage of the fertilized eggs. And the possibilities of fertilization are considerably lessened by the fact that the male and female oysters empty their generative products directly into the water, leaving largely to chance the fertilization of the female’s eggs by the male fluid. An authority has estimated that each oyster born has 1-1145000 of a chance of reaching adult age. The influences affecting the permanency of the oyster suply in the United States are not so much the enormous consumption of full-grown oysters as the destruction ef the young and the failure to protect the spat or to provide for its safe deposit. With a few restrictions, it is every man for himself in the American fisheries, and It Is no man’s business to protect the young oyster where it should be the business of every man. It is nobody’s business to maintain the supply of spawning oysters, so the amount of spat decreases annually in certain well fished localities. The same condition of affairs occurred in France, and it became necessary there for the government to set aside spawning grounds. This necessity is not likely to arise in the United States for an indefinite period, but Mr. Stevenson, in one of his admirable reports, has suggested to the authorities of Maryland the necessity of preparing the oyster banks for the “set” of spat, so that the greatest possible amount may be collected. A large

Collection of the Spat.-

Spawning having been protected, the next step in oyster culture is the selection of the spat. In America but few preparations are made for this. Along the Connecticut coast it has been the cus-

tom for some time to

the rate of 100 or 200 tons to the acre on muddy ground, and on the same coast, as well ns in Long Island sound along the New York shore, it is the custom for oyster farmers to scatter about three hundred bushels of shells to the acre over the ground under cultivation. The use of shells to Improve the oyster beds has had a limited popularity of late years in Virginia. But in the South, where so little private planting is done, there are not the same inducements to method thgLt there are f here in Connecticut Foy example, where there are more than 70,000 acres of private ground, one-half under cultivation, and only about 13,000 of public ground. On the Pcquonock river in Connecticut there is still another method of collecting the spat, which might at first be considered an adaptation from the Italian, but which was really a\Iocal discovery made In 1868. In that ye»lr a farmer near <8roton, trimirttnpr the frees in his orchard, threw the branches into the river. In the fall he was much surprised to find .the brush covered with oysters. Others began to experiment with brush, planting it in May and June, and with such success that this method of raising oysters is still followed to a limited extent in the neighborhood. Its limitation by the local authorities is in the interest of health; for the great accumulation of brush at one time made*the water

stagnant.

The great natural supply of spat In American waters In certain localities has made it unnecessary thus far to protect the spawning oyster. Preparing the sea bottom by dredging and scattering shells on gravel In these localities is enough to insure a satisfactory accumulation of spat No attempt is made to protect the young oyster in America, except by removing the crop to deeper water when it has attained a certain growth. This Is in some measure a protection from, the star fish and in a great degree a safeguard against storms. When the oysters are two years old they are seed oysters, and much of the business of Connecticut ovstermen is the raising of seed to sell to Long Island planters In four years the oyster is full grown and ready for n arket OEQRGS GRANTHAM BAIN.

CHURCH CHIMES.

The work on Tremont Temple in Boston is advancing. It is expected to lay the corner stone of the new edifice Sep-

tember 6.

A recent letter from Japan says that at the close of last year of the 377 churches in Japan 78 are wholly and 259 are partially self-supporting. The additions during the vear number XW The present membership is 37,534. The

largest part of these are men.

A comparative summary of the Presbyterian Church, South, for the past five years shows tho number of synods is remaining the same—18. There are 73 Presbyteries, one more than last year and two more than in 1896. The number of ministers has increased from 1179. The Michigan Central Railroad ha* recognized the good work of the Goff evangelistic car, with its party of evangelists, among its employes by allowing free tranportation along its line. Most of the services are tn the open air. and thus multitudes are reached who

would not go Into church.

A vote has recently been taken among the Presbyterian Sunday-schools of the country, at the sugestlon of the “Evangelist," to determine “the best 100 books for a Sunday school library.’’ "Ben Hur” leads, appearing as it does upon M per cent, of the lists. “Stepping Heavenward” follows close upon it. “Pilgrim's Progress" comes next, and “In His

Name” is the fourth.

The United States and Massachusetts State Conventions of the Unlversalist Church and a large portion of the denominational press have urged that

MARY C. LLOYD Boom 19 Fleteber’s Bank Building. Opposite New Y ork Store.

THE RAILROADS.

Excursion and Regular Train*.

BTG FOUR ROUTE EXCURSION TO CHICAGO “RETUitN Saturday, Sept. lg, 1894.

via all rail.

®1.50-Round Trip-881.50 Tickets good going on regular trains Saturday Pept. 15,11:00 a m., 12:15 night, end on ipecisl train 10 p. m. Tickets good returning on sp^elst train leaving Chicago ll-.KOp. in. Hundsy, Sept. 10. and uU rssulsr trains up to end Including Mondsy, Pept 17. lesvlng Chlcexo st 8:80 p. m. Also we ts.l ticket! st »L80 tor Honed Trip via BKNTOJN IIARBOM and I He Klepnet Mde-whecl City of Cliieo**. •gMMrtnl Train vis this route will leave InrtlsnapolR st 6:30 p. tn., hsturdny. Sept. 15. Tlcke.s good to return for tea day* On this train we will run eome of our elegant reclining cbslr r»v«, the rates lor tests in which will bt 75c esch. For tickets sod full Informstioh rail st Big Fourofncei.No. 4 fcsst Wsthlngton eireet, No. 36 Jackson plsce. Union Ststion sad Mssss*

ebusstts svenue.

H. M. BBOSBON, A. O. P. A.

THE HSTM1

Will CAR LISE

PI NINO snd PARLOR CARS on DAT TRAINS; PULLMAN 8L4EEPJSRS on NKMT

TP.VJNS.

Trains lenvs for Chicago st *11:54 a. m *12:30 a m. Motion accommodation leaves si

•*4:00 p. tn.

Trains arrive from Chicago st *3:25 * m .

*3:5i p. m.

Monon accommodation leaves st *ni:J0 a. m. Ticket office*. No. 3 W. Washington sL. Union station snd Massachusetts sve. Pullman vestibule sleeper for Chicago stands

st west end Union station and ran be taken a4

•Dally.

Sunday.

Cincinnati Ex; Cln. Toledo A

Beat Ll«. CIXCIKNAI Tor any in Ion at city ticket

2 Wuet Watbli

street _ Trains arrive and depart from Union station

'as follow* i

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•Daily, tDally, except Hnndar.

Ticket offices at station and at oc

and Washington at*.

TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS t

From

•Daily. ••Dally.

Indianapolis

church properties be deeded to the con veatlon to be held In trust in order that

Columbus, Ind. and Louisr • JSJ Philadelphia and New T... •4:1

Baltimore sad Washington • Dayton and Springfield • Madison. Sunday only Martinsville and Vincennes * Richmond and Columbus,O** Madison and Louisville *• L--transport and Chicago. Dayton and Columbus..

Dayton and Bprf Philadelphia and

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and New

they may never be alienated from the purpose for which they were intended. A considerable number of churches, among them the largest, wealthiest and best organized, have taken this precautionary step. w - In consequence of the passing of the W A

civil marriage bill in Hungary the Pope w ^

is reported to have acceded to a request from the bishops and magnates and sanctioned a form cf prayer appealing to the Virgin and St. Stephen, the patron saint, to save Hungary from the' enemies of the church. The prayer is to be repeated daily In Hungarian churches by all premint Thousands of copies have been printed and are being spread

through the country

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York* f

Baltimore and Washington • I Columbus, Ind. and Loulsv j

Knlghtstown and Columbus,Ind. and

Martinsville an Pittsburg and Dayton and X«

and

Small savings make great

economy

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