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" 'J vOL. V. 1[A i l ", C ,AR"a; l)0N COUNTY, S. C., WEI)NESD:11 ALTGL HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. The Divine Art of Making and Keeping Friends - He That Would Have Them Must First Show Himself Friendly. Dr. Talmage in a recent sermon took for his subject "How to Make Friends," and his text was Proverbs xviii., 24: "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." He said: . About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends, I speak-a subject on which I never heard of anyone preaching and yet God thought it of enough import ance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular Psalms of David, and on the other by the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It seems :.ll a matter of haphazard how many frieuds we have, or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it. There is a law which governs the accretion and dispersion of friendships. They did not "just happen so," any more than the tides just happen to rise and fall, or the sun just happen to rise or set. It is a science, an art, a God-given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to others, and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not say you will not have enemies: indeed. the best way to get ardent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you got their en W y in doing the right thing. Good men and women will always have enemies, be cause their goodness is a perpetual rebuke to evil; but this antagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your adher ents. Your friends will gather closer around you because of the attacks of your assailants. The more your ene mies abuse you, the better year co adjutors will think of you. The best friends we ever had appeared at some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life when unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about fifty a minute. You are bound to some peo ple by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by bands malevolent. Human nature was ship wrecked about fifty-nine centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate, running the famous cargo aground on a snag in the river Hiddekel; but there was at least one good trait of human nature that waded safely ashore fron that shipwreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of those .unfairly dealt with. When it is thoroughly demonstrated that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slan derous tongues were busy enough, defend .ers fin allygathered aroundasthick ashoney bees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckles. If, when set upon by the furies, you Acan have grace enough to keepyourmouth shut, and preserve your equipose, and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after a while with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world givento Christ on his ar rival at Palestine a very cold shoulder there would nothave been on< ialf as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky bound in black lids of midnight. Em it not been for the heavy and jeeerd ot have been th loved of more people than g who ever touched foot on either eastern or western hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair because you have enemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and en thusiastic admirers. In other words there is no virulence, human or diabolic, tiat can hinder my text from coming true:. "A man - that hath friends mustshowhimself friend ly." It is 'my ambition to project especially upon the young a thought which may be nignly shape 'ir destiny for the here and the hrate.fore you show yourself friendly, you must be friendly. I do not recommend a dramatized geniality. There is such a thing as pretending to be en rap port with others when we are their dire de structants, and talk against them and wish them [calamity. J- das covered up his treachery by a resoundingkiss, and caresses may be demonical. Better the mythological Ceberus, the three headed dog of hell, bark ing at us, than the wolf-in sheep's clothing, its brindle hide covered up by deceptive wool, and its deathful howl cadenced into an innocent bleating. Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred, who, after committing many outrages upon the people, seemed suddenly to become friendly,'and invited them to a banquet. Afte~r most of the courses of food had been served he blew a horn, which was in those times a signal for the servants to bring on the dessert, but in this case it was the signal for assassins to enter and slay the guests. His pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud; and there are now people whose smile is a falsehood. Before you be gin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Gdt your heart right with God an~d man, and this grace will became easy. You may by your own resolution get your *nature into -a semnbanee of this virtue, but the grace of God can sablin ely lift you into it. Railing on the River Taes two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got one hundred horses and pulled on the grounded ship and pulled it to pteces. The owners of the other grounded vessel waited till the tides came in and easily floated the ship out of all trouble. So, we may pull and haul at our grounded human nature, and try to get it into better condition; but there is nothing like the oc eanic tide of God's up lifting grace to hoist us into this kindness I am eulogizing. If when under the flash of the Holy Ghost we see o'ur own foibles and defects and depravitias, we will be very lenient and very easy with others. We will look into their charaews for things com mendatory and not &amnantory. If you would rub your own eye a little more vigo ,z-ously you would find a mote in it, the ex traction of which would keep you so busy that you would not have much time to shoulder your broadax and go forth to split up the beam i . vour neighbor's eye. In a -Christian spirit eep on exploring the char act ers of those you meet, and I am sureyou . will find something in theam delightful and fit for a foundation of friendliness. You invite me to come to your colmtry seat and spend a few days. Thank you! I arrive about noon of a beautiful summer day. What do you do? As soon as I arrive you take me out under the shadow of the green efms. You take me down the artificial lake, the spotted trout floating in and out among the white pillars of the pond lilies. You take me to the stalls and kennels where you keep your fine stock, and here are the Dur ham cattle, and the Gordon s~tters, and the high stepping steeds by pawing and neigh ing, the only language tirey can speak, ask ing for harness or saddle, and a short turn down the road. Then we go back to the house, and you get me in the right light and show me the Kensetts and the Bier-stadts on the wall, and take me into the music room, and show me the bird eages, the canaries in the bay window answering the robins in the trye tops. Thank you: I never enjoyed myself more in the same length of time. Now, why do we not no that way in regard to the char-acters of others, and show the bloom and the music and the bright fountainsi No. We say come along and let me show you that mansa character. Here is a green- scummed freg pond, and there's a filthy cellar, and I guess under that. hedge there must be a black snake. Come and let us for an hour or two regale ourselves with~the nuisances. 0, my friends, better cover up the faults and extrol - the virtues, and this habit once established of universalfriendliness willibecome as easy as it is this morning for a syriniga to flood the air with sweetness,'as easy as it will be further on in the season for a quail to whistle up from the grass. When we hear something bad about somebody whom we , always supposed to be good, take out your lead pencil and say "Let me see! Before I accept that baeu tate oft iron it twenty-five per cent. !or the habit of exaggeration which belongs to the man who first told the story; then I will take off twenty-five per cent. for the addi tions which the spirit of gossip in every community has put upon the origid story; then- I will take off twenty five per cent. from the fact that the man may have been put into circumstances of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off seventy five per cent. But I have not heard his side of the story at all, and for that reason I take off the remaining twenty-five per cent." Excuse me, sir, I don't believe a word of it. But there comes in a defective maxim, so often quoted: "Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire." Look at the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro ducer of vaccination; i the smoke around Columbus, the discovers: ; and the smoke around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galileo and Paul, and John, and Christ, and tell me where was the fire. That is one of the Satanic arts to make smokewithout fire. Slander, like the world, may be made out of nothing. If the Christian, fair minded. com mon sensical spirit in regard to others pre dominated in the world we should have the millennium in about six weeks, for would not that be limb and lion, cow and leopard lying down together! Nothing but the grace of God can ever put us into such a habit of mind and heart as that. The whole tendency is in the opposite direction. This is the way the world talks: I put my name on the back of a man's note, and I had to pay it, and I will never again put sy name on the back of any man's note. I gave a beggar ten cents, and five minutes after I saw him enter a liquor store to spend it. I will never again give a cent to a be.gar. I helped that young man start in busin'ss, mid lo! after a while, he came and opened a store almost next door to me, and stole my customers. I will never again help a young man start in business. I trusted in what my neighbor promised to do, and he broke his word, and the Psalmist was right before he corrected himself, for "all men are liars." So men become sus picious and saturnine and selfish, and at every additional wrong done them they put another layer on the wall of their exclusive ness, and another bolt .o the door that shuts them out from sympathy with the world. They get cheated out of a thousand dollars, or misinterpreted, or disappointed, or be trayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster goes another bolt, not realizing that while they lock ' others out they lock others in; and some day they wake up to find them selves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them. There's an island half way between England, Scotland and Ireland called the sle of Man, and the'seas dash against all sides of it, and I am told that there is no more lovely place than that Isle of Man: but when a man becomes insular in his dis position, and cuts himself off from the miain laud of the wo'rld's sympathies, he is de spicable, and all around him is an Atlantic :ean of selfishness. Behold that Isle of an! Now, supposing that you have. by adivine regeneration, got right toward God and hu manity, and you start out to practice my text, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." .Fulfill this by all forms Df appropriate salutation. Have you u3 ticed that the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of reogition To swing tWe head from side wO s: a gged in derision, is unnatural a d : to throw it back, nvites ve .' but to drop tie- |3Fe. erecting is accompanied by so little exer- J n Lion tha - day lung and every. day y u 1 ai ractice it without the least sem bance of fatigue.- So, also, the structure of , the hand indicates handshaking; the t knuckles not made s th'at the fingers turn out, but so made that the fingers can turn s in, as in clasping hands; and the thumb di- I vided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neignbor's hand on one side, the thumb takes it on the other, and, pressed together, all the faculties f the hand gives emphasis to the saluta tion. Five sermons in every healthy hand rge us to handshaking. Besides this, every day when you start, ut, load yourself up with kind thoughts,. kind w'ords, kind expressions. and kind reetings. When a man or woman does, vell, tell him so, tell her so. If you meeti ome one who is improved in health, and it s demonstrated in girth and color,.say: "How well you look !" But if on the other and, under the wear and tear o&f life he apears pale and exhausted, do not intro uce sanitary subjects, or say an'y thing at< ll about physical conditions. In the case of improved heith, you have by your words2 given another impulse towards the robust nd the jocund; while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your silence, by which he concludes: "If1 were really so badly off, he would ha're2 said 'something about it.'" We are all,< specially those of a nervous temperament, usceptible to kind words and discouraging words. Form a conspiracy against us, and let ten men meet us at certain points on1 our way over to business, and let each one say: "How sick you look," though we1 should start out well, after meeting -the - first and hearing his depressing salute, we should begin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy ac.costing, we would conclude we did 'not feel quite as well as usual. After meeting the third >ur sensations would be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth, unless we expected a ~onspiracy, we would go home and go to bed, and the other six pessimists would be a useless surplus of discouragement. My dear sir, my'-dear madam, what do you mean by going about this world with disheartenmentsi Is not the supply of] gloom and trouble and misfortune enough to meet the demand without your run nine a factory of pins and s~ikes! Why shuld you plant black and blue in he world when God -,o seldom plants them I Plenty of scarlet colors, plenity of yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant lac'k or lue. I nev'er sav a black flower.and the"res only h. 'r and there a blue bell or a violet; but the blue is for the most part reserved for the sky, and wve have to look up to see that, andi when we look up no color can do us harm. I Why not plant along the paths of others the I brightnesses instead of the glooms? Do notl prophesy misfortune, If you must be a j prophet t all be an Ezekiel, and not a Jere miah. In ancient-times prophets who fore told evil were doing right, for they were divinely directed; but the prophets, of evil in our time are generally false prophets. Some of our weather wise people are ' ophesying we shall have a sumuier of unparaileled srch. It will not be that at all. I think we are going to have a summer of great harvest and universal health; at any rate I know as much about it as they do. Last fall all the weather prop~hets aecd in say ing we should have a winter of extraordim ary severity, blizzard on the heels of bliz zard. It was the mildest winter 1 ever re member to have passed. In deed, the autumn and the spring almost shoved winter out of the possession. Real troubles have no heralds running ahead of their somber char ots, and no one has any authority in our time to announce their coming. Load your self up with helpful words and deeds. The hymn once sung in our churches is unfit to be sun'i, for it says: *We should suspect some danner near Where wve po->sess delight. In other words, manage to keep miserable alithetime. The old song sung at the pianos a quarter of a century ago was right, "Kind Words Can Never Die." Such kind words have their nests inkind hearts, and when they are hatched dht and take wing they cirle round in flights that never cease, and sportsman's gun can not shoot them, and storms can not ruffle their wings, and when they cease flight in these lower skies of earth they sweep around amid the higher altitudes of heaven. At Baltimore, a few days ago,.I talked into a phonograph. The cylinder containing the words was seat on to Washington, and the next day that cylinder, from another phonographic instruent, when turned, gave back to me the very words I had uttered the day befre a with the sme intonations. Scold io a lihtnogirapn amitt it wiii scaoac mu. Pour inild words into a phionorraph andi it will return the gentieness. Society anti the world, and the church, are phonographs. Give tl.emn acerbity and rough treatment. and acerbity and rough treatnent you will get back. Give them practical frindliness and they will give hack ptractical friendli ness. A father askedi his little daughter: "Mary, why is it that everybody loves Tout" She answered: "I1 don'tknotw, uness it is because I love everybody." " A mia that hath friends must show himself friemti ly." We want something like that spirit of sacrifice for others which was seen in the English channel, where in-the storm a boat containing three men was up1set, and all three were in the water str::gcling for their lives. A boat camne to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them, and he refused to take it, saying: "First fling it to Tom; he's just ready to go down. I can last some time lonL'er." A man like that, be he sailor or landsman, he he in upper ranks of society or lower ranks, winl always have plenty of friends. What is true mtaward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if we want Him to be our fricnd. We clim no' tre-at Christ badly all our lives and expect Rimb to treat us lovingly. I was reading of a sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured a French officer, and when the French ofticer offered Lord Nelson his hand. Nelson ire plied: "First mive mec your sword. ami then give ine your hand." Surrender of our re sistance to God muist prec(ede Gotrs prloftT!er of pardon to us. Repentance before for giveness. You miust give up your rebellilous sword before you can get at grasp of the divine hand. 0, what a glorious state of thine's to~ have the friendship of God ! Why, we conl afford to have the whole world against us and all othdr worlds ag;ainst us if we had God for us. He could in antiinute blot nut this uni verse, and in another minute make a better universe. I have'no idea that God tried hard when ho mad~e all things. The most brilliant t hing known to us is light, and for the creation of that lHe only usedi a wvord of command. As-out of a iiint a frontiersmaa strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck thet'noonday sun. For the mailkinr of the present universe I do not read that God lifted so much as a finger. Thie Bible frequently speaks otf God's hand. and God's armi, and'God's shoulder, and God's foot, then suppose He should put hand and aria and shoulder und foot to utmost tension. what could He not make ? T'hat God, of such demonstrated and undemonstrated strengthi you may have for your present and ever lasting friend. Not a stately an:d reticent friend, hard to get at. but asi approachable as a country mansion oni a summer day when all the doors and windows are wid'e open. Christ said: "I ami the door." And He is a wide door, a high door, a palatce door, an always open) door. My four-yeatr old child got hurt antd did not crr until hours after when ler mother canme home, and then she burst into weepidng, antd sor e of the domestics, not understmidling human~ nature. said to her: "Why dii y-ou not cry beforer" She answered: "Th~ere was no one to cry to." Now I have tot tell vou that while humnan svnmltathy may be abtsent, divine symplath:- is always accessile. Give God your love ,and get His love: your service and secure H-is' help; your rep'lentanice and have His pa~rdon. God a friend? Why. that means all your wountds medicated, all your sorrows soothed, and if some sudden catastroinne shouldI liorl you om, of earth it would only hurl you into licaven. If God is your friend, you can not go out of the world too quickly or suddenly, so far as your own happiness is conceined. There were two Christianslast Tuesday who entered Heaven; the one was standing at a window in perfect health watching a shower, nad the li;ghtning instintiy slew him; but the lightning dtid not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed up ward.' The Christian man who died on the same day next door had been for ayearort wo Jing in health. and fthe.ast thr-e :onon n] m' J mt the caset of tht. ne w o w imstan1y~ was more desirble han the one who entered the sin eate c brough a long lane of insomnia :m t on estion ?In the one case it wais like~ your ,tanmng weariuy at a atmor, 10noe'ing ato vaiting. and wonderinmz if it w~ill ev 01 ope. Lad knocking and waiting again, wnile *n ,he other case it was a swinging open of the ler at the first touch of youir kuneikle. Give tour friendship to God and hav'e God's riendship for you, and even the worst acci lent will be a victory. How refreshing ishuman friendship, and .ru friends, what priceless treasuires! When sickness comes, and trouble conies. mud death conies, we send for otur friends irst of all, and their appearnice in our door ,var in any crisis is rein forement. and vh'en- they' have entered, we say: "Now t is all right !" 0, whatwould we (to with ut friends, personal friends, business *riends, family iriends'. lint we want ~oethinig niiglitier than human friendship n the great exigencies. When Jonathan ~dwards in his tinal hotu' had given the last ood-bve to all his earthly friends, he turned n his pillow~ and closed his eyes confidently aing: "N'ow where is .Jesus of Na'areth, ny- true and never failing friend C'Yes. I nimire htuman friendship as sceen in the 'ase of David and Jonathan. of Paul antI nesiphorus, of Hcrdeir and Gotethe, of oldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Pletcher, of Cowley and Harvey. of Eras nus and Thomas M1ere, of Lessingand M1en lelssohn, of Lady Churchil!l and Prie ss ~nne, of Orestes and Pyladas, eaceh requiest ng that himself might take the point of the lagger so the other might be spaired. of paminondas and Pelopidas, who locked heir shields in battle determined to die to ether; but the grandest, the mightiest. tho enderest friendship in all the umiverse is he friendship between Jesus Christ and a )elievig soul. Yet after all I have snai I reel I have only done what James Mlarshall, he miner. (lid in INS in Call'rma~, efore it-s'gold mines were known. IUe 'eahed in and put upea the table of his mployer, Captain Sut ton, a thimblefuit of told dust. "Where did you get that t' said ls employer. The reply was: -'I got it his morning froni a nill race frenm which he water had beeni tdrawn off." But that ;old dust which could have been taken up etwen the liinger and the thumb was the >rtpheery and specimen that. revealed Call i slas'eat -to all nations. Antd to-day [ha only put before you ai specimen'I oft t' ~alue of divime frienlishipt. oni v a thimbmileful f mines iniexhautstle andi intinite, thotn'rb ll time and eteriuity go on with tue ex ~loration. . ~ - HA.F HUM~AN AND HALF BEAR. L Young White Woman Gives Birth to a Mcostrosity in Tennessee. CAMISEN, Tenn., July 31.-A young vhite womnan near here gave bir'th re ~ently to a monustrosi vy-half human d half bear, Ithe resemnblanece to thle ttter predlonmnatinig. Tihe eyes art' prominent and set far back in the crownt >f the head. A human nose in faint utline is seenm in the centre of the headi. A prominment snout projects wvhere the face should be iad fromi this a long tongue protrudes. "The arms and legs are of a hunian, but the feet and hands are those of an anitmal, except that the fingers and toes are perfect ly thost' of a man. The creature was still born. Sonme months ago the miothier wa~s greatly frightened by a pet bear. Cattle Dying from Texas Fever. CItc..~io, July :30.-A speeia! fr-oum Winield, Kanmsats, says : (Cailtemen from Indian Tekrritory t'epiort tile Te xas fever playing hiavoc ainong etlie in thle Teritory. O ver' fort y httad wer'e scein dtedi m (ile pasturie alhme, anin~ t herm':s mlmber's vatryhimgfrmeen'\c' tt \weli - ive -Thev also statt'd thalit muindr-ds cattle werei- ding in (>iklhihina, ;indt precd there wotihl niot be' anyt ht the Slates of Kansas and Nebraska in two months. A Defaulting County Treasurer. LEBANoN, 0., August 2.-Tile com mittee appointed by the cout't to inves tigate the hooks andl~ accoutis of the Auditor and Treasurer of Warren County' made a p)relimiinary repot to day of their findinigs in regard to the Treasurer's books, which sho iws that Treasurer Coleman is a defaulter to the amount oif t$6:,000. ft is rumuoredi thfat the treasurer wtill be r'~eetd tou other charges, the' naturie of which is not made known. BEIIRI T SEA PROBLEM CLAIM OF THE UNITED STATES TI EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION. The Seizure of the Black Diamond Likel: to Lead to Tedious Negotiations-Pre cedent Against Us-Secretary Blaine' Attitude. AsINGTrO, July 31.-The seizure o the Brit ish schooner Black Diamond i1 Alaskan waters by the United States in ternal revenue cutter Rush, in pursuanc of President Ilarriso n's proclamation o March 22, reopens the question of th, right of the United States to inaintaui jurisdiction over Behring Sea as "-closed sea," and Mr. Harrison's ad ministration is undoubtedly on the ev of long and tedious diplomatic negotia tions with the English government of the subject. I:s disehissioi will in volvI the reconsideration of the Canadiai fisheries question, for the two matter are very closely allied. Ever since the United States acquirec the Territory of Alaska from the Rus sian Empire, in 1867, until the lattel part of the Cleveland adxnimistratio the claim of a closed sea has been main tamed, and regulations' for the takin. of seals in those waters have been en forced. England has steadily refuses to recognize this claim of the Unite( States, but she never persistently defies the authority of the American revenue ut ters until the beginning of the fishe ries trouble in Canadian waters. Sine then, however, the British government has insisted on the right to take sea: in those waters, and their claims in the Behring Sea fisheries were used to offsel the claims of the Americans in the Ca nadian fisheries. The result was a 1nrg number of seizures of British scalers it the summer of 1S86 and 1887. Mr. Bayard, the then Secretary o State, on iooking into the matter, enter tained some doubts ve to the validity o the claims of the united States, anc there was a suspension of proceeding pending the negotiation of the lyard Chamberlain fisheries treaty. The con sequence was that in 1884 Britisl scalers were unmolested in Behring Sea and they returned to the fishing groont this year in increased numbers Mr. lbarrison's proclair.ation was posi ive, however, and the first result is the seizure ,.f the Black Diamond. Assistant Secretary of State Wharto said to-day that thus far the delartmen has no oflicial knowlegdge of tie seiznri of the vessel. It is expected that in few clays information will ne receive< from the Treasury Department, or it i: possibie, he said, that the first informa tion may come in the form of a protes from the English minister: No serion trouble is expected between the tw countries, but negotiations will proba bly be set on foot with a view to effect ing a final settlement of the whob question by treaty. It is understood that Mr. Blaine is firm supporter of the closed-sea theory and he will doubtless insist on that basi: of settlwneut. Whether. he can secnr< 'foneessi~ic tii i'Uns liont'r igin"r without at the same tidle making equally important concessiois on the side of the ('anadian fisheries, is exceedingly doubt ful, and the result will probably be very long and tedious negotiations, with very ille propect of a final settlement of the two questions. One of the strong arguments on the English side of the Behring Sea question s the fact that in 1821 the Russian gov rnment, at that time in possessioni of Alaska, set up much the same ehaim to xesive rights as is now urged :iy the United States. At that time the United states occupied re'atively the same posi i o as Enigland now holds ini the conl troversy, andl this government success fully resisted the. Russian claim, It wil be argued by England that it this gov nent has any exclusive rights mn llhring Sea. it umnst have acquired them by prchause from Russia, but it will b~e said if any such Russian rights ever existed, they wverc not rtucognized by the iitdl States inl 1821, and COnlsequenitly they were not in existence and comid not be transerredt to the United States in 187. Thbis Is one of the considerations that inclined Mr. Bayard to doub~t whether the claim of the United States ould be maintained, especially when the United States refused to allow cx ciusive rights to Englanid in the Caina dla fisheries.. BANGoR, Me., July : L.-Secretn1ry Jas. G. Blamne passed through the city to-day -/ route toBar Ilarbor. A reporter called hiis atention to a declaration in a Boston paper that it would be impossible for-the uovernet to ''sustain the p~reteintionis of Scretrry Blaine that the Behring Sea is distinctly American water." The Scretary of' State simply remarks that it might be wvell for the paper in ques tion to indicate the occalsion, official or unofficial, where lie had said anything at ali on t hat poinit. Mr. Blaine maide the further siatieent that everything (lone on the fur seal qestioni since the 41 h of last March wva in literal conmnliance with (lirectionis con ainied in th'e Aet of Congress which was apprtovedl by President Cleveland on the last. day of his term. Alive With a Bullet in His Brain. CueI, .1ul :vll.-The case of Hecr nian Carmn, thle wealthy real estate man, who made an unsuecessful attempt t1o cominut sicide yesterday afternoon, i regad(ed by th (doctors as one oif the m 1(st remar'iikable of the kind (In recordc. Not withstanding the fact that the sect 1 ( bullet tired by the man yi-ssed up ard through the roof of the mouth and pe ietrted the brain, lhe is conscions', and recognizes not only the members of the faaily, but also ,the doctors and others he ha~dteeni. H~e kniows all thai is goiir on abhout him. The dloctor., orobed'for both balls this morning and 'fund the first bullet lodged in thle thiiel; ~one near the ear; the other, and thu one likely to pirove fatal, was found ul tetop (i the head near thei skull. Thn etf'ect of this bullet has been to para: lze the righit side of the body, anc from this fact thle doictors knowv when it is. Dr. Graves says there is but omi hipe f a coniipdete r'eeovery. and tha les i remnovmng a part ot the skull am nkiig ont the bilet from the brain. *Wanted-A Wife. Cmevl, .Jiuly :10.-.Tamnes M~organ oi C Xnnbus, Ind., wanlts a wvife, and. ad vrtises that lie will pay .O.0I0 cash t< any womanvho wvill beom Mrs. Mor gil. Morgan is in his eighty-first year and is very decrepit. Ile lives the lif< of a hermit near Trafalgar County. in .he oosier State. lIe is well off anc lives well. "Now, in my remainini vear's, he says, "I wvant to enjoy my ~ef. I have been waiting for man: years for the time to come when I woub lie too old to wirk, so that I could enjia. the company of a wife. 1 want a gir that is pretty and yoiung, andl no othe: wll I eept." Several lenuers iave b-een receive'1. b~u A BIARVELOUS INVENTION. A New Sort of Railway That is Cheap, -Fast, and Safe Beyond Comparison. PARus, July 31.-A press view took place yesterday of the so-called '"Chemin , de For Glissant," or "Slide Railway," - on the Esplanade des Invllides, within s the exhibition. The new invention is a singularly original contrivance for en abling trains to run, by means of water f power, at a speed hitherto undreamed of. Arriving there without any intima tion as to what a sliding railway might be, I at first mistook it for an overgrown switchback, with the humps smoothed away. The train consisted of four carriages, affording room for about a hundred passengers. The carriages had no wheels, being supported at the corners by blocks of iron of a size somewhat larger than a brick, which rested upon a double line of iron girdles. In the mid dhe of the line, at regular intervals, jutted out irregularly shaped pillars, the use of which was not yet apparent.. Having taken our scats, and the signal being given, we glided along very gently for the space of a few yards, when sud denly we gathered speed; two or three tugs were felt, and we were flying on at the *pace of an ordinary train, but as smoothly as a boat on a river. There was a clicking noise on the rails, but this, I was assured, was due to a defect in the construction of the slides, and would be remedied. The abs.ence of any vibration, shaking or "tail motion" was wonderful. A slight jerk there was at regular intervals; but then, again, I was toll that it was due mainly to the short ness of the course and the inability to get up a proper pace. In a hydraulic traini traveling at the rate of 140 to 200 kilometeres or 87 to 124 miles an hour, there would be almost no consciousness of motion. The journey down the length of thr Esplanade only occupied a rew seconds. Upon our safe return Mr. Pilter, chair man of the company which owns the invention, gave a tull account of it. The sliding railway was invented in 1868 by an engineer named Girard, who was killed in the Franco-German war, and it has been improved to its present state by one of his assistant engineers, M. Barre. As has already bten mentioned, the hydraulic carriages have no wheels, these being replaced by hollow slides fiting upon a flat and wide rail, and grooved on the inner surface. When it is desired to set the carriage in mo tion water is forced into the slide or skate of the carriage from a reservoir of compressed air, and seeking to es cape, it spreads over the under surface of the slide, which it raises for about a nail's thickness above the rail. The slides thus resting, not on the rails, but on a film of water, are in a perfectly mobile condition; in fact, the pressure of the forefinger is sufficient to displace a carriage thus supported. The pro pelling force is supplied by the pillars which stand at regular inter vals on the line between ihe rails. Run ning underneath every carri-age is an with 'padciles. Now as the foremost carriage passes in front of the pillar a tap on the latter is noened automatically, and a stream of water at high pressure is directed on the paddies. This drives the train on, and by the time the last carriage has one past the tap (which then closes) the foremost one is in front of the next tap, the water's action thus being con tinuous. The force developed is almost incredible. Thierec is some splashing on the rails at the start: but this dimin ishes the faster the train goes. To stop the train the small stream of water that feeds the slides is turnedi off, and, the latter- coiming in contact with tlhe i-ails, the rcsulting friction stops t he-carriage almost instantaneously.* A water train running at over 100 miles an hour could, I was told, be pullecd up withiin thir-ty yards, could climb up gradients of sixteen inchtes in the yard, (descend them with eqjual safety, and run~ on cuitves of forty-four yards r-adius. Tis system would seem peculiarly adaptedl for elevated railways in cities, beinlg light, noiseless, smooth., without smoke, fast, and thoroughly under command. The danger of run ning otf the rails is reduced to a mini num. the centre of gravity of the camr riages being scarcely more than a couple o feet from the rails. The cost of a metropolitan system would .only be a third of one on the old plan, while in the op~en country it~s cost would be some what higher than the ordinary railvay; but M. Barre tells ime the expense wonld be in France an average of ?8,000 a mile. Where no natural water supply is available, a propelling ma'chine every twelve miles or so would be'sufficienit to keep trains going at full speed. The consumption of coal per passenger would be one-tenth~ only of the usual quantity. The importance of this may be real ized by consideing the statement that the Paris-, 11n Conmpanly alone has an annual coal bill of two million sterling. Nevertheless, it would be rash to predict the general introduction of thmu water sstmi oti railways. One objection, for iistance, that occurs to mue is its ap)pa rent unsuitaLbility for goods trattic. M. Persil, the manager of the "Chemins de Fr Gisants," believes it will all but do away with the locomotive engine. Withb respect to Enigland, he believes that the disadvantage of the present slow muethod of crossing the channel will beecime so a~pprenit that all opposition to the tun nel will vanish. "I am ready," be said with enthusiasm, "to wager any sum that when the tunnel is made and our system has a trial people will go from London to Paris in two hours." Skipped With $40,000 in Cash. KNsss Crry, July 30.-On last Satur day when Andrew C. Dr-um. geoneral manager of the cattle firm of A. Drumm & Co , one oif the largest in the West, finished his dinner, he announced that e was going away for a short trip, and ine then he has not been seen. His8 dearture ar-oused his uncle's suspicions, nd this wvas i-eased when it was found that the comibinatmni of the cdlhee safe had been chainged. After- hard wok the safe was openied and thle hooks put ini thme hiands of expert acc-ountais, nid the anecountis showed a shuo-tage of 1 5.OO00. Major 1 )runun kept large ae contis with two banks. andi~ it is sauid that young Drummi, who had the r-ight to draw cheeks at .will, drew out $32,000 or more before lie departed. IHe had been speculating in wheat, but, so far as is known, had made mnoney, and Majer U~rummi thinks he took ab~out $40,000 mi cash with him. Death of Ex-Senator Rtollins. Pon'rsxoCTii, g. II., July 3. Senator E. H. Rollins died at 8 o'clock Ithis mnornming at the Appiedore Ilouse, Isle of Shoals. 11e passed away very ju ty, having nevor recovered con seidpsness fr-om thle severe shock sus tai md on Saturday last. Thoughts for the Discouraged Farmer. The summer 'wituds is siilin' round the bloomin' locou:' trees. And the clover in the p.tur' is a big day for the bees. And ; hey bee' a-swiggiu' honey, ,.b 've board and on the sly, Till tlu'y stutter ou their buzz*.;n', and stager as thty fly. They's been a head ' rain, but the sun's out to day, And the clouds of the wet spell is all cleared away, And tbe woods is all the greener, and the grass is greener still; It may rain again to-motry, but I don't think it will. Some say the crops is ruined, and~the corn's drownded out, And propha sy the wheat will be a :ailure. without doubt. But the kind Providence that has never failed us yet, Will be on hand one't nire at the 'leventh hour, I bet! Does the mealer-lark complain, as he swims high and dry, Through the waves of the wind and the blue of the sky ? Does he quail set up and whistle in a di-ap pointed way, Er hang his head in silence and sorrow all the nay ? Is the chipmunk's health a failure ? Does he walk. or does he ran ? I)on't the buzzards ooze ronmd up that, just like they've allus done ? Is thi-re anything the matter with the rooster'% lungs or voice ? Ort a mortal be comp:ainin' when dumb animals rejoice? Then let us, one and all, be contented with our lot ; The .June is here this morning and the sun is shining hot. ( let us till our hearts with the glory of the day, And banish ev'ry doubt and care and sorrow away ! Whatever be our station, with Providence for guide, Such line circumstances ought to make us satisfied ; For the world is lull of roses, and the roses full of dew, And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you. .Tames Whuitomb RilUey. THE HONEYMOON ECLIPSED. Mother-in-Law Deuson Tries to Kill Daughter-in-Law Godfrey for Her Al leged Cajolery. MAcoX, Ga., July 29.-It is a queer case of mother-in law. Mrs. M. E. Deuson is a black-eyed widow, and some ten or twelve years ago, when her hushand died and left her with an only child, a son. she made up her mind to make a living. She was pretty, intelligent and bustiing, and when She opened up a grocery store and made application to the wholesale men of the city for supplies and credit, site was given all she wanted. The trade grew and the widow was enabled to buy a house and los for a home. The boy grew up to his majority and went to work on one of the railroads. The other character is a very fresh widow. John M. Godfrey and his wife lived long enough together to raise a 12-year old girl, and then trouble cotnmenced. Like Mrs. Deuson. Mr. Godfrey kept a grocery store and ;nade mony, all of differences between the man and-wife. The only son of the grocer's widow seemed smitten with Mrs. Godfrey, and the husband, who was several years his wife's senior, began to suspect that the handsomer man was more favored in the eyes of his wife than he. They separated.- Proceedings for a divorce were instituted, and this culmi ated only a few months ago, the wife ecring alimony. Not more than a month ago Godfrey ickened and diedl. An administrator as appointed, for it was known that odrey had several thousandl dollars in old aid~ had mtade a will. B~ut whent the admintisti'ator started1 out to) admin ster the estate, there was nothing to find -xcpt abouit $90) worth of stutf in the tore. Then a rtumor got abroad that the gold as hidden two or three feet under rotud in the gatrden. One moonlight ight foutid Administrator O'Pry dig ing up the grotind for the treasure. very toot of soil was overtturned., but 1o gold was ftound. All this time the fresh young widow atd the blatck-eyed widow's son were oving each cother, and on Thursdayv ight last they were quietly married at te widow's home in East Macotn. The'miother of young Deuson never reamed that her son1 enttetined ino ions of marriage. Shte had boeu lavish with her money itn taking care of him, ad, as he was her only child, upon him as centred all her affections. Young Detuson kept the marriage a eret from his mother until Friday torning, wvhen he sent a tnote infortung er of the event. lie then kissed his :ride and went over the river intt the ity to receive the congratulations of his friends. lit the meantime his mother placed a pistol in her pocket, jumiped into at hack ua d directed thte dIriver to carry her to East :dacon ias quickly as poss.5ible. Ar riving at the house of t he former witdwu, ut now her daughter-int-law, Mrs. Deuson jmnuped out of thle hack atnd rushed itito the hottse and soon'- con frottetd the bridle. "I have comeit to kill you," wa~s her greet itg to the bride. Then the mother-in-law futmbletd in her ptcket for a pistol, but ftortutnately the weapon caught in her tdress and then time wais given the bride to save her life. She rushed forward, anid atching Mrs. Deuson there enstied a struggle for the possession of the pistol, luring which the bride screatned for help. The haekman in front -of the house and some passers by ran ini and sue ceeded in disarming the enraged lady. She was taken away, warrants were sworn otit, and Juistice Means placed her tutnder bon~tds of $500 each to keep ihe peace and to0 answer the charge of s sault with intent to commit muirder. Butt the Justice fotud that lie had an elephant ott his hantds. The widow said emphatically that shte would not give the bondls anid that she w'.oald yet kill t e bride. The Jtustiec dislik-ed to send a :dv of her standing to jail. and yet she r'efuisedl to give the hondh, though sevteral fri'ntds promtptly offeretd it. s"he tremainied a prisoner ini the Jus ices tillee atll i he afternoon, andh finatlly it wa' found ntecessary to 1pu1tiher ini jail. Onu thle way to the jail slie was mnduced to yve thle lontil. Sihe anntlineed Illal: she would vet kill her sont's wvife, anid enee the hioneymoon is now int eclipse. Mrs. Decusont is a ha~rdworking, itndus trious lady, standinug well in the coin munitv, and her demo'istration grows out of her affection for her on, whom ste thinks was cajoled into marriage by the wiles of the Godfrey widow. Earthquake Shock in San Francisco. SAN FRtAxcisco, Jtuly 31.-Onet of the heaviest shocks of earthquake felt in this city for years ocettrred here aboit 4:45i o'clock this mortning. People were awakened by the raitling tof w indows and shaking of btilin.;s. No dlamag reported THE tcIOW CASE. Judge Kershaw's Views in Regard to the Verdict of the Jury. 7o /1c Eil/or of thr N'rx ali (% N rier: A few days ago I saw published in a Charleston newspaper a card signed by Dr. Todd of Barnwell, in which it was stated that Judge Kershaw had told him (Dr. Todd) that if he had been on the jury in the MeDow *ensc he would have been compelled to find the same verdict. This statement was entirely contrary to the views expressed to me by Judge Kershaw shortly after the jury bad re tired to deliberate upon the case, and I was satisfied that Dr. Todd's statement was incorrect and that he had entirely misunderstood what the Judge had said. I accordiingly wrote to Judge Kershaw, enclosing Dr. Todd's card, and asked him to write me his recollection of his conversation with Dr. Todd. I have re ceived a reply from Judge Kershaw, from which I beg leave to quote the following: "I have never consciously formed an opinion as to what my verd.ct would have been in the McDow ease had I been a juror, and never intended to state any such opinion. If I ever stated any such opinion it was stated hypothetically and qualified by some condition1. As you know, I studiously avoid forming any opinion on questions of fact before me, upon which a jury ought to pass, and it is not my province to criticise a verdict. I must assuie that it is rendered conscientiously in all cases. "I expressed to you privately my opinion after the jury retired in this case. I said I regarded the prisoner in a position of great peril. That the evi dence in its worst aspects would warrant a conviction for murt er. That, taking a favorable view for the- prisoner, it would be manslaughter. But that if the jury believed McDow they might find not guilty. That McDow's statement was suficient, if believed, to raise a reason - able doubt. I attached no importance to what was said in my conversation with Dr. Todd. but am sure that he greatly misunderstood me. "I adhere to the views I expressed to you, and am not conscious of having, at any time, had any other opinion on the subject." The apologists of the jury, who seem to have derived great comfort from Dr. Todd's statement, will now have to seek consobltion elsewhere. AMIttcs CUR:E. Charleston. S. C., July 29. STREATOR'S STARVING MINERS. Babies and Children Crying for Bread Sad Condition of Affairs. CHICAGo, July 31.-Congressman Law ler and other members of the business mens' relief committee left this morning with additional supplies for the half starved locked-out coal miners at Streaton, Ill. A reporter talked with Mr. Gecrahty, whose business in Streaton has been well nigh ruined by the miners' troubles. Mr. Geerabty has bke"~~ In Miiw .-~ fn+ ,la. Aor~o >f provisions to distribate to-day," said :e; "but what will that amount to hen divided among. 6,000 starving niners, the majority of whom re married men with families?' [t will scarcely last two days 'or the poor fellows. The condition of :he men is almost indescribable. I can :ruthfully say that many people are etnally starving. Babies and children ~ry for bread and wallow in the muduly trets, but their mothers have beome allous to their cries, and do not seem o mind. They say but little, and com iants are infrequent; they just keep uiet in their misery. A few are vecrv roud and aft~et to be light hiearte-1, vhen they haven't a thing to cat in the ouse. I tell you it is horrible, and no me can realize the awful suffering until le gets right in the midst of the misery. 3usiness has gone to smash, and stagna tion rules everywhere. Unless tbe min rs ore given work soon, or further 1c ie- comes, you will sooni hear of some eaths from actual starvation."' Sarah Althea's Hopes Dashed. The Supreme Court of California, ou~ ednesday, rendered a decision in the itorious Sharon divorce case, reversing udge Sullivan's first decision in favor f Sarah Althea lill, (now Mrs. Judge 'ferry,) and remnandling the ease for -a ew trial. The decision is noteworthy for two reasomis: .It is the practical end f suits which for six years have left a trail of filthy and demoalizing testi nony througfh the local courts. and it ettles the fact that a mistress cr concu bine in California cannot lay claim to the rihrhts of a wife, as she could unde~r ug Sullivan's decision. The miain oint of interest discussed in the deci sion is, What constitutes marriage? It ,will be remembered1 that during the Sha om divorce tri the plaintiff never a' eged a formal marriage. She produtcedi er marriage contract, and she claimed that she had lived with the defendant as his wife. Theluse were two poinits relied n to prove i he umarriage. The Su p'en:e ourt deisioin defiines detinitely a dIitIer nee between niarriage and. jmeretrieiouis hi-tions. It is believed that the plain ilT will give up the struggle she hams arried on for six years. The British Love Their Princes. Mr. Labiouchere's motion to refuse a rrant of $180,000 to the Priiieo Wales's child--en was negativedl by a vote te was sustained in supporting the gov rnenit by 92 (Gladstoiiiias anid P'arnellI ites. Mr. l'arnmell hiiuself voted with the onservatives-an unusual thing for hiim o do. The Queen undertakes the supl port of her other grandehiildrein, but lie hildren of the Prince of Wales, who may somr day be called upon to reign. stanid on a dliterent footing. They are at the service of the British public and ught to be sus ained. The radical con tent ion was that there s: ould be noi more mioey given to the ioyal family than) is nw given. 1If the vouing Prinices nieed m~oev' let the (Quee-u p~rovideI it. or let ie governmen~lt. provide 1hv aibol ishin g me-ss ulliees. Such was ALby's argu et, and a shabby one it was in the (ilio of.ir. (lhtdsioiie .il 3 otherz mmrsof t he I louse of (ouinons. No Yellow Fever at Brunswick. WOsmiNGToN, August 1.- swing to the prevaleiice of rumors of suspicious cases of fever at Brunswick, Ga~., thle Marine Hospital B3ureau ordered San i tary inspector Posey to proceed to that plce and make an investigation. The fomlowing telegram from Posey, datcd Brunswick, was received at the Marine hospital to-day: "The cause of death of . Nigh'.ngale, which occurredl July 24, was heniorrhage malarial fever, con firmed by an autopsy held by Drs. Bit ford, Diniwoody and Hfazelhurst. caes% of fever hiere of a suspicious el'r .tr. I 1ea.. ton-morrow morn ing. A MASONIC EDICT. Ruling Out the Cerneau Scottis'i Rite. Lodges as Clandestine. WAsHINGToN. July 2 .-'he contro versy which has been -"ene-al among the Mfasonic frtternity'throug.hout the country resiecting the ('r .attu Sottish lite has culminat;'d ler in the isae of an edict by IiatrisonI Dimmnm, Most Worshipful Grand Ma .. of 31asors of the District of Columbia. under date of July 25. pronouneing the Cerneau or ganization clandestine, and wearning all members of that rite that they are lia ble to discipline from the Grand Loxdge, unless they at once withdraw from said Cerneau body. The main reason 'for tho edict, aside from other questions arising in the Scottish Rite controversy, is. stated to be that the Cerneau organiza tion has established relatiors of amity and Masonic correspondence with the Grand Orient of France. the governing body of Masons in that country, which is under the ban of at least -every En-,. lish-speaking Grand Lodge in the world, because the Grand Orient has stricken the name of God from its rituals. The grand lodges of this country, it is said, have an additional grievance against the Grand Orient of France because the latter persists in recogaizing the negro grand lodges of the United States. - Orand Master Dingmani's edie; directs that all visitors to lodges in the District of Columbia shall be required to state before admission that they are not mem hers of the Cerneau organization. The meeting of the Cerneau organization in any Masonic hall is also prohibited. AN APPEAL TO THE COURTs. CRICAGO, July 30.-A special from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says: Action was begun yesterday in the District Couri at. 3Marion that will startle Masonic circles more than anything else of late years. Judge Preston of The Eighteenth Judi cial District, on the petition' of C. E. Barnes of Burlington, J. C. Graves and Henry Bennett, plaintiffs, and the grand officers of Iowa Consistory of that branch of Scottish Rite Masonry com monly known as the Cerneau, ordered a temporary injunction against the Grand Lodge of Iowa Ancient Free and Ac cepted Masons, restraining them from putting into effect the legisla tion of the last session of the Grand Lodge referring to Cerneau bodies, and which commandedifaster? -Masons to leave the Consistory of ~Iowa of that rite, under pain of expulsion. The petition states that as the b:ly represented by plaintiffs does not confer Blue Lodge degrees, and the Grrnid Lodge or its subordinate lodges do not confer twenty-nine higher degrees, the Grand Lodge has no jurisdiction what ever, and its action is illegal, arbitrary,. oppressive, proscriptive of their indi-' vidual consciences and Ma.onierelatiolis; and hurtful to their standing as good reputable citizens. This is the first time a Masonic body has appealed - to the State cors .s, and the action of the Supreme Court, to which it will finally go, will be a prece dent for other States. The time for hearing the arguments for aycrpetaal trm of court at Nttario ~ It Is Hard to Down the Sparrow. The English sparrow has no friends, but there is no denying that it is chock full of pluck and perseverance. -It is a born hustle - and fighter,.and neVer gives up while . .ere is a spark of life in its - little brown body. An instance is given by a Memphian whose word is not 7oubted by people who care to avoid un le.sant consequenes. A mother spar ow baiilt hcr nest in a tall mulberry ree, where in due time a half dlozen lit te ones were hatched to her. She guarded he nest faithfully against all corners. nd fed her fledglings with the best the - pird market albrdedl, so that they hrove mightily and gave promise of ecoming as great a iimsance as their arents. But one day there came a torm that heat -away the sheltering ranches abou.t the nest.and oveflrifrne t. The little sparrows fell to the brick alk, a dtance of at least twe:uy feet. mad larded with a bump that would have pralyzed- youngsters of any other bef. 'hey we-e stunned by the fall. but Soon briced up and answered The anx ous cries of their mother. She flew own and comforted them with sundry oving caresses on their lhttle fuzzy odies, and having raised their spirits he called her mate. ie came in hot aste, just as the storm subsided. The arents held a little council and finally it upon a plan. The male bird flew up and righted the nest and thea rejioined is family. The mother coaxed one of he youngsters to get on her back ad the father did the like with. aother. When their freight was fairly stored the old birds 1ose n steady wing. But the little ones ,ere not used to such riding, and when aout ten. feet above thie ground they. nnbled off, lauding heavily on the ricks again. Nothing datunted, the i>. -ent birds returned to the attempt. Again andl again the litile fellows tumn ~led otY and got severe knocks. but they cvmre up smiling from each round. and iter an hour of hard work and harder hmps they were on(c miore lodged in heir leafy eradtle~. Destructive Fire at Rp o RIPLEY, 0., AnnT'.-A 'lc his morning gr broke out wich ntirely dcst-royed every mianufactory n the city. It started in the fuirnae Sof th'e Ripley Mill and Lumber Co. aid swept everything from Locust to Syamnore street. entirely destroying the fill and Lumber Companyv. the Phlomix Foundry, owned by John P. Parker, Rady's Piano Mfanufactory, the entire inside of the Ohio Valley Piano Co.; and all but six d wellings on the sqluare. The loss is estimiatedI at $20)0,000. Th'lree undred men are thrown out of employ ment. The amount of insnrance is un known. Genius Another Name for Insanity. It is almost universally r'ecoize-(d at te present day~ that tranmscendenrt gemuis is onily an~ol heri namre 'or' nVnonriuni :ui leet aal de'velopmetnt . andi that ii is cften1 very hard to tell where thea gen' -aves off and the lunacy or insanity be eis. The specihi'd de ve"l(me o- a prticlar portion or ai- ~i fu ci of the in tellect tends to destry the symmaeny of he whole, even if it does not uwar 01r blight the rest. and1( this lack of i:udI or' intellectual symmet ry is. in t,e'i, nsait .-San Fr'ahsrisco Ch/r.>w:w. Artificial Propagation of Oysters. Prof. .Julius Nelson. of t he New Jersey experimen~'~tal s? at ion, is m:akintg at study of oyster culture whuich umay be or' ducltve' of imp1ortant rests. t I. -, port lie has inelosed pond in winch osters are propagated artihe ally. ihe profsso inr~'4~ . ry ron tfcit / futur peoplet ni -pa t'4 bre f huogs or cow's.