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ttffi SON, SUNDAY, OCTOftER 38, 1808. I UST OF A FAMOUS FLEET. w . tiiii car rm"!!S Well M Aerae Ik Atletto, 2X FreaB-ttrg Oaa Mr m. .oiltaryold selling vassal toe last at her rid up In th. Krl fc-ln awaiting a Jrr The flnal trensactlone IncM.nt to tha -H.dlMP0f a bualnsss await Battlement M " ..n.r.1 offloe. Whan these matters ere lw to. th. old shlpeold. and th. Arm's IT. taken down from oyar the offi door on lth street, where It haa atood onehanged for J?iE half a century, the la tangible art. Z.7. of n Interesting epoch la American utrcs will bare paaaad oat of MMk The old sailing llBtr. now doomed to baaoaia . 1 ctrrler. or debased to anah otherobeoura atlfsnoy a her new ownar may ehoo. repre- JM the best type of thathwa-mtatod WOOde iLrtl formerly In eervle batwaaa thla eoun Z!Voa Europe, and doing tor tha publlejust Zji-trts flrst-clsss Iron ataaroahlpa do bow. She tsd her titter thlpt oarrlad eaMa psen Mn, iteertge passenger, tha mail and auch Jo M offered, and bar owaara were aa nrtmlnent In shipping affairs aa any one of tha foremost owners of tha big ooaaB Un.ra toclT They. Ilka their oontemporarlaa vho went out of bualneae fifteen or Wenty yean ago. MO oonatralnad to ault mora on account of tha changed wndltlors of the tlmea In their particular world then because of lack of funds. Ths de termining Influences In ocean traffic to-day are to different from those which obtained under (be former regime that tha etanoh old shipping Une would have to make itself all over new. ttom item to stern. In order to keep up with 1 the procession. Conservative, loyal, tha da esendantsof a sturdy down-Eaat stock of eea chancers and sea lovers, tha partner hava duns to the old buslnesa through thlok and thin, against odds that raara ago foroed their fellow pioneers in New York shipping ven tures one after another to seek other fields of business activity. "The day for the American sailor la over." aid a retired shipmaster, whoes office windows es th elf htesnth floor of a newly completed building- command aa unobstructed view of the But River slips, wharves, and shipping. "I can sit here and look out on tha old mooring grounds of eight or ten fleets, all gone, scat tered to the four winds, and tha Anna that owned and wiled them hava gone Into other bulnettes. I know the time wall when Amer ican commerce was In Its herder, and every body Interested and eager to get a slip at It Fortunes were made in those days. Ton see that slip down there, the one next to the ferry, when the British bark la moored T Wall, I Yntr a man who without so much aa an offloe oraledg.r, or even a Arm came to oonaign his cargoes to. and only a hermaphrodite fleet some squars rigged, soma with one mast made $300,000 in a few rears out of the ships that used to come in at that slip. Ha kept ao eonnttand made oaloulatlons on his thumb sail, used anr buslnesa aoquaintanoa ha chanced to have aa a con elf nee. and got along br tiring ths shipwrights and sallmakers who helped build his ships an eighth or a quarter Interest in their value. His vsssela ware named respectively North, South. East and West, and were well known. Without expenses and with the freight charges five tlmea aa high aa thiy are now. ha got rich. That farther alio Is where the Swallowtail Una, all tidy sailing vessels, plying back and forth to Europe, used to come In. I've taken many a ship out of this port for tham. Then there waa tha Blackball and a score of others, all right In with the erttm of trade, and registering people for passage two and three months ahead. "American commerce waa In tha hands of Americans then. TJp to 1860 our commerce vu equal to anr In the world. It was the civil war that knocked it Into smithereens gave It a Wow hard to recover from and put tha carry ing trade Into the hands of foreigners. This uaad D. line I remember the Bailors used to tannine ' Dead and Damned,' although it waa elvirt very much alive is the very last ol tin old South street and Wall street firms to give up the ship, and they hareat been doing anything for five or six years and began selling off their ships as long back as In the eighties. This old ship over in the basin now. tha Hamilton Fish I tluii they call her. la the lsat one left out of nccesslre fleets that often numbered twenty or more The D. A D.a were always steady goers. They never resorted to anr subterfuge luring the war to escape the heavy Insurance, but tailed straight along under the American flag and took what cam. Numbers of Ameri can vessels were put under foreign flags at the time and the firm name was changed to that of feme clerk or office employee, out tha beat llnet stuck by the Government. All were wooden vessels then. It waa shortly after that Iron hlpa. Iron and steel, came into fashion, Now no wooden ships are built at all. except omu few in Maine for the lake erniT At the timo the original old lines were patted, back in tho thirties or forties, a ship of I i ."toni was "onsldered a marvel. Old Mr. tt fcunhftiu. nt ttart'ng. built a brig cnlled the I 55! "and went with her to Charleston and ether Southern ports. It was the thing In those t to go to New Orleans or Savannah, or any where down there, and get cotton. After a irti or two with this class of freighters lie MI't several three and four masted schooners tor foreign r assenger trade, and was one of the original pioneers In that type of shipbuilding. sjHjs toe regarded as an experiment. It took the shins to make tha trip jeross all the way from twentr-flve to mpty days. Forty-flvs days was the aver age tine in Kolng ovor; longer coming back ffi.iSunt ?' M adverse westerly winds. The iSSPP'V " ,ook ft AfP r ' 'I nd J0'"he harbor varied. They have had tugs to tow them In for thirty years now. but before bSX X aM matter of ohanee. Sometimes oar nd to wait three or four days, sometimes USfr for 'avorable winds. Tho quarantine (round was nearer In then : br Stapleton. S. I. Ii.M "i"1! counted on being out eighty days. J-'d carried provisions for that length or time JJM to guard agalnxt all emergencies. Three wJhK. ,yor w8 a" "hlC cou'd make, what HheonilngonclH.the loading, Ac. g,Ji jH!"e,a,s Passage coat then one hun gJdoUara, or about the same aa la w7 iiimw 0f course, the accommodations were dr.--ent -no bathrooms and running jw . loungis . dn-HHers. electric lights. and JJJIIke-l.ut they were pretty nloe. and the ry!"'''r" enjoyed themselves, playing cards a ""iu ":' cettirg sociable. There wasn't jjano o'i lonrd. t,ut there wss always a swum or two and plenty to encourage the -ri h,", KTro no seeond-olasa nassen Kin.t "'.'""" "f 'be flrat-clasa list was &w. I . ,e''ra" ,rom 2l)0 to 400oouldbe tut ill . '"' . N." allowance for space, rou aoSSt Sir' "V"" CHt''- Tt'r were oarrlod k ?h?."i! il'.?t $-" a head. The steward used ndnrrr "' ",oerne uppllcants for water ticfi, !"""'' "u"h morning by means of pegs el infmL! "." on long d resser or ta ble. LoTe tigmigmnts were brought over in those days ??'.' "'" "vln went, they could vote bh E2Sf,i,irr.ot.bera, and so It was to the iliH i'"1 ixdltlciana' Interests to get an,? fAr .!? Vn ln Ireland, were heydey vert im th" A"1B'-lcan liners, freight rates HiinoiSS" ,n''ng you ohoee to ask. and tSanil n""1" lllo"ey AH the ships in R5S rrT,"5'!"3 ,or "S01?1?- men and ter.ri- .',""' "' r"r States and cities, as they with .L " ." "'"tKiwner met afamouebelle trd.d , n ''. w.1 Pleased or who oonde Saimmi "n"':' "'"' ,,B named the next ship gianien,iiof the yrd for her. His wife's or utuvri.,.1 "r ""''"'henrt's i.univ Waa apt to bo nf",'i ":; n,,ot' or ,hu nm8 ' ome Nnon.ii' "I'llrmor wnne man relative or jon.l r ,. i ,hBki tftkin lt .n in nl) i Caforni."',re 8a'"" sl'ip named for women "aS,h!llr "c! ''"iS'-dthou much aa it does SSCi!on ''V Maiden lane. Pine and Wall !tot'., V'1,'! "lll! rou miss the old mer IhTre '''' !. carriages and nmnlbusea. r'fea J',' . ''fhters. busy carrying off a ftgraiV,. In":' ,b canalboata and elevators 5"sfc..u1'l,'1, '"""-'hanged since the aail W'MmtT , "' BW 1 1' bullditiga down In totaaitit. ,r' tT mucli ox they were, audthe l?u i , r'' ""! same, but the men "wre J '" th street nave changed. L" Lllor. Th of I,1 nowadays that "Ihrr n lh" "allors are off. engaged "Udtl,."1 l'!'e- """ M the shipmasters Nalrsdm, hl"owners. Not manr aillarsars "Ucitt i ,f ium ,,eaels, merely workmen of lti f,. "' "' bjenoa. There ia a Nor fctino, ,rr "" "uling down there at the ""lotu,, ,'"' '"iK mailer and has brought on a m bir l,ut ,0,1,' won't find an Ameri-WjBf5r.Cmw-.i " lorelgners. anTlher &wrmo',,h lft" than our man. How roeintie ' ,:'!,,.",to make Wpaaaff ai fcu :r, ; .',":' ,,,',',a I don't knowrbttt tha I l"w-'0;""; "dealer In ship'a supplies. oakum. I ""Wilifn ;.'.'' '".'eellng the effect of tha 1 &''!"' ; ,"'"", I"oflhi-foreign-owned S''r iu , i" 'lr "' (itrsraers. either get "11. '-, .. " ' " ' r uo onto our dwks for I P hin Vi i,"'"loiis they net here, of 9anl ,;. v ". "! off to the other aide flr Hnkei' i . "i '"' f"! ratli.r than get 1 Cf thi n,.1," d," br our workmen and i I Kii,1,',,ati,,r'l' ,or ' fumUhad br our tit lu" uaad to V two or BlwoVtB'oTtlllV jSfBA there alnt owe now ; mavba a email ptaoa or two whare the little American brigs, and aohoooers that still hang on can gat work dona, hit nothing of Importance. All that boalnaaa. tha staking of spare and yards and ebalaa, and ahip glmoracis that gave empiorment to bo manr me, has drifted awar. I know doa Ba of sailors who are doing more or leee wall at the restaurant buslnesa and. mer ehaadising. and now and Asa I run aaroaa an old ahlpmate whose present raw of oeannatton Mwalrr or miuinerr or eommereiai travallinr-ta so opposite to his old celling in character that It surprises ma. Host of the shipping men aeem to hava adaptability and get on well In different trades, although a man used to seafaring wara ana the waterfront, while he mar settle down Into a good offloe works r. never loaea hu Interest p the sea, and pinea for the air and the) fraa life in between tiroes of buslnesa oooupstion." Tha algn over tha old offide door on South street that tells of tha pioneer shipping firm la lettered In characters faded and far smaller and more rassnad than the type usedin tha aeara heads of the sensational papers. . Tha building Is of brick, fallow washed and Tow wriadTwith tha outside guttering and tiled roof that was the customary type of build ing raara ago. Nothing ha been ohangad either on tha outalde or In tha matter of office appointment since the original firm, to which the existing partners are suo eeesora br JnharHanoa, flirat began busi ness there. Tha painted wooden steps that lead to tne upper atorr are dented and worn with long usage and the going up and down of tan feet. ..The little notification on the whlte washed wall just within the narrow doorwar. tha hand pointing out that tha office la above, la figured out on tha same primitive frame work that waan use In tha earlr part of the century, A safe the patriarch of fifes, having Sveritableiron bolt and padlock in plain evi nee and none of thai ornamental gracea of tha modern safe guards the business papers and the treasures of . the com pany just as It guarded them In the time of tha grandfathers of the present incum penta. Nobody has gone about to prove it, but It ta believed br frequenters of tha office and people go there now, though not often on ur gent business that no safe of thla exact prim itive pattern eslata anywhere in New York city, ort Indeed, anywhere ln America. Ite com peers hava been discarded and sold for old iron long ago. but thla I. A I), lino adheres to the old In every sense and particular, and never has stirred one jot or tittle out of the way originally, marked out fork. The same office boy established In the position br the pioneer In three-masted schooners in the firm's office boy still, although his form has filled out and he haa taken on the girth and the astute coun tenance of middle lite. . "John, get me so and so." directs one of the partners, and John obeys aa ha obeyed long ago whan aa a boy of Id ha first performed the office functions for this employer's grandalre. The old gentleman, dismounting one morning long ago In front of a Wal I street office, waa at a loss tor eomebodr to hold his horse while he want within. John, then a boy on the lookout for a job, volunteered tor the duty, and found favor and a Ufa post that mar even now. when ha la a man of 45, hold oat for mora than six months longer. It is true that tha office boy's duties, or Indeed the duties of anr of the employees at thla shipping office, or of the partners themselves, hava not been heavr of late, but they hava each been at their post all the same, and their salaries have gone on and been paid as regularly aa though busi ness ware brisk. Tha old sailing charts hang on the walls In tha exact position they originally hung In. Tho old-atyle barometers and ohro nometett and other ships' belongings are In place just as they have been alnoa the beginning of tho firm's business, and tha rounded wooden spikes that ton off tha raiting about the agent's room are dented and blunted br tha fumbling of roung ships' messengers who grow up and drifted awar long ago. "Tha bors used to gnaw on these knobs whUa waiting to get their bills of lading signed," Is explained In reference to these dents and flaws. "There used to be lines of clerks and errand bora waiting and these knobs were of just a convenient height to lean on and mouth over for pastime." There are no long Unas of watting messengers now out side the wooden railing, and the office Is so quiet that rou could hear a pin drop. The letter slips that are eyeletted In the solid wooden hartititlon and Ubelled respectively ' Savannah." "Mobile." " New Orleans." " Gal veston." have never a single letter slipped ln nowadays for mailing. The mail carrying is no longer a private enterprise, and most evi dences of the primitive wars of doing thiatga aa shown In the old office fittings and furniture excite wonder and interest in the present-day visitor. The time-stained ledgers of the office are aa interesting evidences aa anr. dating back Into the twenties and thirties, and record ing mishaps, successful voyages and eventual fata of whole fleet of vessels with most human sounding names and of the Captains who commanded them. Three notable shipmasters of the line were triplets br birth and named re spectively Felix. Frederick And Ferdinand, so that all bad the same Inlt lal.land all were, more over, so much alike In stature and feature, In voice and manner, that the shipowners often mistook one for the other, and their own Wives were givento mistakes of Identity. The Jane Daggett, she was lost; the Coral lyn. she was built at Oreenpoint and waa sold ; the Mary Morris, the Harriet Hoxy, the Mar tha's vineyard, all nice, trim-built sailers." the old shipmaster continues as he runs his finger down the page, having an anecdote or reminis cence to tellin relation to each. The last ono of theiie long-time liners, however, is now up for sale, and when that befalls, the quaint old office will be closed or rented to strangers, and a slgnifloant milestone In New York commerce will be blotted from existence. GAME BIRDS AT XANTVCKEXi Tha Plover Absent This Tear Many Taurl atlas of Duck, to Be Shot, Nantcckct. Oct 22. Br tha time the first October days come in with the tall elouds the gunning season here mar be said to have falrir begun. The plover are tha first game birds to arrive, and usually remain from the middle of August through tha aarlier part of September, and sometimes later. In anticipa tion of a visit from theaa birds on their migration south the gunners usually set fire to the moors along the southern part of the island. The burned overland, lt ia believed, offer specially attractive feeding grounds for the plover. Thia fall, notwith standing the usual burnings and ahto heavy fires on cedar-grown Coatua. the plover hava failed to put ln an appearance. Some attribute their absence to the fact that there waa no August northeaster thla rear. Thia storm, it Is generally believed, drives the plover to shelter upon tha island. Of these birds the black-breasts, gray-backs, pale-bellies, green head, beetle-heads, golden and great varieties are usually found In season. The English, or jaok, snipe, mar well assart the distinction of being the moat difficult bird to hit of those that come her. In a lea diffi cult olnss ooms the curlews and the yellow legs. The latter will answer and oome to a whistle even close to buildings. About the many little ponds blank duoks are more or less plenty during tho cooler months. Ther feed and sleep In tha ponds, oomlng in from the outride at dusk and going out early in the morning. While waiting for these ducks to make friends with a, little flotilla of decoys, you may lie ln ambush for hours as contentedly In Nantuoket aa in other places ; rou mar listen to the forlorn cries of the wauks from the cover of the huckleberry bushes or a skiff hid den In the reeds. Old squaws and pond hens are fairly abun dant, aa are also the devil divers or water Witches. The last, as their name implies, earn their reputation by their diving accompliah ments. They can disappear at even shorter notice than (he loon, gunners here deolare. They resemble the loon, with the exception of the legs, which. In the case of the devil diver, are hung further att. Among other kinds of web-footed birds, blue tails, teal, geese, mallard, broadbllls. redheads, elder or shoal duoks, brant, and- coot frequent Nantucket in season These ducks, in contrast with those found acout Inland waters, feed during the day in the harbor after passing the night offshore. They come Into the harbors very early In the morning, flying fast. One often hears the whirr of their wings before it is light enough to shoot them, when the ice drifts in the harbors In hVlds these ducks have a hard time, rising In flocks as the ice cloaaa in, and being forced to seek open water where ther may. Three varieties of gulls arw found about Nan tucket besides the terns, which are sometlmex miscalled gula. The latter are hero only in the warmer months. They eomo and go at ahort notice; to-day they may ho here. screaming alter the small fish as usual: to morrow you may see them assembling in great 8 umbers, flying high nt If to taygood-by; one ay more and (hey will be gone. Ho lt It when they come If one ie here all are here. The gray gull re largo, but they are the ?oungst of tne three winter varieties. It only he legs, wings, aud breast are used, they may be eaten lu sttjwt. Tho other two klndt are consider: too fishy for eating. One of thee Is white; the other If known aa the Minister gull, because of Its white breast, black back aud white and blaok wings. Hated among all blrda are the kingfishers that privateer over isnd and sea in search for the email Birds of the field. One was seen the ear Bar . pursuing a meadow lark that, reasons beat known to himself, had strayed some distance from land. He flew in a tired, wayward fashion, like a lost butterfly. On see ing th kingfisher oomlng, the meadow lark did his beat to escape. .and hie iaatwaa pltl fuBr Poor. ArtorTooging tha "larger bW two or thrw tbnes lie waa caught br the throat, and that wa th end of him. There Is excellent rabbit hunting on Nan tu.ket. Its bnah-growii commons providing good opportunities for these animals to thrive -eoaood.ln fact, that resident farmers who fia heard of tho troufafe In Australia from the trie animals at one time fearau a similar affliction would codms upon them. The sports men, however, have been sufficient to keep th rabbit popuiatkM within safe limit. CIDER WITH AN EDGE ON. comtmtmxmr row tutt-nx wtrn km WATonrtm rtrrt.m. lit est Bftarg OMw BMMt t. , VMI t tt BaakVuiaare-Mntl. Tews, Fwail ttaa, au Mas Okts Wiad Vp WHh g tantMM a It Lawks. Hard eldr time haa eoma In Oonneotleut Bank of th Una of tha railroad towns, where ther drink whisker, on oaa find In almoat avarr farmhouse tha pitcher of pale amber liquid decorating tha evening table. Inno eent enough It looks, thla pitcher, but Inno cent It la not br anr mean, for It la last rear's aider and haa what th oonntrr folk call an edg oa It Ha who drinks mor than two glass U liabl to find himself ln that same condition. Thar say In th railroad towns that tha baek villages, aa ther are termed, bear a reputation for mingled piety and hard older. Mingled I th word, for, aoeordlng to this alandaroua allegation, tha mor rigidly orthodox and ohnrohgoing tha community tha mora hard older It gata awar with. It la mostlr horn made, thla beverage from tha faotorr to the oonsumer direct It usa la confined to the man folk of tha famllr. Etiquette forblda It to th women. It ther wish a beverage ther ean take a alp of the raspberry shrub, which la al wars on the pantrr shelf. In Its effect the Connecticut brand of hard older la various and surprising, depending, apparently, upon the personal attributes of the drinker. A Sun re porter who waa obliged to go to one of these bank villages recently on Bundar evening had a good opportunity to observe the peculiarities Induced by a liberal use of tha beverage upon different persons. The villsge in question waa twelve miles from the nearest railway station to: which anr trains run on Sunday, so the re porter got a rig and a ootored routh to drive It and aet out Halt war there the colored routh Inquired if he waa on business. " 'Cause," he explained, "ther'a mos' power ful religious out dah. Don't reckon dey'd do no business of no kind on Sunday, without It waa religious business." A the errand had to do with dissensions In a ohuroh, the reporter hoped that Its religious bearing would be sufficient to appease the community's conscience and told the driver to take him to Deacon Smith wall's hotfte. "He's one o' do mos' rellglousest." remarked that cheerr routh. "He ben talkln' hell flah at dese folks for twenty rear, dor tell. Beckon we fin' him at home abuah. Dah's his house wlf de light In It" It waa then 9 o'clock in the evening. Above the whispering of the laavea In the light wind and the weather observations of the tree toads could be heard a powerful barltoncvoioe raised In a sort of chant "Dat'a Deacon Bmlthwell a-aingin' psalms." said the driver ln awo-struok tones. A ha spoke several other voices joined the baritone in a chorus a trifle alien to any psalm that the reporter ever heard. IOan: With a toorl-ll-oorl-li-ooral. Aa' a tooral-ll-ooraMi-oy I Thla was repeated several times, after which the baritone took up the recitative, but tha words of this were Indistinguishable, even when the visitor got to the door. The chorus burst out again aa he knocked, and being un able to make his appeals for entrance heard over the din. he lifted (he latch and entered. Four n Iddle-aged men sat around a plain deal table ieanfng far back in their chair, with their faces upturned to the celling. In the centre of the table stood a large glass pit jher containing tha pale but br no meana weak hard older. Next to the pitcher was a pail. Next to the pail was a jng. Next to-the jug was a backet Over in the oorner was a bar rel. There waa probably a hogshead out In the back yard, but the reporter didn't get that far. Each of the four men held a large glass. The chorus concluded, a voice from an inner room took up the solo again, droning It out with all evidence of good will, but a decided suspicion of somnolence. The visitor aaked for Deacon fimithwoll. One of the chorus, re moving his gas from the celling with an effort contemplated the newcomer with owlish "Can rou sing?" he Inquired. "Tha's the queshion." , , ... The reporter tried to explain that he wasn't on a musical tour, but the man waved hit ex planations awar. . , "Lem'mln." he said austerely. Chorus, ln which all are rcape'fully requesaed to join." And the chorus thundered out: With a toor.l-11-oorml-li-ooral. An' a tooral-U-ooral-11-ayl Again the reporter requested information regarding the location of Deacon Smithwell, ana this time one of the musicians warbled a sort ot aria containing the information that the Deacon was 1U and not to be seen. Straightway the voice In the Inner room took up the theme and wove it into an anthem to the gen eral effect that the pains of torment awaited the modern Ananias who declared him unfit to be seen, which'he would prove by appear ing, and forthwith he appeared, to the wel coming strains ot the chorus. Nimbly dodg Sng three ohalra, which strove to intercept dm. the Deacon reached the table and took a teop and long drink of the hard cider. Hav ing offered some to the visitor and sent a glass put to the driver, he sat down and dived head long Into an erudite disousslon of church law as bearing upon the cage which the reporter wss investigating. "Tha's the law." he said at the end: "but for the facte you go and see Bare Solly. No good your going to-night, though. Stay here and aing to-night, and to-morrow see Kara." The reporter mentioned the necessity of his returning that night. Deacon BmithweU looked embarrassed and soiurht to drown hie embarrassment ln a long pull at the pitcher. "Fact is." he said. "Ezra Solly's a good man : a very good man. Begular church at tendant and good for a dime In the plate every time: but Eara" here ha lowered his voloe and looked sadly at the reporter "Ezra will look upon the cider when lt Is red In the cup. Fact is, I don't believe Ezra could make himself very muoh underwtood to-night No. I wouldn't go to see Ezra till to-morrow, if I was you. Stay and lift your voice In song." After some difficulty the reporter got away and proceeded up the road to Ezra Solly's, a parting chorus cheering him on bis war. At Ezra's there was a light in the window, but no sound was heard. The reporter waa ad mitted by a tall man, who, as soon as ha had closed the door behind the visitor, returned to fits seat at one end ot the table, buried his face n his hands and groaned bitterly. At the other end of the table sat another man. who at the sound of the groan emitted a most com prehensive sniffle. Thoroughly convinced that he had alighted upon u house of mourn ing, the reporter wis revolving In his mind methods for a graceful exit when the man who had admitted him raised a tear stained face and also a large tin pail which stood beside his nhalr on the lloor and from which he Imbibed consolation apparently, for his voice win steady enough as he asked tiie visitor his business. Then, without waiting for an answer, he said In heart-broken ac cents: "young man. are you aware that you are a miserable sinner?" The reporter tried to pass the question over, but Ezra Solly, for be was the speaker, contin ued: "And that yon wretched man opposite m Is also a miserable sinner?" "Yon wretched man." unable to control his feelings, wept loudly and bitterly, then reach ing down, produced a duplicate of Mr. Solly's tin nail of uomfort. and set about making up for the waste of his tears. "And that I am the moat miserable sinner of all?" querltd Mr. Solly. Hiram, pass the gentleman your PAll." . ,, "It's empty." said Hiram. Pas him yours." "Hiram." said the other, with sad sternness. "my blooding heart Is bowed down with woe to ill. 1 that you are untruthful besides your other sins." As matters bade fair to become unpleasant, the retortcr hastened to Intervene, putting the question about the affaire of the church. "Another arietl" oried Ezra Solly in heart rending accent. "A church divided against Itself! Oh. why should tha spirit ot mortal be proud?" llemarklng that he heard voice outside It was the horse neighing Hiram went out. taking with him his pall, which ha politely offered to the animal. Upon Its refuaai to drink, be got a glass and gave a glassful to tha driver. Meantime tbe reporter had plunged Ezra Solly Info such a depth of wofuf reflec tions about the church that all Information was submerged in tears. Caleb Wither, "up the road a piece," Waa auggesUd, and to Caleb's house the reporter went, bearing in mind Ezra Solly's parting; injunction: , 'Don't besurpriiad If rou And OaUb a little peruiokeitr to get along with. .Caleb' a Qod fearlug, upright man. but alasl" here he paused to mop awar several tears "he will Srlnk hard older." m Sounds a of a nut greeted the oar upon the approach to the Wllber hous. end at. th buggy roiled up a tide door of the house buret open and two figures clasped In a tight enibraoe taagered out. Waring flat teemed to Indi cate that tha embrace waa not cue of afaoUon. and thi auniolon waa confirmed wha tha tour roiled upon th ground. Several other tlgeranta waa In a eofedlttoh todo or take verr much harm ana tne end came soon. Tha knot 3 struggling figure dlntagW ifceif and its component rrts returned to ih 'house, Jo Jowedby the reporter. Caleb Wllber. with a cut llpxplJnad that JKwas ashamed of hlm olf. q Berar rayejaed to aft Henry Jweb blns. la faot.be dldnSpwow whrjp did It. It must have been, h thought th eflfot of th quid. the reXlt oTeAeklng up raw M In older. Thia It a very popular combination In that part of Connecticut, but lu appearance waa not anon aa to Inspire the visitor with any desire to tost It so he declined his host's sug- aation. Thereupon one of the men suggest that the visitor waa drunk already. This alur upon hospitality Caleb resented by throw ing a cup at tha tpeakera head, and It was only br summoning, to his aid all he could remem ber of hie football attainment that the visitor suoeeeded in butting hla war into th outer air. There h found Henry Stebblns In .toe aetfof giving a glass of raw-egg-hard-clder combination to tbVdrlvar. At the epund of oonfflot, however. Henry .rushed back to the house, announcing his Intention of biting Caleb's ear off. anu front the sounds which fol lowed his entry lt would appear that he waa oarrrylng out his Intention. There waa one more place to go, the minis ter's house. The minister. It should be said right here, had not been drinking hard older or anything elee, but he was obviously 111 at onae while talking to th renorter. An intermit tent undercurrent or rumbling sound seemed to have some connection with hla discomfort Stiloh Is not surprising, as It proceeded from a wide-open countenance. of a man who lay stretched out on the floor fast asleep. When hla presence could no longer be ignored, the clergyman, with painful embarrassment, ex- "Brother Banders came over to discus, theological question with me. and, while I waa in tha other room looking for a book to sup port rqr arguments, suddenly tell Into a deep sleeo. f rom which I have been unable to arouse him. It la, I Mar. th result of an overindul gence In hard older, a besetting falling ln an otherwise exemplary community." Four species of hard older drunkenness had now bean exhibited, to the reporter, the Jubi lantly muaioai, the laohrymose. the pugilistic, and the somnolent Having got well out ot the village on the return trip, he supposed that the list was complete, but this wss an error. He waa now to have "an example of th hysteri cal. The colored youth who waa driving had not drunkmore than three glasses of the bev erage, ana had not said a word up to the time when the return trip waa half completed. Then suddenly he leaped to hla feet with a yell of terror and pointed to a swamp on the right of the roadL . . Lpokadart" he relied. . what la it?" demanded th reporter, reach Ingtor the reins, which the youth had dropped. "Oh, my Lawdy I Ohos' I howlod tho youth. "Dido you see um? Oo-oo-oo-ool" He collapsed in the bottom of the buggy and pulled the rugSover hla head. In the midst ot which sw.tthlng the chattering of his teeth oould be plainly beard, interspersed with dis mal groans. Solar as could be seen, there was nothing ln the swamp to account for his alarm, but bis usefulness was ended for that Sight The reporter drove the rest of the war ome himself. TsTJr "YAMCEB QUBBBKB." Be Isn't m Yankee, bat Be Baa Learned Bow to Ouaas Weight Easily. One of the appropriate features ot th food how ta an "original Yankee guessar." prob ably so called because he Is a German Jow. However, ho Is a guesser sure enough, his specialty being weights. A men. women and children go munching and tasting from booth to booth, they come suddenly upon the "orig inal Yankee" and his offer. Ha Invites all com ers to 1st him guess their weight It he cornea within five pounds of it the scale being ther to decide it the oandldate paya five oenta for being weighed: If the guesser I five pound off. the candidate is weighed for nothing. The original Yaakee ia young, but he must be getting a bank account. Th women pass tha moat tempting booths without letting go of a cent only to falter at the feet of the Yankee guesses. Fat and thin, ahort and tall, they all want to know how they really look to some body who isn't prejudiced and who will tell them the plain truth because that happens to be his business. So they say ooquottlshly If they are fat: "Them scales Is warranted not to break. 5 Certainly, madam." "Well, now, how muoh do you think I weigh?" Tne young man takes a rapid but very com prehensive survey, names a figure and the wo- Well. i guess the nickel's yours." Two women tried him the other day. The first one he guessed at 136 pounds. She got on ths scales and tipped the beam at 130. He eyed the second and guessed her at 133 pounds. That was a close call for him, be cause she weighed 137. " How often do you miss ?" " Oh. I can win forty-eight times out of fifty. It's a good deal harder to guess a woman's weight than a man's, because I can feel a man's arms and chest and find how solid he Is. With the women I have to decide just from looking at them. I can tell better about the weight of a man's olothing, tno. From looking at a woman it isn't easy to giies what her olothes weigh. One material will weigh twice as much as something else that looks just about like lt and sometimes I'm fooled a pound or two be cause they have on heavy underskirt or have a lot ot truck in one of these little bags hang ing from their belt. "But even then I can guess them almost nine times out often. A little while ago I had a whole crowd around and I guessed forty women and missed only three ot them. Took in $1 75 in a little while. It took me a long time to learn the business, though. I worked tor a guesser up in Boston, and I used to take his place when he went to meals. I've missed twelve and fifteen people straight one after an other. Butyouaee I didn't have to pay out any money when I missed, and the more I alased the more people tried it, so lt wasn't so id after all. I've been at the business two years, and I've guessed thousands of people. The highest I ever guessed was a man that welshed 370 pounds. There's a woman here In the show who weighs 307 pounds and I guessed her the other dsy to a pound." " How muoh does that woman weigh V aaked a listeners, pointing to a short, dumpy woman. A hundred and twenty-seven pounds," said tha guesser. after taking a good look. " And that one ?" pointing to a woman four or five inches taller. The same." "And that child?" Forty-one pounds. Forty-two, at the most." And they did. Whereupon the guesser dropped the quarter Into his pocket and smiled. He was thinking of his bank account. TKOLLBY SICKNESS. An Ailment That AftVct. Little Children Al most Exclusively. Trolley sickness Is causing great distress in the northern suburbs and In parts of Brooklyn. As Is well known, young children are usually exempt from seasickness, but they enjoy no such Immunity In the matter of trolley sick ness. On the contrary, they are peculiarly the victims of this new disease. As Infants plsy sround In careless glee on shipboard, whlls their wretched elders are lost to the world In their bunks below, bent In abject misery over the rail or stretched limp and listless upon blanketed ateamer ohalra. so on tbe trolley ears, while grown folks swing merrily from the overhead straps or bawl tha latest gossip into one an other's ears, the poor little victims ot trolley sickness writhe In tortures and waU ln unison. In tha case ot trolley sickness, aa in that of sea sickness, fresh air Is often the best remedy, and so lt happened that so long as open cars were run upon the suburban trolley lines in fant misery was kept wlthiu reasonable bounds. But now that the advanos of the season has brought out the closed cars, the slckn.se dally increases. It must be remembered, too. thst in the caso of trolley sickness there la no such convenient rushing to the rail as In the case ot sudden seizure on ship board. To be sure, most unhappv-looklug Infant faces are daily seen protruding from the windows of the trolley cars, but this convenient resource la seldom available, sinoe trolley oars are so densely crowded much of the time thst to get a child suddenly upon tha seat and its head out of the window Is almost im possible. Mothers of foresight encourage their children to stand on the seats and look out ot ths windows, so aa to be In the very best possi ble position for any audden emergenoy. But when a trolley car is packed, as Brook lyn and suburban trolley cars sometimes are packed, and as horsecara never were packed, because no two horses could tyer have drawn euoh loads, the position of the infant suddenly Kited with trolley sicklies is truly pitiable. i. too. is that of the mother, for she receives. Instead of sympathy, the angry looks or her fellow passengers, who would flee her and hers a a Matllenee, but who, struagl a they may. and bread down and elbow one another as they Will, cannot pot more than six inches between themselves and the obJet of their disgust. In Brooklyn, whare the art of trolley-oar riding haa been brought to a higher degree of perfection than elsewhere, save ia Philadelphia. there I a rumor that tha trolley parlor eara at least are to have a corps ol chambermaids. Thia provision, the managers ot tha trolley lines aop. Will promote general comfort. Meanwhile there Is a widespread demand throughout ail the territory threaded by the Huckleberry lines for a remedy that will at least assuage tbe violano of trolley sleknea. and a disposition among th ehlMis to de mand that, th dfaorimlnatioB against children BRTN MAWRCOLIEQE WAYS a wouaw intmrvTiow mm wmtr mnuCAtionAL idxak. The Orsiy Btatoaa at aMurty ta Tall fare Thai1 Traarttaas f (.'allege Mr thea ters Typify th MA of lMlraUi. If women's college continue to leerease br th geometrical ratio of the present year th time will soon com when uneducated girls will be scarce. Bryn Mawr. Ilka all the other. finds Its supply ot dormltorr room altogether inadequate to the demand. Denbigh. Merlon. Badnor and Pembroke East and West tbe Ave college halls ot residence, have been sutmle mented by the use of Dolgeliy and Cartraff. two large houses belonging to the college. Even so the accommodations are Insufficient and the college and it friend are considering the pos sibility of a new hall of residence In the near future. The entering else, nun baring ninety four. Is the largest ret known at tha collear. and graduate atudenta continue to coma In greater numbers and with more nest than ever. Owing to ths particular poller of Brrn Mawr. college spirit and class feeling are noticeably less than at Smith. Vaasar or Wellesley. For by the group system, Illustrated at Bryn Mawr in Its entirety, conventional academic line are entirely displaced, so that the aenior Is a like ly to be pegging away at beginning Greek be side the newest of freshmen as to be wading Into the depths of philosophy with on of her own year. Tha group system has many ad vantages, and It is not one of the least ot them that woman can benefit by the proverbial ohangeableness ot her mind. and. while she must keep to a certain unity of subject through the four years, can nevertheless go back and take what a wider experience and a bettor knowledge of her own needs irould suggest She has the advantage ot a perspective, thus, which the narrow limit ot her freshman hori zon make utterly Impossible. . At the beginning of the year, however, class distinctions are sharply drawn and tho fresh men have reason to rejoice that ther are. since br virtue of their name ther are verr popular for the first term and are entertained at recep tions and informal teas most delightfully by the college and the older students ".It has been the custom to hold a tennis tournament In the fall, which forma a fitting climax to tha more or less unorganized social life of the earlr part of the semester. On this occasion Bryn Mawr ihamplona play against those ot other colleges. The colors of the contestants flutter from the different windows ; afternoon teas all about the lawn are the order of the hour and tha games themselves are full of interest and excitement. Since basketball came Into prominence It haa stolon awayjthelhonrts of the Brrn Mswr girls and the tennis tournament now Is not all that the fancr of a former graduate paints it. Just after the tournament the sophomore give the freshmen a formal welcome, usually timing lt so that the guests who have coma for th tournament may be present Almost al ways this welcome takes the formTof a plar, often verr clever, as the sophomores begin to prepare tor It in their freshman rear and make the best of effort to contrive something un usual and original. Tho sophomore In an ap propriate song give greeting to the freshmen and then present each member of tha class with a lantern to light her steps along the path of knowledge and particularly through the labyrinth of the group system. One rear the freshmen were mads to pass an oral examination before the lanterns were awarded to them, and thertre put to other hu morous test In various ways. But each freshman In tbe end receives her lantern, whatever her mistakes. The custom I an un broken one from the earliest dara ot tha eol lege.for, in order that tbe first class ot all might not proceed ln darkness, the lower olasae joined In presenting It members with lan terns to lead them through tha rest of their course. Lanterns plar a conspicuous part too. Ik commencement festivities, sad have come to hold so permanent a place in the col lege traditions that the design of the college oln Is a tiny lantern. With the delay thla lan tern Is supposed' as well to have bean ln the minda ot th students when ther chose yellow and white for tho college colors yellow for the Ught of tbe lantern, white for the daisy that la almost as essential a part of com mencement aa th graduates themselves. In other matters, also, the college holds firm to its traditions. Belt-government has always been part of its creed and when the college opened Miss Thomas, then Dean, now Presi dent, had power to decide all questions about Students' oonduct. She began at once the sys tem of rutting the girls on their honor, which has since worked out into regularly organized self-government. When tbe college was small nothing but publlo opinion was necessary to insure the good behavior of the entire stu dent population, but with the Increase of members it became impossible to impress upon the entire cirolo qulokly enough certain unwritten rules and regulations, which meant the comfort of all concerned. Consequently the need was met br forming the Students' Association for Self-Qovem-rnent. to formulate the .previously nebulous laws which should give consistence and co herence to the complex life ot the commun ity. This body Is provided with a constitu tion. President. Vice-President Executive Committee and much of tne other parapher nalia of good government The President and Vice-President are elected annually and ex offlelo are members ot the Executive Com mittee, the other three members of which are also elected annually. Besides the com m it toe there Is an Advisory Board oCten. It take tact discretion and the unusual confidence of one's fellow students to win anr of the places in this department ot government, so that election, even If attended withirave respon sibility, means much honor. The officers for this year are: President, Miss Evelyn Walker, toe mistress ot Denbigh Hall ; Vice-President. H. Emma Guffey : Executive Board, Marion Park, Bertha P. Chase. Mm Fiacliel: Secre tary. Louise C"ngdon; Treasurer. T. M. Tat look ; Advisory Board. MaoDonald,Ein,lly Fogg. B. E. Hubbard. M. J. NororOss, O.B Campbell. Louise O. Norcrons. Marian ltellly, M. Elisabeth White. Katharine Lord, and Leila Stoughton. The presence of a large graduate body nt gryn Mawr sometimes makes the college seem its young and Impetuous than in another ool 1 vli.n arlrla or havtnar the experience for the first time and are enjoying work and fun as they only can be enjoyed where novelty and surprise enter in. The earnest berlous-mlnd-edness of the older population net more or less as a check on the undnr-claas student; but. on the other baud, th graduates often prove themselves most inspiring and stimulating to the others and sober, efficient work results. The Bryn Mswr student may have the effect of competition and the experience of measuring herself up against more mature minds than her own without going beyond her college gates. As the college progresses, too, there is a msrked tendency toward more lightness and brightness ln its social life. At first every thing was strongly tinctured with the Quaker origin. Music, which seems so inseparable a part of college enjoyment, was not heard with in college bordera. Chanel was conducted without the accompaniment of piano or other Instrument and glee and banjo clubs were a thing unknown. With the glowing complexity of interests brought by the students us part of their mental equipment lt was tmixmelhle to ioU to the older, stricter lines, aud little by ittle former customs have relaxed. Music las crept In and many other pleasures for merly forbidden. The class of '01 waa so loyal to It founder that It class cheer ran: Kurrahl llnrrayl for ths Orayl Buirayl Burrahl Bryn M.wrl Surely the whole of the class of 111 must have belonged to the far West and shouted ilui -rawrl Bryn Mawr!" or they murt have been natives ot Philadelphia and ended their cheer "Hurrahl Bryn Maw." Otherwise, collegians could neverhave made such an at ro-ioiis rhyme. Although the cheers now have simmered down to "Rah. Rah." with the name of the elans at the end. student are none the lesa loyal to the founder, and the response of the college to demands for expansion and the lifting of un important restrictions Is the best obedience to the beneficent mind that gave it being. It is significant of tho vigorous intellectual life at Bryu Mawr that, although it Is a college for women, its professors and teacher are with few exoeptiona men. Among the changes In the faculty are the following: Dr. J. H. Huddilstou haa been appointed lecturer in archaeology In place of Mr. Richard Norton, who waa calied from Bryn Mawr last year to hold for n year the professorship of arohjsoiogy In. the American School of Clatsloal Studies at Borne, tie has been asked by the school to remain longer and has consented Dr. Hud dUston. a Baldwin and Harvard universities 1. B .. and an instructor of Greek at the North western ynlversity for two years, has been studying for the last three yeara In Berlin and In Munich, where he took the degree of Ph D. Dr. J. H. Lsuba, associate In psychology and pedagogy, ha returned from abroad, whare hp basbeen studying the science and practice of teaching In Franca. Germany, and England. He haa equipped a new psychological labora tory, built during the summer, on the fifth floor of Dalton Hall, and he has now the ap paratus necessary for a complete course of work In experimental psychology. Dr. Wil liam Allan Nielson has been appointed lec turer ln English literature. He offers a new tt1X.d. tA. WlthtoB and Jawbeen drama. t XArAt-M BtnmtTT goaroor. Msassas Why Only Twentr-three Btadent Have Megtttereel This Tear. Bosnvir. Oct 21 Whan ftocrefary Robert Swain Morison el the Harvard Divinity School added up the Hat of men registering this year he did It so quickly that It made him numb. The grand total was 23. That doesn't mean that 23 man have entered the first-year class. It means that 23 la the whole number ot stu dents at the school. It means also that Har vard haa far and away the smallest theological department in tha eountrr. Tha reasons assigned for thla state of affairs relate partly to thla world and partly to the next The worldly reasons begin with the new rule concerning tnition toes. About two yeara ago It waa announced that tor the year 1HO7-0H the tuition fee would be raited from 190 a year, which it had always been, to $150. This waa not done to help tha sohool to pay ex penses, for Its Unitarian friends hare always seen to It that plenty of money has been given to the university specifically for ths support of the Divinity school. The Increase was ordered first because Dr. Everett, the dean, thought that the men would be mads more self-respecting and self-reliant If they paid for what they got at tha same rate as the other Harvard stu dents, who all pay $150. and, secondly, because under the old plan (t was possible for a man to enter tho Divinity Sohool, pay his $50 aud elect any number ot courses In the general collego which everybody else waa paying three times as much for. Ths Divinity School grants, be sides the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, those oQ Ph. D. and A. M.. and Divinity avenue was an easy and Inexpensive route to honors. Another worldly reason was that whllo there are a number of highly desirable TJnttnrian pulpits In New England to which no man Is ever likely to be called unless hs has had a Harvard theological education, thla verr strong attraction for a few men could not draw anr great number, and as a matter of fact a Har vard man looking for a pulpit ln the denomina tions which have schools of their own would be like a Mugwump looking for office. Harvard long ago ceased to be a Unitarian school, the denominational name having been replaced with tha university motto "Veritas." But to the minds of most preachers and families send ing sons to theological schools It is not enough that a school should quit being Unitarian ; ther want it to be some one thing else. In spite of these things the Are: year of the new fee showed an Increase ot two students over to total of th year before. The num ber last year waa thirty-eight But only eight of the thirty-eight are back this fall so far, and these, together with two men who return after long absences and thirteen new stu dents, make up the twenty-three. Even with the thirty-eight of last year, the ceremonies of commencement day In Bandera Theatre in cluded the solemn march of only three Bach elors ot Divinity to the plntform. and though ln the general crowd there were five A. M.'s and two Ph. D.'s for whom the Divinity School waa responsible, the crowd didn't know that, and Secretary Morison is wondering what kind ot show his twenty-three will make ;n Sanders next June. i I The dean of the sohool is the Rev.Dr.Charles C. Everett, who haa been a member of the fac ulty nearly thirty yeara and dean for twenty When he was asked what effect he thought t would have on a man's denominational re atlon to go through the Harvard school, he "I believe a teacher of theology must have some definite position himself if his teaching Is to amount to anything, and I let my classes know just whst my position Is. But I haven't the least Idea what the other professors be lieve or what they teach. I presume they fol low the tame rule I do, and teach just. what they think. I am a Unitarian: Professor Tharer Is an orthodox Congregatfonallst; so Is Mr. Hopes, his aseiitant; Professor Lyon. In Bemltlos,ls a Baptist; Professor Currle. In elocution, is a Methodist: Professor Platner. in ecclesiastical history I don't know what he Is. I am sure. ... , .... "In my classes in the philosophy of religion I often take a stand on some question about which there Is denominational difference of opinion, and then invite students to debate it from their several points ot view. That la one Et value of the education under our sys--the student comes in contact with men of inds and chases of thought. In my lec tures I am careful to (rive out references for reading which wUl fully cover all the other sides besides the on I take, and no student need go away narrow minded." "Bui is this system conducive to denomina tional fidelity?" was asked. . The school Is not Intended to conduce to denominational fidelity." replied the Doctor. The position of Harvard in the matter of di vinity Is precisely Its position in everything else Nothing is cut and dried. The biggest Subllo official affair of the year Is the alumni Inner In Memorial Hall on Commencement Day. Last June the two most conspicuous men In the university. Charles Frauds Adams, just eleotcd President of the Board of Over seers, and Charles W. Eliot President of the University, walked Into the haU and took places aide by aide at the table without one word having passed between them oa to the oourse President Adams, as toostmnster. should try to make the epeeohmaktng take. Mr. Adams. In his opening speech, tackiod the topic uppermost, in everybody's mind, the atti tude of Harvard toward the war. and came out hot and fierce against the war. He then In troduced Mr. Eliot, who smilingly and courte ously turned on the President of the Board of Overseers and said to him so all men might near that he believed such sentiments as those just expressed were pernicious, and went on to defend the war and Imperialism." Harvard all the way through fosters the In dividual and nurses that kind of independence which led the abolitionists to demand the oure of the slavery disease, not by physio, but by amputation. No Harvard man ever oompro- Blses If he can help it. even In the Interest of arvard. The subtle philosophers have even Steed a direct relation between Harvard's tos ringtof Individuality and her perpetual fail ure at football. Yale ha a Congregational Divinity School, and look at the sire of it. say they. You never heard two prominent Yale men clash over the ice cream at a public Yale dinner. They all know what they are going to say before they sit down. Thev get together. Ami they win football gams. But to return to the Divinity School, this question was asked of a college officer: Will the school ever vanish?" The answer was: "No. All the bequests It has ever received have been from Unitarians and they will con I tlnue to sec to it that there Is a school where I candidates for the ministry may learn liberal doctrines to fit them for Unitarian pulpits." rvnsvKD ur billows or wheat. Workmen Chased Out of a Warehouse by a Flood of Oraln. From tkt Denver Republican. Six thousand bushels of unsacked wheat got loose and went on a tear. It happened In the warehouse of the F. C. Ayres Mercantile Com pany yesterday afternoon. The scenes that fol lowed were something similar to those de scribed by Victor Hugo when a cannon got looss from Its fastenings on board ship and rolled and reared from one end of the gun dook to another until the ship was disabled aud a number of ita crew killed. Only, nobody was killed by the wheat In the roar of the Ayres warehouse are four great bins, built up from the ground floor and capable ot holding twenty-flvii carloads ot wheat at a time They are substantial affairs, nod once a grain of wheat geta Into them it ia pretty likely to stay there, safe from rats and thieves, until Its owners get ready to shovel It out again. About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon thx company's bookkeeper, sluing in his office at the front of the building. 100 feet or more from the bins, heard a terrific ripping, tearing, splintering sound, as if the whole end of the warehouse was being torn out by a monster hand, Before he had time to lump out of his chair this sound wss succeeded by another, a rumbling, grumbling, rosrlng. moving noise, like the coming down of the cataract atlodore or the approach of a hurrienne. He rushed from the little box of an office out onto tho main floor of the warehouse. He paused, gasixd tor breath and threWup his hands. What he saw was plant wave of wheat flow ing toward nun. licking at tho very heela of a dozen laborers who hail been nt work near the bins and who were now fleeing for their lives. The wave flowed high, n foam Of wheat snap ping from Ita crest now and then nod falling In a grainy spray on the heads of the pursued. Afterward the men ran whisk brooms down their backs to brush the tiokly whent nut. The oce,ni of whent moved onward for a score ol feet or mote snd then calmed down as suddenly as If a barrel of oil had been spread onlts troubled waves. Ths bookkeeper yelled to the laboring men to stop running, pulled his hands down to their accustomed pockets, took a deep breath and whistled. I)v and by the (loud ot dust thst hnd arisen drifted away and the bookkeeper and I he labor ing men could see what had hnipened. It didn't take long. One of the stout beams had grown weak from the burden on Its back and snapped in two. A hundred other stout beams hadfollowed suit There was nothing left tor the Imprisoned whest to do but to make a rush for a lees confined resting place. There were H,0(u bushels ot it la the bin. and It was no wonder that Its moving caused const rn at !ou. After the dqsen laboring men hsd recovered their wita and gone to work again the little bookkeeper in the front office said the damage done would not BBeeed IOU Ali that was nec essary to do to save tbe wheat was to sweep lt ayosf tha flaw and pot it to saaka, THE OPERA IN EUROPE, " " I A rtrr that mam tiihkm ormmA nnvHKH as o mat n ate Ajrormmm. M A Bwrtaws Opera VwaaWtoa ea ' Daa QataBt -Edward I.lovd Itooa in Retlre-aVevrval f aa Old Often, by Wallooa OsaasM; -Th Lyric Mtage fa Italy and Fraae. Helnrich Vogl. on ot th oldeat ot the Was). ner singers still before th public, has compoaasl an opera for Which Felix Dahn ha wrtttaa ths libretto. Vogl Isstlli a member of th com pany at toe Royal Opera House In Munich, aas) he owns several farms, a distillery. aM la otherwise Interfiled In other than his artless occupation. His opera will be sung In Munich. Siegfrisd iWagnsr's opera, "Der Batria nauetar." will be given there In January. The) nest city to hear the work wlU be Dresden. Paul Kallsch will not accompany LIIIII,ehsaenJt I to this country, but will remain In Hamburg, where he I the tenor of th Stadt Theatre, Wilhelm K Ion si's "Don Quixote" Is to be 'J given for th first time at th Berlin Opera House. The composer says that his opera wlB be the first that haa ever uaad Cervaates'a ttory seriously, although tha theme haa BaaB many times employed In comedy or made tha foundation of snorter pieces based oa nl(vvg in the romance. Kiensl has tried in his oearai 1 to give an Impression of the book aa a whola, M He considers that the tragio and comic tffeeSs in tho romance oaa be combined In aa oaare) i and retain their same force. JM Frau Ouldbranson. trie Danish singer, haa been heard recently at the Opera in Berlin, whither she wen t to appear In tha trilogy which bat been given lately In Berlin. The supples of her appcaranoes as A-tinnnid was so great fl that the performances were repeated. Tha M trilogy has also been sung In Dresden and fl Vienna, the autumn months In ths large Oerman ottles usually being selected for th km annual performances of tho work. Wagner'a " Bisnsi " waa revived recently In Berlin. It la S said that the score was newlr arranged br Hart Wm Welngartnar Are yeara agounder Mme. Colma Wagner'a directions and ia the same version an nouneed for this wlntor at Vienna. It haa b used in Berlin regularly over since. Other work wfl to be heard during the season in Berlin are "Samson and Dallla," "Mudarra." by Lt) Borne, n French composer, and Hubay's " Ths) Violin Maker ot Cremona," which was sung here lost winter at a private performance. There are to be revival ot Weber's "Eury anthe," Oluck'a " Armldo." which is to be don also at the Grand Opera House in Pari nasi jM year in most elaborate fashion: "La Dame l S Blanche." by Bolldoau; "Othello " and "IB- staff.'' by Verdi: "Hobert U Dlablja" TrF Meyerboor: "The Water Carrier.' r by Cheru- ) bini: "Joseph." by Mohul-also to be dene la Paris and Auber's "Le Domino Nolr" One of the other novelties will be r" mtbpM, which has already made Ita war tuocea.fully through several of the best of the UermaJt cities. It wo first given In Dresden. Berlin was roocntly threatened with another opera house conducted by private enterprise. ,Bu the scheme waa wisely abandoned. Thar are now rumors that private capital will build a fine theatre, to be de voted exclusively to operatlo performance. It will no the fourth operatlo com pany ln Berlin if the plans arc ever oarrlad out. There are performances given In two theatre br the regular company, and another theatre Is oooupied by a private company. Th Gov ernment theatres are In a measure protected against the Interference of th private com panies, as they own the right to produce all the standard operas. Ono good effect ot thla is to compel the newer theatres to rely Oft novelties. When the standard operas are 5 , sung at the private theatres it ia with tho permission ot the regular subvntlond companies. Maria Jtenard has not retired from the opera at Vienna, but will ting th leading role when Resnicex'e " Donna Diana will bo given there. It is said that Hans Rich- I 1 ter has been Invited to assume the direction Of f the Halle concerts in Manchester at a salary ot $7,300 a season, and has declined, as he ex pects to take a long rest botoro the opening of the Bayrcuth season. He says that his future 1 work sa a conduotor wUl be confined chiefly to operatlo performances. Edward Lloyd, the most popular of English tenors, is to retire from publlo Ufa after a series ot farewell performances which ths) gjm singer has taken the precaution to announce. For forty yeara he haa been before tha pub lic He ia a man of means and haa resolved to lead In the future the life ot a country gentleman. His father waa a tenor In tha choir ot Westminster Abbey, and his mother was a musician. Edward began aa a choir boy at the abbey, and the only mutloel education he ever bad it said to hava been acquired then. His voice is said to have been placed naturally, and ha received little or no instruction except that which his father gavo him when, at the age of 7. he began to slug in the choir. He was bora In 1845. Ten years ago be came to this ooua trynnd ha. since paia two more visits to til United States and sangat the musical festivals. Unlike his predecessor. 431ms Reeves, ha la a rtoh man and will not be com pelled to ask aid from his countryman, as Mr. Beeves has several tlmsa sweat compelled to do. A baritone, who recently re- Jigned from the company at the Berlin Opera louse, had bung for twenty-seven year In tha same roles. Now York would tolerate few per formers for one-third of that time, whatever .2 their merits were. Mme Melba Is to give a con cert ln London hoforo sho comes to join her opera company here. Adeline Pattl denies tha report of her engagement. Jules Massenet's score to "Griseldls" haa fl already been completed, and it is said that tha opera will be sung in Paris. His " Cinderella' will be the opening work at the Opera Comlqu. Reynold Halm, composer of "L'llo du Reve," will write the music for the new libretto, which Cotulle Mendcs has written about Louis XIV. 'a . fi love for Mile. De la Valllcre. and called "La Carmelite." An industrial sohool waa recently dedicated to the memory of Charles Gounod by Mme. Plgny. hla grandmother. The sohool Is situated la Paris. " Lovelace." an opera recently sung la Paris, was drawn from no let famous a source than Richardson's "Clarissa Harlowe." but SO) little of tho book was used that the desecration of such a text was denounced by the critic. There wss little in the text that could bepralesd) and scarcely more In the muaic. although Henry Hlrschman. the composer, is well known aa successful in smaller forms. Samara's opera. - fj " La Martlre." has survived a number of per formances In Paris despite its ecoentria I .-' character. At Luttlch. in Belgium, which f Is the centre of the region In which ' Walloon survives, there is a hoelety devoted to tho preservation of the language, and under its management an opera composed by one of tho members was recently sung. It was com posed by liamal. a Walloon musician in 1757. Th opera has been rewritten, as the orches tration had not been completed. Another opera by tho same composer has been sung frequently of late In French as wall as In Wal loon. Victor Muurel had been engaged for a series of appearances at Marseilles before ho contracted to upnear in this country. The rehearsals for the opening purfortn-ani-e nt tho Opera Comlque In Paris hava already commenced in the theatre, which la taiil to be complete in every detail and ready for tho opening performances to take place this month, lhiriugthe season at a Seals Mess. uet's " lj Roi de I,nhore"wlll be revived, an jm I his ballet, "Le Carillon," will be given for th , first time in Italr. He has prepared a new ver sion of the work for Milan. During Holy Week the theatre Is to be devoted to the perform- i aneo of PerOSTS oratorios, and the sacred mu sic written recently by Verdi and already Mr formed in Paris. The mu.lc for the new billet by MaiiEottl. who devised "Excelsior." wljlb written by Julius Bayer, whose "Puppenfee" ho been popular in Germany for a decade, Olordano's opera founded on 'Fedora" will be sung thla month at Milan. Nicholas voa Weaterhout. un Italian composer whose family , emigrated from the .Netherlands several gn- I $M eratlons ago. died recently in Rome. He had BtaHaTsa written an opera based on Shakespeare's 11 Mil t 1 "Cymbelfne" "Dis Metstersluger" will be given this year, not only at I Seal, but at If M Borne aa well. (ioMmark'a T'The Queeti ot i I Sheba" is also to be produced for th Bret time In Borne. Manunelli's "Ero Lraaoro wBl be given for the first time In several of the Italian cities, and will remain In the repertoire . M at Turin ami Milan Puccini's "Li To? not yet completed, will probably be given first I , 1 . A at Homo or Venice. aw.. DEVELOPMENT Al and V1QOR. I J 1 Restorative and Enlarging Appliance ly mM for bom. and pby.lruui.' um. 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