Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1892, Page 8

A SUMMER COURT. Where Brazilian Officials Spend the Hot Months, A TRIP TO PETROPOLIS. ‘The Newport of the South American Repub- Me—The Journey Described, as Well as In- teresting Places Along the Koute—The Vil- lage Named for the Late Emperor. ‘Prom The Star's Traveling Commissionsr. Prraororis, Brazit, March 15. 8 EVERYBODY knows, the names of the Inte Emperor and Empress of Brazil trans- lated into plain English were Peter and The- resa, and so it came about that their once devoted subjects called the two prettiest towns im the country Petrop- olis and Theresopolis. Early as the year 1322 : the sight of the first Bamed town was chosen by old Dom Pedro I as summer residence for the imperial family, Dut although he bought an enormous estate there at the time, the first actual visit of roy- alty to the place did not occur until a quarter of s century later. Petropolis lies just beyond the summit of fe Serra dos Orgoas, “Organ mountains,” whose dark peaks ascending in regular scale, like the pipes of an organ, are sharply outlined agsinet the dim blue horizon to the north of Rio. Being in the upland region of cloudy days and cool nights, where yellow fever never comes nor the almost as much dreaded pest of yuitoes, it has become the summer paradise tof all those Bio Jenciroans whose wordly cir- cumstances permit them to flee from the heat, dust aod vile smells of the annually plague- stricken city. Thither the imperial household used to go in the early days of November—as ‘the presidents and their families will do while Brazil calls herself « republic—immediately followed by all the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. SUMMER COURT AT PETROPOLIS. ‘Thus fashion. as weil as health, depends upon staying away from Rio during a certain sea- son, and the summer court at Petropolis is ite as gay and imposing as that of the win- fa Shs empital. Doriag abeus seven monthe of every year the place is crowded to over- flowing. “Government officials. officers of the army and navy, professional men. merchants, ‘RIO DE JANEIRO—DOCKS AND ARSENAL. Clerks, teachers—everybody who can possibly scare up milreis enough sends his wife aud daughters up the heighis, to hang on somehow to the edges of fashionable life. if not per- mitted to themselves in the midst of “the swim,” though he, the bread winner, must continue to moil and teil in town, traveling to and fro mornings and evenings. Sines the completion, nine years ago. of the railroad with the queer name, “Princepo do Grao Para,” an excursion from Rio tu Petropolis and back again has become one of the possibilities of asingle day. If the tourist has no more ‘ame to spare that is better than not to visit the loveliest spot in Brazil at all—spending five hours on the road and seven in Petropo- lis—though seven weeks would hardly do the subject justice or exhaust its especial points of interest. Railroads are no doubt necessary ad- Juncts to civilization, but they are death to turesqueness and have spoiled many a trip. as, for example, that imto the Yosemite valley, which was worth making when one had to go on a mule at the peril of hix life rather than as now, ina parlor ear. The old stage road leading up to this “and of the sky” was s0 incomparably beautiful and the coach ride over it so full of delightful expe- riences that one cannot help regrotti Eas become a thing of the past and that this an- — of royalty is made so easily acces- WHEN THE TURNPIKE WAS BUILT. The turnpike was built about the time of the ‘Maus-Buiz railway, which is said to be the old- est in South America, for the purpose of bring- ing down produce, especially coffee. from the interior. It runs 114 miles, from the tropical Jangles near Rio up over the Organ mountains, tacking along the laces of steep cliffs like 1 ship at sea. to the celebrated mines of Geras, to Entre Rios and to the frontier towns of the province. Being free from dust fm times of drought and mud in the rainy season, with terraces above and safety walls below, the old stone highway has rarely been equaled since the days of the Roman road- makers. But it became a very Via Dolorosa to its stoeholders when the Dom Pedro Segundo Failway was completed, about fitteen years afterward, for the latter took away all the cof- fee trafic. It is now owned by the Company Uniso e industria (Union and Industry), and caches still run over a portion of it. Near Petropolis there are places on this magnificent thoroughtare where the traveler, looking ever the parapet, sees far below him several parallel stone pared roads, and finds it difficult to be- lieve that they are all one road, the same by Thich be hes. been zig-zagging up the moun- HOW To ORT THERE. Suppose you are in Rio and want to goto Petropolis, Take a “bond” or tram car any- where on the First of March street—one of those marked “Praca Municipal,” which will convey you direct to the Prainha boat landing. It frequently happens in the crowded business streets, particularly in the vicinity of the co! fee exchange, that the cars are blocked for a Jong time. In this case, remembering that tides and steamers wait for no man, it would be safer to jump out and walk—though the ‘way is long, the weather hot and you feel con- also a is af ti if E i 2 :s F E isi i £. f if H ! [ if I 1s ib l i i H i § j z . ; i E | | H i i I : meant license and independence freedom to rob—the books were mostly destroyed. BUSY SHIP YARDS OF THE MARINE ARSENAL. Just below Sar Bento Hill, on the right-hand side, are the busy ship yards of the marine arsenal, and on the left the long line of enor- mous stone houses belonging to the Dom Pedro II docks. These are among the most important of the city’s public works, ‘The quays have an extension of nearly 300 yards and their covered Piers are 109 yards long. The company that owns the big store honses enjoys a monopoly in the matter of shipping coffee, though but a ‘til portion of it is dene directly from pier to vessel. Beyond these quays is an enormous dry dock cut out of solid rock. The first island on the left is Santa Barbara, which is ured for hospital pur; during frequent epidemics of smallpox. The scenery becomes more varied and charming—the islands too numerous to be named—and one’s attention is continually at- tracted from the peculiar grouping of the heights behind the city to the thassive peaks of the Serra dos Orgoas in front. ‘The boat passes close to ““Govenor’s Island,” which 18 one vast plantation twelve miles long by six miles wide, with two or three little vil- lages upon it and a population of nearly 4,000. A little farther is Paqueta Island, covered with beautiful villas and, perhaps, ‘1,500 villians (wretched pun)—a favorite summer residence for business men who cannot afford the extra time and money required for Petropolis. From our starting point to the Maus landing pier the distaree 1s only twelve miles and we make it in an hour. Then we enter a train of short, old-fashioned cars and steam, bump, jolt away over ten miles of swampy coun- try, brilliant with many-hued orchids and the flame-colored leaves of the Flower ef Lent | Four Huvared wa: MARY MAY ACT AGAIN. The American Tragedy Queen May Emerge From Retirement. A “REAPPEARANCE” TOUR. ‘Talk of the Stage in New York---Mary An- derson’s Rejected Suitors---An English Peer Among Them---The Stage Sweetheart and the Hardships She Has to Bear. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New York, April 29. 8 MARY ANDERSON really going to reap- pear on the stage? From half a dozen widely divergent points from men and women who know her well, fj trom her quiet home in 7 England, and from that busiest mart of theatri- cals, the Broadway “Rialto,” come well- defined hints that the 4 former queen of the Americuu classic drama longs to renew her old triumphs. In this there caa be no surprise for keen observers of the world of players. Northing can be more natural than that Mary Anderson should sigh for the olden days. They were days with scarcely a cloud, “the happiest days,” so she has written to one of her girlhood friends, ia her lifetime, and, now | that the novelty of domesticity has somewhat lost its edge, what more rational than a wish for the homage which, once gained, is never quite relinquished by its recipients. It is now about three years since Mary Anderson became the wife of Antonio de | Navarro, Their union was the culmination of an ardent courtship on the part of young Do javarro, who had good looks, a fine physique, a graceful, well-kuit figure, an eloquent tongue and a true lover's persistence to aid him in his suit. It had long been known in theatrical cir- cles that he was a worshiper at the shrine of this chaste aud chilly goddess of tragedy; but no actor and uo actress who had ever played on the same stage with Mary Anderson bad redicted success for Antonio de Navarro in 18 wooing. He was not wealthy in his own right. “His prospects were bright,” might truly be said of him; as of many another clevor and hopeful young man; for he came of good stock, aud his father had acquired fame, if not uncommon riches, by the erection of the finest | biock of apartment bouses in America, But with these things in his favor, Antonio de Navarro’s more material claun tor the actress’ hand began and ended, She had been courted tor higher in rank and richer in well have tempted beauty and genius, even such as hers, ‘A REJECTED PRER. In England—and this is no longer secret— a Catholic peer, who is both famous and wealthy, bad laia his title aud bis wership at her feet | flat rerusal, | august body which groups itself fondly as the | regular crops, and was chagrined and amuzed to receive In this city a member of that fascinated by the actress, is jand for three years paid her unceasing court, Mort eens eee le eeday eis famous bat | Tt haa been enid that once she looked upon hitn forty years ago under a concession to the Vit conde de Maua, hence was sold to the Princepo do Grao Pai Company. A STEEP ASCENT IX SECTIONS. Ata point called Riaz da Serra, tho present | gilt-edged sets site of the government powder mills, the train is broken up into sections for the ascent It | free is operated by the Rigzinbach system for four or five miles over the steepest grade. The al- fitude attained is about three thousand feet, and although so ancient and uncomfortable the road is really a creditable piece of engi- neering. It follows the outline of the valicy and the old macadamized road, and near the summit is a viaduct seventy-eight feet high and 197 feet long, which makes one’s hair stand on end tocross. At all times of the year the views from the car windows are enchanting. Looking far below one can sce the steel rai by which be has ascended crawling up, the heights like a serpent, and spread out like a map is Rio de Janeiro, twenty-five miles away, the incomparable bay, the low country between one tangled mass of flowers and verdure, the familiar peaks of Tijuca, Coreovado and Sugar-loaf, bordered by the ocean, stretching to the lierizou on one side and sky-piorcing peaks on the other. Arrived at Petropolis Station one may almost imagine himself in New York city, so beset is he by vociferous hack drivers. There are a number of good hotels in the town, each of which sends a ear- Tiage to the station for guests, PETROPOLIS DESCRIBED. Petropolis is built im a large, broken valley in that part of the Organ mountains known as the Serra da Estrella. Itis barely 3,060 feet above the sea, yet so cool and bracing is the at- mobphere that mornings and evenings the sem- blance of a wood fire is welcome, anda light blanket is needed on the bed at night—while the orange groves are golden with fruit and flowers riot everywhere. Its population varies with the time of year, from about 2,000 regular inhabitants to perhaps 10,000 during “the season.” Through the midst of the town runs a river, the Pia- banha, berdered by rows of willow trees out- lining carriage drives and fringed with droop- ing lilies whose great white fowers perfume the air. It isa shallow stream, now rippling quietly along its deep artificial channel, but they tell us that after one night of rain during the wet season it often bursts all bounds and over- flows the roads fer miles, Other pretty moun- tain streams, shaded by trees and fringed with flowers, ripple through the irregularly built up streets of the village, and add much to its romantic beauty. There are some very han. some residences, and some that aro more unique than beautiful, while oddly painted ccuntry houses are strewed away in romantic nooks of the adjacent hills and alleys. ‘THE EMPEReR'S PALACE. In the center of the town is the emperor's palace—a mass of yellow wall looming up amid beautiful surroundings of roses and lawns, It is neither so extensive nor showy as the palace of Sao Christavoa, but is sid to be much more comfortable. Its grounds are laid out according to French taste, as are most of the public and private gardens ef Brazil— with a distressing characteristic of patchwork regularity in circles, squares and triangles, th favorite border for these flower beds being it verted glass bottles. During the empire the palace and grounds were always open to visit- ors whenever the imperial family were ab- sent, and attendants showed one around with the greatest civi Long after Dom Pedro Thad selected Petropulis for a future summer idence (in 1843, I think,) it was decided to establish a German colony here, and about 3,000 Teutens were brought over and located, many of them finding employment on the old macadamized road. fo thousand or more descendants of those “first families” yet live in the neighborhood of Petropolis, cultivating small farms and vineyards, and in = among the fair-baired, blue-eyed, red-cheeke: cottagers—so different from the Braail- ians—one imagines himself in the vine-clad districts of Germany. The longer a northerner stays here the more he wonders why his wealthy coumtrymen continue to fleck, year after year, like sheep after a bell wether, to ‘the same old places—Newport, Nahant, Sara- toga, Cape May—when for less money they might live ia paradise in ome of these rose- embewered, palm-sheded chalets, amid the most magnificent scenery on earth. Our mid- summer months are the coldest and healthiest time of the year in Brazil, and now that there is @ direct line of steamers between New York and Rio the four weeks’ voyage 1s as easy <9 delightful, ‘auare B. Warp. a ‘The Owner Turns Up. ‘From the Chicago Tribune. “Papa, who owns these parks?” “We do, my son,” replied the little bey'’s father—“‘wo, the people. As a part ef the peo- ple, James, we have aright te consider our- selves the ewnera. It is a glorious feature of namo, and in 1696 it | rich and he was eminently | | with a fair degree of kindliness, not to say fa- vor, for he was gallant, he was ardent, bo w: igibie, as weil ae sympathetic, He had graduated from Colum- bia und two millions were at his command. His set was the most oxclusive of all tho thin the mayie social cil cle. But he was in matters of religion thinker and Mary Anderson is a Catholic of the most devout type—a Romanist whose piety is as sincere as it 1s ua- ceasing. It is said that a discussion on spiritualistic seances first revealed to her the bent of her suitor’s mind. Certainly he couid have touched upon uo topic more likely to alarm the actress than this, Arguing, as she | doubtless did, that lis couversion was out of the question. it is not dificult to understand why she suddenly ceased to regard bim with favor. De Navarro’s religion is her own, There was that circumstance to aid his suit from the first, It was not necessary in his case to count upon the trying formalities and ecclesiastical intricacies of “mixed marriage” Jaws, with the absolute promise by the non- Catholic that all the children born of the union should be educated in the Catholic faith, STILL HAS HER BEAUTY. Mary Anderson will be thirty-three years old on the 28th day of next July. ‘Those who have visited her recently at her pretty home in Tun- bridge Wells—which is m the south of Eng- land, where the climate is even and balmy— declare that she bears her years remarkably well. She is described as in excellent health and in high spirits. Her eyes still have the flash which made them famous in her earliest stage days, Her form is as graceful and as pliant as ever. Her — earriago is as queenly and her langh is as merry as Of yore. Twelve mouths prior to her She bad, with scarcely a day's notice, terminaied her contract with Abbey, Schoeffer & Grau, and physicians who hastened to her in Philadel phia and again in Buitimore bed de- clared that she would probably be an incurable invalid. One practitioner of note had even ventured to say that her mind was seriously affected. It is easy to recall the hock occasioned by this sudden eollapse of the young actress. Sie had only then gained the best success in her career, for her triumph as Perdita in “A Winter's Tale” was far and away the finest revelation of her genius she had ever made known to us. In the very midst of ascason which had promised to sur- | pass all others, alike in its pecuniary and its artistic points, she broke dewn and withdrew from the public gaze. A period of retirement in the quictest province of England was fol- lowed by a leisurely tour of continental Europe, and it was during this latter term of relaxation and rest—the first real dolce far niente ever enjoyed by her—that Mary Ander- son's heart was attacked and captured by bold Antonio. Itie declared that within the past three months she has favorably received a proposi- tion from Mr. Abbey to make a tournee under his direction, the play to be * and so her triumphs are to be r very point where they were terminated by her illness, In proof of these negotiations it 18 set forth that Abbey has actually made an offer of a season's work at a handsome salary to one of the best leading actors of this day— an Englishman, and not a stranger in Mary Anderson's support—and it. is further cited, as eridence of what is to be. that costumes fora revival of “A Winter's Tule,” have been ordered im this city, to be in readiness by early fall. ‘THE MONEY IN IT. The profits of a “reappearance tour” by Mary Anderson would, it is believed, equal if not exceed those of any other tragic actress in the history of the stage. Peculiar interest would attach to her return to the footlights, It was the common criticism of her warmest ‘admirers that in all her impersonations there was lacking the power to simulate the passion of lo (er coldness was the wingle and oft- quoted weakness in her art, She could finely express scorn and pathos, but the melting ten- derness of love was always wanting. Some- body has said that Modjeska was the first to realize this, and that she declared that not ‘until Miss Anderson had experienced the power othemsn affection “would she become 9 sur- passingly great actress, but uth the Fomark was first made by Sere, Berne hardt, who surely may be accepted as an ex-cathedra authority on the passion of love as related to the art of acting. For this reason alone Mary Anderson's return to our stage would be an event of most it import, “ato tho retire: the memories of public on her. She our own stage. It is now only a little over six- ‘teen years since she made her debut ina Louis- Tille theater as Juliet, A native of Sacramento, an American . pupil of iter ted h of two continents she had re- | e was dejected mentally and weak | sttin being taken as in taking, just the same chance there is of ‘knocking’ noses’ over a kiss, and you are nover sure which way these impassioned, just-too-elegant stage lovers are coming at you. ay, be exhilarating to the matinee girl to witness « whirlwind ru: across tho stage and @ real-in-earnest-don't- you-know embrace. But he is very likely to ftep on your toe, and that hurts, besides spoil ing your slipper. While the lovely lending man is supposed to be rapturously kissing you he is very likely huskily informing you that his suspender has given way and that he has got to cut the scene,or may be he is roaring # whisper in your ear to the effect that if you w sage bouquet in that act again he'll the company. Itis hard on a man to have to em- brace a girl when he knows a hat pin is going toskewer his lungs together. If you happen to be small the leading man’s studs catch in your bangs or scratch you chin, If you are tall the powder comes ‘off your nose on his shoulder. I don’t know which is the madder, the woman who loses the powder off her nose or the man who gets it on his coat. Sometimes itis you who have to make the rush. That isawful! You are almost sure to catch your foot in the ruffling of your dress and precips- tate yourself into a man’s diaphram so he can’t | a word. A leading man hates that. I remomber seeing a woman play Lydia Lan- guish once with a very celebrate You know the rush Lydia makes into Capt. Ab- solute’s arms in the third uci? This Capt. Ab- | solute sat back into « Chinese urn used as a stage lover. | piece of stage furniture and they had to ring | down the curtain. Cicily Homespun in “The Heir at Law” runs into her lover's arms that | same way. It upsets one 60 to have the lead- ing man tell you just where he wante you to | land. You are sure to land somewhere cise on |him.and he does not like it Your nice, calm, slow, indifferent lovers, that girls from the’ orchestra find so fascinat- ing, are dreadfully hard to play with, ‘They have a way of bundiing you around in a matter-of-fact style that makes you feel as if you were being sort of trundied; besides, you feel so awkward. You would never let a man make love to you that way off the stage, but.of course, if the leading man makes love best that way that is the way he has got to do it and it makes no difference about you. Your | nice, methodical actor who puts some life and | spiritin his work, but who, for all that, re- | hearses, what he is going to do and then ‘docs what he rehearses is the ‘lover’ that is easiest | to play with, whether or no he looks best from the front,” Sel CORK AND ITS USES. How the Bark Grows, is Gathered and is Manufactured. Cork is s material that hasa great many more uses than most people imagine. In Spain it is employed for making bee hives, kitchen pails, pillows and window lights Fences tor poultry yards and roofing for houses are made out of it in Portugal, In | Italy images and crosves are carved from it and foot paths are paved with it. It is utilized in | Turkey in the construction of cabins for the | cork gatherers and of coffins for the dead. In Morocco it is employed for the manufacture | of drinking vosacis, plates, tubs and house | conduits, However, it isin Algeria that this | Peculiar bark serves the greatest number of purposes, being made into shoes, wearing |appurel, horse shoes, boats, furniture, door | stops and a thousand other things, | Algeria is the greatest cork-producing coun- | try in the world, having 2,500,000 acres of cork | forests, of which 300,000 acres are made to yield ‘he finest cork is obtained | from that province, where the climate is very | favorable to its growth, the best quality being | that which is most compact in texture and free | from pores. Ordinarily the outer bark of trees consists of a soft cellwiar tissue inwardly and a | hard woody tissue outwardiy, Bt the growth of | the former layer be prolonged and rapid it will be more or less cork-like, as in the com- mon oak and some elma, In one species of this peculiarity is developed to an extra- | ordinary degree and its bark is the cork of com- merce.” The tree in question is native to all } the region about the Aiediterraneun, IN SOUTHERN EUROPE, Cork trees are largely planted in southern Europe, the usuai method being to suw the which are very good to eat, resembling chestnuts in fh ‘The biggest and sweetest for the purpose, because produce the best trees. In Mississippi and other southern states of the Union cork trees have beeu plauted extensively within the last few years. At tifteen or twenty years of age they are ready to yield their first crop and at intervals of eight or ten years. the “barking” may be repeated, the product being of better lity each tims. The trees do notsuffer any jury from being strippedof their coxts; on contrary, the process appears to be beue- ficial, Sinall axes are used for the purpose, with handles flattened at the end to the shape of a wedge. With such an instrument a cut is made | through the outer bark, encircling the tree the ground, and another cut is made to it just under the first branche: These aro united by vertical cuts, dividing the bark on the tree into loug planks, Each plauk is lodsened from the trunk by tapping it smartly with the flat of the ax, the wedge- shaped handle of which is then used to pry it off. Care is taken not to cut into the inner bark, to wound which would destroy the lite of the tree. The thickness of the cork layer is from oue to three inches, The fresh cut “planks” are somewhat convex. of course, having the shape of the tree trank. To flatten them tiey are } placed in front of afireandieft until the heathas removed the warp; or sometimes, for the same purpose, they are piled in trenches, wetted | aud weighted with heavy boulders. ‘Ihe outer woody coat of bark having been removed, the “tables” of cork, as they are called, are dried in the sun and then tied up in buudies for mar- ket. Among the uses to which the material 1s put, beside those which have been mentioned, are king life preservers, artificial limbs and panish biack,” in the manufacture of which last substance it is burned. In the shape of dust it is employed as a substitute for rice powder in the toilet. The waste from cut- Ung cork is utilized for lining ice houses, being an admirable non-conductor, also for making Pasteboard and for packing grapes, Cou CUTTING, However, by far the most important use for the bark is in the manufacture of corks for bottles. The fincst of these are cut by hand. Wine corks are cut with the grain, while bungs aro out against it. In the duchy of Glden- burg, in Germany, more hands are employed in the industry of cork cutting than in any other country in the world, ‘Lie work is dono by whole families at their homes, after the fashion of tenement house cigars. Owing to the spongy nature of the material the kniv employed in the process have to be extrem keen and require fresh sharpening after the cutting of every few corks, For a jong time it was thought impossible to utilize machinery for the poem. because of the quickness with which the edge of the cutter wus dulied aud also for the reason that the cork could be more economically manipulated by hand. Nevertheless, ‘machines havo been devised which do the work very fairly, the kuives being kept to a razor edge by passing over revolving disks of solid emery. ‘Ingenious mechanism has been invented for slicing cork into thin sheets for hat and heimet linings and for shoe soles, tho cutting being done by a circular steel knife revolving rupidiy. paste tty Patches for Kid Gloves. From the St. Lowis Globe Democrat. “Kid gloves will rip despite our best efforts to keep them in good condition,” said an ex- atthe Southern last night, “But we have t last learned how to mend them} Instead of sewing up tho rent, as formerly, we now take a small piece of court plaster or sur- geon's plaster (the latter is the better), turn the glove wrong side out and neatly apply the piuster over the rent or rip, first having drawn the rent part of the glove nicely together.” eee Not So Much Effaced as ‘That. From the New York Times, The busband of Mrs. Sarah T. Rorer, the cooking lecturer, is a mild-mannered gentle- man, Who is contented to sink his personality, mind his own affairs and let his wife travel about and gather fame unhindered. He broke over the traces with a vengeance the other day, when he burst into her presence with his arms filled high with a fresh dolivery from the laun- fry, “thie ‘thing must ston oi Fight eer was 'Y greeting. t bl PET tent Seek Seas spouse. "Trouble! Troubl enough,” he retorted, his t voice “I have stood. by quietly and ise yen bore yess own way with the public. That is all right. ome bask fede toe losartan Be m Borer,’ I draw the line.” = THE POET HALLECK. Interesting Account of s Meeting With Him Years Ago. SIMPLE AND UNASSUMING. And Yé& He Was 2 Brilliant Talker as Well ae Writer—He Loved Fishing and Tramped About—Stories of Dickens That He Told Over a Bottie of Claret. T Was MY GOOD fortune to meet with Mr. Fitz-Greene Hal- leck during the later years of his life, and to learn upon a brief ae- quaintaace to love the man as well as to revere the poet. Our friend- ship came about as fel- lows: In August, 1862, after having made tho tourist’s usual trip among the White mountains and down the valley of the Connect- icut, I found myself longing for a breath of the salt-sea breezes by way of terminating my summer's recreation, upon the prin- ciple that the occasional diner out quaffs a last glass of cool claret at the end of his ample re- past. Humoring the desire. I took the Sound Shore road down aloug the New England coast, and, uttracted by the rocky ruggedness of the scenery, alighted at a small sta- tion called Stony Creek, some twelve miles north of New Haven. A brisk ten min- utes’ walk brought me to the ian of the scauty village, a white cottage with a comfortable porch, vine-clad and neat green shutters. A few wide-armed elms steod before the open door, and « grassy slope stretched away to the edge of the water,out beyond the deep blue su face of Long island sound, extended in mirror like calm, bounded in the far distance by the low-lying jauds of wild Montauk, looking like “a dividing line between the sea and y. The old tavern, I learned, was kept by an aged settier from Rhode Island, since de- ceased, whose years then numbered five sore. ‘This hoary man, who could scarcely be termed Venerable, so spry aud cheery was he, perfectly remembered seeing Washingtou, Adams and Hamilton, and had himself shouldered a fliut- Jock under Gen, Sullivan ip the attack upon Newport during the revolution, HOW THE POET LOOKED. Afew days after my arrival, the moments having lightly passed in piscatorinl pleasures, upon a sultry stifling evening, { strolied, alter supper, to the railway station for change of scene. The night train had “not yet come in and several travelers were waiting on the platform, vainly endeavoring to keep co pacing hither aud thither, a re: uatured looking individual, apparently of about five feet seven or eight, and rs, whose dress was whoily black, not too plentifully adorned with buttons, and quite well-worn at knee and elbew, and’ who bore the impress of a gentlemanly fisherman alter a warm day's sport. A wide-brimmed hat of the variety known as shilling straw rested lightly and a little gallantly upon oue side of hi broad forehead, aud a big, old-fashioned, baggy, grecn cotton umbrella of a size aud shape jong extinct served him as a walk- ing stick, The twinkling eye, clean-cut features, Aaronic beard and withal stately mien of this oid gentleman at once riveted my notice and set me wondering. The shabby garb und grand, lord-like air 1 many, nay, in most men, wouid.bave seemed out of place and absurd, but in him impressed one ouly with the seuse of eccentric but eminent respecta- Curiosity was whetted to the utmost. A telegram was received at the station say- ing that the train had been delayed at New Maven by the necessities of the war (for at that time thousands of troops were being car- tied to and fro by the railroads) and would not run on for some hours, ‘The impatient travel- ers ull expressed disappointment and annoy- auce except the elderly gentleman, whose un- ruilled good mature was not to be dis. turbed by any such trifle He cracked a joke with the ticket agent, and, quietly teating himself upon a box of freight at one end of the piatferm, composedly fanned him- self with his straw hat ‘Ihe rest soon gathered in a circle about him, as if leoking to hum for consolation, and he straightway began to afford them at least some measure of entertainment. Jo say that be talked would not be enough. Words dzopped trom his lips like the jewels in the fairy tale, or the sparkling, foamy ripples of @ mountain cascade, A wealth of rich, fluent, racy language fell plewsantiy upon the ear, ‘The war was then at its height, and its chang- ing fortunes absorbed all minds, Among other ancedotes the oid gentleman told this one: A STORY OF WEST POINT. “I was.a visitor at West Point some thirty Years aga. At the evening parade I rode side by side with General Winfield Scott, As we pranced gaily along the line of cadets with their gray jackets and white trousers, Scott suddenly hauled up abreast of a youth of twenty und said to me, ‘Halleck, there's » namesake of yours.’ I answered, ‘General, I am greatly honored: I hopo he ‘will do me credit.’ Replied Scott, ‘If he pops off powder and shot as well as you pop off pootry he'll be a major general by'and by.’ ‘That gemtieman is now Gen, Henry Wager Halleck, just arrived in Washington from California to assume eom- mand of the army of the Potomac.” 1 applied to the ticket agent for information. “Whois that gentieman addressing the pas- sengers?"I asked, “Why,” answered the man laconigally, “where was you riz that you never seen Fitz-Greene Halleck afore?” I was in the presence of the author of “Marco Bozgaris,” sure enough. Finally, Mr. Halleck conciuded to stop at the inn for the night, He was often in the habit of running down from his bachelor home in Guilford, a few miles above Stony Creek, in order to fish and boat, I afterward Jearned, As my route lay in the vame direction 1 took the liberty of speaking to him without un introduction, He responded cordially and affably at once. Said he, “I have been out fishing all day, as you may perceive, by the color of my face. id Sol is uo respecter of compiexions.” A CHAT OVER CLARET, When wo reached the inn Mr, Halleck po- litely agreed to my proposition to order a bot- tle of iced claret. and, when the wine was brought, we sat upon the porch and sipped it m tne bright beams of the moon. The foe conversed freely aud unaffcetedly. The boyishness of the man was irrepressibie, Said ho, “What is there like biue sky and blue water to drive off the blues? ‘Tom Hood saw toe little of the country for his own good, poor fellow. In London they grow au dingy as their own smoke and fog. No won- der Grub street had the vapors, Hood was o pressed by the sin and shame and want of the great city. His country humor became city pa- thos.” “Who,” I shyly asked, ‘is your favorite among the poets?” pbell,”” he answered, “is my pet of poets. By a strange coincidence Harper's Magazine of that month contained a sketch of a werary club of by-gone days to.which Halleck had be- longed, ‘This article, I believe, was from the facile pen of Lewis Gaylord Clark. Mr. Halleck had not yet seen the article and I brought the muagazine from my room to show it to him, adjourned to the parlor, and the summer guests of the house with whom the poet was “cquainted came up to him and requested him to read the paper aloud snd to tell them some- thing about the club in question. He assented readily, saying that if he had been called upon for a song he should have pleaded a bad cold in the usual manner, bat he would read anything readable with pleasure, leck mentioned the ineideat in this wise: Pe, ee the night whea we ge ner to Dickens. accommodations taembers and guests’ wee more than fall Tt and generosity to make « lame or left-handed Tetraction.”” VERY FOND OF xUSIC. ‘Mr. Halleck was very fond of music, and at his desire two quite young ladies closed jhe evening with a pretty concerted piece upon the | Judiciary Square to Blaze Out Wel: piano. He took the early train for Guilford Rext morning, and I did not enjoy the opper- tunity of seeing him again for several days, but soon had the pleasure of accompanying him oft a fishing excursion upon the sound. He was a most entertaining companion on such an occasion, as may readily be supposed. I chanced ‘to see much of Mr. Halleck during the month of my summer sojoura at | TM©G- A-K. Insignia and Corpe Badges to {2k Doite such Be Represented in Flower Beds—TheColors | 10" have enloves “4 tare | to Be Accurate—The Work Pleamed occ) ht that Smith was piesscd with himself ami by the Government Gardeners, Stony Creek and invariabiy found bim the same consistently cheerful and charitable ‘that my first im; ions of him had led believe him. His memory wasarich mine of anecdote, reminiscence and observation. Hi had known many eminent and notabie persone. His estimate of them was singularly correct, and his description of character was auiformly graphic, though uncritical and uncensorious, nd in some instances highly amusing in its witty colering. Fitz-Grecn) Halleck passed peacefully away at his home in Guilfo me years after my felicitous friendship with him, at a green old age and leaving behind him fragrant with the etness of kindliness, cheeriness and nobility of nature. He wasa fine man as well as a true poet. Davi Granam Aprx. —_—_+ ARMY BADGES IN FLOW A FLORAL GREETING, (S2esnt sores Grand Army corp badges, apd every veteran going there will hunt out his own badge and carry away « pleasant remembrance of it j - TWO sIDES EARLY RISING. come to the Veterans, The Man Who Got Up at 8 What Befell Him. = | _ Smith came ito his law ofice the other day ERS | boiding his bead im the air, walking briskly, stamping hi throat and mak- give vent to after Tt was very evi- O'clock and foot, « thought himself superior to the generality of mankind. A Stax reporter happened to be im —_——_——_ the office and overheard the conversation’ th OVERNMENT GAR-/ os a ae Smith ar his partuer, Jones, deners from the large | 20D DY the way, was sitting disconse propagating gardens | bit desk, rubbing his eyes and read under the War Depart. | P&Pe?: aud he looked as though he was willing : | to admit that there are 9 ment begin next week | e ners to vet out the 200 beds | at his partner deprecatin in the various parks of | “Weil, Smith,” he said, “what's the matter? Sp Washington. This work, | Have you got us a new million-dollar will fY— Which has been for | “*? “No, no,” said Smith, “I have mo now case thirty years in cherge | for us” SALE, of Mr. George Brown, | nty of mon richer, handsomer and abler than he. He looked up nen what the deuce are you so bappy > 9 | ®bout? Upon my word it is tantalizing for am SPINNING TOPS AND YARNS. 3 es long boon femens | © . b Q for tho tennty ana! asnaaeien ma like youtocoy ein here putting Some Remarks Suggested by the Games of =F ct novelty of _ effecte | Seas that was. If you were Just going to be tere the Season. attained in both form and color, Every year | ried I could forgive you, but I'll be ged if oni 77 cs a,b banged uf the sixteen hot houses in the propagating | Cn see any cause for your bein Lappier A MAN THINKS THE PRESENT GENRRATION OF | 0 o cially this © BOYS DEGENERATE AS TOP srixxmns—resen | Sardens Produce an output of over batt a specially this early im the SPORTS CROWDED OUT BY FOOT BALL AND ropes Plants, which are used for the spring poor fellow,” said Smith, “I am BASE DALL—HOW A SENATOR’ uxFiugxcer | *24 Summer's work. Especial care has been you, but | have found « re edy for was wor, given to the preparations for this season's I intend to impart it to you.” | mm Tue Stag roporter put the question te a| th planting, because of the Grand Army encamp- >, wir,” said Jones, “i know what you are going to say and I don't want to hear it, My poor. deluded Smith, you have taken to girink- ing in the morning and it will kill yon in the ent next fall, en ‘The 150.000 veterans who will come to Washington will receive a Young man of about fourteen summers who | welcome deciiediy novel and pleasant. Alend. If yo ve gone that far let me recome was loitering along the street, apparently in | large number of patriotic and military designs | mend you to take a bi-chloride of gold cocktail Search of adventures, He answered at once: | have been devised during the winter by Mr. | ** weet + — yoursett at the dread disease “Tops!” Brown and his son, who is his assistant, both pret gp) rey merle It takes a father of «family to appreciate a being civil engineers and landscape ‘Oh, come off, Smith, “That's not it ith be } , and ¢ bh t six weeks these these different seasons with boys, Allys, or | Eoruue ty 1nd during the next six weeks these is _partner. “you are bee taws, or marbles, are iu season at one time of | beds in different parts of the city. There and that’s worse. Year, kites and tops at another, and during the | has been some restraint upon the work aaa * ally season you never see a boy with atop. | because of the insufficiency of the last and that's killing, too.’ There is no rale, apparently, governing these year's appropriation. me.’ It isn't poison, Jones, & to carly rising. and as a conse= observances, yet they have all the force of law. A LAMTED AMOUNT OF FUXD®, quence I come to my office item asa Why should not tops be » sport of the fail! Only the ordinary amount of money was| tie proceeded to explain that with t instead of the spring? Let us be content with | ®lowed by Cougress, aud no display can be pohepdayeor net yl had been ® knowledge of the fact, and not ask the why | ™&de beyond the limit of funds at hand. Had Acoumeg Sek @ geod weeds omg wn 1s nad wherefore, Congress given fow thousand dollars exiea it | ins Srproseed it, “iin a dghting cock" “teens the paradise for tops, as itis for | round tie Waskiugton ‘monument for a Ieee | BEHEA and said be predicted that before the either things of more importance, but it should | number of flover beds, illustrating the variocs | wewrel cont hone, Parner Would feel Like @ be put down te the city's credit nevertheless. | army corps badges. The base of the monu- eheorgred astrance and inexplicable fact th “Tops.” said the father of severai boys to | mont was. a few years ago, surrounded br | oariy riser #lould foel to weit Pome the writer, “are really good sport and some- | 8FRe knoll, a vast a eed eine carted | himself. The man who lics in bed as long a6 times when I think no one is likely t0 find me | 12 [0 Brads up an a grace “the ereumde Oa | He can and then husties down to his office out I like to spin one myself. ‘There is really | forty feet above the ievel Of the grounda. Ou | partially asleop 16 never self-1 a good deal of skill in if. Of course anybody | (his Knoll there | would Forel displnen, | mat who gets the start of tir cau wpin atop: but the game comes in when | Bificent opportunity for 1 ere PTS | hours thinks he is you can hit another fellow's top and knock it | Toe, orn, badges could have been | adulation of all mankind. He may out of a ring, or possibly split it with the bry a alg eo twenty sacl Teas | about al ther virtues, but this fact he in- point of your own top. I remember when I | fee - pepe the effect cop onn rom | sists upon telling everybody about, wus a boy we used to use hard boxwood tops | {he toP of the monument would have Tine | 4, NOW it happened that the writer returned to and insert long steel points in them—usually | someting to remember Braet ne: ais | tho office of Messra. Jones and Smith at about 3 the blade of an awi—and then when another | Pitt wowd fave required something overs | o'clock in the afternoon of the day when boy's top was hit sometimes a piece of it would pose: yA women 7c aan pcapepelion uckane Smith announced in the morning that he had come out and sometimes a lucky stroke would | 11400 i Sallebseke found a new recipe for happiness. There was split a top in two. Of course these tops with long points are not very good spinners, but they are famous tops for fighting. In’ the course of my life I Seve bad several delight- ful triumphs, but I have had few that gave me ® pleasanter sensation than the memorable Occasion when the point of my top struck another top directly in the center aud stuck there fast. be smaller in size. Judiciary sion builds bo oue in Jones’ office, from which it was © dent that he had gone out, but from Smith's fice there issue und SUDICIARY SQUARE CHOSEN, Not having money enough to carry out this 2 rambiing scheme Uncle Sam will limit his efforts to « | Which occurred at rogaiar tatervals with au in lesser number of beds, which will necessarily | rvs! Of about two seconds betwoon each |rumbie. Upon looking in the cause of # | noise was m st, ih had his fect | upon his desk, his bow st the hack of his | eusy chair and was Thete will be placed re, where stands the Luge pr In the level lawn south of! Sq Kcccened pension building. which is 400 feet long from | wag or other eters Rip emery vo “Are bi ith t th a | ©tst to west, Mr. Brown will plant during the | had found him thus, for a wax paper basket joys. as expert with tops as they used | next month about forty flower beds, twentr- | was turned ovo Pescarnnct n etlymare song gent ‘ nine of which will be representations of the | was «prink! him iu imitation of « suow “Well,” he went on, “Idoubt if ‘they are. | various army corps badges, One, the larcest | storm on the stage, a chair apse down wae We old follows are accustomed to consider the | Of them all, will bea Grand Army badge. with | on the desk, and pinned to poor Smith's cravat boys of the present day inferior to the boys of | 1% Sag and pendsut star, crossed cannon and | just below iu Was a buge placard, looking our time, whether they really are so or not; | muskets, all worked out cerefully im Bowers | something ‘sbib,andon it in buge still I think we used to spin tops better’ than | that will duplicate precisely the colors. This | Jetters was scrawled she legend, our sons do, At least knowl can beat my | bed will be sixiy ‘eet long and fiftcen wide, ‘The happy early risor! boys even now, although lam very much out TUE CORPS BADGR. Tne desk presented a very good likeness of of practice.” ie ee Some of the army badges will be rather diffi- chase, hue Smith was sleeping calmly. uth is that base ball and foot ball have olga ats ‘or| “Oh, Mr. Smith,” said the Srax man. rather crowded the leaser sports tothe wale | Cult to work up into anything elaborate. Yor) 0! Nr. ‘The former begins early in the spring and ists all summer and the latter takes up the autumn instance, that o! that of the third only a diamond, of the fourth | © firstcorps is asmailcircie, | -“Quuth’ T aay, Mr. Smith "in louder tom and then Mr. Smith wo o bp with a start, an and as much of the winter ascan be used for | ® Plain equilateral triangle, that of the sixth is solutely kicked the er basket out-of-door sports. But there is skili and a | # Greek cross. The trefoil of the se ust the ceiling and tore the placard great deal of it im tops, and as for marbies— | the Greck crosswithin the circle « om his breast, Mr. Smith was in anything why, « good player is Lardly ever met with, | tese cross of the fifth, the crescent but a good hamor, and now if you want to see Lilliards and pool are not more dificult to play | the seventh, the cross, auchorandcannou upon | him get irritated just ask lum, how he likes well, the shield of theniath corps, the four-bnstioned | early rising. New, all this is but a preface toa good story | fort of the tenth corps, the acorn _ about a top, a Senator, « ciever fellow and an | badge of the feurteenth and the cartridge IN THE 5 oftice—on account of the three last maimed the | box badge of Gen. Logan's fifteenth story is @ peculiarly local one. ‘he Senator is no loager in office, so there is no barm in teling the yarn now. It was told by the gen- tleman above quoted who isso fond of tops, THE SENATOR AND THE TOP. Some years ago there came to the city a bright young man who wanted to be chief of a small bureau in one of the departments. He really hadn't much backing, but he had plenty of brass, He had voted the republican ticket, at is true, and he had hustled a litthe for the candidates of bis party, but when he got to Washington he found the place overrun with applicants for oftice, all of whom had done party services that would seem to qualify them for cabinet positions. Some of these, he found, started out by applying for foriegn missions aud ended by jumping xt positions as depart- ment messengers, iic saw sume whe wanted to be assistant secretaries and were finally pleased to go as consuls to the Mosquito coast, or Zanzibar, and he found still more who wanted anything that offered a slight salary and were not able to get anything at all. But he was not to be daunted, #0 he wentrigat off tohis Senator and told hin what oitice he wanted and asked him to get it for him. The Senator hemmed and hawed and asked him what district he came from. It was clear that the big man kuew nothing about his coustitu- ent, so the constituent went away without having obtained any satiefaction. But inas- much as the big man kuew nothing about the little man the little man determined to find out all about the big man, and im that way to find his weak spot and to work upon him accord- ingly, He went to a former schoolmate of the ‘Senator and asked him questions, “When you and Senator were at school together,” he said, ‘was he good at any studies in particular?” “No,” was the answer; “can’t say he was. Yet he was a bright boy, too.” “Was he good at his sports?” “Ng; can’t say that, either, He played mar- bles very poorly and tops only fairly well.” “Tops; that's it,” said the young aspirant for offic ‘ell me what he did asa top spinner.” “Why. I recollect he never made but one really good stroke with tops and that was wien lit P wi is corps, with its grita motto, “Forty rounds, the pretty shield of the twenty-third corps: tl; crossed sabers ax dan’s cavalry comps badge = give scope for very effective werk im land- seape gardening during the war ty ofticial orders were in colors, so that the effec: when these badges are dupli- cated in flower teds ten fcet in diameter will be briiliaut im: | conceivable or ashade of any color that cannot be repre: black of the cartridge box of Gen. Logan's army corps can be shown leaf, low and bronze shade, which in the sun becomes by | contrast with otier brighter colors in effect a dead black. Even the lettering im the various badges, and upoa some of them there is quite out. Fort! beused, This fit succulent little }lant is of slow growth aul hugs the grotnd closely. When surrounded by a cary which give is lief in color it makes vers distinct lettering. Some varieties of the eche- Veria are less thin One-half an iuch in diam- eter, 80 that it is possible to make the letters as small as two inches make @ perfect continuous line. modeling. Thatis, the ground will be raised and compacted to show special designs above the field of the badge. dud eagle in various badges. The earth the raised in relief above the background or field and planted clo: their suitable coicr heighten the effect. many limitations in this climate where plants Frow ropidiy and bloom quickly wy jandsea| | The Woman Who Forgot Other Travelers surrounding glory of scr, | _ 28 Caused Retlections and Suggestions, all designs which | From the New York Sun, Given a sleeping car ona long route and tem women in the various compartments who have been notified by the porter promptly at 7 that | the train will stop at Charleston or Chicago or | Denver at $ for breakfast, Fach immediately rouses herself, rescues her different belongings jrom the guifs and creases into which they | have fallen, fastens them with difficulty at | levels which are strange to them, seizes ber dressing bag. and goes to the dressing room to | find eight other women gathered outside and | the door locked, barred. bolted between them and the tenth’ one—the woman who forgot others, Five minutes is the limit allowed by just division and law of equity to cach of these | women iu which to wash, brush and put up Lee | back bair, ‘They watt patiently for five minutes, grambling! MANIGING THE COLORS. All these desgus as originally authorized ed. There is hard'y a color ted in flow s. Eveu the dead using a peculiar a crinkly, curly and of a purplish ittle coleus, which grows sual good deal, wil be very carefully worked the pretty little ecbeveria will for ten, impatiently for fifteen, indignantiy for twenty and fariowsly for twenty-five. Then there is an eye conference, then « series of knocks which take on the chars acter of violent remonstrance. Thirty minttes— forty—forty-tive!—the bolt is heard to slide | back, and some one emerges —combed, curled, | brushed, powdered and buttoued—a selfe | satisfied eroature wio «miles innocently im the cindery faces which confront her. ‘Then is heard a long-drawn sigh of wonder ing contempt from the group, the one nearest the door bows deprecatingly to the others, slips into the dressing room, spends hor jshranken minutes as best she may, and | emerges with wetted sponge and open bag, to | stand in a corner of the passage and finish the | process of making herself unnoticeable. | Referring to such incidents an indignant | woman remarked: “I believe that any flagrant infraction of the rights of individuals on the part of a woman is generally to be referred to inexperience or ignorance. She finds herself in # totally new position—that is, in possession of adrossing room which belonge to her only | by courtesy, and for very limited time. If | she is young or dull or totally without the dis t of other plants | height. When the lants grow a litle they become snugger and RASED IN RELIEF, Many of thededs will require very nico In this way cannon ill be shown and the cartriage boxes, anchor With plants that will by ‘The matter of frm in this flower icturing much easier then that of color. There are the pe Rardener’s art. The difficulty he iuocked Jimmy Dean's top on the | Secure largeiy in the use of blues, Of reds, yei- | cipline of constantly changing circumstances, side, so that it jumped in the air aud | lows, greens, purples and almost every con-|her mind fails to recognize the temporary j Went clean down the school well. That | Ceivable shade of these colors there is no end. | tenure, and in consequence «bo sins in an une was a good one, though, and m.y be —— wasn’t proud; but I rather guess be walked around hike a turkey cock for « week “Swhos Ji Dean?” the “Whose Jimmy : oung man asked, er Senator's schoolmate, . “You | eri know him, We'san elder in the chureh out our way and school trustee, He'll be going into politics naxt.” bi Armed with the informati about the Sena- | th mountable obstacle. There are practically but | two blue plants available for his work. These are | the lobelia and ageratum, In the more north- ere the 4 BLUE DILEMMA. forgivable manner against the laws of courtesy. But in blue he mects with an almost insur- | Unless she is very, very dull, she scarcely com- mits this sin a second time; but if she does some punishment should be invented, for surely none existe equal to the awfal exaspera~ tion of hercrime, f leave the suggestion te the many who have suffered at the bands of this sort of woman, and commend her to the class whose tender ‘mercies are casracterized in the Bible as cruel.” feces ly climates these two flowers can be used to effect for quiios period of time, But would quickly bloom and go out of jossom, utterly 8 the design in which ey might play an jmportant part. In Chi- tor's solitary triumph with to; re cago during the e1 pment there the bines Backed Up the Boys. eflce veeker called to ‘see. hie srsic, nS | were produced in Suny of the beds. by. paint: | From the St. reat bese, taking his ease in his shirt sleeves, | ing stones 9 $s blue, In Boston two| Old Gov. Routt of Colorado made the follow- smoking » cigar and going to sleep over a gov- | Years ago the beauBful large flag there which | ing speech just before the asle of public lands report, Attracted so much attention immortellcs | in Creede the other day: “Boye, I'm ne tender- “Well, young man,” he said as he looked up, | for its blue. The ity in using these 1s Picay 0 Pd that the dry have to be impaled | f00t--'m one of you. I've been through im asking to be appointed chief of ay! ‘me, Benator,” rs “I guess you are fying rather too high Kite buresa, said the young man; Twould nos y's bite Senator, “ i 1 ‘ope "Way, 1 once arein season and F 4 ernment force of gardeners is, it would be great tax upon their time and out such s program to any great extent, SEER ETEELETE ait i e fh hundred ef tial yearly reminders forgotten by pon the | mill, aud know all about your desires, You where, after every storm, they have | have come here in good faith to make this your ixced: This method usually involves | home You have squatted on public land and al of work, and limited as the gor-| you ought to hove ic dhe statutes requite us ‘to sell to the highest and best bidders. You are the best bidders. and, by the eternal, the great strength to carry mule’s your'n. Howl down the speculators, ting him, “I THE STOCK OF PLANTS, but don't shoot, I left my gunat home, Take how you knocked Elder For making the forty or fifty military flower | yours back to eabins. go on with ire | beds and the 150 others scattered in tie sov- | Your bidding. don't shoot ‘There are now more than restaurants and more than 1,000 private an Paris where snails are accepted as © delicacy, the month! commaption of this mollusk being @s- et balf a million a iy i i i EY f | t