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SHAD FISHING AT GLOUCESTER APRIL 26, 189G. 23 SUNDAY MORXIXG, CALIFORNIA WINES CtllliDREH OF THE CONFEDERACY AN ORGANIZATION WITH A NOBLE AIM IN VIEW. THE CONGRESS OF BOBEB Ifl PARIS IT IS CREATING MUCH AGITATION WITH ITS PROPOSED REFORMS. In January. that is to say.

fourteen months aaro? How many days' rain in July. 1S05? The Mayor of this village grew somewhat savage when he received the last census papers, on which he wrote that the census taking cost the sum of UK) francs aud that all the information one could possibly derive from the papers was that among the inhabitants were three men by the name of Agesildas and two women whose Christian name was Eurlhemise. This intolerable hankering after written information on the part of the Slate is carried to such a pitch that racing societies, which now depend more or less on the Department of Agriculture, are aked to reply to hundreds of questions, among which the following has been discovered: "How many glasses of lemonade are sold in the course of an afternoon's racing?" A new play was produced at the Renaissance Theatre last night, a play that will TTxmTmshi certainly be much talktd of, not only on ae-i count of the rank occupied in the literary world by its author. M. Abel Herniaut.

but I likewise because the principal characters are more or loss portraits of wll kuown men and fP. The main ficure is I in m.w a wealthy parvenu, in woom most persons are likely to see the late Max Lehaudr, only considerably older in years. Around bim is "La Meute," a pack of hounds, constantly robbing him or extorting money from him under various pretexts. "La Meute" is the title of the play, which is more a study of scenes of modern Parisian life than a work of flny dramalie power. The rich American young lady has.

01 course, a pan. anu several iniiless noblemen are constantly at her fet. She has the misfortune to select herself the very man who has been endeavoring to capture her hand and her millions. contrary to what mieht have been expected, the handsome viscount whom she oves api.re.-i.ites her qualities vrliuonr loss ol im. am as he is alH)u, ta Vll, iropris- for havIIS been mixed tip in au il- with a worthies patent.

nd Is loves appreciates her qualities without loss absolutely ruined both financially and so- dally, he refuses to follow Lor and shoots himself. There are many other incidents I in the play, the most striking being the sudden revolt of the millionaire, servants during a garden party a scene which is said to have been taken more or less from life, and which, if placed on the stage for the first time, has already seen the day in Leon Daudet's novel "Leg Morticoles. The scene Is a very effective one and the servants screaming in the face of their mas ter a iuf scauuais or rne auer exisience fl. hie a reception, has already caused some sensation in Paris. It is nobody's secret that such a scene aid actually take place at Prince de X's, but whether the domestics were under the influence of drink or not it has never been known.

Frederick Mayer. THAT BLAMED TELEPHONE It Made a Model Husband Hate the Very Name of Modern Science. From the Washington Star. "No," said a good-natured Washington man of about 45 to a Star reporter. "Xo, I don't believe in modern science for dully application.

We don't need it. We were, or our ancestors rather were, quite as well off as we are to-day, and what did they know about modern seieuce?" "They didn't know as much as we do. and just see how much they missed," contended the reporter. "But they were as happy and contented as we are; more so, many instances, and there was That in the tone of the talker Indicating that he had a grndse against science on purely personal grounds. "Ahem." couched the reporter, sienifvinff a wish or an inclination to ask a miestion or two.

"Oh, you needn't be barking up the tree forme." lau-jhed the man. "I might as web tf.il vnii ixh'v in r.np nnrtioiihir i Hnn'r science, or, possibly, I should say, one of the results of its application, what is generally niereii a most useful adjunct to our convenience. I refer to the telephone, and I may say, in passing, confound the telephone." "What has the telephone ever done to you?" asked the reporter, much surprised at this unexpected attack. "Let me tell you," aud, though the man looked solemn enough, he laughed. "Vou may not know it, but I have a wife who is as strict on the question of propriety a any woman you ever heard of.

and she knows i i I 1 i THE LAST PULL IN SHORE net are manned by the fishermen, who wade out into the water thigh deep and slowly "walk the net in" with lines over their shoulders. A portion of the crew are stationed at the cork lines, which support the upper edge of the net. at the surface of the water, and the remainder take charge of the lead line which runs along the under edge of the net and is weighted with lead to keep it close to the bottom of the river. The net is slowly hauled in until the bag or centre which contains the tih approaches the shore, then men are stationed along the lead line to tramp it down with their feet, so that It may be kept close to the bottom to prevent the escape of the fish. As the bag of the net is contracted if the catch is a good one.

thousands of fish can now be seen with their shiny scales glittering in the sunlight like burnished silver, struggling wildly about in the shoal water, striving to escape from the encompassing meshes. And now approaches the critical moment for the fishermen, as the flsb are crowded In a dense mass in the bag of the net; great care must be exercised in hauling on the upper and lower lines, for the sinking of the cork line or the raising of the lead line would permit the escape of the fish. The crew of the opposite end of the net slowly approach each other, and at last the two ends of the net are brought together, and with a struggling, floundering mass of fish enclosed tm all sides, the haul Is completed. The market boat first approaches, and while the bag of the net is upheld on all sides by the fishermen, the fish are dropped out in a scoop net deposited in the boat. When a sufficient number of them have been removed to permit of Its being lifted from the water, the net Is raised and its contents shot into a boat iu a silvery cataract, often filling it' nearly to the gunwales not, however, with shad alone, but with herring, rock fish and German carp, which latter fish of late years have become a great nuisance.

The net Is then examined and repaired. If necessary.and everything is placed in readiness for the low water haul. Each haul requires two hours or more from the time the seine boat leaves the shore until the fish are deposited in the market boat. When the net comes in filled with struggling shad there is always a lively and exciting time on the beach, and the fishermen frequently have a struggle to prevent would-be purchasers from getting overboard in their haste to secure a fish. To go to the beach and return without a shad would cause i Chaancey M.

Depew Told the Vineyard Man That Americans Like Light Wines. From the San Francisco Cell. "We are a nation of wine drinkers-champagne drinkers. The Californian who makes a light dry wine, such as wili meet the prevailing and rapidly growing demand, will make the greatest California fortune, a greater fortune than any yet made, and limited only by the resources of his vineyards." So said Chauncey M. Depew, only just returned from an Inspection of the wineries of Napa Valley.

He was standing under the blazing chandelier dressed for dinner-full dress, shining silk bat. immaculate. "The journey to-day up the Napa Valley has been a very lnterstlng one. I have seen the vineyards and wineries of France, and I know that California has it In her to stop the import trade in French wines to a very marked degree. "The demand, as I say.

Is for light wines. The habit of temperance is growing. I can remember the time when the drunken man on the street was so frequent as to be not noteworthy. Now he is an unusual sight. To drink and get tipsy at dinner was quite the fashion.

"The man who would be guilty of such a thing at this day would lose caste entirely. We drink champagne as no other nation des. Nor is it the special beverage of the rich. No fire brigade has a reunion without the opening of champagne. When a baby is christened, he Is toasted in champagne.

No prodigal returns except to tell the story of his ill fortunes over a small bottle. Everybody drinks champagne, but they insst upon it bping light. Stipulating as to the sparkle and fizz, yet the percentage of alcohol must he low. "Now that is what's the matter with California wine. There is too much alcohol in It.

The soil Is so rich that it makes sugar In the grapes, and the sugar makes The earlier shipments of wine were especially faulty in this regard. "Now this man whom I speak of. who Is to make the greatest California fortune, will go a little higher np on the hillsides than the vineyards'of the present are to be found; he will not cultivate so deeply and he will not be in such a hurry to get his wine upon the market he will give it time. When he does this, his name will after awhile be known everywhere, and only the capacity of his vineyards will set the limit to his income. This Is exactly what I be-Ifevp.

I have made a study of these things. I go about with my eyes open, and I have been brought in touch with more wine drinkers and wine drinking than most men. I am hail fellow well met as well on the Bowery as In 1 he up-town clubs, and I know something about these, things. It is not because a wine is made In France that it Is called for. but because the French wines are what the California wines might be made.

The French wines, with their heavy duty, cost S- a ease and thereabouts. As g-wxi wines can be set down in New York with the treatment I speak of for flit a case, can be sold for SIS a case, and manufacturer and dealer make as much money as iu handling French wines. "We have a champagne in the New York market at that price, but everybody knows what It is. It is made within the borders of the State, out of a white wine and carbonic acid gas. Claret and white wines are made in California fully equal to that bought from Germany anil France.

I expect to 'be able to say the same of California champagne before many years, and witness the supplanting of the foreign article by the home product." And so saying, Mr. Depew took the elevator and joined the others of his party at dinner the fact that they were waiting having been announced. TOO-QUICK GUNPOWDER Why It Has Been Found Necessary to Use a Slow-Burning Ammunition. From Chambers Journal. When larger guns were first constructed, requiring a larger charge of powder, a serious drawback was experienced.

It was found that after firing a few shots from them the firing chamber was badly damaged, being in some cases cracked. Additional thickness of material in this part of the gun proved only a temporary remedy, as the violence of the explosion bodily removed layer after layer of the Inner surface. Here was a serious problem, and steps were Immediately taken to investigate the cause of this local rupture. It was soon discovered that the evil was due to the too rapid burning of the powder, which, being converted almost instantaneously into gas, exerted an enormous pressure In the uring cnamoer oeiore tue outlet had commenced its motion down the barrel. As the pressure is proportionate to the amount of ponoer used, tnat pmnueea dj- a small ruuige nmnu uoc oe sumcieut to give rise t0 Al hiT rst l-1! UL; "'I; t.o l.oi.i i.m-.,an be held between the fingers and craduallv approached with a sharp penknife the paper will be pushed forward without being penetrated If, however, the knife be suddenly brought to the paper the latter will be pierced.

We have here all the difference between a sustained and a sudden pressure, anil a complete resemblance to the action in a gun. If the pressure be slowly and steadily generated the bullet will move forward; IE sunuen, a tendency to rupture win ne inevitable, and bursting must ensue if the pressure be sufficiently great. Careful of His Powder. From the London Chronicle. A good story of Major Macdonald, who is en route for Akasheh, to take command at the front, is told.

The plucky Major commanded a battalion of Soudanese at the battle of Toski brave blacks who were devoted to him and loved him like a father. During that battle they disobeyed him for the first time. The wily Dervishes had lain down a few hundred yards from the Egyptian forces and were deliberately drawing the fire of the latter by springing up, waving their banners and falling prone again in time to escape the shower of bullets that followed. The eagerness of the Soudanese was such that they could not be made to see that the object of the Dervishes was to cause them to exhaust their ammunition. Major Macdonald exhorted, commanded, swore In his fluent Arabic, and all to no purpose.

The blacks would "loose off" at their enemies. So, at last, the situation becoming desperate, he ran forward, and walking down the front of the firing line he shouted to his men, "Now, if you must fire, fire through me!" He Had the Symptoms. From the Chicago Poat. The schoolmaster was excited and angry. "That boy," he said, "persists In interrupting the proceedings with so many fool questions that that He brought his fist down on bis desk with a bang to give additional emphasis to his remarks.

that I am almost tempted to believe that he has a free silver ancestry." TO AID DISABLED SOLDIERS A Monument Will Also be Erected to Jefferson Davis The Tern Is But One Cent Month To Keep Alive the Memory of the Lost Ca.ufte. Special Correspondence of THE TIMES. Washington. April 24. Organization is the order of the day and the fact is shown not only in the trades unions of the laboring men, but has even extended to the rising generation, so that the coming young Americans will find themselves belonging to some body In which they were initiated before they could talk.

The Children of the American Revolution have been In existence now for a good many months, but the latest addition to juvenile societies is of such recent date that no formal rules have been adopted. The Children of the Confederacy was first started a few weeks ago in Alexandria. Virginia, by some ladies who belonged to the Daughters of the Confederacy and thought to enlist the aid of the little ones in the work which is going on in the South. The idea is to secure the children between infam and 15 and keep alive in their mind1 the history of the lost cause and of the men whoaciiievd I fame in the comiiet. It is aKo inst.tnt"d to help the disabled soldiers and aid iu the Davis fund.

At the first meetiii-r. which took place about two weeks ago, at the iwuse nf a lady in Alexandria, thre were fifty children present, this being the initial clj.mier of the organization. One of these whose names were enrolled was only a few months old. while others were as much as 14 and 15. It Is thought that officers will be selected from among the older children, who will thus Ite enabled to run their own order, subject to the supervision of the Daughters of the Confederacy, under whose auspices the society is lornted.

As the organization is yet In its infancy there have been but very few rules formulated. Hut it is stated that one of the primary objects will be to raise money. A cent a month Is the fee which will be exacted and this fund will go to the aid of the home in Itichmond. where there are so many old soldiers dependent on charity for their support. A tax of a dollar a year is now levied on all of the members of Confederate Veteran Camps, and the amount thus secured goes a great way in supoprting the sick warriors, but the additional fund gathered by the children will be the means of helping a great many deserving men.

If there is iu each county in each State In the South such a chapter, and every chapter contributes about fifty cents a mouth, that being the number of children on its rolls, the amount raised would go to make up a large sum by the end'of the year. But the aiding of the soldier Is not the only end in view. It is also proposed that about half of the money raised be donated to the monument to be erected over the grave of Jefferson Davis, in Hollywood Cemetery, at Richmond. As it Is the intention of the South to erect such a monument just as soon as sufficient funds are on hand, the ladies think that in enlisting the help of the children and gathering in the pennies of the little ones, the memorial can be sooner placed on the knoll where now stands the unmarked grave. The purpose of the society Is not to be a local one.

but to grow till Its ramifications extend all over Dixie. There are hundreds and thousands of children of tender age whose parents or uncles or grandfathers wore the gray, and all of them are entitled to join. The only requirement is that Borne of their family must have fought for or helped the Southern cause in some way. It is expected that within a year the order will have reached out from Virginia to Texas, and that where there are now but fifty members, there will then be at least five hundred. All such details as badges, will probably be adopted at the next meeting If the children and grandchildren of the men who became famous in the civil war were all to join, there would be a goodly array of great names on the list.

In the Lee family there are no small children, except those belonging to General Fitzhugh Lee, recently appointed to Cuba, who has three daughters and two sons. One of the sons is to enter West Point in June and the other is now in business at Huntington, West Virginia. The oldest girl Is a handsome young lady; the second daughter, Annie, is at school, while the youngest, Virginia, Is yet but a baby. The two sons of General W. H.

F. Lee, Robert E. Lee and Boiling Lee. are both grown young men, one of them a physician in New York and the other a promising lawyer at the national capital. General Harry Heth has three grown children and one grandchild.

General Stonewall Jackson left, one daughter, Virginia Jackson, afterwards Mrs. Christian. Mrs. Christian la dead, but left one child, who is living at Charlotte, in North Carolina. General Joseph Johnson left no children.

General Armstead, who met his death In the famous charge at Gettysburg, was a widower and left a son, who died a few weeks ago in Rhode Island. General Job Stuart left two children, a daughter named Virginia and a son called for himself. Young Job Stuart is married and living in Richmond, where he has a small family of little ones. General James Longstreet has several children, his two sons living in Washington. General A.

P. Hill left a daughter, Mary Lee Hill, who is now a resident of Louisville, Kentucky. General Beauregard had a family of several children, all of the sons being at present in business in New Orleans. General William Mahone left two sons and a daughter, who was recently married and makes her home in Petersburg, Virginia. General Basil Duke, of Kentucky, who married a sister of the famous raider, Morgan, has a daughter who is one of the best lady violinists in the country.

So great is her talent that she has put It to financial use by playing In concerts over the country, and her fame as a musician Is international. General John B. Hood left six children, there being three sets of twins. The people of New Orleans and some kind-hearted gentlemen raised a large sum, which went for the support and education of the six little orphans. General Marcus Wright has several children, some of them grown and others but yet in their teens.

General John Gordon, Senator from Georgia, has grown children, among them a very handsome daughter. General Morgan, of Alabama, has a family of three daughters, all of them young ladies. General Morgan, the raider, left one daughter, whose name was also John Morgan, a peculiar one for a girl. Morgan married a sister of A. P.

Hill. General William Payne is the father of two girls and about half a dozen boys, besides several grandchildren In the next generation of the family. General Lomai has several children, one of them a grown young lady. General Pickett, of Gettysburg fame, has a son who Is named for bis father and makes his home In Washington. General Bradley Johnson, of Baltimore, is the father of a grown son of the same name.

V. Stuart Mosby Coleman. Why Bis Audience Laughed. From the Detroit Tribune. Speaking of the plane of natural righteousness to which men may raise themselves by continual practice of the laws of truth and honesty, Mr Wood said: "There are lawyers in this city who wIM not take a law case until they are themselves persuaded that there Is justice In the position which they are asked to take and convinced that it Is right.

I don't say how many there are, but I say there are such men in Detroit. There was a burst of Incredulous langh-ter. Then Mr. Wood went on to talk about other kinds of lawyers. ANOTHER JOAN OF ARC She Is a Wealthy Young Young Lady Who Predicts All Sorts of Terrible Calamities for France, and Believes She iu Communication With the Angel fiabriel.

Special Correspondence of The Times. Paris. April IS. For the first time in the annals of femin ism. ranstnos are allowing iu disturbed with an international congress called together to discuss the rights and prerogatives of the fair sex.

and to take the first step towards what some look upon as a great revolution. The congress is at the present time in progress, and it has created no little agitation in all parts of the city. The students or me i.au qnarrer are making themselves especially onje-non- Oie TO lUe WUirs. um iu-u iiiv Dunn.nn find that there are too few orators among the champions of woman's rights, and refuse to hearken to speeches that are not well arranged and poorly delivered. Among the number of upholders of feminism are a few members of Parliament and several Socialistic municipal Councilors.

As to the ri.Tii-.if nr.inj.ip.il i ouuraniN u- iur irrncral public in Pnris. r-nniposml of mvl- notwithstnndinir that it lins sniueil tv.r Itiwlf quite a contrary rr(miaiion. It remains for them to see whether these in lernational gatherings, which are the natural meeting places of revolutionary and eccentric elements, are not without causing some alarm to the most resolute partisans of serious amelioration in the social condition of woman. After all, if the congress does nothing else, it will have attracted the attention of everybody and will have made known to the world that women in France are as much to ihe fore as their sisters in other lands; that they will not cease in their efforts to carry the day against their most bi'ter enemy, not man. but the representatives of the people, the members of the of Deputies ami the Senate, in a word, against the law-makers.

Unfortunately the ladies at the congress are very noisy, and fail to ngree on the most elementary questions imaginable. When it became necessary nt the first encounter to cieer a President, objection was made to a Madame Pognon because she ran a table d'hote in the Champs Klysees. This was not found sufficient ground for disqualification, and when it was discovered that the lady most opposed to Madame Pognon. who has for many years past been an ardent champion of woman's rights in this city, was none other than the wife of a Municipal Councilor there was a great, uproar. The questions to be discussed on the various days comprise four sections-civil rights, economic rights, lie question of peace and the political and municipal rights of woman.

In these sections the more notable points on which debates will take place are whether a woman with offspring shall receive state aid; the reforms of marriage and divorce laws, and the reform of the peual code. P.ut as may be easily imagined, the questions that are introduced have often nothing whatever to do with the main points. Socialistic ideas, of course, predominate, and some delegates to the congress appear to have an idea that the meeting has been called merely to allow them to propagate their ideas and doctrines. There was ODe speaker who advocated free love. It was he who has been relieved of his functions by the government on account of the somewhat strange manner in which he had been directing an educational establishment for boys and girls.

He gained an undesirable reputation as an advocate of mixed education. Such person-Ages as thee introduced into the Congress and allowed to address the delegates have called forth showers of abuse, not only from those present, but from the moderate press all over the country. The adversaries of feminism, as practiced by the leaders of the present movement, attirm that women would better attain their end by merely presenting petitions to Parliament, which has already granted many of their demands. ltut the ladies are Impatient; impatient to see eradicated from the code of the country a paragraph which pardons murder, when committed by a husband on an adulterous wite and many another. Others say that feminism has no chance of being successful as long as the leaders of the movement refuse to tolerate "Christian feminism." and persist in opening their arms wide to free thinkers.

The practical results arrived at are that women should only work six hours per diem, anil that for an equal amount of labor the two sexes should be equally remunerated. Women have been engrossing the attention of Parisians from all points of view. A young lady of means. Mile. Conesdon, has benn predicting a host of events, among which are some that she says will lead to the dismemberment of France, a triumphant revolution, and make Paris a prey to flames.

The parents of the young girl are fully convinced that, like Joan of Arc, she has a mission to fulfill on earth, and that she is perfectly sincere in ail she says. She believes that the Antrel Gabriel speaks for her, and those admitted to her presence admit that she replies with extraordinary lucidity to questions it would be impossible for an ordinary individual to respond to without becoming ridiculous. The affair has created such a sensation during the past ten or twelve days in Paris that the Archbishop has forbidden priests to have anything whatever to do with her and to refrain from paying her a visit. Of any number of doctors aud newspaper men have been up to see her. Few, however, have had a private conversation with the lady.

I confess that I have not been so fortunate as to receive the replies of the angel on matters of either public or private interest, although I have been to see Mile. Conesdon on several occasions. She predicted to Zoia that he would one day become a member of the Academy, but other persons have said and written, the same thing thou sands of times over. Zola tells me he thinks the case of the double-sighted young lady is one for the doctors, for the angel who speaks through her intermediary lacks precision. The landlord of the house in which Mlie.

Couesdon resides has given her family notice to quit, so that if the angel does not cease making known his predictions the Couesdon family will soon be like that of M. de Paris, the public executioner, who also finds it very difficult to secure a decent lodging. Parisians have been subjected to a census. Many inhabitants have refused to sign the sheets of paper that were left at their houses, under the strange pretext that the information supplied was to be utilized by the State as a basis for income tax rating. There is nothing particularly interesting about a census, unless it be the fact that It costs the State Treasury a very large sum of money and procures easy employment for several hundred men.

In France, however, the inhabitants are loth to fill up Innumerable forms replete with indiscreet questions. If census taking were merely confined to solving the problem of how many inhabitants there were in each city of the country the matter would create no difficulty, nor cause any unpleasantness. But there are too many cases similar to the following which befell the Mayor of a village in the Orne department. In the village in question there are two hundred and sixty-nine Inhabitants and the Mayor complained that he has already re ceived sixteen pounds weight of papers to fill in from the administration. The prin-cial points on which the government appeared to seek information were the following: "How many beehives are there In your village? How many pints of milk are there daily? What is the price of corn, wheat and barley Id your village? It Is a well-known fact that prices do not vary In France from on? village to another.) How many mfd wives and how many dentists? How many days' frost did you have "uu 1 iUies lue "lining or Tne sea-as I son ha9 DPen inaugurated a week ahead.

It i a11 depends whether the snow water has left 1 the river or not. Snow water is noisnn to LlQUIMn ijJlllL JlaJjlljlU AT GLOUCESTER HOW THE TOOTHSOME FISHES ARE CAUGHT IN THE BIG SEINE. THE CATCH IS RUNNING BEHIND chcH For Mnno ears the Delaware as a hnaa Stream Has Been Decreasing Crowds XMt Gloucester and Watch the Fiftherraeu Haul in the Net. As far back as the present generation can remember the names of Gloucester and shad have been so closely connected that for the average citizen to think of one is to remember the other. Indeed it Is true that many imagine that the much talked of fishing village down the river is the principal source of supply for the Philadelphia market.

Unfortunately of late years this has been far from the truth, as the hauls of the big net have little more than supplied the planking boards of the numerous Gloucester hotels, and the tables of the epicures who go down to Gloucester aud purchase a fish just out of the seine. Although the season so far has been backward is predicted this year by those who are supposed to know something about the matter, and are able to speak autuontativeiy. that the outlook this year is very promising for a good continued run. The fishermen at any rate, and they ought to" know, are look- irig for a large catch of good-sized fish, and it may be possible this year, as In former times, for Phihidelphians of moderate means to secure for their table Delaware shad caught at Gloucester. Sili the traok rln8C(l an1 sPrts dusted the Jersey sands for good and all from their highly polished patent leathers Gloucester for eight months out of the twelve has again become, what it was for so many years, a typical sleepy Jersey village, and so it would remain for the whole 305 days if it were not for the shad fisheries which attract hundreds of people to the beach during thP season.

The exact date of the hauling of the shad at Gloucester can never be fixed immovnhly, but for time immemorial April 14 has been considered the proper day on which to let out the big net for the first time. Still some seasons it has been delayed for two weeks. i shad, vou must know, and ther won't mm up the river while it lasts. When the time at last arrives for hauling the big net all is excitement at Gloucester, and the setting of this seine is a very interesting and slightly perilous job even to those who are accustomed to the work. The burly fishermen, clothed in rubber and tarpaulin, often experience a good ducking before the big net is put in place and securely moored, so as to present the greatest possible mesh surface without moving out of the "road of the run." The net is nearly two miles In length, and when preparations are being made for hauling it Is piled In a great heap on the stern sheets of the seineboat, a fiat-bottom craft sixty feet long, requiring a crew of about seventeen men to propel it.

A short line of heavy rope attached to one end of the net is around one of th rnr.st.ma 0n the beach. The crew are at their sta- the Proper moment to "lay her off." This is just at slack water, when the tide has ceased to run up the river and has not yet started on its journey back to the ocean. When the command Is given to "shove off" 17 oars take the water together. 17 sturdy backs bend, straighten and recover in unison, and the boat shoots from the shore with the swiftness of a skiff with the net paying out from a wooden roller across the stern. The boat's course Is straight to the middle of the A VERY river, and then a great curve Is described until the boat finally touches shore again opposite another capstan with the net all laid off and the cork line dying the surface of the water like a huge horseshoe.

The end of the line brought in by the boat Is attached to the capstan, both cams tans are then manned by men assisted by morses, and the net Is hauled In. this manner until the cork line Is reached when the capstans can no longer be used. Then both ends of the feeling among shad fishermen that the glories of the Delaware, as a shad stream, are fast departing. For the last few years the catch at Gloucester has run behind former years. Various reasons have been assigned for the cause of the decrease, the most popular one being the Increasing pollution of the water by the waste of the manufactories along the banks.

In 1889. 181) and lMtl there were good catches; 1889 was considered the banner year. During that season 20,000 "buck" and 18.000 "roe" shad were caught In the net during the five weeks it was operated. who visit Gloucester to watch the hauling of the big seine and do not return home with a fish in their hands are sure to do so with at least a portion of a shad "under their skins," as the saying goes of the planked variety. It Is almost as interesting to watch the planking of the shad.

If you possess sufficient influence to get behind the scenes and to partake of the toothsome delicacy as it is to stand on the beach and watch the haul. The Gloucester hotel-keepers who make a specialty of planked shad are very particular regarding the fish which they secure for the purpose. They are not subjected, like the shad for the market, to the indignity of being slammed into a market HAULING IN THE SEINE boat with a lot of ordinary other fish, but with great care are taken from the net and killed as soon as possible, with the blood let out so as to preserve all the delicate flavor of the fish, and then again they are cooked within the shortest possible time after being taken from the water. To prepare a shad for planking, it la split open and well cleaned; It is then nailed on a thick oak plank, which has been heated almost to Ignition, and set before a hot bed of glowing coals. An experienced cook watches the fish constantly and carefully bastes it every two or three minutes with the finest melted butter; as the shad turns a beautiful brown and indicates that It is nearly ready for the table, the cook determines whether it Is done or not by sticking Into the fish an ordinary ten-penny nail.

If, in pulling out the nail, a grating feeling is experienced, the fish offering resistance nt being thus treated, the shad is not done, but if the removal of the nail is accomplished with almost as much ease as If it had been stuck In thin air, then the toothsome delicacy is ready to be served to the impatiently waiting epicures, who never seem to be able to get a surfeit of the fish, their op-petite in fact increasing as the feast goes on. Working on the principle that shad will always return to their native streams to spawn, the United States Government has for some years been liberating countless millions of the origlnnlly-hatched small-fry in the Delaware, and will most likely continue the work this year. But even if the ship Fish Hawk does not favor the river this year, the work of keeping up the supply of young shad will be as a few weeks ago a new station fur hatching shad and river fish was completed under State supervision at Bristol and turned over to the Pennsylva- nla Flsb Commission. The structure is the find finest of lift kind tn this CO tin- try and its capacity for hatching fish Is only limited by the number of eggs obtainable. The shad that get fairly past Gloucester have the gauntlet of several other fisheries run before the spawning grounds are reached, but if they pass all these in safety tuey nave a cnance or two niuiuieu units more of the river In which to deposit their eggs, an opportunity which they embrace to the utmost.

The vast majority of shad which come to our market are caught by the gillers. These men have thousands of nets in the river during the season, extending all the way from Sliip John Light to above Bristol. The fishermen ply their calling exclusively by day, but the gillers work almost entirely by night and use nets from seventy-five to one hundred fathoms long. "CABBY" WAS WIDE AWAKE And Did Not Mean to be Left to Mourn for Departed Friends. From the New York Herald.

A cab was driven to the Twenty-fourth street entrance of the Hoffman House on Friday night, and two young men, evidently in the third stage of a spree, got out and walked toward the entrance. Both were laughing and apparently enjoying a huge joke. "Wait for us. driver," said one, as the doors swung behind them. The driver looked after them, while a look of deep wisdom came into his face, which was emphasized when he laid his finger alongside of his nose in a knowing manner.

He didn't wait there. He got on his box and hurriedly drove around to the Broadway entrance and drew up to the curb just as the two young men made their exit. "Drove 'round to meet you gentlemen," he said. "Where do you want to go now?" "Well! I guess we'll settle up and not go further," said one of the men, from whose face the former smile had fled. They did "settle up," and cabby drove off whistling, "You can't lose me, Charley." mm nt Him i it hi hoi uu in nn leaving me in charge of our house, because my biiMiiess will not permit me to leave except over Sunday.

Of course, when lie cat's away the mice will play, and 1 confess that I used to have the gaug come around to my house when the boss wasn't home, and we had pretty good times. "I used to send the servants away, and we had it all to ourselves, and as we don't live in a row the neighbors couldn't hear what was going on. Of course, my wife never knew anything about it, for she was too square a woman to come back unexpectedly to find out. Well, Insi summer when she went away I got everything ready and proposed to celebrate her departure in good style. And you bet we did.

We never had such a time, and we kept it up for four nights. I suppose we would have finished the week out, but on the morning of the fifth day I received a letter from my wife that was a revelation and a corker. In that letter was not only a list of the names of my guests, but there was a great deal of the actual conversation that had taken place the number of kinds of liquor and I didn't dare to try to lie out of it. as I had done on other occasions, for I was sure she had witnesses to prove her case. Mio was awumy nice anout it.

uioiu'ii, and iimiM'u nit' 10 linn over a ukw icai unless I wanted her to come home. "Of course, I turned over a new loaf, and even went so far as to ask the mission workers to come tip and hold prayer meetings there, for I didn't know what my wife would do If she got started once. At the end of the week I went over to Philadelphia, where she was stopping for two weeks, anil she greeted ine with a smile. She didn't even mention the discovery she had made, but 1 did, and, after teasing me a long time, she agreed to toll me In the fall if I would be a good boy. I was afraid not to be.

and when she came back in September she showed me where she had had a flephotie put in wil a magnifying front hid in a dark corner. It was fixed so it was ready for business all the time, and all she had to do was to go to the long-distance telephone ofliee anywhere, hook onto our house, and there she had inc. It was expensive, but convincing, and now that she is onio me. I have to be so confoundedly proper that it becomes painful at hues." He sighed profoundly, aud the reporter extended his sympathy. GLAD HE WAS IN TROUBLE should be.

That is to say. she inspected and suspicion is almost the same as fact with a woman. She has been in the habit of going away even summer. The Good Husband Was Wroth With the Wretch Who Had sold His Wife. From the Chicago Post.

"I do not believe in gloating over the misfortunes of others, but I am glad that man is in trouble," she said, as she threw down the paper she had been readiug. "Who is it. and what has he been doing?" he asked. "I don't know who he is," she replied, "but he sold his wife for $10." "He did?" "Yes, he did." "The scoundrel." She looked at him in surprise. "Are you glad that he is in trouble, too?" she asked.

"I hope that he is sent up for life," he returned, emphatically. "Why. John. I didn't suppose that you felt that way about it." she said. "I rather thought you would laugh at it as a good joke, or make some unkind remark." "Jt's no joking matter." he answered.

"It's a crime; that's what It is. It's a crime that appeals forcefully to every true and honest man, and il. should be punished as such." "Oh, I'm so glad that you feel that wav about it," she exclaimed. "That's what I think, but I was afraid that you wouldn't look upon It as a matter of any importance. I'm glad to find that I did you an injustice.

What would you do with him, If his -uiish-meut were left to "I'd make It severe enough so that It would be a warning to all others," he replied. "I don't think I would be satisfied with ft mere term of imprisonment." "But surety you wouldn't hang him?" "No, I wouldn't do that. But I tell you, Mary, any man who will deliberately defraud his fellow-man in such a conscienceless way ought to be made to suffer, and I would be in favor of compelling him to live with the wife he had sold for the rest of bis natural life. It is not a case for mercy," LARGE FlSH doubts in the minds of the family of the dutiful husband as to whether he had been to Gloucester at all. It is necessary, therefore, for him to purchase a shad, for which he wiil sometimes pay as much as a dollar, while the same sized shad could have been purchased from a giller for thirty-five cents, but then it would not have been caught in the "big net," and all that go to the Gloucester fishery are particular on this point.

For Borne time there has been a growing.