Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-07

many years. Many elaborate reports have been
published upon the European fishery by experts
appointed TO investigate its condition and
needs but they are apparently at as much loss
there are here regarding the methods
and benefits of protection. In Norway, which
country possesses the most important European
fishery, they have, as a last resort, sought re-
lief through the aid OF artificial lobster culture,
and experiments TO that end have been carried
on for several years.
One of the strongest evidences of decrease in
abundance is afforded by the continuous de-
crease I'm the average size of the Holsters sent to
the markets.
RichmOnd's Best Known Preacher.
SUNDAY MORNING IN THE REV. JOHN JAsPAR's
wELL-FILLED CHURCH
From the Chicago Times.
His place of worship is large, solidly built,
and somewhat attractive brick i'm the very cen.
ter of "Africa'-the extreme northern proonga
tion Of Richmond. twill hold nearly 500, and
was well filled. About q dozen white persons
besides myself were present, and the ushers
conducted them with great politeness to q seat
but, as l went with the quadroou waiter OF ouI
boarding house, felt sort OF obligation to ac
cept a seat In his pew. And, by the way, this
quadroon gentleman w 40 forbids ME to publish
his name) has an intellect that is not to bt
sneezed at He tells me he is a second cousin Of
Senator Mason of the confederate british EN-
baSsy, and he certainly looks it,
He was born, he says, on the North Carolina
mother never heard the darkeys were to be
freed till the paroled men began to arrive from
Appomattox. She steadfastly refused to be-
lieve il till young marse hisself cum and say
so;" but, as "young marseo was sick in "a north
ern prison hospital, she was not convinced till
the next July. Then she ''toted" this boy TO
Petersburg, where he could learn to read, and
supported him and herself by washing. He is
now much better educated than the average
white man, but still talks plantation lingo,
though he can write beautiful English. And
here / discover one reason why the colored
people make such slow progress i'm language
studies his associations are ali the time pulling
ha W eh rar hear falr ria
good English half the time. He can speak Eng
lish, but perceive IL is an effort, as il 1t were
foreign tongue.
He says That he has changed his mind four
times about God, the war and the niggers.
At first he took the notion of the old folks that
niggerS were made to be kept down and white
folks to boss; next he thought the niggers
time had come to get up, and the white folks To
git down; and then he concluded that all the
old Bible notions about niggers was burned
foolishness; that every race would have its
time TO rule, just as every dog has its day. AT
present, he compiacently informs me, he ruther
'spects there is a God, but nobody can prove IL;
admits that Jesus was q better man than
Mohammed, but thinks Abraham Lincoln much
better than either, and SO far above Moses
him "hghtin mad" He likes the music
at Jaspers, though. and goes to church lust
like white boys do-for style" AS the first col
ored positivist ever saw he was quite "A study,
and ventured on an inquiry as to the origin OF
races. This stirred his gall and he pitched
into the tenth chapter OF Genesis very sayagely,
maintaining that men started on the earth in
a thousand different places, and that in two
thousand years from now the negroes of Ameri.
ca will be made white by the climate. But
this is a dlRression-let us return to our Jasper.
He is venerable-looking three-Quarter mis-
cegene, with a good forehead and pleasant ad.
dress-nearly 40 years Old. His text was: "The
queen OF the south shall rise up in judgment
against this generation and condemn it, for she
came from tue uttermost parts OF the earth to
Solomon, and a greater than Solomon is here. -
Oh this he preached q very good sermon-I
have heard much worse from pretentious white
ha hal fs.1
and then all the African In him came to the
surface. Swaying TREMENDOUSLY back and forth
or leaning tar over the pulpit, and waving his
steal monotone, gorgeous description Oi
Paradise. The tropical imagery was won.
derful; shining sands, crystal streams, and
harps, neverwithering flowers; the sun that
never SETS the palms that never fade, and the
angels for the weary soul, and the tree with it,
twelve manner Of fruits that are for the healing
OF the nations. And as he swayed and chanted
shouted, or exhorted, nearly the whole congre-
cation swayed in unison with him, while from
all parts OF the house came fervent responses o
"Ah, the Lord! "Oh, my soul! Jesus. ban
us homer some women occasionally breaking
| into a long cry, half scream, halt wall. And
| then saw how strong the tropical nature still
| two centuries to the time when the rude an
cestors of these people, beneath the blazing sur
| Of Africa, under the palm trees or on the ho
sand, sang and screamed and danced In praise
All at once realized that I, too, was swayins
back and forth in unconscious sympathy witt
the mass and was not surprised to see my
pOsitivist neighbor ut the same performance
| The preacher suddenly dropped his voice, as
sumed severely judicial tone. and gave tn
| ciared with rather embarrassing emphasis tina
| "they is some folks heah that Is not heah 10
q"
heah for nothin' else; but you can set It dow
that Gods word shall stand Nothin' agin /