Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-26

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Sothoron. DIR. F. A ST. Clair, Wallace
Streater DIR. i. S. Stone, J. A Sweeney.
H. w Sohon. Milton r. Smith, F. L. Stew
ems, DR.. F. o. st. Clair. Thos. j. Sullivan, A
s. Taylor, DR.. j. f. Toner Frank R Trer-
holm, DIR. T. N.Vincent, DR.. ]. L. Wolf, Louis
c. White, w. Mosby Williams, S. NJ Yeat-
man and John e. Wilson.
The Last Representatives of Two Old
Maryland Families.
A solitary oyster lay under the wreck of
dredge boat. 1t was the only protection
that had been afforded his race during the
oyster wars. The bones of the captain rest
ed pleasantly beside him. He did not lack
company either. for a bachelor terrapin,
fearful of Patriarch suppers and taxation
shared with him the shelter afforded by
the state of Maryland. The terrapin was
used TO lying dormant for long periods Cbe-
ing raised in Maryland), but was not SO
much of an oyster as some of his neighbors
and acquaintance. He was a little better
off, also, than some, in that he had great
brain power and a house to boot; viz, one
that had been shot off the captains leg by
the oyster police. The oyster was very
proud of this too. and he had strengthen
ed his own position by attaching himself
to the house of the terrapin. But he was
the last of his race and his one desire was
that a proper record of the family should
be preserved in the archives of the Mary
land Historical Society. The colonial danes
he well knew had many receipts for me-
mento mort of ii.
1t was Easter, and time for the turtle
kind to begin their spring work. The
bachelor terrapin, of course, had not many
obligations on him, being that all of his
family had been sacrificed by Midas on the
altar of Epicurus. But he also was of an
old family, and habit is a great thing i'm
Maryland with them. So he stretched him
self and did a lot of blowing, and prepared
to take up the conversation with the
oyster. left off in the fall. The oyster had
been feeding pretty heavily during The alb
sence of the hard crab at the legislature
and was now feeling fat and hearty; but
the hard crab was on hand again and SO
he was afraid now to open his mouth. and
ms repnes were rather monosyllabic, al
though his heart was always in the light
place and could be relied on.
Il have been dreaming" said the bach
elor terrapin, stretching himself, '-of pc
titioning Congress in behalf of you and
myself"
1T might have BEEN" sighed the oyster
can, at any rate, draw up a petition.
and it might be valued sometime as an au
Geographic historical relic
do, said the oyster, II live only for
that The oyster then shut up for awhile
IA nd N
popping out of his shell al him
1T is useless now" continued the bach
eior terrapin, Ito speak of government
nurseries for the preservation OF our race.
IN connection with the fisheries. or the
planting of yours by the owners of creeks
gwen In their original patents and delineat-
ed on their charts, where YOU could have
been protected from the dredger and the
hard crab" e
And We could have been bought 50 cbaan
too. out of season. sighed the oyster
les. ana II would have afforded employ
ment Tor that pet of the politicians the
longer, who ought to have been born web
rooted, by the way he avoids the land ana
makes ducks and brakes of us and OF tho
riparian rights of owners of water fronts.
living on land" ' MS
And We would have multiplied" said ,be
oyster. gathering his shells together, in a
fright at hearing the hard crab clashinr
MS claws and sharpening his teeth
Yes, and so would we in our yoy.,,,
ment breeding grounds and nurseries: and
on. 10 think, shall see no more Of tbnse
aarnng; tender morsels of young diamond
back Chesapeake bay terrapin said ~,
bachelor terrapin regretfully W
Wnat never could make out" said the
bachelor terrapin, was why the s,a.e
, r,,aue su u,.n russ and spent so much
money over our protection and we never
got protected. or why the government loox.
ed out for fish and other emigrants ans
never thought of US. 1 think, however,
congress in person, and try through the
merits or my ancestors. as well as ner-
sonar magnetism, from being laid on tba
taoleIof course You and 1 being one in the
The future dawned bright on tba oys,a,
and he beamed a broad smile
The terrapin winked one eve as he cam
how luscious the oyster looked
The trouble with us Marylanders ,S >.
said the terrapin. I'VE devour the nrasa,,
with no thought of the future: but / sun.
pose IT'S the fault of our ancestry
JUST ,hen the hard crab, who had been
watching his chance. drew in his eyes
folded his claws. made a SIDEWAYS dart
and with his sharp back fin cut the oyster
to the heart. Luckily for the terrapin
whose mouth had been watering in fnna
ness for his friend. the crab had 70 turn
around before he could partake of the de-
ncacy, SO like the hare and the tortoise.
he Kept up the honor of the family nv
beating him at his own game So having
devoured the oyster, and thereby redncinS
the protective deliberations of the Msrv
land legislators one-half he put out for
Washington.
The following publication may furnish a
moral: AS the handsome Senator from
Maryland was coming down the CAPITOL
steps yesterday noon, he saw a diminutiys
diamond-back terrapin. evidently trying 10
ascend very much surprized at this an
pearance of considered extinct species
and gratified as we'll. he ordered ii sent
around to his hotel. where. we understand.
IL II W NC up aCcOrulng TO his own
recipe, to the committee on the preserya-
ton of fish; also. that a reporter is TO be
present for the benefit of the MARYLAND
Historical Society," NJ. II. PERRY.
Meeting baltimore Business Men.
The annual banquet of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Baltimore
was given last night at Hotel Reane-t and
was the most notable affair of the kind in
the history of the organization. Covers
were laid for go members and their guests
They were Senator German, Congressman
Rayner, Rusk and Talbot of Maryland
Brosius of Pennsylvania, Everett and Walk
er of Massachusetts. Hendrix of New York:
Controller of the Currency Eckels, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy McAdoo Hon John
X. Cowen, Baltimore; ]. C. Bennett of
Pittsburg, c. h. Lord, W. II. Jones, IIalti-
more; John Walter Smith, president Mary
land state senate; Jas. III. Preston, speaker
of Maryland house of delegates; Thomas s.
Sharretts. chief of bureau of appraisers
New York: Il. Fl. Warner. president Loard
of trade, Washington, d. c.: J. Il. Wright
Washington, ID. c., and these southern
editors: J. H. Estill, Savannah; Joseph
Bryan, Richmond: NJ. Glennan, Norfolk: $.