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An ENEMY OF STARFISM.
Oystermen Hope That n Remedy Has Been
Found Tor Ono Foe OF the Oysters.

EOunu Tor ono roe OF the Oyntefes
The starfsh is one OF the worst enemies that
tho oyster planter has to contend with. There
IL u fortune for the man who can devise n cheap
plan to rid the oyster beds of this pest. Oyster.
men have spread nets over their beds, and tho
starflsh could fold its fingers and push its back
up through the mcshes, but could not return be-
cause the fingers would not bend backward
Patents have been issued for "swab tangles,"
which are strands OF rope yarn arranged on a
bar, and arc dragged over the beds and tho star.
fish are cntangled in the threads by reason OF
thcIr many rough points. But these processes
require much labor. which the value OF the crop
will hardly warrant.
grower In Oyster Bay, went down tho bay some
time ago with James THOMPSON ana J. ID. Velsor
TO take up the oysters for the days shipment to
New York. Among the oysters they round a lot
OF dead and dying starhsh. Those which were
not dead seemed TO have portions or their
n,nHatomy COVERED ,h vain sha s1ia ers slIall loy wer =, e am,n1Si
gated the parts OF the starAsh were bleached and
dead. An enemy OF. the starhsh had appeared,
the oystermen thought. and they rejoieed. Dead
cred and sent TO Major Fred Mather, the pisci:
enltGrlst, who pron3utn m SIm thf h enemy = afY a ioT Tnn OF
Daniel Van VelsOr he said:
II find these small animals to be crustaceans;
sand aeas, &c, and therefore they are scaven-
gers and can live on animal matter, Twins, or
dead. Eocl9gis's would y ot fSii t them iSoPSRd dS' be be,
nearly one-fourth OF an inch in length. and have
some characters OF Ltnn0rd, which feeds on
work In water, and also resemble a very small
cFustacean known as Linlnfd terebrd, which Is
much smaller, do not know the little animal
the experts at Washington, in alcohol"
The little crustacean has not been described in
Major has Masher would have been aba to aame 4;
but II this 70 really o now eneny OF the HtarhEh
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
GAME IN YELLOWsTOSE PARK.
Beauties or Animal Lilo az seen Recently BY n
Montana Guide.

LIVINGSTON, Mont, April 3.-Ben Sheffield. u
guide and hunter who every man who has WIS.,
ited this section with gun in hand knows well.
has Just returned from a kodak trip through the
National Park. He reports that never, since tho
geyser land was made into a park and protected,
have there been 30 many animals as now, and
that with the exception of buffalo they show n
tremendous increase over last year. He says:
There are worlds OF wild game, antelope
chiefly, between GARDENERS and Yancy's, and
thousands OF ok over the whole preserve. II IL
no exaggerRtiOn to say that i saw 10000 elk,
most o fthcm In one vast band. l did not SEQ any
teoni Is winterinRa at Pelican Creek. about twenty
miles east Of Yellowstone Lake Hotel, while
another small herd IL In Hayden Valley, near the
centre of the park. These are all that are left
Of the millions of buffalo that were In this conn
try Twenty-Five years ago. They will probably
the law against poachlng has been made moro
stringent. Three years ago the National Park
herd numbered about 800, but they were nearly
all killed by the pOachers, who got in their work
notwithstanding the vigilance of the troopers
under Capt. Anderson, This winter there hasn't
three domesticated buffalo on the Flathead
reservation. kept for breeding and fur purposes.
and that Is the only herd outside the park.
Large numbers of elk have been followed and
killed by wolves this winter. and antelope have
been starved to death while attempting to get
to the warm springs for water. There 10 not so
much snow in the park as has been supposed,
opene on june I the whole park will probably DO
In better condition than for years" .
In the nine days that 6hefield passed In the
park, travelling on snoWBhoes all the time. no
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
ENGLISH RIyG-yECK PHEAsAN7s.
Eggs sold FOR Matching Purposes Prairie
Chicken Eggs Expected Next Year.

Eggs OF tho English ring. neck pheasant, from
birds raised in New York State, descendants OF
birds imported from England, are sold at 81. go
II dozen for delivery in May. and at So for deliv.
cry in June. They can be bought In the latter
part Of April, but they cost 20 or 30 per cent.
more then, and the advantage OF the few days In
time Is not enough to pay for the added cost.
The May and juno eggs hatch out In time for tho
development Of the birds before cold weather.
The eggs are Matched by the common hen; tho
pheasant will rarely set in captivity. Twelve TO
fifteen pheasant eggs are placed under a hen;
the time required TO hatch them is twenty.four
days. Attcnps at artificial incubation have
very rarely proved successful. The little pleas.
ants will answer the hen.mother's call, but
they are nevertheless wild by nature. PhoAsants
reared in captivity might be so tame as 10 feed
from the hand, but at the first opportunity they
would seek freedom. The eggs are sold com
monty to raise phensants with which to stock
game preserves. and they are sold for private
parks and country places, and they are kept In
C0Ops or Enclosures with a net covering, as game
or other chickens might bc.
These phehsGnts have now been introduced hero
about seven years. They arc adapted to almost
any part OF the country, and they have been
reared In many parts. They have been raised IN
the Adirondacks, and pheasants sent TO Canada
have wtntered well there. There il q demand
for oil tho eggs that breeders have to OFFER.
Oregon and Washington, stocked some years
ago with Mongolian pheasantA are now plenti-
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Wild FOWLS VERY SHY.
Plenty or Birds Seen mt sporting Resorts About
New Tork, but They ART Hard to shoot.

New IOrk. but They Are Hard to shoot.
Wild fowls have been seen in countless fiocks
recently at the Withdrawing resorts about this
city. Reports from Barncgat say that geese,
brant, and ducks are to be found In largo
punches in the vicinity Of Great Scdgc Island,
Mud Channel, and Oyster Channel, while Eng
lsh snipe arc seen on the meadows. The ducks
and geese arc wild as hawks. They will not per-
init even q sailboat to come within 200 yards.
Possibly an aluminium shell with a single rear
paddle and n blind made OF the rush mats de-
scribed last year In THE Sun might bring tho
fowler within shot Of fringes OF the bunch, but
no ordinary device is of the slightest use.
Reports from the Chesapeake are to the same
effect. Birds are arriving and leaving daily,
but. except with a lucky station occupied before
dawn, n very close blind. and decoys placed
while dark, spoitsmcn have had little luck.
Of fowls around the old Lester Waliack pool on
tho Connecticut. shore, and around little Long
Islands. between there and south Point; but ali
very wild and flying very high. In the Great
scent aea Ba Sv waters SaTjy bo GTantitbiS %, t Of geese !. Do hG Irc
and the "scootcrs y cannot get near them.
though some ducks have been shot. Lower
birds to empty the gun at. snipe and small
wadcrs, but The, season is over.
Not for years have there been so many gun ac-
cidents MS during the past season. Several OF
them have been caused by the use of the ham
mcrless guns, which were described in THE SUN
AS being dangerous where numbed fingers were
the rule rather than the exception. In many
other cases the accidents were due TO careless
ness. II was Mt the South Bay this season that
a man In a blind with n companion, picked up Mt
the fowling hoadquarters.. quietly remarked:
tho puzzled blind companion said. 1T Is No. 3.
What makes you ask such a question T. tho
3 S' %be ma ihe rS Mnd g seen no d o; n y, Vour 4 ba ,ppSs iakS an aa
the neOphyte took the gentle hint, and turned
his barrels seaward.
For thnaa xyhn Ian ta fha ti,,n anI cha ,na
to spare there il now good shooting 10 be had in
tho many small saltwater pools south of Rhode
Island. Great gagglcs OF geese are reported
there. but the gun must be II far.killing four
bore, or, better still, u Winchester rifle.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
ALONE WITH BUErALO And COYOTES.
The Sense or Desolation which Came 10 n Mnu
who Lived on the Frontier.

from fhe Topeka (RGnJ Capital.
The following Is an extract from the personal
"reminiscences of David y. Hcigor, who witnessed
the slaughter OF buffalo In the far West:
Early In June the buffalo began to cross tho
river. Every day the country south of the river
had grown blackcr with the incoming hordes
until ii seemed the country would no longer hold
them, and they wcrc compelled TO ford the
stream. Day after day and night after night for
six long weeks their onward tide to the north.
ward was as ccasclcss as the flow of the river;
blacker and blackcr the country grew, and tho
lust thing to be heard on u still summer night
during all that time was the continual splash OF
the disturbed waters, interspersed with tho
bowling OF the bulls and the shrll howl
OF the coyotes. Many u night j stood by
the door of the old stone stockade alone
and listened to those strange, weird sounds,
and "a consciousness of an awful loneliness
would come over me. Many a night | looked up
TO the stars and said my. prayers. wondering II
the God OF tho heavens knew where l was and
what l was there for. When day by day | saw
the devastation of the country by this army,
countless as the hosts of Cyrus marching on
Babylon, 1t seemed that the geography OF my
boyhood days was right and that ] was indeed
In the heart Of the great American desert,
Again. i would reason. II this country could
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support all this wild life, why not support man
and domestic lifei with all my doubts and
fears I stayed, fascinated as by a spell with the
strangeness ofthe problems that surrounded me.
In July new hope. came. Four young mon
homcsteads on tho Walnut. They were not sat
isfled with Barton county. They said Il was
too thickly settled" The best claims with
timber had been filed on. They employed me TO
take them into Rush county. / located them on
the Walnut, near where Rush Centre. now
stands. on running water and timber" When
Adam WIS driven from the garden Of Eden he
undoubtedly took Eve by the hand and travelled
many days over tho richest soil on Garth to lind
a claim with running water and timber"
While ! was gone the Choyennes made q raid
Sxi,h AZ 1b ~ nn nrnon nrseTNTtIoh y S aIe r oI
longer than / expected. and when / returned l
found Finn overJoyed to SEQ me-, as no thought I
had been captured. IL was the Fourth Of July.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
Sand Cranes Playing Lcaprror.

S. w. Cunningham describes in Forest and
Stream the curious antics OF some sand.hil
cranes he saw on the Des Molnes River In Boone
county. la. lie was riding along in a buggy one
day when his attention was attracted by tho
actions OF a group of about n dozen OF the cranes
on u bare spot near a small lake that may iavo
been cleared for the purpose by the birds. Tho
Tho lcaping was preceded by "A short run and
Tapping Of wings. The birds, naturally and ~
the observer, though he passed within 200 yards
OF them in plain view.
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secured 217 game views, OF which 1876 were Of
bands of ok, mountain sheep, antelope, and
deer. One of these views Is tho finest picture Of
game In tho wild state eyer seen hereabout, and
can scarcely be described. Around n big butte.
near the pinnacle OF q snow-crowned mountain,
Is clustered a band OF twenty-four grizZled and
horn-curved mountain sheep. Tho steep and
clouds. tinRed with sunlight bursting through u
rift. The scene ls one that n mountain painter
might long for and make n reputation with,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
a Hal, Holder for Gra.shoppera.

A neat little contrivance for holding live bait
has been put on the market. When a trout
fisherman passes through a field where there
are q lot of grasshoppors he usually captures;
some for use I'm case flies or other.lures should
fail. The usual method of carrying the insects
is TO put them into an ordinary bait case with
the worms or an old tin can. The new device 10
II bit Of wire netting shaped like a bowl.
Around, tho rim IL sewed some light cloth, which
is closed by a pickering string at the top.
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David Reid, a gamokooper at Aberlow Castle.
Tippcrary. writes TO the London EIeId TO tell
about II shot which has seldom been cqualled.
Reid was hunting woodcock on u preserve lata
In the season with n shotgun, when he saw two
and fired when the animals were about thirty
yards of. On going 10 the place the hunter
found that he had killed both deer with No. o
shot. Other men have killed two deer, elk, or
even bears with one rifle bullet, but Reid d
probably the first man to kill two deer with SusA
tine shot ~ gix0S.
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II IL to be hoped that Il may DO propagated. In
the economy of nature there are parasitic ami.
mails that live quietly on others for. years. and
then, by force OF some natural conditions, multi
plyi in such numbers as to destroy their hosts
and then, deprived of feeding grounds, they
diminish In numbers for n while, and so tho cycle
of animal life goes on.
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fully supplied with them. II is intended to sup
ply Mongolian pheasant eggs TO the East. IL ~
DO supplied In the East next year, TO BIO Matched
out, like tho pheasant eggs, by common hens,
and to DO used for sporting purposes, Tor
the stocking of preserves, and so on. Like the
pheasant, the prairie chicken remains wild.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05

We agree with the Register that our
happy mayor should have been more
specific in his statement concerning
the remarks made to him by the bust
ness manager of one of the newspapers.
1t is hardly dignified or fair for the
head man of a village to deal in gen
eralities of the kind that disf1gure and
discredit our head mans defense. And
what difference does it make to a really
happy head man if he has been sharply
talked to by mere business manager?
Moreover, no business manager can
bluff our head man. See?
But our happy head man seems to
forget that the public isn't deeply in
terested in what a business manager
did or did not say to him after the
gorgeous advertisement had been given
out. What the public wants to know
is why our happy head man didn't
show himself to be better business
manager for his subjects than to care
lessly authorize the expenditure of
$1,000 or SO in order to collect $4,000.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
TIE GERM ANS DISTURBED.

Germany Is disturbed by our new tar
iff bill The Germans had based their
hopes for the extension and increase of
their exports to the United States upon
other rates than those reported. Mr.
Monaghan, the United States consul at
Chemnitz, says that the Germans regard
reciprocity as the only way to keep
commerce within safe and sure lines"
and hope that commercial treaties may
be made with the United States. He Is
of opinion that there is little market in
Germany for our manufactured prod
uets. OF course this is due to the hos
tility of Germans, manufacturers and
agrarians to the United States, a spe-
cies of rivalry which develops intense
opposition to the sale of American
goods in that country. MIR. Monaghan
thinks that Germany would not buy of
us natural products if she could secure
them as cheaply and as good elsewhere
and he shows by conclusive figures that
cur grain trade, which was once really
immense, has been turned by Germany
over to Russia This is further indica-
ton of the German hostility to our
products, an antagonistic attitude that
has been shown recently by the techni-
cal and trumped-up charges made as
to the purity of our food products.
Mr.. Monaghan believes that our man
ufacturers, instead of trying to capture
trade with Germany. would, with half
as much effort in Russia, South Ameri-
ca and the East, secure returns five
times as great. And he points out that
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
wHAT MIGHT nAYE REEN.

The happy mayor and the laughing
corporation counsel are criticised by
some of the newspapers and most of the
people because they gave out the gor-
geous advertisement without due re-
gard to economy. They profess that
their action was prompted solely by
their regard for the law. Had they
been thoughtful enough to try to find
some law that would sustain them in
not giving 1t out we think they might
have been successful, and then they
would not have been criticised by any
newspaper, The newspapers that We're
legally deprived of the "fat" wouldn't
have said a word, and the beloved
people would have Commended the may
or and the corporation counsel for look
ing out for the interests of the public
The mayor and the corporation counsel
might not have been any happier or
more comfortable than they appear to
be now, but the record would have look
ed a little better
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our manufacturers should patent their
machines in Germany, along with our
processes of manufacturing, for annual
visits are made by German manufac-
turers to the United States for the pur-
pose of picking up ideas and profiting
by them, He cites an instance where a
man grew rich by picking up one idea
in America and developing 1t at home.
We can't expect the Germans to love
us unless we provide market for
them, but the only question should be,
can we afford to do it?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
FASHION NOTES.
Cottons in Demand.

Very pretty trimming for summer
dresses will be rows of white cotton
tape. All blues and many mixed ging-
hams and cheviots take this sort os
trimming very charmingly, and the tub
does not offer any terrors to such elab-
Grating. That is the bother with so
much of our summer gown trimming; it
is very pretty before the wash, but af
forwards it is hopeless, All sorts Of
cottons are in great demand for sum
mer morning dresses. Women with lit
tie money to spend are dressing more
wisely than they used to, and the sale
of organdies and other filmy, perfect
~ lovely goods Is much restricted.
The 3rst cost of such materials is SO
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
OUR BIRD TRANSMITS.

Spring Visitors in Fancy Dress-Points
for Country Observers.
In the spring of 1887 a warm soft wind
from the south was met in the vicinity
Of one Of our large cities by a southern
blizzard. In very short time the tenn
perature had fallen forty degrees, and
people all over the city began to see on
the paVements and in the cutters num-
bers Of strange birds of tropical color
ings and great beauty, which were so
overcome by the cold that they were
quite helpless. and could be taken up in
The HAND. Hundreds of them persisted
in the streets. They also fell into the
lake in ersat numbers. Over two hun
dIed Of their dead bodies were counted
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slight that it has taken women several
seasons to realize it's extravagant per-
ishableness.
Less extravagant, perhaps, but yet
With a price that is prohibitive to too
many of US are the beautiful dresses of
greaadine over silk. Their beauty and
sty;:shness warrant some sacrifice In
getting one, and the silk for lining
need not be of an expensive sort 1t is
model of this sort that is shown here,
its skirt being pink and green figured
taffeta, over which was pleated gau2y
grenadine. The foundation of the bod
ice was plain green taffeta, and the
grena dine covering it was enriched with
appliqued flowers of Chantllly iape.
This bodice had slightly cutaway
fronts, which We're fitted, however, and
ended in black in a very full ripple
basque It's vest was plain gathered
black chiffon, finished by fiehu jabots
of chiffon, and the stock collar with its
pretty Topped trimming was of pink vel
vet ribbon.
Velvet Is seen on many new dresses,
which thereby make concession to the
uncertainty of spring weather. Velvet
belted-in jackets made en- suite with
cloth gowns are attractive, and black
and white effects are secured in this
way with artistic result. IT is now
deemed necessary that the fashionable
woman should have at least the appear
ance of a small waist. The spring Of
the figure must start Immediately from
the waist, and the bust curve must be
pronounced, but low; that is. the chest
line must be long. If you are not made
that way, you'll do well to consider
means of counterfeiting it.
FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05

The way for married couples to avoid
separation on account of religion is for
the husband to join the wife's church.
Kansas City Star.
And continued the physician, as
he was about to leave, "eat only what
agrees with YOU But, doctor, how
am I to know whether it agrees with
me until after I eat it?'-Yonkers
Statesman.
Independent Thinkers.-Old Boarder-
mo; there are no cliques In this board
ing house" New Boarder-"No?" Old
Boarder-"No, indeed! We all ride diff
ferent wheels and every one has his
own remedy for dyspepsia. Puck.
Imperishable.-"I find it impossible
to kill the nerve" exclaimed the den
fist in a troubled tone. What can it
mean?"
I'm a drummer" with ring of
pride in his voice.-Detroit Free Press.
A Family Affair.-Languid Mamma
"Celestine, who was that ill-bred child
with you and the baby on the walk this
morning."
The Maid-"Your eldest, madame
Chicago Journal
Prospective Purchaser-"Yo say he's
a savage Watchdog"
Owner-"Yes, indeed"
but how am 1 to know that?''
''Try i'm; jes' go outside with me,
and climb in at the winder' Chicago
Record
Editor-"You remember that poem
you left the other day on my desk ?
While I was out to luncheon the office
cat came around and chewed 1t up
Castle (the poet)-"Great heavens!
Where is that cat?" He has gone into
a trance, and all our efforts to it bring
to have failed. Life.
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pHE nIEnELnNnn

II a private business establishment
should find that there was danger that
1t would cost $1,000 to collect $4,000 it
would make vigorous effort to find
some way to cut down the cost of col
lection. When our municipal business
establishment finds that it is going to
cost $4,000 to collect 1000 it looks has
tily around for something or somebody
to authorize" the curious perform
ance.
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District of New Haven, s.. Probate Court

District Of New Haven, s.. Probate Court,
May 3d. 1897.
ESTATE of WILLIAM s. JOHNSON, late
Of New Haven, in said District, deceased.
Mary ]. Johnson, administrators, having
made written application for authority to
sell certain real estate belonging to said
estate as by said application on file in this
Court more fully appears, 1t is
ORDERED That said application be
heard and determined at Court of Probate
to be held at New Haven. In said District,
on the 10th day Of May, 1897, at ten o'clock
give public notice Of the pendency Of said
application, and Of the time and place of
the hearing thereon, by publishing this or
der three times In some newspaper having
circulation in said District and due re-
turn make
~ LIVINGSTON W. CLEAvELAND,
my4 st Judge.