The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
RENTER $ WIDOW
GRANT TED PENSION
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lSpeclal Cable to The Times Dispatch
81 Petersburg, October el-i,m
peror Nicholas has granted a pension
OF 5000 roubles to the widow OF
Premier Stolypin. This sum equals
MS salary as Minister Of the Interior.
AS is known, Stclypin declined any
supplementary salary as president OF
the Council of Ministers. and his ten
ure of that post necessitated a con.
siderable expenditure OF private in
come.
Premier Kokovtsoff's difficulties
with the enforcement of Stolypin's
policies have begun. He has been try.
ing To deal with a deputation repre-
entinS $1,000 households in Bakhmui
District (Yckaterinoslav Province
who refused to break up their com
munes and pass on to individual own.
crship OF land. For two years these
determined communists have been re-
sistins the counsels OF the local Gov
crnor TO divide their land. and an area
of 02,400 acres has been lying fallow
Wormwood grows on 1t in place OF
crops. The deputation declares that
If the government wanted war 1T
could have 1t; 10000 able bodied men
could tie mustered in support of the
communes. The peasants had sold
one-third of their live stock and were
further prepared to suffer famine and
fight 10 the end This Bakhmut incl
dent is the most striking one in carry
ing out of the asrarian reform. OF
which millions of peasants have taken
advantage, though the inert peasant
mass resents IL.
Method of Obtaining Pearls.
Method of Obtaining Pearls
a perfected method of obtaining
ha.
sian scientist. Czsslav Khmelievsky.
who is in charge of rhe Ponevy 4zh
biological station of the Imperial Pts
cicultural Society. Fine specimens of
unattached pearls, three 10 five MILL
metres in diameter have been obtain
cd by this method in from three to Ave
years No detail of the discovery has
been communicated by its author TO
any one, but it is supposed to be based
on the Japanese system of artificial ir-
ritation OF the pearl nollusk by the
Introduction of a foreign substance.
The oyster gradually covers the
nacreous or glass beads, which arc In
PRODUCED through Il perforation in the
shell. with layers of pearl matter. rho
Japanese subject 100000 oysters TO
this process yearly on the pearl banks
OF the Gulf of Ago. The principal fault
with their product is that 1t is general
ly found attached TO the valve OF thc
shell closely inGrown or attached TO
the matriN by a thin stem. Such semi
Slobuldr pearls nave only "a limited
use for rings and pins. but not for
earrings or necklaces.
Mr.. lihmclievsky has solved the
problem al producing perfect, upat-
tached pearls. y group OF persons in
terested in the exploitation or this dis
corery has recently commissioned a
young naturalist to go TO japan and
Germany TO Investigate methods in
use. The government has also taken
an interest in the matter, through its
Piscicultural estah lishmcnt AT Nikolsk
serious supposition exists that brook
trout harborS pearl-oyster- spawn on
It's scales and Gils 1t is intended to
take advantage of this fact In copncc.
ton with tho culture of the freshwatcr
pearl-oyster in the north OF Russia
In the time Of Peter the Great this
was an important branch OF state rev
enue, and thousands of persons gained
their livelihood at the Russian fresh
water pearl banks in the North ard