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SUNDAY MORNING. TILL DEATH U3 PART. .'til death ua part. Till death as Join, So speaks the heart, O voice yet more divine! When each to each repeats the words of That to the broken heart breathes hope doom; sublime. Through blessing and through curse. Through lonely hours. For better anil for worse. And shattered powers. We will be one till that dread hour We still are one, despite of change and shall come. time. Life with Its myrSfld grasp Death, with his healing hand. Our yearning soul shall clasp. Hhall once more knit the band. Ayo. ceaseless love and still expectant Which needs but that one link which wonder; none may sever, lb bonds that shall endure. Till, through the Only Good, Indissolubly sure. Heard, felt and understood. Till God in death shall part our paths Our life in God shall make us one fc* asunder. ever. The Labor Federations Figures Show Relative Importance of Each While there can be no correct com parison between the American Labor union and the American Federation of I-ahor, the printed statements of each furnish some ideas of their relative importance in the labor world. The Income of the Western Labor union, now the American Labor union, for the past year was $4,800 for per capita tax. This tax amounts to ten cents per member per month, which, averaged for the year, shows a mem bership of 4,000. Allowing that the membership lias increased largely during tie past few months, it cannot have over 10,000 members to-day or It would not have had any a year ago, according to Its published statement. The entire yearly income of the West ern Labor union from all sources was $12,000. The income of the American Federation of Labor for a like period was $131,000, and the amount of per capita tax paid into that body from national and international unions is lint one-third of a cent per member per month. At the end of last April 1,100,000 members were paying per caplla tax into the American Federa tion of Labor, and it is estimated that WKat Governs Wages Not Arbitrary Dictum, But Natiir&l I.aw Wages are not a matter of individ ual caprice or arbitrary dictum, but arc governed by natural law. It is not within the- power of capita! or of the government or of organization arbitrarily to increase wages. Wages can be permanently influenced only through the operation of the social and economic forces which govern all other economic movements. For centuries it was believed that wages were a matter entirely within tho power of the master's derision. This wns so thoroughly accepted that, for hundreds of years in England, wages were fixed by law. In the four teenth and flfteenth centuries it was a penal offense for laborers to ask for more wages than the statute pro vided. Under the Tudors the wages were fixed twice a year by proclama tion of the magistrates in the differ ent counties. Despite the power of authority, which was well-nigh ab solute. backed by the influence of the masters, the church and the throne, it wge found absolutely impossible to compel wages to obey the authorized standard. From Edward 111. to Wil liam IV. tho statute hooks of England are bestrewn with acts and proclama tions attempting to regulate wages, but all in vain. Tho evidence of tho failure thus to fix wages accompanied the enactment An Employer’s Views Rights of C&pittxl and Labor from His Standpoint There is no reason for dissensions between capital and labor; and if tho men will recognize that there are two great forces coming together when any Industry is started —tho one to furnish the money and the other to furnish the work —that both have obli gations as well as privileges, I think labor and capital will reach an under standing that will settle the t questions of organization of labor unions and all similar fundamental questions for all (line. Perhaps the wage-worker may say. ••But. that will not settle the question of wages—the mere recognition of the union.” 1 say it will, if the union will present to capital strong, upright, hon est officers of their unions and say, “Here are our representatives; do business with them; we have elected them as our agents, and whatever they do we. will stand by." then the men will And that there will lie no refusals to recognize their unions and no re fusals to enter into agreements with them, it is the breaking of agree ments that employers fear, not the making of them. From Various Points Happening* of Interest to Organized Le^bor Some of tho Belgian coal pits, on resuming operations after the strike, reduced wages S per cent, and in the coal districts of the Borin age the col liers’ wages hav e uow been reduced 12 per cent and more. Some pits also contemplate a .-eduction in the work ing hours. The organization called “Federation Regional,” composed of employers, em ployes of the municipalities and sup ported by the Porto Rican Republic ans. are opposed to the organization of the workers at ban Juan. Porto Rico, under the American Federation of Labor. The clothing manufacturers at Syr acuse, N. Y„ having declined to accede to the demands of the garment work ers for an increase of 8 per cent to at. h ast. 20 per cent more might be added from the fact that many unions do not pay their full membership. In addition there are 370 city central bodies affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and as most of them have unattached unions it can he seen that the membership of the American Federation of Labor 13 much larger than is shown in the amount of per capita tax paid. Al though it was generally supposed that the Western Federation of Miners was a part of the Western Labor union, Mr. Kidd says that, from the information he received while In Den ver the miners are not affiliated, al though working in harmony and in sympathy with the other organiza tions. President Daniel McDonald of the American Labor union is said to he a member in good standing of tho Iron Molders' union, which is a part of the American Federation of Labor, and iloady Kenehan, a member of the executive board of the American Labor union, is a member of the Horaeshoers’s union, also affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. of every new statute upon the sub ject. The literature of the period, from the statute of laborers (1350) to the repeal of the conspiracy act (1824), is a continuous record of tho failure to govern wages by authority. The development of economic thought and tho substitution of scientific for authoritative and coercive methods of dealing with sociological questions, has given us the key to this failure. We now know, as tho schoolmen in tho middle ages and the politicians of tile eighteenth and a large part of the nineteenth century did not, that wages are a social product; that the price of service, like the price of every other marketable quantity In society, is primarily determined by what it costs to furnish it. This means that Instead of wages being an arbitrary quantity to be fixed by tho master or the magistrate, or by the ii' re demand and supply of laborers, they are really governed by the social standard of living of the wage class. It is not even an individual matter; It is beyond the power of the individ ual laborer to regulate his own wages, just ns it is beyond the power of the individual to regulate the price of his own product.—Prof. George Gunton. Men who do the most work don’t al- I ways do it. the best. There are a few unions in the coun try that come near to meeting the re quirement that 1 have mentioned. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers never has any trouble; the firemen never have, and they are so strong that all other unions look toward them whenever they get into any trouble. But they are also so strong that they cannot be stampeded into any rash action at the instance of others, or of outsiders, and their employers know full well that an agreement made with them—that is. witn their duly author ized leader —is made to be kept, and that it /111 be kept by every member of the union, no matter at what indi vidual cost. Whenever the other unions estab lish for themselves a reputation so that employers will only have to turn to the agreement with them to be ab solutely sure pf what they are going to do, then, and not till then, will la bor unions bo the power for all-round good that they are capable of.—Henry W. Hoyt, vice-president Allis-Chalmers company, Chicago. their subcontractors, made necessary by the concession of the nine-hour work day, and 1.500 employes have re fused to work. President (Jumpers of the American Federation of l abor has canceled the charter of the Kingston (Ont.) Iron i Workers' Union because the men would not support the machinists, now on strike there. Such a step was never I before necessary in the history of i unionism in Canada. -Terms of settlement of the trouble between the papermakers' unions and j the manufacturers at Providence, R. ; 1., ltav o been ratified and a peace ; agreement, to run for a year, has been signed. The pulpmukers receive an advance of 10 per cent ip wages and some other concessions. REGULATING A CLOCK. Eaiband and Wife by Not Fulling To. geilior Got It Ja*t litglit. When Mrs. Matthews' sister return ed home alter her regular two weeks’ visit to the east, she left the Matthews a fine clock. Matthews, especially, was veil pleased with it, as he said there would no longer do any excuse for not having supper ready on lime. Mr. Matthews explained to Mrs. Matthews just how a clock should be regulated. ‘'lf it goes too fast, lengthen the pen dulum by screwing the little nut down; if it goes too alow, screw the nut up." Matthews was in the habit of gating up early to do a little work tetore brejicfast, and the next morn ing, whan he compared the dock with his watch the clock was a little slow. Leing an exact man he shortened the pendulum a littie ami went about his work. At noon Mrs. Matthews realized the advantage of living in that part of the city wuere the City hall bell could p,,- plainly heard. Listening intently she was prepared to verify the new time piece. When the bet! struck 12 the clock showed half a minute past 12 o’clock. Remembering her husband’s instructions Mrs. Matthews lengthened the pendulum by unscrewing the nut. That evening Matthews thought the dock was a irilie slow; in the morning lie was sure of it, and again he short (ned the pendulni. At noon ihe ring of the Cily hall I ell was a minute ben in J the dock. “This is strange,’ thought Mrs. Matthews, giving the nut a few extra turns in order to make sure it, was long enough. Matthews forgot ail about the dock that evening, but in the morning it was slower than ever “What ai’s the tiling, anyway, ’ mut tered Matthews; "first thing i know i’ll have to take a reef in the wire.” Mrs. Matthews was growing Interest ed. At noon that day the dock was two minutes fast. “This pendulum will he dragging on the bottom of the dock ur this rate." she thought, unscrewing the nut until she thought it would come oft. Again the dock was slow for Mr. Matthews, lie organ o doubt the the ory of shortening the- swing. "Why, of c ourse " and in the mid dle of his pcailant sentence no lengui ened the pendulum to tb !a;i turn of the nut. That day Mrs. Matthews went shopping. Her son hud been interest ed. bowev r, anc. noticing that tin* dock was slow agam in* shortened the pendulum as much as he thought noc c scary and then gave it another turn or two "foi luck." At. 5.30 o’clock by Matthews’ watch next morning the dock showed 5.30 to a hair’s breadth. At noon the dock showed 12 on the very stroke of the City hall hell. That evening Mrs. Matthews was surprised to sec* a clock maker come in with Mr. Matthews. “.Just a little wager, my dear." ex plained Matthews. "I've bet Mr. Smith $lO that shortening our clock's pendulum makes it run slower and—” I “Oh, John, have you been regulating ; it, top? i'vo been trying to make it tun with the City hall bell ” "And so you’ve lengthened it every day after Mr. Matthews shortened it?" And Mrs. Matthews could only nod in the* affirmative.—Milwaukee Sentinel. ? ain on* N iiiiips for \f>tr Vork^ra, The great names signed to the I>ec laration of Independence, promulgated 12b years ago yesteiday. aie of course. p.rpetnaU-d all throrgh the country. Mow many George \> asniugtons there art*, for instance, it would require a mi me census to discover. Th'-v probably run in o the hundreds, but in New Void; there are only six at leas:, only six are recorded in the directory. i he lira I Iftts no occupation assigned to him. The others la order are clerk, peddler, messenger, barber and pro prietor of na eating house. Thomas Jefferson is represented by two. one of whom is an iron worker, and tlie ether, a.- far as the directory goes, a man of l- isure. Tho Benjamin Franklins are respec tively, a clerk, a detective, a janitor and a lawyer. John Adams ties the Father of His Country in the number of his name sakes in New ' t-rK. for ;-e possesses six. Two of them have no recorded business, but tho remaining quartet arc marie up of an auditor, a butcher, a mason and a packer. There arc lots of G -nrge Washing tons. Thomas Jeffcrsons, Benjamin Franklins and lohn Adamses and mid dle initials, but the eighteen mention ed above are the only simon-pure ones. —New York Mail ami Express. Ht-atl, Itrnitis ami <J-uitt. it has long been a popular belief, especially since the invention ot phrenology, that the size and shape of the hea l are intimately related tc the intellectual capacity. Almost ev erybody is accustomed to form dog matic judgments of men based ttpor. tl is postulate. But the results of sta tistical investigation make it appeal very doubtful whether the belief ir question rests upon a sound founda tion. The conclusion Is that there ex ists. in th<> general population, very insignificant corelntian between abil ity and either the size or the shape ol the head. Very brilliant men may have a slightly larger head than the average, but the increase is sc small that no weight can be laid on it in our judgment ot ability. This is in ac cord with the results of other at tempts to apply a scientific test to the assumptions of phrenology.—The Cos mopolitan. 1 Seattle's exports to Japan are now about $5,000,000 per annum, which is 11 times what they were six years ago. THB BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. Fault* In Vmdin?. There are faults in feeding that should be avoided. The farmer who overfeeds his animals by allowing food to remain within their reach at all times is not economical in his methods. Animals that are permit ted to feed on grain or hay at will are subject to indigestion and a;so evince no disposition to exercise. Plenty of food should be allowed, but only at regular hours, and in quantity suited to the requirements of each in dividual. Ilrinkins tiiMt-lc Co** I owl*. One poultryman says that he finds it advantageous to have two sots of drinking vessels, using one one day and the other the next By t.iis meant one soi is sunned and aired in the off day. He think; ho keeps down disease germs by this method. With out. doubt drinking vessels so handled will be free from slime and other things that may foster the develop ment of disease germs. Certainly L is wiser to err on virtue’s vide than to invite* disease. We have noticed that when one; set of d'sbes only is used for this purpose they sometimes become very filthy. If disease appears in the flock they offer a good chance for its spread.—Farmer’s Review. No Kicking < ovt. Many cows are made cross and un ruly by the men who have the care of them. Take almost any nervous, high strung cow anil place her under ihe car.* of ill tempered, impatient men, and Lie rosuß is not difficult io foresee, it will be only a little while before we have a kicking row. And one kicking cow in a herd will do more to destroy the value of the dairy aan can he estimated. This less will not be with (he kicking cow herself, but with all the rest o' the herd; for it cannot be disputed that the temper of ail will lie aroused by the actions of the one which is really unruly- and of her mas ter. Anything ,hat disturbs the quiet of the dairy has a direct effect on the yield of milk, and its worth in dollars and cents. The kicking cow will kick more value out: of the miikpail tian we can feed in from the meal barrel. But. why have kicking cows? Moat is the ue of having such times as are often witnessed in the stable when ever milking time conn round? I re member working for one man when i was a lad who had a cow that was light footed. Before milking her master would put a strap about her and haul her away back toward the side of the barn. In which position she was ex pected to stand during the process of milking, if she became tired and flounced about there was a scene. Shouts of anger mingled with heavy blows and a general stirring up of the animals all over the barn ensued. It was a shame. The incorrigible kicker might as well go to the butcher mop first as last. It would be money in the pocket of her owner, even though she were the best cow in the barn. Then ;u*r progeny should also be weeded out. for it is a tact that kicking cows leave their mark on their calves. Sometimes by taking the heifers from such cows and treating them kindly, as all heif ers 'should be treated, one may suc ceed In training them to stand nicely. Asa rule v, do not have patience enough with ou- heifers when teach ing them to be milked. No cross, imp - tiont man should ever try to break heifer or teach a .rdf to drink. It is a waste of temper in the man and a risk of spoiling the cow. The most nervous cow may he controlled by uniformly kind speaking and handling. It pays to do this- pays in dollars ami cents, and in the better sense which touches the higher life of the man.—E. L. Vin cent in New Y n*k Tribune. rrt>l>rlnc Wool for Varhot. V.' ;o! g-owers should take more to heart the appeals <:(' manufacturers to pay more attention to Etc preparation of wool on the farm for market ship ment. By so doing they would save waste and expenses which now eat rapidly into their profits. A good deal oL the wool received in he markets ls™in filthy condition, packed without any idea of what manufacturers re quire. ami practically In such a way that a great deal of labor is required ,o resort mid prepare it for sal'-. All this labor in Lie markets must be de ducted Horn ihe profits of the grow ers. The practice in many places of marking sheep with pit-: h. paint or some o.lter sticky su" stance causes a great amount of loss and prejudice. When such marks appear on wool, dealers avoid ii. and if forced to buy they make deductions for the waste through clipping, it is impossible to scour out such marks, and the easiest way is to clip off the wool and throw it away. In a big bundle cf fleeces this loss amounts to considerable. If it is necessary to mark sheep it is bettor to use come substance that can be washed or scoured off on the farm before the wool is shipped to market. It may make quite a difference in the price and profit. In a market that is well supplied with stock a small thing may determine the reduction in prices for any particular lot cf goods. Some growers prepare their wool so neatly for market that they average almost n cent a pound more for it than others, and yet >hc wool is not actually any better, in packing wool for shipment careful grading and separation of different' kinds should be made. A!! fleeces should be t : ej with soft twine, and not with sisal or binding twine. No more than necessary should be used, and the knots should he clip ped off close. A bundle of wool lied with a dozen unnecessary knots, and with maay loose ends sticking out, always gives a bad appearance the package, and in many cases pre judice* buyers from the whole lot. They rightly reason that If the grower is careless in this regard, he may be expected to be careless ail through his work, and there will be a loss Ol time or waste of material on opening the package. The reason manufac turers dislike to have the wool tied with sisal or binding twine is that small particles of it adhere to the woo! and damage it. —S. L. Miner in Ameri can Cultivator. FfTnct of Fertilizer*. Potatoes are grown extensively in this country, and more experiments have been made with them than any other crop, yet the matter of ap plying manure or fertilizer to the po tato crop is one on which growers dif fer materially, it is possibly the case that many varieties, as weli as the peculiarities of soils and climates, may have much to do with the lack of unanimity among growers, but it is safe to claim that there is a wide field open for work in the ti3C of plant foods for potatoes. The name difficulty pre sents itself in Europe, where experi ments ‘have been conducted tor years. Professor Wright, of the West of Scot land Agricultural college, concludes that large crops of potatoes can be grown either with a heavy (20 tons! dressing per acre of barnyard manure, or with half that quantity when supplemented with fertilizers. The use of fertilizers r.tore will also give large crops. In this country the use of barnyard manure In some sec tions induces disease among the tu bers and vines. Experiments show that ihe increase produced by manure on potatoes 13 entirely in tubers of large size. th yields of small tubers while light dressings of manure pro duce a much greater proportionate effect, and a larger local ml urn can be obtained from a limited quanity over a given area. Fertilizers when added to large dressings of manure are not so effective as when added to small dressing:*. Heavy dressings of manure*, wi.hoi.t fer,illzors. give peta tocs of a raiher watery or inferior quality, light dressings being less in jurious, while the use of fertilizers with manure tends to greatly improve the quality,but potatoes of the best cooking quality and possessing the highest, nutritive value can be grown by the use of fertilizers alone. Concerning the vise of the several forms of fertilizers on potatoes it was demonstrated that the addition ot potash in any form, when applied with barnyard manure, increased the dry matter in starch in the tubers, and *tlnis improved the quality, it also in creased materially tho proportionate yield of large potatoes, which adds io the market value of the crop. Thu most profitable quantity of potash to apply, according to the results of ex periments, is St pounds per acre, Repre sented by about 170 pounds of sulphate of potash, any increase in that amount being no *0 beneficial * l! is possible to use more potash and secure larger yields, but the amount mentioned will give the most profit In proportion to expense. When fertili zers only are used the potash should be given in the form of sulphate of potash. In these experiments tae finest quality of potatoes were grown with Ihe us** of sulphate of potash. Kainit, applied in the spring, whether given with or without barnyard manure, gave inferior results, both in yield and quality of the tubers, proving some what detrimental to the quality. Mu riate of potash gave good results when used in fertilizers, but when applied with barnyard manure it proved even more effective than sulphate of potash in increasing the yield, but, did not pro duce tubers of !ho highest quality. Ni tr.iif* of soda, applied as a top dressing ai the rate of 112 pounds per acre, and put o*i immediately after the first weeding of the crop, produced no in jurious effects on the quality of the potatoes. In the growing of potatoes the farm er desires the largest possible yield and the large majority of them have succeeded in so combining barnyard manure and fertilizers as to harvest enormous i tops, but the < xperiments mentioned include something more than yields, the object being to also observe the effect on .he quality of the tubers, It is the quality that gives the piofit. a:; the difference in prices may hugely bffset he differences in yield's. Kainit, which is a crude sulphate of, potash containing a large common salt. >s u r.sively in the manure :.t or;' -r to prevent the loss of volatile matter, and i increases ihe value of manure for some crops, hut when applied iO potatoes it does rot improve tne quality. Wood ashes, which are rich in potash when pro duced from certain hardwoods, would no doubt prove valuable for potatoes, but. as ashes also contain lime, the ef fr<- be to injure the crop, as it is not known that lime is favor able to some diseases. anj for that reason should not be applied. A fertilizer for potatoes should not only contain potash, but also nitrogen and phosphoric acid. In some ca -es the use of superphosphate and sulphate of potash has given sat isfaction, the superphosphate contain ing sufficient nitrogen if Lie soil is al so fertile. Farmers should experiment with small plots in order to test the advantages of the piant foods for in creasing the quality of the tubers, as any experiments made with certain varieties and on soils that are varia ble may bo of but little advantage in sections where the conditions differ from those of the experiment.—Phila delphia Record. SEPTEMBER 14. POPULARITY OF THE PEANUT. Known Also in tbe South no the Pindar and the <i*ber. An observant state contemporary, considering the virtues of the “ptn dar," remarks that “they do say a South Carolina legislator can eat more pindars than anybody else.” It is a fact that the average South Carolina, legislator is abnormally fond of ”pindar3,” as our contemporary calls the fruit scientifically known as the A.-achis hypogoea, and variously des ignated in 'he every-day language of this country. Ever the strictest rules against eating The legislative hail are insufficient to abdlis'n the habit in the house, and, while the sedate senate is not so openly addicted to it, still we have known the mo3t punctilious sena tor to send out* surreptitiously for a bag of pindars and devour them in that dignity of manner becoming a senator of South Carolina. The senators eat pindars quietly in the senate chamber and arefully dispose ol the hulls or t.my slip out into the lobby or cloak 100ms and there enjoy the feast in peace. But in the house it is quite different. There the membexs indulge themselves regardless of conventional ities, and after an especially trying (lay the rtoor is covered with the hulls that have tailed from their careless lands. in this article we have followed our contemporary in designating the Ara i his hypococa as the pindar, but there are many other nan.es for tnis popular fruit. In the south, where the fruit is best known, pindar is the most com moil name given it, although it is spelled either pindar or pinder, while the form "pimla” is also found as ,w.*il as “pindal.” In Georgia the common t ame is "goober” anu in Virginia, where H. is raised on an extensive scale, it is usually called tho "ground nut.'’ In the north tne name by which the versatile plant and us product are k'nown is "peanut" or the “ground pea' and it rejoices in still other des ignations, such as “eartanut,” "Manila nut’ and "jurnut." The peanut has been found to be a very profitable crop ami many Vir ginia farmers have made fortunes oul of it. The market is sure and the ex pense of planting, cultivation and ha vfsting is by no means great. The Ni wherry Observer interviewed a pea nut. dealer in its town who "has a $240 peanut roaster and lias 11 acres planted in peanuts on his farm out beyond Helena." This gentleman expects to gather "500 bushels of good, sound pea nuts, leaving the undergrov.n and de fective on the vines for stock. " Last year he planted one acre late and got 00 bushels. "Peanut vines yield abund antly," says this authority. “If each vine on an acre yields only a pint, the yield of an acre, is 75 bushels. Often a vine will yield a quart. Good pin dars bring from 90 cents to $1.25 a bushel through the year." So that there is money in pindars at this rate wh-n we known that a town the size of Newberry consumes $1,500 or 2,000 bushels.—Columbia State. Rtche* from IttlilOlh. “Chemistry, like a prudent house wife. economizes every scrap,” says Dr. Lyon Playfair, rue eminent British Scientist, in one ot his lectures. But who realizes the extent to which w hat were formerly the mere waste and re fuse of factories are now converted into valuable products. A mere sketch of what science, espec ially chemistry, has done more within the last 10 years for tne conversion of rubbish into riches fills a monograph of 20 pages just sent sent out by the Census bureau. Tne garbage and re fuse of cities, whim were burned or otherwise destroyed until a few years i;go are now converted into greases f ; ’id fertilizers of large market value. J Tom the trainings of cow barns, and the waste of gas-tar works the essen tuil ingredient of one of milady's most popular perfumes is obtained. The slag of ihe iron furnaces, until recent ly thrown away, is now con verted by chemical processes into excellent pav lt g blocks, artificial porphyry, supe rior building bricks and cement. Saw dust is no longer worthless. Chemis try transfoims it into oeautiful and t malde wood. Atttic acid, wood i.aphtha, alcohol and far are also made t ; om it. '! he slaughter house furnishes a mul titude of by-products 61 commercial value. Medicines for nervous disorders are reduced from the gray brain mat ter of animals; albumen from their l/>od: soap, glue, gelatin', knife han- vnd buttons lrom their bones; ■buttons, ornaments, chemicals and fer- FtiUzers from their horns and hoofs, l-utter substitutes, soaps, stock, glyc erine and oils from their fats. And the rise of cottonseed from the rank of an utterly worthless article to a com modi tj worth one-fifth of the year ly value of the cotton crop itself is < ne of the great romances cf our in dustrial development. Sa Fisheries Unexhausted. It is frequently asserted that the white fisheries of Scotland are de clining through overfishing. The re port of the fishery board for 1901 does not seem to support this contention. The returns last year .showed a large improvement both in quantities *and values. Larger boats are now em ployed and the fishing is farther from shore than it used to be. In regard to the herring fishery, the board reports that “in no period in the history of the industry have the fishermen, par ticularly those of the east cosat. been more prosperous than during the last few years. - The erratic migrations of the herring shoals are as mysterious as ever. Last year the Shetland wa ters were favored, and the catch was , the biggest on record for any single 1 district.—Baltimore Sun.