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FAMILY SWEPT OFF BY A FLOoD.-A tele-
gram from La Crosse. Wis, says that last We'd
nesday night storm did great damage, princi-
pally in Coon Valley. 20 miles southeast of La
Crosse. The house of Hans Jansen a Norwe-
gian, was surrounded by a torrent, and his wife
and six children, ranging in age from 6 years to
Is years. were engulphed and swept along life
less with the waters. The husband. who was in
La Crosse, first learned the news Sunday night,
the roads being impossible and there being no
communication by telegraph.
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A BOYS BRAINS DASHED OUT.-Bavan Reese
Is years of age. went up to the topmost portion
of the new breaker of the Butler Colliery COM
pany in Carbonate, Pa. YESTERDAY. and was
standing on the upper screenng-wheel, when
companion named LOwery told him if he didn't
come down he would pull ont the pin which
held the screen. Reese refusing the pin was
withdrawn, and the screen turned so rapdly
that Reese was thrown fifty feet. He struck head
first upon a rock below, and his brains were
knocked out.
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AMERICAN COMPETITION REDUCING THE VALUE
OF ENGLISH LAND.-Mr. John A. Blake liberal
and hOme-rule member of Parliament, predicts
that owing to the agricultural competition i'm the
United States and Canada the value and rental
Of lands in Great Britain and Ireland will be re-
duced by One-third within the next five wears.
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THEY w0N'r HAVE THE POLEs.-At Ports
mouth NH, the aldermen refuse permit to
the Mutual Union Telegraph Company to set
poles in that CITY,
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MIxED-uP PAIR OF BABIEs.-Two girl
babies were born at nearly the same time i'm the
same house. at Oakland. Tenn The mothers
were sisters, closely resembling each other, and
during the excitement of the occasion the little
ones got mixed up before they We're dressed. or
in any way marked for Identification. There is
pulling uncertainty. for three months have
elapsed without developing any resemblance to
the father in either case. and if the children grow
up, as they seem likely to. with the physical
characteristics of their mothers. nobody will
ever know their exact parentage. The present
agreement is to decide the question BY lot.
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TOMORROW.
BROS, Auctioneers

STOCK OF STAPLE GROCERIES, WINES AND
LIQUORS, STORE FIXTURES, COUNTERS, &C..
CONTAINED IN STORE NO 1000 STREET,
AT AUCTION.
The stock is all fresh and desirable and consists in
part, OF Teas, COfees, Worcester Sauce in bottles
and demijohns, Raisins, Currants, Soaps Of every
kind, Goldfish, Mackere, Herring, full line Of Shelf
and Canned Goods, bottled Wines and Liquors. Rock
and Rye &C., Cigar Case and Cigars. &C.. with other
goods.
Also win be sold the Patent for Carks Drip Pam for
kerosene and other barrels together with about 100
Pans, Marble-top Cheese Stand, large Coffee MILL Beef
Cutter. u handsome Tea Cans, Shelving, fine Count
ers heavy Dnck Awning Of go Yards with other goods
Sale to take place WEDNESDAY,, JULY nth,
commencing at TEN O'CLOCK. Stock all fresh and in
good condition. Sale peremptory, to which invite
buyers. jy23-3t
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A HORRIBLE AFFAIR IN MISSISSIPPI - A
special dispatch from YazOo City to the Demo
c7dt says that information was received there to-
day of horrible affair that occurred near Satar-
tia, in which a white girl was outraged and MUIR
dered by a colored blacksmith named Isaac
Fisher. The latter, thinking that he had killed
the girl by choking her. threw the body into the
well, and then went into shop near by, Re-
turning after little while he found the girl
standing in the water, which was two and a-half
feet deep, whereupon. going down on the rope.
he drowned her, but was then unable to get out
and was found there with the dead body of his
victim. The citizens. who had assembled, voted
on the question Of hanging him, but some cir
cumstanceS in the case caused a majority to
favor holding him until after an inquest had
been held
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THE DYNAMITE INTERNAL MACHINEs.-The
story of the arrival at Liverpool of machines
charged with dynamite yesterday pro-
nounced to be correct by Sir William Harcourt,
in the house of commons
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MEDICAL, &c.

~ LADIES' PHYSICIAN in the city, can be consulted
9. All Female Complaints and Irregularities quickly
cured Prompt treatment Separate for ladies.
NO CURE NO PAY!-To all afflicted with private dis
sgssy sHEs without mercury Dr. sS
DR. RECORD 141 WEST FAYETTE STREET, Bal
- tmore from long experience in hospital and private
IN Ct s
discretion with sermatorrhea preHature decay, lost
p s s6 Hans
anss
ed from fee je17-3m'
DR. BROTHERS is the Oldest Established Ladies'
Distractions. and Leucorrhcsa quickly cured. ONCE
sO6 street southwest opposite Smithsonian Nocharge
WI dence. causing nervous debility. premature decay
etc. having tried in vain svesy known remedy has dis
free to his fenow-suferers.
Address Add ss ). H. REEVES,
+ BRAIN S spsss
10, .b aysts1s Dzznsss GonvuIsicns Nervous Head
F d ImpoensS: Involuntary Emissions; fremsture
sn fsssas
c e III q sst
s91s e to t.. M sss
five dollars will send the purchaser our written guar
antee to return the money the treatment does not
effect cure. Guarantees issued by STOTT GROIN
WELL, 4S0 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington d. c.
Wholesaleand Retail Agents, to whom all orders should
be addressed oc16-s, t, this
MADAME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR La
Ul dies: All female complaints quickly cured. Can be
consulted daily 94 7th street northwest Office hours
from l to o'clock pm. jelO-2ms
nR. MOTIFS FRENCH POWDERS-Certain cure for
u Kidney Diseases. Gravel and all Urinary Diseases,
Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness Impotency elect,
Scrofula, Syphilis and all Blood and Skin Diseases
speedily cured. GOnorrhHa cured in 48 hours. For
street and Pennsylvania Price per box sent
by mail under seal on receipt of price. me
CONSULT DIR. ROBERTSON every Wednesday and
- Saturday at his office, 456 street northwest near
~ street, from to O'Clock M. who, with fifteen
years experience guarantees in all diseases the
Urinary Organs. Nervous and Seminal Weakness Noe
trIal Emissions, Impotency &c. Gonorrhea Syphi-
days. Consutaton strictly private and separate offices
Main Office IS S. Eutaw street, Baltimore. Charges
moderate Q feh7
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DUNCANsON BROS. Auctioneers.
PROPOSALS


PROPOSALS FOR MATERIALS.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISING ARCHITECT.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WAsHINGToN, d. c., July 49, 1881.
y NJ. ON The sTH DAY OF AUGUST. 1881, for
Brick. Lime Cement, Sand. Plaster of Paris Lumber
Treassry Bndns from e tor TO 1e
during the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1882 in
cordance with schedules copies of which and any add
tona information may be had application at this
Jy25-3t Acting Supervising Architect
Treasury REE4 1E NHE TE,tcnrr.nv
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 49, 1881.
Sealed PROPOSALS win be received At the office Of the
k Of the TEeasyry Buildns until y
supplying and storing the following described Fuel for
the U: $; Treasury DEPARTMENT. VIZ:
$50 tons White Ash Anthracite, furnace size
30 '' Lykens Valley stove size.
j, 500 " Cumberland, Georges Greek.
25 cords Spruce pine Wood, well seasoned
Proposals must be superscrbed Proposals for Fuel
for Treasury Department and addressed to the Secre
Particulars win be furnished upon application at the
Office Of the Superintendent Of the TreasuEy Building
Il SCHOOL BUILDING.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
WASHINGTON July %, 1881
Sealed Proposals will be received at the office Of the
the erecfion of i cbdd R NHEM, s for
cations and for which viii be furnished
application to this office
curIy that the bidder if successful will enter into
tract for the work with good and sufficient bond within
hve (5) days from date of award of contract.
Inc Commissioners reserve the right to reject any
fHOS. b. E NTWISLE,
Jy23-6t Inspector of Buildings.
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AUCTION SALES.

THOMAS BOWLING, Auctaoneer.
VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY ON THE
CgRNER OF MARKET AND FOURTH
On TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2sTH 1881, at
CLOCK, in front of the premises, win sell parts
Of Lots No. 1T and 49, fronting Market street SO
feet by depth Of 10 feet. This property win be d
yided follows: Three lots Of % feet and of %
feet by depth of 10 feet front Market street. and
40x83 fronting 4th street. The above property
Terms: One third cash. balance in and two years
with notes bearing interest aud secured by deed of
trust the property sold. All conveyancing &C.,
cost of purchaser. S25 down 1T time Of sale.
jy19-dkds JAMES L. DAVIS, Agent.
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d. '1'1'o' wa. -''Ao hoe
TRUSTEES SALE OF DESIRABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY ON THE EAST SIDE OF FIRST
STREET, BETWEEN AND Q STREETS
By virtue of deed Of trust, dated April GOTH D.
1877, duly recorded in Liber No. $40, folio ST. one
OF the land records for the District of Columbia and
at the request OF the party secured thereby shall sell
at public auction. in front of the premises FRI
DAY, JULY TWENTY NINTH, 1881, at SIX O'CLOCK
in the city Of Washnst3n District Of Coumbia known
southern half Of Lot numbered FIVE all in square num-
bered sx hundred and $685. together with the
improvements. consisting of frame dwelling, &c.
Terms One third cash, and the balance in six and
twelve months with interest at six per per annu
cash at option OF the purchaser $50 deposit at time Of
to be complied with in seven days otherwise the Trs
tee reserves the right to resell the property at risk
and cost Of the defaulng purchaser after five
vertlsement. WILLIAM H. WARD,
jy19-eo&ds Trustee
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OLD WINE AND OLD FRIENDS ARE KNOWN AS
y the best. go is JUSTHs Old Stand knowH for years
as the only place where first Glass SECONDHAND
CLOTHING can be sold at respectable prices Address
OF cab st JUSTHS Old Stand. No $40 street between
9Th and It'll streets northwes Branch Store No 400
9th street. between aud streets northwest Nh
Note by mail promptly attended II. maria
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WALKERS, 206 10rHsTREET.
" CHARCOAL.
LIME. CEMENT. PLASTER. CARPET LINING
now GRAVEL Rdt,FFfGNIttI n. ssfAfrrpr.Irs
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+ OGAN HOUSE,
ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA, EA9
On MAIN LINE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Amid the Most Picturesque Scenery of the Aeghenies
Its large airy, elegantly furnished and supe-
ror cuisine render one Of the most desirable resorts
in this city.
Tourists east west can obtain a good nights rest
and daylight view OF the Aeghenies by stopping at
the LOGAN.
FrSt-claSs music, &C.
For Circular containing terms of board, &C., ad-
dress w. ID. TYLER, Superintendent
3el-2m
CHELBURNE HOUSE, Michigan Avenue Atlantic
lily, - City. 100 Yards from the sea, with UNI &AA
baths Renewed comforts. electric bells and &E:8E
modern conveniences.
jel1-2m EDWIN ROBERTS.
STOCKTON HOTEL, CAPE MAY N.J.-CHAs. DUP
~ NJ Fly, OF Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, -A
Manager Greatly enlarged and improved, ad- YcAY
d1nonal rooms, new restaurant, new billiard s.&
room and bowling alley, passenger elevator and
bells. Comfortable accommodations for l. 600 guests.
Music by simon Hassers celebrated Orchests. Opens
June 25, 1881.
Room Clerk. HARRY DENIsoN late of the Girard
fmiadelpnla. jel-2m
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IN UkI IT UEkMAN IIIU1 D
Az STEAMSHIP LINE BETWEEN NEW YORK, HAvRE
LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON BREMEN.
The Steamers of this company will sail EVERY SAT-
URDAl from Bremen Pier foot of Sd street. Hoboken
Rates of passase:-From New York to Hayre, London,
Southampton and Bremen, first cabin 500; second
cabin, 500 steeraae $50: prepaid Storage certificates
IS; For freight or passage apply to OELRICHS Co,
Bowling Green, New York W. e.. METZER0TT
Co, 925 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, Agents for
Washington jan12
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NEW YORK ROTTERDAM.

The Hrst-class Steamers of this Line,
AMSTERDAM" ROTTERDAM"
''SCHIEDAM," ''w A. SCHOLTEN,"
'.P. CAIAND, ~ and MAS"
Carrying the u s. Tails to the Netherlands leave Wat
0On Stores, Brooklyn, regularly, ON WEDNESDAY,.
First Cabin. S60-s70 ID Cabin $50. Storage, s26.
H. CAZAUX, General Agent, 81 South William street
New York. For passage apply to w. G. METZEROTT
& CO., 923 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, T.
H JOHNSON Agent. National Safe Deposit Building,
New York and 18th street northwest a1
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SUMMER RESORTS.

EASTFORD HALL.
II OXFORD, Nd, A., 4
Is now open for the reception of guests. VA
For particulars, address
SAMUEL NORRIS
jy9-1ms Proprietor.
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nR- LEON, the oldest established and most reliable
- LADIES' PHYSICIAN in the city, can be consulted
daily at 455 Massachusetts avenue, from to to
g. All Female Complaints and irregularities quickly
cured Prompt treatment Separate rooms for ladies'.
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(HOBB'S HOTEL,
" COBBS ISLAND, VA. "A
Surf Bathing, Fishing, Snipe Shooting. This YEHAY
Hotel is reopened for the reception of visitors
Terms 81 per day, So week, $35 per month"; Route
from Norfolk Old Point per steamer. Northampton
Q Chsrrystone every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Dr.. VIM. Stoakley, of Northampton Co., Va, will be
IN attendance to render medical aid. For further in
formation address
jy1-1m ]. T. SPADY, Proprietor.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06
Put Yourself in His Place.

In an admirable address on Sunday
school teaching, DR.. Eggleston gave this
forcible illustration of the value of per-
sonal sympathy with children in every
effort to gain hold On and lead them:
ga half-witted fellow-or natural,
as the Scotch would call him-found a
missing horse, when all search for him
had failed, and liberal reward had
been offered for his recovery. On his
bringing back the horse to its owner,
the question was asked Of the simple
minded fellow:
"Why, Sam, how came you to find
the horse, when no one else could?'
"'Wall, I just 'quired where the
horse was seen last, and then I went
thar, and sat on rock, and just axed
myself, if I was horse, whar I would
go, and what would do? And then I
went and found him.
"Sam putting himself in the horses
place, in the simplicity of his feeble
mind, is enabled to go to the horse and
lead him back to the right place. 1t
would be well if every Sunday-school
teacher, before sitting down to class
of children, would ask himself after
Sans sort: IF was boy, how would
feel, and what would I want?' He
would thus be far more likely to get
hold on those boys, and bring them
along with him wherever he pleases to
go."-KSnd Words.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06
An EHlperor's Joke.

In the published memoirs Of Kara-
tygin, the famous Russian actor, will be
found the following characteristic anec-
dote of the late Emperor Nicholas. His
Majesty happened one day to be engaged
in inspecting state penitentiary in one
Of the provincial seats Of government,
and took it into his head to question
some of the convicts respecting the ma
ture of the offenses for which they were
suffering punishment. ''What are you
here for?" he asked Of one. 81 am in
nocent, Imperial Majesty" replied the
prisoner, falling on his knees, ga victim
Of false witnesses! A church was robbed
"a beadle knocked on the head-the
peasants caught hold of me and knew
nothing about it." Turning to another,
the Gar asked, "And you?" False
witness again, Imperial Majesty. A
peddler was done for close to my house.
[ never even dreamed of such a thing. y
"And you?' said Nicholas to third.
"Sheer malice, Sire. One of my neigh
bors conveyed lot Of forged notes into
my pockets, and hid awaya photographic
stone In my bedroom. / am as limo
cent as an unborn babe" The Emper-
or, obviously bored by these successive
protestations of guiltlessness, cast a
glance along the line of prisoners until
bis eye fell upon ragged, wretched-
looking gypsy, whom he beckoned for
ward with the words, "Of course you,
too, are here on false charger" ':Not
bit Of it, your Majesty" replied the
Tsigan; &c it is all fair and square as far
as I am concerned. I stole pony from
tradesman. "Stole a pony, did
you?" said the Gear, with laugh, and
then, addressing the Governor of the
prison with weu-assumed sternness,
'sTurn that good for-nothing rascal in
stantly out Of doors. 1 cannot allow
him to remain minute longer in such
honorable and virtuous company, lest
he pervert all these good, innocent peo-
ple.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06
A sermon on Feet.

"And they shall wear their feet with
the flat side down. "-Pnte,at Office Re.
port.
The United States standard foot is a
brass rule made for the coast survey by
Troughton, Of London, from the old
English standard. Other feet mentioned
in official organs are the old Greek pous,
which is believed to have been exactly
1915 English inches. The English
standard foot is ''straight line Or dis
lance between the centers of two gold
plugs or pins in the bronze bar deposit
ed In the Office of the Exchequer."
This bar is designated as "bronze 10,
No. 1, and the length is to be measured
when its temperature is 81 deg. Fahren-:
heit. It's is the standard yard and the
standard foot in its third part. The old
French pied du roy equals 10y the
modern pied usuel, /. 066 !; German, @. 971
Amsterdam old foot, 093; Denmark
Rhineland foot, 1.04 Hamburg, 0.41 !;
Stockholm 0.97; st. Petersburg,
1.145; Riga, O.S9; Canton, 1.04 Lisbon,
0.927; Turkey, 1.116; Constantinople,
1.23. The foot is decimally divided.
Lie OGCluldl Is IL uIGlo DldCA SpoCh WuICu
often gets between the toes. A foot di-
vided by too many decimals, Or by too
large decimals, is not a pleasant thing
when the decimals get dead ripe. Other
feet are the foot-rule, the foot-man, the
foot-print-ed on the official organ, the
two foot to who p of the rural states
man, the foot-pad who cushions the Of
ficeholder, and the "phut's that ?" or
whatisit. There is also foot-stool Of
repentance, which is looking around for a
chance to slip itself under our respected
contemporaries. Whenour respectedcon-
temporary sits down on it the stool will
squeal-leviticcusfrst fourteenth. In
conclusion, we wish our contemporaries
may get to heaven (soon) as fervently
and, mayhap, as vainl y as they wish we
may get to hell. For the grasshopper
falls with the thermometer. f. Feet
and D. Feet have applied for situations
on our respected contemporaries, where
their sisters, their cousins and their
aunts welcomed them with dirty hands
to hospitable graves.-NeW Orleans
Times
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06

One of the members of the local bar
having on behalf of client obtained a
decree against certain individual, set
about attaching his property, as that ap-
peared to be the only way Of getting the
claim satisfied. Among the defendants
belongings were three crab winches, and
the lawyer, in drafting the application
for an attachment, entered ssthree
winches." His clerk, in filing out the
draft, not knowing what winch was,
and being under the impression that his
master had made a mistake, innocently
entered ''three wenches." This got into
the hands of one of the Small Cause Court
clerks, who, thinking the word ''wench-
es" too slangy, altered it to sthree
women" when it was passed on to
another clerk, who, priding himself on
his just appreciation of the general fit
ness Of things, altered the women" to
''wives." The feelings of that advocate,
when the Judge sweetly asked him why
he wished to attach the defendant
three ''wives," expressing at the same
time his doubt to issue such an attach
ment, may be better imagined than de-
scribed. The advocate has bought a
rhinoceros-hide whip, and is trying to
discover which clerk played such trick
upon him. -MOutnaein advertiser.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06
The Snow Man.

The three last days of October, 1880,
were excessively stormy ones in
Stockholm, and on the 1st of
November, when the. tempest ceased,
the city was deep in the drifts.
Passages had to be cut through the lesser
streets, and few of the principal ones
were cleared out. The street boys
amused themselves by building snow
men wherever they found room to set
one up.
On the night of the I'd of November a
policeman found four young men build
ing snow man in the open space which
had been cleared In front of the Chan
cellor's palace. They wore mantIes and
were respectfully dressed. They seemed
startled at his appearance, but went on
with their work, piling the snow up,
beating it hard, and carving it with their
walking sticks into the quite symmetri-
cal semblance of man. He cracked a
joke with them on their work and then
continued his patrol.
Next morning the snow man in the
Chancellorate square was the topic of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-06
Profitable POliteneSs.

The Boston Traveller, In commenting
on the prevalence of rudeness, tells the
following incident that happened some
years ago: There was q very plainly
dressed, elderly lady who was frequent
customer at the then leading dry-goods
store in Boston. No one in the store
knew her even by name. All the clerks
but one avoided her and gave their atten-
ton to those who were better dressed and
more pretentious. The exception was a
Young man who had a conscientious re-
gard for duty and system. He never left
another customer to wait on the lady, but
when at liberty he waited on her with as
much attention as If she had been a
Princess.
This continued year or two, till the
young man became Of age. One morn
ing the lady approached the young man,
when the following conversation took
place: Lady, Young man, do you
wish to go into business for yourself ? .
"Yes, ma'am,' - he replied, 'tbut I have
neither money, credit nor friends, nor
will any one trust me" "Wen," con-
tinued the lady, "you go and select a
SOOu ItoN U1ANV CAlO ACIo epliO
report to me" handing the young man
her address. The young man went,
found capital location and a good store,
but the landlord required security, which
he could not give. Mindful Of the lady's
request, he forthwith went to her and
reported. "Well," she replied, "you
go and tell Mr.. that viii be re-
sponsible." He went, and the landlord
or agent was surprised, but the bargain
was closed.
The next day the lady called again to
ascertain the result. The young man
told her, but added, ''What am 1 to dc
for goods? No one will trust me. y
"You may go and see Mr.. -, and Mr..
-, and Mr.. -, and tell them to call
on me-" He did, and his store was soon
stocked with the best goods in market.
There are many in this city who remem-
Der the circumstance and the man. He
died many years ago, and left a fortune
of $500, 900. So much for poiteness,
so much for treating ones elders with
the Difference due to age, In whatever
garb they are clothed