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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24
''THr Golden e EAGLE Cro sa4s.s;

THE CRYSTAL LArRoBE SrovE,
MANUFACTURED BY THE BARSTOw STOVE
CO., FOR WHICH WE ARETHE SOLE AGENTS, Is
UNEQUALED IN OPERATION, AND THE MOST
ARTISTIC FIREPLACE STOVE TO BE SEEN
FROM THE LARGE NUMBER WE HAVE SOLD
THE CRYSTAL is NOW THE MOST POPULAR
FIREPLACE STOVE WEALSO HAVE FULL
LINE OF SEXrON'S FIREPLACE STOVES.
ALL OUR GOODS ARE MARKED IN PLAIN
FIGURES AND VERY CHEAP.
HAYWARD & HUTCHINSON
au14 424 9TH STREET.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

SUMNER Books
The Epworth Hymnal ready A splendid DC.
tAvo or Commercial Linen Papeterie. "a Sheets and
a Envelopes for . quarter.
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an1 AIS 9th
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

To REDUCE EXPENSES.-The Treasury COM
mission, of which Acting Secretary Fairchild is
chairman, appointed to investigate the differ
ent bureaus of the Treasury department, had a
meeting on Saturday and heard the report of a
special committee of clerks detailed to make
thorough examination of the office of the super
wishing architect. The report will not be made
public until the commission submit their con-
illusions thereon to the Secretary. 1t is be-
lieved that the commission will recommend
several reductions in the clerical force and one
or two radical changes in the present System of
doing business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

THE PRICE Too HIGH.-The life-saviDg sta
tions between Capes Henlopen and Charles ap-
propriated for by the last Congress have not
been built, rs the owners of the sites selected
for the stations refuse to sell the property to
the government at what the authorities con-
slider reasonable price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

A NEW ORDER AS 10 ASSIGNMENT OF U. 8.
BoNDs.-The following order has been issued
by Gen. Rosecranz register Of the Treasury: To
avoid the troublesome delays incident in the
legal representatives of holders, nominal OF
real, In fiduciary capacity. this office will here.
after require, as q condition precedent to the
issue to any trustee. executor, administrator,
guardian, ETC., that the beneficiary or particu.
lar trust represented shall be named in the ap-
plication and in the assignment of the bonds
Tor the purposes proposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

AN INTERNATIONAL PATENT QUEsr1oN.-A
Pittsburg mechanic who, in response to the
Secretary of the Navy's general request for
plans for the new cruisers, sent to the Navy de-
partinent plan of q new propeller he claimed
TO be the inventor of, has written to the State
department stating that the invention has been
stolen by some Londonderry mechanic, and
asks that the government assist him in assert
ing his right to the invention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-24

GOOD CROPS IN MISsIssIPPI.-A gentleman
who has just returned from visit to Mississippi
states that the crops Of grain, cotton and every
kind of produce have never been so abundant
as this year. The planters are jubilant over
their prospects. Col. Ed. Richardson, the largest
cotton planter in the world, stated that If he
could obtain force enough to pick the cotton he
will get $4,000 bales off of $4,000 acres.
Among the large cotton planters in Washington
county are Gen. w. S. Hancock and Senator
Wade, and the latter spends the greater portion
Of his congressional vacation on his plantation.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Sowing Clover Seed.

Experience and science are agreed
in regard to the advantages of grow
ing as much clover as possible on all
farms where wheat, barley, oats, and
other cereals are the main object of
the agriculturist. Aslong as land will
grow good crops of clover, we need
not fear exhaustion of the soil. But
clover often fails, and the evil IS in
creasing. In many cases this is due
to the difficulty of getting "good
CATCH" The seed fails to terminate.
Occasionally this is attributable to poor
seed. 1t is much more likely, how
ever, that the trouble is in the soil.
The longer our soils are cultivated,
and especially when little manure is
used, or green crops plowed under,
the poorer the soil becomes in organic
matter. We see no special diminut;on
in the yield of grain crops. This is be-
cause we cultivate better-but at the
same time there can be no doubt that
the mechanical condition of the soil is
less favorable for the termination of
small seed, like clover. The soil is
hard and the surface less mellow and
loose, than when it was full of decay
ing leaves and other organic matter.
When we sow clover and grass seed
on spring crops where the land has
been recently plowed or cultivated and
narrowed, the soil is, or may be, suffi-
GENTLY fine, moist and mellow to in.
sure the termination of the seed. But
when the seed is sown in the spring,
on winter wheat or winter rye, the
soil is often as hard and dry on the
surface as barn floor. In such a case
narrowing before or after sowing the
seed is decidedly advantageous. We
might harrow before sowing, the seed
and roll afterwards. -AmeTican Aqrs-
cultstvist for April.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Why are Onions Difficult to Raise 2

Many of our readers seem to have
trouble in raising onions from seed.
The seed will grow, and so do the on
ions, but they dc not form bulbs.
They produce thick necks and keep
green and growing until cut down by
frost. Many think this is due to eli
mate. Possibly this is so, but in many
cases the trouble is more likely to be
due to some of the following causes
namely: Poor seed, poor land, late
sowing and weeds. BY poor seed we
do not mean seed that will not grow,
but ill-bred seed, seed grown from a
crop of onions, the best of which have
been sold and those not good enough
to sell, planted for seed! A scallion-
lsh onion, or one with small bulb and
a thick, immature neck, will produce
quite as much and quite as cookbook
ing seed as the best formed bulb-in
fact more seed and better looking seed.
thick-necked onions will be very sure
to produce scallions. We can row
down stream faster than we can pull
up against the current. The onion
has been brought to perfection by high
feeding and careful selection, and if
we would maintain what we have
gained, we must continue our efforts,
but must not select the poorest onions
to breed from. BY poor land, we do
not mean land that will not produce
good crop of corn or wheat or pota-
toes or grass. Land might be too rich
for wheat, but not rich enough for on
ions. This same land might, without
any manure, become rich enough for
onious. We know low mucky land
where onions are successfully grown
year after year without manure, but
which at first produced very poor
crop. 1t needed the thorough tillage
and freedom from weeds which all
onion growers find so essential. Onion
seed should be sown the moment the
frost is out of the surface soil The
land should have been made ready the
autumn previous. If this is not done
and you have to get the land ready in
the spring, you may get fair crop OF
onions, but can hardly expect a full
yield, Even if everything else is fav-
orable, if the onion patch is not kept
free from weeds, you will be pretty
certain of getting liberal sprinkling
of scallions. To certain extent, rich
land and freedom from weeds have the
same effect; both are favorable to rap
id growth. Onion roots spread out
very little on the surface; they strike
straight down. This is probably why
land that has been thoroughly titled or
heavily MANFRED for years is best for
onions. The fertility has had time to
get down towards the subsoil. -Amer-
lean Ag,1culturist for AprU.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Wheels Not Made of Puln.

'Fhe statement that the most deli
cate watch wheels are now made of
paper pulp in Germany is hoax, l
think, said prominent jeweler and
matchmaker on Broadway to a Mail
and Express representative. II have
been in the business some forty years
and work on German, Swiss, English,
French and American watches every
week, repairing or taking them apart,
and have not seen a wheel made of
pulp, not even. among the latest
watches from Germany. Then from
my knowledge of machinery nee
essary to make a watch and run it for
several years l do not think that pulp
by any process whatever can be made
hard enough to be of use. Brass and
steel are chiefly used to make watch
wheels. Platina is too hard to work
and Too costly, and gold will not do
for many reasons.
paper buckets and boats are made.
but they have no special friction COM
pared to that OF watchwheel, which
runs in cogs all the time. Suppose a
process was discovered to harden pulp
to degree equal to steel; then the
question is, would it last as long as
steel? think not. Car wheels are
made OF paper, but they run them
merely on exhibition and NOT every
day. Steel and brass are metals
formed by natural processes during
the course of many hundred centuries.
Paper or pulp hardened by artificial
means when not subject to constant
friction may be equal to steel or brass
for certain processes, but l. imagins it's
durability would be uncertain. Hard
wood, Of course. can be used for .
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

The new excise bill that will proba-
bly, become law of New York is now
before the legislature. The bill SUBJ
stantially codifies the liquor law of the
state, provides for the classification of
licenses into beer, ale and spirituous
liquor classes, makes optional on the
part of the commissioners the granting
or refusal of license, but gives the
right of appeal to court Of competent
jurisdiction in case of q refusal to grant
a license; amends the civil damage act,
prohibits the sale of liquor, ETC., on
Sunday, imposes penalty ON corpora
tions organized for transportation of
freight and passengers for employing
men OF Incorporate habits, and makes
it a misdemeanor on the part of any
commissioner who votes to grant IL
cense in violation of any of the provi-
sions of the act. It is declared that the
bill does not extend any privileges to
the liquor interest, but offers protection
to honest and respectable dealers.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Curious Payment for Land i'm England.

Gloves of various kinds were fro
quently presented in service for lands.
Thus, two farms at Carlcoats, in York
shire, paid "the one right hand, ami
the other left hand glove yearly;'
and some lands in Elmesale, in tho
same county, were held of the king
''by the service of paying at the Cas-
tie of Pontefract one pair of gloves
furred with fox skin, or eighteen pence
yearly" while for the manor of Els
ton, in Nottingham, were rendered
two pairs of gloves, together with
a pound of cummin seed, and steel
needle. Needles are met with several
times, but one instance must here suf-
fice--where "Roger, for some time
tailor to our lord the king" held
lands in Hallingbury, Essex, by paying
at the kings exchequer lone silver
needle yearly" Still more curious is
the service for certain lands in Rode,
northampton, which consisted in
finding lone horse of the price of IS.
and one sack of the price of I'D,
with one small pin, for forty days.
Probably this 'small pin'' was similar
to the skewer noticed above, and was
ooOA W IdotCu, VI esJCdClI, buC SdCk,
which mayhave been employed to car
ry fodder to the horses. That the
horses were tolerable cared for, even
in those days, seems to be proved by
the fact that the manor of Cherburgh,
in Dorset, was held "by the service of
one horse-comb, price 4d., to be paid
yearly" and that certain lands in the
hundred of Losenberg, in the same
country, were held ''of our lord the
king, by the serjeantry of finding
certain horse-comb. or currycomb,
etc. " Among other miscellaneous
services by which lands were held
may be mentioned certain instances
of hose. Thus, Cottington. in Not
tingham, was held by the service of
presenting to the king a pair of scar
let hose yearly; Bakersfield, in Wor-
cester, was held by rendering to Ro-
bert, Earl of Gloucester, hose of scar
let on his birthday, and Henley, in
Warwick, was held by Edmund, Lord
Stafford, by the service of IS, or pair
of scarlet hose.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
WHERE STYLES COME FROM.
Interview With Man Who Gets Up Mem
Fashion, Plates.

Fashion-Plates.
1--WE are always on the lookout for
something new" says a writer in The
american Tailor. sometimes we get
a suggestion or hint from q tailor or
other person, and will work on it until
we produce something acceptable.
After getting suggestions from tailors
and others, and considering them,
perhaps getting the views of lady,
we go off and do as many newspaper
men do, act as we please 1t is well
enough to get the ideas of others, but
when we come down to work we have
to boss the job and use our own IDEAS
1t is one of those businesses in which
there is no well-defined method as to
originating styles. Observation and
study are required. Formerly chang
es were made in February for spring
and summer styles. and in August for
fall and winter, and the greatest
changes are still made at these peri
DDS. The trade for the past ten years
at least, has, however, not been con-
tent with but two plates per year, and
must now have them quarterly, many
of the foremost demanding them
monthly. The great changes are IN
the spring and fall, however, and the
others are notifications or improve
ments on them, not radical changes.
The business of making style has in
creased greatly within the past few
years, and there are number at it,
but the bulk of it is done by two or
three houses. Of course, there are not
so much change in style demanded by
gentlemen as by ladies. No, we do
not get up any styles for particular
sections of the country. When we
publish the plates they are sent to ev-
cry portion of the country, and some
times it is found that one style will
become popular in one section and an
other in an other section, but, as
rule. the tastes are as much different
In one section as another. There are
about $4,000 merchant tailors of stand
ing in the country-those who keep
stock and are fully up to the times,
having the best goods-and with these
the fashion magazines have come to
be as essential as the newspaper. Such
progress have we made that even
Europeans are adopting our patterns.
Formerly the representative merchant
tailor might be said to be son of poor
parents, receiving pattern plates twice
a year, and being fully satisfied. Now,
however, the merchant tailor is not
content with even the quarterly plates
issued, and it is surprising those of
other countries. They are now ever
alive for something new, to have not
only the latest improvements in tools
and cOnvenienceS for their business,
Some were content few years ago
with modest unassuming places of
business, but now the merchant tailor
has as fine an establishment as any
tradesman."
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph

From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
One evident and powerful reason why
Russia should urge war does not come
to the surface in the present entangle-
ments, but 1t is most decided factor in
the problem. At least as much of a
motive as Indian conquest is the desire
OF the throne and the nobility to secure
themselves through the exciting of a
general patriotic spirit. History has
shown before now that one.of the sur
est antidotes to internal dissension is
external diversion. With all the ha-
tired of the imperial power among a
large class of Russians, there is a def
mite love of country which may be ap-
pealed to forego it's attacks upon home
interests in the face of national perils.
The game, to be sure, has sometimes
failed. The Nephew of his Uncle tried
it and went under in the process. But
it is possible Russian imperialism may
be more successful. It may not con-
quer England, but it may quiet Nihilism
and that, we may be sure, is one of it's
chief objects in engaging in foreign
war.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the British
Premier, recently paid visit of condo
lence to Lady Codrington, whose
daughter is the widow of Gen. Earle,
recently killed near Abou Hame1. BY
some mistake Mrs. Gladstone was an
nounced as Lady Gladstone; SO,
supposing that she had to do with the
wife of the Premier's elder brother,
Lady Codrington received her. On dis
covering her mistake the story goes that
Lady Codrington at once opened the
Walls of her wrath and poured forth the
contents freely. She declared roundly
that she considered Mrs. GIadstone's
call a piece of gross impertinence and
charged Mr.. Gladstone with the muir
der of Earle, of Gordon and of all the
other persons slaughtered in carrying
out the Egyptian policy of the govern
ment.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

time as cog wheels in watches, and
many other temporary tough mate
rails, but they are simply for exhibit
ton and not utility. So many watches
are made in Switzerland wonder they
have not substituted some cheap ma
terial for steel and brass, but didn't
expect Germany to start at it first.
Indeed, my firm opinion is that 1t is a
mistake. about pulp being used even
for big cog wheels, much less small,
delicate ones. "-New YorE Mail and
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
IN THE DEEP WOODS.

There is a spring-time in my soul to-day,
An altitude OF peace seldom reach,
As thro' the solemn woods my footsteps stray
Where brooks have voices and the shadows
speech.
Silent Is one who treads dark minister aisles,
! wander onward past these leafg shrines,
While sunset thro' green easements softly
smiles
And swings its rosy censor mid the pines
Far overhead the beeehtrees' spreading net
Let's in faint glimpses of the sky's blue roof;
The tired leaves, dyed scarlet by sunset,
Fall tangled in the brown ea this dusky wool.
Iheart the young brook whisper to the leaves,
And mark its scattered silver on the moss
In dreamy air the spider deity weaves
hlmy sail for idle winds TO toss.
/ pause beside the affairs of the trees,
Where ircense floats from every budding
And like some slant sghing of the seas,
Sound the SOFT wind-h,rps waking far away.
The air seems as chalice, and its rim
Is overlooked by sunlght's yellow wine,
Anon. some falling shadows softly dim
The mystery of its coloring divine.
l smell the vague sweet odor of the grass,
The perfume of past spring times come again,
And every breeze that down the glades doth
pass,
DeaTs Whispers OF t0e SllVery, summer rain.
In these deep woods immortal warnings make
The cares Of yesterday become as dreams;
AL lesser things my soul would e'er forsake
To finger mere, where such enchantment
seems.
What bliss to wander from the world set free
10 feel the soft air blow upon my face;
Oh, nameless rapture, he who knows not thee
Hath never known lifes one supremest grace.
The leaves and flowers are poems, every brook
That laves the slim stalk of some bending
reed,
Is but sentence in that wondrous book
Where Genius finds its grand, eternal creed.
Here Nature wakes about her haunts divine
Far sweeter anthems than earth's feeble
hymns,
What strains aerial haunt the ausky pine.
Whose blackened shade the star of evening
dims.
All better, nobler feelings come once more
To linger with me as | wander here,
Like ships returning from brighter shore,
greet them with the silence of tear.
Fain would dwell forever here alone
In these great woods unnoted and forgot,
An everlasting calm about me thrown.
The stars of eve 10 sentinel the spot,
1 would not hear the far off city's hum,
The tUmultS of the outside lie should cease,
10 this dim refuge naught should ever come
To mar the blissful perfectness of peace.
Oh, song immortal; oh, divinest song!
Where shall | find thee, if ii be not here!
will no more return unto the throng:
Here Will | rest and deem thee ever near
The woods shall yield their secrets unto me.
he sky smile softly thro' there leafv bars
W hist eyermore my teet shall follow thee
Up pathways leading to land of stars.
-Etplrd Stdltil Miller. ist Ise Current
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

They were young and romantic,
and, although the minute hand was
pointing.to II o'clock, they stood up-
on the porch gazing at the stars.
"That's Jupiter, dear, isn't itpn she
murmured. Eyes, pet, and that is
Sirius, he replied, pointing to anoth-
er star. Are you Siriusp" she cooed.
he kissed her several times. Then
ne pointed upward and said: THAT'S
Mars, dove" "And that's pas" sho
whispered, as q footstep sounded
inside, and If the young man hadn't
scooted he would have seen more stars
than he ever dreamed Of. Her pa
wears 124 with a brass toe. Wash
issgt0n Hot0hee
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

Counterfeiting Proves Superiority.
Although counterfeiting is one OF the
greatest crimes against the business OF
any country, and in many cases
OBSTRUCTIVE of health and life!"
ct proves beyond a doubt the"
Superiority"
Of the article counterfeited;
As no inferior article is ever counter
feited.
Proof of this is found in the great
number in
Australia, England, France,
Germany, India, Belgium, Canada
and the U. S.
Of counterfeits of the great remedy,
"Hop Bitters,"
Whose name and merits are SO well
known the world over that it is a
Shining mark and favorite prey
"For Counterfeitefsi J"
Beware of all that does not have
green cluster of hops on the white label.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

In Philadelphia recently at a coroner's in
quest over the body of child, the jury return
ed verdict that death was caused by the ad
mlnistration of patent cough syrup, contain
ing morphia DR.. Sam'l X. Cox, of Washing
ton, states that not one cough medicine in ten
is free from this objection. After careful an
alyses and practical tests he endorses Red Stal
Cough Cure as being purely vegetable, abso-
lntely free from opiates, poisons and narcotics
He regards it as most happy and valuable
discovery
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Ex-United States Senator Nesmith

HA- HIUeu OUaUeS oe11dUoI NeS111tH'
Of Oregon, after about six mouths
confinement in an insane asylum as a
hopeless patient, is now reported to be
regaining health, with good prospects
of entire recovery. In a couple of
weeks he will probably be returned to
his home. He used TO live on huge
and productive wheat farm on the
Willamette, and on several occasions
when his neighbors were in distress
through loss of their crops he invited
them to come and fill their wagons at
his overlooking granaries without mon
ey and without price.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14

The Rev. David Lathrop Hum, the
oldest graduate of Yale College now liv-
ing (class of 1879, resides in Buffalo,
and at the age of SO enjoys the use of
all his senses, though his eyes and ears
are not as serviceable as they were.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-14
Glove Sees No Faults.n

it has been said but, when woman is dragged
down, emaciated, wan, and shadow of her
former self, with never a cheerful word, she
can be no longer beautiful or lovable Ma
ture may have been generous in her gifts, and
endowed her with all the charms of her sex,
but disease has crept in unawares and stolen
the roses from her cheeks, the lustre from her
eye, and the sunshine from her heart But to
be well again lies in your own power. Take
DR.. Pierces "Favorite Prescription" it will
cure you; thousands have been cured by it.
Nothing equals it for all the painful maladies
and weaknesses peculiar to women. Price re-
duced to one dollar. By druggists