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National Republican., 1886-10-04
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COTTON dull; middling, 95E,
FLOUR quiet and steady.
WHEAT-Southern steady and quiet west
ern lower and active, closing dull: southern
red, St@SSc; do. amber, S69s9lSc; No. 2, west.
ein winter red, spot, Sl1P@SlMc; October.
Slh@slA; November, sSlS@SSl4c; December,
So L@s55Sc; January, S7@DS7I9c,
CORE-Southern nominalIy steady; western
lower and dull; southern white, 50@5lc; do.
yellow, 50@5lc western mixed, spot, Hl6c bid;
October, 4i@4i92Ac; November, ,4514d1i51Sc,
western white, S5Q37o; do. mixed, 32@33c; |;
Pennsylvania, 32137c.
RYE steady, bGCD5Sc.
PROVISIONS firm and fairly active.
EGGS higher. lglza20c.
SUGAR easier; A soft, 57sc; copper refined
steady, 91l6pg14c,
WHISKY firm. S1.2l91.23.
Other articles unchanged.
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
BALTIMoRE, Oct. 2.-VirginIa l041', 40,S do.
new 3s, 6S bid to-day.
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Permit. Issued for september,

Building Inspector Entwisles report for
September shows that permits were granted
for 212 new buildings, 40 repairs, 1885
lineal feet of vaults, awnings, and 2S
park ratings. The receipts for the same
amounted TO $977.
National Republican., 1886-10-04
Industrial Exposition.

The industrial exposition will add many
new and interesting attractions this week.
The attendance will be much larger, and
excellent music by good artists will be rem.
dered every evening.
National Republican., 1886-10-04
CITY ITEMS.

HowLAED DENTAL ASSOCIATION, AL Four:
And-a-half street northwest, three doors north OF
Pennsylvania avenue. E +. Rowland, M. D., O.
II. Howland, u. ID. g., surgical, operative, and
trous oxide, 90 cents each tooth, and only 80
cents extra for gas, whether one or number
of teeth are extracted at the same sitting. Have
administered nitrous oxide 10 over $4,000 per-
sons. Artificial teeth W per set. Gold, ANAL
gam, and white filings Inserted In the best
manner. All work warranted first olaBa
National Republican., 1886-10-04
DRorosALs For STATIONERY.

DRoPosALs FOR STATIONERY.
SECRErARY's OFFICE.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
WAsHlSGToN, ID. c., Sept. %, 1886,
Scaled proposals win be received at this office
until II O'CLOCK NJ, OCT. ~, 1886, for fur
nshing Stationery for the use OF the Senate Of
the United States for the next fiscal year.
Blank forms Of proposals, showing the guam
bond to be signed by the bidder aud suretles,
will be furnished on application to this olIlce.
Proposals should be Endorsed proposals for
stationery for the Senate" and be directed to
the Secretary of the Senate, Washington.
Proposals and specimens must be delivered
at this office free OF charge.
ASsoN G. MCCOOK,
Secretary of the Senate Of the U, S.
se2s-tuit
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FOR STATIONERY.

DROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
U. s. House or REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, ID. q Sept. Is, 1886,
Sealed proposals will be received at this of.
fee until ~ o clock IN. OCTOBER Is, 1886, for
furnishing stationery for the House of Repre-.
sentatives during the fiscal year ending June
80. 1857.
Blank forms OF proposals. blank bonds, and
necessary Information will be furnished on
application TO the stationery clerk.
The clerk reserves the right to waive defects
and reject any or all bids or parts of bids.
Proposals should be addressed to the Clerk
of the House Of Representatives and indorsed
Proposals for Stationery"
JOHN Il. CLARK, JR.,
Clerk U. S. House of Representatives,
sells sN Ct
National Republican., 1886-10-04
E P 1 T FL Ell ON A
OR SKIN CANCER.

For seven years suffered with q cancer on my
aee. Eight months ago friend recommended the
use OF Swifts Specific and j determined to make
an effort to procure It, In this was successful aud
began Its use. The influence OF the medicine at hrs
was to somewhat aggravate the sorei but soon the
after the hrst few bottles. My general health has
greatly improved. am stronger, and able to do
any kind OF work. The cancer on my face began
10 decrease and the ulcer to heal until there Is not
yestige Of II left-only a little scar marks the
place. Mas JoIcIE A. MCDONALD.
: ATLANTA, GA, Aug IL, 1885.
have had cancer on my face for some years.
extending from one cheek bone across the nose 70
the other. II has given me q great deal OF palm
at times burning and itching TO such extent that
II was almost unbearable, commenced using
swift's Specific In May, 1885, and have used eight
bottles II has given the greatest relief by removing
the Inflammation and restoring my general health.
W. BARNES.
KNOXVILLE, Iowa, Sept. 9, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Draw 9, Atlanta, Ga.
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TN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS.
nTS TKlCp CrIIP 0E G0L1MIBlA ol NI HpkDiNG Dis

IN THE MATTER OF THE CONF No. 3s3.
DEMNATI0N OF LAND FOR A DISTRICT
CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, COURT,
Upon consideration of the petition of Samuel
Bieber claiming q, $40 60, assessed by tho Jury
No. 720, II is by the court this 2lth day of Sept
A, d. 1886, adjudged and decreed that all par
ties claiming adversely to the said Samuel Bic
Der show cause on or before the 9th day Of Oct,
not be granted; provided, u copy Of this order
be published every other day for ten days prior
to said Dth day OF october in some daily news
paper published In the District of Columbia.
CHARLES =, JAMES, j,
A true copy. Test; II, J, MEIGs, Clerk,
by s. T. WILLIAMS,
se27'mwfbt Assistant Clerk.
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FAMILY SUPPLIES.

Mr.. II. Maddox Detroit Mich, cured his
cold with three doses of Red Star Cough Cure.
National Republican., 1886-10-04
DRoPosALs FOR GLASS.

OFFICE OF BUILDING FOR STATE,
WAR, AID NAVY DEPARTMENTS,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. "a. 1886.
Sealed proposals for furnishing and deliver
ing The polished plate, double.thick, aud ham
mered glass required for the west and center
wings of the building for State, War, and Navy
Departments. in this city, will be received
until - NJ, on THURSDAY, THE 7ru DAY OF
OCTOBER, 1886, and opened Immediately
thereafter in presence of bidders.
Specifications general Instructions to bid
derS, and blank forms Of proposal will be fur
nished TO established manufacturers and deal
ers on application to this office.
TH0S. LINCOLN CASEY,
se27. .2S %. 30 oc5 d
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As WE are manufacturers, WE CAN AND WE
DO sell you fall clothing for yourself or boys
20 per cent. lower than any other house In the
city. Eseman Bros, cor, Tth and Il N. W., the
only clothing manufacturers of Washington.
National Republican., 1886-10-04
"ALDKRNEY DAIRY WAGONS. ;

"ALDKRNEY DAIRY WAGONS. '-Fresh Alder.
ney Butter churned every morning and deliy-
cred In II pound Ward" prints, at 40 cents per
pound. Also, cottage cheese, cents per ball;
bpttermilk, cents per quart, and sweet milk
National Republican., 1886-10-04
PROPOS1LG.
lRoIo5ALs FOR STORAGE ROOMS.
GoyERNMENr PnINrINo Orrlcn.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., oct. Q, 1886.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
Office until II O'CLOCK a. m. oi THURSDAY,
OCT 1856, for the lease to the government
for period OF one year or less of rooms in the
northeastern part Of the city and convenient to
the Government Printing Office, suitable for
heavy storage.
Bidders must state location of rooms and
capacity of same.
Proposals must be indorsed on the envelope
Proposals for Storage Rooms" and addressed
TO TIL. L, BENEDICT,
ociG6 Public Printer.
National Republican., 1886-10-04

Wo,,,u,. Mrs +. OATS, OF Shtpdv Iu, writes. "when
W0mhN III had Dr. 'Fnvorlte Prescripon
Il n lone week, could walk all door-yard
EnhTTInE land could get into
TO see my neghbors had not able
out In the door-yard for six months. using
haYorite prescription two weeks, n
mles my neigh6ors were all surprised to going
about and helping TO do my housework,
with thirteen of tho best physieians we could gel
and the last ono told my husband that would
70 40 my hSTseTSrE @ @ any more am thankful e God that
had almost given up In despair"
IT-..,.,. Mrs. f. E. WILCOX, Friendhip, NJ T. writes;
IEHHlBlE For hve six had
/ with female weakness terrible pains across
II VhIN the small of my back pit of the stomach.
hih Three bottles Of DIR. Percc's Favorte Prescrp-
pletelY. 70 great low - - 49, - WI
National Republican., 1886-10-04

BERKELKy, apure rye whisky, the best on the
nAIket ioethe price, N per gailan, q a quart,
and 10 cents pint, Is cents sample bottle
Thar as y street northWeau
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10eo 900 Ticketsat Five Dollars Each. Fractions
. in fifths, in proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES.

1867 Prizes, amounting to. ---........... 826550
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only TO the office Of the company in New Or
leans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address.
Postal Notes, Express Money Orders, or New
York Exchange In ordinary letter. Currency
invariably by express lat our expensel, ad-
dressed NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
Mako p. o. Money orderu payable and ad.
dress Registered Letters TO NEW ORLEANS
NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La
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DRoPosALS FOR GAS PIPING.
OFFICE SUPERVISING
ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT,
FEW PENSION BUILDING. 1876 N ST. n, w.
WAsHISGToN, oct. 1, 1886.
Proposals are invited for gas-piping In tho
third and fourth stories OF the new Pension
building. Bids received will be opened at .
?, m. Of 18th October, 1886, in presence of bid
deTR. NJ. @. MEIGS,
Supervising Engineer and Architect.
ocl,6.SlOl3
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Fell out of a Window

Two remedies with but a single end-St.
Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure.
National Republican., 1886-10-04
Grain and Provisions,
Washington stoek Exohange.

The following list OF the active stocks deal.
In on the Washington Stock Exchange is Furnished
by Messrs. Bell q o., bankers. no. 1897 Pennsyl.
vania avenue:
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THI

In win physicians came, with subtle skill,
And tried, in turn prescription, lotion, pill
With saddened looks they viewed her furry
ttonguc,
In solemn silence stethoscoped each lung;
From moulting head TO gout distorted toe,
They searched, then said, Poor woman, tis
tno go"i
National Republican., 1886-10-04

Rev. SIDNEY G. DAVIS Gdlen, Michigan, writes:
AHVEl wish in this letter. TO gratitude for
Mrs Davis and myself for the great good which
HEuEEITc has been accomplished in her OF
uENsIIS. uyour proprietary medicines When she began
-. to take them, in January last she could not
the could a
could about thirty minutes time
only sits almost tho entire but walk call
her neiRhborS, three blocks
injurious effects a When consider
bed tho greater part of the time for four
II Ntcen months, and would tho
uEu-fhSI Nadvance she had made,
L Umarveous. We had almost lost confidence
tp MnnTuN lin medical practitioners
L teh uoNIuos dies but have found perce'n
Favorte Prescription and Pellets tho
properties needed, we believe will bring about
complete and final recovery"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
With Cotton a. Eigh. ..d a Half Cents, Poor
Crops and Bad Prices.
WHAT A BE DONE
RALEIGH, n. c., Feb. I, 1885.

RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. I, 1885.
The situation of our Farmers, and
more especially of those in the Eastern
Counties, is a serious one. With cotton
at 81 cents and everything else in the
same proportion, it is doubtful whether
our people can make cotton at all
with the old method. Thousands of
thoughtful men all through the
South are considering earnestly this
question: WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
With prices of their products way down
and the prices of all they buy not re-
duced in the same proportion, what
shall be done to feed the family, buy
clothes and send the children to school
during this New Year? All this time
sensible men are cutting down every ex-
pense n resolving that they will make
more at home. Milk, meat, vegetables
must be made in larger quantities and
groceries saved corn, oats and grass
must be provided for the horses, COWS
and hogs. High-priced fertilizers and eve
ry extra thing are entirely out OF the
question. The wise man will buy the
cheapest and best ingredients only and
make fertilizers at home this year.
At this time, THE NORTH CARROLL
Ma PHOSPHATE COMPANY, an ex-
clusively North Carolina Company, work
ing nothing but North Carolina material,
wants to inform the prudent men Just
described how they can help themselves
and help a home enterprise by buying
LIME PHOSPHATE, the cheapest PhOs-
plate ever sold in North Carolina. Itis
to the interest of every farmer in North
Carolina to write to the NORTH CARO-
LIMA PHOSPHATE COMPANY at
Raleigh, n. c., and learn how to save
money and make a good fertilizer that
will MAKE a good crop at a very low
price.
Inns.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
HOW TO KILL THE BLUES.

Generally speaking, if you +
troubled with 1.-The blues. and can
not tell why, you may be certain
that it springs from physical weak,
ness. Instead Of lying on a sofa and
counting painful ideas, if you are a
despairing lover, a hypochondriac
or a valetudinarian, you should De
up and stirring yourself: The blood
of a melancholy man is thick and
slow, creeping slnggishly through
his veins, like muddy waters in a
canal; the blood of your merry,
chirping philosopher is clear and
quick. brisk as a newly-broached
champagne. Try, therefore, to set
your blood in motion. Try, rather,
what a smart walk will do for you;
set your pegs in motion on rough,
rocky ground, or hurry them up a
steep, dragged hill; build a stone
wall, swing an X over a pile OF
hickory or rock-maple, turn a grind
stone, dig bitches, practice ground
and lofty tumbling," pour water into
sleeves with the Danaides, OF, with
Sisyphus, cup the high hill heaye a
huge round stone;' in short do any
thing that will start the perspira-
ton, and you will soon cease to have
your brains lined with black, as
Burton expresses it, or to rise in the
morning, as Cowper did, "like an in
fernal frog out of Acheron, crowned
with the ooze and mud of melan-
choly."-PrOf. Matthews.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
GROWING GREEN FOOD.

Oats, sOwn early i'll the season,
and allowed to sprout, and grow to
the height of two inches, make an
excellent green food for the hens.
Grown in this manner but a short
time is required, and the supply may
be renewed and repeated until quite
late in the season. Green peas are
also excellent, but the seed is too
expensive for the purpose. There
n quite a number of plants which
grow from small seeds that could be
utilized, if fed when the plants are
young and tender, and which would
not entail much expense for seed,
such as kale, lettuce, mustard and
even grass. But oats are cheaper
and better than anything else, and
may either be grown on a plot upon
which the hens can be turned in, or
allowed to grow to the height of
three or four inches and cut for
them, being fed on the soiling sys-
tenn. AS an early crop, however,
there is nothing equal to rye, of
which the fowls are very partial
Farm, Field and Stock Raiser.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
SLEEPING UNDER THE CLOTHES

Miss Nightingale gives the follow
ing advice: "'There is no reason to
belive that a not a few of the appa-
rently unaccOuntable cases Of scrof-
ula among children proceed from
the habit of sleeping with their
heads under the clothes, and so inhal-
ing air already breathed, which is
further contaminated by exhalations
from the skin. Patients are some
times given to a similar habit and
it often happens that the bed clothes
are so disposed that the patient must
necessarily breathe air more or less
contaminated by exhalations from
the skin. A good nurse will be care
full to attend to this. 1t is an i'm
p%ortant part, so to speak, Of ventila-
ton. 1t may be worth while to re-
mark that when there is any danger
Of bed sores, a blanket should never
be placed under the patient. 1t re-
tains dampness and acts like a poul-
tice. Never use anything but light
wooden blankets as bed covering for
the sick. The heavy, impervious
~counterpane is bad, for the very
reason that it keep; the emanations
from the sick person, while the
blanket allows them to pass through.
Weak patients are invariably dis
tressed by a great weight of bed
clothes, which often prevents their
getting any sound sleep whatever"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
MARL FOR

We find the practice of keeping a
large pile Of mari in the yard, where
the hens have free access to it, is an
excellent one.
In this way II poultry get all the
lime they need, and they always lay
we'll and more by a good deal than
they would without it. W. haul it
in by the load, and pour it down,
and almost daily the hens may be
seen picking up the little bits of shell.
They seem fond of it, they are nearly
always healthy, and we see no soft
eggs.
We are satisfied that mari is a
great benefit to laying fowls. 1t
supplies their system with material
for making hard, strong shells, and
we think it causes them to lay more
eggs on the same amount of feed
than they would without it. We
have no doubt, too, that our poultry
are healthier on account of the mari.
Lime is useful to an animal in many
ways, and we have an idea that a
hen knows what is good for her and
will not eat more lime than is needed.
-Rurol Messenger, Petersburg.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
GEMS OF

Preserving the health by too strict a
regimen is a wearisome malady.-Roche-
toucdun.
If you have an hour, will you improve
that hour, instead of idling it away ?
Chesterfield.
Commerce links all mankind in one
common brotherhood of mutual depend
ence and interests, and thus creates that
unity of our race which makes the re-
sources of all the property of each and
every member.-GorfeId.
I'm no fool myself; I'm forced to wink
a good deal for fear of seeing too much,
for a neighborly man must let himself be
cheated a little.-Georye Eliot.
The Christian religion is the only
means that God has sanctifed to set
fallen man upon his legs again, to clarity
his reason and to rectify his will.-South.
The difference between rising at five
and seven o'clock in the morning for the
space of forty years, supposing mar to 90
to bed at the same hour at night, is
nearly equivalent to the addition of ten
years to a mans life.-Doddridqe.
If we will rightly estimate what we
call good and evil, we shall find that it
lies much in comparison.-Locke.
It's not necessity, but opinion, that
makes men miserable, and when we
come to be fancy sick, there's no cure
L'Esrange.
If thy friends be of better quality than
thyself, thou mays't be sure of two
things: the first, that they will be more
careful to keep thy counsel, because
they have more to lose than thou hast:
the second, they will esteem thee for
thyself and not for that which thou dost
possess.-Sr Waiter Raleigh.
Forever all goodness will be most
charming; forever all wickedness will be
most odious.-Sprut.
Few consider how much we are in.
debted to government, because few can
represent how wretched mankind would
be without it.-Aaer6ury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
WITHDRAWING AS AN ART.

Milk should not be taken in copi-
Gus draughts, like beer or other flu
ids which differ from it chemically.
If we consider the use of milk in in
fancy, the physiological ingestion,
that is, Of food provided for it, each
small mouthful is secured by effort,
and slowly presented to the gastric
mucou surface for the primal digest
i've stages. 1t is thus regularly and
gradually reduced to curd, and the
stomach is not oppressed with a
lump of halfcoagulated milk. The
same principle should be regarded
in the case of the adult. Milk should
be taken in mouthfuls, at short in
tervals, and thus it is rightly dealt
with by the gastric juice. If the
milk be taken after other food it is
almost sure to burden the stomach,
and cause discomfort and prolonged
indigestion, and this for the obvious
reason that there is not sufficient
digestive agency to dispose of it ;
and the better the quality Of the
milk, the more severe the discom-
fort under these conditions.-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
TEMPERATURE FOR cHURNING,

Although dairy thermometers and
dairy instruction books fix 620 Fair,
as the right temperature for churn-
ing cream, exceptions to this rule
are very often necessary. If one IS
successful in churning at a tempera-
ture of $50, trials should be made at
both higher and lower temperatures
to secure more satisfactory results.
If upon churning at 62o, the cream
swells and froths, it is a certain indi-
cation that this temperature is too
low for that lot of cream. After the
contents of the churn have been well
whipped up in such an effort, it will
be a pretty difficult matter to get
good butter from that churning. But
the next time, try 81 Or 60, and it
may ever be found necessary to give
6S or 100, in cold weather, before
the butter is made easily without
frothing.
1t is not a good plan to put salt in
cream before churning, but if the
cream have a slightly bitter taste or
i, tainted with garlic, either from
hay in the early spring when cows
first 60 to pasture, Jumps OF saltpe-
ter may be dropped into the cream
jar and the cream we'll stirred before
c%hurning, and this will materially
assist in removing the unpleasant
taste: Common salt would assist in
the same way, but in a much less
degree. In neither case would the
object or effect be to salt the butter.
That must be done in the usual way,
after it m from the churn.-
Henry Z. Alrord, Houghton Farm,
~ Y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
KANT.

kainit is obtained at Strassfurt,
Prussia. The mine from which it is
taken is struck at a depth Of 48O to
812 feet. The thickness of the bed
is unknown. 1t has been pierced
owe 1000 feet. 1t extends over an
area of more than twenty-five Ger
man miles in length. The constitu-
ent parts of kainit are: sulphate of
p~otassa, from % to 80 per cent. /;
sulphate of magnesia. from IA to 20
per cent. chloride Of magnesium,
from'4 to 5 per cent; sulphate of
lime; frem 10 to II per cent. chic
ride of sodium, Common salt,) from
30 to 40 per cent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
A HEN.

Mrs. Maria Cole, Of this county,
has a hen devoted to missionary
work. The hen is faithful and true
an | diligent. She raises four broods
Of chickens a year; and as soon as
she thinks one brood is large enough
to need her motherly protection no
longer she turns them over to her
mistress and goes to work again.
She Melted for the missionary cause
for 1884 $4,75; for 1885 S5.25. She
now has sixteen chicks. After this
year the old hen is to be set free,
and one of her daughters is to take
her place in the missionary work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-28
goetry.
GIRLS AS YOU GO ALONG.

d & 3 p z ---
Come all you fair young housewives and
lis en- unto me
q mean those lucky one who are from
servant-bondage free,)
And some advice I'll give you in a simple
little song,
With the simple little chorus of-Girls
as you go along.
Oh! as you 90 along,
Leave everything where it should be.
girls, as you go along.
You take a fancy for a cake, late in the
afternoon,
and bowl, and spoon,
And other necessary aids. the kitchen
table throng;
Don't let them stay, clear them away,
girls, as you go along.
Oh! as you go along.
Put each one back in its right place,
girls, as you 60 along.
And then you'll find how easily a great
deal can be done,
Without being Tired to DEATH" at set
ting of the sun,
And though, sometimes, in spite of care,
things seem to turn out wrong,
Twill always pay to smooth the way,
girls, as you 60 along.
Oh! as you 90 along.
Then never leave your work behind,
girls, as you 90 along.
Margaret E:ytnge, i" coal House Keep
ma.