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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-27

OLD BoREAs
GAVE Us SOME RUDE BLASTS LAST WEEK
AS A REMINDER OF HIS LATENT POWER,
BUT HIS DYNAMIcs ARE NOW ON THE wANE
AS SPRING APPROACHED.
GENTLE SPRING, HOWEVER GENTLE. HAS
HER PERIoRDs OF REFRIGERATION. WHEN
| OUTER COVERINGS ARE NECESSARY, EsPE-
CIALLY IN THE EVENING WHEN THE SUN
GOES DOWN.
We have made provision for
those chilly evenings. by the way
Of Spring Overcoats. Que
VIII mention, q Brown Mixed
Kersey, buttons of same mate
rial. and satin sleeve Innings
Price, $40.
THE USE OF SPRING ovERCoATs rs NOT
| LIMITED TO SPRING BY ANY MEANS. MOST
PERSONS FIND THEM USEFUL THINGS EVEN
IN MIDSUMMER WHEN AWAY FROM HOME
WE WERE CAUGHT ONCE AWAY FROM
| HOME IN JULY WITHOUT ONE, AND FOUND
1T NECESSARY TO COURT THE COMPANY OF
THE STEAMERS sMoKE-sTACK TO BE COM
PORTABLE
Another handsome thing we
| have just placed on one of our ia
bles is a Broad Vale Gray Diago-
nal W0rsted Overcoat Price, $25.
Satin sleeve lining silk facing and
buttons made of the outer mate
rial.
ANOTHER FEATURE APPERTAININa TO
SPRING ovERCoATs IS THAT THEY ARE
EQUALLY USEFUL IN THE FALL. so THAT
ONE BOUGHT NOW. IF WELL BOUGHT, CAN
BE MADE TO SERVE AT LEAST TWO SEASONS
IN GOOD CREDIT. WE WOULD LIKE TO SHOW
YOU SOME HANDSOME THINGS WE HAVE
LAID IN.
For example Brown Mixed,
Doubled and Twisted Cashmere
OvercOat Price, SIS. This has
silk facing and silk sleeve lining,
and We think exceptionally low.
WE HAVE NEARY ALL OUR SPRING OVER
COATS MADE SPECIALLY FOR Us BY OUR
MANUFACTURING HOUSE. WE THINK THEY
HAVE EXCELLED ALL THEIR PREVIOUS Eff
FoRTsOF A QUARTER CENTURY'ss SUCCESSFUL
PRESENT YOU THE RESULTS OF ALL THE
ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM SKILL.
CAPITAL AND EXPERIENCE.
One OF these results may be en-
bodied thus Dark Brown Tricot
Along Overcoats, with silk fac
ing and satin sleeve lininga
Price, SIS.
IT IS RARELY THE CASE THAT ANY
HOUSE IN THIS AGE REMAINS IN BUSINESS
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, AND THAT IN
ITSELF IS TESTIMONIAL OF MERIT. THE
INTRODUCTION OF NEW BLOOD AT PROPER
INTERVALS RESULTED. IN THE DUE COURSE
OF NATURE IN CONSTANT PROGRESSION.
THERE WE ARE TODAY. ALWAYS PRO-
CROSSING, NEVER CEAsING.
We have progressed far enough
to offer you as handsomely q cut
Spring Overcoat for $40 as it is
possible for the finest tailoring
trade to get up for four OF five
times the money.
WE CLOSE EVENINGS AT SEVEN, AND ON
SATURDAYS AT TEN-THIRTY SHARP.
sAKs & COMPANY,
r7 SEVENTH ST. AND MARKET SPACE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-27

Il4ls Pierce Place. 7r.&25
637 Mass. ave. ne. 9 s-.25
lila N.Cap. st. z rs-lS.40
l24S 18th st. S. e.. 3 ISLE
1917 X st. NV. 4 rs-.....1S
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2212 18th st. n. W., Or. 10
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350to366 N s W. .6rs...-..15
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324 L s.w., 5rs-.......-l2S0
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341 NJ s.w.. 5rs............-.12
TO 10th ST ne, 6r.-12.S0
5 TO 81 Defrees, 6rs-20.O0
STORES&DWELLINGS.
800 R.I.av. n.w.,7r&S...45
300 Ind av.. stOre--.---...5O
21O4 14th 81. n. w.-.........25
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622-524-526 Ninth Street
St Cloud Building.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

Keziah, though not willing to indulge
herself, always had stray penny,
which she could "spare as wen as not,"
for jamie and himself. The next time
the music began to strike up, Aunt
Keziah, who was busy sweeping, was
astonished by rush of the children
into her room.
"The circus is coming, Aunt Keziah
i see it at the end of the squared
"No" called Jimmy from the hall
window, otis turned down another
street"
"Put on your bonnet, Aunt Keziah,"
urged Ned, "and we will 20 down on
the corner, and there we'll be sure to
see it.
But Aunt Keziah's bonnet could not
at once be found; Kate had been try
inc it on the day before when she was
playing diving in the country with
jamie, and it had to be looked for on
every shelf in the closet So when
they arrived at the corner, to Ned's
disgust, only two melancholy camels
were still in sight; the big elephant had
gone by,
81 guess | set my heart too much on
seeing the creetur,o observed Aunt
Keziah, land perhaps, after all, it may
not be quite as big as my idee is"
Ned, however, was not so philosoph-
zeal, and was much inclined to comfort
himself by scolding the girls about
Aunt Keziah's bonnet
After this there were some mysteri
GUS consultations with Kate, whose
birthday came the same week with his
own, although she was two years old
err. He ceased to complain of girls as
"such q bother" and remarked for
the first time that it was q great con-
venence to have the birthdays about
the same time. He had always before
objected to dumping Them for his
mother greatly preferred a celebration
after Kate's wishes to his plans.
Aunt Keziah had been busy all day
in the kitchen making doughnuts and
small cakes in curious shapes for the
double birthday, when the door opened
and Ned and Kate came in very much
excited, and trying to look grave.
1--WE have decided, Aunt Keziah,
that it wiz give us the greatest pleas
urc," began Kate, with dignity, but
Ned interrupted her, "to take you to
the 100, and show you the elephant.
"And here are the tickets and car
fare and ALP exclaimed Kate, forget
ting her dignity, "and it's our treat, !"
came in Ned again as chorus.
"You dear children,' said Aunt
Keziah, and she actually sat down and
cried for a minute.
And that was the way Aunt Kcziah
went to see the elephant-E. +. Mos
! by, IN Christian al Work.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
THE RISE OF WAGES
Wages Pad to Common Laborers IA Hun
dred Years Ago.

Wages Pad to Common LabOrers IA Hun
drcd Years Ago.
Discussing wages, in one of his lee
lures before the students of Harvard
University, Prof. Thompson gives many
facts of curious interest.
In 1898 the Schuylkill and Susque-
hanna Canal Company advertised for
workmcn, Offering IS a month for the
winter months and So for summer, with
board and lodging. The next year there
was debate in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes which brought out the fact
that soldiers got but So a month. A
Vermont member, discussing the pro-
posal to raise it 10 81, said that in his
State men were hired for els year, or
"a month with board and clothing.
Mr.. Wadsworth, of Pennsylvania, said:
'In the States north OF Pennsylvania
the wages of the common laborer are
not, upon the whole, superior to those
of the common solder
In 1897 Il Rhode Island farmer hired
a good farm hand at 50 month; and
- n month was paid to those who got
employment for the eight busy months
of the farmers year. A strong boy
could be had at that time in Connecticut
at 81 month through those months,
and he earned it by working from day
break until e.ghtor nineO' clock at night.
lie could buy coarse cotton shirt with
the earnings of three such months,
The farmers could pay no better, for
the price they got for produce was
wretched Butter sold at eight cents a
pound, and when it rose suddenly to
ten cents several farmers wives and
daughters went out of their minds with
the excitement Women picked the
wool Off the bushes and briars, where
the sheep had left it, and spun and knit
il into mittcns to earn II year by this
toilsome busin 1Ss. They hired out a,
help for twenty-five cents a month and
their board BY day hard work at
the spiuning-whecl a woman and girl
together could earn twelve cents. As
late as 1921 the best farm hands could
be had for twenty-five cents a day, or
twice as much in moving time.
Mathew Carey, in his "Letters on the
Charities of Philadelphia lS29), gives
a painful picture of the working classes
at that time. Every avenue to employ
monts was choked with applicants.
Men left the cities to find work on the
canals at from sixty to seyenty-hvC
cents a dav, and to encounter the ma
laria, which laid them low in numbers.
The highest wages paid to women was
twenty-five cents a day, and even the
women who made clothes for the arsen
al were paid by the Government at nc
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
THE NORTH COAST
Impressive Scenery in the Most Romantic
Portion Of England.

Impressive Scenery in the Most Romantic
Portion of England.
White, in his Eastern England, thus
writes of a ramblc on the North coast:
The frequent stiles of sid ship timber
are suggestive of wrecks. The path is
thickly bordered by luck, as the ma
tiyes call the pretty yellow flower of
the kidney vesch and the lotus and red
and white campion. And the cliff is so
irregular, with many slips, foreshores,
patches of grass and coltsfoot and
slopes of gray, red and yellow and a
gaping underclif, with a pond in the
hollow and a marty bluff and gullies
and chimes, as to look striIlingly pict-
uresque." As in other parts of the
county, for instance, Reepham, there
are two parish churches in one in
closure, but one here, ST. Mary's, is in
ruins. How many churches in Norfolk
have been ruined? The county seems
over-churched. This is one of a cluster
of churches of which the local rhyme
runs:
cunningham, Trimmlngham, Knapton and
Trunch,
North Reps and South Reps are all of a
bunch"
1t was late when we had finished our
perambulations and got to our oldquar-
tiers again. The country round was in
its full glory of summer loneliness.
The crops were changing from deep
green to golden yellow, and the scarlet
peoples were not yet faded or dead
among the corn. The root crops, late
ly so parched, had been refreshed by the
recent rains, and the ferns on the hills,
where the rabbits hide and dart in and
out across your path, stand out rich and
green against sky line of Elton blue.
No moon had yet shown out night
over the church-yard by the sea, Or made
the farm-houses decorated with the pale
evening primrose and its stars of mid
night bloom, as bright as the day. But
after sunset comes that strange white
white light of summer time, and the
evening breezes bring a scent of ripen-
ing corn to the late lingerer over the
farmhouse gate. The bright light of
the beacon relectors flashes as potentially
as ever its warning over the empurpled
waters; the hum of the Cromer visitors
on the jetty is stilled; the band has
ceased to play; the spades and pals of
the little ones are put away for the
night; the bathing machines have been
drawn up to the extreme fringe Of the
beach in apprehension of high tide;
the sand castles of to-day are unde-
Tended by the now slumbering young
sters paterfamilias is having his last
pipe; "all the air u solemn stiffness
holds and, as the poet says:
"The plowman homeward plods his weary
way,
And leaves the world to darkness and &c
me "
London Society.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
How a Great Whale Died.

The master of the British steamship
Humboldt, at New Orleans from Rio
Janeiro, reports Witnessing u remarka~
bic marine combat during the passage.
The attention of the officers and crew
was one day attracted by a furious
commotion in the water a short dis
lance ahead. The sea was dashed into a
scething foam. A swordf,h and q
thrasher had attacked a tremendous
sperm whale. The strength, size and
force were with the broad-backed
sperm, that, wheeling round and round,
as if working on swivel swung its
huge tail with mighty power. 1t would
raise itself aloft, clear out of the
water, blow spray through its nostrils
and make frantic efforts to annihilate
its foes; but science, skill and maneu-
vering were on the side of its enemies.
The thrasher is supplied with "suck-
err that enables it to stick to whatever
it attacks. The thrasher, springing
upon the back of the whale, chung
there, at the same time flashing the un.
fortunate creature with its TAIL actual
ly whipping it to death. The great sea
animal, with its most gigantic efforts,
was not able to cast it off. There it
held and dashed, while the swordfsh
drove his sword time after time into the
side Of their big antagonist. The waters
were dyed with the blood of the levia-
than, and in the course of q short time
he had succumbed and foated upon the
sea q lifeless mass. -Goidcp Days.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
STRAWBERRY BEDS,
Renewing the ola Plat so That 1t WI
Produce a Fair Crop.

Renewing the ola Plat so That 1t WI
Produce a Fair Crop.
The following plan of renewal as
practiced by some of our best fruit
growers here is the most practical and
best have tried. Itconsists in turning
back burrows through the pla. at inter-
walls Of five or six feet, leaving a strip
eight to twelve inches wide, according
to the number of plants itcontains, be-
tween each back-furrow. This strip is
then carefully hoed and thinned, leav-
ing one plant as near as practicable to
every twelve inches in the row. being
careful to disturb the roots of those left
as little as possible.
The blowing should be done soon as the
crop is harvested, and if so done the
back-furrows may be left three or four
days before cultiyatng, when it should
be thoroughly cultivated down, the
roots raked off and replaced with fine
manure. Cultivation should continue
at intervals, and the runners be allowed
to take root as in spring planting.
If renewal or renovation of the plat
has been neglected until autumn it is
better to NOW and rake off the plants
and weeds before blowing, then pillow
shallow and make the back-furrows mar
row, leaving the rows not more than
three or four feet apart andmore plants
in the row, as the chances are that they
will not have time, after this date, to
spread enough for remunerative crop,
if the rows are left the usual distance
apart. In all cases the space between
the rows should be kept clean and open
wide enough for pickers to pass without
treading on the fruit. Soon as the
plants are hoed, clean out all roots OF
plants and weeds from the back-furrows
and cart them off either to the compost
heap or use them as a mulch for the
raspberres. Follow with a good coat
of weli-rotted manure and shallow cul-
tivation, often as necessary to keep the
ground clear from weeds and the sur
face mellow.
Strong growers like Crescent and
James Wick will set plants so thickly as
to choke each other and should be kept
thinned. At the setting in of winter
mulch with cut stalks, straw or coarse
manure. Either straw or cut stalks, il
not too thickly applied, need not be re-
moved in spring. Mulch is indispensa-
BILE to prevent heaving or freezing out,
especially if the plants have light
growth. 1t helps to keep down weeds
in spring, may retard the poisoning
until after damaging frosts and serves
to keep the fruit clean The latter is
an important item with varieties that
fruit near the ground, like the Sharp
less. Unlike most other plants, the
strawberry is not easily smothered by
winter covering.
The plan of leaving the old brush in
the raspberry patch until open weather
in winter or spring, has its favorable
side, especially as a winter protection,
but the new canes for best results should
be thinned to three or four stalks to the
hill One of our most successful rasp.
berry growers thins in May, thus secur
ing strong canes with numerou:
branches for next years fruiting, Cor
OHIO Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
TWO NEAT REPLIES.
How Andrew Jackson Silenced an Exceed
ingly Boastrul individual.

How Andrew Jackson Silenced an Exceed
ingly Boastrul Individual.
Andrew jackson, it is related, was at
one time entertained at dinner by gen
tleman, and among those present was
one Of those people who often find their
way into story books, etc, as the type
of that offensive class of Americans who
are always trailing their nationality in
the dust in the effort to eXhalt their in
dividual independence. This particular
gentleman, over the wine and walnuts
after dinner, in order to emphasize his
own independence of disposition, of
which he was loudly boastful, remarked
with rare exhibition of self-compla-
cence to General Jackson:
81 always vote against you, sir.
The company was naturally rendered
speeches. by this unexpected disclosure,
and the scene actually looked squally;
but General Jackson put a stopper on
the boa5tful individual and avoided fur
Their trouble by sm,lingly remarking:
"And !, sir, have always fought the
battles of my country that you might
enjoy that privilege.
Another instance of a happy response
is that of the old Southern judge-but
whether Judge in courtesy or in fact,
the writer can not state-who must
have had the faculty of quick and APP
propriate reply pretty well developed,
if the story related of him is true. He
had been a fierce Sccessionist and the
fact was not forgotten when, after the
war, he re-entered thepolitic0l arena of
his native State. Speaking at a certain
place one evening in the interest of his
own candidacy for Congress some one
in the audience, who evidently had a
good memory, inquired.
Didn't you speak here just before
the war?'
Il did promptly responded the
judge.
''And didn't you say we could whip
the Yankees with pop-guns?'
Il did, - replied the unabashed judge,
"but, confound EN-, they wouldn't fight
that Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
An Ancient Marriage Contract.

The decipherors Of the papyri which
have been brought to Vienna from FL
Fayum have learned from one of them
the existence of a town in Lower Egypt,
all trace of which seems to have disap-
peared for the last twelve hundred
years or more. The document is
papyrus a little over four feet long by
one foot wide, containing q marriage
contract in Greek, and is well pre-
served. The date is not given. but
Profs. Karabacek and Wesley believe
it belongs to the early part of the sixth
century. The bridegroom was named
Theon, the bride Maria. She had a
fortune of her own amounting TO one
hundred gold pieces, and the future
husband engages to find for he. food
and clothing, and every thing suitable
for ian ordinary legitimate wife"
There are witnesses and a notarial
certificate. All the parties are de-
scribed as belonging to the town Of
Justianopolis. The editors declare
that they can find no mention of this
place among any lists of the towns,
etc, of Lower Egypt ~ Y. Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

higher rates. When the ladies Of the
city begged for an improvement Of
this rate, the secretary hesitated, lest it
should disarrange the relations Of capt.
tai and labor throughout the city Poor
people died Of cold and want every VIM
ter ia the city, and the fact seems to
have made an impression only on be-
nevolently disposed persons like Mr..
Carey.-N y EUeniR1 Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
Oats for Laying Hens.

Oats are excellent for hens, especially
if fed in connection with grass. Dur
ing the summer there is no necessity
for feeding an exclusive grain diet, but
if oats are given plentifully the hens will
lay without becoming too fat. The sup
position that oats, when eaten, swell in
the crop and do damage is not true.
ANY kind of grain will swell, but as the
fowls begin to lessen the quantity of
food in the crop as soon as it is full
there is room enough for the oats to
swell, but it is doubtful if even enough
moisture is taken to swell them, as some
kinds of food are preferred in a dry con-
dition. The dry oats are excellent, but
if they are buried in the ground, and
allowed to sprout they undergo a chem
zeal change of composition, and will be
greedily scratched up and deyoured.
Farm, Field and St0cEmaR.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

"A new sewing-machine, said to do
excellent work, has been brought out in
England, and is meeting with an enor-
nous sale. 1t is the invention of a
German. 1t makes a perfect lock-stitch,
is only eight inches wide, and once inch
in thickness. 1t contains no wheels,
and is fastened to a table by means of a
thumb clamp. 1t sells for two dollars
and siXty-two cents. As it can be packed
in a small box it can be carried in the
pocket.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18
The Wilmington ODelN Mems saws

The Wilmington Oel.) NcCs says
a huge waterspout formed several days
ago in Burton's bay, on the eastern side
of Aceomac. 1t extended in a spiral
column all the way up to the overhang-
ing clouds, and, standing out against a
clear blue sky, formed a beautiful sight
to persons, many of whom witnessed it
at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles.
1t broke before doing any damage, but
several fishermen had to row with all
their might to get out of the track OF
the whirling column rs it swept up the
bay. 1t is supposed that the water
spout was at least thirty yards in diam
eter. Persons living aloag the shores
of Burton's bay were greatly excited
and frightened by the novel occurrence.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

"A suburban Chicagoan a few years
ago built and paid for handsome
church, himself. He did it as matter
Of economy. He said that working
with cross-grained committees would
cost him time and worry worth more
than the additional sum he would have
TO pay-so he built the church and paid
for it-IpteriOr.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

Let the boys take an interest; even
give them a share of the crop. You
have trained them to work, they can
help you better than any one you can
hire. Make their labor interesting that
they may stay with you. - Prairie
Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18

The State Viticultural Commission
estimates this years wine crop in Cali.
tOCRia At aboBt $4,000. 900 gallons.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-12-23
A Mammoth Sale.

Andrew j. Smith has sold and
transferred his stock of merchan-
disc to E. J. Swan of Minneapolis.
for consideration of $40 ,(QQ, il
being the largest single transaction
in personal property ever consum-
mated in Sank Centre, if not in
Stearns county, The stock as is well
known, Is one of the largest and
most diversified in hiinnesota, out
side the great cities, and embraces
full assortmeais Of dry goods,
notions. dress goods. fancy goods.
clothing, boots and shoes, hats and