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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-27
ENGLISH CAsHMEREs,

ENGLISH CAsHMEREs,
80 inches wide. SERPENT Cob, lin, Tan Garnet Car
dinsl. Gendarme, Golden Brown, Pstache, Olive
Fawn, Mahoganysuch were the shades noticed in the
first opened this Saturday morning. SOC. quail.
ity &c., will soon melt the pile that will be on
the counter Monday, February 81, at 8 O'Clock an.
BLACK GOODS.
written guarantee binding us to indemnify you
should silks split grow shiny in sivs the
assurance Of reliable goods. The prices will be found
comparison, the lowest in this city and - low -
elsewhere in the country
~ We buy and sell strictly for cash.
eN No calculation for losses in our profits
For MONDAY AMI TUESDAY. February ~ and cs,
we offer our Sll9 Black Goods 81 yard. We
have Black Fsille Frsncase. Black Satin Rhadsmes
Black surahs and Black Gros Grain Silks Ask for the
written guarantee
The Sl.35 Black MORE Silk for ol25.
Priestley's Silk Warp Henriettss. Lupin'a Cash.
meres. also black Serges Armures Melrose and Zach
de India ct prices for Monday and Tuesday lower than
elsewhere.
WANT OF SPACE
makes us crowd the following: We have to remember
Dress Trimmings
Colored Henriettaa
Colored Faille Franchise.
Colored More Silks,
Colored Wool Serges
The variety Of shades and the quality Of materials
and the prices should attract you to the Psss Roy
on Monday and Tuesday.
DRESS
TRIMMINGS
AND
BUTTONS
The following souvenirs for February "a and % win
be appreciated:
Gold. Silver and Steel Braid Trimmings in new pat
terms. e1.25 quality for q.
Mohair Braids in colors to match the drsas goods.
and in and pretty designs. CSC quality for Soc
We can't pretend describe the many very beausi
full novelty Dress Trimmings, but assure you Of the
finest display at the Palsis Royal and therefore,
I've would arsue) in the city We have gold silver ana
steel 0imps. from 50c. to o2.5O.
Sfk Gtmps. from Soc to o5 yard
Mohsir Braid Trimming. from Csc. to e3.35.
Sets Of Gimp Ornamental q to oI69.
Sets Of Mohair Braid do. u to e2.6S.
Jet Gimpa from 26c. TO els yard
Ornament 0impa s3.6o to $50 . yard
whole column and yet not half our story told Nav
We expect you February 81 and 26s
Respectfully,
4 LIsNER
F AL AIS
Rl)YAl.
fss MISREPRESENTATION AVA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-27
WANTED-LOTS.

WANTED-Two SHORT LOTS. IN GOOD LocA-
w tion about 20xsO on which TO build; or Que or
wodesirabe Houses Of seven TO nine room. ouners
only send description and price, which must be low.
to "DR0NIOs"
f2s-3ts star Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-27
BOARDING

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-27

COAL COAL COAL
L. Chestnut Coal. .... q GO per ton
JOHN MILLER
COS Pa ave. NV. 1910 18th st
Telephone -. rsJ-2w
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
THE DEMOCRATIC REVENUE BILL.

The event Of last week in the pOliti-
cal world was the publication of the
tariff bill of the democratic majority in
the ways and means committee. IF
carried into effect it is estimated that
it would lessen the customs revenues
by some 1900, 900, the free list alone
contributing nearly S22, 900 to the
result. This, with reduction of some
S25, 200. 900 in excise taxes, which the
committee intend to make, will pro-
vide for total reduction of some 49,,
600, 900 in the revenues yearly.
The bill has large free list and is
denounced as free trade measure by
the republican press. Wool, salt,
lumber, tin plate, vegetables, flax,
hemp, jute, many chemicals, dye stuffs,
grasses, etc, all preparations of coal
tar not colors or dyes and not acids of
cOlOrs or dyes. lOgwOOd, marble of all
kinds in block, rough or squared,
stones, manufactured or undressed,
freestOne, granite, sandstone and all
buiIding or monumental stone, are all
made free and long list of other arti-
Giles "tOO numerous to mention"
Senator Morrill, says it favOrs the
agriculture of the South by making
the bagging and ties used in packing
cotton free, preserving the small duty
on rice and reducing the sugar duty
but little, while it discriminates against
the farmers of the North and West, by
making grain, vegetables and wool
free.
Ex-Gov. Proctor says that if the
bill should become law it would de-
strOy the marble and granite industries
in Vermont and the other New England
states. The marble quarries here can
not compete with those in Italy, where
labor is so much cheaper, and whose
blocks are brought to this. country at
but trifling cost for transportation.
He thinks the manufacturers of Italian
marble in Boston and elsewhere Undue
ed the committee to insert this prOvi-
sion, but i'll the long run he thinks
they too would be ruined by it, for
they could not compete with the cheap
labor of Italian artists.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
Always Arkansaw.
Washington Letter.

HuShLngCOI LetteT
| asked Senator Jones to pronounce
the name of his state.
r-kan- saw, always" he said, 'and
it ought to be spelled so, and would
have been but for the French citizens
expelled from the land of Evangeline.
Tensas is pronounced Tensaw always.
Both were Indian names"
"This talk reminds me-" he continu
ed, "of Captain Porter, who was sent
down the river by General St. John
Liddell during the war to unload the
steamer Tuckapaw at Green Landing.
The captain went down, found no such
steamer, sat around on the bank all
day waiting for her, and returned to
brigade headquarters at night.
".Tuckapaw is not there, he report
ed to the general. i've looked every
where for her.
"'Why, you are mistaken said the
general. She is there, know. for |
drove down and saw her there
"'I couldn't find her, general. There
is only one boat there-the At-ta-ka-
pass putting the accent on the first
and last syllable.
"The general burst into a laugh.
well, captain he said, 'you go down
and unload the Attakapass'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08

er of boots and such other missiles as
were at hand. The sleepers covered
the six floors, lying in ranks, head to
head and foot to foot, like PROSTATE
lines of battle. For the general good,
and to preserve something like military
precision, these ranks Especially when
cold weather compelled them to lie
close for better warmth) were subdi-
vided into convenient squads under
charge of Captain who was invested
with authority to see that every man
lay spoon fashion,
"NO consideration of personal con-
venience was permitted to interfere
with the general comfort of the squad.
Thus, when the hard floor could no
longer he endured on the right side,-
especially by the thin men,-the cap
tain gave the command, Attention.
Squad Number Four! Prepare to
spoon One-twO-spOOnn And the
whole squad Topped over on the left
side"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
Queer Notions Concerning America
Frank r. Stockton. in s.. N,cholas

FRANK H. Stockton, IN St. Nicholas.
An English lady who had travelled
over the greater part of Europe said
she had ~-eat desire to come to
America, anu her principal object in
doing so was to shoot Niagara. l rath
er opened my eyes at this, and said 1
thought she must refer to the celebrat-
ed trip down the rapids of the St,
Lawrence, but she was very positive
on the subject, and said she meant Nj
agara, and nothing else she had I'M
derstood that they did it in steam
boat, and she knew she should enjoy
the sensation.
A well-educated middle-aged gen.
tleman told me that the reason our
civil war lasted so long was that we
had no military men in our country,
and that war carried on entire ly by
civilians could not proceed very rapid
ly. If any of you have ever seen an
English atlas you will understand why
1T is difficult to get from it a good idea
of America. We shall find, in such an
atlas, full and complete maps of every
European country and principality, a
whole page being sometimes given to
an island, or to colony in Asia and
Africa but the entire United States,
with sometimes the whole of North
America besides, is crowded into a sin
gle map. Some of these are so small
that the New England States are not
large enough to contain their names,
and are designated by letters which re-
fer to the names printed in an open
part of the Atlantic ocean. No won
der that the people who use these maps
have limited idea of our country.
But it is not only English people
who appear to know very little about
America. A German countess once
asked me if we had any theaters in
New York, and when 1 told her that
there were not only a great many
theaters in that city, but that it pos
sessed two grand opera houses at
which, at that time, two of the leading
prima donnas of the world we're sing
ing on the same nights, she was lit
tie surprised. 1t is quite common in
various parts of the Continent to hear
people speak of the late war between
North and South America. They knew
that the war was between the North
aud the South, and as it was in Amer
lea, the mistake is natural enough to
people who have studied only Europe
an geography.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
He Threw 1t Over.

az had Il funny experience once"
said young Georgia farmer. "When
boy, | confess, [ was pretty green.
1 lived with my father upon farm
near Columbus, and used to haul wood
into the city and sell it for him. One
day had entered town with my GUS
tomary load, when, as passed large
building, some one poked his head
partly out of window and asked if
the wood was for sale. 1 replied in
the Affirmative. well, throw it over
this fence came back from the upper
window.
s!The house was surrounded by Il
high wall, but L managed to pitch it
over and then went around to the front
gate for my pay. | could not get in |
hammered and called in vain when
some passer by attracted by my frantic
efforts to gain an entrance, inquired
what was the matter and informed me
that the building was the Jail. One of
the prisoners had played IA joke on me.
| could not get my money or the wood
back and returned home with empty
wagon and pockets.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
ALLEGED HUMOR.

What they say in Japan: "First
the man takes n drink, then the drink
takes drink, then the drink takes
the man."
~ see Il buttonless shirt advertised
here, john" said his wife, looking up
from a paper. "What kind of shirt
is that ?" "Just like mine," was the
reply.-[Courier.
Mr.. DeBoer-Miss Emma, perhaps 1
ought not to call during Lent, L under
stand you deny yourself all amusement.
Miss Emma-Yes, l do, Mr.. Boer.
Come us often as you like Harper's
Bazaar.
A Boston paper says that Common
wealth avenue derives it's name from
the fact that wealth is so common at
the Hub. We thought that it was so
named because so many common peO-
pie were wealthy.-[New York Ledger.
Minister'S wife Ito husband win
you put up the parlor stove today,
dear? Minister (vexatiously)-I sup
pose [ will have to. Wife-And don't
forget, John, that you are a minister
of the gospel Harper's Bazaar.
"Found any more clews today 2"
inquired Tie Call0f. mere uOu L Seeill
to be any," replied the lynx eyed de-
tective, despondently, as he threw the
morning papers aside after having
carefully perused them all, and yawned
in a dreary, hopeless way.-[Chicago
Tribune.
In the chemical laboratory: "Pro-
fessor, what has become of Tom APP
pleton Wasn't he studying with the
class last year9" "Ah, yes Appleton
poor fellow! A fine student, but
absent minded in the use of chemicals
very. That discolOration on the cell
ing. Notice it ?" EYES," "That's
him." lid Bits.
"Now, Tommy" said Chicago lady
to her lite boy, "Mr. and Mrs. Wa
bash are to dine with us this evening
want you to show them what a little
gentleman you can be-" Eyes ma"
replied Tommy. "And, Tommy"
his mother, "you are to have
but one piece of pie, You know, and
when eating it to hold your
knife by the handle, and not by the
blade."-N. Y. Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
THE COAL MINERS LOT.

Superintendent Whiting of the Read
ing coal and iron company testified at
Philadelphia last week about the con-
dition of affairs at the company's
mines, where the miners were striking.
He was before the congressional COM
mittee of investigation.
Mr.. Whiting said that a few of the
miners owned their ewn houses, but
not many, not one in hundred, pro-
badly not one in a thousand. The
coal company owns the houses at the
mines, as a general thing, but there
have been no evictions. The houses
rent from So month to $I2. Some of
them cost 5000, others $II00. The
latter rent for $I2, the former for So.
The company has no stores, does not
collect from it's miners for doctors, or
priests, or taxes or anything else. Its
ownership of the houses and the col
lection of the rents constitute it's en-
tire business with the miners, so far as
their living is concerned. The witness
corroborated Mr.. Corbin's testimony
about violence from the strikers TO
those employees who remained at work
during the strike.
Mr.. Whiting was asked if it was not
true that men had been induced or
compelled to become idle to check the
supply of coal, to which he answered {:
81 presume they have BEEN"
CAT the Reading cOllieries ?"
"When the supply exceeds the de-
mand with us we close up"
Mr.. Whiting was then asked wheth
er there was or had been any combina-
ton in which the Reading company
took part to restrict the natural supply
of anthracite coal. He said that at
present there was none that he knew
Of and he did not believe that there
was any such but as recently as 1884
there had been an allotment system,
the object and effect of which were to
restrict the output. He said that all
the operators, or practically all of
them, in the anthracite regions were in
this combination. Practically it
amounted to an ascertainment each
month of the probable demand for coal,
then each section or system or opera
tor was allotted to supply his or its
share of this demand and no more.
This share was in proportion to the ca
pacity of such operator or company, as
compared with the total capacity of all.
Under this arrangement the Readings
share was from Is to 30 per cent.
The committee wanted to know if
the coal company did, when the supply
was large and the prices low, in vari
Gus ways deprive the miners of an OPP
pOrtunity to work, and he admitted that
in some cases which were referred to
it amounted to that.
"Have you made no effort to supply
the places of the striking miners 7"
was asked.
"NO, sir"
"Wby I"
because we desire and expect our
old men to come back"
"On your own terms 2"
CAT the old rates, yes"
"What force do you rely upon to
bring these men back ?"
''Well, sir, their necessities"
Mr.. Anderson-"That is to say star
walton ?"
Witness-"It's only necessity that
compels any of us to work"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
A Good Story.

Even ministers are sometimes mere
ly human and are subject to the same
passions which make common people
do ridiculous things. A good story
is told of DR.. Newman Hall of
London, which we do not remember to
have seen in print. 1t has had quite
an extensive private circulation, hav-
ing gone from mouth to mouth in a
qniet way, and has excited merriment
whenever told. DR.. Hall is, as is well
known in religious circles, the author
of the tract entitled "COme to Jesus"
the circulation of which by the tract
society has been simply enormous, the
copies printed running up beyond the
hundreds of thousands into the six
eiphers. Some very severe criticisms
had been passed upon him on account
of his words or conduct, and he became
greatly excited over them and replied,
or rather wrote reply replete with
sarcasm and bitterness, and carried it
to DIR. Binney of London (since dead),
for suggestion and approval. DIR.
Hall read it, bringing out the bitter
things with peculiar emphasis, and
when he had finished he said, "Well,
DR.. Binney, how do you like it 2"
"Oh," was the careful reply, 81 think
it is remarkably well written, and
there are many sharp and bitter things
in it. By the way, Hall, have you
fixed upon title for it as yet 7" "No,
| have not" replied DR.. Hall. "Per-
haps you can assist me In that matter"
Then DIR. Binney said slowly and de-
liberately: "While you were reading
some of those hard hits it occurred to
me that this would be a good title,
Go to the DEVIL by the author of
Come to Jesus" 1t is needless to
say that the hot tempered manuscript
was never printed-indeed, the story
goes that it was torn up in DIR. Binney's
study.
John A. Logan, Jr.. takes after his
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
Life in Libby.

From the story of the celebrated es-
cape from Libby in the March Century
we quote the following: 'At night
the six large lofts presented strange
war pictures, over which a single tai
low candle wept cOpiOus and greasy
tears that ran down over the petrified
loaf of cOrn-bread, Borden's condensed
milk can, or bottle in which it was set,
and where it struggled on until taps,
when the guards, with unconscious
irony, shouted, Lights y at which sig
nal it usually disappeared amid a show
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08
Why Religious News is not Reported

Henry r. Elliot in the March Forum,
How comes it. that base ball and
horse racing news is reported with
great care and fullness, while the lead
ing religious events are either ignored
altogether or indifferently reported ?
Is it not because newspaper editors
have learned that persons who belong
to the theatrical or the sporting or the
mercantile public buy their papers ac
cOrding as they find in them full,
prompt and sympathetic treatment of
theatrical, sporting, and market news;
whereas religious people, as such, do
not discriminate in their patronage of
newspapers with corresponding eX-
actnessq In other words, do religious
people feel as keen an interest in re-
ligiOus news us the base ball public
feels in base ball news, or as the horse
racing public feels in the news of a
horse racer Do religious people to any
considerable degree, choose one paper
rather than another, because one pa
per gives more prominence to religious
news than another, or treats it with a
more sympathetic apprehension You
can go up one bench and down another
at base ball game, and every man in
the crowd will tell you what papers of
the next morning will have full and
glowing account of the match then in
progress, and which will dismiss it in
few cold lines, and very many of
them will make their purchase of a
paper on the following morning on
that basis of choice. Now apply that
mode of reasoning to religious people.
Out of an audience assembled in a city
for some notable religious occasion,
how many will be able to predict the
relative prominence that will be given
to that meeting by the newspapers
And how many will go to the newspa-
per stand the following day and buy a
paper, confident, without looking it
through, that it gives good account
of the event. In short, is it not, after
all, question of supply and demandq
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08

John A. Logan, Jr., takes after his
father, developing many sturdy traits.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-08

is presented, those who oppose and
embarrass its adoption assume very
serious responsibility. If the rejection
of the treaty should be secured merely
by party hostility, or by anything but
a plain demonstration of its failure to
secure a reasonable understanding, it
would be very damaging blow to the
defeating party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
HALLS OF CONGRESS,
Edmunds' Resolutions Re.
garding Canal Building.
DOINGS IN THE LOWER HOUSE
The Territorial BILLS Will Not Be
Called Up IN the House Until Jan
uary 15th-Other Items
DOINGS IN THE LOWER HOUSE.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, December 19.-The bill
to incorporate the American Historical
Association passed.
Edmunds introduced and had re-
ferred to the committee on foreign
relations the following resolution:
ResoIUed, That the government of tn .
United States will look with serious con-
Germ and disapproval upon the conneo-
ton of any European government with
the construction or control of any ship
canal having access to the Isthmus of
Darien or access to Central America
and must regard any such connection
or control as injurious to the Just rights
and interests OF The United States, and
as menace to their welfare.
Resolved, That the President Of the
United States be requested to com
manicate this expression of the views
of Congress to the governments of the
countries of Europe.
On motion of Spooner, the House
amendment to the Senate bill for pub
lie building at San Francisco, reducing
the amount from 100000 to $3.50 OGO,
was Don-concurredin in, and conference
ordered.
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of tariff bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
"A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Merry Christmas truly you make it for everybody
in your household you will visit your earliest
opportunity and learn how little money required this
purchase token of love friendship for all who may
he and dear to and whom you wish particular
remember upon this occasion.
Shall begin to tell you what have to offer to you?
To enumerae the useful and pretty things would
quire space than the newspapers could grant
From among the thousand and different things we
will mention Smoking Sets Toilet Sets, Perfumery Sets
Fancy Stationery Shaving Cases. Travelling Sets for Ladies
Gentlemen Mirrors Picture Frames, Match Safes Ink
Stands Jewel Gases, Silk Umbrellas Dolls Picture Games,
Picture Blocks Drawing States Building Blocks Magic
terms Tool Chests Statuary Work Baskets etc. etc. etc.
We beg to call particular attention to line of Silk and
Linen Handkerches imported especially for holiday trade
line of Chdrens Wraps, Wooden Goods Toboggans Gloves
and many other articles in the line of Wearing Apparel
bning thus the useful with the ornamental will attract your
attention.
Fer making your purchases do not fail to call upon
knowing that we you from Is to 25 per cent
This is the very time of the year when the dollar
should be made to go far possible We have for the
past months studied how reach that AIM simply
ask for opportunity to verify what we here say.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20

WHY aOiu yow qive $50, $50, and $40
for seuing machine qUhen yow can ret
one for $50. $25, $50, or $S5-ooith THE
HERALD for one gear throo0n in2
Write to THE HERALD, Salt Lake, TOR
particulars.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20

for the retirement of General Andrew
Smith, with the rank of colonel of cav
airy, was passed.
Blanchard, of louisiana, antagonize /
any special order with the river al d
harbor bill, and raised the question of
consideration.
The House refused consideration of
thepensi6n bill.
. Springer, of Illinois, stated that at q
meeting of the committee on Terri
tories this mo. ming, it had been deter
mined that the Territorial bills would
not be called up until January 18th.
BUCHANAN of New Jersey-Wny this
sudden cessation of 4ctieity?
SPRINGER-It is the unanimous wish
of the committee, there being no poll
tics in it.