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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-18

There's day left-and it's Saturday-.he natural
Boys and Children's shopping day You'll want
them all to make . clean start-and you'u want the
kind Of things that wear the BEsT-look the BEST
and cost the LEAST. School is hard taskmaster on
the boys are observation-disclosures
lucky-lt,e fellows who cannot be expected to look
out" much for their wearing apparel Its tenure Of
service depends wholly upon how we'll we've done
part.
Like a. not you've heard 1t rumored we're
NEW going into CLOAKs and sUITs-well. it's
FIELD. true. We're not going to have our formal
opening until Moniay-but that would keep
the misses and children waiting. Unfair
We're nearly settled-got . most magnih-
cent stock Of the latest and best things
and we can't see where the harm will be in
letting You into the department to pick out
the School CLOAKs. SUITS or JACKETS
tomorrow. We want one fact to impress
you-our stock is entirely different from
anything that's in this city-Three times rs
large. Read any reliable fashion author and
you'll find all our garments are illustrative
Of the correct styles. "Saks" in cloaks will
be the same as ''saks' in clothing-DE-
LIvERERs OF THE BEST FOR THE
LEAST MONEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-18

WOODWARD : hrRsos
Cor. 1lth and Y ssa M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-18
FAILING S1our.

FA1L1Na S1our.
GENERALLY SPEAKING. THE FIRST
SYMPTOM OF FAILING SIGHT Is INABIIl-
ITY To READ THE NEWSPAPER AT NIGHT
TO FIND THE PROPER GLASSES CALLAT
McALLISTERS.
s1S-th,s .tu1m l3llFstn.w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-18

s17 INTER OCEAN BUILDING. NINTH STREET.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

was tying Miss Axtell's hands. She was
between me and him, and called out
to her:
Miss Axtell, drop your head and do
not move until tell you TO-"
She obeyed, and simultaneously l
fired one of my pistols at the exposed
breast of the man. He dropped Instant
ly, and before l could turn to his COM
panion l felt his grasp again upon my
throat and the cold touch of steel upon
my forehead 1t was no time to indulge
in questions of right and wrong if l
would save my life and hers, and with
out pausing to argue the morality Of
the proceeding gave this man the con-
tents of the other barrel of my revolver.
1t settled his business for him so eff
fectually that he caused US no more
trouble; and having ascertained that
both men were dead, lifted Miss Ak
tell into the carriage and drove as fast
as | could to the next village where
reused the proper authorities and placed
them in possession of the facts. Then l
took Miss Axtell home and was graft
fed to find that her father was out Of
all danger and in fair way of SPECIFY
convalescence.
The two robbers were recognized as
old offenders; they had each been at one
time in the State prison and were well
known as very desperate characters
Considering every thing, my escape was
most providential.
Perhaps the reader will be interested
to know that during that uncomfort
able night l fell desperately in love
with Miss Axtell, and so successfully
did we both plead with her father that
rich old nabob as he was, he consented
to our marriage, and now I am cashier
of the Raybury bank and Madeline is
my wife, God bless her!-N. Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
TOBACCO RAISING.
Still Great Industry in Cuba. But Con-
Quoted on a Decreasing Scale.

Still a Great Industry in Cuba. But Con-
Quoted on Decreasing Scale.
Tobacco raising is yet one of the
chief sources of wealth in Cuba" said
Senior Don Nicholas Garrido rich land
owner and planter of the great Spanish
colony, while in this city couple of
days ago. st is not carried on upon as
great scale as it used to be, however.
For long time it was supposed that
the celebrated Vuelta Abaio region,
which is situated between the 22d and
23d degrees of latitude, was the only
spot on earth where the very best grade
of tobacco could grow, but lately there
has been strong competition from diff
ferent parts of Spanish America, where
just as good tobacco as ours can be gath
cred, if properly planted and cared for.
The first condition that has to be full
filled is that of proper climate. Tobacco
thrives best in the temperate chimes, for
its period of vegetation lasts only three
months, and requires an average tenn
perature of IS degrees during the devel-
opment of the plant. The Havana
species, which is so appreciated through
out the world, is so delicate that it per-
ishes whenever the temperature falls
below sixty degrees, which, however,
happens very rarely in Cuba. Tobacco
does not require much water, two or
three showers being quite sufficient for
its growth in Cuba; but, then, dew in
our climate is quite copious, and the
moisture is received by the leaves and
runs along them to the upper ring of
roots. Be it on account of the soil or
climate conditions, our tobacco is en-
tirely different from that Of North Caro-
lima, Virginia and Kentucky; but l see
that much of the weed sold here under
the name of Havana is far from being
genuine, and in many instances the to-
bacco is grown in this country or South
America. IN. Y, Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
THE KAFiR IN NATAL.
He Is Treated With the Same Justice q.
tho European Settler.

tho European Settler.
Here there is none of that evil talk
so common in our Eastern possessions,
of the damned niger" There is not
a sign of cutting or bullying; the ma
tives are on the whole treated with the
same justice and impartiality as the
Europeans-a righteous principle, which
excites certain unrighteous Dutch
Beers to fury. There are few more
pleasing sights than the crowd of En-
glishmen and Kafirs assembled in the
public park and listening with a COM
mon pleasure to the military band. The
natives, unlike most savages, seem per-
fectly entranced with civilized music,
and their expression when God Save
the Queen is played is that of admir-
ing awe.
These Kafirs are really stalwart,
well-looking, fine fellows. They would
even look dignified but for their
extraordinary costume, which, to a new
conner, eXcites unbounded am usement.
They represent museum of almost
every uniform in the British army
ooppCioi
and dragons; but three or four of them
are required to illustrate a complete
turnout. Here is big, black fellow.
whose entire costume consists of a
lancer's tunic, buttoned tightly across
his otherwise naked body, and leaving
visible pair of splendid legs of a
shining mahogany color, which, in
dining-room table, would be quite
beautiful. Another is coatless, bnt
wears a pair of trews; another has on
an artilleryman's trailing great-coat
and another has on nothing particular
at all. These tunics Enlightened and
cleaned up) are sold in numerous Sion
shops at the current price of twenty.
seven cents each, and very proud the
wearers seem of their finery. Their
wives-for their plurality is on the
Mormon principle-would be, on tho
contrary, displeasingly ugly, with their
repulsive busts, their coarse, oiled
horse-hair locks, and their skewered
ears and noses, were it not that this is
almost redeemed by their dignity and
by the grace of their walk. Driven in
single file in front of their lords, tbev
bear heavy pitchers on their heads with
an upright, classical gracefulness re-.
sembling figures which depict Rebecca
at the well. -BlackwSod's Magazine,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
A PATHETIC SCENE,
The Last Hours of Alexander Stephens, the |
Georgia Statesman.

INC hdsI OF alexander stephens, the
Georgia Statesman.
There was pathetic and interesting
little incident about the last hours of
Alexander Stephens that has never been
printed.
Mr.. Grady, in the Constitutions &C
count, says that the last words of the
great Georgian were NEARLY home"
They were uttered in Inconsistencies.
Now, for several hours of the evening
and night before Mr.. Stephens died and
early next morning, Ernest Kontz was
most of the time alone with him in the
room. Mr.. Stephens frequently repeated
the words. almost home," and Nearly
home, now"
"We're nearly home"
"Alex, getready. We're almost home.'
where's Alex? We're nearly home,
Xow.''
And from then until his voice was
stilled eternally, that was its burden.
Within the hour before his death, DR..
Steiner, of Augusta and Mr.. R. p Zim-
norman, of Atlanta, were together in
the room with the dying statesman. All
knew that the end was coming, and
could no be far off.
Then DIR. Steiner retired.
Mr.. Zimmerman sat by the bedside,
watching the pale face on the pillow and
lbtening for a word. Finally still
change came, and he knew that death
WIS at hand. He hastily summoned the
friends gathered in an adjoining room,
and they stood there with bowed heads
or knelt at the bedside until the end
came.
1t was only three or four minutes, and
the Vice-Prosident Of the Confederacy
was dead.
The silence that followed was awful.
Each man feared to look at the face of
another, and each felt awed as in the
presence of his Maker.
Finally Mr.. Zimmerman looked up
and around him, and slowly repeated
tie beautiful verse of Montgomery's:
Forever with tho Lord. Amenl
So let it be.
Life from the dead Is in that word;
'Tis immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A days march nearer home"
The effect was indescribable. Many
of those present were moved to tears,
and the feeling of awe and restraint
was gone. After this the conversation
was natural.
Mr.. Zimmerman had not heard the
words spoken in delirium the night be-
fore, nor had he caught the whispered
last words, nearly home" The thought
came to him like an inspiration.-At-
lanta Constitution.
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They beat me and crushed me with
their weight but they never once sue
ceeded in pinioning my hands, and |
flatter myself that 1 gave them soma
blows that they felt sensibly, to say ths
least.
But after time l felt my strength
giving way, and l knew that l could not
hold out much longer. How Miss
AXtell guessed it 1 do not know, but
just as the larger man of the two had
planted his knee on my breast and was
raising knife to strike it to my heart
l saw by the dim light shed by the car.
riage lamp that the young lady had got
down from the vehicle and was hurry
ing toward us.
/ tried to shout to her to escape while
! she had a chance, but if she heard SHIT
did not heed. She came straight on
and the next moment l heard a cry Il
rage and pain, and the man on nj
breast tumbled off violently sNd lay
kicking upon the ground.
She had made a slip-noose of he,
scarf and flung it over his head whils
he was too much occupied to notice hel
presence. And now the brave girl wa
Juggling away at the scarf with all hel
might, and the man was choking and
swearing at tremendous rate.
Suddenly he twitched the scarf from
her hands, and then, with wild oath
he sprang upon her and both went dow
to the ground.
Breaking loose from the other man,
rushed to the spot and saw the villain
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
Lace Nantes for Summer.

Stylish and very simple mantles for
summer are shoulder capes made of a
flounce of black lace attached to jet
yoke, with a flaring Medicis collar
either of lace or of jet. The jet is any
pretty open branching pattern set on
strong black net in pointed yoke
shape; the Lace fiounce should fall to
the elbows, and may be accordion
plated. More elaborate mantles of
Maltese or of Chantilly lace have color
introduced as gold net, or goldwrought
Figaro jacket, or else velvet of rather
bright green, or the new aubergine or
violet shades. All are made very high
on the shoulders, and quite short in the
back, but many have graceful long scarf
fronts. A girdle of jet and some trim
mings of jet rain fringe falling from the
collar or over the shoulders or below
the girdle are on some of the prettiest
of these little capes. The black corded
net like fine passementerie is effectively
used as yokes and flaring collors. -Har-
per's Bazaar.
The butterfly is greedy creature;
no sooner does it come from grub than
It goes for grub.-Texas Siftings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
THE MAIDEN AND THE BIRD.

A bird sat singing a carol clear
On the bough of q budding tree:
Oh life is rare, and the world is fair,
And sweet is my life TO me!
Oh life is sweet, and the world complete,
And dear is my love to me-"
And an angel near smiled down to heaa
That song 80 glad and free.
A maiden fair came singing there
AS she passed meath the blossoming tree;
"'Oh the world IS fair beyond compare,
And sweet is my life TO mel
Oh love is sweet and the world complete
And dear is my love to me!'
But the angel smiled not, though well he heard
The witching melody.
For the maiden was decked with the self
same bird
That had sung on the blossoming tree!
To please her pride, the bird had died,
And hushed was its ecstasy!
And she never heard a low, sad note
From lone bird on tree:
" Oh life was sweet-with love to greet
And dear as thy love to thee
Was the mate by my SIDE whom to please
thy pride
Thy love hath torn from me"'
Agnes NJ. Machar, in Santa Claus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
A NIGHT ADVENTURE.
How I Won a Wife and a Posi-
ton in Life.

U r I y G the
year 1869, 1 was
e m p l Dyed by
the an k of
Raybury to eX-
change money
between it and
the Bank OF NIu-
t u a l Redemp-
n, with which
ey did business
3 ciw 1t was
very interesting
mt, a II d one
I've me but a
, but just then
dul1 and work
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An Austrian sculptor has discovered
a process for molding marble fluid pre-.
cisely as bronze is nodded.
French scientists have analysed a
quart of water taken from typhoid in
fected district, and found 100000 to
20,000,000 typhoid germs therein.
DR.. Charles M. Cresson, of Philadel-
phia, states that he has more than once
found the typhoid bacilli in the juice
that he has squeezed out of celery grown
near delphia.--Annals of Hygiene.
Last year there were received in
New York 5,747,55S cans of milk. AS
each was 40-gallon can, New York re-
ceived more than 200, 900, 600 gallons of
milk, in addition 1860, 600 gallons of
cream and large quantity of condensed
milk.
The trade of electrician, one of the
very newest, begins to be crowded. In
Philadelphia there are 200 graduates of
polytechnic institute on record as hav-
ing offered to work as electricians for so
cents per day.
Those interested in astronomy will
have an opportunity to observe total
eclipse of the sun, under favorable con-
ditions, in the year 1900. 1t will occur
in the early morning of May 27th and
will be visible from Virginia to Louisi-
ana.
DR.. Dixon, professor of hygiene at
the University of Pennsylvania, has
been making some experiments with air
and dust obtained in street cars. He
has found in them the germs of many
diseases, contagious and otherwise.
Winds occurring in the vicinity of
large rivers partake of the good quail
ties of sea. breezes, but do not contain so
much ozone or saline matter. These
brGezes are said to be rarely higher than
four hundred feet above the surface.
"A new wooden pulley has been con-
trived, the center being of cast iron and
the rim of wood, the device being in two
parts. 1t is claimed that by its use
better bell friction is obtained and q
saving in power is realized, the spolles
being formed in such manner as to
offer but very slight resistance to the
motion; keys and set screws are entirely
done away, and the grip upon the shaft
ing is said to be perfect.
In monographs, graphophones and
similar sound recorders use is usually
made of cylinders, covered with tinfoil
or wax, for receiving. as the cylinders
revolve, the impression made by the
scribers A new soundrecording appar-
atus operates on an entirely different
principle. The cylinder is replaced by
a fiat surface, which is made to oscillate
and move downward at regular intervals
by special mechanism.
1.-THE Importance of placing COM
pressed air as a motive power within
easy reach of the small manufacturer
has been recognized at Birmingham,
says London exchange. "a local
company obtained an act of Parliament
in 1854 by which they were authorized
to lay pipes throughout the public
thoroughfares to convey compressed air
at forty-fve pressure for the use of
subscribers. The first installation has
now been made and there are some four
and a quarter miles of main already
laid, the whole being controlled from a
central station, at which there is power
full machinery. No less than twenty
six consumers are said to be taking the
air and using it for working engines,
iapanning ETC."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
oLD-FASHIoNEo SCHOOLS.
General #. e. spinner's SchooI-Days fl
the Mohawk Valley.

General r. E. Spinner's SchooI-Days In
the Mohawk Valley.
No more interesting character of our
times now lives than General f. E.
Spinner of Treasury fame. Although
nearly ninety years old he preserves all
his faculties, and in College and School
he tells in an entertaining manner of his
school-days in the Mohawk Valley. The
school-boys and girls of the present day
will be able to contrast their happy lot
with General Spinner's.
Sand now the master;' he was, as a
rule, selected from the hands who worked
on the farm in the summer and taught
school in the winter; not for the guam
tity or the quality of his brains. but for
his superior muscular development.
"His equipment consisted of a stout
pair of cow-hide boots wherewith to dis
cipllne the big boys, a lot of rods, a
heavy ferule and two-bladed pocket
knife, the larger blade used for the cut
ting and trimming of rods and switches,
and the smaller one, wherewith to make
pens from quilts out of the wings of
that pertained to an old-time common
school in the Mohawk Valley.
''Teaching in those early days was
principally by induction, and it was in
deed by rod and ferule. Old King
Solomon, the wisest of men,, made the
law that governed the old-time common
schools in the Valley of the Mohawk.
"Spare not the rod was the edict at
the home and in the school. Spare the
q lad spoil the child came from the
TpsNpit, the school-room and the nursery.
Perhaps this is the reason why did
not spoil, and that am now, at the age
OF eighty-eight years, so well preserved.
The rod was never spared on me at home
or in school, and now, with grown-up
great-graldchildren, l can truthfully
say have never, in all my long life,
struck child single blow.
II was liked enough to last through
the whole four generations of self and
my posterity. l have found it safe
through life TO practice the reverse Of
what was taught me to do.
eight dollars amonth and board. When
employed in The winter as teachers,
they sometimes managed to get little
more, but they were obliged to board
round with the parents of their pupils.
THE board usually consisted of john
nie-;ake for breakfast, corned beef and
cabbage, or pork and sauer kaaut, for
dinner, and sepawn and milk for sup
per. The lodging 'shake-down' in the
garnet.
"Webster's Spelling-book, Columbian
Reader, English Reader, Dabuld's Arith-
metic and Lindley Murray's Grammar
were the books mostly in use in those
far-off days.
1.-The routine of the school exercises
OF that day was to commit to memory
passages from the books, the meaning
OF which the pupils had no more concep-
ton of than Nicodemus had of the
second birth"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

doubtless should have yielded entire
ly to the sin of profanity i: 1 had at
tempted to walk it.
500 to my house and stay tonight,
Mr.. Marsh" said the landlord. 81 can
give you some venison pie and pot of
beer for your supper, and a nice shake
down before the kitchen fire."
pray SIR" said a sweet voice at
Griggs' elbow, sis there no way to go on
to Raybury?"
Not tonight, my DEAR" said Griggs,
softening, as the light of his lantern
shone over the pretty face of young
girl whom l had scarcely seen before,
she having been an inside passenger.
81 guess you'll have to take up with
such accommodations as my house Of
fers l shouldn't wonder if Sally-that's
my darter, miss-will let you have half
of heHbed, seeing as you've been un-
fortunate"
Il must go on" she said. earnestly
81 have been some months from home,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
A TERRIBLE WEAPON.
1t Will Make War More Dangerous Than
1t Has Hitherto Been.

The new gun with which the German
infantry is to be equipped bids fair to
revolutionize infantry tactics and to
make war SO dangerous that enlistment
will be a matter of difficulty. The new
instrument is the small-caliber repeat
ing gun of the model of 1883. Its caliber
is but millimetres and its range is.
II, 500 feet, or 1000 feet greater than
that of the weapon whose place it takes.
1t is very light and is constructed for
the use of the new smokeless powder.
Earth breastworks less than ga feet
are no protection against this terrible
weapon. A description of it says:
"From now on even the stoutest trees
will give the foot-soldier in battle but
little protection, for the balls from the
new guns will simply pass right through
the trunks. Six men in a column, each
seven PAGES from the man behind him.,
may be shot through with one bullet,
provided that it comes in contact with
no metallic substance on the persons Of
any of them. The advantage that the
bullet of the new gun leaves only
small hole behind it is comparatively
insignificant. Moreover, should an en-,
envy, as has often happened, defend
himself behind village or courtyard
walls, he will be protected only in case
the wall is remarkably stout, for balls
from the new guns have repeatedly
penetrated with ease walls brick and
a half thick"
With range-finder attached to such
a weapon as this, making every bullet
that it fires effective, it's murderous.
qualities will be so complete that no
one exposed to it's fire could live. But
when wars get to be as dangerous as
this, and recruits know that the chances.
Of escape are not more than one in 100,
where will the governments get their
troops?-St. Louis Republic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
The Major Lost,

Major Bragg say, Leighton, there's
Miss Sweet. I'll bet you V you can't
get her to dance with you. after the cut
she just gave you.
Leighton-I'll take you, Major.
Leighton five minutes later)-Ah,
Miss Sweet, can you tell me who that
charming girl is over yonder. Prettiost
girl I've seen tonight, by iove.
Miss Sweet-Why you are looking at
nv reflection in that bevel mirror.
Leighton-Ah! HIM, may have you
for the next dance, Miss Sweet?-Ths
Jury.