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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Let japan He Recognized.

After the long and needless delay it is a
pleasure to learn that the negotiations be-
tween the State Department and the Jap
anese Minister In Washington for a new
treaty of amty and con- merce between the
two countries are likely to lead to definite
results. We should have been the first to
recognize the right of Japan to be ad-
mitted to the great Brotherhood of nations.
We are not yet too late, however, since
the English treaty does not come into eff
feet for five years to come. There should
never have been the slightest hesitation on
our part in acceding to Japans just request
for the abolition of the consular courts.
which should only be maintained in bar
barrie countries like China. Japan has won
her way to recognition by her moral cour-
age and her ma gnificent victories. She has
proved herself brilliantly worthy of the
western civilization that has enabled her to
forge to the front. We should be the first
to welcome the new Empire Of the Rising
Sun as a first-class Power and as q friend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Our Contract Sale

In spite Of the fact that everything
on The twelve big floors OF our Furniture
Department has been largely reduced
during this CONTRACT SALE. which
will last until November 20, We guar
aptee this:
That IL. between now and January I,
1880, any article purchased from us
during this sale is found quoted by any
other store in this or any other city at
lower price than we ask, then we
VIII not only return to you the differ
ence between that price and ours, but
will do even better than that, and de-
duct from that price 10 per cent of IL,
which Will also be given to you, thus
making the Article cost you one tenth
less than the lowest price you can find
For instance-If you buy from us be.
fore November 20, $500 worth of
goods at our low prices ard find that
In New York you could have bought
these same goods for 5000, then, IL
you report these facts to us before
January 1, 1895. We will not only re-
fund you the 81 which you overpaid.
but well go further, and deduct 10 per
cent from competitors price, and re-
fund that to you also.
You save 50 by this transaction, and
We refund you IS, making the cost OF
your purchase $500 instead Of 49,. 90.
Fair, isn't iti
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Secure.

'Well," said Mr.. Dolan, there's no made
av ME worryin' about insurance. Dim
fixed fur life"
'Phwat do yez mane?" said his wife"
1.-The boss towld me he'd kape me at
worruk on the new posht office till 'twor
finished" .-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Intervening n PrOyerb,

''Do you believe that whistling indicates
that a man has an empty head?" asked the
affable devotee to Sweet Marie.
1T indicates that he will have one If
can reach his head with club" replied
the person who can't be industrious with
out being irritable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Earned the Title.

"They tell me your servant Is jewel"
said. the caller.
YES" replied the hostess, YEARLY; "she's
so much more ornamental than usefulv'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
They Have the Good Will of the
American People.
From the New YORK Sun.

We can tell the government and people
of Japan that in their contest with tho rot
ten Manchu dynasty at Pekin they have
the hearty good will of Americans. and. in
deed of all well-informed and right-feeling
observers the world over. If they failed to
obtain the sympathy of Secretary Gresham,
1t was because he knew next to none of the
facts. and because both he and his master
take their opinions second hand from Lon
don.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

The use of wine in the christening the
st. Louis Is being condemned from all
sides. The w. c. T. U. considers it an en-
couraeement to intemperance, while the
tipplers unanimously regard 1t as a cruel
waste of champagne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
DPeal.

"John," said the rural parent, whose
son had come home from college, "whut
on airth is the matter with yer hair?'
why, father, that's foot ball hair"
THANK heaven. I thort fur q minute
tibet ye'd gone an hired out ez a Circassian
boy in a circusr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

One of the first acts in the adminStra-
ton of the city post office by the new post
master, Mr.. James =. Nillett, was the APP
pointment Of his predecessor, Capt. Harry
l.. Sherwood, as assistant postmaster; W.
VI. Dove has been appointed superinten-
dent of the East Capitol station, and w.
ii. Fletcher of the South Washin gton sta
ton. A number Of important local inter
eSts We're discussed In reports presented
at the annual meeting of the board of
trade, which was largely attended. After
seventeen years of service as inspector of
buildings for tho District, Thomas b. En-
twisle passed away. In his annual report
on the water supply and sewer system of
the District, Captain Derby, assistant to
the Engineer Commissioner, recommended
an issue OF bonds to pay for the needed
sewer schedule. Two cases of smallpox
were developed during the week; further
progress of the disease is believed to be
checked. Those engaged in river traffic as
well as the public, were interested to learn
that the Washington and Norfolk Com
pany had made a contract for a new
steamboat for the proposed day service to
Norfolk a company has been incorporated
in Baltimore for the purpose of establish
Ing q line OF steamboats, between this city
and Norfolk. The Association of Ameri-
can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
stations was in session during the week.
A report alleging the violation of the civil
service law by Recorder of Deeds Taylor
was adopted by the Civil Service Reform
Association of the District, and ordered
to be submitted to the President. A COM
mittee was appointed to urge upon the
board of trade the reconsideration of the
action by which the resolution favoring
placing employees of the District govern
ment under the civil service law was laid
on the table. The organization of a Dis
trict Suffrage Petition Association was eff
fected Interesting facts were presented in
the annual report of the board of children
guardians concerning the work of the past
year, with statement of the evils which
the board is designed to remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

There were forty men employed on the
city post office building today. Forty men
who would work steadily and skillfIIly
might. according to The Stars generous
estimate, complete the building by July @.
1899, but as the days go by 1t seems more
and more certain that a finished structure
need not be looked for prior to August II.
I1O6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Quiet. but Effective,

Vox Populi amt talkin',
Fur when he wants lis say,
He puts 'er down in writin'
At the polls on lection day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Than ksgiving and Politics.

While some will dine OH turkey fine.
Their heartfelt thanks expressing,
Alas, a few will have to do
With crow, and chestnut dressing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
The COnl Man.

In a gleesome murmur they heard him
say,
"Well, at last, things are coming a little
my weight!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

1t is generous In Mr.. Brice to indorse
Adlai Stevenson. In the matter of indorse-
ments the balance of trade seems to be
rather against the Senator this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
SHOOTING STARS.


MY mustache" said Willie Wibbies lis
coming up in spite of the fact that so
many people call it down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

These Armenians have an exceedingly
summary fashion of dealing with the tar
iff question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Foreign.

The remains of Car Alexander III We're
taken to St. Petersburg services being held
along the way. Thousands reviewed the
remains as they lay in the cathedral Con-
fiicting reports come of the operations
around Port Arthur in China. The Japan
csc are said to have been repulsed in one
of their attacks. The new Russian cZar is
said to have adopted his fathers peace pol
icy. A hurricane did great damage on the
British coast and at Hamburg and Brus-
sells. The English, rivers have been raised
considerably by floods. The leftS elect
ed 90 members of the Norwegian storth-
ing TO is for the opposition. The Chi
nese government made the apologies de-
manded by England for outrages on the
British steamer Chung King in August
justin Mccarthy declared that the Irish
parliamentary party was free to break
from any government refusing to recOg-
nize the full claims of the Irish people
Gen. Prudente Morales was inausuI'ated
president of Brazil Two Germans and u
Frenchman were arrested in Paris charged
win icing spies; discriminating documents
were found at their lodgings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
THE WEEK.

During the past week the supreme court
of Pennsylvania decided that nuns teach
ing i'm the public schools canot be prevent
ed from wearing their religious garb. The
torpedo boat Ericsson started for her Of
fcial speed trial, but met with an accident
and had to postpone 1t. The report of the
strike commission appointed to investigate
the Pullman strike was published; it crit
icised the Pullman Company for keeping
up the rents of employees houses while it
cut down their wages; it also recommended
a permanent arbitration commission. The
Non-partisan w. c. T. u. met at Washing
ton, Pa, and the National w. c. 7. u. at
Cleveland. Representative NJ b. Wright
OF the 10th Pennsylvania district died at
Trenton, Canada. The Kolbites met at
Montgomery, Ala, and talked of using
force to seat their candidates defeated at
the polls. Another young woman of i'll re-
pute was found strangled at Denver, max
ing three victims. Seventeen Chicago pc
licemen We're suspended pending investisa-
ton of charges of corruption. Gen. Cassfus
NJ. Clay Of Kentucky, aged eighty-fOur,
caused considerable comment by marrying
young girl in her teens. Wilfrid Now
bray, the English anarchist, slipped into
the country and immigration officials are
discussing means of deporting him. A con-
greSs or advocates of arbitration in labor
troubles was held at Chicago. Chance llor
Andrew Allison of Nashville, Tenn, was
Shot anu hiieu Dy george wv nitWOrt1, the
clerk of the court, to whom he owed
money. The latter then shot himself.
Bill Cooks gang of outlaws held up a pas
senger train in Indian territory and made
the passengers give up their valIalyles
The Society of Naval Architects and Ma
rine Engineers met at New York. An East
st. Louis justice held that money lost on
races can be recovered. The Protes tant
Episcopal Church congress was held at
Boston: Miss Hannah Weaver, a promi-
nent resident of Newport, r. L., hanged
herself. DR.. Andrew S. Draper was in2ug-
noiS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17

gin order to avoid delays, on ne
count of personal absence. letters to
THE STAR should not be addressed to
any individual connected with the Of
ice, but simply to THE STAR, or to
the Editorial or Business Depnr TIN ents,
according to tenor purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Strong
AS the
Marriage Tie

Is the contract which binds us to those
who buy FROM US. But 1t Is to empha-
size this fact and to make that tie still
stronger and more widespread that We
inaugurated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-17
Craig s Harding,
F st. and 18TH.
CHAMBER
SUITE
SALE

Now i'm progress-gives you
the opportunity of a life
time. The history of Fur
niture selling records mo
time when like values were
procurable.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-09-12
SAM ZEE HoP,

No. $50 King Street. Dealer in
California and Hawaiian Fruits
and vegetables. Guaya Jelly.
Tea and Gnund Cofise, Cissrs etc
jy20
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
Lightning and Trees.

Prof. ColladOn. of Geneva, has
made some interesting observations on
the course Of lightning when it strikes
trees and houses. He holds that the
great discharges which injure trees and
houses seldom or happen while
the lightning has an u~nobstructed
cOurse-which it has along the thin up
per branches of trees, where birds and
their nests are often left uninjured by its
descent. But it is where the electric
current reaches the thick stem that the
tree becomes u worse and worse ron
ductOr, and it is here, therefore, that
the tree is what is called struck. e.,
here that the electricity, failing To- find
an unObstructed channel to the earth,
accumulates in masses, and gives ont
shocks that rend the tree. And the
same Is true of houses whose lightning
conductors stop short of the ground.
Prof. COlladon has also shown hat
the close neighborhood of Il pool of water
Is a great attraction to the electric
current. and that the electricity often
passes down n house or tree till it is
near enough t. dart straight across to
the water: AMI he thinks that, where
possible, lightning conductors should
end in a spring or pool of water. Prof.
COLLATION. believes that lightning
descends rathec III Il shOwer-through II
multitude Of vines. for instance, i'll the
same vineyard than in a single main
stream. 1t divides itself among all the
upper branches of a tree, and is received
from hundreds of atmospheric points at
once, instead of, as has been usually
supposed, from one. Electricity is Il
rain, G number of tributaries from a
wide surface, not Il single torrent.
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
Gluten Meal and Oil Meal

The value of glucose meal, or gluten
meal, or gluten feed, as it is v~ariously
called, for milk production. has been
the subject of quite extensive expert
ments at the Vermont experiment
station. Seventeen trials of single
COWS were made, in which these
different feeds were compared with
bran and cor meal. In the majority
of cases they were found to produce
more milk, or richer milk, or both,
than either corn meal or a mixture of
corn meal and bran, so that in almost
every trial more butter was produced
by NEAR of the gluten feed. This is
dne undoubtedly to the high percent
age of protein contained in these feeds.
They serve to supplement the def
ciencies of corn meal, hay, corn fodder,
etc, in this particular, and to make
up what is known as a balanced
ration. The cream gluten
meal mentioned above is very
feed, and both
it and the corn germ meal are especi-
ally rich in fats and should be used
with caution. Probably two pounds
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
Growing Onions.

" unions.
The so-called new method with
onions is little more than an extension
of their growing season by starting
the plants early in the season under
glass, writes W.. L. Farmer in American
C%ultivator. But this innovation is suf-
ficient to stamp the work as new, and
really worth all OF the talk about it.
Ey adopting this method we are pretty
sure TO make the crop a success. BAD
seasons. late seasons AMI other unfa-
vcraElc conditions can not do much
harm to the crop, or, at the most, the
injury from these auses is reduced to
the lowest minimum. Where the soil
is suitable, the large white onions are
the mos; profitable to grow, for the
demand for them is always in excess
of rcd and yellow, and the prices paid
arc sometimes nearly double. In the
eastern states the white onions reach
their perfection, and they sell for from
81 to So per barrel more than the red
and yellow one from other sections.
This is due to the popularity Of the
soil and the coast climate, and farmers
have developed the industry in that sec
ton by persistent study of the needs of
onions. But the red and yellow onions
prove profitable enough in any section
where the land is suitable for their
culture. and far more so if the so called
new method is adopted. The seed
should be sown in the Eotbeds six or
eight weeks before the time for ordi-
nary planting in the fields, and as the
best conditions possible "a generally
be given to q hotbed, these seeds
should be given q fine start in life.
They should not only be started early,
but they should be kept in constant
growth until ready for transplanting.
If the season is late they should be
kept in the hotbeds until it has grown
warmer and dry. There is no particu,
lar need OF fastening the time Cor
transplanting. as the onions are grow
ing ali of tie time. and nothing is thus
lost. The field should BE- prepared
thoroughly for the onions, a we'll
drained. sandy loan soil being the
best for the work, especially if it is
full of decaylng vegetable matter.
Fertilize and %pulverize thoroughly.
Stony ground is not so good for onions.
They need q soft, ~pulverizcd, mellow
soil. SO that the dirt and fertilizers
can surround the bulbs and give them
nour:shmert. The onions should be
tr~ansplanted into rows one foot apart
and three inches apart in the rows.
Set the plants firmly in the soil, and.
exterminate all weeds that have at.
tempted to start, and there will be
labor saved. Careless transplanting
generally has to be gone over again
several times, making the work more
than double. A hotbed from three to six
feet large should produce enough
onions for eight or nine square yards
Of ground, requiring about n and 9
'.8lf ounces of seed.
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by moro promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; ef!ectually cleansing the system,
dispclling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drryy-
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
Don't Blame the Cook

If baking powder is not uniform in strength, :
SO that the same quantity will always do the same
work, no one can know how to use it, and uni
~formlygood, light food cannot be produced with it.
All baking powders except Royal, because
improperly compounded and made from inferior
materials, lose their strength quickly when the can
is opened for use. AT subsequent bakings there
will be noticed a falling off in strength. TIL focd
is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted.
1t is always the case that the consumer suffers
in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub
stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal
is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is
possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder.
1t is always strictly reliable. 1t is not only more
economical because of its greater strength, but
will retain its full leavening power, which no
other powder will, until used, and make more
wholesome food.
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23
m Mpn III

As a powerful, invigorating, restorative
tonic "Fayorite Prescription" improves
digestion and nutrition thereby building up
solid, wholesome flesh, and increasing the
strength Of the whole system As a soothing
and strengthening nervine "FavOrite Pre-
scription" is uneGualed and is Invaluable in
ailaying and subduing nervous excitability.
~irritcbility, nervous exhaustion, nervous
prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms.
Chorea, or st. Vitus's Dance, and other dis
tressing, nervous symptoms commonly atten-
dant upon functional and organic disease of
the womb. 1t induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and dependency.
Even insanity, when dependent upon womb
disease, is cured by IT,
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
scientific medicine, carefully compounded BY
an experienced and skillful physician, and
adapted to woman's delicate organization. lt
is purely vegetable in its composition and
perfectly harmless in its effects in any condi-
tion Of the system. For morning sickness, or
nausea, due to pregnancy, weak stomach, in
digestion, dyspepsia and kindred symptoms,
its use will prove very beneficial
DIR. Pierce's Book (l6S pages, illustrated)
on woman and Her Diseases" giving sue
cessful means Of Home Treatment, will be
mailed in plain enreiope, securely sealed
from observation on receipt Of ten cents
10 pay postage. See the Doctors address
near the head Of this article
The Columbus journal., 1894-05-23

per day and head is as much rs should
be used and less would probably be
safer for cows. There Is no reason to
think that these feeds are not just as
healthful as the corn from which they
are made. l have not noticed that
they have been used extensively for
other classes of stock than mich cows.
Old process oil meal is used by dairy
men chiefly as means of balancing a
ration, that is, increasing its percent
age of protein. The oil which it con-
talks is doubtless of value, but the
protein is the especially valuable in
gredient. Oil meal is valuable also for
its dietetic effects, beings mild laxa-
tive feed. have understood that it is
used by horsemen on this latter ac-
count, being considered rather in the
light of 4 medicine than Il feed, so far
as I know. Two or three pounds per
day for an animal weighing 1000
pounds would be an average ration Of
oil meal in combination with ordinary
grains.
IN bulletin No. Sc of the Cornell, n.
V, station some facts about manure
are given that are of value to the gen.
eral and special farmer. Efforts were
made by a series of experiments to de-
terEline how much of the fertilizing
elements Of the food of animals under
the various systems of feeding now in
vogue were returned to the soili
through the barnyard manure. In the
several experiments conducted it was
found that about Il per cent of the
potash, nitrogen and phosphoric acid
of plant food We're recovered in the
manure. This is more correct for ami
mails fed in the barn and stables, Is it
woue1 be rather too high for those
pastured out most of the time. Good
nourishing food that contained an
abundance of nitrogen always en-
ric.hed the manure in the same proper
ton, and the same is true of the foods
Astounding in potash and phosphoric
acid. In fact, such manures derived
from foods rich in these manurial con-
stituents were found 20 be much more
valuable than the commercial fertiliz-
crs advertised to contain specially
these clements. In feeding animals.
then, some foresight should be given
as to the ultimate use Of the foods in
the share OF manure. OF two foods
equally expensive and nutritious the
preference should always be given to
the one that contains the most of
these fertilizing elements.
TIE chief difficulty Of growing alfal-
ia is in getting a good stand and caring
for it the first season. II is particular
~ adapted to dry land and will yield
fair crops of splendid hay c without
rain or surface moisture, but will pre-
duce mich better and larger quantity
by having plenty of moisture at the
proper time, which is just after a crop
has been taken from the land. If
sown in spring with oats, it will
usually get 4 good start before the cat