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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14
PLAN NATIONAL BODY
Of RETAIL MERCHANTS
Local Association Starts
Movement for Organization
to Represent Country.

A movement for the creation of ma
tional association of retail merchants was
started last night at meeting of the
board of governors, of the Washington
Retail Merchants Association 1t was
pointed out that the retailers association
OF the National Capital is the logical
organization to take the initiative in the
establishment of such body. Upon the
motion of Vice President Isaac Cans,
President r. P. Andrews and Secretary
Charles ]. Columbus were. authorized to
take up the matter with state and indi-
vidual organizations of retail merchants
throughout the country.
The governors adopted resolution ask
ing that F and G streets between 9Th
and 18TH streets be provided with better
lighting facilities. 1t was pointed out that
these thoroughfares are among the most
important in the business life of the city.
George Topham was appointed chairman
of a committee which is to make an eff
fort to have more street lamps installed.
The governors approved the plan of the
joint committee of the three trade bodies
to raise a convention fund of $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14

If you want work, read the want col
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14
POLICE ARE ROUTED
AT LONDON MEETING
Miss Pankhurst Escapes After
Arrest During Fierce
Struggle.

LONDON, October 14.-After fierce
struggle the police arrested Miss Sylvia
Pankhurst at Bow Meats, in the east of
Lndon. last night, where she was max
ing speech. But when -hey got her
outside the building. with the intention
of placing her in a taxicab and rushing
her to Holloway jail, the militants at
tackled the police so savagely that they
had to fet her go and she escaped.
Miss Pankhurst. who has an uncom-
pleted term of Imprisonment to serve, was
not recognized until she threw aside the
disguise which enabled her TO elude the
police and enter the building.
She was warmly applauded as she step
ped on the platform. but had been speak
ing only few minutes when a oody OF
uniformed police with drawn truncheons
entered the hall and made a rush for the
platform.
The audience arose and chairs began to
fly, the invaders being the objective
point. The police gained the platform,
waged, the officers using their clubs
freely, and those on the platform utlliz-
ing chairs as weapons.
The police succeeded in dragging Miss
Pankhurst down to the floor of the house
while reinforcements cleared the hall.
Men and Women Trampled Upon.
Outside the struggle was renewed with
greater fury. Men and women were
thrown down and tranIpled upon. Con-
centrating the attack on the police who
had the militant leader in their, gasp,
the women. with the assistance of several
men, succeeded in tearing her from their
grip and she slipped away.
Some of the women afterward COM
planned of having been thrown down and
kicked by the police.
Miss Zelie Emerson of jackson, Mich,
whose Imprisonment caused such a furore
months ago, was one of those
injured Mrs. Lee, who presided at the
meeting and took a conspicuous part In
the attack on the police, was arrested
Miss Pankhurst later announced her
intention to address meeting at Poplar
town hall tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14
FEa TURING SCHOOL BOOKS.
POOKSETTN

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every demand one can make. The collection OF
fiction. history. poetry. drama. current maya
zines, etc, is well balanced by the stock Of
Bibles and church literature.
GyThe prices are well within reason.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14
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Whether You Need

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-14
BARKER'S, $40 N. Y. Ave.
Madame La Belle

Madame La Belle
OF Paris and New York (1590 Broadway
Is exhibiting at
The Hotel Grafton.
During the week OF Oct Is. imported and her
ow n original models OF gowns, waists, wraps and
hats While here she will take orders for a New
York establishments
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
MAKE LIVING DIGGING WORMS
Peculiar Summer Pursuit Engaged In
by English Boatmen During
the Fishing Season.

There are probably few of the many
visitors who annually spend their
holidays at seaside resorts who know
the means by which boatmen and 9TH
ers engaged in summer pursuits earn
livelihood during the winter months.
Among the various winter occupa-
tons carried on around our shores,
there is, at the quaint little seaport
town of Wells, on the north Norfolk
coast, at least one industry which is
rather of an unusual nature and
which provides several families with
a winters keep" This industry is
known as worm digging" and at the
present time there are about thirty
men engaged in the work. g
These men go down at low tide to
what are known as ''the east sands,
each provided with fork and basket,
or similar appliances, and there dig
for sandworms, which are used as bait
for fishing.
An experienced hand can dig UP
about a Thousand worms at a tides
work" i. e.. during the period of low
tide. but even this number is frequent
ly exceeded.
The worms are sent by rail in small
wooden boxes to Yarmouth, Lowestoft
and similar places, 10000 a week
being a modest estimate of the num-
Der of worms SO dispatched. The
price has varied at different times,
but As. per 1000 might be taken as
an average figure, and, as work is fire.
quentIy continued on Sundays, some
of the worn diggers" can earn as
much as COS week--Tit-Bits
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
NITROGEN is or IMPORTANCE
Large Sums OF Money Are Expended
Yearly for Fertilizers Contain
Ing This Element.

One of the most important plant
and tree foods is nitrogen. Large
sums of money are spent every year
by farmers and fruit growers for fer
tilizers containing this element. The
air We breathe is the greatest known
storehouse of nitrogen, but the nitro
gen in the air is not in form which
can be directly used by the plants 1t
can, however, be converted into a
disable form by the action of soil BAG
teria-those microscopic organisms
which exist in soils and materially af
feet the growth of crops. Cultivation
brings these soil bacteria into direct
contact with the air from which they
take the nitrogen and convert it into
food for the adjacent plants and trees.
Without cultivation this beneficial &C
tivity of these minute organisms ig
greatly restricted. and consequently
uncultivated orchards are not as well
supplied with the food materials re-
quired for the prolific production Of
fruit OF the best quality. Cultivation,
too. keeps In the moisture of the soil
and give the rain and sun chance t.
produce the best results.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
FUNCTIONS OF TILE DRAINS
Farmer Cannot Afford to Wait on Ma
ture and Must Provide Artificial
Means of Drainage.

Drainage is the limiting factor on
many farms where the hand of man
has not assisted nature in the re-
moval of free soil water, says Farm
Press. Nature has furnished us with
a surface drainage system in our
rivers, creeks and rivulets. In some
places she has provided subter-
ranean drainage in sand and gravel
subsoil.
water would follow small passage
ways to some natural outlet, but the
agriculturist cannot wait. Where the
soil is underlaid with a heavy clay,
hardpan. sand or limestone rock, 1t is
necessary for man to assist nature.
He resorts to digging trench from
two and one-ban to three feet in
depth, above the impervious stratum,
and place therein a tile drain. This
tile rapidly carries away the free wa
ter that rises to Or above the stratum
of hard clay or rock.
The function Of the drain is not so
much to remove water as it passes
downward as it is to carry it away as
is rises to the tile level. A good
crop is dependent upon large root
system. Since the root system of the
plant will not develop in free soil
water, the shallow laying of the drain
tile means a small crop. Deep laying
of the tile provides a large feeding
area for the roots of big crop. Deep
drainage and frequent shallow cultiya-
ton smile at droughts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
Early WAL Decorations.

Probably the earliest wall paintings
are the ancient Egyptian They en-
ployed a distemper containing dissolv-
ed gum, and their principal pigments
were white chalk, vegetable yellow.
ochres. ethiopian cinnabar, blue pow
dered glass stained with copper and
charcoal black Their drawing was
technically skiIlful, and, as is the case
with the modern decorator. their col
oring was purely decorative and their
designs fanciful and extravagant
The walls Of Assyrfan and Babylon
ian dwellings were treated in much
the same way, and the practice of
painting on walls coated with plaster
was certainly in vogue in Assylria-
II has been believed also that the
Greeks understood true fresco work,
apparently on the strength Of phrase
occurring in Plutarch. Ito paint on a
wet ground Vitruvius also speaks OF
a wet ground and says that colors
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
A TOY AERIAL coNvEYoR.

When two boys in our neighborhood
rugged up a toy conveyor between
their homes, the idea was at once seen
70 be productive of so much fun that
half a dozen other boys installed SINH
lar conveyors between their homes.
Most of these were operated from up
per story windows. Some of the lit
tie baskets, or cars, were pulled back
and forth along wire stretched taut
between two windows, by means of
cords attached at each end of the
cars; and others We're operated by
heavy cord or light rope run over pull
leys after the manner ia which "pul-
ley clotheslines'' are put up. At first,
most of the cars were made just large
enough to hold written messages; then
one of the boys conceived the idea Of
making q. larger car and sending a
glass of water across to his friend,
and his success led another lad to
send a dish Of ice cream across the
street to his partner; so you see the
toy served more purposes than one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
LIVE STOCK MEANS SUCCESS
No Better Place for Farmer to Market
Corn and Roughage Than to
Give to Animals.

On nearly every farm live stock
raising is merely a side line where 1t
should be the main thing. There Is
no place where the farmer can market
his corn and roughage so profitably as
feeding it TO good live stock. The mar
ket Is right at home in the feed lot,
and no long hauls to town are neces-
sary. If farmer can feed his 60-cent
corn to good hogs which will pay him
so cents for it, does he not make an
advance on the price Of his corn and
a profit in the fertility returned to the
soil, as well as a saving of expense in
hauling? Breeding pure-bred live
stock is a business which should be
entered gradually and retired froam
reluctantly Improving the common
stock little each year will lead up to
the pure-bred business. There can
exist no permanent system of agri-
culture without live stock and, on high
priced land ~ure-bred stock is the
only kind to have.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
Got His Answer.

When the Rev. John Mcneil was
holding revival services at Cardiff a
young man one night, thinking to per
the platform with the request that the
following question be publicly an
swered:
Dear Mr. Mcneil: IF you are seek
ing to enlighten young men kindly tell
me wko was Gains wife"
Mr.. Mcneil read the note. and then,
amid breathless silence, said:
Il love young men-lnquirers for
truth especially--and should like to
give this young man a word of advice.
1t is this: Don't lose your souls saliva
tion looking after other peoples
wives"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
Electrical Farmlno.

Very successful efforts have been at
tanned by William Stahl, of Evanston,
Ill, in his efforts to facilitate the
growth of vegetables and grain by the
use OF electricity. He has a network
of wires spread over his farm at a
point about eight feet above the sur
face, and after the seeds have been
planted current of electricity is
maintained constantly passing through
these, and in this manner the air Is
kept in a constantly charged condition.
At times the polarity of the wires and
ground is changed SO that sometimes
the earth is the negative terminal and
at other times the wires are. Speci-
mems grown almost side by side, ex-
cept that some were in the field of
electric influence and others were not,
have made a great showing in favor Of
the use of the current. The gentleman
is an electrician as well as a farmer,
and he is convinced that electrical
farming is a commercial and practical
success.-Exchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04

Fig. 1-ohaIn Bob sIeds.

The draft-chain being entirely INDIE
pendent of the tongue, the latter may
be made light If used much on the
road, it should be heavier, and set
stiff.
The bo6s are coupled together with
a forked cable chain In place OF a
reach, with grab-hook on each end.
and ring in the center. This ring is
put into a clevis at the rear end OF
the saddle-plank of the front bob, the
other ends of the chain to rings or
the nose of the rear bob. The rings
are large enough for the chain to
double through, so as to let them out
or draw them together, and by which
logs Of any length from s to 20 feet
may be placed equally on both. The
rings, properly put on, cannot catch
tree or brush; and the chains playing
up and down, permit the rear bob to
go over the toughest ground. logs or
brush.
The shoes of the runners are made
of the hardest dry wood, sawed slight
ly across the grain, so as to wear with
it. They will last whole winter. The
lower figure in Fig. shows how they
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04

but even so, you cannot exchange a
book, or return or borrow a baseball
glove by either of these, though 1t is
entirely possible to do so with toy
conveyor.
Fig. l shows one of the simplest
and most satisfactory forms of aerial
conveyors, You will see by this illus
tration and the detail diagrams that a
single wire extends from one point OF
communication to the other, and that
the car runs by force of gravity--the
end from which the car is stared be-
ing hoisted enough higher than the
opposite end to give the wire the
necessary pitch Figs. 2, 3 and 4
show the details for making the Ge-
vice for raising and lowering the ends
of the wire Screw or nail the block
A, into which you have screwed a
screweye and "a pulley d in the
positions shown, to the casing upon
the outside of the window; and screw
a second screweye into the windowsill
directly under B &c, Fig. p. Cut an
other small block &c, Fig. AZ, screw
two screw-eyes into one face-one di-
rectly above the other Of, Fig. A., and
screw a third screweye into the op-
posite face c., Fig. Al, and a fourth
into the top Oh, Fig. ~. Then fast
en- one end to piece of heavy wire to
screweye B in block A, and after run
ming the other end through the eyes
| F in block e, slip it through screweye
C in the window sill, pull it taut, and
fasten it.
The wire along which the car travels
is attached to screweye G. This wire
must be left slack enough to permit
raising it's ends, but you will find that
| it will sag to some extent, and prob
ably enough to serve the purpose. Tie
a piece of clothesline to screweye II
in the top of block E, run it up over
the pulley d, and bring it down to
within a foot or so of the window sill
! This is the lifting rope. A loop made
in the free end can be slipped over a
nail in the window casing to keep the
rope within easy reach.
Fig. shows neat form of con,
veyor car Any small grocery box
may be used or this. Cut two strips
of wood to fit diagonalIy across the
ends q, Fig. 81, and fasten the cover
in place with a pair of iron or leather
hinges. Then screw clothesline pull
ley into the end of each upright !, and
the car will be completed.
/ Copyright, 1912, by A. Nicely Hall)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
MARKET REPORT.


Milwaukee, Jan. %, 1913.
Butter-Creamery, extras, S2c;
prints. 33c; frsts, 2S03Oc; seconds,
26 q &c; renovated, &c a &c; dairy,
fancy, 29c.
Cheese - American, full cream.
new made, twins, 100 16 4c; Young
Americas, lie; daisies, 16 tic;
longhorns, lie; limburger, II nc;
brick, 161ac
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality. 2O@22c; recandled, extras,
30 a BE; seconds, 1e@17c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 12lAc; roos-
ters, SEC; springers, 13@14c.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, sic; No.
2 northern, sec; No 3 northern, o5c;
No. l velvet, S9c.
Corn-No. yellow, 4Sc.
Oats-No. white, 39c; No. 4
white, 32%c.
Barley-No. 8, 6O@62c; Wiscon-
sin, 55 @62c.
Rye-No. 2, SAC.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 500 %
500; cows and heifers, AIS q 80;
feeders, 5.25@6.00; calves, $50 q
1850.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 7.5O
@7.6O; fair to best light, 7.25 q
7.45; pigs, 6.50@7.15.
Sheep-Lambs, 7.0O@S.50; ewes
30005.0O.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04

A Missouri Flood Gate.

posts We put three-quarter inch
bolt through where they cross. For
Stats use old rails, poles or 2 by 4 OF
good material spiked to the logs. Then
the job is done.
The best of it is it stays put. There
is no cost to speak OF at the start and
no trouble afterwards wading around
in. the mud cleaning it and getting it
stock-proof again. The middle being
lowest, the main current naturally
stays there and so all logs, stumps
and trash of any kind go right on
down the stream.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
Gave Vogue to War lows.

One result of the Balkan conflict
was a boom" in sanguinary toys for
Christmas soldiers. cannon, military
aeroplaues and so forth. War and
bloodshed seem always to have react
ed on the nursery. In 1898. for in
stance. the German child was hum
ored with a toy guillotine for Christ
mas. and Goethe wrote to his mother
at Frankfort. asking her to send one
Of these little instruments for boy
friend. Nine. Goethe was Indignant
Dear son" she wrote, L have only
oas desire, and that is to give you
pleasure. 1 will execute any com
mand. but buy such an infamous ma
rhine of slaughter I will not in any
circumstances. If / could | would ar
rest the makers and burn such toys
by the executioner."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
HlYYRga aEagSina sG sstlty tgis
DOWN TO THE BARE FACTS
Young Minister'S Passion for SeIf-Sac-
rifice Had Results That Might
Have Been Anticipated.

The announcement of Miss Helen
Miller Gould's betrothal led enc of the
charity workers of New York to say:
Marriage itself Will not be able to
quench Miss Gould's passion for CIV
ing. Apropos to this passion. she once
told me a story.
There was q young minister, the
story ran, who. being poor and hav-
ing nothing else to give, used to give
away his clothes.
The young minister's district con-
tanned many needy men, and he would
give them shoes and socks, shirts and
coats, gloves, overcoats and trousers.
yes, time and again he would give
away his clothes, foolishly and reck-
lessly, piece by piece. until"
Here the charity worker smiled
Until" she ended, "he came to
himself!"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
PQDRRYNQfS
Poultry and eggs bring good prices

Poultry and eggs bring good prices
nowadays.
If the flock is not eulled every year
it will deterioriate rapidly.
Attention to detail often means sue
cess in the poultry business.
The merits of the scratching shed
are shown during bad weather.
The incubator should be In readf
ness before it is time to start it.
Overcrowding is one of the worst
and most frequent mistakes made by
poultrymen.
Allow chickens OF all sizes a. good
dust bath. They enjoy it. from the
smallest to the largest.
Dry mash, charcoal and grit can Be
fed in a box covered with half-inch
poultry netting. without waste.
DOM keep unsightly or crippled
chickens. even though they have been
valuable birds in their day.
Some tell the sex OF the guinea fowl
5y it's wattles. Those of the male are
double the size of the female.
Some of the causes of roup are sud
den ana extreme changes in tempeFa-
ture. damp Houses ard draughts.
+ A good poultryman is Industrious
not easily discouraged, filed with
pluck and grit and full OF ambition.
Have your fowls so tame that you
car go among them without causing
fright. You viii get better egg pro
ductlon.
Excited men and women make en-
cited birds. and that has bad effect
on the reproducing mechanism Of
the birds.
Do not put males IN ADJOINING pens
with only netting between them. Have
a ewelve-inch board at the bottom d
each partition
Hens will eat a great quantity q
coal cinders and they are very good
eor them. tn putting a load IN the
chickss yard and watch the result
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-04
Increase in Speed.

Twenty years ago. according to a
police statement made at the time,
London omnibuses and vans travelled
at the rate of seven to eight miles an
hour. the "growler" travelled at ahou,
six miles and hour. the hanson or
private carriage reached the speed OF
rather less than ten miles, while the
fire engines rarely exceeded eleven
miles. Now the motor bus has 9
nominal twelve-miie rate and an
actual twenty sometimes, the taxi is
going slowly at fifteen. while the
private motorist may scour the road
at anything up to the speed of an ex
press train making a record.