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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
CHAPTER OF FIRES.
Firemen Kept Busy Despite Bad
Weather Conditions.

A defective iue in house 139 F street
northeast caused a blaze yesterday after
noon. The fire department received a call
from box GAS and by the time the flremen
reached the scene of the fire the blaze had
spread to the adjoining house. The prop
erty is owned by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company and occupied by JAeph
Hunt and Oliver Becker. About $3.50 dam
age was caused.
Fire caused about 500 damage to the
house of Mrs. Martha Wells. No. II Grant
place, last night about I O'Clock. An alarm
turned in from box 132 summoned several
companies of the fire department to the
house and the blaze was extinguished in
short time The damage 10 the building
was placed at S2n and to personal effects
$75. The origin Of the blaze could not be
determined.
Z Smoke issuing from the house of J. Maury
Dove. 1740 New Hampshire avenue, last
night about $50 O'Clock caused a fire scare.
No. o engine company went to the house
in response to a local alarm and found that
their services were not needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Fresh Air and Rest.

From the New York Medical Record.
@. r. Pogue says that much harm has
been done to consumptives by the indls-
criminate prescribing of fresh air, outdoor
life and exercise, without proper instruc-
tions and education of the patient, together
with a consideration of the extent of the
tient with high fever, chlls and sweats out
doors all day long in cold weather. and then
require him to sleep in an open tent, with
no provision made for the comforts of life
TO which he has been accustomed. On the
other hand, the patient In the early stages
of the disease who is told to adopt tent life
without being given definite instructions is
very apt to shut himself UP tight at night
in his tent. and SO spend seven or eight
hours day in closed canvas box.
Patients must be kept outdoors all day
long in the open air, and practically the
same conditions must prevail at night. but
they must be made comfortable and pro-
tected from cold winds, rains and storms.
and during the summer months from the
direct rays of the sun. The beginning of the
outdoor life must be made gradual, without
abrupt transition from the patients usual
mode of life. Similar fallacies exist in the
sion also, regarding the value of exercise
The patient who is told to live out of doors
and rough it, usually does not live long to
carry out the injunction. OF sixty-two pa
TENTS IN various stages of the disease
whose histories are known to the author
who during the past five years have taken
the "roughing it, cure, forty-three are dead
disease arrested. Rest is the element IL is
important to secure, for usually the patient
Is only too apt of his own accord to take
too much active exercise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
How Sharks Detect Carton.
From Pearson's Magazine.

1t is a curious thing, and so far as pres
ent knowledge goes, quite inexplicable, how
shark seems to have an unerring percep-
ton Of the presence of carrion. BY virtue
of what sense does he know that at dis
lance of perhaps couple of miles there is
food to be had for the picking up? 1t can
hardly be sight, and to say that 1T is the
sense of smell presupposes an olfactory ap-
paratus of such marvellous delicacy that
one good Whit from an average harness
cask' would surely burst the machinery
for good and all: and yet our shark viii
bolt a goodiy lump of the gamiest salt pork
without so much as a wink. No. it cannot
be his nose which leads him.
Now theory has been put forward by
naturalists that the shark possesses, in
common with the Andes condor a special
sense, or instinct, which is denied to clean
er-feeding animals. The naturalist cannot
explain this sense; confesses. in fact, that
he knows nothing about 1t; but he can give
1t a name. He calls ii the ''carrion sense -
and with that name. which, of course, ex-
plains nothing at all, expects us to be sat
isfed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
UNUSUAL APPRECIATION.
Washington Public Patronize Food
Show Most Generously.

The antics of the snow king last night
did not result in lowering the attendance
at the food show, which is on the last lap
OF two-weeks' run. Realizing that only
TWO more days remained before the big
show would close. thousands went to the
hall long before the hour for opening and
packed around the front entrance, waiting
III the snow and cold until the doors were
thrown open.
From 730 to 1890 o clock the hall was lit
orally thronged. good proportion OF the
assemblage being of the feminine gender
Great preparations are being made to
make tonight the star night" of the ex-
position. Thousands have already pur-
chased their tickets and the indica tons
point to an even larger attendance than
was recorded last evening, when more than
11.OO0 visited the large auditorium.
The managers will end the show tonight
In great style and goods from the booths
OF the different manufacturers will be given
away in large quantities. Three manufac-
turers will present full-sized packages of
their products to the first five hundred
ladies attending, and many other exhibitors
who wish to close out their sample supplies
will distribute them among those present.
The officers of the Protective Grocers' As
ISOLATION, under whose direction the big
show was given, regard the success 81 the
affair as nothing short of phenomenal The
enterprising grocers spared neither time nor
expense before 1t was opened to insure its
success. They say they are grateful to out
side manufacturers who awaited themselves
of space in the hall and contributed to the
realization of the food show idea which
has been discussed among the retail e -ocers
for many years. but which was never be-
fore attempted upon SO large a scale
Mr.. e. j. Rowe of New York who has
managed the largest food expositions in the
United States, and who has supervised tie
exhibits at Convention Hall during the uast
two weeks, said the exhibition will be re-
corded None of the largest food shows
ever held in this country. He said the lib
eral patronage of the Washington public
had been no less pleasing to the manage
ment than to the grocers. Mr. Rowe
praised The Evening Star for the liberal
publicity given the exhibits through the
medium of it's news columns and said the
success of the show was largely due to The
publicity thus given.
1t was estimated today that if the record
Is maintained in the attendance This even
ing the total attendance at the exposition
Will reach 10000, If 1t does not go beyond
that figure. The management mas leased
Convention Hall for two weeks, commencing
December 3, 1906, and will conduct another
food show in which 81 600 worth Of floor
space has already been engaged By manu-
facturers who were among this years OK
hlbltors. Contracts for other floor space
amounting to $1,000 will be closei today
and tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
CALLS FOR AN INQUIRY.
Mr.. Tillman Arraigns Panama Rail
way COMPANY

The Senate continued in session Yesterday
afternoon until after O'Clock After The
Stars report was closed, Mr. Culberson nro-
posed an amendment to the canal emer-
gency appropriation bill providing that no
part OF the money appropriated shall be
used to pay the expenses of a literary bu-
fesu or Tor the salary of any person en-
pioyed to create popular sentiment in favor
OF the canal.
proceeding to discuss the adverse criti-
eism of the Panama railroad man agement,
Mr.. Tillman provoked protests from Mr..
Gallfnger and Mr.. Allison, the former call
Ing attention to preparations to double
track the railroad to relieve the blockade,
and the latter saying that more than half
OF the money to be appropriated In the
pending bill is to be used for improvements
to the railroad and wharves. Mr.. Tillman
asserted the illegality of the Issuance of
bonds by the Panama railroad decIarine g.
that 1T amounted to an issue of bonds bv
the Panama canal commission. He declared
ina. the Whoie thing was hocus pocus
ana that The railroad and Panama canal
commission are one and the same SO far as
the actual conditions are concerned and
that the railroad had no right to do what
IL had done.
1T would be easy enough for us ia leeis-
late so this anomaly would end,' said MIR.
Hale, but certainly we cannot blame the
railroad directors from exercising the au-
thority that is given them by their char
ter"
But they are executive agents. mere in
struments In the hands of the President
and the commission. Who elected them %
shouted Mr.. Tillman.
THE stockholders" said Mr.. Allison
but the United States is the only stock
holder. The whole thing amounts to moth
| inb more or less than increasing the public
debt of the United States, in a way tina
you all know" Mr.. Tillman had not fin
| ished his remarks, when Mr. Allison inter-
rUpted with:
"That may be, though technically''-
Technically" repeated Mr. @Tillman
'Oh, yes; technically I suppose they were
all right. Technically Taft was king In
the Philippines, but are iegenerafing
far away from self-governing people in
our management of these affairs / think
I shall use a former phrase OF mine, that
btts erlllIe methods have been imported
from the Philippines. OF course Taft has
been used to having his own way"
Before the reading of the article had been
concluded. Mr.. Lodge came into the Senate
chamber and interrupted the proceeding
to say that he had considered the charge
that government vessel had been used In
this matter so monstrous that he had
talked over the telephone with the Secre-
tary of War, and that official had author
lied him to say on the floor of the Senate
that 1.-The charge was lie."
Mr.. Tillman responded by saying that he
VIC uld be willing to accept the Secretary's
statement concerning matter In regard to
which he has personal information. but that
az he has not such information In this case
he thought there should be an inyestiga-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16

From Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers weekly.
A question that is constantly being de-
bated by biologists and forms the subject
of experimental research is, Can fishes
hear?" While some plausible arguments
are advanced In the affirmative, the general
opinion of biologists is opposed to this view,
and the reasons have recently been sum-
med up in a German biological journal by
DR.. o. Korner.
Though many fishes are sensitive to rapid
consecutive vibrations transmitted through
the water yet It is not believed that these
are perceived by so-called auditory organs.
for in the cases of some twenty-five species
of fish single loud explosions were totally
Gisregarded. The senses of sight and touch
in fishes can be readily demonstrated and
studied, and there Is no logical reason why
the sense of hearing should be difficult
OF determination.
The most conclusive argument. however
is that fishes and other vertebrates that
are deaf are the only members of the class
that do not have organs corresponding to
the cortschian nerve examinations. These
organs, it Is believed, are the only ones
that are capable of transmitting auditory
vibrations. as there Is no reason for believ-
ing that such vibrations can be received by
the vestIbuIar apparatus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Longevity and Liquor.
From Parsons Magazine.

It has come to be generally recognized as
fact that the alcohol habit In one OF
the main factors In determining length OF
life. Figures furnished by Insurance COM
panies in England show that the average
life of the total abstalner is nine years long
er than that of the drinker, and one Of our
own concerns in the same line of business.
the Equitable, has published a statemenEto
the effect that the death rate among mod
crate consumers of liquor is % per cent
higher than among teetotalers. Some of the
companies on both sides OF the water. in
deed, put abstainers in a separate class
among their policy holders. making them
a special allowance OF per cent or more on
premiums. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16

Make your brain a working partner In
your business. A young woman in Cripple
Creek conceived the thought of guiding
tourists through a gold mine at a dollar q
head and Is getting rich. The souvenir
postal card scheme was born in some ao-
tive mind, and millions of cards are sold
every day at an enormous profit. Original
ideas are dividend payers beyond all COM
petitors. Keep busy in your dome.-Cent
per Cent.
Honesty Is the best policy" did you
sayg Honesty that Is merely policy would
scuttIe the ship II that paid better than
sailing It. Only the honesty that Is a prfn-
ciple VIII save the cargo at all hazards Of
personal loss. Cent per Cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
STORY OF REFUGEES WHO Es-
cAPED TO AMERICA.

Her hair prematurely gray, her face lined
with suffering. Mrs. Johanna Stein. a Rus
sian refugee, reached Chicago Thursday.
She and her two children went unscathed
through the horrors of massacre Noyem-
Der ct kfemenzug. near Odessa One hum
bred and fifty Jews were killed and many
more wounded.
Airs. Stein and her children were hidden
for hours under a feather bed in an attic,
while the rioters went through their quar-
ter of the city. pillaging. Staying. burning
and ravishing.
Every day we expected to be killed said
Mrs. Stein. Kremenzug has seventy thou
sand people. Most OF them are Jews. but
they are not allowed to protect themselves.
They are at the mercy or the police and
the rabhle.
There is bund that is COMPOSED of
Russians and Jews. 1t is revolutionary
society and II Is supposed to protect the
poorer class of Jews, but 1t does not. When
the proclamation of Russian freedom came
meeting was called OF the bund at the
town hall. The Jews were told to attend or
they would be killed
Secretly Arranged for Massacre.
"Int,ammatory speeches were made at the
town hall meeting on November i. The
next day We learned that the chief of po-
lice had secretly arranged for massacre
OF the Jews by the Black Hundred, COM
posed of the rabble.
THE next day the massacre began. The
rioters mad with vodka Women had
their clothing torn from them. Some of
them were strung up by the wrists and
whipped. Little children were thrown from
the upper windows the bayonets and
SWORDS of the brutes below. The hair and
boards We're torn from old men, Many men
stabbed their wives and their daughters so
they would not fall into the hands of the
devils. Then the men threw themselves on
the swords of the rioters. Those of them
who We're armed sold their lives dearly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Regular Rigging.

Another corset which is suited to the new
figure shows a stiffiy boned girdle. with
long, wide steels directly at the front. Over
the hips are long-shaped pieces Of heavy
cloth that fit tightly to the figure and are
held down by four garters at the front and
two at the back.
TO accompany this redngote style CT
corset, or for the slender figure that needs
no stiffiy boned support. come any num-
bcr of boned corset covers and bust sup
porters. Among the latter are some very
attractive little affairs built of ribbon. One
In pale blue satin ribbon displays shaped
pieces in front and back joined by three
bands of rubber under the arm, each COW
cred with shirred satin ribbon.
The new boned corset cover, which
serves also bust supporter. Is ono or
the most satisfactory garments that has
been introduced to the feminine world for
a long while, and dealers say they can
hardly satisfy the demand. With a shaped
scanned piece across the front, the corset
cover crosses in surplice fashion at the
back, where one button holds the f-shaped
neck together at the top and tapes tie and
pass around to the front at the bottom.
Aside from the new shapes In stays them
selves the materials of which they are
built show beauty and novelty. White SILK
corsets have the seams between the Donos
worked in simple but effective designs III
English openwork embroidery.~Other cor
sets display appliques of ribbon work adoi IL
ing their top and the steels at the 'front.'
One pretty corset of brocaded silk hal a
line of bowknots in twisted blue ribbon
eround the upper edge. and similar Slend ar
bowknot graeed the front
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
CAB DRIVERS INJURIES FATAL,
Death Results From Collision Between
Street Car and Carriage.

William Northridge. the cabman who was
so severely injured Thursday night when
his vehicle was struck by street car at
9TH and D streets northwest. died at the
Emergency Hospital last night about 7:3O
O'Clock. The cabman, as stated in The Star
yesterday. attempted to cross the tracks in
'front.' of moving car and his vehicle was
overturned, three passengers IN II escaping
serious Injury. Coroner hewitt investigated
the case last night and will hold an inquest
at the morgue Monday morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Carpenter Injured by Fall.

Ross Hutchinson. carpenter, sixty years
old, fell from the second story of a new
building Minnesota avenue about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon and received a
severe injury to his forehead The police
patrol wagon was summoned from Anacos-
tia and the injured man was taken to the
Washington Asylum Hospital to be given
surgical aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Bigger Game.

Fson the Detroit Free Press
Il hear Miss Footlishts has turned down
crown prince"
just in the nick OF time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
To Fit the Crime.

From the Philndelphia Press.
Woody Riter-.I'ye always thought It
would be fine to be a poet
Eiftor-tIt certainly should be irte or
Imprisonment. or both"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
XMAS" PIANO SALE
The Removal of One of the
F. G. Smith Factories
Causes the Sacrifice Of
Many High-erade
instruments.
Many STANDARD Makes
Including Bradburys, Chick
erings, Hardn1ans, Web
sters, Winters, Berke1eys
and other high-erade pi-
amos at half price and less.

ut Is very foEiuuate
for the Christmas buy
cts that this great fac
tory sale Of the +. q.
Smith Piano ComI any
CccuiS at tbs tine, p"
said Afr. Van N.ckle.
vice president Of Tie
company. Ard we are
glad to see that 50
many people realize the
importance of this sal =
nd the great savings it
offers CT the highest
grade standard mlke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16

Anent the Christmas season. that tho
stocking which you hang up is without
holes in the foot, else what is put into II
will meet the fate OF the speculations pre-
pared for foolish people, and fall through
Cent per Cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16

pianos. Our Washington rooms, at 1925
Pa. ave, have been busy for a week more.
since the sale started selling and delivering
pianos. and we have quite number reserved for
those who have left orders not to deliver the
piano until Christmas eve. as they wish it 10 be
grand surprise for the home folks. The best bar
gains in this sale will undoubtedly be all snapped
up before Christmas and would advise any one
contemplating the purchase of piano 10 stop in
our rooms Monday. early possible
pay IA small deposit and secure of the bargains.
The piano be delivered any time desired
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16

The most powerful and dra-
matte Christmas story you will
read this year is Russell's Sol
der of the Common Good, in
Everybody's for December.
You shall read of power
greater than the word of kings,
or even greater than money, of
heroes Drawer than those of
sword and gun, of sacrifices
more noble than any in fiction.
And it is all for you-for you
especially-and now, at Christ
mas time, the time OF goodwill
and good deeds.
Everybodys Magazine 10 cents
S1.50 year
Special representatives wantftf for Everybody
Magazine in towns where there no dealer,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
Fine Pianos Sold Very Low.

There excellent upright pianos here that are
regularly priced at $500 S40o $500 and 5000 and
they being closed out Mt 1855. $f65, $l15, S1S5
Sl05. etc, the lowest prices quoted for stand
ard make pianos which all sold with full manu-
facturers guarantee to tone. construction. etc.
Not only are the prices very low, but the te.ms
are made easy possible. So or Sc monthly
payments will he accepted for any of these in
struments. Only a small deposit required to have
the plano delivered to your home before Christmas
and you settle the balance at your convenience
later
Good second hand square pianos and organs are
being scld IN this sale at merely nominal prices.
Organs as low as $40. most any terms you may
elect.
Purchasers should bear in mind that there is
only one short week left before Christmas and il
they wish to secure of these pianos the selee-
tion should be made early in the week as pos
sible
Our warerooms viii be open this evening anil
every evening until Christmas TO give you all the
time possible to select the piano.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
BEAUTY AND NOVELTY
ARE WE To- SAY GOODBYE TO
THE STRAIGHT FRoNTr
New Styles in Corsets Seem to Predict
That This Favorite is
Doomed.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star
just now good figure is positively essen
tial to the woman who would be fashion
ably gowned. The stately. snug-fitting prln-
cess frock is quite the favorite of the sea-
son. and miladi who does not present a very
compact, trim appearance in any costume
cannot be counted as even well dressed
So 1t is the corset which is foremost in
feminine thoughts this year. the corset
which has to be considered before under
garments. coats or hats, and 1t Is the corset
first and above all else which gives that Sc
rene confidence which comes to a woman
only when she is faultlessly attired.
VIII the straight front continue to bo
worm? is every customers question when
buying new stays.
The clerk behind the counter replies for
the first time in several years: Not alto
gether. and IL 1t Is worn 1t will be adjusted
in new way Corsets are no longer put on
around the waist and drawn up by means of
the bed post. They are now pulled tight
about the lower part of the hips and asdo-
men first. The strings controlling the waist
line are frightened next. This brings all ST.
perfuous flesh away from the hips and gives
tho high, full-busted effect so much In
vogue.
You see" she continues this means the
straight front has to be modified consider
ably. New models show full round bust,
a very long hip and a lessening of the seams
that curve over the sides and down the
front"
Among the new styles of corsets which
arc adapted to this modish figure stay
with rubber insetsS has many desirable
points. In the first place, broad bands of
very stout rubber join the stiffiy boned ma
terial on either side of the steeis IN front
and the lscings at the back, extending from
top to bottom of the corsets. This allows a
freedom Of movement, and in case of sneez-
ing or other violent muscular action there Is
certain fcxibility not possible when the
corset is built entirely Of boned cloth. From
the waist line down there is exceptional
length. and every line is rounding and
vra cefu1