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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Christmas Cheer.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch
The appeal of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union to the press and clergy
in the approach of Christmas is given here:
1--WE, the Womans Christian Temperance
Union, in convention assembled, in view of
the near approach of the Christmas holi-
days. the season which commentaries the
advent into the world of our blessed Saw or
the Prince of Peace; and mindful of the
manner in which this season, by so many
is desecrated by Iicentious revelry and de-
bauchery, we invoke all Christians to exert
every possible Influence to change this Gus
tom of celebrating an occasion so full of
blessed meaning to mankind.
1--WE, therefore, look to the Christian min
istry and the press as the most potent fac
tors of moral sentiment to put forth all
their God-given powers to correct this cry
ing evil; and most earnestly request that
every preacher of the Gospel will deliver q
sermon on the proper observance of Christ
mas on the Sunday next preceding in re-
gard to the dangers and damages resulting
from the practice of ind1lging in eggnog
and other intoxicants. Many can date
their ruin from the loose rein given TO
these indulgences at Christmas time.
'sWhen this relic of barbarism Is relegat-
ed to the past, then can all Gods people
look forward with increased pleasure to
Christmas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

NO 1881 9Th STREET NORTHWEST
William w. Chambers to Emily Z.
James, lots 81 and 60, block 5. LIE Droit
Park; So
.MINTWOOD-G. Bowie Chapman ct ux 10
George S. Cooper part lot 49, SO.
WHITNEY CLOSE AND PROSPECT
James E. Padsett ct al, trustees, 10
Andrew NJ. Curry, lot 3, block II. Whit
ney Close, and lots 16 and II Prospect.
WHITNEY CLOSE-Andrew M. Curry to
William NJ. and Fannie A. Gain. lot o.
block IL; So
STREET NORTHWEST between l7th
and 18th streets-William H. Rapiey u
Truman H. Aldrich, lot 53, square loo'
$40.
PROSPECT STREET NORTHWEST be-
tween 33d and saith streets-Anme
Hammer lot 40, square 1906 $40,
HALF STREET SOUTHWEST between q
and streets-Martha A. Mayse to II.
Maurice Talbot, south half original lot
Z, square 654: So
NO. 1851 MARKET SPACE NORTHWEST
Thomas Jackson ct ux. to Edward
Mellon, part lot 43. square 1900; $40.
NO S14 Sd STREET NORTHUMBERLAND
J., Arnold ct al. to George Y. Worthing-
ton. lot 26 square 52S; $40.
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE SOUTH
EAST between 18th and 18th streets
Gilbert j. Osterman ct AL to Mary
Brandreth, lot "a, square 1887; $500
THIRD AND 0 STREETS NORTHWEST
Rose Forteney ct vir. Henry w, to
Mary a. Sullivan, lot 90, square 553
5000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Smugglers Captured by a Girl.

HeneFa OoT. LOnuon Ddlly
Two Austrian smugglers recently at
tempted to cross the Silvretta pass with
heavy loads of tobacco and other dutiable
goods from Switzerland into the Tyrol.
Learning that the customs official, man
named Komerthal, was i'll, they chose
misty night to cross the pass.
Their carefully-laid plans, however, were
upset by Fraeulfen Komerthal, who Is
fearless mountaineer. She had persuaded
her father to retire for the night. and,
taking his gun, stood sentinel on the lonely
snow-coyered pass.
In the early hours of the morning the
young woman saw the smugglerS approach
ing, and hid behind ledge of rock. When
they came up she suddenly confronted them
with her gun leveled and ordered them to
surrender.
Realizing that the game up, the
smugglers threw down their loads. The
womans voice betrayed her, however, and,
finding that neither fiattery nor bribery
had any effect, the smugglers rushed at
the courag eous woman with the intention
of overpoWering her. One of them received
the dubbed rife on his head and fell I'M
conscious In the snow. KOmerthal, whom
the report of the gun had awakened, then
arrived on the scene and captured the sec
ond smuggler after desperate struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Anacostia and Vicinity.

Miss Ethel ]. Dony of Franklin street is
spending the holidays with Miss Mar
gharetta Wightman In Brooklyn, N. Y.
DR.. Nathan Healey has returned to Ana
costa, following a visit to his former
home in Baltimore.
Mr.. William B. Downey, who is a student
in st. Mary's College, near Baltimore,
where he is preparing for the priesthood,
has come to his home to spend the holiday
recess with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan DoWney, on Jackson street.
The various Sunday schools in this part
of the District will hold their respective
Christmas entertainments this week. That
of the Anacostia Methodist Episcopal
Church VIII occur Wednesday evening, as
will the one to be given by the Garden
Memorial Presbyterian Church. At Con-
gress Heights the Methodists will hold their
Sunday school entertainment Thursday
evening.
Patrol Driver c. w. Sellers of the Ana
costa station, who was confined to bed at
Providence Hospital for number of days,
suffering from a fractured rib, the result
of nishap at the station, has returned to
duty.
A warrant has been placed in the hands
of the locad police authorities for the ar
rest of a colored man named Arthur
Thompson, alleged to live in this jurisdic-
ton, by the Prince George county, Nd
officers, who charge Thompson with the
larceny of a quantity of fruit, candy, etc,
from the buggy of William N Fisher near
Oxon Hill, Prince George county, Md, q
few nights since.
tons. permitting cars of the Anacostia and
Potomac River Railroad company to cross
the Anacostia bridge at a speed not to ex-
coed eight miles an hour, and to carry not
over fifty passengers per car, became eff
fective, following publication, few days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Counterfeit Flowers.
From Leslie's weekly.

From Leslies Weekly.
The orchid and American beauty rose are
the two most difficult flowers to make. A
skilled worker can construct only about six
American beauty roses in one day. and this
number only when the leaves and petals
are all ready to put together. The small
flowers like the jessamine are also difficult
to make. and only skilled hands can be In
trusted with this work. The majority OF
the small and delicately- made flowers i'm
ported for millinery uses are made In the
prisons of France. The work of making
flowers Is pleasant and, for skilled hands,
lucrative, the girls receiving all the way
from So week for beginners to S25 for the
best workers. Much of the finer grades is
given out for home work. women and girls
taking huge boxes of flower petals and
leaves to put together. One market for
artificial flowers is that of the harness
makers who order punches Of violets and
other small flowers and resell them to
grooms for the decoration OF their horses
on tally-ho trips and other gala occasions.
Many OF the handsome corsage bouquets of
orchids and violets SO much admired at the
theater and opera are artificial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
The Good, Old TOYS.
Memphis News Sclmitar.

From the Memphis News scimitar
Yes, you can pay $500 for a toy autonlo-
bile, and there are walking, talking dolls.
full of clockwork and equipped with real
hair and silk lingerie, that come at 500
The rich can spend money like drunken
sailors to temporarily please their PAM
pered little ones
But here is trade note that counts.
The demand for rocking horses and
Noah's arks grows with the years. 1t is
bigger now than ever before"
1t wasn't so long ago when you sucked
the paint off the blue elephants and green
tigers. Odd about that paint! You grew
fat on 1t. You slept soundly and smiled
while you slumbered And you guarded
the broken faded, worn animals in the lit
tie menagerie that came to you on a
Christmas morning, and there was toy in
your heart. And then came a day when
romance departed from the ark and a
woman laid the animals away to be loved
and fondled and remembered years later
when her boy had grown up and all but
forgotten the golden days of his childhood
For into life came the first rocking horse
spotted and pranctng, builded on the same
lines as they are builded today No steed
OF warrior ever possessed more fire than
did Dobbin as he reared and tossed on the
sitting-room floor, gripped by pair of
dimpled knees, guided by hands that were
80 pink and soft that mother often kissed
them. All, there have been horses since
then, pedigreed and costly. There have
been automobiles, perhaps, and palatial
horse that made the trip from the ola
settee to the rocking chair. and that was a
part Of your life.
And then Dobbin went to the attic and
life stopped being all sunshine and the sky
was not all blue, and you entered ON that
period of existence when duty often takes
the place OF pleasure and the days mean
more and the smiles are often mixed with
tears.
That is life, as it is lived.
It Is good to know that the demand for
Noah's erks and rocking horses is grow
We shall try to start our children right,
along the simple way, please God We try
to do our duty by them as long as we can
keep them children.
And after that. hope. It isathe only way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
FRACTURED HIS SKULL.
As a Result of an Alteration Robert
FITZGERALD is in the Hospital.

AS the result of being struck on the head
with half of a brick yesterday afternoon
on C street southwest, Robert Fitzgerald,
Hospital for fractured skull, and is in q
serious condition. Henry Johnson, colored,
is locked up in jail, pending the outcome of
FitZgeralds injuries. Papers charging him
with assaulting Fitzgerald were filed with
Clerk Potts in the Police Court this morn
ing. Johnson who was arrested soon after
the trouble by Policeman Jackson of the
fourth precinct, was brought to court this
morning. Assistant District Attorney
Given continued the case indefinitely, to
await the outcome of the injuries, and
ordered that Johnson be committed to jail.
The trouble which led to the injury of
Fitzgerald occurred yesterday afternoon on
streets. Besides the injured man and the
man under arrest Eugene Jenkins and
Charles Fitzgerald were also IN the crowd
which met on c street. a discussion was
soon started among the men, and that led
to an alteration, in which all were more
or less engaged The elimination came
when Johnson. it is said by the police,
geralds head. Fitzgerald fell heavily to
the street. His home is in 22S Willow
Tree alley, and he was taken there by
friends.
Policeman jackson found the severely in
jured man and he was removed to the
Emergency Hospital where it was found
that the wound was severe The police
man located Johnson in another house in
Willow Tree alley and arrested him. John
son claims that he was about to be at
tackled by Fitzgerald, who had a knife, and
that he acted in self-defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Deer Claimed by Two Hunters.

From the Anaconda Standard.
Deer are coming back to the old ground
again." said Chris Jergensen, one of the old
est ranchers of the Deer Lodge valley.
People who lived in my section of the VAL
ley will remember the great droves of deer
that used to visit the swamps east of Anaf
conda.
There are few whitehall deer In the
valley now, and they are so tame that I
really believe they know all about the state
game laws. Many times l have taken my
rife and tramped through the swamps on
the lookout for deer and closely watching
all openings in the brush. In tracking deer
through the thick brush it was not uncom-
mon to run across fresh bear tracks, and
when l did it was me Tor the open as fast
a big cinnamon bear that l shall not soon
forget. With a companion / was hunting
deer, and we came upon a large she CHINA
mon bear, and my companion was torn al
most TO fragments.
THE bear jumped from behind a brush,
and almost before l knew what was going
on my companion was dead and had killed
the bear. By a lucky chance my bullet had
found fatal spot.
Il ran across a fine band of deer in my
meadow, and l followed them carefully for
a long time. managed to get within easy
range without disturbing the deer and
picked out a nice buck and fired and he fell
to the ground dead. Just then another shot
rang out. and before / could get to my deer
another man, living in a cabin close by, ap-
peared with a knife and cut the animaPS
throat. II appears that he had shot at the
band and believed it was his shot that
brought down the VeniSon. We had a very
heated argument about it. and perhaps for
tunately for both of us a neighbor happened
along and suggested that we toss up coin
to decide the question of ownership. I won
out and proudly carried my venison home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
FEWER SMELLS ON BROADWAY.
A Tailor Tells Why Good Clothes Are
Not Seen So Much as Formerly.
From the New York Sun.

rom the new 1ofk sun.
There are fewer well-dressed men in
broadway at the present time than l have
known for several years." said uptown
tailor. "At the same time there are more
well-dressed men in New York now than
ever, because there are more men here than
ever. but the good dressers are not on
street parade.
Of amusement. The day of the Broadway
dandy has passed. though II you doubt
this take a stroll through Broadway on
any afternoon when the weather man has
made good on his forecast for fair weather.
AT the time when Broadway had the
reputation of showing off more well-dressed
men than any other city in this country
there was more leisure In New York. The
New Yorker of today is too much engross-
ed with his business to idle in front of
the hotels or on the corners.
when he is at business he appears in
business attire. When he quits business
he disappears from the street and comes
out in proper attire elsewhere later in the
day.
Another reason why you notice fewer
OF the well dressed now than formerly is
that the turnout in the street is more
mixed. We have men from all parts of the
country. They are variously arrayed. Ev-
cry style is seen, and in the crush the
Weil-dressed man is not as conspicuous as
he used to be.
AT the time when Broadway had the
properly attired the good dressers had it
all their own way. In that day one could
get the styles by watching the process
sion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Shot Dead Holding Her Doll.

While standing at the window caressing a
new baby doll at Washington Pa, yester-
day morning, nine-year-old Mary Kennedy
only daughter of James Kennedy, superin-
tendent of the Hazelkirk coal mines.
dropped dead with a bullet through her
forehead. Two minutes before she had
been carried downstairs in her nightgown
by her father to see the work of Santa
Claus In childish glee she ran to the
Christmas tree, picked off the doll and went
with it to the window. She was gazing
into the wax face when the bullet crashed
through the window.
Four men are in jail, suspected of pos
sessing information that would indicate the
who fired the shot to revenge himself
on Kennedy for discharging him recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
DEATH OF EDGAR P. BERRY.
Member of District General Assembly
in Days of Territorial Government.

Funeral services over the remains OF
Edgar P. Berry, who died last even
ing at 7:30 o'clock. will take place tomor-
row afternoon at $40 o'clock from the fam
fly residence, BOSS r street northwest Ar
engagements for the funeral had not been
completed at a late hour this afternoon.
Mr.. Berry had been connected with the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of George
town for over forty years during most of
which time he was an officer and director.
He was the son of the late Peter Berry,
who was an old citizen of the District. I'm
der territorial government, which once ex-
listed in the District, Mr.. Berry was mem
Der of the general assembly, and was
prominently identified in the citys leading
enterprises.
Mr.. Berry had been a sufferer from a
stroke of paralysis about a year ago. He
was sixty-one years of age. and at the
time of his death was mentally active and
alert. Only a few days did his physicians
give up hope for his recovery. A widow,
two sons and two daughters survive him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
The Earthworm as a Prophet.

From the Philadelphia Record.
THE winter solstice is here, and the sun
is on his way back to US. But the common
earthworm is unwilling to admit that win
ter is here" said weather observer yes
terday. This morning I found an earth
worm on the pavement in Franklin square
dead of course. He had gone astray and
persisted by coming in contact with the cold
stone. AS there is no frost in the ground
he had not yet gone into winter quarters
Later poked my cane into worm hole and
turned out several lively fellows What
does this mean? 1t means that the worm
knows lot His place at the end of the
year is two feet under ground, In q little
cell he has prepared for himself, and
WHITTIER he goes to escape the frost He
refuses to go now, because there is no seri-
Gus winter in sight. l remember in the win
ter OF 1S17-'7S dandelions bloomed every
month IN northern and central New Jersey,
Maybe the lowly worm predicts a similar
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Medical Fallacies.

Every drop of blood. every bone. nerve and It's
sue in the body be renewed in but one way,
and that is from wholesome food properly digest.
ed There is no other way, and the idea that
medicine In itself purify the blood OF supply
new tissues and strong is ridiculous and on
par with the fol-de-rol that dyspepsia or indi-
gestien il germ disease, or that other fallacy
that weak stomach which refuses to digest food
can be made to do so by Irritating and ,inHamins
the bowels by pills and cathartics.
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Indigestion, sour
stomach. gas and bloating after meals. because
they furnish the digestive principles which veal
stomachs hack.
For sale y al druerIsss- csses I boz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Hounds Discovered Fox's Trick.

From the London Daily Telegraph.
In the stone wall countries of Ireland
foxes sometimes resort to the stratagem
of running along the top Of the walls for
considerable distance, throwing hounds
off the scent.
There was an incident of this kind with
the Waterford hounds after their meet at
Carrick-on-Suir. fox jumped on to the
top of a wall at CORDIALLY, but Mr.. Pollok
was equal to the emergency and held his
hounds along by the side. Suddenly one
of the pack jumped on to the wall, and
running along the top carried the scent un-
erringly for a mile and half. Finding his
tactics of no avail the fox took to terra
firma, but hounds were now close on his
brush and bowled him over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
PRACTICE CRITICISED.
Chief Belt Comments on Recent Fire
at 1906 G Street.

Severe criticism of the practice of con-
structing elevator shafts of studding and
laths and plaster with no outlet at the top
to provide for the escape of smoke and
gases, is contained in the report of Chief
Belt of the fire department on the fire
in the fourstory building at 1906 G street
northwest on Wednesday last The chief
declares that the elevator shaft in this
structure, with its inflammable sides, acted
a veritable due TO carry the flames from
the cellar to the roof In a very few min
utes, and that the lack of a skylight at the
top of the shaft distributed the fire through
one two floors and all over the roof.
Chief Belt told about the narrow escape
of four women from the building, and of
the necessity of calling eight fire engines,
two trucks and the water tower to Subdue
the fire. AT the time the report was writ
ten the origin of the fire had not been dis
covered, and it is probable that it will re-
main a mystery. Chief Belt estimates the
loss incident to the blaze at zoe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
REWARD FOR BRAVERY
POST OFFICE LABoRER PRoMoT.
ED TO A cLERKsHIP.

AS reward for defending the post Office
at Emma, N. c., four years ago. against
Tour burglars, President Roosevelt has
waived the civil service regulations. upon
tne Recommendation OF Posi- General
Sortelyou, and Mr.. S. II. Alexanders
christmas gift was a promotion from q
iaoorer to clerkship In the department.
NOT only has the brave North Carolinsan
been promoted, but to accentuate the honor
an official statement was issued which
gives full account Of the deed The Mt.
tempted robbery took place on the night OF
FEBRUARY 9, 1901. The official account fol-
lows:
After the store I'm which the post Office
at Emma Is located was closed for the
night Mr.. Alexander who had been slaen.
ing IN the room adjoining, heard a knock
on the door, and inquired what was want
ed de was told that some one living near
wanted his mail. and he unbarred the door
Two masked men entered covered him
with revolvers, and commanded him To give
up MS own revolver and open the fireproof
safe.
Shot One of the Burglars.
While one of the burglars. Frank John.
son, who had laid his revolver on the desJe
near the safe, was STOPPING in the act of
footing the safe, and during a moment when
the other burglar, Ben Foster. had his head
turned, Alexander seized the idle revolver
ana shot the latter near the heart He at.
tempted TO shoot Johnson also. but failed
10 90 SO, as the revolver snapped
a desperate struggle fo.owed Foster
although seriously wounded pursued Alex.
aEGer and shot him in the abdomen the
puilet coming out at the back Alexander
seeing Foster about to shoot at him again
swung Johnson around so that the bullet
struck Johnson's left shoulder from the
rear, passing through his neck and lodged
IN ms right jaw, from which 1t was ex-
tracted. Alexanoer's face and hands were
badly cut and bruised before he over
powered the burglars
Alexander managed, however TO put
them both out of the building and to call
The postmaster hearing this signal, came
to Aiexander's relief and found him lying
weak and faint in a pool of blood
Alexander a Small Man.
His bravery is the more accentuated when
it is known that Mr.. Alexander is a man
of small stature. probably not more than
. feet inches tall and weighs less than
125 pounds. 1t would seem that he must
have been possessed of almost superhuman
strength to GUST the two desperadoes from
the post office.
Two accompliceS who We're waiting on
the outside carried away the wounded bur-
glars to a house in which they We're arrest
ed the same night.
The two burglars above mentioned. to-
gether with two accomplices. after trial
were given the extreme penalty of the law,
which, for the ofTense comr'itted in the
state of North Carolina, is death. After
ward the sentence was committed in the
case of two of the burglars to life impris-
onment. The other two were hanged on
February &C. 1902"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Old Shoe Causes Car Wreck.

From the Los Angeles Times.
A woman's discarded shoe which had been
tossed about the street by ,lrchins was the
innocent cause of a peculiar car accident
at Maple avenue and 7th street yesterday
afternoon. in which two women were slight
ly injured and a number of passengers
were badly shaken.
Lying on the rails at point where they
curve, the old shoe was struck by car No.
102. northbound. as It was passing car No.
398. and the rear trucks OF the hrst-men-
toned car left the tracks, causing crash
OF the two cara. both OF which were running
ct xoosl rate Of speed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
Size of Prehistoric Animals.

From the Chicago News.
TT is great mistake to conclude that 1t
is a law of nature that recent animals are
all small and Insignificant as compared
with their representatives in the past"
says a scientist. THAT is simply not true.
Recent horses are bigger than extinct ones,
and much bigger than the three and four
toed ancestors of horses. Recent elephants
are as big as any that have existed, and
much bigger than their early elephantine
ancestors. There never has been any
crea ture of any kind-mammal, reptile bird
or fish-in any geological period we know of
so big as some of the existing whales"