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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
Light for Dining Rooms.

A building enterprise is going on in the
section known as Bloomingdale, where Mid
daugh & Shannon are erecting twenty two
story houses on Adams street just west
of 1st street northwest. Some of the houses
will be at the southeast corner and others
at the southwest corner of Adams and
Flagler streets, while others will occupy
the space on the north side of Adams street
at the head of Flagler street.
The houses will be on lots twenty feet
wide, and will afford chance to carry out
plan OF interior arrangement which has
been in use in Philadelphia with favorable
results. Instead of having back build
ing where the kitchen would be located the
main building is continued back the same
depth as the usual house with back
building. The space in the rear is d.
vided into two rooms, one being the dining
room and the other the Kitchen In this
way the former room gets more light and
air than If the windows looked into an
areaway.
Investment Buying.
The feature of not very evcntful week
In the real estate market was the placing
on record of the deed By which the Messrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
THE VETERAN f|REMEN
Plans for Banquet Washing
toms Birthday.
A PORTRAIT PRESENTED
Gift From Daughter of Col. James A.
TAFT.
FIRE PROTECTION IN YEAR Al
Sketch Read by Mr.. j. j. Peabody,
Giving Details of old-Time
Service.

The regular monthly meeting of the Vet
eran Volunteer Firemen's Association, at
the old Union engine house, corner of 18th
and H streets northwest, was presided over
by the president, Mr.. James H. Richards,
and there was a fine attendance.
The secretary, Mr.. J. ]. Peabody read a
letter from Miss Nina TAFT rendering a fine
ly framed portrait of her father, the late
Col. James A. TAFT, who served the Column
bia Fire Company as a torch bearer in 1895
and in various capacities till he reached the
presidency of the company. which he held
for fourteen years. Miss TAFT asked that
when the association should disband, If 1t
ever does, the picture be given to the Old
est Inhabitants Association, of which her
father was long member. The picture
was accepted vote of thanks passed, and
it wGls placed conspicuously among the pic
lures and relics adjoining the walls of the
company.
An invitation was received from the la
dies auxiliary to attend a banquet at the
engine house on Washingtons birthday at
3 o'clock, and It was accepted with thanks.
Mr.. Peabody resumed the reading of his
sketch of o.d-time fire matters, the present
contribution being for the year 1S41 He
noted that the companies that year had as
presidents James Adams, Columbia; Nc
ClirtOck Young, Franklin; Edward Hand
ley, Union; w. NJ Ellis, Anacostia: John II.
Goddard. Perseverance; John Y. Bryant,
Northern Liberties, and Island, William
Lloyd
Notices of meetings appeared in the In
telligencer for all the companies excepting
the Anacostia Navy Yard Company, and
Mr.. Peabody remarked that the fence near
the navy yard gate served as the advertise
ment board for the public of that section
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
Location of English Hill.


Intelligencer of February 0 caused some
comment as to the location.
THE fire for which the alarm was sound
ed yesterday at noon was an unoccupied
house on English HILL, which was totally
destroyed. And the alarm in the afternoon
was at the building at the corner of Penn
Sylvania avenue and I'd street west, occu-
pied by {. l.. Jones, esq, DR.. Young and
others, the upper story of which was de-
stroyed before the fire was subdued."
The name English Hill interested some Of
the veterans, and Mr.. ]. w Thompson
asked who could describe its location. One
answered that the bounds We're somewhat
indefinite, but he had heard that the name
attached to the neighborhood of Sd and G
streets, because a Mr.. Cook, an Englishman.
built q home there. Mr.. Thompson said
the appropriateness for that name to be
applied to the locality was further found
in the settlement of several Englishmen on
Massa chusetts avenue between Cd and Sd
streets, and he believed the bounds of 1st,
4th. c. and perhaps l streets embraced
English Hill, though the larger portion of
the population was of Irish origin.
It was stated that Mt Etna, between T.
and G. streets. facing 4th street. was by
many regarded the southwest portion of the
hill"
The third annual ball of the 3ls Street
Perseverance Company, February 2, 1s41,
was noticed. and February 10 the Intel
ligencer says: Fire broke out in the stable
occupied by Mr.. Ferguson on 4th street
near the Eastern Masonic Hail, which, we
understand, was entirely consumed
The fire companies turned out with alac-
rity, Notwithstanding their fatiguing serv
ices in the former part of the day
President Richards remarked that he be-
lieved that this last fire was really that
of his fathers stable near the corner of
9th and G. streets southeast. Though but
five or six years at the time, he remem-
bered being taken to the country in an old
fashioned carryall and on the return Of
the family he was shown the ruins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
The Home Owners.

To a considerable extent a change has
taken place in this regard, and now those
who come arrange to stay here so that
the population. instead of having the fiuc-
tuating character of some years ago. has
become more established. While it has not
lost the shifting characteristic entirely,
and is still more changeable than is de-
sirabie, still the change In this particular
is what is giving the stability to the real
estate market and Is infusing so much
vigor into all branches of the industries of
the city
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
BAD SLEEPING HABITS.
Snoring, Grinding the Teeth and
Nasal Whfstling.

Snoring. Grinding the Teeth and
Nasal Whistling.
Man is the victim of bad habits In
his sleep as we'll as in his waking
hours. So distressing are some of
these bad habits of sleep that they
oblige wife and husband to occupy
separate rooms, even at times causing
divorce.
Snoring is of course the commonest
if not the worst of sleeps bad habits.
Snoring may be remedied. There are a
dozen patented devices that, holding
the mouth shut tight, prevent the
snore
Grinding the teeth is a disagreeable
habit of sleep. 1t is impossible to sleep
in the same room with any one who
emits at irregular intervals this hide
GUS sound. The trick Is said to be in
durable, but a rubber cap worn on the
teeth renders the grinding almost
noiseless.
Nervous persons sometimes leap In
their sleep foot or more in the air,
shaking the bed and the whole room.
The man who gives eight or nine of
these leaps in the course of the night
soon becomes an intolerable bedfellow.
Nerve tonies and exercise should be
prescribed for him.
Nasal whistling is a habit less easy
to cure than snoring. The sleeper
keeps his mouth closed, but breathes
with a distressing sound through his
nose. The sound resembles a low
whistle and. heard in the small hours,
is guaranteed to madden.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
THuNDERs OF OLD LONDON
The Most Famous Storm of the Last
Century Was In 1S46.


Century Was In 1S46.
The most notable thunderstorms on
record in London have generally &C.
Cured in the month of August. That
which made the greatest impression on
contemporary observers during the
nineteenth century happened on the
list of the month as long ago as the
year 1916, and remarkable accounts of
It's ravages may be found in the jour
nails of the day. A thunderstorm is not
o good subject for a picture, but there
appeared in one of the illustrated pa
pers a view of London during the
storm - from Blackheath," which,
whether a work of pure Imagination or
actually drawn from nature, was ex-
ceedingly realistic and impressive. The
special feature of the storm was the
hail with which 1t was accompanied,
though the thermometer stood at SO
degrees in the shade. The panes of
glass which were broken by the icy
shower were to be counted by hun
dreds of millions, and so great was the
damage inflicted upon the florists and
nurserymen. that month or two after
ward a charity rete was held at the
Old Surrey geological gardens for their
relief. 1t is impossible, we are told, to
imagine the aspect which the windows
in London streets presented before the
glaciers, whose services were for a
long time at a premium, had repaired
the destruction. 1t is a fact, indeed
anomalous though it appears, that his
toric hailstorms have usually conceded
with periods of great heat, and, what
ever may be the precise relations Of
heat and electricity, heavy fall Of
hail is seldom noted except as the adj
junct of a thunderstorm. = London
Cl0hQ
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
TIE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1906.
A Woman's Back

Has many aches and pains caused by
weaknesses and falling, or other displace-
ment, Of the pelvic organs. Other symp-
toms Of female weakness are frequent
headache, dizziness, imaginary specks or
dark spots floating before the eyes, gnaw-
ing sensation in stomach, dragging or
bearing down In lower abdominal or pelvic
region, disagreeable drains from pelvic
organs, faint spells with general weakness.
If any considerable number of the above
symptoms are present there is no remedy
that will give quicker relief or more per-
manent cure than DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. It has record of over forty
years OF cures, 1t Is the most potent
invigorating tonic and strengthening ner-
vine known to medical science. It is made
of the glyceric extracts of native medici-
nal roots found in our forests and con-
tains not drop of alcohol or harmful, or
habit-forming drugs. Its ingredients are
all printed on the bottle-wrapper and at
tested under oath as correct.
Every ingredient entering into ~Fa-
vorite Prescription has the written en-
dorsement of the most eminent medical
writers Of all the several schools of prac-
tice-more valuable than any amount Of
-pIOlcooiOudl tQC
latter are not lacking, having been con-
tributed voluntarily by grateful patients
In numbers to exceed the endorsements
given to any other medicine extant for
the cure of woman's ills.
You cannot afford to accept any medicine
Of unknown composition as substitute
for this well proven remedy OF KNOWN
COMPOSITION, even though the dealer may
fl,a, Nv V<@asa
interest in regaining health is paramount
to any selfish interest of his and it is an
insult to your intelligence for him to try
to palm off upon you substitute. You
know what you want and it is his BUSH
ness to supply the article called for.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original vLittle Liver Pills" first put up
by old DIR. Pierce over forty years ago,
much initiated but never equaled. Little
sugar-coated granules-easy to take as
candy.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
LIVING SECOND HAND.

1t Is Quite a Common Thing In New
York City.
Half the people of New York live
second hand-that is, they dress sec
ond hand furnish their houses second
hand and wear secondhand jewelry.
There are stunning looking young
women who wear nothing but Paris
gowns all the year round. They can
not afford to go to Paris for such cloth
Ing, and they won't have anything that
isn't good style" They dress almost
entirely out of the secondhand stores
on Sixth and Seventh avenues, where
anything from a hat to a pair Of silk
stockings is offered for sale at a third
Its original value They would rather
appear a trife shabby and very effec
tive than brand new and SLOPPY"
One woman noted for her good
style" and richness of apparel buys all
her frocks at a secondhand establish
ment and then has them dyed black to
make them look new A little bride
who hates that new look which the
average bridal suit possesses fitted out
her entire apartment through adver-
tisements of sales of secondhand fur
niture by private parties. Everything
from her sideboard to her rugs looks
like family heirloom. There are many
articles published In the papers and
magazines on How to Live Well on
Nothing Year." but the New Yorker
could write whole volume on How
to Live Swell on Nothing a Year. If he
chose to.-New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
ARTIFICIAL WARMTH.
Its Use an Inherited Habit ard a
Sign of Luxury.

Its Use an Inherited Habit ard q
Sign of Luxury.
With the big. restless, energetic
world outside of this tropical belt, how
ever, the matter Of keeping warm is
ever present, troublesome and expen-
sive, throughout half of each passing
year.
AS matter Of fact, the world Of hui
manity dwelling in stoveland never has
been in all the ages really and COM
gortably warm in winter 1t is largely
our own fault. Mankind is the only an
imal which employs fire in the effort to
survive the cold of the winters. The
hardy lower animals do not need it.
however much their luXuriously ener-
waited representatives, the dog and the
cat, may enjoy it when they have q
chance.
Ancient man only got himself rid OF
his provident coat of hair and his suf
ficent latent heat when he began t.
loaf around the family cooking stove
and absorb the intoxicating comfort OF
artificial warmth. This PARKWAY an
cestor is responsible for the fact thai
the present day human being, outside
Of the belt aforesaid, Is obliged to KEEP
close to a thermometer registering
nearly or quite 20 degrees F. from DC
tober to May. besides which he mus
needs wear extra clothing This also Il
an inherited habit.
A traveller west once asked a hal
naked Indian in midwinter how b,
managed to stand the weather Th,
Indian replied your face no got /,
coat 1t no cold. Indian face all over
National Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
ODD COURTS MARTIAL.

Solemn Farces That Have Been En-
acted In the British Navy.
It is a rule In the British navy that
when ship is cast away or otherwise
lost court martial must sit in order
to apportion the blame. Sometimes
these courts really try and condemn
those that are held to be responsible.
At other times their duties are, from
the very nature of the catastrophe,
more or less nominal.
Thus, when the Serpent was lost of
the Spanish coast, court martial as
sembled and solemnly tried" three or
binary bluejackets, the sole survivors,
although they of course had no more to
do with the error in navigation which
led up to the catastrophe than the man
La the moon.
A similar solemn farce was enacted
after the loss of the Captain In the
bay of Biscay, when 483 officers and
men lost their lives. In this case a
gunner named James May. one Of the
eighteen who escaped from the wreck,
was the nominal "culprit." The YER
dict was that the loss of the ship was
due to instability and faulty construc-
ton. This really amounted to vote
Of censure on Mr.. Cowper Coles, the
designer, but as he went down with
the ungainly monster he had created
he was beyond the reach Of either
blame or praise.
On another occasion small "midSy"
of thirteen years of age was put upon
his trial, and once, it is said, court
martial assembled on a cat which
CHANGED to be the sole living thing
found aboard a derelict frigate.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
THE FRENCH HUSBAND.

Always, as Rule, Anxious to Do the
Agreeable Thing.
The French husband has a faculty
that amounts almost to a genius for
bestowing the delicate attentions
which cost little except the exercise
of a modicum of tact and thoughtful
ness, but which carry JOY to every
true womans heart. He not only
thinks TO take home to her often Tin
the absence Of the means to make
larger offering) a ten cent bunch Of
violets, pinks or roses from the flower
market or the itinerant flower vender's
barrow on his route, but he presents
them CALAMITY with the compliment
and the caress the occasion calls for.
and this makes them confer pleasure
out of all proportion to their intrinsic
worth.
He remembers her birthday or fete
day with a ported plant, bit of game.
q box of bonbons, cake from the pas
try cooks or a bottle of good wine.
He is marvelously fertile In expedients
for making the time pass quickly and
agreeably for her. He has thousand
amusing and successful devices for
helping her to renew her youth. He
projects unique and joyous Sunday
and holiday excursions. He improvlses
dainty little banquets. He is q past
master especially IN the art Of conjur-
ing up amiable mysteries and prepar-
ing charming little surprises. And in
all these trivial enterprises he vindi-
Gates the OLD French theory that true
courtesy consists in taking certain
amount of pains to so order our words
and our manners that others ''be con-
tent with us and with themselves"
The American husband is particular
ly SOLICITORS to do the proper thing;
the French husband to do the agree
able Neutrality-suspicious..
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
NEW YORK CHURCHES.
Trinity and the Land 1t Occupfs
Valued at $12,5OO,OOO.


Valued at S12,5OO,OOO.
Trinity church is valued at $12,5O0,
600. This estimate includes the land oc
cupied by the churchyard. 1t is in the
most valuable part of New York, If not
In the most valuable division Of prop
erty In the world.
st. Pauls church is valued at Sc, 800,
600.
Grace church, at what was once de
scribed as the head Of Broadway, Is
valued at $950,0OO.
The First Presbyterian church, on
Fifth avenue. between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, is valued at $3.50 900.
st. Marks church, ON Second avenue,
an old landmark in that neighborhood,
is valued at $275000.
The Marble Collegiate church, Fifth
avenue and Twenty-ninth street. Is
valued at $1,00O.000.
The Church OF ST Paul the Apost
(the Paulist church), at Fifty-ninth
street and Columbus avenue, Is valued
at 100000.
The West Presbyterian church, on
West Forty second street, is valued at
$450.000. st. Thomas at $1.7OO,O00 and
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
o and II West Fifty-ninth street, at
81 100000.
The valuation of the Temple Emanu.
Ell is 81 $4,000, of st. Patrick's cathe-
dral $6,O0O.00O, of the B'nai Jeeshurun
synagogue 100000, of the Temple
BETHEL, at the corner of Fifth avenue
and Seventy sixth street, 81 800. 900, OF
the Broadway Tabernacle. Broadway
and Fifty-sixth street. 100000 and OF
the Christian Scientist church, Central
Park West and Sixty eighth street,
$500. 000.-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23

People who "take notice" must have OBJ
served growing sentiment in this country
in favor of using only put up foods and
medicines of known composition. Dr.
Pierce's Fayorite Prescription stands alone
as the only ready put-up medicine for the
cure of woman's peculiar ailments that
bears on the wrapper full list of the in
gradients composing it printed in plain
English 1t isthe "Favorite Prescription
of specialist in woman's diseases and not
a patent medicine" Made of the roots
of native, medical plants without alcohol
or other harmful ingredients, DR.. Pierce's
Prescription" has been the favorite cure
for the weaknesses, pains, drains and dis
orders of the womanly system which has
stood the test of forty years of experience.
Send to DR., r. V. Pierce at Buffalo, N. Y.
for free booklet giving ingredients aud
what well-reconized authorities of all
schools of medicine say of them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
VIRTUE IN COPPER.
The Metal Is n Death Dealer to All
Disease Germs.

The Metal Is n Death Dealer to All
Disease Germs.
Cooper is a marvellous preventive
of disease. If we returned to the old
copper drinking vessels of our forefa-
theirs, typhoid epidemic would disap-
pear"
The speaker, a filtration expert, took
a copper cent from his pocket.
Examine this cent under the micro
scope he said, land you will find it
altogether free from disease germs.
Examine gold and silver coins, and
you will find them one wriggling and
comforting germ mass. Yet copper
coins pass through dirtier hands than
gold and silver ones. You'd think they
ought to be alive with micro-organ-
isms. But no. Copper kills germs.
Diphtheria and cholera cultures smear
ed on a copper cent die in less than
two hours.
'"They have many cholera epidemics
in China, but certain towns are always
immune. These towns keep their
drinking water in great copper vessels.
Travellers have tried to buy these YES
sells, for they are beautiful, but the
villagers will not sell them. They have
superstition that their health and
welfare depend ON their retention.
wish all superstitions were as true and
salutary as that" = Philadelphia Bull
letin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
POLICE OF PARIS.
How the Third Brigade Spies Upon
the whole Force.
BY ED3AHs no


Vance Thompson describes in Every
body's the famous Third brigade of
the Paris police whose business is to
supervise the police. 1t Is composed
of an officer de paiX, a principal In
spector, a brigadier, five subbrigadiers
and about seventy-five picked men.
About half are assigned to watch the
patrolmen. He is a bold policeman
who commits any of the little sins
dear to the patrolman's heart. There
Is hardly a chance that he viii not be
detected in time. Reprimand follows.
after that fine and lastly dismissal.
There is always a long waiting list of
candidates, sound young fellows fresh
from the army, and the city can choose
its new servants among the best.
The other half Of the Third brigade
is engaged in work Of a more typically
Latin kind. 1t investigates all COM
plants made against the patrolmen
by chiefs and citizens. and 1t main
tains a regular system of espionage
upon the private lives Of all police
men.
This, of course, is the Latin way
of doing things" writes Mr.. Thomp-
son. Wrong as it may be in principle,
1t serves to weed out the men of bad
character and bad habits and bad as
sociations. and it prevents that mon
strous alliance of the police and the
lawbreakers."
The Third brigade in turn Is watch
ed by smaller body of detectives,
who report directly to the project Of
police.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23

In the eye itself certain things may
go on which give us wrong sensations,
which, although not truly illusions, are
very much like them. Thus, when we
suddenly strike our heads or faces
against something in the dark we see
stars or bright sparks, which we
know are not real lights, though they
are quite as bright and sparkling as If
they were. When we close one eye and
look straight ahead at some word or let
ter in the middle of this page, for ex-
ample, we seem to see not only the
thing we are looking at but every
thing else Immediately about it and
for a long way on each side. But the
truth is there is a large round spot
somewhere near the point at which
we are looking in which we see moth
ing. Curiously enough, the existence
of this blind spot was not discovered
by accident, and nobody every sus-
pected It until Mariotte reasoned from
the construction of the eyeball that 1t
must exist and proceeded to find it.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-23
Man Against Horse.

A man (Shrubb) has run ten miles in
80 minutes 40. seconds; another man
Mutchens) has run 800 yards in 80 sec
onds; another man (George) has run a
mile In 4 minutes 1874 seconds. OF all
running records this last appears most
unapproachable and it seems likely to
stand for a very long time. Men like
Shrubb, Bacon and "Deerfoot," who
have covered very close on twelve
miles in the hour, could certainly hold
their own with most carriage horses
over good road. If the gait chosen
were walking instead of running, the
quadruped would be badly worsted.-
Grand Magazine