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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Water Power in. Japan.

From the AngloJapanese Gazette
The almost unlimited water power of ia
pan has been little used except for the
operating OF rice mills. Now however, a
notable development is taking place in the
utilization of water for power purposes
and the generation Of electricity in the
neighborhood of Kobe. Ever since the war
the increased cost Of coal has caused many
concerns to look around for some more
economical motive power than steam, and
with this object in view a number Of I'M
dertakings are now In course of formation.
OF the new companies. the most important
Is the Uil River Electric Power Company,
which has a capital Of 20.OOOOOO yen and a
plant capable of developing some 40, 600
horse power. This concern will supply cur
rent to Kioto and the surrounding dis
trict for lighting and power purposes. An
other company will shortly start work for
supplying Nagoya firms with current in
bulk. including the Nagoya Electric Light
Company, Nogoya Electric Tramway Com
pany, the Arsenal and the Miye Spinning
Company. The Hanshin Electric Railway
Company Is also considering scheme for
the construction of generating station, the
plant to be driven by water power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Recent Deaths in the Army.

The War Department has been advised by
Gen. Wood of the following deaths in the
Philippines:
Joseph Luebbers, Company F. 9Th In
fantry, killed In action near Julia, Au-
gust 8.
Charles Beeson, Company X, 9Th Infan-
try, morphine poisoning, August 6.
Gotfried Treybal, Troop /, 4th Cavalry,
erysipelas, August 6.
Robert D. Weldy, Troop K. 4th Cavalry,
acute dysentery. August 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
THE COURT RECORD
District supreme Court.

EQUITY COURT NO. 1-Justice Stafford.
Stage agt. Cowardin; reduction OF BOND
authorized; complainant's solicitors. Doug
lass & Douglass; defendants solicitor, ). =.
Darlington.
Roeder agt. Price; substitution Of trus-
tee decreed; compliments solicitor, r. L..
Schmidt: defendants solicitor. ]. Clarence
Price.
Lnthicum agt Interstate Live Stock In
surance Company; pro confesso against de-
PENDANTS ordered.
CIRCUIT COURT NO. 1-Justice Stafford.
Brown agt. Economy Powder Company;
judgment by default for $1,000: plaintiff
attorney. ]. w. Glennan.
Waterman agt. Baumgarten; plaintin
ordered to give security for costs in ten
days; plaintiffs attorney, ]. w. Glennan;
defendants attorneys, J. J. Peyser ana
Wolf & Rosenberg.
PROBATE COURT-Justice Stafford.
Estate OF James l.. Toner; caveat nieo'
attorneys, Chas. H. Bradley, Geo. E. Rey-
noids and Andrew Y. Bradley.
In re Abram f. Baughman; order APP
pointing Miriam T. Baughnan guardian /;
bond, 5000; attorney. Frank D. Biacki-
stone.
Estate of Susan Jane Beveridge; will adj
mitted to probate and letters testamentary
granted to May B. Miller and julia b.
shoup; bond. $500; attorney. Geo. Francis
Williams.
Estate of Mary M. Turner; will admitted
to probate and letters testamentary grant,
ed to National Safe Deposit Savings and
Trust Company; attorney, VIM D. Hoover.
Estate of John Killian; caveat filed; at
torneys, H. E. Davis and E. B. Kimball.
In re Henrfette Machette ct al; order
allowing advances.
Estate of George H. Bakersmith; will
dated October %. 1895, filed.
In re John Taylor Arms, jr., order re-
lieving guardian from accounting during
minority of ward; attorney, James W..
Greer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Music Hampers Journalism.

From the Western Press Of Mercer.
We had set ourselves down to get out
something of paper this week-a hum
mer-when the excitement Of the approach
ing show day just knocked everything gal
ley west With Jig music from the re-
hearsals overhead in the opera house all
day long for the Episcopal Church benefit,
and the blare of the circus band Thursday.
we lust could not keep our feet still long
enough to write anything worth putting in
the paper. Not that we write with our feet.
however, bad as we do. But the devil-our
own devil, understand-not the old general
himself-says he won't work circus after
noon, and we don't blame him: hence we
90 to press like Richard III, Scarce half
made up" and full Of errors as the
Comedy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Silt Marks on China.

From Country Life in America
Hunting for silt marks on old china Is
often good fun in itself. Almost every old
piece of iatware-i. e., plates. piatters, sau-
GERS, etc.-shows three little rough spots.
more or less clearly marked on both sides.
usually in the margin.
These spots were made in the firing. by
the cockspur of stilts-the little tripods used
between the plates in piling them up in the
kiln. The three points where the cockspur
touched the pate caused a defect In the
glaze.
Unfortunately, silt marks are not as sure
a guarantee of authenticity as some collec-
tors have supposed. for they are not only
easy to initiate, but they are sometimes i'm
perceptible on the old Staffordshire. Fur
thermore. they appear very frequently on
modern tableware of the cheaper Sort and
SO are no sign of antiquity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
FLETCHERISM.
The Large Economic and Physical
Benefits of Thorough Mastication.

FROM GOOD Housekeeping.
During voluntary experiment in diet at
a normal school in Connecticut thirty stu
dents (of whom twenty-seven were women
between the ages OF twenty-five and forty
obtained substantial and varied food at a
cost Of little more than o cents a day for
each student. Fletcherism does not demand
such extreme frugality: it merely declares
that no one who masticates his food with
thoroughness will care for more than one
half Of the amount of food cussomarily taken.
At a missionary agricultural college in Ten
nessee where the students earn their tuition
ana board while pursuing their studies g
six months test of Fletcherism Thorough
mastication) resulted in freedom from H.
ness, increased energy. strength and en-
durance and saving of one-half OF the
drafts on the commissary. rough calcu-
Iatlon, which, however inaccurate IL GER
tainly Illuminating, has been made Of the
possible economy which Fletcherism could
erect for the entire United States.
saving of one-half a pound day in the
food of each individual would mean a re-
duction of about II, 600 tons Of food daily
the rate Of the cost of flour the saving to
the nation would be more than 81 600 600
a day. or 365.0OOOOO a year
Fletcherism, however, Is not an agitation
for money economy pure and simple. Its
central aim Is to bring about a higher eff
cheney in the individual, the home and the
state, and this aim is indicated only by the
broader meaning Of economy" THE cost
to the pocket said Mr.. Fletcher that is
saved by economic nutrition is of little mat
ter as compared with the saving of the
waste of energy and the danger of disease
Were mental or even physical improvement
in efficiency to be purchased at high prices
and could lack of efficiency be had for
nothing, the high-priced article would be
well worth its cost, no matter what II
might be, for the reason that total lack of
efficiency is equivalent to death, and any
proportionate lack Is the next thing to
DEATH
Thorough chewing Is cure for all the
ills which come crowding upon the hasty
and careless eater. The body needs a GER
small portion in excess of this require
mands a waste of energy. to get rid of II,
and every additional portion Of food does
more than proportionate harm. One cannot
rid himself of glut of excess without an
enormous expense of brain and body energy.
1t Is this continual taxing of our physical
and mental power which is responsible for
most of the disease, inefficiency and pau
perism with which the world is burdened.
A faithful adherence to the teachings of
Fletcherism will bring with II complete
freedom from indigestion and its brood OF
diseases a large increase in productive
capacity and far keener enjoyment Of
eating than Is possible under customary
ways Of boiling food. All this means house.
hold economy in every sense of the word
saving Of money of time and of work in
voived by table service. together with larger
income from the family wage earners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
WEATHER NOW COOL.
When Clouds Roll By Temperature
Will Be HIGH

GAS long as the clouds continue to can
opy the earth in the vicinity Of Washing
ton" Prof. Edward B. Garriott, the official
forecaster said to a Star reporter today,
80 long will the present comparatively cool
weather continue. But just as soon as the
clouds clear away we will have some real
hot weather."
When will the clouds roll away, accord
ing to your calculations?" Prof. Garriott
was asked.
Probably by tomorrow, when the tenn
perature will rise and we will have some
real summer weather that will continue
throughout Sunday"
The professor added that the temperature
would not go much above the 50 mark to-
day, but tomorrow it will, he believes,
mount several notches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Personal Mention.

Island avenue northwest, left Sunday for a
visit of three weeks at Cottage City, Mar
tha's Vineyard, Mass. From there he will
go to Norwich. Conn.,, to take part in the
annual rogue tournament there.
Master John Bell and Norval Watkins Of
street southeast are spending their vaca-
ton at Cape May, N. J.
Joseph r. Fague of the District bar and
master of Federal Lodge, No. I, F. A. A.
M, is i'll at his residence, aO7 nth street
southwest.
Mr. Walter j.. Costello of 9th and q
streets northwest has returned from his
vacation on the shores of the Chesapeake.
He says he enjoyed a successful season CT
grabbing and fishing, and that the Greater
Washington boom has reached the bay
counties of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Beauty Of Clouds.
From the Saturday Review.

From the Saturday Review.
1t is net at first sight easy to say why
people SO rarely give more than a passing
glance to the realm of air above them. Is
1t because we cannot have a finger In this
department Of the wonders Of nature. can
not net and label anything in those blue
fields, pin it down on cork, or fatten 1t in
Canada balsam; cannot here annihila-e dis
lance with our ingenious Instruments. that
we so neglect the phenomena Of the skyf
There above us, always ours, tor iift OF
the eyes. is beauty In endless change for
the contented mind. and for the restless
one the challenge of the ceaseltss thau-
maturgy which seems little pearer being
found out than when the world began. and
vet, in comparison with such lines OF re-
search as are offered by cuckoos eggs or
the protective devices OF caterpillsrr. the
region of the clouds may be said to be
UNEMPLOYED
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
Shipments Of Fall Goods Are Forward
ed Freely.

NEW YORK. August 17.-Dispatches to
Dun's Review indicate that shipments or
raii goods have begun to go forward freely
and there Is no reason for reducing earlier
estimates Of a big years business Phila-
delphia reports nearly all textile manufac-
turers busy. iron and steel industry active,
but payments are somewhat irregular.
Trade is seasonably quiet at Pittsburg. but
the steel industry is in good condition and
the movement OF coal is heavy.
Cooler weather at Baltimore has increased
activity in all wholesale and retail lines.
Collections are more satisfactory. Visiting
buyers are making extensive purchases in
the st. Louis market and all lines of trade
and manufacture are active, while collec-
tons are fair. Kansas City reports jobbing
trade brisk for the season. At New Or
leans trade among Jobbers and manufac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
JEALOUS LOVERS DEED
WILLIAM ALLEN, CoLoRED
SLABS JENNIE BRIscoE.
Victim in Hospital With scant Hope
OF Recovery-Assaliant
In Custody.

In q fit Of Jealous rage, 1t is alleged, Will
liam Allen, colored Of 1904 Sd street,
stabbed and perhaps mortally wounded Jen-
ME Brfscoe, also colored, about o'clock
this morning at her home, 946 r street
northwest. Allen escaped at the time, but
was captured this morning. and is a pris-
oner in the eighth precinct station mousse.
The injured woman Is at Freedmen's Hos
pital. with the stab wound In her abdomen.
and fears are entertained that she will not
recover. It is expected that Allen will be
taken to the Police Court tomorrow and will
be committed to Jail to await the outcome
Of the woman's injuries.
Allen and the Briscoe girl have been
friends for some time, the police say. but
recently Allen has seen her with some
other boys. and became jealous.
He determined last evening to settle the
question with her, and late in the night he
went to her house, mounted the stairs to
her room and hid behind the bureau, await
ing her returH
A girl companion heard some noise in Jen-
MES room, it Is said and upon investigat-
Ing she found Allen in the room. She went
downstairs to wait for her friend and to
1t is said, and. accompanied by her friend.
went up to her room AS SIZE entered AL
len emerged from behind the bureau, hold
ing big open pocketknife in his hand.
olared, in trying to prevent him from using
the knife. Allen said very little. He placed
the knife in his mouth while he pushed the
girls aside, then grasped the knife in his
hand and plunged It into Jennie's abdomen.
and rushed out Of the room, down the
stairs and out into the street.
Ambulance Summoned.
Jennie was carried by her friend across
the street to No. engine house, and from
there the ambulance Of the Freedmen
Hospital was sent for. When 1t arrived
the injured girl was sent to that institu-
ton.
A close guard was kept on Aliens home,
but he remained in the flats in Foggy Bot
tom all night. About 8 o'clock this morn
Ing he went to the house of his uncle.
James Allen, at 313 14th street northwest.
The policemen traced him there and he
was taken into custody by Precinct Detec-
tive Mullen of the first precinct, Precinct
Detective Forteney of the second precinct
and Detective Cornwell of headquarters.
The officers found Allen in rear room on
the second story changing his clothes.
Allen, it Is alleged. did not deny that he
stabbed the girl, but stated that she had
been untrue to him and that he quarreled
with her about another fellow last night,
which resulted in the use Of the knife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Probably Kicked by g. Horse.

The unconscious form of Henry Lewis.
who lives on I'd street southwest. was found
on the floor of the stable in the rear of As
M street northwest, early this morning. lie
was discovered to be suffering from
wound in the head, supposed to have re-
suited from the kick of horse. Lewis was
removed to the Homeopathic Hospital in
the wagon of the second precinct and is
reported to be improving this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Severely Burned.

While placing the top on can of to-
matoes yesterday afternoon Mrs. Sallie
Hayden of 1917 c street southwest was
severely scalded about the face. The po-
lice were notified and the injured woman
was conveyed to the Emergency Hospital
in the wagon of the fourth precinct. 1t
was stated today that Mrs. Hayden was
improving. but that her condition was still
serious. She was burned In the face about
her eyes.
1t Is thought the hot tomatoes which she
was canning exploded the receptacle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Finds Body Of a Babe.

While walking through the botanical gar
dens about II o'clock this morning James
Coles, colored. of 1919 D street southeast.
upset a shoe box that was lying on the
ground, and the body of small infant
rolled out. He reported the finding to the
sixth precinct police, and they will investl
gate the matter. The body was sent to the
morgue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Permit Issued.

A building permit was Issued by 1nspec-
tor Ashford today as follows:
To trustees Church of the Atonement, to
erect tower at corner Rhode Island avenue
and North Capitol street; architects, Wag-
ner & Williams contractors, Kemp & Ken
nedy: estimated cost. s., 100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
HAS BEEN RECOVERED.
Body Of Young Man Who Was Drown
ed at Colonial Beach.

The body of Douglass Murray, the young
man who was drowned off SWANS Point
Wednesday afternoon, as stated in The
Star, was recovered yesterday afternoon
by a party of searchers with graphing
hooks. 1t was held at Colonial Beach last
night, where 1t will be prepared for burial.
and this evening, 1t Is expected the body
will be brought to this city on the steamer
St. Johns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
The Lords Day in France.
From the Paris Steele.

Thanks to changes in trade customs per-
hitting one day Of rest weekly by rota-
ton. we shall see the prospecting and multi
plying Of what have been called Sunday
trades" Thus, every week, instead Of q
day Of sadness and boredom in the death
like silence Of work completely interrupted.
6unday will be fete day. day of distrac-
tons, of active intellectual and civic life.
We shall not have created-a reproach I'M
deserved in France-the English Sunday and
made OF Paris a dull and uninhabitable
London, but the reverse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Imprisoned With Husbands Corpse

When Mrs John Lashanda was placed in
cell at Merton Heights, near Mt. Carmel,
Pa, Wednesday, for creating disturbance
on the streets. she encountered the body Of
her husband hanging from the ceiling
Overcome by the sight. she tainted. LASH
aEda had been arrested for intoxication,
and his wife ran through the village berat-
ing the police, and 1t was found necessary
to arrest her. She was placed in the same
cell In which her husband had been con-
fined. and made the discovery that he had
hanged himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Sharon Heirs Unite to Rebuild Hotel.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 17.-Lady Hes
keith, daughter of the late Senator Sharon,
cabled from London yesterday her decision
to join other Sharon heirs in rebuilding
the Palace Hotel. and has signed, through
her local attorney. an agreement to sub
scribe her share of the 81 100000 which will
be expended on the building. The contract
for wrecking the old hotel is ready to let as
soon as the insurance companies give their
permission. The Palace was insured in
fifteen companies for $4,000. Plans for
the new hotel, which, it is expected, will
be ten stories high. are now being per-
fected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Maximum temperature past twenty-fou
hours, 81; a year ago 76.

hours, u; year ago. u.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
Showers and thunder storms have &C.
CURED during the last twenty-four hours
upper lake region and IN areas from the
upper Ohio valley to the middle and south
Atlantic and east gulf coasts.
Temperatures are above the seasonal
middle and north Pacific coast states, and
are ten degrees to twenty degrees above
the normal from southern Idaho and Wy
onling over the Dakotas
The Indications are that the temperature
will rise in the middle eastern states during
the next thirty six hours, except at points
where local thunder storms may develop.
The winds along the middle Atlantic coast
will be light to fresh southeasterly; on the
south Atlantic and east gulf coasts light
southerly. and on the lower lakes fresh
southeasterly.
The following heavy precipitation Din
twenty-four hours: Richmond, LA; Char
lotte, 1.62; Hatteras, LOS.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have light variable winds and
fair weather to the Grand Banks.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau Cor the twenty -four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Observation-Disclosures 16, pm, 80; q
PM. II: IL midnight, 20; August II, am.
II; am, "a: IL noon 80; 2 pm. 80.
Maximum. "a. at pm, August 16; mini
mum, TO- at am, August II.
Observation-Disclosures 16, pm. 1890; 3
Pm, 1901; IL midnight, 1908: August II.
4 am. 30.07; am. 1910; noon, 3O.u;
pm, 3O.1.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 12:45 am. and % o.
m: high tide, $50 am. and 7:O2 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, loo am. and 2:O3
PM; high tide, 7:17 am. and 7:45 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 5:15 am; sun sets, 6:51
pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 6:16 am.
Moon rises 4:42 am. tomorrow
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted fif
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water at 8
am: Great Falls, temperature, 49, condf-
ton, %. Dalecarlia reservoir, temperature,
~: condition at north connection, 40; con-
d1tfon at south connection, so. Georgetown
distributing reservoir, Temperature 7S;
condition at infuent gatehouse, so; condi-
ton at efhuent gatehouse, IS; Washington
city reservoir. temperature. 76; condition at
inf1uent, 80; condition at eff1uent, IS.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPER'S FERRY, w. Va, August II.
Both rivers are muddy here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
San Francisco Bank clearings.

SAN FRANCISCO. August 1.-THE bank
clearings Of San Francisco show much ac-
tivity in business during the past week.
The increase over the last year was 8 per
cent and the totals were well above the
forty million mark. For the week ending
Thursday noon, August 16, 1906. the clear
ings We're $43,914, 147.93. as against $4O,-
149 9S3.5O for the same week Of 1905. The
increase Is 1874, 164.43.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
Climax Shower Brought Snakes

Special istatch to The Star.
SUFFOLK, Va, August 17.-Following a
long series Of downpours the climax shower
came early this morning, when the precipi-
tation was over four inches within less
than two hours. The rain clouds also
brought and deposited on Main street near
the city hall a species of sea serpent, the
like of which never before was seen here
abouts Clerk of the Market H. E. Smith
managed to get the visitor into large
box and hundreds of persons have inspect
ed the thing, which is still alive and which
will bite at clubs or anything else which is
thrown within reach. Doctors say the
specimen belongs to the eel family, but it
is larger than any eel ever seen in this
state. Photographers are seeking mega
tiyeS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
The Test.

From the Baltimore American.
First Doctor-"Was that operation sue
cessful?'
Second Doctor-"successful Well, sent
my family to Europe on the proceeds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
His Journey.
From Puck,

Beenaway-"Let me see! About Nogood-
son-when left he was going from bad to
| worse, and
Staidhome-"It subsequently developed
| that be had no return coupon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-17
WEATHER FORECAST.
Partly Cloudy Tonight and Saturday
Light Winds.

Forecast till pm. Saturday:
For the District of Columbia. Delaware
and Maryland. partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday; light to fresh southeasteriy
Winds
For Virginia. partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday with local rains fresh Southeastern
ly winds