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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22

AIMS Infant Asylum, will have a Christ
mas tree for the children Christmas morn
ing. and the Sisters of the Holy Gross. at
st. Joseph's Male Infant Asylum, will also
have tree that day, to be followed by an
entertainment the following Monday. At
st. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum. con-
Quoted by the Sisters of Charity at Edge
wood. the tree on Christmas day will be
followed by an entertainment December
%.
A special dinner and music will be pro-
vided to tighten the hours of the patients
at Sibley Memorial Hospital. on North
Capitol and Pierce streets. AT several
other institutions arrangements had not
where it was certain that the day would
not be permitted to pass unobserVed.
Almas Temple Distribution.
Almas Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, will, as usual, distribute Christ
mas baskets among the deserving poor.
These baskets are to be called for between
am. and noon of the day before Christ
mas at National Rifles Armory. The
funds with which these baskets are pur-
chased and filled are from the proceeds
of the temples outings. The committee
on preparation and distribution of the
baskets includes +. A. Sebring, potentate;
Dent. assistant rabban: Alex Grant, high
priest and prophet; John A. Ellinger, ORR
entail guide: Allison Nailor, treasurer, and
Harrison Dingman recorder.
Following it's usual custom, the Saliva
ton Army will give out dinners in bas-
kets. The distribution will take place at
about 3 pm. Christmas day. and it is
calculated that more than 800 baskets
will be presented to the families in need.
The baskets will contain turkey Or chick
en-, with potatoes, onions. celery, fruit,
tea or coffee and sugar. Monday of next
week Christmas tree for the children
will be provided in the barracks.
Central Union Mission.
At the Central Union Mission a meet
ing will be held in the morning and to
men who are present tickets for a dinner
shortly after noon will be given. At the
gospel branch of the Peoples Mission an
entertainment will be held for children in
the afternoon, with presents of candy and
fruit. The celebration will be in charge of
Mrs. Carroll, assisted by Miss Sadie Tay-
lor and Miss Edelin,.
Baskets of food will be distributed by
the American Salvation Army though Of
fcers announce that the organization is
somewhat handicapped at present by GER
tain restrictions put on their collecting
The army plans. however, to begin in
January the serving of coffee and rolls
to the unemployed every morning, and to
increase it's accommodations for women
and children in distress, none of whom,
the officers say, are ever turned away.
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This Advertisement Is Worth $40 to You.

If you will bring this advertisement to store it
will be accepted the $40 cash payment any of these
superb Regal Pianosthus you pay penny at time
of purchase. So much confidence have that you will
find these elegant instruments perfectly satisfactory that
make favorable than have been named
for like high-grade pianos.
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WARNING TO PARENTS.

The MIX Conference appointed by
the District Commissioners, in view of
the MANY DANGERS OF RAW
MILK, has recommended the home
pasteurizing Of all raw milk by bring
ing it to the boiling point. then With
draw, COOL and keep cold until used.
The Conference has thereby indo-scd
the advice given by this Society for q
number Of years to
SCALD ALL MILK
for children.
Parents are particularly 'wasaed
sgainst the erroneous opinion held by
some that pasteurlzing Affects either
the digesubility or the nutritive value
Of the milk. or that as a rule It will
produce any bad effects whatsoever.
SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION
OF SICKNESS.
Z. BERLINER. Secretary.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, December 2i.-
Service was secured Thursday upon Cen
eral Freight Traffic Manager Arthur Pa
triarche of the Pere Marquette railway
and President JhstYs s. Stearns of the
Stearns Salt and Lumber Company, in
connection with the indictments returned
against the two corporations by the fed
eral grand Jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22

LINCOLN. Neb., December 21.-The Ne
hraska state railway commission yester-
day voted to cut the oil rates In the state
30 pr cent on both carload and barrel ship
ments. 1t has been charged that the tar
IFS in Nebraska were discriminative and
permitted the Standard Oil Company to
gain an advantage by shipments to
county seat points in carload lots.
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NTOU will notice that
" by presenting this
advertisement yo

advertisement you
are under no expense
whatever at the time of
purchase, as it is received
in lieu of the cash pay
ment. And another point
to keep in mind is that in
buying the Regal Piano
you secure one of the
worlds standard instru-
ments; and the more you
know about pianos the
: better pleased we would
be to have you call and in
spect them. There's moth
ing in modern piano con-
struction not embraced in
the renowned Regal in
Struments.
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No Cash Payment Required.
Sent on Free Trial.
Save a Hundred Dollars.
Features
of the
Hecht
Modern
Method
of Piano
Selling.

Like other innovations inaugurated by the Hccht
Stores-and they many-the modern plan of distrb-
ung pianos has proven immensely popular. Right now
the of the holidays, would be good time for YOU
to get acquainted with the Hecht way The important
features that plan calls for penny time
of purchase-no cash payment whatever-and sends the
piano your home free trial. that you may be
it is just the instrument you wish Ask about it to-
morrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22

Simply say "Send it up" and superb Regal Piano
will be placed in your home entirely at risk and
pense that you may give it thorough trial That's
of the features of the Hecht modern method of selling
Pianos. Scarf Rubber Cover Fine Revolving Stool and
Years Tuning Free with all Pianos.
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France Accepts the Nickel.

Special CableSram TO The Star.
PARIS. December 21.--Fraace has de-
termined upon having nickel coinage in
place of the copper currency, but although
nickel is already in use, some years are
to elapse before the last copper coin will
have disappeared. The government has
resolved that the copper coins are to be
entirely withdrawn. but. according to the
latest announcement made by the director
of the French mint. it will take six years
before this can be accomplished, owing to
the great value of the copper coinage
still in circulation. OF the superiority OF
nickel as a medium OF currency nobody
who has felt the burden of dozen cop
perS in his pocket can remain in doubt a
single moment. The old difficulty about
confusing the ten-centime piece with a
franc and the five-centime piece with half
a franc has been easily overcome in
Belgium by perforating the inferior coins.
Mr. Harry Wheaton Towards mass in
D will be sung at $50 o'clock Christ
mas morning at Immaculate Conception
Church. This mass was written a year
ago by Mr.. Howard to supply the need
or liturgical mass.
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A great part of the business portion of
, Lane. Kan, burned Friday. Loss. S40-
coo To check the fire the post Office was
blown up with dynamite.
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Child's Double Breasted Coat.

Such a simple coat as this one suits
the small children admirably well
and is always a favorite. In the IL
lustration it is made Of dark blue
broadcloth with collar and cuffs of
velvet combined with the cloth and is
a very chic little garment, but it Is
adapted to velvet and to v%elveteen,
to the beautiful fur plushes, to chew
lot, and, indeed, to every material
that is used for children's coats, 1t
being just as good a model for the
spring ones of light weight cloth as
it is for those of the colder weather.
In this case it is worn by a little girl
and is buttoned over from right to
left. But the design suits the boys
Just as we'll as the girls, the only
difference being In the method OF
buttoning, so that when the left side
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-01
Let Everybody Plant Trees.

If every land owner would plant
in every available place such trees
as would not only give present beau.
ty but also insure a future supply
of valuable timber, it would so sup
plement the larger work Of a Govern
ment forest reserve that reforesta-
ton and the preservation of an ade,
quate supply Of good timber would
be much simplied.
The precious and almost indispen.
sable white oak is naturally only a
forest tree, but the black walnut,
which intrinsically is even more val
liable, will grow almost anywhere and
in a much shorter time, and it will
pay for itself from the time it begins
to bear. The same is true Of the
chestnut
There is no question that cabinet
woods will always be in demand, for
no other material can possibly take
the place of wood in the making of
Administrations.
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HARTMAN AS AN EXAMPLE.
Colonel Hepburn Says He is a Living
Justification For Radical Laws.

Washington, D.. C.-Colonel Hep.
burn, Chairman Of the House Com.
mittee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, talked about E. H. Harri.
man.
II believe that Mr.. Hartman Is
the living justification of all the rail.
road legislation that we have en-.
acted" he said, "and all that we have
attempted to enact, and that by his
own admissions we should have
passed laws much more drastic than
we did pass. If I understand the
testimony Of Mr.. Hartman and his
associates, it is possible, under our
present financial system, for n mai
to increase the Indebtedness of a
railroad corporation by s92,000,000
without adding to 1t one cents worth
of visible property. If it Is not high
time that such a condition Of affairs
should be ended, it seems to me that
no evil under the sun should be cor
rected."
"Mr. Hartman announced that he
was sightseeing" remarked n of
Colonel Hepburn's friends.
"Well, perhaps he was" admitted
Colonel Hepburn, "but I think the
public saw the greatest sights this
trip
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DIES NEGLECTED.
IN CITY He FOUNDED
Neither Wife Nor Son Was at
His Bedside.
SHILOH HOUSE SEIZED AT ONCE

Prophets Wealth Gone-VoEva and
the Receiver Announce That His
Death Will Not Affect Future Of
Zion.
Chicago.-John Alexander Dowie,
one Of the most remarkable charac-
tiers Of modern religious. history, died
at his home, Shiloh House, In Zion
City. The founder Of the Christian
Catholic Apostolic Church, a sect that
had it's followers in every quarter Of
the globe, passed away peacefully,
after a period of Inconsistencies pre-
coded by delirium. He was nearly
sixty years old.
The end was not unexpected. For
hours the old leader, deserted by all
except a few faithful followers, had
been sinking slowly. Paralysis and
a complication. Of dropsy and other
maladies caused death. No relative
was with him at the last. His wife
and son were repulsed when they
made a final effort to see him three
months ago, and neither was at his
beside when the end came.
Mrs. Dowie and her son arrived
late at night from Ben MacDhui, their
home in Michigan, which is practical
ly all that remains Of the wealth once
controlled by Dowie, estimated to
have been many millions.
Soon after >Dowie's death Shiloh
House, with its furnishings, was
seized by John c. Hately, the Zion
City receiver, in the name Of the
United States Court, for the benefit
Of the creditors of Zion City. The
house is valued at $4,000 and the
furnishings at $4,000.
The future of Zion City, it was
declared by General Overseer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva, Dowie's successor as
head Of the church, will not be affect
ed by the death of the founder. Mr..
Hately made the same announcement.
When the end anne Judge Barnes
announced it to the people In Zion
City, though the great majority OF
them long since deserted Dowie for
Voliva. A large crowd had gathered
outside the house when the news Of
his serious condition spread.
"The first apostle has passed
away" was all that Judge Barnes
said and he returned to the house.
There were few dry eyes among the
gathering, and for the time all the
faults of the dead man were for
gotten.
The news quickly spread through
the city. The work in the factories
and stores was stopped. The en-
ployes of the great lace works,
brought from England by .Dowie,
came out and gathered around Shiloh
House. Voliva, though suffering
from tonsilitis, went to the house and
visited the room where the body lay.
Then, with bowed head, apparently
deep in thought, he returned to his
dwelling.
Flags were lowered to halfmast on
the principal buildings, on the roof
of the great tabernacle and the COL
lege building. .
In accordance with the often ex-
pressed wish of DR.. Dowie and also
Of Mrs. Dowie, the body will be laid
to rest in Lake Mound, the cemetery
in Zion City where the body Of the
daughter Esther, who was burned to
death, Is buried.
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PERKINS RESTORES FUNDS
New York Life Receives s54,019
Contributed Through Financier.
Company Reimbursed For 1904 Re.
publican Campaign Gift-Money
and Interest Returned.

New York City.-George w. Per-
kins has returned to the New York
Life, with interest, the $48,500 which
he contributed to the Republican Ma
tional Campaign Committee in 1904
on behalf of the company, which later
reimbursed him. That Mr.. Perkins,
out Of his OWL pocket, would restore
the money to the company's treasury
was foreshadowed more than a year
ago.
MI. Perkins sent the following let
ter, dated March 6, to President Orr,
of the New York Life:
"In 1904, at the request Of the
then president Of the company, I ad-
vanced $48,500 as a payment on be-
half Of the New York Life Insurance
Company to the Republican National
Campaign Committee. I did this
with the understanding with the
president that I should be reim-
bursed by the company. Subsequent
ly I was 50 reimbursed. The pay
ment was made without any thought
on the part of the president or my.
self of personal advantage, but sole
ly in the belief that 1t vas for the
best and broadest interests Of the
policy holders, both at home and
abroad. In dismissing the criminal
proceedings instituted against me for
accepting the reimbursement, the
courts have intimated that the pay
ment and, therefore, the reimburse
ment was not for a proper corporate
purpose. I. therefore return to the
company the amount Of money paid
by it to me, inclosing herewith my
check. for $54,019.19, to cover prin.
cipal and interest"
According to the Fowler investf-
eating committees report of Febru.
airy IA, 1906, the New York Life con-
tributed $4,000 in 1896, $4,000 in
1900 and 48,702.50 in 1904, Treas
urer Gibbs, who is now dead, having
made the first two payments. These
contributions the Fowler report char.
acterized as illegal and recoverable
at law" =
The Perkins contribution, accord
ing to this report, was entered on the
company's books merely as "$48,-
702.50" and "By order of the Presi-
dent" the Fowler committee finding
no account of the manner Of its ex.
penditure, except in the Armstrong
testimony of Mr.. Perkins and ex,
President Mccall.
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Braid Wraps.

The newest little wraps 'rtilch will
accompany smart wardrobes are
made entirely of braid like that
which trims the cloth skirts accom-
panying them. The extensive use OF
braid promises to continue into the
next season. Many of the coats found
in the lace robe department. are made
of braid held together with lace
stitches. This braid lace, known as
dentelle de sole, also forms panels
of skirts. In coats and trimmings 1t
Is often dyed.
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Of tie chain and could not withdraw
it. He was chained to the pig! The
danger Of the situation really came
to the boy now for the first time. He
struggled madly to release his finger.
but the ring had slipped over the
knuckle, and his struggles only
served to blacken and d~iscolor the
finger.
If he was to escape he would have
to fight his way through. He could
not run. The pain in his finger from
the continually tugging of the pig
was becoming excruciating. Slowly
he moved toward the fence, now
about a hundred yards distant, drag
ging the pig. The drove Of hogs
moved with him in a solid and con-
stantly narrowing circle:
To increase his difficulties, the dis
tracted pig began to run about him,
winding his legs in the chain and
threatening to overthrow him. Carl
was becoming terror-stricken, frantic.
He struck a hog which was disputing
his way, and saw his stick fly to
pieces. He looked up and cried aloud
in terror. The fence was so near, yet
he could not reach it.
He could see Mark running about
excitedly on the other side OF
the fence and-whistling? Yes,
whistling. He was calling Mack.
Carl turned eagerly toward the
house and his heart gave a great
bound. Help was coming! Up the
long slope that led from the house
Mack was coming like an arrow sped
from a bow. Would he be in time?
Carl turned and began to kick
savagely at the hogs. The frightened
pig ran between his legs, and whirled
about, wrapping him hopelessly in
the chain. He struggled to keep his
footing, but fell under the rush of the
hogs. For a brief moment they ran
over him, and he covered his face
with his hands, expecting with each
breath to feel their teeth. Then to
his amazement they left him, and he
was lying alone in the sunshine, un-
molested. Even the pig had escaped
by freeing itself from the trap.
The explanation for this came from
an uproar at one side. In the midst
of the drove Mack was spinning like
a top, swapping right and left, a
bleeding snout here and an ear there
showing that these leaps were not
futile. At last the dog made a lunge
at a particularly large hog, and fas-
tened so securely that his hold could
not be broken. The squeals of the
victim sent the entire drove fleeing
in terror down the hill.
Carl got up slowly, crossed the
fence, and sat down. The world
seemed to be travelling round in a cir
Gle. Mark, the clouds, the trees and
the two pals of berries all seemed a
part of a huge merry-go-round.
I'm glad you didn't spill them,"
he said, thickly. "Grandma-"
Then it suddenly became dark.
When he opened his eyes again
he was in the cool north bedroom,
and his grandmother was rubbing his
forehead with arnica.-Youth's Com
panion.
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THRIFT A X WEALTH.
French People Own the Securities of
Other Nations.

The public debt of France is S.
000,000,000, all held at home. In
addition, the French people own for
eign securities to the stupendous ag-
gregate of $4,000, 000, 900, and it is
further estimated that an equal
amount is placed in home securities.
These figures may be exaggerated
all but those representing the pub
lie debt-but they illustrate the vir-
tue there is in thrift, which is also a
German usage.
There is no Rockefeller, NO Carne-
gle, in France, though there may be
a lesser Russell Sage. The French
people do not speculate; they ave.
They do not get rich at a hop, skip
and jump; they accumulate by slow
degrees-they economic. The crime
of crimes in rural France is waste,
and France would subsist on what
America throws away. Within the
past year there have rotted on Amer.
lean farms enough machinery and
utensils to supply agricultural France
the next quarter of a century. A
peasant of Normandy would as, leave
subject his household plumber to the
rage of the elements as his plows, or
harrows, or harvesters. And the same
is true of the German on the other
side of the Rhine. Waste makes want
everywhere, and frugality makes
wealth everywhere.
France is blessed with a soil more
fertile and a climate more favorable
than Germany, and that is why toll
gets richer return on the French side
of the Rhine. 1t was ever SO. Cen
turtles ago France recovered from the
devastations of war much more rap
idly than any of the German States,
and for ages it was the trade of both
countries to avail themselves of the
blessings of peace to make accumula-
ton that would allow them to indulge
in the horrors of war. Now that is
all changed, and another thirty years
of peace between the two peoples may
make impossible a war between
them.
If our population were as thrifty
as the people of France, and our till.
age as thorough, We would have TO
build new barns for our harvests and
open new banks for our savings
Washington Post.
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Gray Garb For Travellers.

"Have you ordered your new gray
travelling dress? Paris has decreed
them" So runs the phrase frequent
ly heard from the woman who keeps
up with fashions mandates. "The
new color for travelling costume is a
shade of grayish green, best known
in connection with mems light over
coats. This, carried out in covert
coating. makes an exceedingly neat
costume, and every item Of the toilet
is chosen by the Parisienne to corre-
spond with it. The new idea is to
have the gloves in exactly the same
shade as the dress. White gloves
have been discarded except for wear
with a white gown"
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AND ROBBER DEAD.
Bodies Found Where First Had Been
Waylaid by Young Highwayman.

Columbia, S. &C. B. Green, for
ty-fve years old and married, a mer-
chant Of Shandon, a suburb Of this
city, was waylaid and killed by Ed
ward Marshall, who himself was
killed by Green. Robbery was the
motive.
When found Green's clothing was
on fire, his body being badly charred
where the bullets took effect, and a
roll of ~greenbacks was burned In
twain.
At Green's right hand lay a re-
volver with four empty chambers.
Near Marshall's right hand was a SIX
shooter with five empty chambers,
while another pistol which had not
been fired was at his left hand. I'm
der his body was a we'll made leather
slungshot. Near his head lay two
burglars masks, n having two bull
let holes in it, and it was clothed with
blood.
Marshall was the son Of the man
ager of a large store in this city.
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ST. LOUIS HE1REss SHOT DOWN.
Rufian's Heels Lacerate Dying Mrs.
Quernheim's Body.

St. Louis, Mo.-With a thumb
mark forming the only clue, as in the
case of Mark Twain's story, "Pudd'n-
head Wilson," Mrs. Katherine Quern-
helm, who inherited a large fortune
from her father, Charles Dreher, a
retired capitalist. and whose husband
Is a wealthy hardware merchant, was
shot to death In the family home, in
this city. The murderer also jumped
on the woman. terribly mutilating
the body and head with his heels.
There was every evidence of a
desperate struggle, and Of the most
careful preparations for the murder.
The woman's husband was out of the
city on business. The body was found
in the basement when a servant went
to open the door to the milkman.
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New York City.-Such a pretty
little princesse frock as this one quits
the younger girls admirably we'll and
can be made from almost any childish
material, as fashionable stufs are
almost all thin and soft and pliable.
In this instance rose colored wolfe is
made with a yoke and trimming of
green lace and is finished with fancy
stitching. But not alone are the
light weight wool materials of the
present appropriate, the design Is a
charming n for the many silk and
cotton materials and other similar
fabrics that will be worn throughout