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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
WOMAN PLUNGES
TO HER DEATH IN
PANIC At FIRE
Member of Chinese Vice
Consulate at New York
Badly Hurt,

NEW YORK, Feb. IA beautiful
young woman was killed, one of the
. members OF the Chinese vice consulate
was mOrtally wounded, two members Of
the city fire department received serious
injuries and two young men, acting as
i volunteers in fighting flames and rescu-
ing imperiled women and children, were
badly injured today IN a fire that de-
stroyed all the floors above the first Of
the fashionable apartment house 101
West Seventeen street.
The dead:
Miss Margaret Landon, eighteen years
old. crushed 10 death when she leaped
from the flames from the fire-escape on
the fifth floor, and landed on the third
: floor platform.
The missing:
William -, 1anitor's assistant.
The injured:
Wing Tuck or William Wing, Chinese
vice consulate. arms and head hurt and
internally injured by jumping from the
third floor TO the street. Taken TO
{ Roosevelt Hospital in serious condi-
Andrew n'Connor, of Bath Beach, fire
man; skull fractured while resculng
persons on the fre-escape- Taken 70
Roosevelt Hospital
John CoghIan, fireman or Truck No.
s5' brushed on when the truck was over
turned by striking a snow bank Hur-
ried 10 Roosevelt Hospital Internally
Frank senetti. janitor of the house,
hands and face burned refused 10 so TO
hospital.
Fire Origin Mysterious.
The manner in which the fire started
IS yelled in mystery and the police are
sitting a story told by passer-by that
lights were seen in the basement and
that two men were at a table playing
cards and drinking.
The death Of Miss LandOn was due to
I7er. own nervousness. She was on the
fre-escape and said TO Mrs. John Rus
sell, who. with her husband and baby
was waiting for the tiremen 10 put up
ladders:
/ shall jump
Mrs. Russell told her 20 stand still
and that she would be rescued although
at that time she herself was not certain
Z Of escaping. But the girl suddenly let
: herself slip from the railing and fell
Two flights before she landed on the
fre-escape at the third floor.
II was while the ladders were being
nut I'D that Wing jumped
On the second floor Of the escape were
found Mrs. i. q. Fielding, her maid,
Miss Nellie Edwards. and Francis H
Howard. with his wife and two chill
tfren. They were taken down the lad
ders without uishap and taken TO the
Hotel Walton.
on the fourth floor fre-esCape were
Samuel Warner and his wife, and
fsther-in-law. John H PangEOrn, and
his wife; Philip Schwartz and his wife.
and three children.
Firemen aided tho men down the lad
der, and then taking the women and
children in their arms carried them
safely to the street.
When the fire-escape on the top floor
vas reached the freInen had their most
difficult task. They were forced TO
mount the swaying scaling ladder, and
there they found in an hysteTiCal coli
diIiOn the father and mother OF Miss
IsandOn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

The Counselor OF the French Embassy
and Nine. des POTtes de n FOsse were
hosts at dinner Wednesday evening.
Their guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
bury Blair. the Spanish minister, Senior
Don Pima; Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Loril-
lard, Miss Nellie Patten. Mrs. Hooker,
Nine Won Hafton, MI Havenith, of the
Belgian legation, and Mr. ROyaards,
charge d'afaires of the Netherlands.
This was the last of the many inter-
esting dinners on Wednesday evenings.
NJ. and Nine. des Portes expect TO
vacate the Connecticut avenue house,
which they have occupied for several
years, and. March 3. accompanied by
their attractive daughter, Nile. des
Portes de Ia Fosse, will sail for France
to spend the summer. Before leaving
washington, Mile. des POrtes will be
the guest. for a few days, Of the Third
Secretary Of the French Embassy and
Viscountess de Martel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
INCONCETYABLE.

do you ike the works OF Dickens?"
mo: they are too trivial
quite so. And 10 think they were
once best seuers" Exchange
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Thu Mercantile Club entertained last
evening with a bTidge-Whist and whist
tournament conducted by Louis frel-
rich and Milton StrasbuTger.
The first bridge-whist prize was
awarded TO Mrs. L. StrasDuTger, and
the second 10 Mrs Max Cohen, while
Mrs. BENJAMIN Held captured the first
whist prize and Mrs. Samuel Be9singerr
the second.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Dinner Hosts.


Mr.. and Mrs, Peyton Russell and Mrs,
Randolph clark were dinner hosts last
evening.
Baron Schippenbach, the Russian con-
sui general at Chicago, IS the guest
OF the Russian Ambassador, Baron
Rosen, at the embassy.
Major and Mrs. Wheeler have gone
to Waterfowl, Mass, where Major
Wheeler has been appointed command
ing officer Of the arsenal. Major and
Mrs Wheeler have been the guests OF
Major General and Mrs Gillespie III
their home on New Hampshire avenue.
MI and Mrs. William Closson, OF Bos-
ton, are visiting DR.. Edward Gallau-
Diet. at Kendall Green. Mrs. ClOsson
IS Dr. GalLaudet's daughter.
Baron AmbrOzy, counselor or the
Austro-Hungarian embassy, left Wash
lington for Cleveland, Ohio. where ne
will attend a benefit entertainment for
the families of the 800 Hungarian min
ers who were killed IN the recent dis
aSter in OHIO.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

| Tho Misses Kean, sisters OF Senator
/ Kean, entertained az a musicale yester-
| daY afternoon.
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Continued from Fifth Page)

Shipper. Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. S. Black
burn, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bacon, Miss
Bacon, Miss Emily Low Bacon,
Robert J.. Bacon, Gasp9r c. Bacon
FUiot Bacon, Miss Ethel COWdin,
Charles E AIagOOn. Col. b. II. Crowder,
Capt. J. A. Ryan, MAJ. Jose MART,
Craig w. WadswOrth, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hunt, Miss Helen Hunt,
]. c. Shaffer, Z. II. Butler, Miss
Butler, George c. Gibbons, Miss
Gibbons Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt, Lieut..
Col William NJ. Black. Mrs. Hobart,
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, and Miss
Yyonne Townsend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth.
who have been in New York for snort
visit, returned to Washington last even
ing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mrs. Gerson N0rdlinger, Of Florence
court. entertained the Afternoon Bridge
Whist Club Wednesday. Those present
were Mrs. S. Meyer. Mrs. Isaac Behr-
end Mrs. S. Minister, and Mrs. Rudolph
b Behrend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mrs. RothchiId, Of Philadelphia, Pa,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. harry
Kaufman. OF Columbia road
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mr. ard Mrs. Pierre LOrillaTd We're
hosts at a large dinner last evening In
their residence. on Connecticut avenue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Mrs Meyer Entertains.

Mrs. Meyer entertained at luncheon
yesterday in honor Of Miss Paul. OF
Philadelphia, who is the house guest OF
the Misses Patten. Mrs. Hugh begare
entertained for Miss paul Wednesday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mrs. John n PistiI will be at home
at the Eutaw, 1854 Monroe street nortL-
west. Wednesday, February j. from
TO ESQ o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

The, banquet hall OF the Raleigh Hotel
held q large and interesting crowd yes
terfav afternoon. The event was a
MAGNIFICENT concert. given under the
auspices OF the Council Of Jewish Won
en-. the proceeds OF which will be used
for the musical education and develop
ment OF the boy violinist, Elias Bree-
skin.
The other artists participating with
the little genius were II }. w. II. Shir-
Cliff. with J.. II. DroOp at the plano;
Nine. Marie Won UnCnuld and the
Washington String Orchestra. William
Green, DaE1el Breeskin. Robert G,
Stearns, anL Louis Mandy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

DR.. and Mrs Abr6m Simon. or UniVer-
sity place, has left for New York city,
where she has joined her daughter
Miss Lottie ObendOrfer. for an lndeh-
mite stay.
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COngresSrnen Guests Of President

Riggs acted as godfather at the time or
Senior Buruaga's baptism, and ever
since the old established resident cir
Gle has regarded him as an adopted, If
not quite a native, Washingtonian.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mrs. Thomas X. Noble VIII fecelV
With Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main 10
morrow afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

Mrs. Albert Halford and Miss Halford
viii not be AT home tomorrow AFTER
noon, but viii receive as usual the re-
naming Saturdays during the season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Mrs. Leech's Luncheon.

Mrs. Leech's Luncheon.
Mrs. John Frederick Leech was
hostess at luncheon yesterday In her
home, on Massachusetts avenue, Tor
her daughter Miss Katherine Leech'
The guests were all this season s de-
butantes. The decorations were PINK
the table being especially attractive
the dainty pink capped candles
The guests were Miss Constance 5oyl'
Miss Vera Downing, Miss henIlettd
Fitch, Miss Eleanor Ridgely! MISS jan an
Misses Butler, Miss Yulee Noble, MISS
Carol Newberry, Miss Sadie Murray,
Miss Louise Cole, Miss Lily Finley; MISS
Sallie Darlington. Miss Morse ana MISS
Alice Vandergritt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Pasture for Hogs.

Experiments show that as much pork
pasture as from one ton of shorts or
corn. The Minnesota experiment sta
ton says that clover makes the best
hog pasture in that State, but Prof.
Waters of Missouri says that it is not
safe Or even desirable to rely upon
a single crop, excepting alfalfa where
1t Is an assured success, to furnish pas
ture for hogs throughout the season.
lures from the beginning of the season
until the hogs are ready for market,
making the feed richer and more con-
centrated toward the close of the sea-
son as we approach the finishing or
fattening, period. For this purpose he
recommends red clover or alfalfa, cow
peas and soy beans
1t will pay the farmer who Is rails
ing hogs to provide good pasture,
even If he is feeding them other feeds,
for clovers, COW peas and soy beans
are rich in protein and make good
adjunct to any ration. The cheapest
gains that can be made In hog rails
Ing are where the hogs are fed skim
milk and allowed to run on good
pasture of either clover or alfalfa.
Where possible to do so pasture Is
to be preferred to the dry lot for feed
ing hcgs, not only In the interest Of
cheapened gains but also for the bet
ter health of the animals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

processes of evolution at work slowly surely
refining it. The cold. hard world to-day not nearly
uncomfortable brutal the choicest home
life OF the sayages
II the western world a little untamed in COM
parson with the oriental it is because its civilization
so much Less than two thousand years ago it
was chiefly savages whereas twenty thousand
years the orientals writing poetry phos
ophy Or If America ruder than Europe IT Is
because insist civilizng everybody In Europe
they have been satisfied with a few "gentles" They
have called them the "quality'@ But in America we
pay attention to quantity" too And If cannot turn
them all gentlemen by the time they are nat
uraized citizens we least find them easy to dis
tingush from by their better behavior and
better dress. Whichever way take it-whether the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
DIR. Hi,prech,.s F,na, n.o,x.

In the form of book of $50 pages just
from the press Prof. Herman V. Hill
precht of the University of Pennsylva-
mia replies to the charges made against
him in connection with the collections of
Nippur tablets now in the possession of
that university. The book rccounts the
evidence presented before the committee
of trustees resulting in his complete ex.
oneration by them. and explains to his
own satisfaction the circumstances out of
which grew this famous scientific contro-
versy. The first charge was that of lit
erary dishonesty in having spoken of
three of the tablets as being found by
himself in 1900, whereas they were said
to have been purchased by the members
of an earlier expedition. Hilorecht now
says that his books under dispute were
not strictly scientific, and that numerous
notes were not wanted by his publishers
Hence he had not added the note telling
where the tablets had been bought. An
other charge was that of having retained
property belonging TO the university. This
arose from the fact that with his own
money he had made excavations at Fara
Independent Of those conducted by the
university. Some of his finds he had
given to the university, but others he had
retained. The accusers also held that the
tablets were not of a literary character
and were not properly called a "temple
library" Hilprecht repels this with tes-
timony of other scientists In conclusion
he asserts that two men have beep his nm
tagonists, Rev. DR.. Peters and Prof Nor
ris Jastrow, Jr. The animus of the for
mer Hilprecht attributes to the criticisms
of the Peters expeditions in the Hilprecht
books. lie accuses Jastrow Of underhand-
ed and dishonest efforts to becloud the
public mind and poison it against the nc
ruSed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
begin mt the Bottom.

In an address before the Rhodes Ex-
pertinent Station, Henry Hales said
that so many go into the poultry BUSH
ness with little or no preparation; some
20 into 1t because they have heard that
1t is a light. genteel business. such as
invallds or weak mot TO say lazy1 peo-
pie can ulaxe a good and easy living
out Of Such persons throw up the
business after snort tine with very
peculiar ideas about the poor chickens.
Many man who might have become a
prosperous and successful poultryman
has ended his career as poultry breed
er IN disaster. simply because he began
too high up the ladder. If he had been
content to start few rounds lower.
or even at the very bottom. he might
have. in the end, reached the top and
stood there secure, because he had
reached the heights slowly, testing
every step as he raised himseIf upward
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
A Biunder IN Poets

Tennyson is not the only poet
laureate whom Regent Street has
known. Southey relates ludicrous
scrape into which he and Campbell
fell one day in the Qre5spsnt. Camp
bell wished to re,i sEs a poor woman
and rushed i-lto the nearest shop to
change a sovereign. The shopkeeper
was atten ling to customers and de-
layed to obhge ram, and the generous
poet lost his temper. Thereupon the
shopkeeper jumped to the conclusion
that he had two rogues to deal with,
and rashly sent for the police. Camp
bell stood in helpless fury. but when
Southey explained things to the con-
stable, that worthy. who happened to
be Glasgow man, at once exclaimed:
"Guidness, mon, is that Master
CAMEL, the Lord Rector o. Glaisgie?"
After that it was difficult to separate
Campbell and the shopkeeper, SO
warmly were their hands iHterclasped
in explanations and forgiveness
Westminster Gazette.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Stable Manure.

When the manure is exposed to the
action of the elements and the leach
ings allowed to drain away 1t rapidly
decreases in value. Experiments con-
Quoted to determine the facts have In
Dictated that horse manure thrown into
a loose pile and subjected to the action
Of the elements will lose nearly one
half Of It's valuable fertilizing constit-
uents in the course of six months, and
that any kind of manure. even in a
compact mass, when so placed that all
water falling upon 1t quickly runs
through and off sustains a considerable
loss. though less than the former case.
says writer In American Cultivator.
Therefore, after having made all the
good stable manure practicable, protect
it in some way from fermentation and
teaching and supplement 1t with COM
mercial fertilizers after it is applied to
the soil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Pretty Well Stuck Lin

The patient was a healthy Scotch
girl; aged 20 years, who had no sign
of hysterical tendency, but was in the
habit of putting pins in her mouth,
and sometimes had beer known to fall
asleep without removing them. She
was admitted to the hospital, having
swallowed five pins accidentally while
fixing clothes, and by che help of
emetics she was relieved Of them. Re-
turning home she began regularly to
vomit pins and got rid of % in the
course of month. Then she began
to produce needles, and in fortnight
IL came out from the following situa-
tions-the left nostril. the origin of
the sternomastoid behind the left ear.
and a spot on the front of the right
forearm. At the same time she con-
tinued vomiting pins until rs had ap-
peared The needles were blackened
and Slightly eroded, and two of them
were threaded with about three
inches of thread.-London Lancet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

There is a so-called "smooth-shav-
en-" millionaire in New York who
never used a razor on his face. Tween
ty-five years ago he was a monoma-
MAC on the subject of saving time.
and among other short cuts to for
tune made up his mind to cut out
shaving, matter of 10 cents a day
and about twenty minutes of preci
GUS time. II the barber made good.
After trial of various cosmetics and
depilatories he decided that electroly-
sis was a far better, though very
tedious. process. In FIVE months the
root OF every hair In both beard and
moustache was utterly destroyed by
IN electric current from a constant
batteEy- The man suffered consider
ably, Nut ever since the operation
his face has been as smooth as bald
head. No power on earth could re-
store his beard now. New York
Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Crystalline Metal.

When we speak of metal being In
a crystalline state we almost invariab-
ly associate that state with the idea
of hardness. Even practical metal
lurgists entertain this notion, although
as Mr. G. t. Beilby says in recent
paper read before the Royal Society
in London, Gin the pure ductile metals
the crystalline state is actually the
soft state" A large part of the soft
ness is ascribed to the instability of
the crystalline structure. When
metal is drawn into wire its tenacity
is enormously increased-that of iron
four times, that OF pure gold more
than three times, and that of silver
and copper still more But inveStiga-
ton shows that metals which have
been thus treated show micro-struc-
ture in which deformed and broken
down crystals are embedded in a non
crystalline mass. In the process of
hardening metal its crystalline
structure is broken down and it passes
into the non-crystalline form.-Youth's
Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Promotion By Merit.

grizzled old colonel who is vet
eran OF the Civil War and who has
since seen hard active service in sew
eral Indian campaigns, the Arctic re-
gions, the Spanish War and the Philip
pine insursectioa, died not view with
pleasure the recent promotions of
younger and almost unknown officers
who were jumped over his head. Stroll
ling about his camp in the Philippines
one day, he came upon one of his Of
fers fcndling a monkey.
Colonel" said the officer, this is
the most remarkable monkey / ever
saw. Why, he can take a stick and
go through the manual of arms al
most as well as one of the soldiers"
Ssh" exclaimed the Colonel, glanc-
ing about in great alarm. Don't tell
anybody. Suppose the War Depart
ment heard of it, They'd make him
brigadier-general," = Philadelphia
Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

Good counsel, thankfully received,
may not always be interpreted accord
ing to the preachers intent. An Amer
lean pioneer" of 1872 gives an account
of a sermon which resulted In an I'M
Outstanding far more TO the delectation
of the hearer than Of the one who de-
livered 1t. A good Swedish minister
gathered a company OF Indian chiefs.
and delivered 10 them discourse on
the subject of sin and It's consequences
He enlarged upon the story of Adam.
Eve. the apple and the fall. His Ian
guage was vivid and picturesque. and
made Q. great impression on the red
men. At the end OF the sermon an
Indian GATOR rose and said:
What you have told is all very good.
II is indeed bad TO eat apples. 1t is
better TO make then all into cider. We
are much obliged for your kindness In
coming so far 10 bell us these things
which you have heard from your
mother"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Leo's Secretary of State.

Cardinal Rampolla cherishes the
peace and seclusion which he so well
deserves. Almost every afternoon
about two hours before dusk. he drives
from his isolated house under the
shadow of ST. Peters, and returns
shortly before the bells ring out the
Angelus. Two or three times a week
he attends the Congregations OF which
he is member. With those excep-
tions he never leaves his house, and
Within it nearly all his time is spent
is his private library, which also
serves him for a reception room. He
rever leaves Rome even for day,
and not even in the fercest heats OF
summer He has lately published a
very erudite work on the life and
times of St. Melania the Elder and
he is now engaged in another histor-
cal work which may see the light
early next year.-Rome Letter to Lon
don Tablet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19

bill OF fare, and Increase still more II
In addition ! furnish ABOUT two pounds
per day OF oilmeal per COW; hence,
while I am personally very much in
favor Of the farmer-dasryman growing
feed crops to the fullest extent Of
proved profit, endeavoring to do so my
self, yet to all grow never hesitate
to bring In as supplementary by pur-
chase any feed needed which my cows
can use at profit to me-
have no manner of doubt that ton
Of clover hay, being all one acre could
produce, Is Of materially less feeding
worth than ton from an acre having
grown three ton crop. all conditions
of cutting and curing in both cases be-
ing equal. / know that when l secure
a crop OF 100 bushels OF corn per acre
| have more than twice as much feed
as I have if I am so unfortunate as to
get but fifty bushels per acre.-W. Il.
McSparran.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-19
Drowned Manuscript.

lanes Russell Lowell. the first edi-
tor of the Atlantic. was walking across
Cambridge bridge when his hat blew
of and fell into the Charles with half
dozen or more manuscripts with
which II was freighted and which he
was returning TO the Boston Office. A
hoatman recovered the hat. but the
scattered manuscripts persisted In those
waves OF oblivion IF they had been
accepted articles, it wouldn't have been
quite so bad. for" said he. we might
with some grace ask the writers for
fresh copies. But how can you tell a
prospecting Contributor that his
manuscript has been not only rejected.
but sent 10 watery gravey-J. T.
Trowhridge In Atlantic.