The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
December 17, 1902

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MR. MUNSEY SPEAKS TO BOSTON MERCHANTS! machinery moving, sickens and disgusts the publisher. It is an insult to the reader and a disgrace to journalism. But with competition reduced to a minimum, there will be no occasion, no excuse, for this sort of thing. The advertisers will no longer dictate to publishers, and dishonest and disreputable advertising will disappear forever from our news papers. “Then genius of the highest order will shape and mold both cur news and our editorial columns, and hundred thousand dollar men will fill the places of the two and three thousand dollar men of today. Organizations of such scope can com mand the learning and cuiture and clev erness of all the world, They can place masters at the head of every branch. And with such a staff, your newspaper, gentlemen, will be a daily reasure box of news and intellectual espression, of literature and art, and research and knowledge. It will, in fact, be a veri table university for the people. The Speaker's Purpose in Journalism. “It is some such ideal as this that has tempted me into daily journalism. 1 have already done vastly more work than "ost workers of the world are willing to do. 1 do not need to take upon myself these additional burdens. I do net need, even, to keep on with the work that has become so closely identified with my life. But 1 hold to the idea zat when God has given a man the health and the capacity to do things He expects him to give a geod account of his stewardship. Whatever we have of ability is leaned to us. We' have not creatq4d it, and are entitled to no eredit for it. Don’t let us fool ourselves about this. “Just what I shall be able to accom plish along the line of this better journ alism is problematical. My chain of newspapers is already started. The ‘Bos ton Journal’ is the third on my list. The Washington Times was first, and the ‘New York Daily News’ the second. Of course 1 musi move along slowly until I can get around me the brilliant and able men that can make themselves felt, and this is largely a work of growth and development, Moreover, my chain of dailles is not yet large enough to warrant hundred thousand dollar salaries. But when it has grown .to embrace a thousand newspapers in a thousand towns—and this is well within the compass of the scheme-—then no expense, however great for the gemeral staff, can be felt by the individual paper. “l realize that it is possible 1 may not go very far with this undertaking, but I know that if I fall by the wayside some one more worthy than myself will take up the work and carry it on to the ultimate possibilities I have indicated. Meanwhile I shall have the matchless pleasure and the supreme delight that ENORMOUS INCREASE IN RAILROAD EARNINGS Compared With Last Year, Interstate Commerce Re port Shows Gain of $51, 900,000— Dividends $30, 000,000 Greater... Existing Statute Said to Be Inadequate toCompel Car riers to Maintain Published Rates—Safety Appliance Law. According to the arnmual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, sent to Congress today, the gross earnings of the railroads of the United States in the year ended June 20, 1902, were $1,711,754,200, or an average of $8,761 per mile of line; the operating expenses, $1,106,137,405, or an average of $5661 per mile, leaving net earnings of $605.616,795, or $3,100 per mile. Jompared with the previous year the net earnings are greater by $51,000,000, and the amount paid in dividends on stock greater by $30,000,000, “The tendency to: fombina seems to be the most significant Afeathire of railway development,” says the report. “It is not open to question that the competition be tween railroads which formerly existed has been largely suppressed, or at least brought to the condition of effective re straint. The progress of consolidation In onc form or another will at no distant day confine this @mpetition within nar row and important limits, because the control of most of the railroad properties will be merged ia a few individuals, whose common interests impdl them to act in concert. to “While this will insure, as nothing else ean iu equal degree, the observance of published tariffs, and so measurably re move some of the evils which the act was designed to prevent, the resulting situa tion involves consequences to the public which claim the most serious attention. So zicat a change in conditions calls for corresponding change in the regulating statues.” Law Inadequate. The commission regards the existing law as totally inadequate as a remedial measure under present conditions, and earnestly renews its recommendations made last year for a revision of the statute, holding that Congress possesses “the fullest power gf correction,” and that “the exercise of that power is de manded by the highest consideration of public welfare.” ‘The report then reviews the work dene by the commission in the past year, its various investigations of violations of law in the giving of secret rates, Criminal prosecutions were at tempted, but no couvicticns have been obtained, nor, so far as known, have any ipdictments been found. This only emphasizes the previously expressed opinion of the commissicn that the erfiminal provisions of the present law are practically a dead letter, Restraining Orders. Restraining orders, or preliminary in Junctions, were obtained in the Federal courts against the Northwestern grain carrying roads to compel them to maia tain their published schedules of rates. Qn this part the report comments: &There ought {0 be some power in (Continued from First Page.) ‘come only to him who is working out great problems. There is nothing in all the world so fascinating, so dramatic. “This leads me naturally, Mr. Presi dent and gentiemen, to the two issues on which I wish to crave your indulg ence, namely. the power of combined labor and the power of combined capi tal. These, as 1 see them, are the two paramount questions of the present period, and they are not confined to America alone, but embrace the ~ntire world. “Every now and again a new force has been discovered, as civilization has groped down through the ages. One has recently awakened to a full realization of its power, and already it has revo lutionized our industrial system and threatens the very government itself. It is the force of combination—com bination exemplified alike in labor and in capital. The existence of the ‘ormer made certain the appearance of the lat ter. “No people who have an ounce of good red bLiood in their veins, and who "have loyalty and love of country ‘at heart—men, mean, in all that goes to make a man’s life worth the living no such men will permit a neighboring country to organize an invading army without themselves organizing and arm ing to protect their lands, their country, and their homes. ‘It was this invading army of organ ized labor that made organized capital inevitable. The one could not exist and the other not spring up in self-defense. No power this side of heaven couid have stopped it, and no power this side of heaven can stop it now. Inconvenient as ie this revolution .in our business and industrial life, I am nevertheless glad it has come about —glad we have the labor organizations and glad ve have the trusts. It is another step forward in the evoluticn of the world. Both mean a higher order of things, shorter hours, better wages, better citizenship for labor, and a more economical and scientific inetkod of conducting business, “Everything rests on the solid foun dation of cause and effect. Had capital always been fair and generous with la bor there would have been no organized labor. It was the abuse of labor on the part of ct pital that compelled labor to organize— to organize: in- self-defense, and with a manly regard for rational dignity. To a greater or less extent it had been downtrodden, misused, and abused for centuries. “Organization gave it a power of which it had little dreamed; and like any pow er suddenly attained, it was bound soon er or later ito assert itself unfairly and unwisely. This was both human and inevitable. But organized capital has had, and will continue to have, a steady ing effect cn the opposing army of or ganized labor. It is a force big enough Be powerful enough to command the respect of labor and to cause it to pause and think. Organized labor unop courts or commissions, or elsewhere, which cannot only compel these ear riers to maintain the published rate but which ean compel them to publish a fair and reasonable rate.’ In the year 38 formal proceedings, double those in the preceding year, were brought before the commission, Involv ing the rates and practice of 300 common carriers. Besides the injunction pro ceedings mentioned above, ten civil cases to enforce orders are pending in the Federal courts. Attention is called to the gratifying results of the safety appliance law of 1533. The number of persons killed and injured in coupling and uncoupling cars in the year ended June 20, 1902—the first entire year reported since the law went into effect—shows a dimunition as com pared with 1803, the year when the law was passed, of 68 per cent in the num ber killed and 81 per cent in the num ber injured. In 1893 the number of cas uaities from this cause was 11,710, of which 433 were killed and 11,277 were injured. This shows a reduction of 9,454. To Compel Power Brakes. The chairman recommends the passage of an act ‘orbidding the running of trains in which less than one-half the cars are equipped with power brakes connected with the engines, Figures compiled by the Commission for the year ended June 30, 1902, show approximately 2.0 collisions and 1.8 de railments per 100 miles of railroad for the year; and the losses by accident, roughly average $3 %00 per 100 miles. SHAKER SISTERS BEGIN THEIR CHRISTMAS SALE Handsome Workbaskets Tempt Fair Patrons—Proceeds for Orphan Children. A sale is ir progress at the Hotel Normandie under the auspices of the Shaker Sisters, of East Canterbury, N. H. The goods displayed on the tables include hand-made work baskets, filled with every requisite for the modeling of wearing apparel. Sachet bags in the form of clusters of peas and bunches of strawberries, pin cushions of all shapes and hues, fancy dusters, tiny doll dresses in the Shaker costume and innumerable other attract ive bits of Shaker work are exhibited for sale. Not the least important articles are the opera cloaks, facsimilies of the pre scribed Shaker cloak. These wraps are of fine quality broadcloth in shades of delicate tan, brown, red, and black. The style is reproduced in cloaks for infants. The sale is conducted in the parlor of the hotel and will continue every day this week from a. m. until p. m. The proceeds will be deveted to the aid of the orphan children now in charge of the Shaker Sisters in East Canterbury. The institution cf the order dates back to Ann Lee, who came to America at the time of the Revolutionary war. She founded the first colony ai Watervliet, N. Y. There are sixteen societies of Shakers now in the United States. NO BORAX SERVED TO UNCLE SAM'S BOARDERS When asked today how his twelve “boarders” were getting along, and how they liked their “poison” capsules, Prof. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Agricultural Department, sald that owing to several drawbacks which had evinced themselves he had not begun to give the “subjects” the borax capsules, but would in all probability start tomorrow or the next day. “Several of the young men have not maintained a steady weight, and 1 have decided 10 walt WHAT they arrive at their regular weight before beginning my ex periment,” said Prof. Wiley. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 17, 19(2. posed could not fail to become its own worst enemy, The same would be true of organized capital. Either would de velop #ato a tvrant. A Campaign of Education Needed. “If we had a system of government bet ter suited to the great nation we are, and the vastly greater nation we are to be, the problem would be comparatively easy. 1 will grant it is an extremely dif fieult one today, but this simply empha sizes the need of concerted action, the need of a campaign of education on the part of the citizenship of America, to take up these two vital questions and dis cuss them calmly and fairly. “We cannot expect the politicians to do this work for us. They won't do it, be cause all the world just now is crying out hysterically against the trusts. Poli ticians never lead; they follow. They see only the present and what the present means to them. No great business con cern could ever hope to take its place at the front, working on so short-sighted a policy. No people can ever be great who sce merely the present and think not of the future. “The trusi, however bad it is to day, however crude and untamed, has in it the true principle of doing business, It has come into being both in response to organized labor and in obedience to the demands of industry and commerce. Instead of being an enemy to man, it means ultimately more luxury to labor, and to all the people, than can come from an obsolete and impossible system. “lI am not talking theory In this asser tion, gentlemen, I am talking what I know to be true. I have done some in vestigating in a field that comes pretty close home to labor, and pretty close home to everyone who eats. A Proof of the Power of Organization “I have now in operation a chain of twenty or more provision stores, under ‘the name of the Mohican Company. All but two of these have been established within the last ten menths, and the re sult of this experiment makes it certain that the people can be fed, and fed pre cisely as they are now fed, at not over 60 cents on the dollar of the present cost. A hundred thousand people in New England alone are now buying bread from the Mohican Company at 3 cents a loaf--bread of the s.me size and qual ity as that which cost ther: 5 cents be fore the Mohican Company hammered down the price, “With an organization broad enough te encompass 10.000 stores, the outlet would be so stupendous that the average price of all provisions would not exceed this same 60 cents on the doilar. “Such an organization would refine its own sugar, grind its own flour, import its own coffees, and teas, and spices. It tiht. GAUSES PANIC ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE GAR Terrified Passengers Break Through Windows. NEW YORK, Dee. 17.—A panic oec curred on a Brooklyn Bridge train at 30 o'clock this morning. At the time the ‘rain was on the bridge about 100 feet east of the tower on the Brooklyn side, and as many feet in air. The passengers on two cars, terrified by a sudden burst of flame from the mo torman’s controller, broke windows in their fight to get out of the cars. Push ing each other through the openings they swung themselves out on the wagon roadway. Remarkably enough, no one was injured. As soon as they were once out, the pas sengers, most of whom were on their way to early work, walked along the roadway to the Manhattan side of the bridge. The two cars were pushed across the bridge by the next train and then pushed back to Brooklyn. MARYLAND TEACHERS VISIT WASHINGTON Escorted by William L. Amoss, They Tour the Agricultura! De partment. About twenty-five or thirty members of the school boards of the majority of the counties of Maryland arrived in Washington this morning and were met by William L. Amoss, head of the Farm ers’ Institute of the Maryland Agricul tural! College. The visitors were es corted to the National Hotel, where breakfast was served. At 10 o'clock Mr. Amoss, who is actively engaged in or ganizing the counties of Maryland pre paratory to holding one or more farm er's institutes in each county this win ter, escorted the party to the Agricul tural Department, where they were all presented to Secretary Wilson. The party was taken through the vari ous greenhouses around the grounds, by A. F. Woods, who pointed out to them the work on the introduction of mew plants and the process of grafting of plants and plant breeding. Prof. Gallo way made an address. At 11:30 o'clock the party visited one of the experimenting rooms to see the girls from the Normal School study plant life. A visit was pald to Wallach School at 1 o'clock. Here the party watched the cooking and sewing classes under the direction of Miss E. S. Jacobs. The Armstrong Manual Training School was the next placed on the list, and last of all the High School. After making the rounds of the various schools, Prof Amoss and the party returned to the National Hotel, The afternoon was de voted to lectures on plant breeding and other subjects. Prof. Ame.e’ object in bringing these members of the school boards to this city Is to acquaint them with the chiefs of the various divisions of thy Agricul tural Department, and to make them feel that the department workers under Secretary Wilson are willing and anx tous to aid them in every possible way. Tomorrow Prof. Amoss will show the party around the various places of in terest in the city. MISS SHANNON TO RECFIVE Mies Lavinia Shannon, who is now ap pearing at the Lafayette Square Thea ter, will receive her fellow-townsmen after the matinee performance of “'Be yond Pardon” this afterncon. Particular interest will be given this affair by the exhibition of Miss Shannon's handsome and costly gcwns, which form one of the most striking features of her play. would slaughter its own meats, produce its own butter and cheese, and would manufacture all the other products that £0 to complete a perfect provision store. There would be no middleman here, no dividends on watered stock, no tribute to ‘anyone, no waste anywhere. “I have made mention of this Mohican business not to exploit it or advertise it, but merely to convince you that I am not dreaming. An ounce of experience is sometimes worth a ton of theory. Publishing is my lifcwork, but I have given time enough and thought enougn to this problem of feeding the people, and have spent money encugh, to make ‘me sure of my ground. Our Duty to Qur Matchless Country. “And what can be done for the people by the power cf organization in this line and in journalism, can be done equally well and with equal certainty in other lines. Whatever dwarfs industry and cripples business, cripples labor most. Each is derendent on the other. The newspaper or the individual or the or ganization that tells you differently is an enemy to the best interests of the people and to the whole country. a “We are oply a little more than a hundred years old, as a nation, and yet none other can measure un to us in wealth and power and achievement. We have been free from the traditions that have damned and are stili damning the countries of Europe. We have absorped everything new as it came along—ev erything that meant greater progress, resulting in achievements that have stunned and staggered the Old World. Shall this matchless stride be checked? Shall we now stretch out our hands fo this accursed conservatism and let it dominate our national life? This is just what we shall be doing, gentlemen, if we permit vote-seeking legislators to batter organized capital into a mon strosity, “Isn't it the part of wisdom, instead, to improve the trust, to control it, and to make it the servant of the people? Don't let politicians tead you, don't let demagogues dictate to you, but take up these two issues and settle them wisely, justly, and we shall have the most mag nificent economic system of the civilized world. “I am not making a plea for the trust that seeks to oppress the people; I am arguing merely for the principle of or ganized capital. I am arguing for it be cause it ig right, and because it suits the vastness of our undertakings of to day. Organized labor needs no defense. {te place is secure, is certain. “lI am not the hired attorney of any trust or organization. I am {ree and shall remain free, and my newspapers shall remain free to stand up for whatsoever seems to me to be rignt and just—what soever seems to me to be for the best in terests of the people and of this match less country of ours.” DOLLS" FAIR AND BAZAAR PROVED A SUGCESS Daughters Exhibited and Sold a Unique Collection. A delightful dolls’ fair and bazaar was ‘held yesterday a the Willy, under t! ices of tha Washing fon Ctr, Daeliteidiat the American Revolution. The women in charge had labored for months to make the affair a success, and they were more than repaid. The entertainment committee com priced Julia Teneyck McRBlair, chairman: Mrs. Metiuire, Mrs. K. K. Henry, Mrs. Goodlce, Mrs. B. J. Cromwell, Mrs, R. J. Walker, Mrs, H. N. Taplin, Mrs. P. B. Chew, Oliva Risley Seward, Janet Richards, and the Misses Solomon. The dolls, which were the main feature of the fair, were divided into two classes —those dressed in the styles of today and those dressed to represent historical characters. Mrs. Cromwell and Miss Solomon had charge of the table where fashion dolls were oa sale. Mrs. Chew and Janet Richards were the saleswo men for the historical miniature ef figies. The fancy table was in charge of Mra. McBlair Smith and Miss Rogers. Mrs. J. M. Henry and Mrs. Goodloe, who presided at the candy table, received from the Louisiana State Chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution a con tribution of candy made from sugar cane. The dolls, which were sent _from all over the country by the friendsof the Daughters of the American Revolution, were most interesting. “The Minute Man,” the gift of the First Regiment of Minute Men of the District, was com plete in every detail. Among the dolls contributed were: “A Colonial Dame,” from Mrs. Daniel Man ning. the former president of the society; “A Sailor Boy,” from Mrs. Adlai Steven ison; “Daniel Morgan," copied from the painting o_ the “Surrender of Purgoyne,” jin the rotunda at the Capitol, from Mrs, McGuire; “Letitia Penn,” from the State chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri ‘can Revolution of Pennsylvania. Other characters represeited are Abigail Adams, Peggy Chew, Betsy Ross, Will jam Penn, Israel and Katherine Hunt, ‘Janice Meredith, Alice of Old Vincennes. When the president of the Daughters ‘of the American Revolution, Mrs. Fair banks, entered the hall she was es ‘corted by the First Regiment of Minute Men of the District. Two Minute Men were stationed at each table. Mrs. Fair banks presided at the flower table. NOTED CHICAGO ENGINEER SUGGESTED FOR CANAL BOARD Isham Randolph a scion of the noted Virginia family of Colonial days, and who is the chief engineer of the Chi cago drainage canal, was suggested to the President today fer consideration 4s a prospective member of the dew Isthmian Canal Commission. His name was presented by Representative Mann of Illinois, who called with O. Y. Bar nett, of Chicago, secretary of the Patent Bar Association of the Windy City. The President informed his callers that the composition of the commission would not be considered until the canal negotiations had reached some definite conclusion. Though he has made this positive declaration on a number of oc casions, the presentation of new names continues almost daily. Colonel Ran dolph has a national reputation as an engineering authority and his work in the construction of the great canal at the Western metropolis, Mr. Mann coms mented, was all the recommendation needed from a professional standpoint. GUAL SUPPLY REDUGED BY FLOODED WINES Output Curtailed 20 Per Cert in Past Two Days. ANTHRACITE SUPPLY IN PENNSYLVANIA TOWNS Towns. Tons. ROABIDE. oi: 2s san dumaivive cn nnse 300 LBBOABIAE. «ov con cass ssnns wwe nes DOB LOBAMOR. +o" cen sramae sees sine an 300 Chambersburg. rus vumvive STE ROrPISOWI. coivinravs cries sans vie 2380 Chntesvilie. cis inasen savanva 300 Conshohocken... ..........08 PRR Phoenixville. ............oomiicd None YOK... co hia iinnds 625 Royersford....... PREPS F SOW PY bb Wilkesbarre...... Fun shanannes Meager NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—With the coal supply already limited, heavy rains flooding the mines and curtailing re sources, and dearth of cars and motive power to move anthracite output to mar ket, the fuel situation is not without ele ments of alarm. By suspension of mining due to storm it is estimated that the Reading's pro duction has been reduced fully 15,000 tons, or about 20 per cent. This aver age will extend over the entire coal re gion. The Lehigh Valley ond Jersey Central railroads announce that they are ready to furnish coal for Philadelphia, if they are assured of a return of the empty cars by the Pennsylvania Railroad. President Baer says that the railroads are not to blame for the action of inde pendent operators in forcing up the price to the point where consumers must pay $15 a ton or go without. Senator Mason has prepared a bill to prevent future coal famines by having receivers operate mineg in case of lock out or strike. Allegation is made that subcontrac tors sold te customers, 10, tons of coal intended for Philadelphia schools. An investigation will be made. New York aldermen have voted $250, 600 to buy coal for the poor. 70 VISCOUNT MANDEVILLE Queen Signs Register at Christening of Heir to Duke of Manchester. LONDON, Dec. 17.—~Viscount Mande ville, the second chiid and only son of the Duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, was christened at the Chapel Royal, St. James, this morning. Queen Alexandra acted as godmother, with Sir John Lister Kaye as the other sponsor. The Queen was received by Opusdelo, Dewager Duchess of Manchester, the child's grandmother, and Dean Sheppard. The font, which was decorated with arum lilies and lilies of the valley, contained water from the Jordan. The child was christened Alexander Ceorge Francis Drogo. The register was signed by the Queen and Sir John Lister Kaye. Queen Alexandra kissed the child and shook hands with the mother and grand mother. NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL. Secretary Moody of the Navy Depart ment appeared before the House Commit tee on Naval Affairs this morning in re lation to the naval appropriation bill. He explained the estimates in detail, and gave the reasons for their request. The hearings on the naval appropria tion bill are nearly finished. They call for $87,000,000. Last year $100,000,000 was askec for, and $78,000,000 appropriated. WW 3 Ws SINGLE BLESSEDNESS SUITS GOVERNOR-ELEC1 TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 17.—The 1,200 women in the United States and Canada who have written proposing matrimony to Gevernor-elect Bailey will have to seek elsewhere for a husband. The new governor has notified his friends that he would not marry, and that his secretary with his family would oe cupy the executive mansion. Wf Ws Ww JOHNSON —Departed this life on Tuesday, December 16, 192, at 9 o'clock p. m., MARY w ASHINGTON, beloved daughter of Martha Johnson, in the twenty-second year of her age. Funeral from the Vermont Avenue Baptis Church. Friends all invited. 1t THOMPSON —On Tuesday, December 16, 1902 after a brief illness, JANE W. THOMPSON, widow of Theron Thompson, in the seventy: cighth year of her Funeral from her late residence, 746 Seventh Street southeast, Thursday, December 18 at 1] o'clock. Interment at Alexandria, Va. 1t FISHER—On Wednesday moraing, Decembes 17, at 8 a. m., SARAH, beloved wife of Abra. ham Fisher, age sixty. Funeral! from her late residence, 410 Sixth Street northwest, Friday, December 19, at 19 o'clock a. m, del7-2t SIMONS—On Tuesday, December 16, 1602, at 11 p. m., MARY ELIZABETH, infant daughter of John T. and Mary Elizabeth Simons, aged six weeks. Funeral from residence, 1228 M Street north east, December 18, 1902, at 2 p. m. 1t JOY —On Tuesday, December 18, 1902, at 8:50 a. m., JANE ELIZABETH, beloved wife of Will iam Thomas Joy, aged seveniy-eight years. Funeral from hor late residence, 613 K Street northwest, on Th..sday, December 18, at 8:30 a. m. Requiem mass at the Church of the Im maculate Conception at 9 o'clock. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. (Philadelphia papers please copy.) 1t SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICE—I will not be responsible for any debts contacted by my wife, Bertha M. Holmes, after this date. J. M. HOLMES, RBen ning, D. C. del6-3t FROM GOV ERNMENT SALE— Blue overshirts 6c; 3 gray undershirts, new, $1; new ponchos, $1.25; new horse blankets, 8c and 75¢; 2 and 8 ply roofing paper, best made, 5c and $1; all lenther horse collars, £1.25: canteens, 20¢. 8S BENSINGER CO, 11th and B sts. dels-6t J. WILLIAM FE. UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY, #2? Penn. Ave. N. W., Washington. D.

DIED. UNDERTAKERS. SEWELL EULOGIZED BY COLLEACUES IN SENATE Messrs. Kean and Dryden Pay Eloquent Tr.bute to Dead Statesman, Memorial exercises in honor of the late Senator Sewell of New Jersey were held ‘this afternoon in the Senate chamber. Speeches were made by the two New Jer sey Senators and by a number of states men who served with him on the Mili tary Committee. Senator Kean of New Jersey introduced the following resolutions as a prelim inary to his malden speech: “Resolved, That it is with deep regret and profound sorrow that the Senate hears the announcement of the death of Hon, William J. Sewell, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey. “Resolved, That the Senate extends to his family and to the people of the State of New Jersey sincere condolence in their hereavement. “Resolved, That, as a mark of respect tv the memory of the deceased, the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his associates to pay fitting tribute to his high character and dis tinguished services. “Resolved, That the secretary (rans mit {o the family of the deceased and to the governor of the State of New Jersey a copy of these resolutions, with the action of the Senate thereon. “Resolved, That the Seeretary com mun.cate these resoluttions to the House of Representatives. “Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect, at the conclusion of these exercises the Senate do adjourn.” Mr. Kean’s Tribute. Senator Kean said in General Sewell's rise from a narrow and humble be ginning to eminence and leadership he exemplified those qualities of mind and heart which we have come to recognize as typical American. Thoroughness, con stancy anf loyalty were his watchwords. His success he owed to no caprice ‘or fortune. He won against odds. After sketching his birth and parentage Mr. Kean told how Mr. Sewell being left an orphan at an early age, shipped before the mast on an American merchantman sailing for Chinese ports. After an ad venturous voyage he came back as first mate of the vessel. Engaging in business on his return he was able, at the out “reak of the war, to raise a company of his own with which he enlisted in the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers, and be came its captain. By September of 1862, he had become a colonel and at Chancel lorsvilla hs commanded the Second New Jersey Brigade, and led a successful charge against the enemy, which gained for him a medal of honor from Congress. At Gettysburg, when the Federal left wing was so fiercely assauited by Long street, he again showed great gallantry and was seriously wounded. He was re «red for disability in 1864, but entered the service afresh and took part in the Virginia campaign which preceded Lee's surrender. For meritorious services he received brevets both as brigadier and as major general. His Political Influence. For nine years he was a member of the State sepate and exercised an ex Fevtianal induence in party councils, and in all tbe heated and prejudiced strug gles of faction no one could justly re proack him with a broken promise or a dishonorable betrayal. Always open, al ways high-minded, he won the ungrudg ing respect of his opponents, while at taching his friends to him in ever tight PIG rai TTT I ASTTTTTTET EEE sess Eee EE EE RY W N EASY WAY TO BUY Ww A GOOD WARM WINTER CLOTHING. Wb W Ww Without depleting your purse is to take advamtage of our [liberal credit terms. The finest assortment of Men's, Women's, Ww and Children’s Clothing at the lowest prices. Wr Men's Suits and Over coats, $12.50. pros You have the choice of the best in suits and overcoars. An clegant line at $12.50. WwW WwW nl Women's Wearables, Wo 5 wi Ws jd Cail at any time and see our beautiful stock of Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits, Jackets, Skirts and Furs. y J I)

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Sugar Loaf Bread Each ate it like a fiend. BOSTON BAKING CO, OPP. UNITED STATES CAPITOL GROU WASHINGTON, D. pA ‘was a member of the United States Senate for nearly one-fifth of Ris event ful career. Considering that he was for eign born, came here a mere boy In years, an orphan, and that without friends or means and with but scant stcre of education, he by the exercise of great natural abilities rose step by step from a very humbie position in life 10 be a major general and United States Senator, the story of his advancement is remarkable and {a some respects sin gular. Rapidly sketching General Sewell’'s ca reer as a soldier, Mr. Dryden said:, “These memorable events in his career are a part of our country’s history, and the story of his bravery and patriotism and of hardship endured for the love of his country will remain there to kindle the pride of his descendants and encour age the American youth to emulate his noble deeds.” Reference was made to fact that President McKinley offered him a major gencralship at the beginning of the Span jth war, and how the Senat:: begged him to refuse it because his services were needed with the Military Committee <x that body. Senators Allison, Coeckreil, Morgan, Cullom. Daniel, Warren, Depew, Penrose, McComas and Quay also spoke words of praise. ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOX CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT Attorney General Knox went to the White House offices this morning to tell the President of his recuperation from his indisposition of the past ten days and have a short conference on national affairs. The Attorney General looks to be In perfect health again. His week's trip to St. Augusiine proved very beneficial. “There was little sport there just at this season,” said Mr. Knox, in answer to a question, as he was leaving the White House offices, “but the rest did me good. 1-am feeling perfectly well now, notwithstanding reports to the con trary.” GERMAN OFFICER KILLED IN PUERTO CABELLO FIGHT LONDON, Dec. 17.—A news agency dispatch from Puerto Cabello says dur ing the fight between the English and German warships and the forts. _last Saturday a cannon shot from Fort Liber tador hit the Charybdis. The German cruiser Vineta was struck twice vy can non shots. It is reported that one of the officers of the Vineta was killed by a bullet fired from shore. The Vineta has arrived at Willemstad with her flag at haif mast ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT LONDON, Dec. 17.-~The Archbishop of Canterbury, according to the doctor's bulletin, issued this morning, continues about the same. He Sperit 3 quiet day westerday, but no noticeable “improye ment in his condition is @ppdarént.” AIRSHIP RACE BETWEEN SANTOS AND LE BAUDYS PARIS, Dec. 17.—M. Vero, of the Aero Club, announces that Santos Dumont has challenged the Messrs. Le Baudy to an airship race for a prize of 160,000 francs. The race, ae says, will take place in the spring.

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DRAMATIC SCENE IN HAWAIIAN SENATE

Prince Cupid Stands Out for the Election of a Na tive to Office. (Special Correspondence of The Washingtos Times.) AME Ul LARD 2T2tRg Vi aaa ane UR sitting in special session here for eleven days for the purpose of confirming ap pointments by the governor and investi gating the various departments of the government. Matters went along very smoothly in the beginning with the Re publican majority carrying everything before it, but on Tuesday night last, when the senators of the Republican party and the executive committee were meeting in joint caucus for the purpose of considering names to be presented to the gevernor, a bombshell was let off by Prince Jonah Kuhic Kalanianaole (Prince Cupid), Delegate-elect to Congress, who showed then and there that L«, too, in tended to have something o say in the little game of politics that is being played here. Ever since the election, during which the Hawaiians worked so hard for the Republican party and had the satisfac tion of seeing that party win out in an overwhelming manner, there has been a feeling on the part of the natives that they were not being treated with the con sideration due them on account of their part in the fight. This sentiment was shared not only by the rank and file of the Hawaiian-Americans, but by Prince Cupid himself, and an several occasions he expressed himself very plainly on the subject. The prince went further still, and sent a letter to the executive com mittee of the Republican party, in which be urged that consideration pe shown the Hawaiian people. The latter was never only which _ the Elec Ele syndicates “answered. Question of “Missionaries.”

To come to the point, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole has given the party managers to understand that he will not agree to any movement on the part of the “missionaries” to take everything for themselves to the exclusion of the native Hawaiians, if by any means in his pow er he can prevent such a state of affairs. At the caucus referred «10 above, he stated that he would not go one step to ward Washington if the party did not see fit te do the right thing by the native Hawailans, the people whom he repre sented. He was a Hawaiian first and foremost, and he proposed to see that his people were given their due. A PREPPLPPPP 000000000000 000 0000090000000 090000090000 000 0000000000000 00000000e FHFFPP000 00000000000 0000 000000000000 000000000 000000000

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With regard to the other offices under the government, the following are cer tain of appointment: Henry E. Cooper, superintendent of public works, and J. H. Fisher, auditor. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Henry IE. Cooper as secretary of the Territory, he having taken the office of superintend ent of public works temporarily upon the suspension of James H. Boyd. The President has also sent word to Gov ernor Dole that he is favorable to the appointment of George R. Carter to the office of secretary of the Territory, but there is a move on hand to have Mark P. Robinson appointed to that office.

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1902, been appointed again in the place of J. W. Kalua. He is a very popular and capable Hawalian, and was a member of the nominating convention in the depu tation from Hawail which named Wil liam McKinley President of the United States for a second term. With him were the Hon. Samuel Parker, who is weli known in Washington, and B. Wilson, another Hawaiian. Previous to the departure of Delegate Wilcox for Washington he stated to your correspondent that while he was there he would formulate plans for the fusion oi the Democratic and Home Rule par ties of the islands, so that at the next election there would be only the Repub lican and Democratic parties. It will be remembered that in the election two years ago the Home Rulers carried ev erything before them. GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO RETAIN INTEREST IN LAND District Commissioners Make Unfavor able Report on a Quit Claim Measure. The District Commissioners have for warded to the chairman of the Senate District Committee an unfavorable re port upon Senate bill, No. 5342, “To quit claim all interest of the United States in and to square 1131 in the city of Washington to Sidney Bieber.” This bill was referred to the board for a re port as to the advisability of its pas sage in view of the fact that the land named lies within the area of the pro posed Anacostia River improvement, The Commissioners submit with their report a tracing of the King plats of 1803. Attention is invited to the fact that the plan of the Park Commission makes H Street, which is the northern bound ary of this square, the northern bound ary of its system, which if carried out. would throw this square into the park system. The Commissioners are of the opinion that the United States should retain any rights that it has in the square in view of improvements which may be made of the Anacostia River. HOLMES WISHES DIVORCE Proceedings for divorce were begun yesterday in the Supreme Court of the District by James M. Holmes against his wife, Bertha M. Holmes, on statu tory grounds. They were married in this city in November, 1888, and have three children. Lorenzo A. Bailey is counsel for the petitioner. SIATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS TO MEET They Will Discuss Methods of Educational Value. The National Association of State Uni versities will hold a series of meetings in this city next month, from the 3d to the 5th, Inclusive. Mauy well-known men are scheduled to deliver addresses on matters of educational importance. The first meeting will be called to or der in the red room of the Ebbitt House at 10 a. m., January 3, when committees will be announced, and the discussion of the following topics will be begun: “How Should Attendance on Religious Exercises in State Universities be Reg ulated?” President W. L. Bryan, Univer sity of Indiana; President F. P. Venable, University of North Carolina; Presi dent Cyrus Northrop, University of Min nesota; ‘Should Intercollegiate Athletics be Under Official University Control?” President W, L. Prather, University of Texas; President E. A. Birge, Universi ty of Wisconsin; “How May the Cecil Rhodes Scholarships be Made Most Useful In the States?” President George E. MacLean, University of Iowa; Presi dent Charles W. Dabney, University of Tennessee; President James A. Mac Lean, University of Idaho; Principal George R. Parkin, Toronto; “Schools of Mines and State Universities,” President Webster Merrifield, University of North Dakota; President Frank Strong, Uni versity of Kansas; “Methods of Correct ing or Eliminating Idle or Unprofitable University Students,” President William O. Thompson, Ohio State University; President P. B. Barringer, University of Virginia; President Joseph Swain, Swarthmore Pennsvlvania. the bus CITIZENS APPROVE WORK OF DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Associa tion has addressed a letter to Chairman Babcock, inclosing resolutions adopted by that body approving the recommen dations of the District Commissioners in their annual report urging the reclama tion of the Anacostia flats, and other improvements, and also indorsing the proposition to carry on the work of a filtration plant, the same to be paid for by loans to be negotiated from time to time repayable out of a sinking fund.

MISS BOYD TELLS OF GRETAN EXPLORATION Pre-Hellenic Chronology of Island Established.

An interesting paper on “New Chap ters in Cretan History,” was read by Harriet A. Boyd, a member of the com mission of the American Exploration So ciety, of Philadelphia, at a meeting of the Anthropological Society last night in the lecture rooms of the Cosmos Cluw. An address was also made by Dr. D. 8S. Lamb, on the life of Rudolph Virchow, and Prof. W. H. Holmes, president of the society, exhibited several ancient stone figures which were dug up in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Miss Boyd's topic dealt with the dls coveries recently made in Crete: by the English at Knosos, Pyschro, Zakro, and Praesos; by the Italians at Phaestos, and by herself at Kavusi and Gomnia. The object of these explorations, she explain ed, was to establish the pre-Hellenic chronology of the island through the stone age, bronze age and the iron age down to the classical period. The new chapters of Crete deal chief ly with the Mycenean civilization. From her discoveries and those of others, Miss Boyd said that Crete had been one of the principal cities of the ancient world, having been adorned with wonderful architecture. The walls of the ancient, palaces were decorated with beautiful frescoing, bronze, and carved stone. The explorations have also resulted in the discovery of two prehistoric systems of writing one pictograph and the other linear. COPIES OF TARIFF FOR OCEAN STEAMERS The Treasury Department has sent to cach ocean steamer plying between New York and foreign ports a bound volume of the tariff act of 1877 and the cus toms administrative act for use in the ship library. The act covers 35,000 dif ferent articles with the customs duty on each. The volume also contains much other valuable information, including the various weights and measures, in structions for shipment, and foreign money reduced to the value of the United States currency. EXPLOSION KILLS SIX MEMBERS OF A FAMILY

Caused by Blowing Up of Acetylene Gas Tank.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—By the exple sion of an acetylene gas tank in the home of John Pagluighi at Fort Lee, N. J., yesterday, six members of his family were killed outright. Their bodies were recovered from the debris by the firemen, all charred and burned beyond recognition. The dead are: CLORINDA, eldest daughter, twenty-two years old; head and lower limbs burned off of trunk. IDA, sixteen years old. TILLIE, twelve years old, A EINE een, 1d GEORGE, six years old, Just what caused the explosion no one knows, but the shock was felt all over Fort Lee, and even in Englewood and Hackensack, four miles distant. The Fort Lee and Coyteville firemen worked faithfully, but could not sub due the flames until 211 hope of saving the lives of the inmates was given up. One by one the charred remains vere lifted out and taken to the morgue and laid side by side. WANT STREET RAILWAY TRANSFER STATION REMOVED Chairman Babcock, of the House District Committee is in receipt of a communication from George W., Stose, secretary of the Petworth Citizens’ As sociation, requesting upon behalf of that organization that the transfer station of the Ninth Street Rallway be removed from its present location at Brightwood Avenue and U Streets to Richmond Street. Mr. Stose in his letter says: “A host of harsh thoughts toward the railroad company because of the cold delay, and many a disposition ruined by the selfish rush for seats would be saved by such a change.” The will of Mary Walsh, dated April 12, last, was filed yesterday for probate in the office of the Register of Wills for the District. She leaves her estate to her children. MARY WALSH'S WILL MONSTER MERGER WITH $200,000,000: Combination of Rapid Tran= sitand Other Companies. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.—A merger of the greatest utilities in Philadelphia, embracing capital exceeding $200, 006,000, is occupying the attention, it is believed, of the dominant factors in each of them. A report was widely current on the ‘street yesterday that the Philadelphia Rapid Transit, the United Gas Improve ment and the Philadelphia Electric Com-~ panies were prepariag to unite under one vast holding corporation. One group ot! men now controls all of them and ad union of interests in name as well as ia; fact is surely being considered by thai Widener-Elkins-Dolan syndicate. Representatives of this syndicate will. rot admit officially that any such plans! are under way, but persons associated. with these companies assert positively that directors of the three are debating details of the merger. All the street railways in Philadelphia; except eight miles of raad in Fairmount) Park are owned and operated now by Rapid Transit Company. The total mile« age Is 475 miles. The United Gas Improvement not leases the Philadeiphia gas works, supply all the gas consumed here, the gas or electric light plants in about’ thirty-five other cities and towns. H The Philadelphia Electric controls the chief electric light plants this city. It has been earning money! and now pays a dividend of 5 per cent. One of the reasons giyen for tremendous buying of Philadelphia tric stock some time ago was the 4 of the Widener-Elkins-Dolan to acquire more power in that corpora Hon 3 All the members of the first class the Naval Academy at Annapolis oes yesterday afternoon in this eity. i arrived at noon in command of Come} mander T. B. Howard and proceeded ag once to the ordnance department of thes navy yard, where they spent seyesas] hours in study. They returned to the Academy last night, MIDSHEIPMEN IN WASHINGTON.

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The Washington Times FRANK A. MUNSEY PUBLICATION OFFICE, T Tenth a and D Streets WILL COERCION IN VENEZUELA RUN THE COURSE OF INTERVEN TION IN CHINA? Are the operations of the allied forces in China to be repeated on a smaller scale in Venezuela? Is the campaign against Pekin to be followed by a campaign against Caracas? With Italy hastening to make common cause with Great Britain and Ger many in their designs on the Venezuelan treasury, and both the Berlin and London cabinets talking of further experiments in the line of “pacific coer cion,” the suspicion is naturally gaining ground that ere long these three strenuous creditor nations will want to shift the seat of their debt coilection enterprise from the coast to the interior—from La Guaira to the Venezuelan capital. Great Britain and Germany both seemingly disavow an intention to in vade or occupy Venezuelan territory. Yet to the program of reckless violence to whick they have already committed themselves a demonstration against Caracas would be the legitimate and natural sequel. In seizing and sinking two of Venezuela's war vessels, and in bombard ing Puerto Cabello, the two European powers showed as gross a disregard of our South American neighbor's status as a nation as did the allies two years ago in dismantling China's forts at the mouth of the Taku River. Those forts once silenced, the campaign against Tientsin and Pekin became a ne cessity. Having with an equally contemptuous arrogance put a stain on Vene zuela’s national honor, can the allies now operating in the Caribbean hope to bring the Caracas government to terms without a corresponding resor: to ac tual military invasion? it is a mistaken and discreditable position into which Great Britain and Germany have blundered. The expedition to Pekin had a patriotic and humanitarian motive. It was an heroic effort on the part of the allied na tions to rescue their own flash and blood, imprisoned in the Chinese capital and doomed to death by famine or massacre. An invasion of Venezuela could not be so palliated. Its only motive— the collection of certain overdue promises to pay—would be paltry and sor did. To force the liquidation of a few trifling debts it would pile up losses 8 thousand-fold greater. It would imperil the peace of three continents for the sake of enforcing a petty judgment in supplementary proceedings. We do not think that Great Britain, Germany, and Italy will commit the folly of a military demonstration against Caracas. But the unwise and overhasty acts of the allied squadrons off La Guaira and Puerto Cabello have unhappily brought such a demonstration well within the range of possibilities. OUR PENAL METHODS OFTEN AGGRAVATE CONDITIONS THEY ARE MEANT TO REMEDY. x ial EE a FRE Te NE MMe JW "KX report read at a Tecent meeting of the Academy of Medicines in Paris, by Dr. Jouffront, a student of eriminology, certifies that 36 per eant of the eonviets in French penal colonies go insane. If this is true, it is not very ereditable to France. Yet Ameriea is not entirely free of suspicion in this matter. We have some prisons which are almost luxurious in eomparison with the old-time in stitutions for the punishment of eriminals; and we have others which are very much the reverse. The faet is, eivilized society is now in a process of transition from the mode of thought in which the eriminal was a subject for punishment, to that in which his punishment is an incident and the wel fare of the community the chief end. There is no use being sentimental in eonsidering a problem of this kind, and it should be remembered that sentiment ean be just as erazy on the side of severity as on that of lenieney. The eriminal must be treated $0 as to insure so far as possible the safety of other people. He must not be so treated that his punishment will increase erime instead of diminish ing it. History shows that severe punishments have little or no effect upon erime. There is no evidence that erime was less prevalent in England in the days when men were hanged for stealing sheep than it is now. Manifestly, also, a method of punishment which makes a eriminal lunatie out of a sane eriminal is not a good thing, especially if the lunatie is allowed to go free. /nfortunately, some of our prison methods tend toward precisely this result. Instead of putting the prisoner under a regime which will so far as practicable bring him around to a normal habit of thought and action, they place him under conditions wholly unnatural, with nothing to think about but his past life, and if he be an experienced malefaetor, he usually employs his time planning projeets injurious to the public. He does not waste his time while he is in confinement. He uses it just as any other business-like person would. As for the inexperienced criminal, he is more than apt to learn of his elders, If prisoners are prevented from employing their braius at all, they ex perience the same evil whieh the ordinary person would, inte.sified by their abnormality of constitution and mode of life—they go insane. A good aphorism to quote in connection with cases of moral disease and their treatment is the remark of the backwoodsman in that old novel, “Seven oaks.” He had been inspecting a malodorous insane asylum of the old fashioned kind, and his comment was: “How d’ you expeet a sick feller to git well if ye put him in a place where a well feller’d git sick?” A DISFRANCHISED CITY'S COMPLAINT. Washington’s Aspirations for Political Representation as They Strike the ““Philadelphia Press.” (Editorial in Philadelphia Press.) Senator Gallinger's proposed amend mrent to the Constitution to give the peo ple of the District of Columbia the right to vote for a member of Congress and for President aims to meet a strong feeling in Washington against being ig nored entirely In the cholce of the Gov ernment. it is not desired by the people of that ¢ity to restore local self-government, as §t existed under “Boss” Shepherd. They are well enough satlsfled with thelr gov ernment as it now exists. But they feel, and not without reason, that they should be permitted to vote for the choice of a President and for a Repre sentative in Congress. The feeling against the government of the city, when it was conducted under meyor, was so strong that the relief ‘afforded by the change to the present gysteny left the people little inclined to flod any fault, Io recent years, how PEKIN AND CARACAS. INSANITY IN PRISONS. ever, there has been a growing disposi tion to complain of their disfranchise ment. There are several thousands of permanent residents in the employ of the Government who claim voting resi dences In thelr respective States, and who go home to vote, but the remainder of the people living in the District have no voice in the choice bf their local rul ers or of the President and of other officlals. They are taxed without rep resentation. Congress might pass a proposed amendment to permit the people of the city to elect a delegate to Congress, the same as the Territories now do, and to vote for President. Nothnlg would be lost, probably, If there is no legislation on the subject. But the feeling that ex ists against total disfranchisement is not without some justification. The prob ability, however, of the necessary num ber of States agreeing to the proposed amendment to the Constitution is not strong. THE JEWISH RACE'S FUTUR E---Assimilat ITH the destruction of Jerusalem was destroyed WW also the Jewish nation. We are no longer a pe culiar people, save in our religion. Politically and socially, we arebut a part of that nation in whose coun try we have for the time being made our home. In Germany, we are Germans; in France, Frenchmen; in England, Englishmen, and in America, Americans. This is the logical trend of events; the natural outcome of the forces that make for advancement. To be forever harking back to former times and former circumstances is but the acknowledgment of weakness and of decay. If we cannot form integral parts of other nations ve shall certainly never be able to form a nation of our own In its entirety. The past is closed. The future is before us, prefaced by a glorious present, if we will but make the most of it. But to do this radical changes must be made in our habits of thought as well as in our habits of living. And the first necessary step ’s the breaking away from the hidebound customs that are throttling our very life energy. The orthodox Jew is still in exile, still wandering in search of that new Jerusalem he foolishly expects to find in Palestine-—forgetting that it is simply as a religionist that he Is separated from the world, and not as a member of a politi cal state. The self-imposed barriers of our people must be broken The serious illness of the Countess of Dudley, wife of the Viceroy of Ireland, has created much concern, especially in Ireland. She has visited many of the poor people and has given much pleasure by singing for them n their cottages and in the schools, There is more than one way of pay ing a compliment, and some people are more expert at it than an Egyptian officer who was, once upon a time, charged with the escort of the Duchess of Connaught, sister-in-law to King Ed ward. She went with the duke to an inspection of troops outside vndurman, and owing to an accident to her saddle, which made it impossible for her to ‘come home on horseback, a gun car riage was made into a sort of sedan ‘chair, in which she was carried back by Egyptian gunners. At the end of the journey she thanked the gunners, and said to the officer, “I hope your men are not tired after conveying me.” The gunner doubtless intended to be polite, but this is what he sald: “Indeed, no, madam; you are no heavier than the gun they are ac customed to carry.” Harry De Windt the Arctic explorer, tells curious tale of a Russian mil lionaire by whom he was entertained IN THE COURTS AND CAPITALS OF THE OLD WORLD Kinz Edward May Revert to Queen Victoria’s Manner of Holding Drawing Rooms—Much Dissatisfac tion Qccasioned by His Levees at Night—Son of Austrian Archduke Prospers as a Waiter Danish Aristocracy Gradually Becoming Extinct. King Edward will probably revert in the coming year to his mother's method of holding drawing rooms, as the courts of last season were a distinct failure, and were a source of pronounced dis satisfaction on the part of those for ‘whose benefit they were Intended. On ascending the throne King Edward found that there were something like 19,000 names on the court list—that is to gay, of people who hau been presented ‘at court. Of course, when he decided to ‘hold evening courts instead of drawing rooms and intimated that only those could attend who had recelved invita tions, everybody wanted io be asked, and clamored for cards. To eatisfy them all was quite out of the question. Even by holding a succession of courts. it would have been impossible to invite 50 per cent of that number during the course of a season, and the consequence was that the moiety, who were put off with promises that they would receive invi tations the following year, felt intensely bitter, and considered themselves vie tims of unjust diserbairation. Then it was discovered that it would entail too much fatigue on the King and Queen to have all those invited pass be fore them; only the debutantes and the ladies presenting them were allowed to do so, as well as the people having what fs known as the “entree;” that is to say, the diplomatic corps and great digni tarles of the government and of the court. The rank and file of the guests were pennea up in side rooms and cor ridors, and all they saw of the King and Queen was a view of the latter as they passed through the rooms in pro cession to and from supper. Of course the King and Queen could see and greet nobody excepting those fn the front rank on either side of this human lane, and there were all sorts of contretemps, lots of people being ignored who should have been recog nized, the Duke of Somerset, indeed, whose wife 1s the premier peeress of the realm, openly complaining of the manner in which she and he had been overlooked in this fashion. At the drawing rooms during the late reign every woman who was able to make her curtsy to the sovereign, or to the latter's representative had, so to speak, the stage to herself for a brief moment, a privilege she thoroughly en joyed, looking her very best, and if at all personally acquainted with any member of the royal party, was greeted with a kindly nod or a handshake. This led each woman who attended the drawing room to go way satisfled, and as there was no idea of restriciing the numbers, or allowing people to come only by invita tion, which implied royal favor and pre @ilection, there wag po rush to attend the drawing rooms, many women of rank THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1902. By the Rev. JOSEPH SILVERMAN, of the Temple Emanu-EL In the Public Fue. in Irkutsk. Luxurious rooms were placed at the disposal of Mr. De Windt and his party, but their host took his repose upon three chairs placed side by side, and did not trouble himself to undress. Ferdinand Homar, the sculptor of the Rochambeau statue, is deaf and dum®; and so is Douglas Tilden, the Cali fornia sculptor. “POOR LOVE!" SAID LIFE. “Poor Love!” said Life, ‘‘that hast nor gold, Nor lands, nor other store, 1 ween; Thy very shelter from the cold Is oft but lowly built and mean.” “Nay: though of rushes be my bed, Yet I am rich,” Love said. “But,” argued Life, “thrice fond art thou To yield the sovereign gifts of Earth— The victor sword, the laureled brow— For visioned things of little worth!" Love gazed afar with dream-lit eyes, And answered, ‘Nay! but wise.” “Yet, Love,” sald Life, “what can atone For all the travail of thy years— The yearnings valn, the vigils lone, The pain, the sacrifice, the tears?” Soft as the breath breathed from a rose, The answer came: “Love knows.” —Florence Earle Coates, in Harper's Magazine. and fashion being content with attending one drawing room in three years. The result of all this is that the next season is likely to witness a return to the cld-fashioned drawing rooms, which will probably be held as formerly In the afternoon, partly by the Queen, but chiefly by the Princess of Wales, for pur poses of presentation only. The King and Queen will probably have evening courts of a much more restricted, but likewise of a more brilliant, character, to which invitations will be sparingly issued, it being thoroughly understood that the courts are more especiclly for the digni taries thereof, for the great officials of state, some of the leading nobles, the foreign diplomatic corps and a few inti mate personal friends of the King and Queen. There will likewise be some state con certs and state balls next season—there were none last geason—for which a large number of invitations will be issued. But as I have said the afternoon draw ing rooms for presentations will be re vived, and will continue like the levees for presentation of men—the presenta tions being taken, as a general rule, by the Prince of Wales acting in behalf of his father, the King. So many Americans go abroad nowa days, and go to court in England, that these indications of the court arrange ments for the {grthcoming season are likely to prove of interest. Ernest Walburg, the alleged son of the late Archduk. Ernest of Austria, and the claimant of the latter's for tune, who for some time past has been acting as headwalter In cafe at Buda pest, has done so well as such that he has now been able to start a roe taurant of his own in the Hungarian capital, which he has entitled the “Zum Hapsburger” in order to indicate his relationship to the reigning family. There does not seem to be any doubt but that he is a natural son of the old archduke, but so far he bas signally failed to prove that either he or his sisters were the offspring of any legiti mate union, and as related In these letters A man was sentenced some time ago to a term of imprisonment at Vienna for having forged a bogus mar riage certificate, according to his own confession, which represented that the archduke had been ecclesiastically mar ried to a Madame Walburg in 1850 at Laibach. Denmark is admittedly one of the most democratic or European mon archies. It is, therefore, a somewhat singular coincidence that its nobiilty should be gradually disappearing, part ly through the extinction of families and partly through expatriation, partly also, perhaps, through absorption by the bourgeosie. During the last ten years no less than eighteen of the most ancient and illustrious houses of the aristocracy have become entirely extinct, down in New York city if we would grow and live and aid this fair country of which we are a part. Go down into the Ghetto (and how I hate the word) and note the tenacity with which our people cling to every form and outward observance of their race—forms and observ ances, by the way, instituted not by their lawgiver, Moses, but that have been added to and elaborated from time to time by the Rabbis themselves—forms and observances that tend to retard its progress in the same ratio as they tend to isolate the people observing them. Take the very language used in the Ghetto—a worse jar gon then the famous “pigeon English” used in China; a jar gon made up of Hebrew and German and English words, thrown together In the loosest, most incoherent manner, and sald by those who make use of them to be necessary for the preservation of the race! Nonsense! Have them tear down from their shops their polyglot signs, and root out of their hearts this love of the deformed, and teach their children the language and the manners of their aseociates. As In speech, so in dress. Let them drop the long-tailed gaberdine and robe themselves in the clothes of the people about them; throw aside the vain customs of the olden time and take on those of the young nation with which they have cast their jot. Let them in all things let go the old and seize upon the new, and thus advance along the lines laid down by civilization and culture and right living. Assimilation Not Nation alization. Unconsidered Trifles Grounds for Complaint. “All these poor folks haven't any rea son te complain. Their boys have the right to grow up and be President.” “Yes, in the abstract. But a boy that wlil swap rubber boots and a sled in the concrete for the right to be Presi dent in the abstract isn't a real boy; he’s a chump.” Christmas News The zood or tad results of a toy trust will depend on whether Santa Claus is let in on the ground floor or frozen out on the roof. A Forced Fashion “Patches are coming in again.” “Well, they're better than the holes.” “Not that kind of patch. The little bits of black court-plaster that our grandmothers wore on the face. I just saw a girl decorated that way.” “That wasn’t patches. That was soft coal smut.” Two Different Cases “George Fred Williams says that Reed was a failure because he said what he thought.” “Maybe, but. George Fred is a failure because he says without any thoughts, and of the two I prefer Reed's kind while fifteen others remain without any male representative, and are therefore doomed to disappear on the death or marriage of the surviving daughters of the house. There are a large number of families of the Danish aristocracy settled in Ger many, In Sweden, and in Norway. In deed, these three countries can show a larger number of noble bouses of Danish origin and ancestry than Denmark it self. There is not a single nobleman in the cabinet. In the lower house of the national legislature, consisting of 114 members, there is only one aristocrat, ‘while in the upper house, which has 66 members, there are but twelve. In the Danish army there is only one general who is a nobleman. But there are quite a number of aristocrats occupied in lit erary pursuits and several connected with the Copenhagen press. I do not know of any other country that shows by natural process such a remarkable wane to the vanishing point of its no bility. King Alexander of Servia has so far met with but little success in his en deavors to effect a reconciliation with Austria, now that he has cut himself adrift from his Russian associations, since the affront placed upon him by the Czar in refusing to receive Queen Draga at the court of St. Petersburg. Emperor Franels Joseph is not particu larly anxious to have anything to do with young Alexander, and intimates that before he can hold any intercourse with him Alexander must make a pil grimage to his father's temb on Aus trian soll, as an act of reparation for his unfilial conduct at the time of Milan's death. This is rather a bitter pill for King Alexander to swallow, especially when one recalls how bitterly and publicly Alexander has abused his father, nota bly in his speech on July 31, 1900, on the eve of his marriage to Draga, when he publicly declared: “Since 1883 there has not been a ministerial crisis in Servia which has not had its origin in the in trigues either of my father or my moth er. I swear that the marriage which I am now making with a woman of the people will put an end to the infamous visitations of this kind to which the Servian nation has been subjected.” Meanwhile the Servian (reasury is empty, and the French financiers, who have still some Installments to pay on the last Servian loan, decline to turn over the funds, prompted thereto by Rus sia on the grourd that the political sit uation in the kingdom is such as to ren der the guarantees which have been given for the pavment of the interest totally inadequate. In fact, King Alex ander’s reign seems to be drawing to its clcse and his disappearance from the list of reigning sovereigns may be look ed for at auy moment, MARQUISE DE FONTENOY, Statesmen and Their Ways. Fowler's Bill Dies. When the hour of adjournment shall have arrived on March 4, and the Fifty seventh Congress shall have passed into kistory, the much-talked of Fowler cur rency' bill, the formula by which its author had intended to cure all the financial ills of the country, will be found peacefully re)osing in a sepulchral pigeon hole in the House Committee on Banking and Currency. Out of a feeling for the measure which is almost human itarian, its friends and supporters have decided to place it out of existence by the chloroform method rather than to submit to having it kicked to death in ‘the house of its enemies. So the drug has been administered and the bill is dead. Deep is the grief of its parent, the Hon, Charles N. Fowler, who had planned for this, his pet measure, a long life of use fulness and of joy to the great financiers of the country. Some obdurate, hard ‘headed Congressmen have been unable to ‘appreciate all the beauties of branch ‘banking, asset currency, the retirement of the greenbacks, and the other elabo rate features of the measure, and have declined to assist in writing it upon the statue books. Bankers Refused Indorsement. wR AANA eSY AENEAN. Even when Mr. Fowler took it unto its own, its own received it not, for despite his exhaustive explanation and his efforts to obtain for the bill the indorse ment of the recent convention of bank ers In New Orleans, that body de clined to give the bill its approval Disheartened, but not entirely disco.r aged, Mr. Fowler returned to Washing ton with his compendinm of financial ideas that he has sought to enact Into law. Recently it became patent even to Mr. Fowler that the short session of Congress was no timo to undertake to give a course of inctruction upon the elements of finance to his Congress col leagues, and so he has reluctantly decid ed to abandon the bill. He had arranged to have the matter discussed in a friendly caucus of the Republican brethern, but it became evi dent that even a caucus would not treat the measure kindly, whereupon Mr. Fowler gave up and consented to have the anesthetic administerel. Thus dies the Fowler currency bil. w.th its com plexity of ideas, and to ‘ake its place there is to be born a bill containing but a siagle proposition, namely, asset cur rency. Such a measure Mr. Fowler will report to the House. Connell Will Contest. The Hon. William Connell, formerly of Cape Breton, N. S., now of Scranton, Pa., is one of those statesmen whose desire to serve his country in public office will lead him to make an effort to reach the Fifty-eighth Congress via the contest route. It is needless to say that Mr. Connell, for three terms a member of the House, was defeated at the election last month, or at least the other fellow, George Howell by name, ebtained a majority of the votes cast In Lackawanna county. Especially aggravating and humiliating is the de feat of Mr. Connell in view of the fact that he received the nomination and indorsement of both the regular Re publican and Democratic conventions in the Scranton district. This is the story: The anthracite coal strike began at about the ‘ime Mr. Connell commenced to lay his plans for the campaign which he expected would return him to Congress. In looking over the situation Mr. Connell disovered that he, as well as the Hon. Charles Henry Grosvenor, might be troubled with a few thousand angry miners, and that it would be well to corral all of the pominations in sight. Now, Mr. Con nel is a wealthy citizen and a promi nent churchman, and this task was not especially difficult. The Republicans selected him by acclamation; then came the Democratic convention, and it, after a lively scene, named him as its can dildat A Plurality of Nominations. The road to Congress then seemed unobstructed, but at the end of the campaign Mr. Connell found, as did a TO BREAK THE “HOODOO.” Optimists are wont to boast that su perstition is impossible in these enlight encd days, and especally in so progres sive and practical a country as this. Their claims do not seem to be borne out by the remarkable little incident thus chronicled in the “Philadelphia North American’ recently: Samuel Lewis, a farm hand employed near Trenton, N. J., sought refuge in the McKinley Hospital here today from the hoodoo which he said has pursued him since August l==* when h killed a black cat. Since that time ta..is has suffered nine injuries, including the fracturing of a lex and an arm, the dislocation of two fingers and a knee, and the mashing of a foot. He has announced his determination to remain In the hospital until the hoodoo spell has CALLED “TIME!” FOR THEM. Senator Stewart of Nevada presefits a dignified figure in the Senate Chamber, but you can't always judge by appear ances. It is apparent from the follow ing story in the “Philadeiphia Press" that he is capable of a jest even while looking his solemnest: Yesterday afternoon, when the fizht on the Statehood bill was commencing in the Senate, Senator Beveridge, the leader of the opposition to the ommibus bili, walked over to Senator Quay’s seat and held out his hand to the senior Senator from the Keystone State. a Quay arose and shook the hand cor ally. “Time!" muttered Senator Stewart of Ne vada, in one of his basso profundo asides, and evervbody lsughed. WHERE THEY GOT TOGETHER. There is almost invariably a common meeting ground upon which the most in veterate disputants may get together if only they are patient in the search for a base of harmony. The following story froma the ‘Philadelphia Press” makes this truth delightfully plain: It is well known that Senator McComas and Congressman Mudd ol land do not pull together on patronage. Mudd startled some of his newspaper friends this morning In saying that he had placed two of his con stituents in prominent positions in Washing ton, and that Senator McComas had concurred Leartily. There was instant desire to know who the fortunate Marylanders were whom the Sen ator and Representative both favored. “They are Charles Carroll of Carroliton and John Hanson,”' said Mr. Mudd, “and they have been places in good positions gut in Statuary certain distinguished citizen of Lincoln, Neb., upon two occasions, that the man with a plurality of nominations does not always get a majority of the votes on election day. So it was with the Hon. Wiiliam Connell. A remnant of Demo crats assembled and named the Hon. George Howell as their candidate, but found that the courts would not permit them to place his name under the Democratic emblem upon the official ballot, as the nomination of the regular convention had gone to Mr. Connell, whose name appeared under the Re publican insignia. But the name of George Howell did go upon the official ballot under the head of “Anti Machine.” When the ballots were counted it was found that the Hon. George Howell had received votes more to the number of 462 than did the Hon. William Connell. Now it has been discovered thet certain of the old-line Democrats who vote the ticket without question placed their mark over the vacant column, having overlooked the fact that it contained the pame of no candidate, but having been satisfied that notwithstanding it was the proper one because it bore the stamp of Democracy. These ballots were counted for Mr. Howell, and Mr, Connell hopes to find that there were at least 463 of them, so that they may be thrown out on a contest before the House. Mr. Connell expects to be seate ed, as he has friends in the House and his party is in power. The moral of which tale is that it matters not what the witnesses say if the court is with you. Odell and Cuneen. There are evidences already apparent that the Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, jr., and the Hon. John Cuneen, governer elect and attorney general-elect, respec tively, of New York, are not going to pull well together in tne tandem harness which the voters of that State have fixed up for them. Governor Odell is 2 Re publiean, while Mr. Cuneen is an advo cate of the cause of Democracy, and in the administration of the affairs of the State for the next two years there is likely to be many matters upon which they will not hold parallel opinions. Mr. Cuneen happens to be the only Democrat on the State ticket last month fortunate enough to be elected and bis success was brought about by a somewhat singular condition of affairs. The Republican ticket, with Governor Odell at its head, skated close to the edge of defeat, escaping by only a few thousand out of a million and a quarter of votes. But Mr. Cuneen was fortunate enough to have a few thousand votes in another column, which added to those he received on the Democratic ticket in sured his clection. The Prohibitionists of New York, in convention assembled, looked over the various candidates of the other parties and decided that the Hon. John Cuneen was sufficient of a cold water advocate to receive their pap ment, and they chose him as date for attorney general, and cast for him some fifteen thousand votes. Prohibiticn Votes Counted. These turned the balance in Mr. Cuneen’s favor, while all the ether Dem ocrats went down to defeat, an evidence of the fact that the Prohibition vote sometimes counts for something. As at torney general Mr. Cuneen sho=i2 Sc ihe law adviser of the Governor, but Gov ernor Odell does not desire the advice of a Democrat, and while he will be obliged to permit Mr. Cuneen to conduet his de partment he proposes w bave a law ad viser of his own. This ke will do by asking the Legislature ‘0 make an ap propriation for special counsel. Thus it will be that while the people of the State provide and pay an attorney general, they will be obliged, in order to please Covernor Odell, to go to the ex pense of hiring another man. But then this plan has one advantage—it will give some ambitious lawyer-politician a job, and he may be the defeated candidate for attorney general. TOO EASILY DISCOURAGED. If Fred Eadie, farm hand, had possess ed the true American spirit, he would have been led to increased exertion, not to an attempt at suicide, by the scorn of the girls of his neighborhood, which led to the story told by the “Philadelphia North American” as follows: Despondent because the young women of the neighborhood would not swiate with him, Fred Eadie, employed on a farm near Red Bank, N. J., gashed his throat with a rusty knife yesterday. Eadie was arrested and sent to the county jail at Freehold. When asked by the court why he had triea to kill himself, Eadie said the girls all looked down on him because he was only a farm hand. Eadie comes from New York and is said to be weil connected. “BROTHER ACT” IN DIVORCE. It would seem that Alva C. and Alvina A. Buckles, of Urbana, Ohio, are rather breaking the record for the “brother act,” judging from a story which the “New York World" tells as follows: A wmique case of divorce has been brought at Urbana by the Buckles brothers, Alva C. and Alvina A. They live in the same township, and both were married seven years ago, only four days intervening between their weddings. They married sisters, and after two years of married life both wives ran away and their whereabouts is unknown. The two brothers engaged the same attorneys, and both petitions charge the defendants with being Ity of gross neglect of duty and with willful ab sence. GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS. Christmas is always a good season for the telling of ghost stories, and the fol lowing early contribution from the ‘New York World” will be found appropriate ly grewsome and shivery: Clad only in his undergarments, Benjaugin Carter, colored, employed 4s a irackwalker by the North Hudson County Railway Company, dashed into the Oakland Avenue police sta tion, Jersey City, at 4 a. m. yesterday. He was half frozen and his teeth were chatt from cold and fright. He said he had got drunk the night before and gone to the Jersey City Cemetery, where he undressed iy went to sleep in a vault he found open. he said, until he was aroused by 3 drove him out. He was put in a cell to get warm and at daylight an officer was sent to the cemetery. All the vaults were found closed and locked znd no trace of Carter's missing gar ments could be discovered. He stuck to his story for all that. The gave him some old clothes and sent him

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President Roosevelt Entertains Distin guished Company at Dinner--—-Mrs. Roosevelt Receives Personal Friends. Dance in Miss Roosevelt's Honor.

The President gave a dinner of fifteen covers last night. His guests were: The Secretary of the Navy, The Speaker of the House of Repre sentatiyes. Senator Allison. Senator Hale. Senator Gallinger. Senator Perkins. Senator Hanna. Representative Grosvenor. Representative Dalzell. Representative Cannon. aworesentative Foss. Representative Dayton. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge. Among the President's callers yester day was Joaquin Miller. Mrs. Roosevelt received a few personal friends yesterday afternoon at 2:40 ©'clock. Miss Roosevelt, the daughter of the President, who has been visiting her cousins in New York, is expected at the White House next Tuesday. Mrs. Rob ert Fulton Cutting will give a dinner in New York Saturday evening in honor of Miss Roosevelt. The marriage of Miss Mamie Smith to Dr. C. Norman Howard was celebrated ‘last night at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sara Smith, in Mount Pleasant, by the Rev, S. M. Newmaa, of the First Congregational Church. Clifford Howard, Dr. Howard's brother, acted as best man. There were no othy” attendants. The bride wore a liberty silk, covered with white swiss and trim med with gauze ribbon ruffles and Mech lin lace. She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley. The ceremony was fol lowed by a reception and supper. Dr. end Mrs. Howard will go to Cuba for their wedding trip, and, on their return, will live at 1936 Cincinnati Street, where they will receive Satyrdays in March. The marriage of Miss Grace Victoria McPherson and the Rev. Edward Bryant Landis, of Chicago, was celebrated last night at the home of the bride’s parents in Princeton Street. The Rev. Dr. New man officiated. The bride wore a gown of white French mull over taffeta. Her flowers were bride roses. The only at tendant was the bride's sister, Miss Maud McPherson, whose costume was of

3 ashes. We have Ei ERS. Bl pink point d’esprit over taffeta of the same shade. She carried pink roses. Edward C. Bullock was the best man. The Rev. and Mrs. Landis will live in Chicago. 1 George Miller and Miss Julia Holden Chism were married on December 14 at the residence of Dr. Baston, 837 East Capitol Street. The wedding was a quiet one, only the immedigte families of the bride and groom being present. Mr. Miller is well known in musical circles. BRE

The British ambassador and Lady Herbert gave a reception yesterday af ternoon in honor of the Diplomatic Corps. Despite the rain, all of the am bassador’'s colleagues who are In town called and the scene at the embassy was a brilliant one. The dean of the corps, Dr. von Holleben, has gene to New York for an extended visit and was notpres ent. Lady Herbert was assisted by Mrs. Waterlow and the members of the em bassy staff. It was Mrs. Waterlow's frst Introduction to society here and she made an agreeable impression. J

The new decorations and furniture of the embassy are handsome and in good taste, and both the ambassador and Lady Herbert were heartily complimented on the improvements made. Among the callers were Baroness von Palm, who is f guest at the Austrian legation. Mrs. John W. Bayne introduced her daughter, Gertrude Ashby Bayne, at a ‘tea yesterday afternoon. The debutante wore a pretty costume of white crepe de chine over white taffeta. Mrs. Bayne was assisted in receiving by Mrs. E. 8. Theall and Mrs. David Tennan, of Virginia; Miss Mabel Houghton, of Geneva, N. Y.; Miss Marion Kent Ayres, of Philadel phia; Miss Louise Numerichouse, of Hagerstown, Miss Elizabeth Young, Miss Edith Needham, Miss Mary Wallace Ma son, Miss Grace Peters, Miss Laura Den by, and Miss Ethel Whitney. Mrs. Alfred Gillet, Mrs. Murray Addison, Mrs, WW. B. Wood, Mrs. T. J. D. Fuller, and Mrs. F. Anderson presided in the tea room.

Mrs. Henry I. Finley will zive a tea December 26 from 4 to 6 in honor of Miss Kelton. Mrs. Richards, wife of the Solicitor General, gave a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Knox yesterday afternoon. Her other guests were Mrs. Audenried, Mrs, George C. Reid, Mrs, John M. Beck, Mre. Beale, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Thomas H, Anderson, Mrs. Anson Mille, Mrs. Beriak Wilkins, and Mrs. Sternberg.

Mrs. Henry C. Perkins entertained aa luncheon yesterday in honor of her daughter. Miss Mabel Perkins. Miss Merriam gave a Juncheon yester €@ay in honor of Miss Annie McCauley, Her other guests were Miss Pans? Bloomer, Miss Jean Loring, Miss Sei bert, Miss Langhorne, Miss Sadie Cobba, and Miss Maud Ely, of New York. The charge d'affaires of the French embassy and Mme. de Margerie gave a

PERSONAL MENTION AND SOCIETY JOTTINGS. AFFAIRS IN W ASHIN GTON AND OTHER CITIES. White House. Weddings. Luncheons. luncheon yesterday in honor of Victor Ayguesparsse, attache of the embassy, Mr, Ayguesparsse will sail from New York tomorrow on the La Touraine for France, and will be absent for several months. Mme. de Margerie's guests were Miss Alice Howard, daughter of Sir Henry Howard, the British minister to The Hague; Miss Ashton, Miss Daisy Wilson, Count von Montgelas, of the German embassy, and Baron Franken stein, of the Austrian embassy. Mrs. Nathaniel Wilson gave a luncheon yesterday afternoon. The Italian ambassador and Signora Mayor des Planches, who are entertain taining Countess Francesca Zampini Salazar of Rome, gave another small dinner last night in her honor. Besides the members of the embassy staff, the charge d'affaires of the French embassy and Mme. de Margerie and the Misses Warder were present. At the dinner Senator and Mrs. Scott gave last evening the guests were Sena tor Frye, Senator and Mrs. Burrows, Senator and Mrs. Dryden, Senator and Miss Millard and Mrs. Millard, Senator Millard’s daughter-in-law; Representa tive and Mrs. Dayton, Representative and Mrs. Hughes, Representative Dove ner, and Mr. and Mrs. Swanson. General and Mrs. Gillespie entertain ed at dinner last night in honor of General and Mrs. Leonard Wood. The other guests were Senator and Mrs. Alger, the Third Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Peirce, General and Mrs. M. V. Sheridan, Mrs. N. 8S. Lin coln, and Dr. Joseph Bryan. Mrs. Draper will entertain the Massa chusetts delegation at dinner tomorrow evening. Mrs. Payne has sent out invitations for a dinner on December %T. Representative Morrell, of Philadel phia, gave a dinner last night in honor of Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the House Committee on the District of Co lumbia, Mr. Morrell's guests were the Commissioners of the District, Henry Macfarland, Henry L. West, and Major John Biddle, U. S. A.; Col. T. A. Bing ham, Superintendent of Public Build ings and Grounds; Gen, George H. Har ries, commander of the District Nation al Guard; Representatives Mudd, of Maryland, Jenkins of Wisconsin, Mercer of Nebraska, Amos L. Allen of Maine, Pearre of Maryland, Wadsworth of New York, Blackburn of North Carolina, Stewart of New York, Meyer of Loulsi ana, Cowherd of Missouri, Norton of Ohic, Sims of Tennessee, all members of the District Committee; Congressmen Gillett of Massachusetts Metcalf of California, Powers of Massachusetts, Robert Adams of Philadelphia, and Mec Andrews of Illinois. Mrs. Slater will entertain at dinner to night. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Tatum and family, of Richmond, Va., are spending the winter at “The Buckingham.” Mrs. M. E. Swenarton, of Montclair, N. J., will pass the winter in Washington. Mrs. Julius Catlin, and her sister, Miss Edith Catlin, have closed Fairholme, their country house In Morristown, N. J. and will pass the winter In Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie B. Green, who were recently married in this city, were the recipients of many attentions upon their return to Richmond. Capt. and Mrs. James W. Tignor entertained them Friday evening, and Mr. and Mrs. Flip po, of Atlee, Va., on Saturday eveaing. Their future home will be at Atlee. Miss Susie Parksdale is visiting Mrs, Mann 8. Valentine, of No. 918 West Franklin Street, Richmond. ord, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moore have gone to New York for a few days. Countess Francesca Zampini-Salazar, the editor of the “Italian Review,” gave an interesting talk yesterday afternoon before the members of the Washington Club and a number of other leading so clety women. O'Donnell Hillen, of Baltimore, a cousin of Mrs. Robert Hinckley, has come to Washington to take a course at the school of diplomacy. Miss Adelaide Heald has left {or South Carolina, where she will be the guest of Senator Latimer’s family, and before he= return will be entertained at several house parties in the South.

Governor (rane has been spending a portion of the week in Portlana, where he went to attend the funeral services of the late Thomas B. Reed. Miss Mary Bowditch, who is a daugh ter of Mrs. Alfred Bowditch, of Bay State Road, iz one of the most attrac tive debutantes of the current season. She bad a large and fashionable at tendance at her reception Tuesday af ternooun, In answer to some 700 invitations is sued by Mrs. Samuel D. Warren of Marlbero Street, over 600 guests at tended the dance Friday evening at the Hotel Somerset in honor of the debut of her eldest daughter, Miss Mabel War Dinners. Notes. Boston. ren. The affair was one of the hand somest private social functions the smart set will see this season. Miss Warren, who is a granddaughter of the late Ambassador Thomaa F. Bay ard, of Wilmington, Del., came out under the most brilliant auspices, and the large liz* of smart debutantes, including Miss Lowell, Miss Bowditch, Miss Manning, the Misses Thayer, Miss Wigglesworth, Miss Stratton, as well as the Hoopers, Cabots, Gardners, Lees, Sargents, Cool idges, Aspinwalls, Ameses, Welds, Beebes, Masons and others were among the invited guests, A delightful affair will be the ball to be given tonight at the rooms of the Arundel Club by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Buzby, in honor of their debutante ‘daughter, Miss Marguerite Van Ness Buzby. This will be the first of many large and fashionable balls to be given during the Christmas holidays, and there will be present the debutantes of this and past seasons. The rooms, suggestive of Christmas, will be artistically deco rated with holly, mistletoe and ever green. Late in the evening a seated supper will be served at {ables of eight covers each. These will be placed about the rooms and halls, and will be decorated with holly and greens. Mrs. Buzby and Miss Buzhy wili receive the guests alone. Emil Caye has the affair in charge. At the wedding of Miss Ellse Brown and Thomas Courtney Jenkins, which will take place next month in New York, the best man will be Ral Parr and the ushers will be J. Lorimer Worden, J. Norman del. Whitehouse, Harry Srmes Lehr, and Francis B. Stevens, all of New York; Robinson Honey, of Newport; Charles A. Conrad, F. William Lelir, and M. Ernest Jenkins, of Baltimore. Mrs. Harry C. Reich, who has been se riously ill, has gone to Washington to spend the holidays. Tyson Ellicott, who has been on a hunting trip in Howard county, returned yesterday to his home. Mrs. J. G. Mueller, of Linden Avenue, is spending a few days with friends at Washington. Miss Virginia Tyson is mentioned. as one of the most admired of the Balti more debutantes of this season. Miss Tyson's mother was formerly Miss Vir ginia Cabell. of Richmond. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1902, Baltimore. New York Mrs. R. Fulton Cutting gave a small dinner dance last evening at her resi dence, No. 24 East Sixty-seventh Street, for her daughter, Miss Helen Cutting. it was a charming affair, attended by many of the most popular of the young ses, the guests coming from dinners given by Mrs. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombley, Mrs. Lucius K. Wilmer ding, and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden. The hostess was dressed in white flowered silk, her daughter in white gauze, and Miss Alice Roosevelt, who is visiting them, was in black. It was an early dance, the guests arriving as soon as the dinner parties from which they came finished. Danciug was in the drawing room, and the cotillon, which was en joyed before supper, was led by Monson Morris, who had Miss Cutting for his partner. There were several favor fig ures, in which pretty souvenirs were dis tributed. Dancing was resumed after supper. Mrs. George Charles Boldt and Miss Boldt have sent out invitations for an afternoon reception at their homre, No. 13 West Thirty-third Street, on Friday, January 2. Mr. and Mrs, Charles M. Oelrichs have returned from Newport and are in town for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mar tin (Miss Lily Oelrichs) are expected {rom ‘Europe in a few days. They will spend part of the winter in California, Robert 8. R. Hitt, one of the secre taries of the United States embassy at Berlin, whose marriage to Miss Edith Gray, daughter of Judge and Mrs. John Clinton Gray, will take place next Tues day at St. Bartholomew's Church, will give hig farewell bachelor dinner on Sat urday night at Delmonico’s. Mrs. Albert Loening, wife of the for mer United States consul at Bremen, gave a large reception Monday afternoon at her home, 152 West Seventy-sixth Street. She was assisted in receiving by Mrs. John 8. Wise, Mrs. James Henry Parker, and Miss Mable Watson. At the Waldorf-Astoria the second of the fortnightly dances brought out again a large number of the debutantes and girls who have been out for two or three seasons. The patronesses of this class are Mmes. Lewis lL. Delafield, Willa: W. Appleton, Herbert Parsons, Alexan Ger D. Shaw, J. Clarkson Jay, Joseph E. Winters, L. Jacquelin Smith, Henry L. Morris, Dallas Bache Pratt, and Chris topher Wolfe. The cotillon, da=ced in the Astor gal lery, was led by Frederick S. Woodruff. Mrs, M. Dwight Collier gave a break fast for her daughter, Miss Georgette Collier, yesterday at her house, East Forty-eighth Street. The guests, main ly debutantes, were scated at separate tables, and included the Misses Con stance Livermore, Mary Park, Aleld, Schenck, Marie Montant, Mary Clarke, Anita Ffands, Natalie Knowlton, Gera trude Greene Adelaide Baylis, Adelaide Barclay, Ka'larine Lyman, Marie Ly man, Juliette Adee, Mary Schuchardt, Edith Poor, Mey Soley, Mary Atterbury, and EfMle Wadington, Philadelnhia Clarence Wolf has issued invita tions for a dinner at “The Bungalow,” Ridley Perk, to the members of the Clover Club, Thursday afternoon, De

i Marriage of Miss Mamie Smith to Dr. Norman Howard Celebrated-— Teas and Receptions Occupy Time of Smart Set. Gossip From New York. cember 18, at 5 o'clock, tc meet James S. McCartney. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel will give a ball at Horticultural Hall, January 13. The much-talked-of first dance of the Monday Evening Dancing Class was held last evening in Horticultural Hall under the management of Mrs. Frederick Thurston Mason. While nearly all of the debutantes at the dance have for the last month or six weeks, been much din ed and feted, it was not until last even ing that their social season really began. Mrs. Mason, who with Miss Virginia C. Philips, Miss Armitage Struthers and Miss Virginia Miller, received at the en “LOVE AND LIFE’ MAY SURVIVE THE STORM Local W. C. T. U. Will Not Interfere With the Presi dent’s Private Affairs. “0 The painting “Love and Life” may grace the walls of the White House In peace and quietude, without public eriti cism or comment, so far as the local branch of the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union is concerned. No action of any character will be taken by the Washington members of the organization toward making an appeal to the President to remove the plcture from the Executive Mansion. This an nouncement was made this morning by Mrs. Clinton Smith, president of the local chapter, who declares that it has no desire to dictate to the President of the United States or anyone else the nature of the art that should be dis played in their private residences. “We do not consider it within our province to dictate to President Roose velt, or, in fact, anyone, what he shall have in his home,” she said. ‘“More over, any question of that nature is in the hands of Mrs. Martin, who is privi leged to do whatever she may see fit. But so far as the local organization is concerned there will be no action. We are too busy solving more important TO PRESS DON CARLOS TO ACT OR TO ABDICATE May Be Deposed as Leader If He Re fuses to Comply With Suggestions. MADRID, Dec. 17.-Carlist deputies Lorenz and Pradera have gone to Venice to try and induce Don Carlos, the Pre tender, to inaugurate a more active pol icy, or to abdicate In favor of his son, Don Jaime. If Carlos refuses to follow their sug gestions, it is possible the Carlists wil! reject him as their leader. STORE OPEN EVENINGS, Established in 1802. Galt Bro. Established a Centur® Peo 1802---1902. TAMONDS and other Gems mounted in THE NEWEST and MOST AR TISTIC SETTINGS, embricing Jewelry for ALL occasions. Whether costly or of moderate price, EVERY STONE IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, and repre sents in value the exact amount asked. The price is governed only BY THE SIZE of the stones—uwe sell no second or third grade. In buying Diamonds, above all other things, one must have IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE in the I'ITRM one deals with. One rho buys a Diamond that is pure, and for a price that is commensurate with its value, makes A GOOD INVESTMENT creates an assel. 4F Inspection of our goods invited —it does not in any way imply an obligation to purchase. Galt Dro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, and Stationers, 1107 Pennsylvania Avenue. trance of the ball room, was gowned in pink chiffon, with medallions of lace. The debutantes were becomingly gown ed in white. The hall was artistically though very simply decorated with palms and Southern smilax. The attendance at last evening's dance was smaller than will be the case at the succeeding dances, as there were no guests invited. At least a dozen dinners were given before the dance by the prominent hostesses of society. a a a a Charles F. Da Costa has issued invi tutions for a hunt breakfast for the members of the Radnor Hunt Club, on Saturday, December 27, at 9 o'clock in the morning, at “Ashwood,” his country place, near Villanova. questions to consider any trivial mat ter of this sort.” Mrs. Smith refused to express an opin ion on the pzinting. In fact, she seemed reluctaut to discuss the affair at all, her actions indicating that she ¢id not wish to become involved in the controversy. The picture in question gained much notoriety in the course of the admrinis tration of President Cleveland, when it was removed from the White House to the Corcoran Art Gallery at the insti galion of the W, C, T. U. Subsequently the picture was exhibited at the World's Fair, and there was the center of ad miring throngs. It was favorably com mented on by nearly all art critics. The present agitation is caused by the removal of the painting from the gallery to the White House. Its presence there has been objected to by Mrs. Martin, the national superintendent of purity in lit erature and art, who says that she con siders the painting immoral and unfit to be on view in the home of the Chief Bx ecutive. She has signified her intention of asking the President to remove ft, a Hea ers. CANADA ENGINES TO BE BUILT FROM AMERICAN DESIGNS GLASGOW, Dec. 17.—The Canadian order for twenty high class locomotives, which was received by the firm of Nel son, Reid Co., of this city, provides that the engines shall be built from American designs. The experiment arouses interest and there is much curi osity to see how British workmen will handle American designs. FRANCE TO REGULATE FLASH POINT PETROLEUM PARIS, Dec. 17.—It is stated that th government intends to» enact legislation to regulate flash point petroleum, be cause of the number of accidents which have occurred from low flash oil. 82 Only 7 more shopping days until Christmas. SPANISH MARCHIONESS NOT PLEASED BY MONASTIC LIFE Rrnaway Nun Says the Career Is Not Fully Sacred—Three Other Fugitives.

MADRID, Dec. 17.—The young March foness of Pidal, the twentythreeyear old daughter of a former Conservative minister, who became a nun in 1901, at the desire of her parents, has made her escape from the monastery where she was living. She gives as her reason that the mo nastic life does not provide a full sacred vocation. She wishes to marry. Three other aristocrats have made their escape for the same reason. Tree Toys. Open evenings. J. Jay Gould. R. Harris Co. Lind al a at a a a alo] Diamond Importers Offer you the experience and reputation of 24 years of commercial dealings in Washington. Importing Direct From the European cutters and setting our Jewels in Our Own Factory —on the premises—elimi nate 2ll intermediate profits —which demonstrates that we can offer you the best at prices which others ask for inferior qualities. Anyone can sell you a hundred-dollar Diamond— but we guarantee to give you a better ome for the money than you can pro cure elsewhere. Your Money Back —if we cannot substan tiate our assertions, The Largest Selection of DIAMONDS, BROOCHES, and RINGS in the City. R. Harris Co. aan a a I. Seventh and D Sts. Open Evenings Till Xmas. DROOP’S [0c Sec VOCAL COMPOSITIONS. Pri “Ah! 1 Have to Rest Me™. 40c “Angel's Serenade’ ...........oiunn 60c “Believe Me, If Al Those Endear Charms" o——— 10¢ 10c 3 10e 0c 1c 10c 10¢ 10¢ “My Old Kentucky Home'....... $0¢ 10e “Nearer, My God to Thee” Sc 10¢ Not a Sparrow Falleth™.. aedn 10e Old Folks at Home™............. lve “One Sweetly Solemn Thought”... 40c 10c “palms, Palm Branches”.......... He 10c wPealsp the JOP"... cossssnicosin We 10¢ “Serenade” 0c 10¢ “The Throstle" Se 10c “Torreador Song” from *“‘Carmen’ 60c 10c SY onetinn BODE cree sresaseintsnsns 50¢ 10¢ E.F. Droop Sons, 925 Pa. Ave. deT-tf $5 Teeth That Fit and our re-enforced suction, which makes them fit accurately. LOWEST prices on Crowns and Fillings during Holidays. PAIN LESS Extraction. DR. PATTON'S UNION DENTAL PARLORS. OI0F N. W. Second Floor. TEETH HIGH-CLASS MODERN DENTISTRY By skilled operators in each department is what we offer you, at almost halt you pay in private dental offices. Cali and consult us, that we may explain our improved methods. Beautiful sets of Teeth, $5, $7, and $10. Painless Extracting, with or without gas, Hoe, Female attendants. "Phone, East 304-D. Washington Dental Parlors

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