The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
December 21, 1902

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Rain today: fresh to brisk east to south winds: colder tomorrow.

NUMBER 3114. e 10ushington Times. WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902— FORTY-TWO PAGES, K Jez, DEC 22 1902 Forty-two Pages. THREE SECTIONS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT BRITAIN EASILY DUPED BY DIPLOMATS OF GERMAN EMPIRE Suspicion Prevails in Lon don That England Was Unwittingly lea Into Venezuelan Trouble.

ER Criticism of Government for Its Course Severest From Supporters—Public Senti ment With Balfour. Paris Press Points to Dip~ lomatic Victory for the United States Powers Made to Show Their Hands LONDON, Dec. 20.—Public interest in the Venezuelan complications is increas ing in Great Britain owing to the fact that the suspicion has become broadcast that the British government has been induced unwittingly to lends itself to the execution of German »urposes. There is not sufficient knowledge en which to brs' reso lution means an attack on the prod:ie tive wealth of the country; that the So clalists intend to take possession of ali the money and private property. The circular says further:

“You may be at peace with your workmen now, but the organi er is like a thief in the night. You may go bed “ia fancied security. you way say ingly. ‘I never had any trouble in get ting along with my men. Please let me run my own business. I have been doing it for twenty-five years and I guess am able to continue.’ “This kind of talk makes the union labor organizer laugh. You wake up out of your dream and you have a strike on your hands. The organizer has been at work while you are at sleep. “Your turn is suré to come, for reso lution after resolution was passed at the recent meeting, that the work of organization is never to cease until every worker in the land, including day laborers. has been organized in order that the political industrial destinies of the United States is to be in the control ‘of organized labor.” STEAMSHIP PICKS UP PRIZE WORTH $300,000 Liner North Point Finds the German Tanker Pure Oil Adrift Off English Coast. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.—Towing one of the most valuable prizes pick ed up at sea in recent years, the Phil 2delphia Trans-Atlantic Line steam ship North Point, in command of Cap tain Drake, passed the Lizard vyester day. bound from Philadelphia to Lon don. The prize in tow was tiie German tank steamship Pure Oil, which had been abondoned by her crew and picked up by the North Point, when nearing the English coast. She signaled that the crew of the Pure Oil had been rescued. The Pure Oil, in command of Captain Dix. sailed from Hamburg on lecember 4 for Philadelphia in ballast, and had uo doubt become badly disabled in recent storms, or else her crew would not Lave deserted her. The owners of the Pure Oil are the Pure Oil Company. with local offices in the Manbattap Building, Fourth and Walnut Streets. In the absence of definite news (rom their English repre sentatives the firm declined to make any statement concerning the craft. Captain Drake and his crew, as well as the owners of the North Point, will par ticipate in the salvage award, which will be at least 75 per cent of the value of the Pure Oil, which is estimated to be worth not less than $300,000, The Dutch tank steamer August Korff, bound from Philadelphia to Flushing with nearly two million gallons of pe trolenm and naphtha, is still adrift ar sea with her rudder gone. RUSSIA IMPROVING HER OPPORTUNITIES IN PERSIA LONDON, Dec. 20.—An official com munication has been received from the Russian foreign office which states that Russia's relations with Persia are continually improving. Russia has not addressed a request of any sort to Great Britain io regard to Afghanistan. She has simply notified England of her decision that it is de sirous that Russia should enter into di rect relations with Afghanistan in fu ure, SYNDICATE TO IMPORT COAL TO RELIEVE LOCAL DISTRESS Where the Coal Is and How Long It Will Last. No. No. consumption, tons on Jays’ band. supply. Daly tons. Government Jepartments. .......c..o00innn... 300 Hespitals ............00 50 Fon Narn unten 40 1 ARR ROR. SRN I Ca on DA 150 Apartment houses .........c.c.000u. Kia wn ee 160 ReSMEROES ...oiisd dans dasa mga ss dds vn 1.500 PRoIOTIER cous. vs renn iin inher dunia cues 65 Washington Railway and Electric Company... 250 Capital Traction Company... ........c0uu.... 40 Cue Light COMPANY J cei sgmnsnes ss 85 1.200 400 J00 150 15.000 195 2,750 1,650 920 Total visible supply on raiis and with dealers, 2.800 tons. 1 10 MRS. GRANT'S BODY SEALED IN TOMB

Remains of Preserver of Union and His Widow Rest Side by Side in Riverside Mausoleum. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The body of Mre. Julia Dent Grant, widow of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, arrived in this city from Washington late this afternoon and was sealed up tonight in the sarcophagus in the Grant mausoleum eon Riverside Drive, which was prepared for it when the tomb was built. When the funeral service is held to morrow morning those who attend it will see no difference in the appearance of the crvpt, except that made by the magnificent Bowers brought from Wash ington. After the body was set in the sarcophagus the five-ton brown marble top, with “Julia D. Grant” cut in the stone, was lowered into place and the derrick and ropes which had been used by the mechanics were removed. It had been planned from the first to place the body in the tomb tonight, though the fear that a crowd would be attracted led those in charge of the ar rangements to let the public ynderstand that this would be done tomorrow, The train which ‘Srovght Mrs. Grant's "ody het: from Washington left that city at 11 o'clock in the mornimg. and was due at the Pennsylvania stallion in Jersey Clty at 4:40 o'clock. It consisted of half a dozen cars, two of which were given over entirely to the funeral party. Mrs. Grant's body was in the second car of the train. The coffin was on a pedestal draped in black. The car was literally filled with floral offerings. At Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton, and other places, where the train stopped, the men on the platforms bared their MANY KILLED IN WRECK AT BYRON, CALIFORNIA “Stockton Flyer” Disregarded Signals and Telescopes “Owl Train.” SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—A disas trous train wreck occurred tonight at Byron, Cal., when the Stockton flyer ran into the rear end of the Owl train, which is a limited train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, telescoping the rear car, killing half a dozen people, and wounding twenty others. It seems the engine of the Owl leaked and a change of engines was being made when the Stockton train, disregarding the signals, ran into it. Everyone in the rear car, which was a day coach to Fresno, was killed or injured. The dining car next to it was wrecked, but no one was seriously hurt. VIRGINIA-BRED HORSE FOR GERMAN AMBASSADOR Baron von Holleben Visits Fauquier and Buys Equine in Person. FREDERICKSBURG. Va., Dec. 20.— John Seibert, of Fauquier county, has sold to the German ambassador at Washington, Baron von Holleben, a splendid specimen of the Fauquler-bred horse, The ambassador visited Fauquier and inspected the horse in person before the purchase. He was the guest of Mr. Sei bert for a day and a night, and was not only pleased with the fine horses he saw, but was charmed with that section of the country. ONE KILLED AND TWENTY INJURED IN EXPLOSION RUTLAND, Vt., Dec. 20.—One man was killed and twenty injured by the explo sion of a boiler in the Truthville Paint mill near Poultney yesterday. The men were eating their dinner in the boiler room. M. Bemis, who sat nearest the boiler, was blown up into a slate quarry fifty feet away. The othe: men are in a critical condition. STRANDED GERMAN WARSHIP FLOATED ALMOST UNINJURED COPENHAGEN, Dec. 20.—The German warship Wittelsbach, which grounded Tuesday in the Great Belt, near Korsoer, Denmark, has been floated. The vessel is not severely damaged. heads when the train came, and did pot cover again until it departed. There was no other demonstration than this. In the Pennsylvania station in Jersey City, when the train got in at 35:10 o'clock, thirty minutes behind time, tere was a great crowd. Among those 72 meet the body were fifteen members of the U. S. Grant Post 3227, of Brooklyn, ali of whom had fought under General Grant. They made up a guard of honor for the body. Col. A. Noel Blakeman, Henry W. Hay den, and P. Tecumseh Sherman com posgd the reception committee from the Grant Monument Association. As rep resentatives of the regular army there were present Colonel Barry, adjutant general of the Department of the East, and Major Littel. Colonel Barry, Colonel Blakeman, and Messrs. Hayden and Sherman received the members of the Grant family and es corted them down the platform to an elevator, On the ground floor carriages in walling The:o was no delay in moving the cas ket. Eigh: undertakers’ assistants car ried it down the platform to the eleva tor. The guard from U. 8S. Grant Post marched behind the casket. After the guard, came two railroad trucks loaded with floral pieces.

The moment the coffic passed. the doors of the carriages were closed. and the drivers drove on to the Twenty-third Street ferryboat, which was held for them. They did not leave the carriages (Continued on Second Page.) TRAINMEN MAKE DEMAND FOR INCREASED WAGES Situation Regarded as Serious In the West—150,000 Employes Affected. CHICAGO, I1l., Dec. 20.—Demands for a 20 per cent increase in the wages of passenger and freight conductors and brakemen were presented today to the officials of forty railroads running west from Chicago. The proposed increase affects 150,000 employes, who are members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trzinmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors. Aec companying the demands notice was served that an answer must be returned by January 5. Although no strike is threatened, the situation is regarded generally by railroad men as critical. Although the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Con ductors are back of the movement for an increase in wages the demands were presented by the grievance committee of the various railroads affecteq. These boards will carry on all negotiations hereafter, governed in their actions to a large extent by the advice and recom mendation of the various officials of both unions. Officials of the different railroads, with headquarters in Chicago invariably re fused today to discuss the demands of their employes, giving as a reason thar i* would be nécessary to hold several ¢.uferences before a decision in the matter could be reached by any of the roads. EXPLOSION AND FIRE WRECKS CHICAGO MARKET CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Just before mid night last night a heavy blast wrecked a portion of the Fulton Market, at Fulton and Green Streets. Flames immediately broke out in the four-story brick build ing, nearly a block long. In two hours the blaze had eaten its way through the structure, causing a loss of $200,000 Nearly a score of commission firms were located in the building, and prae tically all of them suffered loss by fire and water. The cause of the explosion was urknown. GERMANY’'S LARGEST BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED KIEL, Dec. 20.—-The largest battle ship in the German navy was launched here ihis morning. She was christened Brunswick by the Prince Regent of Brunswick. Prince Henry of Prussia and bis wife witnessed the luvnehing. Alarming Condition Now Existing Brings Forth Con certed Action on Part of Washington Business Men. Profits, If Any, to Be De voted to Worthy Cause. Books to Be Opened To morrow for Subscriptions and Orders to Be Filled by January 20—Partici pants in Fund to Be Given Preference. Rumors of Attempt to “Whitewash” Conditions by Committee Appointed by Commissioners to In= vestigate Existing Short age and Suggest a Remedy. The syndicate being formed for the purpose of importing coal from Scotland to supply the deficiency and relieve the famine that h#s existed in Washington and is becoming more alarming each day will waive all claim to the profits, and any surplus will probably be de voted to wiping out the deficit attend ing the Grand Army encampment or to swelling the Shepherd Memorial fund. It is purely in a spirit of public benefi cence that the promoters of the syndi cate are acting. Bcoks will be opened tomorrow or Tuesday for subscriptions to ihe fund, and shortly afterward for the receipt of orders for coal to be de livered the latter part of January and thereafter. Subecribers to the fund will be given preference in the filling of or ders. The project of importing coal from Scotland was first broached at the last meeting of the coal commit appoint that oceasion, in view &i the glowing reports submitted by the subcommittees intrusted with the investigation of con ditions in this city aad elsewhere at that time, definite action was deferred. In fact, it bas been learned that the ‘meeting of the committaas was not at tended with the perfect harmony con ducive to satisfactory results. It has been rumored that one of the members of the committee charged that an effort was being made ito “whitewash™ the whole matter, and relieve the committee of further responsibility. yo Among those considerations tha. are said to have been weighty with. the members of the committee in inducing them to refrain from recommendations to the District Commissioners was a statement which was said to have been made by John Joy Edson, chairman of the committee on local situation, that anyone with “brains and intelligence could secure what coal they needed at $7.50 a ton,” and that he knew from whence even greater supplies could be Conditions Grow Worse. Nearly three weeks have elapsed since this meeting, and the condillons bave steadily grown worse. Several of the members of the committee yesterday talked over the situation, and arrived at the conclusion that something mus: be done immediately, if done at all, 10 avoid a winter of the most intense dis tress. suffering, and death. A letter was prepared calling upon Mr. Edson to ad vise his correspondent of any informa tion of which he might be possessed looking to the relief of the city. This letter had not been seni last evening, but to a Times represemiative, Mr. Ed son denied having made the statement attributed to him, and stated that in his belief the only relief was to be found wm the most rigid economy on the part of everyone, Upon being advised of this fact the members of the committee who had pre pared the letter in conjunction with se¢v eral other gentlemen, who, pending :he thorough ouilining of their plams, pre fer that their names should be withheld, Legan preparations for the formation “+f the syndicate. Each of the geaiiemen interested declares that his purpose is purely philanthropic and public-spirited, and that whatever profits may be deriv. ed shall be devoted to one or the other of the public enterprises mentioned. When asked as to whether he would favorably receive a proposition looking to the donation of the profits of this en terprise to the Shepherd memorial fund, Crosby S. Noyes, chairman of the fund, sald that on general lines he would not be untavorable to any legitimate propo sition that would assist the committee he represented in raising the necessary money. Further than that he said that he would prefer (0 give the matter more consideration before committing himself. Chairman Braiverd H. Warner, of the finance committee of the Shepherd fund, was out of the city, but is expected back tcday, when the maiter will be pres sented to him. Lack of Harmony. Meets With Favor.

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GENERAL CORBIN DISCUSSES THE ARMY STAFF PROJECT Address Made Last Night Before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce— Secretary of War Eulogized e 3 Proposed Law Described as a Solution of Unhappy Conditions—Not Contrary to Republican Principles. Quced (he distinguised visitors, 10ey were both heartily received. General Chaffee discussed China, and told much from his personal experiences General Corbin's speech dealt with United States greatness and the army. The attendance ai the banquet: was large and consisted of the leaders of this city's commercial and industrial life. An informal reception followed the speech-making.

Both generals were visitors at the tomb of President McKinley today, and the guests of Mrs. McKinley.

In the course of his speech Generai Corbin authoritatively announced that Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, at present in command of the Department of the East, has been selected to succeed General Young in command of the army, when that officer retires in January, 1904, Lieut. Gen, Nelson A. Miles will retire for age on August 8, 1903, and will be succeeded in command of the army by Gen, 8. B. M. Young, who, in turn, will retire for age five months later. It is not announced how long General Chaffee will remain at the head of the army, but he will not reach the retirement age un til 1906. At the War Department it is believed that he will ask for retirement at an earlier date in prder to make a va acncy to which General Corbin could be

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General Corbin responded to “The Army.” He said:

NSA aN AN EY a WN a A AT Ya va “Nr INS SAS wv Ss “The text given me is as broad as the country's history. It suggests the strug gle for freedom in the campaigns from Lexington to Yorktown; the battles on the frontier of Michigan and of New Orleans; from Palo Alto te Chapultepec; Fort Sumter to Appomattox: from San tiago and Porto Rico to the Philippines and to Pekin, and a long list of Indian wars, all rich in valor and far-reaching results of benefit to the country and civ ilfzation. But it is not te the past I shall address myself, but rather to the present and future, inviting your par ticular attention to ‘me pressing needs of the military service. We have much

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of A a ol he et rohit MAYS aH men b in e fortgmate In having af parma “teers. What ig kmown as the regular army is in the highest sense a volunteer army; every officer and man takes ser vice of his own motion, and be it said, that from the beginning of the Govern ment to the present day there has nevep been a conscription for the regular army. The only conscription we have ever had was to fill the quotas for some of the States during the war of the Union. But to our needs. It is perfection of organ ization that is demanded. A harmonious and intelligent method of co-ordination and direction. nen ATY n

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“For a century we have nursed the hope that radical defects womld adjust themselves. In the past century we have had many statutes aiming to promote the efficiency of the army, and enacted with good intent, but they have as a rule re lated to some particular department, and not always with intelligent relation to what had gone before. In other words, ‘laws for the administration of the army “have been grafted on the statute books in many parts, without a continuity of legislative thought, so that starting out with the constitutional provisions thas the President shall command the army ~and navy, you soon overtake conditions which baffle and bother those charged with responsibilities connected there ‘with,

Secretary Root’s Recommendations. “That these unhappy conditions ob tain is largely due to the fact that no one has heretofore offered a satisfactory solution. Seeretary Root now presents one. He recomrmends that a board of Jorilitary expert: shall be created, at the head of which there shall be ar officer (of highest rank, who shall be the chief military officer of the War Department {and known as the Chief of Staff —subordi inate to the President and Secretary of War, yet clothed with authority to con trol all the staff corps and departments, and who, through the Adjutant General, shall make orders in the name of the Secretary of War, the constitutional representative and spokesman of the President. y i C “The law now requires all the chiefs of staff departments to report to the Secretary of War. ‘To make myself clearly understood I cannot do betier than to quote from the bill now pend jing before the Congress, defining the ‘duties of the Chief of Staff. His duties ‘shall be to prepare plans of national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to in ‘westigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the army and its state of preparation for military operations, to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other su perior commanders, and to act as their agents in informing and co-ordinating the action of all the different officers engaged in carrying out their orders, and to perform such other duties as may be from time to time prescribed by the President.’ y “Zz a £3 86 “This, in brief, covers the administra tion of the army and the War Depar: meni. The President is authorized to detall the Chief of Staff from the general officers of the line or staff, thereby giving him large number from which to make the selection, and while per forming this important duty the officer detailed shall Rave rank commensurate with this lmpertant duty. At the ex ‘piration of the detail as Chief of Staff the officer returns to his raak in the Jine or the corps or department from which he was selected,

a 1016200 1916 pa. Avene “The bili does not increase the num ber of officers but continues the num Per and rank now provided for the army. i A Soldier’s Views of a Soldier’s Trade Our officers and men are of the best—sober, brave, and intelligent. What is known as the regular army is in the highest sense a vol unteer army; every officer and man takes service of his own motion. Nations no longer maintain armies to make war, but to prevent it. Force is, and always will be, an element of government, and like in surance, expensive, and yet a wise and prudent provision. On the stability and efficiency of our army and navy may possibly de pend the destiny of the nation.

The young man who enters the army should understand that he consecrates his life to patriotism and comparative poverty. The youth desirous of fame and fortune should not seek a place In the military service. the military service. In the event the senior officer is not se lected for chief of staff, provision is made that he shall have a command commensurate with his rank and expe rience. The exacting duties of adminis tration and detail may not always ap peal to the senior general. In such in stances only would the provision of the detail of another than the senior apply. That there has been friction no one can wonder. That there has not been more is 2 matter for congratulation. Perfect harmony of administration is no more possible under existing conditions of law and regulations conflicting with consti tutional provisions than the placing of two pegs in one hole. “In the war with Spain the depart ment was presided over by a Secretary who had served with honor and great distinction for full four years in the war for the Union, and who in business affairs in civil life had achieved marked success—General Alger, of Michigan. Under Secretary Alger’'s administration war was carried to full and complete success. The business relating to active operations of war being done, the work of building up civil government in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands was next in order. “President McKinley determined that the head of the department should now be presided over by one of marked legal ability and training, one distinguished for his knowledge of constitutional law and the rulings of our courts in all such questions, that these aequired posses sions should have governments builded on solid and lasting legal foundations. The consensus of opinion of those con sulted as to the one possessing in the highest degree these qualifications de termined the Presi ‘s selection of the present Secretary A ps dom of that selection is none and recognized by all Great Personal Sacrifice. “Mr. Root was called upon to assume these responsible duties without seeking or even without his ting jt. His ac ceptance called for rent personal sac rifice. He 1 aside law practice was attractive and “Tuerat ive. and re sponded in the spirit ‘that prompted your President to eall him and from the 1st of August, 1899 until today has he given the country the best efforts of his great abilities and untiring ener tha} eh t mili re of volur gies. He has studied the es and problems coming tefore hil “unu sual care, and reached and results that awaken a lively sense of gratitude in the heart of every patriotic citizen. The bill has the advantage of being helpful in every direction and hurtful in nope. “To no question has Mr. Root ad dressed himself with more earnestness and intelligence than tc the betterment of administration. The staff and militia bill he regards the most important of all his work. They are the result of more than three years’ experience, and of thought and research. In taking the war folio he recognized the fact that as 'a lawver he had undertaken the most important case of a distinguished legal career. He has more nearly mastered the legal questions of the department than any of hig predecessors, many of whom have been those most distin guished in their day and gemeration. “His views are those born of long experience and investigation, free from any feeling of partiality toward any of ficer or officers of either the line or staff, in the depariment or out of it. His first thought has been the satisfac tory solution of perplexities that have for long vears confronted the country ‘and the department. He finds faulty ad ministration due to a lack of prcper or ganization and co-ordination. He offers a bill that in his judgment will cure the existing evils and make harmony, intel ligence, and efficiency take the place of confusion and apparent contention, the blame for which cannot rightfully be charged to men, but to the conflict of Jaw and regulations, with the most clear ly defined provision of the Constitution. “Just so long as the Constitution stands just so long must the command of the army rest under the President and his constitutional representative and executive officer, the Secretary of War, Upon these condi‘lons mot only the Secretary of War, but the President should have the advice and counsel of the best military experig that can be given them by a chief of staff, who will be selected by the President from among the general officers of the army, and supporting the chief of staff a board of military experts. A VBoarnarratie Dias A Democratic Plan. “This is a solution entirely in con sonance with our form of government. It gives the President and Secretaary of War the information necessary for intel ligent and efficient administration. It serves to accentuate in a forceful way the subordination of the military to civil au thority. Mr. Root’s plan 1s not the Ger man or French plan, or that existing in any foreign army. While he may have gained valuable suggestions by a close study of the organization of foreign armies, his scheme is wholly American and conceived on the lines and spirit of our Government; and is in _lose touch with the Constitution. It should be ac cepted in the spirit it is offered apd there is no question but that it will be, if the intelligent consideration of the country is given to it, “It is worth while even In your busy lives to give your thoughts and energy to the solution of this important problem. Should those of you charged with the administration of great affairs find your erganization faulty, would you censure your faithful subordinates for that fault? Not a bit of it. You would President and Secretary of War Would Secure the Advice and Counsel of Best Military Experts. Selection of AdnaB Chaffce to Command Army on Re tirement of Gen. Young Announced. hold them blameless, and assembling your board of directors correct the fault 2nd then, and then only, hold all to a rigid account. This is exactly the course Secretary Root proposes. It is a matter of as much concern to every citizen as to the army itself. Nations no. longer maintain armies to make war, but to prevent it “We support an army toc protect our selves against the possibilities rather than the probabilities of the future. Force is, and always will be, an element of government, and, like insurance, ex pensive, and yet a wise and prudent pro vision. You are better satisfied if never called upon to realize upon it; should, however, the day of reckoning come, you and yom: children's children will re joice that it does not fail you. The very same principles should be appliea in as suring your country against possibilities of the calamiiies of war. In both cases wisdom and prudence suggest only the best. Destiny of Nation. “On the stability and efficiency of our army and navy may possibly depend the destiny of the nation. Persuaded that Secretary Root offers that which is good for the army, and the interests of the whole country, are you, as patriotic cit izens, willing to take any chance and lose the benefit of timely counsel? There can be but one answer; you are not. I confidently assume that I have the sym pathy and cordial approval of the best thought of the service and particularly of the two distinguished generals whom it is my pleasure to join with you in biddirg welcome to the first city of my ‘native State, “You joined me in hearty ‘congratula~ tious on the prospective promotion of gallant General Young to the rank of lieutenant general in August net. To foliow him in that grade, you will have the further pleasure of rejoicing with me in’ the promotion of my long-time friend and comrade, deer old Chaffee. While our careers on the dctive list have not wholly Tui, we are nearing the end. Our long service makes us com petent to bear testimony. Each of us has ‘already more than forty years’ service, and colleetively it covers almost a century and a quarter. While our service has been long, and at times tedious and severe, we ha Vhe satisfaction that goes with a reward. In passing let me say that In each general present youth of the land will find an in tion that will cheer him on, each s having started on our careers as farmer boys with no ald but our own ef forts——demonstrati in a way that in this country all are possible to all men. 3 “The young man he taters dhe 4 shoul! understand that Zh his life to patriotism and comparative poverty. The rewards In the army under any conditions are few. The youth de sirous of fame and fortune should not seek a place in the military service, Civil lite offers far oe fruitful field, In the army high rank, and but few these exer Tar the dig nity of real and everlasting fame. In all our history Washington, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan alone have reached it. Many others have achieved high rank, and great distinction and thc respect and admiration of their countrymen. The same talent, application and enterprise that gains rank and distloction in the army would in the business or profes sional world bring far greater reward both in the way of position and compen sation.

“Many deserving officers wear thelr lives away without the reward of rank. The fact is, there never has been or ever will there be places for all or any con siderable number of the deserving, how ever strong their claims, so that at life's end the greater number must console themselves with the consciousness of duty well done. This Is not the reward that glitters, but it comforts, and all in all, it is about the best that can come to the mest favored. It is within the reach of all and we can but call him fortunate who gains it, but continued effort, and the constant application of the principles of true manhood are necessary to its possession. It is a deco ration that the man with the gun can win quite as readily as the officer with the sword. It becoming the citizen and soldier alike. OPERATION SAVED SIGHT. An op:ration has restored the sight of Capt. Dan French, a Potomac mariner, who was for several mouths almost en tirely blind as the result of cataracts. He will take charge of one of the big Clyde Line steamers running from Phil adelphia. RA ES AA IEE a EE EE EE EE I I I I I I NR SSE SESS SS SR SPN thee OPEN EVENINGS. 0 5 A Desk Bargain.. tess s0s0sssssssssssssee We've picked it from the hun dreds here, as representing the greatest desk value in the stock. Times’ readers will have the chance at the balance of stock tomorrow. In quar tered oak, highly polished with one drawer French legs, straight top rail instead of curved as in the cut. 00000000000 $6.50 would be right; we're selling for wrt oi B4/S0 W. B. MOSES SONS, F Street, Cor. 11th.

EE EE Gn Cube Suh ted ad A GR SSCL atin 48 Bia dhs Chill FRAP 0355395555505 99005 0090000000000 0000% 00000 THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. 2 MRS. GRANT'S BODY SEALED IN TOMB (Continued from First Page.) (Continued from First age.) on the boat, and when they reached this side of the river, drove to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they will re main until after the services tomorrow. The body of Mrs. Grant was carried aboard the Government steamer, Gen eral Meigs, and placed on a stand drap ed in black, which stood en the for ward deck. The veterans gathered around it, and despite the long trip to the tomb and the biting wind that was blowing remained there in the cold and dark until the landing place was reach

ed. There the coffin was put in a hearse, and taken to the tomb, where it was placed in the sarcophagus. A hundred electric lights had been placed in the tomb and for the first time since it was built the place was illuminated. Imme diately after the interment the lights were removed. It was exactly seventeen minutes tc 7 o'clock when the body was placed in the sarcophagus and about 7:30 o'clock when the top was lowered into place and ad justed to the satisfaction of those in charge of the work. By 8 o'clock everybody had left the tomb and the bodies of both.General and Mrs. Grant were in charge of the cus todian, Col. Orlande F. Middleton, and his assistant, George DD. Burnsice, SOLEMN SERVICES IN METROPOLITAN CHURCH Funeral services for Mrs. Grant were held yesterday morning at the Metro politan Methodist Episcopal Church, Four-and-a-half and C Streets. Because of the limited time, no funeral sermon was preached. This will be done this morning, when a memorial service will be held. In the prayer offered at the service yesterday, Dr. Bristol referred at length to Mrs. Grant's virtues and to her family. President Roosevelt sat during the service with bowed head. All over the church were old friends completely over come by emotion as Dr. Bristol recount ed the womavr's virtues and those of her husband. An accident ~ccurred as the funeral cortege was passing into the church. As the heavy casket was lifted from the hearse (pe of the handles suddenly snapped off. Had it not been for the activity of one of the pallbearers the coffin would have fallen to the pave ment. T»: pallbearer, whose handle had broken Beld: the piece in place and ‘marched with the procession into the church as though nothing had happened, leaving his companion to bear the weight. Later the broken handle was replaced by a new one, As the body was carried from the “the chimes on the tower mourn. fully rang out with the notes of Mrs. Grant's favorite hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” Until the procession had en tered’ Pennsylvania Avenue, the hymn was played. Many noticed the incident and mained with uncovered heads un procession was out of stghy and es had ceased. Beautiful Floral Emblems. The florai emblems sent to adorn the last resting place of the departed wo man were beautiful and almost Innumer able. Conspicuous among them was a shield sefit by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. It was made of red and white roses and bore the society Insignia on its face. In the church it 4] HAYES—On Friday, December 19, i502, ut 6:20 a. m., WILLIAM L., beloved son of "at: rick H. Hayes, aged twesty flee years. Relatives and friends and members of Alex andria Lodge, No. 758, B. P. O. Elks; also Columbia Lodge, No. 1, Knights of Fidelity, of Washington, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his father, 816 E Street southeast, on Monday, December 22, at 9 o'clock a. m., to St. Peier’s Church, where a high mass of requiem will be offered for the Jepone of his soul. Interment in Alex. andria, Va.

Columbia Lodge, No. 1, Knights of Fidelity: The death of Brother William Hayes, on the 19th instant, is announced to the lodge. Funeral! services, at which the attendance of all brothers is requested, will be held at St, Peter's Church on Mondav, December 22, 1902, at 9 o'clock a. m. Members of the lodge will assemble at lodge rooms, 983 DP Street north west, at 8 o'clock a. m. sharp Monday, Decem ber 22. Interment at Alexandria, Va. By order of VALIANT COMMANDER HUGH F. HARVEY. W. H. BARGHAUSEN, Recorder, 1t SEFTON—On Satu December 20, 1902, at 10 o'clock p. m., WILLIAM M. SEFTON, of 1837 Fourteenth Street northwest, Notice of funeral hereafter. it DALTON -—-On Saturday, Decembar 20, 1002, at 9:45 p. m., at 63 Myrtle Street northeast, JOHN F., the beloved son of Nora and the late John Dalton. Notice of funeral later. It SWAYNE~—On Thursday, December 18, 1002, at his residence, 10 West Forty-third Street, New York city, Gen. WAGER SWAYNE, in the sixtv-ninth year of his age. Interment at Arlington National Cemtery, Monday, December 22, at 10:30 a. m. 1t DIED. rested on an easel at the head of the casket. Mrs. George W. Chi}ds sent a beauti ful wreath from her hone ir Philadel phia. Mrs. James L. Staiford, of Cali fornia, sent a floral tribute in the form of a cluster of lilies, roses and lilles of the valley. Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel, of Philadelphia, sent a pretty floral wreath. Among others who sent floral tributes were Mrs. John R. McLean, Senator and Mrs. John Kean, Mrs. Walter G. Oak man, Senator and Mrs. John P. Jones, Colonel and Mrs. T. A. Bingham, Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, Mrs. J. A. J. Cres well, Representative and Mrs. Hitt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs. Richard Townsend, General and Mrs. Draper, the Americus Republican Club of Pittsburg, Gen. George Meade Post, G. A. R., Army of the Cumberland, and the Loyal Le gion. At the family residence, in the early morning, a brief prayer service was conducted by Dr. Bristol. At this cone but members of the family and relatives were present. The honorary pallbearers were the only others admitted to the home before the funeral party started for the church. “Lead, Kindly Light.” As the body was carried into the church, the pallbearers stood with un covered head. Mournfully, the strains of “Lead, Kindly Light’ swept through the church as the pastor rose in the pulpit and signaled the quartet in the choir loft to commence the services. The scriptural selections were appropriate and the reading was heard in marked at tention. As a mark of special attention to the widow of their former commander, Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, U. 8S. A., a member of the Society of the Army of the Ten nessee, looked after details of the fun eral and officially represented the so ciety at the service. Gen. 0. O. How ard, of New York, will perform a simi lar function at the committal service at the tomb this morning. So late was the train bringing Ulysses S. 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VENEZUELA NAY SOON BE FREE OF THE POWERS EE ME _ i i OL i ei I ry President Roosevelt Asked to Act as A bitrator.

FAVORS HAGUE CONFERENCE Gratified at Invitation Extended by Germany and Engiand—Earnestly Desires Early Peace.

The requests made by Great Britain and Germany that President Roosevelt act as arbitrator in the Venezuela diffi culties came in the nature of a surprise ic the Administration, and especially to the officials at the State Department. In their communications to the State Department on the subject the two powers involved in the Venezuela mat ter say that if their arbitration propo sitions are accepted by the South Amer ican republic they would desire to have {he President act as arbitrator. 4 4 v

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Immediately upon the receipt of these communications from Great Britain and Germany Secretary Hay went to the White House and made known to the ns President the wishes of the two coun tine

Upon his return it was announced that the President had expressed uratifica tion at the invitation extended him by the powers but at the same time had expressed the wish that his first propo sition that the entire question be sub niitted to The Hague Conference for de cision be adopted. This has in due form been submitted to the powers. 4

The President's answer: it is explained at the State Department, docs not inean iihat he has refused to act &s arbitrator, but that he would rather see The Hague settle the matter,

The suggestion of the powers that the President become the arbitrator should not be undersiood as meaning that they have agreed to arbitrate. To make jos sible that desirable end, Venezue'a mast comply with certain demanded conditiuns, unless the creditor nations can he ‘n duced to show a more lenient policy.

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Want Full Indemnity. Germany wants a prefatory zuaranteo that Venezuela will pay, at the cppoini ed time, the amounts of indemnity which may be awarded by the arbitrator, and she also wants an apology, while Eng land is not willing to enter into this method of settlement unless she feels as sured that there will not be a recurrence of her trouble with the South Amerizan republic, FL WE Wii

The United States Government is en deavoring io persuade the creditor pow erg that their strongest guarantee lies in the moral effect, the fear of being out lawed and discredited among the civil ized nations if she failed to comply with the decision of an arbitration tribunal. j Henry White, charge d'affaires of the United States, telegraphed to the State Department yesterday the text of the British declaration of the blockade.

Mr. White preceded it with this state ment:

EES) “Supplement to ‘London Gazette’ contains the following notice: ‘There is nothing in the declaration to show whether the: blockad: is a “peace” or a war blockade. This governm nt wil} decline te recognize that the bhieckade is applicable te American or other neu i RETR bo

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The Government holds that to become effective against the commerce of ney trals, the blockade must be declared by the creditor powers to be a war block ade, In other words, they ust an nounce that they have declared war against Venezuela, or that a state of war exists between them and that coun try. l There is no interest on the part of the United States. however, to make an issue on the points if the blockade de clared yesterday is of the pacific Kind, until the occasion arises through an at tempt to prohibit any American mer chant vessel from entering a Venezuelan port,

Under the terms of the axnoounce. ment in the “London Gazette,” the Red DP Line sicamship Caracas, which lef New York on lest Saturday, and should reach La Guaira tomorrow will be permitted to go to her moorings at the Venezuelan port apd discharee pas sengers and cargo. eA egy

ENGLAND AND GERMANY NOT OPPOSED TO ARBITRA TIO COLOGNE, Dec. 20.—A Berlin dispatch to the “Cologne Gazet'e” says neither Germany nor England is opposed to arbitration in the Venezuelan affair. On the contrary they will welcome any suggestion that will lead to a satisfac tory setilement of the dispute. It is not probable, the dispaich says, hat the particulars of the negotiations pending between the powers will transpire before 8 complete agreement is reached

Suid Oda Dresser 4 ound Preece bevel place R irion swell range The Kalser's friendly greeting Charlemagne Tower, the new American ambassador, yesterday, the correspond cnt says, shows In a striking and happy way that full confidence prevails bhe fincty [wished rimming: €¥0¢ brass SPANISH Quickly Jearmed by native and experienced teacher; five years at the Berlitz. Special rales. Easy payment. Trial free, SENOK GOMAR, 707 12th st. de21,28 FROM GOVERNMENT SALE—B'ue overshirs, Oc; 3 gray undershirts, new, $1, new ponchos, $1.25; new horse blankets, 0c and 75¢; 2 and h ly roofing paper, best made, 5c and $1; horse collars, $1.25; canteens, 20c. BENSINGER CO., 11th and B sts. del5-6t UNPERTARERS. J. WILLIAM LEE, UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY, 2 Peon. Ave. 5, W., Washington 0. QO The President Pleased. wu Must Be War Blockade. PIP POPPI IPPP PIPPI IPPVI 9080000000000 0090060006060 0000000 EDUCATIONAL. SPECIAL NOTICES. States and Germany, despite the un friendliness of a section of the American press. This is regarded as a most significant point in favor of a settle ment of the trouble with Venezuela. tween the governments of the United RETICENCE OBSERVED IN BERLIN OFFICIAL CIRCLES BERLIN, Dec. 20.—The German note in regard to arbitration will be handed to Mr. Tower, the American ambassador. in the course of two or three days. It will declare that Germany adheres to the principle of arbitration with certain 1m portant reservations, similar to those included in the English note,

Great reticence is obzerved in official circles as to whether the blockade of Venezuelan porta will .be pfeific or otherwise. All inquiries on this point are answered with the simple statement, “It will be effective.” A A Se Bee Sn An imperial gazette issued tonight contains a notification that the harbors of Puerto Cabello and Maracaibo have been blockaded. BRITISH CONSUL POSTS NOTICE OF BLOCKADE

3 CARACAS, Dec. 20.—The British con sul issued official! notice to the authori ties at La Guaira today that a blockadn ‘would go into effect from 9 o'clock this ‘morning. The notice goes on to say that steamers coming from (he Unlied States or the West Indies would be allowed fen ‘days {rom the rime of their departure io reach Venezuela ports. Sailing vessels from these countries would be allowed twenty days. In regard to vessels from other coun tries the notice said steamers woula be allowed twenty days from the time of their departure, and sailing vessels forty days. All vessels will be allowed nufteen days in which to leave Venezuelan voris. The news of the practical acceptance by Great Britain and Germany of the propesal of President Castro through the United States Government of the pro posal to refer the matters in dispute to arbitration reached here at -16on “cday. No details are given and the absence of definite information leaves the Govorn ment in the dark, ae to what is actually going on, and what is the next step to be taken. The president's advisers canno! see the question clearly, as vet.

AMBASSADOR CHOATE MEETS KING OF GREECE American Diplomat Expects To Be Re ceived by Sultan and Khedive. LONDON. Dec. 20.—Joseph Choate, the American ambassador, and his family, while at Aihens, were the guests of the British minister. They met King George and all the members of the royal family. They will probably meet the Sultan in Constan tinople, and it is also thought that they will be received by the Khedive in Bypt.

All the members of the party are well and are enjoying their holiday. Private letters received from Mr. Choate say that he was much gratified at the cor diality of his reception by King George.

The ambasesador i« not troubled about political affairs, and gets no dispatches in regard to Venezuela. A delegation from Vincennes, Ind. made up of the mayor, postmaster and other prominent citizens, called upon Secretary Moody yesterday to urge that

some ship of the navy be named after their town. It is probable Vincennes will be the name given to a torpedo boar. Open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Eve ings.

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Scientific reports made on the spot deserve the sleeping sickness as a com paint something like that group of dis eases known as meningitis, or inflamma ‘tion of the brain. It begins insidlously ‘with changes in the mental attitude of the patient. From that time the disease progresses, and the patient becomes stupid and restless, and after other symptoms have passed enters into a state a coma and dies. ~The duration of the complaint varies from a month in acute cases to six months or more in chronic cases. The disease is practically invariably fatal. and ‘although taking longer to cause death than hydrophobia, may be classed along with the latter.as one of the most fatal {illnesses known to mankind. It is con 'tagious, and its spread is assured by overcrowding of many individuals in the same house. The depopulation of many large and thickly nonuluted areas is making itself felt, and ‘Ye outlook is very gloomy. The only sche we yet devised for (he preven tion of il: spread of the disease is the isolation of new cases we Sd CHANGE IN VANDERBILT'S CONDITION ENCOURAGING Physicians Announce He Is Still Criti cally IIL y I 3 bo Cer NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Cornelius Van derbilt’s attending physicians held a consultation at his home, 22 Park Ave nue, at 6 o'clock tonight and an %our latter issued this bulletin which, it was announced, would be the last for (le dav: N “Mr. Vanderbilt is still in a critical condition. There are no new complica tions or sympioms. Whatever slight changes have occurred are to be regard ed ac encouraging.” A friend of Mr. Vanderbilt said that bis temperature, reported to.have been 105 degrees for the seventy-two hours ending today at noon, had gone down to 102 degrees. This was regarded as one of the “slight changes” referred to in th: bulletin It was alsc said that this gradual de crease in the patient's temperature ought tu ve regarded as a very favorable symptom, whereas, a sudden drop in his temperature would be regarded as omi nous. REGIPRUGHTY TREATY IN THE GUBAN SENATE Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. HAVANA, Dec. 20. —-The reciprocity treaty between Cuba and the United States concluded by General Bliss and the Cuban secretaries wns read in the senate today 2nd wos finally referred to the committee on foreign relations. When the treaty was read fhere was some little debate as to which commit tee it should be referred to. One prop osition was that it should go te the finance committer. Ancther was that it should be referved to the tariff commit tee. President Palma sent the following message to the senate in submitting the document “I send to the senate a copy of the treaty with the United States, in Span Ash and English fer ite examination and consideration, according to clause 6, ar ticle 47, and the constitution. 1 also send to the senate a copy of the project and treaty which was submiited to the gov ernment of Cuba by the Government of the United Siates. A simple compari son of the two documents will show the advantages that are to be obtained. “The course of the negotiations shows how the Cuban commiszcioners defended the interest of Cuba and the favorable results which the treaty will produce in the country and the beneficent effect which it will have on the mercantile negotiations with the United States. It will also have the efieet of drawing closer, if poscible, the bonds of good friendship which unit us with that na tien." In conclusion President Palma says: “The circumstance of a time limit Having been placed for its approbation, makes ime recomirend that the senate give this importar: matter preferential attention, in order that if approved, the benefits of the trcaty may be had with out delay.” TRUST vou. jie A Fine Mahogany susie Cabimer. door frome, finely finished, construction, NEEDS FOR BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL BUILUING Report on Prepiration of Piens Sent to the Comm ssioners. The District Commissioners vesie day received from the Board of Education a report by the commitiee en high and normal schools in regard to the prepara tien of plans for the proposed new building for the Business High School. The report was framed by Holdsworth Gordon, chairman of the committee, and was sent to the Commissioners with the approval of the Board of Education. Mr. Gordon says: v “The enrollment of pupils in the Busi ness High School for October. 1902, was 672—259 belng boys and 413 girls. The new butlding, if authorized, would prob ably not be ready for occupancy for wo years, by which time it is expected the school will contain between 800 and 900 pupils. In erecting a permanent ‘home for this rapidly growing school. it would therefore be a short-sighted policy to design a building to accommo date less than 1.200 pupils. A building of this size should contain the following TOOmS: “Forty class rooms. °5 by 20 feet each: office, 25 by 25; teachers’ rooms, men, 25 by 30, and women 25 by 30: store room, 10 by 16; library, 30 by 45: physi cal laboratory. 25 by 40; chemical laboratory, 25 by 40: bielogical labora tory, 26 by 40; three store rooms, each 10 by 10. museum room, 40 by 5); man room, 30 by 40; penmanship and hook keeping room, 50 by 60; banking room, 30 by 35: assembly hall (two stories), 75 by 80 feet: two type-writing rooms, each 30 by 35; gymnasium and access sory rooms, 75 by 50 feet. “The basement plan should give the following rooms: Drill hall, 59 by 75 feet {bepeaih gymmasium): showers, baths, droseirg rooms, lockers, ete., bicycle rooms, cloak rooms, engine rooms, dyna mo room (power and light), store rooms, jaritor’'s room, lunch room, and kitchen ‘and fuel room. “The bu’lding, which the Commissioners cay, can be erecicd for $175,000 to cover 20,000 feet of ground, with two stories and basement, will afferd accommoda tions but siightly in excozs of those ‘of the Eastern High Schcol. which has class room facilities for only 400 pupils. it is evident that such a siructure would be barely adequate to provide for the schocl as it is today and fall far shert of meeting its needs two years hence, to say nothing of its future growth. The inspector of Buildings says the reascn $175,000 will not construct a larger build ing is because of the advance in the price of building material and labor dur ing the past two years. “We respectfully recommend in view of these facts that the Commissioners urge upon the Appropriations Commit tee the increase of the appropriation from $175,000 tc such sum as will in the opinion of the Commissioners be suf ficient to erect a three-story building ‘on a portion of the site large enourh to provide the main features of a struc ‘ture such as has been deseribed, with class room facilities for at least S06 pupils, on plans conten.plaling a future extension by the construction of wings which shall provide additional class rooms when needed LEIFELD BROUGHT BACK. E. A. Lelfeld, who was arrested in Montreal, Canada, a few days go on a charge of grand larceny. said to have been committed here, was brought io Washington yesterday afterncon by De tective Frank Baur. Leifeld is charged with taking watches and rings worth about $1,500 from the jewelry store of Schmedtie Bros. He disappeared cn Thanksgiving Day. His wife, who went away with him, is living in New York. Three of the watches were recovered. They were disposed of in Montreal. GIVE HIM A SUIT CASE... a——— F of: here's no gift as use fol or ax aceeplable to a man 4s Sait Case. We have a handsome genuine Cowhide Suit Case—it's 24 mches jong-<6 inches desp -has brass bolts and locks just the thing for your friend. Special Xmas price, $6. LUTZ C0, 497 Pa. Ave. LADIES! Give Him Sox of Cigars for mn wif There is nothing that a smoker can get more pleasure out of than a good Cigar. We have a fine line of high-grade Cigars, also a fall asseriiient of Meerschaum and Brier Pipes and Smokers’ Articles. Buy now and avoid the rush A. A Kanegck 0s. de9-17t 1235 PA. AVE. TEETH! g HIGH-CLASS MODERN DEWTISTRY By skiiled operators in each department shat we offer ye t, at almost half you pay bo» private dental office Call and consult us, that we may explain our improved methods. Beantifz] seis of Teeth, #6. $7. and $10 Painless Extracting, with or without gas

Y Female attendants Phone, East 304-D. Washington Dental Pariors NX. E. Cor. 7th and E Sts, Over Atlantic Pacific Tea Co.'s Store. dell-30t

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UNION RIGHTS DEFINED BY CONSPIRACY AWARD

Organized Labor's Hands Tied by Verdict. NO APPEAL IS PROBABLE I Trades Unionists Considering Advisa bility of Carrying Issue Into Politics. LONDON, Dec. 20.—Yesterday's verdict against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for conspiracy in or dering a strike against the Taff Vale Railway Company in August, 1900, has changed the whole industrial situation of Great Britain. The defendant society, with its war chest of $1,250,000, invest ed in bonds, is deprived of ifs power of inducing workmen to break contracts and of coercing non-union men by its picket system. The trades unionists are naturally dis heartened. They have ered the advisability of carrying the issue seo politics to overthrow the ants oft long litigation. i

History of the Trouble.

The Taff Vale Railway strike com menced suddenly with the stoppage of work at midnight on August 19%, 1900, by more than 1,200 men, of whom more than 800 had not received notice to end their contracts. The company claimed that the rallway men’s union maintained the stoppage of work by intimidation and picketing, and that the union officials induced the work men to break their contracts. The jury yesterday, without leaving the box, re turned a verdict for the plaintiffs, who will collect $140,000 from the railway men's union. $V; 11341 ir In the earlier stages of th NA mportant labor litigation, the point centered on the question whether a union could be sued. The legal members of the house of lords, sitting as a inal court of ap peals, decided: “A labor union edn’ sue for wrongs committed, for or against it,” as ir it were a corporate body. The railway company then proceeded to try the facts of their case against the A EE BETES REGIME ARE Di 5 a rr wT, GOLDENBERG'S. “The Dependabletore Rr ON BRASS AN E4E 1 Lh hiking ARRRGRRARIGG 11 0 SE Seventh and K Streets. _| GOLDENBERG" S. “The Dependable Store,” Seventh and K Streets. OOTYPD 000609%4 GOLDENBEL Christmas Gifts from All Over the Wor Ne

JX Priced as Goldenberg Knows How to Price Them People expect more of Goldenbere’s every day ~and more at Christmas time than at any other time of the vear. That's what we want. That's t] policy that seven women here. We want you to look on this store as one that can always be depended on io accomplish extraordinary things midst of the greatest, busiest time we've seen. Every department is putting forth its best efforts. on goods heretofore unheard of for like qualities M: ibe we are accepting too little for goods— years of merchandizing in Washington has aimed to eultivate in the inds to make extraordinary purchase o develop extraordinarily low prices. You'll The chie fs of the various departments a1 il ake this the record Christmas but we re doing it with a deep laid scheme to ral as (o sell more and more Xmas Umbrella Bargains. J

Ladies’ and Men's 26 and 28-inch Piece-dyed Taffeta Umbrellas, with best cloge-rolling steel rod and para gon frame, handles of pearl, ivory, silver trimmed, natural wood, PUPS LE RE EE EEE EEE EE EE EE ER ER ERE EER ERE EEE EE EE mourning, ete, in prin cess and crook case and tassel styles, speci 48 value ad. vi. coon... Sats LR Ladfes ‘and Men's 26 and 28-inch Fine Plece-dyed Taffeta Umbrellas, with handsome handles of every sort,

silver trimmed, fir and boxwood, Prince of Wales, horn crook, and straight styles, case, and NTEY Special for... 0 030 ‘SLY Ladies’ 26-inch Gloria Silk Umbrel las, tight roll, paragon frame, best tempered steel rods, handles of on den, pearl, silver trimmed, metal, plain wood, Congo and mourning; worth $1.50. Spe. 08¢ cial for Ladies’ and Men's 26 and 28-inch Serge Silk and Taffeta Umbrellas. with handles of firwood, silver trimmed, pearl, old Raglish silver A oxidized silver ete, case and tassel. 29 Bpocial hr. ....con0 see... Ladies’ and Men’ s 26 and 28-inch Serge Silk and Taffeta Umbrellas, with a hand some variety of handles, $3. PRECIAE FOF +uvuussnie i i HE a a Za a il Fur Specials for Xmas. 19 $2.00 Genuine Isabell d Sable RT Do cra aut $7.98 $6 Sable and Skunk Opo= sum Neck Searfs........c...... $3.98

8000000000000 000090000000000090000000000008 0000080990009 9999000000209 $8 Genuine Mink Fur scarfs $3 19

~-have clusters of tails...... $6.50 $10 Marten Fur Scarfs, with full tails to match.......... $16 Squirrel Skin Scarfs, with squirrel tails.......... $11.50 fe $18 American Isabella, d Sable Boas, oo” BORE... “ha We ig 51 2.50 1750 $15 Real Mink Fur Scarfs, with streamer scarfs...... $10.00 3 $4 Black Skunk ur Scarfs, with pe rg hil ise X §2.98 $8.50 Isabel y large, eng hol Boas, $5.89 7 Skunk Neck 8 clusters of ls aris, vi: 31.98 Mufis. Electric Seal, Isabella, and Sable Fox, Skunk, Marten, Mink. Wolf, Squirrel, and other kinds of fur muffs, at special prices Fur Jackets. $25 Electric Seal Coats, Skinner's satin lined...... fancy silk lined. aa oa, $31 00 84TN Ses collars var 2] Coats. mivi $37.50

Gifts for Men. Men's $8.50 Bath Robes; all-wool eiderdcwn, for....... $4.98 Men's All-silk Suspenders, 50¢ DORE, BOR x rapaissasanss sagas 3 Men's $1 ail Mufférs, boxed, BB add ans susp nts hs ssn ss rnes rans 73" Men's £1.00 White Laundered ROR. .ivufininiatSarvsannss 7’¢ Shirts, Men’ $35.50 Eiderd Bath Robes, BOF. vi. te Sw 52. 98 Men's 50¢ Fleece-lined Un- 39¢ on Sl i A A RR NN Men's $1.50 All-silk Neck« 51 00 ties, English Squares, for... a Men's 69 Gloves, with Astrachan backs, flea-e-lined and leather 30¢ Po BELL NPL CeO Ji

t Men's Silk Suspenders, sterling sil ver and quadruple plated or. 31 00 buckles (engraved free), for. Men's Sample Golf Gloves, all wool, big range of patteras; 44¢ pa BL EET IR i be Men's $5.00 Smoking Jackets, Tri cots, all wool, in blue, gar- $4 25 net, and tan; special for..... All-silk Men's boxed, Men's Silk Neckwear: newest BOBS, JOR. «vier cesanss Pod sans 25° Men's Fancy Silkembtoid ered Suspenders, boxed, tor. Men's $1.25 Mocha and Bog: 9§¢ SI CR A RI ess ver viassnsine Men's 50¢ “Famous” White Unlaundered Dress Shirts. Men's All-silk Garters, pairs in a box, for. .00 E pian Jo40, Berton $3 8 for (GOLDENBERG’S, Seventh and K Streets. PIII III PIPE IE III PIII III III III 0000 4 40090000 00000000000000000e La an LE Sh Ah Ah Sb Jb 8 Sb BB JE I officials of the union in an action im the king's bench division of the high court of justice before a jury. As the appeal courts, though they re verse decisions on questions of law, scarcely ever do so on questions of fact, it is expected that the railway men's union will abide by the result and pay the money. The Principal Defendants. The two principal defendants were Richard Bell, M. P., general secretary, and James Holmes, of the organizing society of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, The facts which the jury fornd to he rroved as to the conspiracy to molest and injure the plaintiffs in their busi ess included picketing and arrange ‘ments for paying money to induce men who had been hired by the company to withdraw without performing their con tracts. There were several cases of as sault on non-strikers, who were called “blacklegs," “the scum of hell,” and “diabolical humbugs and seabs.”™ The union officials contended that they were not liable for acts of violence which they had not ordered. The jury re fused to take that view of the case, and, keeping in mind the natural conse quences of the conduct of the officials, held that they had assisted in carrying out the strike by unlawful means, i i H i Yesterday's verdict is regarded as the clearest statement of the limits beyond which trades unionism must not go «ince the famous case of Allen vs. Flood, when the final court of appeal held” “To induce a person not to -ater inte a contraci with another, though suck in ducement is offered with malicious in tent, does not constitute an actionable wrong. It is actionable to procure a breach of an existing contract.” MAY ATTEMPT TO SECURE CONFEDERATE ENCAMPMENT

Washington may be favored with the annual encampment of the United Con federate Veterans in 1904. A proposi tion to this effect is anticipated by the executive committee of the Business Men's Association, and the members who have discussed it look on the idea with favor. The success of the recent G. A. R. encampment has inspired them to great effort in the matter. The national committee of the Confed erate Veterans meets soon in New Or leans, and Secretary Barry Bulkley may attend and present the claims of the city as a plage of encampment." The or ‘ganization of Confederate Veterans in cludes eminent men of all zections of ‘the country, and many have been in pub lic life. K WUT i THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902, 4 FIREMAN KILLED IN RAILWAY COLLISION Fast Freight Runs Into Locomotive of Coal Train.

1 SOMERVILLE, N. J., Dec. 20—A freight wreck occurred on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, nine miles west of here, at 10 o'clock last night, in which Fireman James A. Johnson, of Manasquan, was killed, and several trainmen were badly injured. A fast freight and an empty coal train, both westbound, collided. The coal train had orders te run on the siding from the main line and let the fast freight puss. ‘The crew of the coal train had complied ‘with the orders Either by accident, however, or a misunderstanding of sig nals, the locomotive of the coal train ran out of the siding upon the main track in the way of the fast freight. Johnson was fireman on the freight train. PRIZES ARE AWARDED BY MASONIC ASSOCIATION At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Masonic Fair Association, held last evening in Scottish Rite Tem ple, 1007 G Street northwest, the report of Director General Standiford showed that the following numbered season tickets entitle the holders to the prizes indicated: 17,684, piano; 29,318 Cece lian self-playing plano attachment; 9,381, gold watch; 30,666, set of parlor furniture; 3,992, bicycle.

The following railroad tickets have been awarded to the holders of the ticket numbers indicated and have not yet been called for: Washington to Chicago and return, via Baltimore and Ohio, 741; Washington to Chicago and return, via Pennsylvania, 25: Washington to St Louis and return, via Chesapeake and Ohio, 163; Chicago to Omaha and re turn, via Burlington, 32; St. Louis t¢ Denver and return, via Missouri Pacific, 44

OFFICIALS UNDER ARMS TO SAVE MURDERER TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. 20.—Mat thew Alexander, the negro murderer of Thomas Burke and assailant of Mrs. Burke, was sentenced to death last night and was taken to the Michigan City peni tentiary, where he will be executed April 16. The officials of Terre Haute had been under arms for three days fearing mob violence before Alexander was spirited AWAY. dod Closing Prices on Toys and Dolls. We must close out our remaining stock of toys and dolls by Wednesday night. We rever carry any loys over, hence these reductions. You will find the original price markings on all the goods that we advertise today. ud complete. 19 $5.93 extra large Rubber-tired Tri cycle, lush seat, drop steel BOPRIIMES «os vives su pn 22 0 nuins gio $3.98 $3.63 Doll Houses, tomorrow $2.69 $1.00 Parcheesi, $1.98 Toy Furniture, including bed room suite, dining room set, etc., etc. SARA aw ee 98¢ One Skin H 8, W HAW, romeo tare. 38.95 One large Skin Horse, was $12.98, reduced to... ..e... en $7.98 98c large-size Uniforms, mall car rier and Indian. These two 20° suits only, tomorrow............ 50¢ #8c¢ Plush Upholstered Piano Stools, cherry finish........... $1.50 Mechanical Track Train with track and crossing, making the 98¢ figure cight, tomerrow......... C Regular $1.48 Cavcioaris. OY 24c¢ Regular 49¢ ones... Regular $2.98 Iron Toys— ARY OF 8ll...cscsvscinsnnsrnns $1.98 Regular $4.98 Tricycles, the very largest size made....... $3.89 Regular 49% Pianos, 8 keys, 33¢ TOMMOPITOW.. a4 anv sav nine xn smsinne dns Jewelry. Some Special Snaps 50c Jewelry, 25c. Sterling Silver Hat Pins. Brooch Pins. Beauty and Cuff Pins. Baby Bracelets, Sterling Manicure Pieces Extr. gize Sterling Silver Thim bles. 98c Jewelry, 49c. Child's Solid Gold Rings. Solid Geld Stick Ping Brooch Plus. Link Cuff Buttons. Hat Pins. Mateh Safes. Also ‘he new Royal Copper Jew elry. Large size Sterling Silver pieces, in French gray and polished silver, heavy quality; ronbreakable—con sisting of manicure pieces and desk pleces, in a wide variety of styles. Usnal prices T5¢ and 49C RE. To oe f0F.....xn00ecsnees Infants’ Sterling Silver Sets gn (in a box) engraved free. €8C vino AR AN A SY Lorgnette Chains, in sterling sil ver and solid gold, 14 karat filled; with solid gold cork-lined slides. $1 49 Bpecial price.........:...4 Sterling Silver and Gold plated Cuff Buttons. Sold 49¢ elsewhere at $1. Our price... LOUISIANA MILITIA REGIMENT DISBANDED Refused to Turn Out Against Street Ca: Stij'ers, NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—The First Regiment, Louisiana State National Guard, has been disbanded by order Ad jutant General Jumel, for failure to com ply with the laws and regulations of the National Guard. The Louisiana militia has been in a state of disintegration for some time. The Spanish war hurt it by taking off most of the militia companies, which entered the volunteer service. The re cent street car strike completed the ‘wreck, as many of the militia refused to turn out against the strikers. The entire First Regiment, the Ewing Guards, resigned in a body rather thap serve, FEAR MAKES POISON EATERS’ WEIGHTS VARY

So Dr. Wiley Will Now Begin Admin istering Preservatives Without Their Knowledge. The twelve young men who have con sented to eat poison for the benefit of science, have been extremely unruly for several days. When everything seems favorable for the experiment, one or two of them are sure to go on a rampage One will become thin or another fat. Dr. Wiley has thought deeply over the matter and the cause of the trouble has been determined. The men have been looking forward to the test with too much apprehension, he thinks. The doctor now announces that he will triumph in spite of them. He has decided not to tell the youths when they are consuming poison and when they are not. Without their knowledge, the preserva tive will be put in the food they eat. Then, without thought of the future, they can enjoy the food and the poison, toe GIFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. As has been the custom each Christ mas for twelve years with Messrs. Saks Co., the firm will distribute 100 over coats among the deserving poor on Tues day morning. The garments will be fo boys only. Tickets have been presented C. F. Weller, general secretary of Asso ciated Charities, and he will look after their distribution. Boys’ Xmas Gifts. Silk Neckties, in fancy boxes....25c 2 Cape Collars for......ccocennses 5c Warm Cap Or. vouusas sian onns 2c “Mother's Friend” Shirt Waist ner RP ST PTDOT Pas Sr 49¢ A pair of Suspender Braces pres Hc Boy's Regulation Naval Officer's KAP unis vinisnnissers savasvsisninias 1%¢ A long Peak Cap... ....consuvensn 25¢ A Wool Toboggan Cap.....covvn-- 19¢ A Bult of Pajamas..........s 0.0. 49¢ Blue Flannel Shirt Waist Blousbs. 49¢ 3 Linen Collars for 25¢ Square Shape Angora Tam o'Shan ROPE «ovias so nnnssnssns sina rss ais ns Black and Brown Derby Hats... .%8c Boys' “Ideal” Underwaists....... 5c A pair of Blue Serge Knee Pants. .%8c Boys’ White Unlaundered Shirts..2% J Boys’ Suits. Boys® All-wool Blue Cheviot Suits, double-breasted styles, sizes 3? “8 T 10 16 YoRPSEw::oorerrssrs=+s oJ Boys' Cossack Overcoats, sizes 2 to 8 years, very stylish and a good protection from cold, Wibtry blasts. ioe. sassnsses 52.98 49° Boys’ Blue or Red Sweaters. Boy's Soldier Cap...coovvveesss 4 gt Beys' Vel Reef vith Worcs Bini. o ge he oy Be 51 98 A good Overcoat, very long, with vertical slash pockets and velvet collar; sizes 3 to 15 years; made of good melton cloth, BAUS «nv in sins ranin sea va 2.93 EXTRADITION PAPERS IN MADRID FOR HUMBERTS Madame Asserts Anxiety to Cenfound Authors of Her Present Unhappiness. PARIS, Dec. 20.—M. Valle, the minis ter of justice, in an interview tonight expressed the greatest satisfaction over the arrest of the Humberts. He said the matter of extraditing them would be a very simple act. The indictment had been forwarded to Ma drid this evening. and it was expected that the prisoners would be in Paris in ten days. The Spanish detectives who arrested the Humberts and d’Aurignacs will re ceive a reward of 25,000 francs. In an interview with the Madrid cor respondent of the “Temps” Mme. Hum bert said she was anxious to go to Paris immediately. She desired to tell the truth about the whole transaction and denounce the authors of her present unhappiness, Ske had always intended to return to France and answer the charges, she de clares. MEARS FOUND GUILTY OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER Mixed Poison in a Bottle of Whisky to Give Man Whose Wife He Loved. BENNINGTON, Vt, Dec. 20.—In the county court yesterday Joseph Mears was tried on two charges, one of aa ministering Rough on Rats in pancakes, the other of mixing corrosive sublimate in a bottle of whisky, to murder Phil ander Moffatt, of Sandgate, who became seriously ill from both attempts. It was claimed by the State that Mears was in love with Moffatt's wife, a wo man twice his age. The jury, after several hours’ de liberation, returned a verdict of guilty on the second count. Y. M. C. A. MEETING. The address to men this afternoon un der the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., will be delivered by Charles Inglis, of Lon don, England. Beginning today the Sun day afternoon meetings will be held at the Lafayette Opera House. The doors will be opened at 2:30 o'clock, and the song service will commence fifteen min utes later. Dollis at Closing Prices. Special prices on Dolls tomorrow. Every year when we make this an nouncement our stock disappears as if by magic. If you have not pur chased your doll as yet, these prices will be highly interesting. Our regular $6.98 Dolls for $5.98. Our $5.98 Dolls, $4.98. Our regular $4.98 Dolls, $3.98. You can see the original price markings on each and every Doll, and, after selecting, ask the clerk for your reduction. $1.50 25-inch Kid Body Dolls, joint ed hip and knee, tomorrow, 98c. All of our 50c¢ Dress Dolls, tomor row, 2c, All of our 25¢ Dressed Dolls, to morrow, 12156, Fancy Holiday Giits Comb, Brush, and Mirror Bate ci ai. 98c to $8.98 Manicure Sets..... .r++31.98 to $4.98 Collar and Cuff Boxes....40c to $1.58 Fancy and Leather Al- A DANG oats amma sees.98¢c to $3.98 Complete Shaving Sets..$1.49 to $4.48 (Fine steel razor, mug, brush, and mirror.) Perfumes in Fancy Boxes. .25c¢ to 98¢ Photograph Albums. 49¢ to Tae Smoking Sets from..... $1.98 to §2.¢8 Work Boxes... wu. San asina ian Sle Musical Boxes $3. 2% to $5.00 Handkerchief Boxes..............30¢ Combination Toilet and Manicure and Jewel Cabinet....$4.98 to $6.00 Holiday Art Goods. Beautiful Cat, Owl, and Dog Plates, in all the combination colorings, trimmed with silk ribbon and Lows, Por NIORARY ae silica sa 25¢ Fancy Pin Cushions, some hand painted, others daintily trimmed with lace and ribbons. Monday, PTE hh La 98¢c to $2.00 Handsome Opal Sets, hand-painted, in all the new patterns and color ings, 6 piece sets, for Mon RY. J. fades: suid side dhe a 98¢ to $3.19 Spachtel Scarfs and Shams, in all the wanted patterns. Monday, SPORE. 5. canner sir anita iia 20¢ to $2.98 50 dozen Momie Tray Cloths, plain and stamped, with fringe all ‘round. The Mexican drawn cloth. Regular price 122. For Monday........ 12'%¢ THE PRESIDENT IN NEED OF MENTAL REST (Continued from First Page.) would not be able to see any callers. The only persons, with a few notable exceptions, who are always admitted im mediately to the President's private of fice, are members of the Cabinet, and two of them entered. They were Secre taries Hay and Hitchcock. Air of Mysteriousness. The growing air of mysteriousness pervaded everything about the mansion and offices, and nothing ~onli be learned officially or uno9i:all: as to the I'resi dent's plans. Meanwhile several car riages had driven up quickly to ihe porte cochere on the Pennsylvania Ave uue front of the White House. The President and his family entered ind were hurriedly driven away to the Penn sylvania staticn, where a special train ‘was in readiness. Rapidan is eighty miles distant from Washington. The train left hero pre cisely at 12 o'clock. The Presiden! stepped to the rear nlatiorm and waved good-by to Secretary Cortelsou and the small party who had heard of his in tended departure in time to reach the station before the train started. "ho party arrived at their destination shrrt ly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. THE PRESIDENT'S PARTY ARRIVES AT RAPIDAN Heavy Load for Mr. Wilner's Two Horse Carriage When All Pile In. RAPIDAN, Va., Dec. 20.—The special train of cars bearing President Roose velt and the members of his family reached here at 2:26 this afternoon. Joseph Wilner, the President's friend, at whose home the Roosevelts will spend the Sabbath, was waiting at the station with a two-horse carriage. Mr. Wilner looked rather doubtful when President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Theodore, jr. Kermit, Ethel and Archie alighted from the train and surrounded the solitary carriage, but was soon put at ease by the President who told everybody to pile in, and everybody piled until Mr. Wilner wad to sit on the floor of the carriage in front of President and Mrs, Roosevelt in order to drive. SCOTCH ARTIST ROCHE TO PAINT CARNECIE PORTRAITS GLASGOW, Dec. 20.—The Scotch artist, Roche, left here today for New York, where he is to paint portraits of Mrs. and Miss Carnegie. Warwick China Dinner Sets, of 100 pieces, with pink decoraticns, gold knobs ‘and handles; also S11 48 solid in open stock......... American P lain Di Su of Tr ee Juin Diner gh. 93 pare Porcelain Dinner Set of pieces, floral decora “tions, full gcld Hned....... $16.98 10-piece Toilet Sets, tinted 4 49 decorations, roli-edged bowls 10-piece Toilet Sets in tinted col ors, violet and pansy filled-in deco rations, heavy tracing, full roll edge DASKHE......co: users 6.49 12-piece Warwick China Toilet Sets, full tint and filied-in decorations, gold lined, roll- 6 a8 edge DRS. vaaeisas wees Benes ba ia 10-piece Decorated Toilet $2 19 Sets, full-roll edge bowls..... Decorated Parlor Lamp, with 7 inch shade, large burner, and 48¢ filled-in decerationhs............. Punch Bowls, with Stand. hoding two gallons, in cut glass effect...... te sn a a aa $2.25 Glasses to match, 75¢ dozen, 10-inch Fruit Bowls, in cut 39¢ 0s ea Large size Cake Stands, crys- 35¢ tal cut glass finish............. 2-quart Water Pitchers, in 49¢ neat’ engraviRBs. uc csnsvian ass Extra thin blown Table Tum- 60c¢ blers, in new engravings, doz... 1-quart Wine Decanters, erys- 14¢ URE ARR A RR am AE Glosses to match, per doz., 3%c. 1-quart Greek Star Wine De- 49¢ canters, with handles...... PAE Glasses to maich, per doz., $1.49. Austrian Glass Water Sets, full gold trimmed, with nickel fin- g§¢ ished tray.......- ETS ge. MS Austrian Glass Wine Sets, enamel flowers, full gold lined, with Lh BRBY wn aan nniinn ven ene s sso nmone v Silver Plated Nut Sets, in neat embossed bex, silk lined, 6 34 picks antFcraecker............... Men's Hdkfs. Men's 19%¢ Pure Linen Initial Handkerchiefs, any letter— in 73¢ A RR FE AE J Men's 1%¢ Pure Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, all width 124€ hems; 1-4, 1-2, or 1 inch hems. Silk Handkerchiefs, with hand embreidered initials. All letters. All sives. J0E and J5¢ ob A RE 98¢ Black or White Brocaded 75¢ Mufflers. fica canine $2 Black White B ded Silk MufMers oe 51.48 Housefurnishinges. $150,000 Worth of Rich Gems for Xmas Giving. We ove a eertifieate with all Diamonds and Precious Stones which stipulates that should the purchaser desire to return the article within {wo years the full orice, less 10 per eent, will be re S. DESIO, Manufacturing Jeweler and Silversmith, 10i2 F Street, Opposite Boston ficuse. Droep’s Xmas Special. A complete collection of the following musie: “MISTER DOOLEY.” “RiP VAN WINKLE,” “JEXNIE LEE? “JOSEPHINE, MY JOE,” “CHINESE HONEYMOON," And 25 other popular selections, including A NEAT MUSIC ROLL OUR PRICE, COMPLETE, 65c. E. F. Droop Sons, 925 Pa. Ave. $5 Teeth That Fit and our re-enforced suction, which makes them fit accurately. LOWEST prices on Crowas and x Fillings during Hol iduays. PAIN LESS Extraction. UR. PATTON'S UNION DENTAL PARLORS. OOF BN. W. Second Floor. GOLDENBERG'S. a Nickel plated Nut Sets, in box, 6 picks and cracker,..... ER" L Child's Silver Plated Cup and 25 Saucer, warranted... 00. Child's Silver Plated Mug, 25¢ neatly eREraved. i... cinvcan Rogers’ Silver Plated Child's Set, in neat white embossed box, silk lined. consisting of knife, fork, spoon, napkin ring, and en- G8¢ Others as low 2s zx Set of Rogers’ Tea Spooms.... 49° Set of Rogers’ Forks or Table g8¢ Rogers’ Silver Plated Knives, set of six in a box.. '$i 25 Rogers’ Silver-plated Forks to match Knives, Set of six H 29 i RRR BT Rogers’ Gravy Ladle, ae i PRETEEN... «uel due ah aa fet of six Sheffield Silver-plated Knives and Forks, Jin Doaty) 29 box. Worth $LId. is... vnviis Water Jug, in cut-glass effect, 98¢ silver-plated top 0%. 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DEMOCRATS STICK BY MONROE DOCTRINE A Senator Morgan Says It Brings Us Into Quarrels, But Keeps Off Fights. wir Henry Watterson’s demand for the abolition of the Monroe Doctrine has encountered vigorous disapproval and protest from Democratic members of Congress In both the Senate and House Men who have heretofore given credit to the forcible utterances of the famed Kentucky editor, now not only refuse to indorse his views, but declare that it wopld be the height of folly for any political party to accept them, upon this subject. Among the leaders in Congress there is none whose opinion coincides with Mr. Watterson's expression. On the contrary, they contend that now is the time for a reassertion of the princi ple laid down by President Monroe, and for its maintenance. For seventy five years, they say, the powers of Ku. rope have recognized the Monroe Doce trine, and it has been the means of keeping us out of trouble with them. To abandon it now would be a surren der of the position this Government has successfuily adbered to for threequar ters of a cenivry. There is, it is argued, no more distinctively American princi Pie toun the Monroe Doctriae, and it having heer established and recognized, it should not be abrogated simply be cause there has been a demonstration in Venczuelan waters which nay lead to its vieclation. If it is violated, it is contended the United States should take prompt action, but the impression pre vails that it will be respected.

The ezin‘ons of Democrats are reflect. ed ic their expressions, none of which ages with Mr. Watterson: Leave Doctrine Alone,

“leave tha Monroe Doctrine alone,” said Senator Morgan. “It is deing no harm and may do lots of good. It has stood the test of years.” Senator Morgan read what Henry Watterson had to say on the subject of reconstruction of the Doctrine with keen interest, tempered with impatience. He would not dircuss the Kentucky editor's utterances beyond a general support of the Doctrine itself. taking a position di rectly opposite io that of Mr. Watter son. Continuing, the Senator said: “The Monroe Doctrine is one which brings us into quarrels, but keeps us out of fights. It is purely American mn its provisions. No politics should be injected into it. No party has ever op posed it or ever wiil; therefore it is a safe measure.”

Senator Simmons of North Carolina, when ‘asked his views, said:

“I have a profound resject for Mr. Watterson's opinion. 1 consider him ene ef the greatest literary geniuses of the age and his advice is generally to be tollowed with the utmost safety and satisfaction, but the Monroe Doctrine is not a party deciaration. It belongs to the Government no matter which party is in power, and it should be supported absolutely. The slightest deviation would be inadvisable, and we, as a united peo ple, should see to it that it is carried out to the letter.” ete EE i a at I TE TSS pi oe

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enfurce just debts against South Amer. ican countries, so long as they do not attempt an acquisition of territory, cor the overthrow of the South American states.” Representative W. T. Zenor (Dem. Ind.): “1 hardly agree with Mr. Watterson on the subject. It seems to me there should be some well settle doctrine on the part of the United States covering the Western Hemisphere,” Representative T. M. Jett (Dem., Til): “1 am very much surprised at such an assertion coming from a man like Watterson, and knowing ef his rec ord in he South. In theory nis views may aot be bad but in practice, oi course, ve (Democrats) couldn't stand far then Representative J, H. Stephens (Dem. Texas): “1 believe the Monroe Doctrine should be sustained, and that the Gov ernment should not permit anything to be done in South America that will in fringe upon its provisions.” E. S. Candler, jr., (Dem,, Miss.): “I believe in the Monroe Doctrine. While 1 always have a very great regard for sen timents and opinions uttered by Mr. Watterson, still, in this instance, I be lieve he is too extreme, and 1 prefer to cling to the old pathways outlined by the founders of the Republic, and de veloped by the contemporaries.” Representative A. S. Burleson (Dem. Tex.), member of the House Committee on Foreign Afiairs: “1 do net believe the Monroe Doctrine could be expressed more clearly today than it was by Pres ident Monroe. Neither do believe the present situation requires any readjust ment of the Monroe Doctrine.” Representative John Sharp Wiliams {Dem., Miss.): “Colonel Watterson ‘seems to think the Monroe Doctrine was based upon some intent of the United States to acquire South American territory. Our reason for the nromulga tion of it was to protect our ova people. 1 think Watierson’'s utterances are a 1ii ‘tle more jingoistic than the jingoism he 'derounres Hugh Dinsmore, of Arkansas, ranking Democrat on Foreign Affairs Committee: “It is folly to talk about abolishing the Monroe Doctrine. No party will advo cate such a course: instead we want to reassert and maintain it.” 4 Representative W, 8S. Cowherd. (Dem Mo.): "I am not in sympathy with Mr. Watterson’s article. The Monroe Doc trine was timely when it was promul gated and is a wise policy yet. I think il ‘would be a grave misfortune to the United States to permit Europe to ap portion out South America as it has divided up India, Africa, and China.” Representative 8S. B. Cooper (Dem. Texas) “1 do not coneur with Mr. Wat terson’s opinion. Aside from the benefit to the United States, the Monroe Doc trine tends to the formation and protec ‘tion of republican government in South America.” Representative Rice Pierce (Dem. Tenn.): “I am an ardent believer in the Menroe Doctrine, and I disagree abso lutely and compicotely with the idea ex pressed by Mr, Watterson.” Representative J. M. Robinson (Dem. Ind.): “The Monroe Doctrine should be vpbeld in all its vigor and strength. The reasons for it originally are fortified by an un-American colonial policy that is threatened.” Representative James M. Grigge chairman Democratic Congressional ment to 1 “1 cannot give my indorse ment to the proposition to abolish the Monrce Doctrine.” Stephens of Texas. Folly to Talk of Change. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902. 5 ADMIRAL DEWEY'S DESTINATION A SECRET American Fleet at Culebra Breaks Up for a Ten Days’ Holiday. SAN JUAN, Dee. 20.—The American fleet at Culebra has been broken up for a ten davs’' hcliday. The warships will go to their sta tions at Trinidad, St. Thomas, Curacao, Ponce, Mayaguez, and San Juan. The torpedo flotilla and tugs and the ecruis ers Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Prairie will remain here. Rear Admirals Crowninshield and Coghlan have gone to St. Thomas. “The destination of Admiral Dewey is being Kept a secret, but it is known that he will attend the governor's ball here on December 21. The Was» remains at Culebra. PUBLIC WORK ORDERED. The District Commissicners yesterday authorized the following items of pub lic work through the Engineer Depart ment: That the time for the completion of contract No. 3182, with G. B. Mullin, for grading Kenesaw Avenue, be extended to May 16, 1992, without penalty or cost of inspection, delay not heing due to fault of the contractor. FS That 2,620 feet of 12-inch water main be laid morth and west from the inter section of Bladensburg Road and Twen ty-eighth Street, through Twentyv-eighth Street, across right-of-way on Calvert estate and west on South Dakota Avenue to its intersection with the Brentwogd Rozd, and that four fire hydiants be erected thereon, at a total estimated cost of $5,750. That 2 zewer be constructed in upper Water Street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Street, at an estimated cost of 3360.

HEARING POSTPONED. ED Hearing on the petition of George A. Cooke, to secure the release of his wife, Grace E. Cooke, from the Reform School for Girls, which was to have taken place yesterday before Justice Rarnard, was postponed indefinitely. The death of a member of the family of one of the at torneys for the petitioner necessitated the postponement. Pending a final set tlement of the matter, Mrs. Cooke was

permitted by Justice Barnard to remain with her husband.

PORTRAIT OF MISS WILLARD.

The North Capitol branch of the Wo man’s Christian Temperance Union will present a life-size portrait of Frances FE. Willard to the Blake School, North Capitol and K Streets. The presenta tion will be made tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock by Mrs. Don P. Blaine, presi dent of the North Capitol W. C. T. U,, and will be accepted on behalf of the school by its principal.

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PRIZE HUNTER WINS MILE RACE WITH TRAIN Runs Away at Record Speed—Jumps Engine Pilot—Rider Escapes Death. RCHMOND, Va. Dec. 20. —Henry Sackett, president of the Lynchburg Horse Show Association, hal a remark able escape from death this morning when fox hun‘'ing. His aunter, Torch light, a prize winner at the recent show, Year a freight train in a clear race of nearly a mile. While following the hounds on a steep tank, along the Southern Railway track, Mr. Sackett turned to ial a rast run ring freight train within Hity ‘feet of Je Pe be te we. Open late Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday evenings. LJ LE A SE JE SS ENN arm A ole 3

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Tan, Blue, Black, Gray, Red and Oxford Cloth; BPREF...cinnstsrsrinssrrsnnsnrnana na hae an A ‘him. Without a moment's be sitation he threw himself from the saddle down the bank. He held to the bridle with a view of pulling the horse to safety also.

The horse broke away, however, and ran at record-breaking speed ahead of the train. After running ahead of theo train for a mile he cleared the track at a bound, directly in front of the loco motive. The pilot of the engine was al most directly under him, but he took the Jeap with a stride that indicated lis willingness to jump the engine if neces sary. The horse was caught a short whi!» af terward and was none the worse for his startling race. SON BORN TO THE LONDON, Dec. 20.—The Princess of Wales gave birth to a son at 7:35 o'clock Saturday evening. Mother and son are deing well, NAVY OFFICER ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF SMUGGLING Commander Mentz Accused of Bringing Liquor Into Porto Rico. SAN JUAN, Dec. 20.—Commander G. W. Mentz, of the United States Navy; B. F. Butler, supervisor of elections, and J. A. Brennan were arrested today by United States Commissioner Anderson on the charge of having smuggled sixty four cases of liquor from St. Thomas by the United States tug Uncas and the lighthouse tender Laurel.

PRINCESS OF WALES There will be preliminary hearings in these cases on Monday and Tuesday.

All the accused were released on $2,000 bail. The charges were preferred by Customs Inspector P. M. Mathieson. This sort of smuggling has been going on for a long time and it is alleged that other arrests will follow. The liquors were used at the Country Club, of which Mr. Butler is an officer and Brennan the steward. The Vermont State Association, come posed of natives of the Green Mountain State now residing in this city, held its regular meeting on Friday evening in the Scottish Rite Hall. The »ntertain ment which followed the cusir: ges tion embraced vocal solos by J. dter Humphrey and Mrs. H. A. Brys:, reci tations by Annie I. Rodgers, and banjo solos by Joseph Cullen. VERMONT MEX MEET.

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SENATE AND HOUSE ADJOURN FOR HOLIDAYS General Exodus of Senators and Representatives. TO MEET AGAIN JANUARY 5 More Legislation Than Usually Gotten Through With Before Christ mas Recess. Both houses of Congress adjourned yesterday for the holiday recess, and will not meet again until January J. Many Senators and Representatives left Washington Friday, and there was a general exodus yesterday. Those re maining are chiefly from the far Wesi, where it is impracticable for them to go heme and be able to return on the date of re-convening. A majority will, however, eat Christmas dinner at their homes. Neither the Senate nor the House had a quorum yesterday, and little business was done by either body. A number of minor bills were passed, and then the Senate listene® to Senator Morgan on the building of an isthmian canal. In the House the only business was the censideration of the conference re port on the bill to pay the expenses of the anthracite coal strike commission. Without discussion the report with the Senate amendments was agreed to. The measures provides for the payment of a salary of $4,000 a year to the members of the commission who are not now on the Government pay rolls, and allows each commissioner $10 a day as expenses, and $12 a day for the expenses of each of the employes. Payment of salaries te the employes of the commission is left to the discretion of the commission. The conference report was also agreed to in the Senate. The three weeks during which Gon gress has been in session have been marked, especially in the House, by ac complishments rather unusual before the holiday recess. Promptly Disposed Of. Ordinarily nothing much is attempted beyond the preparation of the great sup ply measures, but this year matters in velving important questions of policy have been promptly disposed of. Among these was the adoption of an amendment to the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill, carrying an appropria tion of $500,000 to epable the Attorney General to more satisfactorily enforce the provisions of existing anti-trust laws. Although the Republicans were forced into taking this step in the way it was taken by a Democrat. Mr. Bartlett of Georgia, it was part of the Republican program to take the same action in an other way, and the result seems to have given satisfaction to both parties. after the holidays the Judiciary t ttee will report another anti-trust bill, a sort of publicity bill, and it is likely the House wili pass it before the final adjournment on March 4. Whether the Senate will reach the subject re mains a matter of great uncertainty. It is not believed to be the program io Pass .the ll through both houses. Another important matter expeditious ly handled was the passage of the Lill re ducing the tariff on goods coming from the Philippines to 25 per cent of the Dingley rate. The Democrats made it a party question by offering iree (inde amendments, but, defeated in this objec, this bill also received their support, and it was passed by a unanimous vote. Appropriations Out of Way. Two of the large appropriation bills have already been disposed of—the leg islative, executive, and judicial, and the “pension, besides one of the urgent de ficiency bills. The army bili will be ready soon after the recess, also the District of Columbia bill. Other important measures disposed of Ly the House are the pure food bill, the bill to relieve the tea importers, which passed both houses within twenty-four nours; the bil! authorizing the Secretary of Agrigulture to proceed against the foot-and-mouth disease, the bill for the anthracite strike commission. A pumber of other matters are ready for the consideration of the House—the Department of Commerce bill, the bill for a general stal for the army, the Fowler currency bill, and several others, having been reported by committee and ewalting their turn. But little time will rewain for matters requiring extensive duvbate, however, as most of the time af ter the holidays wiil be needed in giv ing due consideration to the appropria tion measures. LITTLE BUSINESS OF NOTE IN THE SENATE When the Senate convened yesterday there were but thirty-nine members in their seats. Most of these were on the Republican side, and numbered those who have taken houses in Washington for the winter. Little business was at tempted beyond the passage of unimport ant measures, Matters at that end of ihe Capitol have been progressing with dignified slowness. Three {important measures, the Statehood bill, the immi gration bill, and the militia bill have been under discussion at various times, but none of them has received final ac tion. Each will occasion considerable debate after Congress reaasembles, and there are a number of other important bills that have been prepared by the commit tees or sent over from the House await ing consideration In the Senate. Among them are the Philippines tariff and cur rency bills, the eight-bour bill, legis lation for Alaska, and the appropriation bills. The trust question has not been touched by the Senate, though it is ox ‘pected that in the interim between the adjournment yesterday and the recon Yening 3 January 5 Senator Hoar will file the Secretary of the Senate the measure which is believed to be the Ad tion's views on anti-trust leg Es to ull those aflalfs 1.4 Joige amount of executive business to claim the attention of the Senate. This in ‘cludes the Cuban reciprocity treaty, the Panama Canal convention, and the reci procity arrangements with France, the British West Indies, and some South American countries, combining to make a busy program in prospect for January and February. By pushing everything of importance over until the last two months of the =essjon, it is believed that the Senate leaders have carried out a well-defined program, that is, that practically noth ing but appropriation bills should be passed at the present session. ~The Philippine currency bill was fa vorably reported yesterday, and Sena tor Lodge, in charge of the measure, ‘eave notice that he would call it up at the first opportunity. The eight-hour labor bill was report ed from the Ccmmittee on Commerce and Labor, A resolution offered by Mr. Patterson of Colorado, requiring railroads to fur ‘nish data regarding the use of brakes, was adopted. A bill was passed appropriating $1, 000,000 for payment in part of judgments awarded property holders at Honolulu for destruction of their buildings in stamping out bubonic plague in 1899, The bill also permits the issuance of bonds by the Hawaiian authorities to pay the remainder of the cliims. Mr. Burrows of Michigan asked that Friday, January 30, be set aside for eulo gies on the late Senator James McMillan. A resolution was offered by Mr. Jones lof Arkansas calling on the President. for ‘any information as to the charges filed by the proprietor of a New York paper ‘of a combination ot .he anthracite coal roads. A resolution was adopted providing that on January 31, at 2 p. m., exercises shall be held accepting the statues of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and John Hanson, which are Maryland contribu tions to Statuary Hall. A bill was introduced by Mr. Lodge authorizing the President to remove the duty on coal coming into the United States from Canada whenever the duty cn coal from the United States going into Canada shall be removed. The rate of duty on Canadian coal is 57 cents a ton. HS GOST OF ISTHMIAN GANAL COMMISSION Mr. Hepburn Seeks Infor mation in House. Representative Hepburn, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, yesterday introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of State to send to the House a state ment of all the items of expenditure made by the isthmian canal commission, of which Rear Adiniral Walker was chairman. The resolution provides explicitly that the statement shall show all allowances or vayments for personal services, in cluding payment for board, rations, transportation supplies, and other ex penses, to whom paid, and that the state ment, “shall particularly show all pay ments of every character made to the members of the isthmian canal commis elon, or inuring to the benefit of either of them FUND FOR CHILDREN OF AN HONEST LEGISLATOR Senator Platt a Contributor to Sub scription for Family of Repre sentative Russell. NEW HAVEN, Con., Dee. 20.-—The friends of the late Col, Charles A. Russell, for years Representative for the Third Congressional district of Con necticut, are quietly raising a fund for the education of his children. It is known among those most familiar with bis affairs that he died practically without any property. Occupying for years a position where his vote and influence had the largest effect upon the fortunes of others, he lived through temptations and opportunities, clean and spotless, and at the end was no richer than when sixteen years before he entered the halls of Congress. The plan is to raise $25,000 for his family, and the fund is already making good progress. Edwin Miller, of Moosup, a close friend and great admirer of Colonel Russell, is said to have put his name down for $1,000. Senator Platt has been active in the movement YOUNGEST VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR DEAD William Taylor Enlisted When Less Than Thirteen Years of Age as a Drummer Boy. SHAMOKIN, Pa., Dec. 20.—William Taylor died at the home of his father John W. Taylor this morning. The latter claims his son was the youngest soldier in the Northern army In the civil war, having enlisted when he was twelve years, nine months, and two days ola, as a drummer boy in the Eighty-fourth Regiment, at Huntingdon, Pa., August 15, 1861. His father, aged seventy-seven years, was one of the old est soldiers. Both fought throughout the conflict, the father being wounded several times. COMMANDER NELSON IN CHARGE OF LIGHT HOUSE DISTRICT MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 20.—Commander Thomas Nelson, U. 8. N., retired, today assumed charge of the Sixteenth light house district with headquarters in this city. He succeeds A. C, Dillingham, re cently transferred to the steamer De troit. Holiday Rates South via Seaboard Air Line. Tickets on sale December 23, 24, 25, 31, and January 1. Return limit January 3, 1903. Ad dress W. E. Junklyn, General Agent, 1421 Pennsylvania Avenue. HOW APPROPRIATION BILL 15 MANEUVERED Commissioners Work With the Committeemen. AN IMPORTANT Distinction Between Items For Current Expenditures and Those For Improvements. Consideration of the District appro priation bill wili be suspended until afl ter the holidays. This bill has been undergoing close scrutiny at the hands ol a subcommittee of the House Com mittee on Appropriations, of which Rep respentative J. T. McCleary of Minnesota is chairman. The three District Commissioners have been present at all the meetings of the committee the past week, and have aided in giving the members a clear under standing of the local needs. When Con gress assembles after the holiday recess the bill will be taken up again by the subcommittee in conference with the Commissioners and made ready for its report to the full committee and after werd to the House. The appropriation act, besides car ryving the various items for local ex penditures, embodies important para graphs and clauses amending older laws or adding new ones to the statute book. For example, the last District appropria tion bill provided for radical changes in Jocal taxation, involving a thorough revision of the former laws relative ‘io the assessment of real estate, personal property, and licenses. The District appropriation bill has its foundation laid in the annual esti mates forwarded by the Commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury and by ‘him to Congress. These estimates are ‘made up by the Commissioners who re ceive for that purpose separate estimate schedules from each department of the municipal government. Besides ihese the Commissioners have bef them a great number of letters d requests from private people relative to public improvement, The estimates are framed witha view to econom‘cal administration, and it is frequently the case that the department schydules are much reduced as they go to "the Secretary of the Treasury. It has been the policy of the Commission ers for the last three years to present to Congress in their annual budget a conservative but full statement of the local needs, notwithstanding the fact that they have been confronted each year by a growing deficit in the revenues, This year the Commissioners’ estimates were in round numbers £10 600 600 Te TEgee TE NY Hi By process of the division of labor placed upon the Iouse Appropriations Committee, the District bill 2ées to a small subcommittee to be drafted in proper form to be presented to the House. The successive stages of the bill are briefly: Report to th: “ull com mittee, report to the House, considera tion by Committee of the Whole, and report to House for final passage: sent to the Senate, and to Senate Appropria tions Committee, where it js considered and amended; reported to Senate and passed; returned to House for concur rence in amendments. If then refused, the bill goes to a conference commit tee, where points of difference are set tled, the conference report adopted by both houses, and it goes to the Presi. dent for his signature. STs Pure Linen. In the House subcommittee room, while the bill is under consideration, the District Commissioners work with the members of the committee, The book of estimates is in the hands of each, and the proposed bill is passed upon item by item, the discussion be ing of the most informal character. While the Commissioners have no vote, opportunity is given them to express their views freely, and in many in stances the action of the committee is in the nature of compliance with their wishes. It is well known that an important rider to the District bill Is in contem plation. For three years past there has been a growing deficit in the local rey enues. It has been necessary since July 1, 1900, for money to be advanced from the United States Treasury, and these advances now aggregate about $2,400,000. “nis money already paid by the Treasury constitutes a floating debt to be paid back in three annual in stallments. This would make further Inroad upon the current receipts, and further advances would be necessary to meet them. It is mow purposed by the Commis sioners that a distinction shall he made between current expenditures and these for large items of public improvement, such as the filtration plant, and the new municipal building. It is further proposed that the one-half of the money for such improvements which the Dis trict must pay shall be advanced by the United States Treasury, as needed, to be returned on the sinking fund prinei ple in small annual installments, with interest at 2 per cent. The necessary legislation to bring this about will probably form a part of the new appropriation bill, and 1t is un derstood that the consideration of this part of the measure will be taken up by the Commissioners and the commit tee at the first meeting in January. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902, Amends Older Laws. Stages of the Bill. $20,000.00 in Toys at Auction Prices t Acres of Toys—the great expanse of Odd Fellows’ Halla veritable Fairyland. Prices like this Dressed Dolls, 10¢ up, Drums, 10c up; Child's Tea Sets, 10c up; Stick Hereer and Chairs, He up. All other goods at auction prices. Huason’s Varia: ly Store, Toys in Odd Fellows’ iiall, 423 Seventh Street N. W, Ss Se Se eles Sy RIDER GOURT OF JUSTIGE BUILDING FAVORED Favorable Report by House Committee. NOTES FROM THE TIMES Extravagant and Unbusinesslike Metk ods Pursued by the Government. Representative Mercer, chairman of the Committea on Public Buillings and Grounds, has submitted to the House 2 report upon the bill to provide for the erection of a new court of justice build ing to house the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and other ju dicial branches of the Government. In arguing for the erection of a sew build ing the report quotes from an article in The Times of recent date, showing the large amount of money paid an nually to private owners in Washington for the use of property for Government purposes. “In determining the requirements of the Government our predecessors were moved by generous purposes, but the tremendous growth of the nation could not be foreseen, and they so far under estimated the dimensions required that every public building ir the ity is far too small and every department rents buildings outside of its walls for needed room. Heavy Rent Payments. “To show hcw extravagant and un businesslike this method is, it is only necessary to call attention to the fifty four buildings now rented by the de partments, and the amount annually paid for them: Number of Annual Department. buildings. rental. State Jo. or RRA, $600.00 War Cannrerasss 9 21,200.00 Navy .....o. Masaassnas BP £.100,00 Treasury Tr Tr 15,240.00 JBtiCl JC. ou iirieciees SD 22,500,00 Irterior ms ansanass 11 81,880.00 Postofi0s vans ser seas. 19,800.60 Agriculture 7 11,320.00 Indian Bureau, commis slong, ete. 8 28,724.94 Total... he ii oH 210,064.94 “In February, Lefore the close of this Congress, this amount will be increased RL I a A, ns-sis A Le “Sheed 2H Shreeh. Dandy EA ANNIE MONDAY’S XMAS BARGAINS. Useful and Dainty Remembrances. properly boxed, engraved or stamped. All} packages promptly delivered. Our Glove Sale. Two Great Lots Nothing more aceeptable than a pair of perfect fitting high-grade Gloves. $31.50 Gloves for $1.00 S0¢ Golf Gloves for 25¢c. Real Arabian Mocha Real French Suede. Pair Real German-knit All-wool Fine Real French Dressed Kid, Goli Gloves; black, white, pm Black, all colors, and “white; new red, gray, and plaid; all sizes. 25C stitchiug and new clasp style 1903, A Me Glove, for. .........cuues 08C Every Pair of $1.00 Kid Glovesfor 50C 200 dozen Ladies’ Fine French Diess Kid Gloves. 22 dozen Men's Fine Kid Gloves. The Ladies’ Gloves; sizes 5% to 7%: black. eray, white, tan, mode, ed, brow nn, ete, The Mens Gloves: sizes 7% to 10%; gray, tan, mode and red. Yard Wide Silk. Black 36-in. Peau de Soie, ia i Black 30-in. Rustle Taffeta, “GUARANTEED.” b We offer as a special a $1.50 grade of Hioh-elass In nported Black 1 “Lyvons-dve Silk;” suitable for dresses. waists, cloaks. coats ote. fully cuaranteed. For tomorrow only. Give a Wool Dress Pattern 23. 08 We are selling All-wool Dress Patterns of sueh new, up-to-dete fa bries as VENETIAN, ZIBELINE, WHIPCORD, SOLEIL. and PRU. NELLA CL TH the colors are black, brown, reds, hlnes, grays, greens, tans, pink, old rose, and reseda. THE ENTIRE DRESS PATTERN. WITH ALL LININGS, COMPLETE, for $3.95 Fur Scarf. Extra long cluster tail ends. $4.00 Scarfs for $1.98 by $50,000 annually (for the new Mills building), making $260,000 in all. This does not include buildings always rent ed by Congress for its own use and that of bureaus under its immediate direction. This annual rental of $200,000 paid by the Government is the interest on $13,000,000, Such a sum would construct three times the buildings which the Government hires, for, according to an official report, rent paid by the Government ranges from 6 to 17 per cent on the actual value of the property occupied. Necessity for Quarters. “The Supreme Court, the greatest tri banal on earth, has never been properly provided for. For generations it has been cramped for room and compelled to oc cupy space in a corner of the Capitol which belongs to Congress, and which Congress sorely needs. Eleven commit lees of the Senate find refuge in the Maltby House, and there sixty-six Sena iors render service, “Jot only does our highest court need a ome commensurate with its dignity and importance, but appropriate shelter ia required for the Department of Jus tice, for the National Law Library, for commissioners exercising judicial func ‘ions and for international tribunals. Events of the last few years have made it certain that the United States will participate in international congresses to a far greater extent than ever before, and there is now no adequate hall iff the possession of the Government where such a tribunal could comfortably sit. Delay Not Profitable. “In 1861 this Government sought to acquire the two blocks of residence buildings then occupying the northeast and southeast corners of Capitol Square. They were offered by the owners for $303,000. Congress was dilatory; the purchase was postponed, and eleven years later the same land was bought for $681,878.65—more than twice as much.

“These three squares so admirably adapted for a temple of justice, a mag nificent work of art, to balance the su perb library opposite, may now be bgught for less than one-half of the price paid for the site of either of the postoffices in Philadelphia, Chicago, and ‘Boston. “There never has been a time in the history of this country when money was so plentiful or to be had at so low a rate as at present. The Natisnal Treas ury reports a vast surplus every year. When this Capitol was first erected the annual revenues of the Government were not more than one-hundredth as much as they are this year. LE I I I a SE I EE EE SE I A Sh oh a “This bill calls for a site equal in di mensions to that occupied by the Li Ladies’ Heavy Mitts. 100 dozen heavy Black Ladies’ Mitts. 10c¢ value for 34¢ pair brary of Congress—a parcel of ground which can be procured for about the same price. The artistic structure pro posed would be not only a home for the Supreme Court, the Department of Jus tice, and international tribunals or con gresses, but it would suitably accommo date the Federal law library, now cramped into somber and unwholesome quarters in the basement of this builld ing. This is a collection of nearly 100, 000 volumes, the largest law library in the world; vet it is so miserably housed that valuable books have to be piled up on the floor and so crowded that the custodian has been compelled to exclude both authors and students from its bene fits." BRUEN HOME, SUPPORTED BY PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION The Bruen Home, 436 M Street north west, serves as a refuge for homeless women and children, of whom eighty five are now cared for. The institution is supported entirely by private sub scriptions and is under the care of Mrs. E. K. Flick. In the past year lodgings were fur nished to 29,052; meals served to 83,. 636. 47 assisted to return to their homes; work secured for 11; 5 births, and 8 deaths recorded, and 17 sent to the hospital. Of those now at ths Bruen Home, 60 are bright, interesting little children. Public subscriptions are so licited, and residents of Washington in vited to visit the home. iin a a NT HE EE NE EE EN oe TT TIRE MOTHER SUGAR LOAF RHYMES. TOP P000 0000000000000 000000000 Pat a cake, Pat a Cake, AN 17 h/ Baker man, Give me some SUGAR LOAF

Quick as you can. I like it you know, Without it can’t go, For it's the bread That makes the man. TIN Sugar Loaf Bread is H me Made. Sold Everywhere. Wags “BOSTON BAKING CO., Opp. bg S. Capitol, Washington, D. C. a> a bb ibid Ladies’ Underwear Sale, 25c& Handkerchiefs, 12:c 12:C We have about 500 dozen left of the Heavy Ribbed Fleeced Ladies’ vests and pants, all sizes in the lot; as they are wortn 25¢ each and the price for tomorrow is only 12%e, we cannot sell more than six suits to one purchaser. Fancy Goods Bargains. 1 Our rule is to close every piece of gift goods before Xmas. Special prices for Monday will accomplish our purpose. Sanh ial Jb So Wine, Liquor and Lemonade Sets, LLadies’ Fine Waists. New style Liquor Sets, decanter, Wine Sets are getting scarce. We glasses, and tray; handsomely decor- have them in ail colors and white. ated; also Lemonade Sets, consisting They are decorated in gold; large with handle, wy six 0)

of large pitcher and 6 size decanter glasses, gold striped and dec- 8 glasses to match. Care 3 ay J fully packed in straw and oraied. For Monday, set...... boxes. Monday, set...... Dolls! Comb and Brush and Toilet Sets.

und i fl £5.00 Comb, Brush, and Mirror Sets, in four handsome styles. Only ten sets left. Mon- 4 BBY i nnns inion sn aus sores sins 2 A pretty Comb, Brush, Set, in fancy cases; also the plated ware; Eurand; everything neatly boxed. Set 1,000 Little Dressed Dollies for the baby. Just the thing for Xmas tree decoration. They 14¢ sold for Sc. Monday, each. Dolls! Extra Special. Only six dozen of those $1.38 Comb, Brush, and Mirror Sets left. Ia col ored enamel, gilt, and nickel. Monday we offer the assort INANE RE. SOR. i es ennai $7.00 and $3.00 Comb, Brush, and Mirror Sets in three mag nificent styles. Only eight ‘$4 98 sets In stock. Monday. "Dolls, 1,500 Dressed Dolls; dozens of dif ferent siyles of dresses: each one packed in separate box. Ac tual 40¢c value. Center tables. Monday 23 beautiful German iiclis, full jointed, 21 inches tall; pretty face and hair. $1 49 Ly EI BR Two More Doll Specials for Monday.

11 handsome Big Doils, sewed wigs, strong joints, 27 inches tali. Actual value is $6.00. $3 98 For Monday sale Art Goods.

Pure Linen Bureau Scarfs, fringed, stamped and plain; inches long. Monday Renaissance, linen hand-made cen ter pieces. i) re 0 EE ER CEE RINE Ng Linen Drawn Work; extra large Squares and Scarfs. 6% value. 49c

BROIBIN <8 ces ans as using enn vieuisne $8.00 Cluny Lace Scarfs and Cen ter Pieces; only a dozen left from st week's sale. Monday, ¢X ks ale. nr B30 S0c Value Stockings for 25¢. Choice of any 50c Fanoy Ladies’ Stockings; all sizes, for Heavy Silk Cushion Cords: all colors. 15¢ quality, for 10¢ Pretty Ball Fringes 50c Lithograph Pillow Tops. The “Fencing Girl” will be found 34¢ In this Jof. ....ccconeeravos das inie Renaissance Pin Cushion Tops, linen centers; hand made. Mon 1 RA RR wn aon al mi 3t Eastman’s Finest Perfumes, 3 bottles in pretty box, aE S0c Value Stockings for 25¢. Choice of any 50c Fanoy Ladies’ Stockings; all sizes, for 25¢ SUTHERLAND GETS WAR BOOTY AWARD Naval Officer Sued for $1,000,000, But Was Only Given $1,100. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—United States Judge Thomas, in Brookiyn, handed down a decision yesterday declaring in valid a claim of $1,000,000 against the United States entered by Lieut. Com. William H. H. Sutherland of the havy. The amount was asked as prize money, the commander and his crew of the Eagle. a converted gunboat, having de stroyed the Spanish steamship Santo Domingo in the Spanish-American war. Lieutenant Commander Sutherland de manded the value of the sunken Spanish vessel and her ecarge, the contention being that Admiral Dewey and his men were granted large booty prizes in Man ila Bay for similar work. The Government maintained that only $1,190 could be recovered by plaintiff. The difference between the suit insti tuted by Commander Sutherland and the case of Dewey and his men is that the Santo Domingo was grounded and burned on the sands of Southern Cuba, while the ships sunk by Dewey were in a condition to be restored to their nor mal shape. The Government contended that only such sum for which it had received an equivalent should be paid out. Eastman’s Finest Perfumes, 3 bottles in pretty box, 25¢

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OMINOUS SIGNS IN GATHERING OF FLEET Said to Be Outcome of Dewev’s Prediction. TROUBLE WITH GERMANY Smashing of Monroe Doctrine and Acquisition of South American Territory May Be Tried. retired naval officer of high rank that the massing of the entire North At lantic, South Atlantic, and European squadrons in the Caribbean Sea just at this critical moment is the result of foresight on the part of the general board of the navy. Shortly after the close of the Spanish war Admiral Dewey stated publicly tha: the next war of this country would be with Germany, and the belief was echoed by many naval officers of less promi uence. Even the time was set approxi mately, at the conclusion of Germany's naval program which contemplated the existence of the most powerful navy in the worid by 1008. All of the work of the board and all of that of the Naval War College has been along these lines. The maneuvers of last suminer were on the same basis-—simuiated attack upon our shore by a German fleet. The prob lem has been worked out a dozen times, in different ways. Meanwhile Germany was advancing the culmination of her program year by year until the United States attaches abroad reported to the Navy Depart ment that in its modified form it would ve complete by 1903. Hence the sudden awakening tv the deficiency of the American navy in fleet evolutions, in target firing, in the number of officers and of men, and the necessity for an immediate start toward doing what Ger many has been about for several years past, the gathering of a unified fleet. Changes of Opinion. The changes of opinion among naval officers as to construction and arma ment have been based upon the charac ter of the ships Germany has been building, and it is noticeable that in the past two years the department has laid special stress upon the need of fighting ships rather than those of great speed, resulting in ordering within the jast vear cruisers which, to all purposes, were battleships in power and cruisers in name only. The same naval officer points out that the publication of this suspicion on the part of the United States led to the sudden manifestation of friendly feel ing by Kaiser Wilhelm, the visit of Prince Henry, and the exchange of cour tesies atiendant upon the jaunching of the Kaiser's yacht; his tour through the country to sound the feeling of the American pecple, native and nzturail ized; the following visit of Prince Hen ry of Pless and his declaration on reaching home that he would like noth ing better than to succeed Herr von Holleben at the Washington embassy; finally though not in true sequence, the invitation to American army officers of high rank to witness the German army maneuvers, the extreme if not extrav agant attention shown them, and the apparent frankness with which was dis. played to them the power and discipline of the German fighting machine, its military establishment. All of this, it is declared, was for the purpose of throwing ofl American suspicion and to counteract military action that might be taken upon the conviction of such eminent military men as Admiral Dewey, a y p~ v He

3 os Needs of Germany.

The general board of the navy, there fore, knowing the nea approach of the completion of the German navy, the de sire of that copatry to increase its trade in South America, possible only upon its ability to collect debts con tracted in such countries, and tte im perative requirement in this case of a naval base and coaling station, foresaw, possibly vaguely, a contingency such as now exists. Instead of the scope originally purposed, the exercising of a comparatively small portion of the navy, it was determined to send thither every ship which could be sent properly manned and which was not needed of the Pacific station. The soundness of this decision seemed to be confirmed by the suspicious operations of Germany at Margarita Island.

So great was deemed the importance of this movement that not merely Ad miral Dewey but the majority of the general board itself went down, nomi nally to witness the maneuvers, really to view the success of their coup and to gather further data for use in the prophesied war with Germany.

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Great Britain's Position. Great Britain had not figured in their plans, but the reported prospect that that country will sever its connection with Germany in the attack upon Venezuela removes that element. It was the general board, sc it is sald, and not the Secretary of the Navy, which! planned the distribution of the fleet for the Christmas vacation. Certain it igi Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and adviser of the Secretary at such a moment, was with the fleet at the time, and necessarily must have seen and probably approved of the ares as prepared and issued by his chief and the president of the general board, Ad miral Dewey. That order sent to Trini dad, the nearest port to Venezuela, not itself a Venezuelan port, the most powerful and best equipped battleships of the fleet, together with a swift tor pedo-boat destroyer, capable as a mes senger of summoning to the South i sl Nn T% Ra Great Reduction in Gold Chairs and Divans, Parlor Cab oe eats] inets, Odd Chairs, Roman Seats, Pedestals, Vernis Martin gf hy Chairs and Couches, he Hub Fur niture Co °9 e The second Peabody recital, which was given last Monday evening in the ball room of the New Willard, proved an im portant event in local musical circles, The recital was given by Ernest Hutche son, pianist. Mr. Hutcheson has been connected with the Peabdy for two sea sons. He is an Australian by birth, but received much of his musical trainiag in Germany. He has done much concert work, and since his residence in this country has appeared with such organi zations as the ‘Boston Symphony Orches tra and Kneisel Quartet, Herndon Morsell has been engaged to assist the choir of the Church of the Holy Name in the Christmas services. The music is to be under the direction of Miss Mary Hessler. Miss Ddugherty will preside at the organ. Washington has a new tenor in Mr. Battle, a student at Georgetown Ccllege, who is said to possess a remarkably sweet voice, It is expected that Mr. Bat tle will be heard at several concerts this winter and that he will take a conspicu out part in the University Glee Club en tertainments. Through the Metropolitan Opera Com pany may not come to Washington this season opera lovers here will at least have the opportunity to hear a portion of the organization Tuesday evening, January 20, at the Lafayette Theater when a performance of Gounod’'s “Phiie mon and Bauciz” will be given. “he production wiil be in aid of the co operative sewing societies of this city. Among the well-known singers who will be in the cast are Mme. Seygard, Jour net, Salinac and Heathe Gregory. A chorus of forty and an augmented or chestra will assist in the interpretation of the work. The event should prove in teresting to music lovers, as this com position of Gounod is not too well known here, but is a beautiful work. Arrznge ments for the production are in the hands of Miss Mary Cryder, who has done much to further tae interests of the music colony of the Capital. Miss/ Lena Woodrull, a young mezzo soprano of this city, has been meeting with much favor from the congregation of Foundry M. E. Church, where she has been singing in the absence of Mrs. Chunn, who is ill. Miss "voodruff has a voice of beautiful quality and excellent range. She is a fine reader and an ex cellent musician withal. For the past few years she has been studying with Dr, Bischoff and has been heard only in frequently in concert, but her friends and those have attended the services at Foundry will undoubtedly hear more of her this season as her voice and her work will place her in demand for the season's entertainments. Mackenzie Gordon has decided that he prefers choir and concert work to that of comic opera so has retired from the cast of “The Silver Slipper” which is now at the Broadway Theater. The field of comic opera has not the charms of the concert stage when the work requir ed of each is considered. Rehearsals and 2 nightly appearance in costume and make-up do not always tend to make the road of an erstwhile concert singer one of easy travel and Mr. Gordon has evi Gently concluded that a little less of the calcium’s glare will be to his liking. Zelie de Lussan will appear in Wash ington for a single song recital Wednes day afternoon, January 7, at the Colum bia Theater. She will be assisted by An gelo Fronani, pianist. The prima donna has been a popular member of the Grau company for several years, but has con cluded to devote this season to Song re citals owing fo the few cities which figure in the Metropolitan itinerary. tA Mile. de Lussan takes high rank among the well-known singers of this country and Europe. Although a descendant of one of the oldest families of French no bility, and representative of the fourth generation of famous singers, she is an American born woman, having first seen the light of day in New York city. She is a charming combination of Spanish British and German men-of-war, and one of them sunk by fire from a Hotenkiss gun for venturing too near the threaten ing fleet. It is also reported that the allies have been taking soundings there. This is regarded here as a possible in dication of a renewal of the old plan of Germany to obtain this place as a naval station, or a preparation to seize the pearl fisheries as security for in demnuity. This latter phase has been discussed at the State Department, but no opinion has been expressed there whether or not it could be regarded as a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. Investigation of the reports will he quietly made here through the Navy Department. It is understood that in order to pre ‘vent further trouble with regard to this island negotiations are now beginning with Castro to secure to this country its permanent possession. When acquired it will be used as a naval station. Mr. White's Opinion. Emory C. White, a cour'n of Gov. Albert B. White, of West Virginia, and for twenty rears the head of a house which has extensive Interests throughout South America, has just returned to New York, having been with his family in different South American countries steadily for two years. For many years Mr. White has been regarded as an authority on South American affairs. He considers the pres ent situation in Venezuela as ominous in the extreme, He declares Germany's attitude toward Venezuela is part of a carefully laid plan to get a foothold somewhere In South America, and that there is to be no turning back until the Monroe Doctrine has been shattered. PT sn ie

Mr. White says that in 1896 Germany had all of South America carefully mapped, and that her line of action, in the event of hostilities, has been de cided on. olay the re Washington's Leading Credit Store. for v “Cie ar Corner of Seventh and D Streets Northwest. fisher there rroriz I: EEE CT RA TR TET sr v —_ u -_" She has placed Venezuela, he says, in MATTERS OF INTEREST TO WASHINGTON MUSIC LOVERS THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1002. y ECR TA w—— Gu meu Zz 8 8 Se subtlety, French chic, and American vi vacity. She made her operatic debut in 1886 as Arline in “The Bohemian Girl.” and went to London the following vear, where she was engaged for the season at Covent Garden. She sang thirteen con secutive seasons there, an almost unpre cedented record. In addition to her beautiful voice, ‘which lends itself as readily to dramatic as to coloratura music, Mlle. de Lussan possesses beauty of face and figure, grace, dignity, and charm. Her Washington program will be made up of selections from her long list of operatic roles and songs by French, Eng lish, and Italian composers. Mille. de Lussan has sung in concert many times abroad, but she has never been heard in her native country, except on the oper atic stage. Miss Cornelia Dyas, pianist: Anton Kaspar, violinist, and Wenceslao Ville pando, ‘cellist, will give a joint recital in this city early in January. The three musicians are well known here for the excellent character of their work. Miss Dyas appeared In a recital at the New Willard late last season and created a distinctly favorable impression. Mr. Kaspar is recognized as the Capital's best violinist and Mr. Villopando has been conspicuous in musical circles for several years. The program to be of fered at the coming recital has not been definitely arranged. A H ET 3 DB CC RE OOS TR A A RR A, A special symphonic program has been prepared for the concert by the United States Marine Band at the Barracks at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. One of the chief numbers will be a new compo sition, “Festival March,” by Ernest Lent, of this city. Mr. Lent has won a reputation as a composer and the ac ceptance of his latest work by Mr. San telmann is viewed in the light of am honor. The next concert by the Symphony Or chestra of Washington will be given on the afternoon of January 6 at the Na tional Theater. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the young Russian pianist, has been engaged as soloist for the concert. The members of the orchestra have already begun rehearsals and are actively work ing on some of the numbers which have been selected. Richard Kay, violinist, of New York, contemplates giving a recital here in January, When he will have the assis( ance of Clifford Alexander Wiley, bari tone. Mr. Kay has been entertaining music lovers in the metropolis with a series of recitals which have proved to be among the interesting musical events of the early season. Mr. Wiley is well known here, where he has a vocal stu dio. His recitals last winter were thor oughly enjoyed and his admirers will be glad to hear him again. In conjunction with its series of sym phony concerts the Philadelphia Orches tra has determined upon a Young Peo ple’s Educational Course, consisting of five lectures and five concerts to be given in Philadelphia. This is one of many movements taken by the manage ment looking toward the establishment of a musical 1uvblic which will give the organiaztion its patronage. The man agement of the Philadelphia Orchestra believes that the American people do not take their music seriously enough and that th2 attendance at important musical events Iz more of a social func tion than anything else. It is the pur pose of the gentlemen who have the di rection of the orchestra in hand to en deavor to create a tate in Philadelphia for better music. The orchestra will assist in {llustrat ing the lectures. The first will be given by W. J. Henderson on “The Orchestra and Its Instruments,’ the second by William F. Apthorp on “Old and Modern Orchestration;” the third by Louis C. Elson on ‘‘“Wagner's Theories and Wag ner's Music;” the fourth by Dr. Hugh A. Clarke professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania, on “Form,” Hl d

hi x: and the fifth by H. F. Krehbiel on “Beethoven.” Z a position where the best settlement she can make is to give Germany a mortgage on the country on which she cannot even pay the interest. Between owning the country by conquest or owning it by an irremovable mortgage, Mr. White can see little difference. The first thing that Mr. White did on his return here last week was to write a letter to President Roosevelt on the situation. Le Enormous Stock of TOYS Auction Prices Ea FRA

Odd Fellows’ Hall, stocked with $20,000 worth of best Toys. Hudson’s Variety Store. Toys in Odd Fellows’ Great Hall, 423 Seventh Street N. W. Tables, Davenports, Mirrors, Pictures, Arm Chairs, Leather WANT IR OF THE TIM:S WILL SELL IT FOR YOU. vou one of them? We sell you better goods at lower prices rer THIS STORE'S GREAT POLICY OF Rs “Monev S a oney Saving N\- las been taken advantage of by thousands. Are

and give you Credit.—— ———0Open evenings until Christmas. Ui UAL cost ov Pn _ ing; $12. and Stov er, $3 95 for 1c White Enameled Bed, ol 2 51 95 for White Enameled Bed: 5150. 5200 and $300 $37. $7. 3 for 3-piece Parlor Suite: cost Complete line of Cooking and Heating Stoves es of every kind. Good Oil Heat $3.95 Fine large Range, BB ———_ —y CARPETS!

3 $37.50 for Quartered Oak Polished Bedroom Suite; cost elsewhere $50.00, gE Q 2 roa: 4 524.50 for Swelled Front Golden Oak Bedroom Suite; cost elsewhere $30.00. Special Bargain Week in Carpets ETI TT T_—_—— and Oriental Rugs. Great offering in oo Rug 1 carpet sizes; 9x12 Br Rug a a a 1.50 Ss Ingrain Carpet, 25¢ up. i Wem nl SE WE for very large Quartered Bk 3s Carpet, 65 i ks $14.50 $32.50 Oak Sideboard, swelled 33 s w for Fine Polished front and polished; cost elsewhere 2

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vases and top rail; eleewhere $6.00 ine Qua »d Oak Parlor 2 nf ane Quartered J Sost else EEE ar 52, 95% Roc ker; cost elsewhere $5.00. $3. 00: for fine Mahogany Finish Rocker; cost elsewhere $7.50. $1.69 For Gold-finished Music Rack; a BY 3 positive 33 value. Na *3 oo —r $1 4 for Prettily Decorated Par- i lor Lamp; cost elsewhere 3 $4 5 f Pretty Mahogany Finish $2.50. 3 The best in Pianos Is the cheapest Of Tay 2 2OERNY i i in the long run. We sell you a Whore Music Cadet; cost 37 else 52 95 Jor Slandgoue Parlor Lamp; $3 9 for Oak Morris Chair, with good one, 10-year guarantee, mahog- v good cushion; cost elsewhere ff any cases— 5 3 a jb§ Roll and Flat Top Desks, suit $6. 93 for a large, Finely Finished J Oak Morris Chair; cost else where $10.00. ible for house or office use. $22.50 ur large Roll Tap Desk; vost elsewhere $30 $10.50 for Handsome Swelled Front Golden Oak Chif fonier; cost else where $15.00. 30 for beautiful 5-piece Parlor J Suite, silk damask cover cost elsewhere $45.00, $10 15 for Massive, Heavy Leg Oak Extension Table; cost elsewhere $15.00. $3 30 for First-class Oak Exten J sion Table; cost elsewhere elsewhere $12.00 95 for Fine 3-plece Suite: cost elsewhere eo 50 $4 15 for Pretty Brass Trimmed, $8.00. White Enameled Crib: cost L1H 50 e Isewhere. $9.75 Ranges. Oil for Pretty Golden Oak Dressing Case, with large shaped plate mirror; cost 59 50 for Fine Box Couch, with best self-opener; cost else where $12.50. elsewhere 314. $3. 5 for Sati Oak Desk, cost else where £5 $1.7 75 for Mahogany Finish Corner J Chai r, damask covering; cost elsewhere 33.00. $4. 935 for pretty Golden Oak Desk, cost elsewhere $7.50 for Mahogany Finish Pedestal; 124] no ND 4 nihil slsewhe ‘or Large, Handsomely Som elsewhere 39. Ho 'ted Oak Frame Couch: $5.00. springs an 'd buttons, fine velour cov ering, cost elsewhere $14.00. $3. he for Velour Covered Couch: B The well-known Demorest Sewir cost elsewhere $5.50. 3 Machine, 10-year guarantee; rs

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WCORD GLAINANTS AGAIN SEEK RELIEE Bill Favored by One Presi dent, Vetoed by Another. SUIT DATES FROM CIVIL WAR Loss to Contractor of the Monitor Etlah Grew Out of the Rapid Change In Prices-—~Revolution in Navy. HRA L ANE EWI VRS eS MA VR WVYVVNZNT gress by representatives of the unfortu nate coniractor, Charles W. McCord, the builder of the light draft monitor Etlah, one of the first of the ironclad vessels to be comstructed by the United States after the famous fight of the Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads. The matter has been considered at al most every session since the Fifty-first Congress and has been favored by one President and vetoed by another. Thus far at the present session a bill provid ing for relief has been introduced and bas just received counsideration by the House Committee on War Claims, which has reported it with a recommendation for favorable action by the House. Loss to Contractor. The loss to the contractor grew out o? the rapid change in prices caused by the close of the civil war. The invention by Ericsson created a revolution in naval construction, and after the duel between the Merrimac and Monitor in Hampton Roads, it was clear that all future war ship building was to be on entirely new lines, Accordingly the Navy Department, in the latter part of 1862 and early in 1863, contracted for twenty light draft moni tors. Knowing that many changes were likely to be made, the new armorclads Baving just been invented, the Navy De partment reserved the right to make changes, the contractor to be paid for &ny extra cost resulting therefrom. McCord secured the contract under these terms for the building of the Etlah in 1863. Owing to delays the vessel was not completed until two years later, in stead of within eight months, as was at first believed possible. So many changes, in fact, were made that the cost of the Yessel when complete was about double the contract price. The result was that the contractor was ruined. Soon afier the vessel was completed he went into bankruptcy. His assets were sold and among them was a claim for the extras on the Etlah. The purchasers of the claim brought suit in the Court of Claims. While ft was pending McCord died, and it was commonly reported that death was caused largely by grief over business losses. i Negative Decision. When the case was heard the United States, as the defendant, produced a receipt which purported to be for $26,652.17 as final payment for all extras. The owners of the claim had no knowiedge of the existence or mean-. ing of the receipt, and McCord having “died it has never yet been explained. The court was of the opinion that there Were certain equities in the case, but in view of the receipt decided against the claimants. Following this decision a bill was in froduced and passed by the Fifty-first Congress providing for the submitting of the claim again to the court and giv ing the court equitable jurisdiction. the bill reached President Harri be returned it without approval and with a message that he did not see any Deed for a retrial in view of there being ho new evidence znd that action by Con gress was the real method for relief. In the second sesgion of the same Congress a bill making a direct appro priztion of $174,445.75 was favorably re. ported to both houses and passed by the Senate. Later the House passed the measure, with slight changes, but the conference committee could not agree. Again in the Fifty-fourth Congress a bill was introduced in both houses, The Sen ate committee reported it favorably, but the Senate bill was not taken up by the House, which inserted an item for the appropriation in the general deficiency pill EY wr ag Te Ye f FAP PPP P0000 0990050009935995920595999299999009599% 99% Vetoed by Cleveland. When this bill reached President Cleveland he vetoed it. Among the items to which he objected was that for the Etlah claim.

Senator Burrows, in a report. replied to the President's arguments for his ¥eto and the bill has been pending in various ways in Congress ever since. The Senate Committee on Claims made seven favorable reports upon the meas ure and the Senate has paesed it no less than five different times. J

In the Fifty-fifth Congress an adverse Yepor:t was made on it by the House Committee on War Claims. Since that time, however, a number of similar cases have been sent to the Court of Claims by Congress with equitable jurisdiction extended and bave heen decided in favor of the cbutractors. In view of this action by the court the House Committee on War Claims has recommended favorable action on the measure by the present Congress. DISTRICT EMPLOYES €C. C. Rogers, the District Disbursing Officer, has completed a new roster of the employes of the municipal govern ment. There are a few less than 5,000 names on the rolls. The lists are for purpeses of reference in connection with the bi-monthly payment of the District rs. Mr. Rogers announced yesterday that he would pay en December 24 the money due on Decemlwr 31, so all can have funds for Christmas. This rule includes the members of the Fire Department, school teachers, and the pensioners of the Police and Fire Departments. Small’s Flowers for Christmas H. Small Sons, Florists, 14th and C sta, 153 Broadway and Waldorf-As Y. American Beauty roses, violets, be, all Christmas floral novelties. Re awe Seo APPOINTED INSPECTOR OF GAS AND METERS Elmer C. Runyan Selected by District Commissioners. Elmer C. Runyan was yesterday ap pointed United States Inspector of Gas and Meters for the District of Colum bia, by President Roosevelt. The ac tion of the President was pursuant to a recommendation by Commissioner Macfarland forwarded to him several days ago. The office of inspector of gas and me ters was established in 1874, and while the duties of the position have to do with local matters alone, the appoint ment remains with the President under the terms of the old law. Mr. Runyan succeeds Dr. S. Calvert Ford, who has held the position since the establishment of the office in 1874. He resigned a few days ago on account of failing health. It is understood that Congress will be asked to pass a law making the in spector of =as and meters an officer uu der the District government, with the appointment vested in the Commis fon ers. The anomaly of having the aspoint ment of a jurely local official in the President is due largely to the fact that this is tL» first time attention has been called to the matter by a vacancy in the position. The inspector of gas and meters is under the personal su pervision of (Commissioner Maefarland, and submits weekly reports to him. Mr. Runyan ig a native of Michigan. He graduated in chemistry at the Uni versity of Michigan, and, =2oming to Washington, took a postgraduate course at the Columbian University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. Im mediztely after taking this course he was appointed to a position in the Bu real of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, with which he has now been connected for the past ten years. At present Mr. Runyan is chief of a division in the bureau. Dr. Harvey Wiley. chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, recommended Mr. Runyan for appointment to the new position, speaking in the highest terms of his abilities as a practical chemist. The salary of the office is $2,000 per annum. The board of army officers for the re vision of the small arms firing regula tions, now in session at the War De partment, has recommended to the Rec retary of War that a special class of marksmen be established in the army to be known as “expert riflemen,” who will receive as extra pay $1 a month. J. KARR'S SONS, Hooooveoe POPP PIPPIN NIVIN III (Note the New Store Number, 1225 F iia ee A Specialty With Us— Gift

DIAMONDS and Suggestions:

PRECIUUS. STONE JEWELRY. Besides the Diamonds and The gift intended to he P recious-stone Jow elry w— i made in such a line ean be selected with the utmost we have an immense assort confidence from our coilec- ment of other uniqpe and tion—because we are ex pert judges and reliable retailers. And because, be- ing specialties with us, we carry a most extensive stock of stones and the verv latest designs of setting and mounting. valuable items that make Watches, Gold Jewelry, Silverware, Silver Novelties, There is such a thing as “reasonable” prices for them, as your investigation of our prices will convince You. There's no obligation to buy—but there's a pressing Desk Silver, Toilet Silver, Clocks, Bronzes, Eleetrie Bronzes. ric-a-Brae, Art Goods, most appropriate gifts mvitation extended yon to

measure the opportunities de tint: are” offered here Tor Umbrellas and Fars, supplying the demands of Opera Glasses, the gift-list, Leather Novelties, rs ee Ad The “Safe Jewelry Store” guarantees prices as well as qualities and service. Open Evenings Until Christmas,

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veccios (Candies for the Holdidays. As usual, we are splendidly pre Church pared for the Holiday trade, and our assortment of confections is greater Sunday- Chocolates, Bonbons, Creams Ctr a un andi 13 maine Orders boxes, to mail o express (0 trends. Promptly ctent guamiee tor Filled. ABSOLUTE PURITY. and EARLY ORDERS REQUESTED. “SHE T 99 CORNER E A TENTH F. MARKSMEN FOR ARMY JURY AWARDS RICH COAL LANDS TO LANDER HEIRS Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company Will Appeal. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 20.—An im poriant verdict was rendered this morn ing by a jury which has been hearing evidence all this week in connection with a suit entered by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company against the Lanter heirs in which coal lands in Newport township, valued at $150,000, were involved. The evidence went back to the original deeds of title issued in 1709. Judge Ferris yesterday gave a very clear and forcible charge, and this morving the jury came in with this verd et: “We, the jury in the case wherein the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com pany is plaintiff, and Williamx H. Hines and the Lander heirs are defendants, do find a verdict for the defendants for all the lands in dispute.” An appeal will be taken. MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS Ne

The cruiser Cincinnati, the gunboat Scorpion, and the torpedo hoat Newark, have arrived at San Juan; the battle ships Illinois (flagship of Rear Admiral Crowninshield) and Indiana, and the gunboat Hist, at St. Thomas, and the cruisers Montgomery and Topeka at Ponce. The cruiser Newark has sailed from San Juan for Culebra on her way to Curacan. The torpedo boats Thornton and Biddle have sailed alse from San Juan for Culebra.

mT TTY TY These arrivals and departures are in acordance with the Christmas holiday dis rihution of the war games fleet, made by Admiral Dewey. The armored cruiser New York (flag ship of Rear Admiral Casey) has arrived at Santa Barbara, and the tug Nezinscot at Portsmouth, N. MH. I TI O bells of Christmas, golden And silvery of throat, Your ‘tuneful tidings olden Adown the air let float! To valleys Galileean Beyond the gray-green sea Be wafted your peace-paean, Your elear love harmony! O bells of Christmas, ending Man's doubt and his despair, With your sweet notes ascending Go blended praise and prayer. Sorrow your sound assuages, And joy your peal foretells; To all the opening ages Ring out, O Christmas bells! —Clinton Scollard, in New Orlean Times- Democrat. CHRISTMAS BELLS. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. CHILD FALLS UNDER CAR AND IS BADLY HURT Little Mildred McShea Sustains Serious Injuries.

Mildred, the four-year-old daughter of William McShea, living at 3302 N Street, was seriously injured last night at 7:10 o'clock by falling between the motor car and trailer of train No. 207 on the Capi tal Traction line. Bafore she could be released from her perilous position the combined assistance of a number of traction employes citizens, and police men was required. With her father the little one was on her way to the central portion of the city. They boarded "he cars at Thirty third and M Streets. In passing from gl a gl NN a CS a Le 3 Te SS a EE EE EE EE EE dh Ee es

Lansburgh Bro. We Arc Prepared for A Busy Monday. Pi

A T'HOUSANDS of Christmas shoppers wili doubtless be with us tomorrow. Most remarkable preparations have been Open Late Until Christmas. .ansburgh Bro. made throughout the store. Well-trained, courteous sales people will do their best to make your shopping comfortable and satisfactory. Each of our 52 separate departments offers unprecedented holiday opportunities. We are determined to make a clean sweep of all Christmas merchandise, and to at tain that end, Monday has been set aside as a gala day.

Store Will Remain Open Evenings Until Christmas. Dress Goods and Silks--Very Practical Gifts Abound in This Section TAA AA A A a Ta a ie r Te a d N 3 i! 0 4 CEE RE EE EE ly PN Tew Te From these items a safe and satisfactory choice can be made. As to the prices, if we had to buy the goods today the price =suld be ean o fi siderably higher: $1 Cheviot Homespuns, 59% 66-inch All-Wool Homespun Chev fots, colors dark grays, and blue; usual price, $1.00. Special, 5%. LL $2 Imported Cloth, $1.59 52-inch Imported Broadcloth, 50 shades, including beautiful modes, *rowns, blues, garnets, greens, and blacks; permanent finish. Special, yard, $1.59. v-—. $1.50 Zibeline Cloth, $1.19 52-inch All-wool Zibeline, colors blues, grays, green, garnet, and black; usual price, $1.50. .3pecial, $1.16. TE dE EE EE EE 50c All-wool Plaids, 25c. 38-inch Ali-wool Cheviot and Camel's Halr Plaids; a great va riety of color combinations; some are suitable for children’s dresses, and many make splendid separate skirts. We place sale about 50 pleces, bo the price, instead of 50c, will be, 25C ¥RPE ...vvvassrsinnses Bakanuns A House Coat Or Bath Robe suggests luxury and comfort. It to mve. Special—$5 Men's Wool Smoking Jackets, in dark gray and other de sirable colors; well made and fin Yi

y ished; reversible cloth; sizes 35 to 42 inches; reg- 9) ular value 36; cholce..... M

Handsome Colored Cloth House Coats, with the new long rolled effect, bound with $6. 98 silk cord. Only crs ann Men's Blue Tricot Smoking Jackets; quilted 9 68 lining throughout; only Men's Wool Smoking Jackets; various colors; 48 stylishly made. Only Men's Bath gd Robes, t match; 42 48 good and warm. Only.. with borders to 's a thoughtful thing Blanket Robes, in all new figured effects: bor ders to match; $10 val- 1. 50 MOE, ORIY nich emsns Special lot of 500 fine ly finished for men, and tailored House Coats, in neat effects: finished with sitk frogs—marked $3 G8 BE annie irinn sane ants LJ Regular $5.50 values. Another lot of Men's Ali-wool House Coats, in plain and fancy weaves; neatly 4. trimmed; full cut; only.. Regular $6.50 values. Men's Bath Robes; 93. 50 bordered effects. Only.. Men's All-wool Bath Robes, in plaids and stripes; endless varlety of col- 5 00 ors. Only Women’s Hemstitched Collar and Cuff Sets, in all white and white stitched in black. Regular 50 69¢ value. Speecial.......... All-gilk Stocks, with the new stole effects; all colors, including black and white. 5 Speclal An elegant assortment of Neck Ruffs, with extra long ends, in black and black i $3.25 white. Regular $3.98 ho ue, for The latest effects in Taffeta Silk Stocks, in ail colors, In cluding black and white, 8 98¢ to Neckwear A large assortment of Silk Auto mobile Ties, with hemstitch ed edges and silk turnovers. 5C Regular 75¢ values. Special A beautiful line of Lace Collars made of Point de Venice and Ara bian braid, with the new grape effects. Regular 1 68 $2.25 values. Special..... The latest effect in Peay de Soie and Liberty Siik Stocks, all colors, some with pe By -08C Regular $1. 25 value. Special. Auto Ties in plaids and dots, with silk turnover collars, g selling regularly at $1.98, $1 48 now Christmas Linens A few suggestions gathered from our Linen stoek for gift- giving Table Sets, size 2x2% German Damask Towels, yards; plain white, fine fine quality, knotted fringe; 50¢€ quality, fringed. Special $4. 00 with drawn work border price, set Hemstitched Table Set, Hemstitched German size 2x21 yards; pure 4.98 Damask Napkins; size 18 {inen; per set inches; fine quality; per $2. 00 Fringed Table Cloths, BOBBIE»... 5s mikes sesine size 2x2% yards; plain i 5 white. BASHK .enenesnas Hemstitched Table Irish Damask Tray Cloths, 19C Cloths, wa yards; Ger- 1. size 18x27; pure linen. Each. man linen Bagh. ..ocne German Damesk Towels, German Damask Bureau [od fine quality; hemstitched, 39C Scarf, with sewed fringe; 25C A slze 16x54; fine quality....... IP 420 to 426 Seventh St. SEES 2

one car to the other the child fell be tween them and was dragged about fif teen feet before the cars were stopped. Then it was discovered the child could not be removed until the car could be raised. Private Hess, of the Metropolitan po lice, summoned the street car employes and with them and a number of citizens the girl was rescued. Rather than await the arrival of the ambulance, Policeman Hess teck the child in his arms and hurried to the Georgetown Hospital, where surgical aid was secured. It was ascertained that she had sustained a severe scalp wound and a deep cut on her left cheek. She will recover. The Santa Claus of Flowers has his headquarters at Zuce’s. His floral specimens are perfect—his American Beauties peerless. 1224 F, it $3 English Kersey, $2.39 OTe a SARI" WwWUv SRT Lh seys, colors tans, modes, brown, blues, grays, red, green, and black; steamed gratis. Special, yard, $2.39. 50c Nun's Veiling, 39%¢ 40-inch All-wool Nun's Veiling and Batiste, colors are white, eream, light blue, pink, nile, old rose, helio, light gray, dark gray, old blue, gobelin blue, biscuit, mode, tan, brown, reseda, hunter's green, cardinal, garnet, marine, navy, black, etc. Worth every 39¢ penry of 50c. To go at, yard. $2.25 Waist Patterns, $1.95 3,000 Waist Lengths, comprising such fabrics at all-wool satin chal les, crepe cloth, mohair, Persian stripes, granite stripes; many all creams in jacquard weaves; xlso an abundance of black and white ef fects. These are all fresh, crisp, new goods, and every style a de sirable one; “no job lots.” These sold formerly at $2.25. To go at, for full 3-yard $1 935 Waist -JenBIY soesrnsnnd LANSBURGH BRO. Sg mg ng Ta td, ST eR dE TWO GREAT TERMINALS 10 COST SIXTY MILLIONS Pennsylvania to Build Here and at New York at Same Time. Officials of the Pennsylvania Rail road are confident that the year 1902 will see the construction of both the New York and Washington terminals well ad vanced. The estimated cost of these two projects is $60,000,000, $50 000,000 of which will be spent in New York. The McMillan bill, which provides for the building of the Washington termi nal, and which passed the Senate at the long session, has just passed the House, It now goes back to the Senate for con currence in the amendments offered. President Cassatt is satisfied with the Black for a Xmas Presemt Black Mohair on pai tines; 8 yards, full pat- 6d tern; 38 inches. Special. Black for a Xmas Present Silk Henrietta, silk finish: the i» J finish and dye is perfect; 7 8 yards for a pattern; 64 be A 0 36 Inches. Special Black for a Xmas Present Black All Wool Chev

2 lot; seven yards for a pattern; 28 inches. 7 AR NR A Black for a Xmas Present

i Black All-wool Imported Serge: soft, nice finish; 8 yards for a pattern; 38 7 40) Inches. Special --e GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN

Women’s Walking Suits and Skirts. f.

A splendid ehanee to purchase viluable and sensible Christmas gifts at much less than regular prices, $32.50, $27.50, $25.00, and $23.50 Women's Walking Suits, $17.95, A) f. i" DA N A Man-tailored; the latest cloths; the latest styles; only one or two of [x a style $19.50 Noriolk Walking Suits, $14.95. In navy blue, long jacket effect, lined with an excellent quality of satin. Sizes 32 to 42. i)

Three Great Skirt Values. i To go on sale at 9 o'clock Monday. None to be sold before that time. $12.50 Black Peau de Soie Silk Skirts, $5.90. Black Peau de Soie Silk Skirt, with percaline drop: 2 clusters of six Py “y

A rows each, accordion plezted ruffles at bottom; headed by quilting of gauze ribbon. There are but eight in this lot. i £13.50 Silk Taffeta Skirt, 38.75 Eleven All-silk Taffeta Skirts, with perecaline drop, beautifully trim med with silk braid, forming panel effect, graduated box pleat at bot PA we: $5.98 and $6.98 Dress Skirts, $4.83. IN Your selection of any Dress Skirt in our stock that sells regularly at $5.98 and $6.98 for $4.85. i A Holiday Gloves. Gloves have a popularity peculiarly their own with gift-givers—and they are always most aceeptable to the recipient. We are showing a splendid variety of the right sort at the right priee. Women's Suede and Fownes™ Gloves for Women. in all Glace Kid Gloves, in all the newest shades, with a NN yi FE shades. Special “Paris point” emhroid Men's Lined and Unlin- BEY. TOP icici rnntie A RNG mat aad A a A alg J abs J)

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KING ALFONSO WINS BOTH PRESTIGE AND POPULARITY His Recent Action in Cabi net Crisis Wins People’s Approbation. What Advent of First Con= servative Cabinet Involves to Spanish Court. nection with the recent ministerial crisis at Madrid astonished people both at home and abroad by the precocity which it indicated, and has served to increase both his prestige and his popu larity. For when Senor Sagasta tender ed the resignation of his Liberal ad ministration at the beginning of Novem ber, in consequence of irreconcilable dif ferences among his colleagues, the youthful momnarch, who will not be seventeen until next May, declined to call the Conservatives into council, or to intrust them in the formation of a cabinet without a defeat of the Liberal, that is to say, the ministerial, party in parliament. Ever since the time when Spain was endowed with a constitutional form of government the invariable practice has been for the changes of the cabinet to be made at Madrid without any regard to the majority in the chamber of depu ties. Administrations were dismissed by the crown, or else resigned of their own accord, either when they had ceased to enjoy the confidence and good-will of the monarch, or else when by di visions among themselves they had rendered further co-operation with one another in an administration a matter of impossibility. When a cabinet went out of office the sovereign would ecail on one of the leaders of the opposi tion to form an administration, in different to the fact that he had no legislative majority in the house. That was a mere trifle for subsequent ar rangement. For as soon as the new premier had formred his ministry he secured from the throne a decree dis solving the cortes. Thereupon he would at once proceed to fill all the offices, especially those in the provinces, with his friends and adherents, and as soon as this was accomplished the general election would take place, the new ap pointees maneuvering the latter in such a fashion as te return an overwhelm ing ministerial majority. That has been the invariable custom. The parliamentary majority has always been manufactured after the formation of the cabinet by artificial means in erder to satisfy the needs of the admin $stration instead of the latter being or ganized to conform with the require ments and views of the parliameatary majority in existence at the time of its being intrusted with office. It is this knowledge and assurance that the par. liamentary polis would always show an overwhelming majority for the adminis tration that happened to be in power when the general election took place that has exercised such a blighting in fluence upon popular government ix Spain, for it has served to keep a very large and important element of the population from casting its ballets on the ground that no matter how one voted the government would always win. King Alfonso is endeavoring to re form these methods, and the Spanish people at large are grateful to him for the determined fight he has made to ac complish the end he had in view. For an entire month he held out, compelling Sagasta to remain at the head of affairs until at length the aged premier sus tained a defeat in the cortes, when the monarch accepted his resignation and summoned the Conservatives to power, this being, I believe, the first instance in Spanish history of a change of cabinet following a ministerial defeat in the cortes, The King’s Reasons. There were other reasons why the King was anxious to keep the Liberals and especially Senor Sagasta, at the helm. He knew that if he intrusted the forma tion of a cabinet to the Conservatives it would involve a general election, which in the present disturbed condition of the kingdom is likely to lead to fresh popu lar outbreaks and troubles. The last general election took place only a year ago, and gave rise to rioting of a mor: or less sanguinary character throughout the kingdom, and Don Alfonso was anxious to preserve the country from be ing subjected to another such trial. He, therefore, urged Senor Sagasta to en deavor even at the cost of concessions made to his foes to reconstruct a Liberal cabinet, and the old premier, who had been Queen Christina's principal men tor during her regency, and to whom the young King had been bound by special ties of affection and regard since his earliest childhood, made every possible effort to satisfy his monarch's wishes, actually going to the length of offering a portfolio to the dissident Conservative leader, Romero Robledo. The latter's pretensions, however, were s0 extreme, especially with regard to patronage, that the negotiations came tc naught, and Sagasta, after having ex. cited the suspicion and ill-will of his own followers by offering concession: to the extreme radicals, and the denun clations of the latter by his attempts to bring Conservatives into his adminis. tration, managed to form a cabinet tha inspired such universal lack of confi dence that it was defeated last week in the cortes through the refusal of large body of the Liberal party to vote in its favor.

Silvelas was thereupon summoned to the palace, and has now formed a Conserva tive administration, the first since King Alfonso has attained his majority and h- A

J of Santiago, the minister of war. More over the cortes has been dissolved, and a new general election ordered, which will take place about next April, which will give time to the new administra tion to so reorganize the entire system of provincial government as to assure an overwhelming Conservative majority at the polls. Senor Silvelas’ Record. Senor Silvelas, fortunately for the King is one of the most honored and ster!isn,: figures in the pelitical life of Spain. He has much in common with the French ex-Premier Waldeck-Rousseau, and like the latter has been the leader of the bar of his country, sacrificing the larges: and most lucrative practice in Spain when he accepted the premiership short ly after the war with this country. He severed his connection witl the legal profession on that oceasion, not only for the period that he was to remain ir office, but also for the subsequent por tion of his career, on grounds which ‘afford a remarkable illustration of his ‘high-mindedness and integrity. The reason which he gave for leaving the bar ‘was that the custom of ex-premiers anc ex-cabinet ministers figuring as counsel in court is not calculated to promote the impartiality of judges or to inspire popular confidence in the latter's striet sense of justice, All over the continent of Rurope the judges are subordinate to the govern ment, and depend upon the premier and upon the minister of justice for their promotion and distinctions of one kind and another. Now a judge knov ing this, and finding among the counsc! in his court a lawyer who has already once held the office of cabinet mini-ter, and who is likely to become a cabiuet min ister again, will naturally be tempted to earn the latter's good-will hy grant ing decisivis iu favor of the cause he represents. At any rate any judgment that the bench might deliver in favor of the cause would be exposed to the pS

MPORTER'S odd dozens— his remaining holiday stock of handkerchiefs-— bought and offered at 33 per cent less than regular quotations. On sale tomor row morning on special tables as follows: I Four for 50c. A monster table full at Eleventh Street entrance. None worth less than 18¢ each, many worth more, Choice for 13e¢ each, or 50¢ for four m Christmas box. Three for 50c. Enter hy G Street door and turn sharp to your right—for this table full of 25¢ to 35¢ values, at 18¢ each, or H0e for three in box suitable for presentation. Three for $1. None of them intended to retail at less than 50¢; some are worth more, Choice for 35e, or three in box for $1. In main aisle, facing (G Street entrance. Two for $1. The judge of fine Handkerchiefs will recognize best of THe¢ Handker chiefs, at only 50c¢ each, or $1 for two in attractive box. Main aisle. Two for $1.48 Those who best know what a #1 Handkerehief should be will best ap preciate these. Only 75¢ each, or two n box, for £1.48. Two for $1.78 The French Handkerchiefs milady of fashion would not be without. They are reckoned worth £1.25. These at Re each, or £1.78 for two. Main aisle. THE PALAIS ROYAL A. Lisner, G and lith Streets. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. suspicion of partiality. Senor Silvelas’ action created an immense amount of discussion at the time, but was warmly commended, both at home and abroad, as the setting of a singularly high standard of honor in political life. His attitude in this, however, is in keeping with the remainder of his career. He, as well as Senor Villaverdr, to whom he has now Intrusted the treasury de nartment, preferred to resign their port folios in the Conservative cabinet of the late Canovas del Castillo, ten years ago, rather than to be parties to the policy of Don Romero Robledo, then minister of justice, In hushing up the scandals in connection with the extraor dinary corruption and dishonesty of the municipality of Madrid, notably of the then mayor and political boss, Senor Bosch, an intimate friend and political associate of Robledo. A Plot Recalled. On yet another occasion when a move ment was organized by Robledo and certain Conservative ministers to trans fer the regency from the young King's mother to his aunt, the Infanta Isabella, on the ground that Christina was a foreigner, and the princess entitled to it as the nearest of the grown up Spanish born relatives of the King, Silvelas declined to have anything to do with the plot, warned the Queen of its existence, and brought the whole affair to naught. In fact, his name throughout the length and breadth of Spain Is synonymous with everything that is honorable and loyal, and as ‘such he commands the respect of all parties, even of his foes, chief among whem Is, of course, Romero Robledo, the per sonification of all that Is most corrupt in Spanish politics. Silvelas, while he can be very elo quent, is as a rule rather cold, concise, and sober of speech. His manner, though courteous, conveys an impression of re serve, and his distaste for everything that is theatrical and showy is most pro 177 ot

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A) nounced. Thoroughly a master of him self he Is in consequence thereof well qualified to act as the master of others, and while Ms policy is likely to prove of a reactionary character, it will at any rate be one of action. For he is altogether opposed to Sagasta's methods of “laisser aller,”” of letting things slide until they settle themselves, of compromise and or conciliation at all cost. According to him the reins of government must be kept well in hand, and the dominant note of his administra tion will be “its vigor. Change for Weal or Woe. While the helm of the Spanish ship of state is now in the hands of a pilot possessed of a much firmer grasp and of more decision of character than easy-going old Sagasta, the very per scnification of the Spanish “manana.” it remains to be seen whether the change will be for the weal or for the woe of the Iberian kingdom, In the first place the administration feels that the political syrapathies of the King and of his mother are rather with the Liberals than with the Conservatives. At least that is the popular inference drawn from Don Alfonso’s manifest re Jluctance to part with Sagasta. Then, too, the presence of a Tory cabinet in power will have the affect of remov ing from the ultra-radical and republi can wing of the Liberal party all that restraint which had been imposed upon its anti-dynastic aspirations by the fact that the Liberals were in office and Sagasta at the head of affairs. In Cata lonia especially the republican move ment and the home rule agitation are certain to become more acute than heretofore since the people of this, the manufacturing sad industrial province par exlcellence, realize that they have less to hope ir the way of concessions from Silvelas thaa from Sagasta, and that they are certain to be treated with greater rigor and held in check with a far sterner hand. The entire anti-clerical element will &lso be arrayed against the government, that anti-clerical element which styles itself the Nationa! Union, and in defer ence to the demands of which the Sagas ta government enacted last summer that sweeping decree for the regulation of re OY ne 2g ligious schools and religious education, a blow, in fact, at the religious orders of the kingdom. The decree was signed. But inasmuch as Silvelas and the Con servativeg bitterly opposed it in the cortes, it is doubtful whether, now that they are in office, they will apply the Suppression of Clergy. Then there is the question of the wholesale suppression of archbishoprics and bishoprics, on the score of economy, and the taxation of the religious orders, to which the late government stood com mitted in deference to popular clamor, but to which the present administration has expressed itself as opposed. ae a I EE at a a TT a a TI I Te I a Those are but a few of the popular is sues, which are certain to develop at a very early stage into sources of popular disturbances and risings against the gOV ernment, and possibly also against the throne. The sentiment at the present moment in Spain is overwhelmingly in favor of administraive and economic re form, of progress, of decentraliza tion—in one word, of liberalism. And it is a Conservative government that is In power for no other reason than that the Liberals are so divided among themselves, so rent asunder into rival factions, as to render their continuance in office for the moment impossible. Add to these elements of discordance, Romero Robledo and his fellow dissident Con servatives, who openly avow their pref erence for their party, such as it is, to the dynasty, and who are bitterly op posed to Silvelas: and General Weyler, who now that he has lost the portfolio of war feels that he has missed his chance of becoming a military dictator and is ripe for mischief, and you find that the outlook in Spain is singularly a EE anh ait El Se EE a at a Ee I i i i stormy and threatening, both for the new cabinet and for the young King. EX-ATTACHE REFUND DUTY ON COAT A measure relative to the coal prob lem has been introduced in the House The bill is by Representative Hill of Cennecticut, and provides that there shall be allowed and paid. under such regulations ag the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, on all coal of every kind and form imported into any port on the Atlantic Coast a drawback LE a ann I of the import duties paid, to and includ ing the 30th day of June, 1903. RE a a tT TR S— UNE Tl aS GS p ET The Rover Boys at School T MM PHA Dot 4 WY 7 ed J)

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GUARDSMEN BUSY WITH RIFLE PRACTICE 10 ———————_—— Keen Rivairy Exists in the Different Battalions. CARMODY PRIZE AT STAKE Police Confiden: of Making a Good Showing In Coming Contest—Cav alry Talk Dying Out airy 1aix vying vutl With the exception of the regular rifle practice in the armory over Center Mar ket, there was nothing in National Guard circles last week to attract more than passing atiention from the guardsmen. Much rivalry exists in the various pa‘ talions. As a result several matches have been arranged. Gun talk is about the only thing that engages the attention of the citizen-soldiers. The mimters cf the two regiments are more enthusiastic over rifle practice than any other dtuies they have to perform The police-guardsmen’s revolver matches have given impetus to tne sport, but this is not the only good derived The guardsmen and the police have gone at it with both hands. Never before has so much preliminary practice been dono. The police by their recent showing against the citizen-soldiers demonstrated that they could, with a little practice, make just as high scores as the militia men, whe are supposed to make accurate ghooting, both in the gallery and on the ficld, their highest ambition. Officials Working Hard. parr The officials of both organizations are doing everything in their power 1o further the project and offer all the en couragement they can to the men, so they will attain skill with firearms both large and small. The Second Regiment won a decisive victory over the First Regiment in the marksmenship contest in the gallery last Monday night. The winners made the high score of 648, while their opponents had only 597. The scores were not high, owing to the fact that factory ammuni tion, issued by the Government, was used. The powder was found to be too powerful for indcor work, and conse quently did not prove to be as interesting or exciting as was expected.

The following is the line-up and the scores. Sécond Regiment. Major W. E. Harvey, 40; Capt. Sheri dan Ferree, 42, Privete A. G. Richmond, 42; Capt. Alexander Summers, 44; Lieut. G. P. Phillips, 40; Private William Kuhn, 41; Private R. S. Williams, 39; Sergt. J. S, Coombs, 44; Sergi. W. M. Farrow, 45, Sergt. C. E. Groome, 43: Private C. A. Russell, 35; Sergt. John O'Connell, 41; Private G. P. Wathen, 43; Capt. C. R. Sefgel, 36; Lieut. L. E. Tait, 31; Sergt. H. E. Burton, 54: total, 648. a a OF a

First Regiment. Lieut. F. H. Heidenreich, 41; Private D. E. Langley, 44; Capt. A. B. White, 37; Sergt. C. R. Sherwood, 36; Private J. C. Gaither, 238; Private W. B. Sullivan, 32; Lieut. H. B. Holfield, 44; Sergt. J. B. Baker, 30; Sergt. Ralph Alderman, 36; Private Keeler, 36; Major L. H. Reichel derfer, 40; Lieut. M. P. Brittain, 30. Pri vate W. C. Sims, 36; Private C. C. Dyer, 3¢; Private W, B. Lyda, 38; Private C. L. Bode, 49; total, 597. “oN “J Ea Owes i 4 Major James E. Bell, inspector general of rifle pmctice, and Major Gilfoy and Captain Hale, United States Army, both of whom are members of the army board which is now engaged in revising the small #rm firivg regulations, were among the most interested spectators. They fol lowed closely the work of the two teams. ys

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tS SUPA APP oe i————, The board of army officers continues its experir:ents at the Ordway Range. Major Bell has accompanied the officers to the practice grounds several times, and has Htiended every courtesy. The board will a kant a a a a]

its report to the Secreta f Wi within a few weeks. is os There nas been a good deal of talk among some of the guardsmen about the organization of a cavalry troop. So far interest has lagged in the matter. Al. though there 3 aise a number of ex pert horsemen in guard the project In likely to fall through. rst Lieut. Roy B. Hayes, Engineer Corps, hus tendered his resignation, be cause of his leaving the city. The resig Ty Tm me vv TREE RIGGS BANK BOWLERS WIN FROM LOAN AND TRUST The Riggs Bank bowlers defeated the Washington Loan and Trust team last night on the Palace alleys, winning the first two games of the set. Both sides bowled far below the standard in the Bankers’ League. a. m— Harrison, of Riggs, was high man. with 580, while his 209 was best single. Taylor, of the losers, was next high man, with 186 average, and his 200 was next best single. HAA SEE a Riggs. 1st. H. H. Flather...... 197 W. J. Flather...... 126 ‘Worthington 156 5 i Karrison 178 Totals anes B16 W. L. Trust. 1st, b Hatnapd: ...o.nusx- 156 ig AR ER IR SA 127 El Browning 157 RUVIOR sans ss rene 176 i Totals 753 2d. 145 118 104 178 209 4 24. 36 145 133 129 190 43 3d. 152 147 163 163 753 3d. 170 mn 142 170 260 R43 2.389 EASY FOR WASHINGTON. k Last night the Washington Light In. fantry basketbali team defeated a picked team from Baltimcre by the score of 3 B to 4. The game was played in the Wash ‘ngtoms Adghs Infantry Hall MATTERS OF INTEREST TO LOCAL ATHLETES What Is Going on in Various Organ zations, and Future Events in Which They Will Compete. With all the business pertaining to the field sports of the various big col leges cleaned up, the ath! lic associa tions of the colleges are .aking up the matter of {uture rules governing eligi bility, agreements as to dates, and t} formation of new compacts, The most important under these heads are those in which Yale and larvard ar: interested, pring the coming week meeting of representatives of each wi be held and from what can be learnes in an unofficial way it is proposed to work out a new set of rules that will be iden {ical for both universities, doing away with a great source of disagreement due to the present dissimilar regulations. If this is accomplished Yale and Har vard will next year mee: on an entirely new basis, each university agreeing to test the candidates for its teams on ex actly the same rules concerning eligi ‘bility instead of, as formerly, deciding judividual cases which have come up un der varying rules. In spite of the different conditions ex isting at Yale and Harvard i 1s believed that it will be entirely possible to draft a set of eligibility regulations that will be perfectly satisfactory to both uni versities. Should this be done, it is be lieved by both sides that the future would promise most amicable relations on eligibility questions, New Eligibility Eu es. While it is not possible to state that it can be accomplished, there is a wellde fined movement on foot just now among Yale and Harvard alumni to radically change the eligibility rules of both in stitutions by limiting the candidates for the various varsity teams to students who are bona fide candidates for their first college or professional school de gree. For Yale and Harvard to take this radical move would be in the minds of many graduates a long step ahead for American college athletics. Under the present system it has become more and more evident that a real danger lies in the increasing number of noted athletes from smaller colleges who come to one or other of the large universi ties to continue their athletic careers in the professional schools. The result of this has been that sev eral athletic teams, notably football elevens, at all of the large universities in recent years, have drawn to a large extent on graduates of Western colleges

for their star men to the exclusion of undergraduates in their own institu tions. This has not only made it more and more difficult for bona fide first d« gree students to make their universit. teams, but it has brought what many alumni consider to be a most unfortu nate element into university athletics. Princeton and Pennsylvania. While Yale and Harvard are making efforts to more strongly than ever ce ment their athletic relations, other uni versities seem to be on the point of breaking off theirs or are making little or no effort to increase thei- friendly relations or bring about a renewal of them. Notable among the latter class are Princeton and Pennsylvania. With the exception of gymnastic ex hibitions, Pennsylvania and Princeton have not met in dual athletic contests since the memorable football game at Trenton in 1894. The two universities have never had a dual meeting in track athletics, For some time rumors have been afloat to the effect that efforts would be made to again bring these universities to gether in athletic competition, but it is stated that at a meeting of the Prince ton Club; held in Philadelphia last week, a resolution to bring sbout this happy result was defeated. It was proposed that the football game be played in the fall of 1903, the baseball game or games in 1904 and the dual track sports in 1903 or 1904. It is said that the resolution was defeated by a close vote, after a discussion lasi ing three hours. A director of the “Red and Blue’ Ath letic Association is reported to have said: “If Pennsylvania wants to renew ath letic relations with Princeton the ne gotiations will be conducted between the university athletic committee of Penn sylvania and the faculty athletic com mittee of Princeton. There have as yet been mo communications between these two bodies on this subject.” Interest in Basketball. The, game known as “basketball” has grown so popular all over the country that it has been included in the list of athletic competitions of all the big col leges, and it is as much of a feature with them in the indoor season as football is ‘in eld sports and athletic clubs and Y. The, game known as “basketball” has grown so popular all over the country that it has been included in the list of athletic competitions of all the big col leges, and it is as much of a feature with them in the indoor season as football is in field sports, and athletic clubs and Y. M. C. A. organizations no longer have a monopoly in this line of athleties. Regular schedules are now made out just as they are for football ana base ball and the lines are drawn just as tightly in this sport between the big and little colleges as they are in the older lines of sport. The Cornell schedule just issued calls for sixteen games and includes contests with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Celum bia, and the rest with the smaller col leges. Lafayette College will play here on December 26 and 27 with the Light Infantry team, and Yale may make a visit here next month. The gsemi-monthly contests for the all around athletic championship of the Y. M. C. A. are creating an unusual amount of interest this season not only among the members and contestants, but among followers of athletics generally. Six teams are competing this season for the honor of holding the trophy shield and to date Captain Applegate's team leads with 1,041 points to its credit. Captain Spaulding’s team is next with 954 and Richardson's men have earned 91461 points. The others are Captain Shear's team, 796; Bopp's, 761%; I'ewkes', #33, and De Reinner's. 483% Standing of Teams and Individuals Last week's contests included running high jump, long ladder climb, rear vault, left and right on parallel bars. The points earned in these were as fol 1 wre we Captain A Ch VR a Captain Spau SB DORM. .connnrnbecnnanns Captain Bhear's team....................... Captain Bopp's team. ARBRE ARR. Captain Richardson's Lely, PRA J Captain Fewkes' team............... a Athletics at Y. M. C. A. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902, The individual totals earned to date Holiday Entertainments. As usual the association will enter tain its members and friends during the hoiidays with a series of contests and other athletic features. Among the games scheduled are those with the Baltimore Central Y. M. C. A. Wilmington Y. M. C, A., and Maryland Agricultural College. One of the most attractive games is the ene scheduled ror December 27 with West Branch Y. M. C. A. of Baltimore. On next Friday night will be held the usua! semi-monthly all-around contests, and admirers of the sport are invited to attend Morton Cadet Teams. The great improvement in the playing of the basketball team representing the Morton Cadets is the talk of the local league and followers of the sport gen erally. To play itself into a tie for first place with the Corcorans, the champions of the lec gue, should have been honor enough, but to play their rivals aimost 0 a standstill last week filled the Mortons’ cup of joy to overflowing. Hughes is playing a fast forward, and with Richards to aid it is hard for the other side to goal. Rice has developed into a clever center, and is doing 1ast work. He is generally accurate in his tossing. The McQueen brothers as “backs” work well together, and their goaling from field plays is a feature of the games in which they play. Baum, Yoder, and Curran are clever enough to substitute either at “forward” or “back.” The last game between the Mortons and Corcorans was entirely too rough to make it possible to get a line on their relative merits, but, judging from the work against other teams, the Mortons are fast enough to make them a strong factor in the league race. Saengerbund Bowlers, The team representing the Washington Saengerbund has demonstrated in its re cent games that it is a factor in the District Bowling League race. The fact that it has a lot of seasoned players who have team work down fine is of great assistance, and for the most part their individual work is of the steady sort. Burdine is keeping up his good work and closed the first quarter of the league schedule with 165.13 average for fifteen games. Laue has net done so well in individual work, he having bowled only 161.6 average, at least fifteen points be low his standard. Scheuerman is an other of the old stand-bys who is doing good work for his team. Miller finigh ed third in the averages with 177.8, and is a decided addition to the team. He is a strong bowler and his hard drives are always good for a big toppling of pins. Bruegger bowls at anchor, and his work has been long and faverably known te local leagues. Railway Relief League. The teams composing the Railway Re lief Association League are showing de cided improvement all along the line, and while none of the bowlers is put ting up remarkably high scores, tha bowling is of the consistent sort which will bring results later on. At present the team representing the Four-and-a-half Street division of the big system is in the lead with a fair mar gin. Last Wednesday it bowled itself out of a tie with the Officers, and it wii! have to bowl hard to keep out of the way of the latter, The team is composed of Wilson, Coo ley, McIntyre, Loveless,. and Garber. Of these McIntyre and Garber are the only oneg entiti*d to a place in last week's list of the ten high bowlers.” The for mer bowled an average of 155.13, and hag record of best high single at 210, uné Garber had 150.6 average. The Officers team has on it several strong players who are nearly alwave good for good totals. The team conclsts of Ham, Fuller, Moffet, Lee, and Brown. The latter can always be counted on to roll up good singles and his totals ma terially help the team in its average. Light Infantry Team. The Infaniry made a good showing against the crack All Baltimores last night, and they hope to repeat the trick next Friday and Saturday nights, when they meet the Lafayette College team and later on Lehigh, and probably Yale. Next month the big team from Atlantic City, every man of which’is a star in hia position, will be here for a series of games with Captain Shreve's men and interesting contests are expected. NEGROES ORGANIZE A BASEBALL LEAGUE Washington To Be Part of the Circuit With Baltimore and Other South ern Cities. Whether Tom Loftus will manage the Washington American League team or “Plunger” Delehanty remain here is not of the slightest interest to the hundreds of negro baseball fans in this city. They have something on their minds which is more interesting by far than the con sideration of these things. RL Washington is to have a negro profes gional baseball team, and although the players will not receive any such prince ly salaries as Del has been promised, they will be paid more money than they would get if they accepted a position as porter of a Pullman car. A meeting of the Southern magnates was held in Baltimore last night. Wash ington, Norfolk, Va. Lynchburg, Va.. Charlottesville, Va., Portsmouth, Va. and Baltimore were represented. Each of these cities will have a team in the Negro Southern League. The officers were elected last night, and the business of the league will begin the first of next week. The officers are: J. L Jordan, Baltimore, president; J. F. Lands, Neor folk, vice president, and James Barber, Norfolk, secretary and treasurer. John E. Phiefer, of Charlotte, N. and one of the best negro professional ball players in the South, was chosen as manager and captain of the Washingion Club. It is expected that the tearm will make a splendid showing under his management, HIRST AMERICAN HENLEY ON SCHUYLKILL RIVER Initial Regatta To Be Held at Phila delphia July 3. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.—The first American Henley will be held on the Schuylkill River July 3 under the au epices of the American Rowing Associa tion. This was decided at the meeting cf the board of stewards of the associa tion held in New York about two weeks ago, and announced last night for the first time. This regatta will furnish the first op portunity for college and amateur oars men from all parts of the country to meet and decide the championship of America. The competition wili not be restricted to colleke crews, but will be open to all amateurs. There will be races for eights, fours, doubles, and singles. The usual classification of seniors and juniors will not be adhered to. It is the intention of the committee to. have a challenge cup for each event, but the winner, besides having his name inscribed on it, will re ceive no prize but a medal or a pewter mug. This is done to make the compe tition simply for the sake of the sport. SULLIVAN'S MANAGER IN ANGRY FRAME OF MIND Ben Harris Declares All Is Over and That John L. Must Help Himself. Ben Harris, of New York, manager of John L. Sullivan, expresses himself as follows concerning the ex-champion: “I caught him in New York a few weeks ago, a bum, and took him up, got him his monologue, and booked him through the country to California, pay ing him the biggest sal.ry given any man in the monologue line in the world. He was a bum at the time and was on bis uppers. Tuesday was pay day with him and the big fellow got his $500 to the dot. I am willing to bet that he hasn't a cent of it now. “We were all ready for him to try to make a disturbance at the theater, bu* he knew it, and skipped the minute his act was called off. Now he is a: large without a friend in the city. Me will die a bum and will be buried in a pau per's grave, “From the way I feel now, if 10 cents would save him from instant death, I don’t believe he could have it from me. “I don’t know how he got started on this jag. As I understand, though, he met a couple of fellows who wanted him to drink with them. He wouldn't do it, but they insisted, ‘just for old time's sake, you know,” and when John got the first taste of liquor it was all off. “I have given him up. I will tell him that there will be no more dealings be tween us. “I have been sending telegrams all over the United States, canceling the engagements that I had made for Sulli van, and I guess that this is the old man's last chance.” FIRE CAUSED ALARM Persons passing the White House last night were somewhat startled at a huge bonfire which was burning brightly in the grounds not far from the mansion. Some even grew alarmed, fearing for the safety of the historic structure. The fire was caused by burning debris col lected by the contractors who have been working on the building ar? was carefully watched by several men until] extinenished. Acres of TOYS

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Thirty-two Fearless Riders Follow the Pack. The Chevy Chase Hounds met yes terday afternoon at Brightwood, where thirty-two riders were present at the start, in additicn to a number in traps, The cast took place nearly a mile north of Brightwood, just east of the Seventh ‘Street Road, near the Shepherd farm, and the run vas made northwest through Rock Creek Park to the places of Blair Lee and Montgomery Blair, A A a a a a I a a a thence through Rock Creek. Park, aad the Wise farm, the Cummings farm, and then west through the Williams farm, and the Chevy Chase Land Company's grounds, and finished opposite the Chevy Chase Club, the jast jump being into the road opposite the ciub house. The run was short, in all, about seven miles, The going was extremely sticky and heavy, owing to the recent rains, but the new pack set an unusually fast pace, which severely tried the stamipa of all the hunters. Among the strangers was Mr. Junks, the deputy master of the Ottwensia Hunt Club, who rode very nard, and with the utmost fearlessness over the highest panels, and Fred Huldekoper was out for the first time since his ac cident. There were no mishaps beyond one slight fall. Among those who followed ‘vere Miss Newlands, on Geneseo; Francis New lands, on Rodger; Miss Rowland, on Rooster; Miss Elkins, on Virginia; Mrs. Cowelland Smith, on ister; Clarence Moore, M. F. H., on Jorricks; Mr. Junks, deputy M. F. H. of the new Ottwensia Hunt Club, on Lord Craven; Courtland Smith, M. F. H., of the Cam eron Run Hunt Club, on Chapple Lee; Gist Blair, on Maryland; Dr. Snyder, on Brighteyes; Mr. Knox, on the Lamb; Fred Huidekoper, on Kalorama; Regi nald Huidekoper, on Pontiac; the Dan ish minister, Mr. Brun, on Categat: the Swedish minister, Baron Grip, oa Norseman; Mr. Huss, on Seabright; Charles Johnston, on Red Gaenttel; Chester Kerr, on Le Moon. The hunts man, Robert Curran, was mounted on Masterpiece, and dhe whip on Her Grace. Y HERBERT WINS FROM GRANT. George Herbert threw “Jimmie” Grant at the Empire Theater last night in four minutes by a half-nelson. Tuesday night Frank Huseman, a local lad, will en deaveor to throw “Kid” Sullivan, another local boy, in thirty minutes. DEE EE EE EL EL EL EE Eat ah BL Ll EEL Et Et et SLL EL a et hal Sl hs at hl A al bal A nt i bal eb ial Sal DEL et ait SEL Sl St ob Del I 0

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SENATOR KENNA ONCE TRAVELED WITH GIAGUS Made Political Speeches in the Big Tent HOW HE HELD SPECTATORS

v GC By Agreement With Robinson, Animals Were Not Fed Until After His Address. A800 ater St iialor Joan rn. Aaa s statue reminds me of how that distin guished man first became known politi cally,” remarked a well-known Senator from West Virginia as he passed through the “Hall of Fame" the other day at the Capitol. “How is that, Senator?” “Well, it was back in the eariv scven ties. Kenna then was a beardless young attorney, living in Charleston, W. Va. He bad just hung out hs clingle, and 1 doubt if he possessed a single client. Ex-Congressman Romeo H. Freer. now attorney general of West Virginie, had an office across the hall from Kenna, don’t think he had one more client than his brother in the profession. Fight For State Capiial. “The two became warm friends guick ly, for they had lots of time to visit each other, At the time there was a hot fight on between Wheeling and Charleston as to the location of the State capital. Wheeling possessed that honor, and Charleston wanted to wrest it from her rival. The question was to be decided at the next meeting of the State Legislature, so both cities en tered into the campaign on that issue alone. x 3 oY “Speakers were sent out through the State. Kenna and Freer not being busy, the citizens of Charleston hired them to make a joint canvass of the lower portion of the St.te. When abeut to start, John Robinson's circus arrived, At that time it traveled overland, and, by the way, it was one of the first cir cuses to enter the State,

“Anxious to have big crowds, the thought ‘struck Kenna that it would be a good scheme to travel with the cir cus and address the crowds at each point of exhibition. A conference was held and a special committee was sent (5 Cincinnati to make an agreement with the management of the show. For $1,000 Robinson agreed to give the speakers the use of the tent each afternoon for an hour for three weeks, and not to feed the animals until the speaking was over Joined the Circus. “i “Kenna and Freer joined the circus at Huntington. Of course their meetings were largely attended, for every persan wanted to see the animals fed. I won vouch as to the number of animals, but it is said the menagerie consisted of a black bear, a lion, a tiger, and two camels. The young lawyers were ora tors, however, and the people were tar tied away with their appeals for Charles ton as the proper site for the capital. lee ana a a EE a Er “Of course, the speakers had to make the best of the trip, and as no traveling accommodations had been provided, they slept in the band wagon under a lot of canvas. They were young and healthy hcwever, and enjoyed the novelty of the trip. Neither was a miilionaire and neither possessed but the suit of clothes he wore on th~ trip. “One night, the show was going from Logan Court House to Madison. The road was over three mountains. Wher the circus started that night the weather was perfect. Kenua and Freer crawlec under the canvas and were soon fas asleep. They had traveled about ter miles when a heavy rain fell. The road was clay, and soon became almost i able because of the lon; train of horses and wagons. Obeyed the Driver. 7 fe “Both young men were unmindful o the elements until they were rudel; awakened by the driver of their wagon who summarily ordered them to awake and get out and push. They objected but the atmosphere became sulphurous and they acceded to his demand. Wit a longing look at their best clothes the two climbed out and dropped dow, into the mud.

a J af 3 “At one step they were in the mire uj —_— 1 BE \Y bo WANT COLUMNS GG THE TIMES WILL GET IT FOR You. AN APPROPRIATE Aas GIFT i x 1 —one which would be most appre ciated by the Women —ig the time tried and ever-reliable wy’ White Sewing Machine Lewis Baar,| 927 F St. N. W. p= WEY ead bl 1} 7 wok, al x li 'Prione Main 2683. Be i to their knees. he slipping horses tugging at the heavy load, threw chunks of red mire all over the ‘orators.’ They were furious, but lacked the nerve to mutiny against their commander, the driver. Up tue long hill they trudged, pushing with all their might to get the heavy wagon up the hill. After several stops for rest they reached the summit anl were permitted to resume their places under the canvas. “Because of the terrible condition oi the roads the show did not reach Madi son until shortly after noon, and just a few minutes before time for the circus to exhibit, Beth Kenna and Freer were sights, for the red clay had ruined their clothes. Nothing daunted, they faced the big audience that afternoon, and, telling their experiences of the previous night, they carried the audience by torn: “After their three weeks’ campaign the election was held and Charleston was victorious. The campaign served to make both men well known through out that end ‘of the State and the very next year both were drawn inte poli tics. Kenna was a Democrat and Freer a Republican, At that time West Vir ginia was strongly Democratic and Kenna rose in the ranks rapidly. He was elected prosecuting attorney and then was elected a United States Sena ter. le was one of the brainiest men in the upper branch of Congress. “Freer was to have his turn, too. He was elected prosecuting attorney, a eir cuit judge, then served a term in Con gress. Now he holds a prominent State office. Both men were drawn into their political lives by their novel campaign with a circus.” TOO MUCH PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXES i 3 Opinion of Assessor Darneille Regarding Request of the D. A. R. An adverse report has been submit ted to the District Commissioners by H, H. Darneille, District Assessor, upon Senate bill 6516, “to exempt from taxa tion certain property of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washing ton,” and Senate bill 6511, .“to exempt from taxation certain property of the American Institute of Architects in Washington.” Mr. Darneille bases Yis adverse re port upon the assumption that there is already too much property exempt from taxes in the city, and that the two in stitutions are not entitled to such courtesy for the reason that they are neither religious nor charitable ergani zations. “I call attention to the fact,” the As sessor says, ‘‘that there has been en tirely too much property exempt from taxation. I recently drafied and for warded to the Commissioners a bill in tended to restrict exemption from taxa tion, and to epitomize and elucidate the laws relating thereto. “It does not appear that the institu tions affected by these wo bills are conducted for the benefit of the public, they net being charitable, educational, or religious institutions, and they do not, in my opinion, come within the class of institutions which, should be exempt from participation In. the ex pense of the muaicipality.” Mr. Darneille closes by recommending that the Commissioners make an ad verse report to Congress upon the two measures. Christmas Holiday Rates South. Pullman sleepers are handled on one or-the other of the six through fast trains operated by the Southern Railway to or through every im portant town or city south of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers, thus en abling Christmas holi travelers and the pulie generally to reach any thern point, availing themselves of luxurious and rapid train ac commodations and through Pullman car com forts, including unequaled dining cur savice. Sale of holiday tickets December 22, 24, 25 30, and 31, and January 1, final limit Janvary 1008, Double daily through fast trains with Pull man sleepers and dining car service to Jackson ville and Tampa, Fla.; also sleepers to Se por 8. C., tri- weekly, and Charleston, 8 Hy The famous Southern’s Palin 4 oneal the finest trains in the country; will Make dts initial trip New York and W wm to St Augustine, Fla., leaving Washington 6:31 jp. m January 12, and week days thereafter. Winte tourist tickets available for all important re sorte throughout the entire Routh, including Nassan and Havana, also points mn Texas, Mex ico, and en the Pacific Coast. y You Want the Best Candies _— p for the Least Money 30 to the CANDY KITCHEN F TY WW W

908 SEVENTH STREET N Ww. (Next to Goldenberg's) Y Enough Candies to supply the whole city. Made fresh daily. The best Mixed Chocolates and Bou Bons, 4 Ibs. for Sie The best grade French Mixture, 2 lbs. for 25e. Satisfaction fo Every Customer, TTI ETI ET ET, NR a 2 Ta TERS SB an Teh Tear LHP Ng Ve: .e 4 Fey AS Cran a Bes emmy Av moe aw ROBSLY~. VA IM Ru Won Victoiy. Deliver. Unlettered Wagons. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY A HEAVY TURF LOSER Millionaire Said to Have Gone $600,000 to the Bad On Season Just Ended. “William C. Whitney, after balancing his accounts last year, found himself to be $600,000 loser through the sport of racing,” writes an authority. “A pretty large sum, is it not? Enough to insure a poor man and his relatives a comfort able living without work. 1 hear him upbraid the ex-Secretary of the Navy for spending his money so foolishly, But to this Mr. Whitney would reply that if he fancies losing $600,000 a year on his luxury, he is to be no more blamed than the man that borrows money to get a piano for his daughter. ‘““So far from blamed, there Is a von siderable populatiocn—the attaches of Mr. Whitney's stables—that look upon him as the essence of benevolence and humanity. Whenever their patron wins a race they all share in a largess. One day last summer a bookmaker went uj to Trainer Rogers at the Saratoga track Just after Mr. Whitney had won a stake lof $11,600, and remarked, half interro gatively: ‘The old man made oui well in that race, didn’t he? ‘What do you mean? jaughed the trainer. ‘Taat’s only a drop in the buck: ret for Mr. Whitney, and the bucket leaks ‘at that. Why, he is so pleased over win ning this race that he'll give away twice $11,000 to the stable employes. Each one will get anywhere from $5 to $25. Tc win a stake here doesn't mean any thing.’ “The entire comraunity about a race track rejoices when the Whitney outfi arrives, for money is certain to be cir culated freely, and tricksters that ix up a worthless horse so that he will win one race, hoping .that Mr. Whitney will take the beast off their hands, are always waiting about In shoals. As ar example of the racing king's generosity it is related that upon winning the Eng Hsh Derby last year he ordered a certain hotel proprietor at Shedpshead Bay ic give everyone that entered a bottle of champagne. You may be sure the news spread quickly, and it was not long be fore the boniface had to call upon his neighbors for supplies. The bill that Mr. Whitney's secretary received amounte] to $6,000. It was paid.” A BREW FOR THE HOME. $75 aa a 5 L ec Just a Line,

A— 4] 3 4 wl ry Xmas and a prosperous New Year. Take one on me! b A tip—Hol y prepar ar meon L! the i Ross easily seen. It is con tended that sincerity is as much a orain mood as those which are more common ly included in that category. Hence, when further experiments have detor miucd more ia regard to the shad:ng and blending of the different colors ro produced by the apparatus, a knowl edge of the “truth color” will make un necessary the application of the “thir i b 5 it ini ARREST RA Rom Two Stores, 909-477 Pa Ave, VA OR Gifts for Boys, Gifts for Men, and: —-For the Athletic Boy or Man— for the over of sports and games— for all sorts of people who want Cutlery—for the Camera folks—all the givables are here in holiday Array Rifles for the Boys. Pocket Knives, Etc. All sorts of Cutlery—two stores Sinn Mh it BR 1902 Single Shot Rifles......... 5 ofilt-enover such a Showing. jough Riler HIS... on... 1 $4 Ladies’ Pearl Plobert. RITeE. vussesssne ssn $2.5 Pocket Knives, Daisy Alr Riles. ....ceceuuis,, $t ol 70¢, $1.00 Wostenholm Pocket Knives, 3 Ping-Pong, Pool, Etc. blades ........$1.00 Burrowes Pool Tables..$15 to $50 Rodgers Pocket Ping-Pong Sets.......... $1 to $20 Knives in every RONKa Baka. ot ue sts cins en $4 to $20 variety. Very good 3 and 4-t:ade Pear] Crockinole and Carrom Boards, Handle Knives. $1 $1 to $7 H OUSE HOLD UTLERY AND TABLE KNIVES OF EVERY DE SCRIPTION. ROD GERS' PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS. Silver Plated Tea Spoons, Chil- dren's Knife, Fork, and Spoon. .50¢ Children’s Knife, Fork, and Spoon (pearl handle)....... $1.50 Scissors of every variety and make, in beautiful cases, contain ing 3 to 7 pairs; very dainty. Manicure Instruments, separate and In sets Nice Case Manlcure Set.....$2.75 3 na a [Ewe y nT "i A Os LA k Cd <2 jy pak ed i Razors and Sets. N H IKE 8 Ra a B x Ne TE a UI iia Sh AZORS—We have an immense Boxing Gloves... .75¢c to $7.50 set assortment of cases containing 1 to Punching Bagg $1 to $5 i blades of Razors. The best in Victor 20th Century Platform. the world complete with bag........... 37 [rs a 3 8 Pe 7 Sly i SAFETY RAZORS, 1 to 7 blades, Ice Skates........Th¢ to $10 palr in handsome leather case, from Hockey Stie ks. ARE, 50e, T5¢ and $1 £2.50 to $10. Warranted by the Shinny Sticks........10¢, 15¢, 25c Star Razor Company Skating Teques. 50c to $1.50 i I —d Pb A k Shaving Mirrors, from .D0C Shaving Seis, very desirable..$5 Fountain Pens, Etc. Shaving Brushes. 25¢ to $3 each wil i Razor Strops, 24 different kinds, Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens. 20: to $2 Pear! Handle Gold Pens....$1 up Magic Lanterns, Cameras, Telescopes, Etc. Magic Lantern...75¢, $1.25 and up Eastman Kodaks. Complete line. Moving Picture Machine 39 Pocket Poco Cameras, sizes 34x Microscopes for Bovs 26¢ to $5 i 14 and 4x5 Telescopes and Spy Glasses, Premo Cameras 50c to $5 Petite Century Cameras 2 Glasses 31.50 to $15 Albums for holding your photo VS eagle 8% 20 to $15 graphs ing and Reading Glasse Photographic Plates and Sup Barometers ail y Thermometers, plies WALFORD'S Tos sire, ATR TAR TAT ARTN ALT WIR TRI. TET AB TAT ARTBNRTRARNOB ATR ARTE AOTUA WRI CIVIC BAAR BEUBEURERU BERANE RABBI TEA EL BUTE BELTED, BIRNEY ATE, OB. TET BEIBIBIRAABRE AIR TRU TREEAOIVARATR TOPE mm me Ref Wain uw Po, p $F Ko (aes ar 7 i W X d UO OO OO WE WOW ag ge ag ge ag ty-third degree” system, through whish suspects are now put, as a test with the “wonder bottle” will determine af orce whether the accused is telling the truth. The preliminary work which led to the discovery was directed to another end, so that the actual creation of the new principle may be said to have been the result of an accident. Dr. Gates has for years been a student of the human brain and at the time he began to work toward a definite end on the experiments which led to the construction of the “wonderfui’’ apparatus, was engaged in working a system of tests by means of which the approach of any disease to which the human body is subject should be determined long in advance of the manifestation of its symptoms: But the importance of the theory of the rela tion between thoughts and colors and the perfection of the apparatus for its determination moved him to devote his entire time to the latter subject. CAPITAL SAVINGS RANK A meeting of the stockholders of tie Capital Savings Bank, which recently served sixty days’ notice on those wish. ing to withdraw deposits, was held last night in the offices of the iastitution. The cashier made his report, giving the assets and liabilities of the bank, which showed an excess of the assets of $20, 186.58. The question of reorganization was brought up and discussed. It was point ¢d out that a great need is felt hy tLe colored business people of the city for thie continuation of this bank. it is the firin determination of the stockholders to re-establish the bank, if no unfore seen obstacles arise. The cashier's report was as follows: Total ABBARS" conser onranes $123,618.14 Total Habliities .....:sveunsse 163,131.56 Excess of assets 20, 186.58 mas Gifts of Flowers ROSES, VIOLETS, BLOOMING PLANTS. 3

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To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT, the Great Kidney and Bladder Remedy, will do for YOU, all our Readers May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail Pain or dull ache in the back is unmis takable evidence of kidney trouble. It is nature's timely warning to show you that the track of heaith is not clear. If these danger signals are unheeded, more serious results are sure to follow; Bright's disease, which is the worst fcrm of kidney trouble, may steal upen you. 14 The mild and the extraordinary effect of the world-famous kidney and blad der remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most dis tressing cases. A trial will convince any one—and yol' may have a sample bottle free, by mail. Backache, Uric Acid and Urinary Trouble. Among the many famous cures of Swamp-Root investigated by The Washington Sunday Times the one we publish today for the benefit of our readers speaks in the highest terms of the wonderful curative properties of this great kid ney remedy. DR. KILMER CO., Binghamton, N. Y. Gentlemen: When I wrote you last March for a sample bottle of Swamp-Root, my wife was a great sufferer from backache, rheuma tism, and urinary trouble: also excess of uric acid. After tring the sample bottle, she bought a large bottle here at the drug store. That did her so much good she bought more. The effect of Swamp Root was wonderful and almost immediate. She has felt no return of the old trouble since. F. THOMAS, Oet., 1901. 427 Best St., Buffalo, N. XY. Lame back is only one symptom of kidney trouble—one of many. Other symptoms showipg that you need Swamp-Root are, obliged to pass water often during the day and to get up many times at night, inability to hold your urine, smarting, or irritation in passing, brickdust or sediment in the “Call up 2074-M for your Christmas Supply. Delivered Promptly.” BERWICK R Ring of Ali Whitkies. Be sure io order a few bottles at once—have 1t in the house dur Pugs Rye WhiSKEY. OSTILLED EXCLUSIVELY 2 mg the “Holidays.” "Tis the finest old rye obtaina hle. $1.00 full quart. Nay itzmorris, ommerciaj 7th and Pa. Ave. HOTEL. Jon Firrmgreis LETHE MiowAY TR& PENN AVE. J the A |i" oY Ab boys y a kX 1 Biggest Toy Stock Ever Erought to Washing'on at Auction Prices For example: Dressed Dolls, 10¢ up. Drums, 10c up. Child’s Tea Sets, 10e up. Stick Horses and Chairs, 5c up. All other goods at auction prices. Hudson's Variety Store, Toys in Odd Fellows’ Great Hall, 423 Seventh Street N. W. OSTEO~ATHY. DR. GEO. D. KIRKPATRICK, Bond Building, 14th snd New York ave. nw. Hours 9 to 5. Fnone 1502 F. oce-3mos o urine, catarrh of the bladder, uric acid, constant headache, dizziness, sleepless ness, nervousness, irregular heartbeat ing, rheumatism, tleating, irritability, wornout feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complexion. If your water, when allowed to remain undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty-four hours, forms a sediment or settling, or has a cloudy appearance, it is evidence that your kidneys and blad der need immediate attention. In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp-Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the Kidneys that is known to medical science. Swamp-Root is the great discovery of Dr. Kilmer, ihe eminent kidney and bladder specialist. Hospitals use it with wonderful success in both slight and severe cases. Doctors recommend it to their patients and use it in their own families, because they recognize ia Swamp-Root the greatest and most sue cessful remedy. If vou have the slightest symptoms of kidney or biadder trouble, er if there is a trace of it in your family history, geud at once to Dr. Kilmer Co., B ten, N. Y., who will gladly send you free by mail, immediately, without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a book of wonderful Swamp-Root testi monials, Be sure to say that you read this generous offer in The Washington Sunday Times. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you can purchase the regular 50c¢ and $1 size bot tles at drug stores everywhere. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Bingham ton, N. Y., on every bottle. illustrating Engraving —*“Jdeas worked up" —Cuts and halftones for ~—and sketches submit- —newspapers, bookletg, —ted oy clever and ex- —and folders—delive —perirnced artists. —ered ON TIME. JOYCE ENGRAVING CO, [Ta BIO SPECIAL PRICES FOR MONDAY, Monocacy Cream Comm, T%c. ““Compound™ Substitute for Lard, 734¢. Pure Lard, 10s. Ginger Snaps, 3%e. Gold Meda! Soda Crackers, 7 cents. J.T. D. PYLES, 55.5 ea J Four other stores.

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NEED OF NEW DISTRICT COURTHOUSE SET FORTH r————— 12 Present Structure a Most Un sightly One and Inade quate to Meet the Growing Demands Upon lt A re at

Judges Kimball and Scott Appeal to the Commis sioners for Aid—Hope to Secure an Appropriation. There are some few parts of Wash ington which recelve no recognition from the proud citizen who takes de Hight in showing a visitor the glories and triumphs of architecture in the Cap ital City. For instance, it is not at all likely that this individual will point to the Police Court building and exclaim with any show of enthusiasm: “And there you see cur courthouse.” Indeed, he will go to almost any ex treme rather than be called upon to make any explanation concerning this structure. It is one of the sights of omission. The least said to the stranger regarding it the easiest mended, and the better the latter's opinion of beauti ful and prosperous Washington. It would have been well for the city if this dilapidated building as 2 home for the court, had been one of the edifices of omission. As a church, for which it was originally erected and used, the place re sponded well encugh to the demands upon it. But as a courthouse it is probably what would be an architect's nightmare of such a buildiag. A coat of paint was recently put upon the exterior of the courthouse for its embellishment. And now, for the same purpose, the interior is being repainted. Bul this is only on the surface, Paint, or nothing else, will wipe out the odors. For years the building has been used as a “lock-up,” where prisoners of all classes and conditions were coralied. and it nnot be expected that the work of a few days will suffice to efface the Years’ accumulation of unsanitary oders, Unfit for Use. From the foundation to the roof, the building is wholly unfitted for use as a courthouse. It never met the require ments. And that is what puzzles the Judges who are compelled in the dis charge of their duty to spend most of their time within the walls of the grimy place, breathing the foul atmosphere and surrounded by unsanitary conditions. But the judges are not the worst suf ferers. They do not complain so much on their own account, for the brunt of the conditions falls with most force upon the unfortunate prisoners. What they have to endure, crowded and jammed in ill-smelling, unsanitary cells, only they must know. The. have tried to better the conditions, t they have been handi caped. It is impossible to cyt a figure from marble without tools. So it has proven impossible for them to change conditions. They need money to achieve results, but get little. They have made vigorous efforts to have a modern court house built, but the old building still stands. And now the judges have again appeal ed to the Commissioners. In a letter they have related the nauseating facts, and their efforts appear to be on the eve of success, for the Commissioners in turn have prepared an estimate of the expense of having a new courthouse, It has been learned that 335500 will be required for the purchase of land ad The 297 Standards

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Liveries, and it is respectfully suggested that orders for the holidays be sent is anticipatedly, and, as far as nossible early in the week just beginning. This rela s particularly to orders to be packed for out-of-town des tinations. Send for price-list. Phone East S65. The Quality House, 909 Seventh Street. AAS a EE 2 EE Ea A 8d Aaa FA Et PP PP PPP PP PP PP 00 000 0000000000000 0000000000easn 00000000 VVVVPVINVRPRPPANIRRIVVBPIRIB BPP 00000 0000000000000 M

PPV BP PPPPPPP PPP P0000 0000000000000 00000000000000900900009020902000000006000000000040 060000080sasa FRPP TRRTTVTRTR RRR 0000 0000000000890 0800090 9099009900009 0098900900000009 joining the present site, and for whiep the Government is paying an annual rental, and furthermore, tbat the cost of having plans made will total $2,500. Need of New Building. The urgent need of a new court house is explained by Judge Wimball, who =aid yesterday: “Everything about the place is un satisfactory-—more than unsatisfactory— for the health of many people is at stake. The cells are relies of middie ages. They never were fit for use. For ten vears 1 have been trying in every way to at least have new cells in stalled, and what success my efforts have met "with is evident.” “Why is it, judge, that your appeals have been ignored?” he was asked. “To that question 1 will say merely, ‘further deponent sayeth not.” But the cells are not the only bad feature about the building. There never has been a proper entrance for prisoners. The only means of entrance is from the front. And here the innocent and guilty are dumped out on the street be.,ore the view of the public. “The courthouse of Washington, the Capital City, should be a pride. It is not only the criminals who come here. Every day the place is visited by many prominent “persons, among whom are a number of Government officials. A prauseating odor permeates the building, and the atmosphere is not fit to in l hate There are but three cells in the court house, and these ure dark and poorly ventilated. At times, in the summer, the air has become so stifling in the cages that the prisoners have fought for a position near the iron doors. On some occasions there have been as many as thirty prisoners in each of the cells, v Rich take up a space of eight feet Ly nine. Another bad feature of the place is the fact that the clerks and other em ployes are greatly handicaped in their work by lack of facilities. The offices are small and dingy, and on a hot day the atmosphere is unbearable. More over, with the present arrangement of the offices, it is utterly impossible to have any nrivary IE yeaos In explaining their case to the Com missioners, Judges Kimball and Scott said: “In our judgment the cells are totally unfit for use, and it is inhuman to con fine prisoners therein. They are im properly ventilated, overcrowded and unsanitary.” The communication further urges the Commissioners to present the matter of a new building through the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and “o secure legislation at this session of Congress looking to the condemnation of sufficient ground to the east and to the north of the present site. P. H. McLaughlin, who was master mechanic on the Washington Monument at the time of its completion, died sud denly yesterday morning at the corner of Eleventh Street and Massachusetts Avenue northeast. Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of death from natural causes. Mr. McLaughlin was a contractor in this city for many years, and had a large number of Government contracts. When the construction of the Chicago postoffice was started a few vears ago he was made inspector of the work. Several days ago he came to this city for a visit to the family of his brother in-law, Dr. John C. Haley. He is sur vived by his wife, who is in the city. But Three Cells. Judges Make an Appeal. SUDDEN DEATH ON STREET. THF WASHINGTON TIVES. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1902. SPIRIT OF GHRISTMAS PERVADES ATH OSPHERE Happiest Season of the Year Is at Hand SHOPPERS THRONG STREETS Prominent Stores Where Visitors May Find All Things Desirable For Holiday Cheer. The spirit of Christmas pervades the atmosphere. The whole town is agog with the cheer merry-making, and general all round gocd feeling that goes to make the Yuletide the happiest season in the whole year. When Easter comes, with iis gay blossoms, pretty frocks, and old fashioned egg-rolling some are heard to ‘declare that it is, after all, the most Joyous season. But it isn't. The brac ing atmosphere is missing. The jingle of the bells and blaring of horns have nothing in common with the Eastertide, and while neither may add anything to one’s happiness at any other time of the yvear—quite the contrary as a rule— there is something in the blowing of a ‘hern at Christmas which <eems to lift one’s spirits and bid everyone be glac. a A Joyous Season. The crowas ef people which throng tie streets, the faker with his tricks toy. and the profusion of holly, misilet. e. and Christmas greens form the back ground of a picture which has been the sweetest, happiest, and best remembered in all the past nineteen hundred and two years. The shoppers alene woald furnish ma terial for an interesting story. Their arms laden with bundles, they pack the street cars and crowd the thoroughfares to the inconvenience, not to say chagrin of those whose time does not allow Christmas shopping. Merchants in Washington declare that this year is one of the most prosperous they have known for a long time. Not only are the sales greater, but the articles paur chased are those of a more expensive nature than in former years. Costly giftg are taking the place of souvenirs, ard in many instances in the past week stocks of goods have actually been ex hausted. Engravers Busy. Shaw Berry, Galt Bro., and many of the prominent jewelry firms have ex perieaced such heavy sales and have received go many orders that as early as las: Thursday they were forced to close their cngraving lists. So the young woman who orders a cigarette case for—well, somebody who smokes cigarettes, of course must either send it without a monogram or wait until after the holidays before having it or namented. On2 of the most attractive windows on Pennsylvania Avenue is that of Cas telberg’'s jewelry house, which offers a display of holiday goods which certainly should tempt the youth to part with some of his month's salary and make at least one maid bappy. The same might be aptly said of Callisher's, a little far ther down the street, and the store of R. Harris, both of which are ablaze with glittering jewels and iridescent cut glass. The Department Stores. in the Palais Royal or Kann's the babble of voices, rush of customers, pushing each other aside in a good natured effc:t to get something before somebody else has something of the ef fect of a sawmill on one's senses. In either of these stores, the Bon Marche, or Hudson's Varieiy Store one needs lit tle in the way of a suggestion for Christ mas offerings. ‘There is everything from housefurnishings to the smallest trinket for the feminine jewelry casket. The only thing that may be said to be missing from the counters that would complete the household equipment is the much-discussed, oft-Jesired, hard-to-get ton of coal. Parker Bridget's windows and those of Smoot, Coffer MecCalley form the cynosure of all women's eves these days. They are exhibiting a lot of dainty mil linery confections which never fail to elicit gasps of delight. King's Palace is a maze of beauty in feminine head gear, neck wear, and dress accessories. Lans burgh Bro. have intermingled their regular line of goods with bright cclored ribbons, greens, and holiday dec orations. Farther oui Seventh Street the Reinhardt Silk House and Golden Lerg's are the center of a busy, ener getie throng of shoppers who are play ing sad havoe with the Christmas stocks. The Saks Stores have the most extensive «nd attractive counters they have had nh several years, and are exhibiting a number of novelties For Music Lovers. The music house: are kept busy at tending to the wants of those who, if they have not music in their own souls, ut least have friends with a tendency that way. Sanders Stayman’s, Droop’s, and Knabe's cffer a conglemeration of sounds that range from the piping of tinv music boxes and tinkling of man doiins to the fascinating rhythm of the ‘pianola and deafening pounding of a bass drum. 20 Not the least interesting houses in town are the furniture stores, where the more provident husband and thoughtful vife are putting their Christmas purses to good account. At House Herr mann’, Stumph Lyford's, Rudden’s Mceses', Mayer Co.'s, and the Hub Fur ‘niture Store there are any number of new designs in chairs, tables, cabinets, mirrors, and furniture novelties. Hahn's shoe house, too, presents an aitractive appearance, with it: realistic Santa Ciaus tempting and satisfying the Yeunger patrons, while their elders at tend ro the more important purchases. Streams of Shoppers. i A constant stream of shoppers has been visiting the Great Atlantic and Pa cific Tea Company's store, where all manner of attractive souvenirs have teen presented to the patrens. Thus it would seem that every retail and whole £ale dealer in town had combined efforts to make the reason notably happy. Ev erything that could be done to lend good cheer to the few days preceding Christ mas has been done, and everybody has Jnited to greet the eventful day with the ever joyous “Merry Christmas.” J J J J I EJ J RJ J J JC J J ee fo 2) AY Sia

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1Y a neat and attractive design. BE (EB When In Do ou Have Only Three More Days left to do your Christmas shopping. sure prompt deliveries. Our stoek contains many handsome suggestions for practical Christmas presents range payments and terms to suit your means and convenience. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS. CASH OR CREDIT. This Solid Vak China Closet, has bent glass ends, very neat carv ings, and good finish, and 8 ay excellent bargain $15.75 Lamps, etc. A grand display of Lamps of all kinds, at all prices; handsome Hand-decorated Lamps and pretty Metal Lamps, with globes to match; also a full line of Gas Portable or Drop Lights, Student Lamps, and a large assortment of Odd Globes, We have a handsome Parlor Lamp, with globe to match, as low A y/ 9

RS Vy Co $1.00, (ias and Gil Heaters. We have a big assortment of Gas and Oil Heaters; all the best makes styles and large Oil and many different kinds We Heater, good make, and perfectly safe—has nickel trimmings, {3 85 offer a White Maple Roman Chair; For... And Kettles as low as This handsome Morris Chair, complete with reversible fancy velour cushions; solid oak $4 30

frame, well finished, for..... We carry a large assortment of Morris Chairs, in many different styles and designs, at all prices. Big assortment of Gilt Chairs, in both upholstered and cane teats; our special is Handsome Chair, upholstered seat covered with fancy damask, for $3.00 ubt, Buy At House Herrmann's. EEEEEEE J J Pt UU WP These will be mighty busy days for us, and we have made arangements for extra wagons, ete, to as We have a large stock of Chafing Dishes and Spirit Kettles, different styles; also Trays and Spoons, etc., tc go with them. We offer a very handsome Nickel Chafing Dish as low as and it will be our pleasure to ar COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS. TE OEE TE in many This hapdseme Quartered Osk Sideboard; large plate mirror; has shaped top drawers, brass handles: Very neat carvipgs, p elegant finish, for... asd $23.50 This Solid Oak Dining Chair, high embossed back, brace arms, turned spindles, and posts. A big value for SLLIS This Handsome Music Cabinet, imitation mahcgany finish, has fin ished interior and brass rod to hang curtain from. bargain for This Solid Oak Ladies Desk; has very good finish and large roomy pigeon holes; only e Cobbler Seat Par ior Rocker olid oak or mahogany $4.50 finish ae ns, high em bossed be ish; only Solid Oak Smoking Table, 14x14-inch top; a very $1 45 neal pattern— for niin ele i la ea 15.4 We also have many differ ent patierns at other prices. x HOUSE HERRMANN 90!-903 Seventh Street, Corner of I (Eye) Street. EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EEE Even the small boy who hasn't the proverbial sou to his name finds joy in Just living. Traveling around through the stores, looking into windows, and choosing for themselves the things which they most desire, brings almost as much joy to their hearts as if the coveted toys were really in their possession. Full of mis 79% Hise A Coe) Zalores Y quali, Lndaed FotL fei plait TZ Jove yon Peony Pry fats 7etbery not io dd ox chief, a crowd of them gathered in front of a toy store door yesterday, and, not daring to enter, they ‘ontented them selves with pesring through the glass doors and singing “Won't You Open Dat Door and Let M» In.” in tones not over burdened with elements of harmony, but none the less vibrant and breathing sin cerity. A gas pipe in_+h- “agement of the house at 1101 Vermont Avenue north west, was broken in some unexplained way Friday night, and the escaping gas nearly suffocated Elizabeth Morris and Alice Boland, occupants of a second story room. They were made sick, but were restored by a physician living in the neighborhood. NEARLY SUFFOCATED BY GAS.

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MARKET QUIET WITH STRONG UNDERTONE Quotations Affected by Good News in Preference to Bad Reports—An Opti mistic Trend. Considerable Increase in Loans and Discounts the Unfavorable Feature of General Financial Situation the stock market foday is that, in spite of the operation of many factors tending to inspire speculative caution and inac tion, if not, indeed, directly working to ward lower prices, the market evinced an urgent desire to move toward a higher level of values. The undertone of the market was, in other words, strong. Conditions were ob viously such that good news rather than bad news affected quotations. There was little news of any kind to day, good, bad, or indifferent, and tte transactions were of a wholly profession ‘al order. Trading was quiet up to the appearance of the weekly bank state ment, and the course of only two “tocks throughout the day excited special in terest. Sugar Rises and Falls. American Sugar Refining rose 5 points and then fluctuated rapidly back and forth, finally losing balf its gain, in a manner forcibly reminiscent of the per formances of the stock in former days. The reason for the strength of the secur ity was the belief, for which it is under stood there is substantial basis, and which is, at any rate, generally cnter tained in Wall Stieet, that the American Sugar Refining Company has become pos sessed by purchase or othbrwise of the most important beet sugar refining plants in the country. Prospects are bright for the passage of the proposed reciprocity treaty with Cuba, which would, of course, be a favor able matter for the American Sugar Re fining. Company, while it is rumored that the cash surplus of the company is now very large. Texas Pacific attracted more attention in the day, however, than any other stock. It was very strong in the early trading, rising to 41. It sank rapidly to 40, and there remained steady, although very large blocks were sold at small fractional variations from this figure, The dealings in the s ock gave the impression of manipulation for some ex ceedingly mysterious purpose. The other Geld stocks were very sirong. lk Railway Earnings. Reports of railroad earnings for the second week of December show large increases as compared with last year, and make a much better showing than previous reports of the same nature in the Jast few weeks. Imports of mer chandise are slackening. Since Friday the Jocal banks have gained $991,000 from the subtreasury. Ail these matters, of course, lend support to Wall Street's present optimism. a bank statement was generally g ed as of a noncommittal order. ans decreased $3510,000, and cash a loss of $1,762,100, as against a gain in cash estimated yesterday. p reserves, therefore, slightly diminished. The reason for the unex loss in cash was, in all proba bility, the withdrawals of money from the banks for Christmas purposes. The unfavorable part of the statement, as has been the case for some time, was the fact that the total loans otf the associated bnks are still in excess of total deposits; while the corollary fact, that the return of the condition of national banks throughout the country, made on Nevember 25, to the Comp troller of the Currency, compared with the return made on September 15, shows considerable increase in loans and dfs counts, is still the one unpleasant feat ure of the general financial situation. Gains in Cash. The banks of the country have gained a little over $25000,000 fn cash in the period intervening. But the gain was due 16 the money disbursed in an ex traordinary way by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is known that there has been a heavy liquidation of stock market securities. Why has not this liquida- tion showed more in bank loans? The reason is, principally, that this is the scason of the year when the loans of all money lending Institutions naturally Increase, and that this force is greater than ever this year, bedause of the delay, owing to causes that are matters of common knowledge, in mov ing the corn and cotton crops. Our banks have also been called upon to provide money for the purchase of a large quantity of our securitics sold in our market by foreign holders. Case- ful consideration of this matter justi- fies the conclusion that the causes that! have temporarily increased the loans of the banks in this manner are now abating their rigor, and that the con- dition of financial. institutions of the’ land is improving each day. The fact deserves notice here that the Jowest point tcuched by the market in the last drop in prices was not lower than that previously touched immediate ly preceding. This may or may not in dicate that at the low point thus reach ed forces begin to operate which pre went any further decline. The matter ie at least significant. The publication this morning of the terms of the blockade proclaimed by thé English and German governments agalpst Venezuela makes it clear that there will be ne complications over the possible seizure of ships sailing for Venezuela from ports in the United States before the blockade was an mounced. Sufficient time is given to all those ships to reach their destination SEE al ou necessary incident of the proclamation of a legal blockade. Yet at one time many Wall Street speculators were alarmed lest the seizure of vessels that have left ear ports might call for a2c¢ tion by o'r country. The Venezuelan difficulty, bowever, reased som. days since to be a factor in Wall Street. New York Stock Exchange, Dec. 20. Open. Amal. Copper 51%; Am. Sugar 129 Atchison [2% Balto. Ohio... us Brook. Rap. Tr... tdi Can: "Pac... 127% Chi. Gt. West..... 24% C. MM. &8 PP... 113% Col. Fuel Ir.... 80 rhe... 3414 fit. Nerth. ‘pf..... 1921, Hoek. Val. pf..... 083g BC. 8o....... 32 Louis. Nash....123% Man. Con.. 146% 3 oR NI 2554 \Mo. Pac... 1017, Nor. West...... 13% Reading 623g Rock Island 11% BO. PRE... .uuesiees 631 Ho. My. vival N% TOR PI... uassss 41% Union-Pae.. aR, U.-8.C.1LP&FP. 13 L. SR. &£0C....5. 238g U.S REC. pf... TO A. 8. Steal........ 3434 U, 8. Steel pf..... [44 Wabash 28 Wabash pf.. 41% Wis. Cent.. 25 High. 125% 81% 97% 63% 127% 2, 172% 9 33% 191% Ty 31 122% 145% 2534 104 71 154 615% 40%, 2% 1% 395% “Ty 123% 223, 60 34 83% 274 41% 247% Ls FEERAFT REPRE FRETE +44 +4 4

ht REFER BREEREE +4 +4++++] +4 pt Total sales of stock, 280,550 shares. Advance. —Decline, NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The following shows today's closing quotations for Government bonds compared with yes tordavy p—

FRamREsnEr ww,» Fperre¥Feky PEE Bid. Asked. Bid, Asked, reg. 1930....100% 108% 107% 108% cou. 19230....108% 109 108% 109 reg. JUIS.. .10i%a 1083 107i 108Y cou. 1918... Wily 108% 0% 1083 S.B 9S... 106% 1060p reg. 1907....108%% 109 108%; 100% cou. 1907....100% 110% 109% 110% reg. 1925....135 136 135 136 cou. 1925....135 136 135 136 reg. 10M... 102% 10415 108%, 10415 cou. 1904... 108% 104% oe 104g 108% mans CL AERA A NEW YORK CURB MARKET. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.<Prices on the curb today at opening: curb ‘today at opening: 4 Today. day. Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked. Am. Cam... ee Sie. ey, CBM 9 AM, OI Plans. ivurns A 2% 113, 43M Am. Light Traction. 35 39 35 30 Am. Light Truc. pf. Ww wo 02 Am. Writing Paper... 5 a 3% 5 Am. Writing P, pf... 2214 23, 20le 22 Am. Writing P. bac... 16% 76% 753 16 Borden's Cond. Milk.. 1nd 118 14 118 Borders C. Milk Phe 110 108 i British Col. Copper. i 6 6 ‘Bay State Gas......... 17-16 1916 1% 1% Central Foundry. ne 2% op Cent. Foundry pf..... 3% 15 13% 15 Cons. Refrigerator... 6% 67% 0% T Con, Btorage Battery.. 15 20 15. 2% Electrie a uritiat... 15 18 15 18 Bassons a 25 2 25 Esectric. Boat pf..... 37 “0 3 Eu Electric Vehicle....... 31% 4% 4 YU Electric V phe 8 10 9 pL Greene Cons. Copper... 24 25 24% 2 Hal SINT, 125 110 125 Havana Tobacco....... 41 43 4124 43 vana Tobacco pf... (2 6 63 oh ee a Rk... Trig ne Jo4 mm nter-Rapid Tan. 5.100 1% 109% 110 International Salt Tr.. 9% 1 9 11 Inter. Salt 5's.......... 48% 52% 48% 52% Manhattan Transit. 47 5% 5 5% Marine...... 15 30 15 Mercaniiie Marine pf... $0 75 0 I) Boston Cop. 2% 2% New Bas yt, lce.... 14 17 1 17 New Or esis snnnsn 137 dpe 3 i" New Orleans pf........ 4 4“ 44 New Orleans 4'4's..... 78 Te 8S Tog X.Y. 9% 101, 9% 10% Northern Securities... 100% 100% 100% 100%, Otis Elevator........... 40% 41 ry Otis Elevator pf........ 98 100 9s 10 Pacific Packing Nav. 3 1 4 i Pac. Pack. Rav. ph Ziy WB 2% 2 Royal Baking Powder. 1147. g 1 14 1i8 Real Bak. Powder pf...100 1m 104 San Fran. Ry. subs.... #4% 47 45 47 San Fran. Ry. bds..... un so 0] St. Louis Transit...... 26 on WL 2% Seaboard Air Line...... 2% 26 pad 26 Seaboard Air x. pif.. 49% 2 42% 43% Stand. Oil of N. J... 083 ORS 685 688 Tennessee Copper. rg” 14 Union Copper........... 21 2% 2% nl United Copper.. 9 80 os 80, UU. 8. Shi ilding... _— 22 a U. 8. Bh ilding w.. i) 58 U. 8. Shipbuilding 5's. 5 85 U. 8. Steel new 5's.... 4 ole 96 a3 Va. Iron, Coal Coke. 33 ET a3 34 Va. Iron, C. C. 5's... 60 0 09% 0% Wash. TR 13 18 13 18 Wash Traction pf...... 45 50 43 1) Wash. Trac. 4's....... 5 8 El WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET. Sales—Capital Traction, 5@124, 20@ 124; Washington Loan and Trust, 2106; Mergenthaler, 10179, 10@178%, 10179, 100@ 179, 5@179, 10@179; *Greena Copper, S@24%. After eall—United States reg. 3s, $500@107Y%; Washington Gas,, 10@76%. Capital Traction 4s, $1,000@105; Washington Street Railway Ada CLOMIETRD MALL AL DIAS. Bid. Aska? Capital Traction R. R. &s....... 108 oxy Met. Nt. BR. 5g, J038.... 0000000 ME REL 121 Met. R. R. Cert. indebtedness A 107 109 Met. R. BR, Cert. indebtedness B.. 105 107 Columbia K. R. €'s 1004........ a SHY 124 Columbia B R. 2d mort. 5%.... 105% Wash. Street Railway 4's 18 80 MISCELLANEOUS BONDS. Wash. Gas Co., ser A, O's 1902-27, 14 1? Wash. Gas Co, ser B, €'s 1004-27. 114 Ul. 8 Elec, Light, Deb. mp. 1902 106 107% U. 8. Elec. Light, Cert. Indent... 104 wr Ches. Pot. Tel, Com. o's..... wx 105% Wash, Market Co., lst 6's, 1802. UTA NS RRS a 13% $7,000 retired annually. Masonic Hall Ass'n 5's. C, 1908... 103 American Graphophone Deb 5's. SAFE DEPOSIT AND THRUST STOCKS. Natienal Safe Deposit and Trust 16) Washington loan and Trust 20, American Security and Trust 215 Union Trust and Storage W/ Wash. Savings Bank. HIN RAILROAD STOCKS, Capital Traction .......seseeeeaes 123% Wash. Street Ry, pf........ i Wash. Street Ry. com...... sunnne: WD RATIONAL BANK STOCRS Bank of Washington 3/3 Metropolitan ww il a Re Farmers aud Mechanics’. BRCUAB. une sunnsnssssrsvsssasswan tl mR SR 4 is Columbia..... Anke asic snnssssssnan le Capital...... Tram Traders’ RE PN on Ee RR SRR, wa A230 RAGE as sis ane nmnsssns cries sun ud COPROPAM +.0nsvsisrsissnsicacesnce TH sin srsasnssss evbasanbrnnaees’ Arlington sessssnsnsssnsens 38 German AMeriCul «.u.ovve.vennes. S30 National Union ......ccoveeeee. 7% CURBS sd ane ss nsessnsnannenses XE “ommerciyl whensansssisssnssansss $5 Colonial. ETT LTPP PI 200 210 22 0s 1:5 24 4 4 “ann we TE wells pat Government Bonds RAILROAD BONDS, Bid. Asked. Real Eatate Tile .....couunesnce. Ww Columbia Title exavons Hil 7% Washington Tile .vvsessescsvinnes BM ih TELEPHONE AND GRAPHOIHONE STOCKS. Chesapeske and Potomac 30 0 american Graphophone an NEY American Graphophone, pfd. ht 15." LEY GAS STOCKS. Washington Gas Ww Georgetown Gas TYPE MACHINE STOCKS. Mergenthaler Linoty Psy sinnse 178% 170% Lanston Monotype................ vie Wig MISCELLASNIOUS STOCKS. Greets Copper ......c...ccvinueee 20% pos Washington Market......... seers 14 J Norfolk Washington wees J. Maury Dove Ca.............. iw BALTIMORE. Dec. 20—The following quotations were current at 12 o'clock. These quotations refer to wholesale quo tations only; jobblng prices are 1 to 2 per cent higher. Butter—Marke: was firm. Creamery separator, extra, jlc; extra first, 20@30c; do, imitation, extra, 23@24c; lowa and N. W., ladle, extra, 21@22¢; do, extra first, 20@21c; Elgin creamery prints, 12-1b. 32¢; 1-1b,, 32¢; do, 2-1b., 32¢; Mary land and Pennsylvania creamery prints, 1a-1b. 28@26¢; do, 1-1b., 28@29%; West Virginia rolls, 19@20¢; do. Ohio, 18@22¢c; West Virginia, store-packed, 16@18e. Eggs.—The market is steady. Strictly fresh-laid, 26@27¢; Western, 26¢; South ern, 24@25c. Fish, oysters, and terrapin—Market is steady. Quotations as follows: Bass, per Ib, 10@12¢; do, small to medium, $@9¢; carp, per 1b, 3@4¢; rock, boiling, per 1b, 15@18¢; do, medium, per ib, 12@1ic; do, per 1b, 10c; white perch, large, per ib, 8@10¢; do, medium, per 1b, 4@Te; perch, yellow, per 1b, large, 5@6:: do, medium, per 1b, 3G4c; sheepshead, per Ib, 8@16c; flounders, per Ib, 5@ée; mackerel, per 1b, 10@12¢; starfish, per 1b, 5@6c; catfish, per 1b, 3@éc; green pike, native, per Ib, 106 12c; gray trout, per 1b, large, §@Sc; do, small, 5@ée: eels, per 1b, 2@3c: tailors, large, per 1b, T@8c; do, small, 5@6c; salmon trout, per 1b, 8@10c; oysters, bulk stock, per bus, $1@1.25; choice raw, per bbl. $4506 5.50; medium, per bl), $3.50@4; culls, $3@ 3.50; terrapin, Chesapeake diamond. back,” inches, per doz, $55@60;: do, inches, per doz, $3036; do, 5 inches, per doz, $10@12; do. Southern, 6 inches, $20@30; sliders, per doz, $1@3. Green fruits and vegetables—Market steady. Apples, Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, packed, per bbl, $1..50% 2.50; do, fancy Kings and Gills, $2.75@ 3.25; do, good to choice, Eastern, per bbl, $1.50@2.50; do, No. 2, all varieties, per bbl, $1.00@1.50; beets, native, per buneh, 1@1%ec; brocedl, native, per bus box, 15¢: cabbage, New York, per ton, domestic, $8.00@9.00; do, Danish, ton, $11.00@12.00; carrots, native, per bus box, 30@35¢c; celery, New York, per dos, 15@30¢c; do, heme-grown, per bunch, 2%@ 3c; cranberries, Cape Cod, per bbl, $9.00@11.96; do, per box, $2.50@3.00; do, Jerseys, per bbl, $8.50@ 9.00; cucumbers, Florida. per bus basket, $1.75G 2.25; egz plants, Florida, per orange box, $1.006@ 1.25; grapes, catawba, per 5-1b basket, 12@ 14¢; Kale, native, per bus box, 15¢; lettuce, Norfolk, per %-bbl basket, Tic @1.25; do, North Carolina, per-basket, 31.00@1.25; do, Florida, per %-bhbl bas ket, $1.00@1.50; onions, New York, vel low, per bus, 65@70¢; do, Western, red, per bus, 55@60c; do, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bus, 60@70c; oranges, Florida, per box, as to size, $2.50@3.25. oyster plants, native, per bunch, 2%@3c; pumpkins. native, each, 4@6c; spinach, native, per bus box: 306 35¢; do, Norfolk, per bbl, 75@%0¢c; siring beans, Florida, flat green, $1.0061.25; do, round, $1.00@ 1.50; tomatoes, Florida, per 6-basket carrier, $2,003.00; turnips, native, per: box, 156r20c, Groceries—Raw sugar firm: refined firm, The following are the quotations per 100-pound lots: Granulated, $4.95; cut-loaf, $5.55: Keystone “A,” $495; yellow sugars, $4.10@4.40. Molasses—N. 0O., 8t. Claire, 3bc; Kingsland, 30c: Sun light, N. O., 26¢: St. Vincent, P. R.. 25e; St. Johns, P. R., 19¢; No. 12 Sugar House, 15¢c. Syrups—Market was steady: Gold Medal, 27c; King (Vanilla), 29¢: Rock Candy Drips, 27¢; Gilt Edge, 2c: Corn, 22¢; No. 12 17c. Tea was firm; Hyson, superior to fine, 284i 32¢; choice to choie est, 426i46¢; uncolored Japan (new crop), finest, 31@33¢; choice to choicest, 224 He; extra choice, 4ic; Oolong, Amoy and Fuchow (new crop), finest, 40a 43c; choice to choicest, extra finest, 304 40c. Game—The market was firm. Rabbits, per doz, choice, trapped, $2.506 3.00; seconds, per doz, $1.50@ 2.00; quail, per doz, $2.706:3.00; pheasants, each, 90cip $1.00; do. off birds, each, 40c: wild turkeys, per Ib, 11@12¢; venison, saddle. per 1b, 22@25¢; whele deer, per 1h, 1347 15¢; wild ducks, redheads, per pair, $1706 2.00; do, mallards, per pair, To@ 85c; do. blackheads, per pair, S6@6ic; redheads, per pair, $1.50@2.00; CAnvas back, per pair, $2.75@32.25; common, vo pair, 404 50c, Poiatoes—The market was steady. White Maryland and Pennsylvania, per bus, €0@70c; do, seconds, A5456c: do, New York, wer bus, 63@6Sc: Westerns, per bus, 63G48¢c; sweets, Eastern Shore, per truck bhi, yellows, $1.50% 1.65; do, per flour bbl, $1.75471.85; vams, Vir-| Zinia, per bbl, No. 1, $1.25@1.50; Qo, Marylard, per bbl, No. 1, $1.20@ 1.50; culls and seconds, 75c% $1.00. Poxltry--Market firm. Old ‘owls, 104 11¢; young chickens, 10@12¢; ducks, 10! @1Ze; roosters, each, 20c; turkeys, per Ib, 13@Mec; geese, per 1b, 104 11e: do, Western, each, 50@65c; guineas, each, 25¢; pigeons, per pair, 2c; dressed| poultry, straight young chickens, per ib, 12@13¢c; straight old fowl, 11@ Ie; mix ed, 12@12%c; turkeys, per Ib, 12@i5e. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. TITLE INSURANCE STOCKS CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—There was little life in the wheat market today, al though thece was a fair degree of sirength cn considerably lighter re cepts in the Mo rthwest and a generally firm tore to cables. Some little selling was done for the Northwest by com mission houses on the weather condi tions. There were smaller receints in all the principal markets, Minneapolis. Duluth, and Chicago showing 488 cars, against 622 last week and 493 last year. WHEAT. Onen, December 3% AY evs ns Tove alr... 2a. 3% December. 300% Bay... January Yester's High. Low. Clos. clos, Be 3 Be 73 1-18 765-16 TT Te pt) We 73% OATS, 331-6205 NY, 30% 32 716 32, $35 32% LARD. 9.72 9.65 9.72 9.70 0.15 0.07% 615 0.10 RIBS, S40 35 8.37 8.37 8.35 27. 8.32 8&3 16.40 15.62 6% 46% 43 New York Grain Quotations. WHEAT. Yester's Open. High. Low. Clos. clos. December... whim anes S83 82 May......... 80% 80% 86% W or July... 8 TRG TRG wa I. CORN. December... 60 a0 “0 60 January S43 BBY, Hil 53% 18% Fa. 8g 48g December... enn is 38% 38% BALTIMORE PRICE CURRENT. HENRY GLEWS' WEEKLY HINANGIAL REVIEW Unnecessary Crisis Averted by Powerful Interests. SERIOUS DANGER IS PASSED America Thrown On Its Own Resources Because of Eurcpean Distrust of Financial Methods. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Henry Clews’ weekly financial reviews says: “The creation of the $50,000,600 loan pool by many of the big New York banks had a decidedly beneficial effect. It was a very practical demonstration that pow erful interests were agreed in protect ing the market against an unnecessary crisis; that good and legitimate bor rowers would secure such accommoda tion as they might need, and that no funds would be available for speculative purposes. “What the emergency was, serious enough to call for such unusual action, is not revealed. It was probably gen eral, and can no doubt be traced back to the large amounts of money involved in various underwriting and syndicate operations. For some time past it has been ng secret that this was the weakest spot in the whole situation; and some of our :blest financiers have been sorely puzzted to know how the period of stress anticipated at this season of the year would be met Serious Danger Averted. At Is Delleved that all serious danger ‘bas been averted, and such, it is to be hoped, will prove to be the case. The mere assurance that 350,000,000 will be available in case of crisis tends to re ‘move apprehension and prevent such an emergency. It may be the money will not be wanted for the same reason that a depositor will not withdraw his ae count so long as he has confidence in his bank. “The influence, however, of this offer by strong bankers upon sentiment is highly important and beneficial. Call money was easier at once, though time money remains about 6 per cent. “It Is worthy of note that in spite of the heavy liquidation of the last sthree months the contraction of loans has been only $50,000,000 since high-water mark in the middle of August. This is a comparatively small reduction, and is probably explained by the fact that American loans abroad have been freely canceled or shifted to New York. “Foreign bankers have Leen somewhat distrustful of American methods of financing, and this has thrown us more Upon our own resources at a somewhat inconvenient season. As a result we ought to ship less gold in 1963 for set tlements; so this enforced retrenchment has its advantages. Bull Market Not To Be Expected. “While time money is on a 6 per cent basis and good stocks on a 4@4% per cent bagis, it is evident no legitimate widespread bull market can be expected, in spite of the 20@30 points decline late ly experienced. Either money rates stocks must deeline in order to alive this difierence; just which remains to be seen. “There is much reason in the argu ment that after seh an uninterrupted decline as that just noted a good reac tion is due. Considering the activity and .soundness of general business, any improvement in the monetary situation would certainly warrant a fair recovery. The year closes with no signs of a ces sation in that activity; on the contrary, there is every evidence that, if mer chandise prices could be made to de cline somewhat in proportion to the drop in stocks, a new and safer business level weuld be reached on which plenty of new comtraets could be placed with con fidence. “Present high prices are a serious ob struction to new enterprise. The effect of high prices has been strikingly il lustrated in our foreign trade returns, which showed a loss of $116,000,000 in exports during the last eleven months, and an increase of $75,000,000 in im ports. Much of this loss can he traced to the deficit of last year's corn crop and its effect upon other cereals and meats which form a large part of our exports; but higher prices for cotton and oils, also manufactured products generall;, stimulated imports and cheeck ed exports Until our excess of exports for the eleven months of this year was only $337,400,000, compared with $527. 800,000 same time last year, and $571, 600.0600 the year before. “So persistent and heavy a decline in our international trade balance is high ly significant. There is a probability of a change for the better in this re spect; for there i= a good demand for corn for export this year, and the re cent declines in wheat and corn are fa vorable to an outward movement of those staples. Stock Market Qutiook. ‘The immediate outlook for the stock market is for a natural reaction after the recent very heavy decline in prices. Currency ig beginning to return from the interior more freely, and Treasury absorptions are diminishing, while lower prices for wheat and corn promise a hetter supply of export bills. To this extent the situation seems slightly better. “The Venezuelan situation is a less disturbing factor; for there seems to be no misunderstarding between the Unit ed States and European powers about the acquisition of new territory—the vi ta! point of the Monroe Doctrine, “Preparations for January disburse ments will soon be completed, and a temporary money flurry would not be surprising. About the middle of next month, however, the monetary situa tion should show improvement, and if other deveiopments continue favorable we will certainly have a good trading market. The general trend of the mar ket for the present promises to be more confident on the buying side.” TT GRIP Dr break up a Cold, take rey eventy-seven” and some of gentie exercise or work, until ira nduced “77” prevents ria and cures La Seventh Monthly Dividend Jan. 15 EE SASS WILL BE PAID BY THE hi CALIFORNIA-NEVADA MINING co. ER ANNUM GUARANTEED NCREASED FROM 1 TO 1% PER CENT PER MONTH ON PAR FETIP TESTI. RSTO PRESENT DIVIDEND NOW Vr E UNTIL MILL IS COMPLETED i ea I $20,000,000 BLOCK Bi D OUT RE RAY POR THE A 200TON PER DAY PLANT CON MILI na the Ho dium claim, which ad- TRACTED FOR, and will be in full oper J 1d Victor Mine, set to figure on ation not later than April 1, 1903. a ai PRESENT PRICE, 75 CENTS PER SHARE. PAR VALUE, $1.00. Fi LLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE No not fail to vestigate this proposition, mote stock you will want Wri te for pre spectus. inyesticate th W. i 2 Le Wil §0., bro kers and Finane: 3} Agents, o2aL 1s Voldien Arencies: State Bank Trust Company, Los An 1t a A Sa Bidg., REFERENC) Brads! rec and Dun's tate, or prominent mini geles Bh SNE a Le nl: Wy omin ng J urnal of the THE WASHINGTCN LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. YE TYTN YIYY RY YY Smuyrirtyw AND TRUST COMPANY. OFFICE, (UR. ¥fH AND F STS. FAUD-UP CAPITAL, UNE MILLION. Loans ia suy amoeutl mave on approved real estate or collaters! at ressonable Tales. Interest paid upon deposits on mouthly balances subject to check. Thos company acts as execator, admin Istrator, trustee, agent, tieasurer, regis trar, 4nd in all other fiduciary capacities. B_rey for rent in burglar and fireproo! vaults for safe deposit and storage of va. uable packages. NRRERRR RAR JOHN JOY EDSON.........eees......President J00N A. SWORE... Vice President Eitds SPEAR........... Second Vice President ANDREW PARKER......... i Treasurer BRICE J. MOSES..... eanan Assistant Treasurer THOMAS BRADLEY........ Real Estate Utlficer REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT ls prepared to assume the ma ement of your Jul wstase. Careful attention to all de

THE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT, SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK APR CAPITAL $1,000,000. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safes Inside Burglar-proof Vaults. Acts as Administrator, xecutor. Trustee, ete AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST co. Capital, §1,250.000. Surplus, $500.000 SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES, Cafe A t Boxes for rent in Jarge burglar proat avi $5 per annum and upward. J. BELL, President. YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR MAKING A CONSERVATIVE INVESTMENT OR JUDICIOUS SPECULTAIVE PURCHASE IS RIGHT NOW, PRESENT MARKET WITH CONDITIONS FOR THE FUTURE AS FAVORABLE AS THEY ARE AND WITH PRICES DOWN FROM $10 TO $30 PER SHARE, THE REASON FOR THE DE CLINE BEING PRINCIPALLY BEHIND IN STEAD OF AHEAD OF THE MARKET, MAKE STOCKS MOST ATTRACTIVE AT PRESENT WE WILL BE PLEASED, UPON INQUIRY, TO NOTATE BRIEFLY OUR REASONS FOR LOOK ING FOR AN ADVANCE IN raiCES, ALSO TO NAME THE STOCKS WE BELIEVE WILL MAKE THE MOST DECISIVE AND REST AD YANCES. LET US SEND YOU A COPY OF OUR FOUR HUNDRED (#0) PAGE “GUIDE TO IN ALSO OUR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE “D:iILY MARKET LETTER." WE PROFFER OUR SERVICES AS COM MISSION STOCK BROKERS, CARRYING UPON MODERATE MARGIN STOCKS IN MULTIPLES OF 10 SHARES, GRAIN IN MULTIPLES OF 1.000 BUSHELS, COTTON IN MULTIPLES OF 100 BALES, (CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED HAIGHT FREESE GO. 1428 F St. N. W., Washington. STORKS, OAL, COTTON GRAIN. sponsil lity ur ‘Brooks Fan bon) selection of rieht Stocks.” Shareholders Buy Property for Cash. The onlv way to buv “-anerty at a bargain figure is to buy it for cash. Shareholders in the Equitable can, after saving a few hundreds of dollars, borrov, the balance to pay for a plece of proverty in cash. They pay back the loan conveniently in monthly suis—less than rent. EQUITABLE CO-OPCRATIVE BUILDING ASSOCIATION, 1003 F St. Equitable Bldg. JOIIN JOY EDSON............PRESIDENT FRANK I". REESIDE..........SECRETARY £100.00 invested in Grain or Stocks by our “SAFETY VALVE PLAN" sh d result in a profit of $600.00 to 51.0000 within 30 days. Write for particulars and send for our free book, “MODERN METHODS FOR SAFE INVEST MENTS. RICHARD OLIVER 0. Bankers and Brokers, Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Chicago. is Bl WHEAT AND CORN NION TRUST U STORAGE CO., 1414 F Street N. W. AVINGS ACCOUNTS taken S in any amount and sub. ject tocheck at will—2¢9, INTEREST ALLOWED. STOCKS. Iam in a position to execute orders in Stocks, Grain, and Cotten on easy margins. Service ex cellent. In direct commumication with New York. My Ladies’ Department is a special fea ture of my business. Speaking-lube to my main uffice, and cvery comfort, combine’ with strict privacy. Room 11. Margin, 1 Per Cen. R. LAPPIN, 529 Seventh N. W. Cor. F. Telephone, East 726. Enormous Stock of TOYS Auction Prices aa a ant a a a a a ti: i Odd Fellows’ Hall, stocked with $20,000 worth of best Toys. Hudson's Variety Store. Toys in Odd Fellows’ Great Hall 423 Seventh Street N. W, CORR BB BB Been Ge ee Pe Ber Poe Br oe Ge Be os Pe Bee Pn FINANCIAL. FINANCIAL, On Furniture, Pianos, ete., in yy amount from $12 to So. Come where you get lowest rates and longest terms. All dealings QUICh and private. POTOMAC GUARANTEE LOAN CoO, Rooxs 74 and 76, Atlantic Building, Tel. M. 1236-Y. $28 and 930 F St. N. W. $19 25 $75 $19 CHEAP MONEY. Do you want a ican of from SU) to $500 on your furniture, pianos ete, without any publicity or delay at very cheapest rates?! If so, cal on us, for we never disappoint. pe MUTUAL LOAN TRUST GD. Rooins 12 and 13, National Unior Buildirg, 918 F St. N. WwW. 53 $10.00 TO $50.00. Anyone who wants money for Christmas shopping can get it without delay at our offices. We will let you have cash 'on your chattc's, furniture or other personal property, at low rates and easy payments. If salaried, you can have money on persona! note without indorse ment. CAPITAL LOAN GUARANTEE Cn, 6ez F ST. N. W. $50.00 TO $500.00. fui tr MONEY, FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Everyone is in need of ready money at this ssason. Call on the COLUMBIA GUARANTEE CO., 013 F ST. N. W., Near 7th St., for quick loans on your household furniture, pianos, ete. ABSOLUTELY NO DELAY. Loans taken up from other companies. Office open from Ba. m. to 6 p. m. ded-tt E Have a Bar’l of money to lend on furniture, pianos, etc. No delay. Goods are not dis turbed. You return the money in small payments. If you have a loan and need more money we can fix you up. Busi ness confidential. ‘SURETY LOAN GOMPARY, Suite 1, Warder B’id’g, 9th and F sts... 523 9 LOANS OF $10

AND UPWARD ON FURNITURE AND PIANOS, at lowest rates and on the day you apply. We are joamning on the Bulding and lian Asso ciation plan, which makes the cost of carry ing loans much less than you pay elsewhere and aliows you to pay it off in any sized notes ou desire. running from oze to twelve months ih you have a loan with some other company we will it off and advauce you more money if desired. Rates cheerfully given, and no cost to you unless ican is made. and get rates Front room, first floor. NATIONAL MORTGAGE LOAN A. 625 F St. NX. W. DO Leans on furniture, pianos, ete., on the most liberal terms ever offered in this city. No YOU remcval or publicity. If you LJ owe any other company and

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MRS. MUNSON IN SiATt OF PHYSICAL COLLAPSE cin Coroner Satisfied She Poi soned Mrs. Wilson. WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Dec. 20.—Mrs. Lillie Munson, who is in jail at Brook lyn in this State, charged with poison ing Mrs. Julia Wiison, the mother of her young friend, George Wilson, is re ported today to be in a pitiable physical condition, She has lain on the couch at the back of her cell ever since she was locked up, and has protested whenever food has been offered to her, begging the matron of the jail to bring her ‘something that womd make her go to sleep so that she would never wake un.” The woman hus also asked for a quart of camphor spirits. Apparently she has the habit of drinking this and, in the opinion of the county authorities, this may explain the disposition of (he quantities of alcohol which Mrs. Munson was known to have bought of the drug stores all over the county. She said that she bought it and flavored it with pep permint extract for Mrs. Wilson to drink. Coroner Bill today learned that on the day before Mrs. Wilson's death, a woman of the description of Lillian Mun son, accompanied by a man who resem bled George Wilson, went to a drug store and asked James Calnen, the clerk, for a large quantity of alcohol and an ounce of arsenic selution. Calnen asked what the arsenic was to be used for. The woman sa:d that it was to be given to an invalid in doses from two to tem grains. Although the doses seemed reasonable to the clerk, he refused to sell the poison. The coroner is continuing his investi gation among the drug stores of the county. He says that he is satisfied that the applicant for the poison was Mrs. Munson. George Wilson, against whom (here bas been much comment since the death of his mother, and arrest of the woman whom he introduced into his mother's house, disappeared from the little ham let of Ashford todax. There will be no session of the court antil March, and Mrs. Munson will prob ably lie in jail, under commitment {rom the coroner. until the grand jury can pass upon her case. SHOOTS OFFICERS OF LAW AND IS KILLED BY PURSUERS FARMINGTON, Towa, Dec. 20.—In a fit of ungovernable temper, provoked by an attempt to arrest him, George Stilwell last night shot and mortally wounded City Marshal Robert Couller, aged six ty-two, and Justice of the Peace A. E. Musgrove, aged sixty-five. After an ex citing chase by a posse raised by Mayor B. F. Ketchum, in which Stilwell fired numerous shots without hitting anyone, he wae shot to death. Bon Klarche Xmas Presenis Gifts of Quality apd Usefulness in Endless Vari ety and at the Smallest Prices Like Values Have Ever Been Sold For. PROMPT SERVICE. PROMPT DELIVERY.

(REESE EE TER RE Ladies’ Bah Rois, 1 Children's Fur Sets.

NERS Must and Neckpiece, in white Angora and gra thibe a very pretty Christmas gift Specia Q or Mond day.. J Made of all-wool Jipple down, wit th lacze cellars, finished with fancy edge, amd trimmed a with braid; si ke 1 frogs cord and tassel... Fine Ee Waists.

Children's Fine Jewelry Sp Ladies’ White Lawn Aprons, Pr i Made ith deep hem and lust fin 15¢C ‘wn. Tailets le er Peau de Cygne, Tar a, French Flannel, unella ished with wi ws ties Sp al price Monday J TD A AR TRE TT NE ERT Cloth, and Albatross: tucked, hemstitched and braid stit cited Regular $4, $5, and $6 oo 38 IEEE EE values pa tana Misses fo Sets. tails in brook mink en, and chinchill Ri ula 1d $e Children’s 3, and full lcagth Coats J, a ci a 3: a nb plain and rough materials, self braid an EE velvet trimmed; puff and kimono sleeve I 00 Beguia 37 vaiie Chrisimas Candiss mrvh

A Fine line Brooch Pins, Lace Pins, Hat Pin &E a ve Link Cuff Buttons, Belt Buckles, and Pin Set 25€ 95 styles of Fine Candles a i suitable for gifts RE Special lots in higher grades, 4% and 9% rr Lats hose Sua Fie. Children's Book Special, ios’ Fine Black Lac Fanev Lisle, in boo patt 15,000 Children’s Toy Books—Fairy Tales, A-B- 1( res embroide ‘nst 2] 00 ete.: each Xmas box TTT AON RETR PTET i" colored lustratior Handsome pair of Garte free with ch box. 10,000 ACAI iren’'s Poox bat nonsense. il lustrated in colors, by Walte wr C ane e——t_———— eT. ms gi Chistes Blotes Bats for tog and Ba, pole SL Taste Mt. 00 "2

Classics Pastry “Pro 1 Pres iden Cover -14¢ Golf G loves fo women, Wome yd children, 25 artistically stamped; speci: "yg Xn nas price and 50« The Great Gift Bazaar on Second Floor. Almost the entire seeond floor is devoted to an unsurpassed expositio of Dolls Fane 1 Jiday (Goods mi endless varieties, af prices that will str HEY ang uJ to Holiday she pjrers Brie-g brae and No tes of every deseription, Beantiful Vases, Ora ents, Decorated Plates. Hand painted Plaones, Toilet tha we DES SE CR ETS CE TE Sets, Waste Baskets, Burnt Wood Ce Har, Cuff and Handkerchief 3oxcs, Wooden ane Metal Inkstands Pen Trays, Paper Cutters, Blotters, Lap Tablets, Thermometers, Paper Weights, Calendars, Sup Sets, Ash ravs, Smoking Tables, and n any other novelties f Bon Marche 314-320 Seventh St.

MURDERESS NOTE CUT OFF HOPE FOR PARDON Evidence of Mrs. Kate Edwards’ Guilt Influenced State Board. HARRISBURG, Dec. 20.—~The board of pardons was influenced in its ac tion Friday in refusing to commute the death sentence of Mrs. Kale Edwards, the Berks county murderess, by a letter from Judge Ermentrout, who tried the case, In his fetter, which was made public vesterday, the judge says the Edwards woman wrote a noie to Samuel Grea son, one of Edwards’ murderers, asking kim to come to her home, help make her husband drunk and throw him in the cistern, whieh was the way in which the old man was done away with. Judge Ermentrout says it is for the board to say whether there shall be any difference in the punishmeni hetween the instigator and the one who joins the instigator in the perpeiration of the crime 3 “1 do not think.” he adds, “it nroper to irierfere in the matter one way or the other. believing that the hoard or pardons will conscientiously do what they believe to be their duty upon a careful deliberation of the case.” Coursel for the woman applied for a relicaringe before the board, and the case will be heard at its January mect inx CHANGES AUTHORIZED IN ENGINEER DEPARTMENT The District Commissioners yesterday authorized the following changes in the engineer department: That T. Lanham, jr., skilled laborer in the Parking Commission at $2 per day, be hereafter rated as clerk at the same compensation. That the resignation of William T. Vanderslice, bridgekeeper at the Ana costia bridge, be accepted, and that B. T. Stull be appointed bridge keeper at $50 per month to fill the vacancev. The trial of John Watson, who is charged with having attacked and robbed Mrs. Josephine Taylor, near Fourteenth and C Streets northeast, will be held to morrow. The police say he admits his guilt. Watson led the policemen a live ily chase, and attempted to escape in a swamp across the Eastern Branch, When his photograph was taken for the rogues’ gallery yesterday morning, he said he had been there before. The nolice say he spent one year in the Moundsville penitentiary for robbery. The funeral of Max Wasmund, who died suddenly Friday morning, will be held in New York tomorrow. The body was taken from this city last evening, ind was accompanied to Baltimore by members of the order of Knights of Pythias, to which organization he was attached. LARCENY THE CHARGE. MAX WASMUND’'S FUNERAL. GREAT BRITAIN EASILY DUPED BY DIPLOMATS OF GERMAN EMPIRE

(Continued from First Page.) supposed to be very sensitive avd chery of committing herself because of the L TNT ToT rS SUPPOsSEQa 10 DE VEY SEs e Joa thery of committing herself because of the Monroe Doctrine. Caught By Germany. “Foreign statesmen who know how strong is the British diplomatic tradition in favor of having our hands free, cannot but be immensely struck by thus secing us tied hand and foot to Germany. It will geem 10 them a strong proof that Ger many in external matters is running Great Britain, which is the effect which the Kaiser most desires to produce, “The real and essential disadvantage of the alliance with Germany is it binds us to go on helping Germany to the end of the chapter. and to enforce claims against Venezuela the nature of which we appear to be entirely ignorant of. We have indorsed the German claims, but except in the vaguest way we have no Knowledge of their nature. “This is the most amazing point in the whole story. It was madness to enter upon such an alilance without the most distinct understanding as to the nature of all claims put forward. The strict aud imperative character of the nordeser tion clause demanded equal strictness in the definition of the claims which were to be jointly enforced. “As it fs we are bound to go on sup porting Germany in coercive action over claims wbich may be as unreasonable as they are vague.” WARRANT OF EXTRADITION FOR FRENCH FUGITIVE A warrant for the extradition from this country te France of Luis Alfred Balensi has been issued by the State Department and forwarded by the French embassy to New York, where Balengi is held in custody. Balensi is wanted in Paris for the alleged embezzlement of 6,800,000 francs. He was arrested last June on the com plaint of the French government at the Sing Sing prison, where he was serving a term. He had slso been imprisoned ir the Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch, Ulster county. GEORGE STONE TURNED OVER TO OFFICIALS IN LONDON LONDON, Dec. 20.—George Stone, ar rested here several weeks ago on the nominal charge of having murdered a regro in Chicago in 1842, but who is be lieved to have committed =everal other murders in Texas, was turned over to American officials today on a writ of extradition and will be taken to the United States. LOCAL MENTION. Tree Toys. Open evenings. J. Jay Gould. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF PILGRIMS’ LANDING

“Forefathers’ Day Banquet” at First Congregational Church Tomorrow Evening.

The landing of the Pilgrims on the rock-beund coast of Massachusetts, 2X2 vears ago, will be celebrated by the Washington Congregational Club, with a “Forefathers’ Day banquet” tomorrow night. The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the organization will also be >le brated at the same time. An excellent program has been ur ranged by the committee in charge of the celebration, consisting of a reccp tion, business session, and dinner. The reception will be held at 6 o'clock in the parlors of the First Congregational Church, i0th and G Streets northwest. At 6:45 o'clock the business meeting will be convened, at which nominations and elections to membership in the club will be made, followed by reports of the out look committee, and on the limit of membership. The dinner will follow immediately after the business session, and will be served by the ladies of the church. Elaborate plans have been made for the feast, and it will be one, judging from AT DROOP'S, 925 Penna. Ave. wo EL Ss SA SE DCA Ba Ny QE Qoal Our Last Suggestions to Christmas Shoppers ov ER eS CTE SE EA a cla J Time is sho Santa Claus is knoeking at the door and sim: in wh ch to =eleet a present taneously ail hearts are beating in anxious expeeta Three days remain a token of your love and esteem for parent, brother, sister. relative or iriend. Our Rte stoe k (from the cheap est to the most Xpensive article) 1s pe rsonally selected. i. ee et ole ——t vn a n

For Little Broth For Little Si For the Baby. For Little Brother. or Little Sister. ia v a mn s===Dram 3-=-Drum Imwe Fondness for Dolis is the first evidences Little Music Boxes—the Kind the With genuine calfskin heads, not the of the tenderness of the mother nature: little tots love to hold to their Cars cheap toy kind including sticks and belt. but when a beautiful! Swiss Music Box i 5 lays while the Doll revolves in a maze and “make the musie. 20. of pretty clothes the happiness of the Unbreakable.) Bugles.--Bugzles---Bugles--- I little girl is complete to (0 21 Sf From the small one-turn to the regula- 1.29 10 2. lo. 49¢ to 51.50 ion three-turn, S g Musicai Doil Babies. Z5¢ to $1.50 Ble Tambourines. The ki Harmonicas... The “Hi ie Kind that walk, sing aud ride, The “little lady” may wish to par From the small “Baby Har" the ticipate in some small entertainment: ab; rf to th 23¢ to $3.30. i large “six-tomed” adjustaltie, what is more beautiful than the Span- UC to 23.50 ish dance and what mere essential than Horns that are easy to blow, hay a tambourine or castanets?® Pag Ho pore elamn Hout pleces, Autoharp. he 15¢ to 51.25. start the small boy now: he can learn d¢ to 9c. casily and without the arduous practice Handsome Music Rolls— which a more complicated instrumen- i A forint Musical Rattles requires. Be a 35¢ to $1.50. $2.75 to $25.00 20¢ to alc. J Beautiful Music Books, Folios, ete, Give the Boy a Kazoo! 10c. _. i

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Sold on time if desired. quality in a mandolin. Banjos. S. S. Stewart's goods have been accepted by pro fessional plavers as the instra ments possessiig the greatest brilhaney and “twang.” Stew art Banjos are fully waranted. STEWART BANJOS $10, SIZ, $15 10 $100 OTHER MAKES FROM— $5 up. 25 per cent discount on all Banjos excepting the Stewart and Washburn, Columbia DISC GRAPHOPHONES, VIC TOR TALKING MACHINES. Tie Columbia Dise Grapho

EN MIE EG TE EL A A ee a 0 m the phones are the elearest world, and freer from that un pleasant seratehing sound than anv others, Prices, $13, 520 and £30. Rec. ords, $5 and $19 a dozen. SERRE FOR THE FIRESIDE AND Pianos. The Steinway and Others.

No need to tell of the merits of the Stemway Piano, for all the world unites in calling ii “best.” But we have many other good pianos at more moderate prices. Among them the GA- BLER, recently placed in the public schools of the Distriet; the MATHUSHEK, the many toned CROWN, the MASON HAMLIN. the! POOLE. the HUNTINGTON. the CHASE all instruments that have won a good standine| for themselves in the world of musie. 3 New Pianos from 5250 up

Fully Warranted. On reasonable monthly pavments if desired. Regina Music Boxes. The Standard of the World. The Recina plays over 3.000 different tunes, as sheet musie. As soon as any piece is pub lished it is promptly adapted to the Regina. An Endless Souree of Pleasure. An Entertaicer at Afternoon Teas. A Joy mn the Sick Room. Regimas sell for 510 to 8350 On monthly payments if desired. and new dises ean be bongiht at any time —same THE CECILIAN---The Perfect Piano Player,

Few people have had wider experience with “piano players” than we. We were the first to introduee them into this city, and we have an mitimate aequaintanee with every make, We say without reserve or qualification that there is not another piano player worthy of comparison with the “Ceecilian.” A cordial invitation is extended you to visit our “Ceeilian™ rooms, where any selection will be played for you. “Ceeilians™ sell for $250 Mon tune,” or £225 cash. Extraordinary Xmas Special, Not £10. but 7He. con plete Or Neat Black Music Roll, includin a collection of the following music Ph Uva ‘In the Good Old Summer Time.’ Ain't Dat a Shame?" Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Com Home?" Pals “Nancy Brown “*Good-Bye, Dolly Gray.” “Story of the Rose.” and 20 other se lections Our Special Xmas Price Compicte, 75¢ r DROOP’S MUSIC HOUSE, oe PA. AVENUE FOR THE FIRESIDE AND HOME. the menu announced, that will make the historic dinners of the stern Puritans pale into insignificance. Grace will be said by Prof. Isaac Clark, D. D. Addresses appropriate to the occasion will be made at the conclusion of the banquet by Henry Litchfield West, Com missioner of the District; the Rev. Ran dolph H. McKim, rector of Epiphany Church; Mr, Justice H. B. Brown, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Rev. C. J. Ryder, secretary of the American Missionary Association of New York. The subject of the Rev. Dr. MceKim's address will be “The contribution o’ the Colony of Virginia to the Making of the Republic.” That of the Rev. Dr. Ryder wili be “The American High landers.” The subjects of the other ad dresses have not been announced. i an Pr i

Music will be given at intervals in the course of the speaking by the Gar righ quartet, composed of D. G. Miller, first tenor; H. G. Simons, second tenor; John F. Blackmar, first bass, and J. Walter Humpher, second bass. The of ficers and committees of the club are as follows: President, the Rev. John L. Ewell, D. D.; vice presidents, the Rev. E. N. Kirby, Prof. J. W. Chickering, Gen. Ellis Spear, Prof. George J. Cum 1 i

mings; secretary, G. A. L. Merrifield: treasurer, Alfred Wood. Executive committee: The above named officers and A. L. Sturtevant, J. F. Johnsen, and A. B. Chatfield. Outlook committee: A. L. Sturtevant, the Rev. B. W. Pond, the Rev. H. P. Higley, D. D., William L. Marsh. and the Rev. B. N. Seymour. Nominating committee: J. John son, William Lamborn, Elphonzo Youngs, M. W. Baldwin, and J. H. Jen nings. Reception committee: A. B. Chat fleld, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Caywood, Mrs. A. B. Chatfield, Mrs. G. A. Merrifield, and Mr. and Mrs. George Redway. Porter Garrison, Army and Navy Union has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Commander, James Campbell; senior vice commander, J. C. Daley; junior vice commander, C. Holly: adjutant, C. P. Clagett; quartermaster and acting paymaster, William H. Coul ter; chaplain, John Ash: officer of the day, James Stilwell; officer of the watch, H. E. Marks; officer of the guard, O. Keppler: executive committee, J. C. Daley, T. E. Lee, and W. H. Coulter. $1.25 to Baltimore and Return Via B. 0. R. R. Saturday and Sundav. December 20 and 21. Tickets valid returning until midnight train Sunday night. All trains both ways both days except Roval Limited. OFFICERS FOR A YEAR.

KNABE P.ANDS! of ein ins an pew and used instruments rakes. Sole agents fur the Aeolian and Pianola. Pianos Rented. wm. Knabe Co.

209 1: 20,000.00 in Toys at Auction Prices Acres of Toys—the groct expanse of Odd Fellows’ Hall—a veritable Fairyland. Prices like this: Dressed Delle 14: un: Drums, 10¢ up; Child's Tea Sets. 10¢ up; Stick Horser and Chairs, 5¢ up. All other goods at auction prices. Hudson's Variety Store, Toys in Odd Fellows’ Hall, 423 Seventh Street N. W. a at LR HOME. The Mason Hanlin Organ. By eommon consent it has been styled “The Standard of the World.” The inventors who thovght out ts mechan 15m, the mechanies who have produeesd it. the de signers who have drawn its ontiine, the tuners and voreers who have mavipulated its reeds— each has heen a eraftsmaker, a worker of su perior skill. A compiete stock of Chapel and Parlor styles has just arvived {rom the faetories. ihe style 2358 is a heautiinl (vegan for the home. Price, $87 On reasonable terms, if desired. Busts of Musical Composers, dusts of Mozart, Beethoven, Han del, Paderewski, and Wagner, I9c each Musical Steins, $3.50 to $7.50. Musical Decanters, $5. Children’s Musical Books, special, 29¢,

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HOLIDAY CRIMINALS HAVE GOOD GRANGE T0 WORK

Dangers to Which Shoppers Are Daily Exposed.

SUBTERFUGES OF CROOKS

Metropolitan Police On the Alert for Known Thieves, But Cannot Prevent All Thefts. With the arrival of the holidays vast numbers of strangers flock to this city from the smaller towns and villages within a radius of fifty miles. This annual influx is recognized and appreci ated not alone by the merchants and transportation companies, but is looked forward to with quite as keen anticipa tions of large returns by the members of the criminal classes who make the city their temporary headquarters. The general public has little or no con ception of the extraordinary precautions taken by the department stores, banks, and other public institutions to protect their patrons from thieves and swindlers during this season. In spite of their best efforts, and the co-operation which the Police Department is supposed to Jend them, a summary of the thefts of one kind and another committed here during the three weeks preceding Christmas would be fairly astounding. Pickpockets’ Methods.

~The various methods by which pro Tessional pickpockets and sneak thieves Tob thelr victims are too many, and for the most part {o well known to need repetition. There are certain practices, however, habiiual to the average woman shopper, upon which thieves rely ana against which a warning should be sounded at this time. One of these is the custom of women of laying their pocketbooks upon the counters of the shops where they are making purchases. There are countless crooks who infest the big department stores during the lidays, and reap a rich harvest by icine up these pocketbooks while the ttention of the owners is directed else where. It is such a simple thing for a dishonest mam or woman to snatch a wallet in this way, and disappear in the erowd with which all the large stores are now thronged, that the detection of he culprit, arter the loss is discovered, 1s absoiutely impossible. A Well-Known Variety. Another type of criminal whose handi work is frequently encountered at this season is the pickpocket proper or “fob ber,” as he is known to the police. TlLere almost as many women as men fol Jowing this branch of crime, 2nd their field of operation lies wherever large crowds collect. For the most part, how ever. they prefer to work in o.:r- of-doo: ‘erowds, owing to the better chance af 1] $i} 4 sforded of making their escape in casé‘of detection. A ruse quite frequently employed by sneak thieves during the holiday sea Son is to await the arrival of the deliv sry wagons from the department stores ir: the well-to-do residential sections of the city. After a package has been delivered and the wagon has resumed its Journey the thief presents himself at the door and says that a mistake has been made, that the package just left was intended for another address. He generally gets the package, whereupon he says that the right one will be forth pe a

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8 ~The German government indorse his treatment and make the “Tuberculine’’ medicine that cures Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, and C sumption in their own laboratories under the supervision of Pad. Koch. It is sent to the Koch Lung Cure at 730 Eleventh Street north west, Washington, By the use of the Koch Inhalation Apparatus he healing oils, in combination with the won erful “Tuberculine,” which kills the germs, are thrown into oily vapors so they can be bresthed into the air tubes of the lungs. The effect wonderful; they heal up the sore places and ive new life to patients having lung discascs. Consumption steals upon its victim like het in the night, and before he is aware of his true condition his catarrhal discharge has poisoned the air tubes of the lungs that they Bon to break away and decay, and he becomes unwilling slave to its ruinous consequences. generally begine as an ordinary catarrh in nose and throat. All" thinking persons know that medicines into the stomach do not cure Consump FY a— _ AN 3 A 5 7 2 A Ri A i "i o 'S 2! Ww 5 t pi a t MN od YN YSN MEE EER WR TR YY TTY YY wT“ TTI 8 al Most delicious B Z PIES

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1 A JPR fo oe MR "4 J it i A BLE A i NGL 8% 4 gr n (a an i (ios PE ee hin SLY 4 i 3 8 Ruse of Sneak Thieves. v@l coming in a few minutes, and takes his departure. There Is still another way in which packages are stolen. The thief in this instance picks out for his victims the errand boys and girls employed as €x tra hands by the stores to deliver pack ages to their customers. He “tops ihe messengers and asks them to deliver a note somewhere in the neighborhood at once, and offers them a substantial fee if they will do it, offering to hold their packages until they return. While this trick is as “old as the hills,” it is employed constantly by sneak thieves in this city, and more often than not with success. In spite of the “crooks” of all kinds who infest the city, there is really lit tle danger of loss to be apprehonded by the person who observes ordinary pre cautions and does not take any state ment for granted, simply because the person who makes it looks as if he or she were reliable. GLASS CONTEST GOES OVER TO NEXT SESSION Elections Committee Says It Would In volve Validity of Virginia Law. According to the report made by the Committee on Elections, No. 1, to the House relative to the contested seat of Carter Glass, Sixth district of Virginia, the question involved is ome of the ‘gravest ever submitted to the House of lepresentatives.” The announcement that the committee would report adversely upon the reso lution for an investigation as to the le gality of Representative Glass’ election under the new Virginia State constitu tion was made two weeks ago. The report itself, however was presented to the House on Friday. In part, it says: “Your committee is unanimous in its opinion that in the time intervening be fore the close of this Congress it would be impossible to satisfactorily investii gate the important guestions of law and of fact involved in the resolution. “The question is purely of a public character. No claim of private right ia any claimant to the seat which Mr Glass occupies is worthy of serious con sideration. The sole question is as to whether a valid election was held ir Virginia in November, 1902, for Rep. resentatives in Congress. “As, therefore, the public question alone remains, we are pronounced in our belief that its investigation belongs tc the Fifty-eighth Congress. We, there fore, recommend that the consideratios of the resolution be indefinitely post. poned STEEL CO. WORKERS CAN PITTSBURG, Dec. 20.—Notice has been received at the offices of the Amalgama ted Association of Iron, Steel and Tin opis from the Republic Iron and

eel Company that a scheme for mak ing the workmen ig those plants stock holders in the company will be presented By s o pi to the next convention at Columbus, Ohio. Plans are now being considered by which the puddlers and finishers em ployed in the mills of this company can become stockholders, and it is probable that the proposition will be ratified by the convention.

The officers of the Republic Iron ane Steel Company have decided that if the plan is adopted the men will be given representation on the board of directors. 1 +i} 7 74 Fe Colds are quickly cured by Chamber. lain’s Cough Remedy. It acts on na ture's plan, loosens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the secretions, ef fecting a permanent cure. It counter. acts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, both adults and children like it. Price 26c; large size 50c. For sale by Henry Evans, wholesale, and all druggists. 4 g \4 a a tion, Asthma, Bronchitis, or Catarrh. Besides, hang medicines are always hard on the stomach. For several years the Institutions of the Koch Lung Cure, which are located in ali the princi pal cities, have treated thousands of cases, and their success can be told by their results. They number on their staff specialists who have for a lifetime made a deep and searching study of all lung diseases, including Consumption, Ca tarrh, Asthma, and Bronchitic. Many patients who had been given up as incurable are today living monuments of their success. The doctors invite sharp criticism. Cases cured will bear investigation. Patients calling at this Institution for treatment receive consul tation, examination, and ome treatment free; after which, if curable, they will so inform you; if ingurable, they will tell you that, The Washington office is at 730 Eleventh Street nortinvest. If you cannot call, the Koch Home Treatment, with especially prepared apparatus, can be sent to your residence. Write for de scriptive and illustrated booklet containing symptom blank. On Nature’s Plan Eo N—— HAVE GOLDEN HOP BEER IN THE HOUSE —during this, the great holiday season. It's a pure, delightful, refreshing, and nutritious beverage. Your visitors will be sure to appre. ciate it. 12 quarts for $1, WASHINGTON BREWERY CO., 4th and F Sts. N. E, Phone, E, 254. P2400 900000000 0000000000 v A THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1902 ALEXANDRIA NEWS NOTES. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 20.—Osceola Tribe, No. 1, Independent Order of Red Men, has elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing year: W. A. Rich ardson, prophet; C. M. Schwab, sachem; C. W. Bell, senior sagamore; J. E. Pur cell, junior sagamore; E. Francis Down ham, keeper of warmpum; F. Kaus, sr., collector of wampum; Charles Nagel, chief of records; W. Lightfoot, keeper of wampum. The marine railway, at the foot of T'ragklin Street, is to be thoroughly re paired and put in condition. William Hayes, who died in Washing ton Friday, was a son of ex-Policeman Patrick Hayes, of ‘this city. He was well krown here, and a charter member of the Alexander Lodge of Elks, and one of the first among that lodge to die. The members of the lodge will attend the funeral in a body. The remains will be brought here Monday morning for ‘burial. The interment will be made in St. Mary's Cemetery. The Spanish-American war veterans of this city will bold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in Armory Hall on South Royal Street. A tea was held this afternoon from 3 ‘until 10 p. m., at the Children's Home, 406 Duke Street, at which time a number of fancy articles were sold for the benefit of the home. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett was in charge. A new chapel is being erected at St, Mary's Catholic Church at the north transept. A handsome altar has already been placed in position. During the win ter months the early morning mass will be said in the chapel. It is understood the WashingtonSouth ern Railway Company will shortly com inence the work of straightening their tracks and reducing the grade between here and Richmond. A light, fitted up by Horace Rainey, has been placcd in the children's ward of the Alexandria Hospital. The work was done with money left by his son, wha ied 1agt SRMIMASY Fram Infnrtac cre. A light, fitted up by Horace Rainey, has been placed in the children's ward of the Alexandria Hospital. The work was done with money left by his son, who died last summer from injuries sus tained while playing with some of his companions. fa The Rev. 8. B. Tredway. formerly pas tor of the Protestant Church here, but now pastor of the Cambridge, Md., Church of that denomination, spent Thursday and Friday in this city visit ing friends. i i John J. Nugent and family have gone to Augusta, Ga., where they will make their home in the future. Mrs. Nugent

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Take no chances of your footwear gifts being illyre ceived because they lack those essentials—style and worthfulness. Best way is to come here direct —save the running around—and much ineonvenience. And because our footwear has character because it has the aeme of style—beecause it is the very highest grade footwear whieh is turned out, does not make it expensive, for our prices are no more than such high grades are actually worth and we know positive ly that they are much less than the same styles bring in New York and Philadelphia. wh 4 o J nr 4 okay A Sy a Teg

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pr 8 7. Prominent for giving are slippers, Romeos and Fausts —of satin, of suede, of Kid, patent ealf, ideal kid, ooze, alligator and other leathers. You find all these here in most eomplete assortment in complete lines of sizes and shapes. A A 5 5 hg AT PN 2 p 9) p< id Sra J B a vr 8 IR $4 k at] If you want to give a very handsome present in foot wear line give a pair of shooting, riding, hunting, surveving or golfing boots or footwear for other sports. All the novelties in these lines are here. w 3

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1 J wif fs 1] LREDIT i 7K you want the Serif ri Clothing 4 Hats and Fur kc 4 sings. RE torr) ANY BLOCK, ST SA MEW. was accompanied by her sister, Mrs Hildred Travers. Mrs. Netiie Crook Kindwell, of Atlan ta, Ga., who for the past two weeks has been visiting her mother, Mrs. (rook, 226 South Washington Streat, has re turned to her home. Edward Hughes, who for the past two weeks has been confined to kis bed by illness, is able to be out again. Tha supply of coal is very ow at the city gas works and the plant may havd to be shut down unless coal is secured within the next few days. In the police court this moming Frank Walker, a white youth sixteen yea of age, was fined %10 on the charge o breaking inte a car in the rard of the Richmond, Fredericksburg amd Potomac Railroad last night. The work of paving a portion of King Street between St. Asaph ard Columbus Streets is being vigorously pushed and will be completed in the next few days A warrant has been issued for the ar: rest of Thecdore Brooks or the charge of stealing a bicycle from George Ayers: Lawrence B., McFall and Ayman Tap. pon, soldiers from Fort Hunt, were ar raigned in the police court ‘his morning on the charge of assaulting James Grit, fin, jr. The mayor fined them $5 each. The various church choir of the cith have completed their arraigements fo the usual Christmas music. Wedding cards have been issued i Mr. and Mrs, Julian T. Purke for th! marriage of their daughter Miss Lou Packwood Burke, to Dr. Louis Sto Greene, of this city. The ceremony wi take place Wednesday evering, Januar’ 7, at 8 o'clock, in St. Paul's Episcopa Church.

bl is Mrs. M. C. Adamson has purchases from Miss Mary Ann Rach a brick house and lot on the east side of Wash" ington Srrent hot ween Prince and I''m Mrs. M. C. Adamson has purchase from Miss Mary Ann Rach a bric house and lot on the east side of Was) ington Street, between Prince and Dw: Streets, for $2,400. j

Repuation Built on Quality. A AN SI V7 AN RN A OAR Ononco- 7 é ye y x LR TT A fine Bdveh or Ege Noge is very often spoiled by using a cheap whiskey. When buying a whiskey for home use you should be as particular ag¥ere buying diamonds. You should get goods that has that fine flavor and aroma that ean only be prodnced by purity of distillation and PY age. Oronoco Rye has made its way into the many thousand homes of Washington on its motto of “Reputation built on quality.” SMgements have been made for delivering goods this week. You ean write or telephone your order to be delivered any hour, or any dat assurance of receiving your order. All good s are guaranteed. I Choidines and Liquors of better assortment of Whiskies, Brandies, more 1 (fReleet your holiday goods from could not he Wines, and ced. The 1st mentions a few of the many on hand: desired. Y i Galifornia Imported Wines

Aneelica +00. Duff Gordon Sherries, $3 to $3. Brguudy, $2.90. Robertson Bros. Jeraz Skerry, ure 1.00. $4.00 Catawba, re Clarets. it A Fine Old Nutty Spanish Blackbery T=-90. Sherry, $6.00, Madeira, 0-20: Old Reserve Port, $3.00. LA Mesh, S A Fine Old Oporto Port, £5.00, Port pid Oporto, ort, i Rhine Wines in bottles, £1.25 to Hoeckheimer., Tokay, 29. Fellinger. Seppe! to $1.50. Durkheimer. 4 sweet, in Vox sioibia Sauter Clarets, 1 rriman’s S po 1e S hott les. Merriman S$ St Julien Sy as perior. Merriman’s St. Julien. Palifordies Merriman’s Ponet Canet, 1806 (fape Brandy, Imported Brandies Fido af kr AP pg ar Jas. E. Hennessy Brandy. Pellisson Brandy. 1875 Muntet Coenae is a very high orade of imported Brandy, and is equal to the best, Aj] the imported champagnes, #1 per rape Brandy 15493 &5 per a rape Brandy, &6 per J 3 vd€TTY Brandy, nr $3 and Toe Bbw A Misc Domestic Miscellaneous Imported gongs

R a Enissmore Irish Whiskey, MePgland Rum, King William Seoteh Whiskey, $1.06 Mash Whi Dewar’s Seotely Whiskey, Off east Was Kilmarnock Seoteh Whiskey, kav. Rhoderie Dh Seoteh, orarolina Corn St. Croix Rum, Whi Jamaiea Rum. EE WHAYNE'S DEATH DUETD AGGIDENT. JURY FINDS

Heavy Insurance on His Life Without Significance. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 20.—The cor Oner’s jury in the case of R. C. Whayne, |W ho was found dead in a fielq near his ‘homie and who hag $390,000 of insurance on his life, returned this verdict thie afternoon: “We, the ¢eroner’s jury, find that R. C. Whayne came lo his death by a gun shot wound in the left side of his chest. And we further find that said gunshot was due to the accidental discharge of his gun.” le testimony before the coroner's jury did not show any evidence of sui cidal intent. Jt was shown that Mr. Whayne was Accustomed to hunt in the land near hig Eome and that the fact that he left home with his gun did not ‘rouse the suspicion of his family or rei hhors. it was nroved that one of Mr. Vhavne's horses had been ill and the heory is that he had gone to Jock fter it, "RAN M. TROXLER APPOINTED TO SUCCEED JUDGE AIRRICHT

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HARRISBU RG, Pa., Dec. 20.—Governor tone has ap pointed Frank M. Troxlor, f Allentown, to succeed the late Judge Ibright, on the Lehigh county beach. r. Trexler is a prominent Republican 1d a brother of Colonel Troxler, of overnor Stone's military staf Velati’s Candies for Christmae i

mous chocolates, honbons, or caramels. Orders Tr out-of-town shipment ould be left romptly *o insure care in packing. Two stores, 0 Ninth Street and 1408'%% G Street. FEVER PATIENT SEEKS MONEY FROM HOSPITAL S—— 15 Declares He Contracted Typhoid Fever After Being Treated For Apperdicitis.

FRANKLIN, Pa., Dec. 20.—A novel fo for damages was brought here yes. terday against ie Oil City Hospital. The plaintiff, Henry Findlay, alleges that last spring he entered (he hospital for the purpose of being treated for ap Pendicitis. He was successfully oper ated on by the hospital surgeons. Soon after leaving however, he was attacked with typhoid fever, from which he suffered several weeks, hovering at times between life ana death. Mr. Find lay says that when he went to the hos pital he was placed in a room just va cated by a typhoid fever patient, and that he had the bed clothing used by the Datient, He alleges that negligence to disinfect the room and change bed clothing was responsibie for his contracting typhoid ever later. He asks damages in the sum of $25,000, ‘he Oil City Hospital has always borne in excellent reputation ang the suit hag aturally caused a great sensation. A I II 4 Acres of T0YS i 3

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Hudson's Variety Store. i Toy Stock in Oda Fellows’ Hall, 423 Seventh Street N. Ww. Bld anim ari aE In. This whiskey is partienlarly desirable for heme use on account of its fine flavor and absolute purity. It is thisurpassed for egg-nogg or punches, or for flavoring the mir ce pies or Christmas pudding, im parting a partienlarly ich, thoueh’ delicate taste. One Dollar a Quart Baile, Telephone, mail, or personal orders delivered by special niessen ger to any part of the city unon hort netice. Out-of town orders promptly filled, Np cial arrangements have been made w deliver or ders this week, cdward J. Quinn, 604 Penn. Avenue. "Phone 761.Y, MAY’S GROOMING PARLORS. Cr t— Parisian Electric Facial Treatment. EE OR Wrinkles, Fa len! F Muscles, Frecki es, Pin. ples, Moth Patches, Black. heads, Warts, and Moles, Electro-Masso Treatment y

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Wrist Bags as Xmas Uifts. You may find many displays and large varieties, but you will never come into contact with such an elegant assortment of beautiful goods, from the lowest priced to the higher cost ones, which we are showing in this line. We offer ten separate lots in this lis., and every one represents the very best value your money can buy. Lot I. Children’s and Misses’ Wrist Bags. in black and assorted col- 5 ors, the usual 3% kind, selling for Lot 2. Wrist Bags made of grain, seal, and walrus leather, silk lined, with C either straight or curved frames, 49 the 75c¢ kind, selling for........ Lot 3. Wrist Bags, in colors and black, lined and finished like the 5 above, the $1 kind, selling for.... Lot 4. Real Seal and Walrus Leather Wrist Bags, these we are showing in gray, tan, and black, silk lined and have long chains, the $1 and ORC £1.50 kind, selling at........co00ee Lot 5. Walrus Leather Wrist Bags. moire lined, finished with extra coin purse inside. also other styles, in {an and gray, the usual $2 1 49 kind, selling at... ..c.vvnvnee Lot 6. Wrist Bags, in all the most desirable shades and shapes, finished with handsome frames and ilk lined. the $4 kind, selling a8 Bcc nessnnns son ssartamun onsen Lot 7. Wrist Bags, finished with inlaid jew eled frames, made of fine seal and walrus leather, the $5 3 08 and $6 kind, selling at....... M Lot 8. Wrist Bags: this line is very swell and has every up-to-date finish, some are made with German sil ver frames, the $6.50 kind, 4.98 gelling @t......cooacnennnes Er Lot 9. Wrist Bags. made with German sil ver frames, others with royal coppel frame, finished with sterling trimmings, a very exquisite gift, the usual $9 kind, spe- b A eld] Al... cosrsnsosnscnssnanres Lot 10.

Wrist Bags, made of the very finest imported leathers, exquisite and’ unique in de- 5 ¢ign, from $15 to those at.... J

Leather Goods Department, Sectior H and J. opposite elevator, First floor. Lot 6 Merry scape covers, such titles as ldylls of the King, Robert Brewning's Poems, S hiiek, muda, any Seay d i uv Pretty Books for Children thi re prefusely or iolden Treasure, Lady of the Lake ttle Minister, and Evangeline 49 “Pee ial, per pair, at $1.29 and ist Bags. in all the most desirable Chrigt mas B.C. Cock Robin, Cinderella, Yani ho 1 Choi it full line of the ce ioirated “Foster eg and shapes, finished Duck Aladdin, Blue Bear i i acing Xid Gloves, in black handsome frames and ax Little Soldier Boy, All Ab San Popular Plays. 3 white and colors: in three g alities—at 75, $1.50 and lined. the $4 kind, selling Pretty illustrated volumes that are lavishly illustrated ind nicely abound, qua L un pug ol A 3-2 A 2 SANGER Cr I es Books for the Older f olk of popular plays, such as Under Two Flags (Blanche Bates *dition o The latest French novelty—the real H Das 4 Their Homes, Fer tf B it Two Cities (Henry Miller Edition, and Th Three Musketeers Kangaroo” Skin Walking Gloves, Pi Lot f. ut hot of Our 1 AA ee V (4 rles O'Ncill Edition). A photogravure frontispiece suitable 1. 18 que sewn, Paris point stitch, self and rist Bage. fini: hed with inlaid jew- esi and Lest Wyler Aang h 1 I fh 1.25 for. framing ds Jnotsdey Is each book. ‘Chijice at i White stitched in gray, f he. made of fine sos) Hale vith 16 full-page IIL hw Bo¢ Dept Third floor. i mode, and beaver. Complete ram nN? CE Aad at With one large pearl clasp. hy Soa Rat. 1 PPPS gy Ea a a a I i at I i aia ee fee Be Gee eres anananas F 1 Special, per pair, at....... ree LJ £6 king, s PRPS SS SS One-metal-and-pearl-clasp Mocha Lot 8 reef Walking Gloves, in black, ie w Ww ory yer 0 t+ gray mode, tan and brown. rrist Bags: this line is very swell 2 Per pair, $1.50, $1.35, and.... J has every up-to-date finish, some J ferent that our loi i i made with German sil- Our large and extensive orders «i te i clurers ol pure sweets are true Iacts that om andy Department Is doing the Evening Suede Kid Gloves, in all frames. the $6.50 kind. wr TPE =i) 00 1 n order. we followed with 20,000 pounds more, and now the chanees are that we will 4 lengths—12, 16, 20, and 24 ling at candy trade of Washgton. t of 100,000 Sg Our assort it of 12¢ pure and harmle veets Ineiudes the followin 1 buttens; in black and white. ing “11 SL assortu) Ol 1&8 an 1ATNIIEeSS sweets ie V a 9 i place the balance w hich will compiels 13.50, 33.00, 32.50 and........ Lot 9. kinds An s 16-button-length in Glace 1 h G 3 ted Cream Walters, Lo Bonbons, thocoia donbens. Burn Peanuts, Cream Peanuts, Crean: Dates, Jelly ubes, Pineapple i Real Kid Gloves, black 63, 00 vist Bags e with German sil SOT er an alters, anil I 1 i i Ayes r ite. Special ai i re rN with royal copper Cr on Ki ses. Crystallized Coeoa Balls, Vamliaggra] Marshmallows, Lemon and Orange Paste, Caramels, Fruit and Nut nougats, White. Special at, pair....... frames, ‘het o 0 SRO, vstall me. finished with sterling Croqaets, Croquettes, ete Women’s All-wool Golf Gloves, in nings. a very exquisite Jellies, Cocoanut Lroq 3 y ment TSR a h dat i black, white, mode, gray, and mmings, ae ’s Rpts off lov vi late Cocoanut Centers, Choeolate with date Centers, Nut Centers, Cream Pine i vd sr pair. Toc. S50c. 39¢ the usual $9 kind, spe- Our 19¢ Fine Confections ofl nd THER) 1. PP Thi TO PE Ey RE, AR Bly <anisinns ss unvissnenen le. Marshmallows, Jelly, Fruit ane Nuts, Molass do shed Almonds, Peanut Clusters, Wafers, Silver Top Molasses (hip, Lemon ARG... iiss sn ieasntnnanes BRass sapmansssancas MarshinallQws, «~4elid. a ‘ite 4 y 0 pA 0 1 (Creams. Vanilla Cre Maple Coffee Molasses Crumbs, Trilbys, Italian Creams, Zazas, Nougats, Peppermints HH Women's Black Cashmere Lot 10. Winterereens, Pistache Tops, and 1 Te i jeolate Nonpareil. i Special at The Pe 0c wey nt or a we bn L 9C, s oC, Ales... Wrist Bags, made of the 0 10e Rich and Delicions Variet) 1 as Trobridee Chips, Maplines, Walnut Tops, Bittersweets, Orange Jel- H y «C1 Hn f 1 n finest imported leathers, ar JHC 1a y h Ricos, Pepper ‘hocola edames. (Glace Fruits, Cres don s. (ringer "afers "ruil b q auisite and unique in de- Coeoanutlines, Old-fashioned Chocolates, 14 colate Ledawes, Glace Fruits, Crean: Bonbons, Ginger Wafers, Fruit Women’s All-wool Mittens, in TH «wv RBonhons t black, at 50c, 25¢, 1%¢ d from $15 to those at. H Cuts. Caramels and Strawberry bi y Eo ENC, AVE; Bll vy svas Sr Goods Department, Sections I If von purchase 95 or more pounds a ais pound boxes free. First floor, Section Midway. Glove Dept., ist floor, and J. opposite elevator, First floor. i. JPR a RA

A PRR Sections G and H IPP SS hd PUPPIES TSE SL oS Ba a I a a a I a a nant HE a hanna I 3 A Toy E 3 rium ted to Santa CI t 10,000 D Hdkfs. at, h, 000 Doz Hdkis. at, each, A Toy mpo icated to Santa Claus 0z. S. at, eac Zz. 11 3 £1 1 where t deautiful Dolls— Wonderful Mechanical Tovs—and 3% i N s thie 1 om R 1 nis 3 [ustruetive and Interes (ames bh play in this great Tov Drama. Great inroads cenis. IC id H Si t the tmas trade o ti o till choice Jomo i have heen made SN in istmas a 0) nere 1S Still enoles PK nny Ti is i abe it th 3 h: L h h e —a my ma 118 1s abou we quantity that we have left up to this We have sold twice that SuaniyLy up to Cn ra 3 for all. writing out of a purchase doubly as large. They are not the surely out of the ordinary elas of Rr i loth, and Tool Cl 19¢ 19-inch Kid Doll, with ordinary Handkerchiefs, but a line bought special for hey are made of fine sheer Swiss ane amnbre 5 a WOE i ine: wed wig and closing eses a 7yc H Xmas giving. They 111¢ lude plain hemstite hed, faney borders pe own in at least a seoreror more of designs in sealio) Ns 19 ery charming voung lady in various width hems, lace edges, little embroidered COITAyS i hemstitehed with embroidery edzes, lace edges, deep al a 13-inch Ju d Doll, with se wed i and mitials. They are all made of fine sheer eambrie. and st as good mm appeal H gE, closing eyes and pretiy tes i oro imshed as eorvectly s he nenal _ ace corners, and so on. They. are Ju 0 a 25 large b 10° emarkably prett young re are imshed as correcty as tage usual 10¢ quality. nee and for service as these vou pay and |24C Block B l 1adv. at i Speaal tomorroy and the balance of the Yuletide 5¢ ‘or. We box these in half-dozen lots at, Iron Cook fi 24-inch Santa Dell, with sewed wig 3 SHOPPE BE oc ite so DoT ve vn as aves a a td First Floor, Center Bargam Tables. utensil 1 h nd closing eyes; a regular $Y i First Floor, Center Bareain Tables. Bee ARR LE RE. ET TIS Mn Boys i 25-inch Hand-made Rag Doll, with x ey han a

2 0 charming thar the if 4 C 3 Umbrellas to Uive. Sy 49 gore ‘wiar an the §9 4g 1 eautiful Art Colored 3 n n 2 v TH Umbrella Men's and Women sizes Jifelike D E wn 2 d Ph 2.04 Union janet m We oi ow mam I O-inch Xpres OME nad ofo made with paragon frame and steel rod Jafge hi, om rls a ei 3 aril ravure pry of in vy and plain natural handles A $1.5 y i 0 A 1 sed by our Washing- ye brea. a! D 1 751 lelivery, from 32.98 down to. H J ictures Bn LA 3 0 oi f y i 2h Taffeta Umbrellas with case 2nd LJ complete line of Rocking :50 Fine Union Taf 1 steel ro ot! i match. made up with the usual paragon irain¢ ne Harun Co H with mar tail bridle, rs a mbracing every subject, such as fru ts. count les Ar natural-trimmed, bone €TIman Sabo of All require T marine serene Daria 3 N The handles are LT) iz0x have i on whicl \N/ A Inarme seenes, religious, sentine md comie ideas sterfing silver and pears. Ie usval £2 Umbre lla different gad t are copies of famous masters. They are all framed i h boxwood and fir handles A 4 E 1 ro Taran 29 high Grocery re com- eo Fi att y are ait iramed m fe a EARL ie if I J le vith drawers ount clerk reavy S-mn. gilt melding, finished with fi 12T0€ Corners At t a hundred different Kine of sterling s ilver an gold L _. 16 w }4 for pair y&t i are pietures that are pe sitively worth £1.50 eael Sh bout ad g p 1 N t JU handled Umbrellas for women made {from a all 1 or u 4 pportuamaiy to buy snch a he autitul present at s: Al ata his line we Baran B u hig with n i 1 J silk and yarn-dyed ma arial Ror v We od hy. 00 i Uprig! sot gts y he Hi i a httle pree has never been offered beim 8 t be dudil I 3) 15 the it tee to be a special that canno \Y, 15 t1 fo chonteiss 2... ooo, Cc price, viz. a 1 2 1 3 H Social line of Men's Umbrellas, mi de from Y $3 N a 0 Ne 4 Shih dies cu cd i J i he RP ad 1 taffeta th natural wood han- 4 oa So KX, a H tape-edge varn-dyed la, oy Offered at H cante ady e donned WwW. dles, trimmed Wi K tape-ediy i Ted 3 Coq. ho gO to a eS 0 ive. A 1 ortment of i mbrellas, with tap i iN Ph 3 X as cheap “25 arge As 1 n bY varnp-dye, and a wide range of wanilles 4. $0 0 hes, with eithe phenyl) i purnt ivory with heavy sterling live F Arm: inding 1 1Y L ron Safe ade wit} m me 1 each ang p ear i” These are $7 Umbrellas, whic h we offer a nation loc burglar-.proot. 1) ory v respec hose oa t 6.5 nings 0 APTN of “i yo 4 at $2 Qy al Umbrelia Dept.—First floor—Section J Ae z i 1 an on a W Se on wd in Ii Range, ma wa wom Solid Gold Watcehe vith Cza 0 y BE al] y na a 10Vements, EPPS BE SS PP hi a da 1 0 ank, 1 1 grat including 7 if the be Swiss work made with stemwir p= didi 3 3 2 i he 3 nsil the only and se Y Hy warranted. ple ho i 1 DON Th A 1 fier “su 50 Yuletide W aists. ori be sooke 398 oz. The 35 Kine afer, JU 3 Wy Wemen's Solid G Waiche i Brilliant Waist made of imported materia BR Dry th HH p 1.430 17-in i Ring Tes tand 3 MOV emer fully ra i to 3; au ha tiast button de effect ni hed hat one ma: ry gst H ime. with stemwinder an et i stitched larg peari buttons, 2 stiic hed siraps down tae Da fe $20. Offered at 3.8 i ha n ne large wa i p and Ev) ock and cuffs, lined throuzhout 1 bh t thousand or 3 Men's Solid Gold Og Ww atest yie STOCK «3 Thes a Wy 4 Th a il 1014 a a ©s {ne percaline, in cream and black BN 242 iffere inds of Toys in our I movement fully warranted 335 watch, offere tues which we offer tomerrov We i I artment—Fourth and Third 3 Re J )F Flannel Waists made of the best gual ‘A 0 a spe I ie 2 abs from Lg 1 y or made, with broad stitched ha te a th py a rd dit ht ote idles ii id at ie a BB Be Be Be BeBe Bele Be Be Bee ee Be Bee Ge BeBe BBB Be S 1 Silver Ch Sin Hey 4 a on 0 1 of 4 shoulder to the bust wh 9, 1 inl ray, I 4 F e parse x sik wie -y eht bine, eream D i ent cuffs, in hile lig! w V le Pa fe If P Pad 3 Solid Silver Chats Wa i “and black Ji ize 1 50 valu 3 4 of FIC Sil A r Ha rice. etter each wateh in a 1} aml i 2? slack Brilliantine Waists made of the hes th ron I i 150 Silvie Lea Deis y be n v dams voke effect. full blouse, trim ued With re os ATT Enamel W hes, each o 9 i 9 5 in Le maten a rd oF en {he {C- ra 3 lust ueking, ack Fat sd i blac) py (1 1 ol the jal arran’ed $7.50 Kind, f¢ Ne J rol it wit est quality y Tk _— Enamel! W h a enffz; lined Eroughon valu 05 4 of 1 nan vatehe as 1 h h ap 14 hes re $4 valu i facture He 4 caline: all sizes up 0 41 Ihe k 1 Bi Inder and setier nplets it i 3 Y E 4 OQ H fered at v special ofler wineh an nted lush cas for uO #t. finished C4 3 raffeta Silkk W ts, made of the be qualit Bei iya to UM v these H rem Gold-filled i Ltift 1 trimmed with fin graduated pin tUCKIng 1 fk oe omen, a s-yeéar guar eg Bil oli 150 with rows of hemsll ching cluster on the t at abo a pre Fac se B-& ed with New York st $5 50 for VOK© 2 ig 1 v ede mn ne Vi E E down the baci and sleev pet 3 y d Y d sali %l al o t £1 !a rock latest shape cuffs, lined wi h percaline Jil 4 i pt n to v 1 bh red reseda and Hav all 5 i wn Bow EER Ju I bt 1 A9 Mack s 1 0 U i fi J x clze8 85.50 values, of read H y re gilt 1 l Wo pe 14 1H De p Dime TJ Pes 1e Soie Waists, made of excellent 4 i Black Peau ae¢ i 1) 8 agoting M «mints a Ry men m hed material elaborately trimmed. with row £3 i og Ker ker W nished m rs Py nd cuf are 3 gd VER walcl ew and clusters of pil King n be 1 a rn —-o- a Ta a oh JE in Mush es The b i of ry onenwork to match; all size i 3 Hmm 3 x aa ARE EF ARIZ fh fh RCE ait Hal A A AYA Ea a at wan CNR v 5 3, a SL PAW 9 RATS <4 3 2B

es 2 ove SAE 2 ESN os AW pe \J Jd 5 Te a B ful Books to dive

eau Bal, duc 9 raved in the 2ift of a be ok i« a perpetual reminder of the donor. We have a most beautiful selection of gift books— J eh 1s po ayed dq 3 49C 3 an! a 4 kill —in contents— and in the bunes. Booss for both sexes—young and old. And prices are wondertully low. heantiful im meehameal sKul—m conte s ad y Eminent Actors in Their Homes, sketches of the greatest actors bi Books tor the Children. of (he \merican stage, with 20 illustrations from photographs taken H bh ornamental cloth binding, pro ly illustrated; especially for this book, pretty decorated cloth binding. Special at.. d Books of one syllable, With Ori} \ndersen's Fairy T#§, Bible Heroes, Beautiful Thought Series, comprising selections from the best authors, e choice of 12 tities, such as Aesop s Fables I wid amily Rebir handsomely beund in colored cloth, gola stamped, and photogravure of T Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels Life of hrist, aY ay Soe the author inlaid on the top. Such authors are incorporated in this 3 eon Crusoe, Renard the Fox Hgrim’s book as MacDonald, Gladstone, Drummond, and Emerson. Special at.... son, Sanford and Mertol Robin Th an be read mall rogrese. and Lives of the Presider AT Sein al ak r Wrist 3 children, as the words are all in one syllable. hoice tomor t With the Poets. n Poems by all the cherished writers, in leather, ooze, mo occo, and art d ORC 3 Children’s Books at aC. bindings. A choice selection of the world’s best poetry. in th most tasteful yd H SR hre styles and forms. b ie o tvpe and pretty pictures, su Fhree ok be Children’s Bock, With DE A a re n and Her Pig, Dafrrot and Dainty ooze-bound volumes, each in 2 neat box. such as Future Little Kittens, Five Little 4g Built. Mother Hubbard, and ot Choice Life. Rip Van Winkle, Literary Ethics, Gold Bug, The Powers of Pur Her Cat, The House That Jack Bul es pn pose, Lezend cf Sleepy Hollow, Ancient Mariner, Gray's Elegy, ete. TL MBL Non WY NEN yp ramen Choice at the special price of..... a al in vk ain RR a Se Renae AA ae Ss. moire in purse

v1.49 }2.98 av and Their Homes, Personal Descriptg™ hé Brigat- Two Cities (Henry Miller Edition, and The Three Musketecrs Authors of Our Day and views. edited b Francis hit Td (Charles O'Nc¢ill Edition). A photogravure frontispiece suitable i inlaid jew- esi and Lest Write Is. with Sarin p he orated cloth cove. =F 25 for framing is included in each book. Choice at..............ccc..n. jialey, with 16 full-page illustrations, A £2 e i Book Dept.—Third floor. {1 ag CAA Bl cess srr crnrsrsnsvssaarins Ba nant TELE SE det at BE BB Te a PUPS BY BS i Gh ta wilt pith ati oe PREPRESS ET Ee BB Be Be Be Re dis i i hii dnd Sal A i ai Christmas Bells Are Chiming ill stupendis showne of evervthing that bespeaks the holiday spit. We echo bac k the message oi a ii stupend do i A large we into rtinent lowest ich we fer ten ry one "Twas well we stocked up heav youl L 0 st As 2ouds, CTrWISe We We ule ave h q sold on davs av t 1 i i i Mm ma aed 1 H Wi 0 S 1 1s we shh Ve pl nt i 2 I headquarters tomorrow and the balanee ofthe week. There is something for each and all that will serve as acceptable gifts for men. VOUr Ss opping 1ea( qua i y Su a delieh ace mm whieh to take luneh during vour shopping hours. women. and ¢hildren. You will find om Grotto a dehzbtpl ph S ppm; 1%) s 1 SR JP td i dt EPR (PRPREPANPARPRSPD PSPSPS 5 Dees ee ee Be eee Pe Bee ee Pees Bre Bes Be es Be Ge OBB Be Bee y [PREPS SSS a Berl Be Bn Bunn Bice ool os rile cn Berle Bonde eB esl os Belo Beale Besos lies Be oll soll ss Bes los lon le ol sole cl oe lool ool acl oe th acd sell oe le ello oe ool ool os Belo &e Children’s Books at Sc. p big Red Riding These are illustrated and printed in big type B epiaiy sery Tal lolly Animals, Jack the Giant Killer, Robi Animale Wild Animals Jack and the Bean Stalk, etc 1 Leather-covered Poems in padded stamped leather. Two sizes beautiful clear type, full gilt edges, gilt side and front stamping, each book Wd, Nur- m= boxed. These comprise all the famous poems. The large siza is T9¢ omestic and the handy size at The Landscape Edition of Prose and Poetry, pretiily bound in embossed land Merry escape covers, such titles as ldylls of the King, Robert Brewning's Poems, 49C h Mr 1)C Golden Treasure, Lady of the Lake Little Minister, and Evangeline. 1 Pretiy Books for Children that re pr fusely Hiwste ted, Christmas, A, B, C. Cock Robin, inderell Yanks ood e Duck Aladdin, Blue Beard, Children in the Woods, af las. Little Soldier Boy, All About Sapia Claus, «i Books for the Older Folk: desirable icho Choice at. ic} Popular Plays. Pretty illustrated volumes that are lavishly illustrated and nicely bound. of popular plays, such as Under Two Flags (Blanche Bates “ditioa), A Tale of PIPPI STE SL i i dil a i sais ami TT TOT TOT TET TET TT TT TF ST JSS YA SS SS" 0 Al BBs Bil Bs BBB Bll BBB ees Bee Benes Bes les Ber Benes Be THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1702. So Gloves to Uive. You should exercise care in the selee tion of your “gift” Gloves. The best makers supply us, which is a guarantee in itself that our Gloves always give satisfaction. We've a royal display of Gloves for holiday buying, and box them free of charge. Women's Washable Glace Kid Gloves, real French skins, with 2-clasp, pigue sewn, Paris point stitched and gusseted flugers, in white, pearl, mode, beaver, gray, and tan. These Gloves are clean ed readily with soap and water applied with a sponge or a piece of all-wool flannel. Price, per J PREE. ovis sanss ssn ans cnniisnnans The “Valier” Real French Glace Kid Gloves, in black only, 3-clasp, Paris point stitched backs, best workmanship and perfect fit ting. Special price, per pair. “Fownes” 2-clasp Real Kid Gloves, best English make, in black and En glisl: reds, pique sewn, Paris point stitched, gusseted fin- 1 5 gers. Special, per pair...... The “Beauty” 3-clasp Real French Kid Gloves, in black, white, pearl, mode, gray, tan, brown, and red, gusseted fingers, Paris etat fof stitched backs. Special, 1 JV The “Peerless” 2-clasp Real French Lambskin Gloves, in black, white, ana all colors, our own importa tion, a reliable, well-fitting 1 glove. Special price, per pair “Fownes'~ 2-clasp English Walking Gloves, in tans and reds, i$ Nn nobby street glove. Special (0 Price, Por PREF. co. codons rede: 1-clasp Walking Glove, Prix seams, Paris point stitched backs, gusseted fingers. Per 00 padre $1.00 anf... cise s Jd-clasp Suede Kid Gloves, in black, mode, and ear O1 00 Special, per pair, at $1.29 and A full line of the celebrated “Foster” Lacing Xid Gloves, in black) white and colors; in thr “$1 00 qualities—at $1.75, $1.50 and. The latest French novelty—the real “Kangaroo” Skin Walking Gloves, Pi que sewn, Paris point stitch, self and white stitched; in gray, mode, and beaver. Complete with one large pearl slisp. 1 50 Special, per pair, at.......... Oue-metal-and-peati-clusp Mocha Walking Gloves, in black, gray, mode, tan and brown. 1 0ij Per pair, $1.50, $1.35, and..... Evening Suede Kid Gloves, in all iengths—12, 16, 20, ard 24 buttons: in black and white, 00 $3.50, $3.00, $2.50 and.......... 16-button-length in Glace Real Kid Gloves, black and $3 00 white. Special at, pair....... Women's All-wool Golf Gloves, black, white, mode, gray, and red, per pair, Toc, 50c, 39¢c, 250 BEIM suis os nainiossionsensiionsen ns Women's Black Cashmere Gloves, 2-clasp; all sizes. 25C Special at 75¢, 50e, 39%¢, and..... Women’s All-wool Mittens, in 15€ black, at 50c, 25¢, 1%¢, and...... Glove Dept., 1st floor, Sections G and H

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bain tm. The Washington Times, “0 WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902. Dristmas in the Shelter of daAdount St. Sepulchre

of the Nativity. i Alta Vzrrrrzzer Nerrsasrersr 277: we 22700800 22/877y Ld Cl es I Ae Annunciation Altar. and poor alike, possesses a marvelous power. Before it walls of strongly cemented brick, structures of hewn stone, or weather-beaten, storm-stained wood, become as though they were not. The spirit of the season passes through them, one and all. Iv” walks in mansions where ancient tapestries line its path onfeither hand, and the rarest of rugs from the looms of the mystic, spice-scented East feel the impress of its invisible feet; it breathes a warmth in the home of the laborer, and in even the solemn shadows of tht cloister its laughter breaks the rule of zilence and its merriment resounds in the habitation of prayer and meditation. By a strange link, wrought in the wonderful smithy of chance and coinci dence, a link extending far over seas and through a lapse of nineteen hundred years and more, Washington is bound to the scene of that first Christmas in Bethlehem of Judea. For in the Holy Night now drawing near, the ceremo nies to be celebrated at the Church of the Nativity in the city “which is called the city of David” will find a reproduction in only one place in the world—the Franciscan Chapel of the Hely Land, at Mount St. Sepulchre, in Brookland. There, where a facsimile of the Grotto beneath the Basilica at Bethlehem ex ists, the services duplicating those at the original shrine will be held. They were instituted by the Very Rev. Godfrey Schilling, and have been held year ly, with the exception of last year, when, owing to certain unavoidable circum stances, it was found pecessary to omit them. A Season of Great Joy. Christmas, in the shelter of convent walls, i= indeed a season of great joy, Its coming bas been long looked forward to, and perhaps this expectancy has been heightened by the severe period of fasting which. in the Franciecan Order, precedes the Feast of the Nativity, for, after all, monks are human, even through they be Friars Minor. Frem All Saints until Christmas Day, with the exceptions only of the inter vening Sundays, strict fasting and abstinence has been observed. In the patois of the cloister it is what is called a “black fast.” The name in itself is sufficient ly suggestive. The celebration of ihe day is not confined te those services and devotions in the churca in which the public generally has a share. For a time the shackles of discipline and the strict rules of the convent are relaxed, and the community proceeds to enjoy itself in the manner ordained by tradition and sanctioned by decorum. One\who dwelt for a time in the beautiful structure crownivg the hill cailed Mount St. Sepuichre—the cluster of buildings which i= the life-dream of Father Godfrey, made manifest in enduring brick and stone and marble—may 1 the story of Yuletide there better than an outsider who hears it inaccurately, and sec ond-hand at best The account here given has come from one who for a while was one of those living beneath the shelter of the monastery roof, in the calm and quiet of its silent cells and corridors. Coen season, bringing its tidings of joy into the hearts of rich HE preparations have been many C and exacting, and above all tiring. To say nothing of the annual preparing for the fast of the birth of the Christ-child, the sadden ed services of advent, typifying a world in the shadows of darkness, yet thrilling with the hope and expectancy of the Messiah's coming, the fasting and pray ers, there are many other things that must be looked after. Matms will be sung solemnly between the hours of 1)

and 12 o'clock on Christmas F ending Just in time for the solemn high mass, which will begin at midnight. For this office, as well as for the mass itself, there has been much rehearsing of music,

True, only the Gregorian chant is used, and plain song sounds simple wher it is heard. It is nel easy, though, as any one will find who iries to school twenty or thirty untrained or partially trained voices into the mysteries of its rhythms and cadences. Whoever knows music ui dersiands this. To those who do not, it merely suffices to say that Gregorian can only be very good or very bad, There is no middle ceurse. It must be exact or else it is wretched. WJ There are other songs to be rebearsed, too, and besides these the younger students have been, with a great air of mystery, learning speeches and a drama tized allegory, with which to surprise and entertain later. And as our amuse ments are not many, we do not seek to know too much regarding these secret preparations. It is better to be surprised. II

The learning of songs is not the end. Altars must be decorated; the grotto of Bethlehem made ready, the church bheau tified for the occasion. Some of the brothers go out on the farm .and fel] cedars, tall, stately evergreens so ap propriate to the season, or to Lhe nearest woodlands in search of ber ry-laden holly branches. The fair est blossoms the extensive green houses can afford, hurried to midwinter maturity under the fostering care of Brother Egidius—who has seen Christ mas in the Holy Land—have been gath ered (o be used in enriching the high altar, the altar of the nativity, the altar of the Magi and the Place of the Manger [11 Much to Be Done. Much else has been done. The sin. dents have had to finish their ¢xamina tions, and the clerics theirs. In the Kitchen, even amidst the serving of a diet truly Lenten in character, there has been the cooking of dainties fc; the morrow, and Brother Christopher who rules the domain of the bakeshop has made his ovens fragrant with the sspieces of cakes and cookies and the “fruit loaves” of the Vaterland. Busy algo has been the brother who is sacristan. He has been polishing up his finest candelabra, such as are kept ip reserve for great occasions. He prides himself on the maaner in which he ar. ranges his altar lights, and his decora tive scheme has been a matter of long study. It is early Christmas Eve. Contes. sions have been heard, and the dimly lit corridors are silent; it is scarce i o'clock, yet not even the clatter of

sandal is heard aloag the flooring cf cement. The night will be a long one, and it is better to get a little rest, We will need it. FEW minutes berore cleven the clanging of a handbell awakens us. Ding! dong! it resounds as in the hands of a brother it passes the rows of celis. We rise sleepily and go to’ the refectory, where there are steaming pots of chocolate and plates piled high with crisp, tasty zwiback. We munch and drink, with hearty enough appetites, yet in haste, for the time is brief. Now the chimes ring out, clanging sharply in the wintry night. We must hurry. It is time the procession was formed. Robing for the Celebration. The sacristy is quickly thronged. Stu dents, who are members of the third order, and wear the habit on stale ve casions only, are robing: the celebrant and his assistants, the deacon and the subdeacon, are vesting for matins, and the minor officers at the altar are slip ping on their surplices. The crucifer stands with the cross, ready to head the procession. In one corner the thwrifer is swinging the censer to and fro to coax the newly ignited charcoal into a glow. Now the organ’'s tones are heard, echoing and re-echoing among the beau tiful arches copicd from the church of the Holy Wisdom—Santa Sofia—in Con stantinople. It is time. The procession enters the church. There are benches about the altar fo: the community. Standing with bende heads, the introductory prayers are said —*“Our Father,” *Yail Mary,” and the Creed—then the celebrant intones, “cla. ra voce,” according to the rubries: “Domine labia mea aperies’”’—0O Lord open my lps And the reply is taken up by the choir in a mighty chorus: “Et os meum annuntiabit landan

tuam”—And my mouth shail show forth Thy praise. Thus the office of matins proceeds with its psalms, canticles, and versicles:; with ite prayers and lessons, the prophecies of Isaiah, the sermon of St. Lec on the Nativity, the homilies of St. Cregery, of St. Ambrose, and of St. Augustine. The “Te Deum” is chanted, the orations com pleted; it is midnight. Merrily the chimes ring. now. Two candles sufficed for the mating, jut soon the altar becomes a bower of lights and flowers. The tapers on the otner altars are kindled and the church, which has been steadily filling, is crowded. At the epistle side of the altar the celebrant is laying aside his cope and purring on the chasuble, and the deacons vest them selves ip their dalmatics. They go to the altar; they bow. The mass has be gun, At the “Gloria in Excelsis™” the chimes are heard again, clanging madly as though in an ecstasy of joey. Little ‘belle of silver, taken from side altars, tinkle in response until the chant is completed. The “Adeste Fidelis.” At the offertory—and it could not be otherwise—is sung the ‘“Adeste Fidelis.” "Tis years since this was in the missal. 1t is one of the old sequences which has Jong since lost its official character. Yet a Christmas without the song whose very tune is redolent of the season! urely, it would be next door to a heresy. The smell’ of incense fills the air. The sacring bells tinkle; the chains of swing. ing censers clink. The solemn ceremony poves on, step by step, to its close. Now the benediction is given, the priests leave the altar. But all is not over yet. Candles are brought in and distributed to everyone brothers and laity. The celebrating priest, who is Father Godfrey, exchanges the chasuble for the cope, and a pro cession is formed, two by two, headed by the cross bearer and his attending (acolytes. At the rear is the celebrant with deacon and subdeacon on eithe: The Place of the Manger. hand. The thurifer, with a censer, walks before the trio of priests.

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In his arms the celebrant bears a pil low of satin, rich "ith lace and ribbons, in the midst of wh ch reposes a smiling wax image of the iufant Saviour. Slowly the procession moves around the church to the entrance of the Bethlehem Grotto, and down the stairways that lead to the crypt.

2s 2. lh a pa This place reproduces, in all save the richness of the surrouadings and the vast multitude of votive lamps and heavy tapestries, the Grotto at Bethle hem as it appears at this day. At one ena, between the two spiral stairways, is the place of the Nativity, marked by a silver star, with the Latin words: “Hic de Virgine Maria Jesus Christus natus est.” (“Here Jesus Christ was born of Virgin Mary."”) To one side. at the right hand, and dewn two steps, is a rock-hewn manger, where the Child was placed. Opposite it, scarce a pace away, is the altar of the Wise Men, the Magi who saw, knew, ang tallowad the Star of Bethlehem. Paint ings, hung tapestry-wise, commemorate the event. In the Grotto. The procession has descended, and the {grotto is filled. The officiating priest with the waxen figure of the Babe is his arms, faces the altar of the Na. tivity; the deacon incinses the Book o the Gospels, and begins (0 intone ths gospel of the first mass of Christmas which is said in the night. This gospe is taken from the second chapter of St Luke, and starts: “Exiit edictum a Cesare Augusto, ui describeretur universus orbis”'—* Ther: went forth a decree from Caesar Au gustus that all the world should bs taxed.” At the words “and she brought fort] her first-born son” the pillow and th Infant are laid on the silver star. The deacon continues, “and wrapped Hin in swaddling clothes” —here the figure i taken up by the celebrant—"and lai: Him in a manger.” The image of th Child is placed on the straw of the erib and the story of His birth is sung to it completion. Each act has been done as in Bethle hem, with but a slight difference—th: difference of a word. There, at the ac ‘ual place of the Nativity, the word of the gospel are changed; they read

“And here she brought forth——" —*“and here laid Him in a manger.” rr Once more the “Gloria in Excelsis” is sung. The air in the crowded crypt, ‘warmed by the fiames of the candles held in the hand of every worshiper, grows hot and oppressive. The fumes of incense form a redolent cloud above our heads. Prayers are recited, Christmas songs sung in German and Faoglish. Again the procession forms and returns to the church above. More Masses.

The cross-bearer leade direct to the sacristy. There are two more masses yet to be said by the celekrant—for every priest celebrates thrice on this one day of the year. Attended by a server, he goes back to the Bethiehem crypt, and some Jingerers in the church and many of the community follow. Some are more wearied, and retire at once. There iz no need two wait; the com munity received holy communion at the high mass. In the sacristy “Merry Christmas” is exchanged, greetings are showered every where, and hands are shaken. Them come half-sleepy good-nights, and we realize what a splendid thing is lumber, after all. RISTIYAS MORNING! It 's stin dark and a winter blast rattles the window frames. The day be gins much as usual. Lauds are said in choir, with a low mass at o'clock. We breakfast at 7. The fare is the usua; ting at this meal—co¥ee and bread, and, as it is a feast day, here is butter, too. Masses are going on all the morning, and at 9 comes the second high celebra tion. When it ends the recreation rooms are sought, or a few minutes’ rest is taken—for the “little hours’ must be said in choir between 11 o'clock and noon. The community is “free” today, and there are many visitors—professors from the Catholic University, benefactors of the monastery, acd other male (riends. There is no restriction on conversa tion, and laughter holds the Xeys of the house. Noon finds the community at table in the refectory. All are there. Even the (Continued on Sccond Page)

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world has developed in that mysterious realm known as “shop ping.” In these December days, when the air is sharp and nip ping, with a keen taste of winter in every breeze that blows, throngs seek the stores of the city, great and small, with one common pur pose in mind. The Christmas spirit is the great leveler of rank. It knows neither wealth nor poverty. To it rich and poor are but names withon® sig nificance. The true spirit of the Christmas season recognizes only hearts re plete with happiness and good will, overflowing with hearty generosity. This Christmas throng is a peculiar one. There is no other like it. During the brief time of its reign it produces a species of humanity that would bring about the millennium in short order if it were to be found in the work-a-day world for a twelve-month. These people whose hearts are dedicated to Christmas have joy on their lips and good will in their eyes, They are wonderful beings, and busy. 0, so busy! They labor, almest from dawn to the fall of night, but with them it is a labor of love. They

W ITH Christmas and Santa Claus in the immediate future a new The story of Christmas, of that first ‘Christmas, is old, so old that it need not be repeated here. Yet the very name brings to mind that wondrous,

g star, the wise men seeking the One who was to be King of Men, the shepherds to whom the revelation of hidden things was given, the cattle kneeling reverently in the stillness of the boly night, and the Child, the little Child, sets in the midst of mankind. saining

And it is this story, sweet with the memories of older centuries, that thrills in the air as the busy shoppers go to and fro in the bustling world that they have made their own. Their own? Bless me, forgot that good saint who claims a share, ad no small share either, of the merry Yuletide and its many joys. old Saint Nicholas, known to childish tongues as Santa Claus, patron of all prancing reindeer and weli-filled stockings, mysterious climber of impos sible chimneys, how could anyone forget his share in all this that the season brings forth. They are contradictory, these shoppers of Christmas. They are at once a democracy and an aristocracy. If you are not of them, then woe betide you. They will crowd you out of the deep thronged aisles, away from the laden counters. But if you are of their fra ternity, if you bear in your countenance the signs and tokens only the approach of Christmas can bestow, then it is in deed well with you.: They may crowd and jostle about you, but never is the word of reproach heard, never does the frown of discontent gather on their brows. You are of the mystic brother hood of the holly and mistletoe, and they know fit. The Christmas shopper is different from all other shoppers. The others buy from necessity, or to please themselves, but the buyer who comes forth at this time of the year buys for the happiness of others. It is at this time of the year, too, that the little folks help swell the sidewalk throngs, anxious for a look at the pretty things spread before their eyes in the store windows, and, most wonderful of all, the marvels of toyland there dis played. To many tots whose ill-clad little forms shiver as they press closer to ‘he plate glass wall between them and the playthings so temptingly shown these views are like the visions of some old Arabian siory, to be treasured up and talked about for months to come. Others, more fortunate, to whom these toys are not merely names of things possessed by some one else, select this thing or that as a geutle hint to Canta Claus, One Great Fraternity. Their hearts are flowing over with good will, those of the Christmas crowd. No one knows this better than the beg gars who place themselves more and more in evidence as the season advances. Students of human nature always, they know that the sight of infirmities, real or pretended, must touch a responsive chord somewhere in the hearts of those who, hale*and hearty, are hurrying storeward or homeward.

Mingle with the army of shoppers that is out now fronr day to day. Place your self on its firing line—at the counters of the big stores. If you did not know what the season means, you will when you return. You will know also that it means an infinitude of trouble. pleas ant trouble, of course. There are no end of puzzles to be solved, perplexing prob lems rise up at every minute, at every turn. The oft-repeated question is, What to buy for her? or what to buy for him? It is repeated again and again in the course of the day, yet, in spite cf their perplexities, they seem to have lots of fun out of it. And, now, street corners and flower stands bloom out as though a summer had come about in the very middle of winter. Holly bows, bright with red ber ries, are seen where the chrysanthemum lately reigned in state, 2nd sundry old women appear at the curbstones with baskets of the dainty branches. Deft fingers fashion them into wreaths and stars and other emblems suitable to the season, and they find ready purchasers and still more admirers, who pause for a moment and then pass on. Mistletoe is seem, 100, cuiled in distant swamy, MAS CROWDS INVADE THE STREETS AND STORES. 2 Shoppers at Seventh and F Streets. or sometimes brought from its oaken shelter in some ancient forest of Eng land. And, then, there is the Christmas tree. If you are a novice at this, you will soon find that there is much more to it than merely providing the tree. The stores will help you out if you go to them. There are hosts of glittering tinge! bau bles, brightly colored and bearing re semblance to nothing under the sun; there are flags of gilt and silver, trans parent cornucopias, ropes and ropes of popcors, and candles of all the hues of the rainbow. Though the Christmas crowds go forth to buy, they are sightseers as well, ang perhaps more so than the usual shop ping sisterhood. There are so many things to be seen, and we must see them all before a cheice can be made, Prices differ, too. The true shopping instinct demands that all these particulars be secured before a purchase be made. Young folks, in their early teens, whose purses have been stocked with Christmas spending meney, form a goodly THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. portion of these crowds. It is a delight to them to be able to go unattended to buy gifts for their elders. No super vision of “grown-ups now. Christmas crowd at Pa. Ave. and has, for the time being, set them free from the weight of that yoke. The youngsters travel in twos and threes. They are not slow to express ‘admiration of whatever strikes their fancy, though their “Oh’s” and “Ah’s” of delight often give place to notes of disappointment when the price of the object is made known to them. The buying of gifts is a serious matter to these small people. They have been planning for months ahead what to get for sister, for brother, for aunt and un cle, for father and mother. There are 80 many to be remembered, and Christ. mas “allowances” are not always of princely proportions. There is much economy to be observed, to say nothing of diplomacy sufficient to equip a whole ambassadorial suite. Difficulties of the Men, Man, “mere man,” is not by nature a shopping animal when the temperate zone is reached. In the tropics it is dif ferent; everything is different there The customers of the Eastern bazaars are mostly masculine, and the fair in mates of harems must have goods brought to their homes for their inspec tion. But just now it behooves the head of the family to do a little purchasing “himself. The man who goes forth to a drygoods store has no path of roses before him, In the first place, his own conscience smites ‘him. He feels guilty, and he is sure that his guilt is labeled on his countenance in livid characters. He loses his courage, and is jostled to the rear. He is in the way and he knows it. Young folks tread upon his toes, older people crowd him back from the counters, the saleswomen ignore him. They lopk over him, beyond him, through him, everywhere but at him. Secks the Jeweler's Shop. The wise man, if his pocketbook be well-lined, secks refuge in the only har ‘bor open to mankind and buys jewalry. He may be cheated and his presents cost more, but on the whole he feels that it is worth paying for. Jewelers’ places are seldom uncomfortably crowded, and the clerks are men. An Avenue Crowd.

But man, under a feminine convoy, has other uses in the Christmas crowd. He is brought along, inwardly rebelling, a very traitor at heart, to pass judgment lon this present or that. Not that his opinion bears any weight. He knows that and it is one reason why he feels like an insarrectionist. If his opinions are not heeded, the male creature can still carry bundles, and he is made to do it. At the hour when the throngs begin to turn their faces toward the supper table one sees at every hand men laden down with par cels and boxes of all kinds and sizes, as though they were old Santa himself, or were about to set up an opposition to all CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS AT MOUNT ST. SEPUI CHRE

‘students, lay teachers, and postulants, who have dining rooms of their own, gather in a body on this occasion. din the center of the big room stands a Christmas tree—a huge fellow, all a glitter with tinsel and balls of colorad glass. Festoons of evergreens drape the walls and the chandeliers. A touch of humor Is displayed before the seat of the father superior, for there,

REAging head downward, with a candle ing merrily on the tip of its tail, is a “stock fish""—a dried cod, serving as a grim re minder of the late fast.

Grace is said and the good things to eat arg brought in. There is almost everything, and plenty of that every thing for everybody. All the Christmas “traditionals’ are included. Silence is dispensed with and the chatter of con Addressing a versation mingles with the clatter of knife and fork. At the end of the meal the piano is rolled into the room. There are songs ai carols for nearly an hour. Then the rest of the afternoon is “free” until the hour of the solemn vespers. The ‘matins and lauds for the next day are sald at the customary time, and supper is at 7, as usual. At 8 we return to the refectory. The colored candles on the tree are lighted, and the Christmas entertainment is be gun. One student makes an address in Latin, another in Greek, a third speaks in German, the next in French. An Eng lish address follows, and then one who is preparing for the Holy Land deliv ers an oration in classical Arabic. Carols and German folk-song are in terspersed between these, and theca the boys present their “miracle play,” a sim ple drama of the first Christ pas. Som of the brothers show their skill at the piano, others with violin or man olin. There is much laughter and hearty applause. Cigars have been cir culated freely and now the tin mugs, {Continued from First Page.) the established express companies of the country, At the Candy Counter. The candy counter is one shrine at which all Christmas buyers must pay their devoirs. If you would be served you must wait, for now sweets are in demand, and the crowd here is as thick as space will allow. Everybody eats candy at Christmas. rezardless of teeth and toothache. A Christmas without candy would be as great a heresy as a Christmas without a plum pudding or a Thanksgiving day that knows no turkey. In ail the bustle of this store-filling, bundle-carrying crowd, in its conversa tion heard on every hand. there is some thing contagious, something catching. It would be a cold heart that did not feel touched by the kindly glow everywhere experienced, even though it did not know what the 25th of December was. The secret is not hard to find. One word holds it: Christmas. porcelain-lined, are filled, beer for the monks, cider for the boys. It is time for “Christmas presents.” ~The rule of poverty practically pro hibits the giving of anything costly. The presents are often grotesque, for the ob Jeet is to get as much Te of them as possible. Each is wrapped la a package, the larger the better, and a package winbered. In one bex the names of all the members of the com. munity are placed, each written ¢1 a separate slip of paper, while in another are slips contairimg numbers.

Numbers and names are drawn simul taneously; he whose name is drawn with “No. 10” receives the Jickage, labeled le Ho ge bandbox.. when opened there are many wrappings within. These are undone with difficulty, amid roars of laughter, for it is a teacher who has received the present. At length, after much toil, the kernel of the nut comes to view. A cake of soap! The merri ment becomes louder, and other pres ents are drawn. The packages are deceitful. An in significant one may contain a gold “crusader’s badge" or a mother-of-pearl inlaid crucifix from Jerusalem. Every one serves to add to the fun. More songs follow. The hands of the clock grow near to 16 -a monstrous hour! The father superior raps for or der; we rise; “Holy God; We Praise Thy Name” is the closing so~g always at a “Caudeamus” and we sing it now. We shake hands again, and once more voice the greetings of the season. A few minutes later the house is in sil ence. All are sleeping. Christmas has come and gone. FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE

Book collectors are eagerly looking forward to the for‘lcoming issue of tha first folio edition of Shakespeare, in collotype facsimilie. Relatively few per gons are aware, however, of an interest« ing circumstance relating to the original folio, lent by the Duke of Devonshire for the purpose of being closely copied. The volume once belonged to the famous Duke of Roxburghe, at the sale of whose library in 1812 it realized te then extra ordinarily high sum of £1%. Dr. Dibdin repeats a siuguar story about its purchase some years previous ly by the duke. A friend was bidding for him, and his grace retired to one end of the salesroom, quietly to view the issue of the contest. The biddings rose rapidly to 20 guineas. A slip of paper was hand ed to the duke, counseling him not to continue the contest. With a coolness ‘that would have done credit to Prince Eugene, he wrote on the same slip of ‘pape by way of reply: “Lay on, MacDuff, And d—a be he who first cries: ‘Hold, enough!" Such asspirit was irresistible, and bore down all opposition. The duke was, of course, declared the victor, and ha marched off triumphantly with the vcl ume uader his arm. The price paid ia said to have been 34 guineas, a third of the amount for which the book sold in i812. Today a really fine copy is worth £1800 A Salvation Army “Pot.”

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ER THE WASHINGTON TIMER STTVDAV DFOTMDLID 51 1005 HOW the Men Shut Up in the Dreary Mining Camps Celebrate Christmas. (Cana in the Klondike! Christmas in that far-away corner of the globe that is so completely walled off from the rest of the world by frozen streams and mountains of ice and snow, almost im penetrable in the winter season! One can scarcely conceive of Santa Claus M——————————————— THY a LY a hardly a one of us bit carried w 3 ring t hat fs ut-of-the- arr nim memories o t andering off into that far out-of-th 27 |X nemorie f other CO} hams ad wandering off into that far outofthe way spot with his reindeer and pack. 9 7 Yet he does get there—on schedule time, too—and he loses nothing in the Journey. For the boys find in his visit as much solid enjoyment as do the chil dren of fortune with their costly gifts in their warm and elegant homes in Washington or New York.

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Not Too Poor for a Saloon. But distinctly the feature of the day is the festivity attending the consump tion of the Christmas supply of ‘“red eve.” Christmas comes but once a year, #nd the population In every town and camp takes advantage of this fact. No community iz the Klondike region is too poor to have its saloon. And it is here that the eatire settlement gathers to “tank up”-—to use the mining camp ex pression for the process 6f becoming ob ilvious to sorrow and care. The saloon, ever the center of the so cial world in these mining tcwns, be comes doubly attractive to the populace A to tent \LONDINE MINERS HAVE A JOLLY TIME AT YUL FTIDE BY THOMAS EDWIN GRANT. giving vent to their feelings in the rough-and-tumble games and amuse. ments of their boyhood days. Sa Te LT AAT TE. L I well remember how about forty of us spent Christmas Day in tha little town of Grand Forks, compietely cut off from all communication with even the nearest towns and camps. Grand Forks is a typical little mining town, comprising a group of log cabing and a few tents, nestied in a hollow between the mountains. Then it was a large ‘collection of tents and half a dozen log cabins. It was shortly after the great rush to the Klondike gold fields. We had intended to pull out and go over to Dawson City to spend Christ mas, for we knew the good old event would be celebrated royally there. But 4 genuine blizzard set in just a couple of days before. It snowed as it only can snow in the Klondike; and on top of that the wind blew a regular gale, Pretty soon we saw that it was all up with us. so far as attending the festivi ties in Dawson was concerned. For be fore twenty-four hours had passed, we were quite securely blocked in. And the way the wind was thrashing those flakes of snow about was a caition. The snow was drifting into huge banks up against the cabins and tents, and we saw that before long we would he un pble to get out at all And it was Christmas Eve! There in the holiday season. Here, clustered about a roaring fire the “boys’ spend the day, playing cards, telling yarns, or singing. In towns of larger size, where a dance bhaii is not lacking, the fun is unlimited. And genuine fun it is, too: the natural cropping out of the spirits of a healthy sturdy lot of men wl.o, cut off entirely from the conventionalities of life, are not in the least reluctant in Christmas in a Mining Camp. was hardly a one of us brit carried with him memories of other Christmases spent at home, where everything was: warm and snug and happy. Then we thought of ourselves, snowed up tight in that God-forsaken wilderness, with nothing to remind us of those other days ‘Save merely the remembrance that the morrow was Christmas. And so we put our heads together then and there, and decided that we would “have a Christ mas or bust.”

That evening three of the boys bun dled up in their furs and high topped boots, and, armed with a couple of ases, trudged off through the blinding Snow. They did not go far, for no living thing could have endured long in that biliz zard. it was only a few minutes be fore they came struggling back, carry ing a small tree or what was hardly more than a bush. But we were thank ful to see it—it was to be our Christmas tree. We decided to set it up in “Big Jim's” cabin, and hold the festivities there, “Big Jim” came by the prefix to his name by reason of his being the largest man in the camp. An. like the indi vidual, his cabin was the most spacious in the “ulding settlement of Grand Forks. A Tree for the Boys. It proved a pretty hard job getting that tree into the cabin, and getting t set up to our satisfaction, collective ly and individually, but the job was finally accomplished. And then came he task of trimming the thing to make t look lke Christmas bush should, We did not have anything suitable for THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1902. g 2 B

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‘ple of red and blue flannel] shirts from the crowd. We cut these up into litile patches and hung them on the branches of the tree for ornaments, Then we hung up our revolvers and knives. I must admit that the finished product was not what might strictly be termed handsome. But, ucvertheless, it served its purpose. The weapons were shiny. Aud the bits of red and blue flannel add ed an aspect of color to the thing. It was an easy matler to persuade our felves that it was “Just as swell as any thing the boys over in Dawson would have.” And that was all that was neces Sarv.

3 CR Celebrated Ahead of Time. At any rate we were a happy lot. No youngster, looking forward with a child's anticipation to Christmas, could have experienced keeper delight than we sea toned, sturdy men. Way up in that des clate part ¢f the werld, shut off from ail other human beings, we gladly snatched at the slightest thing that of fered a respite from the monotony. The next day it was still snowing terrifically, and it was with difficulty that we struggled over to “Big Jim's" shanty. But we reached there, never theless. That is to say, a!l of us whe were abie to get ont at all. A good many of the boys nad been privately celebrat Where Xmas Is Celebrated in Cans, Santa Claus, With His Reindeer and Pack, Journeys Even fo the Far North, ore 0)

ing the joyful event ‘ne night previous, and had already so far succumbed to the joys of the occasion as to be unable to crawl forth. A number of the others were on the sick list. However, about half the population of the camp was on hand. Never before in my life did I spend a

Christmas that I enjoyed so thoroughly as that—and really I never expect to in the future. There was something in the very atmosphere that made .s miners mere schoolboys again. We were de termined to make the best of the situa tion. And we did. An Orchestra of Their Own. One fellow had managed to get hoid of an old fiddle in Dewson City a few weeks before. And what did it matter that he only kaew how to play “Home, Sweet Home,” and the chorus of one other catchy little air He played them over and over untill he was scarcely able to move the bow across the strings; and we sang until! pretty nearly every note ran together. Two of the other boys had mouth organs as well. That they were in different keys did not matter the least bit—the result was just as enjoyable to us, We had brought in enough wooed to keep up a rearing fire on the rudely built hearth, Outside the snow was banked completely up to the roof on two sudes of the cabin, which added considerably to the warmth of the place. We didn't care who was President. As night closed in about the camp we decided to add stil! anot¥er glor: to the occasion. Jim had a few candles on hand, aud, cutting these up into half lengths, we fastened them on the tree as best we could and lit them. But here the trouble began. It All Went Up in Smoke. Somekow-—none of us ever knew ex- wily how it happened—one of the candles wt fire te the tree. And before we knew t the tree had set fire to the eabin. i (here was not enough water to fight the But the big fellow never seemed to mind in the least being burned out. He really appeared to regard his misfortune in the light of a Christmas gift to the boys of the camp. But that was always his way; he was 2 man, every inch of him. That is a country that turns out men. But those good old days are pretty well changed now. The onward march of progress has stretched forth its hand even into the Klondike region. Now there are electric lighted towns, with big dapce halls and even theaters. There are quite up-to-date siores, were the miners purchase Christmas gifts with as much ease as the residents of any other part of the globe. And there are a good num ber of women 'in the Territory now, whose presence and hands lend a touch of feminine delicacy to everything that is done. But Christmas in the Kiondike is, revertheless, still celebrated with a good leal of the old spirit that makes the -vent so memorable to all who have ever par ticipated in the unique festivities. RIGHT ARM MOST HURT dents are far more likely to occur to the right arm and leg than te the left. Further evidence of this fact is supplied by the makers of artifi cial limbs; they dispose of many more appendages to the right side of the body than to the ether. Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. ey indicates that aceci blaze with, and it spread with startling rapidity. The gale fanned it furiously. It was only a few moments before we realized that the place was doomed. There was no help for it. High as the spow was outside, we all turned in and helped move Jim's belongings to our own shanties. And—well, when the thsw came, there was nothing for us to do but turn in and help Jim build a new cabin, You Calne Things Are Better Now.

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Pe— caviare to the general; but it was an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set fown with as much modesty as cunning. Theee are Hamlet's words, and they will be spoken at the National Theater! this week with singularly graceful and appropriate emphasis. But they must sound to dozens of capable players like a chiding from their consciences as fa miliar as the Doxelogy, and tell a story for nearly every actor now alive—a story of success for a few, of the hard cst kind of failure for the others. For the “professicn’” is a hard master. About cne mean in ten enacts the roles to which his heart inclines. The nine find themselves shoved into uninviting, eften dietasteful, parte. The ingenue aims at Camille; the adventuress would be Celia: the low comedian looks wistfully after Hamlet: the juvenile reads Ibsen and Maeterlinck. Nearly every company pre sents the same condition to the eye—it is a combination of potential geniuses diverted into uncongenial channels. In al! likelihood this force of circum stances is merely a fair appraisement of he actor's real talents. How much the world must have lost—to cite an example irom another field of art—had Hogarth been permitted to paint poor portraits in stead of drawing the most marvelous cartoons the world has ever known! If Btockton's latest writings were a true ex pression of his serious nature, how much wiser was it that his more active years were devoted to such works as “The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine!” Would any essay Mark Twain could ever write convince minds and sway hearts as do “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn?" It is a fair assumption that in acting these instances all have counterparts. Yet many and many an artist of the stage has spoken his speech as well as the lusty First Player in “Hamlet,” but his play has *‘pleased not the million,” however excellent, well digested its scenes, modest and cunning. There are acters now prominent in comedy, snch as Nat Goodwin, Thomas Q. Seabrook, and Francis Wilson, who would almost sell their souls to appear in serious drama. Even Joe Jefferson, who hoids the affec tions of American playgoers in a grasp of iron, has fought for years against the tide, and now withdraws from the fight, This last experience is perhaps the best instance which could be cited. Jefferson has played a hundred roles. Before fame recognized him he acted with great skill in pantomime, farce, bur beater lesque, comedy, and tragedy, with equal success in modern and classic plays. His field was limitless and he gave his heart to every role, whether comic or serious. This was true for many years. His ability grew with his experience. Thus, when reputation took to him the konors which now he carries with the concurrence of every play-patron alive, lie had at his command every resource of his art—careful training, long ex perience, varied talents, and recognized earnestness. But he had also the mis fortune to stand in the public view as “Rip Van Winkle,” and so all his other achievements have been forgotten. If today he were to presenti a repertoire which included only Dr. Pangloss, Sir Peter Teazel, old Mr. Hardeastle, and Caleb Plummer, the whole English gpeaking world would ery out in pro test. He attempted to circumvent “Old Rip” not long ago with a fine pro duction of ““The Rivals,” but his tour was almost a disaster. In Chicago and elsewhere “Fighting Bob” held the sup port of half-empty houses until Friday pf each week, and “Old Rip” assembled tor the three succeeding performances audiences which overflowed into the gireets. Unless he woull commit finan pial suicide, therefore, Jeflerson must bring to a close a long and earnest life— 4 life devoted to art in its broadest jense—as a one-part actor. Those who attend the theater with their eyes open will not ask what th: cause may be. It lies manifestly in the grim determintion of each city to view Mr. Jefferson as “Rip Van Winkle,” or not to view him at ali. But “Rip” is at best only a second-rate role, The play is not even a fair synopsis of Irving's story. Jeflerson is seen to fuller ad vantage, his personality shines with more luster, and his Impersonation touches the heart-strings with deeper sympathy when he enacts old Caleb Plummer in “The Cricket on the Hearth.” Few who have seen him in both plays will controvert this. But the masses still shout for “Rip Van Win kle,”” and the actor perforce contents himself with the withered garlands of the box office in lieu of the laurels of Bare. Possibly half a score of actors now romicent on the English and American sfage have overcome this tyranny by sheer force of will. Richard Mansfield, who adorns the modern theater with the most magnificent productions of “Henry V,"” “Richard III,” and “Julius Caesar" eny stage has ever known, would still appear as Prince Karl and Beau Brum mell if he listered to the warnings of his business manager or controlled his am bitions according to the applause of his audiences. Mr. Irving, whose “Becket,” “Robespierre,” and Shakesperecan reviy als are foremost stage events for the TEARD thee speak a speech once, but it was never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the play, 1 remember, pleased not the million; ‘twas caviare to the general; but it was an excellent ers of the same character comprise a small group, bui a marvelously brilliant one, It is to be observed that the advance of each of these actors has profited the playgoer more than anyone else. Who would weigh Mir. Mansfield’'s Prince Karl against his Cyrano or his Bru tus? Mr. Irving's Corporal Gregory against his Shylock? Mr. Sotheru’s Lord Chumley against his Hamlet? Mr. Tree's delightful comedy of earlier days against his King John? Mrs. Fiske's Tess against her Mary of Magdala? Miss Adams’ acting in “The Masked Ball” against her L’Aiglon? Intelligent theatergoers, if their judg ment could be polled, would vote over whelmingly against the return of these actors to the old parts with which they were once “inseparably” identified. The actors have sustained their own judg ment to the full satisfaction of their pa trons. On behalf of their co-workers, who have not been so suctessful, The Times bespeaks an intelligent indulgence to these same ends. The cost will be lit tle and if a dozen attempts produce an other actor like Mr. Sothern or actress like Miss Adams the playgoers will coi lect enormous dividends. If the experi ments shall all fail neither actors nor audiences will hav: lost the equivalent of Mrs. Fiske's present contribution to the stage, and the more compliant mood, the more indulgent attitude of the audience, will benefit the actors in a thousand ways and to an immeasurable degree. But dramatic art will be the greatest gainer. Players will cease to measure their success by the number of their appearances in single roles. It will be rather a reflection on their versatility than a eredit that they have played nothing but “Chimmie Fadden,” “The Two Orphans,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” or what-not for the past forty vears, Actors will strive to create new personalities instead of building un ceasingly on their ows and conforming their parts to themselves. Playwrights will plan plays in lieu or “mediums,” as they are called, for the exploitation of particular actors. It will be, in short, a taste of the millennium for the thea ter. Why not begin it by giving Joe Jefferson the first chance? A.D. A. Christmas shopping interfered sadly with the last week's patronage at the local theaters. Mr. Martin Harvey, whose exalted idesls and earnest pur poses are set forth in his own words elsewhere in The Times, obtained only a fourth of the support he was entitled to expect. His production of “The Only Way,” was one of the finest histrionic exhibitions the year will afford. The Empire Theater Stock Company wasted its talents, it is true, but even when presenting “The Wilderness’ It deserved better at the hands of local theater goers than it received. At Chase's everything went merrily. The Lafayette found Miss Shannon a notable attrae tion, even in “Beyond Pardon.” At the Academy there were the same signs of the season's counter-attractions as at the Columbia and the National. The two other houses presented character istic bills and received characteristic patronage. Mr. Sothern’s presentation of “Ham let” and “If I Were King’ is one of the most important dramatic events of the vear. It will be equaled only by such enactments as Mr. Mansfield's appear ance as “Brutus,” Miss Crosman’s en gagement, if she shall make one, in Washington, Mrs. Fiske's appearance as Mary of Magdala, and Mr. Irving's tour. As Dr. Johnson said, ‘Hamlet’ is at once an entertainment and an edu cation, and has done more to ennoble the stage than the best hundred dramas WOrk J Past and Future. MR. SOTHERN AS HAMLET played before or since.” “The Two Schools” comes very well recommended by the crities of Philadelphia and New York. If their judgment is fair it is the one good comedy the season has so far produced. Chase's has an exception ally strong and seasonable vaudeville bill. “York State Folks" has been much commended 28 the best of the “b’gosh” dramas. “Her Marriage Vow" should prove attractive to the patrons of the Academy. Christmas week will doubt less augment the attendance at the two burlesque theaters. The Columbia, Chase's, the Lafayette, the Academy, the Empire, and the Ly ceum all present Christmas matinees. E. H. Sothern at the Rakional Mr. Sothern will present “Hamlet” and "If T Were King” at the National Thea ter this week, performing the chief role in the former play Monday, Tuesday, and ‘Wednesday nights, and that of Francois Villon Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, and Saturday matinee. A full statement of the care with which this eminent actor has prepared for these pro ductions of Shakespeare's most celebrated tragedy will be found in other columns of ‘The Times. It should be said here, how ever, that the presentation is of extra ordinary interest as a stage spectacle as well as a most notable interpretation of Hamlet. The production of this year bas an especial interest, moreover, in the fact that it is to proceed from Washing ton to New York for a thirteen weeks’ stay. The cast has been selected in ac cordance with Mr. Sothern's high ideals. Miss Cecelia Loftus, who has come here from London, where she has been play ing with Sir Henry Irving, becomes Mr. Sothern’s leading woman, and plays Gphelia; Henry J. Carvill, Horatio; Syd ney C. Mather Laertes; Edwin Varrey Polonius; Rowland Buckstone Pirst Grave Digger; William Harris the Ghost of Hamlet's Father; Jennie Eustace Queen of Denmark, and Miss Crystal Herne the Player Queen. In remarkable contrast to Mr. Sothern’s portrayal of Hamlet will be his presentation of the many-sided character of Francois Vil lon. As is well known, “If I Wete King” is founded on a series of incidents sup posed to have occurred in the life of Francois Villon, one of the most roman tic characters of the fifteenth century, a pieturesque poet and vagabond of Paris, who ultimately, through his courage and honor, raises himself from the city slums to become the leader of the king's army and saves Paris. Attention is called to the fact that the curtain rises promptly at o'clock during _Ir. Sethern’s engage ment, and at 2 o'clock at the Saturday matinee. “The Two Schools” at the Columbia. “1he 1wo Schoels™ at the Columbia. A comedy by Alfred Capus, “The Two Schools,” will be presented at the Colum bia this week by one of the most com petent compenies the season will bring to Washington. The work is originally French, and two years ago was the most pronounced success of the Paris theatri cal season. Charles Frohman presented the play at the Garrick Theater in Lon don, in French, and the work continued its successful career there. But since its translation into English it has sur passed all its previous record. It ran for three month at the Madison Square Theater in New York, and made a most pronounced impression on Philadelphia, and its production in Washington is now to be made by the cast which first per formed the comedy in English, and which made it famous under its present title. The chief actors are Jameson Lee Finney, Ida Conquest, I. A. Kennedy, sessile Busley, Winchell Smith, I4a Waterman, W, V. Ranocus, Beatrice Mor van, and Frederick E. Beane. Of thesa Miss Conquest is particularly well known, and highly regarded in Washing ton. The piot suggests incidents in Dr. Sterne’s well-known “‘Sentimental Jour ney.” The hero is a younz advocate, THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1902. Edouard Mauburn, of butterfly instincts, who has a decidedly pretiy and jealous wife, Henriette by name. The husband has many escapades, most of which come to the wife's ears, and, on being brought to task by her, he tries to justify his conduct by saying that he cannot change his nature. Henriette will have none of that, however, and hints at divorce. Her mother sagely tells her daughter to ov. erlook, or rather not to see at all, the peccadillos of the young husband, and to be content and happy with the materi al benefits of wedded life. “There are two schools,” says this easy-going mother of the old school—' that of the open eyes, and that of the closed eyes. Keep your eyes closed tightly, or ap pear to do so, my dear, if you seek hap piness in married life. Above all avoid secking trouble, for that comes to us all soon enough without searching for it. It is the only way.” But Henriette does nothing of the kind. She accumulates evidences of her husand's wrongdoing, and, while ac knowledging that he is neither cruel nor unkind, obtains a divorce, against the ‘wishes «f both her parents. An attempt is made at reconciliation, but it fails, Time passes and its healing influenca tempers her former woes, real and MISS IDA CONQUEST. imaginary, and renews the affection which she formerly had for Edouard, and, unknown to her, his affection fon her returns with tenfold ardor. When they again meet, it is like the reuni m of long absent lovers. They pledge undying devotion a second time, and soon after wards enjoy a second honeymoon, Vaudeville at Chase's. Chase's polite vaudeville program of this week has an exceptional Christmas flavor and form. Susanne Leonard, a sister of Lillisn Russell, and Owen Westford, a vell known comic opera comedian, constitute the premier attrac tion in a musical farce “The Under study,” which was written with a special view to the capabilities of both artists. Miss Leonard is a comic opera comedienne and a wonderful mimic. She and her gowns will be of especial interest to her feminine auditors. She is aflorded in the comedy an opportunity to give her famous impersonation of the Bowery song and dance soubrette, and to imitate other artists as does Cissie Loftus. Second in importance are Te cho «#'s performing cats, whose remarka ble feats upset the long cherished be lief that tabbies were not susceptible of tra'iing for exhibition purposes. A glimpse of bohemian life in the Latin quartier of Paris will be afforded by the vaudeville farce “Uncle Phineas,” pre sented by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Keley. There are few Chase patrons who are nx familiar with Gertrude Mansfield and Caryl Wilbur. In the forthcom ing bill they have a new farcical comedy “No. 61 Prospect Street.” George W. Day, monologist and caricaturist, will present himself “in cork.” Lizzie and Viney Daly, European high class dancers, will disclose a terpsichorean specialty. Maie Sailor and Ray Barbaretta will be seen in “The Pajama Girl.” An especial attraction will be the colored motion pictures of the “Mother Goose" stories, which will unfold before the eager and expectant little folk the characters of the nursery rhymes. Little Miss Luffctt, 61d Mother MR. SOTHERN AS FRANCOIS VILLON. ‘Hubbard, Jack and Jill, in fact nearly ‘all the heroes and heroines of fairy land. Mr. Chase has gone to unusual ex pense to provide this feature, which has never before been exhibited here. “York State Folks” at the Lafayette. The Lafayette will present this weak a rural drama, “York State Folks,” from the pon of Arthur Sidman, a work esti mated by the critics of other cities as the most successful play of this class. It is said to be mounted with the utmost care, and is accredited with having proven an unqualified success. Its chief character role is that of a veteran church organist in a country village, whose fondness for making other people happy lands Him in trouble. He is a lovable old village mu sician, and his sayings and doings furnish an unfailing fountain of wit and drollery. Ray L. Royce, who acts this part, is an artist whose adaptability for the success ful delineation of such characters is said to be shown anew in this instance. One of the characters scored an unexpected success in the first presenation of “York State Folks,” that of a village band leader, possibly the most insignificant of the cast. The author had drawn him from real life up in a western “York State” village, and he made a pro nounced hit, in spite of the faci that he had but a few words to speak. Mr. Sid-! man was so pleased that he immediately “wrote in” several new scenes for the rural Sousa, and the latter has siace de veloped into a decided factor in the fun making of the play. There will be a spe cial Christmas matinee. “Her Marriage Vow” at the Academy. a. a et TU rh te ol Ch ale da Ln A sensational comedy drama, “Her Marriage Vow,” is the week's offering at the Academy. The play deals with rail road life. All its good people are rail road employes and members of their families, and all its bad people are con nected by ties of blood with railway magnates. Comedy runs through the piece. There are several climaxes, principal and minor, but the crisis of the play occurs at the end of the third act. The hero is in charge of a switch at a siding. Two trains, one of them a fast express, on which the heroine and her father are passengers, pass this point at a certain hour. If the express is thrown on a siding there will obviously be a head-on collision. So the villain overpowers the hero, binds him, and throws the switch as the trains are ap proaching. The soubrette, who breaks her way out of a closet in which she has been thrown and locked by the viliain, releases the hero, and the latter smashes the window in the switch house, jumps through, and, after a hand-to-hand fight with the villain, turns the switch in time to allow the two trains—each 200 feet long and from opposite directions— to rush by each other in full view of the audience. The lines are said to be terse and natural. The story is interestine and well told, apd there are a lot =f clever and illuminative bits of business scattered all through the play. The company includes Willie E. Francis, Elizabeth Rathburn, Annie Ashley, Eva Benton, W. A. Whitecar, Thomas Irwin, Henry Buckler, a Washingtonian; James A. Mann, Louis F., Howard, and George H. Nichols. Burlesque at the Empire. The “Innocent Beauties Burlesque Company” will appear at the Empire Theater during the ensuing week. Fol lowing is a list of the vaudeville acts: The Five Dixons, vocalists; Miss Agnes Behler, chansonette; the Mitchell-Han+ ley company, presenting a one-act fante, entitled, “He Who Laughs Last Laughs Best;” Williams and Aleene, in a sketch, “Bogg's Visit; the Althea Twin Sis ters, in acrobatic dances, and Imhof and Con, character comedians. Twe bur lesques, styled, “Miss Breezy of Chica go" and “O'Reilly's Reception,” will be given, “Parisian Widows” at the Lyceum. Lawrence Weber's “Parisian Widows" fs billed for ‘te Lyceum this week. The company edvertises several clever nov elt'es, and new musical numbers. The opening bill is a burlesque on society entitled “The Smart Set.” The olio cemprises Clifford and Harvev. Nelson

and Millege, Jordan and Welch, Vincent Painter, Bert Leslie, Charles Falk, and others. The concluding bill, “Lonesome Hurst,” is a burlesque on summer life at the scaside Martin Harvey Talks of Sidney Carton Believes the Actor's Personality Should Be Subordinated. ‘water of the original production of the play in L-ndon, and of the man to whom it was given to place the role of Sidney Carton among the conspicuous stage figures and his own name high on the pinnacle of fame. The actor was Martin Harvey, who, previous to his appearance in “The Only Way,” the stage title of the story, was a member of Sir Henry Irving's company, and who in a night heard his name spoken in the same breath with that of Irving and equally famous exponents of dramatic art.

Martin Harvey originated the role of Carton, and though Americans found ‘much to enjoy in Mr. Miller's coneep tion of the character they were still anxious to see the man who had created it, and whose :.*t bade fair to challenge that of greater lights in the theatrical world. That he has deferred his coming so long seems to have lost for him none of the interest manifested in his work several years ago. His last appearance in America was with Irviog, and now he comes back as a full-fleiged star, an artist and a gentleman whom Americans will always welcome most cordially. The stage at the Columbia Theater had just been set for the third act of ‘the play last night when a representa tive of The Times wandered through the maze of stage accessories to Mr. ‘Harvey's dressing room. Bales of hay and straw used in thy prologue sug gested the probability of cquine actors. In one of the wings Jeay Defarge stood glowering, while Mr. Harvey's energetic stage manager hastily put the finishing touches to the scene before “ringing up.” Mr. Harvey received the writer in a cordial, unaffected way, and began a little interviewing on his own part until checked and persuaded to discuss himself and his work. It was only another proof his power of selfelimi nation to wha. he might consider more important things. This it is in the actor's work which has lifted hinr out of mere “supporting” roles to work into the realm of stars, and as long as he is able to maintain it so long will he ‘occupy that high and enviable position in the dramatic world to which he has risen through his wonderful work in his present play. The actor was an interesting combin ation of Sidney Carton and Martin Har vey. In the costume of the Dickens’ character, long coat, top boots, un kempt wig, and haadkerchief tied care lessly about his “ack in lieu of collar, ‘he might havc jut just stepped from ‘the pages of the etory. To offset this there was Martin Harvey himself—gen erous hearted, cordial, cultured, a gentleman whose solicitations were rather for the theater in this country and its people than for his own re +eption by those same people, and the fate of his play. To those who saw Mr. Harvey's im personation of Sidney Carton, with all the loathsomeness of the character so strongly emphasized, his personality would prove a revelation. Gentility, grace, a refreshing lat of selfcon sciousness are his most prominent char acteristics. There is an _pportunity to gain a new idea of stars in him. He has none of the traits of th: actor and does not feel it incumbent to stride up and down the room while talking and ac-' company his words with a series of gyra tions that do more to tire the listemer than convince him of any dramatic abil ity the actor may have. In an unassum ing and whelly natural way Mr. Harvey replied to a query relative to the dra matic advantages involved in the merg er of a player's personality into that of the character he assumed. “The highest praise which I consider has been accorded my interpretation of the role of Sidney Carton,” he said, “is that it is the Carton of the book rather than that of my own conception, So you see, I do not deserve the credit after all, Dickens drew the character and I have tried to follow his idea as closely as possible. It does not always tend to make matinee heroes of us, but eventual ly it serves a better purpose—it ma tures one’s art. Learning to depend on one's personality is hazardous. One will not always be young and possessed of the other qualifications to public favor. The day is always nearing when an actor will have to depend upon other things than personal characteristies. “I do not think it is possible, however, to entirely destroy one's identity in a part. For that reason I have always con tended it is bard for an actor to be a hypocrite. If you see him in a hundred or a thousand parts, each different the others, you see a hundred or a thou sand different phases of the man's dis position. They manifest themselves sometimes unconsciously and sometimes otherwise, but they do not fail to show. “However, if a man writes a part, no matter how small or apparently in significant it may be or what bearing it may have in a play's production, he ‘has not written it for another man to embellish. It is his creation, and his work has as much right to considera tion and is as exclusively his own property as a book which a man writes atid copyrights. Where is the use or the advantage or even the moral comp pensation of writing a piay if some hnde fe oning to come along and inter.

should interpret in that way would not only die, but they would never live. *“l want to give the public which has been so generous to me and my work something to remember me for. I want to interpret other characters than my own, and when they see those imper= sonations I want them to see me only so far as I delineate the character as it is intended to be delineated. “That has been my ainy in ‘The Only Way." Of course, I made a deep study of Sidney Carton, and I tried to fm bibe the spirit of the part as much 12s pessible. The story is a great picture of an interesting period and an interest ing people, and 1 hope that I have con tributed at least my part toward com memorating a novel which has lived 30 long and which will live for many years to come. “Regarding my American tour, I am highly pleased. A visit to this country is always a pleasure to an Englishman. In the first place, your audiences are so different from those at home. You have your own American way of doing things and of appreciating and depreciating dramatic offerings, I find that the audi ences in Washington are very reserved, though none the less kind than in other places. I am told that this is owing te the metropolitan class of people at the Capital. I suppose in their own homes each is accustomed to certain ways of doing things, and I imagine when a crowd of people like that come together it is much the same as when a large party is at dinner and a new dish comes on the table, Everyone slyly watches everybody else to note developments before com mitting himself. I hope to return to America season after next and bring other plays, some of which will be new then and some of them plays in which I have found puecess in England in the past few years.” Miss Annie Russell will present for the first time on the American stage a new play py Madeleine Lucette Ryley, “Mice and Men," at the National Thea ter, December 29. This production will be made under the personal direction of Charles Frohman, who was the first manager to choose Washington for his first nights and who distinguished the Capital by starting Miss Maude Adams on her victorious career from a Wash ington theater. “Mice and Men" ran for over a year in London and was pro nounced one of the greatest hits of the season. It gives Miss Russell a role specially suited to her, that of a young woman whom an old bachelor starts out to train to be his wife, but like most schemers among men and mice he sees all his plans defeated and the young girl fall in love with a younger man. The curtain falis on a happy ending, for the bachelor magnanimously relinquishes her over to the younger suitor. Miss Rus sell’s support will be the strongest she has ever had, and will include Orrin Johnson, John Mason, Mrs. G. H. Gil bert, John Glendinning, Charles Butler, Frederick Morrison, Mrs. Glendinning, and Miss May Galye:. “Sky Farm” to Follow “The Two Schools” “Sky Farm.” which fs to appear at the Columbia in the wake of “The Twe Schools,” is the work of Edward E. Kidder, the auibor of “The Peaceful Valiey” and “A Poor Relation.” Last season this new play was most success ful, running four months in Boston, weex after week in other New England cities, and over 100 nights in New York. The playwright is announced as having at tained in this play work a “play more than merely rural in its atmosphere, and not wholly mechanical in its realis< tic imitation, a play that possesses some semblance ef a story both plausible and wholesome. The company eangaged to present this work includes William H. Tooker, Francis Byrne, Scott Cooper, Sarah McVicker, Tully Marshall, Rose Flynn, Fay Courteney, Ralph Dean, Henry J. West, Charles Crosby, Claire McDowell, Frank Monroe, Maud Hos ford, Daisy Graham, and David Christie. “The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast” Manager Rapley, of the National Thea ter, has arranged with Messrs. Klaw Erianger for a two-weeks’ seson of the Drury Lane ballet and musical ectacle, “The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast,” im ithe month of January. This extravagan za, the first importation of the English spectacle over which that country regu larly grows enthusiastic at Christmas time, will no doubt be a welcolae visit or here, as its long run of seven months last season at the Broadway Theater, New York city, has given it a wide repu tation. To give an insight into the mag nitude of this attraction, it is sufficient to say that 400 people appear in the “Ballet of the Seasons,” the chiei iea ture of the spectacle, and 100 stage hands are required to manipulate the mechanical equipment. Christmas Vaudeville. The new year will be operod auspi ciously at Chasc’s next week. The as semblage of attractions brings together Moung Toor: and Moung Chet, Bert How ard and Leona Bland, Gillette's musical dogs, the famous Rossow Midgets, Frank Gardiner and Lottie Vincent, Little Charlie Rossow, Rae and Brosche, and “Little Red Riding Hood,” another col ored series of mwiwi pictures. Frob ably the most original and unique nov elty of the season will he afforded hy Moung Toon and Moung Chet, the won derfully clever exponents of Chinlone the Burmese game that corresponds with foothall in America and cricket in England. Creatore. Creatore, the Italian baadsman, whose gyrations have won him more notoriety than his music has won him fame, will appear at the National Thea ter the night of Sunday, January 4. He will be accompanied by Mme. Barili, a soprano, and his own band. “The Silver Slipper.” In *“The Silver Slipper,” the latest English musical play, which is now in the third month of a phenomenally suc-~ cessful run at the Broadway Theater, New York, John C. 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“Florodora” and the management of the Broadway Theater has another popular success. Since the opening night, eight weeks ago, “capacity” has been the rule at every performance, and the audiences have, in the main, been made up of the “smart set” of New York's most fash fonable society. That “The Silver Slip per” will round out the season at the Broadway there seems to be little doubt. Washington Eagles’ Annual Benefit Pi MES. re or Kp—_ TEESE MRS Av AYA Instead of the vaudeville program made up of volunteers mixed in with a lot of amateurs, the program usual ly oifered at annual benefits, Wash ington Aerie, No. 125, Fraternal Order of Eagles, will present at its annual benefit, to be given at the Lafayette Theater lanuary 12 next, the Ward Vokes Comedy Company intact. Wash ington Aerie calls on its friends only once a year for the purpose of replen ishing Its coffers. It aims to spread comfort gemerally, and give assistance to the widow and orphan, especially, all the year, and in a quiet and unostenta tious way. The membership of Wash ington Aerie includes men from all walks of Mfe, especially professional and business circles, and has on its ac tive rolls many well-known citizens. It is proposed to make the coming benefit a memorable affair, both in point of entertainment and the many pleasing features with which it will be surrounded. None the least of these will be a handsome souvenir program, upon which the committee is now at work, and which it is promised will be navel and pleasing, containing features not heretofore used, and which will make it well worth keeping. “At Cripple Creek.” “At Cripple Creek” will be the at traction at the Academy next week. This is a Western drama, and is said to be the truest and best picture of life in the “Rockles” given to the American stage since Bartley Cambell's “My Pardner A New School of Realism. Ida Conquest has had a humorous ex perience during the present tour of “The Two Schools.” It was at the railroad station of a New England town, the morning after Thanksgiving. The com pany had played to the limit of the house, and Miss Conquest had appeared, as usual, as a jealous young wife who gets a divorce from her husband and then trys to find a man who will fill her conception of an ideal husband. The story of the play recounts her failure, her awakened affection for her former husband, and their happy reunion.

It was noised abroad somehow that “The Two Schools” had something to do with school life—where boys of the Hans, Fritz, and Buster types played hide and seek with the teacher. Among those who had formed this idea of the play was an old lady in the country who had never visited a theater in her life. She arranged to eat her Thanksgiving dinner with a relative in town and then take her favorite nephew and niece to the “theater shop.” Her state of mind over ber mistake can be judged by the following speech—it cannot be called a conversation, as Migs Conquest could not get in a word ecceoways—occasioned by her chance recognition of Miss Con quest, as with the other members of the company the actress awaited the train for the next stand:

“So, you're the woman, ma'am! What mice carrying on, when I went to see a school party! You made a fine muddle of things by your jealous fits and offish pairs. Any sensible woman could see from the start that vou were to blame. But nowadays girls marry, and are all fuss and feathers, with common sense gone to the wash. No, you needn't get of fended, Miss, for it's the truth, and I'm goin’ to speak my mind. A girl of sense in your place wouldn't mind havin’ her husband admired by other women, but she would take mighty good care that she knew how to make him admire her anbove any of them.

“Now if you had only spent a quarter of the time that you lost in hatching your jealousy, in thinking how you could make him see yo= as the only one among them all, he wouldn't have trotted off with that bold-faced huzzy and fretted your old mother nigh to death. Your father had no sympathy of mine, for he's old enough to know that aged dogs should stay to hum and do their barkin’.

“But where's your young man? I want to see him.”

The burst of laughter which greeted this was too much for Miss Conquest, who retreated through the friendly door of the baggage room. “Well, well, what huffy things girls be nowadays,” said the old lady as her eyes followed the actress. "I wouldn't be heavily surprised to hear that she'd gone and done the same thing to that husband of her's again.”

“The Two Sisters.” 4 Susanne Leonard is as pleased to be ivtroduced as the sister of Lillian Russell as If she were the famous comic opera singer in proper person. Theirs is a rare Instance of sisterly affection, and during their first years of comic opera they would not be separated. Miss Rus sell, even after she became Mrs. “Teddy” Solomon at the time she was singing with the McCaull Opera Company at the Bijou Theater, New York city, insisted that “Susanne” must be with her, and so it was that Susanne Leonard set aside her own ambition in erder to be near her beautiful sister. role. MM f rd, and Huber a

pn Sometimes now she indulges the belief that she might have attained fame her self in the legitimate drama in comic paris as her predilection has always been in that direction. Her talent was never better demonstrated than at the last pub lie benefit performance of the Profession al Woman's League of New York city, when Miss Leonard, at short notice, pre pare¢ a burlesque impersonation of a Bowery song and dance actress. It was the distinctive hit of the performance, and jt was the immediate cause of her engagement with Mr. Westford in vaude ville. The vigilant agents of the vaude ville managers in attendance in search of novelties considered Miss leonard a rare find, and persuaded her to undertake a limited engagement. Mr. Westford has the good fortune to be her husband, and 1s himself consplevous as a comedian, having been with Augustin Daly, the Casino companies, and most recently with Frank Daniels in “Miss Simplicity.” A a ™N\

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Both have many warm admirers here, and they will be the center of attraction at Chase's this week in their original musical comedy, “The Understudy.” jo LEY Will DE Re CELE Of attiaciion {at Chase's this week in their original musical comedy, “The Understudy.” Told in the Wings. Apropos of the Balzac statue in Paris they are retelling the story of the day when he sent for Theophile Gautier in a hurry and explained that he had prom ised a five-act drama the next day and yet not a line was written. “You will have to postpone the reading for six weeks,” sald the resourceful “Theo.” “Not a bit of it,” criede Balzac, “we must have it ready in time because 1 want the money. This is my plan. You will write the first act. 1 have three other men to do the second, third, and fourth acts. ['li write the fifth act my self. An act is only 500 lines. You can easily do that you sit up all night.” Whe: the drama was finished it was “Vaurrin.” But it came from the nov els in which that diabolic specimen of maleficence Vautrin appears: “Pere Go riot,”” and “The Miseries and Splendors of Courtesans,’” together with “The Laui Incarnation of Vautrin.”” So at least the story did not have to be invented. Of course, the Count Lovenjoul de Spoel berch, Balzac's best critic, does not give the anecdote credence. “Is this Doose's?"’ said a mud-splashed expressman as he backed his wagon, loaded with five towering trunks, up to the sidewalk in front of a grocery store on Larrabee Street, Chicago. “Yes? Well, lend me a hand with these little bandboxes, will you?" He landed one enormous trunk on a case of eggs and brought out the pro prietor, Harry Doose, on the run. Mr. Doose disclaimed ownership of the trunks, and in the argument wkich fol lowed it was discovered that the trunks belonged to Eleonora Duse, the actress, who had just arrived in Chicago for eight performances. The trunks reached the Auditorium Annex by nightfall, and quieted Mme. Duse, who spent the bet ter part of the afternoon exclaiming: “My trunks! My trunks! Only eleven here? Where are the otlier five?" EE George Anthes, the new tenor of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, who made p his Americar debut as Lohengrin at {the Metropolitan Opera House, was sadly awakened recently to the fact that he was no longer a Knight of the Cross of the Order of Albrecht, Herr Aunthes was bound to the Royal Court Theater and has probably broken his contract, as the following letter from the German consul general in New York shows that his name has been stricken from the list of knights: Royal German Consulate General, New York, Dee, 10, 1902, Honored Sir: I am requested to an nounce to you that the King of Saxony has decided that you have forfeited the first-class Knight's Cross of t Order of Albrecht, owing to your attitude to ward the general direction of the Royal Music Kapelle and the court theaters, in consequence of which it has become necessary to demand the return of the decoration from you and to strike your name out of the list of the order. Moreover, his majesty the King has to inform you that your appointment as royal Saxon court singer {s+ -anceled. In making to you, as I do, these an nouncements, I respectfully beg you to deliver to me the insignia of the order above referred to so that I may trans mit it to the council. and I also beg you in future to refrain from nssuming the title of royal court singer. BUNZ,

Imperial Consul General. Mr. Anthes has many decorations, among them the Order of Wasa, given him by the King of Sweden, and the Albrecht Order for Merit, given him by the King of Saxony, for his perform ances of Lohengrin, Manrico and Lyonel. At the Theatre de 1'Opera Comique, Paris, Monday night, was produced “La Carmelite,” an opera comique in four acts and five scenes, by Catulle Mendes, the music by Rinaldo Hahn. “The libret to,” according to a French critic, “min gles mysticisin with sensuality. The first two tableaux are charming, the third fairly pretty, but the book weakzas when jt becomes serious. The librettist is a virtuoso with verse whom his skill often renders a poet. Ie has written exquisite passages, but bas not known how to be brief when nece-sary. “This too delicious poet Is aggravated by a still more delicious musician. “La Carmelite,” said backbiters of M. Habn's music, ‘has a soft charm, which finally annoys.” Another fault is graver. At times he miraculously imi tates ancient mueic; at times he fol lows his persomal inspiration, which is the same as M. Massenet’s. Continual discord resuits. The orchestration is rather clever, but lacks variety. “Yet this music will please sensitive souls—and women. The first two tableaux are amusing and chatoyant and full of juvenile grace. A love duc in the third act pleased greatly, and thors! was a pretty song in the fourth. “Mme. Calve, tender, gentle, ard plaintive, was superb in an exacting BROADWAY THEATER, NEW YORK. SADDER AER esscessssssssssnsa Proprietor The Biggest Success in All New York. John C. Fisher's $50,000 Production, The Silver y

By the Authors of “Florodora.” Seats may be secured 4 weeks aheud from any part of the country by mail or telegraph. Prices, nights and Saturday Matinee, $2. $1 50, $1.00, x Wednesday Matinee, $1.50, £1.00, 75¢, Address BROAD. WAY THEATER, New York. AMUSEMENTS. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 195 dean deserve mention. M. Muratore, a debutant, possesses the warmth of youth, but needed a little more vigor #nd authority to incarnate the ‘grand roi.’ “Te sum up, the impression was good. One feit that a more alert hand has caught Massenet’s violoncello.” Two modern slang expressions occur in Justin Huntley McCarthy's poetical romance, “If I Were King,” and they have excited much comment from critics who fancied they found a flaw in. the piece. Both of these are used in the first act, the Fir Cone tavern on the outskirts of old Paris. They are ‘douse the glim,” which is used just before Sothern's fa mous duel in the dark, and “knocked him silly.” Herewith is submitted a theatrical curiosity, the same being a press agent's announcement that is absolutely truth ful and reasonable: “Miss Eisie De Wolfe and company be gan the second week of ‘The Way of the World’ at the lllincis Theater last night. The play has proved politely interesting and has witracted audiences of quality rather than quantity.” p Movements of Stars—Mrs. Leslie Car ter will appear in Chicago on December 22. Mrs. Patrick Campbell appeared last week in Philadelphia. Mr. Francis Wil son closed his present successful engage ment in Boston Saturday night, and will appear in Harlem on the 22d. Miss Blanche Walsh, acting in “The Daughter of Hamilear,” devotes the present week to Montreal. Mme. Duse, whose perform ances failed to please either Baltimore or Philadelphia, emerged last week in Chicago. The Italian actress will give some of her dreary performances in New York, beginning in the week of .January 5-10, at the Metropolitan Opera House. That progressive and advanced female, Magda, will then be represented, togeth er with Francesca, and the eminently novel Camille. Mr. William Gillette ap peared last week in Philadelphia. Miss Edith Wynne Mathieson, presenting “Everyman,” is in Baltimore. Miss Vir ginia Harned is inflicting the play of “Iris” on Chicago. Miss Elizabeth Tyree will appear at the Madison Square Thea ter, on January 5, in a play called “Gretna Green.” A Paris critic observes: “It is 2 singular coincidence that in the plays just now acted at the Parisian theaters the lovers are all mature men, between forty-three and fifty years of age. There is notably the case in ‘La Chatelaine,” in ‘Joujou,” in ‘Le Joug,’ in ‘Cadre,’ In ‘Sa Maitresse,” in ‘Le Marquis de Priola,” and in ‘Resurreec tion.” It is impossible to find at any of the Parls theaters the once typical lover of two-and-twenty. Is this a sign of the new conditions of society? Love is na longer symbolized in France by the primrose of May, but rather by the chrysanthemum of November."

Manager Frank McKee, of the Garrick Theater, New York, is puzzled to know how to accommodate the gowns to be worn by Mrs. Langtry in “The Cross ways,” and recently-published deserip tions of those gowns fully explains hie perplexity. “In the first act,” wrote an English AMUSEMENTS. Badd a a TP HOME OF BURLESQUE MATINEE 25 BEST EVERYDAY SEATS. Beginning Matinee Tomor Tomorrow EMPIRE Grand Holiday Show FE THE Innocent Beauties BURLESQUERS. ALL FEATURE ACTS, 5-Dixons—5 The American Quintette Agnes Behler, Mitchell-Hanly Co., Inhof and Con, Althea Twin Sisters, Wiliafns and Aleene. 2 BURLESQUES 2 WITH 25--Pretty Girls--25 AN EXCELLENT SHOw! AS GOOD AS ANY! A Throughly Up-to- Date ‘Burlesque Company, NEW YEAR'S WEEK The Famous OCTOROONS with Smart and Williams, and Joe Walcott. HOME OF BURLESQUE, Afternoons at 2:16. Evenings at 8: 15. KERNAN'S Mats. DAILY BEST SEATS, 25c¢ WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW MATINEE. WEBER'S Parisian Widows Bubbling Over With Brightness. ——Headed by BERT LESLIE CO. JORDON AND WELSH CLIFFORD AND HARVEY NELSON AND MILLAGE CHAS. FALKE And the Politest Man in Vaudeville J. VINCENT PAINTER And a Van of Young. Dashing Widows Next ‘Week— Rice Barton's Big Gaiety Co critic, “Mrs. Langtry was attired in pale green on white mousseline de soi, in crusted around the skirt with watep lilies, shaded in green from ihe bottom of the skirt to the white at the top. The bodice is trimmed with jong silver fringe. Over this is worn a white and rose-pink chiffon cloak made with gaugings round the shoulders, quite low on the arms, giving an 1830 effect.” The sleeves are very full, bordered with white and pink rose petals on a full ruffle round the neck, also bordered with the rose petals. This beautiful cloak is fastened with double rows of diamond buttons. thinner, NIN INNA AINSI “In Act II, Mrs, Langtry appears in a pale blue Florentine robe of mousseline de soi, with flowing sleeves almdst reaching to the bottom of the skirt. Here and there in the folds are Louis Seize bows, with pale blue silk tassels. The neck and undersleeves are of chiffon and narrow bands of mousseline de sole. A wide blue Empire scarf is knitted high up on the left side.” This is too much. A critical analysis of Richard Strauss’ symphonic tone poem, ‘‘Beelzebub” would be simplicity itself compared to the above. One thing is certain—no mat ter how good or bad Mrs. Langtry’s play may be—these gowns will float it into feminine favor. Fe mk Tw Ee A pra 2 ES a S— Axel Delmar, the distinguished Ger man actor, said in Berlin recently that the Hohenzollern plays are to be pro duced in the United States under the title, ““Hohenzollern Volksspiele” (peo ple’s plays). The scenery and 300 cos tumes needed for the presentation will be brought over from Germany. The costumes are exact reproductions of some originals in the famous Hohen zollern Museum and the Zeughaus of Berlin. Their value is 40,000 marks (210,000). The decorations have been newly painted.

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In order to complete final arrange ments with Mr. Claasen, the director of the Arion Society of Brooklyn and to raise the necessary guarantees to pro duce the plavs in other cities of the United States, Mr. Delmar will come to America, probably in April. ty St NE OL LR i

i i i b wy, Yenderful and Beautify “The purpose of my visit to your country,” Delmar said, “is not only to present the Hohenzellern plays, but also to study for a period of two years the literary, theatrical, journalistic, and art conditions of the United States. We are beginning to understand in Germany that the United States is no longer the country of mere mammonism, but, on the contrary, deserves the careful study of all Europeans. Upon my return to Eurcpe, in a coursz of lectures, I pro pose to present my impressions. I also hope to deliver in the United States lec tures on German literature, at first in German and later in English.”

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Delmar plays the most striking scenes of Prussian history in the most skillful and poetic manner. The plays begin with the election of Frederick of Hohen zollern, the first ruier of Brandenburg, and =nd with the capitulation of the French at Sedan.

The first play shows the tent of Em peror Sigismund at Ofen. Representa

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i SOTHER Management of Daniel Frohman, Presenting MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, His New Production of eee UAL ET THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY and Matinee Saturday, IF WERE KING. Frohman will present Miss ANNIE RUSSELL in Madelir Lucette Ryley's Comedy “MICE AND An Monday Night, December 29, Mr. Charles ican stage. wi, CREATORE Hun BAND. MATINEES TUESDAY, SATURDAY All Seats, 25¢, I THIS WEEK. Rp PRICES yi: “go. RESERVED SEAT "CHRISTMAS MATINEE. Prices Same as Night, The Great Sensational Comedy Drama Her Marriage Vow A Story ot Strong Human Interesi. A Play That Appeals to Every Woman's Heart. An Exceptionally Strong Cast. Superb Scenic Equipments. Next Attraction, AT CRIPPLE CREEK. tives from the Mark Brandenburg appear before him and implore for heip against the encroachments of the nobles of the province. Frederick, the Burgegraf of Nuernberg, is chosen by the Emperor to bring help, although against the pvishes of the former's wife, who considérs the inhabitants of the Mark only robbers and unworthy of help. Frederick, however. goes. The next play shows us Fredorick, the Great Elector of Brandenburg. The most striking scene is presented when the great elector, at Potsdam, receives the French refugees, who were driven out of France by the edict of Nantes. In the next play is seen Frederick IIL. the first King of Prussia and founder of the Prussian Academy of Science. We soe Liebnitz, the great philosopher; 'Spener, the theologian, and Thomasius: the fameus jurist. But the most strik ing of Delmar’s plays is the one showing scenes in the life of Frederick the Great. We behold him before the bat tle of Leuthen. His army has met with disaster and a final surrender seems inevitable. The scene after the King has won the battie, although at a fear ful cost, is a striking and intensely dramatic one. Another play portrays the German strugg': for liberty. For some unknown reason, however, the au thor has left out the most interesting character of this pertod, the heroic Queen ILouise. 4 C Axel Delmar was horn in April, 1857, in Berlin. When tut cighteen years old he traveled extensively in Russia, Italy, and Denmark. When Jwenty vears old he became dn actor, and after filling various engagements in the provinces joined the staff of the Berlin royal schauspielhaus. After his contract had expired he retired from the stage to de vote himself entirely to authorship. While at the Royal Theater his opera, “Mara,” with music by Hummel, was presented with great success. His op eras “Haschisch” (music by Oscar von Chelius) and “King Drosseibart” (music by Gustav Kullenkampf) brought him the reputation of the German poet furnishing the best German ext. Delmar’s last opera, “Marienburg,” was presented not long ago at Wiesbaden. Delmar has also written a number of dramas.

TECHO WV In criticising J. Forbes-Robertson’s ap pearance in ‘Othello’ at the Lyric Thea ter, December 15, the “Times’ says It Is a thoroughly stirring performance, with a common-sense handling of the play. Mr, Robertson is careful not to make tradition a fetich. He knows he is deal ing with a classic, but he knows that the virtue of a classic does not lie in its antiquity, but in its eternal freshness. In brief, he is interesting because he is realistic. His Othello is interesting rather than great, because it is some what lacking in volcanic force. Gertrude Elliott, says the “Times,” is somewhat overweighted as Desdemona. She is a fair, sweet child repeating a lesson. There was a crowded house, and the production was received with enthusias tic applause.

AMUSEMENTS. DAILY MAT., 25¢, EVENINGS. zoe and 5k. APPIEST XMAS Bl.L EVER Newest of the New Hits SUSANNE LEONARD LZLE (Lillian Russell's Sister) AND AN o OWEN WESTFORD J. fp)" IA IN THE MERRY MUSICAL FARCE. "THE UNDERSTUDY.” COMIC OPERA CONDENSED. ona SEF u! “<PpOrOL WE, <ZPT Ze O=roam Oz» Zc rR» “Op OMEWIiH THELITTLE FOLKS Mr. and Mrs. no and Caryl Wilbur A ARIS AN FARCE. in “gl Prospect Strest.” MAIE SAILOR AND RAY BARBARETTA, ‘MOTHER GOOSE™ Motion Pictures, “The Comedian and the Pajama Girl.” i Eight Scenes in Georgeous Colors. Gertrude Mansfield Chase’s Price Not Ingreased Christmas Matinee—Every Seat only 25 Cents. Dec. 29th Week—Moung Foon and Moung Chet, the Burmese Wonders, and Others. —w ow Jan. 5th Week—Positive Appearance Twice Daily of MME. EUGENIA MANToIoI Leading Mezzo Soprano of the Metropolita Opera Co.—Prices Not Advanced. COLUMBIA 0 Week Beginning MONDAY, DEC. 22. :="Special Matinee Christmas Day. Regular Matinee Saturday. CHA (LES FROHMAN PRESENTS HIS GREAT LAUGHING SUCCESS, Alfred Capus’ 4-Act Comedy, “TWO SCHOOLS

Direct from a run of three months at the M adison Square Theater, New York. with the ORIGINAL NEW YORK CAST. JAMESON LEE FINNEY, BEATRICE MORGAN, FREDERICK SPEXCER, IDA CONQUEST, W. V. RANOUS, WALTER SCOTT, M. A KENNEDY, FREDERICK E. BEANE, EDNA LUBY, JESSIE BUSLEY, NORMAN MacDONALD, GERTRUDE WYNNE, WINCHELL SMITH, ELSIE FERGUSON, CHARLES KIRALEY IDA WATERMAN, INEZ MARCEL, ETC., ETC. THE PRAISE IT HAS WON. “The most welcome dramatic produe- “The comedy made a decided hit."””— tion of the season.’ PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. 2 BE “The most agreeable and best-acted of “Phe friskiest snd merriest sort of any of the French comedies hat Charles Frohman has had transferred into Eng farcical fun.’ k 4 lish.” PHILADELPHIA RECORD. PHILADELPHIA PRESS. E) ES) 13

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The Washington Times FRANK A. MUNSEY PUBLICATION OFFICE, Tenth and D Streets The Hour Has Struck for the Creation of a Mederr General Staff We publish on another page an appeal made yesterday in Cleveland for an army general staff by Maj. Gen. Henry C. Corbin. The speaker was, with General Young and General Chaffee, a guest of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and on that representative body he urged with homely vigor the importance of raising our standards of military administration and military efficiency. In General Corbin’s opinion, as in that of every other thoughtful critic of our present army system, no reform is more imperative than the creation of a general staff, charged with all the responsibilities of initiative and organiza tion. Such a body would furnish that centralized and intelligent direction which the army now lacks. It would weid into one harmonious whole the present independent and warring staff bureaus. It would constitute at once a vigilance committee and a board of arbitration. It would be the brain and will of a new and more ef ficient army organization. k In the light of our Spanish war experiences it would seem almost breath wasted to insist on th: failures and frictions of the old staff system. That system promoted contentions, discouraged ambition and compelled stagnation. Its defects are obvious. Under it no genuine progress can be made toward military efficiency of the higher modern type. In the light, too, of recent developments in the Caribbean Sea there should be no difficulty in convincing Congress and the country of the need of a better organized and more rationally directed army. The lesson taught by such complications as have brought Great Britain, Germany, and Italy to the brink of war with Venezuela is too direct and simple to be missed by the American public. If we are to maintain the Monroe Doctrine in letter and in spirit, we must face the responsibilities which guardianship of the Latin-American re publics thrusts upon us. We must be prepared to make good by force, if nec essary, our theory of American inviolability, Sea power is the first corollary of the Monroe Doctrine. Its next corollary is military prevision and preparedness. The creation of a general staff is an important step toward better admin istrative methods and greater military efficiency, and the passage of the measure drawn by Secretary Root and advocated by General Corbin is de manded by every comsideration of national dignity and national interest.

ALL In Its Markings It Symbolizes the Mysticism of the Concord Philosopher. Ar enterprising Western newspaper publishes an alleged picture of Emersons grave in Sleepy Hollow Cometery, Concord, Mass., doubtless under the impression that it looks like any other grave. Another, more eor reetly, states that the grave is marked not by a tombstone, but by “a gran ite bould&.” But neither of these deseriptions exactly fits the facts. A boulder is a mass of stone shaped by glacia' action and deposited in the course of the glacier’s movement. The monument on Emersons grave is an irregularly shaped mass of granite, mainly rose quartz, eut ott of a quarry at Aec worth, N. H., for this especial purpose, and not polished or carved in any way. At the head and foot of the grave are two tall pine trees, and the locality may have been chosen on account of Emerson’s well-known trib ute to the pine. There is also a singular fitness in the choice of rose quartz for the grave of this poet, philosopher, and mystic. This rock has the peeuliar property of changing its color under the influenee of eold and moisture, or unider the rays of the sun. If specimens of it are placed under wet moss in a dark cellar they will become rose-pink, while if kept in a sunny room they fade to white. The hitl from which this great piece of quartz was taken is known as “Beryl Hill,” and eontains not only quartz and quartz erysials, but beryl, tourmaline, and garnet. In the cavity or grotto niade by the re Juoval of the monument large beryl erystals are to be seen in the rock. as well as the black and deep red needle-shaped erystals of tourmaline. and in early spring, as the snow melts from the rocks, which are rose-pink and half eovered with ferns and moss, the woods about this quarry are rich in the sylvan beauty which Emerson loved. It seems peculiarly appropriate that his monument should have this origin instead of coming from the prosaie yard of a stone-cutter. To: the Editor of The Times: Sir: There appeared in your columns a few days ago a query as to what would be the result should the jury acquit charged with wife murder, upon the nd that he was insane at the time of the commission of the crime. And you quoted part of section 327, of the Code of the District applicable to the case, Had you read further in the same sec tion, you would have ascertained how he ‘eould have been disposed of. After pro viding the proper proceeding to be had if a prima facie case of insanity at the In the Public Eve. Lord Dufferin, not long before his death, wrote a biographical sketch of his ancestor, Richard Brinsley Sheri dan, which is said to have caused a re vival of interest in the work of this dramatist. Lord Woiseley Is said to be writing a book entitled “The Young Napoleon; the Genesis of a Great Career.” If some of the emperor's English con temporaries had been as industrious in this respect as English writers of today bave been, we should have a great deal of Napoleon literature which would be more interesting than accurate, It may surprise readers of the novels of W. A. Fraser to learn that he is not only an author and a sportsman, and something of a naturalist, but an artist of great cleverness. This goes to prove that a man of real force usually has some to spare for several different voca tions besides the one which makes his name kaown, Timely Military Reforms. The Grave of Emerson. INSANITY AND MURDER TRIALS. time of trial is made out, the statute uses this language: “Or if an accused person shall be acquitted by the Jury solely on the ground of insanity, the court may certify the fact to the Secre tary of the Interior, who may order such person to be confined in the hospital for the insane.” Of course, this is no longer a practical question In Thom's case. But I writs this merely to satisfy the minds of your readers who read your article propound Ing the query. 1 am very truly yours, J. ED. PENNYBACKER. ‘Washington, December 20, 1902. “Unconsidered Trifles.” “Here,” sald the author, “is 2 book which will make your hair stand on end, one of the great problem novels of the century, and yet you refuse it.” “Yes,” sald the publisher, meekly; “It’s too risque for us.” “And you refused my religious novel because you said there were so many of ‘em in the market that it would be too risky. Now what is a fellow to do?’ “Couldn’t you weld ‘em together? If you could we'd jump at the chance. “Great Scott! I'll do it. Now I see, what you want in a popular novel is something not risque, nor risky, but just—-"" “Frigky. That's it.” “lI see that Mr. Baer says he doesn’t care for J. Plerpont Morgan.” “Well, what of it? Morgan isn't gup posed to be suffering from unrequited af fection, is hel” ii Extremes. Imprebable. and an important factor in social and business life until within a few years, is fast passing away. He began to disappear from New York nearly twenty-five years ago; and now it is as difficult to find a genuine specimen as it is to discover an egg of the great auk, although in some of the smaller cities and country towns he still welcomes the coming or speeds the parting guest. When 1 was a boy the landlord of the chief hotel of the town was regarded as a most important personage. He knew everybody not only in the immediate vicinity, but for hundreds of miles in every direction. He ‘was a storehouse of information, and knew mere family secrets than the fam ily doctor. He made the guests who stopped at his hotel feei that he was personally interested in every one of them. He called them familiarly by name, inquired after their wives, children, or sweethearts, sympathized with them in misfortune and rejoiced with them in prosperity. His hearty handshake on arriving made the stranger feel at home, and on departing made his journey seem all the pleasanter, The evolution of the modern hotel is responsible for the shelving of the old-time landlord. There is no place for him in the great caravansaries of today. He belongs to the days of the stage coach and the packet lines. The traveling public has no time to make his acquaintance or to exchange with him views on the news of the day. Then, too, he is an exceedingly busy man himself. He often has several hundred men and women in his employ and his hotel shelters from one tc two thousand people every night. He must be a man of great executive ability in or der to so manage his establishment that his guests shall be satisfied with the service they receive and that the stock holders shall get a suitable return for the money invested in the hotel, Te old-time landlord, a picturesque figure in fiction it Testified for Itselr. veloped with such an overwhelmiug effect as was at tained not long ago in Chicago, the matter at issue re lating to the soundness of a certain barrel of sauerkraut rejected by the purchaser. ‘The suit was brought by the manufacturer to compel payment, but {hen the sauerkraut itself was produced in the court room it so fully confirmed the grocer's claim that its ‘offense was rank and smelt to heaven’ as to compel an instant verdict in the defendant's favor. Also, it left the judge on the verge of collapse and emptied the court room of an erstwhile interested and amus ed audience. A good witness is a pearl beyond price. CC vetonea wa testimony in a case at law is not often de Mules and the Tobacco Habit. clares that ‘Money makes the mare go.” But, ae cording to a news ctory from Chester, Pa., the per suasive motive power of a rale in that interesting locality is tobacco. The mule had palked and was stubbornly refus ing to budge, despite the arguments of entreaty, blows, curses, and kicks being employed by its master. Along comes Farmer Wallace, the tale runs, snd puts a chew of tobacco A LL the world is familiar with the old adage which de IN THE COURTS AND CAPITALS ‘OF THE OLD WORLD Royal Sponsors for Children Born to New World Wives and Old World Husbands— Queen Alexa Special Favor to the Littie Viscount Mandeville—A Wonderful Reform Worked by an American Girl—Expensive Christening Gifts. Honored By the Queen. Considerable astonishment has been created both in this country and abroad by the action of Queen Alexandra in consenting to act as godmother to the infant son and heir of the young Duke of Manchester and his Cincinnati wife. For although King Edward while still Prince of Wales accepted the sponsor ship of quite a number of children of Anglo-American unions, this is the first occasion on which Queen Alexandru has ever assumed responsibility for the spiritual welfare of any child whose mother is a native of the United States. Among King Edward's godsons who have American blood in their veins, are little Lord Blanford, eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough and his Vander bilt duchess. Young Sir Albert Edward Naylor Leyland, whose mother was Miss f.anie Chamberlain, of Cleveland. Ohio, a.d Albert Paget, eldest son of Gen. 4rthur Paget and of his wife, who is a di :ghter of the late Paren Stevens of Jaw York. But the infant Viscount ‘Mandeville, doubly American, since not only his mother, but also his father’s ‘mother are natives of the United States, can boast of being the first child born ‘to any of these matrimonial alliances between this country and England who has had Queen Alexandra as a sponsor. Based on Sound Reason. Based on Sound Reason. Of course the question will arise a_ to why the Duke of Manchester, whose pre nuptial career was signalized by the wildest dissipation and extravagance, should have been made the object cof such a marked com] ..ucLi ull (he part of a sovereign noted for her deep re ligious feelings and her distaste for everything that is enconventional, dis sate, and ‘extravagant, and there are doubtless many in this country who would have expected her Britannic ma jesty to be more ready to confer this distinction upon a child of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough than of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. But there i8 a reason for this, and it is worth explaining. Of all American women who have mar ried abroad there was none who suffer ed so cruelly for conferring her hand upon a foreign nobleman, rather than upon one of her countrymen, than Con sielo Yznaga, Dowager Duchess of Man chaoster. No New Worid wife of an Old World aristocrat would have been more justified than she in appealing to the divorce court for redress and for disso lution of a union that had been convert ed by her husband's conduct into little less than a martyrdom. Yet she refrain ed from airing her wrongs in public, from appealing to the law for liberation from bonds that were odious, and, in a word, endeavored as far as possible to conceal from the public the scandal of her husband's whole existence, This attitude on her part, which her foes attribute to shrewdness and her friends to feeling and regard for her children, won for her in a very marked degree the friendship of King Edward and his Queen, especially the latter, and there has been no American-born wo man who has enjoyed to such degree THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902. PASSING OF THE OLD-TIME LANDLORD. By GUSTAV BAUMANN, Proprietor of the Holland House, New York. THESE ARE STRANGE TALES, BUT TRUE. the good-wili an, zbove all, the inti macywof Alexandra of England as Con suelo, Duchess of Manchester. She was a constant visitor at Sandringham dur ing the lifetime of the late Queen, was always treated there with the most sig nal regard by her royal host and hostess, and was frequently invited to bring one or another of her children with her—a most unusual compliment. Invoked King Edward’s Aid. When the present Duke of Manchester grew up, he was at his mother's re quest frequently taken to task by Kirg Edward with the object of putting some check upon his extrivagance and some restraint upon his dissipations. But the King, who was so successful in the case of young Lord Dudley, when the latter's mother appealed to Edward VII to help her preserve her boy from ruin, could do nothing with the young Duke of Man chester, who ended by alienating all kis friends and relatives—save his mother. That the young Duke of Manchester's marriage was in the first place distaste ful to his mother, who had hoped for a more brilliant match, is no secret. But her boy's wife, though in no sense of the word a beauty or conspicuous for her elegance, chic, or fascination, managed to bring about what all those who were interested in the young duke, including King Edward, the young peer's grand mother, that wonderfully clever and ex perienced woman of the world, the Duchess of Devonshire; his uncle, Lord Gosford, and others had failed to accom plish, namely, his reformation. Now a Settled Farmer. Since his marriage he has settied down into a respectable, quiet, country gentle man, popular with his neighbors both rich and poor, and contenting himself with the pleasures afforded by his home and by his children, This has encouraged his mother to devote to the settlement of his debts a porticn of the large fortune which she inherited from her brother, the late Fernando Yznaga, of New York, in which she was likewise assisted by her boy's Cincinnati father-in-law, and the consequence is that the young duke is now free from any habilities and has re covered his seat in the house of lords as an hereditary legislator, from which he was suspended at the time of his bank ruptey. This process of reformation of the young duke, and his recovery from a so cial and financial fall that seemed at one time beyond all hope of repair, has been watched with sympathetic interest by Queen Alexandra, who has known lhe duke from childhood, and when, there fore, his mother, Duchess Consuelo, ap pealed to her majesty to mark her ap sproval of his reform by accepting the role of sponsor to his little boy, she readily consented. Duties Not Arduous. Queen Alexandra has so seldom offi ciated in the capacity of godmother to children of non-royal rank, that it is dificult to know how she will regard her obligations toward this particular Anglo American godson, in whose name she He rarely ever sees the people whose names are upon the register, unless he meets them accidentally in the car ridor or office. In time he gets to know a few of the most prominent of his guests, but that is all. Those who patronize the hotels come in direct contact with the clerks and the manager. All complaints are re ferred to the latter for investigation, as he is the executive head of the establishment. He seec the guests whenever they desire to consult with him on any subject. He represents the landlord on all occasions. The landlord himself! only appears when the manager has heen unable to satisty the demands of the complainant. He ix, as it were, a court of last resort, from whose de cisions there is no appeal. Much more is now demanded of a hotel than formerly. The modern guest expects not only to be housed and pro vided with the best the market affords in the way of food, but to be given many of the luxuries formerly obtainable only in private houses. A first-class hostelry must provide valets for the men ard maids for the women; be prepared to serve elaborate dinners in the apartments at an hour's notice; furnish telephone service, hoth city and long dis tance, in every room; act as a depository for money and jewelry; secure good seats for the opera and theater, and perform a thousand and one duties of a personal nature. The modern landlord could not begin to look after the comfort of his guests, even if he so desired. All he can do is to watch the heads of departments and see that they per form their duties in a proper manner. He would personally like to know those who honor his house with their patronage, but that would be physically impessible. His chief ambi tion is to build up a large and profitable constituency among the traveling public by making his establishment the most attractive in the city. in the mule’s mouth, whereupon the animal ascended the erstwhile objectionable hill in a happy canter. Another chew was given when the first was exhausted, and the mule pro ceeded placidly to Chester without a break in his willing gait. Remarkable story, isn't it? Just a bit difficult to be lieve, you know—but mules are ‘“‘mighty onsartin’” animals and many strange things are possible where they are con cerned, Spirit Working for the Body. F you want to make sure that a thing is done, the best way is to do it yourself, placing no dependence upon others to carry out your wishes. This is the principle upon which worked the ghost of the late Matthias Resko, a Hungarian immigrant who died in this country recently. Matthias’ body was buried in the Newark, N. J., potter's field, and, according te the story now told, his proud spirit didn’t relish this faet. So his ghost went across the At lantic, straight to the home of his sister in Hungary, and there told her the melancholy tale, whereupon she took steps to have her brother's remains disinterred and placed in a private cemetery. And not until this was done did the ghost of Matthias Resko cease to haunt her, thus proving that Matthias realized how necessary it was to keep ham mering until the desired end was gained. has renounced “all the pomps and vani ties of this wicked world.” It is some what a serious obligation when under taken for a boy who has the blood of the House of Montague in his veins. Possibly she may think herself bound to look after his spiritual welfare. But in that case she will be an exception to royal godmothers and godfathers. King Edward, his brother sovereigns on the continent, and royal personages in general, as a rule content themselves ‘with the gift of a silver bowl hand somely engraved at the time of the christening, and that generally ends the ‘matter. For I have never yet heard of a royal godparent attending his or her godchild’s confirmation, or remem bering the godchild in a testamentary way in his or her will. “Many a Little.” But then it must be sald in excuse for royal godparents that they are so frequently asked to accept the role of sponsor that it is wonderful, especially on the continent, that they are not ruined by giving even as much as they do. Thus I can recall that Empress Eugenie of France accepted the role of godmother to every child born in France on the same day as her son, the late Prince Imperial, and each child registered as born on that day received the name of Eugene or Eugenie, and a gift of money—1 think it was 100 francs. Sovereigns are likewise obliged by tradition to accept the role of sponsor to the children of all ambassadors and ‘ministers that are born while the latter aro accredited to their court, and in asmuch as it has been decided that the Presidents of the United States and of France are entitled to receive from foreign powers the same honors as a sovereign, these honors carrying cor respording obligations, President Roose velt will find himself compelled to act as godfather to the child of any foreign envoy at Washington born during his ‘tenure of office at the White House. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. "A Mixture of Pronouns The funniest thing about cases of wo men who have successfully masqueraded as men is the uncertainty in pronouns noticeable in accounts of their discovery. The chronicler usually seems doubtful whether to call the masquerader “he” or “she,” and ends by using first one pro noun and then the other. Here, for ex ample, is a paragraph, from the “New York World” relative to the woman who passed as “Harry Norman” in Buffalo: At a Seneca Street lunch room, where ‘‘Har oy had been employed as a cook, it Is said that he took a week's vacation a short time ago, giving as a reason that he was going to get married again. The women she worked with say “‘Harry” always acted like a “perfect gen tleman.”” She used to remark once a week or so that she was going out to get a shave. The landlady at 325 Seneca Street, where ‘Harry’ roomed, said that she had suspected he was not a man. He had lived there for more than a year, and Mrs. Norman called often and did her “husband’s’’ washing, but did not room there. She said that Foster, another lodger, often routed ‘‘Harry” out of bed to buy drinks for him in a saloon and get information about his (Foster's) wife, who had deserted him. Foster always supposed that *‘Harry’ was a man. The landlady sald Norman swore “like any gentle man” A Turbulent Repubiic, Fickle in Its Attaci m nts and Careless of Its Obligations. Secretary Root told \he House Com mittee on Military Affairs the other day that the understanding between the United States, Germany, and England made it impossible to become involved in the Venezuelan controversy. He was 80 positive in his asse~tions that several of the gentlemen present considered his language veny significant and drew the inference that President Roosevelt was not unwilling to see Venezuela chastised for her sins provided her assailants made no permanent occupation of the country and did not interfere with our com merce, The new recruits in the Venezuelan invasion simplify the situation consider ably. The more the merrier and the safer. It will do the other LatinAmeri can republics a lot of good to have Ven ezuela jumped on by every nation in Europe; it will toach them the penalty of dishonor and will teach that country a wholesome lesson very much like that which the farmer taught the polecat that was stealing his chickens. He shot it dead, dragged the carcass out into the road and commenced to beat it with a club. A neighbor who happened along asked him why he was beating a Hfe less animal. “I'm larnin’ the critter thar’s punish ment after death,” he replied. Nobody can conceive of any other ad vantage the great powers of Europe can derive from their attack on Venezuela. There isn’t the slightest doubt that Pres ident Castro is a very bad lot, and that the Venezuelans are the most turbulent and unveliable people in America. If evi dence were needed to prove that fact it can be found in the Pantheon of Cara cas, where there is a long row of monu ments erected to the honor of national patriots, who, almost without exception, were assassinated, imprisoned, driven into exile or allowed to die of starvation by the very people for whose welfare they gave their lives, In the building v'here congress meets the walls of a large reception room are EX-SPEAKER REED’S BLUNTNESS. How an Instance of It Lost Him Political Suppcrt in the Southwest ern Territories. An interesting example of how his bluntness of speech sometimes got ex Speaker Reed into trouble is furnished by an anecdote which George D. Perkins of Iowa, who was in the Fifty-fourth Congress with him, now relates. As acting chairman of the Committee on Territories, he went 10 see the Speaker regarding some committee room changes. N. O. Murphy, the Territorial Delegate from Arizona, who was apparently not recognized by Mr. Reed, accompanied Perkins. To continue the story in the latter's own words: “The Speaker wanted tc know what business the Commitiee« on Territories was likely to have. I enumerated various things and closed by referring to the Sfatehood bills. Mr. Reed looked up at me quizzically, and said: ‘Now, Perkins, don't you think we ought to make a few more free silver States?” Murphy had been standing a step or CHIVALROUS TOM OCHILTREE: The death of Tom Ochiltree recalls a notable compliment to him extorted from General Wigfall, of Texas, who for some ‘reason was personally hostile to Tom, and whom the writer happened to meet at dinner in London shortly after the close of the civil war. Wigfall, the elder generation of readers will remem ber, was a Senator of Texas at th® out ‘break of the war, and one of the most ferocious and voracious fire-eaters in or out of the Senate. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, but of a vin dictive and unsparing temper, with a rough tongue ready to express it. On the occasion mentioned Wigfall was in a reminiscent mooi, and related, ‘among other things, how, on the eve of the withdrawal of the Southern Senators, ‘he came to reply to the famous Union speech of Andrew Johnson, then a Sena tor of Tennessee, and regarded as a renegade by his colleagues from the South. While Johnson was speaking (so ran the reminiscence) Senator Mason of Vir ginia came over to Wigfall's seat and said: “We want you to answer John son.” “Why don't you answer him?” ‘asked Wigfall. “Oh,” responded Mason, “I can't do justice to him. You are the only man among us who can answ him as he deserves to be answered.” un derstand,” returned Wigfall, rating the compliment at about its true value, “you want me to do what you are too much of a gentleman to do yourself.” Mason, of course, protested. Wigfall, ‘of course, consented, and the reply was ‘made, filling the bill to overflowing. The ‘speech, personally and politically, was vituperative in the extreme, and might have occasioned bloodshed in the Senate chamber had it not been interpreted as a precursor of bloodshed in the country at large. Yet the exhalations arising from the CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS IN THE TREASURY. To the Editor of The Times: Sir: It is the custom in the Treasury Department at Christmas time to start subscriptions for the benefit of messen gers and others, and in nearly every in stance these subscriptions are headed by the chiefs or assistant chiefs of the va rious divisions. Now a great number of the clerks in he service have sons and other relatives who do not receive as large salaries as do these messengers, and to whom they DISTRACTED VENEZUELA. A Wreath on His Grave From a Personal Enemy. hung’ with portraits of other great men 8% the country, nearly all of whom suf fered a similar fate. The people of Ven= ezuela have erected monuments to Sim Bolivar, their George Washington, almost every town; they have named their currency after him; his coffin and his shroud and garments he wore are preserved with gacred care in the na tional! museum and all his speeches, letters and other writings have been published in gorgeous style, but ail this consideration was displayed after he was driven from the country to starve in exile, No honest man, no patriot, was ever able to enjoy honor and justice in Ven= ezuela until after he was dead, and al though there are multitudes of excel lent men and noble women in the coun try who may be admired and irusted to any extent individually, yet collectively as a race, as a nation, they are entitled to no confidence. In the long line of presidents and dictators who have ruled over the country very few have been legally elected, and very few have been allowed to serve out their terms, and while in office they have been unable to distinguish between the public revenues and their private incomes, and have usually been treacherous and tyrannical. I suppose these traits are in the blood, and perhaps are the result of training. No colony was ever treated more un justly than Venezuela when it was under the dominion of Spain. For centuries the people were the victims of Spanish deception, cruelty, and duplicity, and since they have been a republic their own rulers have imitated this example, It is dificult, however, to see how the European powers are going to make any thing for themselves out of this demon« stration. They cannot collect their bills, because Venezuela has no money to pay them and no credit upc which to bor row. Nevertheless, they can *““larn the critter that thar’s punishment after death.”—W. B. Curtis in Chicago Record Herald. two back awaiting his turn, and I glanced over my shoulder and saw him retreating. “When I withdrew I at once ran into Murphy and Catron, who were holding an excited conference in the Speaker's lobby. I found them very angry. They wanted to see Flynn of Oklahoma with out loss of time, and they were in agreement that Reed would not get a Western vote for the Presidentiai nomi nation. As Reed would probably hear of this disturbance’ and would have a right to think at I had viciatea his confidence, I hastened back to his room. When lI told him who was at my elbow and had overheard his remark he contemplated his desk a moment in avident embarrassment. When he look ed up zgain, he said, with an attempt at carelessness: “Well, Perkins, we must all suffer for our own folly.” "—New York Evening Post. battlefields, of which it proved in fact a precursor, seemed only te glorify it in Wigfall's vision, and, looking back across the “bloody chasm’ in which his cause was lost and from which he himseif had emerged with his bare life in his hands, he repeated with gusto, and (it must be said) ad nauseam, the more characteristic of the words that had helped to open the chasm at his feet. His appetite for fire appeared so unsated that he relished it in regurgi tation. Wigfall was never reconstructed. But this by the way. In the course of conversation Tom Ochiltree was named, when Wigfall said: “I knew his father, Judge Ochiltree, wal and a fier gentlaman did not live, 4 take no stock in Tom, though. He is my aversion. But I will say this for him. Tom is as game a fellow as ever breath ed. He was on mv staf fam p———— during one of the most desperate en gagements we had, I remember, Tom rode up to me in the crisis of the battle, and reported for orders. He knew I was not his friend, but no trace of it ap peared in his bearing, which was more ‘that of a fleld marshal than a volunteer aide. “Not caring whether the d—a repro ‘bate got killed or mat I ordered him to the hottest part of the field, from ‘which I expected him never to return alive. He bowed, as if he had been of fered the dearest thing in life, and swept away as if to seize the prize. As I saw him spurring I could not repress some compunction at having sent a fellow of such superb courage into what both he aud I knew to be the jaws of death.” Tom Ochiltree was a gay gentleman of chance—a chivalrous soldier of fortune in life's wars. After them he sleeps well. Let this wreath from the hands of a personal enemy (himself no longer among the living) be laid on his grave.—From the Philadelphia Record. would like to present Christmas presents. Why, therefore, should they be asked to contribute to a benefit for the messen ger “who is better compensated for his services than a great many mechanics on the outside? These messengers, in addition to their regular duties, run errands and perform other private ser vices for their chiefs, who, it appears take this method of showing their appre ciation. I um respectfully yours, J. W. B. Washington, December 18, 1902,

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1992. The season between Christmas and New Year is always a gay one at the Capital, and this year there will be no exception. Few of the officials return home for the holidays, and many func tions are set for that period, so that the young men and young women home from school and college may be in cluded among the guests. Miss Roose velt is frankly fond of college men, de voted to her father’s alma mater, and, while no ambitious function, such as the ball of last year, has been arranged for the coming holidays, it is not to be doubted that Miss Roosevelt will give several small affairs In honor of her friends who will visit Washington be tween now and the New Yeqr. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt make much of holidays, und this year a united fam ily will gather around their board. Theo dore and Kermit are home from Croton, and, with the aid of their young com panions, they manage to keep the White House from becoming too dull.

The Attorney General and Mrs. Knox will give a dinner January 24, In honor of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Knox will not begin her formal re ceptions until Wednesday, December 31, after which she hopes to continue them throughout the season. Following the custom of giving a din ner every Sunday to his official family, which he began when he was first ac credited to Washington, Count Cassini will entertain the members of his staff this evening at dinner. Count Cassini and his daughter are deeply interested in the sueeess of the Greek church, which was lately dedicated fn New York, and later on Countess Marguerite Cassini purposes to give a costume ball at the New Willard, some thing in the nature of a kirmess, where all the nations of the world wiil be rep resented by ths beaux and belles of the Capital, for th» benefit of this church. Lady Herbert is still in New York as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and will remain until! there is a change the condition of her brother-in-law, Cornelius Vandervilt Durham White Stevens, counselor of the Japanese legation, Is at the Albe marle in New York for a few days. He left Washington on Thursday, and is ex pected at the legaiicn on Tuesday. Mr. T hira, as the official represen tative of his country, accompanied the Crant family to New York, and wiil be present at the committal of the remains eof Mrs. Grant at Riverside Park today. The royal family of Japan have sent through the legation here messages of condolence and sympathy to the chil dren of the late Mrs. Grant. Mrs. George Dunn will remain in Washington until after the marriage of her nephew, McKee Dunn McKee, to Miss Bates, which will take place De cember 27. She purpeses to leave Wash ington the mext day for Denver, Col, where she will join her husband, who has recently been appointed judge ad vocate of the Department of Colorado. Charlemagne Tower, the present am bassador to Russia, asked for Major Dunn's detail as military attache to his embassy, but his request was not grant ed by the War Department, as Major Dunn's services were needed in this countrv

vm——— Major Arthur Merry, of the Artillery Corps, and Mrs. Merry are passing a few days at the Ebbitt House, Mrs. Moore, wife of former Surgeon General John Moore, U. 8S. A., will not receive this winter, owing to comtinued ili-health.

Col. J. E. Symmers, U. 8. A., and Mrs. Summers are at the Oxford for the win Ler. Miss Helen Wallace, of New York, i¢ passing the holiday season with her sis ter, Mrs. Lloyd M. Brett, at Fort Myer. Miss Maud B. King, daughter of the late C. A. King, lieutenant U. 8. N., and Miss Virginia Baker are passing the holidays at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Lieutenant Commander D. P. McCart ney, U. 8. N., who has been ill with pneumonia at his home, 1704 Nineteenth Street. is rapidly recovering. Mrs. Dickso®, wife of Medical Inspec tor S. A. Dickson, U. 8. A, who has been detalled as fleet surgeon of the South Atlantic Squadron, will remain in Wash ington in her husbar?’s absence, Mrs. W. H. Cook will pass the Christ mas holidavs with friends in Milwaukee, Mrs. Olmsted gave a dinner to young women last evening in honor of Miss Henrietta Bates. Her guests were Miss Eliza Morgan Bates, Miss Glover, Miss Hattie Norris of New York, who is pass ing the winter in Washington; Miss El sie Cobb, Miss Sanger, Miss Mary Sher

At the White Honse The Cabinet Doings of the Diplomats. In Military Circles. Dinners. idan, Miss Daisy Wilson, Miss Hagner, Miss Noit, Miss Gertrude Clagett, Miss Rose Douglas Wallach, Madam Henri de Sibour, firs. Horace Westcott, Miss BEth el Anderson, Miss Sophie Stanton, and Miss Genevieve Carolan. wv. a 7) 7

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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Chapin enter tained at dinner Wednesday night in honor of Miss Gertrude Brown, daughter of Mrs. Sevellon A. Brown, a debutante of this season. Her other grests were Miss Bloomer, Miss Patten, Mr. Mer rick, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Horstmann, and Mr. Gibbons.

Senator and Mrs. Burrows entertained at dinner Friday night in honor of Sen ator and Mrs. Alger. Their guests were Justice Brown, Senator and Mrs. Hale, Senator and Mrs. Lodge, former Secre tary and Mrs. John W. Foster, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Radcliffe, and Mrs. Stanley Matthews. Robert S. R. Hitt, second s srretary of the American embassy at Berlin and son of Representative R. R. Hitt, chai n of the House Commmittee on Foreign Affairs, whose marriage to Miss Edith R. Gray, daughter of Justice John Clin ton Gray, of the New York court of ap peals, will take place next Tuesday night at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, gave his farewell bachelor dinner at Delmonice’'s last night. His guests included his brother, W. F. Hitt, who will act as his best man, and his ushers, J. Clinton Gray, jr. and Austin Gray, brothers of his flancee: H. Rogers Win throp, Milton S. Berger, Payne Whitney, William Hale, and Dr. Van Buren.

Mr. and Mrs. Madison Ballinger gave a dinner Wednesday evening in honor of Lieutenant Hiddinga, of the Dutch navy.

Mrs. Thomas H. Anderson gave a tea at Rauscher’s yesterday afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock to introduce her daugh ter, Miss Anderson. The debutantes of the season assisted in receiving. Mrs. Foraker, Mrs, Dolliver, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Bristol, and Mrs. Howry presided in the tea room. Miss Anderson's dress was of white mousseline, and she carried a large bouquet of pink roses. Mrs. An derson wore a Paris gown of black Chantilly lace. The rooms were decorat ed with pink roses, Southern smilax, and ferns. Many of the prominent go ciety people called in the course of the afternoon, and the debutante received a quantity of beautiful flowers.

Mrs. E. R. Wallace and Mrs. Virginia Thompson introduced their niece, Miss Purdy, at a tea Thursday afternoon from 4 to 7 o'cleck. Mrs. Wallace and Mrs, Thompson were assisted in receiving hy Miss Josephine Postlewait, Mrs. T. F. Marshall, Mrs. Elliot, Mrs. Wallace Ba ker, Miss Schultz, and the Misses Keech. Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Thompson will receive Fridays in January. Mrs. Henry Somers Weyand, of Capi tol Hill, gave a tea Wednesday after noon from 4 to 7 o'clock in honor of her daughters, Miss Helen Howell and Miss Virginia Weyand, when Miss Helen Howell Weyand's engagement to Henry McCoy Walters was announced. The rooms were decorated with palms and flowers. Mrs. Weyand wore a becoming gown of white silk, Miss Helen's frock was of -mbroidered white veiling, trim med with lace, and her sister wore white silk mousseline. Mrs. Weyand was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Wil liam B. French, Mrs. Anderson Lacey, Mrs. Joseph I. Weller Mrs. John Groff, and Mrs. Charles Bayly, jr.; Miss French, Miss Repetti, Miss Maydwell, Miss Turner, Miss Walker, Miss Mar guerite, and Miss Louise French, Miss Johnston, Miss Wilson, Miss Brown, of Rochester; Miss Day, of Frederick; Miss Young and Miss Julia Young, of Phila delphia, daughters of Hon. James Ran kin Young, were stationed in the dining room.

The engagement of Miss Grace Wat gon Sutherland and Gardner C. Leon ard, of Albany, is announced. The mar riage will occur in February, Mr. and Mrs. Yvon Pike announce the engagement of their daughter, Annie Yvonne, to Capt. Alfred T. Smith, Twelfth Infantry, U. 8. A. The wedding will take place before Lent.

Announcement is made of the engage ment of Miss Katherine Newberry, daughter of Mrs. E. S. Newberry, of Jackson, Mich., to George Manierre, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. R. Manierre, 3993 Superior Street. Miss Newberry is the grandniece of Mrs, L. F. Selfridge, 205 Goethe, Street, Chicago, with whom she spends most of her time. The engagement of Miss Marion Hop kinson Smith, daughter of the novelist, F. Hopkinson Smith, to Heron Charles Goodhart, attache of the hritish em bassy at Constantinople, was announced yesterday. Mr. Goodhart is the grand son of Sir Francis Tress Barry, Bart.,, M. P., of Keiss Castle, Scotland. The engagement is announced of Miss Frances A. Halliday, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. A. Halliday, to Lawrence Scott Carson, first lieutenant, Eighth Cavalry, U. 8. A. The wedding will take place in January.

The engagement is announced of Miss Helen T. Olyphant, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Olyphant, of New York, and Prentice Strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theron G. Strong. Mr. Stroax is a Yale

Teas. Engagements. qT Ni ny COUNTESS ZAMPINI-SALAZAR. 4 graduate, class of 1901, and a brother of Theron R. Strong. Miss Olyphant is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tal bot Olyphant, and is a niece of Robert Olyphant, She made her debut two sea SONS ARO. Announcement is made in Boston of the engagement of Miss Dorothy Amory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Amory, to Frederic Winthrop, of this city, a son of the late Robert Winthrop and a grandson of the late Moses Tay lor. Miss Amory is related to many of the leading families of Boston. Mr. Winthrop was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1891.

Countess Zampini-Salazar Countess Zampini-Salazar, of Rome, ‘editor of the “Italian Review,” was a guest at the Italian embassy last week. The ambassador gave two dinners and an ‘evening receptior in her honor, and sie ‘was entertained by Mrs. Cowles and several other hostesses. The distin guished Italian made an agreeable im pression here. She is a handsome wo man, with white hair, brilliant coloring, and expressive eyes, on the sunny gide of fifty, and, though of Anglo-Saxon blood on one side of her family, has the cordial and impetuous manners of a daughter of the South. Countess Salazar is a daughter of Demetrio Salazar, a distinguished I alian patriot, who, in the crisis of "48 joined the band of his compatriots who stood for a union of Italy. As a result, he was exiled from his country for many years. A part of his exile was passed in Paris, where he met his wife, Dore, a sister of Francis Caleutt Macua Mara, deputy to the house of commons from the county of Clare, Ireland, and a con nection of Sarsfield, the Irish patriot, whose family estate, as well as that of her uncle, Francis Caleutt Macua Mara, is now owned by the brother of the countess, Count Lorenzo Salazar. Count Salazar was married to his Irish wife

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Gift Novelties in Exclusive Designs in London in 1852, and his daughter, Signora Zampini, Countess Salazar, vw born in Brussels the following year. The Salazars are an old Spanish fam fly of Roman Catholic religion, and the origin of their coat of arms is an in teresting story. In the time of the war with the Moors a young Salazar, who fought under the Spanish standard, snatched from the hands of a Moorish warrior, whom he killed in the struggle, a golden crown of the Madonna. In ‘recognition of this deed the King gave ‘him the right to wear a crown of thir ‘teen golden stars on a field of blood.

Count Salazar is the author of the “History of ihe Movements in South Italy from the Fourth to the Thirteenth Century,” and of “Rome in the Middle Ages He also started the first In dustrial Museum in Naples, obtaining the co-operation of the government and of many preminent Italians. The Countess Salazar has inherited her father's brilliancy of mind and strong personality and her Irish mo ther’s blue eyes and complexion. After her father’s death her husband lost his fortune and she took upon herself the burden of supporting her family by writ ing. Her first literary work, children’s stories, was followed by a novel. She afterward became the editor of the “Ital ian Review,” and was the first woman to lecture in Italy. Her themes have al ways been women or the soctal questions of the «ay. The countess holds a chair at the Reval Woman's Superior Institute in Rome. When in Washington, she spoke to a distinguished aud’ence at the Woman's Club, en “The Wonien of Mod ern Italy.” Countess Salazar visited this country in 1885 as a delegate to the interna tional congress, and made nine differ ent addresses to that body. Though the countess is a business woman, and has held a man's place in the world, she is distinctly feminine in manner, and re gards her home duties and those of ma ternity as the first and highest. The Countess has two sors, Mario, a captain in the royal Italian navy, and Hervy, a lieutenant of the Royal Italian Field Ar tillery, of the Thirteenth Regiment, in Rome, and three daughters, the eldest of whom is married. Wr A Admirers of Dr. Thomas Nelson Page's charming Virginia sjories will be glad to hear that he has advanced so far in the writing of a new book as to have ramed it “Gordon Keith.” Dr. Page, who has recently been en gaged in a hunt in Essex county, has a farm of his own in his native section of Virginia, Hanover. with some very fine stock on it. Dr. Page's brother, Fussell Page, iives at the old Page bomestead, near Beaver Dam. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Niel, formerly of Washington, are making their home in Atlanta, Ga., at the Majestic. Miss Bessie Johnsor, daughter of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, scored a brilliant success the other night at the Colonial Club in the French skit “Une Soiree Mangues.” Miss Alice Caldwell Hegan, of Louis ville, Ky., author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” who has many friends in Washington, has received a wedding presént from the “Century” Company in the form of a diamond-encrusted watch and pin. It is studdad with thirty-nine stones and was accompanied by a grace ful note. Miss Hegan was married to Cale Young Rice on Friday last. The Unity Literary Club met Wednes day evening in the drawing room of the Colonial Hotel. The president, Judge Hosea B. Moulton, presided. The Rev. Henry M. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representatives, gave an ad dress upon “Voice Culture.” A soprano solo was given by Miss Margaret Dob Stylish Xmas Furs at MODERATE PRICES. HILE we are famous for our LOW PRICES, we have not achieved this reputation by sacrificing quality to price. Fvery fur piece in our stock, no (iatter how small the price, is manufactured of the fin est skins, fashioned in faultless manner, and perfect in style. Our Holiday Stock has been re plenished, and it is fully prepar ed for all demands that may be made upon it. £27 Xmas purchases delivered promptly. SAKS FUR CO., —E i3th and G Sis. Furs Exclusively, Notes. bins. accompanied by Mrs. C. S. Hyer. Recitations, ‘The (ivpsy Flower Girl” and “Sister's Beau” were given by Miss Madeline Stiffins. Miss A. Rosalie Hol berg sang “Si Jetais Jardinler” and “Sunrise,’”” accompanied by Madam Hol berg. Others who took part were Mrs. Ruth W. Simpson and Miss Annie L. Rodgers. Miss Carolan, of San Francisco, who will be one of the bridesmaids at the Bates-McKee wedding, is visiting Gen eral and Mrs. Bates at their home, in N Street.

Jesse E. Potbury, of the District bar, is making a jour through the Southern States. He will pass the greater part of his vacation in Georgia, where he will speak at the Young Men's Christian As soclations of Atlanta, Macon, and Au gusta. Mr. Potbury expects to return early in the new year.

Mrs. James A. Hughes, wife of Rep resentative Hughes, of West Virginia, entertained her sisters, Mrs. C. V. Gen tv and Mrs. Mary Felix, of Hunting ton, W. Va., last week. Mrs. Hughes and her sisters are members of the old Vinson family of Kentucky, the younger members of which moved to West Vir ginia a few years ago. Typical Southern belles, since their removal to the Little Mountain State, they have been leaders in society there. Mrs. Gentry is con sidered the handsomest woman in the State. Many entertainments were given in honor of Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Felix while they were in Washington.

Mrs. Charles E. Munroe and Miss Mun. roe will receive Saturdays in January.

Mrs. Burrows, wife of Senator Bur rows, will receive Thursdays, January 8 and 22 and February 12, at 1404 Massa chusetts Avenue. Miss Dillingham, niece of Senator Dil lingham of Vermont, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. H. Carpenter, of Milwau kee, Wis.

Representative J. W. Dabeick of Wis consin and Mrs. Babcock will pass the Christmas holidays in Cuba.

Invitations have been jrsued for a large ball to be given on Wednesday evening, January 14, by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Thomas, in honor of their daughter, Miss Alice Lee Thomas, at their residence, 1016 St. Paul Street. Mrs. Thomas gave a beautifully ar MENUS TO GLADDEN CHRISTMAS DINERS The Times yeste published two Christmas menus, pared by Pfuff, chef of the New Willard. One was intended for a family of five persons in moderate circumstances, and to cost not more than $5. By way of vaciety, the steward of the Riggs House, Charles Ratto, has prepared the fol lowing menus jor Christmas dinners. First is given a dinner that can be provided at a cost of $1 a plate for five persons. 1

Five Dollar Dinner for Five People. Blue Point Oysters. English Beef Soup. Radishes. Olives. Broiled Spanish Mackerel, Maitre d’'Hotel. Cucumbers. French Potatoes. Tenderloin of Beef, with mushrooms. Green Peas, Roman Punch, Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Brussel: Sprouts. Water Crees. Vanilla Ice Cream. Cakes. Coffee,

SMOOT, COFFER McCALLEY, 1216 F Street. Phone 725. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. rr EXQUISITE GIFT GOODS. ——In the dainty things that make up this stoek quality and style are conspicuous and pleasing features. Any gift you buy here is sure to prove a delight to the woman who receives it. FINE OSTRICH FEATHER STOLES. An excellent line of all the latest novelties in black, white, gray, and black and white—good lengths— $18 00

worth $25 to $35. Special BOE ovine te cia NEW COQUE FEATHER STOLES. —An exquisite array in pink, blue, and black very full and fluffy —regularly worth $6.50. Spe- $3 75

CBE ROE vv vs oiv mus anim savin snnas iain ona NEW DUBARRY SCARFS. —The prettiest ereations in plain and figured $3 50 effects—regularly worth $4 and $5. Speeini for. FULS AT 20 PEP CENT OFF. ——All the new styles in Neck Furs of genuine mink, sable, fox, Isabella Fox, Lynx, Marten, and squirrel. 20 per cent off regular priees. i All that's best in Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Hos- iery, Fars, Umbrellas, Dress Goods, Silks, Table Linens, Robes, Suits, Gowns, Wraps, Jackets, Waists, &e. SMOOT, COFFER McCALLEY, 1216 F Street. Phone 725. Mrs. Harry F. Blount wili entertain a Christmas party at the Oaks this week. Her two sons, Harry and Walter Blount, who are at Cornell University, will coma home for the holidays. Her other guests will be Miss Annie Nesbit of New York, Miss Helen Prescott of Atlanta, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blec, and Miss Reynolds. Mrs. Blount will give a ball Christmas evening.

Mr. Reginald De Koven will 2ccompany two of his own songs at the “musical tea,” which is to be given for the bene fit of the House of Mercy at the New Willard, next Monday afternoon. De cember 29. Thomas Nelson Page, John Fox, Mr. Rummel, violinist, ané Mrs. J. C. Johnson and Miss Harlan, daugh ters of Justice Harlan, are on the pro gram. Other persons equally prominent in social and musical! circles will lend their assistance to this worthy cause. Who these will be has not yet heen definitely determined. i Mr. Philip Slingluff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fielder C. Slingluff, of Madison Street west, will return tc his home from Pittsburg, Pa., where he is con nected with an engineering corps of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and will be i» Paltimore during the hol idavs

Miss Ethel Baker, of Chicago, who is at school in Washington, will return home for the holidavs Miss Baker is a daughter of Mrs. William Vincent Baker, of 2125 Calumet Avenue, and a noted hostess of the Windy City.

Mrs. and Miss Burke are passing some time in Atlanta, Ga.

The seccad menu is more expensive and will cost not less than $5 plate. Both are dinners that will make the Christmas feast one enjoyable and long to be remembered. Following is the more elaborate bill of fare: The Twenty-Five Dollar Dinner. Caviare on Toast. Lynn Haven Bays. Clear Greer Turtle. Amoatilade. Celery. Salted Almonds. Olives. Broiled Live Lobster, Drawn Butter. Cucumber Salad. Sweet Breads Braized. Fresh Mushrooms. French Peas. Diamond Back Terrapin, (a la Maryland). Asparagus on Toast. Punch Lucullus. Canvasback Duck. Ogange Marmalade. Hominy Fritters. Lettuce and Tomatoes. Frozen Nesselrode. Fancy Cakes.. Crackers. Cheese, Coffee. eee me—— mee 2 ranged luncheon on Thursday at her res= idence in honor of her debutante daugh ter. The decorations were holly, with red ribbons and red-shaded lights. Cov. ers were laid for fourteen, the guests including the debutantes of both this and last season.

Mrs. De Koven, who has long taken a deep interest in Oriental lore, is ;vising a Persian dance. Gen. Isaac Khan, the Persian minister, is co-operating with Mrs. De Koven in the preparation for this entertainment, and society is look= ing forward to something unique and in teresting. It is said the sword and fire dances will be givea, and a series of interesting tableaux. Smart Set in Baltimore.

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IN THE WORLD WHERE DIVINE WOMAN REIGNS SUPREME. le 3A ty

NAEP Yea, LA ALIA AR TILL FL LL ES The French Figure Puz zles London The Fair Sex of the British Capital Do Not Un derstand It Parisian Corsets a Necessity to Working Girl and So ciety Woman. 0)

HAT a world of difference there is between an English wo man's figure and that of a French woman! says an Eng lish writer. A bust that is large, hips that are full, and a waist that is small is the ideal of one, while slight, nar row hips are the dream of the other. For the French woman there is not the gmallest vestige of beauty in the typical English figure; in fact, she will ask, “Where is there any figure at all in that ‘slight, straight-down form?” And, even ‘when her own rounded plumpness runs to abnormal excess, she will consider it preferable.

The Parisian Opinion.

In Paris one often hears another say, *No, she has not a pretty face, but she #8 a beautiful woman.” It is the figure that is thought of, a figure that, north of :the Channel, might be known as “ter :ribly stout,” though a second glarce will ‘ghow that the two styles of figure are jutterly different. As a rule, an over weighty English woman has layers of fat d her neck and shoulders that give er round-shouldered appearance, and her superfluous avoidupois will bulge out “all round and look uncontrollable, while masses of it about the upper part of the arm will give awkwardness to almost bevery movement. With the French figure there is but i little of this. Perhaps the weight of f flesh is the same, but it is braced up in a different way, and is carried with a light, elastic step. The back of the French woman is quite straight, and has i apparently but one layer of flesh to cover it, and the well-molded arms do not sug gest anything but natural plumpness. The bust, however, is large, very large to an English woman's eyes, though it is the pride of the French woman. Then below the waist there is a decided flatness in front, though the hips are wide and well covered, but ut the back flatness is never permitted below the waist line.

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SOME OF THE WONDERFUL AND COSTLY CHRISTMAS “TOYS” OF FINANCIER J. PIERPON MORGAN HERE are toys and toys—from one-cent trifles that bring joy to the poorest of little ones, to “big dolls that stand up alone” and

a #peal fire engines” that bring gladness 40 the children of the rich. And this is the season of the year when all the world is talking about toys. But the last man that anyone would think of in connection with a toy is J. Plerpont Morgan—he who has the great ‘est business interests in the world. $F,

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Yet J. Pierpont Morgan has the most expensive toy on earth, and the chances are that he has examined it more care fully and has taken more real pleasure ‘out of it than the ordinary four-year-old “does with his first hobby horse or red wagon.

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1 “§t last August, when, for $250,000, he hr ‘Bought the great Gubman collection of antique silver cups and salvers, the most valuable collection of its kind in the world. His purchase in Berlin from Con sul Gubman was en bioc, and the valu able toy was among the objects of art which comprised it, 4

4 i The toy, of course, is not for little children, although it would amuse them bugely. It is a drinking vessel of the

Renaissance period, and the most valu ‘able in the collection. Imagine the sur prise of a stag party of twenty banker friends whom Mr. Iforgan would have around his mahogauy when this “toy ‘began to show what a rare and an ac “commodating work of art it is. Imagine the twenty séated at the talle after the cigars had been passed around and at the moment when each of the twenty ex pected his liqueur or brandy.

aos OA A da a 4 i Is Also an Art Treasure. Mr. Morgan would excuse himself for A moment, and returning, would place 8 pegnificent silver stag, richly capa ‘risoned, at the end of the table. On fit would be seated Diana, and accom pasying her through a terrestrial para dise, typified by various forms of ani

lacings anywhere near the waist line would not be thought of for a second. After this are the four suspenders fastened. one by one, on to the stock ings. sufficiently tight not to tear ths pase but to keep the corsets well strap ped down, and to give a braced-up feel ing.

All around the hins the corsets are tight and close fitting. At the top the) are wide and loose. A petticoat, per fectly shaped as it may be, is neve! allowed within three inches of the wais line, and is kept in subjection by one t more hooks: and a corset cover i

of spending one of these on a now pair of corsets and make the othe. serve for the gawn. And, what is more, she will have the corsets specially made for her. They may be made in the leisure hours of another girl who is a corsetiere, but they will be done pro fessionally.

The French corsetiere, too, is not always easy to please. Should you go to her and askyher to make you a pair of corsets, she will critically scan mal life, would be splendid stag hounds. This treasure, embossed, chased very thin, sparkling with jewels and revealing all the charms of a work by Cellini, would at once excite the ad miration of the diners. But even then, perhaps, none would forget that the liqueur was still forth coming. Then would come the sur prise. Unseen, Mr. Morgan would touch a secret spring, and forthwith the stug, Diana, bounds, and terrestrial paradise would move down the table to the first diner and stop. The diner would not Ho A A x Ye y or a a THE SHELL CUP. your figure before answering. If you do pot came up, to her standard she will soon tell yeu so, and put you through’ 8ome exercise that you may have to practice for a week or so be fore you pass muster. And, further, she will teach you ex actly how to put on the corsets and how to wear them. If they have busks, always should the lowest hook be fastened first, theyothérs following on in turn. know the reason. He would inquire. Then Mr. Morgan may be imagined saying: “Why, he wants you to have some liqueur. Just remove the head and you'll find what vou want.” And on lift ing the head the diner would find a flask filled with the rarest liqueur. Then he would replace the head and the mo ment he would do so the stag, operated by clockwork, would move to the next diner, and so on until the last one had been served. There are but two toys in any sense similar in the world. One is preserved THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902, TITTIES, SS r a v wr w—— ——y THE “SURPRISE” TOY. BRIDE OF THE HOLIDAYS. But it is not only the corset that helps in this French figure. It is the dressing. To see a French woman dress is a study. An En lish woman, more often than not, will scramble <a all her things until she comes to her dress, and then in the royal treasury in Germany. The other is owned by the head of the Rothschilds family. But if Mr. Morgan were still further bent en interesting his friends he would exhibit a remarkable cup with a fan tastic shell-shaped bowl and cover, decorated with an antedeluvian fish rep tile of toad-like aspect escaping from a fisher's basket. This is another gem of the rich collection. The stem is formed by a fisher boy, and there are curious little figures of mermen and dolphins about the handle and base. Bat WHR IN 5

THE TUN OF HEIDELBERG. begin to fuss. By this time a French woman has done all her fussing. Every ‘garment she puts on is smoothed down, ‘drawn here, pulled back there, and all while she is standing in the most cor ‘rect position, in front of a long glass. With her corsets come even greater care. Most studiously they are pushed down into place, and then the laces are slowly drawn tighter and carried away te catch under some hooks before they are tied—for a knot of cords or silk These are only two ef the treasures which Mr. Morgan recently bought, and which, after having been exhibited at Victoria and Albert Museum, were re moved last week to Mr. Morgan's house at Prince's Gate. It is not, however, to be supposed from these examples that all the designs are equrlly fantastic, for among them are covered beakers, tankards, flagons and goblets worthy from their sedate rich ness to be by a Holbein on Jamnitzer. One or two of this class are selected for illustration; but of the number of lacings anywhere near the waist line would not be thought of for a second. After this are the four suspenders fastened, one by one, on to the stock ings, sufficiently tight not to tear the Io=e but to keep the corsets well strap ped down, and to give a braced-up feel ing. All around the hips the corsets are tight and close fitting. At the top they are wide and loose. A petticoat, per fectly shaped as it may be, is never allowed within three inches of the waist line, and is kept in subjection by one, if not more hooks; and a corset cover if it comes below the waist line, will be firmly fixed in position, so that the smallest wrinkle is an impossibility. It is by the avoidance of unneces sary bands and cords coming around the waist the French woman contrives to make her waist look comparatively small and trim. And it is by horsehair pads and those of tow that she fills out her hips and bust. Much of pad ding comes in the dress, a h reast plate of woven horse hair ing the firm, stiff appearance from arm to arm and shoulder to bust which is now con sidered so chie. THE TRIPTYCH. crystal, agate, ivory, nautilus-shell, co coanut, ostrich egg, ship-shaped, and cther types of cups, or of the flasks shaped like animals, which comprise a menagerie of bears, lions, stags, goats, bulls, rams, and even partridges and peacocks, it is hmmpossible to give exam ples. Among the grander and most valuable pieces are the well-known but rare twin standing cups embossed like pineapples, and some enormous embossed and gilt salvers, some measuring nearly three feet in diameter. One of these, Spanish, An Interesting Subject Which Awaits the Historian Forgotten Women of Great Gen ius—Manv Who Won Distinction by Their Ability Artists and Poets Among Them. a i i a Sh a

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Antoinette Bourignon indited twenty volumes with her own fair fingers; Anne Maria Schurmann wrote a philosophical treatise proving that the female mind is as capable of learning and of science as that of the other sex. In these days who would take the trouble either to write or to read such a treatise? She fell into mysticism in her old age and had a strange passion for eating spiders, but everything must be permitted to genius. Then there was Juana Inez de Ila Cruz. She interests one sirangely, be cause she was a Mexican and one has never before or since heard of any genius or learning coming from the quarter between California and Texas and the Tierra de! Fuego; it is a good, large tract of country, with a good many people, among whom there seems to be neither learning, nor science, nor art, nor genius. However, Juana showed the way. While still quite young she disputed with the scholars of Mexico on equal terms. She wrote poems in sev ‘eral quarto volumes. The critics seem agreed that the lady's verses are con spicuous for elegance, but are deficient in energy. As for La Mere Jeanne, she was a Venetian and not a poet, but tke author of a new system, which she herself— no one could know the fact so well as herself—declared to be inspired. In this system she assigned the do minien of the world to woman instead of man. is exquisitely enameled with the arms of Castille and Zeon.

Of the few religious pieces, the most important is an ebony triptych, with sil ver and gold appliques, comprising a Pieta, Annunciation, Resurrection, and statuettes of St. Michael and St. George, minute bui worked in the most exquisite detail and of the date 1598. Fos bh 3

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4 Nearly all the specimens in Mr. Mor gan's collection are of German origin, though some few are English and Span ish, and of the Renaissance period.

Fantastic Loving Cups. Though scourged by prolonged wars, Germany has never been denuded to anything like the same extent as other countries have been, of its treasures of art in the precious metals, and thus it happens that Germany has furnisied to this collection a surprising numer of standing and loving cups, as well as wager cups and extraordinar; flasks fashioned in the most fantastic forms, meant by their bizarre shapes to pro mote hilarity. Nearly every one of the best known types is represented in Mr. Morgan's collection. oo, i $d 4 e

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=H. SOTHERN AND HIS PRODUCTION OF “HAMLET oa How This Remarkable Actor Has Invested Shakespeare's Famous Tragedy With Wonderful Realism and Power---The Thespian's Life-Long Desire to Interpret the Role of ‘the Mel- ancholy Dane---Tremendous Cost of the Production and the Absolutely Perfect System of Stage Management It Requires... a PA— IPR PP ap 4

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about thirty years ago a dreamy eyed youngster persisted in cov ering his copy books with col ored drawings and reading Shake speare. The precocity of the boy wag frequently remarked and as often lamented by the staid English professors of the institution, and they freely pre dicted the lad must become either an artist or an actor. The boy in time be came both—for he was in embryo the E. H. Sothern of today and had been taken from his New Orleans home to Jearn in England his first lessons in life and art. They still preserve at that school a copy of Shakespeare's plays, thumb marked, torn, and ragged. This is ex hibited as “the one ‘young Sothern’ burned midnight cil over between times” and the source of his ambition to give the great bard's greatest play the most generous production in the history of the stage.

i The most memorable event of Soth ern’s youth, in his own judgment, is a visit with his father, “Dundreary Soth ern,” to Denmark and the castle of Krongherg, Elsinore, Denmark, now well known as “Hamlet's Castle.” The fort ress was finished in 1585. It frowns over the North Sea so fearfully that many of the peasants who live near declare they still see three ghosts; that of Hamlet, that of Hamlet's father, and that of Holger Danske, the Barbarossa of Den mark, who sits asleep until Denmark shall need his help. Hamlet's Influence Still Great in Kron berg. All this, of course, made a wonderfully deep impression on Dundreary Sothern’s son, and when the youth grew to man hood and undertook his first production of Shakespeare's “Hamlet,” the memories of that visit were so clear that he was able to sketch for his scene painter most of the details of the castle and many circumstances of its environment. What affected him most were the gloomy bat tlements seen in the moonlight. It was upon these battlements Hamlet saw the ghost of his father, and tnis scene Soth ern has depicted, as shown in an accom panying illustration. Kh Jacob A. Riis, author of “The Battle With the Slums,” who lectured in this city last Friday, was also a visitor tg Kronberg Castle, and has described the fmpression ov gains from it ia the fol lowing terms: “Standing in the ‘flag battery,” with m) back to the guardhouse and followin the moonlight track to the shore wher the ghost walked, I more than once fei gure he must have been there, the scen is so perfectly apparent. You pick ou the spot at might and once you haw hitched the play and place together there is no getting them apart again.”

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He sgaw the contract made with Hans Kneiper with directions for the portraits of ithe 111 kings of whom there was a record, in cluding himself and his son Christian 1V, also an order issued in the year 1585 to allow Tyge Brahe, Christian's “man and servant’ to have access to it, “that he might more intelligently publish the story of the monarchy, according to the names and order of the portraits on the tapestry we have made in our hall in our palace of Kronberg.” What is left of the historical arras which Mr. Sothern has expended a gmail fortune to reproduce, is still to be seen in the Copenhagen Museum of Antiqui ties. It was twice imperiled by fire, once when Kronberg was all but wrecked in 1689, and again in the Palace of Fred ericksburg, when that was burned {oc the ground in 1859. The remnant shows fifteen of the 100 kings—the line fron Valdmar the Victorious to the Secon¢ Frederick An Inspired Conception. Although Sothern had Hamlet in mind as an undercurrent since his boyhood Gays, the complete character as he now presents him may be said to have been created in a moment. It ws net built up of small details, nor hammered la boricusly into being. It was, as Mr, Sothern says, a divine thought, inspired THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1902. by his second visit to Elsinore. The dominant note is the pathetic suffering of this youth driven to suffer not only because of the wrong heaped upon him self, but for the wrongs of others. He tried to forget the old conceptions of Hamlet in the consciousness of a new THE FRENCH SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE HE trial of Syndon, the young Freuch painter, who was found «guilty yesterday by the assize court, of Rouen, of killing the husband of the woman whose portrait he had painted, and with whom he had fallen in love, reveals in a most striking manper the inherent faults of the French system of criminal procedure, with its medieval, inquisitorial, pitiless perse cutioq that has aroused enlightened pub lic opinion in France to such a degree that societies are forming with a view to bringing about radizal reform, says a Rouen correspondent in the “New York Tribune.” Syndon was ably defended by Maitre Decori, who was recalled from his trip in the United States 10 appear in be half of his client. There were many sen sational incidents in the trial. Syndon shot hie vietim at Etretat last Septem ber on the public promenade, after a sharp «iscussion, during which Mme. David, ‘he murdered man’s wife, was present. The jury found Syndon guilty of “voluntary homicide without premedi tation,” and sccorded him extenuating circumstances. He was condemned to ten years’ hard lator—a sentence which, on the whole, meets the approval of pub lic opinion. Among the witnesses for the defense were the painters Bonnat, Jules Le febyre, and Tony Roberti-Fleury, who testified to their former pupil's good character and artistic talent. There was, indeed, considerable sympathy in favor of Syndon in Paris and at Etretat, but the result of the trial is probably the same as if it had taken place in the “I AM THY FATHER’S SPIRIT.” crestion in which Hamlet was never mad, but always guided by reason—a character both somber and sweet. In this gloomy old castle of Elsinore it seemed to Sothern as though the real Hamlet came to him, and he merged his spirit into jt. United States. But the attitude of the judge and jury, the animosity, the the atrical expressions of feeling, and the ir regularities that in an English speaking court would have been impossible, are highly interesting to note from the American point of view. What first struck the American soec tator was the militant, excited and fe rocious aspect of President Houssard, who acted as judge, and who bears a ‘marked resemblance to General de Gal liffet. President Houssard, in red and ermine gown and wearing a black vel vet and gold cap, had long, :uilitary, gray mustaches, which he now nnd then twisted with nervous agitation. The jury was composed of well-to-do, thrif ty Normans, with dark, cunning eyes, and bronzed faces. Syndon begged the jury to be indul gent and take note that the portrait was in an unfinished state. At this stage of the proceedings a ‘spectator blew his nose with a trumpetlike sound, The judge pulled his gray mus tache, frowned, and looking at the sergeant who commanded the soldiers and policemen who kept or. der in the courtroom, exclaimed: “Sol. diers! Take fifteen spectators by the coliar—any fifteen you may select—and put them out into the s‘reet! Summor re-enforcements if you have not mer enough to carry out m orders!” Fo ten minutes there was indeseribabic confusion. Finally the unfortunate fif teen were thrust outside of the room. At this point Maitre Decori, counse for the prisoner, interrupted with the courteous inquiry: “lI beg pardon, Mr President, but is this the speech of the prosecuting attorney?” The irascilis judge paid no heed to Maitre Decori’s "eo It is no wonder, therefore, that this conception of Hamlet fairly electrified New York when it was first revealed. Sothern had beer known before as a ro mantic actor who had played the good uetured and reckless Lord Chumley, the gawky and provincial maister of Wood barrow farm the hasty and impetuous Crptain Letterblair, the dissipated Duke of Guisebery, the gallant and witty Sher idan, the swashbuckling Rudolph Rassendyl, the picturesque Huguenot, ir “An Enemy to the King,” and lastly D’Artagnan and Heinrich in “The Sunk en Bell.” It was Hamlet which first made him more than “capable.”

Sothern gave two years to the mere mdchanical adjuncts of the play. In this work he was assisted by fifty of New York's foremost scene painters, scenic artists, costumers, armor makers, an] assistants. Fourteen thousand dol lars was expended on the costumes: alone. The investment in scenery was equally great, the total cost exceeding i ah C me 2 protestation, but, glaring at Syndona, said: “Syndon, if tomorrow some one o’ David's relatives should meet you and kil' you with a revolver, what would vou say? In your case an acquittal would be the recognition of the right to a per petual vendetta!’ The judge then called upon Maitre Robert, counsel! for the family of the dead man. Maitre Robert implored the jury not to make it possible that ‘one of the murdered man's chil dren should meet in the streets of Paris their father’s assassin.” At this point one of the jurymen stood up, waved his ‘handkerchief, clapped his hands in hearty approval, and shouted, “Bravo!” The judge paid no attention to Maitre Decori’s protest against suck irregular applause. Maitre Decori then made an eloquent speech for the defense, and while the jury retired for deliberation one of Syndon’s little gisters, who was present among the spectstors, was seized with a nervous attack and had to be removed from the court room. The jury came back and rendered the ver diet of guilty, with extenuatieg circum stances. Maitre Decori then submitted his objections, based upen three well established grovnds for appeal. First, the jury during the recess had walked about in the court house and talkeu about the case with the public and with counsel; second one of the jurors had openly stated during the recess and ir the hearing of twenty persons that “Our mind is made up; the murderer's lawyer can say nothing that can alter our con viction,” and, third, that another of the jurors had been guilty of the impropri ety of shouting out “Brave!” an acl that disqualified him from acting as iuror $30,000. Even the music was especially arranged by Adolph Mohr, the famous German composer, who was decorated by the German Emperor for his beautiful composition of “Hamlet,” Mr. Sothern obtaining the exclusive rights mn it for this country, so that both the entr'acts and incidentai music should be original. The lightibg effects were given much attention. The scene in which the ghost aprears, for example, was the result of ceaseless experimentation by Mr. Soth ern’s electricians for three months, and the result is said to surpass in weird ness and mystery the finest effects of the Irving productions. An exhaustive search was made thrcugh the list of actors for Shakespearean impersonators, and several artists were especially brought over from Lendon for the pro duction. One or two of these were in Forbes Robertson's revival of the piece at Irving's Lyceum Theater.

A Task for a Drillmaster. The drilling of the company and su pernumeraries occupied three months In the production one hundred and fifty people are employed. According to the cast, the principals are twenty-one, fifty extras are used in the mise er scene; these are described in the pla) book as lords, ladies, officers, soldlers players, sailors, messengers, and at tendants. Over eighty are required te put the play on. These are scenic ar. tists, carpenters, property men, exper electricians, calcium men, cleaners wardrobe people, call boys, and gen j eral stage hands. Each detail wa carefully thought out by Mr. Sethern with his guiding aim throughout t make it more elaborate and faithfu than any other presentation of “Ham let.”” Mr. Sothern was present at Hen ry Irving's first night in London and a Salvini's last night of the play in Ne York. and saw Bernhardt in the char acter. As a member of McCullough’ company he shook hands with Hamle in two different characters in the pla) Rosencrantz and Guildeastern. This wa tat the time when Viela Allen was als connected with McCullough's compan} He saw Booth for a few minutes in th churchyard scene, while he was engag ed in New York at another theater. That “Hamlet” was intrinsicall worth all this study, labor, and extravs g gance, there can be no doubt, and sty {dents and lovers of the drama are grea ly in his debt for bringing it so elabo rately to view. No play has caused more discussion and diversity of opin fon. In the whole range of art there is no other part so full of apparent contradiction. Yet the charm of Ham let's character gives it a fascination ale most universal. He has been described as the “concentration of all the inter ests that belong to humanity.” One man consider: Hamict great, but wicks ed; another good, but weak; a third, that he lacked courage and -lared mot act; a fourth, that he had too much m tellect for his will, and so lost in re flection the time for action; some thought his madness half genuine; olh ‘ers agreed that it was wholly feigned.

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ER EE mmm T. "nm course of time there appeared a mound on the bluff, marked with a plain granite shaft that bore the name of the melan choly Dane. The relic hunters chipped it to pieces in one brief season. The hotelkeepers provided another and that d went the same way. When last I stood lat Hamlet's grave, I beheld a migh R ty heap of stones and slag—several cart loads. My friend, one of the solid citizens of the town, nodded knowingly at my look of amazement. ‘We caught up at last,” he said: ‘We just have enough carted out from the gross works every year to fill up the holes they made the season before; then let then go ahead. Want to go to “Ophelia’s Spring?’

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‘Readers of last week's Young Folks’ Section were shown how to make a small pasteboard theater in which plays may be given with mechanical toys. The first of the toy plays was also published last week. Here is another play which may be given with mechanical toys. If the chil dren of one family have not all the toys required to give the play, a small club of the children of one neighborhood may be formed. each member of which can bring some of the toys needed. The theater, made of pasteboard and light boards, has no floor.

The wings are open, and from these the children who are giving the play manage the toys. The theater is placed on a table so that the toys may run easy over the smooth boards. The table and the theater should be quite large, so that the toys may have room to run. Curtains should be hung at either side of the table so as to conceal the children operating the

or ‘When it is necessary to have the toys stop on the stage to make speeches, they can be controlled from the wings by means of strings. The speeches are mads by the children in the wings.

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Goat—Ha! ha! What a stupid little fellow you are! Come, we must hurry. (Exeunt Mouse and Goat.) (Enter Bear and Tiger. Bear carries a pole with a gilt paper crown on it.) Tiger-—I was sure that I saw him go ing around the corner. Bear—He will be back soon, I guess. Let us wait here. Tiger—That was a clever trick cf yours. The dying King Lion said: “My heir has a beard; he is a hard-headed young scamp.” You hit him on the mouth. Bear—Hush! Circus poA\ers have ears. Don’t you dare to :#:y I hastened the death of .the old King.

ee p—— Tiger—Don’t worry. Prince Lion may have a beard, and he may be hard headed, but you and 1 shall have a ruler with whom we can do what we please. i

Bear—An old Goat is a better king than a young Lion.

Tiger—Ha, Ha, Bear! Here comes our King. Oh, what a King!

(Enter Goat.) Tiger—We hail thee, noble King of Beasts. Bear—For you, O Monarch! this geld crown bear. 1 Tiger—Come, your Majesty. We, your humble counselors, wait to take you to your forest throne. Your old father, King Lion, is dead.

Goat—It is as 1 expected, humble creatures. 1 shall go with you, servant Bear and humble Tiger,and with me shal! take my Minister of State, Baron Mous:.

Tigr—We greet thee, mighty Mouse, Bear—Your servants ever, O noble King and illustrious Minister of Sta‘e!

(Goat advances to the front of stage Enter other animals and group about him.) Goat—I am come into my own. 1 William I, of Goatville, from this day forth the King of Beasts shall be. All—Long live the King! Cartain.) In the jungle of Toyland—Diseovered: —Goat seated on his throne, with Prime Minister Mouse near him. Goat—H'm, Tiger, what is this story THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. PECEMBER 21. 1902, i

HH) ACT 1}: I hear that you are plotting against me? Ca SEE RE Tiny Tiger— It is false, your Majesty. None like you more than I. I could eat you. (Enter Pig, as herald, followed by Dog and other animals of Goatville.) Pig—in the name of Lord Elephant, I challenge William 7, King of Goatville and Emperor of Toyland, to mortal com bat.

Goat—What does this mean, Baron? Mouse—It means that you must figh the Elephant or he will take your crown. Goat—Tell the puny little Elephant that 1 shall fight him as soon as he is ready Mouse—Animals, give three cheers for your warlike king. Animals—Hip, hip, hooray! Oh. how brave and noble is our king! (Curtain.) ACT I1 ACT IIL Jungle of Toyland. Discovered: Ani mais at back of stage. Tiger—It will be the last of the Goat. Bear—I'm afraid the Elephant will be harder for us to manage. (Enter Goat, with Mouse at his back.) Goat—This is my last day, Mouse. I'll be crushed to a jelly. Mouse—Don’t be afraid. Trust me. (Enter Elephant, with Pig on his back.) Tiger—Are you ready? Then fight. (Elephant trembles and shakes and tries to back out.) Blephant—Oh, Samson Mouse, don’t kill me. Don't crawl in my ears. I'll be your slave. Mouse—If you hurt the Goat, I'll do my worst. (Goat runs against Elephant and knocks him back.) Pig—Oh, fool that I was not to re member that elephants are afraid of mice! (Goat butts Elephant off stage.) (Enter Prince Lion.) Lion—It has been a long journey. I've just heard of my o)1 father's death. I have come for my own. All—Hail to the young Lion, our king! (Re-enter Goat and Mouse. They start in surprise at sight of Lion.) Lion (roaring)— Who is this creature with my father's crown? Mouse—It is the humble Goat, who ‘saved vour kinzdom from the Elephant. Gout—1 give back ‘he crown, my King. Lion-—Thanks, my humble friend. 1 make you captain of artillery. And you, ilinstrious Mouse, 1 appoint my prime minister of state. Animals—Long live the Lion. our king! (Curtain.) Kid O'Grady, wrapping his tattered lit tle jacket about him and holding it to gether over his chest, for it was guilt less of buttons, and the night air was raw and perpetrating, scurried down Crooked Alley and out ir'o the big thor oughfare upon which it opens. He did not wish to remain at home, for, it be ing Christmas Eve, Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady were engaged in a celebration of more than usual magnitude. As the hours crept on, the crowds in the streets thinned, the lights in the shop windows were lowered and Kid, after hunting diligently, found a place to sleep in a less frequented quarter of the town. As the night waned a chill wind arose and Kid awoke shivering. He looked at the stars and at the red crescent moon appearing over the tops of the houses, and then he stepped softly into the street and set off at a brisk run to get warm. Away along silent streets, where the lamps blinked sleepily at him, and the patter of his little ragged shoes awoke mysterious echoes, such as are never heard in daynight. He was quite out of breath when he reached a large enclosure, separated from the street by a high iron fence. As he reached the fron gate that led into the garden he idly gave it a little shove, and being unlatched, it yielded to his touch and swung open. Kid paused for a moment, and then moved by an un controllable impulse to see what lay within he passed through it and along the wide path that led to the house. At the foot of the wide steps he hesitated, but the four French windows, with their closed venetian shutters, seemed to lure him on and he crept up on the piazza, Methuselah, the box turtle, philoso phized in the.garden. Two hundred years before, when Methuselah was young—for such is the great age of box turtles—he had lived in the great forest, dividing the freedom of the woods with the In dians, the wild turkeys, and the buffalo. But now the Indian and the buffalo had been driven to seek refuge in the Wild West show, the turkeys had been tamed to the farmyard and Methuselah himself had been compelled by circumstances ‘and a strong cord to spend his declining years in a backyard of a New York city house,

The old patriarch wus still sufficiently strong to dig up whole bricks, heavy stones and entire sunflowér plants: Methuselah knew that it was almost time for his six-month winter nap to be gin, and already his cousins, the mud turtles of whom there dte .nany—the painted mud turtle, the map iurtle, the speckled tortoise, and the diamondback terrapin—had gone into their mudholes for the winter. He knew that in the far off forest the frost grapes must be ripe, and from time immemorial this had been the sign by which he and his forefathers had discovered when it was time to go into the earth for the winter. a NRTA. 1 Always since they had come into the garden to live Methuselah and John had gone into winter quarters together, and after six months’ sleep they had come out together and appeared in the gar den on the same spring day.

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Almost at the same moment John and he began to burrow. They were not so close as to interfere with each other, and neither paid any attention to his com panion. They dug away steadily unt] they had almost reached the frost-line; then they turned and mounted again tc the outside world. It was their last glimpse of outdoors for six months, But they wasted no time on sentiment. Each turtle poised him self on the edge of his hole, shut his shell up tight, and deliberately fell over, head first, into his winter bed.

Having performed this act, his labors were by no means at an end. Down in the hole he began digging again very in dustriously, until he had gotten well be low the frost-line. Then again he drew

A RAGGED CHRISTMAS HERO. “IT'S ONLY ME, KID O'GRADY. I'LL PUT YOU OUT.” SA Bae hak ahd So ad Ly By FRANCIS A SCHNEIDER. and going to one of them, seftly turned the slats and looked eagerly into the great room beyond. It was dimly light ed by a low-turned gas jet and the re mains, of a log fire that smoldered on the hearth, but Kid could distinguish nearly all the objects in it, and that which particularly attracted him was a splendid Christmas tree, on which hung all manner of beautiful toys and bright balls and tipsel that gleamed softly in the dim light. Something very. unusual was happen ing in the nursery of the big stuccoed house through whose library window iKd gazed so eagerly. Arthur, aged six, son and heir of the House of Rankin, had arisen from his crib in the gray dawn and was tiptoeing across the rooms, looking back warily from time to time at his sleeping nurse. “Wot's acomin?” inquired Kid of him self, his eyes growing bigger. He saw the apparijion pause before the tree and look at it long and delightedly. He saw it lovingly finger the toys on the lower branches. He saw it flit from place 10 place and stand on tiptoe to get a bet ter view of what was highed up on the tree. Its lips moved continually, as if it were talking, though Kid could not hear a word. Then he saw it drag a chair t6 the mantlepiece, take something from a box on the shelf and lean over the hearth, all unconscious of the tiny flame that crept up its gown. “By jiminy, it'll be burnt!” exclaimed Kid. Forgetting everything but the little creature now running hither and thither, too terrified even to cry out, Kid began to batter on the window pane with all his might. It yielded at last with a crash. It was an easy matter, then, to in his head, closed his shell, and settled down for good, not to wake again until the spring. Neither Methuselah nor John nor any of their relatives took any food or drink into their winter quarters. Unlike Mr. Fox the subject of winter food does not disturb the turtle. Even the most insig nificant mud turtle would scorn the weakness of wanting food, and in the spring when they come out they are as fat and vigorous as if they had been well fed all winter. And sleep! How Methuselah and John did sleep! Nothing short of an earth quake could have waked them. Hail and sleel storms, heavy, soaking rains, were powerless to disturb them. When the snow had melted and the R.AGen A ROMAN RIDDLE. This plcture represents a great city of Italy. The persons in the picture be long to a wandering race who go from town to town. What does this race do? If you can guess this you will have the name of the city. The answer to the last Rowan riddle was Teuton® (two tons), 4 break away nrore of the glass, and through the aperture thus made he squeezed his little body, heedless of his cut and bleeding hands and arms. Once, a long time before, Kid had seen a policeman rush to the rescue of his mother, who had upset a kerosene lamp over herself, and, wrapping her in a piece of old carpet, smothered the flames. Thinking to try the same experi. ment, he caught the hearth rug and threw it about the child, who at this instant found its voice and uttered a piercing shriek. “Don’t be skeered; it's only nfe, Kid O'Grady. I'll put yer out!” cried the boy. An instant later Mr. Rankin, hurrying into the room, came upon a strange sight. A ragged little boy, covered with blood, was rolling Arthur vigorously in t hearth rug. There was smoke in the room and the chilly dawn peeped rough a broken window pane. Under the impression thai (he Kid was abusing his son, he sprang upon that young hero and caught him roughly by the coat collar. “He set hiself afire, an’ I'm puttin” him out,” gasped the Kid, lifting a startled face. Mr. and Mrs. O’Gradv had a “swell” visitor that Christmas Day. They were neither of them in a mood for visitors, but at the solicitation of a policeman, who accompanied him, graciously ac corded Mr. Rankin an interview. On this occasion they, for a consideration, signed ar agreement relinquishing all future claims to their only son Kid, otherwise Thomas O'Grady. And Kid, who, by the way, is now known by a far more dignified title, has become a happy, prosperous man. earth softened so that the crocus buds pushed their way through to light and air, John awoke ona day, opened his shell and looked around him in the earth moist from the drippings of melted icicles. He stretched his neck out and began to reach upward, and presently, by steady pushing, he found himself in the garden. Methuselah had not vet arrived. Day after day John waited for him, sitting blinking in the sun or resting comforta bly underneath the bushes. But Methuse lah never came again. It is thought by some of his friends that he has gone in search of the Fountain of Youth, which is said to be in the center of the earth, so that he may drink of it and live another 200 years.

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CHRISTMAS AND THE CAPITAL'S POOR

What Is Being Done to Spread Yuletide @Reer and Joy in the City. i af HE Yuletide is synonymous with r good cheer, good will and plenty.

Somehow, in our flippant modern fashion, we fall into the idea that if at no other season of the year, at Christmas time the poor, the unfortu pate or unlucky, enjoy a period of cheer iness and glad, plenty and happiness. The holly gleams in a thousand homes, "tis true; expectancy and desire shine in innocent childish eyes; the stores are overfilled with jovial gift-seekers, but there is a darker side of the picture, a side where holly is an unknown re quisite and where little children too old and knowing for their vears, with eyes filled with the pathos of want, exhibit no hope in the appearance of the children’s good Saint Nicholas.

This aspect of the Christmas mosaic is recognized by the philanthropist and thoughtful citizen, While the many in dulge with careless enjoyment in the courtesies of the season that teaches In so emphatic a manner the lesson of charity, the few with brave, noble effort strive to bring some share, be it ever so small, of the Christmas cheer to those who are unable to obtain it for them selves,

In the Capital City there are many un fortunate. The. colored race, of a neces sity, contributes a large quota of the needy to be succored at Christmas. With the memories of the old plantation ‘Christmas, ever vivid in the mind, the ex-slaves teach the young to expect from some white benefactor the gifts and presents trivial indeed, but unutterably dear to the darkey heart,

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Many a woman during the weeks pre ceding Christmas, has ransacked her house for worn clothing and articles of no further service to her, but which will bring a measure of happiness. she does not dream of. to the recipients,

At the recent reports of the Board ri Charities and the timely sermon by une of Washington's prominent clergy, mucl surprise was expressed on all sides a the number of needy and the amount o suffering for bare necessaries existent ir this city.

The official charitable organization of the District of Columbia, the Associated Charities, has combined with Salvatier Army efforts this year. This unique and picturesque religious army, whose modes of warfare are, to say the least, strenu. ous, has an original 1aethod for collect. ing Christmas doles from the public.

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Ensign Sowers of the Salvation Army who is in charge of the Christmas din. ner, cheerfully gave information on the ‘project. He was just finishing smal wooden kettles, which hang from a tri pod of three slight poles. A large sig: fastened above the kettle solicits alm: from the charitable. A detailed list of re quisites, together with a stamped envel: ope for reply, are inclosed with eac appeal. /umong the articles required are 100 turkeys, 10 barrels of potatoes, barrels 250 pounds of candy, and 500 poly Lo These show the magnitude of the underta%ing. Each worthy per son receives a ticket entitling him or hes

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1 H HE children of this generation— meaning the little ones of this particul: part of the world— know mut re and have more ways {i is of enjoying themselves than the children of any other generation. The man who can succeed in keeping a child amused is a genius. But it can be done with more ease now than it ever could before. Never was there such an aggregation of toys as there is this season. And some of these have never been seen before. It has been possible for somebody or a lot of somebodies, to turn out for this Christ mas toys which are original and which will instruct as well as amuse. The Christmas toy used to be made to dazzle the eye, make a noise, and then it was thrown aside.

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Electricity has entered into the toy kingdom this year ,as it has into the age. “The very newest thing in toys,” to fol low the man who showed and explained it, is the electric third-rail system. The outfit consists of a motor, a trailer car, a four-cell battery and twelve sections of track. The track can be placed on a six-foot table, and when arranged ac cording to the plans become a double track with interlocking switches and sta tions. The signals are placed at switches. There are two trains in the system. They are started when the battery is charged in opposite directions. The power is suf ficient to cause the trains to run for ten minutes. i i

Another new toy, on the same prinei ple, is the electric trolley with four iracks. There are two cars. They start in cpposite directions. When one has gone to the first switch it stops and re mains until the other car passes. In passing the switch is thrown automati cally and the car that had stopped pro ceeds on its way. For the child of a mechanical trend there is an® upright engine run by hot alr. The mechanism of the engine is as complete as that of a big one. The fur nace contains a thimbleful of alecohol— not enough to injure even if it should ex plode—but sufficient to create enough hot air to fill the cylinder and set the engine in motion. A shaft goes with this toy engine, and at least a half doz en attechments can be operated. The one exhibited operated a iiny sewing machine, a small élevater, a little turn ing lathe, and another attachment. This hot air engine is also among the “very 1H 1 R12 F Street N. W. pewest toys” this year. Duriag the war ju South Africa the

to a basket of provisions, if they call at the army headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. These tickets are given out after care ful investigation, which the peculiar methods of the Salvation Army render possible. No table will be spread at the barracks, for then many habitues of sa loons and “old timers" reap the benefit, while the deserving go hungry. The wo men and children, too, do not come to the table, for pride and womanly re serve keep them away. By the basket system entire families receive a Christmas dinner. The bas kets, out of consideration of the feelings of the recipients, are n#t sent to the homes this year. The ensign says it is the experience of the army that the most deserving will not ask for charity and will under no circumstances ‘accept it, if the world, their neighbors, and friends have to know of its need. By giving the baskets out at the barracks ‘none need know but what the ticket holder had been buying her Christmas dinner at the markets.

At the Central Union Mission building in D Street the statement was made that they were not going to observe Christmas with special features this year. They had a t#sket dinner at Thanksgiving and intend to give a free dinner on New Year. The average number at these dinners is 400, of “all sorts and conditions of men.” An old German evangelist with a well-worn Bi ble tucked under his arm was a pic turesque figure in the office room. His “frau” kept him company and the dear old souls seemed so happy and content ed. Religion sweetens their narrow en vironments and adds nobleness to their homely natures.

At the Newsboys" Home, at Third and C Streets northwest, the inhabitants are planning merry times for the Christmas tide. This institution was founded in 1885 by ihe Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society as the ‘George Mausley Me morial Home" —a refuge for newsboys and other working boys without parents and home environments. Since then the home has accomplished good in the work among ne¢wsboys and other working boys. Here they find a re home and are surrounded by ev ery ernobling influence. The friends of the home will see that the boys have a tree and gifts in plenty while the Lit erary and Debating Club just formed is rehearsing an attreetiva program for the Christmas exercises. In a quiet and unostentatious way the good samaritans of today, the Little Sisters of the Poor are planning the Christmas gifts of food and clothes that are to gladden the hearts of the need) on their lists. In their Home for the Aged the inmates are already beginning to talk of the tree that annually bring: the days of youth anew to them. Thus the good work goes on. In the asylums the little ones eagerly await the advent of Santa Claus; in the hospitals little sufferers forget their pain as the dream of the wonderful doll or toy pa newspapers printed a good deal about armored railroad trains. The idea has been reproduced in toyland. There are thirty-four different styles of cars and seven different kinds of locomotives in the armored train in the toy store. The locomotives are run by machinery which is wound with a key. Besides the tracks there are signals at switches which are, like the electric toy mentioned, operatzd automatically,

A toy -essentially for younger child ren is the singing top. It is made of tin and is about as big as an average canta loupe. A harp is concealed in the top. When the top is wound and thrown spinning its motion produces air in the top. This air strikes the harp and then —well, there's music in the air, sure enough. These harps are so construct ed that they play different airs. The automatic fountain is a simple, pretty idea. It is new. The fountain is tin. The tube is filled with water and a stem is Inserted. It sinks of its own weight. As it goes down the water is forced through it and comes out at the ton, throwing a -tiny spray upward, which, at the height of three inches, falls back into the basin of the fous tain. All toys are not made for children. Some are for grown people who never forget the time when they were children. One of the playthings for grown-up children—the little ones are not bhar red from using it—is the electric scarf. pin. The battery, about as large as a matchsafe, is placed in the pocket. The pin, imitation of a diamond, is placed in the shirt front. The wire from the latter connects with the pin, but cannot be seen. The wearer press es a tiny button, and the diamond flash es. To the man or woman to whom you are talking, or who may be doing the talking for you, this sudden flash from your shirt front is a bit startling. I.'s like a smart saying from a dull man. The battery is good for six hours. There is, of course, the toy auto mobile. It would be singular if it were otherwise. Some of these are run by winding. They are all sizes, just like real automobiles, and some of them are quite as gaudy in appearance, If you are tired of the tin-horn racket, and the fare of the drum,.and the clash of cymbals and sounds you have heard frem your earliest remembered Christ mas, there ig something new in the man dolinette, the Turkish tubephone and the wetalachord, They are comsiructed on BA THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1902. 1 rents or kind friends will give them; Sunday schools are busy preparing the gifts that to many children are the only taste of Christmas; the cold attic is brightened by the prospect: hungry folk think of the feast awaiting them, and who shall decry the boliday or declare “that Washington does not practice, to gome extent at least, the Christmas prerogative “that most excellent gift of charity.” ELIZABETH ELLICOTT POE. A————— OL the xylophone principle, but are 1€58 shrill. One is prompted to ask, Where do the dolls go? The other question is, Where do they come from? There will be dolls just as long as there are children, and it is said there are some women who never get over wanting a doll. It would be an endless task to give even an intima tion of the number, sizes, and sorts of dolls in the doll kingdom. There may not be as many dolls as there are stars, but it's a safe bet that dolls come next. I 5

If there is anything new in the doll line this year, it is the one called the ping-pong doll. Paradoxically, the ping-pong doll is double. They are boy and girl. They come in a box. They are bound together by ribbon—baby rib bon, of ¢ourse. As you must have a ping-pong set, if you are anybody, rou must have the ping-pong doll. If you don’t haye it, or him and her, you ought to see them. i! i]

If you have any doubt as to the be wildering lot of dolls oi: earth just now, ask the dealer to shew you the case where the doll lingerie 's. There are as many ways of dressing a doll as there are ways of adding to a woman's charms. In one place uptown there are six long show cases which contain absolutely nothing except doll’'s wear. You can buy a dell from 2 cents up to $100. a. That this is a military age, and that the idea has got mixed up in Christmas affairs, is in evidence at the toy bazaars. For boys there is every sort of uniform known, infantry and cavalry. If your boy has a fancy to become a Zulu chief he can be accommodated. If he has the strenuous idea, the rough-rider uniforms are inexhaustible. If he wants to be a policeman or a fire laddy, he can find the necessary accouterments, ee

BE Sf RP tr As many of the historical novels have been dramatized, the fairy tales have been staged. Cinderella, Little Red Rid ing Hood, et al., are “peopled” by Lilli putians and placed on paper stages with appropriate scenery. With sufficient fa miliarity with these tales—and what child ig not familiar with them?—every child may, the head of the house will ing. become his or her own manager. All the characters are there ready to go on. They don’t speak, of course. Perhaps so much the better. Se er ee A tsi LLS A Santa Claus Christmas stocking is also a new fancy. It is made of gauze, so that ti:e recipient can see what the sock contains at first glance. Of course, there are Christmas trees— there would be no Christmas were it oth erwise. But if you wish to be very ‘much up to date, to be exactly proper, you will have a Christmas bell instead of a tree. It can be made of any mate rial you wish, or any material which your exchequer may allow, but white is most proper. The trinkets are pinned on the bell, and the bell is suspended. If a rope. dangles from it so much the ‘more real will the fancy be, ARE THE LITTLE ONES LOOKING? THARP'S BERKELEY RYE 1 i

a_i CHRISTMAS PICTURES WHICH BECAME FAMOUS Works of Artists Who Painted the Christ Child and Other Subjects of the Gospel. T is probable that few people who have admired the wonderful mg donnas and children of that famous old artist, Fra Angelico, imagine that the painter never got a single penny for all his beautiful paintings. And yet he spent more than fifty years of his life in painting, and was the artist of ‘such wonderful conceptions as “he “Ma. donna of the Star,” now in the monas tery of San Marco, at Venice. Angelico never even saw one of his

patrons. He was a monk, and passed his peaceful days secluded in a monas ‘tery, where he worked in his cell. Those ‘who wished for specimens of his work were obliged to apply to the prior of the monastery, and from him Aagelico received the order. The profits went to enrich tite order. The Madonna and the Holy Child was, without doubt, the most popular of all subjects with medieval artists. It is a curious fact that while many paint ‘ngs of the Holy Family were made dur ing the third, fourth, and fifth cen turies of our era, they then ceased al most entirely until the thirteenth cen tury. Between 1294 and 1523 they were produced literally by the hundred.

The earliest of the great painters of what may be called Christmas pictures was Cimabre, who was born in 1240 at Plorence. The most celebrated of his works is “The Madonna and Infant Christ,” now in the Church of Sante Maria Novella. The picture is much larger in size than any previously exe cuted, and the whole town was excited about it during its progress toward com pletion. i b

It was Duke- Charles of Anjou who visited Cimabue’s studio and unveiled the great painting, which was then car ried to the church for which it was in tended in solemn procession, followed by almost every soul in the city. The colors used in this picture are symboli cal, the red mantle of the Virgin being indicative of love, the blue of the Christ’s mantle being the emblem of heaven and hope.

Cimabue was one day walking-in the fields, when he came across a little shep herd boy named Giotto endeavoring to draw one of the animals in his charge upon a flat piece of stone. He took him to Florence, educated him and he he came his successor. Giotte painted numberless pictures of religious subjects and many of the scene of the first Christmas Day. Eis finest pletiic ie “The Coronation of the Virgin,” upon a panel in the Baroncelli Chapel of Santa Croce. Many stories are told of Giotto's honor and skill. Once the Pope sent a messenger to him requesting a proof of his skill, as he thought of intrusting him with an important commission. The ar tist took a sheet of paper and a brush of red paint, and with one turn of his “hand traced upon the paper a circle as firm and perfect as if it had been drawn with a compass. This he handed to the messenger. The greatest of all the sacred painters was, of course, Raphael, and his great picture, at present in the British Na tional Gallery, of the Virgin and Child fetched the record price of $300,000 when bought by the nation from the collec tion of the late Duke of Marlborough. Raphael's Madonnas may now be seem in every one of the great art centers in the world. There is at St. Petersburg the Madonna of Alba, the Madonna of the Diadem at the Louvre, and at Madrid the Holy Family and St. Michael. The Sistine Madonna is the last of his toll some but happy life. Three years later he died of a fever, caught while supers intending some excavations at Rome. The French housekeeper delights in her after-dinner cigarette. The senora of Barcelona loves in the evening to wrap her black cripe around her head, and while gently puffing her long tobacco cigarette to cast heart-thrilling glances from her balcony above the walks at the lights below. While the German frau is fond of her cigarette, or even cigar, and the Russian wife is not far behind her in her enjoyment of the weed, and even the Japanese, Chinese, Tartar, and Dutch wives all like to let tobacco smoke cur from their pretty mouths toward the sky, the Ttalian signora is, perhaps, the most passionately fond of the long thin cigar of the country called the “Virginia.” TELEPHONE NO. MAIN [141 WOMEN Awn sop SWEED™

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOLE IN THE WALL 12 SANE —_— RE ca aia

How Ante-Bellum Senators Slaked Their Thirst.

A JOKE ON THE HOUSE Passed Amendment Abolishing Liquor Traffic, Vainly Hoping That Senate Would Kill Measure.

The question of selling intoxicating liquors at the National Capitol has re cently attracted the attention of the national lawmakers as well as the country at large and is causing much amusement to members of the Senate on account of the awkward position the House placed itself in by depriving Its members of refreshing liguid beverages.

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rooms, 8 Tiled point being made that it was not ger y A y- Ouse ed by o ail mp Has brow porch, awnings and screens. Price, x mane to the bill. When the bill reached 1 Pe the Senate a strong opposition de

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The latest proposition, according te a Sosat ra ng ation oe ve A all buyer id the Senate side of the question, is to pass the provision along with the im migration bidl, let it become a law and ia San books show an uninterrupted tenancy for five years: house in perfect condition Rents for $12.50 per n i SE Ge o igs gine, then repeal it—provided the members of the House itself will introduce and pass the repealing measure.

1 i The Senate has a great advantage over the House in the matter of personal conveniences at the Capitol. The in creased accommodations derived from the removal of the Library of Congress, and the possession of the Maltby Build ing, situated on the north side of ihe “Capitol Park, enable every Senator to have a private room.

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When Webster, Calhoun, and other legislative giants wanted to “wet their whistles” when engaged in making and unmaking laws for their country, they visited what was then known as the “Hole in the Wall,” a small room, not far remgved from the postoffice of the Senate, which at that time occupied the present Supreme Court chamber. This small, eircular room, which received the name of the “Hole in the Wall,” was

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ham, turkey, or a few hard-boiled eggs.

While the “feed” was slow, the fluid (was plentiful and of the best, adulter ‘ated and blended whiskies not being tolerated, and, as a rule, the big men took big drinks. The “Hole in the Wall” was for the convenience of Senators and Members, and it was seldom that the a eT

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ordinary citizens availed themselves of its privileges. Of course the statesmen 1 were permitted to take their friends in

{for a friendly “bumper,” but the pro prietor generally turned them out when pot accompanied by a Senator or a Rep resentative. To some extent the “Hole

in the Wall” was a “blind tiger” and the proprietor was afraid of being pulled.”

Sideboard Adjunct.

When the new Senate wing of the Cap tol was finished provision was made in its basement for the present restaurant

and postoflice. Later on the Library ab sorbed the old postoffice, incidentally taking in the “Hole. in the Wall,” but today the littie circular room remains a reminder of legislative conviviali ties of the days long gone, When the “Hole in the Wall” disap peared there sprung up the sideboard ad 'junct for the committee rooms, and these fiourished for many years, and, in

t pe When the new Senate wing of the Cap ftol was finished provision was made in its basement for the present restaurant and postoflice. Later on the Library ab sorbed the old postoffice, incidentally taking in the “Hole. in the Wall,” but today the little circular room remains ‘as reminder of legislative conviviali ties of the days long gone, When the “Hole in the Wall” disap peared there sprung up the sideboard ad Junct for the committee rooms, and these fiourished for many years, and, in truth, some of these “wet goods” ar rangements stiil bold good in a few of the rooms of the have-all-he-wants Benators. These sideboard arrangements were abused by many who were permit ted to visit the rooms, and finally they were looked upon as a nuisance. And, too, some of the papers throughout the country began to make a protest at the large sums annually set forth by the Secretary of the Senate as having been expended for “snuff, quinine, bear's ofl, pills, ete,” but which, in fact, went for the genuine “Dutch courage.” The com mitiee room bar was anything but a success, and gave the Senators a vast amount of annoyance from the fellows who were ever ready to “panhandle” a little liquid refreshment.

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3 3 {i RB\ It was In 15366 that Henry Wilson in troduced a resolution in Congress abol iehing the sale of whisky in the build fing. The resolution was adopted, but it was never effective, and from that day to the present it has not been difficult for a drink hunter to get all he wanted, ,aithough at intervals it has been an ‘mounced that the sale of liquor had ceased, 4

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4 i i i i 4 $1 EE CURRENT ART NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE WEEK I YN IN TE SE. I Ay OI hr of art through our custom houses free of duty, which will probably be urged be fore the present Congress, is a question which presents ample grounds for dis agreement. While it may be urged that if the provision is made to apply only to objects of art produced more than fifty years ago, it will not interfere with the productions of American artists; it may also be claimed that if these objects of art are admitted, duty free, they will be used to beautify the .collections and the homes of those who are rich enough to pay the now existing duties, and that by this concession of the amount of du ties, a certain amount of rgvenue will be lost to the Government which in some way or other will have to be met by an increase of revenue in other directions.

3 For this loss of revenue the people at large will receive no benefit except from the very unsatisfactory reflection that certain art masterpieces (whieh they are not permitted to see) are now owned in the United States, and the further, equal ly unsatisfying, reflection, that some time in the future these duty-free works of art may find their way into art muse ums where they can then be enjoyed by the public.

It seems but just, if such works of art are to be admitted duty free, that the purchasers should be required by law to place their possessions on exhibi tion in public art galleries where the public can at frequent intervals be per mitted to view and inspect them, and in this manner receive some benefit in recompense for the loss of revenue which must ensue from this proposed legisla tion.

To admit works of art duty free, may appeal to those who are esthetic and sentimental, but in business matters it seems unwise to open such an avenue for profitable speculation, as it is well known that art works increase in value with age to an extent which is unknown in any other field of investment.

It is not always the best course to follow the advice of Mrs. Grundy. When George Frederick Watts, the greatest living painter of England, pre sented his beautiful work, “Love and Life,” to the American people, and there seemed to be a prospect that it would be given a place in the White House, Mrs. Grundy helped herself to an extra cup of tea and gossip was busy:for a while. As a compromise the picture was hung in the Corcoran Gallery, where it has been admired by thousands of visitors, and in the course of time the Washington public commenced to feel secure in its possession until a na tional gallery should be established. With the removal of the picture to the White House a realization of the ex tent of the loss is now deeply expe rienced by all lovers of art—for there are many who never visit the Corcoran Gallery without paying a visit to the picture as though to the shrine of a patron saint. We cannot mourn the loss of possession that has never existed, and but for Mrs. Grundy the picture would have found a place in the White House at the time the gift was made. But there will be many a fervent wish that some time this exam ple of the oldest and the worthiest of English painters may be returned to the Corcoran Gallery, where the public may see the work of a man who has painted for nearly sixty years, not for wealth or for distinction—aithough he now bears the honor of the Order of Merit—but for love of art, love of the beautiful, and love or mankind.

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The embarrassment of riches is be ing experienced by the Guild Hall Art Gallery, which is now filled to its proper capacity. This has been brought about by the bequest of Mrs. Charles Gasslot, who has delivered to the Gulld Hall the collection of her husband, who was a famous collector for more than thirty years, of art works from prominent Brit ish painters. The collection Includes works from some twenty-five noted artists. Among the list may be found such names as Constable, Landseer, Millais, and Alma Tadema. A valuable collection saved to England by the patriotism of a business man. Mrs, Caroline Thurber, a Chicago por trait painter, has recently returned to Chicago after a long residence in Eng land and on the Continent. Mrs. Thurber has won an enviable reputation while abroad as a portrait painter, and has painted portraits for many distinguished people, among them the Duke and ‘the Duchess of Sutherland. In a short time she will visit Washington, where she has a commission to paint a life-size por trait of General Miles, The water color work of F. Hopkinson Smith, consisting of subjects from Euro pean sketches, was opened to the public at the Arts Club, Philadelphia, and will continue until January 3, 1903. Those who had the opportunity to see the work of Mr. Smith in his exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery last May will no doubt live In hopes that as the exhibition is as near as Philadelphia some way may be devised to bring it to Washington. Those who are fond of this gifted painter in his other lines of talent may be glad to know that he will appear on the lecture platform in Washington in January. The third Chicago Photographic Salon, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, under the joint control of the Art Insti tute and the Chicago Society of Amateur Photographers, was formally opened on Tuesday night, December 16, with a re ception which included in its list of invi ‘tations the members of the press, the ‘members of the Chicago Institute, the members of the Photographic Society, and ‘the photographic exhibitors. As is usual on such occasions, the capacity of the exhibition room proved inadequate, and opportunity to see the pictures was made almost Impossible by the immense num ber of visitors. The exhibition, with the exemption of a few exhibitors from Canada, is purely an American exhibition, no effort having been made to secure foreign work. The pictures hung number 150—tastefully ar ranged examples of progressive American work, and represent the country from Maine to California. The absence of uny work from the “Photo Secessionist’” ad herents is noticeable, although several exhibitors who were represented at the “Photo Secessionist’” exhibition in New York last spring have work on exhibition here, but these exhibitors are not the leaders of the “Photo Secessionist” movement. Among the most tidticonble exhibits is the work of William B. Dyer, of Chicago, who exhibits portraits and genre studies of a uniform degree of excellence, and a marked improvement over some work of former years. I am glad to note that the “New York Evening Post” has formed a proper esti mate of the Anglicized Japanese Water Color Exhibition now being held in that city. While the term ‘‘hodge-podge” may be more fitting for a poorly cooked dish than an art exhibition, it seems in this instance justifiable. The trouble with this class of art is that it is neither Eng lish, American, nor Japanese, hut a com posite of the poorer qualities of each. Washington has had its infliction of this kind of semi-foreign art, and now New York and Chicago are having their epi demic of Japanese water colors. Not how good, but how cheap, seems to be the end in view.

Alice Boughton, of New York, has an exhibit of eight pictures—some of them undertaken in the open air—and evi dencing much artistic feeling In this most difficult and severely criticised field of photography.

Solon Gates, of Chicago. a profession al, exhibits three portrait studies which show excellent training in this direction, and a masterful grasp of the dignified pictorial essentials of the higher grade of portrait work. p— Oscar Maurer, of San Franeisco, takes the lead in the work sent from California, which is strongly represent ed in the exhibition. J

Osborn I. Yellott, of Towson, Md. exhibits five pictures, one of which, “Over the Hill,” has been a general exhibition favorite—and was recently shown at the International xhibition at Turin, Italy. Washington, D. C.. is represented by two exhibitors, Virginia M. Prall, who has exhibited in the two preceding Chi cago salons, and J W. L. Dillman, of the Capital Camera Club, who makes his first appearance at an out-of-town show. o r p— Among other exhibitors are C. Yar pall Abbott, ¢f Philadelphia: Herbert Arthur Hese, of Jacksonville, Ill; Ar thur A. Gleason, of Rochester, N. Y.: Alvin Langdon Coburn, of Boston, Mass. and Dr. F. Dettefsen, of Chicago. Ex ample of the work of these lastnam ed were recently shown in Washing ton at the loan exhibition of the Photo Era Company. The exhibition will con tinue until January 4, 1903. The work of John La Farge, now on exhibition at the Marshall Field Co. Gallery, Chicago, is awakening a wide variety of criticism. Some -laim that even this exhibition, comprising over fifty specimens of water colors, oils, and sketches, does not show the talent of this artist. Others claim that it is an exhibition better suited to the painter's taste than to the general public. The work seems much better and of more importance than the work shown by Mr. La Farge, at the recent water color exhibition in New York. It is certainly novel in the themes select ed. In portraying native ceremonies of the Japanese and Samoan people, Mr. La Farge has given several spirited paintings which shed a new light upon many of the native customs. In these paintings he seems to have caught the very essence of action, and his draw ing is as bold and vigorous as the most scrupulous realist could desire. In his imaginative work he has given some rare specimens of suggestion, particu i;

1 larly in his “Spirit of Storm, Japanese Folk Lore.” In this picture Mr. La Farge shows a tornado sweeping through the woods. In the swirling mass gath ered by the wind one readily sees the enemy of all animal life. You almost recognize forms of animals, and forms of men distorted beyond recogniiion. This is imt fancy. Closer inspection fails to reveal definite forms, and vet the terror of such a storm Is so vividly presented that all of the Adestruction which it brings is as strongly impress. ed as could be by the most graphic de scription. In the picture entitled, “The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River,” the artist has pictured a rapid stream bearing in the current a human head. The expression of the upturned face is as realistic as though in the presence of death. It is illustrative of a native legend of the finding of the head of a political prisoner, whose mangled re mains have been cast into the river. None of its horrors has been suppress ed in this dramatic recital. It is ap object lesson which leaves an impres sion on the beholder which can never be forgotten. This exhibition has been fortunate in the number of sales, and the prices ranging from $60 to $750 place it far above a bargain day basis. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1902 Acres of Best Toys at Auction Prices We will sacrifice the greatest stock of Toys ever brought to Washington. $20,000 worth, in Odd Fellows’ Hall Dressed Dolls, 10e up; Drums, 10¢ up: Child's Tea Sets, 10c up; Stick Horses and Chairs, 5c up. All other goods at auction prices. Hudson's Variety Store, Toys in Odd Fellows’ Hall, 423 3even*a Street. “CHRIS MUS GIF» De white folks am uh hurring Wif packuges an’ toys; Baby dolls fo de little girls, An’ ice skates fo de boys, Dey's smiling an’ is happy! No load too hard to lif’, oo Jes picks it up an’ toats along Somebody's Chris Mus gif” So I smiles an’ I is happy, Ez uh cullud man can be, As knows de white folks won't fogit Ub po ole man like me; An’ dey don't have long to study What dey gwine to please me wif; Fo’ yo’ “Unkle Ben” is thankful Fo' any Chris Mus gif. Dars Marse Harry's little gal, (Dey calls her Pansy Blossum), Done slip uh quatah in my han’ To help to buy dat possum! An’ Miss Virginia's little boy Come uh running to me wif Uh bran’ new haf uh doilah Jes’ fo' uh—~Chris Mus gif. So, ise happy; mighty happy! You mussn't mind de tears Uh runmin’ down dis ole black face, Kase I'm gittin' on in years; And de chililum dey won't know What dey pleases me most wif, It mote be de way dey hugs me— Uh, de yutha CMris Mus gif. LX MARRIAGE BROKERS IN FRANCE. Court Decision Which Gives Their Bus iness Legal Standing. Paris Messenger. A&I ATACHRCT. Matrimonial agents, in France are ju bilant. The law which up to the pres ent ha# dealt somewhat severely with them, and refused to consider as bind ing contracts made by them, is appar ently beginning to take up another at titude. At any rate, this was the case recently when the Chambre des Re quetes had to consider an action from Toulouse. Some time back a soliciton living in the neighborhood of that town engaged the services of a local matri monial agent, who in due course found a suitable wife for his client,

The marriage took place, and the agent applied for his commission, but the solicitor did not appear inclined to pay the sum agreed upon. He first de clared that the amount was out of pro portion with the services rendered, and subsequently refused to pay anything whatever. The parties then went to law, and the local civil court dismissed the agent's claim on questions of fact. He appealed, and the appeal court also decided against him, holdiag that “money payments for matrimonial ne gotiations were immoral and illegal.” i The plaintiff next appealed on a point of law to the Chambre des Requetes, which decided In his favor and ordered a fresh trial of the action by the civil court. A passage in the speech made by the Avocat General is weil worth quoting. After showing that marriage had always been considered as the basis of society, he said: “How can the fact of facilitating a marriage, of placing two families in re lationship, of procuring a companion for the man who wishes to create a family be declared, a priori, ipso facto, an act contrary to morals, to law, and to pub. lic order? The contrary is the case. A priori and on principle, it is a meritori ous action, and it cannot be considered too favorably. Must the nature of this meritorious and moral action be changed because the intermediary has not been a disinterested person? By no means. A disinterested intermediary may commit a detestable action, while an interested one may commit an excellent one. Ev erything depends on the circumstances.” Don't Bother With Coal t's expensive, and will be so all inte buy the house. They're sate and Consume only a few cents” day nd give the amount We showing an clega nt Bas pin Exchange, i424 New York Ave. GOOD WINES FOR ...HOLIDAY TIME. Order your Wines here, where good stock and quality go hand in hand with moderate prices All the Best Wines, $1 gal. up. Rums and Brandies for Xmas beverages. Our unsurpassed “SILVER EUGENE SCHWAB, 525 sth St. 8. E. House Painting and Decorating. Expert work in every particular. Sole agents for Ironclad Paint, in constant use on roofs and walls for thirty years in Washington. Guaranteed durable and damp-proof. CHAS. J. KLIER CO, Successors to Theo. F. Leland, 711 G st. nw. THIS IS A Oc BOX GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR! UASCARETS Candy Cathartic are always put up in blue metal box, our Sedarhod long-tailed O on the cover tablet octagonal, stamped OC CQ. Never sold in bulk! Imitations and substitutes are sometimes offered by unscrupulous dealers who try to palm off fakes whon CABOCARETS are oslled for, because the fake pays a little more profit Get the genuine CAS UARETS and with it satisfaction or your money refunded under iron-olad guarantee. 10,000,000 boxes a year, that's the sale of OABCARHTS today, and merit did it. They are a perfect cure for Constipation, Appendicitis, Biliousness, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Bad Breath, Bad Blood, Pimples, Piles, Worms and all Bowel Diseases. All druggists, 10¢, 35¢, 500. ‘Sample and booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York. 5% WE SELL FARMS. BOOTH'S FARM AGENCY, CORNER 10TH AND G STS. N.W. $1 000 80 ACRES on Washington South ern Railroad: all fenced; run. ning stream; terms easy; Lorton io, Va. 10 ACRES, near Silver ngs, $1.200 Md.; some fruit; fenced; fine building site. 51.800 10 ACRES on District Line, near Takoma. Six-room house, barn, and outbuildings. Fine poultry place. 112 ACRES, Herndon, Va.; seven $1.600 room house, barn, and all out buildings; wire fencing: good farm; lots fruit. $2,000 FINE PLACE—209 acres, Lorton, Va. New seven-room house; new harn; five stalls; chicken house and wagon shed; fine well; 60 acres clear; fine stream water; 1% miles to Occoquan and 13% miles to railroad station. $2 00 POTOMAC RIVER FARM, 260 acres, overlooking the Potomac River; 3% mile river front, at Clifton Beach, Md.; near hotel and wharf. $80 AN ACRE buys 22 acres, fine sub division land; all cleared; adjoins Brightwood, D. C.; in lots of 2 to 5 acres. 3 00 BUYS 10 ACRES adjoining LE] Brookland, D. C., with several hundred fine fruit trees. ON R. I. AVE. car line, 1% $3,000 acres; fine building site; right on car line. 340 ACReS good land; seven well; lot choice fruit; running stream. Near Occoquan, Va.

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BR IGED Nurse and Physician in attendance. CITY office hours from 10 a. m. to 6p. m, i Lonisian Ave. NW,., Washington, D. C. 17 DR. LEATHERMAN, Expert Specialist ig the cure of all diseases of a private nature, Nervous Debility, Skin and Sontagions Blood Diseases (any stage) cured for life. Consultation free. 602 F St. N. W. FUK SALE~OUDUKDAN, HOW TO BE YOUR OWN LANDLORD, near Mount Pleasant, with £100 cash and $20 For full particulars drop postal, telephone, po call for mew, lG-page illustrated ‘‘booklet,” plat, ete, of North Columbia Heights. Car riage free to see the pronerty, FULTON R. GORDON, Telephone, Main 598-M. 704 14th st. nw, de?l.7: FOR RENT--Prince George Md., about two miles southeast of Congress Db. C., old Barmaby house, eight rooms, and 32 acres; rent, $15 per month. Apply M. ADDISOX, S08 17th st. de20-3t FOR RENT—South Brookland, two blocks cars; six rpoms; stable, fruit, ete.; $16.50. “DP. WHITAKER, 1229 Pennsylvania ave, FOR RENT—Houte and sixteen acres per month. PIERCE PIERCE, Vienna, de20-3t FOR RENT—Omn Hamilton Road, near Good Hope, Suttape of sigin. rooms, three acles. Mpe piy 216 Sth st. ne. de19-3¢ Trustee's sale in in bankruptcy of a large stock of Jewelry, Diamonds, Pearls, Precicus Stones, etc.; Diamond, Pearl, and Enameled Brooches; Dia mond, Turquoise, Opal, Emerald, Gar net, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, and Ame thyst Rings, Pins, Pendants, Studs, Earrings, Lockets, Charms, etc, etc. Gold and Silver Watches, Chains, Neck laces, Buckles, Loose Diamonds, etc. etc. LARGE IRON SAFE, FINE OFFICE FURNITURE, HORSE, BUGGY, HARNESS, ETC, BY AUCTION. THIS SALE PRESENTS AN EXTRA. ORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE HANDSOME XMAS PRESENTS. By virtue of an order passed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in bank ruptcy cause of Orme Brothers, No. 257, the undersigned trustee wil” sell by public auction, within the salesrooms of James W. Ratcliffe, No. 920 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, ON MONDAY, THE 22D DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D., 1g02, COMMENC ING AT TEN O'CLOCE A. M, AND CONTINUING DAILY AT TH™ SAME HOUR UNTIL SOLD, The above partly mentioned stock of hand some Jewelry, Precious Stones, Office Furniture, ete., to which 1 invite the atention of the trade and private buyers. Terms: Cash. F. WALTER BRANDENBURG, Trustee, del8-d&dbs Fendall Building. How the Wind Blows in Around Doors and Tole A PRUDENT MAN WILL PUT Le WEATHER STRIPS at “cg and windows. Cost here, POMEL ves nasa sve nnifnmnsn ann.” Be J TIRES "WANTS" WILL SATISFY THE PEOPLE'S NWANTS 4 MEDICAL. DR. LEATHERMAN. ‘FOR SALE—SUBURBAN. FOR RENT SUBURBAN. AUCTION SALES. JAMES W. RATCLIFFE, Aactioneer.

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HELP WANTED-—-FEMALE. WANTED Lady stenographer, typewriter; $5 week specify lifications, age, recommends tions. Address BOX 84, this office. de?1-3t WANTED A white waitress for Junchroom; reference. Apply after 9 a. m., 1233 7th st. nw. 1t WANTED Waitress at FUSSELL'S, 1427 New York ave.; must be experienced and neat. Call Monday. 1t WANTED—A practical woman with some means a8 manager of salesroom, bakery and confec tionery. OLDE HOME DINING ROOMS, 717 th st. nw. del St WANTED--Two young ladies for special work; $7 per week. Apply Monday, 1200 New York VE. nw, 1t WANTED-—A young white girl to wait in VIR GINIA LUNCHROOM. Call 600 G st. nw. It WANTED—Girl to copy letters, Call at 121 4% st. sw., MORAN, second floor. 1t WANTED-—A young, healthy eolored girl; wash, fom, clean house; family of four: $8 a month. 1215 O st. nw, 1" WANTED--Ladies to do tapestry work at home; ro art talént required; can make profitable employment. Call 1338 R st, 0 to 12 a. m, or after 6. It WANTED—Settled woman, general housework in flat; two adults, Inquire second story, 2118 G ft. nw. It LADIES, copy letters at home; $20 per 1,000. Bend envelope for application. LESLIE NOVELTY 00, Dept. 17, Chicago. it WANTED—Relisble salesman, experienced in grocer’s line; one that commands trade re quired; references. Address BOX 77, this office. de™-2¢ grocer’s line; one that commands trade re quired; references. Address BOX 77, this office de™-2¢ w ANTED--A young lady to deme onstrate offee January 1 Address BOX 70, th is office. deo: g "i 3 WANTED—Plain writer, young lady from coun try preferred; 25 week] (all Monday, Room 6, 521 10th st. WANTED--At once, experienced waist and skirt hands. Apply 728 18th «t. nw, Jott WANTED—Forewoman in laundry working 25 ris, to take charge of starching and ironing; location within 209 miles of Washington; posi tion permanent. Address, giving references, BOX 76, this office. de20-3t WANTED—AGENTS. MYSTERIOUS “EVERLASTING FIRE!" Mar velous new fuel that bums fore.vr; inakes in tense heat, but never burns vp, hotter, cheaper, cleaner than coal; 1 cent’s worth cooks a meal or heats a room; burns in any stove or grate, or outdoors anywhere, without attachments or kindling: no ashes, smoke, or smell; absolutely safe; pronounced “miraculous, supernatural; great excitement wherever shown: agents mak mg fortunes; nine-tenths profit; no capital required; territory FREE. BRYAN ©0., In ventors, 68, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1 LADY AGENTS WANTED to sell Victoria Pro tectors; hygienic, sanitary, an? comfortable; sample postpaid, 0 cents; catalogue illustrating full line agents’ supplies free. BELVIDERE SPECIALTY ¢€O., Lock Box 802, Baltimore, Md. 1t —————————————_———————————————— $50.00 WEEKLY AND EXPENSES—Sample free; greatest money making invention of the age; Automatic Washer does a washing in thirty mimites without labor or attention; cheaper than any other; indestructible; everybody buys: agents coining money; thousands of testi monials AUTOMATIC ‘WASHER 0Q,, Station U, Chicago. it TO INTRODUCE big catalogue fast-selling pe ciaities will send dozen books for 10 cents, pre paid; not 1, but 12 separate, interesting books. GALESBURG SPECIALTY CO., Box 372, Gales burg, 11L 1t THREAD CUTTING THIMBLES; latest hyen tion for Batten work of sewing: bonanza for agents: sainple postpaid, 10 cents; catalogue free. RECIPE AND NOVEITY CO. Oranwe, Wass. it WANTED Men everywhere; good pay; to dis tribute circulars, adv, matter, tack signs, ete, Ne canvassing. NATIONAL ADV. BURBAU, Chicago. DO 3 YOU KNOW A GOOD THING if you see it? Then inclose 5c for the latest illustrated cata of novelties. CLIPPER NOVELTY SUP Y OO. B 196, Reidsville, NX, OC. dels, 20 WANTED-—SALESMEN. WANTED Salesian; i gn monthly and ex permanent. Y en 0. 2 aN delq-Su-4t SITCATIONS WANTED FEMALE. DDE lady of artistic ‘arte, ition as HL with modiste. Ad¥-s BOX 85 this office. de21-2t MRS. MOORE'S SOUTHER. SOGENCY—Estab lished 1802. 711 4th 1 st. nw reliable help. 1t WANTED By colored gh girl, situation as lady's maid; $2 weekly; reference. Call Sunday, BRYAN, 1018 19th st. nw. 1 "SITUATIONS WANTED MALE. a re WANTED-- Position as cashier or clerk in res tanrant, hotel, or BOX Sor thi house; good ref erences. Address BOX 89, this office. it_ WANTED Position a8 secretary or traveling Fg to gentleman going to California; highest references. Address BOX 88, this office, a eerepte————— mato ea WANTED—By student, housework, waiting, ete.; experienced. GIBSON, 1218 13th st. nw. it WANTED—By young man, situation to set type en Bl Ee aL NOD AM EE. Address BO BOX 8, this office. WANTED—By drug clerk, eig eighteen months’ ex perience, situation. Address BOX 73, this office, de20-3¢ WANTED-By a man, any kind of re spectable work. No. Massachusetts ave, nw, de20-2t WANTED--By young married man with good experience, position as inside or outside sales man. H EB. 1202 S st. nw. de20-2t fy SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE AND FEMALE. J mics mattis hit i Sus WANTED—By reliable white man and wife, situations, woman as cook or houseworker: man for furnace or drive; excellent references. Ad dress BOX £7, this office. It WANTED—MISCELLANEQUS. wan Fut SSO ober t WANTED you “have any furniture or car pets to sell, tend for the man who does not ex pet you to give your goods away—NOTES, 637 ave. phone, E E a. M. de?1- Tt WANTED-—-8300 for sisty d days; will give lib eral interest; good security; also clerkship to capable person, or share of profits; legitimate enterprige. Address BOX #7, this office, 1t WANTED—If you need money quick seh} your furniture and fixtures to FRIES CO, 4% 10th ot. nw. Phone, Main 943-Y. de?1.8¢ TIRE WANTED--Ice boxes and 3 Fitiyeratony for cash. HOPWOOD'S, 8th and K sts. nw. Sell your goods to the man who gives you the most money. _ de21.3¢ FANTED-— Second-hand furnitur., ca carpets, and in exchange for new couches, latest ov prices, $4.50 to $40. HOPWOOD, sth atx nw. —the man who saves you money. t WANTED—d matter for the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS**, via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to December 22, inclusive, for dispatch per s. 8. Peru. (0) Mails for HAWAIL via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to December 22, inclusive, for dispatch per s. s. Zealandia. (0) Mails for CHINA® and JAPAN, via Van couver and Victoria, B. C.| close here daily at 6:30 p. mi. up to December 23. Inclusive, for dispatch per 8. s. Emjress of India. Merchaa dise for the United States Postal Agency at Shanghai, China, cannot be forwarded via Cun ada. (0) Mails for CHINA* and JAPAN, via Seattle, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to Decem ber 24, inclusive, for dispatch per s. s. Rio [jun Maru. (0) Mails for the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS**, via Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to December 27, inclusive, for dispatch per U. 8 transport. (0) Mails for CHINA®, JAPAN HAWAII, and PHILIPPINE ISLANDS** “via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to December 20, inclusive, for dispatch per s. 8. Coptic. (0) Mails for AUSTRALIA (except those for West Avstralia, which are dispatched via Furope), NEW ZEALAND, FIJI, SAMOA, and HAWAIL via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to Janmavary 3, inclusive, for dis patch per s. Sonoma. (0) Mails for AUSTRALIA (except those for West Australia, which ge via Furope, and New Zealand, mails for which are dispatehed via San Francisco), and FIJI ISLANDS (mail must be specially addressed), vin Vancouver anl Vie toria, B. C.. close here daily at 6:39 p. m_ up te January 3, inclusive, for dispatch per s. s. Moana 0 Mails for TAHITI and MARQUESAR ISLANDS, ‘via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 p.m. up to January 6, inclusive, for dispatch per 5. a. Mariposa. (0) *Mails for COCHIN CHINA are dispatched to New York, N. Y., for connection with Euro an steamers. **PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (Military Mail) dis patched to San Francisco at all closings for that office, to connect with Government transports, the sailings of which are irregular REGISTERED MAILS close at the MAIN OF FICE as follows: (a) At 6:30 p. m. same day; (bh) at 1:45 p. m, same day; (c) At 8:45 p. m. same day; (d) at 5:30 a. m. same day: (e) at 5:45 p. m. same day; (f) at 0:35 a. m. same day; (h) at 1:15 p. m. same day; (k) at 8:45 p. m. previous day; (o) at 2:30 a. m. same day; (p) at 11:30 a. m. same day. JOHN A. MERRITT, Postmaster. PERSONALS. MME THEO. MME. THEO, Card Reader, Palmist, Medium. Removes spells, reunites the separated, gives Juck. German spoken. 929 H st. nw. 250, 0c. de21-2¢ PROF. CRISTO, the New York Spiritualist “and Palinist, has moved to 881 New Jersey ave. nw, Yon can see him daily from 9 a. m, to 10 p. m. 1) YOUR FORTUNE FREE—Send me you biith date with 2 stamps for postage and will send your life reading free; matters of love, health, and speculation made clear; all questions an here Address PROF. AEOLIS, 1815 N. 16th Philadelphia, Pa. nod0-de7, 14,21 PROF. CLAY Tells everything. Ladies, 23¢. Gents, 50c. Reunites separated, causes speedy marviages. 611 King st., Alexandria, Va. Open Sunday, 16 de20-2 PROF. L. M. NORRIS, Medium. Daily at 701 H St. N. W., from 10 to 5. Seances every Sunday at 8 p. m. at Maccabee Temple, 518 th «t. nw. Silver collection. de20-2t LADY WOULD LIKE to have a baby; boy pre ferred: no questions asked; as soon as born, Address BOX 59, this office. ___ Ge20-3 MME. DAVIS, born clairvoyant ane and I card reader, 1228 25th st. nw., Washington, D. C. dels 14¢ SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Schedule effective November 20, 1902, Trains leave irom !enosylvania Station. 8:10 a. m. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg, Warrenton, Charlotie, ana way stations. 16.51 a. m, Daily. Washington and Florida Limited. First-class coaches and drawing-room sleeper to Jacksonville, Fla. Dining car service. 11:15 a. m. Daily. United States Fast Mail. First-class coaches and arawing room seeper 0 New Orleans, Dining car service. 8:01 p. m. Week Days. Local for Marrison burg and way stations cn Manassas branch, 4:30 p. m. Daily. Local for Warrenton and Charlottesville. 8:45 p. m. Daily. New York and Atlanta Ex press. First-class conch and sleeper to Atlanta; Mondays, Wednesduys, and Fridays, Sunset Route. Tourist slecper Washington te dan Francisco. Pulf~an buffet service. Vim p. mi. Daily. New York and Florida Express. First class coach and sleeper to Came den, Summeiville, Charleston, Savannah, Jack ~sonville, and Port Tsmwpa; siecper 0 Augusta, and ¢mnection for Alken. Dining car service. Wl pom. Daly. dew York and sempnhis Limited (via Lynchburg, First-class ecech and sleeping car to Koanoke, Knoxville, Chat lanooga, and Memphis; sleeper to New COrieans Dining car service. 10:45 p.m. Daily, Washington and South Western Limited. All Pullman train, club and observation cars to Atiania acd Macon; sieep ers tg Nashville, Allanta. Macon, Memphis. New Orleans. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday through sleeper to Pinehurst. Dining car ser vice. TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH. Leave Washington, 8:30 a. m. and 4:40 p. mn. daily. Week days, 1:00 p. m., 4:35 p. m., and 6:25 p. m. Latter fur Leesburg only.

Through trains froin the South arrive Wash ington 6:42 a. m., 6:52 a. m,, 7:40 a. m., 9:45 a. m., 2:00 p. m., 9:15 p. m, and 5:30 p. m. ‘daily. Local trains from Harrisonburg, 11:55 a. m. week days and $:05 p. m. daily. From Charlottesville, 3:28 a. wm. and 9:50 p. m. day. Tickets, sleeping car reservations, and de tailed information can be had at ticket offices, 705 15th St., 511 Pennsylvania Ave., and I'enn sylvania Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and residences. "Phone 1646, I’. K. R. Cab Service. C. W. ACKERT. General Manager.

S H. HARDWICK, Genera! Pas'c Agent. L. S. BROWN. General Agent. NEW YORK-—-SOUTHAMPTON—LONDON. t. Louis, Dee.2420a.m. St. Paul. Jan. 7, 10 a.m. hil'a.. Dee. 31, I a.m. |Phil’a. Jun. 21, 10 a.m. PE €TAR IT INF NEN YOODE a XTarpnD _oDam EW Ste vy Sm eR frig TE AEA, Krooni'd. Jan. 3 30 a.m. Finland. Jan 17, 10 a.m. Zeeland. Jan. 10, 10 a.m. Vaderi"d.Jan. 24,104. m. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, COMPANY'S WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1206 F St. N. W.. or Geo. W. Moss, 1411 G St. N. WW, BU Jey cereus iG I UN STEAMBOAT COMPANY. EBrery day in the year from foot of Tth st. for Ft Monroe, Norfolk, Newport News, and a'l points south, by the su per, powerful sted palace steamers “Newport News,” “Norfolk,” and ““Washinetor. Washington 8:2¢ pmiLy. Portemonth 5:00 pm Alexsmdria 700 pmiLy. Norfolk... .6:90 pin Ft. Monroe 7.40 am!Lv. Ft. Monroe 7:00 pm Norfolk..... 8:00 am Ar. Alexandria 6:30 am Portsmouth 8:15 am Ar. Woeghingten 7:09 am 24 Through connections made at Nor folk with steamers of Old Dominion Steamship Co. for New York, and Mer. chants and Miners’ Steamships for Bos =H a RERRRRRRELE Fld RE K&& For further in'ormation apply at general ticket office, Bond Building, Mth and N. Y. ave., or Tth st. wharf, Wash ington, D. C. 29m) INO. CALLAHAN, Gen. Mgr. vich au oo» concerns who are fail WE ASK YOU TO INVESTIGATE US. CUNVINCE YOURSELF THAT WE ARE RE LIABLE. WE HAVE STOOD THE TEST AND ARE STILL PAYING AND WILL CONTINUE TO PAY OUR DIVIDENDS REGULARLY. BENEDICT €O., South Bend, Ind. Mt $95 1 BRINGS A STEADY INCOME—Six ds days end ing Leccinber $25 made $42; six das end ing December 13, 325 wade 5; six days end ing Decimber 20. $35 made *31. A guarantee to each one of our clients to clear from $i» to $190 cach week. We have been in the racing business six years and our systematic betyng is so perfect that we never have made a loss. Write for particuiars, references, ete, G. SN. WILLIAMBON CO, 1104 Maraet si, “Suite P, San Francisco. it DAIRY LUNCH ROOM, near depot; clearing $100 month; come uitk.’ NEW YORK BUSS NESS BROKERS, 611 F st de2l-8t in health cause. NEW YORK BUSINESS BROKERS, €11 F st. de2l-3 BARGAINS in grocery stores in all paris of city. DUNLAP, Wh st. de21-5t WANTED—To buy a small ETOCCry OF provision tore jn Northwest for 3250 or 300. Address BOX 82, this office. de2)-3t GROCERY, Northeast: worth $700; will sell for $430; snap. NEW YORX BUSINESS BROK ERS, 611 F si. de21-8: CIGAR STORE, F at; open through; investiga tion; chance hictime. NEW YORK BUSINESS BROKERS, dll F st. del 5t DESIRABLE feoming house, very cheap. DUN LAP, 908 _de2l- 3 FOR SAL TE Entire bi hotel and restaurant furnish ings and fixtures at private sule, ut once. 223 Penns) Ivania ave. nw. des1-3t “THIS BEATS NEW JERSEY’ arias pro cured under South Dakotas laws for a few dol lars; write for corporation laws, blanks, by laws, and forms to PHILIP LAWRENCE, late assistant secretary of state, Huron, Beadle Co, 8. D 1t FOUR PER CENT AND OVER earned weekly on investments of 30 and upward in one of the safest and most wrofitable modern co-operative racing stables; indorsed by catisfied customers in all parts of the country. This is an oppor tunity to place your idle capital in an esiub lished business that will net You greater returns than amy form of invesiment now before the public. Your mgney at your command at all times. Subscriptions acknowledged by certifi cate of depesic. For full particulars send tor free booklet. DEMAREST CU., 580 Parrott Building, an Francisco, Cal. it BUY WHEAT AXD CORN—$100.00 invested in grain or stocks by our “Safety Valve Plan” should result in a profit of 200.00 to F160 within 30 days. Write for particulars and send for our free book, “Modern Methods for Safe Investments.” RICHARD OLIVER Co, Bankers und Brokers, Chicage Stock Exchange Building, Chicago. it BEITER THAN A MAIL ORDER BUSINESS Practically no competition. We will start you in a home business fc: a few dollars with our extensive line of ALUMINUM novelties; 100 per cent profit on very sale. ALUMINUM 4 MPG. (N., 266 State st., Chicago. ‘er ERAL PERSONS ith S $100 cach can pur chase a ground floor interest in a coal oil land deal about to incorporate; safe investment; sure profit. Address BOX 75, this office. de20-7t FOR SALE—Lunchroom; will sacrifice if sold before Christmas. 3 H st. nw, de20-3t FOR SALE—One of the best hotels in the city; forty rooms; furnished; steam heat: long lease; good chance to make money; reason for selling, bad health. Address BOX 1, this ofiice. des St BARBER SHOP for sale a at a sacrifice. 52 R st. nw, PR Ear. del5-3¢ PRINTING Good werk at reasonable prices. FRARK: GIBSON CO, 1200 G st. nw. no3o-t FOR RENT—WAREHOUSES. tight manufacturing, FOR RENT-—-For storage, etc. well lighted two story brick building (77x 25 feet), on lower floor, stable (six stalls) and large wagon louse; elevator and every con venience; cheap rent. Apply 900 ilth st. se. delS-6t RAILROADS. RAILROADS. QCEAN STEAMSHIPS. AMERICAN LINES STEAMBOATS. BUSINESS CHANCES. PENNSITLVANIA BAILKUAD. BMLALIUN Culidbd ve DXi Ad B SID. Ti cL M. DAL, PITISBURG EXPRESS— Parior apd Dining Cars harrisburg Wi A. MM. 2allY, PENNS LY ANIA poe MT Ep—ullmaxn seeping, Aiings REO Ig, Ubseivation Cars Sucrang Ww Licago, Cin Clunaty, ind.anapols, lomo, and Lewrvis. Bubet Parlor Car w Har Hisolrg. ov A, M. DAILY, FAST LINE—Puilman Satiet varlor Car ww narrobung. bullet Parios Lar lairsburg 0 FRU 8.30 FL MN. paLY, CHICAGO AND ST. lous Lav PY E— Cal Wasuanglon to Fp and diecpawg and Dicwmg Cars Harrisburg

W sbulatiepous, dL Louls, Louisville (via Cia cas Na) Gd Cllicueg 0. ido KO. MM. par, ST. LOUIS EXPRESS— Pullivan Sleeping Lal sarmisourg to St Louis oaw FM bal), WENIERN EAPRESPulls an Sleeping Lar to Filisburg and Chicago. ei Lal WO Cldcago. ai CoM, Daud, CLeVYELAND AND CINCES

MALL BAVEES> dC winmal dSwceping Cars Wash iglon Ww Yidsburg, and Rarraowg We Cleve MoG aid CinCiusels. Maing Lar. errata ALY, PACIFIC BAPRES—Pulls dll Meepung Lar ww Fitsbuig GOAL M wAiLY, BUFFARG ay BEER Wh thevUgi Diviies DBulet rarer Car Coches Ww Sulla, via Emporicis Junctive. 4° WAL ML lor hane, Canstdaigua, wochester, dud Niugala ras sly, CAGUpL dunuay. 5030 A.M. tor slurs and weuuve daily, Cpt DUlGay. £Or WW Laduspurt dlaly, S10 KF. cio LM. DAILY, BUFFALYU Niki: EXPRESS, wilh Wiivuga Bullet dievping Lar and Coaches Lo Bubalo, via polling Juaction, 9 KL M. VAs wr brie; tor Rochester, balado, and Magaia rads Gel), excepts datur we Sa will Diecpilig Lak Woashlliglon To sochester. AViaU FLOM. er pile, Caidlieaigua, Roche ger, Suttle, and DNiagara ras cally. Pulinst Sac ging Caf Waswoakion Ww hwouester Datu cag® Guay. pow 1. ok, “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED Lbauy tor New York, ail Faror Cars, with Uiig Car trom Bultimore. ful Fhuadeiphia, ew York, and the East. xpress, 5.30 (imag var), 7:00 (Doing Car), sled (Meng car), S:kv (Dinuag Car), ww, WIN (Ding Cai, avisd, sis whiW LaF Iluka waking weit) A. ML, 12390, 33, 4iW Vtg Lal Lui Lueainone), BIN, WIN a AW age. Vu Subdauys, vot (Uling a CW (lading Car), ed (Maing “ry Webbing Le, wo, WWZo, Mow (bag Lat GUE W Lig Gli) M., LZ:d, dio, NW Aarbibillg Cal aval me), ve, Ww PL Al, rd maglil. Jo Plhuadelpbia ouly, Express, 7:33 A. M, dd KF, a. week Gays, Svi, 4:0, and 0d KF. {e J busivl, without change, 7 46 A. M. wees Tr Wn ov EF. be Geil). ub Baatduvfy, 0iwW, v.ev, 0:15, TiO, iri 7:00, Cae, Sia, ad, lei, dvi, WI, ay {da 4wilo, Mild, Miza, 20h, id 3: Go Lannced), 4:00, soo, wld, 300, Jui Vad, Bi, 1:40, de, Mow, LU, WENT hid 4210 Ligal. LA DUlivays, SiN, J oomiy Bind, vow, BN9, Ide, WIN, L1G AX. bode, 12a, Lio, 2:00, ole, S000 (hi Liste), fag, dUZU, 4590, Suu, Gide, GI, PilS, Ties, Wow, dviaw Po dl. and 1200 migot, sor Pope's Creek Line, Tl A and IER MH, Weta ~ld)s. Suede, wi kor Annapons, 7:5 Ac M., 12:00 and 4:20 P. A. Gevatys. SULGEYS, YIU AL and 5:40 PAL and ut the swoon, Sixth and B >ireets, whete orders cai be icy for tne checking of baggage w destination froma Lotels and residences. Feiepuvne call “1640” tor Penusylvunis Rail road Cab dervice. i. B. HUTCHINSON, J. Kk. WOOD, General Mavager. General Passenger Agent. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RY. Schedule Effective November 28, 1902. Urals Leave Fonig)evesd dlavon. 200 Fos sama ct lakh Aas URS VILLE kAraess. doid visubuwe Wain for Cincumaty. seaches Cwcinnad 7350 a. ak, Louwsvide 10:3 a. wo. St. Lous 6:40 p. I, Chicago 5:0 p. ne Pullman Siuehuts’ So Gite Cin cinnaii and Louisville Daily. Cincinnaty ty St. Lows and Chicago. Car. 6:40 P. M. Daily CHICAGO AND ST. Luts o2ECiAw. A soill vestibuied elecirs> lighted train, armwving Cincmnati 11 4u 4. s., Indianapo.is 3:25 p. m., St. Louis vi4d p. m. Chicago 3:4 p. mi. daily. Puli man sieepers lo Ciocionaid, incanapolis and st. Louis without change. Parlor Car Cin cinuati 0 Chicago. puaung Cer. 11:lv FP. M. Laly—¥. F. v. LIMITED, Soild twin ror Ciacienati. Pullman Sleepers to Cincinnati, lexiglon, and Louisville without change. Contparunent >dieeper to Vugmma Hot Springs Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. sleepers Umcianat: to Clucage and St. Louis. Dung Cer. Hesciwglioas and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio office, 513 i'ennsylvania avenue; d¥ Four. teenth street, near F, and at the station. Telephone call itv for Pennsylvania R. BR. Cab Service. H. W. FULLER, General Vassenger Agent. Telenhons Main MRE BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. Leave Washingiou, I ew Jersey Ave. and C St. Chicago and Northwest, *10.30 a m., Pow Cincivmati, St. T~~ie and Louisviie, ave 4 he, “#15 p.m, "A:0 might. Pittsburg and Cleveland, “10:50 a. m., *B:43 Pp. mi, and *1:9 night. Cotumvus and W beeling, *6:20 p. Winchester, (8:35 a m., rh gn) 5:30 pm Luray, *4:1% p.m. Annapolis, (17:30, **8:30, [[11:50 a. m., [14:30, “0:25 p. Frederick, (8:33, **9:00, [}10:30 a. m., "1:15, ia, and {00 i Ph and [15:30 Hagerstown, a.m. Pom. Boyd and way pwists, [[8:35, *"9:00 a. ma, 1:1, [4:30, [19:50, **10:l3, [11:30 p. m. Gaithersburg and way points, (18:35, **9:00 a. m., (12:50; **1:15, {(3:39, j4:du, “5:00, |}5:89, *7:06, **10:15, {11:30 p. m, Washington Junction and way points, [18:33 00 a ar, *71:15,°)14:30, |{9:30 p. m. Baltimore, week days, x3:00, 5:00, 6:30, XT:00, 0:50, x8:30, 8:35, x9:30, x10:00, 11:50 a. m., X12:20 noua, x1:33, x8:0, x40, x4:30, $:35, x0:08, 5:35, x0:20, 6.30, x8:00, XIVHKL x11:30, 11:35 p. m. Sundays, x3:00, x70, 1:30, x8:29, x0: a. m., x12:%, 1:15, x30, x8:30, x5:05, 3:25, 6:30, x8:00, x10:00, x11:30, 11:3 po. mm. ROYAL BLUE LINE. All trates (lemirtss with Pintsch light. paltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and tre East, "3:0, "7:05 (Diner), ||S:80 (Buf tet), **0:0 (Diner), [0m (Diner) a. m., *1:7% (Diner), *3:00 (“Royai Limited.™ Paner), 4:00 (Philadelphia only), *5:08 tbiner}), and *13:30 p. m. (Sleeping Car open at 10:08 o'clock) Atlantic City, [[7:63, [10:00 a. m., {/12:20, 3:00 pm hy *Daliv. Ercept Sunday. **Sunday only. xk.xpress traine, Baggage called for and checked from hotels and res:dences by Union Transfer Co. on orders ieft at ticket offices, G19 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, New York Avenue and tract atud alt stati £3 SEARCARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Leave Washington, Penna. R. KR. Station. 10:41 a. m. SEABUARD HAH. Thoiast) uvaily. Pullman Sleepers to ville, conmccting at Tachasn: with Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta. 7 p.m SEABOARD EXPRESS—Solid R va LE I Tampa, wiih Fuliman, Drawing Room, Sleep ing Car and Cafe Dining Car. Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta. These irains offer excellent schedules and service to Petersburg, Ral:igh, Southern Pines (Pinehurst), Camden, Columbia, a Jacksonville, St. Auzustine, Puim Beach, Tam pa, Key West, and Florida points; also Cuba, Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta, New Orieans, Chat tanvoga, Nashville, Mcmphis, points West and Southwest, 110 a. m. LOCAL—To Petersburg, Raleigh, A Southern Pines (Pinehurst), Hamiet snd intermediate points, Office, 1421 Penna. Ave. C. B, RYAN. W. E. CONKLYX, Gen'l Pass’r Agent. Gen'l Ast. Pass’cr Dept. Schedule in effect November 30, 1902. For gaiCuiauiid, vie, wile pul SOJdti, vig Alvxanana sb FrederiCasvurg. Leave station, oth and B streets, 4:w am, 3:1 novi. daily (aining car) tor Richunond and points on At lantic Coast Line and Florida; 10:41 a. m., 7:00 p. wm. daily (Florida and Metropolitan Limited), for Richmond and points on Sea board Air Line and Florida; 10:41 wm. train connects st Richmond with C. 9. Ry. for Newport News. Old Point Confort, etc, 7:40 a. wm. week days, 4:45 p. mm daily, for Richmond oniy. Pullman or parlor curs on all above trains. Accormeddatizs G0 Grantice, 7:40 a. m., Sunday ony; 4:25 p. m. week 8:00 p. w.. except Saturday. E. T. D. MYERS, W. D. DUKE, W. P. TAYLOR, President. General Mgr. Mgr. Richmond, Vv, WASHINGTON SOUTHERN RAH WAY

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GO WEST "—A MESSAGE TO ENGLAND FROM THE GREAT NORTHWEST Englishman Writes Home of the Opportunities Offered for Strong and Wiiling Hands Where the Country IsYoung and Growing x foggy days that came to the city in mid-September, writes F. A. McKenzie in the “London Mail,” that 1 was talking with a man who had despair written on his face. “It is of no use trying for work here,” he de clared bitterly. “I have been round all the employment agencies, waiting with an army of others returned from the war, and waiting in vain. There are crowds of us and nothing to do.” It was in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in the last week of October. The crisp au tumn air, coming from the boundless woods around, and the sunshine dancing on the broad St. Lawrence River, made one feel that it was good to be alive. Talking with a leader of the new great industrial enterprise springing up there, he said: “One of our difficulties is to find men. Business is growing around here by leaps and bounds. Wages are good, unskilled laborers getting $1.50 (six shillings and threepence) a day. We want more men for the enterprises on hand, and for the new things coming. “At Sault Ste. Marie today there is not a single case of real destitution in the place. We have no poorhouse, and have no need for ome. No one is out of employment save those who are willfu; loafers or shirkers.” And as I walked through the streets and searched in vain for signs of poverty the evidence of my senses confirmed what I was 9 1 told. Laborers at a Premium. In Minnesota the same story is being told me, if possible, with greater em phasis. “At present it is a common thing to pay a premium to obtain labor ers,” F. E. Ward, one of "he responsi le officials of the Great Norther nates declared. “The ordinary pay of $2 (eight BE was in London, during one of the The Christmas gifts that are most mnportant, and which deserve ihe greatest eave in choosing, are those to be distributed in your own home circle. How mueh betier and more sensible it is to give come beautiful and usefnl piece of Furniture that will endure for years, than to select some useless thing that pleases for the moment only. This store of ours is filled to overflowing with useful, beautiful, and durable presents. We make the buying easy by telling you to select whatever pleases your faney and pay in small amounts graded to suit your convenience. Those who buy best will buy EARLY —and your selections should be made tomorrow. We will lay the articles aside and you ean depend oir us to deliver them at the precise time and place desired. ep _ i as Few gifts would be more appre ciated than a comfortable Morris Chair, and we have hundreds for vou to choose from. Bedroom Fur miture in a great variety of styles. Make vour Chgstmas selections to morrow. We will arrange the pay ments in small amounts to suit your eonvenienee, Morris Chairs $5.50 and Up. Rockers $1.85 and Up Eas Vous

You will find as large and ecom plete a stock of Easy Rockers here smaller prices than equal values sell for elsewhere. Parlor Lamps are here in great variety and in many faneitful patteras of wrought ron and Music Cabinets make beautiful and acceptable holiday presents, and we offer yon a great variety of patierns to choose from. P rio on Rudder’ S Big New Credit H House en en H vents ortheast and H shillings and four pence) a day, and we cannot get anything like all the men we want. By the law we are forbidden to £0 abroad and make contracts with for eign laborers to come in, and so we have to rely on the supply that arrives of it self. With the railroads extending in many directions and with business greatly on the increase, this labor prob lem is verr real. “Away in the West we are driven to employing Japanese laborers. There are some thousands of them on one divis ion. When they have been here a little time and come under the influence of a meat dietary they make good men.” Mechanics Also Needed. In St. Paul one sees evidences on all sides for the need of workers. The fav orite notice is “Twenty hands wanted for——." or fifty hands, as the case may $e IN'T tell me there's nothing in luck,” said a horseman, whose thoroughbreds took part in the recent race meet ing at the Benning track. “There's a horse that was bought for $25 a few months ago. Had I been the purchaser, you would have seen him bringing up the rear today: but ‘Lucky Bill’ bought him, and he com23 home in front, while my $2,000 nag is chasing him.” There is no class of men in the world that has =o much faith in the potency of good or bad luck as horsemen. A man does not have to L~ a bettor in order to become convinced that luck exists; and the philosopher who claims ha! there is no such thing as luck wouil find some emphatic contradictors if he attempted to tell some of the owners and trainers of thoroughbreds that they ire not un lucky but suffering merely from neglect of opportunity. “Down on His Luck” The man referred to was one of the most successful owners of thorough breds on the turf a few years ago. He had a stable of good horses, and every be. Nor is it alone laborers or men will ing to be laborers who are wanted. For mechanics of every kind, for men wili ing to go in the woods, for men on the railroads, the firld seems almost limit less, Foreigners Welcome. To a stranger the best thing about this Western land is not the geed eciimate or the high initial pay, but the possibiii ties it" affords to the capable. The man who comes in from other lands, even though he speaks a foreign tongue, is not looked on askaner. There is not a particle of race feeling save against ne groes. The black man is still regarded by the poorest white as an inferior, but Swede or German or Scot might have been native bern for all the distinetion made against them. One Swede as 1 write is standing for Congress, and bids LUCK OF THE RACE TRACK: he 3 D time he bought a runner the animal was almost sure to turn out a good one, For the last few years he has been “down cn his luck,” and rot one of his horses wan a race this year. There are many other men In like sit uations. One of the most fortunate turf men last season was John E. Madden, the Kentucky horseman. It is true that Madden is one of the most far-seeing and capable trainers of racers that the Amer ican turf ever knew, but at the same time he is extremely lucky. He seems tg bask constantly in the sunlight of fortune. Early last year three horses, Col. Bill, The Rival and Slipthrift, were given up as bad propositions by their owners and trainers. Madden secured them, and under his magical hand they developed into great racers. It is hardly fair to the former trainers of these horses to say that thev were incompetent. It was sim ply a case of luck. Madden was not enly lucky in handling his horses last year and winning purses and stakes with them, but he made many successful win nings in the ring. One of his biggest wagers was on the jumper Fulminate for a place. Four horses fell in the race, but

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———————ea Carpets Made, Laid and Lined Free. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1002. fair to win. A man of foreign birth was late governor, while Britons everywhere fill responsible posts. The Far West has no more room for the loafer than has London. Men have to werk here, and work hard. The lad who wants an eight-hour day five days 2 week ghould remain at home. In Northwestern Canada the incursion of idle younger sons from tie Old Country —"remittance men,” as they are com menly called—has created a prejudice against all Englishmen. These tellows lounge around on the doles they receive from home, and are an open scandal to an industrious people. A Delusion. “When 1 see the voung Englishmen who come here,” said a leading Western landowner to me, “1 almost despair of England. I have to remind myself that

at that Rowdy and Judge Phillips beat Fulminate home. Then Phillips was dis qualified, and second place given to Ful minate. It meant about $10,000 to Mad den. Won Only One Stake. Captain Sam Brown, the Pittsburg horseman, spent £90,000 in getting ready for the campaign of 1902, but he won only one good stake. Hyphen, a three year old that had been ailing early in the year rounded to in time to capture the Brighton Derby. Martie Lewls, who promised to develop into one of the best two-year-old fillies of the year, was taken sick in the height of her success and died, while Hyphen became a cripple after his victory at Brighton. Another colt, River Pirate, he let go for a trifling sum, John E. Madden being the purchas er. It was Madden's luck to have the horse turn out a erack.

The ill-luek of W. Whitney is proverbial. His racing ambition in spired the expenditure of little less than half a million dollars in three years. Last season he had but one formidable competitor for first honors in any @ai vision. ¥t cost Harry Payne Whitney the land which conauered the world and which has raised up nations to the ut iermost seas must have other sons than these, or else she would fall in a day.” There still remains a delusion at home that life in these Western conununi‘ies is primitive, and that the man whe comes to them sacrifices ail the refins ment of life. This is nonsense. For beautiful surroundings the West can teach the East a lesson.

No “Backwoods” Country. Y came West from Chicago in the pioneer limited, one of the mest luxu rious and best-fitted trains on earth. I looked round the dining car with its myriad electric lights, its listening silver and glass, the black waiters in spotless white, and the epicurean meal they served, and contrasted it with the poor service and indifferent food one and Herman B. Duryea just $17,000 (o become the owners of Irish Lad, yet the new firm won more money with their single horse than Mr. Whitney did with his half-million dollar stable of runners. James R. Keene's Luck. James R. Keene had $200,000 worth of horseflesh in the Futurity, with $50.600 worth of jockeys’ ability to ride his horses. John A. Drake paid Pat Dunne $22,000 for Savable, in order to have a single entry in the big race, and this horse beat the Keene and Whitney rep resentatives, besides $100,000 worth of horses entered by August Belmont. There are hundreds of other instances of the whimsicalities of Dame Fortune. For instance, there is Charlie Ellison, the plinger, whose horses won several good purses at Benuing. Four years ago Ellison was accepting a salary from Tommy Burns. When Burns was set down by the stewards last summer he begged Ellison to give him employment in Chicago. Ellison has made $300. 000 in three years, and bears the dis tinction of being the only man to be barred from a pool room on account cf his large winnings. p often obtains in the first-class dining cars from London to Manchester. The West Not Primitive. St. Paul, with its newspapers, its splendid electric car service, its shops with luxuries and fine dresses and beautiful furniture, drawn from all Eu rope, mocks at the idea of the West being primitive. Truth to tell, the West, with its new polish, is apt to look on the East as shabby. Education is free, even in the higher branches, and ex cellent. Food is cheaper than at home, rent is about the same as in the sub urbs of London, and only clothes are dearer. “Go West, young man,” said Ho race Greeiey many years ago. The ad vice still holds good. In the Eastern States of America the stranger from England would stand little chance. But Winey Langdon, who used to play the horses at St. Asaph and Alerander Island, with little success, was one of the biggest plungers of the past season. He started in with $200. He won $8,000 on Explorer at Brighton Beach and at Sar toga he made his roll $65,000. A Jew years ago one of the heaviest plungers at Gloucester and Guttenberg wag “Dutch” Roller. He was worth half a million dollars. New he is betting $2 to a race at New Orleans and thinks himself lucky to b= able to do that. A Local Winner. Ope of the best horses that ever ran over the Benning race kX was a {wo year-old called Sport. He did not meet with defeat in ail of his starts at the local course. The following year he turned out one of the best threevear clds of the season and won many thou sands of dollars in bets and purses for his owner early in the year. Later he was disqualified for an alleged foul and from that time on his owner has been a victim of ill-luck. In his palmy days he could draw a check for £350,000. There is no time during the whole vear when eredit is more aceeptable than now. The stress of holiday buying diminishes the amount of ready cash to an extent that should make our Credit proposition a most welcome one. We extend you a most hearty invitation fo seleet whatever you may find in our stock that appeals to your taste, and let us evade the pay ments to suit your eireumstances. Our Christmas stock Parlor. Bed room, and Dining Room Furniture is rich and elegant. In addition to these are hundreds of odd pieces, any one of which would make a most desirable gift. Among these odd pieces ave Music Cabinets, Parlor Cabi nets, Ladies’ Writing Desks, Shaving Stands, Handsonic Tarior Lamps, ete. i

Stock of China Closets Contains more handsome patterns than we have ever shown before. They are all beautifully mirrored and earved—and our eredit prices are as low as the Jowest cash prices elsewhere. Sideboards are here in an almost endless variety of styles, i

and in usioue and beantiful designs esis sii pre meine 4p “BOL 10 ‘De: found elsewhere.

$25.00 and Up. Beautiful Dressers are here oak, mahogany, bird's-eye maple, and walnut—all prices. Solid Oak Extension Tables, with round or square corners, at all prices. If you need a new Carpet before Christ nas, we will make, lay, and line it free of cost. Handsome Rugs in every conceivable size. Make vom

selections tomorrow—on (Credit. Dressers $20 and Up m No Room for Loafers, How ever, and There Need Be No Fear That the Refined Will Be Shocked by Man ners and Customs frem beyond Chicago te the Pacific, and more particularly in the great North western territories, he will receive a warm ‘welcome. And there is no need for any capable voung fellow to remain at the bottom of the tree. The relation here between employer and men is different to that at home. There is none of the old feudal spirit. A man Is expected to use his brains to help on his chief, and tise more he uses them the better for him self. “You never allow your office boy to make suggestions to you, do you?” ask ed an Englishman of a big employer of labor. “If my office boy could not make suggestions he would be of no use to we,” replied the other. Chance for Even the Humblest, In §t. Paul the most prominent house in the city is occupied by a mar whe forty years ago was a wharf inspector at 50s, a week. XNcar here the street car conductor of ten years ago is the head of the street railways today. The weods man develops to the wealthy mine own er. It i= not all who can jump to riches like these. But among the mass ¢f the people one finds an abundance and prosperity which in the older world are unknown. I have searched in vein for slums, for poverty, for rags. I have made equally vain search for relief in stitutions, free soup kitchens, sbe.erg for the hungry. These things are not xnown here. They are not wanted. The man who recommends othere to fresh ventures takes on himself a grave responsibility. I counsel no man, but point to those who have no scope ju tha Old World the rromise of the far West. [ot them form their own conclusions.

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seme The Waghington Times, Cimeg, (oes iawe Cw AS HINGTON, SUNDAY. D- TON, SUNDAY, DEC EMBER 21, 1902. 21, 1902 COLONY OF PALATIAL HOMES AROUND DUPONT CIRCLE The Patterson House, Senator Clark. Home of a age The Leiter: Residence. a xX Toa aide Ther TE THR SA A Wh ve vow] Baas tag AY

438. J eS aa NN FT NE AE 5 i EA TT. HE splendid progress the city of I Washington has made in the last ten years or so is no better shown than in the increasing number of men of wealth who have chosen to have homes at the National Capital. Failure, sometimes, is a har binger of success. At the place where, a few years alter the civil war, Senator Stewart of Nevada built his mansion, and was laughed at, a group of homes of men renowned for their riches, has sprung up. when he selected Dupont Circle, that strip of land formed by the junction of Connecticut, Massachusetis, and New Hampshire Avenues, and Nineteenth and P Streets, to rear the walls of his ‘“‘castle,” Stewart was laughed at. “Stewart's folly,” people called it, and the name clung. f 3 he. LH The “folly,” forerunner of the many magnificent dwellings that stand near its site today, had a varied history before it was razed. Its monument to day is an unsightly hole in the ground, which will doubtless remain untouched until its present owner decides to what use he will put his property. Before it was sold to Clark, the Montana cop per king—at a profit of 1,000 per cenl on the original investment, it is said— ‘the mansion was used by Senator Stew art, and later leased to the imperial Chinese goverument. Bu, J eee ua i It i$ still recallea how, during the ‘occupaney of one minister from China, ‘his’ household servants “were in the ‘habit on washing days to carry the clothes of ihe entire legation out to the Circle, and there calmly spread them on the grass to dry. The amaze ment of those who witnessed this pro ceeding was equaled only by the as tonishment and wonder of tae policeman on the beat, who was at a loss what to do—or say-—io the offender. The min ister, 20 the story goes, was soon in formed that the use of Dupont Circle for domestic purposes did not fall with in the scope of his official privileges, Palaces and a Laundry. The streets and avenues meeting in the Circle form ten points of land. jut The Boardman Home, Westinghe use Residence. The iain That Portion of the City That Barely Thirty Years Ago Was Laughed At Has Become One the World's Greatest Centers for Homes of Wealth, Luxury, and Refinement. A ed A ATE Te I eT A i i i itn at dee a 0] CG Be Ge el he eter Go eB Be Be Be Be Be ee ling toward the little park. Today, of these ten, seven are occupied by the dwellings of millionaries. On the eighth a shabby little Chinese laundry stands. The strip occupied by the old Stewart castle, and now owned by Senator Clark, is yet partiy unoccupied. Next to the ‘hole that marks where the former build ing stood is a dwelling leased by the Montana Senator as a temporary house. The Senator does not know what he will do—build a home or an apartment house on the site. The growing favor of the neighborhood, however, makes it more likely that the richest man of America—and of the world perhaps, since his mining holdings are estimated to be worth between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000—will probably erect a man sion of elegance and beauty. The Chinese laundry spoken of, in trudes itself between the corner owned by the Montana man and that occupied by the palace—the word is hardly an New Home of Thomas F. Walsh. ARTISTE (TENET MCT TR 0 exaggeration—built by Levi Z. Leiter, multi-millionfire, of Calcago, and father of the vice-relne of India. It is tha abode of 2 man who met the world and conquered. Without other means than his hands and brain, a willingness to do hard work and a determination to conquer, the lad who stood behind the counter in a Maryland grocery store is today high in the ranks of the army of wealth. It was the friendship of Marshall Field that perhaps aided him. They both kept their eyes open, and when Opportunity came, disguised as she always is, they recognized her, and managed to gecure a controlling inter est in the business OF Potter Palmer, At this time the grocery store counter was but ten years distant. A little more of grit and determinaticn—seven teen years of it, in fact—and then the leasing from James G. Blaine, for $10, 060 a year, of the latter's brick mansion, now occupied by the Westinghouses. About eight or nine years ago, Mr. Leiter bought the ground on which hig present mansion stands. The land alone cost $100 000. Fach of the thous 19 may (Continued on Second Page.)

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