The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
December 25, 1902

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Fair: much colder to- THE B:ST ADVERTBING night and Friday: fresh re i) £9, MEDIUM IN THE westerly winds. RK iid CY OF WASHNZTON NUMBER 3118. ae WASHINGTON. THURSD AY. DECEMBER 25. 1902 PRICE ONE CENT.

CHRISTMAS DAY IN WASHINGTON Arduous Duties of Officials Laid Aside and Questions of State Sidetracked for Twenty-tour Hours. All Members of the Presi dent’s Family Gather at the White House—The Day in the L-gations. Official Washington is celebrating to day in the same old time-honored man ner. The arduo’ duties of official life have been laid aside for the day: Venezuela is apparently out of the thoughts of all except a few of those representatives of the Government who have been strug gling with the many intricate diplomatic probiems involved: the huge army of the depariment clerks are at their homes, and except for a few watchers on duty at the business houses of Uncle Sam, ready, if the occasion demands, to call upon their chiefs to meet some un looked for emergercy, the machinery of the Government has been stopped for the Christmas festivities. At the White House. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt have all their children with them today. Young Theodore ‘returned from New York for the holidays and Miss Ethel and Quentin are home from their re spective schools. For days express wag ons have been calling at the White House leaving gifts for the President, Mrs. Reosevelt, and the children—pres ents of all kinds and from all parts of the country. The younger Roosevei. children, Archie and Quentin, hung up their stockings last night in order that they might be filled by Santa Claus. The giving of gifts which took place in the morning. was not confined to the President's family, for Mrs. Rocsevelt has remembered each one of her small army of servants, many af whom have been employed at the White House since the days of Lincoln and have treasured Christmas remem brapces from each of the Presidents of the United States who have celebrated Christmas since the trying days of the civil war, Among the Christmas gifts for Mrs. Roosevelt was a gold purse, presented by the women of the Cabinet. It is of gold mesh, with the clasp studded with diamonds and sapphires. p No Christmas Tree. There was no Christmas tree. After the exchange of presents the whole fami ly went to Captain Cowles’ house for lunch. In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt went horseback riding. Dinner will be served this evening in the State dining room and the guests will be Sen ator Lodge and Mrs. Lodge, Captain and Mrs. Cowles, Mr. Elliott, of New York, Charles Henry Davis, Miss Davis, and the Messrs. Davis. The President's gift to tae White House employes was a turkey to each. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay are spending Christmas at their beauti ful home in this city. Their daughter. Mrs. James Wadsworth, jr., Mr. Wads worth, and the Secretary of State's You. gest son, Clarence, are spending Christmas with the Bays. The Secretary of the Navy, William Henry Moody, is spending Christmas with some friends in New York city. Secretary of War Root is also in New York, spending Christmas day with Mrs. Root and Edith Root. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock is at his home in this city. The other members of the Cabinet are with their families in this city. In the Legations. Christmas was observed accomding to the varying national customs at for cign iegations. At the Russian embassy the celebration was preliminary to that of the Russian Christmas, which is the Christmas of the Greek church, and does not arrive until twelve days after the Christmas celebrated by the rest of WEATHER CONDITIONS. The cold wave has increased in intensi ty in the Northwest and has extended eastward and southward into the north ern portion of the southern slope, and through the central valleys, the upper lake and eastern lower lake regions. Snows have been general from the up per Mississippi valley eastward, except in northern New England. Thre will be snow tonight in the greats portion of the lower lake region, New York, and northeastern Pennsyl vania, and probably rain on the Virginia aud Carolina coasts. Eisewhere tonight and Friday the weather will be generally fair in the East apd South. It will be much colder in the middle Atlantic States tonight and Friday. On the middie Atlantic coast variable winds will become west and fresh. Steamers departing today for European ports will have variable winds with snow, beeowcing westerly and brisk Friday to the Grand Banks. RRA aie 8 wet £68 dda "De oe RI SIE DORRY eas ssscaiisiiiin 4:45 p.m Sun rises tomorrow. TiS am Big -AiAe tOBRY ors.» ivsnvinarsi 5:10 p.m. Low de today As asinnsa 11:52 p.m. High tide tomorrow, 3:51 a.m. low tide tomorrow 12:04 p.m. TEMPERATURE. THE SIN TIDE TABLE Chrisiendom. Count Cassini, however, always observes both days. The Austria-Hungary embassy was the scene of a pretty party last evening. The German ambascador is absent in New York. The Peruvian minister and Mme. Cal deron, whose family circle includes no less than eleven children, have with them for the holidays eleven Peruvian students. At the Italian embassy the celebration began last night, when the members of the siaff and other guests were enter tained. The occasion is designated “festa del ceppo,” and the ceremony is similar to the burning of the yule log in the open fireplace. A children’s party was held at the Mexican embassy. ‘The day at the British embassy was typical of the island, plum pudding and all. Ambassador Herbert's oldest son, Siduey, twelve years old, who has been in school in England, has joined them. There will be a Christmas tree at the Argentine legation. The minister from the Netherlands is in Newark, N. J. oQULD NOT BUT GIFS AND KILLS RIBSELE Unable to Give His Children Christmas Ceiebration CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec, 25.—Because he could not buy Christmas presents for is children, W. H. Taylor, jr., ended his life by drinking carbelic acid. The decd was commitied at the home of Tayler's mother, No. 4 Crawford Place, last night. The unfortunate young man called his mother to him after he ha@ drunk the acid, and acquainted her with his mad act. Although physicians were at once sum moned, nothing could be done to save him. Taylor died within a half hour after he had swallowed the fatal dose. The story of the circumstances which led up to Taylor's deed is unusually pa thetic. Taylor leaves a young wife aad two small children. The young man was only twenty-four years old, of exemplary habits, and of good family. Relatives declare that his fear of not being able to buy Christmas presents for his children was a hallucination. He was a blacksmith, but had been out of work for some time, it is said, and re cently went down in the country to get some money he had been expecting. He failed to get the money, however, and the disappointment affected him keenly. Other business troubles also served to discourage him. CHRISTMAS FUNERALS MAY BE POSTPONED Cab Drivers in St. Louis Vote to Go On Strike Today. ST. LOUIS, Dee. 25.—At a meeting of the Cab Drivers’ Union last night the men voted to go out on a strike today, owing to the fact that the Embalmers and Liverymen's Association had re turned no answer to their demands for better wages and shorter hours. Several weddings and funerais are set for today, and the strike will cause great embarrassment. CARDINAL SENDS XMAS GREETINGS TO THE POPE Letter Also Sent to Princes of the Church and Catholic Crowned Heads. BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—Cardinal Gib bons has sent letters of Christmas greet ing to the Pope and to each of Lhe cardinals of the Catholic chureh through out the world. Similar letters were sent to the erown ed heals of cach of the Catholic countries of Europe. including (he Em peror of Austria, the King of Spain, the King and Queen of Portugal, and the King of Belgium. This is in accordance with the cardinal’'s annual custom. The cardinal pontificared at high mass at the cathedral this morning. Rev. William A. Fletcher preached the ser mon and Haydn's Sixteenth Mass Was sung by the choir with orchestral ac companiment, HEBREWS CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF LIGHT The Feast of Lights, or as it is also called, the Feast of Dedication or chan ukkah, begar Tuesday at sundown and wlil continue for eight days. It is com memorative of the victory of the Jews, under the Maccabees, over the Assyrians. During its continuance candles are kept lighted in the homes. One is lighted the first night and another is added cach night, so that on the eighth and iast night eight candles are burning. This is symbolic of the cruse of im polluted oil which, according to tra dition, was found in the desecrated temple and which lighted ii for eight days after iis purification. Firemen Fight F.ames in Cold and Driving Snowstorm—Loss $25,000. GLENS FALLS, N. Y., Dec. 26.—Anoth sr disastrous fire, entailing a loss of $25, 000, gecurred this morning in this vil lage. The blaze started in the building own ed by ¥Framk Byrne, of New York city, and for a time the entire block was threatened. In the cold and driving snowstorm which prevailed, the firemen labored zealously and the blaze was con {ined to the Byrne building. CLEVELAND, Dec. 25.—Mayor John son yesterday provided the employes of Pis tax bureau with money for Christ raas, even though their salaries had been stopped by an injunction, granted on th» ground that money couid not legally Le paid from the city treasury for the suppert of the burcau. The mayor pal all the salaries of men out of his “cA THOROUGH NEWSPAPER.” EXECUTIVE OFFICE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The steady improvement in THE WASHINGTON TIMES is a matter of general remark and commendation. If is a thorough newspaper, and is edited with distrimination and ability. 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GHOIGE BEEF WITHIN PURSE OF THE POOR Price Four Cents Lower Than in Sunmer. CHICAGO, Dee. 25.—Beef prices have taken a tumble, and choice cuts are now within the reach of all. Prices are cents a pound lower than in the summer months, and have been for ninety days. If the retailers are maintaining the old scale they are mulcting their customers, say represen tatives of the packing house industries. The ranges in all sections of the big feeding districts are plentifully stocked with high grades caitle, and there is no danger of any scarcity for months to come, the packers say. The packers also say the big drep in prices has not in the slightest degree been brought about hy the Government proceedings against the alleged beef trust; that the changes for the benefit of the consumer are due to supply, and demand causes exclusively. ““At the present cost,” said Arthur Meeker, of Armour Co., “the poor man can better afford bee! than ever before. Since about three months ago we have been selling carcasses to retailers at zbout 4 cents a pound less than the cost in the middle of the summer. “Pork and mutton are aiso cheaper. The reason for the drop is the lower cost of beef on the hoof. We are now buy ing cattle at 5 cents per pound, as com pared with 8 cents in the summer™ HOLIDAY BRIGHTNESS PENETRATES HOSPITALS In Each Institut.on Patients Are Gven Christmas Cheer—Festival for the Insane. Christmas cheer found its way into the hospitals of the city and brought enjoyment to those there confined. In each hospital there was at least a dinner of turkey and cranberry sauce, ou? which all partook except those too ill for such substantial food. Special privileges were allowed visitors, and the lonely patients were greeted with “Merry Christmas” by relatives and companions of other days. At ihe Government Hospital for the Insane the real Christmas festival was last night, when the annual entertain ment was given in the assembly hall There was a big tree with gifts for the large number of inmates of the’ asylum. A band was present and the sojourners at St. Elizabeth's had a good (ime. After the exercises and when the last package had been removed from the tree, the hall was cleared of seats and dancing began. The annual ball is an institution in which the inmates of the asylum take delight. The women in p=*ticular isok forward to it. It lasts only two hours, but it is perhaps the most interesting feature of (he social life of the asylum. GLENS FALLS BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE MAYOR JOHNSON GIVES MONEY TO EMPLOYES ALLEGED PLOT T0 STEAL BEN]. HARRISON'S BODY Letter Te.ls Scheme Planned by Ghouls. NDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dee. 25.—In a letter received yesterday by the police superintendent, a detailed story of a plot to pob the grave of former President Benjamin Harrison was given by a man named Wallace Shmms, and the police are now looking fer the writer, and are te investigate the matter. The letter states that Rufus Cantrel, now under indictment for stealing a large number of bodies, war to rob the grave of the’ ex-President and convey the body to the office of a local phy sician. A rumor of theft wa: then to be put in circulation, and after it was con firmed by the opeming of the grave, it was supposed that a reward would be offered by the family. After the reward was offered the bady was .0 be taken to the country and found by Cantrel, who would then claim the reward. ANARCHISTS SENT BACK T0 AMIRICA FROM ROME LONDON, Dee. 25.—A dispatch to the “Standard” from Rome says that sev eral anarchists, she were expelled from the United Sates, ve arrived at Genoa. They were imbediately placed under police surveillance and will be sent back to America. At the Children’s Hospital the man agement prepared a ree, which the Young ones were permitied to see at 2 o'clock. It was loaded with presents and brillianily lighted. Every child in the institution was remembered with a gift, and real joy reigned until evening. Dinner, consisting of the chief deli cacles of the season, will be served at 6 o'clock. The children of this institu tion, many of them seriously ill, took a lively interest in all that occurred. At Providence Hospital there was lit tie departure from routine. Visitors were allowed in the wards and rooms of the patients, and many of the latter re ceived gifts. Christmas dinner, with an appropriate menu, was served at the usual hour. At Columbian, Garfield, an1 George town University Hospitals o>ractically the same course was pursued. Teo much excitement is not good for the sick, and this idea was predominant in the Christ mas program. Gifts sent in were given to the paiierts, and such delicacies were allowed as the judgment of the nhy siciens distated. SEVEN MEN KILLLED IN FREIGHT WRECK Regular and Extra Trains Collide Near Trinidad, Col. TRINIDAD, Col., Dee. 25.—Seven men were killed in a freight wreck one and a half miles north of here on the Colo rado and Southern Railroad last night. The dead were: J. POX, fireman. J. W. GOLDTRAP, engineer on regular freight. —i KING. machinist on regular. MeDERMOTT, brakeman on extra. ELMER PEARCE, engineer of extra. Fireman on regular. Brakeman on regular. OBJECT TO EXEMPTION. An, adverse report has been sent to the Senate District Committee by the Distriet Commissioners on Senate bill No. 6511, “To exempt from taxation certain property of the Daughters of tne American Revolution in the Distriet of Columbia, and of the American Institute of Architects.” The Board says that it has received from the assessor a statement to the effect that the amount of property in the Distriet exempted from taxation is valued at £9,180,994, the taxes on which weuld amount to $142,000 per annum, and that the taxable basic for municipal expenses is constantly and materially reduced by such exemptions. PRILIPPINE TARIFF A SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT Englan and Germany Inti mate Bad Faith. EXPORT DUTY ON HEMP Almost Prokibitive Rate for Germany, Formerly Largest Consumer. Open Door a Myth. Vigorous protests have been made by Great Britain and Germany to the State Department against the course which the United States is pursuing in the Philip pines in regard to export duties. These governments charge that the United States is acting contrary to its declared policy of the open decor in the islands, and they strongly intimate bad faith on the part of the United States. These protests have been transmitted io the Senate Philippines Committee, and are to be considered in connection with the bill which has passed the House to reduce the Philippine tariff from 75 per cent to 25 per cent of the Dingley schedules. ~The Philippine Comnfission in fts tarif? act, among cther things, imposed an ex port duty on hemp, but this duty is re mitted where the hemp is brought to the United States, and it is here admitted free of duty. The effect of this is that the rope manufacturer in ihe United States obtains his Manila hemp about $7.50 per ton cheaper than his competi tor in England and Germany. Spain com ing in under the most favored nation ciause of the Paris Treaty of Peace is accorded the same privilege as the United States, but neither England nor Germany is concerned in that respect, for Spain is not an extensive manufacturer of rope. Germany, in her note to the State De partment, declares that she rests her claim on the principle of equal treatment for all nations, a principle which the United States has always hertofore in voked in Eastern Asia as well as elze where. The fact is cited that hemp which ie exported to Germany pays an export tax of $#I5 per 100 kilos, while no tax is exacted upon the hemp sent to the United States. In this way the trade in hemp is di verted from England and Germany—be fore the Spanish- American war large purchasers of Manila bemp—to the United States. Germany asks that the advantages which the United States has be extended to her. in England the matter was first Lrought fo the attention of the govern ment by the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, which addressed the Marquis of Lansdowne on the subject. The result was a note ad dressed to our Statc Department, in which attention was called to the effect which the tax had upon the rope indus try in England, and the fact that the Manila hemp which formerly went 10 Ergland is now shipped to manufasiur ers in the United States, Secretary Hay diplomatically referred these proiests to Secretary Root, because of the fact that the government of the Philippines comes directly under the War Department's authority. Secretary Root shilted the responsibility upon Congress and there it now rests, and the Republican leaders are struggling to find a way cut of the difficulty. CREW THRGWN INTO RIVER BY UPSETTING OF TOWBOAT Number Drowned Not Known—Boats Make Every Effort to Res cue Men. PITTSBURG, Fa., Dec. 25.~The tow beat Margaret upset in the Alleghen: River opposite the foot of Eighth Stree vesterday. The entire crew was on board at the time of the accident. How many are drowned is not vet known. Boats went at once to the rescue and all efforts possible were made to save the mer. Just how the accident was caused las not been learned. The boat is owned by the Rogers Sand Company. It has been used to tow sand dredge boats, and a number of men were em ployed on it. Englishmen Act. VENEZUELA LAUGHS AT COAST BLOCKADE [1PICAL GIRISTIAS WCATHER PAEDICTED Clear Skies Will Prevail Throughout Holidays. The slight fall of snow last night and early this morning, which gave to the city a typical Christmas attire, will sus pend further action for at least forty eight hours, according to the reports of the Weather Bureau. Although the storm was not a serious one, it was sufficient to cloak the city in a white mantle, thus adding an im portant feature of the day. For years and years, snow and Christmas have al ways been associated, and the subse quent nuisance that the falling fakes cause is discounted by the cheer which it brings. There was a fall last night of about two or three inches, merely enough to cover the ground with a thin layer. Be fore noen today the gray, ominouslook ing clouds broke, and the storm disap peared. The weather tonight and to morrow is scheduled to be clear and colder. From present indications, clear skies will prevail throughout the bok days. In the Western States, the fall of snow has been rather heavy, and has delayed train service in the mountainous regions. In fact, railroad traffic is always more op less delayed at this season of the year because of the heavy traffic and express. As a result of the storm, however, ad ditional inconver‘ence is caused by slip pery rails. Trains from the West for Washington reached here from ten min utes to four or five hours behind sched ule time last night and this morning. The local storm, which went no farther than Virginia, had no serious effect on rail read trafic. MANY P.RSONS INJURED IN THREE TRAIN WRECKS Pennsylvania Limited Tele scopes an Accommodation syivania Limited, running ar hour late, crashed into the rear end of the Lees dale accommodation at Quaker Valley Station, telescoping the smu.ller traia, and carrying it along almost half a mile, last eveni_g. Of the mary persons injured, the most seriously hurt were: Charles Hopking, of Leesdale, badiy mangled, and will die. John Ir. Carson, of Sewickley, nose broken and badly cut. Jokn Stritzmeyer, of Newcastle, both legs fractured. H. T. Potter, bruised, and cut about the head. M, T. Joyce, Leesdale, right leg broken and badly cut by glass. The limited was rot damaged, excep: that the front of the engine was dis abled. LOUISVILLE, Kv., Dec. 25.—Six per sons were injured, several of them seriously. in a collision betwen an elec tric ear and “Big Four” freight train on a trestle here some time before day break. The electric car was thrown from the trestle to the ground, a distance of eight een feet. The collisiecn was due to misunderstanding of signals. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Dec. 25.+ The Penn ROGERS, Neb., Dec. 25.—A dozen pas sengers and t(rainmen were injured in a collision between the Colorado Special and a freight train on the Union Pa cific Railroad here before dawn today. The ireight, easthound, was about te take a siding when the passenger train, westbound, crashed into it head-on. AWAIT DECISION IN A $750,000 ESTATE MEDIA, Pa., Dec. 25.—Judge Johnson has before him the testimony and has heard the argument from which he must determine whether or not he will grant an issue on the estate of EmeMne De shong. who left $750,000. The greater bulk of the estate was left to Clarence and Alfred Deshong, the daughter, Mrs. Louise I). Wood bridge, being cut off with $70,000. Mrs. Woodbridge contends that Alfred poisoned her mother's mind against her and she asked that an issue be granted and the facts heard before a jury. John G: Johnson, O. B. Dickinson, and W. Roger Fronefleld represent Mrs. Woodbridge, and William B. Broomall, John B. Hannum, and V. Gilpin Robin gon the will and the Deshong boys. Mrs. Woodbridge alleges that she was deprived of seeing her mother after the death of her brother, John O. Deshong. jr... who Ieit a large estate. which was inherited by the mother, Mrs. Emeline Deshong. German Paper Says More Drastic Measure Alene Will Cause Distress in Repub lic and Bring It to Terms. Rebels Reply to Castro That Gen. Maios Alone Is Capa ble of Dealing With the “Situation. Dutch Steamer Refuses to Pay Part Dues at La Guaira and Departs President Has Reached No Decision. BERLIN, Dec. 25.—The *“Lokalanzei ger” prints a La Guaira dispateh stating ‘that it is confirmed on ali sides that the revolution is making progress. The ‘movemen?, however, lacks unity and is ‘without a leader. 3 The dispatch adds that it seems scarcely possible that the blockade will produce hunger and distress in the coun try. Therefore months may pass before disconient gains sufficient strength to ‘cause President Castro's deposition. More drastic measures would soon achieve this end. It is Castro alone who cpposes the payment of Venezuela's debts, The blockade principally injures the fereign commercial commupity. The Venezuelans scarcely speak of it. The minister of foreien affairs laughs at it. He considers measures of defense super fuous. but declares that landing parties fromr the warships would be most deter minedly resisted. The levies initiated by the government are mostly carried out by methods of compulsion that are intended to assict the anti-revolutionary struggle. Al beasts of burden, including those belong ing to Germans, have been requisitioned by the government. They are required ‘or the transportation of ammunition and food supplies. REBELS SAY MATOS ALONE CAN DEAL WITH SITUATION WILLEMSTED; Curatao, Dee, 25. ~The Venezuelan insurgents have replied to President Castro's invitation to combine with the government against the enemies of Venezuela, saying General Matos is the only Venczuelan leader who is ca pable of dealing with the situation. DUTCH STEAMER ARRWSES AT LA GUAIRA AND DEPARTS LONDON, Dee. 25.—A dispatch from La Guaira says the Dutch steamer Prinz Willem arrived there yesterday. The usual formalities were observed. The agent refused to pay the port dues and the steamer sailed Yor Trinidad without communicating with the shore. GERMAN CRUISER PREPARING TO GO TO VENEZUELA B¥ILIN, Dec. 25.—It is reported that the cruiser Superba is preparing at Kiel, and that she will sail for Vene zuela at the end of the month. PESIDERT HAS NOT YET ACCEPTED AS APBITRATOR Secretary of State Hay was a ler at the White House today. After his de parture it was announced that his visit bad a tearing on the Venezuelan sitva ticn, but that the President had as yet reached no decizian relativc {0 the ques tion of arbitration, and that he was still in correspondence with the powers. Additional details could not at this time be made publie, Mr. Hay said. “WOULD SOLVE LABOR PRUBLEM IN HAWAN Thomas Fortune Would Colonize Wi True Southern Negro. HONOLULU. Dec. 15.—Thomas For ture, anpeinted by Secretary Shaw to in vestigate the conditions in Hawaii and the Philippines, has arrived here. In an interview he said. “I believe that the importation of the true negro into Hawaii forms a natural solution of the labor problem in the islands.” es He expressed the belief (hat 21 io labor needed could be secured if the oo, sort of agents were sent to the Bog States. This suggestion has mo sh much favor here, and it is probuby fi an orzanized effort wiil be made cure negre laborers. TRAIN STRIKES BUGGY, KILLS BOY AND Ht Another Lad Tewiidly Injured, ll Still Alive. BUFFALO, N. Y. Dee. 25.—This ing train No. 102 on the Penns Railroad, which left Buifale :z o'clock, struck a buggy at a co 2 Blasleys, about two miles se Fast Aurora. The rig contain boys, each about fifteen years ol’ buggy was smashed, ‘the horse ly killed Ome of the lads was. pieces, the other was terribly but is alive.

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At the National Rifles Armory this morning the annual Christmas charity of Almas Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Bhrine, was distributed. Br rine dedi o 5 For weeks the eleven hundred mem bers of the shrine have been ‘busy with their preparations, and teday more than realized their hopes. No one was turned away. There were provisions in alt n dance for everyone. Over fifteen haon dred baskets of provisions were sent out to deserviag families, each one contain ing a sufficient supply to feed an ordi mary family for a week. The work of loading the baskets was an enormous task in itself and kept sev gral hundred volunteers busy until near Iy midnight. The mcst perfect system prevailed and a record of 80 baskets an hour was made. The baskets were “started At one end of a'line and by the time each reached the other end it was filed. First a rack of flour was placed In it, then a sutovelful of potatoes, an equal amount of turnips, then sacks of rice, coffee, beans, and canned goods, and finally 2 head of cabbage. When the work was completed the entire floor of the armory was covered with baskets placed as close togeiher ag it was pos sible to set them. This morning the armory was alive several hours before daybreak. The work mas formally opened by the Rev. J. E. Smith, of Grace Methodist Church, who mvoked the Divine blessing upon those 0 whom the baskets were sent, an‘ _apon those who were engaged in the labor of love. The Nobles of the Shrine, rho had stood with uncovered heads throughout the invocation, ai its con tlusion set to work ith a will, load ng the ceventy-fi'e wagons that had seen loaned for the occasion by the rarious prominent business men of the sity. With the baskets a barrel of dread fresh from the Dakery was pu! in each wagon, a loaf to he placed in tach basket when it was delivered. Each ragon was accompanied by a member of Almas Temple, who was supplied with 1 crisp new greenback as a remembrance or the driver of the wagon. In addition to the baskeis that were ent out, hundreds of applications were nade at the armory for assistance. W. Clifford Long was in charge of this part the work, and saw that no one was ‘wurned away. In addition to filling the baskets of all who applied, he fur tished (hose who lived ‘at any distance vith car fare (0 take ‘hem home. Many were the families that called ut the morning, some of them from the remote portions of the and even from Maryland and There were several women who too weak to carry the baskets, and these cases boys were sent with them kelp them carry their supplies home. This afternoon the: children’s festival Chairman Charles Jacobsen and members of his committee had pre NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE DISTRIBUTE (HRISTMAS GIFTS. 1 3 i 5 i 4

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pared for 3,000 children at the big tree, and had also made arrangements to double their supplies if it should prove necessary. ‘The doors of the armory on G Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets northwest, were thrown open at 1 o'clock, and will remain open until 4 o'clock. No one will be turned awav. HOOD IN ABUNDANCE FOR THE WORTHY PGOR Various Charitable Organizations Give Dinners at Their Head quarters While the well-to-do were rejoicing to day and exchaneing Yuletide gifts and greetings, the unfortunate ones were not altogether forgotten. The Associated Charities distributed 400 baskets of provisions to needy famil fee. The supplies were to a iarge extent gathered from the public schools, where children had from their own homes of pieaty brought good things for Christmas dinners to be bestowed upon the worthy poor. 2 The FHemebound Mission today gave dinpers to more than 250 homeless men, women, and children. The meal consist ed of a bountiful supply of roast turkey with hot gravy, potatoes. bread, hot cof fee, cake and other substantis] food. The children were also given candy and ap ples. The Szlvaticn Army also gave dinners to a large crowd of persons too poor tu Provide a substantial Christmas meal for themselves. Free public dinners were served at Neighborhood House, 456 N Street, and at the Social Center, 118 M Street southwest, for colored people. The People’s Mission served dinner for about a hu~2red. The dinner at the Cen tral Union Mission was te the regulars; its big dinner will be given on New Year Day. 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 eold to result in pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, both adults and children like it. Price 25¢; large size 0c. For sale by Henry Evans, wholesale, and all druggists. Washington Southern Railway—Holi Account of the (Christmas and New Year Holi days, the Washington Southern Railway Com. pany will sell special excursion tickets to points on its line and connections at one and one-third fares for the round trip. Tickets on sale De cember 23, 24, 25, 20, and 31, 1902, and Janu ary 1, 198, good returning until January 3, 1908. To students of schools and colleges, pre senting certificates signed by the head of the school or college, these tickets will be sold I a 2 oa maluve. ud seturhitg unti an Col ous i rection. Apply to ticket agents Wash Southern way. W. P. TAYLOR, Trafic Manager On Nature’s Plan. day Excursion Rate HOW THESPIANS ARE SPENDING CHRIST Mr. Sothern Entertains His Friends This Evening Christmas time to the actor is much the same as any other seascn of the year, for of all representatives of wage earning citizens he has less time for indulgence in home pleasures and fewer opportunities to appreciate the meaning of Christmastide and other happy sea sons of the year. Cne day is much the same as the noxt, spent; as they ell are, within the theater, catering to the fancy of a public which forgets them a3 soca as the curtain faile cn the play. Mr. Sothern, who is reputed through out the theatrical profession as an ideal host, will entertain his company at sup rer tonight alter the play. Members of “The Two Schools” com pany will be engaged with a matinose performance this afternoon, and, in con sequence, will see little Christmas cele rations. Ida Conquest, Jessie Busley, Jameson Lee Finney, M. A. Kenn:dy, 2nd the other members of the organi zation have accepted the invitation of Winchel Smith, to join him at sunper on the stage of the Columbia Theater after ilie night performance of “The Two Schools.” At Chase's, the players will also have a matinee, but Miss Lecnard and her husband, Oven Westford, will dine en famille with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Day. Gertrude Mansfield is still looking for a Christmas box which was sent hor early in the week, and until it arrives she absolutely refuses to eat. APPROPRIATION FROM NO FUND FOR UNBUYABLE COAL Petroit City Council Cannot Make Good Promise of $50,000 for Fuel for the Poor. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 25.—~The city counc!l last night passed a resolution ap propriating $50,000 for the purchase o3 hard ccal, to be sold to the poor at cost. How the money is to be raised, and where the coal is to be purchased were questions the aldermen could not an swer when asked about their action. It was pointed out that reputable coal deal ers were getting anthracite in driblets, and that the city would not stand as well at the mines as regular customers, There is no fund that could stand such a draft at this time of year, and it would be necessary to reconvene the board of estimates to ratify the action and provide the money. ANOTHER LOT roofing paper, 85c and $1 piece. Closing out Government shirts, hoots, saddles, und horse blankets at reduced prices. We pay best prices for metals, scrap iron, and paper stock. S. BENSINGER (O., 11th and B sts. de23 nt THT hamming J. WILLIAM LEE, UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY, 2 Peun. Ave. N. W.. Washington, B. Q i. vw ASH IN INGTON N TIMES THURSDAY. D AY. DECE) EMBER ‘R25 25, 1902 f N gm, p y y i 5 1

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i tL 11 SPECIAL NOTICES. UNDERTAKERS. FATAL OUAEREL OVER DICE. PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 25.—Angerod over a game of dice, Walter Humphreys, a contractor of Lesery, killed W. M. Barnett, a grocer. As Barnett had threatened to kill Humphreys previously, the coroner's jury ¥erdicty 1 as selfde fense. Germany Leads the World i Curing Gopsumaiion N b —_— DPR. ROBERT KOCH, den, Moov REL FAO AaEly UL Live many, curce consumption. The German government employs him at an immense salary te cure consump ‘tion in the public hospitals, By the use of the Koch Inhalation, vapors of the healing oils are easily breathed into the air tubes, causing the ltnzs to be filled with them, and the lungs are healed as if by magic. The vapors are composed of antiseptics. dis infectants, and the greai Koch Tubereu line, and the effect is to kill the dis ease germs ard expel them; in fast, no form of germ life can live when thor oughly under the in‘luence of the Koch Inhalaticn. The physicians of Washington aré in vited to join the class of instruction be ginning the firgt Monday of every month. The trial treatment is here given to prove the wonderful value of the new Koch system, Tre addresses of thousands of cured patients will be gladly given. Call and see the wonderful inhalation invention. You wil! find that the treatment has oh sotutely cured hundreds of paticm’s in many cities after every known medicine has falled. Don't take any more mediefne into the stomach. Lung medicine is always hard Gu the stomach. Be skeptical if you will until you have investigated, but investizate, and find out the truth. The doctors invite sharp criticlsm. Their cures will bear inves tigation. The Washington office Is at 730 11th st. nw. Consultation and examination free, Send for booklet describing and illus trating the treatment, MOTHER GOO:SE a 4 Wij, SUGAR LoaR RHYMES, 5 od

pHE— Ee i17/ There is 2 man in our town bs 1 RR TET ETT pela 8 HARD Sr ANE FC do tL BeeeoRt re Coos SN i A gb 3 Bo eee Whois so wondrous wi For when the best of breacs he wants, ole i wd Then SUCAR LOAF he bays. Made by Boston Baking Co., Opposite U. 8 Capitol Grounds, Washington, D. C, Sold Everywhere. DE. EDWARD Koucl TWO RUNAWAY BOYS FOUND DEAD IN CORNFIFLD ROCE FORD, Jl, Dee. 25.—The dead bodies of Hilding Holme, aged eight, and Frank Smith, aged nine, were found Wednesday in a cornfield near the Chi cago Industrial Home at Woodstgek, IIL, from which institution they ran away last Monday. Arthur Carbon, another inmate who left with them, is in 2 serious condi tion. iN MEMORIAM a CN i ah con SAPTY CCT—In loving pemerbrance of our Izar sfeler, LILLIAN FAUTUCCL, who died ten verrs ago today, December 25. 1892. Gone, but not forgotem. By fier Lovinz and Devoted Broifes, JOSEPH, STEPHEN, and THEODORE. RZCIPROGATE WITH A HEW YEAR'S GIFT. A SUBGESTION ———ous “The Stare Tet Savas You zy.” 'S Q for Prettily Decorated I 31.48 lor Lamp; cost cis i $2.50 15 for Handseme Parlor Lamp; L eo ccst else where $4.50, THE HUB FURNITURE 00. Formerly Vash B. Wiliams, Zin and D Sis. iH. W. ti Bh go db fi Ah Sb 6 48 gh SAB Shad ib db a lo 48 dh db Ah Su di db ib. ob BL Be TB BF gt DY PE 2 POOP OPPOODY PRPS 0 a “9 b EE G40 400000 0000000000000 000T Saks and Company, a J é pi _. yg Rs “J pe SF pi 14 pi pe

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In spite of all the care and caution possible to exercise, stocks will get tossed and tumbled, rumpiéd and soiled in the Christmas rush and hurry. fm o While the quality isn’t harmed in the least it is spoiled for place in regular stock—and the day after Christmas we always clear it away. Tomorrow, then, come hunting some “BIG BARGAINS.” We speak our purpose plainiy in the deep reductions wé make. But clearance is of more con:equence than what it costs to ac complish it. Tomorrow is a day when the dimes are as big as dollars. il il rr tei tt 0dds and Ends Smoking Jackets. There are less than fifty of them, and hardly iy 30 two are alike. But they are House Coats that sold up to $5. Mostly the two-toned Cloth effects. Choice Boys’ Clothing.

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Odds and Ends Men's Faney 50c Mufflers; they are rumpled, but you can make them all right in a jiffy 250 With am APQMes se sr nr vans snes Plain W $1 Silk Mufflers; tbssed and tumbled, but all righ 45C OtRArWESE... tae te and Fancy Odds and ends of 25¢ Fancy Silk Four-in-Hands: a big sec tion of it; scores of pat- 15C terns. Choice..... RMR, Odds and ends of [0c Fancy Silk Neckwear; all the tussel and tumbled and soiled, 8 matter how pee Pe 24¢ i FR a Se ER SL Odds and encs of $1.00 Silk Neck wear, some cof those very exclu sive patterns and shapes are included, because they are crumpled a Ra Choice Furnishings. Odds and ends of a special line of Holiday Hose; fancy patterns and regular S0c grade. Of course, nothing lke all ac BIBS. ivi reared. Even the Underwear suffered. Broken sizes of 50c leader i Fleeced Shirts and our 39°C Drawers; slizhtly soiled.... Broken sizes of the 75¢ Heavy Natural Weol Undci=zar that has the Double breasted Shirts. sine: f50 Shirts or Drawers......... All the soiled ard mussed Silk and Linen Handkerchiels; some initialed; all hem stitched; that sold, for 25¢. 15¢ Cheoice....... Tn en A iy All the tossed and tumbled and slightly soiled Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs that sold for 50¢. Initialed or hem- 26¢ StibeRall. cr. iteiive va ronnie Odds and Ends Men's Gloves. Broken sizes of Men's Mocha Gloves; the fashionable Cicve for street wear] outseam and Gray shade. $1 is the regular price. Choice Men's and Boys’ Hais Lot of Men's Derbys aad Saft Hats; not all sizes, dut every shape is the latest, and most every late shape is included among them. They are $1.50 and $2 Hats—and you know how are. 5C Lior 1 SARE RR SA \J good cour $2 Hats Broken sizes Men's Winter Caps, made of all-wocl cheviot; golt shape, with double band to pull down over the ears. You'll wish there were 500 instead of less than 100. Worth up Z3t fo Dic. Cholee... ss iceanuns Children’s Stocking Caps: the erumpled ores and the soiled anes in the lots worth up to be: All celors and combinations; and os there's no such thing as “size” in a Stocking Cap any sone will fit any vounssters {}C head. Cholee........ cdi. ay Odds and ends Boys’ Derbys and Soft Hats; not all sizes;” pot all shapes; tut the shapes that are here are tha we 4 est. Worth $i. Choiee.... Odds and Ends Children’s Leggins. What are left of the Christmas stock of Children’s Leggins, and they include Cloth, Cordurey. Leather, and Velvet: all full Fauntlercy-cut, strap and button fasterings: all colors. Choice of Leggins that have been selling up to $2.50 a pair, g5¢ Itt J broken Sl2es.... cv. fairies era arse a i I a np ER LRP Rf ie fe Saks and Company, Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street.

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George W. Evans’ Record for Punctuality in the Interior Department an Ex io for His Confreres—Miss Cooke and Her Important Task—Mr. De Lacy Gave Up N:wspaper Work for More Lucrative Position, TREASURY DEPARTMENT The following appointments have been made to increase the staff of the Bureau of Immigration: Pe P. Cunningham, of Washington, J. L. Kennedy, of Washington, D. C. G. R. Rolland, of Elizabeth, N. J. Frank B. Weever. Frederick Crane, of Greenfield, Mo. R. L. Dedd, of Georgia. Edward Huestis, Olympin. Wash. J. BE. Driscoll, Salem, Mass. 7 J. C. Hise, Rockville, Tenn. John Able, Wisconsin. These men were appointed to aid in covering the border line between the United States and Canada, west of Sault Ste. Marie. The following are the posts at which they will be stationed: Two at Emmerson, Manitoba; two at Rosen feld, one at Esteban. Assinaboia: one at Elko, Alberta; one at Victoria, B. C.: one at Vancouver, B. C.; one at Hunt ington, B. C., and ome at Cloverdale. They will all go to Montreal, though, and be assigned to their respective sta tions upon their arrival there. The reports for November show that more Euvropean immigrants entered this country through the stations west of Sault Ste. Marie than applied for en trance at Montreal. Commissioner Gen eral Sargent says that with this in crease to the force the line will be well guarded from sea to sea, and that it will be no easier for immigrants to gain admission by the way of Canada than through the seaports, W. J. Howard received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his sister, Stella,- who was fatally injured in the recent railroad accident in Cali fornia. She, died in a hospital in San Francisco. Jemes Bell, of the customs division, is at his home In New York city for the holidays. Dr. Marshail, of the customs divis®on, is on leave until the 1st of January. Miss Ralston, one of the most capable clerks in the Internal Revenue Bureau, who has been ill for some time, is now rapidly recovering. y Ws Snell, of the claims division, Internal Revenue Bureau, is spending the holidays at his home in Rochester, N.¥X. The Hon. Joseph L. Miller, exCom missioner of Internal Revenue, now liv ing at Kenova, Va., was a visitor at the bureau yesterday on official business. H. L. Amiss, the grandfather of Mr. r¥, of the customs division, is a remarkable man. He is ninety-five ¥yelrs old and hale and hearty. Next Saturday he expects to see the wedding of his great-granddaugbter. Mr. Amiss lives with Mr. Montgomery at his home in Falls Church. He was one of a dele POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. Mr. Slack, who is in charge of the Postoflice Museum, is at bis nome in Virginia and will remain tFere until the 24 of January. He has been connected DEAF MUTE ABLAZE SHRIEKED FOR HELP Her Clothes Catching Fire From Brush Girl Dies in Tergible Agony. LAUREL, Del.,, Dee. 25.—Alice, the ten-year-old deaf mute daughter of Cul breth Huston, of near Hearns, was burned to death yesterday. The child accompanied ber father and elder brother to a field, where they were burning brush. After setting fire to a pile of brush they went over the fleld. A few minutes later they ®scovered the girl running toward the house. Her clothing was ablaze, and, fanned by the high wind, she was almost nude when ber father reached her. In tearing the shreds of clothing from the child's charred body he, too, was badiy burned, Unable to make her frightful condition known by av intelligible cry, she utiered piercing shrieks. She died an hour later in terrible agony. KING'S DAUGHTERS GivE MRS. VANDERBILT GIFT NEWPORT, R. I, Dec. 25.—Whenso ever Circle of King's Daughters of New port sent Mrs. Frederick Ww. Vaodorbiit, at her residence at Hyde Park, a hand some Christmas present last night. Mrs. Vanderbilt is the president of the circle and she furslehes the material for the garments for the poor. The cir cle, which meets weekly, has made gar ments for thirty-six families in New York, recommended by Mrs. Vanderbilt. Last night Mrs. Vanderbilt recognized the labors of her circle of King's Daugh ters and she sent each a Christmas gilt. TYPEWRITER GIRL INSANE; MADE MISTAKE IN LETTER TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 25.—jane Radel, a typewriter, has been adjudged insane from melancholy caused by mag nifying the effect of a mistake she made in a business letter. SENTENCED TO HANG SERGENT, Ky., Dec. 25.—-John Bryant, thirty-six, was sentenced to hang in Clintwood, Va., Wednesday,” for the murder of William Vanover. Wililam Bryant, bis brother, was also sentenced to harg two weeks ago for participation in the same crime, £h with all the Postoffice exhibits in the various expositions in this country, in cluding the World's Fair at Chicago and the Buffalo Exposition. He also went to the World's Fair at Paris, where the United States Pocetoffice exhibit was awarded the grand prix. He is at work now on the exhibits for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Veorge W. Evans, disbursthg clerk, has been employed under the department since 1564, and has held his present po sition in the division of finance since 1880. These lgng years of service have not lessened Mr. Evans’ interest in his division, but have rather added zeal. It is said that Mr. Evans rarely fails to occupy his accustomed chair by o'clock, and his example proves a good one. Emma C. Cooke, telegraph operator, has for the past twelve years regulated the department clocks for noon each working day. Miss Cooke was appointed from this city, but claims Pennsylvania as her present home. If by chance Miss Cooke forgets to press the button for the regulator and the department clocks differ with the city whistles, no one of the officials ever thinks that the tele graph operator is wrong. Quite the contrary. Few people perhaps know that Chief Clerk Edward M. Dawson is an official of the Patent Office. But this is true. Mr. Dawson is not only a chief clerk, but also a superintendent. An additional salary is given for these duties in com pensation for the extra amount of work required. William H. De Lacy, assistant chief clerk, is what may be called a young old newspaper man. Before his active career in the Interior Department Mr. De Lacy was a #ojourner in the journal igtic world and is well known through out the District of Columbia in those cireles PATENT OFFICE. in the absence of Commissioner Fred erick 1. Allen, Assistant Commissioner Fdward B. Moore will fill the highest chair of this office. Percy B. Pierce, examiner of sewing machines and apparel, is ill 2t the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baitimore, Md. Mr. Pierce has been in bad health for some time, but it is said that he is now im proving. Another examiner of the ofc», Francis Fowler, in charge of steam er gineering, is ill at his home in Q Street, this city, Mr. Fowler has been chief of his division for twenty-six years, and has heretofore alwavs been in good health. Friends are cuncerned over his condition. George A. Wilkinson, chief of the di vision of builders’ hardware, etc., has been a principal examiner in this office for a longer period than any other exami ner of the present staff. Mr. Wilkinson's present appointment dates from May 15, 1368. It is needless to say that the ex aminer is an authority on hardware in general, and has followed the continuous growth of its art. Mr. Wilkinson has for his first assistant Dr. John J. Darby, who is a resident of the District, and is well known here, GIRLS JUMP FROM BURNING CANDY SHOP Two Employes of St. Joseph, Mo., Fac tory Receive Fatal Injuries. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 25.—Fire start ed yesterday in Chase Sons’ candy manufactory. Sophia Mintus, fifteen years old, and Mpttie Leslie, twenty years old, employes, jumped from a third story window and were fatally hurt. There were fifty girls employed in the factory, and many others jumped from second and third-stery windows, some sustaining slight injuries. Laura Craw ford, May Dakin, and Rosle Kraus were injured about the head by jumping. The factory had been running night and day to fill heliday orders. The loss is $100,000, Douglass Co.'s commission house adjoining was damaged to the extent of $5,000, fully insured. ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 25.—Col, Charles E. Little, of the First Maryland Regiment, visited this place recently for the purpose of furthering the movement for the reorganization of Company K, at tached to the First Regiment during the war with Spain, and disbanded soon af ter the cessation of hostilities. Colonel Little inspected Lyddane's Hall, which it is proposed to use as an armory, and he declared it ideally fitted for the purpose. Already forty-five young men of Rockville and vicinity have signified their intention of joining thg company, and the indications are that Rockville will soon be represented by a five military company. it is understood that the adjutant gen eral will, within the next few days, send a mustering officer here, and the work of organizing the company will soon fol low. The annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of this county will be held at tills place about the middie of January next. An interesting pregram has been prepared consisting of three sessions, one at 10 a. m., one at 2 p, m., and the other at 7:30 p. m. Nationa! Superin tendent C. E. Dinwiddie is expected to be present and address the league. The annual meeting of the Agricultur al Society of this county will be held at this place in the town hall, on Wednes day, January 14 rext. when a board of directors will be elected for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of other important business. The officers of the soclety are chosen by the directors, NEWS OF ROCKVILLE. The office of the Commissary General contains many expert women clerks, but few whe have more knowledge of the ways of the Subsistence Department than Miss Brown, who is employed in connection with the financial division of the office. The work performed in the payment for the food furnished Uncle Sam's soldiers is exceedingly exacting and requires a technical knowiedge of the forms and account blanks used by the department. Miss Brown has a knowledge of the duties of her position which permits her readily to keep pace with the great amount of work per formed in the Commissary General's of fice. In the absence of Commissary General Westen, Colonel Alexander, of the Sub sistence Department, acts in his stead. This officer was on duty in the War De partment in the days of the Spanish war, and was later in charge of the com missary department fn Cuba. In his an nual report, General Weston speaks in terms of unqualified praise of the work done by Colonel Alexander while in Cuba. Colonel Alexander relieved Colonel Sharpe at the War Department, the iatter officer now being stationed in Manila as chief commissary of the di vision of the Philippines. Dr. Ravenburg, who is the clerk in charge of the Hospital Corps division of the Surgeon General's office, himself saw many years of service as a hospital steward in the United States army in the civil war. Dr. Ravenburg came to this country from Germany and entered the army, serving with the greatest credit. His work is exceedingly con genial to him, as he takes the utmost interest in hospital stewards and all inatters pertaining to the medical de partment of the army. Miss Lottie Botts, of Virginia, one of the most efficient clerks of Dr. Ravenburg's staff, has re cently been promoted to $1,200 a year. Lieut. Commander John R. Edwards, t. 8. N, is the right hand man of Rear Admiral George W. Melville, chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. Mr. F lwards is an engineer of great experi ence, and it was under his direction that the liquid fuel tests recently conducted in this city were carried to such a sue cessful issue, Commander Baird, U. 8. N., is an en Fineer officer now on duty as superin tendent of the State, War and Navy De partment Building. Up to the present time Mr. Baird has managed to kee; the ‘building well heated, and has cn hand an ample supply of coal to last for several weeks. In the department Mr. Baird is ‘extremely popular, and is very well ‘known to all the clerks. BUREAU OF EDUCATION. Sheldon Jackson, general agent of edu cation in Alaska, and his assistant, Wil liam Hamilton, have had a progressive year in the Introduction of domestic reindeer in that northern country. A very noteworthy event of the year was the securing of a number of reindeer from the region of Ola, Sib: la, to cross with the existing herds. FOUND BLACKSNAKE IN CHRISTMAS TREF PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 25.— William Jones went out into the country Monday after a Christmas tree, but was surprised to discover, coiled up in its branches, a blacksnake four feet four inches long. He cut the tree down and captured the snake. With a split stick over its neck b= brought the reptile into town alive to prove the truth of his midwinter story of blacksnakes growing on Christmas 1rees I give you, love, this Christmas Duy No royal gift of kings, But just a faulty, human heart That, dear, forever sings In joy about your every charm. In love that true will be, Throughout each change of conscious life, And flow of living sea. I give you, sweet, a human love, But holy in its purity; My love for you, my higher part And better self still proves to be. What could I give you more than this: A love that faithful e‘er will cling To you, when all the joy of life And hope of joy have taken wing. And, too, I give you perfect trust, No matter what the world might say, My trust in you would be serene, And flow on in unbroken way. The trials of life may lie before, Your feet may stumble on the road, I trust you still; how could 1 else When love itself is trusting's goad? The faith 1 give you, dearest heart, Is like the faith that in each soul Is felt in some unseen good, Some heaven that is earthly goal. No matter what the years maw bring, I know your good; I feel your truth; I know my love is placed in right, Although I love in days of youth. I give you, love, this Christmas Day The gifts that in the Christmas tale Shine on in undiminished glow I: light that time will never pale, The love, the trust and higher faith— A human heart that like the ope As babe, as priest, and vietim, king, For us our peace and safety won. —ELIZABETH ELLICOTT POE, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1902. fe E—

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WAR DEPARTMENT. A CHRISTMAS GIFT. Annie Russell in a New Play a” At the National next Monday night Charles ¥rohman will present for the first time on the American stage, Made line Lucette Ryley’s new play, “Mice and Men,” which is chosen for Annie Russell, now in her fifth season as a star, Mr: Frohman has long been partial to Wash ington as a first-night city. It will be re membered that many of his most impor tant productions were seen here for the first time. He wili come to Washington to give the final rehearsals and first pro duction of this new play his personal di rections. “Mice and Men” was pro nounced one of the successes of the last London season. It is announced as a pretty comedy. wholesome in story, and daintily written, and provides Miss Rus sell a part suited to her art. The sup porting company will be the strongest Miss Russell has ever had, and will in clude Orrin Johnson, John Mason, John Glenining, Charles Butler, E. A. Eberle, Frank Goldsmith, T. C. Valentine, Miss Uddleston, Mrs. Glendining, May Gayler, and Mrs. (G. H. Gilbert. There will be matinecs New Year Day and Saturday. The sale of seats opened this morning. AJ 5 “Skv Farm” at the Columbia The country season in town is to take its recognized initiative at the Columbia Theater next Monday evening, with the production of Edward E. Kidder's new pay of American country life entitled “Sky Farm,” which ran at the Boston Muscum for about 100 nights of last sea son to continuously crowded houses, and was subsequently withdrawn to admit of its imperative transfer to the Garrick Theater, New York, before the close of the ecason. The plece scored a run at the Garrick of nearly 100 nights. As may be inferred by the title, “Sky Farm” is of the “Old Homestead” order, but fashioned nearer to the hour. The story is said to be drawn from life and be more plausible than the average bucolic dran:a. The author, Edward BE. Kidder, has written several other successful come dies, especially those in which the late Sol Smith Russel was so long and profit zbly featured. The cast is announced as follows: Scott Cooper, Francis Byrne, William H. Tooker, Sarah MeVicker, Rose Flynn, Ralph Dean, Henry J. West, Claire McDowell, Fay Courteney, Tully Marshall, Maud Hosford, Charles Crosby, Daisy Graham, Frank Monroe, David Christie, and others. The Choral Society The Choral Society gives its sixteenth performance of the “Messiah” Tuesday evening next at the Congregationa Church. At each recurrent Christmas season, audiences assembie in Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities to hear the familiar sounds of this great AN ARMY BRIDE AE NID Rly ALY —By Lieut, JOHN LLOYD. oo lh

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Ne’ COPYRIGHT BY FRANK A’ MUNSEY. THIS STORY WAS BEGUN YESTERDAY SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER 1 A large part of the garrison of Fort Huachuca is out after Geromimo and his Apaches, who have escaped from the reservation. The weather Is tropical. Lieutenant Hecker and Kader Ronan are trying to keep cool on the veranda of the former's quarters. The officer has been Joking about his many love affairs. Ronan has alluded to the fortune he has thrown away and to the mine in which his hopes lie buried, Hecker receives an order to meet the colonel at the railway station, where he is expected to arrive with two ladies. “Two fat old women,” laughingly suggests Ronan, as Heckew rides away, accompanied by a squad led by ish, an enlisted man, whom Ronan distrusts, but who is useful to Hecker. CHAPTER IL “Two Fat 01d Women.” 4AWO rai via women. HE little train that leaves the Southern Pacific Railway at Ben son and goes on its way down into northern Mexico was any thing but crowded. The cars were hot, with the sun bak ing from sky and reflecting earth. Over in one corner there were two Mexican girls with a young man—three types of the changing customs of the country. One of the young women had her head and waist draped in a black embroid ered and fringed rebosa, which may have belonged to her grandmother. It nid her lower face and left her smooth black hair, with its straight white divis jon, and her low brow and black eyes, vaguely to suggest a Madonna. If you allowed yourself to think, you knew that the figure under the draping was corsetless and untidy, and in a few short years would be shapeless, but it was pleasanter not to think; to admire the slender brewn hand that held the black folds, and the fingers covered with quaint old rings, one of which held a claw for a cigarette. You wanted all your admiration upon one side to throw into stronger con trast your amused disgust at the daugh ter of Americanized Mexico. The other girl had evidently been to Los Angeles or San Diego, and was bedight with the modes of her class. The pinched waist of bright blue, the tight yellow gloves, were vulgar to a degree, but the removal of the rebosa, and the cutting and the tight crimping of the coarse black hair, surmounted by a white sailor hat, had thrown into promin nce the coarse mouth and chin, which one almost for gets is a common characteristic of Mexi can women. To uncover a face that gen erations have worn covered is shocking. The countenance looks as though it felt itself brazen. The young nran was not sacrificing his own splendor to the heat. His Prince Albert coat was tight, and his silk hat was too precious to be removed from his head. He leaned.over the shoulder of the ugly, badly gowned exponent of the new times, and evidently regarded her rebosa wrapped companion as a country dowdy. Across the aisle sat two young girls who regarded the sight, so strange ‘o their eyes, with every appreciation of the situation, but never thinking that they themselves completed ihe picture. They were dressed for the heat in cool silk blouses, their soft, well-cared-for work, which age seems to make more at tractive and acquaintance more delight ful. Change is introduced from year to year by new voices in the solo parts. Mrs. De Moss, the soprano, and Mrs. Dorothy Pollock, the contralto, are strangers here, the former already well known through participation in the Cin cinnati Festivals, the Bach Festival, at Bethlehem, and the concerts of the New York Oratorio Society, the latter, as yet, without wide fame, but destined throug the possession of a rich voice and a fine method to a future of distinction. The men, Mr. Nicholas Danty, tenor, and Mr. Ericsson Bushnell, bass, are old favor ites in Washington, and their return is pleasantly anticipated.

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Chase’s Vaudeville. The Burmese football players, Moung Toon and Moung Chet, will be presented at Chase's next week. The program will include also several exceptionally pop ular acts, Bert Howard agd Leona Bland, Gillette's musical dogs, the worldfa mous Rossow midgets, Frank Gardinen and Lottie Vincent, little Charlie Ros sow, Rae and Brosche, and the beauti ful and realistic colored motion pictures showing the adventures of ‘“‘Little Red Riding Hood.” The marvelous dexterity, nimbleness of feet, and the precision and grace of action of the two noted Bur mese players is expected to arouse the astonishment and interest of the Chase audiences to a greater degree than any other act of the season, judging ‘rom reports which have followed the presen tation of the attraction in the Easter: cities. In England they had the honor to perform before the King. In Burmah the game which corresponds with Americar football, and English cricket is called “chinlone,”” and resembles the Oeciden tal sports only in the remotest degree, as it is played with small wicker or glass balls, cast from one player to another without the interposition of the hands. It is this that makes the game so remarkable and so difficult, as the players attain the skill, proficiency, and muscularity which seem little short of marvelous to the Western mind, Both are completely tattooed in accordance with the custom of their country, and appear clad only in bregeh clouts, gowns, and queer turbans. The colored motion pie tures of “Little Red Riding Hood” will be the richest treat the little folks have been afforded this season at Chase's. “The Chaperons” at the Lafavette Frank L. Perley’'s company, which met with much success last season in Wash ington in “The Chaperons,” and which last summer played for two months at the New York Theater, will be seen at the Lafayette Opera House during New Year week, with the same cast which interpreted it on Breadway. In stead of being a single star company, hair put back from their faces, and their bats off. One had thrown up her window, despite the remonstrance of her father across the aisle, Colonel Marcy had bought an iron gray dust coat which exactly matched his hair, and he had buttoned it closely about him, because he was accustomed to closely buttoned garments. His hair stood up on his head in belligerent fash ion, and he had pulled a silk cap well down over it. Even in this attire there were lines and movements which betrayed the sol dler to the most casual cbserver. The short clipped gray mustache, the well planted foot, and an indefinable air of command, made the officer. There were vertical lines between the keen eyes, but the lids were tent-like, and be trayed the kind heart. No one dared contradict Colonel Marcy save his own motherless child, and she so trusted to the tenderness she saw that she ruled kim lightly and almost absolutely. The heat bad curled her yellow brown hair about her temples, and white neck, and brought the red blood to her lips and soft cheeks. She was round and soft and pretty. Her cousin, who sat before her read ing, seemed almost as impervious to the heat as the Mexicans. It had brought pallor into her thin, dark face, and a deeper line of blister about her dark blue eyes, but there was none of that panting expostulation at the weather which made Mary Marcy look so warm. To Nina the heat brought lassitude, lan guor, and every new phase made her more beautiful. “It makes me hotter to look at you Nina. What did you come to Arizona for if you aren't going to enjoy any of the discomforts? You'll have no stories tq tell when you get back.” “1 certainly did not come to find ma terial for stories. It is too nuch trouble te tell the stories one already knows. I know too many.” Mary looked at her admiringly. “1 should think you would. 1 wish you would tell me a few. 1 wonder if by the time I have been out (wo seasons I'li have as many experiences as they say you have had.” “That is one of the stories other peo ple tell—ihe fiction sort. Nothing of any consequence has ever happened to me. 1 wish something would.” Colonel Marcy leaned down and looked ‘out across the mountain bordered plain, white, blinding, dotted over by cactus and dusty acacia, “See that big adobe house over yonder? That's the Sterling Ronan ranch house. There was a story happened there two years ago. Mrs. Black, the wife of the overseer, her (wo-year-old boy, and two Chinamen were besieged there a whole day by the Apaches. They managed to stand them off, however, and killed a few, without letting them get near enough to the house to fire it. Plucky little woman, Mrs. Black.” “Papa!” Mary cried, “you don’t mean to say the Indians ever come near ths houses?” Colonel Marcy langhed. “What have you heen reading the pa pers for? Haven't I to!d you over and over how they burned and scalped ane ‘hung babies up on hooks—"" as was Mr. Perley’s Alice Nielsen Opera Company, “The Chaperons™ contains a cast of lyric comedy artists, almost any one of whom might head a company of his own. Among those who have been ‘associated with the play from the be ginning, and have been retained in im portant roles, are Walter Jones, Ed Red way, Albert Farrington, George K. Henery, Eva Tanguay, Trixie Friganza, ‘Genevieve Day, Mae Stebbins, and May Boley, the young Washington contralto, and all the prize beauty chorus. The sale of seats began this morning. <T

r “At Cripple Creek” at the Academy. Hal Reid's “At Cripple Creek” will be produced ‘at the Academy of Music for the week beginning Monday, Decem ber 29, with the usual matinees. Three hours of thrilling and varied excitement are furnished by this drama, built upon the viccissitudes of Colorado life in the early eighties. Novel and startling stage sets add to the pictures queness of the plot. Realizing that in order to present such a drama in an adequate manner it must be acted by actors of experience and ability, the management announces that it has en gaged “what is undoubtedly the most RAINS RESTRICT COAL OUTPUT 10 PER CENT Slump in Demand for Domestic Uses Helps Out the Dealers. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.—Another of the Reading collieries was temporarily drowned out yesterday. Five of the thir ty-one colieries which are owned by the company, and which were working until the heavy rains are now temporarily out of business. The work of reclaiming them was vigoroasly prosecuted yester day, vet it will be several days, perhaps a week, before the effects of the floods will be over. This restricts the Reading output near ly 20 per cent. Monday but 955 cars were loaded at the mines, whereas the output immediately before the rains was about 1,200 cars daily. By a fortunate coincidence, the demand for coal for domestic uses has slackened at the same time that the output is thus restricted. Dealers had an easy time yesterday. The demand generally slack ens off just before Christmas, and deal ers are looking for a compensating rush at the close of the week, POLLOCK ENTERTAINMENT. A Christmas eatertainment was given yesterday by the children and teachers ef the Pellock Kindergarten and School. The exercices marked the closing of the school for the holidays. Many guests were present and contributed to the en joyment of the little ones. Mary shut her eyes and put her fingers in her ears. “What did you bring us up here for? Why didn’t you tell us?” “I didn’t bring you.” Colonel Marcy =aid triumpbantiy. “You came. I didn’t promise you anything in the way of ‘safety, except that I'd always have an ‘orderly at your back to shoot you in case the Indians were in danger of capturing you; and he went back to his seat. “How silly you are, Maisie!” Nina said. “You know uncie is joking. There isn’t any possible danger, or he would not have allowed us to come. You know that perfectly well. For my part, 1 should enjoy a little danger. I never had a real adventure in my life.” “Well,” said Miss Marcy, with extreme frankness, “I came for fun! Ever since 1 have been in school I've been wild to ‘got out to a fort, and since last June, when I rolled up my diploma, ['ve been ‘working’ papa to come. 1 know it is going to be lovely. But I'm locking for rides, and larks, and jolly young oitficers to dance with. You may have all the Apaches.” Nina looked out on the plain. She was dreaming dreams of some sort, not so material as her plump cousin’s, but fan cies that the strange, torrid atmosphere of the Southwest would foster. The cars came to a standstill at Fair bank, the place where the passengers for ‘Tombstone left them. The door was pushed open, and a straight young man, iss the thin biue serge field blouse of the army, and a big Mexican hat, came in. His riding gloves were worn and soiled, and so were the long, wrinkled cavalry boots. There was a three weeks’ growth of beard on his face. But while its ragged silkiness showed that it was neg lect that had put it there, it did not dis turb the altogether poetic look which it gave to the handsome face. Colonel Marcy reached out his hand with all the cordiality of delighted greet ing, and the young man met it almost with affection. “It's a good sight to see you so near the fort, colonel.” "It's good luck to find you on the ‘way, Adair. What's all this fuss I heat ‘about old Geronimo? Why don’t you bring the old fend in?” “We need a strategist.” Adair said, laughing. Colonel Marcy was known as one of the best Indian fighters om the border, but his metheds were so plain and open that they had never been used before, because they were considered too simnle. “Let me introduce you to my daugh ter and niece. Captain Adair—Mary, and Miss Wentworth.” Captain Adair's gloves and hat were off. There was a little stiffness in the greeting upon his part. His “lady man ners,” as he would have saic, were a little rusty. It was more than seldom that two, or even one, young lady from the East came near enough for him to speak to her. Adair had no mother or sisters to go hem~ to, and his contact with women was of the smallest. Half an hour later, he hardly knew how, he was saying as much to Nina Wentworth, There had been something in the expression of her sweet eyes and pale, compassicnate face which had opened his heart. For the first time in complete and competent company ever seen in a popular-price theater.”

Octoroons at the Empire. “Smart Willlams® Octoroons,” =a colored organization will be the New Year week attraction at the Empire Theater. Smart and Williams, Reese Brothers, recently with Williams and Walker, Evans Sisters, Irving Jones, Mamie Emerson, and a well-trained chorus of thirty, make up t.e com pany, which also includes as an extra feature, Joe Walcott, the welterweight charvapion pugilist. Gaiety Extravaganza at Kernan’s. Rice Barton will present their “Gaiety Extravaganza” at the Lyceum Theater next week. Forty people are in the cast, thirty of whom are girls. The bill opens with a first part, chiefly spe cialties, entitled “Brown Among the Daisies,” in which the following partici pate: Charles Barton, George W. Rice, J. Quigley, Esher Sisters Eckhoff and Gordon, the Bell Trio, Olla Hood, Mitch ell and Marion, Ids"a Vyner, and many others having a metropolitan reputation. The clesing burlesque is entitled “‘Raid ing the Tenderlein.” POLLUTION OF POTOMAC RIVER WATER STOPPED Judge Waddill Gives Decision in the Thropp Case. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 25.—The United States circuit court of appeals, Hoa. Edmund Waddill presiding, yesterday held a special session for the purpose of announcing the opinion of the court in the case of Joseph E. Thropp, ap peilant, vs. The Harper's Ferry Paper Company. Th» opinion affirms the de cision of the appellate court in granting an injunction restraining Thropp from washing iron ore and thereby polluting the Potomac River above the paper mill The decision establishes the law that parties who by any means pollute streams of water may be restrained by injunction. It is final and affects the ore banks, coal mines, and other con cerns which make use of the waters of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. TY GIVE “THE NATIVITY” Stuart's oratorio, “The Nativity,” will be given by the choir of the Epworth M. E. Church, Seventh and A Strects north east, this evening, beginning at 8 o'clock. The choir, under the direction of Van A. Potter, has been rehearsing the oratorio for several weeks past and a notable performance is assured. his life Adair forgot that he was with a stranger. There was in her glance a calmness, a lack of sarcasm, of irony, almost a lack of somes of humor, which took from his heart ail fear. Her ex~ pression had the gentleness that Adair felt, some way he would have liked to have seen in his mother’s face. He al most told her so, in that unusual ex pansiveness with which he surprised himself. Adair was distinctively an American product. His father had been a Presby terian minister in the hills of West Virginia, learned and narrew and poor. Adair had hoed corn in the mornings of his boyhood =nd studied Latin im the afternoons. When he was seventeen he had taught the country school, and when a competitive examination fer West Point had been held in the neigh ‘boring town he bad entered, and easily won the appointment. His father had never forgiven him for taking up the ungodly life of a soldier, and had died the following year, leaving Adair en tirely alone in the world. He had been more respected and liked than sought after at West Point. His handsome face and mally ways would have made him a favorite had he had the lightness to seek popularity, but the shyness born of his early days of solitude had never left him. Nina had as truly forgoiten every thing as had Adair. At first she had seen the effect of her glance upon him. She had seen it too often not to know its meaning. It is seldom that nature endows a woman with a great weapon without showing her its power and giv ing it into her own keeping: but the instant and simple respdnse, the uniock ing of irner chambers bf a fine nature, kad touched her as nothing had ever done in her rather frivolous life. She asked, and Adair told her, all he knew of the life of the Fort and the present trouble with the Indians. He passed lightly over any possible danger to themselves. As far as they knew now, Geronimo was over the Mexi can border and hidden away in the mountains. The train ran on; the sun began te go down over the Whetstone Mountains, leaving their jagged tops silhouetted azainst an amber say, and the canyons full of purple light. The charm of that weird, barren country of hot, clear skies and crystalline atmosphere began to af fect the two girls with its ¢cwn silence, When at last the little platform of the Fort station was reached, they arose and collected their belongings with almost a homesick feeling for the engine that was leaving them to they knew not what —a new and mysterious life. Hecker, standing on the platform to greet them with his dozen soldiers and the big. yellow officers’ ambulance be hind them, gave one look and stepped forward. “Two fat old women!" From the car window a dark rsbosa wrapped face watched the big blond lieu tenant, apxiously awaiting some sign of recognition, some glance in her direc tion. When she lost sight of him his hat was in his hand and he was bowing, as she had never seen him bow, to the dark young lady she had noticed in the train. WILL BE CONTINUED TOMORROW AND EVERY WEEK DAY UNTIL COMPLETED.

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The Washington Times FRANK A. MUNSEY PUBLICATION OFFICE, Tenth and D Streets Today’s Anniversary Is One Which Justly Touches and Purifies the Human Heart. It is written that after the wise men and the kings had laid their gifts at the feet of the Babe the shepherds paid Him homage. In the spirit of those watchers of the night all of us may approach the cradle of Jesus of Nazareth while we commemorate His birth. Let schooimen wrangle about the date of His nativity. To us the import ant thing is to remember that He was born; for in Him was born a God, a king of men, a prince of peace, a priest of humanity, a prophet of good, what you will. With Him the world took on a new and higher life, a philosophy that deals with the little things of every day and touches the mighty mysteries of eternity. If He was but a man, He was the incarnate prophecy of what man may become after ages of development. If He was God, He was, perhaps, the only bodily expression of deity which humanity may grasp. From whatever point we view Him the effect on us is the same, a feeling of reverence, a con viction of our unworthiness, a sentiment of gratitude. Today all of us, Jews, Christians, and Gentiles, can honor the memory of Jesus of Nazareth. No prejudice of race, or creed, or sect, or agnosticism is strong enough to hold back the tribute of love which every heart that touches but the hem of His garment involuntarily offers. Of those who persecuted Him, of those who have reviled Him, it can be said in truth as well as charity that they never knew Him. He was the friend and companion of all men. The righteous and the wise had no monopoly of thiv Man of Nazareth. He dined with the rich, He sup ped with the poor, and He feasted alome in the wilderness. Where er men were, there He had work to do; and wherever God was, there He felt no lone liness. To Him, who has the only clean record in all the annals of the race, no one was too vile for sympathy, none too polluted to bless. He who could baf fle the doctors of the law found time to discourse with the men of the street and even to cherish the little children who played about Him. And His memory is dear to us whether we be saints or sinners, rich or poor, wise or unlearned, strong men or weak women. Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, or members of the various churches that go by His name, we can with profit pause once a year to honor the Man called Jesus of Nazareth. The Multifarious and Cumulative Prerogatives of the Ruler of the Isle of Man. There are some lucky people in this world, who draw large salaries for do Ing a very few things, and there are less fortunate individuals, who get a little one for doing a great many. But the class of wage-earners receiving large sti pends for filling many lucrative positions at one and the same time is a small one, popularly supposed to exist only in Japan. But of all the Poo Bahs that have ever existed, either on the Iyric stage or in actual life, none can or ever will compare with Lord Raglan, the present gov ernor of the Manx possessions. For if all Gaul was divided into three parts, the Isle ¢f Man remains intact, and the inhabitants, like the crew of the Nancy Bell, are contained en mazse and undigested in the maw of this British lord high executioner, He is, it seems, the successor of the kings and lords of Man, who until tho sixteenth century ruled the island as an absolute monarchy, and in addition to the greatness that they were born to he has achieved and had thrust on him all the prerogatives to which royal flesh is heir. He prorogues and dissolves the “House of Keys,” which cannot meet without his precept. He is president of the legislative council, or house of lords, and also of the lower house, or the Tynwald Court, as it is called. Both of these parliamentary branches sit as one body, which cannot meet except in his presence, nor adjourn unless by his mo tion. Moreover, he not only interferes in the debates and manipulates the pro ceedings, but has also the casting vote. He can initiate both laws and taxation, and without his consent no law and no tax can be either made or repealed. He has, too, a direct veto on all ex penditures, and is chancellor of the exchequer, to say nothing of belng president of the government board. He Is lord chief justice of the courts, and examines and admits members to the bar. He is captain general of the military forces, chief commissioner of the police and commandant of the prisons, and when they establish a pail fire department he will undoubtedly have a reasonably good chance tc become the foreman of the hose carriage. As far as we can ascertain up to the present time, Lord Raglan has made a wise and most excellent ruler. He has not quartered the pecullar coat that bears his family neme on the arms of a defenseless peasantry; nor has he in fringed on the copyright of Hali Caine, who 1s the acknowledged scribe of the fsland. He may have been somewhat arbitrary, it is true, in minor matters, but he has not endeavored as yet to engraft, by breeding, the silky and effem inate tail of the Angora on the rugged hindquarters cf the chief product and ex port ef the island—the Manx cat. MARK TWAIN ON TOM REED. The Humorist’s Tribute to the Memory of the Dead Speaker. He wore no shell. His ways were frank and open, and the road to his large sympathies was straight and unobstruct ed. His was a nature yhich invited af fection—compelled it, in fact—and met ft half way. Hence he was “Tom” to the most of his friends and to half of the nation. The abbreviatinz of such a man's name is a patent of nobility, and is conferred from tho heart. Mr. Reed had a very strong and de cided character, and he may have had enemies. 1 do not know. if he had them, outside of politics, they did not know the man. He was transparently bonest and honorable; there was no fur tiveness about him and whoever came to know him trusted him snd was not dis appointed. He was wise, he was shrewd 2nd alert, he was a clear and capable thinker, a Jogical reasoner, and a strong and con vincing speaker. His manner was easy and engaging, his speeches sparkled with felleities of phrasing thrown off without apparent effort, and when he needed the happy help of humor he had a mine of it as deep and rich as Kimberley to draw from. His services to his country were great, and they were gratefully acknowl edged. The Spirit of Christmas. A Poo Bah Up to Date. I cannot remember back to a time when he was not “Tom” Reed to me, Bor to a time when he would have been offended at being so addressed by me, I cannot remember back to a time when I could let him alone in an after-dinner speech if he was present, nor to a time when he did not take my extravagances concerning him and misstatements about him in good part, nor yet to a time when he did not pay them back with usury when his turn came. The last speech he made was at my birthday dinner at the end of November, when naturally I was his text. My last word to him was in a letter the next day; a day later I was illustrating a fantastic article on “Art” with his por trait among others—a portrait now to be laid reverently away among the jests that begin in humor and end In pathos. These things happened only eight days ago, and now he is gone from us, and the nation is speaking of him as one who was. It seems incredible, impossible. Such a man, such a friend, seems to us a permanent possession; his vanishing from our midst is unthinkable, as un thinkable as was the vanishing of the Campanile, that had stood for a thousand years and was turned to dust In a mo ment. —Harper's Weekly. UT of the world's experience in aeronautics in the O past year scientific dats have been obtained that will furnish foundation facts for still further pro gress in the near future. Octave Chanute, of Chicago, who recently compiled a classified list of flying machine experiments during the past 60" years, declares that to Prof. S. P. Langley, of Washing irgton, belongs the credit of making the greatest advance in aerial navigation. Prof. Langley several years ago built a model fiying machine that made a circuit of three-quarters of a mile at an elevation of €¢00 feet above the Potomac River. The aeroplane, as it was called, introduced a new prin ciple in aeronautics, a principle which, it is firmly believed, is the only one yet discovered that will make navigation of the air a practical possibility. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, who was associated with Prof. Langley in some of his experiments, has been engaged the past summer in perfecting a flying machine on the aero plane principle. The cigar-shaped cylindrical balloon continues to be the favorite form with acronauts who seek to navigate the air with a dirigible gas inflated envelope. C. W. Hastings, a skillful engineer, who died in 1893, established the prin ciple that if you double the .iameter of a cigar-shaped ballcon you increase its lifting power eight-fold, but in crease its end surface air resistance four-fold. He esti mated that the higtest possible speed that could be devel oped by such a balloon was thirty miles an hour. The nearest appreach to this speed in actual practice was attained by Count Zeppelin a few years ago, when he established a record of twen.y-two miles. His airship was 400 feet long and 20) feet in diameter, and was propelled by a motor. It is believed by many able aeronauts that it will be impossible to secure a much greater speed than this Miss Anna Danielsson, of Stockholm, has been sent te this country by the Swedish government to study the educa tional systems here. She will also go to Canada for the same purpose. King Oscar has contributed an arti cle to the Christmas publication of the Swedish “Authors’ Union,” in which he discusses his own writings in fiction and poetry. He states that he loved verse fromi his earliest childhood, and that, while in the royal navy, he was in spired to compose it, The sea, he de clares, always gives him the greates: poetic inspiration. Sir Laing Chen Tong, China's new diplomatic representative in (he United States, was once the star pitcher on the Phillips-Andover Academy baseball team. The bed in which Napoleon died on St. Helena, preserved in the family of Count de Montholon, who shared the Emperor's captivity, has been offered for sale in Paris for $20,000 by the aged IN THE COURTS AND CAPITALS OF THE OLD WORLD Menarchs “Slightly Indisposed.” Mecenarchs “Slightly Indisposed.” It is a pity royal personages in the 014 World are so reluctant to permit their ailments to become known, and insist on being described as “slightly indisposed” until they are in the very throes of death. For It naturally serves to create great alarm when a monarch happens to be overtaken by some trivial ailment. Thus it would have been infinitely preferable to have stated from the outset what was the matter with Emperor Francis Joseph than to attempt to shroud the affair with a veil of secrecy which would give rise to the most exaggerated and disquieting stories as to his condition, some Euro pean papers even describing him as dan gerously ill and discussing the question of the succession to his throne. The fact of the matter is that he has been suffering, not from rheumat sm, iciatica, or any of the other infirmities of age, but from a mere local and trifle g trouble from which few who ride 2 gat deal on horseback are exempt, and which has been cured by means of a slight on eration. Francis Joseph Will Soon Recover. Mf 1 mention this it 1s because it is gradually becoming Frown (lat Uo y= tuagenarian Emperor has been recently subjected to the surgeon's knife, and this, taken in conjunction with his seclusion at Schoenbrun, might lead people to be lieve that he had undergone some sort of an operation of the grave character to which King Edward was submitted last summer, Emperor Francis Joseph is quite well again now, and by the time that this let ter appears in print will doubtless be once mre in that saddle in which he is So much at home, and in which he is ac customed to spend so many hours every day and in all kinds of weather. Ineed. he is stiil astonishingly vigorous and physically elastic for his age, and capa ble of enduring without turning a hair fatigue that would quickly exhaust much younger a man. King’s Host Involved at Law. Lord Howe, who has been entertaining King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Gopsal, his place In Leicestershire, is only one of a large number of peers whose honors and estates are the sub ject of dispute, and the object of legni proceedings. The principal claimant to the estates of Lord Howe, who is the head of the great house of Curzon, is an individual of the name of George Willis, who bases his pretensions on the alie gation that the grandfather of the pres ent earl was a supposititious child, and that instead of being entitled to bear the name of Richard W. Curzon, ant in lieu of being the heir te that Curzon THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1202. PROGRESS IN AERIAL NAVIGATION. By WILLIAM A. EDDY, Scientific Kite Flyer aud Student of Aeronautics. In the Public Eye. onsequences of Misrepresenting Ailments of Royalty—Emperor Francis Joseph Will Soon Be Well. Suit Over the Estates of Earl Howe—Several Titles Disputed in House of Lords—A Virginia Family Entitled to Carldcm. Countess de Montholon, the last of her line. She also has a dinner service of

sixty-four pieces which once belonged to Napoleon. Chevalier Trentanove, the well-known sculptor, has returned from Italy to Milwaukee, where he has been commis sioned to make a heroic statue in bronze and granite of a citizen who was promi nent in the beautification of that town. LIFF’S BITTFR SWFFT Tell me your joy, that I may tune my life To echo the glad music of your own, The changing melody, the sunny strife, Of harmonies blent in‘ one full sweet tone. So shail the faithful shadow of my night, Heighten your happy radiance of delight. Teil me your sorrow, that I may disdain Mirth and rejoicing, banish all relief, Save tLe sad ecstasy, the cruel gain Of being one with you, dear heart, in grief, You did deny me love—~have you no woe, No pain, to share with one who loves you so? —London World. peerage subsequently transformed into the egridom of Howe, of the present creation, he was merely the illegitimate chiid of a servant girl named Aunie Oakes. The first Earl Howe, of the present creation—that is to say, the one who is alieged to have been the illegitimate son of a servant girl-—was one of the very handsomest men of his day, and occupied the post of chamberlain and lordin waiting to Queen Adelaide, consort of King William IV, and grandaunt, there fore, of King Edward. Rumor, indeed, ireisted that the earl and the widowed Queen were secretly married, a story, however, for which there is no proof whatsoever unless it be indeed the devo tion of the earl to the Queen. Carlyle’s Caustic Description. Sr TRI Th iy to En TT TH T(r The Curzons, at least the bramch of which Lord@ Howe is the head, have royal blood in thelr veins, since the mother of the first Lord Howe was the daughter of King George I of England, and of that Countess Kielmansegg, created by that sovereign Countess ot ‘Darlington, and of whom Carlyle gives the following: deseription:? “Big staring black eyes, with rims of circular eyebrows like a coach wheel round its nave—very black the eyebrows also—vast red face, cheeks running into neck, neck blending indistinguishably with stomach, a mere cataract of fluid tallow, skinned over, amd curiously be dizened according to Horace Walpole, who had seem her in his boyhood.” It was the grandson of this woman whose name is still held up to obloguy in the pages of English history, who was the famous admiral, and while his features were the very counterpart of his grandfather, King George, he had inherited the dusky complexion of his grandmother, the countess, thanks to which he was known by the sallors as “Black Dick.” One of his brothers, Vis count Howe, served as brigadier general in the first American war, and fell a: Ticonderoga, while a third brother, who succeeded him in the peerage, had chief command of the British ‘orces during the American War of Independence from the time of the return of General Gage. The next Lord Howe, “Black Dick's” grand son, was Queen Adelaide's chamberlain, whom I have described above as the handsomest man of his day. A Notable Family Seat. Gopsal Hall, where the present Lord and Lady Howe have been entertaining the King an dQueen, is one of the most remarkable show places in the United Kingdom, and was built in the middle of the eighteenth century. It was at Gopsal as a guest there that Handel composed with a cigar-shaped balloon, because of the great air resist ance to be overcome and the hitherto insurmountable ob stacle of constructing a thin envelope sufficiently strong to resist the pressure of the air. fantos-Dumont, who has been so successful in building a dirigible balloon, attributes much of his success to the pointed shape of the gas envelope. The highest speed he has yet been able to attain, however, was only seventeen miles an hour. Several attempts have been made to construct the envel ope, or gas bag, of ‘aluminum; but its great cost will pre vent it from ever coming into general use. Percival Spencer recently made a twenty-one mile trip over London in a dirigible balloon. He constructed the plat form upon which his motor rested of bamboo. The speed at tained was not more than twelve miles. Leo Stevens’ ba'toon, in which he expected to make a tour of the bay this fall, was shaped like one-half of a sphere. Unfortunately, it was wrecked before much had been accomplished in the way of experiment, The safe distance at which a gasolene motor may be sus pended is fifteen feet according to Spencer's experience. Du mont, in his balloons, places it at thirty feet. Of course, the nearer to the gas e:velope the less will be the weight the bal loon must gupport. Servero, the Brazilian aeronaut, who lost his life in Paris, made the mistake of suspending it by steel bands within four feet. A gpark escaping from the motor iraversed one of these steel bands and exploded the balloon with fatal result. Observant students declare that flying machines are more practical than gas balloons for aerial navigation, for the reason that they offer less resistance to the air. Then, too, the harder the wind blows the more easily do they maintain their position in light. Great things are expected from the iouble aeroplane mechines in the near future. Unconsidered Trifles Biblical Zoology. “Wonder why Sampson picked out the jawbone of an ass for a club?” “Probably because it was the strong est part of the animal.” Chinese conservatism in family rela tions may be explained by the fact that marriages of China might, without care, easily get themselves broken. The Power of the Tailor. Clothes may not make the man, but the fact remains that the shabby man is likely to be cut, ripped up the back, pressed, and generally undone. Natural Difficulties It is must easier for most people to shut their eyes to the good points of others than to shut tkair ears to sean dal; but perhaps nature should be blamed for this. The Necessary Ouslification. The peach crop seems to have made a reputation by being a failure; but .akes a peach to do a thing like that. the “Messiah,” and a great deal of Handel's original music is preserved there, The present Lord Howe is an uncle of the Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Howe is famous as one of the most skillful four-in-hand whips in Europe. Another of Lord Howe's country Seals in Penn House, near Amersham, in Bucks, and bordering on it is the Quakers’ burial ground called “Jor dans,” in which repose the ashes of Wil liam Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Other Estates Contested. Of course, cases where the estates are at stake come up for trial in the ordi nary courts of law, and it must thoroughly be understood that George Willis claims Lord Howe's property and not his titles, asserting that he is the rightful heir of that C. Jennings who built Gopsal Hall, and who was the uncle of that Sophia, Lady Howe, who married the second Viscount Curzon, and whose son was the first Earl Howe of the pres ent creation. This Lady Howe had three children, an elder son named George, who died at the age of seventeen, a daughter of the name ~f Marianne, and Richard, who became the first Lord Howe of the present creation. It is this Richard who it is claimed was a sup posititious child, and in the event of that contention being true, of course, the Jennings estates would have reverted to the other heirs of the testator, of whom George Willis is the principal descen dant, A Peerage for the Asking. With regard to the peerages which are contested. they are tried by the commit tee of privileges in the house of lords, which advises the crown on the subject. The first on the calendar is the Poulett case, in which the titled organ grinder will press his claims to the earldom, though, owing to a peculiar settlement, he has no hold on the estates, which are very valuable. Next on the list is the petition of Lord Mowbray and Stourton to be recognized as Earl of Norfolk, while the Countess of Yarborough and the Countess of Pow is, as the daughters and co-heirs of the late Lord Conyers, claim the baronies of Darcy de Knayth, Fauconberg, and Mey nill Fortunately these claims to peerages cost a tremendous lot of money to prove, and it is owing to this question of cost I belleve that the Percys, of Virginia, do not push their claims to the earldom of Northumberland, of the creation of 1557. Indeed, the Virginian Percys are the only authentic bearers of that illustrious name, the present Duke of Northum berland and his family being mere Smithsons. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. The Reason. Statesmen and Their Ways. Senator Dubeis Is Hapov. The Hon. Fred T. Dubois is today the proudest man in the United States Sen ate. He is also the happlest, the best natured and considers himself the most fortunate. The cause of his kindly feel ing for all mankind, even for his politi cal opponents, is found ia the fact that he is the possessor of an eight-pound Christmas present. It is a girl baby presented to him yesterday morning. Good old St. Nick evidently intended to make the Senator's Christmas a merry one, and so brought the little stranger just a day in advance, so that she would be here, the worry about her arrival would all be over, and the Idaho states man could eat his holiday bird in sweet contentment. The advent ot this richly prized gift caused the Senator, for a time at least, to forget the disester which befell his party in ldaho last month and every other earthly misery which might have been ‘roubling him. All dry yesterday and today he has worn a telltale smile which it is a real pleasure to look upon. Senator Dubois’ only other child is a girl of three years and her joy over the new arrival is only blight;d by the fact that the infant 's rot a boy, as she had expressed a wis: that Santa Claus should bring her a baby brother. She declared that if Santa were to bring her a brother she would name him after her papa. Even now, when asked what the little one shall be called, she insists that the child shall be “Fred T.” ‘Unless she yields,” said the Senator, “I fear we shall have to christen the baby ‘Frederica.’ “Prince Cupid,” of Hawaii. There is much speculation among members of the House and also in the Washington smart set as to the proper method of addressing the Hon. Jonah Kunis Kalauiauole when he arrives here next year with credentials as Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Hawaii. He will be the first persen of royal blood to enter the House, and hence there is no precedent to guide tose who are giving the matter thought. Even Mr. Hinds, the versatile clerk at the Speaker's table, who has the repu tation of knowing everything parliamen tarian, and is able to cite precedent after precedent upon a moment's no tice, has no paralle! to suggest in the case of the Hon. Jonah Kunis Kalau fauvole. At home In his native Honolulu the populace are wont to refer affection ately to him as “Prince Cupid,” but it is a serious question whether or not grave and dignified members of the House will desire, especially upon short acquaintance, to refer to the Hon. Jonah Kunis Kalauiauole in such terms of en dearment and familiarity. A pet name which he might approve of when spoken with the Ilmpid, liquid languor of some dark-eyed and dusky skinned daughter of tropical Hawail in addressing him, might be resented if used in a running debate upon the floor of the House by some hoarse voiced and uncouth mem ber from a rural district. The Reading Clerk Saved. Again in a dignified parliamentary body of lawmakers it is not within the rules to employ what might be construed as a flippant term in making reference to a fellow-member. Of course it would be out of the question to expect any member to speak of him as “Mr. Kal auiauole,” for few, if any, could re member the name long enough to repeat if indeed they could acquire the pronunciation without a knowledge of the Kanaka language. Imagine, for in stance, the Hon. Richard Bartholdt of St. Louis making an effort in his Ger THE CHRISTMAS TREE SACRIFICE. Spruce and Hemlock Growths Are Often Wastefully Depleted by the Christmas Ax. While arboriculturists aad tree lovers generally deplore the prodigal sacrifice of young evergreen trees cn the Christ mas altar, some so-called ‘‘priestial™ men treat their lamentations with scorn. They tell them that the young ever greens selected for Christmas trees grow always ir open or cleared ground, and as they are not crowded together they would never make good timber, therefore there is nothing lost in cutting them off in tkeir infancy and allowing them to give a brief delight as Clrist mas trees. If a man chooses to devote his own land to raising young conifers for the Christmastide market that is as legiti mate a business as any other. The harm 1s done by stripping wild land belonging to the State or to persons who would like to see it reforested of the young coniferous growth. Land that has been cut over once or twice and perhaps burned over several times does not re forest itse!f rapidiy by a dense, close growth. It the young conifers are strip ped from it as soon as they are big enough for Christmas trees nature's ef forts to reclothe those hillsides with tree growth will be greatly retarded or Irustrated altogether, The Lest Christmes tree is the fra grent balsam fir, generally called in this latitude “balm.” This is a tree which is most beautiful in its youth and makes when grown neither good timber nor geod firewcod. Such trees are fit ted for their best market when they ae about the size of Christmas trees, Unless they are needed to shade little seedlings or protect the soil from wash ing no harm Is done by marketing them at their Christmas tree size. Young spruces and hemlocks have, however, a much greater potential value which is destroyed by their premature cutting. The Christmas tree woodsman cuts them where he sees them, and where a tree is to large in its entirety he does not scruple to mutilate it by cutting it In the center or rear the top so as to get a Christmas tree of market able size. The young spruces may not be so closely crowded while small as to de stroy their symmetry while young and yet be sufficiently near each other to kill off the lower limbs as they grow larger and make straight sticks of tim man-American tongue to repeat the name of the gentleman from Hawaii. It would be difficult enough, indeed, for the Hon, Augustus Peabody Gardner of Massachusetts, with his oleaginous flow of language, tn enunciate it properly. Fortunately the Delegates have not the privilege of voting, so that ‘the reading clerk, who would otherwise be obliged to call the name of the gentleman from Hawali every time there was a roll call, will not be obliged to struggle with the name often. If he did there might be a vacancy in the office. dm—— When Members Meet Him. There is another phase of the matter in connection with the name of the prince. Members will meet him in formally, in the cicakrcom, and in the committees, and there is a great deal of speculation as to Low he will then be addressed. The task of prunouncing his name will be as difficult there as upon the floor of the House. Some member has suggested that he might not resent the name of “Jonah” in the cloakrooms if he proves to be easy of approach and mani fests a desire to get acquainted readily. But, then, everybody is reminded at once of that most ancient of all fish storles, and no one wishes to handicap the em bryo Hawallan statesman from the start by calling him a Jonah, Delegate Wilcox in his younger days was known by a long and euphonious Hawaiian name, but before be came to Congress—in fact, before he entered upon a public career—he curtailed it by lopping off a few unnecessary penults and ante-penults, dropped out a vowel here and there, added now and then a conson ant, and the result was the good Ameri can name of Wilcox. Perhaps the Hoa. Jonah Kunis Kulauiauole may decide upon reaching Washington to follow in this respect the example of his predeces sor. If he doesn’t the situation will Fave to be relieved in some other manner. The House steaographers have concinded to invent a new short-hand character which shall stand for the w=ma of Kalauiauole. Secretary Shaw's Sobriguet. Only a few people in the East know that Secretary Shaw is familiarly re ferred to out in Iowa as “Appletree” Shaw, or, if they ever heard of his so briquet, are unaware of the way he ob tained it. When Mr. Shaw was a young man and making a struggling effort: to obtain an education, littie dreaming that he would ever be the financial head of the nation and a member of the Presi dent’s Cabinet, he used to be the agent for a nursery. In vacation season he traversed the countrty, canvassing one county after another, selling trees to farmers. His specially was apple trees. He was the best salesman the nursery firm had, and it is said of ha that he is responsible for half the apply crop of Towa. It is no unusual thing for the average Hawkeye farmer to point with pride to the long rows of apple trees ia his orchard, bowed heavy with luscious fruit, and say that “Appletree” Shaw sold him the trees. 7 “Huh, you don’t know ‘Appletrce’ Shaw; recken you never bad a right smart o' dealings lately with the United States Treasury, for ‘Appletree’ Shaw, he’s the man that's running that instito tion dowam in Washington just now." The future Secretary of the Treasury rarely ever approached a farmer with an available piece cf ground and failed to make a sale. His genial manners won him customers, as they have won him friends and supporters in after life, and there is many a man in fowa who set ou: an orchard because Mr. Shaw made him buy the trees, even tuough he did not think he wanted them, who now is mighty glad he was induced to pur chase. ber at maturity. Such trees never reach maturity, however, if the Christmas tree poacher can get his ax at them. The Christmas tree trade is evidently a profitable one, and cannot be stopped. The State, however, should protect its own land and punish with severity those who poach on it for Christmas trees. Where men devote their own lids to the raising cf Christmas trees, sr cut on the lands of others by their nermis sion, that, of course, is their own busi ness and a legitimate one. It is tree poaching—the cutting of these trees from any land without regard to ownership— that ought to be stopped. If taat is done the worst results of the Chris.mas tree custom will be very greatly reduced.— Philadelohia Press. WILL WED FOR LOVE ONLY Governor-elect W. J. Bailey, of Kan sas, who recently was made the victim of a practical joke resulting in his re ceiving over 3,000 offers of marriage from women in every part of the coune try, thus philosophized in the presence of a correspondent of the “New York World:™ No man can make such a decision without runeing the risk of having the decision over ruled. A man marries when the spirit moves him and the girl is willing. Fy my case the spirit simply hasn't made ilself felt. Maybe I will marry: maybe I won't; heaven only knows at this time. I believe in marrving for love. My old father and mother, whom I buried within the Year, married for love, and they were su premely happy for half 2 century. When I wed I shal! love the girl as my father loved my mother, and 1 hove my wife will love me as my mother loved my father. A RECLUSE FOR FORTY YEARS Owen McCarton—rich, cranky, and a recluse—is dead at the age of seventy. Although he had spent forty years of his life In Oceanic, N. J., he was scare ly known to anyone except the members of his own family, says the “Philadel phia North American:” For thirty vears he had not crossed the threshold of his dwelling between sunrise and sunset because of an election bet. In the Presidential campaign of 1872 between Grant and Greeley, ow mf was one of the latter's most enthusiastic supporters. He made a bet with a friend that if Grant was elected he would not leave his house except in the course of the night as long as he lived. MeCarton lived up to his wager. About five years ago his howe cauzht fire, and for a time it looked as if he would have to break his agreement, but the flames were extinguished before ther had galued soficient besdway fo compel him to ‘eave the premises.

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SOC/ETY AND PERSONAL MENTION. Zhe President and Mrs. Roosevelt to Give a Small Dinner at the White House to Relatives in Town and Intimate IF riends. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt and their children took lunch with the Presi dent's sister, Mrs. Cowles, today. A small dinner will be given at the White House this evening to the Presi dent's relatives in town and his in timate friends. The guests invited are Commander and Mrs. Cowles, Senator and Mrs. Lodge, John Lodge, Mrs. C. H. Davis, Miss Davis, and the Messrs. Davis, John Elliott of New York. and Robert Ferguson. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt have planned to take a ride this afternoon. The women of the Cabinet gave Mrs. Roosevelt as a Christmas remembrance a handsome gold purse, clasped with diamonds and sapphires. Mrs. Roose velt's name is engraved on the outside of the cover; the inside bears the in scription “From the Ladies of the Cabi net, December 25, 1902." Robert Ferguson arrived at the White House yesterday and will remain over Christmas. The President has given the employes of the White House gifts of turkeys. The President’s Official Family. The Secretdary of State and Mrs. Hay bave with them their youngest daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs James W. Wadsworth, jr., and their son, Clarence, who is home from Yale on his vacation. The day will be a quiet one at the home of Secretary Hay, and the only guests at dinner will be his children. Secretary Shaw, who went to Chicago last week, has returned home. He was accompanied by his eldest daughter, Miss Shaw, who is a student at Cornell Uni versity. Jowa. _ The Secretary of War has gone to New York to pass the day with Mrs. Root, who is staying with her family there.

Miss Knox and her brother, Philander Knox, who have been visiting in Pitts burg, returned to Washington yesterday. The Secretary of the Navy will pass Christmas with his family in Boston. Dr. Von Holleben, who has heretoiure invariably given a large dinner to his staff on Christmas Day, is at present in New York. There will be no celebration at the Germany embassy. Following an old Mexican custom of inviting a supper party in honor of one's near relatives and friends, the Mexican ambassador entertained his official staff and their families at dinner last even Sir Percy Sanderson, the British consul general at New York, and his sister are CHRISTMAS MUSIC IN WASHINGTON CHURGHES Hymns of Praise Sung by Vested Choirs. SOLEMN SERVICES ARE HELD At St. Aloysius, Franz Liszt's “Missa Solemnis” is Given—Other Denominations. Since midnight the churches of Wash ington, in unison with those of the en tire Christian world, have echoed with Christmas music. At St. Aloysius this morning Franz Liszt's “Missa Solemnis,”” with its won drous and perplexing harmonies, was sung. The work is regarded among mu siclans as one of the heaviest of the many wriiten by the composer, and requires the services of an augmented choir with a large orchestral accompaniment, in ad dition to the powerful pipe organ, for its performance, It was the first time in the history of the city that this has been performed, and it was a notable event in musical annals. Mendelssohn's reces sional was also given. The Rev. Father McCarthy, 8. J., preached the sermon. At St. Patrick's. At St. Patrick’s Ponlatowski’'s “Grand Missa Solennelle” was the principal work. It was sung with precision and ar tistic interpretation. Prof. Gumprecht's mass in F, in honor of the Blessed Vir gin, was also sung. Novello's “Adeste Fidelis” was given as the offerty. One of the most solemn services in the city was held at the Church of the Im aculate Conception at 6 o'clock this morning, when a choir of eighty boys and men gave a mass written especially for the church, by Harry Wkaton Howard. At 10:30 the choir sang Haydn's Third Mass. St. Joseph's Churxh was beautifully decorated for the celebration. Among the works sung by an augmented choir, under the leadership of Daisy Isabel Joyce, were Weber's mass in G and Cimorosa's military mass. Novello’'s “Adeste Fi delis” was also given. The Rev. A. Smyth was the celebrant, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Gafr ney, of the Catholic university. The decorations at St. Dominic's were unusually beautiful. The services were made especially impressive by the pres. ence of the Dominican Fathers from the The White House. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON AND OTHER CITIES. staying at the British embassy and will remain throughout the holidays. The British ambassador and Lady Her bert will entertain them and the staff of the embassy at dinner this evening. The charge d'affaires of the French embassy and Mme, de Margerie will give a dinner to the members of the staff this afternoon. The chief decoration of the table will be a miniature Christ mas tree, on which will be tied a gift for every member of the staff. Mme. de Margerie is one of the most gracious and gifted women in the diplo matic corps, and is deservedly popular with the attaches of the embassy. Mnie. de Margerie has also arranged a large Christmas tree for her only son, who ie not yet four years old. The Austrian minister and Mme. Hengelmuller had a Christmas tree yesterday afternoon for their little daug! ‘er, Mila. Mme. Hengelmuller is still weak from her recent illness, and only a few friends were invited to view the tree, which was placed in the library of the legation, handsomely trimmed and loaded down with gifts. The most substantial gift the minister received was his advancement to the rank of ambassador. The papers an nouncing this promotion, however, have not yet arrived. The minister from Haiti and Mrs. Leger have with them their nieces, Miss Louise and Miss Margaret Boarke, of Ja maica. Mr. and Mrs. Leger will give a small dinner in their honor this evening, after which the young people will play cards and ping pong. cu The gayest legation In town will be that of Peru. Mr. and Mrs. Calderon will have all of their children with them for the holidays. Besides the nine children of their own, they have as house guests, Minister Calderon’s three nephews, The Argentine minister nd Senora Merou will give a large Christmas party this afternoon for their children. ini The three children of Baron Mon cheur, the Belgian mirister, who are living in Baltimore wita their grand mother, have come over ‘or the day aud will make a visit to their parents. Tae Belgian minister and Baroness Moncheur have had as their guest Dona Blanca de Zelaya, the wife of the Presi dent of Nicaragua, herself a Belgian. Secretary Hay yesterday received a visit from Senor Emiito Bacardi, the alcalde municipal, or mayor, of Santiago de Cuba, and Daniel Fajardo Ortiz, the administrator of the Cuban paper “El Cubano Libre.” They were presented by Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister here, and he afterward escorted them 4 monastery, who have been cenducting services in the church for some time. Mozart’s Twelfth Mass. At St. Peter's, Mazart's Twelfth Mass Was sung in all its grandeur and beauty at the 5 o'clock service. After the mass Gounod’s “Nazareth” was given. Ope of the most elaborate programs was glven at St. Paul's. Among the works sung were the principal portions of Haydn's Second Mass and “‘Benedic tus” from Gounod's St. Cecelia. The Rev, J. F. X. Mulvaney, pastor, was the cele brant at Holy Trinity at the early mass, and the Rev. Samuel Cahill, assisted by the Jesuit Fathers, was the celebrant at the 11 o'clock mass, which was followed by the holy communion. Haydn's “Im perial” (No. 2) was also sung. At St. Stephen's Church the day was begun with a high mass. Haydn's Second Mass formed the principe! work. The church was beautifully decorated. Splendid programs were also given at St. Mary's, St. Matthew's and St. Peter's. At St. Mary's the sermon was in Ger man. The music was under the direction of Dr. Anton Gloetzner, an’ the mass rendered was Beethoven's in C. Midnight masses were celebrated in St. Augustine's, 8t, Martin's St. John's, in Brightwood, and St. Ann's In Tenley town. At St, Augustine's the celebrant was the Rev. George A. Dougherty. Marzo’s Mass was sung. At St. Martin's an elaborate program was gi en, includ ing Mozart's Twelfth Mass. The Rev. Father Rosensteel was the celebrant at St. John's. The choir sang La Hache's Mass in D. At St. Ann's a special pro gram was given, prominent among the Avnabers in which was Generali's Mass. At Mount Pleasant. One of the most impressive Christmas services was that at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Mount Pleasant. Solemn high mass was celebrated at midnight by the pastor, the Rev. Joseph McGee, and a splendidly prepared program of music was sung under the direction of L. E. Gannon. The church was beautifully decorated in palms and cut flowers and the altar was ablaze with lights. Just as the bells of the city chimed the hour of midnight a cornetist in the choir loft played an inspiring straing announcing Christmas morning. The musical program Included Bieder man's Solemn Mags In C, sung by the full choir of thirty-five voices. The mass has been in preparation for sev eral weeks and was given in excellent style. Bolos were sustained by Helen Wyman, Mrs. Goldsborough Goddard, Mrs. Helen Donogue DeYo, Rosalie Hol berg, Marie Becker, Edward J. McQuade, F. J. Mulhall, Ccorge D. F. Rollings, R. J. Green, Joseph C. Murray, and Ken O. Dwyer. Nirs. Bertha Lucas-Stoddard. of

i a A i A i i i a a I a i a i a i a i i a a i a i A THE WASHINGTON TIVES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1902. to the White House to meet the Presi. a i Dinners and Luncheons. Mr. and Mrs. Cropper, who for many years have followed the custom of giving a Christmas Eve dance for young people, for whom Mrs. Cropper has great sympa thy, and to whose pleasure she is always contributing, omitted the dance this year and gave a dinner in its stead. Her guests were Miss Jean Crosby, the Misses Loring, Miss Wainwright, Miss Miiler, Miss Bloomer, Miss Hill, Miss Postle thwaite, Miss McCauley, Jasper Wilson, Lieut. Edward McCauley, Charles Woodhull, Hugh Roland, James C. Craw ford, Hillard Owen, William Reyburn, Charles K. Poe, and John Wolsey. After the dinne: Mrs. Cropper’s guests went to the bal poudre at Mrs. Ffoulke's. Miss Foraker gave a dinner last night to some of the young people who were invited to Miss Ffoulke's ball. Her guests were Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted, Mr. and Mrs King Wainwright, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Chapman Smith, also of Philadel phia; Miss Margaret Hitchcock, Miss Fannie Fuller, Miss McLanahan, Miss Errol Cuthbert Brown. Miss Hagner, Miss Rose Wallach, Miss Seymour, Mr. Pulido, of Venezuela; Mr. Borghetti, of the Italian embassy; John Seibert, Na than Wyath, William McPerson, Hal deman Dennison, Dr. James Robb Church, and Captain Joyce. Befare their ball last evening Mr. and Miss Ffoulke entertained at dianer. Their guests were the Countess Margue rite Cassini, Miss Hitchcock, Miss Edith Mason of Newport, Miss Martin, Miss Margery Colton, Miss Newlands, Mr. Riano of the Spanish legation, Baron von Ritter of the German embassy, Wil liam Stewart of Philadelphia, J. B. Hen derson, ir. Richard Elkins, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Lindsay, and Mr. Huglekoper. Miss Foraker will give a young people's dinner January 5. Mrs. George Huff gave a dinner in honor of her daughter last evening. Her guests were Miss Martina Jones, Miss Florence Field, Miss Caroiyn Huff, all debutantes of the season; Miss Anita Poor, Miss Zadie Cobb, and Miss Marion Gallaudet; Will Merriam, Murray Cobb, David R. McKee, jr., Philip Hich born, Randall Hagner, and Julian Huff. The Baroness Moncheur entertained at luncheon Tuesday in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt, The guests invited to meet her were the Baroness von Palm, niece of the Austrian ambassador; Miss Mac Veagh, Miss Langhorne, Miss Howard, daughter of the British minister to The ‘Hague; Miss Alice Ward, and Miss Clay ton, sister of the hostess. Miss Fuller will give a luncheon on Saturday. Balls and Dances. Mr. and Mrs. Ffoulke gave a ball last night in honor of their daughter, Gwen doline. All of the younger set in society were invited, and the girls looked very handsome in their white toilets and powdered hair. Miss Ffoulke received the guests in Pittsburg, but formerly of this city, played several violin obligatos. Episcopal Churches. Among the various Episcopal churches the services were none the less impres sive. Special 1 usic was sung at St. John's, and at 11 o'clock a sermon was preached by the Rev. Roland Cotton, rector. Holy communion was also administered, Carols and special music formed a feature of the services at the Church of the Advent, Le Droit Park. The Rev. Edward M. Mott preached the sermon. Elaborate services were also held in the Church of the Incarnation, St. James’, Church of St. Michael and All Angels, St. Thomas, Church of the Epiphany, St. Andrew's, St. Luke's, St. Paul's, Christ Church, and St. Mark's. Amonz the other Protestant churches in which especially elaborate services were held were the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mount Pleasant, Church of the Reformation (Lutheran), St. Paul's Lutheran, the New Church, and Church of the Covenant, UNINTENTIONAL DISCHARGE OF GUN WOUNDS TEN MEN Marksman Forgot His Weapon Was Cocked and Pulled the Trigger.

ALTO PASS, Tex, Dec. 25.—Ten men were wounded by the accidental dis charge of a shotgun in the hands of Martin Batson at a shooting match near this place Tuesday afternoon.

Abe Norton, a farmer, was shot in the head and face. James Broker, Henry Craft, Norman Rushing, Harry Bridgeman, Clarence Plertle, John Burns, and John Crips were wounded. The men were twenty-five yards from Batsen, who was reloading his gun across his arm, and, forgetting the gun was cocked, pulled the trigger. LOCAL MENTION. THE CHATEAU WINE CELLAR OPEN HOLIDAYS Of the Speer N. J. Wine Co., at Passaic, N. J., is worth visiting and worth the time for anyone curious to see rare old Ports, Bur gundy, and Claret. This is the Chateau pri vate stock cellar; most of the wines in the cellar are not for sale, but kept for curiosity and future generations. They are supplying some orders, however, for the 28-year-old extra pri vate stock Port, of which they have to re and sell at $15 dozen Quart bottles, if yo direct. The 11-year-old Port, Burgundy, Sherry, Claret, and Climax Brandy are sold by drug gists and grocers and at the New Jersey vine Money to loan at 4, 5 and estate. Frank T. Rawlings, r cent on real 1000 Penna, Ave i Women of the Cabinet Give a Handson.. Gold Purse Clasped With Diamonds and Sapphires to Mrs. Roosevelt, the absence of her mother, in the tapes try gallery and was assisted by her sis ter, Mrs. Chapman Smith, her aunt, Miss Eleanor Ffoulke, and Miss Edith Living stone Mason. Miss Ffoulke's gown was of white bro caded satin with diamonds; Mrs. Chap man Smith wore he: wedding gown, a white satin, ricaly trimmed with pearls; Miss Gwendoline Ffoalke were a c'.arm ing costume of white lace. ~The house was decorated in Christmas greens. An interesting feature was the large bells of red berries hung in the different rooms. The ices were served in the forms of Santa Claus, Christmas bells, and sleighs. The hop which is given every year on Christmas Eve at the Annapolis Naval Academy, and which is the chief feature of the winter gayeties there, took place last, night. Mrs. Benson, wife of Lieut. Comdr. W. S. Benson, received. Mrs. Postlethwaite will give a ball for her daughter at Rauscher’s on Wednes day, December 31. On the 30th, Mrs. Seymour entertains at Rauscher’s in honor of her daughter, Elsie. Mrs. Huff, of Pennsylvania, will give a dance the same evening, which will be preceded by a dinner. Engagements. Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard announces ‘the engagement of her granddaughter, Miss Gertrude Hubbard Grossman, (c P. ‘Stuyvesant Pillot, of New York. Announcement bas just been made of the engagement of Miss Edith Cushing, daughter of the late Thomas Cushing, of ‘Boston and New York, to J. Blair Fair child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair child. of Boston. Miss Cushing is in mourning {ir her father, whose death occurred in this city last June. Very few people have been more identified with fashionable life in New York and Newport during the last ten years than she and her father, espe cially as patrons of the opera.

Mr. Fairchild, who has been a great deal in New York, is now attached to the American legation in Persia, being private secretary to Mr. Lloyd Griscom, who is the American minister there. No date has been set for the marriage. At Delaware, Ohio, the home of the bride, at noon today, Miss Alberta Blanche, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. The odore F. Bailey, and D. Louis Selke, jr., son of David L. Selke, of this city, were married. Mr. and Mrs. Selke will be at home after January 1 at 1526 Sixth Street northwest, Dr. George Milton Boyer of Washing ten, and Miss Annie Marie Bowman, A CHARITY THAT WARMS WITHIN AND WITHOUT Gifts of Overcoats Cheer Hearts and Protect Bodies of One Hun dred Boys. One hundred boys on whom the hard ships of life have fallen, and who faced the wintry wind early this morning with tattered clothing, were made happy and comfortable through the generosity of Saks Co. today. It has been the cus tom of the firm for ten years past to give away 100 overcoats each Christmas to deserving and needy boys. This year the same policy was carried out. As a result the members of the firm 1d employes had the pleasure of know ing that they hal made a happy holiday for a round hundred children and had provided them with clothing that would go far toward easing life's rigors. The sight was both pathetic and joy ous. In the Seventh Street door came ‘boys, in whose eyes shone the light cf expectancy and eagerness, clad in tet tered garments long since worm out. Out the Aveue entrance passed a stream of smiling children, each feeling that Christmas, 1902, was one of the happiest in their young lives. The work of giving out the clothing was done quietly and with the double alm of reaching really needy children and without offending thelr self-respect or that of their parents. ~The work was personally directed by Joseph J. Saks, and it was hard to tell who was made the happler, Mr. Saks or the boys who were made galners by his beneficence. REINHARDT Silk House,

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Until further notice busi ness hours 8:15 to 5:30, Sat urdays excepted. Weddings. ‘daughter of Mr. A, McKendree Bowman, ‘a prominent farmer of Darrascus district, Maryland, were married at noon yesterday in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Damascus, the pastor, Rev. Henry P. ‘West, officiating. The wuditorium was profusely decorated with evergreens and potted plants, and was crowded ly relatives and friends. Miss Boyer had as her attendants Miss Alice Boyer and Miss Blanche Etchison, and was becomingly attired in a gown of white lansdowne, trimmed with ap plique. The ushers were the Rev. R. C. Strasburg. of Baltimore, and W. Everest Boyer, of Washington. A wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride at 9 o'clock. Dr. und Mrs. Boyer took an evening train here for a bridal trip South after the wedding. They will, upon returning, reside at Rockville, Md. Mrs. Stilson Hutchins will give a Christmas tea this afternoon. She wil} be assisted in receiving by Mrs. Jesse ‘Tyson, of Baltimore. Mrs, Edward Middieton and Miss Mid dleton have sent out cards for a tea on Saturday, January 3, from 4 to 7 o'clock. Mrs. W. L. Slater and her daughter, Miss Kate A. Slater, of Richmond, are spending the holidays with Mrs. R. H. Pilson. +KING’S PALACE ove —sn DEPARTMENT STORES 810- 812-814 7th Street w Ww 715 Market Space GREEN TICKET SALE This week is the greatest collection of genuine bargains we've had tor some time. Staples and a few left-over Holiday Goods at prices that evidence the greatest of savings. Tailor Wear £xi. $6.45 ri. and S12

Ladies’ and Misses’ Monte Carlo and Box Coats; made of the best quality American Woolen Mills Kersey: 27 inches long; blacks, reds, tans, and castors; panne velvet collar; cuffs and pockets trimmed; tailor-made and stitched; good lining through out; usually $10 aad $12—Green Ticket Price $6.45.

$2 45 for $4 and $5 Child’s Coats, Misses’ and Children’s Auto Coats: made of the best quality all-wool English Melton; large sailor collars: elaborately trimmed; full dress lengths; blues, browns, castors, and reds; size 6 to 14 years; worth $4 and $5—Green Ticket Price, $2.45.

4 5 0 for Suits usually $7.50 and $10.00. 25 Walking and Dress Suits. Walk ing suits are blue and black effects, made of good quality Melton cloth; Norfolk jackets and full flare skirts; the dress sults are “Gibson” and “Norfolk” styles; with or without velvet collars; properly tailored; worth from $7.50 to $10—Green Ticket Sale, $4.50.

Two Handkerchief Specials.

A large lot of Swiss and sheer linen, good grade handkerchiefs; either hemstitched or lace borders; these goods were in the holiday win dows, and are slightly soiled; all worth 19¢—Green Ticket §4C PRICE "uc: daventss ves 2a. sailor nn The window display lot of hand kerchiefs, slightly soiled; from our 10c grades; sheer and Swiss linen: hemstitched, ete.; good qualities; Green Ticket 44C PRICE ...ioconvarass asnnsnnee Waists and Wrappers. Broken lots of good quality Shirt Walsts; all-wool flannel, with fine pleats; stitched; finished with velvet buttons; sold reg ularly at §$1.50—Green Ticket ho J SINR SE EE LE REI Broken lot of extra grade Wrap pers; made of good quality percale; fitted walst lining; braid trimmed; sold regularly at 34¢C 69¢—Green Ticket price...... All odds and ends in Flannelette Wrappers; made with full flounce border at bottom; trimmed waists; wrappers in the lot that sold at $1 and $1.26-—Green 79¢ THakel PRICE: peer saree waneane 69¢ Corsets 39¢ Lot of full-boned Corsets; made of coutil, lace top; in medium and short waists; white and drab; regular 6%¢ values; special Green Ticket Price, 39¢. 12}c Corset Covers 7ic Lot of high-neck Muslin Corset Covers; felled seams; perfect fit ting; regular 12%c value. Green Ticket price, Tl%ec. 39c Short Skirts 29¢ Oe Lot of light flannellette Short Skirts; deep flounces at bottom; dainty blue and pink stripes; worth 69c. Special, 29¢. Notes. em SONG-STORY OF THE BIRTH AT BETHLEHER Ee a RE Ee a

anciscan Friars’ Unique Christmas Observance. The song-story of the birth at Beth lehem was toid with picturesque solemn ity by the Franciscan friars of Mount St. Sepulchre at Brookland, where hun dreds of the devout assembled at mid night to hear and see the ushering in of Christmas-tide.

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The stranger at this ceremony wit nessed a scene uniike anything he eve: saw before, though this form of the ob servance dates back for centuries. Since about 1220 the Franciscan brotherhood has had the custody of the holy sepul chre, so far as the jurisdiction of the Turks would permit, and therefore the otservance of Christmas has especial significance. The brothers of St. Francis chanted the story with melodious voices as they marched in in thelr monk's garb, lighting their way with swinging lanterns and beating time with the meas ured tread, which but for the fact that their feet are sandaled would have re sembled that of approaching soidiers. Solemn vespers at 5 ¢'clock last even ing began the celebration of Christ's natal day and for an hour the regular Gregorian vespers for Christmas were chanted. WASHINGTON PEOPLE AT NEW YORK HOTELS Astor House—J. W. Collins. Belvedere—Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Crae rin. Cadillac—Dr. P. W. Evans. Fifth Avenue—F. Mejia. Grand Union—W. Son, Mrs. E. A. Bouryin, C. M. Hall, C. A. Harris, S. A. Winsatt, J. D. Kynarton. Grand—Mr. and Mrs. C. Watson. Hoffiman—E. S. Comstock. T:nperial—Miss B. McDonnell and Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Brown. Millinery jit 25¢ for 75¢ to $1.50 Tadies’, Misses’ and Children’s Un trimmed and Ready-to-wear Hats, in all the latest and most desirable ef fects; ready-to-wear and walking shapes; in plain and scratch felts; whites, and all swell colorings; 75e, $1, $1.25, and $1.50—Green Ticket Special, 25¢. 0 KC for $2.50 Silk Velvet Hats, Excellent quality All-gsilk Velvet Draped Hats; in ali colors and all shapes; sold everywhere at $2.50— Green Ticket Price, 98c. $1.95 Vertes tana 53 Just one table full of high-class Trimmed Hats; no two alike: 50 styles and shapes to select from: in blacks and all colors; neat, nattily, and stylishly trimmed; elsewhere at $2, $4, and $5—Green Ticket Price, 1.95 1 $2 4 for $3 to $5 Ostrich Plumes. A large lot of Black Ostrich Plumes and White Ostrich Plumes; 16, 18, and 20 inches long; Amazon and French curled; fine quality; long fibers, with full heads; worth $3 $4, and $5. Green Ticket price, $2.45. Hosiery Bargains. Lot of good quality Children’s Hose; fast colors, double knees, heels and toes; sold regularly at 15c—Green Tick- OL DPIEE ne inenrs sus ens crease Lot of Ladies’ Plain Black Hose; fast colors; full seam less; good value at 19¢c— 12 Green Ticket price Broken lots of Lisle Thread La dies’ Hose; some lace stripes; oth ers In colors, dots, and stripes; sold up to 3%—Green 25¢ TIGRE DRRCE cou. vo sis scanin snd Table Linen Leaders All Hnen, extra wide Table Da mask, unbleached; regular 25¢ BOc kinds. Green Ticket Price Pure linen unbleached Table Da mask; extra wide; sold at 19¢ 75¢. Green Ticket Price..... Dozen Damask Table Napkins; din ner size; the regular $1 kinds. 87° Green Ticket Price........... 75¢ Child's Caps 25¢ Odds and Ends in Children’s Silk Caps; some fur trimmed, others with ribbon; mostly all colors; worth up to 76c. Green Ticket Price, 25¢. 69 Dressing Sacques 20¢ Lot of Flannelette Dressing Sacques; round collars finished with scalloped edges; also some lace trimmed; in the let are Kimonos and plain contrasting borders: worth up to 89¢. Green Ticket Price. 29¢. act 69¢ Gowns 39¢ Broken lots of slightly soiled gowns; yoke of fine tucks and em broidery; some have lace inserting; regular 69 value. Green Ticket Price, 39¢. Closed All Day Today. 5

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3 f i I} Rt aa Ee a a Ee Eh A ha aa at ol a There is nothing that a smoker can get more pleasure out of than a good Cigar. We have a fine hne of high-grade Cigars, also a full assortment of Meerschaum and a a a a a al] Brier Pipes and Smokers’ Articles. Buy now and avoid the rush. A. A. Hancock Go. deg-17t 1235 PA. AVE. TEETH! MODERN DENTISTRY HIGH-CLASS By skilled operators in each department what we offer you, at almost half you pay private dental offices. Call and consult us, Fr we may explain our improved moti SC Beautliui sets of Teeth, $5, $7, and $10. Painless Extracting, with or without gas be. Female attendants. "Phone, East 304-D.

Washington Dental Parlors N. E. Cor. 7th and E Sts, Over Atlantic Pacific Tea Co."s Store. dell-30t KNABE PIANOS! Bargains in new of various makes. sad ed I the Aeolian and Pianola. Pianos Rented. Wn. Knabe Co, 2090 Pa. Ave. and our re-enforced suetion, which makes them fit accurately. LOWEST prices on Crowns and $5 Teeth That Fit Fillings during Holidays. PAIN. LESS Extraction. DR. PATTON'S UNION DENTAL PARLORS. SI0F NN. W. Second Floor. Oroop’s xmas Special, A NEAT MUSIC ROLL, Together with the following Music: “MISTER DOOLEY™ “RIP VAN WINKLE” “JUST KISS YOURSELF GOOD-BYE™ “I'M UNLUCKY" “CHINESE HONEYMOON" —Airr 2 Other Selections. OUR SPECIAL PRICE, COMPLETE, 7 9c. E.F. Droop Sons, 925 Pa. Ave. dei tf THE TIMES WILL SELL IT FOR YOu.

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MATTERS UF INTEREST IN THE WORLD OF SPORT Baseball Magnates at Odds Over Switching of De troit Club to City of Pittsburg. The popular Rochester umpire, Sills O'Loughlin has signed a coaniract to um pire in the American League for three years. This action was the result of a recent visit of Ban Johnson to Roches ter. O'Loughlin was halting between twq opinions when Johnson, in his usual forceful way, went to Rochester and quietly persuaded the local man to agree to make a long contract at a handsome figure. This contract was received vester doy, signed and mailed to the American League president at his Chicago office. There is a division among the mag nates as to the advisability of switching the Detroit club to Pitisburg. It was sald that Somers, Kilfoyle, and Killilea are in favor of the transfer, while two others are on the fence. Mr. Peddler was extremely confident «that Pittsburg would get a club, and he intimated that if Detroit could not be secured, Washington might. The latter proposition is somewhat airy, however. Tom Loftus announced that he would go to New York as man ager. At the meeting of the American League, President Postal, of the Wash ington club, announced that if Loftus left he would sell the club. This caused Loftus to switch, .and he asserted that he would probably stick tc Postal and the Washingten club. After the talk of Postal and Lefius it was announced that a orominent New York man would be at he head of the new ciub. ~The idea of a twelve-club circuit fol Jowing a consolidation between the two leagues was squelched yesterday. Every magnate voiced his sentiment against it. Henry Killilea answered the question so far as Boston is concerned, Following are the entries for the games at Madison Square Garden, New York, under the auspices of the Greater New York Irish A. A, to be held on Sat wrday night: Arthur F. Duffey, of Georgetown Uni versity, holder of the world's record of 62-5 seconds for the sixty yards, is on scratch in this event. Frank Rickert, N. Y. A. C., with 4, and Fried with 6 feet, are the back markers. Ashley, of the Pastimes, with 1f yards, has the post of honor in the 300 yards Sandica. Christ offers, St. George A. C ig the back marker in the 410, with 18 yards. Hum phrey, X. A. A. is allowed 48 yards in the 600 yards handicap. Christoffers is again on the back mark, with 22, and Lummis, unattached, has 26 yards. Ten men have the limit of 50 yards in the 8%. Valentine is honor man, with iR _¥erds, and Sidney Curtis, National A. C., Sorueriy of Harvard, has 32 yards. Ed Carr is virtual scratch man in fhe mi te, vith 0 sari S. S. Jones, N. A. C., champion of England, is on rch 1s the high jump. oT Ge scratch events over 55 have en tered the 50-yard novice; 11 toe the mark in the three-mile run. and there are 10 jamen to compete in the hop, step and Jump. His majesty the King of Engiaud is the owner of forty-six thoroughbreds, in eluding the {wo Derby winners Diamond dubllee and Persimmon, aad the beautiful horse lorizel 11 all three of these being full brothers: There are at Edgerton Houes, Newmarket, eighteen race horses in training under the care of Richard Marsh; at Sandringham there are sixteen brood mares, and the remainder of the “King's possessions in the thoroughbred way ure foals {soon to “Se calied year dings), the steeplechaser Ambush il and a stable companion who leads him in his work. Neerly all the great success achieved “on the turf by King Bdward must be at tributed fo his lucky purchase of the now famons mare Perdita il for $4,560, which Was recommended by the famous trainer, if] Kid McCoy has been exonerated of the charge of stealing a $1,000 dill from David Lamar. In withdrawing the Charge today Lamar explained to the Police taal he had been the vietim of a practical joke perpetrated by some friends of his with whom he was drink Ing in 2¢lby’s saloon. Dovid Lamar a broker, living at 618 Fifth Avenue, calied ai the detective by Teau late Saturday night and reported that he, aecompanied by. som. friends, went into McCoy's saloen, at Fortieth Bireet and Broadway, that night and o dered some drinks. Lamar says he gave ‘MeCoy a $1,000 bill, telling him lo keep t, and that after the party was through drinking to deduct the caargs and give bm the ch After Peri” was through drinking sald that Lamar had given him a

$20 Lill. A general argament followed, which, it is alleged, McCoy dis ptain Titus then sent out a general alarm for the pugilist, and detectives Were sent to Yonkers, where McCoy iived. The notification read: “Arrest for grand larceny Norman Sel by, alias Kid McCoy, aged third-four, six feet, slim, dark complexion, crooked ‘pose; just stolen $1.000. “CAPTAIN TITS." Clark Ball, manager of J. J. Jeffries yesterday posted a forfeit of $1.660, which he will pay Jack Munroe, amateur champion heavyweight of the Pacific Coast, if he can stay four rounds with Jeflries a battle for a kmockour. M secured the decisisn and $300 ‘at Butte, Mont, last Saturday night by staying four rounds with the champion. The bout may take place here this week. An interesting story in told of Jockey 's jump from a salary of 350 a month to $206,000 a year, as told in the *Bt. Louis Star:” The young boy first intimated that he Bad a liking to ride the fast thorough breds at the age of fourteen years. If was during a meetitg at one of the ja courses ibat he went te a 0 one of the horsemen there and mounts as an exercise boy, A year passed by, with Arthur gal loping the fast runners around the course. In his exercising of the horses it was =een that the boy seemed to be a good judge of pace, and winter before last “Doc” *H. E. Rowell, well known to St. Louis turfites, who was facing a string of horses at the Coast at that time, se cured the services of Redfern to. accept mounts at $50 a month. Redfern rode horses for Rowell in ‘many races, but little was thought of the rider at that time. Rowell, in addition to having the serv ices of Redfern, had another boy under contract, and to the latter the best mounts were given, During Redfern's riding on the Coast his work was watched by James Hanby, otherwise known as “Busy Jimmy.” Hanby iearned that the boy was get ting only a nominal salary for the rid ing he was doing, end, taking an interest in the young rider, sought the boy's father to get his release from Rowell. He told the parent that Arthur could make more morey riding as a free lance. Rowell did not care to let the “boy 20, but after much difficulty the Tider was released. After Redfern’s release his father took him to ride on the Canadian circuit. In his mounts at that time he dis played fine jockeyship, and during his riding there a contract was signed for him te ride for James E. Pevper for two years at a salary of $18 000 When the contract was signed by Pep per for the rider's services horsemen who saw the young boy in races stated that Pepper had bought a ‘gold brick.” However, as Redfern continued to ride he improved rapidly, with the result that he is now one of the best jockeys on the turf. Redfern is but seventeen years old and he can tip the scales at ninety pounds. The English jockey, Teddy Martin is the only other rider to earn a princely sum at s\ch an early age. BRYAN'S PAY WILL BE SUBSCRIPTIONS Silver Orator Has Adopted Old-Time Tactics in Accepting Invitation. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 25.—Col. Wil liam Jennings Bryan, who is getting rich since he lLetame a molder of public opinion, has adopted tactics which are reminiscent of the pld-time country edi to™ who exchanged the produce of his brain and Washington press for cord wood, pelts, farm produce or live stock. When Colonel Bryan comes here to speak next month he will be paid in subscriptions to is paper, “The Com moner.” This is a reverse operation of the principle of swapping news and edi torials for merchandise. Colonel Bryan will talk and the folks who bring him here will get “The Commoner” for 2 con sideration, An invitation to speak at the banquet of the Jefferson-Jackson-Lincoln League, a free silver organization, was recently extended to Colone! Bryan. “1 will come,” said Colonel Bryan to the committee, ‘for nothing, but—"" Ee paused and the committee hung on his words. He went on: “You must send me such-and-such a number of subscriptions te my paper.” The proposition was discussed and ac cepted: Exactly to what extent “The Commoner’s” subscription list will be fattened has not been made public. PROF. JACOB FORNEY KILLS HIMSELF BY ACCIDENT One of Best Known Educators in South Son of Distinguished Con federate General. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 25.—Prof. Jacob Forney, professor of pedagogy in the State university at Tuscaloosa, while out shooting sparrows in a garden at Springfield, yesterday, was killed by the accidental discharge of a parlor rifle, He was one of the best known educa tors in the >outh, and son of the late Maj. Gen. John H, Forney, of the Con federate Army. ARNUAL SALE 100000 Greatest i Peaiesy in Tne Wort A MILLION CRANDMAS all over America point to CASCADRRTS Candy Cathartic as the most perfect family medicine ever discovered. Good, kindly, tender-hearted old soul—grandma tries to help others by telling of the 800d things she has learned chrough experience, and so the sale of CABUARETS is nearly A MILLION BOXES A MONTH. The wisdom of years of exper lence with her own health, and grandpa’s and her children's, and her childron’s eMildren's has taught grandma that in CASCARETS Candy Cathartic bas been discovered THE ONLY’ PERFECT FAMILY MEDICINE for ell bowel troubles, children's diseases, diseases of the stomach end liver, sick headaches, biliousness and bad blood. Eest for the Bowels. All druggists, 10c, 28¢, 600. Never scld in bulk. The gonuine tablet stamped CCC. Guaranteed to cure or your money back. Sample and booklet, free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. en EE EE ao J aa A LAR 0 A i

LR GREAT REF OF GOLD LOCATED IN ALASKA Formation Traced for Three Miles. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 25.—A great reef of gold-bearing quartz has been lo cated by miners in the forty-mile dis trict, Alaska. The formation was traced for three miles and hundreds of claims were staked out. It contains stringers running as high as $3,000 a ton. The first stringers were found six months ago, but the matter was kept secret until the lucky prospectors mak ing the discovery could locate the trend of the ledge with the object of staking out as many claims as possible. Since the news was made public early in No vember a great stampede has taken place, South African miners say the reef is #Tmilar in appearance and formation to song of the greatest gold-bearing ledges of South Africa. It is supposed that the ledge is one of those ground down by glaciers during past ages, there by loosening the present Yukon placer cold. TINY INCENDIARIES ARE SENT TO JAIL Boys of Vineland, N. J., School Confess in Court. VINELAND, N. J., Dec. 25.—Probably the tiniest firebwes over known in this section were arraigned for a regular court tria’ by a Vineland justice of the peace Moaday night, and, upon their full confession, were found guilty, and contmitted to the county jail on the charge of arson. The prisoners, Harold Van Orden, thir teen years old, and Robert Williamson, eleven years old, State wards, admitted havigg applied the torch to some of the buildings of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble-Minded Girls and Boys, “just to see the flames shoot up into the sky.” They bad a mania for kindling fires. Justice Brown expressed it as his ‘opinion that the boys were fit subjects for the Reform School and it is said that efforts will be made to have the judge order them sent there when their cases come up before the grand jury. NEGRO INSTITUTIONS TC SHARE IN DONATIONS Will Secure Division of Surplus Mil lions of Rohert C. Billings’ Estate. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 25.—In formation hag been received here that Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.: Fisk University, Nashville, and Lincoln Me morial University, Cumberland, Tenn. all Southern negro educational institu tions are scheduled for donations from the surplus million which the executors of the famous Robert C. Biliings' estate of Boston have left. Holly Billings diced in 1899. The exec utors have disbursed according to the specified charities the provisions of the will, but still have $1,000,000. That gun is to be given to a list of colleges select ed by the executors. FOUND DEAD IN BARN WITH HEAD BLOWN OFF Farmer Believed to Have Accidentaliy Killed Himself While Searching for a Burglar. MONTCLAIR, NX. J, Dec. 25.—Benja min Doremus, a farmer of Roseville, was feund this morning lying dead on the floor of his barn. The top of his head had been blown off and near him lay his gun, which had been discharged. The body was found by a farm hand ehout 5 o'clock. Deoremus was unmar ried. it is supposed that he wae awakened in the night by a ncise ir the barn and that he got his gun and went out, sus pecting that a burglar had entered the building. He is believed to have stum bied over tne: doorsiil ard fallen, dis charging the gun at the same time. Taere are mméieations tha: somahody had broken into the barn, but the thief if theres was one, escaped. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1592. B. 0. RAILROAD SHORTENING 178 LINE Contract for Improvements Soon to Be Awarded. BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—Although the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad manage ment has expended $75,000,000 within the past six years improving its sysiem, tho expenditure of another large sum has been decided upon for the purpose of shortening its line from Baltimore to Pittsburg. The contracts for the pro posed improvement will soon be awarded. It is proposed to build a short cut from Hancock, Md., to Bedford, Pa. Another short line will be constructed from Bed ford to Gratztown, a small town on the Pittsburg and Connellsville branch of the Baltimore and Ohie road. With this short line the distance from laltimore to Pittsburg will be lessened fifty miles. A most interesting feature cf this new line is the utilization of the ¢ld South Penn lailroad, which became an object of great interest waen orviginzlly planned to serve as a connecting link for the Vanderbilts when they proposed en tering Baltimore. The [Pennsyivania headed off the move and later the two managements adjusted differences. This project was abruptly stopped and the charter, with the property rights ac quired, passed into the hands of individ uals whose identity was unknown, but who, nevertheless, represented the Penn sylvania Railroad, There is no doubt that the active prog ress of the Gould plans in connection with the eastward extension of the Wa bash and the known intention of béilding a line from Pittsburg to meet the West ern Maryland has accelerated the start ing of this big piece of work. If the South Penn prefect was not utilized there was nothing to prevent the Goulds con dvmning a right of way along the same route. Another very important consideratign in the construction of this road is that both the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio managements have reached the conclusion that a great increase in the facilities for handling freight traffic te tween Pittsburg and the seaboard is vital to the continued prosperity of the Pitts burg region. As this, in its way, relates to the welfare of the largest industries of the country, the recurrence of the freight blockade which fhat center suf fered can, it is felt, be averted only by radical expansion of the present facili ties SUIT FOR DAMAGES Suit was filed against the Capital Trac tion Company® in the Supreme Court of the District yesterday by Anthony Bell, to recover 32,000 damages for personal injuries. He says he was injured by falling off a car owned by the defendant on November 8 last. SANDERS STAYMAN CO. PB Bee Be Gr Be Poe ee ec Pec Ger Pew

a eS Se. Atay quan Season To All Our Musical Fricuds. NNN SANDERS &STAYMANCD. Be at hie BE Bo at a Percy S. Foster, Manager. 27 F STREET, ves YW aa a TT ATT a, GUTLERY, ATHLETIC GOODS. GUNS, GAMES, ste. WALFORD'S S367 va ave Ee a SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. UNION TRUST STORAGE COM PANY, 1414 F Street northwest, invites you to open a savings account with their banking department. Interest is paid to depositors at the rate of 2 per cent on monthly balances. EDWARD J. STELLWAGEN..... President JAMES G. PAYNE....... ist Vice President GEO. E. HAMILTON.....2d Vice President Attorney and Trust Officer. GRO. E. FLEMING... ..couvuviniive Secretary CHARLES 8S. BRADLEY........... Treasurer HARRY O. WILSON......... Asst. Treasurer THE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT, SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE CAPITAL $1,000,000. Pays interest on Seponite, Rents Safes Inside urglar-proo? Vaults. Acts as Administrator, Executor. Trustee. ste A Resolution. Resolve to save a certain amount of money each month—whether it's $2.50, $25, or $50 a month. Put it in Equitable shares, where the incentive to. save is greatest and where the profit ‘5s sure and steady. EQUITABLE CO-OPZRATIVE BUILDING ASSOCIATION, 1003 F St. Epuitabls Bldg. JOHN JOY EDSON............ PRESIDENT FRANK P. REESIDE.......... SECRETARY December 26 Only. “Star of the East’ Patent Flour, $3.85 Sifted Early June Peas, 7+ cents, Cream Lunch Crackers, 6 cents. Columbus Bartlett Pears, 4 cents. £12 4th st. se. J Five other tores Weather Strips One Cent a Foot. JORN B. ESPEY, [&i5"Farave. When Othars Fail, Consult the Ex pert Specialists at the United States Medical Institute, Perfect manhood should be prized as the greatest gift of man. Are you suf fering from the effects of nature's violations, acute and chronic complaints, in herited or ucquired Nervous Debility—are you weak, nervous, broken down, ir ritable? Do you lack vim, vigor, and vitality? Why not” have these troubles remedied? RUPTURE CURED oi: X- RAY used for examination, diagnosis, and treatment. WRITE it you cannot call. All letters kept strictly confidential and answered in any modern language. Hours, 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Tues. and Sat. till Bp. m Sundays, 0a m to 12m 1288 a. ave, nw., Wash ington, P. DR. CZARRA, The Weli-Known German Specialist, 317 6th St. N. W. TEN years permanently located in Washi city. His success in treating old and so-called incyrable cases is acknowledged by the blie and profession. See testimonials at his RUPTURE permanently cured, without pain or loss of time. X HAY for examination and treatment. CURES cancer, stricture, varicocele, skin, blood poison, piles, und private diseases quickly for lifetiwne. Hours 10 to 12, 2 t¢ 86 p. m. FREE Consultation in Person or By Letter. LE ant ant aad aa SL LADIES NEEDING ADVICE AND TREATME CONST THE GERMAN FEMALE SPECIALIST. Treats woman's ills, complaints, and irregu larities. a iL PRIVATE SANITARIUM—Not a public hos pital, but a private home. Separate rooms and home comforts for cases before and during con. finement TRAINED Nurse and Physician in attendance. CITY office hours from 10 a. m. to 6 bh. m. 01 Lovisiana Ave. NW., Washington, D. C. Aa of DR LEATHE MAN. Expert Specialist in the cure of all discasea of a private nature, Nervous Debility, Skin and Contogious Blood Discases (any stage) cured for life. Consultation free. 602 F St, N. VW, OSTEOPATHY. PR. GEO. D. KIRKPATRICE, Bond Building, 14th srd New York ave. nw. Hours 9 to 5. Fhore 136% F wa-3mos ARLINGTOX BREWING CO., Fo ROSSLYN, VA it's Dark. AUGUSTINER BEER. 514 Case. An Xmas table withcut Augus liner '‘li~is-to-laugk.”” It’s a iuxurlous necessity. Phone West 129—be quick. WALTER'S Ask your druggist for the best cure for Headache, De wili NC give you WALTER'S. Sold at POV/DERS. all drug slores—~3 powders, 1) cents. Be sure to get WALTER'S. Refuse all others. Your druggist will get them tor you. Send 10 cents for package to THE WALTER CHEMICAL CO., WASHINGTON, D. CG FINANCIAL, MEDICAL. THE WASHINGTON LOAN _AND TRUST COMPANY. OFFICE, COR. fH AND F ETS. PAID-UP CAPITAL, ONE MILLION Loans in any amount made on approved real estate or collateral at ressonable Tales. Interest paid upon deposits om monthly balances subject to check. This company acts as execstor, admin. fjstrator, trustee, agent, treasurer, regis trar, and in all other fiduciary capacities. Boyenr for rent in burglar and fireprool wauits for safe deposit and storage of val. uable packages. JOHN JOY EDSON......cccorssnunsas President JOHN "A. SWOPE...... ressan «..Vice President ELLIS SPEAR..... TWEET Second Vice President ARDEEW PARKER. ...c. icsssassanna Treasurer BRICE J. MOSES. ..........Assistant Treasure: THOMAS BRADLEY Real Estate Officer REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT to assume the management of your Jui estate: Careful attention given to all de THE RIGGS NATIONAL BK OF WASHINGTON, D. CAPITAL, $500,000. SURPLUS, $400,000. bY EXCHANGE ON ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE AD GERMANY. LETTERS OF CREDIT AVAILABLE IN ALL FOREIGN PARTS “BANK COLLECTIONS. ORDERS FOR INVESTMENTS STOCKS AND BONDS AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST CO. Capital, $1,250.00, Surplus, $500.00 SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES. wot wank, Boxes for rent in large burglar prot va $6 per annum and upwara. C. J. BELL. President. NION TRUST i4i4 F Street MN. Ww. AVINGS ACCOUNTS taken S in any amount and sub ject tocheck at will—29j, INTEREST ALLOWED. I am in a position to exec:fe orders in Stocks, Grain, and Cottin or easy margins. Service ex celient. In direct commmication with New York. My Ladies’ Department is a special fea ture of my business. Speriing-tube to my main 5] fice, and every comfort. combined with strict privacy. Room TL Margin, t Per Con. R. LAPRPIN, 529 Seventh N. W., Cor. F Telephone, East 726. DO YOU WANT A HOME? it makes no difference= whither you pay a large rent, a small rent, or a medium rent, we would like to talk with you. We think we can show you HOW TO MAKE A GOOD PART OF YOUR RENT PAY FOR A HOUSE on the easiest sort of terms. We can present a plan of payments to fit nearly every cage. B. H. WARNER CO. 916 F Street N. W. LOAN COMPANIES. CASH TO LOAN.

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On Furniture, Pianos, ete, in ny amount from $10 to $600. Come where you get lowest rates and longest terms. All dealings quick and private. POTOMAC GUARANTEE LOAN CO, Rooms 74 and 76, Atlantic Building, Tel. M. 1236-Y. 928 and S30 F St. NX. W. CHEAP MONEY. Do you want a :csn of from $1) to 2500 on your furniture, pianos, ete., without any publicity or del at very cheapest rates? If so, ca on ug, for we never disappoint. MUTUAL LOAN TAUST GD. Roows 12 sand 13, National Unies Buildirg, SIS F &t. N. W. $10.00 TG $50.00. Anyone who wants money for Christmss shopping can get it without delay at our offices. We will let you have cash on your chattels, furniture or other personal Property, at low rates and easy payments. If salaried. you can have money on personal note without indorse ment. CAPITAL LOAN GUARANTEE CO, G6ez FF ST. N. W. $50.00 TC $500.00. Fu27-tt MONEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Everyone is in need of ready money at this season. Cuil on the COLUMBIA GUARANTEE CO., 613 F ST. NX. W., Near 7th St., for quick loans on your houschold [urniture, pianos, ete. ABSOLUTELY NO DELAY. Loans taken up from other companies. Office open frum Sa. mi. to 8 p.m. des-t! E Have a Bar’l of motey to lend on fumiture, pianos, ete. No delay. Goods are not dis wrbed. You return the money in small payments. you have a loan and need more money we can fix you up. Busi ness confidential. SURETY LULR GUEPARY, Suite 1, Warder B'ld'g, 9th and sts, 523 uth a A ‘LOANS OF $10 AND UPWARD CN FURNITURE AND PIANOS at Jowesi rates aad on the Jay you appiy. We arc loalang on wie Bulciug sad Lean As ciation plan, which Babes Ure Ost of cure ing loans much less than you pay elsewhe and aliows you to pay it off in an) sized uoles ou desire, running frome ve Ww twelve months you have a loan wits some otha con ye will pay it off aad advance you mere i desired. Rates ciiceriunly piven, and 10 yo uniess oam is made. Cull and get rales Front room, fst fcor N LTIONAL MORTGAGE LOAN CO, a3 F St. NX, WwW, Go Loans on furniture, piancs €te., on the most liberal tern YGU ever offered in this city. No removal or publicity. 1 yeu wre NT owe any other company and VAI hi want more moacy we will le you have it without dela. MONEY? Privets ulfices. WASLINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN CO. S10 F St. N. W, FINANCIAL. fio 2 Nights at 8 sharp NEW HATIONALYS Sat. at 2. The only Theater in Washington offoring exclu sively American ant foreign stars of the first rank MR. EE. H SOTHERN iF WERE KING. Next CHAS. FROHMAN Presents vigre. AN 12 RUSSELL Sale In Madeline Lucette Ryley's Play, Seat A x MICE AND M Open, a First Time in America. COLUMBIA (55 Titres EVENINGS AT 8:15. MAT. SAT. CHAS. FROHMAN Will Present NIS GREATEST LAUGHING SUCCESS, TWO ‘SCHOOLS With the Original New York Cast INCLUDING JAMESON LEE FINNEY, IDS CONQUEST, M. A. KENNEDY, JESSIE BUS LEY. aa NEXT WEEK-—>=ATS NOW ON SALE, EDWARD E. KIDDER'S AMERICAN COUNTRY PLAY From its Memorable Rung of Four Months ia Boston and 150 Nights in New York, SKY FARM A Simple Story of the Berkshire Hills, ALL FUN, SUNSHINE AND LOVE Track Railroad Scene MATS. TUES. AND SAT, ALL SEATS, 25 CENTS. BIG CHRISTMAS MATINEE, PRICES SAME AS NICHT. (Raves Seatw, 20 204 50 Cents, Her Marriage Yow New Year's Week—**AT CR{PPLE CREEK." A CADEMY, See the Greai Double« CHASE'S Ai Dltenus DAILY MAT., 25¢. EVE'S, 25c and 50c. CHRISTMAS MAT., 25¢., EVERY SEAT. SUSANNE LEONASD—OWEN WESTFORD CO. in the Musical! Farce, “The Understudy.” TECHOW'S WONDERFUL TRAINED CATS. “Mother Goose™ Colored Motion Geo. W, Day, Mr. and Mrs Alfred Keloy, Ger trude Mansield and Cars! Wilbur, Lizzie and Vinie Daly, Sailor and Barbaretta, Next Weck—Moung Toon snd Moung Chet and Others. LAFAYETTE 55! THIS WEEK, YORK STATE hi $:30 lel. 1830. Next Weck—FRANK L. PERLEY'S CHAPERONS. HOME OF BURLESQUE ERIPIRE meron GRAND HOLIDAY SHOW. The Inngcert Beauties Burlssquers ALL FFATURE ACTS. 5 Dizenz, The American Quintette, Agnes Behler, Miichell-Hany Co., Inbof and Cem, thea Twin Sisters, Williams and Aleene. and WO BUR Cog £3, with 25 PRETTY GIRLS. New Yea rel=The Famgus OCTOROONS with Smart Lod W illiams, and Joe Walcott, WATINESS KERNAN'S, sires’ 250 ALL THIS WEEK. PARISIAN WIDOWS In the Latest and Mast Elaborate Musical Comedy. Entitled THE SMART SET Apd LONESOME HURST. Next Week—Rice Barton's Big Gaiety Cou The Messiah BY THE CHORAL SOCIETY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 8:15, CONGREGA-~ TH OX AL CHURCH. ts—Soprano, Mrs. Hissem De Moss; con tralto, Mrs, Poro thy Pollock; tenor, Mr. Nicho las Douty, and bass, MR.ERICSSON BUSHNELL. Mr. Josef Kaspar, conductor; Dr. Anton Gloetzner and Mr. Ernest T. Winchester, ae companists, Chorus of (50. Popular prices: Rese srved seats. 5, Toe. at T. Arthur sr A ¥F Street. Libe reduction by sing $5 sustaining member ship fre were. Later concerts include Bispham and Van Rooy. de24-1t Solois 297 2 FIREST {PORTED ARD DOWESTIS WHHES AND DISTILLATES. Triple force of emploves to handle holi day rush. Prompt deiivery to all parts of the city, and goods packed for ship ment out of town, GHRIS XANRER £08.2050%e! Lid Bother With Coal —it"s too expensive, and will be so al wiater. Buy Gas Heaters —to heat the bhoyse. They're safe and’ Hable, Consume only a few cents’ worth of fuss oer id give the amount of Lest needed. We're showing an elegant Bre of Gas Henters. Bas Apntigags Eichanmy, lGc4 Hew York Ave. west Vv a. Coal Mines CUTPL x re oF PER PAX. Ten thousand Fre exe secures PYRE, J. bh. WIRY, Second Nationel Bank, AMUSEMENTS.

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REGENER FOR TRIG SHIPSUILDING GORPANY Vice President Named on Ap plication o! Creditors CLAIMS FOR $150,000 FILED Mr. Myers Says Failure is Due to Loss Sustained in Filling Govern ment Contracts. ment Contracts. RICHMOND, Va., Dee. 25.—The Wil! jam 1. Trigg Shipbuilding Company has been placed in the bands of a receiver. The application war, made by the cred itors of the company. Lilburn T. Myers, vice president of the company, was named as receiver by the Richmond chancery court. Mr. My- ers at once gave bond for $50.00 and entered upon the discharge of his duties. The claims and liens already filed against the company are said to amount tc $150,000. The action of the creditors in placing the company in the hands of a receiver was not altogether a surprise in financial and business circles. William R. Trigg the president and founder of the company, has been in ill health for nearly a year. In the past six months thcee interested in the af fairs of the concern have been endeavs oring to make an arrangement for the absorption of the Trigg company by the American Shipbuilding Corporation, but without sucecoss., RN built Torpedo Boats. Since the establishment of the plant geveral years ago the Trigg Shipbuild ing Company hag completed a*' number of contracts for Government torpedo boats and other craft for naval use. The concern is about completing a small steamer to ply on the river Nile for mis gionary purposes. The concern has been very successful in securing contracts. The plant here has recently been vis fted by several San Francisco and other shipbnilders, who pronounced Richmond a fine locality for the construction of naval and other vessels. There was said to be about 6,000 persons employed or interested In the contracts of the works. Tost Muney on Contracts. Receiver Myers gave out a statement last night, saying that the principal cause of embarrassment of the company was the loss _ustained on the contract for turpedo “oats and torpedo-boar de _stroyers, which amounted to a very large “figure, Delay in copstruction of the plant is also mentionad as increasing the cost of handling the contracts in the first two years of the company’s existence. Mr. Myers said, however, that he hoped soon to have matters in shape, rJ that the company would be taken out of the TA hand s hands, Fa Offers gry ‘assistance were numerous. Several friends of Mr. Myers shook hands with iim as he left the City Hall, all §risessiog sorrow that the works had forced into the hands of a receiver. A memerandum was filed in the court yesterday showing that $1,000,000 of bonds Pave ‘been issued by the Trigg to the Virginia Trust Company, of Fhitadeiphia. The individual claims of the creditors are small as yet, the mo tion for ibe appointment of a receiver being made on an account due H. Hawes Co., of this city, for $2,045.68 for The indebtedness, as represented by bonds and preferred and common stovk, is as follows: First mortgage bonds, $1,000,000; se cured mortgage bonds, $1,000,000; pre ferred stock, $750,000; common stock, $1,000,000. Assets not given. The belief is expressed that the Trig: shipyards will not shut down as a resul: of the embarrassment of the company but will continue operations in al branches just as“though a receiver hac not been appointed. This is the hoperfu view taken of the situation, and there is a feeling of relief among the 1,500 em ployes of the works. A meeting of the creditors of the con -cern was held yesterday, and the affair: of the company were thoroughly dis cussed. Ninety-four per cent of the in. debtedness was represented. Statement: were made as te the status of the com pany and the proposed plan of reorgani zation, A committee of three was appointed to ’'consider the proposition for reorgani zation, and to report at a latter meet ~ing of the creditors. Mr, Fritz Sittering Mr. 8. H. Hawes, and Mr. James N Boyd were appcinted or this committee The attitude of the creditors was mos considerate, and there were numerou expressions on all sides of a desire 10 as #ist the company. It is hoped and be lieved that the eompany will be put oi a stronger and more solic basis than eve before, It ig thought th2! under the pro tection of the cauvrt the plan of reor ganization ean be expeditiously consum mated. fovernment work is Dot expected to suffer ap fecount of the recelvervhip or dered for the Trigz Shipbuilding Com pany at Richmond. The erniscr Galves ton is the only ship now building at tha yard. This is 6 por cent completed, ac cording to the latest construclion report acearding to past precedents, if she not finighed by the receiver, the Govern ment will complete her on its own ac Shatrrtt u2f tha evnonce af the contract are RICH MAN'S DAUCGETER MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., December 25. Miss Jane Righter, of this city, the wealthiest young women in this vicinity and daughier of Thomas M. Righter, a coai operator, zave hunfreds of pounds ‘of candy and hundreds of pairs of stock ings and hundreds of peirs of gloves to the needy boys zd girls in #his place nd Wilburion as a Christinas present.

RATES FCR ADVERTISING: SITUATIONS or HELP WANTED ADS. "ROOMS FOR LENT BOARDING p ROOMS AND BOARD ONE CENT A WORD. Minimum charge, 15¢, one inseriion. ALL OTHER CLASSIFIED LINERS— TWO CENTS A WORD. THREE OR MORE CONSECUTIVE DAYS, ONE CENT A WORD. WANTED—Young lady clerk, 35 week; no ex. perience required. Call Friday, Room 6, 524 10th st. It WANTED Cook and general houseworser: stay at night. oon U st. nw. ded 2 Ww ANTED- iri to cook, wash and iron, good wages. Apply at once, 120 Renyon st. det. 2 Ww WANTED Good Ponschedper. by fanily of three; good howe to right one: reference: re quired. Address BOX 106, this office. de23-2t WANTED-- Help on first-class tailoring. M. LOWENSTIEN, Room 5, 519 Tth st. nw. de23-5t SITUATIONS WANTLED—-FEMALS. WANTED—A lady wishes to recommend a neat, honest colored woman for day work or laun dry. 1990 Temperance ave. nw. deld-Bt SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE. VILL PAY $100 for a deparimental position; ave held civil service pealtion. Address BuX 12, this office. dest J i FANTED--To buy, 1,000 sceond-hand bieycles. Cali C. T. HUNTER, 113 Pennsylvania ave. nw. dels-3t TN NSN TNS NNN NSN JG Ny INN lf ad I NENG WANTED—Two good agents for city, capable of eaming $5 to $1% per thonth. Address BOX 111, this office. 1t STORAGE, 5c load. UNITED STATES STOR AGE CO., 420 10th si. nw. del 6 POLICEMAN CONVICTED OF ASSISTING IN ROBBERY Motion for a New Trial Made by Pat rick Mahoney’s Attorney. CHICAGO, Dee. 25.—Policeman Pat rick Mahoney, whose trial has attracted widespread attention, was found guilty yesterday of complicity in the Haga mann jewelry store robbery. His pun ichment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary. Daniel Curran, his co-defendant was found not guilty. The jury was out all night. The customary moticn for a new trial was made by Mahoney's attorney. TWO MILLIONS OFFERED FOR IRON PROPERTY Drilling Operations Believed to Have Located a Large Depasit. SAULT STE. MARTE. Mich., Dec. 25.— Charles 8. Osborne, State railroad com missioner, who, not many years ago, was a reporter on a Milwaukee paper, and later owner of the “News of this piace, and his associates have been offered $2, 000,000 for their irom ore properties in the Sudbury district, north of the Cana dian Seo in Ontario. Diamond drill operations have been in progress for severai months, and it is believed a large deposit of ore has been encountered. The olfer to purchase Is said to come from the Clergue interests, and is cne reason for the loan of $2,500, (00 made yesterday by the Consolidated Lake Superior Compauy. RAIN PUT OUT FIRE Ea rec ei 6 pd TRENTON, Dec. 25.—EBecause cf the storm of last Sunday the engagement of Lewis Fletcher to Sadie S. Fletcher has been broken, the. fire of leve put out by the rain, and the lover is in the county Jail. The woman had been living in Plain field and Fletcher made arrangements to take her to Princeton Sunday for the wedding. The storm prevented, and, meantime, he says, Sadie became too loving with the best man, who proposed and was ac cepted. Fletcher appeared on the scene Monday night, and, it is charged, whipped the best man. He was arrested and held in $100 bail to answer to the charge of assault and battery. CARLISLE WILL CUT CARLISLE, Pa., Dec. 25.—A census shows that there are 700 hogs in this aristocratic old borough -a pig to cach fourteen persons. This 18 too much york, councilmen opine, and there is being drafted an ordinance which is iftended to smite the hog raising industry. The intention of the crdinance is 10 permit no more than two pigs to any one family. The owners of extensive sties are in a state of consternation un concealed, the purpose of the borough fathers having been ncised aboui. POISON HIDDEN IN RIVERTON, N. J., Doe. 25—Miss Mamie Corner, who has held the position of pestmaster’'s assistant in Riverton for twelve years, dicd of poisoning yesler doy. Two weeks ago she went to Phila delphia shopping and took lunch at a restaurant. The following day she was taken ill. A physiclan diagnosed the cese as a severe attack of blood poison

ing, resulting from something taken Into the stomach. The following day an operation was performed to cleanse the stomach, which, owing to the weak condition of her heart, she endured without ether. She grew steadily worse, and death resulted. INCREASED WAGES FOR NEW YORK CENTRAL EMPLOYES NEW YORK, Dec. 25..~The New York Central Rzailread has decided upon an increase in the salaries of its clerical department. The advance will average about 20 per cent, and will take effect from December 1, TIMES WANT ADS BRING RESULTS. HELP WANTED--FEMALE. WANTED—BICYCLES. WANTED—AGENTS. STORAGE. he TW Sve WN A DOWN HOG PRODUCT LUNCH KILLS WOMAN WANTED Twenty-five colored laborers to load ane urew cose; all can bring families. Meet nie at (th sl. depot, o'clock Sunday night; fare paid; information at 2 Foundry Place, nw. 1 on WANTED--A good boy to wash Jighes ig lunch Fock R512 renag hoanin ave. mw, a WANTED-Colored boy to carry ont meals and Work in bopse. (ald afer 6 poo, O19 4th st, nw, dei St WANTED—One wheelwright, one wagon painter, one wagon washer, and five good drivers. Ap Py oat SPRINGMANN'S sTABLES, South Capi tol and D sts. sw, de23-3t WANTED—Barber, at once. J. M. KROUS, loa Tth wt. de23.3t WANTED—An experienced man to wash milk bottles. SWISS DAIRY, 403 East Capitol st. deli gt WANTED—Men to learn harber trade; new sysiom: eizht weeks completes: $10 to $15 weeay guaranteed when through; special ac commodations for strangers. For free catalogue containing all particulars address MOLER’S {BARBER SCROGL, New York city. dell Gt WANTED--Any intelligent person may earn Rood income corresponding for newspapers; ex ence unihocessary send for particulars, PRESS SYNDICATE, Lockport, N.Y. Ae? Tt WANTED--Laborers and teamsters; $1.35 por tday, 8S. 8. DAISH SONS, Coal and Fire wood, 208 Florida ave. ne. deb WANTED--To buy second-hand steam loc mo bile sor cash, Address Du) 110, this o'fee. det s-3t WANTED Two “pool tables, in fair condition. MARYLAXD POOL PARLOR, 1008 Pe nnsy Ivania ave, dels 22 WANTFD--1f you have any furniture or car pets to sell, send for the nan who does not ex pect you to give sour goods aaay— NOTES, 637 Louisiana ave.; phone, E 787-M. de? 17 WANTLD- ilighest cast. price paid for cast-off clothes, ladics' or gentlemen's, Address postal srl 1 will call, B. TARGUES, 1308 7th st. nw. de2-2at eT OLD GOLD, SILVER, AND COINS BOUGHT. 813 Gi sl.nw. 6G. MARTIN, oid. 8 WANTED Highest cash price paid for lod and gentlemun's cast-off clothing. Ad postal and 1 will call, 8. KEBESKY, 1506 Ith SL. hw. del6-30t WANTED—OId iron, brass, copper, lead, etc., Fhe machinery and Benerat merchandise for highest cash prices. BAUM BERNHEIMER, 1725 Tth nw. "phone Main 3053-Y. del 90t WANTED—Pawn tickets, guid, 8 silver, diamonds, witches, and coins; highest cash prices. ABRA HAMS, 433 @h st. de2-tt THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1902. RELP WANTED-—MALE wWANTED—-—MISCELLANEQUS, WANTED—ROOMS. WANTEO—Three unfuraished rooms and bath, for light housekeeping; will give reference; state terms. Address BOX 141, this office. de23-8t i ————_ tA. ot AR WANTED—HORSES AND VEHICLES WANTED—A good driving horse for its keep, with the privilege of buying, E. A. HIRST, Fals Church, Ya. de25 3t WANTEDR—Fifty horses and carts, £22.50 y. Apply 2611 E st. nw. des se WANTED—Teams to haul coal. 8S. 8 DAISH SONS, Ta and Firewood, 208 Florida ave. ne det FOR SALE HORSES VEHICLES. FOR SALE— First-class saddle horse; 'medinm size; sound; $80. 713 12th st. nw. de24-3t IF YOU W ANT a good draft or general pur pose horse, or a low priced horse, eall at 923 D st. nw. de23 3t FOR BR SALE—A sound black family mare; per feetly safe for a lady to drive; bargain, Call 2025 G si. nw, de23-3t AE negate hi rim FOR SALE—One good vork mare, 1,200 pounds, £35. THE ALLEGHENY CO. de23-3t FOR RENT--FURNISHED ROOMS. FOR RENT_Clean RENT-—Clean furnished rooms, with or pill oe M5 C si. ne. deb 2 Two ely furnished rooms; sowth FO

a oo exposure. 451 G st. nw. ic de25Tt FOR REXT-—Large parlor; also small room. 217 East Capitol st ded -3L FOR RENT—Cozy, well heated fromt room, 2th smaller rooms, $6. €22 E st. nw. de2S 3 123 C 8¥. SE. ~Convenient to Capitol and Li brary, one furnished or unfurnished front room, with or without board. de25-6t FOR RENT- Thres roms, furnished for hgnt boascke pig; send floor well haated; bath 0 jane fluor. 1106 od «uw, de24-at FOR RENT Two nicely furnished, well heated second floor front rooms; firsi-class home board. 11121 10th st. nw. de23-2t {FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms; well heated; gas and buih; reasonable. 517 Lub st. j nw. dels. 3t ettmmaigrai————————————— FoR REXT—-Larze bay window room, second floor: one small room; furnace heat; transients, 50 0 cents. 1111 n st. nw, del3- at FOR RENT—A warm, nicely furnished front 1, near Government Printing Office, 132 sachiusetts ave. ne, MeZ3- hd FOR RENT—Furnished rooms; gas, heat, bath; light househveping; reference required, 203 Pennsytvania ave. mw, de22-5t FOR LEXT—Large, well heated front room. 117 Massachusstis ave. nw, de23-3¢ L109 10H oF. ~Furnisaed, well heated front basement; housekeeping or business; cheap; week or month. des 2t jroR RENT Unfurnished rooms at 1425 Sth st. uw, de2 217 it von RENT-216 C at. nw., large und smail recs. de2l-Tt THE most accessible location in Washington; new house, new furniture; rooms single or et suite; steam heat, hot water, private baths: bath for every two rooms: rates reasc.aable, |THE Teh #10 E st. nw. del13 of FOR RENT—UNFURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT—Two large bay window rooms on the first ficor; fumace heat. 11 H st. cw. ded 3¢t FOR RENT—FURMISEED OR UN. FURNISHED ROOMS. ROOMS AND LOARD a... i a A 217 EAST CAPITOL ST.-XNieely fumished room, with first-class table, $25 per wonth; transionts taken. or Tn eh aE Jos xn Ae25-5t 712 K, Mt. Vernon place nw.—Two desirable second floor yours, with board; transients. ez St a: hy a9 G ST. XW. Desirable furnished 1 rocms for og with or without board; heat and bath, opp site Prnsion Office, de28-3t FOR RENT--Three desirable rooms, with hoard. By A onw. dels 8 nt tn nit dt FURNISHED ROOMS and table board; steam heat; central Joestion. 415 4th st. nw. deld-7 t THE LOGAN Beautiful location, lowa Circle, near O o.; singte and double rooms: two and three room private bath; well appointed dining room; Ornental room; smoking room; ping- pong snd Manhattan pool free to guests; special wonthly restaurant and d room rates. del-aot om rr FoR RENT--Nicel, “harnished rooms. with board; large ocr Bb front rooms, suitable for two; steam heat in ever; room. 412 di #t. mw oo tt WALL PAPER. NOLTE, £24 oth st. nw. is constantly recely. the latest and mas. attractive designs in Wall Papers. and papers rooms from $2.00 up Call and fuvestigate for youself and be ue vineed miitf FOR RENT—TYPEWRITER. FOR RENT-—No. 2 typewriter, with touch type writing charts, $3 month. Address BOX 275, City Postotlice, de22 3 FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE—Oak wood, four feet, $8 per r cord; delivers d on sue walk. Rat Sth st. ne. deZo-gt FOR SALE Moving picture “machine; neariy new and firsi «class edition. 614 6th st. nw. des 3-ot FOR SALE~New upright piano, cheap. 1625 14th st 1 EFL WN ht LE te te 50 SQUARE PIANGS Put the money Santa Claus gives into a good Piane—it's just like putting it in 1! bank QOD PLANOS FROM $25 to 315— —ON $1 WEEKLY PAYMENTS ERADBURY FACTORY WAREROOMS, 1223 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. FOR SALE—Y¥our theroughbred coliies; just the thing for Chrigtmas, "3 E st. se. ded 3t A BARGADR Tan absolutely new, finest grade 1902 Colum. ehxinless bieycie; coaster Lrake; 24-inch trum. \ddress BOX 100, thise office. de22-3t a THE GU ARANTEL SEW NG MACHINE €0.'S Christmas ofiering: Mew oak drop lead machine, 2140, new drop head, $13: second-nand mach nes, $5 up, guaiantood; new machines, all makes, hall price; om credit, 30 cents weekly; renting, Hr cents weekly. 425 dba st. sw.; open until p.m. de22-7t ROSENFELD'S pure ice cream in individual bioc.s, 31.33 per gallon. 812 H ne. "Phone Eas 6- A “spe wl rates to lodges and churches. dels FOR SALE Chickering Square Piano thea Hud tORe). i ci dada es en sdavnwenn 855.00 Fine Upright Piano (second hand)...... 165.9%) Fine Upryhi Plato (almost Bew)....... 185.00 Good djuares and Organs. PRFRANRATINE All un easy iponthly parents, Fiae pnght Piano, 3145 cash VU. J. DE MOLL 00. dels tf 1231 Gost. Bond FOR SALE—Great bargain; horsepower New Era gas engine, good as new, cost a; no rea Suiting ler retused. snquite at office, WASH. (INGTON FIM, wih and D sts, dels tt etoniosii in CaFoui ol HTALL rULED, wilh fixtures, 1d; carpet lining, 3c and Se Jusds Sasa pads Se; matting from 10c¢ yard up; quailty floor oilcioth, 25¢ yurd. KL rot ETT, ith and H sls hie. sel7-tf FOR SALF-— Good ality, See opaque shades, fitted to your windows, only 2. the best wil call oil epagque sha lew, He, hung free; with samples. KLE FBLATT 11th "and H sts. he, Phone, East 25-13, Ari i FOR SALE—§ for Morris chairs wath hai cushion; 3 for Lair mattres in two parts; bedroom and parlor suites, 31 per week. Get our prices. HEDMONDSe 211-313 7th st. nw. 1 «Ott REAL ESTATE. BARGAIN NEAR GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, $3,175.00. MODERN TWO-STORY AND CELLAR BAY WINDOW PRESSED BRICK DWELLING, LO CATED IN BEST SECTION OF “H" STRLET, ON CAR LINE. SIX LARGE ROOMS, BATH; GOOD-SIZED LOT TO REAR ALLEY. WELL RENTED, PAYING 9 PER CENT NOW. CAN BE MADE TF PAY 9 PER CENT. THIS PROP ERTY Is A SNAP AND CANNOT BE AGAIN DUPLICATED IN THIS SPLENDID INVEST MENT AND HOME SECTION. APPLY TO SOLE AGENT. JOSEPH IL WELLER, “Honest Dealing in Realty Tel. E. 858. No. &2 F sty nw. dels-f FOR SALE-—22d st.—Nearly new 7-room brick; modern improveracnts. ed 10 $4,000. FOR SALE-—84,500—A 9-ROOVY BRICK ON H ST., NEAR 2iST.; A VERY NICE LITTLE HOME; A FIRST-CLASS INVESTMENT. FOR SALF-$2 400 EACH—2 neat 6-room houses with stone trimm On a corner; gone square frum Lincoln Park. GET OUR LIST; WE'VE COT THE BEST AT THE LOWEST PRICES. STONE FAIRFAX. 808 and 808 F st. nw. FOR £ALE--House, standing alone on lot 50x10, located between 13th and lith sts. nw., neat Mount Plessant. House is Colonial style of architeeture, brick and white stone trimmings; eight rooms, bath, ami cellar: large verandas— n fact, all modern irprovements. Price, only 16, 00~—3500 to $1,000 cash, balance to suit. Chance for speculation, FULTON IR. GORDON, Telephone, Main 598-M 704 14th st. nw. HOW TO BE YOUR OWN LANDLORD, nea Mount Pleasant, with 3109 cash and 320 monthly. Vor full particulars drop postal, telephone, o call for pew, I6-page iliustrated ““bovklet,” plat, ete, of North Columbia Heights. Car riage free to see the property. FULTON R. GORDON, Telephone, Main 508-M. 704 14th st. nw. de21-TL FOR SALE—HOUSES. FOR SALE. 115 N st. se., Groom brick. NORRIE. $060 172 and 154 Francis st. se., rent $12, for. 51.100 200 and 02 M st. w., rent 19.5..... wren R100 1317 8B st. new dot 20x25: aaa ial $1,050 JOHN F. DONOHOE SON, 308 EAST Sarg de21-t4 BUSINESS CHANCES. A COMPLETE PRINTER'S OUTFIT; presses ype, etc.; part cash; balance time; 4 rare chance or a printer; a bargain. Address BOX 114, this office, de25-2t CAFE near Government department, #73. W. H. YOUNG, 70 uth st. mw. de25-3t SINGLE MAN, 4b years old, “doesn't t smoke, chew, or drink, desires single lady as partner in business, with $40 or more. Address BOX 113, this office. Geld-0t YOR SALE—Barber shop; cheap; 7 7th st. Inquire 1406 15th st. de2i-3t ALL KINDS of barber “supplies at wholesale, KE. BLEHL, 411 6th st., next to Police Court. “dt FOR ALE—Piumbing business; established ten years; tools, trade, etc. Address BOX 108, this office, de23-3t PARTY WITH $250 and his services can make $100 per month; books shown; investigate at ence. Address BOX 107, tits office, de23-3t PAYING OIL ROUTE for sale, cheap. DUN LAP, wie F ost de?3-3t FOR SALE Furnished rooming house; good neighborhood; money maker; bargain. Address BOX 103, this office. __ ded ot SEVERAL PERSONS with $100 eoch can pur chase a ground floor interest in a coal oil land deal about to incorporate; safe investment; sure profit. Address BOX 7 78, this office. de0-Tt PRINTING —Good work at reasonable prices. FRANK H. GIBSON 00, 1200 G st. nw. nodo-ti Lr oreR RENT—HOUSES. "440 QQ ST. NW.—Six rooms; halls, water, “ath, gas, Jarge vard, parking; perfect cone tion; house open; $19.00. ded? ot 53 4TH ST. NW, —Five rooms; water, gas, large yard, parking; perfect condition; house cpen; $16.30, de23-31 iN RENT—House of nine rooms and store; three rooms rented for $12; rent $25. 201 E st. de23-3t MISCELLANEOUS. mn v. GORDON, Attorney at aw, commis sioner, notary. 15 4th sf, nw, del3-6t TO CLOSE OUT at sacrifice, violms, man a Lins, banjos, guitars, acewrdions, shotguns rites, watches, and jewelry. JULIUS (COHEN i104 7th st. nw. dent A A et A eatin Se FULL DRESS SUITS for hire, $1. JULICS FCOUEN, 1164 th st. HW. del8-30t 4 SPANISH quickiy learned. SENOR GOMAR, rd 1 FOREIGN MAILS. RALILKQADS. WASHINGTON, D. C., POSTOFFICE, NOTICE. fhould be read daily, as changes may occur at any time. FOREIGN MAILS are Qisparched to the ports of sailing daily, and the schedule of Closings is arranged on the presumplica of their uminter yupted overland transit. For the week ending December 27, 13402, the last connecting closes will be made from the MAIN OFFICE as foi lows: Trans-Atlantic Mails. WEDNXESDAY-~(c) At 9:15 p. m. for FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, TURKEY, EGYPT, GREECE, BRITISH INDIA, and LORENZO MARQUEZ; per s. s. La Savoie, from New York, via Havre. Mail for other parts of EUROPE must be directed “Pers. 5. La Sa vore." FRIDAY At 11:25 p. m. for NETHER LANDS direct, per s. s. Amsterdam, from New York: Mail must be directed “Per s. 5. Amsier am.” At 11:25 p. m. for EUROPE, per s s Eiruria, from New York, via own. (ec) At 11:25 p. m, for DENMARK direct, per s. 8 Island, from New York. Mail must be directed ‘Per 8 58 Island" Mails for South and Central America, West Indies. Ete. ust be i i

4 a 3 A Eb ESATA RTT) AR ANY de Be RE LIC HAMAS, per steamer from Miami, Fla. (ev) At 10:25 p. m. for JAMAICA, per 8. Admiral Schley, from Philadelphia. (c) At 11:25 p. m. for CEARA and MARAN HAM, per s. s. Hilary, from New York. Mail tor other ‘parts of BRAZIL must be directed “Per 5. s. Hilary.” THURSDAY —(c) At 11:25 p. m. for ARGEN TINE, URUGUAY, and PARAGUAY, per s. 8. Norge, from New York. At 11:25 p. m. for the PROVINCE OF SANTIAGO, CUBA, per s. 8. Santiago de Chaba, from New York. {c) At 11:25 Santiago, Aa p. m. from New York, via Tampico. directed ‘Per s. 8. Santiago.” FRIDAY (ec) At 11:25 p. m. for BERMUDA, per 8. s. Pretoria, from New York, At 11:25 p. m. for PORTO RICO, CURA CAO and VENEZUELA. per s. 8 Philadelphia, from New York. Mail for SAVANILLA and CARTAGENA must be directed “Per ss s Philade.phia."” At 11:25 p. m. for FORTUNE ISLAND, JAMAICA, SAVANILLA, and CARTAGES Sper s. 5. Alene, from New York. Mail for C A RICA must be directed “Per s. 5. Alene." (ec) At 11:25 p. m. for HAITI and SANTA MARTA, pers a. a Adirondack, from New York. At 11:25 p. m. for YI'CATAN, per 8. 8. Tjomo, from New York, via Progreso, At 11:25 p. m. for ARGENTINA, URU GUAY, and PARAGUAY, per s. s. Sailor Prince, from New York. for NEWFOUNDLAND, for MEXICO, per 8. Mail (c) At 11:25 p. m. per s. 8. Silvia, from New York. FRIDAY—(¢) AL 11:25 p.m. for NEWFPOUND LAND, per s. s. Sicilian, from Philadelphia. Malls for NEWFOUNDLAND, by raii to North Sydney and thence via steamer, close here daily except Sundays at 12:90 m., and on Sunda at 11:30 a. m. The fenmtctiug closes are on Mondays, Wednesda turdays. (d) Sk Mails for MIQUELON, bv rail to Boston thence via steamer, close here daily except i, days at 12:0 m., and on Sundays at 11:20 am. (4d) (k) CUBA MAILS close here via Port Tampa, Fla, Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays at 2:30 ip. m. (h) Mails for MEXICO overland, unless specially addressed for dispatch by steamers sailing from New York, close here daily at 10:05 a. m. and 10 Ea (f(b) ils for PELIZE, PUERTO CORTEZ, and GUATEMALA, by rail to New Orieans, and thence via steamer, close here daily at 30.05 a. m. and 10:00 p. m., the connecting closes for which being on Monda (fH) (h Mails for COSTA RICA, by rail to New Or leans, and thence via steamer, close here daily at 10:05 a. m. and 19:00 p. m., the connecting closes for which being on Tuesdays. (f) (h) Trans-Pacific Mails. 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. 8. Rio jun Maru. (0) Mails for the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS** Yh San Francisco, close here daily at 6:30 dH up to December 27, inclusive, for dispatch pes U. S. transport. (0) Mails for CHINA®, JAPAN, HAWAII anc PHILIPPINE ISLANDS** ‘via San Francisco close here daily at 6:30 p. m. up to December 29, inclusive, for dispatch per s. 5. Coptic. (o] Mails for AUSTRALIA (except Whee joe Wes! Australia, which are dispa Europe) XEW ZEALAND, FIJI, SAMOA, nd HAWAN via San Francisco, close here daily at 6:5 p. m. up to Jamauary 3, inclusive, for dis patch per s. 8. Sonoma. (0) Mails for AUSTRALIA (except those for Wes Australia, which go via Furope, and Nev Moana. ip Zealand, mails for which are dispatched via San Francisco), and FIJI ISLANDS (nmil must bs spec fally addressed), via Vancouver and Vie close here daily at 6:30 p. m. inclusive, for dispatck per s. toria, B. sR to Januury 3,

Mails for TAHITI and MARQUESAS ISLANDS via San Francisco. close here daily at 6:3 p- m. up to January 6, inclusive, for dispatcl per 5. s. Mari (0) *Mails for COCHIN CHINA are dispatched tc New York, N. Y., for connection with Euro pean steamers. “*PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (Military Mail) i patched to San Francisce at all closings for tha office, te connect with Governyent transports the sailings of which are irrer clar REGISTERED MATLS close at the MAIN FICE as follows: (a) At 6:30 p. m. same day (b) at 1:45 p. m. same day; (c) At 8:43 same day; (4) at 5:30 a. m. same day; fr 5:45 p. m. same day; (f) at 9:35 a. m. oem day; (h) at 1:15 p. m. same day; (k) at #:4 m. previous day; (0) at 2:30 a. m. same day (p) at 11:36 a. m. same day JOHN A. MERRITT, Postmaster, LEGAL NOTICES. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF CO LUMBIA, HOLDING A PROBATE COURT. No. 1477, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, who was, by the Supreme Court of the Dis trict of Columbia, granted letters testam on the estate of Mary A. Smolinski, dec has, with the approval of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a Probate Court, appointed FRIDAY, THE 2D DAY OF JANUARY, 1908, AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M.. as the time, and said court room ss the place, for making payment and distributien from said estate, under the court's direction and con trol, when and where all creditors and persons entitled to distributive shares or legacies or u residue, are notified to atend, in persan or by ‘agent or attorney duly authorized, with their claims against the estate properly vouched. Given under my hand, this 10th day of De cember, 1902. JOSEPH SHOLINSKL LOUIS A. DENT. aoa.) of Wills for the District of Columbial Clerk of the Probate Court. By CHAS. H. BAUMAN, Attorney. pray dell 18.95 FOR SALE—SUBURBAN. HOW TO BE YOUR OWN LANDLORD, near Mount Pleasant, with $100 cash and $20 monthly. For full particulars drop postal, telephone, or call for new, l6-page iliustrated *"booklet.” plat, ete, of North Columbia Heights. Car riage free to sce the property. 4 FULTON R. GORDON, Telephone, Main 568-M. 74 14th st. nw. po FOR RENT --SUBUREBAN. FOR RENT—On Hamilte on “Road, near Good Hope, eight room cottazs three acres. Apply 216 Sth st. ne. de24-3t FOR SALE—-FARMS. LOAN COMPANIES. IF¥ YOU ARE GOING TO PUT money iz a bank, you look for the sufest institution; why not use the same cae when you deposit your valuables for a loan? We have 8 buliding and safes made for that purpose. All business ab soiutely confidential. Money loanad on watches, diamonds, Jewelry, ete. interest at three per cent stead of ten, dr a H. K. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE, Established 1870. 314 Ninth Street nw. Money Loaned Salaried People, Retail merchants, teamsters, boarding houses, without security; largest business in 46 cipal cities. TOLMAN, Room 101, 583 13th st. uw. mid-tl Schedule #flective November 30. 1902. TAHT RURIE TREATS Ay TERaNEs Traine iesve from Fenn ivania Station. £:10 2, m. Daily. Local i Warrenton, Chariotie, ang way stations, 10.51 a. m. Daily. Washington and Florida Limited. First-class coaches and drawing-room siceper to Jucrsonville, Fla. Dining car service. 13:15 8. mw. bails. United States Fast Mail Floot-cimss coaches and drawing-room sleeper Ww New Uriervice, 4. B. HUTCHINSON, J. R. WOOD, General Manager. General Passenger Agent, Fr E g

NN CUESAPCARE AND UHIO RY. Schedule Effective November 28, 1902. Urals lewve fouls avdiia StaLIOR. 200 K. a aig —catvaddads ase LOUIS VILLE clruess. Suid vasubue tram fot Cincinnadl. deaches Cincinuatl 7:35 Ww. Louisville 10:50 a. m., dL. Louis 6:40 p. Mm, Chicago 9:00 p. mi. Pullman Siecpers to Cine clanati and Louisville Dauy. Palace Cam Cincinnat: to St. Louis and Chicago. Dining Car. 6:40 P. M Daily CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS SJECIAL. A solid vestibuied cleciric-lighted train, arriving Cincinnatl 11:46 a. m., indiapapous 3:25 p. m., St. Louis Vid po mi. Clucege 3:40 po Wi. daily. Pull an sleepers to Cincinnal, indianapolis and st. Louis without change. Parlor Car Cia clanaii 0 Chicago. wicag Car, 1l:iv P. M. baiy—r. F. V. LIMITED. Solid train der Cisaoanati. Pullman Sleepers WO Cincinnati, Lexingion, and Louisville without change. Comparanent Sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs Tuesday, Thursday, ang Saturday. Sleepers Cincinnati to Chicago and St. Louis. Duung Car. Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio office, 513 Penusylvania avenue; 909 Fous teenth street, near F, and al tne statiom. Telepuone call lod for Penvsylvania R. R. Cab Service. H. Ww. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. Telenhone Yain 188 BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. Leave Washington, [ew Jersey Ave. amd C St. Clucago and Northwest, “IW a. mi., "0:20 p.m. Cineiunati, St. Louis, and Louisville, *10:00 a Iu. “#:10 p.m. “4:20 might. Pittsburg and Cireveland, -*10:56 a, m.,, "8:8 P- Wu and "1:0 night. Coiumuus and Wheeling, *6:20 p. m. Winchester, [8:85 a m., (4:16 and {5:39 Pp. 1m. Luray, "4:15 p. m. Annapolis, [|7:50, **8:30, [|11:50 a. m., ||4:80, "3:23 po In. Frederick, ||8:35, **9:00, {10:50 a. m., **1:15, (4:20, and 6:20 p. m. Hagerstown, |/10:00 a. m. and [5:30 p. m. Boyd asad way points, ||8:35, *“9:W a. @m., wnlilo, (40, jo, **10:13, [11:50 p. mW. 7 Gaithersburg and w=y points, [(5:35, "*9:00 a. wm. 2:0, “TiS 9:30, (MSw, TOW, IRE, 17:05, **10:15, {11:30 p. m. Washington Junction and way points, (18:85, ~u00 a. m., "2:15, (4:30, 10: p. m. Baltimore, week dave wi:jh 5:0, 6:80, X7:05, 7:80, x8:30, 8:35, x0:30, x16.00, 11:50 a. m., x12:20 noon, X1:39, X3:0, xd, X4:30, 4:35, X5:05, 5:25, X6:20, 6:30, XB:00, jo, x11:30, 11:35 p. m. Sundays, xR:00, 5, 7:80, x8:30, x¥:00 a. m., x12:30, 1:15, x3:N, x3:30, x5:06, 5:25, 6:30, x8:00, x10:00, xil1:30, 11:5 p. mm. ROYAL BLUE LINE. All trains illuminated with Piptsch light, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Yori, Boston, ands the East, “3:00, “7:05 (Diner), ||8:30 (Buf tet), **9:0 (Diner), [10:9 (lhner) a. mL, *12:20 (Diner), 3:00 (“Royal Limitec.” Inner), 14:0 (Philadelphia only), *5:05 (Liner), *S:00 and *11:30 p. m. (dweeping Car open at 10:0 o'clock). Atlantic City, }i7:95, (RCO a. m., [j12:2, 2:0 p. m. *Datiy. (Except Sunday. **Sunday only. xExpress trains, Baggage called for and checked from hotels ard residences by Uiion Transfer Co. on orders ‘leit at ticket offeces, €l9 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, New York Avenue and Fifteenth Street, and at station. SEAROARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Leave Washington, Penna. R. i. Station. 10:8 m. SEABOARD MAIL Through watly. Pullman Slapers to Jackson. ville, comneciing at Hamlet with Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta. 7 p.m. SEABOARD EXPRESS—3olid vaily, train to Jacksonville and Tampa, with Pullman, Drawing Room, Sleep ing Car and Cafe Dining Car. Puilman to Atlanta. These trains offer «xccileat schedules and gorvice to Potemshore Paluieh Southern Pines (Pinehurst), Camcen, Co.umbia, Savannah, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Yan Beach, Fame pa, Key West, and Florida points] also Cuba, Charlotte, Athens, Atianta, New Urleans, Chat tanooga, Nashwvilie, Neawmphis, points West and Soutjiwest.

4:10 a.m, LOCAL-To Petes Raleigh, Daiiv. Southern Pinus urst), Uamiet, and latermediate points. Qifice, 1421 Penna, Ave. BRYAN. W. E. CONKLYN, Gen'l Pass'r Agent. Gen'l Art. Pass'r Dept. WASHINGTON SOUTHERN BA WAY. Schedule in effect November 30, 1902. For iCuiieg, Ye. Shae poilive Sai, via ALCARINGEIA wid FICE ICaSiig. AAve tla Gh and B streeds, .0 «0 We, 3: po Ba (atiig cal) for Luciiucid and polite oR Ai lantic Coast lane and Fiona; 10041 ac ma, 7:0 p.m. Gaily (Florida and Metropolitsn Limited), for Richmond and points on Seas board Ar Line snd Florida; 10:41 mn. train connects at Richmond «ith C. 9. fot Newport News. Old Point Comfort, ete, 7:40 m. week days, 4:4) p m 4 Richmond only. Pullman or parier cars on all above trans. Accommodation for Quantico, 7:48 a. m., Sunday ouly; i R p. me week days; $:60 p. m., except KS tara E. T. D. MYERS, W. D. PUKE, W. P. TAYLOR, President. General Mgr., Trafic Mgz Richmond. Va. ge

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Sketch. of Nomenclature of Nation's Lawmakers Proves Interesting Reading. y y A. 8. Atkins, representative of the “Brooklyn Daily Eagle,” says: There is often more in a name than meets the eye at first glance, as the following shetch of the nomenclature of the House of Representatives assembled in the Fif ty-eighth Congress will certify. It can never be denied that we wiil be ruled in the House by Tom, Dick and Harry, as long as North Carolina con tinues to send Thomas, Ohio Dick, and Texas Henry. New York has Dunwell, though it gives one a Payne to think of a Baker. a Draper, a Sr:ith and a Rider all from that State Kicking their heels in idleness in the ranks of the great army of the unemployed at the national Cap itol; you can Ketcham at it any day in the week. New York has not by any means a monopoly of the trades, as Pennsylvania sends a Cooper, a Smith, a Butler, a Porter. and a Dresser. It also casts an eve to the windward and proves that it cannot be wrong when represent ed by Wright, and gets in a Huff if you doubt it.

Alabama. not daunted by the knowl edge that it takes nine tailors to make one man, sends a Taylor, but is Wiley enough to back him up with a Bowie, Michigan has the honor of being the only State in the Union represented by a Bishop. The people in lowa are content to make it a family affair and be ruled by their Cousins. Michigan also sends 1wo Smiths and a Gardner. A Miller hails irom Kansas and a Granger from Rhode Island, but having no grain to thrash, they fail back upon topics. A Fowler hails from New Jersey and a Cooper from Texas. There is a Little delegate from Arkansas and a long one from Kansas. Maine sends a Burleigh repre sentative and North Carolina a Small one. Michigan has a Loud voice in af fairs and a Young representative, but Wisconsin commits the unlawful act of sending a Minor to represent it. Colora do coniributes a Hogg to the galaxy, and Maryland provides the porker's na tive element, Mudd. Ohio enlarges the

menagerie by sending a Badger, South Dakota a Martin and Virginia enters the arena as meek as a Lamb. Missouri is generous apd gives a whole Cowherd, ANNUAL ELECTION OF MASONIC OFFICERS EE r—— F

x 1 a Those of Jonathan Davis Consistory, No. 1, Chosen and Installed. ket Ad 3 At the recent annual election of of ficers of Jonathan Davis Conslstory No. 1, thirty-second degree Ancient and Arabic Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the following were chosen and in stalled: 1

Hlustrious commander-in-chief, MNus irious Brother John F. N. Wilkinson, sT., thirty-third degree; illustrious first lieutenant commander, tilustrious Brocher Henry C. Irwin, thirty-second degree; illustrious second lieutenant commander, Illustrious Brother Paul H. Bray, thirty-second degree; il lustrious grand minister of state, Ilustrious Brother J. B. Pinn, thir ty-second degree: illustrious grand chancellor, Illustrious Brother K. H. Gleaves, thirty-third degree; illustrious grand prior, lllustrious Brother William H. Bruce, sr., thirty-third degree: il lustrious grand secretary and K. of S. and A, IHustrious Brother W. J. Abrams, thirty-second degree: illus irious grand treasurer, [Nustrious Brother Michael H. Robinson, thirty third degree: illustrious grand hos pitaller, Illustrious Brother Lloyd Mon roe, thirty-second degree; illvstrious i t H

1 master of ceremonies, Illustrious ther Stephen Johanson, thirty-second degree: illustrious grand captain of the guard, Illustrious Brother John H. Campbell, thirty-second, degree; illus. trious grand standard bearer. ilius irious Brother Eugene Brooks, thirty second degree; illustrious grand en gineer and architect, Illustrious Broth er Alexander Howard, thirty-second degree; illustrious grand trustee, Illustrious Brother W. A. Warfield. M. D., thirty-second degree; illustrious grand sentine!, Illustrious Brother James I). Jones, thirty-second degree. tte oe

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Charles E. L&noir and Laure E. Jones Charles Williams and Letina Weathers Charles C. Goins and lda Beaner. both

ef Frederick, Md. Henry A. Pfleger, Philadelphia, ia. and Katie Johnson, District of Columbia. John E. Hilldrup and Gertrude Doz gett, both of Spotisylvania county, Va Eppy H. Pogue and Lillie S. Golds. fil FA h Oscar Duryea, New York city and Su. san Leonardo, District of Columbia. Samuel A. Luttrice, Falls Church, Va, and Bessie A. Puener. Littleton lL. Thombus and Noah Sand both of Richmond. Va. fi rr JE pd BTS Weyman Johnson and Lollie Price. Lucius Turner, Steellon, Pa., and Josephine jackson, District of “olumbia EE Te COMSTOCK IN DUDGEOIY Because the legal adviser of the Comp iroller of the Treasury held that ar employe of the Government could noi draw witness fees as a civilian, when on duty for the Government, certain items of expense filed by Anthony Com stock, special agent for the Society for the Suppression of Vice, have been re fused, and hereafter he cannot collect fees on this claim from the Government. The decision was rendered Tuesday. 7

A 4 A Timely Suggestion ni v ih This is the season of the year when the prudent and careful housewife ie. plenishes her supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is ceriain to be need. ed before the winter is over, and re. sults are much more prompt and satis factory when it is kept at hand and given as soon as the cold is contracted and before it has become settled in the ystems. In almost every instance a ge vere cold may be warded off by taking this remedy freely as soon as the first indication of the cold appears. There is no danger in giving it to children for it contains mo harmful substance. [It ig pleasant to take—both aduits and child ren Itke it. Duy it and you will get the best. It always cures. For sale by Henry Evans, wholesale, and ali drug gists.

4b \W/ on \i/ Mm \W/ M \V/ Mm n v m SW a A aD —p n= while Texas furnishes a Sheppard to watch over the flock. Oregon is sure of a “hearing as long as she has a Tongue with which to speak, and Arkensas’' voice rings forth as clear as a Bell. Indiana took a Holliday and joined Missouri in a Hunt. South Carolina inserted a Lever in national affairs, but Tennessee decided it could afford to live by its Gaines, even though Missouri might seek to Robb her of them. North Carolina, knowing the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, furnished not only one Kitchin, but two, to make matters doubly sure. and Mississippi provided the Byrd; no bottle being forthcoming, Virginia nobly jumped to the rescue with a Glass and Ohio poured in a Gill.

What cares West Virginia for the coal famine, as long as she has a whole Woodyard as a base of supplies? Ten nessee throws the light of the Moon upon the political situation when it is en veloped in darkness. The color lane is drawn closely, with only two delegates of off color, Brown of Pennsylvania and Brown from Michigan. Massachusetts sends a Greene delegate and abides by the consequences. Minnesota sounds the literary note and produces a whole Adam Bede, but North Carolina is content with but a single Page.

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Indiana sends a Brick without straw, though Virginia, always generous, offers Hay as a substitute. There are Bowers in Mississippi, Brooks in Colorado, a Hill in “‘onnecticut, and one in Missis sippl, a Field in Texas. and a Littlefield in Maine, and a Bankhead in Alabama. Connecticut offers floral tribute with a Lilley. The only Mann comes from I1li nois, and he doesn’t care a Snapp, for when he's Hitt he knows there's a Can non behind him ard a Prince of good fellows to carry him over the Marsh on a Ramey day, and to Warner fellow who's Fuller than he ought to be to Foster his pounds Sterling and after be ing Caldwell once to go home to Ma Honey in Illinois. ae

1 S————— The F. F. V's have been heard to proudly declare, “After us the Flood,” but California considers itself th» Wynn-er, so what more can be said?

BROWN ASKS RECEIVER FOR A PARTNERSHIP Says William H. Larman Would Ignore Him in Distribution of Money. Thomas Brown has instituted proceed ings in the Supreme Court of the Dis trict against William H. Larman and the District of Columbia, in which the court is asked to restrain the District from paying to Larman certain money Jue on a contract.

It is explained that in July last, Brown and Larman as partners were awarded the contract in the name of William H. Larman for supplying ma terial and labor for the repairs of the heating and steam plants in the Arm strong Manual Training School Building, in southwest Washingion. Mr. Brown contends that there is sti'l due about $1,242.87 on the contract, and that Mr. Larman excluded him from all knowl edge of the financial affairs of their partnership.

He asks that the court appoint a re ceiver to take charge of the funds, to the credit of the partnership. in the hands of the District, and disburse it. It is also asked that Larman be re strained from receiving 'he money from the District. Chaney Hart are coun sel for the complainant. 1 wspend Your fines Yoncs v PA Wb qn a For Something Useful. w_ WE WILL TRUST YOU. pA ww Wi io W mM Ww A W A Wo Mn W n Wy Mm Wr W nm

(ESEEEET 3 Ww Solid Oak Bedroom Suite; bevel plate Oil Heaters at bur own ip \§y mirror; finely finished; nicely trimmed: price. We will give you mn 1] best construction, ome exactly like curt for Mn W W_ $1375. 8448 A _ commen V Ww The Original WW Demorest Ws Sewing Machine. AS a special offering we are W cutting deeply into the prices of our machines. We have a Ww complete iine of the celebrated Demorest, including attach ments and guarantee. Ww $17.60 up. y 57.904. J MAYER Co Formerly Pettit, sain Mn a GORRISSIONERS OFFER IMPORTANT ARENDNENT Ask Additional Authority in Highway System. The District Commissioners have for warded to the District Committees in Congress a report on Senate bill No. £12, “To make a rearrangement of streets in certain subdivisions.” The Commissioners in the main commend the bill, but offer an amendment. “It is believed,” they say, “that legis lation should be provided under which the highway plans will be preserved, and at the same time permit subdi visions such as are provided for in the bill under consideration. The bill as drawn is objectiorzble in that it can cels a portion of the highway plans, is local in character, and does not place all of the four sections of the highway plans on the same footing. An amend ment is submitted herewith which it is believed will accomplish these objects, and as thus amended the Commission ers recommend that favorable action be taken on the bill.”

The amendment ie as follows: “Strike out lines 2 to 8, inclusive, and in lieu thereof insert the following: “That where any proposed street of the permanent system of highways af fects any lot or block of a subdivision recorded in the office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia, the Commis sioners of the District of Columbia may, in their disyetion, allow the resubdi vision of such Jot or block in a manner conforming to the original subdivision until such time ss condemnation pro ceedings are begun for the opening of the proposed street affecting the land to be subdivided.” stamps

The Commissioners have closed a contract with William Zeh for 1,000 tons of soft coal and a like amount of coke, for the public schools of the Distri This supply will ensure open schools far .u.0 the winter. The price agreed upoi: was $8.56 per ton for the coke and $8 per ton for the coal on cars, the District to do the hauliag at its own aexYnencey John R. McLean yesterday made sub stantial Christmas presents to the mem bers of the District Fire Department, in the shape of $20 gold pieces to the assis® ant chiefs, and a $5 gold piece to each fireman. The distribution of the money was made by W. F. Hart, his private secretary, and W, B. Orm. The two men, accompanied by “Ned” McLean, made the round of the fire stations in an automobile, meeting the men and giving them personally Mr. Mcl.ean's present. There are 235 men in the department. Rowena Thompson Dietrich has filed suit in the Supreme Court of the District against the District of Columbia to re cover 310000 as damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff says, that on May 12, last, she sprained her right ankle by stepping in a hole in the pave ment on K Street, between Fourth and Fifth Street northwest. Leckie Ful ten are counsel for the plaintiff. Deputy United States Marshal Thomas F. Cook, who is in charge of the ac counts of the local justices of the peace, was yesterday presented with a hand some silver service of five pieces hy the deputies serving as constables to tha justices. A certificate of incorporation of the 0. L. Wolfsteiner Company has been placed on fle-in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for the District. The object of the corporation is to manufacture and sell architectural sheet metal supplies The capital stock is stated to be $5,000, and the incorporators are Otto L. Wolf steiner, Max Wolfsieiner, and Charles Thompson. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1902 COAL FOR SCHOOLS. MR. McLEAN’S MUNIFICENCE. SUES THE DISTRICT. DEPUTY COOK'S PRESENT FIRM INCORPORATED HOW COMMISSIONERS SPEND CHRISTMAS President Macfarland Visits Salvation Army Headquarters, While Mr. West Plays Golf. The three membershof the Board of District Commissioners are spending a quiel Christmas. Henry B. F. Macfarland, president of the Board, attended the Christmas serv ice this morning at the Church of the Covenant. Mr. Macfarland called at the Salvation Army headquarters to ascer tain how the project for giving 1,000 dinners to the poor was progressing. He gave a hearty greeting to all of the lads and lassies present. The balance of the day and evening the Commissioner will spend at home.

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Henry L. West was astir early, taking part with his children in the pleasures of Christmas morning. About noon he started for the Columbia golf grounds. where he put in three or four hours at his favorite game. Mr. West will dine tonight with his family and spend the evening at home.

Col. John Biddle, the Engineer Com missioner, is spending the day enter taining friends at his home. CHRISTMAS IN THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS Gifts Presented and Rules Relaxed— Inmates Allowed to See All Visitors. The boys at the Reform School turned out early this morning for a day of en joyment. Cifts were distributed and the rules were suspended for ihe day as far rs possible. Dinner was served at mid day, and a splendid feast it was. Prepa rations for the occasion were made by the authorities of the school. and a large number of people in the city. The unfortunates at the workhouse had a quiet day. A full holiday was given and a special dinner was prepared. The inmates received many tokens and good wishes. The institution was open to vis itors all day, and every opportunity for enjoyment was given the prisoners. Christmas was observed at the jail, where numerous parcels found their way. No special preparations for the occasion were made by the authorities, but the rules were relaxed as far as possible, and the prisoners were allowed to see all comers and to engage in whatever diver sions they preferred. x. PAPAIPIPRP —r —p Pinehurst Sleeper, Also Parlor Car on Seaboard Air Line's Through Florida trains. Tourist tickets per mitting stop overs now on sale at ticket of fice, 1421 Pennsylvania Avenue. W. E. Conklyn, Generali A HOLMES’ HOME MADE PIES! Mince and Pumpkin Pies, a delicht ful dessert for the Yohidave. 20 CENTS. Goods delivered to all sections of the HOLMES SOHS, BAKERY. Corner First and E Streets. 'Ph one ust S64 $40 Holiday Wines. Order vour 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 Srudiyevenyes, Our UnSurpasses “SILVER- 75¢ qt

BROCEE™. YW. oo co xttis sins snntind EUGENE SCHWAB, 525 8th Et. 8. E. ARVERS! Knife and Fork, R-inch blade stag handle; the best value in town for, BOWEN’S si 506 NINTH ST. CO IGRESSIONAL COFFEE, 32c Ib. ATLANTIC SrAciFIC Corner Seventh and E. Clever Joyce Engraving Artists, Company, Expert Star Bldg. Engravers. IF you NN f/ bein pos WANT Ph OF THE TIMES WILL GET IT FOR YOU. THOMAS CREEK PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT Newly Discovered Evidence Indicates His Innocence—Other Par dons Issued. Thomas Creek, who was convicted of assault in the local courts in March 1900, was yesterday pardoned by the President. Creek was sentenced to ten years’ im prisonment in .the penitentiary at Moundsville, W. Va. The pardon was granted on account of newly discovered evidence which raised a reasonable doubt as to the guilt 8f the prisoner. George Althans and John O'Donnell, convicted at Cleveland, Ohio, of destroy ing free delivery mail boxes, were also pardoned. They were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, of which they have already served two months. The action of the President was based en the report of the district attorney, who said that the offense was more in the nature of mischief than real crime. Britt Hardwick, convicted of horse stealing in Indian Territory and sen tenced te five years’ imprisonment, was also pardoned. In the cases of John H. McWhirter, Cowan Large, and Clay Tucker, the period of imprisonment of the prisoners wae commuted. WILL OF HELEN RICH FILED FOR PROBATE Leaves Bulk of Estaie to Her Niece Mary Ellen Wilkins. The will of Hester Rich, dated June 20, last, has been filed for probate in the office of the Register of Wills for the District. She directs the following dispo sition to be made of her estate: To her nephew, Abraham Jackson, $200.

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SUE FOR DEPOSITS IN DEFUNCT SAVINGS BANK National Benefit Association Says It Demanded Payment Before Doors Were Closed. The National Benefit Association has filed suit in the Supreme Court of the District against John R. Lynch and the other members of the board of directors of the Capital Savings Bank, to recover $4 855.59. =aid to be money deposited in the bank. Samuel W. Rutherford, secretary of the National "Benefit Association, says that on November 25 last he demanded pay ment of the money. His demand, he said, was denied, and on that day the bank closed its doors. It has not since resumed business. Birney Stewart are named as coun sel for the plaintiff. Representatives of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, and of Philadelphia, will meet in debate in the hall of the Washington association on Saturday evening next. The subject of discussion is, “Resolved, That the Uni ted States should refrain from participa tion in the diplomatic affairs of Europe during the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine.” Charles F. Nesbit, L. T. Ev erett, and W. N. Weston have been chosen to represent the Washington Yi M. CA. in the debate. FOR FLOATING BATHS The District Commissioners have sent to the House Committee on Avpropria tions a communication requesting that an item of $5,000 be inserted in the Dis triet appropriation bill for the construe tion of floating baths at the Bathing Beach. The baths, according to the re quest of the Commissioners, are to be moored in the Tidal Reservoir, or the water front of Washington at such points as may be agreed upon by the Board and the Secretary of War. ————————i Through Buffet Drawing Room Sleeper Washington to Cleveland, Via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, leaves Wash ington B:45 p. m. daily. Y. M. C. A. DEBATE. Health is a magnet which irresistibly draws the man to the womsz in life's mating time. Health does more than tint.the skin with beauty it puts music into the voice and buoyancy into the step, as well as happiness into the heart. A great many women covet beauty and are constantly seeking aids to beautify them. Let a woman first seek perfect health and all other charms shall be added to her.

There cau be no general health for women while there is disease of the delicate womanly organism. The first step to perfect health is to cure womanly discases by the use of Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription. It establishes regu larity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. "1 used four bottles of your ‘Pavorite Pre scription’ and one of Gol len Medical Discor od of thet dreaded disease, Heme x Am in better heaith than ever before. ue who knows me is surprised to see me look sowell. In June 1 was so poor in health that at times I could not walk. To-day I am cured. teh everybody that Dr. Pierce's medicines urea me.” FREE, Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Vledical Adviser is sent free on receipt ‘amps to pay expense of mailing nl wd one-cent stamps for the book Yaper covers, or 31 for the cloth ound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, L YEARS OLD FINEZA The best and most popular Rye Whiskey sold in Washington. Ab solutely pure and possesses a bou quet that comes only with age. $i Full 1 Quant, Bon Ton SX 155, Fu'l Years sari CHAS. KRAEMER, 2 ‘sis 3 {gig othing and Passions 5 A CREDIT. Sy Easy Payments. BLOCK CO. £5 625 PA. AVE. K. W. “Phone East £345 Binion eewing for Beer. $i. Delivered In ous rose W Vo NN W Ww wagons.