Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1896, Page 11

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C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1896—FOURTEEN PAGES Qrinfers’ In& (fhe fittfe schoo? master of advertising), saps: Jf is cfa md for fhe Washing‘on Stor, and profabfe ftruthiuffe cfaimed, Bat no ofger newspaper in Be countre goes info 6o farge @ vercentag> of aff f6e Gouses tiffin a radius of fwenfp mifes from fe office of pubficafion. TF Open evenings until Christmas. CyStors for rent—fixtures for sale. Everything Marked Under Price at Gerome Desio’s Retiring Sale! Nothing reserved. Every article in Stock has had its price cut from 20 to 50 per cent under regular price. Bear in mind that these are rot old, out-of- date goods, but are of this season's best and newest creations, Xmas shoppers should visit the store aud see ee what ving opportunity this “Retiring Sale” offers. Here ure a few attraction Handsome $day Office Clocks and Beautiful Imported “Cuckoo” German Clocks to be closed out at exactly Manicure Sels- handle. a ost “Xow, OSC. ** $3.75 . $3.75 Silver Now.. sm Sterling Clothes Brush. GeromeDesio, 1107 F St. del7-70d North Side. Ne a a eee ‘Comfort. —Those SHOES you MEN have been wearing right up to now won't protect your feet thoroughly from the penetrating cold and dampness. We've got the Shoes that will, though, in that $3 and $3.50 line. Calf, Box Calf and Russets. woh Edmonston, 1334 F St. Se 50c. Extracts, d5C, (Handsome boxes, containing 2 bottles.) Most extracts are simply alcohol and oils. These are made from the boiled flowers which form a wmade from which the odors are extracted. Others Eiute them, while we give you the fill odor and strength. sfore’’ extracts lose their strength t t they are exposed to the alr. ON ON, dei7-42¢ mas" leader. Here is our tte Boxes, containing 2 gucd size bottles of extracts, never sold under 30c. For 35c. Box. Selected odors of Violet, White Lilac, Crab Apple, White Rose, Heliotrope and Jockey Club. Pure Rubber-bulb Atomtzers “that work,” 50c. up. Greatest line of Perfamertes In Washington. OGRAM’S, Cor. 18th and Pa. ave., cor. 17th and H sts. de8-3m, Christmas Presents. Before purchasing presents for your friends you should visit SCHMID'S PET ANIMAL EMPORIUM, Ti2 12th st. n.w., Where you will find the largest col- lection of CANARIES, MOCKING BIRDS, RED BIRDS, PAR- ROTS, FINCHES, ETC. BIRD CAGES, RABBITS, GUINEA PIGS, SQUIR- RELS, DOGS, CATS, GOLD FISH, AQUARIUMS, FANCY POULTRY AND PIGEONS EVER SHOWN IN WASHINGTON. de10-12t Pearly Gems; OTHERWISE PERFECT TEETH, Are pot possessed PE all. But if you have them not it Is not impoustble to obtain trem. Consult us on all de- ficlercies of the teeta. Crown and Bridge Work, Artificial Teeth, will remedy alk such. Painless Extract- ing, only te {Evans’ Dental Parlors, del2-24d 1309 F ST. N.W. A Beautiful and Useful Christmas Present We hare received @ assortment of Pins, Italian and a finest stock ever displayed 15 Washington. SOMGAZ? 280 selling a los of All Long Haman Hatr itehes ai jt OF Switches reduced to $1.50. 00 Switches reduced to 50. 00 Switehbes reduced to 00). Gray and White Hair reduced in same proportion. Mme. Siccardi, Zil Lith st., next to Palais Royal. hairdress Mezzo Tint Photos make dainty Xmas dozen: Glace-fiuished Cabinets, $2 dozen. Sit now and avord the rush. My’ life portraite in sepia, erayon and water color are artistic and abill. fully finished. Stop in to see them. ‘$3 ART STUDIO. de7-120 805 Pa, ‘Start Right! ‘Those who bave just started house- keeping should begin right by burning the most economical, best and cheapest fuel—Coke. Doesnt take half the time to get @ fre started when Coke te used as it dows when you use Coal! 40 bu. Uncrushed Coke. .$2.90 40 bu. Crushed Coke. ... -$3.70 Washington Gaslight Co. 413 roth St. N. W,, Or WM. J. ZEH, 920 20th st. ‘Phone 476. del2-23d CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Pretty Scenes on the Streets, ATTRACTIONS IN THE STORES Business Fine Displays Seen in Washing- ton's Show Windows. BUYING HOLIDAY GIFTS The Christmas crowds are beginning to take complete possession of the streets and stores in the business section. From the way in which they are purchasing holiday articles it would seem that hard times are over, sure enough. Many mothers carry their little ones with them in their shopping expediticns, and the result is very interest- ing when the youngsters are excited by the sights in the gorgeous toy windows, and want everything that comes within the range of their vision. The young maiden who Is in search of a remembrance for her nearest one is out in force, and in a pretty dilemma as she en- deavors to make up her mind what to get him, never for a moment thinking that anything she might select would send him to the seventh heaven of delight at an elec- tric spark rate. And so the crowd goes up and down the busy thoroughfares, in and out of the stores, the rich and the poor, the old and the young, mingling in a good-natured crush, and all inspired by the heart-feeling that predominates at this season of the year, and inspires nearly every purchase that is made. There are other indications of approach- ing Christmas, in the holly boughs that are carried in hundreds of hands and the loads of Christmas trees that are piled on country wagons which creep marketward in anticipation of the big market day to- morrow, and whose drivers are anxious to secure good positions in which to display the green bushes that are to gladden so many little souls on Christmas day. “Our record for December, 30 far,” said Mr. Kent, the advertising representative of the Palais Royal, to a Star reporter to- day, “is somewhat remarkable when we take into consideration the general dull times that have been felt for so many months. Our sales for this month, up to date, exceed considerably the amount for the same perfod in December last year. I do rot know whether this is due to a more confident feeling on the part of the people or whether purchasers have grown wiser and are buying their holiday presents and Christmas things generally earlier than usual, ond thus missing the heavy crush that occurs in the last two or three days before Christmas. We'll find out, how- ever, in those last days.” The truth of Mr. Kent's remark was easily illustrated when the reporter made a tour through the vast establishment. There were crowds in front of every coun- ter and all seemed busy buying. In the toy department there was noticeable ac- Uvity and the clerks seemed almost over- whelmed with the demands of eager cu: tomers. In the jewelry department there was also a crush, the inquiry for sterling silver jewelry, toilet articles and similarly appropriate things to be used for Christ- mas remembrances being worthy of re- mark. In euch an establishment as the Palais Royal, however, it would be impos- sible for even the closest observer to more than generalize about the profusion of ar- ticles appropriate for holiday gifts. The window on the G street front of the build- ing indicates that Christmas is inspiring a large proportion of the immense business done irside. In the window mentioned there is a remarkably artistic arrangement of handkerchiefs. Tpousands of these dainty little articles have been used in the Preduction of a Christmas Scene. Kris Kinrgle’s sleigh, drawn by three reindeer, driven tandem, stands in front of a dwell- inz house, through the chimney of which old Kris Kingle himself is about to de- scend with his surprises to fill up the chil- dren's stockings. From the reindeer’s ant- lers to the window panes of the house everythirg has been reduced by the deft fashioning of handkerchiefs. It 1s a tri- umph in the art of window dressing well worth a visit. A little farther up, at 926 7th street, is the handsome store of M. Goldenberg, where can be found inrumerable articles of use and beauty calculated to please the feminine heart and eye. This year Mr. Goldenberg has paid special attention to such things as handkerchiefs, fine linens, gloves and other dainty articles. A new department has recently been opened de- voted entirely to porcelains, Dresden china, and the like, which make very welcome and apprcpriate Christmas _ presents. Everything is sold at low prices, and the result is that the store would be too crowded for comfort were it not for the fact that its force of clerks is large enough to take good care of all the customers. Kann’s, corner of 8th and Pennsylvania avenue, is making holiday specials of such articles as gloves, handkerchiefs, neck fix- ings for ladies and gentlemen, umbrellas, ribbons and dress patterns. Each of these departments has been enlarged three-fold to accommodate the throngs of holiday shoppers. Dress patterns have been made enother feature, and the choice of material from which a selection can be made seems almost endless. It is possible at Kann’s to buy pretty much everything needed for a fashionable toilet, with the single exception perhaps of shoes. The house is making a specialty of ladies’ jackets, and a half doz- en models are perched high on revolving stands above the counters on the first floor to better demonstrate their style and finish. A tour of. Perry’s, 9th and Pennsylvania avenue, shows every department full of the best class of dry goods, the latest novelties in every fabric, the most delicate silks and satins from the great European marts and the best productions in silk, cotton and wool of American manufacture. This house, which has been established since 1848, has the reputation of always offering the very best. The novelties prepared for the Christ- mas trade embrace pretty much everything that the feminine mind teverts to with pleasure, not only for personal decoration, but also for the home. In these latter spe- clalties a new department in the new addi- tion has been added during the past year. Among the rich materials for curtains or furniture hangings there are reproductions of art stuffs of unusual beauty. Benares ware, Damascus chairs, Koran holders, pil- lows covered with curious cloths of East Indian manufacture, tabourets, are other vnusual articles. Stylish and perfectly- fitting coats, wraps of every description and dresses are another feature, while the part of the store given up to art linens, sets for the table or the dressing case suggest pos- sibilities in the way of handsome gifts which could not fail to be acceptable to the recipient. Another store so complete in all its de- partments as to do away with all nved on the part of Washington people to do their mense business store has built up by sticking to its rule of selling the best at the soe ee ani eeeiee things serviceable, as weil as ornament from handsome and costly cloaks to the daintiest little trifie that is dear to the heart of a woman, is a long step, perhaps, but an easy one at Lansburgh’s, and the fact that the store is apprenated is proved by the tremendous crowds that have filled it of late, not only during the day, but late into the ‘evening, as well, for the store is open now in the evening for the accommo- dation of those who are nor able to do their shopping by daylight. “Diamonds are our strong suit this year,” said Mr. R. Harris, whose attractive jewelry store on 7th street, at the corner of D, is one of the features of that busy thoroughfare. “As a rule these ‘precious stones are looked upon as having a fixed price, but last month we were able to pur- chase the entire stock of unset diamonds of a big dealer, who was compelled to seil out. The result is that we are selling beautiful- ly. set stones, moun‘ed in our own factor’ you know, at prices that are really reraark- able. Are we selling any? Well, look at the crowd in the store now, and it’s eariy in the day, too. As a result of our adver- Using we have built up an out-of-town mail trade that is all we caa possibly attend to in that line.” The big six story building of House & Herrmann, at the corner of 7th and 1 streets, is well-known to every Washing- ton housekeeper and economical buyer in Washington. They are always right up with the procession and sometimes a few paces in advance, but this year they are better prepared than ever for the holiday trade. They are making a specialty of a fine line of cutlery, table ware, china and crockery, and the entire basement is given up to this one department. “It is our claim,” said a member of the firm to a Star reporter yesterday, “that we can fur- nish an entire house, or hotel either, for that matter, from our store, from kitchen utensils through the dining room and par- lor on up to the third story front bed room. But if you are looking particularly for hints to Christmas shoppers just now you might call attention to the fact that we are carrying the finest line of ornamental lamps and onyx tables that was ever dis- played in this city.” ‘Topham’s well-known standard in leather gcods is maintained in every department, but especially in holiday novelties and spe- cialties for the Christmas trade. This sea- son there are not only many new leather: but the old favorites are shown in many rew tints and effects. Everything in whican leather is used, from the smallest size pocket book to the largest Saratoga trunk, is shown. Just at present this house is taking a pardonable pride in its assortment of pocket books—all manufactured on the premises and presentirg a magnificent ar- y of novelties. They range in price from 25 cents to $15. The more e3 pensive ones ere mounted either in silver or gold. The feshion of the moment runs largely to green tints. The same ideas are carried out in portfglios, writing desks and useful and ornamental articles for desks, photograph frames, chatelaine, traveling and shopping bags. The retiring sale of Gerome Desto, 1107 F street, throws onto the holiday market a splendid stock of jewelry, silverware, statuary and art bric-a-brac at prices rang- ing from 20 to 50 per cent below what would ordinarily be charged for such a line of goods. There are lots of pieces of cut glass in the collection that would make presents that any O16 of taste would ap- preciate, and the way all such articles are going off shows conclusively that Wash- ington shoppers are nol averse to a gocdly discount when they make their selections for holiday gifzs. Christmas shoppers are picking up lots of good things at Metzerott’s this year. The big store at 1110 F street is crowded with fine musical instruments, ranging in size and price from a little harmonicum to magnificent grand pianos, but just now a specialty 1s made of sheet and book mu- sic, all of which is being sold off at ex- actly half the usual prices, and almost as heavy reductions are made in the prices of all the smaller musical instruments. Time was when a pharmacy was only supposed to keep drugs and other medical supplies, but nowadays an up-to-date pharmacy curries such a big line of fancy goods that it almost comes into compe- tition with the big department stores, Wil- ams’ drug store, at the corner of 9th and F streets, under Masonic Temple, is mak- ing a successful bid this year for the Cbristmas trade, and is offering a particu- larly attractive’ line of toilet articles, cologne, in bulk and in handsome bottles, tollet waters, and things of that sort al prices that keep the store crowded all day long. “Our Christmas trade is unusuaHy heavy this year,” said one of the members of the firm of Mayer. Bros. & Co., 937-39 F street, to a Star reporter this morning. “Our stock of ladies’ goods, fancy, staple and millinery, is larger than ever before, and the fact that the combination of goods and prices is satisfactory seems to be proved by the fact that the store is crowd- ed from morning to night. We have only been in business at this stand for two yeers, but we have met with phenomenal success from the start, and have tried to deserve it.” B. Rich’s Sons, 1002 F street, laid in a very heavy stock of fine shoes and slippers in expectation of a big holiday trade. Needless to say they have not been dis- appointed, nor have those who have been to the store in search of dairty footwear for Christmas presents, sensible and at- tractive presents, by the way. Among the specialties this year are Romeo slippers and skating and btcycling boots. The lat- ter are sure to be acceptable to young people who are fond of outdoor sports and para Ae be properly rigged out in all the etails. Parker, Bridget & Co., 315 7th street, never carry over a stock of goods from one season to the next, and so they have al- ready inaugurated a big reduction sale of men’s and boys’ clothing at prices that ought to be satisfactory to good buyers. They call it their Christmas gift to the public. The firm carries a fine lot of ath- letic gcods, so dear to the hearts of smali boys, and large boys, too, for that matter, and a sweater or a bicycle suit @r some- thing of that sort never comes amiss as a holiday present. One of the most attractive windows along F street is that of Sanders & Stayman, which is filled with musical instruments that are eminently appropriate for Christ- mas gifts, banjos, guitars, violins, zithers and the like. Mr. Percy 8S. Foster, the manoger, admits that the store has an unusually large stock of pianos and or- gans this year, all of standard makes and of the finest tone and finish, and if Mr. Foster admits it, of course, it must be 80. ? As a special attraction to holiday shop- pers McAllister & Co., 1311 F street, are offering a choice lot of opera gi something that always makes a satisfac- tory gift. They are in the newest styles, fitted with the best acromatic lenses, which magnify perfectly, and yet they are not too expensive even for shallow purses. The same firm also has a splendid stock of gold rimmed glasses and the proper lenses can be fitted after Christmas. People are evidently becoming extremely practical nowadays. This is evidenced by tke fact that the Christmas trade at Stoll’s shoe store, 810 7th street, is unprecedented, and they are selling a large part of their goods to be used as holiday presents. ‘The white front and splendid window display at Stoll’s stand out prominently, and with- in there is everything in the line of foot wear than human being can desire. Hecht & Co., at 515 7th street, are receiy- uragement upon their intro- of a new feature in ‘business in this city. is ‘8 great store com- Pocsien Ge every for both men and 2 an women, which they have disp! on the five floors of their store. Christmas shop- ast have Uppal Dopasied the ae and mammoth show windows atte trance and then convinced that hay OF LOCAL INTEREST District Measures Acted Upon by the House of Representatives, Text of Two Bills That Were Passed After The Star's Report Closed Yesterday. After The Star's report of the proceedings in the House closcd yesterday afternoon, Mr. Babcock ‘called up the bill to provide for the issue of drawback ceftificates in payment of claims against the District on account-of the destruction of the old North- ern Liberty market. The committee on ap- propriations evidenced a disposition to op- Pose the bill from the start, and Mr. Dock- ery questioned the members of the District committee closely upon the measure. Upon Mr. Dockery’s motion, an amendment was adopted striking out the provision fixing the compensation of the auditor who shall settle the claims. An amendment offered by the committee was also adopted, pro- viding that no claims shall be allowed and no drawback certificates shall issue upon such claims until the District Commission- ers. shall have first approved the same. The bill was then passed. Text of the Measure. The full text of the measure as passed is as follow That the auditor of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is hereby empow- ered and directed to examine and audit for settlement ali claims for property taken, Injured or destroyed by reason of the de struction or removal of the Northern Lib- erty market, in the city of Washington, D. C., in September, 1872, as also all claims for payments made for the purchase, rent or use of any stall or privilege in said market house and for license for conducting any business therein, to the extent of the unex- pired term of said purchase, rent, use or license. Sec. 2. That’when the auditor has ascer- tained the amount of the loss as above de- scribed, in any case growing out of the re- moval or destruction of the market as aforesaid, he shall issue a drawback certifi- cate, signed by him as auditor, to the party or parties who suffered such loss or dam- age, or to their legal representatives, stat- ing the amount found to be due and on what account issued, and shall keep a reg- istry thereof; and such drawback certifi- cates, with interest thereon at 3.65 per cent per annum, from September 4, 1872, shall be received for arrears of taxes due the Dis- ig of Columbia and unpaid on June 30u, Sec. 3. That said auditor shall make a tabular statement of all claims presented, the persons owning the same, and the amount found to be due on account of each; and for the purpose hereinbefore specified said auditor shall have the power to sub- poena witnesses, administer oaths and ex- amine witnesses under oath, and shall have full access to all of the records, books, papers and vouchers of every kind whatso- ever of the late board of public works and the District of Columbia, and shall provide, by fair and equitable rules, for the exami- nation of the same by claimants or their attorneys. Said auditor shall give notice for the presentation of the claims herein- before specified in such manner as he may deem necessary, and no ciaim shall be aud- {ted or allowed unless ,presented~'within ninety days after the fifst publication of such notice; and said auditor shall make full report of all his acts and proceedings to the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia. Said auditor shall complete his work under this act within two years from its passage, and be paid the necessary costs, expenses for clerical and other s vices, stationery, books, advertising and other incidentals under this act, on the order of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the request, in writing, of the said auditor, out of the surplus reve- nues of said District: Provided, That no clafm shall be allowed, and no drawback certificate shall issue upon such claim, until the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have first approved the same. To Extend North Capitol Street. ‘The bill for the extension of North Capi- tol street to the Soldiers' Home was then called up. The substitute recently offered by the Commissioners was presented in leu of the bill on the calendar and con- sidered. Mr. Blue of Kansas, a member of the ap- propriations committee, objec:ed to the bill because it carried an appropriation. He said such matters should be referred to the committee on appropriations, and that that committee shouid have control of all appro- priations for the District. He moved, therefore, to strike out the appropriation” Mr. Blue subsequently withdrew his amend- ment. After some further discussion, the bill was passed. The bill in full is as fol- lows: That the Commissioners of the District of Ceiumbia are hereby authorized and direct- ed to proceed with the opening of North Capitol street northward-through the prop- erty of the Prospect Hill cemetery, and to bay the owners of the land necessary to be taken for public use In the extension of said North Capitol street according to the report of the appraisers appointed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia March 16, 1894, to appraise the land neces- saty for the extension of said North Capitol street, as said report was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia June 22, 1894, and finally adjudged by the Court of Appeals of the District of Colum- bla March 4, 1895, so far as the same re- lates to the land of said Prospect Hill Cemetery. ‘That the following sum is hereby appro- priated out 'of the revenues of the District ot Columbla for the purposes following, namely: Fifty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars to y the award of said appraisers, confirmed und adjudged as aforesaid. All acts or parts of acts incon- sistent herewith are here>y repealed. This closed~the District business, and the House proceeded with the legislative bill. Text of the Eekingten Bill. The full and amendedstext of the Ecking- ton railway extension regqlution, which was passed-earlier in the day, 46 as follows: That the time granted by the act, ap- proved June 10, 1896, within which the said Eckington “and “Soldiers’’ Hoine Railway Company of the District ‘of Columbia and the Belt Railway Company of the District of Columbia shall begin to, equip those Por- tions of their respective lines which are sit- uated within the boundaty of the city of Washington with co: ed _air motors pee ne it is hereby, extended to July a5 Sec, 2 That !f said compressed air mo- tors shall be adopted, said companies shall completely equip their respective lines with oe motive power on er before July 1, 598. » Sec. 3. That if said compressed air motive power shall not be on or before July 1, 1807, then said _ y company shall, within one year from July 1, 1897, equip ‘the reshectiva dines in the city of Washington with an underground electric system. Provided, That in case the said companies shall fail to comply aes all the We have just recetv- ed 500 pairs of Very Fine Patent Leather ladies’ od $1.17 Men’s Skating Shoes, %2.98 This is a fine Box Calf Shoe, made with proper sole- width and ankle-strength for skating. It is worth $5.00. white kid. IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE. Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. From the Philadelptia Press. Although a great fuss has been made in the English papers about the Duke of Fife’s so-called “gathering of Duff clans- men,” in honor of the Emperor of Russia’s visit to Mar Lodge, the affair being de- scribed as a ‘ ible echo of feudal times,” yet it has excited no end of ridicule in Scotland itself. The fact is that there is no such thing as “Clan of Duff.” All ef- forts on the part of the Duke of Fife, whose nobility is of the mushroom order, to identify himself by means of a bogus genealogy with the family of the mythical “MacDuff, Thane of Fife,” have resulted in a grotesque failure. The Duke of Fife’s family was founded less than two cen- turles ago by a Scotch peddler, and his grace, in spite of his being the sot -in-law of the Prince and Princess of Wales, has no standing whatsoever among the proud tish lairds. Sneed hardly add that there is no Duff tartan. That worn by the retainers of the duke was invented by his reprobate father, whose drunken and _ dissipated habits led to his ultimate ostracism by society. Consequently the couple of hun- dren highlanders who assembled at Mar Lodge on the day of the czar’s visit, armed with eight-foot-long pikes, and arrayed in kilts and plaids of the so-called Duff tartan, evoked to those who are acquainted with Scottish history far more the idea of a burlesque or opera comique than any old feudal ceremony. Bogus Customs. Bradley Martin, Mr. Winans and other American millioraires who have leased Scotch castles and country seats by the year for the sake of the fishing and the shooting which the highland lochs and ferests affcrd have every bit as much right as the Duke of Fife to invent and adopt a tartan of their own, to style their servants and retainers as members of their clan and to organiz2 annval gatherings and games, such as constituted a characteristic fea- ture of Scottish life thirty and forty years ago. It is not a bit more ridiculous for these wealthy American residents of Scot- land to adopt all the former customs and practices of Scottish noblemen and chief- tains than it is for the Duke of Fife, and the pipers arrayed in Martin and Winans tartans heralding sunrise under the castle windows, or announcing the hour of dinner with the skeert of their bagpipes, do nat constitute any greater incongruity than those of the Duke of Fife. Let me wern, therefore, American tour- ists in Scotland that it is not worth their while to go out of their way to see any of these so-called “highland games” and “clan meetings.” They are nearly in every case bogus, the ancient Scottish nobility having no longer the money to waste on free whisky and free food, which form the prin- cipal feature of these functions. Indeed, the latter are only got up for the sake of extorting money and liquor from the horde of English parvenu, American millionaires, Hebrew financiers and Anglomaniac Frenchmen, who nowadays form at least rine-tenths of the lessees of the ancestral and historical castles of ‘Scotland. Granville Berkeley, who has just died on the shores of Lake Como, at the ripe age of ninety-one, was the sole heir to the earldom of Berkeley, which has been the subject of 50 — an smn vt breed inasmuch as the mai res- ae Earl of Berkeley has remained until now childless, there is every prospect of the peerage becoming extinct at his demise. His Actress Wife. The earl was formerly a lMeutenant of the navy, and distinguished Rare by marrying a lady who figures the peer- age "ander the name of “Mrs, Kate Jack- son,” but who will be remembered by many people in this country as “Edith Brandon,’ under which stage name she figured among that: theatrical company who accompanied Violet Cameron to the United States at the time of Violet’s dramatic venture in Amer- ica under the personal management of the Earl of Lonsdale. Lord Berkeley's father, the seventh earl, never took his seat in the house of lords, the present earl being the first holder of the title in nearly eighty years to take part in the deliberations of the upper house of the British legislature. ‘Phe reason for the late earl’s failure to his seat was met be ae been fone lled to expatriate consequence of the terrible scandal created by his elope- ment with Lady Pellew, wife of the admiral Xmas Slippers, Bicycle Shoes, Tell the Conductor STOLL’S, “810” Seventh. WOMEN’S QUILTED NULLIFIERS—also felt—trimmed with fur $1.48 ASc. patent leather backs... MEN'S HIGH-GRADE Regular $1.98 onan § f OO Slippers .. OS8c. MEN'S EMBROIDER- ED SLIPPERS, with WOMEN'S FELT OP- ERAS — in Red — Blue— Black—furtrimmed round tops a by King George IV Lord Fitshardinge) who was the true owner of the title, and himself refused to make any use thereof. For the same reason he remained unmar- ried, and at his death the earldom of Berkeley passed to his distant cousin, father of the present peer. Granville Berkeley, who has just died, is a grandson of the fourth earl and a son of that Sir George Berkeley who was not only an English admiral, but also lord high ad- miral of the kingdom of Portugal. Mr. Berkeley leaves two daughters, who, how- ever, have no rights to the Berkeley earl- dom. All the estates of the Earl of Berke- ley, as well as the ancient Castle of Berke- ley (where King Edward II was put to death by means of hot irons thrust into his body), are in the possession of the present Lerd Fitzhardinge, having passed at the death of the fifth Earl of Berkeley to that eldest son of his who, as stated above, was declared illegitimate by the house of lords. The present Lord Fitzhardinge has no chil- dren and is quite an old man, and there- fore at his death the barony of Fitzhar- dinge will, like the earldom of Berkeley, become extinct. Baron Trezieniecki, who has lately ar- rived in this country for the purpose of making a prolonged tour through the United States, was formerly the director general of the revenue and financial ad- ministration of the Austrian province of Bukowina, was dismissed for dishonesty and corruption and was renowned to such an extent for his shameless profligacy that he used to be known throughout the en- tire eastern portion of the empire as the “Pacha of Czernovitz.” It is estimated that he now possesses a fortune of about $10,- 000,000, almost entirely acquired by means of bribes which he exacted from those who were engaged in smuggling goods into the Austrian empire from Roumania. The bribes which he exacted usually amounted to about 50 per cent of the sum which they would have been compelled to pay for cus- tom duties, and the business was carried on so openly that Mondays and Fridays be- came known along the frontier as the smuggling days, all other official business being suspended in order that the revenue officers might help the smugglers to get across the border line. THUMB PRINTS. any Dis- tinguished Persons Are Represented. From the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, a son of Joseph Jefferson, the distinguished comedian, ar- rived in Baltimore yesterday from Wash- ington with a singularly interesting auto- graph book. It is not that.the book is so unique for the famous names it includes in its pages, but that it contains the thumb marks of several persons prominent in political and dramatic histories of the country. President and Mrs. Cleveland's thumb Prints appear in the book and are striking examples of the singular difference that ex- ists between thumbs, for it has been proved by scientists so interested that there are no two thumbs in the world possessed of simi- lar marks. In the President's print the lunes of the thumb are boid, positive and lengthy. lt is near the first joint of the member that the circular lines begin to ap- Pear. In Mrs. Cleveland’s print the lines also appear firm and bold, but the circular lines are much higher up toward the tip. Francis Wilson shows his print in the book. According to an expert in such mat- ters the lines indicate a nature truly hu- morous. 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