Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1897, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR, Set :Chatelaine Bags, IN-REAL LEATHER. estes etosteniodiodte etiodortontortrtee z iS -25 —an clegant line df = them — in legther. 5 2 An the ‘4 1.25 up. #Card Cases $ f $ $ ‘4 3 + ° ° e < e z é POODD VHIADIIHD DORD.RED LOR MOSHE TRETTIDTMADHHOS ot gees SE OORDS H2O CD eee ° . . | Pocket Books, ¢Pa. Ave. and 8th Street. it % e sSovdoese eetoetenteote 98c. and $1.25. Our own make—we know they're —— vi In grained leather. oa calf, Russia leather and seal. & Alligator F Book, orners- the biggest Book value we ever Srefeesoegeegeosengoafoatoateesen Fa a a ss te ts Oh te te te ee te tS ets te et i ts offered. Our own make. Umbrellas 3 = “Make a mest a-ceptable present. and we & hace prepared for your wante in ints lin $ kK wou to buy. 2. 2 lve} a heauty. steel rod. silk cover and tassel. & had ‘such bargains Lefore. ¢ Open evenings till ten. = Topham’s, ’ opham $ TRUNK AND + MANUFACE = 1231 Penna. A = FACTORY + getocetnatoeee oo The Quality Store. Hoeke’s holiday offerings include the newest and hand- somest of fancy and odd pat- terns in Fine Furniture and Draperies and Rugs. Things that will be highly prized— and look their worth. We couldn't undertake to keep on quoting such prices—it’s just an effort we are making—and to your profit—now—when your purses are being taxed to their utmost. Cobbler-seat Rockers, and mahegany finish. Parlor rich up! 3 in oak § 1 98 tng 32-50 98c. Overstuffed unique shape, Pe ee ee ee are ee sSongeeSendenseesongeese sonteesoegontescontonsor onthe Songer sorfontessonconswesonsoasonioniontnesontoesostontonton fenton Tabourettes, in oak, green and k and mabogan sible cordur 1 Tapestries—a good substitute for the £ z $35 and $50 orginal orientals. Choice of twelve subjects, executed in: oil— nowhere else but here : . hogany-finished Corner Chairs—uphol- broe: in silk and Oak Tables. finished with bead- lower shelf and pol- 75 16-inch Down Pillows—full and ‘ geod skape..... sees 25c. < 18-inch Down Pillows, fall and well ¢ shaped. covered with and = fnished with ruffle... 65c. yen Rook Shelf, jusi : a = s0ses ec and shaped ge SS : i + Delivered at any time de- « sired. Small deposits will 2 secure selections. z Puriliened rs 54 D 9 = FURNITURE, CARPETS. DRAPERIES. ee ecccccccccccccccoe All the finest Food products oF ° . . . . ‘Europe America: ° . eoeee . . eoee . . memorable success! liquid “good cheer”—the best o its kind obtainable and at fair Smithfield Hams. . to be found in Duvall’s Store. Scarcely a thing missing to make the Xmas time menu a Solid and f enough prices to suit you. Pree Lie Atmore’s Old En- glieh Plum Pudding, (Cenremt)] and Pee 0 9 ee ce Jelly gs. Home- Aunt Abbey's Brandied Mineemeat. ches. Cranberries. . Raisins, Big Cluster Malaga Grapes. Fancy 20 different kinds of Cheese. Lownes’s Famous Chocolates. Py Famous | 38c. Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Makes a deliclous pulverized or ground. Fine Clarets, Sherries, &c.: Zinfandel Claret Se. a gallon Sweet Catawba .. . a gallon Dry Catawha.. 07222077171! l90e a gallon erry (splendid quality). $2 gallon ¢ Fort (allforniay ....... “$2 gallon ¢ Whisky (my Monticello). “© gation $ 923 Penna. Ave "Phone 1084. Quick service guaranteed. CelS-s, tu th 36 . . S 2 GREAT GIFT! Case of | i that as “ar fiends" 4 White, sma relatives in the country y, a “merry, merry’" 4 Red, Christmas by sending them a case of these grand To-Kalon 4 Sweet —[wiccs. pet up expressly for Wines for | «itt siving. Packed and de- delivered ready for shipment for $4 per case. Order be- fore the railreads become $4, | Ge Kalon wiine@, O14 142 STPHOME 998, 017-40,60 i 924, 926, 928 7th, running through to 704-706 K st. “THE DEPENDABLE STORE.” At no former holiday season —varied—and immense stock of g' store while on your shopping rou: practical and pleasing. The price: be noticeable. Owarl china pin trays, in pretty pink mottled decorations—you cannot buy thet elsewhere for less than 15 cents- here Menday for. Genuine owari ciipa enpa and saucers, in biue and white decorations. are for which others boc. — offered here, per pa for. es orations — regular _ price, which we offer Monday for... Fine decorat-d china cuspidors, very dainty styles— which w ee, — offered costes e dresden handle fruit knives, Sun Cutlery Co. of Dresden—gold- d Serfontentortons a Will be offered F} for ec. | $ ne hand-painted toilet set $ i slop jar—which have | sell $ $5.98 2 nsisting of ¢ eof two very pretty > 4 can a { Fe for le: tha $ Monday for. é —— Zz Zenuine Carlsbad china dinner service, z complete with soup tureen—consisting of > Giz Dleces—chalee of six 4 ferent ered SS 4 $13.98 g eee z Haviland genuine French china dinner Xo sets, in handsome desizns— z S r seen in any stor thn $40. — 3 0 Monday for... ¢ sisting of di ai Eo ooffered Monday at. BS z Practical presents 39c, He seal | stolis, with, six tails—the regular xo Monday 2" O8c. Childre2's white lambs’ wool "sets, con- sisting of muff and scarf—muf is tinished with satin ribbon and head trimmed with far—a ueual $2 § 1 eX) for: Stylish I «qua! sert—will sets, Mom Fine coque feather boas of very fine quality, length—worth soft and full—1', $1. The regular $9 genuine boas, extra long and iull fiber’ qu wil b rdown coats for new style collar and € 3 trimmed, and tin- 5 ds and tails—weil. lined values—tomorrow $3. 25 Stylish real astrachan fur collarettes— very curly and silk liberally full and ve lined hungeable —silk— fost $6 everywhere wees $1.98 Fins ekctrie seal ccllarettes, with Per- sian lamb astrachan yokes, made with extra-wide fali ripple and lined with black satin—which you will find else= where at $S—will go Monday i 2.98 Strakhan fur capes, of the most quality t and —curly—made eS long. $7.98 | value tomorrow es ee 9 Here’s a little list for your gu Soeencengongonteesongens ¢ Handkerchiefs for some of your fr % the year, you'll find prices surpris ee sheer rn ee aa a handkerchiefs, re of the ; 3c. Ladies’ pure linen sheer hemstitched handkerchiefs, for 9, 12%, 15 cents, and Ladies’ fine Swiss Maric Antoinette em- Dreidered handkerchiefs will 10¢ e o-sononconsrasoesensoesonsongenrenceesmeseeseosenger be offered Monday for the ui keard-of price of. Segoe A RUSSIAN PRINCESS. All Thought She Was a Western Divorcee. From Mrs. Sherwood’s Italian Reminiscences. At my Hotel di Londra, in the Piazza di Spagua, was a motley group of people who lived there three months or more, meeting every day at dinner, and so there grew up a scrt of intii -y and a knowl- edge of each other which was, however, fragmentary. One man, a little Belgian lawyer, knew everybody, and used to tell the rest of us who such and such a new- comer might be. Lord Houghton and Lady Galway were near me, and a famous old Neapolitan duke and his famfly further down. One day, as the ladies of my party had left for Florence, I was surprised to see sitting next me a beautiful blond woman, simply dressed, who began to talk to me in a pretty voice, with a decidedly American accert. I do not now remember how long we sat thus chatting away, but several days after that I saw her at the hunt on a white horse, in her blue habit, riding superbly. My Belgian lawyer one day volunteered the information that she was a country- woman of mine—a western widow, he said, “or, rather, she is trying to be a widor She is seeking a divorce from her beer band,” he added. The next day after this i I was in the Vatican library, copying and examining some of the wonderful manu- scripts, even a palimpsest which boré on its varied surface the De Amicitia and an oration of Cicero. To this high honor I had been introduced They |by Mgr. Cataldi, the sweetest old gentle- an in Rome, a high official of the pope, | and 1 was struggling with my ignorance when my American divorcee came in. See- | ing.my occupation, she became intensely interested and sat down by me. “I can- not manage this Greek,” I said to her. “Oh! give it to me; I will translate it for you,” said she. de And taking my pencil, she proceeded to interpret for me the most incomprehensible of manuscripts. “Ah,” thought I, “what wonderful women my countrywomen are! This is evidently a Vassar College girl.” She made me regret that I, too, was not a Vassar College girl by the variety of her knowledge. The next day I met her at the door of our hotel, waiting for her car- riage. She was disappointed that it did not arrive. I said, “If you are going to the oldonberad, Open evenings until Xmas. A list of “giveablés.” just what you have been looking for. There are a thousand and one inexpensively priced articles to choose from—presents that are both Why not give something that will prove of lasting benefit— it will receive the utmost appreciation. tempting list of special values in ladies’ wraps for Monday’s buyers—and the gift buying can be accomplish- ed for very little. Handkerchiefs for gifts. SPORE ELLE ELE L OEE EELL LL LOO EE ORP DOOD Soro SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1897—26 PAGES. 924, 926, 928 7th, running through to 704-706 K st. “THE DEPENDABLE STORE.” have we shown such a complete ift goods. Don't fail to visit the nds—you'll be certain to find here cbecenoxeessaasesieatieusariere apne s we're asking are low enough to Rochester burner banquet Inmps, - plete with very handsome giobe—tinixhed with sclid brass trimmings—which would ie oe GPa Very handsome reception and banquet lamps, with the very best central draft burner—and 9-inch “shades— 4, 08 will be offered Monday for.. Very good table lamps, complete with cone shades—choice of six pretty O8c. ° potterns—will go Menday for... clocks—every warranted a perfect timepiece— cost $1.25 elsewhere—Monday for O8c. Fine Dresden china one Fine nickle alarm clocks, with perfect watch movements running alarms) — he effere 2 Monday for. 5 $1.59 + 3 Steel carving knives and forks a —will be offered Mond S pair. for only Genuine Venitian glass vases—the very best Bobet a eptle inches high—offered Mon- ay fore " $1.39 Handsome Bohemian glass _lemounde sets, consisting of half-gallon plicher, six tumblers and fine rickel-plat- ed tray—complete set Monday $1 390 for ... Handsome English folio vases, ch three very pretty colors—novel_ si worth §2.50—will go Monday S$] ‘49 for ... LAMAN LAMAN EEE SESE % Sentee$ Soe = % ted in furs & wraps. We have prepared a very and children’s furs and $ é Genuine imported Hudson Bay electric % seal fur caps, with real bear collar and with inches long—full Hb- eral sweep—lined with z aia! $15.75 $ $30 value—tomorrow for. ° 2 —_— = 08 Fest electric seal fur capes, with real $ murten fut collar, and edged with same—30 9 Inches long—cxtra wide full sweep of 130% Hined wh tin z Met S1Q.00 ¢ values—tomorrow for. = = Silk seal plush capes, handsomely fetted & and lain, edged ‘with either Thibet 2 or mar with = irely % £ + English. k % colors-hand- 2 £ $ boucle jackets, half satin-lined, 3% jan lamb capes with new empire s P< tan covert and kersey capes s fded—not a garment in th > worth less than $5—and + —Monday for... A ° +, = $ Regular $9 brocaded skirts, French cut and made in the most stylish manner— & very rich desigts—well = | $4.85 Sete eg oe oto orton idance if you have thought of iends. As at all other times in ngly small for the quality offered: hemstitched_handker- He Taz. Men's lawn hemstitched white 5 handkerchiefs, for onl; . Cc. Choice of m japonette hemstitched handkerchiefs, which Ic loa exactly like silk—for. fe ° Men's pure linen hemstitched chiefs, for 12%¢., Ibe, 19¢., 2 sSecpazenbegeetonseceeconseneteetonseedQentontesecteesneseeseesereees ete handker- und 35c. royal review, so am I. Will you drive with me?” “Gladly,” said she. So she stepped in after me, giving me the right-hand seat very pointedly, and making herself very agreeable. She told me the names of all the officers, and as they turned to leave the fleld, severai of them passed our car- riage, the review being over, and saluted her. I thought my western divorcee was getting on pretty well in Rome. “You must have been often here,” I remarked. “Yes,” said she, her face much. I have suffered here.’ I, of course, dropped the subject, and we talked of other things. A court ball came shortly after, and standing near the queen, magnificently at- tred with a coronet of emeralds and dia- monds, stood my western divorcee. Tken I krew that the Belgian lawyer had been hoaxing me. I asked the Marquis della Stufa who she was, and he told me she was the Rus- sian princess of great beauty, eccentricity and wealth. She was the wife of Adonis of Count Nero! I then remembered that Adonis had dis- appeared from the hunt. I had not seen rim for severai weeks, and I afterward learned that this mismated pair did not visit Rome at the same time. . As she sat down at breakfast on a sub- sequent morning, she evidently felt a change in my manner, for she laid hand on mine most kindly, and sat ‘Do not let my rank separate wu: I must say I felt appalled at the easy manner in which I had treated my supposed coun- trywoman, and I told her the whole story. But said I: “You speak English like an American.” “Do I then speak it so well?” said e. ‘We became great friends, and I felt for her a decided admiration. She gave me the story of her life; a subject for Ouida to handle. Never have I met a more ac- complished mind, and rarely have I seen so beautiful a woman. Her code of mor- als and mime were very different, but there was @ grasp, a courage and a sort of inward purity of thought which made her most attractive. And I found her very American—as I have found many a Russian. I believe that Russians are more like us ‘than any other nation or we are more ike them— clouding; ‘too excepting that we neither gamble nor least 5 I hope that we do not. ———__—e-_—___—_ It matters Mttle what it is that you want whether a situstion person who can fill your need. ; at x oe CROKER'S LINES OUT tt Tammany Boss ‘Fishing for Power With Big Bait. WORKING FOR BRYAN'S DOWNFALL All Kinds of ‘Criminals Flocking to the Greater Gotham. CARNIVAL OF CRIME LIKELY Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, December 17, 1897. With the selection of the date for the holding of the Tammany Hall primaries— December 28—and the fixing of the time when the general ccmmittee will meet for crganization—January 13—the pclitical sit- uation grows more interesting. Before Mayor-elect Van Wyck takes his seat n a blaze of glory it is rather early to at- tempt to forecast the future for Richard Croker. But it is evident from the develop- ments of the past week that forces are gathering which will work for the undoing of the “Boss” of Tammany Hall or else give the young bachelor mayor of the greater city a world of trouble. The “irrepressible conflict” in national politics between the friends of William Jennings Bryan and the friends of Richard Croker has already been outlined in this correspondence. That the Tammany “boss” ig aware of the fight that is certain to cme, sooner or later, is found-in the fact that for the first time in his history he is apperently trying to form strengthening alliances with the leaders or the ex-leaders of the south and west. His visit to Chicago, his attendance upon a wedding feast at the marriage of State Senator Cantor to e of the heiresses of the werld’s fair city, it will be remember- ed, brought about bis meeting with young Carter Harrison and the invitation extend- ed to the Cook County Democracy to visit New York at the time of Van Wyck’s can- vuss for mayor. The senior Carter Har- rison would have been wiser, but the younger Harrison, an amateur in politics and statecraft, was easily won over to the Crokerian view point, and from this time forward his followers may be expect 4 to follow the standard of Tammany Hall. Chicage-New York Combine. This allianee of New York and Chicago in democratic national politics has a wider significance, a deeper meaning, than most have attached to it. Heretofore New York state has fought its battles in national politics unaided and alone. United with Chicago and all Ilinois, Croker might be able to perform wonders in a democratic national convention. True, at this time, though Harrison controls the Chicago polit- ical machinery, Altgeld controls the re- mainder of the state, from the limestone recks where the drainage canal cut through at Lemont down to the lower s tlements of Egypt, and Altgeld, it is worth mentioning, 1s friend of Bryan and 1.0 friend of Dick Croker. Something of the political future .of ‘this country depends upon whether Harrison eventually wins in the survival of. the ‘political fittest in Ili- nois over Altgéld. : Then there isthe weaning of Eustis, the fcrmer ambassador to I'rance, from Louisi- ana to Tammany Hall. There is the at- tempt to capture Gorman, discredited by Maryland, for New York city and Tam- many. Gorman has been talikéd of as Croker's candidate for United States sen- ator from New, York, and even for Pres- ident in case he will consent to join his political fortunes to the enypire state. And Gorman, it is worth While to mention in passing, would prove a poter in Croker's hands not to be despised, Hi8 déteat of the famous force bill still engears him to. the old-line, old-time: democrats of the south- ern states. With-Gorman and Eustis, rep- resentatives of the-*golid south,” which in the old days was Aaccustomed to unite with New York for the undoing.of the republi- can party; with no Carter. Harrison as the representative of the great west, Croker would leave the friends of Bryan the little end of the stick in a national democratic convention. " Evidence of Croker's Clevernens, Of course, Croker is clever.. He always is. He was clever enough to run away to England “for his health” when defeat and possible disgrace stared him in the face. He was clever enough to return a con- quering chief when it wes apparent that the pendulum was swinging democratic- ward. Naturally he arrogates to himself all the credit for this cleverness, and thinks that he is, in the language of ‘Dry Dollar” Sullivan, ‘‘de whole push.’ He does not an- tagonize the friends of Bryan openly. He ia even making friends with Henry D. Pur- roy, who supported Seth Low, and the leader of the thirty-fourth district will be welcomed back into the ranks if he chooses to return. He is also trying to win back the friends of Henry George, the followers of the late democracy of Thomas Jefferson. At the same time-‘he fs coquetting with ex-Secretary Whitney, Judge Scott, ex-See- retary Fairchild and even Perry Belmont, who furnished the most of the funds which kept alive the gold standard democracy in New York state in the last presidential campaign. Croker is quoted as saying to a friend of Bryan at the recent Lakewood conference that he had no intention of opposing Mr. Bryan, now or in the future. He even went so far as to say that with the power- fu! forces of labor in the east and the tillers of the soil in the west behind Mr. Bryan he knew that no leader in any state dare for one hour oppose the late candidate of the free silver democrats; that he (Croker) would not antagonize Bryan if he could; that he (Croker) could not antagonize Bry- an if he would. At the same time, every detailed move made by the “boss” in mu- nicipal and national politics is in opposi- tion to Bryan and the Chicago platform. The Bryan Lion in His Path. ‘This coming conflict between Bryan and Croker is regarded by many shrewd ob- servers here in New York city and else- where as the “biggest thing in democratic national politics.” As soon as the friends of Bryan are aware of the treathery of Croker to the young Nebraskan there will be a storm in this state and city, for Bryan —free silver and all—is still the idol of the democratic workingmen and the democratic farmers up the state. The principal lion in Croker's pathway, therefore, is Bryan. An opposition to Croker in his own city and state may soom be expected to form—it is even forming now—throughout the state. And it will be“an ective opposition—not an uneffective Gppogition like that of the democracy of Ghomas Jefferson in the re- cent campaign., ve As soon as the appointments of Van Wyck are announced there will be a weep- ing and wailip aaa gnashing of teeth among the disappo ited. And some of the men slated wow Ls a disgrace to any ad- ministration. ‘érst representatives of the Grant and the Gilroy regimes have been picked out for reappointment. some of the new officials are worse than any that ever disgraced the last two dem- ocratic administratigns in this city. The new charter grants;the mayor “power of removal” for six months. These men may be expected to behave themselves for the first half year, put After that disorder and possibly crime’ will ‘return; dirty streets will again be the ‘rule and “blackmailing” will once more be: made honorable on the police force of the city. ‘With the crowd: of political adventurers that now swarm in the vicinity of Tam- many Hall it would seem that this last state of the city would be worse than.the first, use the city will be far larger and more populous than before the days of the Lexow committee. Already gamblers are commencing to flock to town in anticipation of the good times coming; policy sharks are preparing to do business at the old stand; old-time dive keepers and new and old scarlet wo- men are leasing quarters im anticipation of a saturnalia and carnival of crime. Re- rts from the. police of Jersey. City and ‘rom the detectives of the Grand Central depot indicate ‘that there is an influx of goods men, whith would have done "Sreait- to the days of a Gi or a Grant. The mere announcement of the triumph of Tammany Hall is enough to to this city from all the quarters of the globe the same elements which pros- Everything fine, and the finest of everything at G. G. Cornwell & Son’s. “May good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both.” Plum Puddings, Fruit Cakes, Nuts, Raisins, Figs, Fruits, Candies, Wines, Champagnes and Fine Cigars. Place your Xmas orders Monday or early in the week and avoid the rush. VERYBODY—rich, poor, and between will figd just what they want and probably lower priced than elsewhere. able elsewhere. Plum Puddings. All the leading brands. including Rich- ardson & Robtins’, Gordon & Dilworth Atmore’s and cthers’. Atmore’s famous Plum Puddings at the following low prices: 1-Ib. cans, 20. 2-Ib. cans, 35¢. 3-Ib. cans, 55¢. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Celebrated Home-made Plum Pudding, in cloth bags of 1, 2 and 3 Ibs. 8 Ibs. Nuts, $1. We handle only this season's Nuts, and mix them proportionately—not nearly all cheap ones and few of the Test ones. $1 8 Ibs. Mixed Nuts for. 335 Delicious Nut ‘Meats, in Ib. and \-Ib. packages, comprising Pecan Nuts in halves, English Walnuts in halves, Black Walnuts and Hickory Nut Meats. Xmas Candies. Wouldn't allow an impure Candy to come into the store. Tons of Candies of every description, from the inexpensive mixtures to the finest Imported Chocolates and Bon Bons, 1,000 Ibs. of Mixed Candies, in broken sticks and chips. Only 10e. (ther Mixtures at 12%c., 20c., 25¢. and 400. Jordan Sugared Almonds, 50c. 1b. Here is something which will met yor mouth: Our own importation of Russian Choe- olates und Bon Bons, in attractive boxes, dircet from Odessa, Russia, 40c. box up. Highest grade of most delicious French Glace Fruits. 50c. 1b, Fancy boxes of “Fruits Comfits,"* and 30c. box. # Finest Citrens, Candied Orange and Lem- on Peel. in Be. 1412 pered on the vices and the sins of a great city in the old days. Pictures of the Future. ‘Two or three incidents will show like flashlight.pictures what is coming in the future. Upon the subject of playing ball on Sunday Mr. Croker is on record that he favors it. Possibly this bears out the rumor that he is the owner of the New York Base Ball Club. Whether Sunday base ball is right or wrong is not the que: tion. The point is that owing to the fact that Mr. Croker, through his friend, Mr. Freedman, owns a controlling interest in the New York Base Ball Club, for the first time in the history of the national game base ball playing on Sunday in this city will probably be the rule. The example of New York will undoubtedly be followed as far as possible in the other eastern cities. The games will be well attended; they will divide patronage honors with Coney Island, which, under the lax administration of Tammany Hall, opposed as it is to sump- tuary and Sunday legislation, may be ex- pected to blossom out into new glories and new wickedness next season. The purchase of the race horse Ham- burg by an “unknown” for about $00,000 has called forth comment by sporting men in this city that the horse has been bought by a syndicate headed by Mr. Croker. Mr. Croker may deny that he owns Hamburg, but Mr. Croker has learned to deal in “syn- dicates’’ in these latter days, ard the de- nial may mean nothing. Whether Mr. Croker owns Hamburg or not it seems that horse racing in its worst forms is about to be revived in New York city and vicinity. Inasmuch as Croker made such a dismal failure in racing alongside the horses of the Prince of Wales on the other side of the water his friends wish him bet- ter luck on this side. That Creedon-McCoy Fight. A forecast of what may be expected was found in the attempt of the ministers of Long Island City to induce the governor to stop’ the Creedon-McCoy fight scheduled there. The governor asked them why they did not appeal to the local authorities. “Mayor Gleason is more despotic than the czar,” the clergymen explained. “He is working hand and glove with the worst clements of the town.” “But why age you see the sheriff or the district attorney?” inquired the sov- ernor. “We have done so, but they are as bad as the mayor,” explained the ministers. The governor doubted his right to as- sume that, the law would be violated by the local authorities. One thing that is certain to raise a storm on the part of the newspapers is the pos- sible passage by the state legislature of the Ellsworth anti-cartoon bill. This meas- ure, which failed in the last legislature, is said to be certain of success in the next. Senator Grady at the time his nomination was prevented by the outcry raised by the dafly papers announced that he would have his revenge and that he would foree the Ellsworth bill through the senate. Croker is said to be in favor of the Elis- worth bill, The proprietor of one of the daily papers, an é@xponent of the “new journalism,” is said to have served notice on Croker that if tge bill secures any con- siderable Tammany following because of his influence that the newspaper will not only test the constitutionality of the law, but that its guns will be trained on Croker and Tammany Hall. In this event Tam- many and the city administration wil) be without influential newspaper support. Be Ses Pumping Oil From the Sea. From the Scientific American. The only spot in the world where oil is pumped from the sea is on the Pacific coast below Santa Barbara, Cal. The oil-bearing strata reaches out into the ocean, and the drill scaffolding, looking like windmills without the wheels, crept nearer and near- er the edge until finally many of them were planted in the water. The work was start- ed at extreme low tide, and finally the tall scaffolding appeared twenty or thirty feet from the shore, seemirgly rising from the sea. Three wells at low tide are in the water, and at flood tide are completely sur- rounded, the men working on platforms of various heights, which they ascend when working as the sea ‘The structures that are built in the sea have not yet ex- perienced a strong southwester, and it is assumed by some that there will be a fall in oil when @ heavy sea begins to break against the scaffolding. The drill is ‘worked in the water by an engine on the beach, the fuel being the oil pumped up, this en- gine working several wells. At present the most daring well scaffold stands in six feet or more of water at high tide, and the entire this vicinity overlies an oil-producing stratum. Off what is known as Moére's wharf, half a mile out, ol! rises to the surface in several places. Spat ‘When you visit New Empire, advertised on More stock than any three other grocers, and hundreds of articles not obtain- Mince Meats. | Apple Cider. Tons and tons of Mince Meat from ali the Boiled Cider (takes 4 barrels to make 1), | | leaders, | | Bo antes he | expressly for mince meat. | tmore's Mince Meat, in & and 10-1. * ; ! hese Sweet Cider as is sweet! Curtis Bros.’ Ib. glass jars. Gordon & Dilworth’s, in Mince Meats, in 3 and 5- Wines, etc. al. glass jars, qqiisine's Mince Meat, tn 2 and 31h. cans, No euch stock of Wines, Champagnes and es toe, = Atmore’s Mince Meat 10c. | Tignes raging’ New York. Every reputa- in bulk. Per Ib. only...........5 | ble brand of Champagne, Imported and Do- mestic Wine, Brandy, Whisky, Rum, Gin, | Fruit Cakes. | Score ete. Call for new Wine Ust and Kennedy's Famous Fruit Cak 1, 2, 5 and 10- | 514 ibs. Raisins, $1. Largest stock and large variety of the | finest Raisins brought to Washington. Ours | are full ripened and gathered and packed in to interfere with our by hand. jer: | brands, and have steadfastly maintained the 1,000 e Cluster Raisins, | standard of quality. comprising 51% Ibe., im selected bunch- & 4] Fine Key West Cigars, in boxes of 25 es. Only... ae 85 a3 | and 50, from $7.50 up. | _We have a fine ‘ork Clear Havana | Cigar, considered by many superior to the | imported Boxes of 25 and 50 from $7.50 Choice Fruits, etc. | ». boxes, Per Fine Cigars. We have justly earned an enviable repu tation for carrying the finest Imported Domestic Cigars tn Washington. We bh reful not to allow the prevailing Other boxes of fine Raisins, $1.25, $1.50 apd $1.75. We sell all the leading importing brands at New York box: prices. Fancy Vuk Malaga Grapes, Florida | nges, Mandarins and Kangarine. the 7 ay" and other fine Apples, choice Cran- | 10c. Cigar, 5c. berries and French Chi Soh hf We have built up a tremendous trade on aceaaing our famous “Belle of Washington” Cigar. Finest Figs, Dates, Prunes, Curranta, It never deviates in flavor and quality, and Dried Fruits Olives, Pimolas, ts considered hy many superior to $2.50 | Ladies desiring to make their husbands a Christmas present of a box of fine Cigars can rely on our stock! 500 boxes of containing 2 Ibs choi Only many 10c. Cigars, Boxes of 50 for Layer Figs, 35 Cc. Finest Layer and Pulled Pigs and at- tractive baskets of Washed Figs. G G CORNWELL & SON, to 1418 Pa. Ave. HECHT’S NEW We've added hundreds of garments to the wrap Open Evenings. oaseeseotonseete ego onto & ° : and suit sale. - We have made a wonderiul stroke. The purchase of the oe surplus stock of wraps and suits from two makers and the of- 52 fering of them has been so successful that we cannot sit by 53 and see the sale die—just because the immense stock is now % on the backs of thousands of Washingtonians. $ So Monday morning the sale will be given a fresh im- $ petus by the addition of several hundred garments taken out £ of our regular stock—and reduced pretty near to cost. z We've got to get the stock down low anyhow because $ we're going to do something unusual—and you'll hear of it in $ a few days. So this sale gives us just the opportunity that we z want—to clear away our regularly bought stock. vs rSesgeote See the enormous cuts Senteay we’ve made. CAPES. COATS. Stylish kersey cloth capes—with strap SS 'Y ‘y cloth trimming—full ripple sweep—and values iT oO ve which sold for $5 and $6 earlier in the page peg Aagerntg ogre ot go a ef Ladies’ coute—made a . that sold early in the season for §5 and = Se I ra 4 * and which are big values at these your choic prices— $ " $2-98 your choice x now for.... y -98 $ now for.... . Astrakhi cloth pes—lined wii ‘s Ladies’ Boucle Coats, lined all through % daape atlk-generously fell in, alia same Sith ellkaleo lot of ails lined kersey on i = clo 5 é $ eg a cu a ments which sold for $10 and $12 earlier— Ka your choice ¢2 9g your choice $5-00 now for.... 3° now for.... green, brown and new shade blue—made with ‘strap seams, back and front—liued throughout with heavy satin duchesse— velvet collars—the most stylish coats of he seasou—which sold for §20 and $25— your choice now for. $10-00 Plain Saltz’s best silk seal plush capes —trimmed with handsome Angora fur and lined throughout with silk—which were $10— 4 your choice now for... $4.90 All the $12 ones now $5.98. First qurlity of electric seal coats—the very acme of stylishness—satin lined - and walees thet @ farrier will eck yeu on your choice now for... $25 -00 Those handsome beaded and braided Saltz’s silk seal plush capes—trimmed with Thibet and silk lined—those same capes which sold for $18 and $20 but a a50— few weeks $9-98 your choice now for.... Sepa te and tan serge tailor-made sults—jackets lined with Thadame silk and some with changeable Very finest kersey coats, In tan, black, ! { Lot of beautiful electric seal capes—the Yery fret qualfty—all-silk Tined—the same cheap capes which sold for $25 earlier— your choice $ 1 5-00 $ 1 Q-00 now for.... Another iot of those electric seal collarettes—lined with changeable silk—full in ripple and as well made and as stylish as the most expensive—values such as you cannot $1 49 o. oe ad buy anywhere under $3—will go for. _A sale of skirts. We have made one of the best purchases of skirts yet. Best, because the values are biggest—because the skirts them- selves are the best made skirts we’ve shown this season— the best fitting—the best finished. If you’ve any thought of making a gift of a skirt do not pass this sale by unheeded. Lot of ladies’ black brilliantine skirts— taffeta—sults which you thought at $18 recently— , your choice now for... . i Se i a We Oe HECHT & COMPANY, 515-787 Se q s : SE SSeS ae Sh te ee sk Sk ae ae ak se a a a oo nescence repenereentens aetetenesevenene encnenen trent weve sions intntntetedetes Sedededetetetetectectecenentetetete ceed Sabobeetatabeeeted i oa