Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 75

THE - SUNDAY STAR ASHINGTON, D. €., JANUARY 24, 1926—PART 8 i ‘Most Valuable Amethyst in World Razing of Capitol Hotel Removes Helps to Solve Robbery Mystery Relic of Historic Washington Days True Detective Story of the Patient Thief Who Was Trained for Years and the Persistent Structure at Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Was Once Center of Official and Hunt for Criminals That Was Successful. Diplomatic Life in the National Capital. BY ELEANOR BROWNE. ~. BY HAROLD K. PHILIPS. ATIENCE and perservance have s - i ¢ % NE more worn and almost for- i vy F : i u I long been recommended as in 5 ; : : ; A gotten relic of the Washing- kot 5 it fallible stepping stones to all _ : : ton that boasted of an inti- 2 § i it sorts of success, in both love o - G mate acquaintance i\«mh 4 ? 1 and busines 4 : o Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, s i i 4 gL It's the lack of these two qualities 2 : ¥ * | Francis Scott Key and Jefferson Dav : - g Sl character, vd Vidocq, one of 2 ) ; £ : S « is passing from th's rapidly changing ; be famous directors general of the | oF agh S % . L ]| 1andscape to the pages of history. It iris Bureau of Police, “that inevi- | 3 4 5 : . ]| is the old Capitol Hotel, which, from tably brings a thief to prison and a | s 5 its original site at Third street and wyer to the headsman's block, or | ¢ i i : 3 i Pennsylvania avenue, has seen Wash- imakes beggarly failures of them. The g . ngton grow from a muddy village to police are patient and they persevere; | i " x v» 1! a pulsating metropolis. that'’s why they conquer in the end.” | [ 3 ! 5 : ' Although it was once one of the Vidoeq has gone to rest with his | B gt tog F @ finest hotels on this continent, the riumphs over the underworld of | 8 § , o Capitol Hotel secms almost entirely to Lurope. but his explanation of why | : L i : i ve escaped the notice of the his- the police can combat the sinister | : S ’ ¢ * orians and biblivgraphers, and much organizations of criminals that flour- | i & » & i “| that 1s known today of the old struc <h across the Continent still is up to | . . Gzt compal dova from arEal e date. ¥ R A = G B ’ dotes. But its shorn lobbies and un But Signor Campinini, chief of the | covered cellars tell a mute story of Survelllance Bureau of the Police De- heir own glory—and, be it said in all vartment of Naples, shakes his head | ik criestr Yotittie s by aisbam: toc: vhen this matter of patience Just when the Capitol Hotel was perseverance is mentioned as s wilt can not be truthfully determined. | T One authority here declared it was lone of the oldest two hotels still ex sting in this country While this may not be exactly correct, it prob- | he P S naTiie ably was classed among the oldest, Signor Campinini observes, “there is » b . ' hotel remaining in Washington, from ceat exeitement—consternation, in " > i B | he viewpoint of antiquity. It has deed—in the ancient castle residence | 4 Sl . § 1 enjoyed, too, a variety of names. o a neble family far up in Scotland. | " % 3 | For many years the old hotel was 11 1s the family of the Duke and | ? s B = known as the St. Charles, ad befor Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon. A | T L N > PBSEEY | Lt as the Bxchange. Then it was Leautiful duchess and a gallant duke, . L enamed the Capitol, and of recent by the way. vears a later management strove in g Colection of o ermes | THE HAMILTON AMETHYST OF THE COLLECTION OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON | ¥ain to save it from dewmolitian and 4nd antiques of great value because| OF SCOTLAND, THE LARGEST AMETHYST IN THE WORLD. AT LEFT, THE TORTOISE AND GOLD | TSclaim its lost prestico by udding t et "“r‘!_’wl od ih ‘the Castle: of H(l_\ G ‘\l-'..\‘ M \»Hll-. ANTOINETTE TO HOLD “DAINIY WRAPPINGS OF TOBACCO” BY THE MARQUIS tive “new.” It never again knew familton and Brandon is one of the | DE LAFAYEL1E. however, the glories that once were 1most famous in the world. 1 T I \|x~ fu\\ n. : " 3 ’ Peo arrive in the old town of |, s T . el £ S L .| Wayfarers passing along Pennsy Brandon from far places to look with : Is}iéithe inspector declired. T must | amined the fiery cube; carried it 10 \;njy avenue during the past week or nathing Akin o awe upon many | KNOW the whole history ‘.4 .(:ulix man | the window and held ‘it against the | 1(("\(ho have halted long enough to items of this priceless collection; upon | fndt Woman, boy and girl, attached to | ; ool Thanilie | watch the wreckers tearing the old the huge ilton amethyst, the larg: s D 8l s e 8 . b -] . S el to shreds, wondered, perhaps, a h 1"35':. IL«.’yt{:"'\l::l“-,‘l;1\}'- ‘\»\“"' d‘:}:y movements of each one of them for Mon Dieu' But it is the Hamilton | AL !’r, s o Il:x)\l. xlm"ln LRiae e last 48 hours at least. We fing amethyst! There cannot be two of an: - quara, and Hawless; or upon the sad ”»‘. 1”“': ,hnu'w "nr’n‘ .1".\;“\:\.-’“ !.],'-'nl i T (‘h"“m in the \:,,'. ar et : x ed Is around the walls of its| wmened box of tortoise and gold which . . : ST e A It is said that slave drivers 8 faith in all of them I am amused th should ad- | o _ , e it is said, was the last present ma T i e mire my glass paper weiht.” the S e s to Marie Antoinette by the Marqu waxrarticularly itRe oy of Inenec: princess exclaimed, when cume | e Lafayette. It is the box in which oY iva U Y I8 T O e % upon M. Letouch in the window em T e e N som : ] 1 Davis: a the fated Queen kept the dainty Wrab- | u¢ it one of the greatpst of the Euro- | : sure still staring at the fask L e s bl 1 ! ? t . in the plaste pings of tobacco which the marquisf ;0 gerective: 1 thing in his hand Uit Is excel " " vec i \ ' e old Capi- | hotel u f Vrought her from America and taught | gyt “after days of merciless and un [ently shaped, do you not think, m % ] Fhal : is some dis | stroyved and her to smoke—the forerunner of the | o examinations. questionings and P sieur ), althou Was yuodern cigareite. Perhaps this boX of | thirq' degrees, which threw old erv- | “Excellent, indecd!” the expert re oldest citizens may regret the pass tortolse and gold was the world’s first | yye o CERTCER W LRIEW 0 0 i Would you mind tel of the hotel where their fathers cigarette case. It went with Marie 10| gus panic, the inspector's brow began mademoiselle, where mce entertained. they should find her last prison el ’ | 3 bl dh . solace 1 the fact that it re “So it is pardonuble that there Biest Theressaiitt-o Bervantinithe t icartal e 16 moves . fame time o silent but great excitement in the Hamilton and {poysehold, or attache of any sort, ex oli, in one of the + shops there. | (ccust 3 of that time in Drandon castle when the entire cc cepting a witless village peasant girl where they sell ¢ anything | America’s v when human souls tion, the marvelous amethyst *or two, who had not been in the em: that is pretty and cheap. friend. | could be barred in damp dungeons to romantic tortoise box and ull the rest ;150 of the Hamilton-Brandons for i Georgette Leblane, was even more | “Wait the gold of the highest bidder. of the rare gems and jewelry, 1 many yvears. Nearly all of them had 4 fortunate than I that day e found | One of the few writers to devote the to have been stolen! = ) <ons or daughters of faithful vil- | + most deligh! Jis* Cigarette box | *nergies of his versatile pen to a hrief “Nothing is left. > families who were part of the { bound in ind quaint | 4¢ on of the C Ehomas mond that is vellow 1l duke’s estate and who had drifted na- 1 ) The price v rid, nost worthless as a . but { tupally into the service of the “manor lous- hindred francs because it was | St cious because it b 1 to Queen | house™ wh they we voung. It i | cracked in seve I would |t say of its e zabeth. Clearly, the crime has been |always had been the custom of the have taken that, too, ‘It has been given to the Rambler the work of a foolish thief, 10| “lords of the manor,” as the dukes of | saw jt tirst. ¢ t Jead At a hom might the Hamiltor amethyst| Hamilion and Brandon were, to choose | “And yet, mademoiselle e <old? Since every jeweler Knows their retainers from their own peasa " form vou, 1 M. Letouch, “th there is none other like it in the world. | try and train them, marry them c L vour few f g And to whom arie Antol- | when the time came, and, as a rule piece of glass, as you lmagine zecord (of Ehis part nette’s tortoise box be traded—since | Leep them about the castle even after the most valuable umethyst in nguet andlhasaiot Boss the L 1t is of value only because of its his- | the marriages. world—and the Jargest. Tts worth ! 100K it up. but the sentiment was fre tory, and fts very history would at e { could be almost computed in 1 quently expressed by President Jack once proclaim it stolen goods? | of francs: 1, and with great emphasis in his oolish thief, indeed, who must oniy wholly outsider in the| b il pation promulgated at Wash monopoly. He will, on occasion, take ym his memorandum books cert eferences to that affair of the Hamil n amethyst and the fishmonger in ullificztion g t nul i tice was once | pute over was learned tha ing sum ©s vou purchased r preserved <ought desperately for hooty and h: house was a voung Italian, and | - = EEipolicetscere catiaiiny e ni December 10, 18 against 7 ke . A # 7 : ] not the patience to persevere else- |even he had been attached to the| MME.GEORGETTE LEBLANC.SIS- AIEE imot 7 at once by | — > 4 2 - — A Clav. lived for ere until something more salable | household sort of gardener’s and | TER OF THE FRENCH AUTHOR the princess. With themn and M. | % 59 - = - o hatroccapied and profitable might be found head butle assistant, for more than | WwHO BOUGHT THE “OLD. BRO Letouch she went into the Rue Rivoli | theea facts it was nnl‘ml‘v M, r’""n : 3 i Se ~ village constables guard the |five vears. He was not articularly | e SRR e st T : ; wae diligent, law Jiding and re- ErctNiSe e eans D ie i it TS e was ot a particularly | KEN TORTOISE SHELL BOX. and identified the little bijoueterie | ¥0%_dilisen castle while the experts from Scotland | bright = : = ® { served | = z UST next Yard, in London, are arriving. Surely |fact: but a faithful servant whose | shop where Imitation things and | g i 3 > 2 : % e | | JUST nes there will be a4 quick arrest and re- |lovalty and industry had endeared him ! Was notified to be on the watch for|cheap ornaments were on display ! AHE inspector sent a deputy from ¥ : . . boardec covery of the marvelous collection. |to the older members of the serv the Hamilton amethyst, Marie or-| The shopkeeper. : i | 2 ana . e AR ved Franci Almost immediately the inspectors |staffl. The duchess h im | toise box, and the countless other | le shopkeeper. when his suspi- | sotland Yard to the village of from Scotland Yard announce that the |often, and liked his r items of priceless value. It was be.| Clons had been banished, readily told ; Brandon, and this alde >l-\|1};‘|[;fl:9::r ornaments were taken, indubitably, by | cause he was of a for lieved that something from the col-|of the stranger, “a young man, and | dent who remembered the father of ~ome one within the house who knew |and an “outsider,” Inspector Savage |lection would soon turn up; the thief | ap Italian, messieurs,” who had come | CTES1eS >\\-h ..N.-n-’”:;" “’:‘,; the every secret of the household, and who | spent many hours probing this young | Would not wait too qong, and then | “ho o . = £5 [taken t0C A tor leading the 1° duplicats keys to many great|ltalian. He inquired of the other |there would be a clue nto his“shop one day and displaved | signor and the inspector leading the ks and who had spent many days | servants about him, his habits, his his-| But the months went by. Every de. @ pocket full of curios, a tortoise hox ; Wiy an excursion was made into Joosening panes of gluss on the sealed | tory and his antecedents. All of the partment in Burope was on the watch. that was broken, an enameled frame | Pizzza Emmanuel. = 0 cases in which the amethyst and the |others were profuse in their declara.|The police of many countries went that resembled those with which the The visitor from Sco ‘lw 5 ugh tortolse. hot and other things were |tions that “Orestes” would be as| down into thefr underworlds and|Louls used to border miniatures of | some fish and recognized Maximo | blameless s any ot AHon brought in to their chiefs the leaders their mistresses, a other such | Then he went back home. for Inspec. he inspectors, each of them a| He w son of a fish trader who | among the clever crooks, but it was | things and a squar X Il cut | tor Savage decided to play a waliting veteran in his line, set to work with | futile.” Inspector Savage could not | glass that could 3 a paper | A vear went by: two * g | eras mhis mind the conviction | Weight—"the very glass you have now ' B eks before th 3 | that whoever the thief, he was either | in_vour hand, monsieur:’ detectives who watched the |an attache of the duke’s household| M. Letouch went with the princess fish shop day and night intercepted jor a friend who had managed, in some | to the home of the celebrated { the old man just as he was about to 3 E miraculous way. to get into the neigh- gette Leblanc, once the wife of Mae | post a letter (o his son. In the letter Y == e bust Sinae borhood and secrete !lIf in the | terlinck, and sister of Maurice Blanc, | they found what they wanted—the . = panding, started it ovemen stle until after the detectives had |the noted author. “Oui, oui, mes.|address of Orestes, who then was back : ward, and vears left left. This, though, seemed impossible | sieurs!” the volatile Georgette ex. |in_London 7 > fold after all, because even after he and | claimed. “You shall see the box. Tt ! i few hours the youth was L, ? | sert _ 5 L {his men left the castle other men | is quite old, 1 am sure, but was v. > : passed « So- th the story of the theft of 4 {from Scotland Yard, who were not| very reasonable litle difficulty in per- S = e jewels that had been collected | 38 known, watched the district carefully | And so Marie Antoinette’s tobacco | Suading both Orestes and hi v the Dukes of Hamilton and Bran- | SREEEEE for any unknown persons box, the prototype of the cigarette tell their stories—and to re > »n in Scotland —a crime that echoed 1 | ing place of the major portion of e e s around the world when it was axgl the ilton Bran Sollectionof i the mewer Hiouses that nounced Nt saye siven it away as a souvenir to some | jewels and antiquities v had only 1 : N o ASEME! Sa it e a The famous Chief Inspector Savage | " | part Mone of cver recovering even o\ figha " Mvavs Mme. Leblane is g, | begun (o venture the sl of them. | WHILE THEIR OWNERS WERE GUESTS OF THE HOTEL. | the ¢ e o otland Yard, then just Imwvminfi‘ ; | Lloya Sigel | precious = collection. | . "geniimental souvenirs to affec. i4nd. so far, nearly all they had dis-|- —Saee e i == sted! its: hospita Nos i n e wor i & | Lloyd’s paid the insurance snd the | 56 Sent h % I posed of were pieces that seemed to ! Sl No: known to the underworld, took im: ey eler e et (0 A rie n he | tionate friends. It might have been | POS . ¥ ; ~ 5 lowing its ol & tato = mediate charge of the m\nqmutmm’ oot b o opeihes might by sy eiTont. them 1o have no value at all, or. i : 1 s il S Jnto oblh The theft of the constables had (i ore v tiivane . aa| Scotland Yard was notified, and In. | Yaluable. could Lest be dispoged of as (& gl AN ueen ecelves J ko gnye more and Gnly s memd castle walls d had beg r | : co is p e, res| ed a e |amounts to little shop kee) f cAsteivalle s andl A Bogyn ‘L'i’,fv" | {by his itinerant father, brooded deeply | £0LLen his puzzle, responded at once. | ¥ : ashington that has passed forever . . i - over the hurt of thote Tome honcePlY | From the shopkeeper's description he one was more than = populated district where any pedes- : [ Bad been compelle] m con BOUES he | recognized Orestes, the servant vouth s when he le that the 1STtOri1c Aurc onor - . ran "~"“|"1 l‘"l"‘ ced spector Savage. The duchess was gen. | Who had brooded over the temporary | * of sparkling el \\:;..\ m.»' TiberonlotilS, e ere had been no strangers, or | ' aito And eplained thats £€0-| and informal suspicion of him, rgest amethyst in the world. s sis § 1 one at all whose movements were | o pe s an expimed thatiehere L8R O e ento Tt was them” says Signor Cam.| The presentation of the “Golden |ing to Catholie rulers goldemkeys from S & not accountable, in the neighborhood | i a relentless carctulness unen the ary | dublous. “How could it be he i pinini, “that I learned how patient [ Rose™ 10 Queen Elizabeth of the ¥ St. Peter's confessional, a cus.om in- | A SURGICAL method of siving for the previons 24 hours. The con- of the inspector. )restes thay 'I,“]’,"“ had served in the house five y . land perserving a thief may be!" | gians at Christmas, by Pope Pius XI, | troduced by St. Gregory H (716) or St. ortunate tubercular Tun he “tables and luspector Suvage were | o ana promised {o forget the |nadocy | was upid and remained ‘many ! In his young days, ording -to | revives an ancient church custom |Gregory TIL (740). A eertain analogy |test ~ure is described Ly Prof mvinced the thief still was in the | biib his bensiifie coil o0 Geeml: | months after hoarding his sixpences.” 1 the police” records, Maximo Vannini | Which the popes have heen aceustomed | exists between the rose and the keys | Alexander of the University of house, and the collection of gems also. | 3 s » 100 deeply | BT 1 hed this doubt away, however, | had been one of Europe's most dan-|{t0 bless each vear, and occasionally |as hestowed by the Pope upon iline |gan, in the Journal o The servants snd attaches, many of | THE RU MARTA bt S t vear later | o0y 0 ried on the trail of the Young | gerous petty thiev But with his ,confer upon illustrious churches and trious children of -the church. and ! Li them ancient servitors who had been a | GALITZINE. WHO PURCHASED | 30 HC € ,”"”‘l‘_“‘\”“*“, she 7 : marriage he had reformed, had re.|“anctuaries as a token of special rev-|further, both partake somewhat o. The “rib operation,” as ifetime in the Hamilton-Brandon| THE FAMOUS AMETHYST, |a¢ lasc to 'v'-mdunr- ‘\\h\lll l;v might go pector followed the youth to ! ceived police clearance, and had be. erence and upon Catholic kings and | the nature of reliquary— the ro: s called, is the most imy . Were confneds o Anet| | amd o e omaon. with his SaVINgS. | 1 ondon and to his fitst employes there, | come an_ apparently honest trades. | QUeens, princes. renowned generals | containing . musk ' a. ! balsm, 't 1 means of treating tuberc quarters. For the time being the | < |service with one of the re: il NeW | mhis employer spoke highly of the boy | m With the death of his wife, ; °F other distingulshed personages con jkeys filings hain of St. | has passed the experimental stage und beautiful duchess and her two daugh- ———————— | whom the duchess worlq remnieS toland of his character. = and ‘with his little son on his hands, | SPlcuous for their Cathollc apirit and | Peter. : e B e v v European surgeons +ers foraged in the pantries for the Z e s et v B s = e had dreamed a plan by whic o 3 tc it See. - The exact date of e first givingz | with a remarkable deg: of success dake's meals and made their own beds |bad settled in the village, for no rea- E"",;, }”bp."’ forget the time when| n‘,’,’,‘;‘;,:"ff:st"{nm}l;’.“e{v‘.‘he :““':h,(‘f Ql,g\fi»p'w REtitha prabis of ),',}; t;:te | The Golden Ros n precious and |of the Golden Rose fs unknown = A It consists in removing from 1 to § hefore. | No servam or attache was | R G an, Orestes was very | Iermission was given him to go. A | Of the boy and of his character. The | thief. sought and obtained information |} i wormmcais B e e harlemagne (142310, Ac|these are joined to the spinal cord allowed to leave his or her own room |PEUty (racestinn. —Orestes was very pounds were anieg B0 A | inspector . refused to en. He had |about the varlous great collections of i s1gne cost $300. At the'beginning of | the end of the toveriiid, jts origin a: | The pleural cavity is no) opened and Pt seme of her old servants the | Villagers remembered the boy playing | SETVAntS’ hall in his honor the nighi | dialects of the crime conters on the | XAthered in many a P Ttaly, | Church the rose was about six inches | vear 1030, since Pope I ribs are filled when the remaining : O ants around his father's fish-odored shop | before he took the train out of Scot.|Continent. He concentrated upon his { England—a country far from Italy.)in height, but in the progress of this . nf the rose b S : . yenaming duchess plea but Inspector Savage |BIORRE n 8 THLACCS, A 0r e bon | Tand. memory of his conversations with | There Is plenty to be read and heard. | church function a vase and large oy b (e UM ancient institution | ends come together, and the size of e e Moo AN e i growing up, and remembered. too, | | He Presented his credentials in Lon | Orestes in the Hamilton-Brandon cas. | 1Ny Place, about the Hamilton-Bran: | pedestal became o part of (he orma. | e mot macvar hejen S of the, rose | the chest s reduced on the operated e ong them, madame, I shall {the time when his father led him to | 40N and was‘taken into family service | tle and concluded he would be Nea-|don helrlooms. And the home of the {ment, so that it weighed 20 pounds, |was introdin o istitution. It | side, compressing the lung and its even suspect you and your daukh'|ine manor house and asked the chief | (here. He remained in this position | politan. The inspector went to Na.|dukes of Hamilton and Brandonland ‘was 18 inches in heisht, and | more solomm and ey ce ceremons s activittes ; - butler to take him into the family |OnY & few monihs, however, and then { ples and reported to Supt. Campinini, | I3 far in Scotland, out of the track of | worked into the form of a_ bOUUET. | anca for it on the part of (he reeiee | oo Vithin a few months the cut ends o | lett, saying that he thought ha would | “A fshmonger from the district of | the continental police In the nineteenth century not a few « ¥ 38 semient | of the xibs grou: fogether it bo The Loy was 12 vears old then, The |S€arch about for a place as - | Naples, who had a son when he lef: | The fishmonger sold his shop and |the roses cost $2,000 or more. Tl_n-l Pope blesses the rose every | bridges form between them. The lur father explained that, some day, he|dener. The Hamilton-lirandons did |but returned without one; perhaps. | WeNt, With his boy, to the Brandon | The honor which has just been paid | YCIT: PUL It is not always a new and |loses its power to function and has o |\would be oing back o his old Wome | NOt-hear-from him again, It might be some seven vears or so | Villdge. As soon as he was old enough (to the Belgian Queen by the Pope ix | (U€rent vose: the old one is used untii | to_ in timg the dis [ Haiy s bt that he wantod te wome | " The two yeara atter the robbery since his return. He might have come | t0 understand, Signor Campinini has perhaps the first instance of the pres. il iS Eiven away. Some special meri | cased port After the tuberc bis boy i befter. Gurtoundings thag | SUSSE~ T3y Pavis th charming Prin. | backe and iome away, or mot """"lmu)d in his rocords, the father began | entation of the Golden Rose in the | MUSLEXist or some exceptional secvice |lowis s healed _the Tung cannot be o comlalevat o tis, ann naEr Marta Galitzine, niece of back at all. Perhaps, even, he was | £ train his son to grow up and some | twentieth _century, and recalls Pope |MUSt have been rendered otherwise |restored. Experience has shown thut |to have him raised as an English serv. | yiince Galitzine, who was Ru not from Naples, after all. But let |27 steal the jewels from the castle. |Leo XIII's esteem for Marie Henrietta, | (96 01 one is kept at St. Peter's to be jone healthy lune .3 enough for the |ant. The manor house butler sympn. | Minister to Munich when the war | us look around | Long_evenings, in ihelr 'village hut,|Queen of the Belgians, in glving the | (i259%0 anew until the soverelgn pon-|normal respiratory needs of thized with the father, having bought | JF0Ke 0ul, and is now one of the| Signor Campinini has many records | the fat er explained the cautions (.,‘r,,wm her in 1893, the last time it was | oo 2CUEC 0 .'“1 some person s | person. : Hiinsh for many yeare: and anbeiie| ToETLnE l:‘l'(’lulll’s of Paris, was hostess | at his finger tiy The police of Italy ;!"—‘ practiced, m.e skill to be learned bestowed in the nineteenth century. | ¥ S0 ecelveilG Anm: the und is healed the de {0 his mistress. The duchess consented. | (0 &, T¢°ePUOR in her magnificent | keep the histories of all their citi. (4nd the patience to be relied upon. | “The significance of the rose and| The blessing of the rose takes place | formity is vers slight. Although the Orihtos Pecamera Aember oo the ary ii’r',“r";?em on the Bois de Bolougne. | zens from birth certificate to funeral | - 1° }l]w. tholm\ her in;lxplmmd. Wwas | Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in|in the Hall of Vestments and the soi- | lUng is greatly diminished in size tae ant staff and had remained, saving the | ;11" o tanqanme emocl¢h capital were | bermit. On each record there is|More than half a million dollars— | Lent, the day on which it is blessed, |emn mass in the papal chapel. clrcumferencs of Xhe Kriestiidoes : L5 St 2 & in attendance, among them Henri Le- i e jauite sufficient for the boy's young so blend that the Sunday is often| From the beginning of the seven-|aPPec. much smaller because the col few shillings a week that were pald| ouch. a jewel b - ace for births and marriages, Sons | years and his old age. A S o rose w: lar bone holds the shoulder a him, againgt the time when he would | ouch, & jeweler of the Place Ven- auhters and golngs and com |*°ars and his old age. : called the Rose Sunday, and rose- | teenth century the rose was sent only | lar bone holds the shoulder at its nor- “igo down tp Londor e Anown a8 an expert in all mat- | ings. Many days later Sigror Cam | o eq sars Bis son must wait after | colored vestments, altar, throne and |to queens, princesses and eminent | mal distance from the body. The e ahowed his savings to Toapector | s, (at have o do with gems. Many | pinini put befors the man from Seot: he had been received in the gmn(!flcham‘l draperies (signs of hope and {noblemen: ' to emperors, kings and |range of motion and the strength ot land Yard a card. At the fop was | NCUSe: the shrewd father decided, and | joy) are substituted for penitential | princesses was given the sword. It is|the shoulder and arm on the operated of the princess’ rarest jewels had beer {Savage. They amounted to some hosen for her by Monsieur L s s — pa v i = : Rt & O i " fai £ 5 oSc] ¥ Monsie: etouch. - st B &% | Orestes obeyed — patiently and dog- |purple during the solemn function. | true, however, that if a Catholic em-|side are very little im: |pounds, more than $100. And thex he .hame Maximo Vannini, fish | gedly. In those five years he prac.|The church, on this Sunday, bids her | peror, king or some great prince were X When the jeweler and friend were made up of the identical shilling- | hrough t i monge: Sad atitho Tocis o - ocated | oh ‘ v ag sent in’ R ; o s And_ sixpences with which he hud | .roush the drawing room of his hos ticed at the nd keys and located | children who have been engaged in|present in Rome on Laetare Sunday »ss, unconsclously admiring her many | .t US read it carefully,” the signor | ‘'he hiding place where later the and fasting and other peni-|(the fourth Sunday of Lent) he woull | Quesn of Sa a, by Leo XIT (1825 been paid. He treasured his hoard in | Jbjects d'art, & ghint of b’;'uo e atting id, and bit by bit unraveled from |iewelry was safely den, while In- al works to look up and !»pi’onr] be presented with the rose if he were | Maria of Hung: < < a tin box underneath his cot in thelacross a ray of sunlight caught his | Maze Of entries the history of one |spector Savage searched and searched | Calvary and see in the first ray of the | deserving of it. wards Empress, Gregory XVI (1832 servants’ dormitory. Inspector Sav-|attention. Curiously, he traced the | MaXimo Vannini, whose last name was | until, months after, the boy put a|Easter sun the Risen Christ, who| The office of carrying and conferring | Maria II, Queen of Dortugal, Gregors age waved Orestes aside, with the|blue gleam fo mademoiselle's writing | {he same as that of Orestes, and who, | climax to his “brooding" by announc: | brings them redemption, and rejo | the rose upon those living outside o |XVI (1842); Marfa Pia of Portugal on |pleasant assurance of his regret at|desk. a dainty bit of Empire furniture, | like the father of Orestes, was a fish | ing his intention to take himself and |The golden flower and its shining|Rome was given by th: Pope to car-|the day of her baptism, Pius IX, her having had to third-degree him so|which stood in a gold-hung niche in | tfader. Maximo has been bereaved | his sixpences in savings down to |splendor show forth Christ in His|dinal legates, a latere nuncios and|godfather (1849); Isabella IT of Spai long. the wall. He saw on the desk what | 9f his wife shortly after the birth of | London. Kingly Majesty, heralded by the aposiolic abligates. In 1895 a new|Pius IX (1868); Maria Christian Inspector Savage and his assistants | seemed to be a flame of blue scintillat- | his only son—Orestes! He had dis [ = As a part of the bargain for the re- | prophet as the flower of the fleld and | office called “bearer of the Golden|Queen Regent of Spain, Leo XIIT ORESTES VANNINL, WHO WAS |at last returned to Scotland Yard pro. | mg in the gold.tnted suniighe appeared from the Plazza Emmanuel, | turn of such of the collection as had |the lily of the valley; its fragrance | Rose” was instituted and assigned t, | (1886); Isabella, Princess Imperial TRAINED FROM CHILDHOOD |foundiy puzzled. When the theft of | It appeared to be, at first, just a | Where the fishmongers are, v | not been disposed of and directions to | shows the sweet odor of Christ which (a secret chamberlain of sword and|of Brazil, then Reg'nt of the Em TO ROE THE DU 3 O | the collection was announced in the | huge square of colored glass, per- | years before, when Orestes was quite | recover the balance of it, the father | would be widely diffused by His faith- | cloak participante. pire, Leo XIII (1880; Maria Amelia, ROE DUKE AND DUCH- |1,0ndon Times it created a sensation. [ fectly cut with beveled edges. Some. |young. He had returned without his | was not prosecuted. Orestes went to | ful followers. During the nineteenth century this! ~ueen of Portugal, Leo XIII (1892), ESS OF HAMILTON AND BRAN. |pBy this announcement every trader | thing ahout the sharpness of those | hoy, according to his passports, some |the King's Prison ih Glasgow, The custom of giving the rose sup- 'rose was given to the following worthy |and lastly, Maria lienrictte, Queen of DON. in gems or rave antiques in Lurope cdges atuucted the jeweler: - He ex. seven years before. In- addition to] - (Copyright, 1926.) planted thé anclent practice of -send- (ueen ¥ Theéreda, widowed the Belgians, Leo XIII (1593). Sy 5 . & mystery deepens ‘Then it is permitted that I. a humble | chief of department here Naples, just how patient and perse- | ing a thief may be. And I learn it | rom the fishmonger in the Piazza | Lanuel ! the One by one been its inti vears disappe: S case, was discovered. Mme. Leblanc ; l was happy that she had not already ; the Hamilton-Brandon collection o HE duke and duchess gave up all