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The Washington times., 1901-12-27
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The Washington times., 1901-12-27
SPECI.iL NOTICES

SPECIAL NOTICE-A meeting Of the stocSbo1d-
ers OF the National Metropolitan Fire Insurance
Company Of the District OF Columbia will be
held at the office Of the company DECEMBER "a.
1901, for the election o; directors Polls open AZ
L m and close at o clock p. m.
e20-S SAM CROSS Secrat,rv
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Opened with Decline.

Today opened auspiciously for the bears,
for after starting at 1854. the price slid
down with scarcely any hesitation to
1885.
1t seemed to have struck some sort of
srag there. though, for it began TO rally.
The bears kept on bravely selling. for
they argued that the buying demand was
probably but a little covering of con-
tracts by other shorts who were going to
miss the real pie and only get the crust
But the stock. though it dropped in price
little every now and then. kept steadily
tending upward.
The bears kept on selling. but some one
else kept on buying. Thousands upon
thousands of shares were dealt in and the
bears were plainly getting nervous The
price had got above los; then it got
above 1O9, and then there was a rush of
the bears TO cover. In the final hour they
tumbled over each other to get stock.
Scenes of Excitement.
The price ran up in few minutes from
3 10sS to 112la, fell to lIiIk. and then
Jumped to 11S15. closing a. 112I4. a net
advance of sS4 points for the day The
sales were is5.s0O shares.
While the price of the stock was jump
ing skyward there were lot CT reports
that did not help TO improve the feelings
of the bears. 1t was said that things had
cleared up in the sugar trade" that "the
war was over" and that an important
conference had been held of leading SUGAR
refining interests at which "a truce had
been declared
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The Washington times., 1901-12-27
REMOVAL NOTICE.
The Washington Office

Of
Tho limited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
'"' HAS REMOVED TO
No. 1is5 New York Avenue Northwest
(Gsuund hOorl.
Where we are prepaged to issue without unneces-
saty delay
r.,;.;,t O8ci,l Fidelity and Contract Bonds.
Also Insurance PoliciessCovering Loss by
Burglary or Theft
]. g. SWORMsTEDT,
General Agent for the District OF Columbia.
TeIeuhoRe Main gi5. e-o-S
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s.~aii stocks of Product.

In one trade quarter the statement was
made that Arbuckle Brothers were over
sold and could not make their deliveries
promptly. and that consequently, they
would be forced to advance their prices.
There have never, according TO this
trade source OF Information, been such
small stocks of refined sugars throughout
the country as at present although it is
true that throughout the world there is
ali enormous suppl Of raw sugar
Wall Street, after the close of the mar
ket and on comparison of notes, somehow
came to the conclusion that James f.
Keene had something TO do with the run
in OF the sugar shorts
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would Resume Maiden Name.

Mrs. Martha D. schlosser flet a bill for
divorce against her soldier husband Rob
ert +. Schlosser. stating that the defend
ant deserted her in April %. 1898. and
went to Manila. p. l., where she believes
he now resides.
Since leaving her. Mrs. Schlosser de-
clares. her husband his failed to con-
tribute to her support and maintenance,
and she asks permission Of the court 10
resume her maiden name, Martha ID.
Sweeney Campbell Darlington IS named
as counsel for the petitioner.
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34.~I, % ine InIrd
precinct, had been looking for Davis all
day. Davis was charged with having
stolen $f4
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SUGAR SHORTS
BADLY CAUGHT
Bears Rush to Cover as
Prices Bound Upward.
NET ADVANCE NEARLY SEVEN POINTS
Excitement at Closing Scramble
Rumors of All Sorts Fill the Air
Stock Dealt in Heavily in Face OF
an Increasing Demand Street
Thinks Keene Had a Hand.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-American Sugar
Refining stock turned on the shorts to-
day, and for a while the financial fur
few on the New York Stock Exchange.
Wall Street has been selling the stock Of
the sugar refining company lately with
confidence, and with a break in price from
above 12O nearly TO par.
The confidence was born of the admitted
enormous over-supply Of raw sugars, both
beet and cane. throughout the world, an
nounoements OF cuts in prices by the
various refiners. and the ease with which
the stock has gene down. 1t reminded the
bears Of the pie that they enjoyed when
they were after Amalgamated Copper
stock. and up 10 today it appeared TO be
the foregone conclusion in Wall Street
that the price Of the stock was going
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papers Not to he Polished.

william l.. Masterson instituted pro-
ceedings for divorce against Claudia F.
Masterson. and Justice Barnard at the
request Of Attorney Niles. ordered that
the papers in the case be placed in the
safe in the office of the clerk OF court.
Justice Bradley yesterday granted
James H. Cross a divorce from Catherine
J. Cross on the ground OF desertion. sam
,izl . Truitt appeared as counsel for the
d
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Alleged Cruelty of Husband.

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ennis filed petition
for divorce against John E Ennis on the
grounds of cruelty and non-support. Chase
Rcys is named as counsel for the
petitioner.
William b. LYDIA filed a petition for dl
vorce against May G. LYDIA on the ground
OF desertion. They were married in 1887
and lived together until 1899. T. L. JEFF
fords is named as counsel for the petit
fiopar
The Washington times., 1901-12-27
Is Afraid of Her spouse.

Mrs. Lucy Simms says her husband
Jacob Simms, always slept with a razor
and a pistol under his pillow and that
she is in constant fear that be will kill
her. Yesterday she asked for a divorce
from him on the ground Of cruelty and
desertiOn.
Mrs. slmms also declares that The de-
fendant often ieat and kicked her in
such a manner as TO endanger her health.
She is represented by Edward G. Niles as
counsel
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
! CURRENT I LITERATURE FOR BUSY READERS


there was something very i'll in his eye,
says Goodwin Smith in the February At
lantic. He added that the eye flashed at
an allusion to the excitement of war as
contrasted with the dullness of Elba. a
feature in the character which, perhaps,
has hardly been enough noticed, was
sheer lust of war, and especially OF bat
ties the emotions of which, Napoleon
seems to have owned, were agreeable to
him. 1t appears not improbable that this
had a share, together with his insatla-
BILE ambition and his political need OF glo-
ry in launching him on his mad invasion
of Russia, for which it is difficult to as
sign any political purpose, as he re-
fused to restore the kingdom of Poland.
Another feature not much noticed in
Napoleons character is his classicism In
his early days he had employed his gar
rison leisure partly in reading roman
history: and instead of being repealed he
had been fascinated by the presentation
of the Roman Empire in Tacltus. we
see the result in his Eagles. his Legion
of Honor his political nomenclature, and
the general cast of his political institu-
TONS Perhaps the image of the Roman
Empire as q model for reproduction float
ed vaguely before his mind as it does be-
fore those of our imperialists at the
present day a grosser anachronisnl, 1t
is needless to say, there could not be
than an attempt to impose on the Euro
pean family of living nations anything
like the yoke imposed by Rome on
set of conquered provinces in Which ma
tional spirit was extinct.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
about John Marshall.

Interest in the John Marshall celebra-
ton appears in The Worlds Work for
February by some characteristic incl
dents in the life of the great Chief JUS
flee besides which there are q Marshall
portrait, a silhouette and pictures Of a
number of Marshall landmarks. Here is
one of the incidents:
One day, Judge Marshall, cnGrossed in
his reflections, was driving over the
Wretched roads of North Carolina on his
way to Raleigh in q, stick gig. His horse
turned out. of the road and the sulhy
ran over sapling and was tilted SO
as to arouse the Judge. When he found
that he could move neither to right nor
left an old negro, who had come along,
solved the difficulty.
My old marster,' he asked, what
fer you don't back your horse?"
That's true" said the Judge and he
acted as advised. Thanking his deliv-
erer heartily, he felt in his pocket for
some change, but he did not have any.
Never mind. old man., he said, 81
shall stop at the tavern and leave some
money for you with the landlord
The old negro was not impressed with
and asked the keeper if an old gentleman
had left anything there for him.
ooh, yes" said the landlord 'he left
a silver dollar for you. What do you
think Of that old gentleman"
The negro gazed at the dollar and said:
He was a gem man, for sho': but
patting his forehead-"he didn't have
much in here
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
The Trainin. OF Foys.

No mortal man knows what the little
ones are thinking of. as they sit in the
high chair, or, later in childhood. as they
silently grieve over The dr.lm-stck Of a
turkey No man knows hen they ,tce
listening. or if they listen at all. We
know only that, talking in their pres
ence, we are playing upon strings which
may get the keynote of he soul.
Yet | would not make the home in its
off-hours a school-room. strangling the
free course of conversation. y habit of
wholesome speech before men and women
IS the one sweeping insurance that COW
ers all risks in the family circle. and the
one which secures the best annuity to
the children when we are gone. Ii the
general talk Of a man among his fellows
is pure sweet free from scandal. regsoa-
able-not provocative of ill-temper. whole
some-nOt halfsome and oue-siIed as to
the truth, he need not altogether avoid
difficult topics at the table or at the fire
side. He may think his own thoughts.
say his say, and live out in public his
own life without fear of troublesome
echoes in his child's moods. II, in such
case. the wind blows where it Will. it car
ries none but good seed which may fall
on stony ground, and there, end of it:
or, hapIy it may fall on rich soil ut
good season. so that from it something
may be looked for not altogether unIove-
ly-Prof. james Morse, in IIarper's
Bazaar
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p Into the Latest MAGAZINES and Among Neutrality-suspicious.

and on until thousands of acres Eere
Enclosed. finally turning back to the be-
pirnine / drove for nearly q hundred
niles in southwest Kansas, and was not
once outside of d cattle pasture. Inc
roads were fenced across, gates Icing
placed as one field gave way to another
The appearance of d road with fence on
both sides of it was a novelty. Inside
these huge pastures were scores OF claims
1rcrtgaged to Eastern parties through the
mortgage companies now departed. The
mortgagees foreclosed their liens and Sc
cured title It is related that one or
these owners came out West to look at
ter his land He found it inside a pas
tire of eight thousand acres, the cat
t1e-man using it neither owning nor leas-
ing more than one-fiftn of the prairie
he occupied-about the usual ratio Of
owned to pastured portion OF these
ranches.
"See here" he objected. you have my
land in your pasture
Eyes; is it hurting it any?" replied the
cattle-man.
.Well. | want trout of there"
'All right, take it out. Or if you don't
want the cattle feeding on it go and put
I'D a fence and keep them off,
..But 1 will have you sued and get dam
ages"
Good: do it. Everybody around here
is a cattle-mIn, and cattle-men Will be
the Jury They will. probably fine you
for making me trouble
The investor went back East to think
II oyer.-Harper's Weekly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
Mrs. ci,berss Impressions of Booth.

But the most perfect Romeo, the finest
I ever saw, was the brother, Wilkes
Booth. He was very handsome most low
able md lovely He was eccentric III
some ways. and he had the family fail
6ucs. but he also had a simple, direct and
charming nature The love and sym
,athy between him and his mother We're
very close. very strong. No matter how
far apart they were, she seemed TO know,
in some mysterious way, when anything
was wrong with him. II he We're i'll or I'M
fit to play, he would often receive Il letter
of sympathy counsel and warning. writ
zen when she could not possibly have re-
caived any news or him He has told me
,of This himself. No, / never felt that 1t
was madness that carried him into the
rlot 10 assassinate the President. i know
from nv own limited experience how high
,feaIin. could run in those days. a man
lived SO wholly with people who thought
as he did that any one on the other sac
rvas hateful 10 him. Whatever ore"
Wilkes Booth into the plot it as not
nl1ite dare-deviitry. And if the lot tell
10 him to do the thing, l feel sure that
he went through with it without back
7yprd thought. He had that kind OF 10y
r,1t,. that kind of courage. Perhaps the
devotion of "a high-strung Nihilist' who
believes in his. cause, comes nearest 10
EXPRESSING il. / ought to say that TINS
5s lust my fancy from having known the
,nan.-F7rom THE Stage "reminiscences OF
Mrs. Gilbert IN the February scrlnher s
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
Her Military Rank.

Queen Wflhelmina joy knew no bounds
not long since when the Kaiser Wilhelm
appointed her colonel of the Fifteenth
Prussian Hussars though it is not her
first command To be the honorary colo
mel of a regiment of soldiers is one of the
great hobbies of royal princess. The
women colonies only number about six
teen, and these appointments are con-
fined TO Germany and Russia There are
only two women in the world who enjoy
the rank of admiral The Empress Dow
ager of Russia is chief of the first estab-
lishrnent of the Russian navy. besides be-
ing colonel of four regiments. and the
Queen of Greece gets much satisfaction
and a fair amount of glory from being
chief of the second establishment of the
navy. Car Alexandria III. was always
extremely fond of his young relative. and
knowing her passion for the sea gave hes
ships instead of troops.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
Victor Hugo. Artist.

Paul Neurice. in Harper's Magazine for
February, begins his article on Victor
Hugo, Artist, with this anecdote of the
great writer's first attempt at sketchlns:
Victor Hugo never learned how TO
draw In 1925, at the time of his tour
through Switzerland. he had taken on
his album few sketches, which he HIM
self characterized as 'naifs': bur these,
of course, We're merely souvenirs or traF-
Ell. He was mere than thirty years old
when, strolIing one day with a friend
towards the cnvrons of Paris-to Mon
fort lAmaury, I think-he stopped sud-
denly before a superb old crumblng tow
err What a magnificent ruin!' he eN-
claimed ut ought to be transferred to
paper. 1 am going to sketch 1t this min
ute Seating himself on stone, he took
out his pencil
"You know, then, how to draw asked
the friend
My faith. no. Nevertheless, I shall
make an attempt just the same
The essay proved not altogether sue
cessful; in fact. it was decidedly naif,
wayering and crude. The friend, who
was looking over the amateur artists
shoulder, burst out laughing. Victor HUI
go smiled himself as he destroyed the
leaf containing the scrawl.
You perceive that one must learn
how said the friend. without having
been taught, how can you draw the
lines correctly, place the light and shade.
determine the plans, establish the per-
spective?''
Very good replied Victor Hugo.
"But when one learns the art by himself,
it suffices to simply observe. Nature is,
after ali, the best teacher. 1t is nee
essary that I should draw; I will draw.
He possessed a strong will, as we'll as
the gift of perception. In succeeding eX-
cursions he produced further drawings.
that grew less and less imperfect and I'M
certain. After the tenth. he no longer
destroyed his sketch; after the twentieth.
he was sure of his point Of view and
sure of his hand. In short, he knew how
to draw: he did draw.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
5Ae Ghnfly Nom0n.
She Must Talk EntcrtainsIy TO Sue
cecil ..iety


TO H., a woman of the world nowadays
ono must be Standardization in
dafatigab,v chatty The society woman OF
to-day talks much and always Her ideas
are not necessarily numerous, but she has
acquired the art of expanding and elon-
eating and .ballasting those she has I'M
til she could deliver a two hours dis
course on pink chiffon at moments no
tice. The conversation OF the society
woman has become strongly characterIs-
tic. Whenever she is in want of word
she very handily puts in You know, or
don't you know" and with that short
respite is prepared to rush or again.
It would thus seem that conversation,
consisting of alternate remarks and elac-
ulations between two women. would be
impossible. But here the art comes in,
saws the Detroit Free Press a woman
who Is not a woman OF the world would
probably sit stupefied by this flow of Ian
guage and seek vain.y for an opeRiae In
which to project u few OF her ideas. But
the worldly woman recognizes her open
ing u~c- D a /
and deity comes in like second violin,
ana 50 the Symptom, o. t--e III is LIS
tanned.
One educated In society talk may easily
ascertain a persons social status. without
even seeing her. by hearing he talk The
fashionable woman ends all her sentences
with the English rising infection. She
talks quickly and with eerte n effusioa
of tone that is like bubbles She has her
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
The Wife of .Robs."

Lady Roberts is a buxon matron who
looks in the pink OF health Her express
sion is much more severe and determined
than that of her :IiuStrious husband so
that it is easy TO guess that she Is the
dominant partner fact known TO every
AngIo-Indian. She is idoIized by her Ge-
voted and most amiabe spouse.
Lord Roberts married under very IN
5eresting circumstances He had come
back from India a handsome young offi-
Ger with Il newly-won Victoria Cross. As
a garrison dance in Waterford he met the
od-lookinS daughter of Captain Rews.
late of the Seventy-third Foot. He fell
in love with her. and. despite the oppo-
sition OF his family. was married TO her
within three months
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
A Queens Vanity.

Yet Elizabeth was never really success
full with her wardrobe as d more
feminine woman might have been, writes
Margaret Deland, in Harper's Bazaar. Her
dresses were never beautiful. only ludt-
crousiy and most inappropriateiy mag
nificent; laden with jewels, weighed down
with cloth of gold stiff with silver en-
broidery and so heavy that even her big
powerful frame must Cwithout supporting
vnnity) have felt the fatigue OF carrying
them about. Elizabeth was certainly vain,
butt she cannot claim femininity merely
on that account, for vanity is by no
means an exclusively feminine character
istic: there are perhaps more vain women
than vain men, because women have more
leisure and their costumes afford greater
opportunities Tor vunity than the strange
" hideous clothing which custom has ar
ranged for men; but no thoughtful GENT
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

women do not. as rule, as do the jap
anese, put their babies upon the backs or
their young girls. The women, and not
infreQuently the men. carry their chill
dren, after babyhood. in their arms, even
when quite large. In fact, the care eN-
hibted by the fathers for their children,
proudly bearing them in their arms on
the street from place to place, shows that
Mr. Chinaman has good sense as we'll as
a good heart. He is not afraid he will
be laughed at for doing woman's work,
as some of our workng1nen seem to be
in the home land leaving to the wife
and mother not only the baby in arms,
but several toddlers at her skirts. while
the lordly master stalks by her side, and
when in his unfettered haste he gets
few feet in advance. he looks back. inn
patiently, saying, Hurry up."-Leslie's
Weekly
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
H7otAe1hooa 1ocatlou.
Grand Calling. of Which the Rewards
nnu Rangers Are Very Great.

ana Dangers Are Very Great.
eff there be a vocation which make.
greater demands upon the heart, soul. in
telIect and physique than this commor
vocation of motherhood | do not know
what it is writes Caroline Leslie Field
of The Problem of the Boy In the Feb
ruary Ladies' Home Journal. Esarths
greatest rulers. legislators and phiiau
thropists have been they who have reared
her generations from the cradle to ma
turity. and then sat back among the fire
side shadows with folded hands whit
their children praised them in the gates
1t is certainly d grand calling. There i
none other like It. But as the reward
great. so. also, is the danger great TIL
mother who knows her child's constitu
tion-mental. moral and physical-throtIs.
and through. as she alone can know Il
holds his future in her hands Tina
Should be reward enough for renouncim
her own present. as the world counts re
nunciation. In this. in all other things
there can be no serving two masters
From the founding of nations to tn
founding of Christianity no great obiec
has ever been attained without a life lait
down. But the mothers life is like he
Masters in that she lays it down thai
she may take it again
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03

nine) observer can doubt that a vain man
IS vainer than !. vain woman. EliZabeth's
hands were her especial pride, and judS-
ing from her portraits, they We're certain
Iy beautiful: they were laden with jewels.
and it was her habit in public to pull her
rings off with absent artlessness, and
push them OH again, moving those white
hands about IN a most obvious way. Once,
during the grave consideration OF Il State
paper wherein her cold sagacity never
took second place, she interrupted the DIS
cussion to ask whether the Due d'Anjou-
who was at that time one OF her su-t0rs,
had been told what a pretty foot she hid.
and how white and well rounded was her
arm? This, in the woman VINO financed
the Armada with hard-headed economy.
who dared the super=titioYs terrors OF her
own conscience in her <.gh-handed and
impudent treatment of the Bishops. whose
interest in methods OF torture for State
prisoners was most mechanical and m
telligent, entirely unhampered by any
s,,ueamish feminine hesitation as to blood
or paints most curious In connection
with this last characteristic OF cruelty,
vanity is not at all unprecedented In
deed, if one observe closely, one will notice
that excessively win persons have almost
always a strange inclination towards
cruelty. The accounts OF what Queen
Elizabeth permitted and indeed communal
cd in this respect viii hardly bear read
ing bv us sensitive folk to-day.