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The evening times., 1895-11-26
MIR. GRISyyOLD'S HUMOR.

The President of the Anacostia street
railway, SO called, must surely be indulging
in another of his frequent bits of pleas
antry when he suggests that Congress will
pass an act permitting the erection of an
overheadtrolley for ancwpowerw with which
to run the cars of his road.
Mr.. Griswold has shown himself TO be
keen humorist. He locks out bis employees
who have been trying to support their fam
lilies on his starvation wages and sits in
his comfortable chair smiling at The misery
he has brought about. He reads in The
Times of their being without fuel and bread,
and rubs his hands with satisfied glee in
the presence of his own blazing fire and
weli-filled larder. He knows they are
being supported by contributions from poor
1y-paid fellowworkmen, and even that
noble, self-sacrifice does not check for
one moment the zost of his cffervescing
humor.
Carrying his love of the amusing and gro
tcsque still farther he maintains malo.
dorous cars and melancholy horses which
give the blues to all patrons of the road,
and thinks that is funny. He sends his
time worn. wrecked and painless bob
tails on their mad career at the rate of q
mile an hour, and chuckles with intense
audibility to know that every one who
rides has TO place his or her own fare in
the money box.
With this brief analysis Of the fine sense
of humor which is the all-pervadiDg char
acteristic OF the president OF company
which owns the meanest street railroad
In the world, one can easily comprehend
the impulse which leads the man TO play
this new joke upon the public of suggesting
that his lines will soon be equipped with
the overhead trolley.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
TERRELL AND THE TURK.

Minister Terrell who, under the guiding
hand of Divine Providence, was sent TO
Coestantiaople' to give the Turks the ben
eft of his immeasurable WISDOM has been
accused of many things, good, bad and
Indifferent, but it remained for a clergy
man of his own section of America TO
deal him the cruelest blow of all.
This clergyman, speaking from knowl-
edge, it is to be assumed, declares that
Terrell has been proselyted, that he has
fallen victim to the sensuous wiles
OF the orient, that he has actually es-
poused the MohammedaD faith and for
saken the Christian confession of his faith
ers as it is Interpreted in the land Of
Texas.
Terrell has been suspected Of feverish
desire to advertise himself. He has been
charged with Transforming the scream
of the great American eagle into the chat
tering of n magpie. He is asserted to have
issued proclamations and ultimatums to
the Turk which convulsed all Europe with
laughter, but until clergyman Of the
great Southwest made the announcement
Terrell had not been suspected of turn
ing traitor. to that gentle religion which,
down in Texas, prescribes that if a man
smite you on one check you shall bang
him on both, and that you don't often
want a pistol, but when you do you want it
very badly.
Can it be possible that Terrell has turned
Mussuman? Does he assemble himself at
the voice Of the muezZiD and bow to the
ground, his face toward the east, and in
tone his Allah il Allah like the Turks, and
attend mosque regularly? Does he bask
in the light of the glorious eyes of the
odalisque, .and is he laying himself out
to play stronger hand than Abdul Hamed
in the royal rugs and drapery and up
holstery and other objects Of art which
are necessity in every well appointed
harem?
America is astonished and alarmed at
the report set afloat by the South western
clergyman, and with intense interest
awaits further developments.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
ITS STRENGTH ACkNowLEDGED
Attempts of Contemporaries TO Sten
The Times Tide of Success.

Attempts of Contemporaries to Stem
The Times Tide OF Success.
the initial issue of The Time. about
twenty months ago created no more than
passing notice cefroIn its contemporaries, who
acknowledged new journalistic youth
aud Immediately set forth to enlarge the
grave where are buried somauy unfortunate
local newspaper enterprises of former
years.
But these contemporaries have seen the
error of their earlier judgment and have
substituted methods of warfare as vigorous
as their feeble aud fossilized organisms
can generate.
No more conclusive evidence Of the recog-
milton by these new spapers of tile strength
Of The Times eau be offered than the
fact that certain prominent advertisers
have been able to contract for space in
these more or less valua bic mediums for
about one-half former rates, on condi-
ton that The Times be excluded from their
patronage How have tue mighty fallen!
Notwithstanding these artful dodgers.
The Times continues TO grow in popularity
aud in consequent steadily increasing
circulation. 1t is true to the principles
which it first espoused, aud yet is, withal,
the most accurate aud complete morning
aud evening news record in Washington.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
KEYNOTE OF THEIR POLICY
Republicans Declare That the Mica
ragua Canal Will Be Built.
Control of II by the United States Is
Necessary to Perfect Union
of States.

'sThe Nicaraguan Canal will be built by
the United States Government if it costs
$5OO,OOO,UOO."
This is the reply Of Senator John H..
Mitchell of Greg on to the wet blanket re-
port OF the canal commission.
THE question of cost does not enter into
the matter at all,' said Seantor Chandler
OF New Hampshire. .TheNicaraguanC Canal
VIII be built by somebody, and it is abso-
lutely necessary that it be built and CON
trolied by the United States, no matter
what the expense may be-"
These two utterances strike the key
note of the Republican policy. In fact, it
is felt that the construction OF the NioaTa-
guam Canal by the United States Govern
ment is absolutely essential 10 the future
development OF American commerce, and
that its control by the United States is
necessary to the complete and permanent
union OF our Atlantic and Pacific coasts
Senator Mitchell, after giancins over the
report of the commission, expressed the
opinion that the Republican party could
not permit any mere question OF collars
and cents at this time to interfere with
the speedy completion of the work.
ITO my part of the country" he said,
lit is of especial Importance. 1t brings US
10 900 miles nearer by sea to the markets
of Europe and TO the Eastern markets or
our own country. II additional surveys are
necessary they Will be authorized. but In
any event IT is certain that tue United states
must control this international waterway,
and control 1T alone
Senator Cha ndler said. II am not sur
priscd that The report of the Nicaraguan
Canal commission should be- unfavnrab bic to
the canal project. The first official act OF
President Cleveland in 1885 was to hold up
the treaty with Nicaragua. by means of
which thernited States would have already
had the canal constru cted and in operation.
Cleveland, in like amer, at the beginning
of his second term. suspe nded the Hawaiian
treaty and again catered to un-American
influences. Cleveland is opposed TO the MIC
araguan Canal. and when lie appointed
commission to report upon that project he
selected men undoubtedly 10 carry out his
ideas"
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Odd and American.

A phenomenon in the recent severe drought
in Maine which caused wells, never before
known to fail, to dry up completely, was
that of a reputed ''bottomless" pond at
Fort Fairfield was eighteen inches higher
at the severest period of the drought than it
had ever before been known to be-
A horse that had been working steadily
for thirty-five years, and was working at
the time 1t dropped dead, died in Telfair,
Ga last Saturday. 1t was thirty-eight years
old, and as long ago as 1862 was used il
the mali service between Ha wkinsville and
Cochran.
Five mattresses in bloomers have been
serving in Los Angeles restaurant for sew
eral weeks, and the innovation is regarded
as a success there.
A brass band composed entirely of Penob-
scot Indians, has been organized in Maine,
and is said to be doing we'll" Whether
this is q hopeful or hopeless sign in regard
to the progress of the red man is perhaps
question for the philosopher rather than the
cynic.
Cherryfield, Me-. has fire company bear
ing the odd name of the Egg-beater Fire
Company. 1t appears to be good conn
pany, too, for the citizens of Cherryfield
have Just presented to it a silver trumpet
in recognition of recent good work in fight
ing fire.
Three wild buffaloe es a re said to have been
discovered by Indians in the country be-
tween the Judith River and Armells Greek.
in Montana.
Michigan papers are telling, with ap-
parent sincerity, of a parsnip eight feet
and two inches in length recently pulled
at Union City, and a radish grown at School
craft that measures twenty-three inches
in circumference.
1t is believed that pear tree at Clinton,
Conn.,, reputed to be 230 years old, is the
Oldest fruit tree in New England.
Horace ManvilIe. who was 100 years old
on March 10 last, died in Woodbury., Conn.,,
recently.
A woman lather is regularly employed at
her trade in the neighborhood about Bid
10 iy,x for Sb,
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ANAUTHoR ATsEyENTEEN

Born when his father was only twenty-one
years OF age. the young Alexandra pub
lished his first work when lie was in his
seventeenth year. 1t was a volume of poems,
and called LES Peches de Jeunesse.''
The triumph OF La Dame aux Came
las which was drama,ized at the Yau-
deville, with Madame Doche and Fechter
is today as attractive as ever in every
country. Whatever its sincerity or its
morality. it has moved the world. What
pem OF NaPpe Famms a ms Dc
IL 'Etrangere, Denise" '.Francillon,"
Monsieur Alphonse.'
Some of lts most interesting, efforts. at
least from literary point OF View. are To
bc found in the prefaces that IL has plea sed
him to place with each new edition of his
stories or plays. But there is something
aphoristic. obscure, and even self CONTRA
dictory in his philosophy, just as there
is something forced and patched-up in his
art. He makes the impres sion OF an I'M
bilious spirit looking out for a way towar
sensation. rather than of Il creative genius
distributing its generous gifts.
HIS TASTE IN ART.
NJ. Dumas fine collection of pictures
was sold in 1892 for more than 500. .OCO
francs. NJ. Dumas was installed mem-
ber of the French Academy on February
II, 1875, and was promoted to the rank Of
Commander of the Legion OF Honor.
About thirty years ago he married noble
native of Finland. and had two daughters
by her. Colctte, married about fourteen years
ago to NJ. Maurice Lippmann. and Jeannine,
who married the Comte de Hauterine in
1890. Nine. Lippmann has helped her
father great deal in his work. She has had
four children. two of whom are still living.
Until 1892, when he sold his famous col
lection OF pictures nd bric-a -brac. he lived
in a magnificent house on the Avenue de
Villiers. 1t was really an extra ordinary
thing that NJ. Dumas should part with his
paintings. 1t cannot be that he sold them for
the sake of the money they brought, for he
did not need that. Expensively as he had
lived. he was a very rich man. The royal
ties on his books and plays brought him a
splendid income each year, more than he
could possibly spend.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Nat Goodwin in Ambition. E"

The announcement in yesterdays Times
of the appearance of Mr.. Nat C. Good.
win next week at the National Theater was
received with the greatest of interest, and
the assurance that he would present for
the. first time in Washington his latest
by Henry Carleton. proved doubly gratify-
ing. That the piece will receive CON
siderate hearing at the hands of Wa shing
ton playgoers Is more than evidenced by
The story of Ambition is one Of
purely local interest. All the scenes and
characters depict ed being, a portra yal
interesting feature of Mr.. Carieton's new
work is that 1t revolves around the much
discussed Cuban insurrection. Mr.. Nat
position of Americas foremost actor.
He has won this title through his great
versatility, conscientious work, and in
defatigabe efforts to please. Then, a gain.
for America. He is an American. He
produces g; only American PLAYS.
can writers. OF ali his great successes
Gilded Fool David Garrick." and IN
eclipsed all previous PRESENTATIONS in his
latest play, ambition" which first saw
the light of day last September at the Firth
Avenue Theater, New York, and for over
ciRHt WtthS Supfeiut. NlEDl 1IIcr
night that famous old house was filled with
the most Representatives. American audiences
and when the engagement came to q close
and the piece transferred to the Chestnut
Street Opera House, in Philadelphia. for an
other brief run, the same exciting scenes
were witnessed.
Mr.. Goodwin's support this season is
by far the strongest he has ever had, and
includes such we'll wn artists as Annie
Russell George Fawcett. Jean Clar Wal
ters. Henry Bergman, Estclle Mortimer.
]. g. Saville. Ethel Browning, Arthur
Hopes, and many others. The scenic
environments are described as magnificent,
and all scenery and settings will be brought
here intact from New York,
Ioeh q H;va,, n rs .e,l,rs, r.h;,.,-,,,
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Entirely Masculine.

At the age of ninety three Sidney Cooper,
of the Royal Academy. is painting pictures
for the exhibition next spring. He was
made an associate fifty years ago.
william Morris. whom the world usually
thinks of as artist and poet. is a pra ctical
printer and the inventor of a printing press
which has turned out the most beautiful
work. technically, Of the day.
j. Edwin Stone, the man who once walked
from San Francisco to New York city in
1913 days. says that he wore out ten pairs
of stout shoes and three suits OF clothes
in making the trip.
Highwaymcn held up the Duke de Cas-
telluccia as he was walking home one even
ing lately at Portico, near Naples, and after
taking his watch. and money made him
strip and hand over his shirt.
Capt. Won Hunneken. who played such
a conspicuous part in the Chinese Japan
war, is now in Berlin, Germany, on a spe-
cial mission giving him full powers to make
arrangements for the reorganization OF the
Chinese army on the Russian. French or
German model. 1t is certain that the Chi
nese army needs very radical reformation.
Albert Chevalier, the music hall singer,
confcsses in the autobiography he has Just
published that his full name is Albert Ones
imo Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chev-
alier.
Prof. John NJ. Laflin. the strong man, he
who challenged Sullivan and was used as a
model by Gerome. the great French painter,
is about to inaugurate war on cigarettes.
The latest theological critic is Frederick
Archer, musical director at the Carnegie
library in Pittsburg, who denounces the
Moody and Sankey hymns as vulgar.
if not absolutely immoral"
DIR. Conan Doyle has bought q plot of
ground and begun the erection of a house
near Hindhead. in Surrey, where Tyndal
lived, and near where Tennyson spent his
last days.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Steady!

Blue sky smiliu' through the storm,
(Steady- now, belieyersD
Fires where all our hearts may warm,
(Steady now, believersO
Spite of all the prophets say,
Country sees brighter day;
More sweet roses meet the May.
STEADY now, believersi)
Though the lightnings flash along,
(Steady now, believersD
Music's In the thunder's song.
(Steady now, belieyers!)
All the storms will soon be past
From the billow and the blast,
Safe within tue port at last.
(Stcady now. believersD
Atlanta Constitution.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
WASHINGTON, D. c.. NOVEMBER &c, 1895
su,,scr,ber. 10 "The Times" VIII

Subscribers TO "The Times" win
confer favor by promptly reporting
any discourtesy of collectors OF neg
lect- of duty on the part of carriers.
Complaints either ny mail or In per.
son VIII receive prompt attention.
The Morning Edition should he de-
iivered to all parts of the city by GAO
o'clock n m, including Sunday. The
Evening Edition should be in the
hands of subscribers not latcr ;han
6:3O U. n.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

One wonders what Terrell would have
done to make himself famous IL those dozen
American missionaries had chnsen their
field of operations at home, where their
services are far more needed than In the
domain of the Turk.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Not the Only One.

''Ah, mon enfanti"
The shade of Svengaii looked upon the
shade of Trilby with tender solieitude.
ut is day of Thanksgiving upon earth.
| wonder If 1t is because you and are no
longer"
With an inlperious gesture Trilby stopped
him.
"You forget, m'sieu--"
She glanced hurriediy aboot her, but no
body could overhear them.
You forget that the Napoleon fad is also
dead"
Consoled by the thought that the people
on earth had other things to be thankful FOR
the two shades floated on and on through
space.-New York World.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
PEFFER AND FUNERALS.

Senator PETER appears to be in dead
earnest in his purpose to expose the vul-
gar and lavish expenditure of the peoples
money for funerals of Members of Con-
gress, and incidentally to criticise the con-
duct OF the escorts of fstatesmen who accom-
pany the remains from the nearest to the
remotest parts Of the country. as the case
may be.
While the tax M fera updonhfe.lIy hare fn
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Unqualified.

Hillson-shall YOU send your son to
college?
Millson-what's the use? He cuuld not
achieve any honurs.
Hillson-Hasn't he brains enough?
Millson-Brains, brains? Nonsense He
has enough for two, but he 3 fast losing his
hair and no football team would have
him.-New York World.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

II there is anything under heaven given
among men in which Senator Quay is not
accused of having a hand let the person who
knows nf it stand up and nominate its
character.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

1t is said that Bailey of Texas is pre-
pairing an argument against the constitu-
tionality of the decision of Secretary Nor
ton that the cruW is friend TO the farmer,
and not bird Of prey.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

It is stated, upon good authority, that
the next Congress will be asked tn repeal
the high way act. but whether or not the
request will be granted is as yet an undis-
covered point.
AS intimated in The Morning Times Of
today, there are these in court circles who
are of the opinion that the whole thing
should be wiped cut, the principal ohjec-
ton To Its perpetuity being partly upon
constitutional grounds, but based largely
upon the unsettled condition of real es-
tate values brought about by the attempt
TO enforce the law, without adequate pro-
vision for the rights of property owners.
UNREST OF THE PEOPLE.
The controversy now pending in equity
court No. l. before Chief Justice Bingham,
is developing the unrest of the People, and
bringing to light numerous objections,
which, for the benefit of the proposed inn
proyement, might well be kept in allegiance,
and which, the petitioners in the case say,
could have been provided against at the
time the act was passed by paying proper
regard in the forming OF the measure TO
the rights of the people.
A gentleman VINO knows as much, prob
ably, of the history of the highway act Is
anybody else Can tell has said Ia The
Times that, while he believes an effort for
repeal will be made, he is not uf the opinion
that successful attack can be made upon
constitutional grounds.
Il do nut desire to be quoted" was his
comment when asked for his views.
Il am willing to express private
opinion. and that is an expression OF con-
fidence in the care with which the bill
was drawn. 1t had the best thought,
think, OF several Congresses. Originally it
.lt y, e ~.
act passed, Of course, but the central object
was the same.
A DANGEROUS DISCRETION.
The original act was attacked because,
as alleged, a discretion was left tn the
Commissioners that was believed to be
dangerous-nut that there was any doubt
of the integrity uf the board, officially or
other wise, but for the reason that upon
general principles it is not well tn intrust
the public interests, without proper safe
guards, so much tu the care of a few.
"A similar bill was before the Fiftieth
Congress and again befure the Fifty-first.
1t the latter instance it was defeated by
Judge Harlan just before the cluse OF the
session.
The present act, / may say in brief,
was carefully drawn after consideration
of all previous objections, and 1 do not
believe its constitutiunality can be sue
cessfully attacked"
The inference draw from the gentle
mans remarks is that a successful as
sault upon the bill may be made upon other
grounds. He closed BY saying that he
knew of some things which he could not
properly disclose, and his admission that
a movement for repeal is on foot leaves TO
speculation the grounds upon which the
motion, to which hc is not party, will
be based.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

Rejected manuscripts are usually
returned when accompanied by
stamps, but aEy obligation to do so
10 expressly dtsavowed.
Manuscripts nnaccompanied by
p0ktage Will not be returned.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
The circulation of The Times for
the week ending November "a was as
Total. :. E. ..-.. :. 236.s7

1 sOlennly swear that the above is
q correct statement of the daily cir
culatiOn of THE WASHINGTON
TIMES for the week ending November
24S1S05, and that all the copies were
actually sold or mailed for a valuable
consideration and delivered to bona
fide purchasers or subscribers; also,
that none of them were returned or
remain in the office undeliyered.
J. MILTON YOUNG, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of November, A. ID.
1895. ERNEST G. THOMPSON,
Notary Public.
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born in a materlalistic age, and am a
reaiist. My father takes his subjects from
drcamland: / take mine from life. lie
works with his eyes shut: | with mine
open. He starts from q fact, l from ap
idea
The father, however was nearer the
truth, and epigrammatiCally ncster. when
he summed up with The words:"He is a
photographer: am FAINTER" The father
owed the larger part OF his success 10 his
power as a ury-teller-abounding III ac-
ton, splendid in color, fun of life. gayety
and charm; always goUdly ana glaa. never
sick and sorry. "Hc was force Of Nature"
said Michelet, and, like Nature, be had no
theories. The son, on the other hand, is OF
theorizing all compact, and never hesi-
tates about working his theses into para
Inx
The evening times., 1895-11-26

Ex-Speakcr Crisp will have brilliant
Opportunity to distinguish himself as the
leader Of furlorn hope.
The evening times., 1895-11-26
Happy Thought.

woul-How are the Neweds getting along?
Van Pelt-Very nicely. Having discov'
cred that they could never think alike, they
agreed to pair and let the cuok have the
decidingfvpte.-New York World.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

That party broom will make a clean
sweep at the Capitol next Monday
The evening times., 1895-11-26
A More Moderu Reading.

Hanilet-Hie thee to nunneryi
Ophelia-What's the matter with Bro,,k-
lyn las q comprumtse?-New York sworid.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

Loeb 8 Hirsh are selling children's cloth
ing at cost
The evening times., 1895-11-26
MOVEMENT FOR REPEAL
Congress to Be Asked to Wipe
Out the Highway Act.
OBJECTION TO ITS EXISTENCE

The Attack Is Based Upon Constitu-
tiomI Grounds and Also Upon the
Unsettled Condition of Real Estate
Values Brought About by the Ef-
forts to Enforce the Law.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

Loeb s. Hirsh are selling children's cloth
ing at cost.
The evening times., 1895-11-26

Loeb s Hirsh are selling childrcn.s cloth
ing at cost
The evening times., 1895-11-26
At $3.50

worth %. Has latest styles large
sleeves, ripDle back and the stylish
"Franklin" collar and bias front, which
buttons high on the shoulders The col
inlaid
Second floor
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M. Goldenberg,
92S 7th St.

Donf you appreciate having
stock Of Goats and Cabes to pick
from 7vhere van1ety is practically
boundless and quantities so great
that u need is skipped? Here's a
woman's diagonal eheviot Refer
Coat