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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01
Portrai, OF Major John Poe.

A large and well executed photograph
=, Major John Poe. the late Chief OF
pol,ce has been completed oy the Camp
he'll Zip Photograph Company; 1t had been
ordered by the Board OF Police Comm,s-
sioners. and will hereafter decorate the
room OF the CHIEF Of Police In the City
Han.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01
Cobb's Island Via 4. and q.
- HOUND InIp.

ATTRACTIVE TRIP AUGUST Sd
VIA
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY
AND
PALACE STEAMER POcAHONTAS.
Leave Richmond via Chesapeake and
ohio train BIB T. NJ Saturday, August
sd arrive Old Point $50 y. NJ. spend
night at old Point. leaving by Pocahonias
: A. NJ. Sunday, arrive cobbs Island
II 4. NJ. Returning. leave cobbs Island
1 = NJ. sunday, arrive Richmond Chesa-
peake and Ohio special train $50 +. NJ.
Sunday. This combines a night at Old
Point and an ocean voyage for little
money and no loss OF time from business.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01

take per cent for your money when
The state Building ani Loan company
Il rer cent. and guarantee you per
cent on It's s25 paid-up stock. which Is
The same as a time certificate Of deposit
I'm A bankf call on or address US IL
HOS east Main street. k tI,n s1 a.
" MINOR WOODWARD. Vice-Pres.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01
caIlided With IA Fire Engine.

While engine No was going TO the
fire Yesterday morning, IL ran into a
surrey in which were seated Mr.. w. II.
Crew. hss wife. and another lady. Mr..
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01
Law and Equity Court.

In the Law and Equity Court forty
two suits were instituted curing the
month OF July. OF which thirteen were
chancery suits.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01

In Tho Times OF yesterday II was
printed that Captain Mccabe had rented
the large brick mission building. &c. IL
should have read 1.-THE large nricN man
sion "
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01

The Temperature and Rainfall for the
Month just Past.

The following is a carefully-prepared
record Of the temperature and rainfall
for the month just passed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01

DO you see the testimonials written ~
neor,le who have been cured OF various
diseases By Hoods SarsapaFihaF Ihey
point the way for you II you need good
medicine.
Hoods pills have won high praise for
their prompt and efficient yet easy action.
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seven thousand dollars year since he went to Paris. He is out of pocket about fifty thousand dollars as result of being American ambassador to France. It might be observed that MT. Eustis has chosen a rather expensive house. But were he to go out of the expensive quarter of Paris his useful ness as a diplomat would be gone. And house rent in fashionable Paris is high. The ambassadorial coach is also ne- cessity and the entertaining must be kept up or the diplomat will loose caste. Were Mir. Eustis, for example, to de- cline an invitation to a state function or a minister's entertainment, it would be deemed a grave breach of etiquette. Were the offense repeated the minister would find himself without influence and might even be reported to Wash ington as persona non grata. Having once accepted the courtesies, he is bound to reciprocate them.
 In the holiday and vacation season his post is even more trying. He must go where the powers go. He is obliged to lease a chateau or at the humblest a villa. There are always American in terests needing the support of an am- bassador at foreign power. Were the social side of diplomatic life neglected, American interests would be deprived of all protection. A conspicuous in stance of this is the manner in which American beef and hams were allowed entry into Germany for years in spite of domestic agitation, solely owing to the personal influence of our minister to Berlin.
 The other ambassadors are in an equally sorry plight. MT. Bayard is out, so far, about $25, ,0O0 on his mission. MT. MacVeagh spent $20,0oo in Rome during the first three months of his stay. The money question has reached crisis owing to the recent elevation of our ministers to the capitals of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia to the rank of ambassadors, When we had ministers only, the situ- ation was bad enough, but now it has become well-nigh intolerable.
 At the same time our ambassadors have urged their kclaims with great all that the administration concurs fully i'll their view of the matter, but Secre- tary Gresham made personal plea to Mr. Bayard to use his influence with his colleagues in Europe to remain pa tient until the time when their situa-
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be news to everybody that crisis has been reached in the affairs of the five ambassadors now stationed in Euro pean capitals by the government of the United States.
 Secretary Gresham has intimated to the president, and this can be stated on the authority of a letter written by the secretary himself, that the position of the ambassadors is such as to war rant immediate action by congress. Should no action be taken by that body it is almost certain that Clifton R. Breckenridge, our ambassador to Russia, and Theodore Runyon, who holds the same post in Germany, will resign. There has been circulated a statement to the effect that MT. Breck- enridge has already announced his in tention of abandoning his post. That statement, however, is premature.
 The whole trouble is the result of the long standing salary grievance. As everybody knows, our ambassadors receive a very inadequate stipend. Their salary is seventeen thousand five hundred dollars q year each, but fifty thousand dollars is pronounced barely sufficient to maintain the dignity of the position.
 MT. Runyon in Germany and Mir. Eustis in France, have, even with the exercise of the closest economy, spent twice their respective salaries and more in expenses connected with the posts they fill. These details will sur prise no one, But 1t will be news. to
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 to abandon London. Mrs. Astor herself was long anxious to make foreign tour that should include pretty much the entire world, and were it not that her illness assumed so sudden change for the worse, this trip would have been begun. Mir. Astor's three living ehil- dren are now at school The oldest is at Eton. The next boy is not very strong and is being educated under the supervision of private tutors, while the little girl was on the point of entering a girls school in Paris when her mother died.
 Mrs. Astor, during her residence in New York, was noted among society women by her passion for skating. She and her husband or a brother would be out in Central park every day that the ice was in proper condition for the gelid pastime. Once she fell on the ice and severely injured her arm and chest. This ended her skating for that winter, and the supposition is ventured here and there that the fall of that day may have been the beginning of the illness that eventually terminated fatally. Personally the deceased lady was quite popular and frequently gave dinners to her husbands employees.
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drug propensities in quiet and gen. tlemanly way. It is an open secret that at least third of the young men in New York society are slaves to seductive drugs of one kind and another, from opium to absinthe, and, of course, Lord Randolph had no difficulty in getting what he wished. It appears that he visited a famous opium resort in the Tender loin no less than six times and at last came near losing his life as result of being carriel unconscious to his car riage on cold and rainy night. The .aristocrat left New York hopeless wreck, and yet no one in the inner circles of the Four Hundred suspected his ailment,with the exception of those who aided in aggravating it. Lord Randolph carries with him on his jour neys unique flower receptacle con- structed out of scull and cross bones The flowers that bloom from the sum- init are in singular contrast to the makeup of the object in which they are contained, and at the Knickerbock- CT club it was said recently that the contrivance is almost an emblem of the life of the noble lord himself
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BALILSTIC TEST. cial connected with the treasury department It ap- pears that when tho whole matter was laid before the president he imposed a small fine for appearances sake and when the papers went to the navy de- partnent they were suppressed in spite of the protest of the Carnegie concern. which desired that it's side of the story should go to tho people. The Carncgies arc thus in the position of a concern which has been judged in ad- vance of the presentation of it's own side of the case.
 In the emergency Mr Carnegie him self was consulted by Mr Prick when he reached this country. He, it seems, was for printing the suppressed inform ation. but that the concern could hard ly, do with propriety. because it would have been violation of otficinl ethics. Instead of that, however, the Carnegie concern made the offer which has re- gently been surprising the navy de partmept. This offer is nothing less than that the concern shall itself stand .he expense of ballistic tests to prove Its plates satisfactory. Mr. Carnegie will even accept any terms. Mir. Car negie has very literally thrown a bomb shell into the camp of his enemies and 1t is very likely that one high govern ment official will soon be utterly com promised. -s.es
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tion can be made known to congress. This Mir. Bayard has already done, for on his arrival in London he sent let ters, which he had previously written in this country and shown to his off, cial superior, in which the hope of amendment of their situation was held out.
 At the present time MT. Gresham has received communications from the am- bassadors setting forth that their posi- tioDs are absolutely untenable. At their conference, the American diplo- mats agreed upon representation to the state department that in their opin- ion it would be advisa ble in the inter- ests of our national dignity to reduce at once the grade of our foreign estab- lishrnent to it's former level. This would save each diplomat Sl0, GOO year. since a minister is saved coach ex- penses and the cost of entertaining other ambassadors. Unfortunately, however, such proceeding would leave the ambassadors from the five foreign powers in Washington in a very un- dignifed position. Their governments would undoubtedly recall them and the entente cordiale would be ieopar- dized.
 It is well known to our state de- par.ment that MT. Iunyon would cer- tainly have succeeded in bringing a bout a satisfactory settlement of the meat exclusion affair in Germany had he been allowed more ample funds The nsed, of a few thousand dollars at a critical moment has thus cost one great American industry hundreds of thou sands of dollars year and thrown nlsry men in the west out of employ merit And besides that Mir. Runyon is about twenty thousand dollars poor er now than on the day of his appoint ment as ambassador
 The situation, to sum up. is this: Cur ambassadors are slowly ruininr themselves abroad, and they want. to come home. One by one they propose to come home. and Mir. Breckenridge wants to come first. But Mir. Gresham will make an urgent representation of the difficulty to congress through the president, and the conntry:wfll then learn whether We shall do without arn-f bassadors or stop making them the laughing stock of Europe.
 , DANIEL CfEYEHroN
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not possible? show you zat speak ze truth. You shake no more ze head after ze first lesson. You try? All right. You must pay ze money in ad vance. Eat is my rule avec all ze Eng fish peoples. Merci
 ''You take ze leetle rope and you put ze leetle pipe-stem in ze ear," said the French master, as he beckoned me with long bony finger toward a black box concern that much resemb1ed the bier made for holding baby collins. Feeling that had fallen into the hands of an unbalanced person faintly mur- mured: II think, professor, you mis- Understood me; came to take French lesson" ss sss7a
 1T know! I knoww exclaimed the professor excitedly, as he grasped. two tubes that emerged from the coffin like arrangement and fourished them wildly from right to left. You is % stupid American woman; you no wait for ze development In preparing ze present method it has been ze aim to exclude nussing of ze practical value, but to combine avec ze best features of all ze works of ze great professors ze I timid, but put ze pipe-stem in ze ear"
 The professors manner now grew SO authoritative, his black eyes so fiery and his mustache so uneasy that not to obey was impossible. 1 grasped the tube, put it to my ear and looked at the professor for further orders. His Excitement grew, and bouncing off few steps and rubbing his hands with delight he beamed upon me with sud- den good nature.
 ssYou hear nussing?" shook my head, thinking at the time twill l ever get out of this and report his case to the insane asylum authorities You wait one leetle moment" He tip toed around the mysterious box, un- tangled the tube and thrust another ear piece into my ear with a vigor that Threatened the safety of the drum.
 ''All ze time you hear missing! You wait yet one leetle moment!" Again he stepped off to admire me as paint CT would his latest production in oil, while he gently swayed back and forth using as q pivot his hich-hccled shoes. Then with light step he advanced and touched bright button that shone like an eagles eye from the black sur face of the odd-looking box, and there Immediately sounded in my ears the words: .''rhe object to be obtained in studying foreign language is the abil- fly to speak and to understand. The fruit of many years experience in teaching has resulted in bringing be- fore the public method more practic- able than any heretofore presented for
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or two at least. WHAT EuLAIIR DREW. Now, however, we have information that the princess will be here in the summer, unless she is prevented by the condition of her husbands health, which has always been delicate. The princess has written to the Spanish minister here to see if arrange ments cannot be made for a visit by herself on somewhat less osten- tatious scale than her recent triumph al march through our country. The Spanish minister himself is not at liberty to reveal all he knows on the subject of Eulalie's visit. The princess proposes to come incognita and her husband will of course accompany her. Her idea is to improve her rather scanty knowledge of America, and that she will be able to do this, provided she is left alone, there can be no doubt. As she comes incog. it will be impossible for anyone to take official notice of her. That she returns at all is compliment to our attractiveness. When she went away she took charge of two children, it will be recalled, whose relatives ap- pealcd to her. On the voyage the princess spent many hours with the children, and drew picture for one of them showing the COW jumping over the moon.
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AMBASSADORS ON STRIKE.

announce that the ambassadors have held two conferences abroad, one in London and another in Paris, for the sentation to the state department that their usefulness is almost nominal. On his way to St. Petersburg, Mr. Breckenridge saw both Mir Runyon and Mr. Eustis. Mr. Breckenridge had heard that his expenses in Europe would be very heavy-far more than bis salary. As he is man of. very moderate means he felt the necessity of getting their advice. He expressed his feelings with candor when he was informed of the humil- iating straits to which his fellow dip loma.s were reduced. Then it was that premature rumor of the resignation of the ambassador to Russia was cir culated.
 Meanwhile, however, Mir. Thomas F. I,ayard, ambassador to the court of St. James, has been in the United States, and one of the express objects of his visits here was to impress upon the state department the manner in which our national dignity is being compro- missed abroad. Nothing leaked out in this connection, however, as it was felt to be injudicious and violation of the ethics of diplomacy to make any rer- elation of the ''conjunctrrc facheuse. ". to employ the term invented by Met ternich for the condition which, in anyone less exalted than an ambas- sador, is known as hard up. But NIT. Bayard had three conferences with the secretary of state on the subject of am bassadorial salaries. Mir. Gresham. dur ing these interviews, had opportunity to read letters from MT. Wayne Mac Veagh. Mr. Eustis and Mir. Runyon, all setting forth the fact that their posi- tiohs were little short of ridiculous. Their own wish had been to resign, but as the dernission, to use another diplomatic term. Of all our asubas- sadors at once might. create an ua- pleasant impression, it was deemed best that the retirements should take place at intervals of 2 few months.
 As an illustration of the position in which our ambassadors are placed, the following itemized statement of Mr Eustis expenses ispinteresting:
 House rent in Paris. per year......... sisaro ArpDass2dors coach and livery .... ....S 800 pfplom tic dinners and entertainments 300 Oae ball DOT annam- -.-..-.............. 2.UOQ Entertaining Auaer.can naval officers 2pj Attending state department functions ;OD- Omcfal presentatiors..s... ........-.... s.0D
 Total ...-...........- ST GOO.
 In reality however. Mr. Enstis has spent good deal more than twenty cA1=E1Ds0ac0xs1sr 1s~- A sxM. q
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FRENCH BY MONOGRAPH
Kate Kensington Takes a Novel
 Language Lesson.
Latest in Pedagogics-You Touch But ton and the Monograph Does the Rest-A Royal Road to
 Learning.
IcoPYRIcHr. 1se4.7

began to study French last week. The method I adopted is unusual and perhaps on that account interesting. The school is on Twenty-third street, New York, but Icwon't specify more closely. because this is not an adver- Using column.
 My French professor is very satisfac- tory because he has the requisite black eyes, long black hair, narrow face, curling mustache and fetching goatee. He shrugs his shoulders as only Frenchman can, gestieulates with his hands at the proper angle, stoeps slight ly and springs about on his toes very much like Mephistopheles on the stage. 5 You wish to learn ze French? Eat is yer good. l can teach you ze language in four weeks. Eh? you say zat is
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..The Literary shop..

Jolly James L. Ford's head hasn't been turned in the least by the success of his book, .'The Literary shop" It is good, solid, well-shaped head and rests on a stout neck which is, again, articulated with Q robust and well-knit body-which physical outfit is precisely what one would suppose while reading the book. .The Literary Shop" is a rnerciless revelation of the hidden ma chinery of the book and magazine trade, and chides the charlatanry of the profession with healthy satire and pungcnt wit. I suppose Mr. Ford's chapters upon Robert Bonner, Under wood Johnson and Mr. Edward J. Bok are the funniest, but there is a world of wisdom in his advice to young writers to avoid the dangerous society of good women. It is by quip and paradox that Ford punctures pretense and byj sunny humor that he unveils cant. of course. such book sets all the bookI makers chuckling a few os those who are lashed by it's satire and are too stupid or sensitive to take . jokeT-nnd find that the non-profes- sional reader appreciates it as keenly.i x The n.sps reader doesn't often have such chance to get behind the scenes and see the broomsticlx sea waves and sheetirqn, thunder of the trade of let- terss DAVID WEcHsLER-
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that Lord Ran dolph Churchill's present physical c II ap Sc was hastened, if not directly caused, b y. experiences in the metropolis o f A m e rica. Lord Randolph, had, of course, an entryZto all the clubs here, and fell in with a gay coterie of young fellows to whom he con fded that he wished to in-
 I
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CREST FOR THIS

castle last September, when Mir. and
 Mrs. Beerbohm Tree were ''com-l handed" to play before the queen. Lit tie Viola, who appeared as the page in
 ''The Ballad Monger," was presented
 to her majesty, who was much in-i terested in the graceful little de-i butante and took great deal of notices of her. Miss Viola will, when her. time comes, make her social debut un-
 der exceptionally favorable auspices,
 as her godmother is the marchioness of Granby, and will one day be the dueh-i ess of Rutland. She is Mrs. Trees most intimate friend and will therefore be a
 social as we'll as 8 spiritual guide tcl her godchild.
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learning the French language. Now tell your professor what you have heard mo say"
 The mysterious voice stopped. and in a half dazed condition repeated to the French teacher word for word what I had heard
 x lou l,af ze.. ear" he exclaimed, and his hands ceased their rubbing to find place behind his back. where they kept his coat-tails Tapping in . manner that would have made Talina-e Jenious had he seen him. lie tiptoed back and forth and his joy was un bounded. ''You haf ze earl" lie again repeated. Now, + you have ze memory, you make ono Grcat scholar You speak and under ntand in four weeks.
 But it is Il phonograph,r exclairned exQitedly. 'I'o rou teach with an in- ntSument like t:;.s?" s <sf;.. .5. ::
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l legged arnor r pl a t e fra u ds which seemed to so many to inn plicate the good faith of Andrew Ca rnegie have long since been e x p lained, but that the explan- ation has been s U ppr essed in the interest of a pro minent off
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New York and. make t h at city his manent residence here after in view of the fact of his. wife's d e q t h. This is, however, an erroneous im- pre- s s ion,b be- cause Mir. Astor's interests render it out of the
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members of that exclusive organ ization over the possession of a. series of picturesl of the beautifuI woInen. of New. York which once a q orne q t h e wall s of t h a t princely str u e. ture in which itis housed. Accord ing to one side of the story a rather fo oils h young #clubman secured q photo- graph of a cer-
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 and engaged a painter to reproduce it in color and on canvas. He then hung the painting in his room, where it was seen by numbers of his fellow chap pies. The fellow chappies were in formed that the object was gift from the fair original. In due time the hus1 band heard of all this, and knowing the claim of the chappie to be an un7 mitigated lie, he visited him. It hap, pened that he was at that very moment holding up the picture to the admiring contemplation of number of hiS friends. The husband proceeded to thrash the clubman-nay, it is asserted that the husband actually spanked him and ripped up the picture with knife. There has resulted quite conn motion among the Union clubmen who are aware of the incident. Both men belong to the club.
 win tho Princess Comef Although intimations that Prin- cess Eulalie will return to this coun-
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Nothing lsctter yeta

z He--l proposed to you a year ago, and you told me to wait a year and you would sec. .
 She. We'll, I'm still looking Brook lyn Life
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presented h e r husband " t h.. H e frs t i s named Viola, a dainty 1t t l e
 maiden of ten years, and who has a Ire a d y made her debut on the stage. The occasion, Il o w ever, was a spe- cial one, as it
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try have been m a d c almost from the time when she took so charming a farewell of us, it h as n o t been thought likely that she would be able to come back for a year