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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
Among the Ribbons.

Another lot OF those fine black and colored
velvet ribbons with satin back and fact edge,
snvcrtiscd few days ago. These will move
lust az quickly. so DO p-ompt.
No Back Satin Velvet Ribbon 100.
NO. BLACK Satin Velvet Ribbon TIC.
no. . Black Satin Velvet Ribbon s0c
QUANTITIES we oifer can be Matched we will take
ours back and return the money.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
MILLIN

Flowers.
One hundred dozen lot OF fine Artificial
Flowers, in all kinds and qualities, the
remnant OF our entire stock, in very
choice and desirable effects, worth SOC I
to Toe. Per bunch.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24

WTANTED-CASH PAID FOR SECOND
w hand furniture. 1874 Kim ball avenue north
east, j. X. HOOVER. S23 limo
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
For Separate Skirts.

At SIC new 54-inch wide Wool Diagonal Che.
AT a5c, new Mohair finished wide vale dag.
onai serge, 81 inches wide-navy and black
inches wide. The newest and most popular
fabric in the market.
At SISc. the very new Clay Worsteds, for
At Si.25, very stylish things in the new Fig
urcd Black Mohairs-% inches wide
AT Sl5o, finest quality 60-inch wldo genuine
myrtle. A
Plain serges, black and navy, ut Csc, AK and
ooc.' besides msny other new thin KS already 70
ceivcd for fall business.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
Children's Refers.

Children's Rcefere, made of pIain clot n IN
navy, brown and tan, trimmed with harrow
and Wide braid, sizes 9 to years, at soc.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
New Things for Early Fall Nov
Ready.

At 12hc, twenty five pieces changeable Gre
pons, Just new, for fall wear.
At 12xc, new things in dark blue Percales
AT II C. New White basket weave Duck
At l2Hc, new Ducks, better quality, In white,
=. At5c yard, new best quality Indigo Blu
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
Little Chiidren's Wear.

Lawn Caps ut an enormous sacrifice Ali,
Tegarclc OF former prices, graded into a few
lots: ~"
Former ACC Lace Caps now for... csc
Former blc Lace Caps now fo-...... soc
Former Csc Lace Caps now for x9c
Former 81 10 Lace Caps now for....... 60c
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
Hats.

Five hundred OF Ladies', Misses and
Childrcn's Untrimmed Straw Hats, in
all shapes and qualities, all colors and
black, worth 25c 10 SOC. Each.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-24
Wire and Buckram Frames.
Silk veiIings.

specially new aud desirable, dcuble widt
veiliugs, including black, white and leading
nnest quality, real value 75c a yard, at CSC, IS
and soc. w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

The conviction of Capt. Howgate today
will undoubtedly surprise a great many
citizens who thought that there would be
through lack of evidence a total failure to
reach satisfactory conclusion in this cele-
brated case. The finding of the jury
teaches a lesson. 1t indicates that guilt
may be punished even after the lapse of
years in which evidence may disappear
naturally or be destroyed, and even after
successful flight from the hands of the law,
with the sem-approval of officials who in
the present case, it is generally believed,
Knew of the whereabouts of the fugitive
during a greater part of his self-imposed
isolation from the scenes of his former
popularity and for some reason concealed
him from justice. Capt Howgate's con-
viction under all the circumstances should
serve as a warning to any government
official who may be tempted to think
lightly of his duties to the people while
entrusted with large sums of money and
grave responsibilities. His acquittal, after
the confession involved in flight would
have had just the opposite effect in its ten
dency to demoralize the public service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

While the District Commits sioners, in the
opinion of most citizens. could not well
have acted otherwise than they did yes
terday afternoon in reference to the Eek
ington Roads trolley poles on New York
avenue, they are still to be commended for
their prompt choice of a course and the
unmistakable tone of frmness which they
impaired to their official reply to Manager
Schoepfs letter Nine days will now elapse
before the law of Congress requiring the
removal of the poles shall go into effect,
and perhaps these nine days will be full
of wonder on the part of the people
whether or not the decision OF the city's
governors is to be strictly enforced, and
the trolley poles removed. The game of the
lexington company is apparent. 1t is easier
to secure renewal of a right held by
virtue of present possession than it is to
obtain a new concession. If by any pre-
text the company can cling to the physical
occupation of the streets by the poles and
wires, whether operated or not, plea for
further right to run the road by this cheap
and Objectionable system and to extend it's
operations over the whole city will have
q better chance for success than if these
distractions are finally removed. There
fore the watchword of the corporation is:
"Never give up an inch Until absolutely
forced to do SOL
Manager Schoepf assumes an air of great
distress. He does not know what the road
can do. He intimates, even declares, that
the law as it stands prevents him from
substituting horse power for the trolley.
There is apparently not shadow of
Justification for this claim. The statute
that gave existence to the company opened
the whole wide field Of transportation
methods to It, granting to 1t the right to
use "horse. cable or electric power" That
right has never been abridged. The stat
ute Of July s. 1892. authorizing the general
extension Of the road on North Capitol
street, New Jersey avenue, and out east to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

10Th street, contained clause prohibiting
the use of horses on that branch alone.
The statute approved February 13, 1893,
specifically amended this clause by substi-
tuting the word steam" for HORSE" so
that the branch could be operated by
horses, but not by steam power. If the
road has not now the right to equip the
line from Seventh street to Florida avenue
with horses, PENDING the grant of the right
to increase the bonded Indebtedness in
order to change the motive power to some
other system of rapid TRANSITION which
application has never been made-by what
right did the company change its system
on G street from storage batteries to horse
power? The same conditions that then pre-
vailed are still in application today. Man
ager Schoepf seems to be trying to be-
cloud the reason of the people by pathetic
references to laws that do not exist, to re-
quirements that have never been placed
upon his company, and to complications
that are the result solely of the wilful pro-
crastnating negligence of the corporation
He either forgets or ignores the fact that
the only compulsory provision of Congress
requiring the substitution of rapid transit
for horse power ever passed for application
to the District of Columbia related to the
roads connecting Washington and George
town, therefore the Washington and
Georgetown company and the Metropolitan
line. Beyond these two instances there
have never been any efforts by Congress
to force the adoption of other means of
transportation than those in use. Congress
has, however, told the lexington company
what kind of power it could not use, and
in terms so unmistakable that argument
over the matter is futile. The law gives
the comps ny the choice of putting in the
electric system with which it has been ex-
perimentng with results announced as
satisfactory, or any other unobjectionable
motive power, or of retrograding to horses,
or of quitting the transportation business
and making way for somebody who will
regard law and public sentiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

The day is rapidly passing when the ap-
preach of the end Of a fiscal year brings
general fear and trembling to the citizens
OF Washington, thousands of whom for
merly were annually fretting under a Da-
moclesian sword Of dismissal attached to
the old-fashioned spoils system by the
most slender of threads. Of course, there
will always be more or less shifting among
the individual employees of departments on
the first of July of each year as emergen-
cies of business and the fluctuations of
work demand a reduction or an increase Of
force But never again, unless the country
shall be blind enough and foolish enough
to deliberately return to the demoralizing
system of appointments that regards a
public Office as means of paying political
debts, will Washington be treated to the
periodical spectacle of wholesale dismissals
caused by administrative changes instead
of the exigencies of the service. This
change, besides improving the public SER
vice, is greatly beneficial to the commercial
interests of the city and to all who profit
by the development of Washington as a
city Of summer homes, and the merchants
and artisans who do not enthusiastically
praise the operations of the civil service
law for the benefits done to their business
are few in number and are growing less
numerous every year. This year larger
number or government employees are now
under the beneficent operations of the civil
service law than ever before, and the city's
trade Is correspondingly on a surer and
more satisfactory footing. A wholesale dis
mlssal here corresponds to financial panic
IN more commercial city, and Is just as
much to be regretted by the merchants and
Workingmen and others interested in the
welfare of the community. Every extern
sion therefore of the civil service law and
every means to insure it's perfect enforce
ment mean so much more strength given
to the material interests of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
The Explanation.

Il feed You, didn't t. said the guest
who had waited long and patiently for his
dinner.
"Yessah."
well, you feed me. What 1 want is a
little reciprocity"
The waiter looked at him mournfully and
then murnured:
Use sorry. boss, but Use afraid ives
jes' out oh dat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
An Incautious Confession.

The scene in which the boy. his father,
and an instrument of correction had fig
ured was very painful one.
Il don't b-b'lieve," sobbed the youngster
that you kin sympathize with me, an
re'lize how temptin' it is to see a swim
min place just hankerin' for company"
"Oh, yes I cam" was the prompt re-
joinder. 1--WE been licked for going In
swimming many time when was boy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
Climate.

Its very cold at the north pole" said
the studious boy.
Yes" replied his father. whose mind
was on something else. But 1 think it's
going to be pretty warm in the vicinity OF
the trolley pole before long,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

The lofty assumption in England that
a diplomatic representative of that coun-
try must mean what he says comes pretty
near being the browning absurdity of the
decade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

Ex-Secretary W'hitney's great advantage
is that when he refuses a nomination it
does not appear to damage his chances
for the Office in the slightest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

1t is shrewdly asserted that Jerry Simp-
son has not yet showed his hand. There Is
no questioning the accuracy Of the asser-
ton. What Mr.. Simpson showed before
was his feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

Emperor William may not be uniformly
successful in his remarks to the Reichstag,
but there is no denying his ability when it
comes to officiating at a celebration with
fireworks in the evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

He doubtless is a good young man,
AS fine as e'er you saw
But he calls his mother "mommer" anG
He calls his father paw"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

you seem thoughtful, Henry" said Mr.
Meekton's better half.
Eyes. An idea Just struck me-
what was it?"
IT was wondering whether. by next sea
son, the new woman will be gentlemanly
enough to take her hat of In the theater.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

The new woman has undoubtedly full
filled great mission as a subject for
essays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

The governor of Virginia is being over
worked. So are the frequenters Of Jack
son City and Rosslyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

1t Is lonely literary year when the
fakir does not show up with a hitherto
undiscovered poem by Edgar Allen Poe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

Perhaps it would be only fair to both
parties for Mr.. Sorg and Mr.. sBrice of Ohio
to match pennies to see which will run
for Senator and which for governor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
SHOOTING STARS.
Time to Hustle.

Dear me- said Miss Silver, another
summer season is upon u.s.
"Of course it is" replied the copper cent.
Does that worry your
"A good deal. 1 do hope 1t won't get
away this time without my becoming en-
gagged to one party or the other"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
The Indignant T

The Indignant Telephone Girl.
She never speaks an angry word,
That mortal man may hear;
She simply takes a gatling gun
And shoots it in your ear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21

Russell Sage will please step up and pay
for his protection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-21
Mem'g
ST.. 2g Shirts for Soc.

DThe merchants who bought identical shirts
earlier paid about 81 at wholesale. We now buy
the makers entire surplus stock at a reduced price,
and can protably retail at S9c, Offering you choice
of all styles and sizes.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-10
A MONSTER FACTORY.
Government Cigarette Works at Seville
Nearly 1000 Employees.

One of the sights of Seville, Spain. which
no tourist misses, is the cigarette factory,
in which the government employs nearly
1000 women and girls, says the PIttsburE
Dispatch. The showing about of visitors
Is accordingly looked upon as "a regular
source of income by the porters and ma
irons. After getting permission to enter,
You are placed In charge of Il matron, who
shows you through her own department
and then passes you on to another, ana
so on. until your stock of pesetas and half
peSetas, put aside for fees, Is exhausted.
These matrons accompany the visitors,
not in order to prevent the girls from hrt-
ing with them nothing could do thau,
but to see that no tobacco, plcadura or
cigarettes may disappear. Before enter
ing each room bell Is rung 10 warn the
girls who are in great deshabille on ac-
and the door opens scores of round
arms and pretty shoulders are seen dis.
appearing, while several hundred pairs OF
coal black eyes are flashed on you
The passages are lined with cradles, and
the young girl mothers TO whom
they belong implore you with eyes and
future living in them. These girls are more
frank than subtle in their firtatCns There
is not one in the crowd VINO VIII not he
tixed on her. nor will she be the first to
turn her eyes away. Some Will wink and
even throw a kiss from "A distant corner
posed to be wealthy Englishmem.
They are a merry lot, on the whole these
poor girls the quickest OF whom only make
shillings "A day, for which they have 70
lowed to smoke If they wish ana they
make use OF this privilege. They are re-
markahly deft in rolling the cigarettes,
hut not all seem eager to make as many as
possible for some are idling and others
are asleep; but no one cares as each one
is paid according to the number she twists
up, aided only by piece of specially
made cartridge paper and a small tin af-
fair on her little finger.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-10
HAS EUSTlS TALKED TOO MUCH7
Paris Patcrs Severely Criticize the United
states Ambassador to France for Ger
tain Alleged statements.

London July 9-Mr. II. De Blowita, the
famous Paris correspondent, commenting
in the London Times to-day upon the al
legged Interview with the United States
ambassador to France, Mr.. James b.
Eu-us published yesterday in the Figaro,
said that such an interview evidently con-
stiuted new departure in diplomacy.
In reference to the utteraucos imputed to
Mr. Eusus regarding Canada, he said II
would be difficult 10 believe that the am
bassador represented a friendly nation.
Several of the Paris newspapers also
comment to-day on the alleged inter-
THa Estafettc says that in 1t Mr.. Eus-
lis admitted that the United States sup
portei Japan against France, Russia and
Germany, Canada against England ana
cuba against Spain, and that the United
States has ambitious commerrIal ideas re-
sueotiug Madagascar. All these acts and
plans, the Estafetto comments, are CON
Trajectory OF tho professions of the Mon
roe doctrine. and. combined with their ap-
parent fQrgetfulucsS OF our former irater-
nal relations. compel MS TO anticipate that
the future VIII be- larkened by disputes
and misuudcrs taudiugs."
Tho LIbre Parole also severely criucises
Nj Eusus and, accepting the Figaro
Interview as genuine, says that the Amer
Jean amha -saIur has oUmmtted breach
Of the laws Of hospitality,
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-10
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AS TO ENDING LETTERS,
"Your Obedient Servant" the Phrase Most
Used in England

From the New York Tribune.
1t is passing strange that in America and
England there should exist so great a diff
ference in the manner of ending a letter,
and in the application OF the words, "cor-
daily" faithfully" Sincerely" truly"
and respectfully"
The latter expression in England is never
used save by tradesmen or domestic sery-
ants. CORDIALLY" Is seldom employed, the
usual term being Yours truly" or yours
sincerely" especially in the case Of in
formal notes. In formal and official COM
munications that commence with the word
Sir or Madame" English people invar-
iably sign themselves Your obedient sery-
ant" or Your humble servant" no matter
what the rank of the writer may be- Thus
Princess Christian Of Schleswig- Holstein,
who Is that daughter OF Queen Victoria
who takes the most active part in charita-
BILE schemes, signs all her circulars and
letters a president of the committees of
management with the words, Your obedi-
ent servant" pretixed 10 her name, even
when addressing retired shopkeepers. In
the same way. the merest clerk who hap
pens to receive a communication from a
cabinet minister, perhaps acknowledging
the receipt of a petition, finds the august
writer describing himself as Your humble
and ObedIent servant"
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-10
A COLOR CASTE LINE.

"The ex-slaves of Alabama are preparing
TO organize an association to which none
of the late-day negroes Will be admitted.
After the association has been organized
il is intended To have state associations,
and then take in all the old-time negroes
of the slaVe-holdng states. The movement
in Atlanta Is In the hands OF ], W, Ed
wards, "A contractor, who used 10 belong 10
one Of the wealthy planters of South Car
olina-
Aud why not, pray. These eX-slayes be-
lOngei" 10 the best families in the South,
and they base their claims 10 social supe-
riOrity upon their aristocratc connections
before the war. In good breeding and inn
posing bearing 1t would be hard 10 nna
their equals even among the best educated
of What they sometimes condescendinGly
can the late-day negroes Many Of them
enjoyed social advantages of the highest
order. The old house servants had con-
types OF ladies and gentlemen to be found
In the world. They studied the manners
of their masters and mistresses, initiated
their style of conversation and insensibly
er the fine examples before them. Many
years of freedom have not impaired their
good breeding. nor their pride I'm the social
school in which they were brought up.
distinguished class; that they have a past
worth chershng and preserving, and that
they have right 10 he exclusive. Why
should they not found a society Of their
sibly IL they We're to investigate the sub
ject closely, they would be able to dis
cover many deeds of merit and courage
performed by their ancestors in Colonial
and Revolutionary times, which would en-
title them 10 form Revolutionary and CO.
lonial societies, AT present they only pro-
pose to go back TO the general period in
time designated by the phrase before tho
pedigree may. and probably will, come
later.-Baltmore sun.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-10
COLE WAS NOT KILLED,
The Body Of the Desperate shot in Chicago
Monday Night Identified as
Cbarles Cormnn.


Chicago. H., July a.-The body Of the
man who was shot and killed by Policeman
Rosenthal In front Of the Auditorium last
night has been identified as that of Charles
German. who lived at the Hotel Somerset,
Twelfth and wabash avenue. From tho
laundry mark on his shirt, he was sup
POSED to be c. l.. Cole but the linen was
borrowed before the shooting occurred anc
his real identity was established by the
man who had hefriended him. Monday
afternoon German received telegram
from his wife in ST. Paul. saying that MS
baby daughter had died the night before
and urging him to come TO her. He made
every effort to secure money to take MN
to where his dead baby was and. after re-
pcated failures, In moment ot deisperar :.
McGloin that he. might have funds with
which to go 10 his wife.
C. T.. cole, the man who loaned German
in charge Of the dining room of the Union
League Club. He roomed at the hotel with
German and knew him well. Last night
about o'clock German met Cole as the
showed him a telegram from his wife tell
ing him Of the death OF his child. He
tried to sell a large revolver to Cole, but
the latter did not have the amount neces-
sary. SIS. Then the two men tried to pawn
the weapon, hut could get no more than 81
on IT, German then tried TO trade at the
railroad offices for ticket TO- ST. PAU, MS
efforts being unsuccessful. The two men
then went back to the hotel Gorman was
very uneasy. and about Z o'clock said ho
must renew his efforts to get the money.
He started downtown and was not seen
! again by Cole until his body was Identified:
| In tiorman's trunk were found letters OF
recommendation from various barrooms
| where he had been employed, one of them
| being from the Grand Pacific hotel, in Chi
| cago. All the testimonials spoke OF him
as a man of integrity.