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The evening times., 1895-11-05
FRENCH RADICAL TENDENCIES.

The recent overthrow of the French min
istry upon question raised by a social
ist; the selection of NJ. Bourgeois, radical
OF radicals, as the statesman most likely
to be able tn form a new ministry: his sue
cess in that work, and the outline given
by the premier in his address of yesterday,
are proof of the general tendency of French
thought in the direction of broader legisia-
ton for the whole people and that the rule
OF the bourgeoisie, which is another name
for the dominion of moueybags, is in great
measure destroyed.
The policy marked out by NJ. Bourgeois
includes a merclcss inquiry into all brib-
cry scandals; prohibition of partnerships
or other interests of senators or dcpu-
ties in companies having contracts with
the state; preliminary examinations of
accused persons in public; progressive pro-
bate tax; non-taxatiun of hygienic fluids;
general income tax; cooperative insur-
ance; workingmen's pensions; definite set
tlement of relations between church and
state, and regulation of what the premier
calls International speculatiuns'' in agri-
cultural, mineral and manufactured prod
ucts.
This is a very progressive programme,
and no wonder it was loudly cheered by
the radicals and socialists when announced
yesterday. 1t will meet with enthusiastic
popular approval, and other administra-
tions will watch with interest the d, vclup.
ment of the work of legislation.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
BRooKLYN,s GAS DEAL.

Seven gas companies of the city OF Brook
Iyn have Just concluded deal by which
they will form one great trust and be under
one management, that the people may be
fleeced the more easily aud completely.
The capital represented In watered and un-
watered stock is $4,000 900.
This vast aggregation of capital and con-
solidation OF interests beautifully illus
trates the failure of competition to do the
ideal work which was predicted for it by
the economists of obsolete systems. Each
of six companies which followed the or
ganization of the original monopoly was
chartered under hope and assurance that
the cost of gas to consumers would be less
ened. Each one in turn pooled issues with
its predecessors as soon as it was fairly
established, and now all of them are
merged in one grand monopoly TO fleece
the people.
The palpable and Irresistible argument
to be dra wn from this condition is that the
people should no Io nger consent 10 or per
NIT the organization of competitive sys-
TENS for the cooperative supply OF any ne
SesSi's VI eo"h VI WY dS an ouSii Pi"JeS'S
sity of town or city, as all such projects
are hypocritical in their professions and
must fail to perform what they promise.
The only sure way to supply the people
with such commodities is through municipal
ownership and operation. That is the
only true, the only sensible monopoly which
is controlled entirely by the people and for
the people, for use and not for profit,
ly to the people.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
TRANSFERS ELSEWHERE.

Several cities other than Washington
Philadelphia most conspicuousiy-are wres-
tling with the transfer question, and the
various sides to the controversy are very
bitter in their arguments and theories. The
Quaker City for time rejoiced in a sys-
e. TEN of transfers which enabled the popu-
laton of the suburban Dan to travel to the
autipodai suburban Beersheba for one fare.
This was right aud comfortable and beau
tiful, and grinding corporations assumed
a sort Of angelic loveliness In the esteem
Of the simple-minded Inhabitants. A day
or two ago change came over the spirit
Of their dreams. Transfers were suddenly
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abolished. An eightcent transferable ticket
was subshtuted. Good people stood aghast
at the heartlessness Of the proceeding. In
dignation reached the point OF desperation.
The Philadelphiau, unused. like his Wash
iugton cousin, to all sorts OF abuses and
injustice, soncluded to walk. 1t was better
to wear out shoe leather than good temper,
better to irritate soles than souls, better
to suffer the sliugs and arrows OF out
rageous pedestriauism than to permit the
doniuation of trusts.
This is heroic method Of treating the
imposition of corporations, and Washing
tonians may take hint from it. The near
est road to the infinitesinial thing which a
corporation calls its conscience is by way
Of the money vault.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
Pour Les DANES.

Bret Harte was fond of describing heroines
offuurteen or fifteen, Miss Wilkins writes of
women of twenty, Gable has his creole
beauty OF eighteen, and Miss Murfree in
Tennessee" has hers even younger.
From the time Of the Elizabethais to that
of Dickens and Bulwer she had progressed
from the fourteen of Juliet to the eighteen
of the fragile, tender syiph who smiled and
tainted loved and wept.
The English speaking world has always
demanded the juvenile heroine. Art is
nothing To them. The British matron is
inexorabie, and, although Scott meekly sub
scrIbes his herOines as eighteen Ut twenty,
we know that they must have been near the
thirties, for they are women Of too COM
plex characters to be children.
The age of the heroine has advanced
only slightly to meet the change OF taste
with the growing centuries. In Shake
speare's $ day she was in the early teens.
Jane Eyre is one of the most startling eX-
amples of this rage for a young heroine.
From reading the book one judges her to be
q prim, precise individual of thirty, and is
shocked to come across the statement that
she is nineteen.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has moved her hero
ines up a notch in the matter of age. Cath
crime was twenty-six when she married
Robert Elsmere and Marcella is twenty four.
America" announces that there is TO such
thing as American love. A girl in this
country, he says, does not care about mar
riage very, ardently; but at &c or 80. hav-
ing enjoyed the independence of the
single state at the full, she takes Partner,
" no finds the money in an obtrusive way,
effaces himself in the domestic circle,
W hile she represents both The ornamental
and the real authority of the firm. N.
,- Eac 90 I'll
and he acknow ledges that the American
married woman is pattern OF COnjugal
fidelity. There is no ''cruellc enigme"
here no triple menage. none OF the refine
ments of Partisan civilization.
Miss Laurence Alma Tadema, daughter
of the famous artist, has issued new book
of short stories, in one Of which occurs
the follow fng: The mother tells the daugh-
ter her history; she has come to her first
meeting with the lover and husband to be.
The daughter says: "And did be love you
at once: What color as your frock?"
A native girl in Jerusalem W neither Chris
tian, Jew or Moslcm, has 10 happy child
hood, does not in any case enter into a
business life and has no aim in existence
beyong marriage. Even among the first
two classes the bridegroom rarely sees
his wife before marriage, and brides at
12 and IA are frequently in all stations
and KINDS of society. Even the Christian
and Hebrew girls generally go veiled when
on the streets, which is as rarely as pos
sible.
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Worth a Minute.

In Vienna there are women whose busi-
ness it is to be ''physicians' subjects"
One of them hires herself out to medical
men as subjeqf on which they may illus
trate laryngqlo3y and rhlnology. She re-
ceives about 3s. an hour, furnishing her
own instruments. Her throat has 50 little
sensiblftity that the manipulations pro-
duce no irrit&tif.
There nre.tw6 sorts Of tattooIng in use
among the women Of the Congo. One is
common to all the members or the same
tribe, and Indicates the origin and BIRTH
place OF the subject. 1t is an infailible and
perpetual certificate of birth and nationai.
Ity. The other sort of tatooing is simply
fantasy and coquetry.
Lord Lytton, the novelist, left orders
that before he was buried long needle
should be run through his heart. lie had
taken the precaution tn tell his doctor or
his wish, and 1t was carried out.
The volcanic island uf Tanna, one of the
New Hebrides group, has been for many
years In a constant state of eruption,
emitting column of fire by night and
smoke by day, which is clearly seen at n
great distance. Such is the certainty with
which this flame appears that vessels in
the vicinity are instructed by their sailing
directions to look out for 1t just as they
would do were 1t an ordinary lighthouse.
The tabernacle at Salt Lake City, the
capital of Utah. is, in respect to its acoustic
properties, the most remarkable place of
worship In the world. 1t is constructed
to hold $4,000 people, yet 1t is possible
/ for person standing at one end to dis
tinctly hear the sound of pin dropped
into hat at the other.
II is an interesting fact that In the Rhond-
da Valley, in South Wales, near Treorky.
a Jet OF gas ma y be seen burning under the
surfa ce of a spring of water. The gas is be
lieved to escape from the coal mines. which
are so numerous in that locality, and II is a
purely natural phenomenon.
Edgar Brinsnead says his London firm
turn out 1000 pianos year: that London
turns ont 80, 900 year; Germany. "a, 900;
France, 10000: the United States, $4,000
These figures are only approximate.
An ice locomotive was some years age
constructed for use in Russia. tits employed
TO haul freight between st. Petersburg and
Cronstadt. The front part rests on a sledge
and the driving wheels are studded with
spikes.
On his DorsetslIire estate Lord Aling-
ton has white farm" IL is so called be-
cause every animal On 1t is white. There are
white horses. white CO VS., white donkeys
white hares from Siberia, anda white pigmy
bull The dogs and the cats are white, and
so are the rats and mice.
In Siberia, near Damascus, iiiere is said
togrow a hunniing bird plant, the flower o
which bears a close resemblance to a hum
ming bird. The breast ia red the wings art
a dark green, the back yellow. the head and
tale a blush black.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
ALFRED AUSTIN, LAUREATE
Remarkable Freak n the Selection q Great
Britain's Official Singer.
Some Great Poets Are Passed Over
and a Mere Cad Of Rnymester
Chosen Tennyson's Successor.

A few weeks ago It was announced that
William Ernest Henley was to be the Of
ficial successor of Tennyson. Whereupon
in an estimate Of Henley's place in the
the writings of the time this Journal said:
when 1t comes, however, to devis:ng ditty
for the next appendix to the Guelph family,
Henley will wish to hand the text over to
Alfred Austin. AS sign writer on Mount
Parnassus to the royal family Of England
Austin has already proved himself inimita-
ble." The sign writer is now declared to be
poet laureate.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
Equally AS Good .

The drawing teacher had been giving a
lesson on the cubes and some of the pupils
had mentioned boxes and various other
examples OF cubes. The teacher wanted
still more, but for some reason no one could
think of any. Finally a boy said:
II know what's good cube-a half a
pound of butter"
why, that is excellent" cried the
teacher. Now, who can give me another
example as good as Henry 's?''
After a long time she saw hand waving
wildly in the back of the room.
''Well, Willie, what is it?"
''Why, the other half-pound of that but
ter" said Willie, triumphantly.-P
delphia Times.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
A JoURNALIsTIC MARVEL.
No Bluff and Buster About the
Wonderful Growth of The Times.

NO bfdt1 AIM DiuSteT hbout suC
Wonderful Growth of The Times.
Notwithstanding the desperate efforts
of contemporary To stem the tide OF
success into which it has been launo he'd, The
TIMES CONTINUES TO GROW.
The Times circulation and The Times
advertising are marvels OF the newspaper
world. Many of our wide-awake merchants
have placed their whole dependence upon
The Times, and in no instance have they
been disappointed.
No daily newspaper ever published in
the District of Columbia 50 thoroughly
covered its territory as does The Times
with It's morning aud evening editions. 1t
is complete and interesting record of each
day, with more than $4,000 living testi-
monials to its merit as newspaper aud its
efficacy as an advertising medium.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

SubscrIbers to "The Times" VIII
confer n favor by promptly reporting
any discourtesy of collectors or neg
Iect of duty on the part of carriers.
Complaints either by mail or in per-
son VIII receive prompt attention.
The Morning Edition should be de-
livered to all parts OF the city by $50
o'clock a. M, including Sunday. The
Evening Edition should be In the
hands of subscribers not later than
$50 y. M.
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lotti.. s-o,Ji
I soIeD,nly swpar that The above is n co

solemnly swear that The above is cor
rect statement OF the daily circulation or
THE WASHINGTON TINS ior the eek
ending November 5, 1898, and that an
the copies were actually sold or mailed
for n valuable consideration and delivered
10 bona fide purchasers or subscribers;
also, that none of them We're returned or
remain in the office undelivercd.
j. MILTON YOUNG, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of November, A. ID. 1895.
ERNEST G. THOMPSON.
Notary Public.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
Close Guess.

'What is the reason that the top drawer
OF boarding house bureau will never
either open or shut?" asked the newly ar.
rived guest.
Possibly" answered her friend, "it
is due TO the quality of the board. Detroit
Free Press.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

Rejected manuscripts are usually
returned when accompanied by
sta ps, but any obligation TO do SO
is expressly dtsavOwed.
Manuscripts unaccOmpanied by
postage Will not be returned.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

A great war scare might be of advantage
to the political parties everywhere which
now happen to be in control of their re-
spcctive administrations.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
In TIE GERMAN FAfHERLAHD
Bits Of Absorbing Gossip Which Escaped
The Submarine Cable.
Suspension Railroad, a Highway
mans Capture and Other Bits of
Things Now Talked About.

Among the technical novelties introduced
here the new electric suspension railroad
between Leipsic and Halle deserves men,
ton. The system is a recent invention OF
Eugene Langen, OF Cologne, and its dis
tinctive feature is the suspension OF the
cars. The only place where this new sys-
TEN has so far been tested for a short
time is on u special line between Cologne
and Deutz, suburb, but there it has
been found eniinently successful. The safe
guards are of triple Kind, So that serious
accidents seem virtually excluded; the
worst that can befall a train is its remain
ing fixed, or rather like Mohammeds coffin,
suspended between heaven and earth, but
only for a short time. At least SO il is
claimed, though l confess a train OF such
suspended cars, moving with lightning rap
idity, looks anything but reassuring OF
safe to person looklng on froui below.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

war Spain would probably be forced to keep
all her soldiers at home, and the Cubans
might in that event win an almost bloodless
victory.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

uprising in Turkey, which may set every
state in Europe by the ears.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

II voting could be done by long distance
telephone perhaps Grover would cast q
ballot for the Tammany ticket.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
HisOne Drn wback.

''Are you never seasick in crossing?'
Never"
.'How very pleasant you must find It,"
Hardly; there's always some observin,
tourist who has visited America for tn,
first tine bunked in my stateroom. Chi
cago Record.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

Several eminent politicians would ex-
change positions to-day with almost any
one who would shoulder their burden of
anxiety.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

at Berlin, is not an adept at forcing the
hand of the hard headed Teuton.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
Provided the Bride Knows.

Provided the Bride Knows.
"why," asked Mr.. Asbury Peppers, "why
is the letter X like q W edding?''
No one noticed him, but he went on:
''The letter * is like . Wedding be-
cause II causes q change from cooling to
cooking. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

These be parlous times for the men who
lease European governments.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

The Britain-V Venezuelan Draw bids fair
to be a sort of Corbett- Fitzsimmons jaw
ing match.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

21-inch BLACK SATIN
DUCHESS. Regular price OF
these goods was S1.25.
OUR PRICE, 70c YD.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

By this new system OF locomotion the
running time between Leipsic and Halle
two large cities with heavy passenger and
freight rarfic between them, 33 kiIometers,
or about - English miles apart-is 10 be
reduced from thirtyTive minutes, as at
present, TO fifteen or twenty minutes. The
Berlin municipal authorities are very anx-
ious To See this new line in operation, as,
in the event of all the PROMISES made be-
ing carried out it is the intention to build
several electric suspension roads for in
tramural traffic in Berlin.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

Stolrs great sale Of shoes-Ladies'-
MeD's-Children's, at less than wholesale
cost. Don't buy shoes until you have
visited this sale.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

stoirs great sale OF stoes-Ladies'-
Nen's-Children's at less than Wholesale
cost. Don't buy shoes until you have
visited this sale.
The evening times., 1895-11-05
ELECTION RETURNs,,

The Times will display them on q
mann m 9th canvas IN front of The
Times building tonight.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

2O-inch BLACK ARMURE
MOURNING SILK. Regular
price of these was 81 yard.
OUR PRICE, 60c YD.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

2O-inch BLACK SATIN
DUCHESSE. Regular price, 81
yard.
OUR PRICE, 60c YD-
The evening times., 1895-11-05

27-inch BLACK RUSTLING
TAFFETASILKS ,superiorqual-
ity. Regular price, SI.25 yard
OUR PRICE, soc I'D.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

21-inrh BEAUTIFUL FAILLE
FRANCHISE. the regular price
OF which Is S1.2o yard.
OUR PRICE, T5c fD.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

Sobczyk, the romantic highwayman in
Upper Siiesia, who for several years bid
defiance from out the dense forests on the
Austrian frontier. where he disported him
self, to all the authorities, and even to
the whole military power OF the district
has at last been captured by the ruse OF
a barber named Rumfelt.
SobcZyk has Just been sentenced to decap-
itation for the three murders committed
by him-all for revenge-and his captor has
been paid the 5000 marks reward offered
by the government. Rumfe,t, a dandified
sort of tonsnrial artist. with higher aspi-
rations, caught his man by pretending to
aid him to escape to America, gave him
drugged wine to drink. and when uncon-
scious wheeled his man in a barrow to the
door of the chief of police, telling the lat
ter, with a theatrical gesture. I've done
my share; now, Mr.. Chief. do yours"
The rural popula ton around Oppela,
where Sobczyk for years lorded it la
Rinaldo Rinaldini. sees in this brigand,
however, a sort of victim of untnward cir
cumstances, a nd enthusiastically sides with
him. AT the trial it was with the utmost
difficulty witnesses could be induced TO
testify against the defendant. and Rumfelt
himself feels so uncomfortable in Tworoz-
the little town where the romantic trag-
edy occurred-that he leftfor pa rts unknown
at once after receiving his blood money.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

21-inch BLACK ALL-SILK
GROS GRAIN, very fine quality
Regular price, 81 yard.
OUR PRICE, 60c I'D.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

Superior Quality 21-inch
BLACK RUSTLING TAFFETA
SILKS. Regular price, 81.
OUR PRICE, 60c I'D.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

19-inch BLACK ALL-SILK
GROS GRAIN, fine quality. Reg
ular price, 75c. yard.
OUR PRICE, Acc I'D.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

A curious suicide was that of q million
aire in Leipsic, W. Rosenberg by name. He
was the largest hymnbook publisher n the
world, and had always enjoyed the repu-
tation of being a severely honorable man.
His suicide was due to the discovery that
he had employed fraudulent practices in
carrying out contract for hymnboOks
made with several of the smaller German
governments.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

War jubilee literature is still making its
appearance by the ton. Among the more Gu
rious specimens is book which conta iDs in
chronological order the French war and bat
tie dispatches. These are. however, printed
in such a manner that by placing an iron
cross in the very center of each page these
mendacious or grossly perverted original
French stories become truthful accounts,
the mendaciOus words in every case being
covered by the cross. The compiler or ..au-
thor" of this curious book signs himself
"Baron de Munchhouse, Chauvinist in Re-
treat Another amusing book of similar
caliber is a humorous collection of all the
caricatures published on the French side
during the war OF 1870.
Rather singular enterprise was shown by
q gang of British burglars who several
months ago invaded Germany and in quick
rotation executed number of clever and
important hauls in Berlin, Hamburg and
other cities In Mannheim they were, how
ever, found out and arrested. and in large
storage loft were found goods and furniture
TO the va lue of about 500 900 marks. among
these being the complete interior outfit for
a well-appoirted house, which they were
going to make their home of, apparently.
From statistics Just published 1t is seen
that during the ten years beginning 1884
the number of fdeathsinP p russia among those
employed in the manufacture or sale OF in
toxicating beverages is away beyond the
average or the 1905 deaths there were
309 from deliriunI tremens. sos from sui
eide. $50 from accidents, over 2, 400
from apoplexy and about 1 800 from old
age.
.
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BEAUTIFUL FAILLE FRAN
CAISE. which sold regularly at
81 80 yard
OUR PRICE, OOc YD.
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bun PRICE, 7sc YD.

24-inch BLACK SATIN BRO
CADES, beautiful and new de-
signs Regular price, S1-25 a
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SATIN BRoCADES. which sen
regularly at S1.25.
OUR PRICE, SEC YD.
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But, 10 be frank and to conclude. it was
the following poem, perhaps never before
printed in this country, that has undou btedly
led to the appointment Of Austin as laure-
ate, and that it was n strictly personal
"royar' appointment will scarcely be de-
MED after reading theverses. There is some
thing like hollow mockeIy of death, awful
fiouting at humanity itself. in the assumed
''love' talk ard mourning when one re-
calls how speedily the funeral baked meats
furnished coldly forth an almost unnatural
wedding feast:
The evening times., 1895-11-05

EIGTRED CHANGEABLE
SILKS, beautiful for waists, in
q variety OF shades. Regular
price, 45c. yard.
OUR PRICE, zee YD.
The evening times., 1895-11-05

20 and 24.inch CHRYsANTH-
EMUM CREPES, variety o T plain
colors, very pretty material.
Regular price, soc. yard
OUR PRICE, 26C I'D.