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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
IccIDHNr ON MrI-hnNoSRnLwar
Electric Car Runs Into Land sIide-The
IOtnmnc Ohm Of Leo

ALEXANDRIA. Va. Feb. 6-spec.al.-
An accident occurred on the Washing
ton' Alexandria and Mount Vernon Elec-
rlo railway 40 1855 O'Clock last nipht
rive people were lightly hurt. and for a
uno tho eighty passengers on the train
were panic stricken, the screams Of the
frightened women adding 10 the excite
ment- The accident WAS due 10 several
tons OF earth falling across the track. into
which the train dashed at the rate OF
twenty-five miles an hour.
Nobody was seriously hurt. but tina,
many were not killed is wonder. The
track was cleared this afternoon.
lie river is now clear or ice.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
Mems Goods.
Advance Sale
Mems NegIigee Shirts.

Sample Shirts-Percale and Ma
dras-some with attached collars
and some with detached collars
and cufs-regular SG.oo, 49,
SIPS and $3.50 quality. Z &c
Tomorrow NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ~
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
HOuSeWare Department
ASNAP, AVIM, APUSH!
Our Clearance Sale Goes On.

Prices alone count for nothing the goods must be for you
to appreciate the wonderful cutting and sahng going all
the department. Read every TENT is the greatest
moneysavng chance the history of American merchandising
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
SALARIES OF CITY OFFICIALS
The Grand Total Which Is Yearly EX-
pended for This Purpose.
ITS AGGREGATE AMOUNT 1915, 79S.75.
Special Accountant McCarthy's Clear
statement for tho Guidance of the
Committee on Ketrenchnent
and Reform.

The following is a complete list OF the
annual salaries paid by all the city de-
partments aggregating grand total OF
s6l6.l.S.l5. Mr.. Carlton Mccarthy, the
special accountant. prepared the list after
laborious research and presented 1t 10
the Committee on Retrenchment and
Reform. for the guidance OF that body.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
Uph0lstering.

We make all kinds of Uphols-
tered Furniture to order-Couches,
Lounges, Easy Chairs, ETC., also
Mattresses, Pillows and Bolsters.
We make the best Spring Bed
made, and carry a line Of other
makes in stock.
We renovate, fumigate and
purify Mattresses and Feather
Beds.
We sell Brass and White Iron
Bedsteads and Cribs.
We clean Carpets on the floor
without taking them up, and do
many things You want done.
Come and get our prices for any
work you want done.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
ACTION or THE ALUMNI

meeting OF the alumni Of Richmond
College was called for yesterday al
l2:30 o'clock al the office Of the Religions
Herald, NO. az east Main street. TO take
suitable action in regard to the death -
Professor IA. X. Harris, and TO mako
proper arrangements In regard To at
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
White DOffed Swiss

A manufacturer was closing out
his entire stock. We had the pick
of the best, and tomorrow some
unusual values so on sale as the
result. They are all in the pin
dot, and they are the best values
in these goods we ever knew Of
fered.
White Dotted Swiss, "a inches
wide, all fine pin dots
The usual 45c. quality for 32C
The usual soc. quality for 3715C
The usual CSC. quality for 45C
32-inch White Dotted Swiss
The usual 25c. quality for f8c
The usual $50. quality for 24c
The usual 4oc. quality for 20c
The usual soc. quality for Soc
The usual 55c. quality for SOC
The usual 6oc. quality for 45c
GOIOred BrrbpOider-
ed Swiss.
The popular fabric for evening
wear and early spring.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07

Total .-t....tsstt tsnln. ttN %
At the next meeting or the Committee
on Retrouchmcnt and Reform which win
be held Thursday night. the above liz,
will be carefully considered, and reduce
tians possibly recommended
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07

Ihlci or Police ................... 2,ulUuU |
Captains OF Police each 81 200. 3r0l u0 !
~ Sorrcants Gi 900 cach).......... 10000 /
SO Privafes G4Z5D oach) immune. 75.4sLsO |
3 Janitors $3.50 EACH .............. l.4i0.oO |
2 Drivers Patrol Wagons $500
each) .......................... LOO 90 |
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-07
The Fourqurean Price Co.

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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
THE WORLDS WARRIORS.

Berlin, by the 1895 census, had 1885,
SIT inhabitants. Employed in the army
or civil service were 72,s48 persons.
Count Won Gozen, lieutenant of Uh-
lans, has been appointed military at
tache to the German embassy at Wash
ington in succession to Capt. Hesse.
Round Robin is the designation of a
protest in writing, having the subscrib-
ers' names written in the form of cir
Gle, SO that no name appears first on
the list. The custom is said to have
originated amongst the officers of the
French army.
A torpedo-boat destroyer, built by the
Lairds for the Gillian government, at
tanned speed of 31.S knots during
one part of her trials, according to the
London World. If this statement is
true, the speed is equivalent to 36Ha
miles an hour, the highest yet made.
The largest standing army is that OF
Russia, 100000 men; the next in size that
of Germany, $4,000; the third that Of
France, $4,000; the fourth, Austria,
$4,000; after which come Italy, with
255,000; Britain, with 10000; Turkey,
with 100000, and Spain with $4,000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
HORSE tlISTO?Y.

One of the most ocular banquets
ever celebrated WAS the Great United
Franco-Anglo American Horse, Mule
and Donkey Banquet" where the flesh
OF the three kinds of animals was
served in many styles. This famous
feed was on April 3, 1875.
The standard of the Saxons was q
white horse. 1t is worthy of note that
the hair of the Saxon women was not
red, but yellow, therefore the joke
about the red-headed girl and the white
horse, though ancient, is of later data
than the eighth century.
The horse of Alexander the Great
was named "Bucephalos." It was told
Of him that he always knelt to take
his master. He was 30 years old at the
time Of his death, and Alexander built
q city for his mausoleu1n, which he
called Bucephala.
From the time of William the Con-
queror to the period when artillery
came into use horses were protected by
chain armor. The weight of this prov
ing serious objection, knights some.
times substituted an armor of dried OK
hide instead of the metal protection.
In 1858 and 1859 Rarey. the American
horse tanner, performed feats of tam
ing in London which excited the admit
ration of all Europe. Besides tanning
the widest and most vicious horses, he
succeeded in tanning q zebra, a feat
which was deemed IMPOSSIBLE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
SMALL PROFITS OF MuRDERERs
Few OF Them Realize Riches by Means Of
Their Crimes

Few OF Them Realize Riches BY Means Of
Their Crimes.
Much has been published in England
about the professional assassins of
Paris, writes our Paris correspondent,
and in many cases fabulous gains have
been attributed to them as a result OF
their crimes. but these exist more FREE
luently in fiction than in fact. Statis-
tics recently compiled by the project
of Paris police throw good deal of
liga on the'assassin's trade as practioed
in modern times. Especially interest
inS are they in view of the popular, but
vel erroneous. idea that the assassin's
tra.le is profitable one. That it is
qu he the reverse seems to be clearly
proved by record of the profits gained
by notorious assassins during the last
30 Years..
Biographies of large number of
FRI nch murderers, some of whom paid
the penalty of their crimes on the gull
lctine, while others were transported
to New Caledonia, show that the aver
Hge murderer makes far less money at
his abominable trade than is made by
am third-rate artisan or even day la
boSer.
(tere, for example, are the names of
a lew criminals and statement as to
ths actual money proSt that resulted
in each case: Sejournet committed one
crime, and his profit was e2 s shil
lings; Rossell, one crime, Ell 10 shil
lings; Ducret, one crime, es worth of
jeNVelry; Cathelin. one crime. about 5
sh,llings. These are not princely prof
it's, but they are large compared with
others. Three men for example-Geor-
goes, Voty and Franck-committed
horrible crime and only made about
sixpence apiece. Several others were
less fortunate, for they gained nothing
at all. Other knights of the road found
to their dismay after dispatching their
vic tins that they had no money on
them, and they were consequently
bound to be satisfied with such booty as
they could obtain in the shape of
watches and other jewelry, which, of
course, is less desirable than money,
as it is not always easy to dispose of.
True, few assailants have made a
considerable sum of money. Three,
Martin, Begheim and Lapommeraye,
were especially fortunate or unfortu-
nate in this respect. Martin found 6 200
in his victims purse, Begheim got 6 l.
400 worth of jewelry and Lapommeraye
elso acquired large sum of money at
one stroke. These men, however, did
not live very long to enjoy their wealth,
rs justice overlook them and quickly
dispatched them to another world.
Such men are rare, however, so rare
that a careful calculation shows that
the average amount made by French
assassins during the last 80 years does
not exceed nine or ten shillings for
each crime.
n Such being the case, the wonder is
that there are so many murderers. And
greater wonder is, why, if they are
determined to kill for the sake of OBJ
tanning money they do not arrange to
kill persons who are known to be
wealthy and do not seize an oppor-
tunity when their intended victims have
their pockets stuffed with gold. a
distinguished official Of the police force
in Paris says that the assassins ect il
their usual foolish manner simply be
cause they are mbeciles.-London Mail
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
THE BED OF BEDS.
Pleasures of the Couch Made of Boughl
In Camps in the Woods.

Pleasures of the Couch Made of Boughs
In Camps in the Woods.
There are beds and beds, but none
is so comfortable, so restful, or so i'm
teresting as that which the hunter,
fisherman, OF plain camper-out makes
for himself from the boughs of ever
green trees in the forests of Maine,
Canada, or any of the other great hunt
ing regions along the northern border.
This bed, made of short trimmings
of twigs form the spruce, cedar, hem
lock or balsam, or all four together,
consists entirely of the Feathers" OF
the trees, the six-inch outshoots from
branches, with the plume end up, laid
against PROSTATE two-inch sappling,
SO that the head may have a pillow.
AS the twigs stand nearly erect the
bed is four or five inches deep, and IL
blanket spread over it yields and
springs back as one rolls over it. The
bed, wide in proportion to the number
of persons to use it, and seven feet long.
is as fluffy as haymow, and gives
forth scent that sooothes and heals
ones senses and body.
But the bough bed is getting less and
less used. Hotels and fancy cottage
camps with spring beds and linen
sheets are slowly superseding the old
style hunters bed because of the diff
ficulty and bother of getting a new bed
every trip. 1t will be long time, how
ever. before balsam bough pillows cease
to be used in even the most aristocratic
of hunters lodges.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS.

Gelatin0us Substance Spread on Galvan-
lied Iron Web.
1.-THE first successful substitute for
glass;" says an architect in the WASH
ington Times, lis tectorium, a gelatin
Gus composition. 1t has not appeared
in this country at all, as yet, but Is
being introduced in Europe.
"This gelatinous substance is given
rigidity by being spread on galvan-
lied iron web, which holds the sheet
in any desired shape, but does not OBJ
struct the passage of light. 1t is trans
lucent, but not transparent, and can be
stained in such a manner as to exactly
initiate stained glass.
at cannot be broken nor softened by
the rays of the sun, but is flexible and
easily bent into any desired shape.
When unstained it at first is yellow,
but on exposure to the sun it turns
white, at the same time becoming hard
er and more durable.
"Like glass, it is poor conductor of
heat. 1t is lighter than glass, AMI on
this account is well adapted for roofs.
Unless It can be made transparent It
can never hope to entirely supersede
glass, but its cheapness and SUI
periority to glass in other direc-
tions are securing for it extensive sales
for factory windows, skylights for hot
houses, roofing and like purposes"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
OUR EXPORTS.

The shipment of American horses to
England is steadily increasing. In 1893
Great Britain took 1877 American
horses, $4,000 in 1894 and $4,000 in 1895.
Great Britain consumed 100000 tons
Of meat last year, rs per cent. of which
she imported. During the first six
months of the year the United States
supplied rs per cent of the cattle and
IS per cent. of the sheep. In the Glas-
cow market cattle from the United
States compete with the very highest
quality of British cattle.
In the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and her colonies is found the prin-
cipal market for American goods.
Those English-spealking peoples bought
IS per cent. Of all our products last
year. Together with Germany, France,
Holland and Belgium they purchased
S1.9 of our exports, leaving 1871 per
cent. for the rest of the world.
For The fiscal year just ended the ex-
ported products of the American farm
ers aggregated $57O,oOo,ooo, an increase
of $17,0O0,O0O over the previous year.
In spite of this there was falling off
in the percentage of agricultural prod
ucts exported to the total exports, but
this was due to the unprecedented sale
abroad of American manufactured
goods.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
WHITE HOUSE ETIQUETTE.
Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
Presidents Family.

Rules That Are Strictly Observed by the
Presidents Family.
When the president and his wife drive
out the president sits on the right
hand seat and his wife on the left, says
the Illustrated American.
If there are others In the carriage,
whether ladies or gentlemen. they must
sit with their backs to the horses.
When Mrs. Cleveland was first married
she tried the experiment of placing her
mother opposite the president and her
self in the presidential landau, but the
people laughed at it so immoderately
and professed to think Mrs. Folsom las
she was them to be the maid, that it was
speedily dropped. When the presi-
dents wife drives alone, she sits in the
right-hand corner-the place of honor.
The lady of the white house cannot
net foot within those splendid houses
IN Washington whose fagstaffs mark
the foreign embassy or legation. She
could not go without the president, and
as an embassy or legation is technically
part of the country it represents, the
president could not go - so that she
never sees the inside of diplomatic
house as long as she presides at the
executive mansion. The president
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
THE nEuNNY MAN..
He Had Been = Boy and Hadn't Forgot


eAO AA8o DOon = DOy anu ubOn't EOEkOB~
ten It.
We call him the funny man because
he was sad and serious, and said little
but gazed right into our souls and made
us tell him just what was in our minds
at the time, and then came out with
some magnificently luminous sugges-
tion that cleared every cloud away, says
Scribner's. What was more, he would
then go off with us at once and play the
right thing out to itc finish. earnestly
and devoutededly, putting all other
things aside. So we called him the fur
ny man, meaning only that he was diff
ferent from those others who thought
it incumbent on them to play the pain
full hummer. The idea as opposed to
the real man was what we meant, only
we were not acquainted with the
phrase. Those others, with their la
bored jests and clumsy contortions,
doubtless fattered themselves that
they were funny men; we, who had to
sit through and applaud the painful
performance, knew better.
He pulled up to walk as soon as he
caught sight of us, and the dogcaI t
crawled slowly along till it stopped just
opposite. Then he leaned his chin on
his hand and regarded us long and soul
fully, yet said never word; while we
jigged up and down in the dust. grim
ming bashfully, but with expectation.
For you never knew exactly what the
man might say or do.
"You look bored" he remarked, pres
emily; Thoroughly bored. Or else-let
me see; you're not married, are your"
He asked this in such sad earnestness
that we fastened to assure him that we
were not married. Though we felt he
ought to have known that much; we
had been intimate for some time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
A Legend of Lombardy.

An old Lombard legend tells the story
Of chicftain who asked the hand of q
neighbor's daughter. Upon its being
refused him he declared war, killed the
chief who had declined the honor of be-
ing his father-in-law, and married the
girl after all. Not satisfied with this
much. he had the skull of his wife's ia
Their mounted in gold as drinking cup,
and one day. while under the influence
OF wine, ordered his spouse to appear
before the assembled guests at his
house and drink to his health out of the
horrible bowl. She did so, but ever
after was her husbands secret but most
deadly enemy. She Joined in con-
spiracy which eventually resulted in the
king her husbands assassination.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
eEssIE's GREAT SACRIFICE.
She Felt Sorry for Baby Who Had No
Doll.

She Felt Sorry for Baby Who Had No
Doll.
The stockings had been hung I'D and
the little ones gathered around the
hearth to hear mamma tell the story
of the Babe of Bethlehem, says the
New York World. Their small faces
expressed profound sympathy when
they heard how the Son of God was
born in a stable, how He lay on bed
of straw, how He shivered in the cool
December night and how His life was
In danger from the wicked Herod. Lit
tie Bessie seemed TO be particularly inn
pressed. She said nothing, but one
could see that she was thinking hard.
When, half an hour later, mamma
came to Bessie's bed to kiss her good
night, she found the child pressing her
doll to her bosom and gazing at it with
unutterable affection. AS she stopped
over the bed Bessie looked up and
asked, earnestly: Mamma, amt Gods
baby got amy dolly?"
"No," replied the mother, smiling.
Bessie looked at her doll again and
Rugged it. Then conflicting emotions
showed themselves ON the little face.
After long silence the child raised
her eyes, which had such an expression
as those of the martyrs must have worn
1T the stake, and said, firmly: ''Take
1t to Him, mamma"
Closing her eyes tight Bessie laid the
doll in her mothers hands and buried
her face in the pillow to try to forget
the great sacrifice she had made.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
IMPORTED FLIES.
insects Caught in the swamps OF Mexico
Brought Here.
len I'll go to Fort Scott. "

Insects Caught in the swamps OF Mexico
Brought Here.
The report made from Laredo TO the
treasury department at Washington
make constant reference to one of the
queerest articles of import brought into
this country. These are dried Mexican
flies, which are brought to the United
States in large quantities to be used as
food for pet singing birds.
These flies live in the swamps in vari-
Gus sections in Mexico, where they are
caught by men who devote their lives
to the work. The fly catchers use a
silEen net, and make a large haul at
every cast. The individual fly is called
moscos. It is small and delicate, and
it's whole body has the appearance Of
having been gilded.
The flies when alive are beautiful and
harmless. There is a duty on these
Mexican flies. doubtless to encourage
the home fly industry, but up to the
present time tlR moscos business has
not flourished in this country to any
marked extent The imported flies are
packed in barrels. and they sell for a
high price.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
ANY OLD PLACE WOULD DO.
He Couldn't Spell Osawatomie Nor Could
the Stenographer.

He Couldn't Spell Osawatomie Nor Could
the Stenographer.
A short man, with red whiskers,
shambling gait, and the remains of a
jag, wandered into the Midland the
other evening, and asked for a type
writer's studio, says the Kansas City
Journal. He lives in Kansas, not far
from Topeka, and had been here at
tending the football games. Luck
had walked on the same side of
the street with him in the matter
of bets, and he wanted to stay an
other week. But his wife expected him
home, so he was in search of type
writer to send home a letter to serve as
an apology for his nonappearance.
"Kansas City, this date, &C." he NUT
tered to the typewritist.
II have that"
"My dear wife,"
EYES"
every important business will re-
quire my presencein Osawatomie for a
few days"
"Let's see," interrupted the artist.
"How do you spell that Osawatomie ?"
spell it yourself. It's your type
writer"
81 can't"
"Can't spell Osawatomie?" he asked
in disgust.
mo"
"Then I'll go to Fort Scott"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
POWER OF A woMAN's WORD.
1t Overcame the Wrath of an Unfoeling
Policeman.


Policeman.
The following pretty story is taken
from the New York Mail and Express,
and is good enough to stand by itself.
He was only an Italian fruit-vender.
Their was nothing about him at all like
ly to inspire the beholder with feeling.
one way or another. He was not
ragged enough to call for especial SYM
patty, nor unkempt enough to provoke
disgust. Yet to the policeman on his
beat he was undoubtedly the object Of
considerable aversion. This was shown
by the unrelenting vigor with which
the fruit-seller was pursued from cor
ner to corner by the Jealous guardian Of
the law.
The other day, in too hurried re-
Spouse to the everlasting order to
"move on" the peddler's cart was upset,
and his peaches and pears were scat
tered over the ground and across the
street car track. The enraged police
man could barely restrain the impulse
to use his club.
"The dirty loaferl" he exclaimed.
HE did it on purpose-just trying to
excite sympathy"
"He has succeeded, them" said soft
voice at the officers elbow, and neat
little woman stopped and began to
gather up the scattered fruit.
The officers face Redeemed. He hesi-
tated a moment, and then he, too,
joined in the work of restoration.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-15
HE FOOLED THE "BARKER."
Supposed Customer Only Wanted to Light
His Pipe.

Supposed Customer Only Wanted to Light
His Pipe.
"Overcoats, hats, suits, boots and
shoes-at half price-best in town-tit
you or treat you-more goods for less
money-whole stock must be. Step
right in, sir. Overcoat, sir? Step right
In"
The barker in front of State stree,
clothing house was earning his money,
and he knew it, says the Chicago Post.
The customer he had caught was tall
and thin and only tolerably well clad.
A new overcoat was especially needed.
He looked along the line displayed,
took note of prices, and at last seemed
overpersuaded by the barker and
turned in at the entering of the door.
The barker watched him, tossing aft
er him scraps of guaranty and frag-
ments of recommendation The shabby,
thin man had been worked off the
street." and was at last clearly within
the door. There he took filled pipe
from his left-hand pocket, amatch from
his right-hand pocket, and stand
ing where the recess and the dressed
dummies protected him from the wind,
lighted his pipe. buttoned his frayed
overcoat and L~ssed on.
"Overcoats. hats, suits, boots-dad-
bling him. he fooled me-and shoes at
half price-best in town." resumed the
barker, and looked for fresh victims.