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Show , , - B I A Fatal Experiment. M t (Dcsoret News.) M A dispatch from Paris to the B . i New York World says: H I An experiment in socialism, m ! which for a moment amused all m v France, has suddenly been turned M into a tragedy. B Mr. Mouchcl, a Socialist deputy, Bj , was for yoars tho mayor of Hfi ' Ji:2Wfr'r'mTiRl"fovn not far R 5P?SllU,1 1,V dccidw1:t6 try. T7"'''1 cmro'd 4 irTTa vor of '' muhi&mi H ownershij) of gas, electricity and H other public utilities. H All Franco had its eyes on the I H f now enterprise. ' H Evidently tho mayor's theories H did not work out well, for tho H city soon found itself deeply in H debt. Matters reached a crisis ! B y a few days ago when Mr. H 1 ' Mouehel. in a speech delivered H to the city council, announced H tho failure of his uudertaking. H Notwithstanding the pathos of H tho situation his honor put on a 1 bold front and even smiled when ho said to the council: jv "Under these circumstances , h far it becomes my solemn duty to J resign as your mayor. " H ' IIo told them Unit he know H , his theories had been proved to H , bo impracticable, and no one H know better than he did that all II ity 4 France was now laughing at him I lli am Ids schemes. jm Nobody doubted the mayor's ' mSS honesty, but ho took the matter Brs so much to heart that he wont ' intotho collar of the city hall h , nntf killed himself, firing a bullet H ' J through his brain. m . |