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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-12
SORROWS SAFETY VALVE.
Consolation Found In Uttering the Hearts
PrOfoundest Cry.

Consolation Found In UtterIng the Hearts
Profoundest Cry.
Great griefs can seldom be borne in
silcnce;nor is it we'll that they should be.
Just as the cry OF pain springs to tho
lips of child when it is hurt, so tho
wounded spirit longs for utterancc to
ease its sorrow. Far from being a re-
belious and unnatural desire, this long
ing to somehow unburden the soul in
words is 4 merciful gift Of God, who,
even when he chastens, would fam
temper his wind to tho shorn lamb
See how the noblest souls have sought
and found, not only balm for sorrow,
but sorrows own deeper meaning in
uttering their hearts profoundest cry
Think of that magnificent memorial
poem in which Tennyson gathered up,
rs in Il sacred urn, the fragments OF his
broken heart Was his sorrow for Hal
lam the less, that he thus robbed it of
its bittercst sting the sting of helpless
silence and hopeless broodng? Was
Cicero loss noble, less heroic, because.
after tho death of his beloved daughter
Iullia, he wrote treatise on consola-
ton to alleviate his sorrow? No; utter
ancos sanctilcs the grief whose pang it
softens. God does not will that we
should suffer i'll white-lippcd silence
lie never drives tho barbcd arrow into,
tho human heart. Oh, what comfort,
what peace has come to many 4 stricken
soul in pouring out its sorrow to so ne
sympathetic friond, or telling itall in
broken letter to some dear ono far away!
We need not be poets or orators to use
this blessed safetyvalve of sorrow.
Enough if we have the faculty Of ut
terance. Surely, in the fulness OF the
heart wo shall not ask for words! And
then there is another safety-valv9 of
sorrow. 1t is service. Work, loving,
earnest work-it is like tho dowl Of
Heaven upon the bruised reed. It,sor-
row should taso away our power of
serving, it would be the worst hell the
mind can conceive. 1t would lie like
the chained hands of Prometheus, while
the yultures were gnawing at his vitals.
But thank God? however dark and deep
our sorrow, We are not deprived OF the
blessed relief OF doing. Though the
eyes rain, let not the hands lie idle.
There is u worldful of blessed work to
bc dorc, and service is sorrows balm OF
Gilcad -Zion's Herald
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GLlMPSES OF EUGENE.
Tho Beautiful Ex- mpress Now a Pale.
White Haired Woman.

u q.
Whlte-Haired Woman
may mention hero two rather nict-
uresque interviews with the En- press
Eugenic. Tho first one at Venice in
1869, when she was on her wav to FIJI
Suez canal to open it for NJ. dc Lesscps,
her cousin.
She arrived thcro in her own Yacht,
the Aigle, and VIC saw her from the
windows OF Damicllis Hotel, pacinr nm
and down the deck, Il quecnly figure
Indeed the Empress Eugenie, who was
not royalty looked moro liko ono
than any / have seen born in tho pur-
pie She was physically so handsome
and what VIC call ''aristocra tic-looking"
that She seemed every inch Queen.
In the evening all Venice was illumi-
mated ard the Grand canal had the an
pcarancc of Il long icwclcd serpent.
Victor Emanuel came thithcr with 4
brilliant troop OF cavaliers to do her
honor. lie took her in his
own gondola up the tortuous
dark passages of the lesser ca
nails into the Grand canal, past
the historic house OF Lucretia }orria.
which was bloodrcd in the limclirht:
past the violct-tintcd church of Maria
del Salute: past the glorious old Ducal
palace; past tho two columns which
hold the Lion of st. Mark and the SAINT
on the Alligator; through all tho dreamy
charm of Il night in Venice, with the
cleaning boats beside them, ono =
model of the Buccntoro Music was
playing softly all the airs from "Otel-
10" 81 Duo Foscari" and other Vene-
tian things; and so the Empress whose
pale, handsome face and red hair saw
plainly from my gondola, spent her
evening In Venice.
Lord IIoughton was with her, and he
aftcrward told mo that she ordered in
Venice dress made after the portrait
OF Catarina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus
in the Academia, which she wore at
the ball givon by NJ. de Lesseps at Suez.
Poor woman! This was tho last of her
glories The next year came Sedan.
with downfall and ruin. loss of husband
loss Of son. She is our Lady of Vicissi-
tudcs.
During the most brilliant DAYS of the
Queens jubilee in London in 1887 ! saw
the Empress once moro, tall. pa,,,
white-haired woman in deep mourning
attended by one gentleman and ono
lady. She came down the steps of the
buckingham Palace Hotel as | did. Our
carriages were detained, and | noted
again that fine, aristocratic outline, that
beautiful droop OF the cyelid. She is
still very handsome, and looks like q
martyr, but how changed tall is.-Mrs
Sherwood, in Philadelphia Tim
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-12
STRANGE REPTILES.
Some Extraordinary Creatures which Ex-
listed In the Back Ages

Some Extraordinary Creatures which Ex-
listed In the Back Ages.
An extraordinary creature of this
time was the fish lizard" 1t had n
head like lizard, jaws and teeth like
crocodile, the backbone of a fish, the
paddles of whale, and the trunk end
tail of a Quadruped. Tho first skeleton
OF this animal was discovered in En-
gland by country girl. She used to
make her living by selling fossils,
which were very abundant in her native
place. One day she discovered some
bones projecting from cliff Clearing
away tho rubbish, she found that thev
belonged to tho skeleton of an animal
embedded in the rock. She hired some
workmon to dig out the entire rock, and
the monster proved to be thirty feel
long. What sensation it created.
That region, Lyme Regis, was
found to be veritable grave
yard OF these wonderful animals. The
jaws of some of them wore eight feet
long. and contained one hundred and
sixty teeth. Whenever tooth was
lost in conflict, q duplicate tooth in
the jaw was ready 60 take it's place.
Their eyes were larger than n mans
head, and possessed of very powerful
and far-socing vision, so that no matter
how far distant the prey, there could
be no escaping those cyesl Its stom-
ach was like great pouch, and it swal-
lowed its food without chewing. 1t was
so greedy a monster that it ate oven
smaller animals of its own kind,
Nobody can say for certain whether
It's skin was covered with scales or not.
Still, as no remains of scales have been
found, it was probably soft and smooth.
1T had TO come up to the surface TO
breathe, like whale, and perhaps it
had "blowers" to blow out water. What
connection it must have made!
Another animal Of this family had
the head of serpent upon the neck OF
gigantic swan. 1t was fitted for
quicker motion than the fish lizard. II
probably swan on the surface like =
swan, and thrust its long neck down in
search Of prey.
The most wonderful of all. however.
was the dragon of which | told YOU.
1t Is called by hard Crock name which
VIC will translate into ''winr-Gnocr /"
There were two points in which it re-
scmblcd bait its eyes wo\'e so formed
that it could sec in the darlA and it had
enormous wings joined to itsklaws like
those of a bat. 1t was probably a water
animal, whose wings wcro usct to take
flying leaps through the air, al tho lly-
ing fish does, but probably it COLD re-
main longer on the wing. -TcAesa c.
Crofton, in st. Nicholas.
Judge Ito Prisoner) What l3i you
to commit this cr!mc?' Prisoner-i.Re.
tor ask my lawyer. lie can ie Is :ter
than ! can. Yankee Blade
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CURING a POET.
Terrible Disease yauquished by Means
OF q Clever Conspiracy.

a Terrible Disease vanqulshed by Means
OF Clever Conspiracy.
Abel Ryder was the queerest of all
the queer characters we had in our
town. Not that his eccentricities wero
plain to every body, like some of the
old settlers, for ono had to be pretty
we'll acquainted with tho old man, and
enter into conversation with him, to
discover what was SO strange about him.
Abels hobby was poetry. He mover
wrote any, SO far as I know, but he
could talk it. Yes, and he talked moth
ing else.
llo kept a store-a regular village
store, whero the boys used to congre-
gate, and it was there, on winters even
ings, where we used to draw old Abel
out and enjoy his pcculiarities. For
instance, would enter and say: Good
evening, Abel!" "Set tho table," Abel
would reply. lilo did not caro- whether
his replies contained any sense SO long
as they rhymed; that was all he looked
out for.)
Some ono else would como in with
"Wcll, Abel, how goes it?" 80, my
manner shows it," answered Abel, mover
stopping as if at n loss for a word, but
answering as naturally as could be.
1t was very seldom that we ever
stuck Abcl-he could always find
something to rhyme with the last word
OF our sentence; but want to tell you
how wo conspircd to bring him down to
plain English, for We tired of his cease
less poctical chatter, and how tho con-
spiracy worked.
We all got together ono day, and be-
gan to form Il number of sentences end
ing i'll words with which it was difficult
to lind any thing to rhyme. When VIC
had made Il list sufficient, we thought
to satisfy our needs, we proceeded in Il
body To Abel's store He was behind
the counter, and, as we entered, said:
Good morning, boys, a lovely day!
How are you fellows, any way?
Then VIC begun.
Abel said Tom Ferris, what's the
day Of the month";
81 think II told YOU" Abel
scratched his head. II thinl, told YOU
once. No, no Don't be such Ounce
dunth.' lie paused and looked at us
VIGOROUSLY. But we were not to be
beaten SO easily.
Say Abel" said Bill Bower, did
you ever see locomotives"
mo; but / think would lsnow't if
Il saw onc)," he added in parenthcsis.
This was only partial victory for Abel,
and we followed him up.
Abel, said third, could you run
dynamo?"
Abel thought moment and then re-
piled, quickly: Your remarks, now,
please conlino 'em, or
a SILVER Of anxiety ran through our
ranks, for locomotive" and dynamo"
were two of our strongest words But
Peter Flynn came to our rescue.
MIR. Ryder" said he, drawing his
| sentence ont, mir. Ryder, havo you rot
steel spiral ?" lie put great empha-
sis on the word spiral" and looked
hard at the old man.
Abel opened his mouth to reply. He
moved his lips as if trying to form a
word, clutched at his hair, cast an apon-
izing look about him, and then-Vic
tory! Detiantly. and yet with tho tone
of a man who knew that he was beaten.
he said mo"
| We had him.
From that day Abel Ryder was diff
ferent man. and do not believe that
the people in that town have been
troubled with him since At least 7
know that we never were-Paul c.
West, in Light.
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connecting at Radford with
trains on New River Branch;
arriving ut Pocahontas at
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5:4o p. M. Daily, arrives Radford T:e0
p. M, connecting with New
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for Blueiield and Pocahon-
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p. m. Arrives Bristol ll:2O
p. M, connecting with T..
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points south and west. Has
Pullman Palace Sleeper,
Roanoke to Memphis, with
out change.
7:55 4. m. Daily, arrive Radford OILS
a. m, connecting with Now
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with e. Il. V. & q. r. r. d
for all points south and
west; has Pullman Palace
Sleeper from Roanoke to
New Orleans without
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R.,) Norfolk and interme-
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Il. for. Washington and tho
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TAO a. m. daily. Arrives
Norfolk 200 p. m, csnnect
ing with steamer lines TO
baltimore and New York.
1910 a. III. Daily; arrives Lynchburg
1889 n. M, connecting with
V. nj. K. Il. for all points
north, arriving Washing
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r., sos p. m. arrives Nor
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intermediates stations; ar
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wnmnn.s KnowIe.,rc of Man.

Bellows-no you think women under
stand moa better than they understand
themselves?
fo'.ows- / DO. havc often thought
1i}a d sober whcn my vito would know
H..s oNO-thiris drunk. The Jury.
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500 p. IN. Daily-Memphis Express,
from Hagerstown and tho
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Chattanooga and Memphis
via Harrisburg, Hagers-
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making connection through
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NOTICE.

~ meeting Of the directors OF the
Roanoke Building Stone and Paw inr Co.,
held on Dec, 3rd, 1850, the resignation
OF II. q. Cole, as secretary and treas
urcr of said company. was accepted. and
;. Il Addison WAS elected to fill said
Office.
All bills duo the company will be
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Judge Ito Prisoner What lal you
to commit this cr!mc?' Prisoner HE.
tor ask my lawyer lie can le :ter
than ! can Yankee Blade
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-08-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.

There are 81 students IN the law
class at Chapel Hill.
The South Carolina Democratic
convention met yesterday. Up to to-
day they were still quarreling about
the delegates.
Anderson & Barr, of Jersey City,
N. j., have been awarded a contract
for building Lighthouse on outer Dia-
mond Shoal, off Cane Hatteras. coast
of North Carolina, at the bid of 1885,
600.
The Cleveland County Conven-
ton endorsed Senator Vance and
Judges Clark and Merrimon. AS to
delegates appointed to all conventions,
Graham, for Congress, gets twenty
five votes; Cowles, twelve. Hoke, for
Judge, thirty three; Justice, twelve.
Rutherford college was burned Fri
day night. Supposed to have caught
from one of the society halls. All
buildings and libraries were completely
destroyed with some twenty thousand
dollars in notes and accounts. There
was not dollars insurance.
M. G. w. Bryan says that he has
realized 500 from one acre of water
melons already, and his family and
Mr.. Walston's have used all they
wished since they first began to ripen.
All sold in Scotland Neck, and the
cost of cultivation has not exceeded
$1O.-Scotland Neck Dem crat,
Last week the town of Henderson
opened the first exchange warehouse
ever run in the State. The first sale
was attended by large number of
buyers from other markets From
$500 to 1000 packages Of tobacco
we're represented by samples at this
sale, and 271 hogsheads were sold.
This is a new departure for North
Carolina.
A notorious negro desperate and
ex convict named Bryan CASTOR, alias
Ed. Phifer, has been arrested at Will
mington on suspicion Of being the
murderer of Nathan Fails. He has
confessed to several robberies lately
committed in Onslow, Fender and
Brunswick counties and is believed to
be the author of many of the recent
highway robbery outrages around
Wilmirgt
The man named Shinall, vi no
lived near Mt Airy, and whose mys-
terious disappearance was noted few
days ago has returned. 1t was sup
posed that he had been murdered at a
church while engaged in a game of
cards with Percy Fry and Joe lilly.
1t seems that they had all run away to
keep from being punished for playing
cards in the church, and Shinall has
found hiding place in the mines of
Carroll county, Va.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-08-14
THE LATEST IN THE STATE.

Burlington suffered by fire this
week. The loss is reported at $10,-
900.
The Orange county radicals have
nominated two negro's for the Legisla.
ture.
"A fire at Maxton Monday night
destroyed three buildings, valued at
$500.
Ed. Turrentine died in Durham
Sunday, after short illnss, and w.
H. Bledsoe died at Raleigh Sunday
morning.
Prof F. B. Hobgood, of Oxford,
who has been in the insane asylum at
Raleigh, has recovered ard returned
to his home.
Frank D. Winston, of BERTHE, is
the Republican nominee for judge in
the 3rd district. He is brother of
R. w. Winston, who is the Democratic
nominee for Judge in the 9Th, also a
brother of "Pat"
AT the Republican judicial con-
vention. held at Morganton Tuesday
]. w. Bowman, of Mitchell, was NOM
mated for judge, and E. Spencer
Blackburn, "the tall sugar maple of
Wataga," for Solicitor OF the 10th
judicial district.
"A person who is in the confidence of
Commissioner Miller says that as soon
as Congress adjourns the President
will nominate Eaves' successor, and
that he will probably be one of the
three following gentlemen: Cooper,
Pritchard or Brown. Col. Cooper is
thought to be in the lead.
"A Raleigh negro was heard solil-
oquizing in Winston the other day
about the electric street cars. He stood
and watched several cars go by and
then was heard to mutter, 1.-THE white
man done done away wild de niger,
now he tryin' to do way Wild de
mule. "-Neacs and Observer.
w. OBJ. Branch was nominated
Tuesday on the first ballot for Con-
gress in the Democratic convention of
the First district of North Carolina,
to succeed Mr.. Skinner. Mr.. Branch
is an Alliance Democrat, and son of
L. O'D. Branch, who represented that
district in Congress before the war.
Owing to what is claimed to be
an error in the Ne,os and Obse, ger in
tabulating the vote of Mcdowell coun-
ty, the nomination for solicitor in the
10th judicial district will have to be
reconsidered, and the convention call
ed again. Mr.. w. G.. Newland, of
Lenoir, received the nomination by
four ffths of vote, and has rendered
his resignation in favor of w. B.
Councill, of Watauga county, who it
is claimed would have been nomi-
mated on the last ballot if the vote of
Mcdowell had been given correctly
1919 instead Of 1119. Whether there
is an error of 100 in the vote is not
definitely known.
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Solid For Bum.

A Pittsboro correspondent of the
Durham Sun, after writing of the
great success of the Chatham Confed-
crate Association at Pittsboro, adds:
"Mr. George L. Tonnofski, a temper
izing candidate for Congress, was on
the ground in person distributing cir
culars, expressing his high regards
for the people just at this juncture.
In a political sense he received an ice
berg reception. Your correspondent
has no idea that it has as yet entered
into the heart of single voter of the
county to waste Democratic ballot
on him. Mr.. Tonuiffski's presence
here only had the effect to make the
Democrats present soliloquize thus:
we will go home and speak to the
boys that everything be made solid for
Bunn.' Chatham will bear herself
gloriously this year, and as she goes,
so may the State"