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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Eiah Men Summarizing.

Senator Edmunds has u very pretty
country place III Vermont, and his
home at Burlington is high and cool.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, has
about a thousand acres surrounding
his country place, near Asheville, n.
c., and he says he would a thousand
times rather go there than to White
Sulphur Springs or Saratoga. 1.-The
idea of paradise for me-" lie remarked
the other day, "is TO get down at my
home in the mountains, where l can
throw off my coat, stretch myself I'M
der q tree and watch an old Niger
pillow with a one eyed mule. "
Ex-senator Palmer writes me that he
intends to make tour of the lakes on
one of his freight steamers, and after
he returns he will settle down In his
log cabin near Detroit. This log cabin
contains about six rooms, and it cost
S12, 900 to build. Palmer has q lot Of
Jersey COWS, the milk of which costs
him fully as much as that of Senator
Eva1ts, and his farming is one of the
luxuries of millionaire. He blows up
strunps with dynamite, raises fish in a
pond kept fresh by q steam engine
pumping water into it and entertains
magnificently. He calls himself pio-
neer, and his house is flctitiously dub
bed Font Hill, because, he says, there
is no fountain and no hill connected
with it.-Wasllington Letter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
1na-os with Short Hair.

1t is we'll known that judges wear
their hair very short y Judge who is
still or the bench relates an amusing
incident which happened to himself
when he was on circuit in the south of
England In company with another
administrator of the law he went for a
walk in the country, and being thirsty
their lordships entered small inn, in
the rear of which they found two Ia
borers playing stsittles. They decided
to join in the game, and each taking
one of the men as partner they played
in real earnest. Getting hot Mr.. JUS
tice - took off his coat; becoming
hotter, he removed his hat. His lord
ships partner Immediately stopped
playing. go on" exclaimed the dis
tinguished Judge; but Hodge remained
motionless. What are you stopping
for2' asked Mr. Justice -. all impa-
tience TO renew the game. 81 don't
moind bein' neighborly," replied the
man, looking at the judges closely
cropped head, 'but I'm darn ned if be
g goin' TO play skittles with ticket-o'-
leaf man. london Figaro.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Does Advertising Pay?

He is a slow man indeed who af-
firms that judicious advertising does
not pay. Let the skeptic look around
him, in any city or business center,
aud note the most successful business
men there. Who are they2 The care
ful and judicious advertisers invarl-
ably.
Some raise the objection that every
thing is now sold at so small q margin
of profit that they cannot afford to adj
vertise. This is just why the should
advertise. Where is the advantage of
selecting particularly cheap OF offering
especially great bargains if the people
are not made aware of them2
There is no questioning the fact that
there is an immense amount Of money
wasted, positively thrown aw ay, In SO
called advertising schemes that are abb
solutely worthless, and that ia il utterly
To bring the investor in them any re-
turns whatever for the money expend-
ed. All the experienced advertisers
avoid them. using only the standard,
long tried,.S reliable mediu ms-the
newspapers. the best and the cheapest.
AS it is known that the most sue
cessful business men are tho greatest
advertisers, so is it fact that all sue
cessful advertisers are firm believers In
the newspaper-believers n pit only IN
its effectiveness, but its cheapness.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Diff,cu1tv of Being a Baptist.

1t is hard to become real old fash
toned Baptist in New York nowadays.
The running streams in which it used
to be necessary to be baptized are all
monopolized within the city by unbe-
levers, who look with disfavor upon
the idea of their property being
tramped over by Sunday crowds, even
of baptizers. The heads of the
churches that stick to the old form Of
baptism, which are now chiefly among
the colored people, find it every year
more difficult to find place at which
to hold their annual baptizing.
Churches down town have to take
their converts to Harlem to find a
place in which to immerse them, and
they must hire the grounds at that
New York Sun.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Half a Century Behind.

1t is at least fifty years 100 late to
dispute the proposition tha at newspa-
per advertising pays. The re verse may
have been true when Rip Va IN Wrinkle
went TO sleep, but Rip has walked up,
and even Schneider can bark out the
truth to him. Not only does newspa-
per advertising pay, but it pays well,
and on the whole better t han it ever
did before.
\ few years ago newspapers were
not what they are now. They were
fewer in number, and in all that char
ncterizes good newspaper management
they were inferior to the newspapers
of the present day. Remembering that
our allusion is chiefly to the papers Of
the smaller cities and country towns,
no one who is familiar with the facts Of
twenty-five years ago will dispute with
us when we say that, wonderful as has
been much OF the progress of the last
two or three decades, the advance in re-
spect to our newspapers has not been
surpassed in any other direction.
In the days of the past advertising
paid. Conspicuous incidents of men
who grew rich by early perception of
the advantages of newspaper advertis-
ing readily come to mind, while the
truth that thousands of persons who
achieved no personal celebrity made
handsome profits by the same means
can be easily shown.
In this day the newspapers have
much to commend them which they
did not then possess. They are better
printed, for one thing; they are more
prosperous and have a better CONNER
cial standing, for another. The papers
of the class specially referred to have
at their command a reading matter
service which puts them fully on a
level, as to matter with the most pros
porous metropolitan daily. And so an
advertiser, when presenting his an
nouncement for insertion, may feel
confident that his advertisement will
be printed in good company, and,
since these are also the times of per-
fected printing machinery, in good,
legible form also.
Therefore since newspaper adver-
Using has always paid, even in the
day when newspapers were, by COM
parison, poorly printed and only mod
erately edited, the business man is
standing in his own light and casting
the blacklist kind of a shadow if he is
not student and a liberal user of
newspaper advertising.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Edmund Gosse ON zols.

Zola's main qualities are his extraor
binary mixture of versatility and mo.
notony, his enduring force his plentiful
lack of caste, his cynical disdain for the
weaknesses of men, his admirable con-
structive power, his inability to select
the salient points in a vast mass of OBJ
servations. must take the liberty Of
saying that he appears to me to be one
of the leading men of genius in the Sec
ond half of the Nineteenth century, one
of the strongest novelists in the world,
and that in spite of faults so serious
and so eradicable that they would have
hopelessly wrecked writer u title less
overwhelming in strength and resource.
zola seems to me to be the Vulcan
among our later gods, afflicted with
moral lameness from his birth, and
coming to us sooty and brutal from the
forge, yet as indisputably great as any
Mercury Hawthorne or Apollo Thack-
cray of the best of them. 1t is to lola,
and to zola only, that the concentra-
ton Of the scattered tendencies of nat
uralsIn is due 1t is owing to him that
the threads of Flaubert and Daudet,
Dostoiefsky and Tolstoi, Howells and
Henry James can be drawn into any
thing like q single system. 1t is lola
who discovered q common measure for
all these talents, and a formula wide
enough and yet close enough to distin-
guish them from the outside world and
bind them to one another. 1t is his
doing that for ten years the expert
mental novel has flowed in definite
channel, and has not spread itself
abroad in thousand whimsical direc-
tions-Forum.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Things One Cannot Move.

Eyes, we are going to move" said a
young woman to a friend she met on
the street car. Fired thinks we need
larger house as the children are get
ting along. But it is hard work, this
moving 1t tears things up by the
roots SO. We've lived in that house
ten years, and there's one strip Of
woodwork in the front room that I'd
like to take with me. y
lis it decoratcd'" asked the friend,
with interest
eyes. 1t has the height of the chill
dren notched on it from the first year
up to now. But there's one missingl
'Arty 60 high is gone, l mean that
that heis the one we lost, and that rec
ord of five years is-all-that's left. "
New York Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
In the British Museum.


Louis Pagan, the master of prints
in the British Museum, and the only
living man who can put his hand on
every volume in that wonderful collec-
ton, is coming to tell people on this
side the water about the treasures Of
the museum. 1 had heard it said that
Mr.. Pagan could, in just two minutes
after demand made on him, produce or
locate any treasure in his charge. 1t
has also been said that everything
worth keeping is kept under the
roof below which he reigns supreme.
When introduced to him I asked casu-
ally If he would let me look at copy
of the vermont Farmers Almanac, a
pamphlet / hadn't heard of since my
boyhood, and which / didn't suppose
any Vermont farmer even had ever
preserved. Certainly, said he, touch
Ing bell and calling an old attendant
to whom he gave slip of paper con,
tanning the name of the thing desired
and it's location In just ITO seconds
the old attendant came back with a
complete file of that Almanacl"-lnter-
view in New York World.
A Platonlo Guide.
I have lots of fun with bridal
couples who climb the dome. Nearly
every day go to the other side OF the
immense arched painting, which is a
perfect whisper gallery, and hear them
spooning. When they get too aftec-
tionate I turn my back, look up at the
painting and say: ''This is no place
for love making" Ny voice goes over
them in sepulchral tones. and they
take away with them vivid assurance
of ghostfy watchers in the dome
Washington Letter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
SUICIDE BY FREEZING.
Aunt aIehitabel Conin's Attempt to
shuttle or This Mortal Coil.

. -
Shuttle or This Mortal Coil.
Aunt Nfehitabel Coffin, not more
than short generation ago, lived in a
cold old house down on the cold side
of Cape Cod, with houseful of
rather frigid maiden ladies, her sisters
and nieces. Becoming a little unset
tied in her mind, Aunt Mehitabel re-
solved that she would battle no longer
with an Indictment world. She an
nounced to the family one particularly
cold morning that she had made up
her mind to commit suicide.
Laws sakesl" exclaimed her young
er sister Abigail incredulously, chow
do you think you're going okill your.
self. Mehitabel2'
THE most nat'ral way round here, "
said Aunt Mehitabel with shiver,
sis to freeze to death. An that's the
way Tn goin' to do it,"
The rest of the family laughed her
to scorn. Bnt when she had made all
her preparations to go, and had even
given away her Paisley shawl and
her string of gold beads, their skepti.
cism turned to alarm. 1t began to look
as if she were actually in earnest. The
next night the thermometer went
down almost to zero. Aunt Mehitabel
told them all wailing good-by al
about Q o'clock in the evening, and
went up to the spare room, which wa:
of course the coolest room in the
house. She put up the window, sat on
the sill, and hung her feet out into the
icy north wind
There was no man in the household,
and no woman strong enough or brave
enough to compel Aunt Mehitabel to
get back into the room. So the sisters
and nieces gathered about, shivering
in the intensified cold of the spare
room.
BY and by the suicide began to show
signs of uneasiness in her perch at the
window.
"Wal," she said, Il guess it's bouts
easy to freeze to death on the floor as
It's out here"
She crept back into the room and
crouched down upon the hard floor,
moaning and complaining. BY this
time the other women of the house.
hold had fled back into the passage
way, and stood waiting in the dark
ness.
Beats ALL" they heard Aunt Me-
hitabel murmur presently, how hard
this ere old floor is! l guess I'll sit on
the .ug"
She moved to the rug and set up
new series of world weary lamenta
tons; but after she had sat there for
some time and had experienced none
of the positive symptoms of freezing
to death she rose and sat down on the
foot of the bed.
This damp, old bed always was
'nough to freeze anybody, and | guess
it'll fetch me-" she exclaimed, If any
thing will"
Presently, almost without her own
consciousness, she sank down upon
the bed, and then one OF her nieces
glided into the room and softly COW
cred her with quilt.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" Aunt Mehi
label shrieked. I'm goin' to sleep, an
that's sure sign I'm fYeezin' to death.
Good-by to cold, cruel world-good-
by, good-by!!"
Aunt Mehitabel slept soundly until
morning, and awoke in a greatly inn
proved mental condition. She did not
renew her attempt at suicide, and
never made any reference to it as long
as she lived.
To people who are born to commit
suicide Aunt Mehitabel's method OF
shufHing Off is perhaps to be recon-
mended. Boston Transcript.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Always with Us.

Even in so dreadful an affair as that
at Louisville the telegraph liar must
getla his work. The vivid description
Of a race between passenger train
and the cyclone is the veriest bosh.
In this case he forgot to put in the
rain, lightning and thunder, which
abounded all over the gate at that
hour, and thus proved hinealf poor
liar,-Detroit Free Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
~ Consump,ion YncurnDle.

Read the following: Mr.. G. n. Nor
ris, Newark, Ark. says: What down
with abscess of lungs, and friends
and physicians pronounced me
an incurable consumptive. Began
talking DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, am now on third bottle,
and able to oversee the work on my
farm. 1t is the finest medicine ever
made"
Jessie Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says: Had it not been for DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption |
would have died of lung troubles.
Was given up by doctors. Am now in
best of health Try sample bottles
free at Budwell, Christian s. Barbee' S
drug store. may23-tf.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
QUE VERY BEST PEOPLE.

Confirm our statement when we
saw that DIR. Acker's English remedy
is in every way superior to any ana
all other preparations for the throat
and lungs. In whooping cough and
cronp. It is magic and relieves at once.
We offer you q sample bottle free,
Ramember, this remedy is sold on
positive guarantee by Budwell, Gnris;
and Barbee. my 90, tl.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
ODDS AND ENDS.
Oregon expects an addition of 15O, 600
0 its population this year by immigra-

Oregon expects an addition of 150, DOC
to its population this year by immigra'
ton.
Winter fingers around Bennington,
VT, where up to day or two ago
small pond was covered with ice twelve
to fourteen inches thick.
Clerks in London have formed q
union md intend agitating for better
pay and shorter hours.
The Bulgarian government is about
to expend $40, 900, 900 upon the con-
struction of railroads.
Goldfish follow the ice of an iceberg
down until they reach the water under
it, which place affords them an excel
lent feeding ground.
Two dynanos Of 10000 lamp capac-
ity are being made for Berlin, each OF
which will require about 1000 horse
power.
Wilcox, the bridge jumper, who died
Sunday soon after diving III feet from
q Cincinnati bridge, had saved 2i lives.
Hackmen in Baltimore, wanting to
discourage Sunday funerals, have adj
vanced rates for this day fifty cents
An old gentleman of los years in Biz
mingham, O., recently died from the
effects of excessive dancing at his birth
day party.
Western capitalists will establish an
immense canning establishment in San
Francisco. The capital stock of the
new enterprise is g, 500, 900.
4 Gainesville (Ga. man has twenty
acres planted with cucumbcrs. He
ships them all north and expects to
realize not less than $1,000 from his
patch.
An Aroostooll (AIe.) couple were mar
ried last week whose combined ages
were 90 years, the bride being ii and
the bridegroom one year her senior.
After vinghappily together formore
than thirty years, John Fraser and his
wife Matilda died Tuesday at their
home in Brooklyn within one hour of
each other.
John Charvous, II reformed cannibal
from the Fiji Islands, is featuring in
Georgia He says he never did any
thing in his life that he regrets so keen
ly as the eating of his fellow men.
George Wygles, careless farmer of
Orangeville, was spraying his orchard
with a solution OF paris green. Three
of his little tots drank out of the can
when thirsty and one is dead. The
other two are very low.
The highest price at the Crabbe sale
was $4,000 francs for Meissonier's
Guide" A holy Family" by Ru-
bens, brought 112, 900 francs, tho total
money realized being 1880, 600 francs.
During the last two months a single
auctioneer at the Hotel Drouot has sold
pictures to the amount of over s, 200, 900
francs.
Says dispatch from Sidney, o.:
Something remarkable happened here
Yesterday to COW. There were two
large trees close together on the edge
of a clover field. j fence touched
either tree, bat the gap had no fence.
The COW squeezed into the gap, and
without passing through began to
browse. She soon began to swell with
gas generated by the green clover and
to get her out one OF the trees had to
be cut.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Rec Gleaninrs.

Remember that damn. cool cellar is
bad place in which 10 store comb
honey.
There exists popular prejudice
against dark honey. 1t commands low
er prices than does the clear amber and
white honey.
Bee keepers do not agree as to the de-
STABILITY Of Carnolian bees.
Side storing is out of date in most To-
calities.
The honey records reported by num-
Der of enterprising women prove that
bee keeping is an industry in which the
gentle sex may be eminently successful.
Remember that the best time to cure
foul brood is during honey flow.
Good queens are an important factor
in successful bee keeping.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
r,o sounsh Vine Borer.

Clarence NJ. Weed, of the Ohio expert
ment station, suggests for the squash
vine borer a simple and by no means
new safeguard. This is to induce the
vines TO take root at various places BY
GOVERNS some Of the joints with earth
g, that ie the main root IS injured tho
plaIlts cal, grow from the other roots.
This plan is perfectly feasible Il the
weather Is not too drss.,
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A disciple of Hnhnemann.

Breezy Young M. D. Gan ardent
Homeopathy assure you, miss. that
in vaccination use only virus direct
from the calf.
Clara-Ah, that accounts for your
excellent health. Like cures like, you
know.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
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DO NOT SEFFER Any LONGER.

knowing that cough can be
checked in day, and the first stages
of consumption broken in week, we
hereby guarantee DR.. Acker's English
Cough Remedy, and will refund the
money to all who buy, take it as per
directions, and do not find our state
ment correct. Budwell, Christian 4
Barbee, druggists.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16

Gully Chawedup Tin the dock)-
We're good fer six mont's dis mornin' +.
De Judge is in horrible temper.
Prayed Mcolic third offense)-How
yer know? Yer amt been talking to
i'm, has yer?
G. lly-Naw, but 1 saw him cuttin'
his lawn jist before | wuz nabbed last
nirht Life
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
Artificial Ice,

Mix four ounces of nitrate of am
monia, and four ounces of subcarbo-
nate Of soda with four ounces of water
In a tin vessel, and in three hours the
mixture will produce ten ounces OF
;ca.-Sd,nny Hour.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16

care these shoes your best quality.''
I'VE have only one quality, mad
amen
"Then why the difference in price
A friend of mine paid Sc yesterday,
and these are only 81"
1--WE sell by quantity, madame.
Quick sale.-Harper's Bazaar.
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FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
for integrity of its drawings, and
f-Ompt payment of Prizes.
Attested as follows:

I'VE do hereby certify that we
supervise the arrangement for all the
monthly and semi-annual drawings OF
the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany, and in person manage and con-
troll the drawings themselves, and
that the same are conducted with
honesty, fairness, and in good faith
towards all parties, and we authorize
the Company to use this certificate,
with fac SMILES of our signatures
attached, in its advertisements"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16

NORFOLK q WESTERN RIA IL
" ROAD.
Schedule in effect May 18th, 1880.
VEST BOUND.
LEAVE RoAhoKE.
1905 IN. Daily; arrive Bristol 400
pm. Stops at all sta
lions, connecting at Rad
ford with trains on New
River Branch; arrivingPo-
cahontas at 1886 p m.
5:45 % IN. Daily, arrives Radford 7.20
p. w., connecting with
New River branch at 7:35
D. NJ, for Bluefeld and
Pocahontas; arrives Poca-
hontas 1855 p. m. Arrives
Bristol 1870 p. m, con
Meeting with E. IT., V. q
G. R. r. for all points
south and west; has
Pullman Palace Sleeper,
Roanoke to Rome, via
Calera and Roanoke to
Memphis without change.
7:55 g. IN Daily, arrive Radford Oils
am, connecting with New
River Branch, leaving
Radford 1910 pm, arrives
Bristol12 .40pm., connects
with E. ~, V, s. g. r. R.
for all points south and
west; has Pullman Palace
Sleeper from Roanoke to
New Orleans without
change.
EAST BOUND.
LEAVE ROANOKE.
5:25 a M. Daily; for Lynchburg, Pc
tersburg, Richmond, via
Petersburg and r. 81 P. r.
r. Norfolk and interme-
date points; Connects.at
Lynchburg with V. NJ. r
r. forWashington and the
east, leaving Lynchburg
TAO IL daily. Arrives
Norfolk 200 p N connect
ing with steamer lines 10
Baltimore and New York:
7:90 o M. Daily; for Lynchburg and
intermediate stations.
1910 am. Daily; arrives Lynchburg
~ 11:59 q N, connecting with
v. M. r. r. for all points
north, arriving Washing
ton 1905 p m; arrives re
tersburg APO r. m; arrives
Richmond, via r. 81 T: II.
r., sos p m; arrives Nor
folk 700 p m;
Cripple Creek EXtension-LeaVes
PnlasEi SIS m. Daily except Sun
day, and 800 p IN. Daily, arrive ivan
hoe 9.45 a m and 4:30 p m: Returning
leave IYanhoe 1925 a N. Daily except
SUNDAY, and $50 p m. Daily, arrive
Pulaski 11:55 m and $50 p m.
Ali inquiries asto rates, routes, ETC.,
w. B. BEv1LL,
Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agent.
HGHAs. G. EDDY, vice president.
General Offices, Roanoke.
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Bad drainage causes much sickness,
and bad blood and improper action
of the liver and kidneys is bad drain
age to the human system, which Bur-
Blood Bitters remedy.