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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-29
GINGHAMS, &c., 1oc. and
12Hcts per yard.

Black Silk Grenadines reduced from
S1.25 per yard to 81.
Silk Fish Net from so cents per
yard up.
Chantilla and Spanish Flouncings
from 81 per yard up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

her big, loose skin tapped on her sIdcs
like wet clothes on living skeleton.
-Shoye In Maxi Help Dutchl"
In second Queen had her tusks
against Max's TANKS. in. ha'f q minute
she had him pinned up against the In
side OF the box and was holding him
there while Dutch hustled around to
close the big door. When Dulch had
jammed to the door and was holding 10
safe Queen withdrew, hit Dutch smack
with her trunk on the shoulder and
staiked down TO her PEANUTS once more.
Max Is shut out from America. ~
Five minutes moro little Topsy tho
African lady elephant, is locked under
the hatches Still few more minutes
and Big Dutch Joins her. Last OF all
Queen comes and stalks into the box
The tackle stra MS and c.eaks. the big
pen rises upward, great gray trunk
lifts itself above the sides and trumpets
an au revoir Then down II disappears
through the fore hatch. and the crowd
on the deck watches Ii sinking and sink
ing into the darkness OF the lower hold
A whistle The creaking stops. An
other whistle and an idle hook swings
upon the end OF the tackle. The labors
OF the modern Noah are ended The
animals are all aboard the ark. ii
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

and won't even Jump to his food. In a
couple of days the truth comes out. He
crawls to the door on HIS forelegs, the
headquarters dragging an inert weight
behind. The forest ranger has sue
cumb to the paralysis Of captivity. he
is marked to die. If no cost lot they
try TO nurse him back to hea tn. IL he
did not-why, pish! Hcave him O. err
board at once and have more room for
the living.
IL $ not nice to be an exhibit in an
American circus en- route for Austria la.
When Noah was running the animal
business the animals were drclle and
tractable, and no especial arrangement
had to be entered into for tLeir Ship
ment Nowadays. however, the average
star beast Is out for human lives and he
cannot be driven abroad ship with impu-
nifty. There ore it was that elaborate
precautions had TO be taken in loading.
To begin with, each den was hauled
up the dock pretty much the same as
the dens are hauled along the main
streets on the day that circus comes to
town But the cages lacked vivacity, so
TO speak; they lacked the golden glamour
of a swell triumphaI entry, and the gold
and the tinse were missing.
No gilt-edged queen OF the hlppodrome
bestrode the naughty hippopotamus, nor
did some bespangled son of the torrid
Indies surmount the elephants neck.
The gilt-edged queen was absent, the
bespangled son of Hindostan wore over
al and jumper at 81. so per suit. He
did not look half so pretty as he did in
tinsel. and therefore not half so useful;
but he got there just the same-yanked
the pachyderms in the neck with the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17
CHICAGO.


$500. tain ntf supremacy.
A generation ago America consisted
OF the settled Northeastern and
Southeastern States and OF more or
less wild continent behind them.
Year by year, however, the popula-
ton has been spreading west, and
every fresh census has pushed inland
the mean line OF population--the line
on either side OF which the popula-
ton is equal. The significance OF this
gradual withdrawal OF the mean pop
ulation line from the coast must not
be missed. The fact means that the
Anglo-Saxons I'm the United States
are becoming what they have never
been before In their history, an inland
people. In a very little time, the
vast majority of Americans will not
only never have seen the sea, but will
never have been within a thousand
miles of 1t. The destiny OF the Amer
lean people Is to become as much a
people of great inland plains as the
Russians, and this fact will be made
clear to the world when travellers
leave the ocean at New York and
after travelling inland over a thousand
miles, find themselves in city as big
as Vienna, and ten times as rich and
energetic.
The existence of great city so far
removed from the sea is probably
unique in the worlds history. Delhi
in the days of its greatest prosperity
had no doubt very large population,
but unless Moscow can be called
great we can recall no great city OF
ancient or modern times situated in
the heart of continent. 1t may be
said that Chicago is an exception
only in name, and that it could never
have achieved the position it has
achieved but for the fact that 1t is
situated on the shores Of great
double-armed inland sea. No doubt
the great lakes have helped Chicago,
and no doubt also the fact that they
acquire from the populations which
surround them all the seafaring quail
tiles of the English race, will prevent
its inhabitants from becoming too in
landish in their habits. Chicago,
however, is not enough in the middle
of the continent to hold forever the
position Of the typical American city.
AS the center Of population shifts
westward, her relative position will
decline, and she will ultimately have
to give way to some younger rival to
the west and south, possessed of a
geographical position more suited to
the commercial capital of nation Of
some two hundred millions Of inland
people. Still, as we have said, Chi
cago for the time will serve as an OBJ
ject lesson in regard to the great
change which has come over the con-
ditions habited. London Spectator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

entertained by Max was to thwart and
hinder their plans to the best Of his
capacities and understanding.
They coaxed on tho monster with
honeyed words and pickaxCs; then they
iabbed him on the north end with mar
lin spikes and boathooks, but all Max
did was to pick up a.wisp of hay with
his trunk, fan himself Herewith for a
moment, and then chuck IL upon his
shoulder to keep the flies off They ex-
planned the matter 10 Dutch and Dutch
entered into the scheme to delude his
African brother, and with true Asiatic
duplicity entered the box himself,
twired around, snorted in bliss and
made believe that that box was small
terrestrial paradise Max watched his
demonstrate with unmoved dignity,
and when Dutch came out and begged
him Max to sample the delights of the
box, the African just winked, but did
nothing
Then the men tried pIckaxes and
things again, but IL was all no use. Max
seemed to enjoy clip from pickax in
in the rear; anyhow he waltzed around
in uncontrolled happiness, but would
not go near the box.
A crowd gathered, but Max did not
mind. One grows accustomed to crowds
in the show business The men got
tired; so did Dutch, and eventually they
asked the Asiatic TO hustle his pal into
the pen. Then the fun began. Dutch
tried to get behind Max and shove him
bodily with his tuslks; Max lodged Dutch
| like a schoolboy. Never was seen such
an instance OF animal sagacity. The big
Asian trying to force the African with
out hurting him, the African doing his
best to avoid the Asian in a determined
but good-natured way.
All this time Queen, the largest ele-
plant In the lot, was standing down on
the farther end OF the dock eating pea
nuts. When the superintendent got tired
Of Max's antics he roared down to her:
"Come up here, Queen!"
Queen waved her trunk and wagRed
her tail, then solemnly stalked up the
dock
@Hurry up. therel" and as he spoke
the big beast broke into jog-trot and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

business that looks like a boathook, hit
him on the trunk swore like drunken
trooper and, generally speaking, dis
charged his lawful duties and obligations
like a gentleman and a scholar
When lions and tigers and similar
brutes are locked up in cage wagons
they are as easy TO handle as lumber
The wagon is rol cd up to the edge of
the wharf. the circus hands and long
shoremen sling ropes under Us body and
hitch IL on to the hook that swings from
the big derrick attached to the nam
mast Then the stevCd re blows a
whistle, and the man at the donkey en-
CINE opens the throttle valve. ard that
cage wagon goes floating up In the air
with all the sweet simp icXy of a can
vas-back duck When IL gets about Il (
inches above the wharf the soaring ceases
for moment. The CIRCUS hands remove
the wheels from tbs wagon, and pile
them In heap on Zone side. Then tho
stevedore whistles again. the tackle
creaks, the big Eage creeps upward, the
beasts insideft grunt their disapproval
they are t9o scared to oar-and then,
with sweep throu yh the circumambient
atmosphere, they are launched on the
deck of the steamer.
They did not crowd the big dens down
into the dark hold: they stowe1 them
along the deck. All the after deck Is
crowded. with cages OF animals There
was no trouble in embarkng the wilder
animals and the horses-sleek and love-
ly anmals--were docile and tractable
when placed in the open box prepared
for them, and hoisted one by one from
the wharf-s side and lowered into the
hold There they Were PLACID in littlo
sta Is. the same as ordlnaryjstables
II was in shipping the elephants,
though, that thu fun for the populace
and the trouble for the circus men arose.
The elephant stands pre- eminently the
most sagacious among the entire brute
creation: he may, also, when he gets his
"mad" up, be- classified among the most
contrary. Your average Asiatic OLE
plant, however. the fellow with the
curly ears seldom or never gets mad.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17
Rules of Health.

"Sit down." said the fat business
man in hurry, and order lunch. but
let me go ahead on my own account.
I'm slow; afraid of increasing dys-
pepsia If l eat too fast, you know.
Disgusting, this guz--ah!"
Gulp and gulp, and the soup was
gone.
This guzzling. isn't it? Eat slow,
with conversation; a pleasant frame
OF mind helps digest Waiter,
where's the fish? You're waiting on
me; not on you. All, at last"
Three great bites and the fish was
gone.
where's the lamb? These fellows,
look at 'em, eating pie by the square
yard; ought to see themselves as
Others see 'cm. Times not so valua-
BILE as health and-there's the lamb. I"
Three seconds finished it, and two
more for as many glasses OF claret.
peach pie, waiter. And this hurry
ing is mostly habit. They've been
doing business fast and come to lunch
with the momentum and deyour. L
take light lunch and eat 81"
Bite, chew, swallow, gulp, and the
pie was gone.
"Bill and ice-cream. My plan saved
nue. from dyspepsia till was 80, then
/ succumbed to bad cooking. There's
not good cook in New York. Those
that make nice food make it lndigesti-
BILE, and those that make it healthy
cook it plainly-no a la Bechamel, no
truffles, fiat desert TO the taste
better dyspepsia, say L"
Bite, bite, champ.
"My, but the ice-cream is cold. I've
got toothache."
Champ, chaw, gulp, gurgle, gurgle
of coffee.
"What, you're not through! Well,
now. l must hurry; can't spare time
in business hours except for health.
So long"
Time min. Is ec.--New York
Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

When most pretty girls reach 10,
they become engaged to some poor
young man, and, as he hasn't the
money to marry on, they wait until
he has saved it. The waiting pro-
cess is a long and tiresome one.
While the young man Is havinga good
time, spending 90 cents and saving 10
cents for his marriage, the girl is
growing little older, little palmer,
little more careworn, and wasting
her youth in waiting for a man who
i'm most cases finds some one more at
tractive, and breaks the engagement.
If girls will look around at the great
number of girls who have waited"
for some poor man to their sorrow,
they will probably hesitate before en-
tering into an engagement that
promises to be long and fruitless, and
that leaves them worn out, and with
no faith in human nature at the end.
Very often girl who is waiting for
young man to become rich, throws
away the real opportunity of her life;
very often she is slave TO the caprice
of man who finally deserts her.
Very often under such circumstances
woman gets a wrong idea OF life,
and accuses the world OF faults IL Is
not guilty of. In way men take
very good care of themselves, for the
reason that they accept the1essons Of
life, hard though they sometimes are,
but women make the mistake OF
trusting too much, and suffering need
lessly for it.--Atchison Globe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17
BATTLE OF BIRDS.
How Two wrens Fought Two Blue Birds
cN and Whipped Them.

now Two NEenh IOuknt Two 6luo blfuH
IcN and Whipped Them.
In Silver Lake Township, Pennsyl-
vania, a two-story stone milk-house
has been standing for more than fifty
years. When the masons built it
they knocked the mouth from an old
earthen jug, and cemented the jug
into the solid wall toward the peak,
leaving the open end on the outside
of the wall. The kind-hearted work
men put the jug there for purpose,
and every summer since then wrens
have built their nests in 1t.
This season pair of blue-birds got
there few hours before the wrens
did, took possession Of the jug with
out any ceremony, and began to carry
bits of straw and dried grass into it,
flying out and in again every fifteen
or twenty minutes. Toward noon a
pair OF wrens fitted into the yard,
and flew around the milk-house two
or three times. Then they made
dive for the opening in the old jug,
darted into 1t, and soon flew out
squalling spitefully. The reason why
they did this was because they found
one Of the blue birds in there, very
busy fixing things up inside. The
surprised blue bird followed the
wrens, and then a feathered warfare
began that lasted for two hours.
Finding stranger in home that
had been occupied by wrens for half
a century made the little wrens mad
all over. They pitched into the blue
bird and tried to drive it away, pip
ing and screeching as they fought.
For time the blue bird battled with
the wrens; but the two were more
than match for it, and it retired to
tree. While it was perched there
the wrens flew into the jug, and
started to drag out the straw and
stuff the blue birds had carried in.
The wrens were busy cleaning out
the jug when the blue bird ON the
tree was joined by its mate. All at
once they flew in straight line for
the jug. They darted into it like a
flash, and in second the wrens came
out as though they had been fired.
They had not been cowed by the
larger birds, however, for they inn
mediately turned, darted into the
jug, and drove the blue birds out.
Then the four birds had it back and
forth among the trees for half an
hour, neither party entering the jug
while the battle lasted.
Finally they stopped fighting, and
each side began to carry things into
the jug. The wrens made two TRIPS
while the blue birds made one, and
late in the afternoon the wrens had
filed the jug so full of twigs that the
blue birds could not get in. There
was room for the wrens to go in and
out, and they held the fort against
their bigger foes, who made several
attempts to tear the barrier of twigs
away but without success. Toward
shutdown the birds flew away and
never came back; and the wrens have
had possession Of the jug ever since. -
GJldthwaite's Geographical Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17
1t Was Late.

/ had: asked the colored porter at
the depot if the train from Savannah
was on time, and he replied in the
affirmative, writes NJ. Quad in the
New York World, when another
colored man came up and inquired:
"Did yo' want to know sunthin',
sah?"
Il was asking him if the train was
on time"
"And what did he say, sah?"
"He said it was"
"Hu! OATS all he knows bout it'll
Dat pusson, sab, ar employed to
sweep out de depot an fill up de
"And you?"
"While i, sab, ar employed to put
de checks on de baggage an put de
baggage on de kyarsl Yo' wanted to
know if de train was on time, sab.
No sab, it hain't, sab. De train is
exactly two seconds late, sah!"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17
HOW Brave Men Obey Orders ON an Ocean
Steamer.

steamer.
The light from the electric lamps Is
reflected in patches on. the smooth
steel beams OF the engine. In and
out, in and out, like shuttles weaving
work go the rods, their perfect rhythm
of motion and precision Of movement
giving no hint of the great speed at
which the giant vessel Is cleaving her
way.
Days have passed without signal
from above, the engines throbbing
steadily. Everything is repose; the
incessant motion of the machinery is
so common to the men that they do
not notice it. The deck may be ever
so noisy and these men, buried in the
bowels of the ship, would never know 1t.
Suddenly the great signal gong
sounds upon the stiffness a single
resonant clang-stop. The engineer
and his assistants are at their posts
in an instant; the engines stop. This
is the first signal for hours, yes days,
means to them nothing, but that 1t
must be instantly obeyed.
1t may be man overheard; it may
| be in another instant some vessels
prov will cut the ship in two, or the
ship itself crash into an iceberg-they
only know their orders; the bell has
| spoken--stop.
With hands upon the wheel, they
stand waiting, every nerve strained,
in utter ignorance OF what the signal
means. Soldiers in action see the
danger; the officers on deck know
what is going on; but these men know
nothing but duty.
A moment passes without a word
in that narrow room. Strong hands
are ready for the next order. 1t
comes, "clang, clang," reverse the
engine" The lover Is drawn forward,
the valves open and obedient to the
touch of the great piston rods move
again. | F
The seconds seem ages; one, two
minutes and then-an awful crash,
grinding and the vessel staggers.
"Clang" goes the great gong and still
at their posts quick hands stop the
engine. "1ring-a-ling. a-ling," ting
a-ling-a-ling quit the engine, comes
the signal.
While confusion has reigned above,
these silent men have stood to their
posts until this order came. They
rush to the deck. The vessel is flii-
ing, a great hole in her bow from a
collision with the ice, and all hands
turn to the life boats.
In the depths of steamer where
that great heart of mans construc-
tion beats out the vessels life, true
heroism is to be found, firm, unques-
ltioning obedience to orders.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

Jane, as borne by the royal families
of Europe, has always been a name OF
ill-omen. Lady Jane Gray was be-
headed for treason; Jane Seymour
was one of the victims of King Hal;
Jane Beaufort, wife of James /. OF
Scotland, was savagely murdered;
Jeanne dc Valois, wife of Louis XII,
was repudiated for her want Of per-
sonal beauty; Jeanne d'Albret, moth
or of Henry w., was poisoned by
Catharine de Medici; Jane of CASTLE
lost her reason through the neglect
of her husband, Philip the Hand
some, Archduke of Austria; Jane /.
Of Naples caused, her husband to be
murdered and married his assassin,
and Jane III. Of Naples was one of the
most wanton of women..--American
Notes and Queries.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

Thsy Are the Most Dsgradsd Race ON
n tr Earth.

Ihoy are me MOST Dekfuucu Race on
sn sri Earth.
The better part Of the Solomon ISL
ands belong to the German Govern
ment, but that does not prevent the
English from INJECTING summary pun
ishment on the natives whenever
guilty OF outrages on anyone claiming
to be British subject, says q writer.
On such occasions they are handled
with as much freedom and severity as
IL the Germans had never been heard
OF in the vicinity. At the present
time the English war ship Royalist is
visiting the different islands from
which crimes have been reported and
chastIsing the guilty ones whosoever
or wherever they may be, even to the
extent OF destroying their villages
whenever they have had any difficulty
in locating the right parties.
suppose the Germans do not care
much whether these subjects of theirs
are exterminated or not, as they are
not likely TO bring credit to either
their masters or themselves. Mis-
sionary work has been a. total failure
in the Solomon Islands, although per-
sisted in for many years and by differ
ent religious bodies. In most cases
the only result arrived at by the mis-
sionary is to supply banquet for his
congregation, forming himself the
principal dish of the occasion. AS o
people the Solomon Islanders are per-
.haps the most savage, the most bru-
tai and the most degraded race on
this earth to-day. They practice
nothing but the most barbarous of
customs, and are of so fierce and
rapacious disposition that it is not
safe to approach within 100 miles of
any Of the islands inhabited by them.
They are cannibals Of the worst kind;
visitors TO the islands in quest of san
dalwood and tortoise shells, the chief
products, have seen in different
houses various parts Of the human
body in process Of preservation for
future consumption, just as civilized
nations would cure animal meats, and
the owners of vessels have frequently
human flesh offered them in exchange
for something desired by the natives
Head-hunting is another Of their
accomplishments. 1t is practiced
under all sorts Of pretexts, in some
cases the chiefs. offering rewards for
the best results of an expedition.
Professional head-hunters are not I'M
common, and they usually take the
hOnOrS.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

On could see the great ship sink in the
Water as wagon-load after wagon-load
Of the balcd forage was swung aboard
on the creaking derrick: and then still
lower In the water she sank as they
hoisted on the seats, tie tent poles, the
hurdles, the stays. and the canvas.
For in the beg mn ng the men did
nothing but lead on the mechanical con-
trivanccs of the show: and the embarka-
tion of the horses and wild animals was
delayed until the last moment.
Noah had no tents or things to load on
the ark and thereby saved great deal
of trouble; but there are men In the cir
Gus who contend that, tents or no tents,
n Noah had TO have shipped one Afri-
can elephant, the ark wodld not have
been started unto this very day.
On Tuesday the work began. Early
in the morning they piled the dock with
seemingly useless piles OF lumber, and
still more useless wagon-trees and
wheels Later on in the day they began
to cart in grain and hay by the carload,
and still later great big wagons came
with hulking sides OF beef-great drip.
ping carcasses 10 stow In the big re-
frigerators-meat-de flesh for the carnivora
to feed upon during their imprisonment
aboard ship while traversing the broad
Pacific Ocean.
Many of the animals will die before
they reach Australia. The wild beasts
Of tho Indian and African jungles can
but little brook taptivity, and the close
confinement OF a travelling cage aboard
an ocean liner will knock the spir I and
the life out OF many OF them. Never
theless, the experiment OF transporta-
tion was tried years ago. and proved a
big success, and what matters a Jaguar
or tiger or lion more or less, II the
main percentage Of the show once safely
reaches Australia
They have queer ways, those incar-
cerated denizens Of foreign wlldernesses.
They live q while and struggle, then
they get paralysis and die.
First they fight and starve, then they
sulk and iced. then they growl and grow
sick, then they get paralyzed. They run
MP and down and 40 and down and twist
On their circumscribed cages. One day