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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22
TRAVELLING "BY HAND"
A Peculiar Expression Often Heard II
New England.

n Peculiar Expression Often Heard in
New England.
While the country people of New
England have no such marked dialect
as prevails in some other parts of the
United States, it is fact, says the
Youths Companion, that they use
many words and phrases which to
strangers are often quite Incompetent
sible.
A girl who spent summer on farm
in northern Vermont says that if her
language was half as confusing to
the people of that region as II good
deal of theirs was to her she wonders
they didn't ask her to supply them with
"kcy."
One day she asked farmer how long
it would take her to get to the nearest
village.
LES Sec" said the man, slowly,
''they amt much choice tween Porter
vile an Skimby's Corner, but Gale late
the Corner may be grain nearer. How
was you plannin' to git there; by hand?"
SPY what?" asked the astonishcd girl.
"By hand, was what I said,' replied
the farmer. Don't We know what that
means? WAL, sccin' you're from city
way, s'pose I'd oughter're said: WAS
you intcndin' to foot it?' But we allus
say by hand here, fer it seems more
reasonable, Somcways!"
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NAPOLEON AND BISMARCK.
An Interesting Account OF Remarkable
Interview.

An Iatcresti:- Account OF q Remarkable
Interview.
Hardly had Prince Napoleon been
laid to rest in the royal mausoleum at
La Supcrga, near Turin, says the Re
view of Reviews, than the marquis of
Fillencuvc, 4 relative and friend of the
deceased, published in the Figaro Il very
remarkable story of Prince Napoleon's
interview with Prince bismarck, i'm
mediatcly before the Austro-P russian
war of 1866. The marquis says that
Prince Napoleon was sent by the en-
peror to discuss the situation and to as
certain what Bismarck was driving at.
The Prussian seems to have entered
into the spirit of the occasion, and Gin
twenty minutes, with great spirit, NJ.
dc Bismarck set forth the following
plan: Germany to achieve her unity
and ally herself with France The two
nations, closely bound together, to drive
Russia back to her Steppes, to make
Hungary the pivot of tho Austrian en-
pirc and open to it free access to Con-
stantinople; to deprive England of her
colonies and make them the receptacle
for the overlooking population of Ger
many and France; and to reduce Spain,
Italy and the Scandinavian countries to
the rank of mere satellites.
To tempt France, Bismarck suggested
first Geneva, then Luxembourg, and
finally, when Napoleon asked for the
Rheinc, offered Belgium. "What about
England?" said Napoleon.
Count Observation-Disclosures Well, if
was an American cotton planter, or an
Indian rajah, what the English might
think should be bound to take into
very serious account. But am a great
continental power, and simply ignore
England. What can she do? She may
be able to send out eighty thousand one
hundred thousand, say, at the outside,
one hundred and fifty thousand men;
she cannot possibly mobilize greater
number. Are we not strong enough,
you and we together, to drive them into
the channcl?"
Prince Napolcons reply to this edify-
ing observation was to say that he
should sum up their conversation to the
emperor as follows: IN. dc Bismarck
has proposed to us n burglary on very
large scale. AS we cannot hand him
over to the police, let us join him and
share the plumber" Bismarck laughed
loudly, and shook hands, saying: "You,
at all events, do understand me-" Bis
marcl certainly understood his visitor.
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haps moro SO. She also has very de-
pressing effect on the scales in Ccntcr-
vile, inasmuch as she tips the beam to
the tune of something like twenty-five
stone.
But she is q qconaan, and, as the sole
representative of her sex in this wild
little camp, is gazcd upon by the four
hundred men of Carterville with feel
ings akin to worship; and the lucky
man who is SO fortunate as to receive
the ladyEs gracious permission to carry
her bundles home from the store is for
days thereafter the object of wildly
green jealousy on the part of his COM
panions
A figure cmergcs from the front door
of the Herricle mansion. 1t is Doc
Starr. sNwho hastily mounts his horse
end .gallops wildly up the street, fol-
iofved by swirling cloud of white
ADJUST.
4 "Gawge," snoozing on Che bench,
( awakens from his alumber and gazes
at the coming hcrseman in blinking
surprise, for Doc Starr Is usually merci-
apl UNTO his beast, andsthis unwonted
haste oa his part, on 4 ~, hot day.
astonishsa tho colored q >ssp. !;
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RAILROADS
N ) s !; w Rorfo|ksWesternR.R

AEXElQkG1bEE1Jlm
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT AUGUST 30, 1891.
wEsTBoUND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
G:55 a. III. for Bristol and intermediate stations
$50 a. III. for Radford, Pulaski Bristol: also for
Blucncld. Pocahontas, Elkhorn, Clinch Val
Icy Division and Louisville via Norton.
Pullman scepcrs to Memphis and New Or
leans and to Louisville via Norton
6:l5 p. M for Radford, Pulaski, Bristol. Con-
meets at RadfUrd for Blucilcld and poca-
hontas Pullman slccpers TO Memphis via
Chattanooga
NORTH AND EAsrBOUSD, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
6:3O II. IN. for Petersburg and Richmond
1850 p. III. for lIagcrstown. Pullman slecpcr= to
New York via Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
1915 y. III. daily for Richmond and Norfolk. Pull
man parlOr car 10 Norfolk.
S:35 p. III. for Lynchhurg; no connection beyond
5:?j p III. for Shcnandoah: no connection beyond.
11:2p p. III. for Richmond and Norfolk. Pullman
sleeper 10 Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich.
mond
1920 p. III. for llagcrst0wn. Pullman slccpcrs to
Washington via Shenandoah junction and TO
New York via Harrisburg.
Clinch Valley DivisiOn-Lcavcs Blucilcld daily
200 a. III. for Norton, and lbs p. III. for Nor.
ton, Louisville and points on L. " y. X. X.
via Norton.
North Carolina Division-Lcavc Pulaski daily
200 q. III. for Ivanhoc and l:3D p. IN. for Ivan
hoe and Gossan and 500 n. Ill. except sun
day. for Betty Baker.
For all additional information apply Mt ticket
Office Or 10 W Is. BENILL,
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke. Va.
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HERE, BUY SOMETHING FOR TIE KID"


of coin and nuggets from his pocket,
throws it into the lap of the astonishcd
Mrs. Herrick and says: "Git somcthin
fer tn kid" and rushes out.
And SO all the rest of the afternoon
the wondering, curious throng goes in
and out of the little room, each one
leaving remembrance behind him.
until Mrs. Herrick's lap overflows, and
then vacant chair and wooden
table are strcwn with little sacks of
gold dust and Uttered with nuggets and
coin. 1t Is more money than the poor
couple ever dreamed of having all at
once, and Mrs. Herricl1 sits in stupefied
amazement and her wondering spouse
hastens down street to spend part of
his suddenly acquired fortune for
whisky.
And the miners como in, four at
time, to see and be conqucrcd-old
men, young men, ignorant miners and
men whose faces, if shavcn, would be-
token their owners gentlemen by birth
and education. Married men, some of
them whose Threats feel cholsy and
stiflcd as they look upon this tiny
creature and think of their own little
ones AT home, far away, and they leave
the house lingcringly and sneak off by
themselves to have Il good, lonesome,
comfortable think. Young men, some
of them hardly more than boys, also
come in and see this baby with strange
feelings in their hearts. and go away
ashamed of themselves, somehow,
though they know not why. AS they
join their friends afterward they en-
dcavor to assume an air of cheerful nom
chalance they are far from feeling.
There is no procession back up the
street. The men who marched to-
gcthcr down to Hcrrick's awhile ago
go away alone, or in quiet groups
which soon separate. Somehow nobody
feels sociable, and Heavy Fairbanl,
and Clip-ear Tomkins as they sit be-
fore their respective places of business
in the evening, think great deal, but
do not notice how dull trade is.
The little red baby, in the midst of
plenty where poverty has rcgncd be-
fore, squalls and bowls and makes
night hideous just as other babies do,
never knowing how many hearts she
has softcncd nor how many sweet and
tender rccollcctions she has caused to
wake in the rugged breasts of the
throng of hardy, reckless, careless men
VINO gathered this day to do her honor.
y And Mr.. and Mrs. IIomely IIcrrick
Fave issued ."P. p. 's"-vcrbal-to
tiA'ir many friends. They are going
back to the states" and Cartcrville
mourns. r. l.. KETcKUM.
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hum OF lazy voices whose owners are
doubtless playing frecze-out for the
drinks; aside from this the motley
cluster of log houses and ga" tents
partakes largely of the silence popular
~ attributed to cemetery.
OF the two animate objects on the
street, one is ''Gawgc," tho huge Eth
opian who otficiates as presiding. genius
of the culinary department at Peter
uoskins' boarding house, near by. He,
after the fashion of his race, is living
on bench, face downward, taking an
audible sicsta, with the dense rays of
the scorching sun beating UNDECIDED up
on his broad back. The other creature
is the saddle-horse belonging to Doc
Starr, the physician from the neighbour
ing camp of Anaconda; this animal,
tied in front of the one-story and two
room residence of HoInely Herriclz, is
[busily engaged in brushi ng off the tor
turing armies of flies which beset him
Homely HerriclS is leading citizen
and n very important parsonage, in
deed, in Carterville and all the camps
laround. Not that he possesses any I'M
usual charms of mind, manner or per-
son-not in the least; for he is lazy,
seldom known. But what cXalts him
in the eyes of all his fellow-c citizens is
the fact that he is the proud husband
of the only woman within a hundred
miles or more-hcnce he is person to
he looked up to, and his opinion, even
at his drunlSest, is accepted as the ut
terance of an oracle
Mrs. HcrriclS is not n goddess, al
though any man in Centerville or any
where else who says anything calcu-
lated to cast shadow of doubt upon
the divinity she is supposed to possess,
might as well select his last resting
place about the time he uttcrs the sac
religious words. In fact, this fair
creature is Il fat, coarse, densely ignor-
ant Cornish woman, who sometimes
uses cuss words, and is as unprcpos-
sessing personally as her spousc-per-
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The physician draws rein at the Mer

The physician draws rein at tho Mer
maid, throws his rcins over post,
and rushes into the barroom, where he
brings all the miners to their feet by
yelling. in manner entirely at vari-
ance with professional ethics: "Boys.
Baby ut IIerriclis!''
There is wild rush. and the bar and
the card-tablcs are deserted, the bar
tender coming with the rest, and they
almost crush the bearer of the wonder
full news in their eagerness to get near
him.
"Sho!" "Do tell" Great Scottr'
SPY gosh!' "Why in Texas don't you
give Doc chance?" Boy, or grip"
(This last hesitatingly.)
Girl" yells Doc, proudly, "born
last night. Come on, boys-let's liquor
up" But in the wild Shout which fol-
lows his announcement the invitation
passes UNDECIDED.
Then there is brief consultation
with the physician. Yes, Mrs. Herricls
is sitting up, and is we'll enough to re-
ceive visitors, he thinks. The news
spread like wildfirc, and in less time
than it takes to tell it. there is an ex-
cited mob of men-almost three hun
drcd of thcn-in the street, whittier
they have f1ocled from saloons, stores
and boarding houses.
Doc Starr, Pete Hosl1ins and Heavy
Fairbanl, the rotund proprietor of
the Mermaid, are appointed an in
terviewing committee to apprise
the happy parents of the inten-
tions of the mob and are hurrying
down the street toward the Herriclz
abode. They return soon with the de-
sired permission, and the eager but
now quiet procession moves rapidly
along, headed by the committee and
'Clip-car TomlSins, the gentleman who
runs the White Elephant
The doors of the Hcrriclz home are
opened wide, the one for the worship
crs to enter by and the other for an
exit The procession halts and the four
gentlemen leading it enter to take their
look at'the little, red, ugly, blinking
thing which Mrs. Herriclz proudly
holds in her arms.
Doc Starr has seen it before, and
may see it any time, so he does not
lingcr; Hosllins and Fairbanls, being
bachelors, merely look curiously at the
little creature and pass on, feeling
queer. But Toml1ins is said to have a
wife and family somewhere back in
the "states," and hungry, heart
starved feeling wells up in his breast
and two big tears start from the keen
eyes that have not known them for
years. TonlSins looks long and wist-
fully-then the crowd outside tells
him to hurry. He stoops hastily over
the babe, kisses it bashfully, and, with
something like sob, grabs handful
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a Clever Isotort.

bright woman who had the misfor-
tune not to be so handsome as most of
her friends had n habit of continually
looking at herself in the mirrors of any
apartment where she happened to be.
a woman friend of hers who thought
this very inconsistent resolved to
speak of it before party of people,
so she called out: "Therc is Mrs. White,
who is forever looking at her own
image" Yes" was the quick answer,
sit is true. l wish to know by expe-
ricncc whether it is possible to habitu-
ate oneself to uglincss."
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22
EDUCATIONAL.
M R S. M. G. M A S S I E

Will open a school for young ladies
and girls the 2lst of September. Thor
ough instruction in all branches from
primary to higher English, Mathcmat-
les, Latin and Modern Languages
Efficient teachers in Music, Art and
Embroidery are secured. AS She is not
canvassing information regarding terms,
otc., will be furnished by addressing, or
calling on her at her residence on Sew
enth avenue, head of Commerce street,
for any information regarding terms,
etc. Sept1-Im
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22
A BUSY PRINCESS.

The Numerous Duties of the Princess
a. of Wales.
The princess of Wales is one of the
busiest women in the world, compared
to whom the wife of a day laboror has
leisure. When her daughters were in
the school-room, punctually ut nine
o'clock every morning she went into
the school-room with the teachers and
masters to examine the work of the
previous day, and now that they are in
society she personally supcrvises their
gowns, designing and working on them
herself, as she is skilled dressmaker.
Besides her own arduous public duties
and those she has to perform for the
queen, she undertakes large CORE
spondencc with her brothers, sisters
and parents. So numerous are her
calls of duty, and pleasure which fire.
quently takes the form of duty, that
when in London this royal lady, who is
never expected to button her own boots
or curl her royal hair, cannot get her
work done to retro earlier than two
o'clock in the morning. Not many
years after the pretty Dane came up to
London on her wedding journey she
and queen, Queen Dagmar and Richard
Cncr dc Leon; her favoritc hero, poet
and artist, Wellington, Byron and Sir
Joshua Reynolds. The author she
most admired then was Dickens, the
virtue to her most worthy was charity,
her favorite locality was "home," her
chief ambition mot to be fast" and
her motto, "Dieu ct mon droit.''
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THE LITTLE LASS IN PINK.

Apeorless pearl OF beauty.
A jewel OF romancol
Who would not ride in tourney
TO gain her winsomc glancef
Who would not be minstrel,
Tho golden rhymes to link,
And sing her praise in merry lays
Tho little lass i'll piniis
So tiny are her glovelets.
So dainty arc her shoon,
trow tho pixies wrought them
Beneath the midnight moon;
And DER the clin stitches
They sang, with many u wink.
"We Irvine twist that none resist
The little lass in pink"
She hath n witching dimplc:
Now was il not sin
That when the fairies crowned hor
They put that dimple in
The heartaches it hath given
1t GROVES my soul to think:
She hath no care how lovers fare
The little lass in pink.
Her smile is like dewdrop
That glistens in the morn.
Her frown-no eye hath seen it:
She never looks in scorn.
Her footsteps fall like rose leaves
Beside the fountains brink
The gallants sigh rs she goes by
The little lass In pink.
After the revel's over,
i.e1 stars grow dim above,
Id slunber's drowsy fingers
lave kissed the eyes we love,
Ho! gallant cavaliers,
Your parting beakers clink:
May time tread light and never blight
The little lass In pinkr'
Minturn Peck, in Harper's Bazaar.
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The sorccrcrs of Old.

lIcrodotus tells of sorcerers who once
in every year had the power of assun-
ing the scmblance of wolves for several
days at Il time. Marcellus Sidctcs also
tells OF men who ut the beginning of
every year were afflicted with form of
madness during which they believed
themselves to be wolves or dogs, and
spend the night prowling about burial
grounds.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22
MRS. HERRICK'S BABY.
Ets Advent Causes Genuine Sen.
satiOn in Cartervile.
Written for This Paper.l

- a. IL " ~
dusty summer
day, and along
the whole stray
Cling length of
the one street
of the lit tie
m IN n G camp
but two living
creatures are
visible. From
the , open win
dows of t Ii e
Mermaid and
White Elephant
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r AW SCHOOL RICHMOND, VA.

A thorough, practical course in law
at Richmond College open Sept. "a,
1891. School endowed and rates low.
Junior class $40. Junior and senior $50.
No better place than Richmond to
study law. Nine courts, large libraries,
the State offices, the legislature and
opportunity for wide acquaintance.
Write to PROF. ROGER GREGORY,
Lester Manor, Va, or for catalogue,
chairman of faculty, Richmond College,
Richmond, Va. aug2S-wfsu3wks.
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CT. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY
FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Conducted by the Sisters OF Charity,
Near Emmitsburg, Md.

TERMS: Board and Tuition, per AGA
demic Year, including Bed and Bedding
Washing, Mending and Doctors Fee
5000.
Letters of inquiry directed to the
aug26to oct1 MOTHER SUPERIOR.
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"A negro In Oglcthorpc county, Ga,
has paid SIS year for the use of $50
mule for the last seventeen years. pay
ing in al Si25 rent for the mule, which
y still in good condition.
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BUSINESS COLLEGE,,
Roanoke Va

NJ ATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE,
IN Roanoke, Va.
Complete preparation for business.
Young men and women admitted to any
department of the college. The com
pletu course embraces bookkeeping,
penmanship, business calculations,
forms, correspond ence, mercantile law,
shorthand, typewriting, etc.
preliminary department has been
added to the college, and will admit
boys and misses between the ages of IL
and Is years. according to qualifications.
The course of study will embrace the
primary branches and first principles of
a business education. For particulars
call at the college or address NATIONAL
BUSINESS COLLEGE, Roanoke, Va.
aug2l-tf
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A Raid ON the Cows

The police made a raid on the COWS
Sunday night and impounded thirty
three. They were gathered from differ
ent parts of the city, and the pound
which is rather small was largo enough
for standing room only. Yesterday
morning whilo police court was going
on Nathan Wilmeth appeared and
charged that his COW, which had been
impounded, had been beaten very badly
while being driven up, and further
charged that he would claim damages.
Rushing tho II. Il S. From NIartinsvillc.
NJ. Meade, of Martinsville, Va, is in
the city on legal business. Mr.. Meade
says tho track on the Roanoke and
Southern has been laid twelve miles
this side of Martinsville and the work
is being pressed forward with steady
vigor. Mr.. Meade is here comforting
with his counsel, Mr.. Hardoway, in tho
case of Meade against Foard.
Pianos Tuned
BY the Hobbie Music Company, who
employ on salary their tuners; there.
fore they are responsible for and guar
antee all work done. Refers to Hol-
Inns Institute as to the reliability of
their work. They do all tho tuning
for this institute. Leave orders at 1874
Salem avenue.
School book headquarters. Thomp-
son & Co.
Don't fail to see the 1O-piece solid oak
chamber suits, $3.50, at Copper &c
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ROANOKE COLLEGE::ss:sss7s si y

Healthful Mountain Climate. Choice
of Courses for Degrees; Commercial De-
partmeDt; Library II, 900 volumes; work
ing Laboratory; good morals; I've
churches. Expenses for months 1854
1904 (board, fees, &C., Increasing pat
ronage from many States, Indian Terri
tory, Mexico, and japan. Next session
begins September 10th. Illustrated Cat
alogue and illustrated book about Salem
free. Address.
JULIUS D. DREHER,
july21-eod to sept20. President
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School book headquarters. Thomp-
son & Co.
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Don't fail to see the 1O-piece solid oak
chamber suits, $3.50, at Copper tS
Stones.
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TINE TABLE TO TAKE EFFECT 1901 A. NJ
SUNDAY July Il, 1891.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-31
THE LARGEST ORCHARD.

Mountains Covered with Countless Wild
Apple Trees.
In the wild district between Hama
and Haiku during July and August the
most beautiful and largest apple or
chards in the world can be seen. The
wilderness of Koolan. as the district is
called, contains a forest of native wild
apple trees, countless in number,
stretching from the sea far up the
mountain sides. The trees vary from
forty to fifty feet in height. and in the
harvest season, from July to Septem-
Der, are loaded down with fruit, some
white, but mostly red. A person stand
ing in the midst of this orchard can
look around him for miles. up the
mountain and towards the road, and
the only thing in view will be one vast
grove of apple trees literally red with
ripe and ripening fruit, the branches Of
the trees bending to the ground with
the bounteous harvest. The crop of this
extensive apple orchard which nature
planted in the solitary waste would fill a
fleet of one hundred steamers. The or
chard stretches over a country from
five to ten miles wide by twenty miles
long. and many of the larger trees bear
at least fifty barrels apiece. The fruit
is delicious for table use and will ap-
pease both thirst and hunger. but as
yet no one has taken the trouble to
make any commercial use of the apples.
When ripe they will not keep more
than a week. but they make excellent
jelly and jam. and simply for the lack
of a little American enterprise millions
Of barrels of apples are permitted an.
nually to fall to the ground and rot.