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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21
A Condition and Not q Theory,

Shc-You aro not ono OF those who
are opposed TO matrimony under oil
circumstances, are your
Ile-No, indeed. IwouldnS object Tn
the least to being widowey, for h-
stance,-Jtdlte.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21
A Homeless Caaa

Herry-Do-hool Bo-hooi Freddy Zones
keeps hitting me.
Nurso-AH why don't you hit him
back?
Iarry-I did hit him first and II didn't
do any gOod-Life.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21
Infatuated Ilo Was a Donkeu.

Lady TO clcrlsEThis tea smells Pc
culiar. Doesn't IL tasto Hike hay2
Clerk--I really can't soy, never hay
ing tasted hay.
LADY, WASN'T certain about thaA-
Texas Sifttnga
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21
S1,e Wns uac.l TO IL

SIN so sorry your papa is dead" said
n lady to Pittsburgh little girl whose
mamma had buried several husbands.
"Oh, That's nothing" replied the
child; my papas often die. n-Judgc,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21
An Appropriate Nickname.

Lady Ito tramp)-yyhati Is your name9
Tramp-Thcy coll mo Keely Motor.
Lady-Why do they call you that?
Tramp = Because l won't work..
Springfield Graphic.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-21

WILL Roanoke let Salem Guido her in
the entertainment of the visitors who
will be here next week? 1t looks that
way now.
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THE TIMES can be:tound regularly on
sale at the following places:
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Smith s,:Hotels Roanoke, Ponce de Leon,
Elk's News Stand, "a Salem avenue, and
Roanoke News Depot, los Henry street.
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Street, Steiner & Mathis.
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Observation-Disclosures Inn.
Pulaski-Maple Shade Inn, Brown &
Brown.
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Depot, Norwood Street.
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other paper in Southwest virginin, and Mt
more than that of all the other papers of
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Will. Roanoke and Bedford City ever
meet again on the diam ond?
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Entered at the Postoficc at Roanoke as second
class matter.
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average for the four years, exclusive Of
outfit. GEN. SCOTT SHIP, Supt.
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THE WEEKLY TIMES.

THE WEEKLY TIMES, containing the news of
tho week In more condensed form. one year,
S100 In advance.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
YOUR MONEY, Or YOUR LIEF

This question is a "pert. one, but We
mean it. Will you sacrifice . few paltry
dollars, and save your life? or will you
allow your blood to become tainted, and
your system rundown, until, finally, you
are laid away in the grave? Better Be
in time and sshold up" your hands for
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
a guaranteed remedy for all scrofulous
and other b~lood-taints, from whatever
cause arising. It cures all Skin and
Scalp Diseases, Ulcers, Sores, Swellings
and kindred ailments. It Is power-
fully tonic as well as Alternative, or
blood-cleansing, in Its effects, hence it
strengthens the system and restores
vitality, thereby dispelling All those
languid, stirred feelings" experienced
by the debilitated. Especially has II
manifested its potency in curing letter,
Salt-rheum, Eczema, Eryyipesas, Boils,
Carbuncles, Sore Eyes Goitre, or Thick
Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Max
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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Eggs in Manufactures and the Arts,

1t is an error, says Bradstreet's, to
suppose that eggs have no considerable
use except for food. They are en-
ployed in calico printing, in photogra.
ply, in gliding, in clarifying various
liquors. and in bookbinding. A large
business hassprung up in the prepare
ton of Photographic paper with sailed
albumen, and n establishment alone
is said to have used more than 2 ,OOO, 600
eggs III six months for this purpose.
Many attempts have been made to find
u vegetable or animal substitute for al
bumen. but in vain. A prize of So, 900,
offered thirty years ago by AN English
society for the discovery of o material or
process for replacing albumen in calico
printing, still remains untaken. Nor
are the yolks of eggs used in manufac.
turing wholly wasted. They are also
employed in the arts. and y manufac-
turer in Vienna solidiies them. Pos
sib!y, too, the developments in canning
will before long give us canned eggs,
or perhaps condensed eggs, suitable at
least for cooking. At any rate it would
g worth while to try to raise part Of
the eggs which are consumed by other
countries.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
WHAT THE FORCE BILL MEANS

The force election bill means two
things, and only two things. They are:
First-The employment of 300, 900 or
more federal partisan officials at every
presidential and congressional election,
and the expenditure from $40, ZOO, 900 to
$4,000, 900 Of public money. chiefly to
reward partisan desperadoes in the
south.
Second-The certifcation of presl
DENTAL and congressional election re-
turns by inscriptions partisans, paid
by tie government to invent and exc
cute fraud, and such returns to be con-
elusive as to the right Of the holders to
be qualified as president or congressman.
Never since the grotesque political
madness of the Lecompton leaders, when
the old slavery democracy was in its dy-
ing throes, has there been such monu-
mental political madness as that exhib-
tied by the force election bill leaders;
and If they shall succeed in enacting the
revolutionary measure the republication
that has made the national annals so
lustrous will die sunwept, unhonored
and unsung.'-Pialadelphid Record.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
LABOR SHOULD NEVER FORGET.

My advice to workingmen is this: If
you want power in this country; if you
want to make yourself felt; II you do not
want your children to wait long years
before they have bread on the table they
ought to have, the leisure in their lives
they ought to have, the opportunities in
life they oughtto have; If you don'twant
to wait yourselves. write on your banner
so that every politician, no matter how
short-sighted he may be, can read 1t:
"We eve forget! If you launch the
arrow of sarcasm at labor, we never for
get! II there is q division in congress
and you throw your vote in the wrong
scale, w never forgetl You may 20
down on yonr knees and say: i am
sorry I did the act And we will say:
1T will avail you in heaven, but on this
side Of the grave-never!'" So that d
man in taking up the labor question will
know he is dealing with q hair-trigger
pistol, and will say: 81 am to be true
to justice and to man, otherwise I am q
dead duck."-WendeW Phslltpps.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Automatic Conrriv.nces.

when Houdin, having acquired a
comfortable fortune, retired into private
life, he built a handsome villa and
amused himself by introducing various
curious inventions into his place and
the grounds attached to it. The garden
gate was situated some 400 yards from
the house. A visitor had only to raise
q diminutive brass knccker and let it
:al! upon the forehead cfa fantastic
face-making but a faint s~ound-when
q large bell was set in motion in the
villa At the same time the gate swung
open automatically, the plate bearing
the name Robert Houdin" disappeared,
aud another took its place on which was
engraved the word "Entrez." When
the postman delivered the letters he
had brought he was instructed to drop
them through a slit in the gate into the
receptacle provided tor this purpose.
The box, directly this was done, started
of It's own accord on its journey to the
front door of the house by means of a
miniature elevated railway. He also
Invented a continuance by which, while
lying in bed, he could feed his horse in
q stable fifty yards from the villa, for
IN touching q small button there was
put in motion an apparatus that caused
the exact PORTION Of oats required for
the animals meal to fall into the manager
from the granary above. BY another
curious piece of mechanism q little
bench that stood beside q ravine in a
remote part Of the grounds was SO con-
structed that Immediately any person
sat down upon it the machine automati-
cally traversed q narrow bridge that
spanned the gorge, and having de-
posted the occupant on the other side
the bench returned to its original posi-.
ton. This rather reminds n of the
ingenious devices with which John
Wemmick delighted to please "The
Aoad -
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Cultivatng Field Beets.

Beets for early table use are usually
planted much too closely for profit,
though If to be used while young the mar
row spaces between the rows may be al
lowable. But the main crop for stock,
and these are also just as good for the
table If grown without check, should be
planted in rows three feet apart, SO that
the work can be mainly lone by the cul-
tivator. If the beets grow without any
Interruption, the largest will not be
tough or hollow. These defects are
caused by hot, dry weather, which snriv-
els the leaves. After this rains may
start the beet to growing again, but it
will never be as good as it would had
growth never been stopped for o single
Huv
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
sascept,bu,tyst ]. I,I.....

OF several persons who have been
equally exposed to chillyRWeather one
takes fatal cold. while the others are
wholly unaffected. When scarlet fever
or diphtheria enters a..family, it i srare
thing for all the members to be At
tackled. The great majority escaped Ia
grippe during its late prevalence. And
the same is true OF spidemics Of every
kind aud degree.
The difference is mainly due to differ.
ence in personal susceptibility, inher-
tied Or acquired. Disease inyades the
body at points where its life forces !
weakened. Such q lowering Of the vital
resistance nay date back for genera
tons. Thi. is one reason for the
astounding mortality of infants, SO inn
mensely beyond that in the young Of
some Of the lower animals. Many per-.
SOD who stert with small power Of re-
sistance carry it through life. Their
only hope is constant care and freedom
from exposure.
But of those who reach adult age the
greater part may be supposed to have
inherited an average measure of physi-
cal soundness. Whence their suscep-
tibility to diseased 1t comes from
physical transgression, either positive
or negative.
Sleep, for instance, is q fundamental
condition of high health. Nothing can
make up for a deficiency of it. Lack of
food does not begin to equal lack Of
sleep in its power to depress vitality,
and SO to render the system liable to
any prevailing disease. Still, insult
cheney of food is 9 great depressant,
and may exist where it is least u 8
pected;: foE.tRe food must be such IS
to supply the daily waste of all the it's
sues-brain, nerve, bone, muscle, and
fat ~ besides furnishing h~eat-forming
fuel. Many a person who sits at 9
luxurious table is not half fed.
But ~over-eating is as bad as under
eating, and acts more promptly. ALI
the organs, especially those that elimi-
nate the waste, are overworked and
weakened. Poisonous waste is retained
in the circulating fluid. Any over
Indulgence wastes the nerve-element
faster than they can be supplied, and
nerve-force is behind the formal work
ing of every organ.
Worry and care have q like effect,
not only rapidly using up nerve-torce,
hut also weakening the organs that
elaborate it. Fear, also, is q great
vital d%epressant, and by itself often in
duces a fatal susceptibility to epidemic
diseases. Temporary, and yet fatal,
susceptibility may be caused by fatigue.
Eight white rats, having been subjected
to exhaustive exercise for several days,
were inocutated with an attenuated
poison. -Four others ir a normal con.
dition were similarly inoculated. All
four of the second series survived,
while seven of the first series died.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Hoods ~SarsaparuIa
SHIL0n'S
CONSUMPTION
CURE.

The success of this Great Cough Cure Is
without a parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos
tive guarantee, atest that no other cure can sue.
cessfully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home
In the United States and Canada. If you have
q Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use il, for
It will cure you. If your child has the Group,
or Nhooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SHILOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts, 50 cts. and
$500. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame,
sse Sh.;!!ch's Porous Plaster. Price IS cts.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
II STOCK RANCH.

Pigs.
A subscriber asks: /. Glow many pigs
should be together in one pen, and what
should be the dimensions of the pen?
2. What are the causes Of butter not
keeping e four daysP We work it
well; have a spring; the cellar is cool
and the cream is only one weeks gather
ing" The number Of pigs is a matter of
preference. Two pigs together will
thrive better than n alone. Six pigs
should be a maximum number. They
should forage when young, buta pen ten
feet square will be ample room, If it be
kept clean and dry after they are ..on-
fined. The difficulty of the butter is the
age of the cream for c%hurning. Three
days cream may be used, and II cream
1t is better. Mixed cream (of different
ages) causes the butter to be somewhat
bitter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Daniel webster's Joke.

dropping in to see a friend of mine
one rainy afternoon. years ago." said a
noted hotel man, II found a group of
four sitting in the Office. composed of
Daniel Webster, q Mr.. Jones, my
friend and his brother. After receiving
a very cordial greeting and a kind in
vitation to quiet smoke, and q chat
about old times, I settled down for q
few hours of old-time indulgence.
sAs my broker friends throat be-
came a little husky, it made him re-
member something long forgotten, and,
turning to his brother, he said: r
guess, Tom, I'll go up stairs and get a
bottle of wine from that case I brought
from France over twenty years ago.
by way OF explanation to us, he told
of buying a case Of wine in France, to
be used at reception to be given him
on his return home, but he found death
had visited his family while on his way,
and the wine was never used.
@'Here Reuben he called to his
clerk, while I am up stairs you fggel
mp how mach that wine stands me
to-day, costing $3.50 a bottle twenty
years ago, and be sure you get the in
terest to a cent
well, the interest did amount tc
considerable on the whole case, and q
happy thought seemed to strike Web.
ster, as large grin spread over his
face; but he soon became very solemn
again.
@In a few minutes the bottle stood
empty, and such wine I shall never have
the pleasure of tasting again.
3As we were making preparations to
leave, Webster turned and said to my
friend: George, I have thought of a
plan whereby you can make some
money
How is that?" eagerly inquired
Mr.. D.
Surprising We stop the interest on
another bottle of that 2O-year-old
wine,' exclaimed Webster with q spar
kle in his great eye"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

waatsd In every Comfy 70 act Ia the s. ne. Service under
tnstruetiens non Capt Grammar, ex-chiei Of petesdyss OF
Eineinnstt. xxpesteues pot neee1xzEy. Psrtiepiare nee. A4dress
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

An ArtlnolAl Msmbsf With Which : Man
Can No Every Kind ofl Labor.
Some months ago Willard "a. Lucas.
son of Mr. Samuel Lucas, the wo1l man.
s~ufacturer OF PoQnetanuck, Conn. had
his right hand severed In his fathers
mill. and since Mr.. Lucas, ST., who has
inventive genius, has used every effort
70 replace the missing member with as
useful substitute as possible,
After visiting or writing to the
most prominent makers OF artificial
limbs in America, he learned
that 1t was in vain to search, either In
This country or Europe, for an artificial.
hand that could be used in doing work,
T%herenpon Mr.. Lucas determined to
make Q hand himself; but he toiled per-
ststentlv day and night for four months
before he was successful. He has pro-
duceda an aluminium hand that is very
much like an old time steel gauntlet, and
that Is almost as handy as is o natural
hand. The fingers are all perfect in
shape and appearance, and the joints
bend like those of human fingers. It is
smaller than the natural hand, but with
1t 2 man can do every kind of work.
Mr.. Willard Lucas has worn one of the
artificial hands for several weeks, and,
with 1t can grasp and handily use all
kinds of farm tools, pick up things from
the ground, drive, handle q gun-in fact,
use his metal hand quickly and skillfully
at any work. Like the natural hand,
i artificial one consists OF q palm that
Stwith q fastening by which 1t
is attached to the cork or wooden stump
that all one-handed men wear in place Of
the missing member, and of fingers and
. thumb, the joints of which are worked
by q ratchet, SO that they may be bent
Forward at any angle and held there. The
hand may be either tightly closed or only
partly shut, and only one finger or all
the fingers may be closed at once and
instantly by striking them against the
body or other object. To release the
fingers 1t is necessary only to touch a
small spring on the back of the hand.
The invention is a nearly perfect sub
stitute for the natural hand and the
only thing of the kind in the world.
Willard Lucas AYERS he would not part
with the device for q fortune If 1t were
not possible to reproduce it. By means
of an ingenius continuance the artificial
hand may be moved sideways at the
place where it Is attached to the arm x
actly as the natural hand Is moved.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
A Hardy Fowl.

The Plymouth Rocks have proved their
great adaptability to variable climates,
atmospheric changes and unfayorable
conditions. They have the ability to
stand the summers heat and winter'sfrost;
neglect bad usage, uncomfortable quart
ers and poor food, without showing signs
of deterioration. They make good for
ayers when at liberty, on the farm they
become self-reliant and will provide for
themselves q good share of their living
for eight months in the year. They will
bear confinement we'll as they are neither
wild o Of a rowing disposition. They
have a pleasing appearance, one that
would strike the ordinary observer with
the idea Of usefulness, nor is this idea
illusory, as they embrace more practical
merits than any breed that we know Of.
The farmer will find them his fowl in
every respect.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
WRONG WAY. FIG. 2. RIGHT WAY.

soon warp up and cndangcr the feet, and
tear the dresses and are unsafe in many
ways, besides rotting out the planks so
much quicker. Now turn this same
plank over, as shown in Fig. 9, and it
will be seen how each close grain makes
q little roof over its fellow, and all liquids
percolate through the loose grain and
drain away, allowing the plank to dry
quickly, while the splinters are no.
where to be seen. Planks and boards
should therefore be laid properly as in
Fig. 2 and not as in Fig. 1.-An,erican
a orino 1fo,9.ief
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05

DEFAuLTER has again appeared on
the track In the colors Of Capt. s. S.
Brown. M. Corbett, the bookmaker,
bought the horse at the captains recent
sale, but gave him up when the captain
Informed him that his daughter was
very fond of Defaulter and wanted to buy
him back. The %Pittsburger was willing
to pay any price, but Corbett refused TO
make one cent profit by the trade.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-02-05
Tha Coior of Eppa.

It has always been u opinion, says an
exchange, that food given to poultry has
much to do with the color of the yolk of
their eggs, and we still hold to that opin-
ion, and say that the more fish, meat,
cabbage. and stimulants you give your
poultry, the lighter color the yolks on the
eggs will be. If you want yellow yolk
eggs feed the best yellow corn you can
get You will find this to be true and
you have only to try it to prove the as
sertion.,