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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
a Little Girls Experience in a Lighthouse
Tho First. Step.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can't do any-
thing to your satisfaction, and you won
der what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step
into nervous prostration. You need q
nerve tonic and in Electric Bitters Won
will ind ssthe exact remedy. for re-
storing your nervous system to it's nor
NAL healthy condition. Surprising re-
suits follow the use of this great nerve
tonic and Alternative. Your appetite re-
turns, good digestion is restored, and
the liver and kidneys resume health Y
action. Try bottle. Price soc. at
Christian IL Barbee's drugstore.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
Plays tho Piano at Nlnety-sir.

1t is not impossible to find ladies Of
not more than fifty years old who let
their pianos stay unopened because
they say they are too old and their fin
gers are too stiff toplay any more. But
people who pass along a Winthrop
street house, it is reported, often hear
music from n piano fingered By Mrs.
Matilda Scwall, who, though nincty-six
years old, plays with the skill and en-
ergy of girl.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
Bucklen's Arnlca salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts.
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
ssrcs, letter, chapped hands, chilbains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles. or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price IS cents
per box. For sale by Budwell, Christian
81 Barbee tu.tb..at
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20

If you wish to buy anything in the
musical instrument limo you can do no
better anywhere in the country than
by patronizing the we'll known, and re-
liable firm of The Hobbie Music Co., 157
Salem avenue, Roanoke, Va. Largest
dealers, lowest prices, easiest pay
ments. Pianos for rent also. Call or
write
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
Summer is Coming.

Spring is here and summer is APP
preaching. Prepare to keep cool by
having WILKINSON &c LALLEMAND,
Salem, Va, make you an awning for
your store or residence. apr14-am.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20

Now is your chance to get a good lot
in Crystal Spring. Special inducements
to parties wanting to build.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
Stone Work.

Didier and Lyman will do any kind of
stone work at short notice. Office Didier
building, Campbell street. mayS-tf
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
deer PARK AND OAKLAND
On the crest of the Alleghanics, 5000
feet above tide-water.
Season Opens June is, 1891.

These famous mountain resorts, stu
ated at the summit of the Alleghanies
and directly upon the main line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, have
the advantage of it's splendid YES
tibuled express train service both East
and West, and are therefore readily &C.
cessible from all parts of the country.
All Baltimore and Ohio trains stop at
Deer Park and Oakland during the
season. Rates. $780, S75 and 800 month,
according to location. Communications
should be addressed to GEORGE d.
DESHIELDS, Manager Baltimore and
Ohio Hotels, Cumberland, Nd, up to
June 10; after that date, either Deer
Park or Oakland, Garrett County Md.
sun&wed-tjun24
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
BARGAINS IN "

The largest and be
Wall rapcrs in Phi'edition will be one OF
sell TO the consuu' most notable publica-
Samples sent to a,ed in Virginia. A linn
States free Sevpace will be open TO ad-
pare our goods
CIlAS. NJ. n.
philadclDhin
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
EASILY DISPOSED OF.
Mayor Evans DIsmisscs the Case Asains
the Entire Crowd

Mayor Evans DlsmissCs the Case Against
the Entire Crowd.
The Mayor rendered his decision in
the case of Robert Gordon, Waterman
for the Consolidated Mining Company,
yesterday morning after taking up the
case against John Walthall, 3. n. Ber-
nard and James Elliott.
The counsel for the company. Mr.
Glasgow, said he did not wish to prose-
cute the boys, and asked that the case
against them for returning to to the
scene of the difficulty be dismissed.
The mayor said, in rendering his de-
cision, that he Thought the boys had
spoiled their own case and had lost the
sympathy of the public by going back
and interfering with the employees of
the road. lie reprimanded tho two
watchmen who placed distractions on
the track, and Gordon for firing into
the crowd of boys. He did not wish to
hear of repetition Of these difficulties,
and said he would dismiss the charges
against all parties.
The young men were reprimanded for
their depredations and trespassinr on
the company's property.
The public are invited to attend a
strawberry festival to DO held in the
vacant house formerly occupied by Mrs.
Churchill, No. S14 Jefferson street, on
Wednesday, May 20, from to 10 D. m. il,
under the auspices of the "King's
Daughters, Willing Chapter" for the
benefit OF the hospital. may102t
Employees for the Hardware Plant.
The Shelf Hardware Company is
actively pushing toward an early cree
ton of its plant in Roanoke AS an
earnest of this TIE TINES is authorized
to receive applications for employment
from brass molders, bench molders,
polishers; buffers, machinists and lock
filters. These applications should give
references and state previous expert
ence. In some branches of tho industry
raw employees may become experts in a
few weeks or months, and earn large
wages as piece workmen. Address all
applications to Hardware" care THE
ROANOKE TIMES.
y Little Girls Experience I'm a Lighthouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Prescott are keep
ers of the Government Lighthouse at
Sand Beach, Mich. and are blessed with
a daughter four years old. Last April
she was taken down with measles. fol-
lowed with dreadful cough and turning
into fever. Doctors at homo and at
Detroit treated her, but in vain, she
grew worse rapidly until she was a
mere handful of bones" Then she
tried DR.. Kings New Discovery, and
after the use of two and half bottles
was completely cured. They say DR..
Kings Now Discovery is worth its
weight In gold, yet you may get trial
bottle free at Christian e Barbee's drug
store.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20

at the Lake and Driving Park, Roanoke, Va,
May 27,28, 20 and Special Races,
MnY 30, 1891.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20

A freight wreck occurred near Blu
chanan, on the Chesapeake and Ohio,
yesterday morning. Many cars were
badly wrecked, but no one was injured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
A DREAM OF THE SEA.

A farmsr lad in his prairie home
Lay dreaming Of the sea;
He nee: had seen it, but we'll he knew
Its pictured image and heavenly hue;
And he dreamed he swept DER its waters
blue,
With the winds blowing free,
With the winds so fresh and free.
He woke! and he said ''The day will come
When that shall be truth to me-"
But as years swept by him he always found
That his feet were clogged and his hands
were bound,
Till at last he lay in narrow mould.
Afar from the sobbing sea,
The sorrowing, sobbing sea.
E ANY there are on the plains Tonight
That dream of q voyage to be.
And have said in their souls, The day will
come
When my bark shall sweep through the drifts
of foam"
Gut their eyes grow dim and their lips grow
dumb,
Afar from the tossing sea,
The turbulent, tossing sea.
Albert Bigclo,c Paine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
4 Tankard Washington Used.

W. f. Dwight, Of Piainwell, Mich,
has obtained an heirloom Of which he is
verv proud. 1t is tankard and bowl
of carthenwarc plated with a bright but
much worn su5stancc. The articles were
riven his mother early in the sixties by q
colorcd woman who Obtained them from
New Haven Comm tavern. 1t Is au-
thentically related that the vessels were
part of the table furniture from which
General Washington ate his dinner in
June, ITS, while making the Journey to
Cambridge, Mass, to assume command OF
the American arluy,-B9ston Transcript.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
THE OLD PATHS,

"You have all heard Of the Covenanters of
Scotland, their decision of mind and force
of character. Their theory of government
for the kingdom of Scotland was quantity
impractical, but it grew out Of true and deep
fear of the Lord. The Old Testament spirit
in them was not enough tincturcd with the
meekress Of the Lord Jesus, or they would
not have touched the weapon Of steel; but
in this mistake they were very far from be-
ing alone. In my bedroom ! have hung
up tile picture of an old Corenanter.
lie sits in 4 wild gen with his Bible open
before him on huge stone. He leans on
his great broadsword, and his horse stands
quietly at his side. Evidently he smel:eth
the battle afar off, and is preparing for it by
drinking in some mighty promise. AS you
look into the old mans face YOU can almost
hear him saying to himself, For the crown
of Christ and the Covenant, would gladly
Law down my life this day. They did lay
down their lives too, right gloriously, and
Scotland owes to her coVenanting fathers
far more than she knows.
''It was O grand day that in which they
spread the Solemn League and the Covenant
upon the tombstones of the old kirkyard in
Edinburgh, and all sorts Of men came for
ward to set their names to it. Glorious was
that roll of worthless. There were the lords
Covenant, and some pricked vein and
dipped the pen into their blood, that they;
might write their names with the very fluid
OF their hearts. All over England also there
were men who entered into like solemn
league and conyenant, and met together to
worship God according to their light. and
not according to human order-books. They
were resolved upon this one thing-thatt
Rome should not come back to place and
power while they could lift a. hand against
her; neither should any other power in
throne or Parliament prevent the free eXer-
else of their cOnsciences for Chrlst's cause
and covenant. These stern cid men, with
their stiff notions, have gone. And what
have we in their places? indifference and
frivolity. We have no Roundheads and and
Puritans; but then we have scientific
drcs<-making and we play lawn.tcnnis! We
have no contentious for the faith; but then
our amusements occupy all our time. This
wonderful nineteenth century has become q
child, and put away manly things: Self
contained men, men in whom is the true
grit, are now few and far between as com.
pared with the old covenanting days.
1SpurTeOn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
RELIGIOUS READING.
THE Joy OF THE LORD.


Joy and I awhile were strangers
Life seemed full of pains and dangers,
When at Prayers all-hallowed altar,
Dropped as from some heavenly psalter
Into my heart this wonderful word,
"Enter thou into the joy Of thy Lord.'
Stood my soul almost affrighted;
Now bewiltlered, now delighted.
Were their pain and dangers ended?
Was my soul to God ascended!
Else how heard I that judgment word,
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord"
Spirit answered ul.to spirit,
"Chi!d, ere now thou dost inherit
Peace and joy and grace and glory!
Thus grows large salcation's story;
Hence, the commanding, life giving word,
"Enter thou into the JOY of thy Lord"
Joy and no moro are strangers;
Life still bears its pains and dangers,
But my heart, as it is bilden,
Finds the deeper mcaner hidden
In this quickening wonderful word,
ENTER iEou unto the JOY Of thy Lord.
TX. II. j., in Church at Home and Abroad
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
HOME DUTIES,

From Dickens, and from men before and
after him, we have heard much Of the ne
glect of home and its duties by women who
are devoted to works Of benevoence. But
tons oil where they should be on, an untidy
house, and children taken care of by ser
wants instead of by tender mothers, is the
cry. And yet it is true that where. one
woman working for Christ outside the home
circle may be careless of her duties
there, nine will neglect them for
what are called social duties and the plea.
surcs of the world But in order to commend
the work of women for the good of women
to all who see it, let them be very careful
that those trusts and cares at home that form
their first and great duty in life arc faithfully
performed, and then they will disarm crltl-
cism and their work will have double bless
ing."-[Dr. John Hall.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

EVERY year the country has peri
odical attack of morality. It begins
with revival the first week of the
year, ard usually lasts until the end
of the month. It is due here now.
Things that you will be allowed to do
at any other time of the year, and that
are thought harmless, will bring down
prayers and exhortations on your head
if you attempt to do them now. A wave
Of wickedness often sweeps over the
country. The wave Of morality is due
but once year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

THE following note left by tramp
was found on the kitchen table by Mrs.
Jacobs, of Youngstown, O., the other
day: MY dear good lady friend, came
here O stranger and found no one at
home. Iwas hungry and took a piece
of pie. I will return some day and pay
you for it. Much obliged. This is all
I have got. Keep them until I return" "
With the motto vas left deck Of play
ing cards.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

The Justin dynamite shell has been
successfully thrown from a powder gun,
at Rome, n. Y. This new shell will
enable every warship to become dyn.
amite cruiser, and our Nesuvius will
have no monopoly in tho belching Of
sudden destruction.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
ing cards.

An Elkton, Md, man feared that he
might be buried before he was really
dead, and hs, therefore. directed in his
will that his body shoald be kept fo,
forty days in o shed built For the pur.
pose. He wantel o bottle cf water be-
side him, latch on the in"ide OF the
door and roof slanting to tho west.
He is Low lying in the ched.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

A MICHIGAN man, 50 years old, did
not know until the other day that
husband could not legally thrash his
wife, provided he was the stronger. and
when arrested for that offense ho talked
about the bulwarks of liberty in n way
to bring tears to the eyes Of the glorious
American earle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

For seven. years Hoosier named
Pete Dayton, had obliged his wife to
support the family by washing, and he
had left on averge of SO per week In
the saloons. The White Caps took him
out and !hrashed him, and in less than
eight month, he has earned 5000 and
kept sober every day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

THE Mediterranean is comparatively
shallow. A drying up Of $50 feet would
leave three different seas, and Africa
would be joined to Italy. The Brltis n
Channel is more like pond which ac'
counts for its choppy waves.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

s1GSoRE JEssADA, the great lace
fabricant of Genoa, Italy, carries back
the manufacture of Italian lace IS ear
ly as the year 14O0, and has in his pos
session specimens which he declares to
be of that date.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

JULES SIMON does most of his writ
ing in bed. Many other fellows do
the same, and nobody would object if,
when they got up, they used what they
had written to kirdle fires with.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

heard until the ace is revealed favorable to
the bank There are shouts OF Foul"
'.Foulm but the keepers of the table produce
their pistols, and the uproar issilenced and the
bank has won ninety-fye thousand dollars.
Do you call this game OF chnncen There Is
no chance about it.
But these dishonesties in carrying on q
the game are nothing when. compared with
rpe frauds which are committed In order to
get money to 20 on with the. nefarious work.
Gambling with its greedy hand has snatched
away the Widows mite and the portion Of
the orphans; has sold the daughters virtue to
get the means to continue the game; has
written the counterfeit signature, emptied
the bankers money vault and welded the
assassin's dagger. There iS no depth Of mean
ness to which it will not stooP- There is no
cruelty at which it is appalled, There is no
warning of God that it will not dare. Merci-
less. unappeasable. tiercer and wilder it
blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it
crushes. it damns. 1t has peopled our pris-
ons and lunatic aSyiunls. Vow many raih
road agents and cashiers and trustees;
of funds it has driven to dis.
grace, incarceration and suicide! Wit.
ness years ago cashier OF railroad woo
stole one hundred and three thousand dol
lars to carry on his gaming practices. Wit
ness forty thousand dollars stolen from
Brook lyn bank within the memory Of snany
! of you, and the one hundred and eighty
Thousand dollars taken from Wall street
Insurance company for the same purpose!
! These are only illustrations on large scale
Of tho robbelies every day committed for
the purpose OF carrying out the designs CT
gamblers. Hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars every yoar leak out without observa-
ton from the merchants till into the
! gambling hell. A man In London keeping
, one Of these gambling houses boasted that
! he had ruined nobleman day; but If all
the saloons of this land were to speak out
they might utter more Infamous boast,
for they have destroyed thousand noble
men rear,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18

All this I promise in opening this courseo OF
sar,nons on the ten plaques Of these three
cities, lest some stupid man might say 1 am
deprecatiDg the place OF my residence
speak to you to-day concerning the plague
Of gambling. Every man and woman III
this house ought to be interested In thls
theme.
Some years ago. when an association for
the suppression of gambling was organlzen,
an agent Of the association came to- prom
iuent citizen and asked him to patronize the
society," He said, mo, 1 can have no inter-
est in such an organization. Tam in no wise
affected by that evil" At that very time
his son, who was his partner in business, was
one of the heaviest players in Hsarnes IA
nous gambling establishment. Another re-
fused his patronage on the same ground, not
knowing that his first bookkeeper though re-
ceiving salary of only thousand dollars,
was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars
Der night. The president Of q railroad COM
pany refused to patronize tine Institution,
saving, That society is good for the defense
of merchants. but the railroad people are not
injured by this evil" not knowing that, at
that very time, two OF his conductors were
spending three nights Of each week at faro
tables in New York Dra.tly Or indirectly,
this evil strikes at the wilcs world.
Gambling is the risiilg OF something more
or less valuable in the hope Of winning more
than YOU hazard. The instrument OF gaming
NAV differ but the principle is the same The
shuffiing and dealing cards, however full of
temptation, is not gambling, unless stakes
are put up: while, cn the other hand, gam
bling may be carried on without cards or
dice, or billiards OF n ten pin alley. The
man who bets on horses, on elections, on bat-
tles-the man who deals in fancy" stocks,
or conducts business which hazards extra
capital, or goes into transactions without
foundation, but dependent upon what men
call "luck,:' is a gambler. Whatever you e3-
pect to get from your neighbor without Of
fering an equivalent in money. or time or
skill Is either the product of theft or gaming.
Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into
the same category. Fairs for the founding
of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted
on the rafting system, come under the same
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-24
HazIeton's Blaze.

About o'clock Tuesday morning
fire broke out in the building occupied
by Platt & Co. on Broad Street, Halle
ton, and it was three hours before the
flames were under control. A high wind
was blowing and for some time there
was danger of the flames spreading over
the whole block, owing to the scarcity of
water The stock of Platt 4 Co. was
totally destroyed and the First National
Bank building damaged. There was no
owned by Charles Brill, the night watch
man of the bank The losses are Plat
4 Co., $40, coo, insurance, $1,000; First
National Bank, furniture and fixtures,
$4,000, insured; Charles Brill, building,
S22 900, no insurance. The bank has
opened an Office on Wyoming Street.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-24
CHRISTMAS SERVICES.
How the Day Will be Observed
in the Churches.
FREELAND PASTORS HAVE AR
RANGED APPROPRIATE CELEBRA-
TIoNs-sUNDAY SCHOOLS WILL BE
REMEMBERED AS USUAL.


onrlstmas Day is one OF the principal
OF all the holidays on the calendar for
church-going people. Its observance is
not confned to any certain denomina-
tioh, put Is universal throughout the
Chrlstlan world. Appropriate services
Will be held In nearly all the churches
OF freeland, and in many the Sunday
schools VIII also have pleasant time.
Inc distribution of gifts and presents
VIII form leading feature in making
In 1he day one OF rejoicing for the children.
Ihese VIII be held in the majority of
the churches this evening, and the pro-
grammes OF the entertainments are very
interesting. The time and character of
the services for tomorrow in some of
the churches is as follows:
AT ~. kaslmer's Polish Catholic
Church on Ridge Street, below Luzerne,
mass VIII De read by the pastor, Rev.
Jos. Mazotas, at and s A. M.
Kew. Il. ID. Miller, pastor of st. Johns
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-24

During the twelve months ending De-
cember / there were filed with the
Secretary of Internal Affairs some very
important claims for land, said to have
been hitherto unsurveyed and unsold by
the Commonwealth. There were seventy
eight of these applications, and the
amount of property to which they lay
claim aggregates 62l7 acres. Some Of
the land is valuable, being situated in
coal regions or along great commercial
highways. These claims are heard and
adjudicated by the Board of Property
Some applications have been refused on
account of land being found to have been
previously appropriated, while large
number of the applications are still
pending. Luzerne County is well rep
resented on the list, having nine applica-
tions which call for 3S7 acres.