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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
A BOOMING TOWN
WYTHEVILLE

Advances In the race OF progress.
Called tho Saratoga of the South. In
dustrles nearing completion and con-
mplatcd. Its churches and schools.
The scenery surrounding magnificent.
Wytheville's boom is attracting the
attention of tho country.
Wythc county is noted Tor it's blue
grass and fine herds and rich agricult-
ural area. 1t embodies the mountain
scenery and climate and fine mineral
waters OF Asheville, N. c., with iron
and coal vastly superior to birmingham,
In the midst Of an agricultural soil uni
upon tho Norfolk and Western railroad.
half way between Roanoke and Bristol,
tho former Of which is situated upon
the eastern border and the latter the
western border of tho great upland
mineral basin known as Southwest Vir-
ginla. The proposed Virginia and Ken
lucky railroad, on which work will be-
gin soon, crosses the Norfolk and West.
ern ut this point. The Parxcrsburr.
Little kanawha and Virginia railway
has also decided to build the proposed
connecting link between the Black Dia-
mond system and the Cape Fear and
iadkin Valley via Wythcville, making
Wytheville competing railway centre.
AiiSSS illeS VIII DrlllT Inc GOSSan ores
of Carroll, the mountain ores of Bland
and the limonitc ores of Cripple Creek
and New River and tho coal fields of
Wythc, Bland and tho Flat TOP to-
gethcr at Wytheville, making it tho
great iron and trade centre of Southwest
Virginia.
Now factories and industries are be-
ing located every week, among Which
are two hotels costing 100000 each,
Steel Range and Stove Factory Sl25. 900.
whilo applications for sites arc con-
stantiy Coming in. Tho Wythcville
Manufacturing Company, organized with
dozen hands u few months ago. cn:car-
ing i'll the building business, has in
creased its force to a. hands. with
twelve months work ahead cnrayed
and Will now increase their force to $50
hands. Streets are being graded every
where, rail sidings for factories, while
every movement goes to Indicate that
the place will be the growing industrial
town of 1891. The Wythcviilc Dcvclop-
ment Company, the pioneer mover in
the good work. owing IT'S acres of land,
hau Its first sale OF lots from its choice
property, beginning September 3Oth,
when all the lots offered were soon
taken up, and to meet n growing demand
Tor purchasers 300 more lots will be Of
fcrcd December 18th and 18th. intrin-
sicily considered rs valuable perhaps as
that of any company being offered in
Virginia. yet ut prices extremely reason
able, which it is earnestly hoped viii
encourage actual settlers rather than
lot speculation.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

Conviction, were it never so excel.
lent, is worthless till it convert itself
into conduct.-Carlyle.
If you undertake to hiro people to
be good, they will quit as soon as the
pay stops.-Ram's Horn.
lie that labors may be tempted by
one devil; but he that is idle is tempted
by thousand.-Italian Provcrb.
1t is all in the point of view. If 4
mule could bo interviewed, no doubt hc
would declare tho teamstcr decidedly
obstinate.
Autumn Banter-"You want to como
off," said tho wind to the maple leaf
"All right; I'm just getting ready" an
swercd the leaf.
Our eyes are not l1ocn in all dircc-
lions alike; but every ono of us is sharp
eyed-for his ncighbor's faults.-Sun-
daySchool limos.
Tho stomach does not improve on
acquaintance. When man finds that
he has ono it is most troublesome COM
panion. boston Transcript
What is meant by our neighbor we
can not doubt; 1t is every ono with
whom we arc brought into contact, no
or she, whatsoever 1t be. whom VIC
have any means OF hclping.-Dean STAN
Icy.
do you expect, my brethren" said
the preacher, ito gathor figs off
thistlcs?' NO" said ono of his hear
crs. But / havo raised some mighty
fine pickles in my orange grovc."-Har-
pcr's Bazaar.
1t is said that an honest hacl,man
has been discovered in New York Next
thing we know somebody will run down
an incorruptiblc politician, or marry q
woman who doesn't talk about her neigh-
bors. RAMS Horn.
Mover did any soul do good, but it
came reader to do tho Same again with
moro enjoyment Never was love, or
gratitude, or bounty practiccd but with
increasing JOY which mado tho practicer
still more in love with the fair act
Shaftosbury.
-Grocer-"Don't buy any moro bar
rolls OF apples from that farmor."
Clcrk-"Very we'll, sir. Why? Doesn't
he put tho largo apples on top and tho
little ones at tho bottom?" Grocer
"Yes; but he forgets to indicate which
is tho top, and that's thrco times I've
opened tho bottoms Of barrels to show
customers America.
Clork-"Any thing else. madam. can
show you some great bargains in ham,
mocks, put down to half pricc on account
of tho lateness of tho season. They arc
fno goods, double strength, and will
como handy next summer, you know"
Inexperienced Matron-"Oh. tho ordin.
airy kind will do for my daughter nox
summer. She's to DO married Christ
mas."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
WINDOW DRESSING.
Mon Who HIVE Mastered tho Ar. Get
Comfortable Salaries.


Window dressing" is getting TO be,
in Chicago, one of tho most important
departments of tho big downtown
stores 1t is n trado in itself, and if
properly studied by men Of taste. can DO
made almost an art. Nearly cvory big
retail dry goods store in tho city ON
3loys one man, and sometimes two men,
to display in tho front windows some
thing of the beauties that may be found
inside. The smaller stores, of course,
can not afford tho luxury Of q window
dresser all to themselves, SO three or
four of them pull together, and manage
to scrapc up between them tho salary of
such an artist. Tho men who make
window decoration their business, and
arc employed by the great retail houses,
most always command largo salaries.
They are usually men of taste, who first
did tho work for smaller stores, studied
tho requirements carefully and then
branched out as professionals. There
are many things to DO considered in
making window look attractive. Tho
first thing, of course, is to catch the eve
of the women who happen to be out
shopping with their pockct-books full
Va hlOicy. y uO llllS INC C0IOrS must
DO arranged both strileingly and hurmo-
niously and the goods drapcd around n
attractive shapes Ability to do this
requires taste and long practice.
Another thing necessary Is to leep
goods out Of the sun and to uso rs few
goods as possible, for the dirt and dust
frequently ruin an entire display.
Nearly all of the stores in the rotail
district have their windows fixed in a
most artistic manner. Tho furniture
houses generally have attractive win
dows and thoy have the material to mako
them 30. In Boston and New York
window dressing has long boon recog-
nized as ono OF the departments, and
some very beautiful displays arc made.
Most of tho mon who engage in tho work
ere Americans and it is ono branch Of
puttering in which America has excelled
the cities of Europe. Atasteful window
dresser is truly valuable person about
retail store, for II ho knows his bus
mess he can make things look so attrac-
tive and pretty that people buy whether
they want to or not-Chicago Herald.
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Tho Popularity of the Ron.

Tho boa, favoritc article of apparel,
Is more than ever in vogue this year.
Not only Is it worn as a finish to fur
trimmed costumes. but as wrap for tho
neck at tho opera, whore it is kept on
during the whole evening by many fash
ionable women who prefer tho bccom-
ing to tho conventional. OF course it
la only boas of the hnndsomost descrip-
ton that can be 80 troated-soft fluffy
ostrich-feathers, marabout. Russian lib
linette and Russian sable, delicate to
tho touch and somber OF color, the lattor
presenting striking contrast to tho
sheen Of silk or brocade, tho delicacy of
lace, or tho creamy tint of pair Of
snowy shoulders and tho contour OF a
beautifully arched white throat. Puro
white ostrich boas arc picturesque ad-
dition, but they are not always becom-
ding. IN. Y. Evening Post
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
DRuDeERY AND SYSTEM.
Tbe .Knack OF Doing Work Rapidly eed
With tho Lenst Strain.


There arc great many women who
Gro Industrious and who riso virtuously
with tho cock, and yet who manage to
accomplish very little in tho world orin
their households, whilo others rise later
and generally seem TO taito things easy;
yot i'll tho ond arc found many furlongs
ahead of thoir hard working sisters.
Tho persons who accomplish tho most
In this world arc not tho drudges, but
thoso who have such command over
their powers that they can concentrate
themselves upon thoir work. Such
persons accomplish by perfect syston. in
low moments what an questionable
person would labor ovcr for hours. 1t
Is the first duty of overy woman to learn
TO do her work in tho best and most
rapid manner with tho loast strain on
her own strength In order to do this
women must DO liberal enough to adopt
new methods, when Those methods nro
manifostly superior to their own. This
does not moan adopting maleeshifts, for
nothing Is SO laborious in tho end as
such work. Tho worker who Is wise
economist not only of her money, but
also of her strength. who docs not fritz
tCE away HcE III USClCSS ways,
Is usually successful. For somo reason
wnilo the spordthrlft of money receives
very littlo compassion, tho individual
who wastes time and strength in hard
continuous labor that profits him very
little receives sympathy when ho should
DO condemned. Tho man who spends
his money foolishly at least gains
somo passing pleasure, tho other
by misdirccted though wcll-moan-
ing efforts has managed to work
very hard aud gain nothing prac-
tically. Tho problem which presents
itself to all who must earn their living
is to find some thing they can do which
Is in demand; that will fill q certain
need. No person can do this for anoth-
or; each person must exert himself or
herself to find out what he or she can do
best Individual effort acco2cplishcs
wonders. Ono woman may succeed rs
market gardener whore another would
fail. but might find preserving, canning
of fruits or baking to her taste and profit.
There is scarcely n farmhouse in tho
length and breadth of tho land where
there could not be raised produce that
could be sold with profit at tho nearest
market, if only the farmer would DO
wise enough to find out what is needed
and deliver his goods as Systematically
as the butcher and grocer does in cities.
1t is the go-easy way of delivering goods.
when it was most convenient and tho
frequent failure (?) of crops, that has
driven the great hotels of Saratoga and
cities as far west as Rochester, in this
State, to tho Now York markets, whore
they arc sure of being served in per-
!ectly systematic manner. There is
abundance of people who arc willing to
drudge with unrcmitting patience. But
there is no demand for drudgcry, while
there is demand for rapid Intelligent
workers everywhere, especially those
who can adapt their work to the contin-
ual changing condition of things.-N.Y.
Tribune.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
GOWNS FOR THE HOUSE.
New Designs FOR Dainty and Picturesque
TulIcts for Indoor Efncts


Now Designs for Dainty and Picturesque
Toilets for Indoor Effects.
II such u thing can be. robcs d'interi-
eur, which, by tho way. must not DO con-
founded with robes do chambre, aro
fabrics arc moro elegant, and the garni-
lures moro costly. Any one, if not given
to wearing these elaborate gowns, will
appreciate the case and comfort OF o
matinee or tea jacket.
Tho Louis NJ. form permits Of as OK
tensivo elaboration rs one may desire,
and IL q simpler design is Preferred n
graceful ono is mado of mauvo bengal-
inc, trimmed with rufllos and insertions
of embroidered chiffon. Tho ribbons
which ornament tho sleeves and girdlo
tho waist arc of n doopcr shade Of
mauve. There arc some beautiful bon
galincs in market, figured with solf-
colorcd polka dots, and in all delicato
shades, that cost Sl.25 yard, which
would mako exquisite tea Jackets and
gowns rs we'll.
Pointed bands, corsolots, fancy jack
cts with waistcoats, and blouse bodiccs
arc all fashionable styles likoly to re-
main in vogue throughout tho wintor.
Tho newest corsclcts of passementorie
or velvet arc made in Swiss bolt fashion,
with slight points below tho waist and
much longer and sharper points rising
on the chest in front and between the
shoulders OF tho back. Yokes and
sleeves of passomontcrio arc elegant
and coStly-too much so for the average
purse.
Hero is little secret impaired for tho
benefit of those who desire tho G Effective
ness of transparent black ovor colored
gown. Cut tho yoke or corselet and
sleeves from brussels net and cover
them with pattern OF vermicelli braid
ing done with fine silk cord or narrow
braid. Small disks of vclvet, cut out
with sharp punch, may be gummcd on
hero and thore throughout tho pattern,
which adds decided richness to tho ef-
feet Tho outer edges may be bordered
with 4 narrow Escurial lace, and tho re-
suit will be quito rs satisfactory rs
though ono paid S25 or $50 for the trim
ming ready made.
This is another new shape in millin-
cry and what our English cousins term
as smart looking. tits lined with fawn
velvet and covered on tho low steeplc-
crown with myrtlc-grccn velvet. Tho
front is ornamented with bow OF groom
velvet fastened with gold buckle
Green ostrich feathcr-tips arc prcttily
clustered toge thor at tho back. Tho de-
sign may be cfoctuallv carried out in
all tho newest combinations of colors.
10 return to costume garnitures, tho
vogue for fringcs is certainly on the in
crease and no moro suitable trim
ming could be found to rcliovo tho
excessively straight limos of the fash
ionablo clinging skirts. Some of the
newly imported gowns of faced cloth
have tho skirts bordcred with passe-
mcntcrio, from which depends twisted
silk fringe three inches deep. A cloth
costume from Worth in pigeon gray has
side panels and deep basque, all the
edges of which are cut in doep scallops
and bordcrcd with n ''Tom Thumb"
fringe of sowing-sill1 which exactly
matches the cloth.-Chicago Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

Some men grow wise by learning
what they don't know, and somo by for
getting what thoy do know.
1t is remarkable how easy it is to
restrain your wrath. when the other fell
low is ever so much bigger than YOU
Texas Siftings.
In the pursuit of knowledge man
never gets on the right track until he
finds out that he doesn't know enough to
brag about it.-Ram's Horn
-Ethel-Thcre is Jack sitting on tho
other side of the boat. Doesn't he lool,
tired? Maud-Yes Have you been
talking to him to-day?-Figaro.
Teach your boys how to earn money,
and, to make the reform in the next
generation complete. teach your girls
how not to spond it-Atchison Globe.
John. run quick and send the
nlarm, tho house is on fire."
mot SO fast, my dear, not SO fast.
We havc plenty of fire insurance, but
none against muddy shoes and water. -
Harper's Bazaar.
1t often happens that those are the
best people whose characters have boon
the most injured by slandcrers, as we
usually find that to be tho sweetest
fruit which the birds have been packing
nt.-Pope.
"A Now Kind Of Celebration. In Chi
cago.-"There seems to DO something
unusual going on this evening in the
house across the way" "Yos; Miss
Lakefront is celebrating the fiftieth an
niyersary OF her divorco."-Judgc.
One Matron-No; do not allow nv
husband to address mo by my Christian
name. Another Matron-I shouldn't
mind that at all. 1t is tho unchristian
names he breaks out with every once in
. while that object o.-Indianapolis
journal.
-Reasonablc--"You begging stillp I
thought you had some money left you,
so that you could live very comforta-
bly," $50 did, but you would not want
me on that account to fool away nv
time doing nothing. would youY'-Flio.
gende Batter.
My experience of lifo makes mo
cure OF one truth, which do not try to
explain; that the sweetest happiness we
ever know, the very wine of human life,
comes not from love, but from sacrifice
from the effort to make others happy.
This is as true to me as that my flesh
will burn If touch red-hot motal.-
John Boyle O'Reiily.
Young man, you must tako more
pains with your writing" Tho youth
looked up and replied: "'Tain't nv
fault; it's the PEN" "Then get a new
PEN" replied the teacher sharply.
-.That won't do any good" tho boy made
answer, "for the electricity in the street
cars throws all the temper out Of the
PEN" at would be good thing If 1t
had similar effect on the children"
said the teacher soto ooee Albany
sJorr2aL
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
THE SERVING OF NUTS.
Few Iousckeepers Know How to Do 1t
In II Proper Way.

Few Housckeepers Know How to Do It
In II Proper Why.
Tho serving of nuts on the table is
generally limited to the varieties of i'm
ported nuts sold ut the groccr-shops,
which arc often too old to be good A
papcr-shcll almond worry soon loses its
flavor and becomes dry, though it is the
most expensive of table nuts. OF lato
years the practice OF sailing nuts for tho
table has boon SO much in vogue that o
dish of nuts in thor shells is not rs Oft
en- seen rs onco. Our American hazel
nuts arc the same variety as tho English
filberts. though the flbert is cultivated,
and is much longer and larger than an
ordinary hazelnut. 1t certainly is ono
OF tho most delicious of table nuts, and
exceedingly picturesque served in tho
husks rs 1T usually is on English tables.
Our hazelnuts arc bottcr. however, than
any imported nuts OF this kind, because
they can DO obtained sound and fresh.
They will keep longer dried in the husls
in tho clusters as thcy grow The only
trees of the truo walnut species in this
country are the black walnut and the
butter nut. The hickory nut is an
allied tree. but Is not genuine wall
nut. Our hickory nuts are always
better than stale walnuts, and would
probably be still better if tho same care
was taken to cultivate Thorn as Is takon
to cultivate walnut trees in England
and elsewhere. The true walnut troo
dates back to old Greece. and has prob
ably boon in cultivation since then. A
salted walnut prepared in the Same way
as salted almond is very excellent,
and hickorynut may DO prepared sue
ccssfully in the samo way, and is much
more wholesome than whom eaten raw
To salt nuts mix up cupful of them,
blanchcd whore it is possible. with a
tablespoonful Of olive oil, and lay them
on pan, stirring a toaspoonful of salt
with thom, and brown thom till they
arc crisp in q well-heated oven. Our
hickorynuts arc genuine Americans,
being found only in this country. They
arc an evon moro delicious nut in flavor
than tho true walnut and moro dosir-
able wcro they not so small and the
shell 80 troublesome to pick. In almost
oil receipts in which walnuts are used
the hickorynut can be substituted. Tho
chestnut of French cookery. from which
meal is made to thicken soups, is q
cultivated tree allied to our own wild
chestnut. The European nut is about
double or three times the size of the
American chestnut, but not as sweet OF
fine in flavor, though better for tho cul.
mary purposes for which it is used In
Franco and elsewhere. These large
ohestnuts arc imported yearly to our
market in thoir season for French cooks
and othors who use them.-N. Y. Tri.
buno,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21

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THE TIMES IS the leading paper of the
mineral belt of the Two Virginins. ffvou
want to keep posted on tie development
wit out It. w w
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aELlelous AND EDUCATIONAL

4
The issues OF tho Bible House in
September We're 77,o93 volumes; issues
since April /, All 1858 volumes.
sleep is Deaths younger brother,
and 30 like him, that never dare trust
him without my prayers.-Sir L. Brown.
The Womun's Foreign Missionary
Society OF tho Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, organized less than
twelye years ago. has since thon collect
ed and disbursed S500,0O and now holds
property in tho different fields of its OPP
creations valued Mt S1S0,2Oo.
Mankindl 1t is great thing when
1hey aim to be divine, but it is sad
sight whom thoy are satisfied with being
men only; that is 10 ay, in being all
that is beyond expression-poor, wretch
cd, intriguing and false-which is most
painful to look at. Yet unfortunately
so common.-Landriot
by the will of Robert Marshall, the
Board of Home Missions of tho Prosby-
terrain Church in America, the Board Of
Foreign Missions, tho Presbyterian
Board for the Roliof of Disabled Minis
tiers and the Widows and Orphans of De-
ceased Ministers, and the Presbyterian
Tho University of Helsingfors, Finn
land, recently celebrated its two hun
dred and fftieth anniversary. 1t was
originally established in Abo, and when
that city was entirely destroyed by fire
in 1927, tho school was removed to IIels-
1ngfors, under tho namo of Emperor
Alexander University" Tho original
university was opened in July, 1910. by
the Swedish Governor of FINLAND.
Tho faculty of Yale has been in
creased by an importation from illinois,
Edward Is. Clapp, formerly professor of
Greek in Illinois College, has assumed
the assistant professorship Of Crock in
Yalc. Prof Clapp was graduated in
1875, taking tho valedictory, and for
Some years aftcrward studied in tho dr.
ferent departments OF tho university.
he was granted the degree of Phi. D. in
1SsG.
Rockford Seminary, whose collogi-
ato rank is recognized by all familiar
with its curriculum, opened this fall un-
der most favorable conditions. Tho
school is full to ovorfowing and the now
pupils have entered higher than over
before, most encouraging condition.
Tho Adams fund which already amounts
to $4,000 will afford tho means to libcr-
ally increase tho equipment for teach
ing science.
-Epworth Qowa) seminary reports
the erection of handsome 1000 homo
for Pres. Lewis, on tho campus, and q
proposed 81, 500 Taylor home" to BIO
used as dormitory and boarding hall
for students preparing for missionary
work, who shall have usc of it rent free.
The school will arrange course of
study looking to this special work Tho
roster shows $50 students in attendance.
and growing enthusiasm and apprecia-
ton for his fine institution.
There is no such thing as univcrs-
nj dignity of labor" No man is above
doing any kind OF work, and should aim
ut rendering the highest services. Our
Lord took the servants place, and, grid
ed with towel, washed His disciples
feet. But he was the Lord still. When
ono can bring manhood and power
capable of the very highest tasks into
tho performance of tho lowest he can
dignity the lowest. The dignity of
labor" is in tho man, not in the labor
The Waterman.
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Tho base of colluloid is common pa
per; by action of sulphuric and nitric
acids it is changed to gun cotton, thon
dried, ground, and mixed with from
twerty to forty por cont of camphor, af-
ter which it is ground fine, colorcd with
powder colors, cast in sheets, pressed
very hard, and at last baked between
sc IS Of supcrheatcd rollers
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Read THE TIMES every morning to
keep posted. Ey mail or carrier, so cents
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ROANOKE STREET RAILWAY.

On and after Sunday. Novembc. 30,
1870 the Salem extension Of the Roa-
nokc Street hallway will be open for
passenger traffic.
Until further notice regular trips will
he made from Roanoke Corner Shenan-
doah avenue and Commerce street, to
Salem Corner Fourth street and Roa
nokc Boulevard) by the following SEIZED
u1n. "