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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
pITH AND POINT.

Tho difference between a chof and
cook is that ono is paid salary and
the other has to sue for her wagea-
Elmira Gazette.
links (who has Just written q nov
eD-"At las am in tho eve OF tho pub
lie" Sncerw"ll-'Ah! So tho public
has spcck in it's eye, has it?"-IIar.
por's Bazar.
euro for Fricndship-"IIow is it
mat Dum'"y AMI Mumlcy. who used TO
DC such close friends, are now emo
mics?' They started to room toge tn
r"-Lawrcmce Advert ser.
-llurly-"My wife has very strong
will" Bnrly -"ilas?" Hurly-"Yes.
she and quarrclcd once. and sho said
She wouldn't speak to mo for a whole
day; and. by dove, sue kept hor word"
Yankee Blade
Shall married women tcach?" is
asked from Cincinnati. Why not? But
instruct on after u. H., when their
pupils are weary. should no prohibited
under tho dirost cnaltics.-Spoka
Spokesman.
When man tries hard to Impress
yon with the knowledge tina. he is
we'll connected, it may DO taken for
granted that no feels tho overly of his
own worth. and banks mainly with bor-
rowcd capii:l.--ltam's Horn
aiSkili l:"a,d ng-hou @ Mistress
GLOW Go you like that water Mr.
Fosk?" Mr.. Nor!t-.'lt has milky
taSt" to me-" Hoard ng-hou,c Mistress;
-"t.xcuSe mo. Mr.. York. that Is the
milk Won ~" tasting. Try the glass TO
tue LETT y onilevs Statesman
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
EOFFEE IN COSTA RIGA.
Tho Principal Product OF the Little
Central American Republic.
zzcw tfe berry IL Planted. Cared for and
Aarvcsted--A T\vlE OF Ripe Borrics
Harvest /" HnutIs t" Who Arc
Simply Charming.
foun.rai American Special CorrosDondcnco.l

fU5ntrnl American Special CorresDondcnco.l
IN 1861 Costa RIGA exported over lOO,-
900 sacks of coffee, and she has Increased
her production each succeeding year
since until to-day tho whole central
plateau from Cartago to hlajuela is COW
erod over by magnificent A0cimdds.
the beautiful chcrry-rcd berries now
FNovember) just commencing TO attract
tho eye as they turn darker and shine
out from beneath their grcon lcar-covor-
ing.
1t Is only ut the end of tho fourth year
xhnt the coffee tree has reached height
OF about six feet and is in full produc-
'Sion. Tho planting is done in nursery.
and when the trees arc year old they
arc transplanted to tho place thoy arc
teo permanently occupy. Tho young
trees are usually arranged in long rows.
In addition to tho plantain and ban
lana, the coffee plantations frequently
anofoso usually along tho principal in
&arsccting paths, or rising ont OF tho
midst of tho coffee itself.) larger trees.
such as tho aguaease, orange, flS, anona
and swectlimo, giving tho plateau,
rUbcn ono looks at it. coming over tho
mountain crest from GARLIC, the aspect
Tho coffee harvest on the Central
plateau begins in December, just when
tho rainy season has Cndoi. and lasts
usually until ahoutthc middlo Of March.
but sornn Seasons tho riponing of por-
Zion OF tho crop renders ii second gather
ing necessary. The s6pcn and children
Yof the comfnon agricultural daylaboror
hre intrusted with this work, aud ara
paid tt's real tabout eight cents) for each
brohel basl;at of berries thoy pick. Tho
work must DO quite wcarisomc, as they
AFRO rcqrircd, not only TO gather tho
beautiful bgOwn-rcd fruit from the tree,
bnt To get down on their hands and
Knees and seek amongst tho leaves and
dirt for whatever half-vipc berries that
may have fallen. And yet, a good
Evorkor can I'll Ler basket eight to tcp
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

times in day when once accustomed to
abe work. Indeed, it is astonishing to
500 the amount OF coffee ono Of these
darh-eyed bcautios-Costa RIGA women
arc all protty-caD gather within ten
hours.
During harvest timo every one about
the h0eicR10, from tho mundrdor lover
seer down to hunblcst omployc, seems
to fully realize that time is to them
doubly precious. Tho berries must be
taken from the tree quickly, before tho
new buds containing Tho next seasons
bloom) begin to appear. Thcn. tho dry
ing and preparation for market must be
through with before tho wot season re-
turns again in April or May. So there
10 no timo for play.
Tho production naturally varies ac-
cordlng to the sou CT tho plantation.
However, ono may safely estimate that
\ coffco trco vii! produce, under favor
able circumstances, , pound ard q half
OF mcrcbantablo coffee each year after
1T commences TO bear, ana an acre
should yield say seven hundred to q
thousand pounds. ii tho ground he good
and tho trees well cared for. This is G.
lair average, though in some OF tho
1icber hac,GadGs | havo known the pro-
duction in exceptionally good seasons to
reach twenty-five hundred pounds OF
finest sack coffee to the acre Tho pro-
duction, though, is OF course always sub
ject to the chances Of harvest. and il is
seldom that two good years come sue
ocssiveiy. And yet figures for recent
years arc, taken as ii whole, saisfac-
tory.
Tho establishments known as bc5ac-
FcidS, where thc coffee goes after the
harvesting to DO "bcnclited" or pre-
pared for market, usually comprise q
series Of buildings specially designed
for the peculiar and interest: ny
processes through which tho grain has
TO pass in order TO become salablc
These arc tho grinding and formcnt.-
t1on, tho drying, the cracking, the pol
fishing, the sorting and the sacling. 1t
Is calculated that there arc about two
hundred and sevcnty-fvc OF these cstab-
9ishnents in the Rcpublic-thc majority
OF shem centcrcd around the larger
towns OF tho central plateau, in tho
provinces Of San Jose, Cartago, Alaiuela
and Ilcrcdin.
Some years back all this labor was
she work Of oxen and men, but tho in
production of improved machinery is
working wonderful changes in tho coun-
try. Now. even The small producer. who
hasn't the means yet to put in ma
shincry, sends his coffee in berry to his
neighhor who owns beneficial, by
svhom (for a small remuneration it is
treated and returned lator on to its
owner sacked and ready for shipment.
Tho machinery used is generally
worked by water-power, either with
Surbincs or big water wheels. Each
years tho stock of labor-saving implc-
nents is being increased and moro i'm
proved machinery bought and every CT
Fort iEado To release Tho native laborcr
and leave him FREQ to enter into othor
and moro remnncrativo work. as tho
country develops into a fold for diverse
occupations.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
LlMPY HAD THE CALL.
y Young Wretch NIae.@ with Punisamrne
That i'!t:cd til" Crimr.

= Young Wretch NIac.1 with Punis.,mrns
That i'.t:ed til. Crime
man with market basket on his
arm was slowly toiling up tho incline OF
tho Brooklyn bridge tho other day,
when his attention was attracted to D
boy on tho roof OF Il building about two
hundred feet away. AS soon as the man
stopped tho hoy began initiating his
walk, which was rendered ungraceful
by u lame leg OWN. TO tho confusion
il was impossible to hear what each said,
but the man with tho basket seen ed to
exclam:
III only had my hands on you I'll
mako you sing 4 different tune in about
minutc!"
And the hoy seemed to reply:
Come. now. old chap, but don't get
husky over a bit Ct fun"
The man on the bridge was taken
with a sudden fit of coughing Tho
boy followed suit. Tho mar shook his
fist in tho direction Of the roof. Tho
boy shook his in the direction OF tho
bridge. Then tho man seemed To DO
saying:
"Ah! yon yourG wretch. you arc tread
ing Tho path TO tho gallows,'
Tho boy gcsturod with hia RICH, hand
in Imitation, and seemed to reply:
III was as crusty rs you arc I'd havo
boon hung long ago"
Then ho put his thumb on his noso
and tvirlcd his fingers in 4 spirited
manner, and it looked as if no would
come out n winner. Indeed, the man
had started on when no suddenly stop
ped, sat down his basket, and after feel
ing for half minute, no brought out a
hons org twas large, lod-loolling
J specimen Of m what American hen can
do, and tho man spit on tho palm OF MS
; right hand. Tho boy Initiated him.
| Then tho man drew back his right arm.
| Tho hoy also imitato+ that vancouver.
F., With Il raise on his toos and a sup
pressed "ha!' tho man let tly and three
or four seconds later tho ogg struck tho
boy on that part of the anatomy vulgar-
| ly rofrrrcl TO rs tho bread ba ltct."
/ lie doubled up and thon went 70 grass
and az tho man lifted his basket and
! lassed on nobody nor nothing had any
! moro remarks to make. N. Y. Sun.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

IIcI understand that George and
Arabclla have determined to separate
Sho-Ycs, ana SO shonld / if wcrc
in her placo--hc deceived her shame
fully.
nc-Why, don't SEQ any reason for
blaming him. He discovered her riding
in the park with another man.
Sho-Thacs it! Tho dcccitful wrctch
tcld her he was going West, ami he
didn't go ut l.-rhc Jury.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

Miss Middlcaislo Your new rector is
lovely What = pleasant young man
hu is and such an earnest WORKER. too.
Miss Alico-0h, ycs--but hos very
bad form, though.
Miss misunderstanding do you say
that? i think his manners are perfect
Miss Alice Well, anyhow To will
talk nothing but S'tcp Whenever no calls
LILO,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
Buchanan. :
- - - - - - sn6
NO PLACE in tho South offers
superior advantages to those
seeking Manufacturing Sites

than buchanan 1t has all the conditions
Chcap and excellent
anu
rolling mills shop will
find this the hes" location
Tho facilities hipmcn of products
1t
Ohio and Virginia Western
within
to the magnificent deposits limestone
for the Roanoke mined
brick and q ideal manufae
level OF tho
roads,
e
Not only selected
parties locating manufacturing
TRA LAND COMPANY OF
establishments
New Engan! skill
New England
@'' . :" :::: a.. a. .-..:. Virginia.
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

"A Russian Captain has been sent on
mission through the country to collect
opinions from Generals, divincs, wand.
ems OF prisons, etc. on great variety
Of subjects. 1t is thought that this pho
Dographic collection is intended for tho
Emperor.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31

The Chinese government is erecting immense
brick works near Hong Kong, the purpose be-
ing to substitute brick for wood in their cities.
AT present wood is the principal material, and
in consequence very disastrous confagfations
are constantly occurring.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31

1912 and 1244 Ii st ne, new, rs,
modern improvements. s..o......,........ $1,000
7l9 9th st 5000
6le 18th st ne, rs and bath............... 2,8OC
525 to 531 18th st ne, new Or frames,
modern ements........,........ 1900
2S acres on the Severn River, II miles
from railroad station, a nice Groom
house, orchard, outbuildings, and, In
short, lovely home. Price .n,...... 5000
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
Discussion VIII Kill IL.

The Mississippi democratic commit
tee has arranged for a thorough public
discussion OF the alliance sub-treasur,
bill in the various counties of the state
The Mississippi alliance is divided in
regard to the sub-treasury scheme
For time the scheme was popular in
Mississippi, but the opposition of Sena-
tor George and Senator WalthaII and
other democratic leaders who have not
forgotten their democracy or been
frightened out OF it by the alliance
Greatness, has put heart into the friends
OF common sense, ana the great crank
idea seems to be on the wane.
a public discussion such as the state
committee proposes will expose the alb
surdity and the impossibility OF the
sub-treasury plan. That plan is a gilt
tering appeal to the farmers, and es-
pecially the southern farmers; and as
long as thev know it only in its general
features and have not examined into its
probable effects, it may pass muster
among them; but when an ANALYSIS of
OF its workings is made by a competent
hand, such an analysis as has been
made by Senator Carlisle, for instance.
the weakness OF the plan is made evil
dent. Discussion is fatal to it, for it is
mere moonshine.
Even in North Carolina and Georgias
where some Of the democratic politician.
have been standing upon their heads at
the command OF the alliance, the value
OF the subtreasury plan is doubted by
maly alliance men. A full discussion
before the people will be sufficient to
smash it everywhere. Democratic poll
ticians and newspapers in the south,
with many honorable exceptions, yield
ed too weakly to the first onset OF the
alliance forces. There has been a rally
and now they are making the resistance
that should have been made at first.
There can be no doubt OF the result.
There are southern states where the al
lance seems to have swallowed the
democracy: but the old principles and
habits OF the democratic party begin to
reassert themselves: and such prepos-
ferrous proposition as the slb-treasury
plan Is sure to be thrown out. The ex.
ecutive committee of the Mississippi
democrats has taken the best means OF
insuring the rejection of the plan by
Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
A Decided Rally.

The man who has his eyes in front
knows thas the bedrock of hard times
has been reached and that things are
on the up grade. The man who sat
down on Governor Click the other day
started new boom when he said calam-
ity speeches were out OF order.
Here in Kansas City we allowed boom
ers to run things. We annexed all the
corn6elds around us and started an
auction or the unoccupied acres. Our
everything was inflated. We have been
doing-what? Settling these unpaid
margins by foreclosures OF deeds OF
trust. AS soon as arrangement Of legal
title is concluded. we are on solid foot
ing, and collaterals once more avail
able.
We have too, now, within our own
reach and control. the life blood OF
manufacturing industry-cheap water.
Then again, we have bright crop and
fruit prOspect-plenty eating as well as
cheap drinking. The farmer is going
o get good price for his products and
the worker will feel the benefit in the
wages he receives. Then ell other bus
mess will revive and the city swing
back to her normal business.
People who remember the vast body
of paid labor that was here in the boom
days, when we built all our cable roads.
paved our streets, dug our sewers and
built houses, know that when these
things were finished the men who did
the work had to find work elsewhere.
Now, if we can get skilled Ia
Dor here to the number Of IN
skilled we had then, the money paid
them will make all kinds OF business
baker, butcher, grocer dry goods man,
boots, shoes, furniture-even legiti.
mate real estate dealing-permanent-
because the population is permanent.
And these are beginning to look this
way. There are three million people
whose nearest and most available mar
ket is right here at the mouth Of the
Kaw. If we have sense. nerve and sand,
we can discount that fact and make
money. But it is not to be by either
speculation in corn fields, government
building sites, city politics or croaking
but by common sense enterprise. =
Kansas City Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
Health of Politicians.

Some public men have an abnormal
dread Of having their health spoken
about in the papers, especially when
reference is made to loss of flesh, ema
ciated looks or any devitalizing malady
Senator Frank Hiscock, who always
has healthy look, took trip to Ha-
vana not long ago. When asked if he
was going on account Of i'll health, he
raised himself up straight as an ar
row, threw away a cigar half smoked.
and said that he wanted it distinctly
understood he was not it bad health,
and that his visit was merely for pleas
ure. Then he asked, as a clinching
argument: do l look wasted?"
William L. Scott. of Erie. Pa, who
is really in bad health, does not like to
be Intercepted on the subject, because
he thinks any one ought to see his con-
dition. General Charles E Furlong,
who walks twenty-eight miles day, is
of the opinion that blind man ought
to see that he is an athlete, and an
enemy to dyspepsia The general is
never laid up with any complaint. All
far western men are specimens of
splendid health.-New York Mail and
E'ynrpSS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
A Fact-Not a Tbaor

II there has been a state in the union
affected with the teredo in politics il Is
Missouri. If thing has been born
since the cave age. it has been attacked
oy this persistent borer. that eats out
its vitality by mere force of automatic
suction. With state full of natures
richest gifts to man, its political voice
has always been for somebody else. A
thousand miles from salt water. where
mere distance is half the battle for a
market, the time OF its so-called states
men has been devoted to fighting the
industries OF their own state in order to
lee IN at rulnous rates the competing
industries of the old world.
II any state was vociferous above an
other in opposition to the Mckinley bill
1t was Missouri, and no timing process
ever put a more impervious coating on
a sheet iron than was the free trade
covering on the face of Vest and his
confreres. Tin-plate, tin-plate. was
in all the accents of the
Bourbon gamut, till the average Mis-
souri, democrat got to running to the
stores for gourd-seed to save him from
ruin among his household goods.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
The Discouraged Golden Club.

The English Golden Club appears 10
be getting desperate. Its members see
that the prospect Of converting the
world in general and the United States
in particular to free trade for the bene-
fit Of Great Britain grows darker every
day. With heroic self denial they have
resolved to fOrego the grand annual
banquet Of the club and devote the
pounds, shillings and sixpence it would
have cost 10 do the work of forwarding
the free trade cause in America and
elsewhere. This is pretty good evil
dence that the cause aforesaid is in dire
straits. and that its sworn supporters
are conscious OF it. 1t looks. too, as if
the future supplies OF cash from Eng
land to bOulster up the fortunes OF
tariff reform and the democratic
party were destined to become smaller
by degrees and beautifully less.-Nsw
York Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
Showers of Blood.

Showers of blood from the .sy are
very rare ir this day and age nj the
world, fact which makes tEeir COM
parativeiy common occurrence 10 the
olden times only that much more ex-
traordinarv and unaccountable. In
the Annals of Remarkable Happen
ings in Rome" mention is made of four
.egn different showers of blood aud
other substances mixed between the
year Sl9 4. D. and ITO. Besides
these there we're two showers of much
intensity. of which the liquid resem-
bled pure blood and was not intermix-
ed with other matter as heretofore re-
ported" In 1922 we find record of a
shower of blood and dust over the
larger part of Italy. In 1926 snow fell
in Syria, (which presently turned into
large pools of gore" A monk who
wrote in 1851 tells of 4 three days
shower of blood all over southern ELL
rope. In the Same same year q loaf
freshly taken from the oven did bleed
like a new wound" when sliced at the
table In 194S the great chasms made
by the earthquake at Villach, Austria,
sent forth blood and a great pesti-
lence followed" Burgundy had a
buddy shower in 1861, and bedford
shire, England. witnessed the same
phenomenon in 1850. In 1856 hail
stones fell in Wurtemburg which con-
tanned hollow cavities filed with blood.
The last buddy shower on record oc-
CURED in Siam in 1902.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
More Farming.

Kansas City Gazette: We have for
the past year been reading such an
amount OF stuff from the Kansas farm
ers that we were slowly reaching the
opinion that they were the most God
forsaken, woe-begone, desolate, hungry
ond ragged mortgage-eaten lot OF paup-
ers and slaves on the face of the earth.
We had in years gone by published
marvellous stories OF the prosperity oil
Kansas farmers, and especially OF the
wonderful productive capabilities of the
Kansas prairies, and these latter day
walls 1egan to give us suspicion that
possibly We were liar. We were salts
flying our conscience from day to day
with the fact that somebody in twenty
five years, amid drouth, grasshop-
pers, rufians, and the blasted none
lender down east, had made the most
magnificent commonwealth known TO
human government, and had created
one billion dollars worth of property out
OF raw prairie, and as three-fourths Of
our people did not have dollar when
they started in that possibly it was IN
businesslike that they should owe a lit
tie on the job. The junction City Union.
through which we talked this way for
twenty-seyen years, today under other
management, insists that we were not
lying, and from week to week gives
sketches of prominent farmers in Geary
county who have had great success. II
tells this last week of John Cameron, on
Mcdowell creek, who, in twenty-three
wears, has made himself worth $50. 600.
He has ,Sl5 acres without cent OF in
cumbrance. For the first three wears
he worked by the month for farmers
when he started in for himself. He
buys more grain than he raises. and
makes his money from Kansas horses.
Kansas cattle and Kansas hogs. on Kan
sas land. In 1886 he sold from his farm
$. 900 worth of stock; in 1890 he sold |
for clean cash S., 900 worth, and he has
in sight to sell in 1891 5000 worth
When one man can do this and anothe,
cannot 1t ought to suggest that possibly
there is difference between men.
But the professional agitators.
the jawsmiths, who had been clanorino
Tor Office from time immemorial. came
upon assessor Of general depression. and
the noise they made reached the utter
most parts OF the EARTH, these loafers
eavlng the impression wide spread that
KANSAS farmers were shiftless lot of
5aloots, or that they had made a mis-
AXE in settling in a barren waste aud
mould have some help in getting out.
3ut the woods and prairies are full of
uch farmers as the Union has been
elllng us about from week to week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22
The President rs An Orator.

Those who are disposed to class ora
tory amOngt he lost arts must reconsider
that conclusion in view OF the presidents
tour. He has been travelling across the
continent TO the Pacific, and every day
he has made two clever speeches, good
natured, varied, full OF fact, and ex-
pressing his views courteously, and the
whole country reads in surprise, and a
great many worthy people say that here
is a great man who has been somehow
concealed under a visionary hat. but
who will be hencefOrth estimated at his
true value and undoubtedly renominat-
ed and reelected to the presidency by
the reclamation OF his party. II oratOry
can so radically change the general i'm
preston in regard to the president it is
certainly not lost art. On the con-
t:ary, it seems to confirm the wisdom OF
the saying that in a country of parlia-
mentary government. successful states
men must be great orators. 1t is. how
ever, true that none of the presidents
except Lincoln have been especially dis
as orators, while two OF the
greatest American orators, Webster
and Clay, sought the prize IN vain. |
President Harrison's grandfather was
preferred as a candidate to Henry Clay. |
-Harpers' Weekly.