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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
A CRAFTY INVENTOR.
The Reward lie Asked for Inveuting {
ChcsSbOlrd.

The Reward lie Asked for Inveutlng tho
ChcssbOlrd.
It's related of the inventor Of the
game of chess that, on being promised
by tho king whom he first taught tho
game that he should have any reward
no might nsl1 for, he meclxly replied
that he would be content ii the king
would give him one kernel of wheat on
the first square, two on the second, four
on the third, eight on the fourth, and
SO on, doubling mp to the siXtyfourth
square. The king gladly necodcd to
this seemingly modest request, ind
ordered his attendants to bring in the
wheat, which they began to do; but, to
the as:onishment of the monarch, it
was found that there was not wheat
enough In the whole dominion 20 paw
Off the crafty inventor. A rlothcma-
tician who claims to have bocn figuring
on this chcssboarrl curiosity says that
to fulfill the kings promise it would
take 30, or, 0o7, 1Si.4S bushels of wheat
allowing 100000 kernels to each
bushcl. This prodiG;ous amount would
cover the states of New York, Penn
sylvnnia, New Jersey and Delaware
all over with wheat to the depth of q
mile and quarter. In few words
here is the exact number of wheat
kernels the chess inventor asked for
o,G27, 26S, $50, 034, us, 1863. Figure it up
and provo or disprove il,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
The Iron Belt Building and Loan
Association
OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, SIS, 600, 600.
OFFICERS:

PREsIDENT-GEN. FITZHUGH LEE,
Ex-Governor of Virginia.
lsT VICE PRESIDENT = PEYTON L..
TERRY, President Roanoke Trust,
Loan and Safe Deposit Co.
Cd VICE PRESIDENTS. w JAMESON,
Secretary and treasurer Roanoke
Trust; Loan and Safe Deposit Co.
SECRETARY JOHN OFT. late Cashier
City Bank Of Richmond.
TREAsURER-J. c. DAVENPORT, Cash
Ter Commercial National Bank, Roa.
nokc, Va.
GENERAL CoUNsEI.--Ho C. A. Nc
HUGH, Counsellor Law, late OF
Charleston, S. C.
GENERAL MANAGER OF AGENc1Es-D
Is. JESSE, late of Lexington, Ky.
GENERAL TRUsTEE-HoN. HENRY S.
TROUT, President First National
Bank, Roanoke, Va.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY - Roanoke
Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Company.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
Big Drift or Zig sto.T.

Some pretty big storics," remarks
the kenncbcc (Mc.) Herald, "nre told of
the snow drifts i'll Aroostook county,
Me-. but the biggest comes from com
mercial traveller. lie had recently come
from there and snid some men were
chopping wood A large tree fell tho
wrong way and stretched It's giant
trunk directly across the road The
snow on either side of the road was SO
high that. after clearing away the limbs,
1t was found that it would not Interfere
with travel i'll the least, as horse and
sleigh could easily pass under It, Tho
narrator himself had done sou
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
Happy HOLSTERS.

VIM. Timmons, Postmaster of Ida
vile, Ind, writes: Electric Bittcrs
has done more for me than all other
medicines combined, for that bad feel
ing arising from Kidney and Liver
trouble" John Leslie. farmer and
stocAman, of same place, says: Find
Electric Bittcrs to be the best Kidney
and Liver medicine, made me feel like
a new man" j. w. Gardner, hardware
merchant, Same town, says: Electric
Bittcrs is just the thing for man who
is all run down and don't care whether
he lives or dies; he found new strength,
good appetite and felt just like he had a
new lease on life" Only soc. 4 bottle,
at Budwcll, Christian Il Barbcc's drug
store. tn, TIL, Sa
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
ONE OF NATURES WONDERS.
a LnlSo In ireland Whose Waters Ifny,c
tho Power OF Petrifyfnn

n Lako In ireland Whose Waters Ifavo
tho Power OF Petrifyfng.
a writer In Donahuc's Magazine tells
OF q strange lake in Ireland whose
wnters have the power of pctrifying any
substance TINT may be put into it. Of
course 1T Is understood that pctrifaction
Is not the actual turning of n substance
into stone, but that the material of
stone dissolved in water Is deposited In
its cells where it hnrdcns. A stone Is
madc upon tho model of the substance
pctrified rs u casting is made by filing
mold
An English firm. wcll-lnown cut,
lery house, heard of this lake and mt
once sent n man to examine It. He Sc
lected several pieces of hard wood. and
having tied weights to them plunged
them into tho lako and marked their
LOCATION by small buoys-
In two weeks no returned and took
up two pieces, which no found to he
pnrtly petrifed. Two weeks aftcrward
the rest were taken up and each piece
Of hard wood was as hard as flint, petri-
fed through.
Then the firm made experiments with
the wood in the different stages of pctri-
faction and discovered TINT unusually cx-
cellent razor homes could be manufact-
urcd from it. These homes nrc now n
famous product of the firm, but the
ra1orsharpening world little knows
that the stone is, so to speak, wood,
Petrified In n few weeks IN the largest
of the Irish lakes.
In several ancient histories there is
reference made to the hard woody
stone" which was taken from the bot
tom Of Tough Neigh for spear and
arrow-heads by the carly Irish. So that
although IrishIncn to-day are unaware
OF the useful popularity of their big
Tough" those of ten and fifteen centuries
ago knew it well and utilized it. In the
museum of Trinity college, Dublin. can
be seen several of these spear md ur-
row-hcads made centuries ago.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
4 Peculiar Way.

An old New Yorker, living not far
from Grnmcrcy park, has his own way
OF becoming acquainted with tho life
In distant cities He is IN invalid and
cannot travel. but has plenty of leisure.
Ills plan, says tho Sun, is to subscri,xe
Tor year for the best daily paper in
Whatever city no wants to know about,
and then he reads that paper carefully.
AS result he vows he knows moro
about Philadelphia, baltimore, wash
ington and Richmond than If he had
travelled about each of them for q
month Just now he is mastering tho
pccul.aritics OF Atlanta, and is greatly
interested in its southern ways and
view
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
INSTALLMENT STOCK.

1. INSTALLMENT STOCK. = Mem
bership fee, 81 per share, which carries
the stock tho first month, after that the
monthly dues arc co cents per share.
2. PAID UP INTEREST BEARING
STOCK per share (par value, 5000,
yielding dividend, payable seminar
nually, January l, and July /, of per
cent. per annum, which is duly RENTED
by check to tho shareholder.
8. The stock is expected to mature in
seven years from dato of each series re.
spectively, the same being issued
monthly.
4. There is no investment anywhere
safer or more profitable than it's stock.
With the assets of the Association in
vested in first mortgages on improved
town real estate, duly insured for the
benefit of the Association, on basis
not exceeding 80 per cent. OF it's value.
as asccrtained by appraisers who are
themselves stockholders OF the Associ-
alton, while the debt of the member
borrowing is being curtailed every
month Of its existence, it is difficult to
conceive of safer investment than its
stock affords to the prudent investor.
Apply at Homo Oilice, 10 Jefferson
street, or to
JAMES r. TERRY, or to SIMMONS,
CARPENTER & TINSLEY, Roanoke,
Va. aprlo-1y
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
keep YOUR EYE
This Column and Find Out
Where the BARGAINS Are.

Seven rooms. franklin road, an ele-
CANT bargain. First class in all respects,
So,
twenty-five feet on Robinson street
near Roanoke and Southern depot at
sacrifice. Don't fail to see this.
House Of 6 rooms on Center street
near Park, 50, 100, 800 cash balance on
easy terms.
Fifty feet on 9th ave. Something
handsome and cheap, 81. 500.
House and lot corner jefferson and
4th ave. n. W., cheap. "see this"
25 feet on Commonwealth ave. next to
Bee Hive, 25 per cent. off If sold at once.
$4,000 will buy Salem ave. lot 5Ox20O,
between eth and 9Th streets.
13C feet within one block of F.. & S.
depot, SIS per front foot-improved.
Ask us to show you our houses on the
installment plan. 5000 cash, balance easy.
Will give some party with SO, 500 a
chance to double his money in six
months in business property in New
Town.
The above is only partial list of the
many bargains We are now offering.
F. w. CRAIG g. CO.,
No. 10 Salem Ave. s. W. (up stairs.l
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

Tho best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tettcr, 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 25 cents
per box. For sale by Budwell, Christian
& Barbee] tu.th,sat
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
Guaranteed. Cure for In Crime.

We authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell you DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption, coughs and colds,
upon this condition. II you are afflicted
with Ia grippe and will use this remedy
according TO directions, giving it fair
trial, and experience no benefit, you
may return tho bottle and have your
money refunded. We make this offer.
because of the wonderful success of
DR.. Kings New Discovery during last
seasons epidcr.:t. IIavo heard of no
case in which it failed. Trv it. Trial
bottles free at Budwcll Il Christians
drug store. Large size soc. and 81.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
R0ANOKE'S WONDERFUL RECORD
The Story of Its Growth Briefly
Told.

a City of Over $4,000 People, With MILL
Ions I'm IA Great Variety OF Industries.
what Has Been Done and What Is
Still Doing for the Upbuildins of the
Center of Virginia's Industrial Devcl-
opmcnt.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26

Old papers for sale at The Times OIL CO
10 cents hundred.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26

DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES.
Some of the most important com anies
ornanized for the development Of Roam
oke and this section are:
Roanoke Development Co.. 81 100, 600
Virginia Development Co... 5000, 600
Buena Vista Land Co. ....... 800, 0O0
liz Land Companies. ........ 1000. 600
This list is in no sense complete
one. 1t is given to show the diversity
of industries in Roanoke. Scores Of
enterprises, employing capital OF from
$4,000 to S25, 900, are omitted for lack Of
space. Numerous enterprises, with
hundreds of employees and capital reck-
oned by the hundred thousand, arc
negotiating for foothold in this South
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26

Old papers for So at The Times offi &C
10 cents IL hundred.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18
THE INCOME TAX.

The advocacy of an income tax by the
Democracy was forced upon them by the
Mckinley tariff taking the tax from sugar.
Ii the Democracy ever succeed in repeal
ing the Mckinley tariff they will not like
to attempt to raise the revenue by taxing
tea, sugar and coffee; they will be obliged
to raise it by the taxation of whisky,
foreign wines and tobacco, which are now
carrying about all that it would be
well to impose without making
too strong bid for smuggling.
So the Democracy are advocating an in
come tax, thinking il will be we'll re-
ceived by the people as tax on the
wealthy class. The income tax was once
imposed as a war measure, and survived
until 1872. In 1870, the census year, the
population of the United States was 3s,-
55s,3?i. The income tax that year was
paid by 276,66l persons, or one taxpayer 70
139 Of population. The number of male
citizens of u and upward was 1926 41 in
that year. The income tax was paid by
one adult male in every thirty.
Assuming even that it was equitably as
sessed and fairly collected, these figures
show that the income tax law in practice
was class legislation. The attempt under
our state laws to collect tax on personal
property is dismal failure, and Federal
or state income tax would involve the es-
adjustment of a system of inquisition and
espionage that would make it a most UNI
popular and Ineffective method of raising
the revenue. Its moderate sue
cess in England is no guarantee
against its utter failure in the United
States, for an inquisitorial tax that the
American people largely evaded. resisted
and nullified even in patriotic war for
national existence has no chance of sue
cess in time of peace. The free sugar, tea
and coffee that the Republicans have
given to the people have driven the Demo-
cratic demagogue party leaders to advo-
cate an income tax as the true method of
raising revenue, but if they ever enact it,
it will be so unpopular that its legal ex-
istence will mean political defeat to the
party that fathers it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18

duced at home, and has of course led to
an increase of Importation in ''free" goods,
an increase secured without reducing the
protection given American labor and CAPT
tai. The market quotations from. the Dry
Goods Economist, a leading trade paper,
shows that the prices of various grades of
fabrics used by the families of wage
worsers are lower than they were six
months before the Mckinley bill became
ia"' ana far lower than the prices prevail
ing when the Mckinley bill became law
last October.
Inc Mckinley tariff is fair tariff, and
Is arawn on the principle enuneiated by
dohn Sherman that protection should be
applied to the products of both workshop
ana farm, since the object is to diversity
employment and protect labor. Expert
ehce has established that invariably
domestic production by inducing competi-
Ton In brief period lowers the price of
all protected articles"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18

If John l.. Sullivan should die tonight
he would be deeply mourned by all the
worshipers at the shrine Of muscular
Christianity, but the wonderful little Jap
anese wrestler Matsada, who has just
passed away, will have few to mourn his
premature death. And yet as wonderful
incarnation of muscular strength, agility
and skill, Matsada was by far the most ex-
traordinary character. The little Jap
could have easily thrown the mighty Sui
livan, or when at his best prob
ably any man in the country.
Wrestling can be practiced with no
danger to life, and it is rare that even a
broken limb is a consequent of such con-
tests. Lacking the brutality of prize
fighting, it seems for that very reason to
De held in comparatively small esteem by
the athletic public, which seems always
hungry for the sight of blood. The little
Jap was not disgusting in the practice of
his art; he seldom hurt anybody. and yet
he will not be mourned by 1.-THE of the
persons who would weep bitterly if death
claimed any one of a half dozen big prize
fighting brutes as his own.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18
INDUSTRIAL FACTS.

IN is6o with population of 10000 600
we had invested in manufacturing enter
prises only about 81. oOO, 900, 0OO, employing
I'0oooD laborers, who earned about
sioo,Ou0,oOO per annum, or less than a
dollar day. In 1880 our population was
oo,UD.OO0; our manufacturing capital had
increased to S20,OOO, 900 900, employing
2,70O,0O and the wages had increased 20
s1V,OO0.O0O yearly or an average of SLIP
per day; $40 yearly more than in 1860.
when tariff for revenue only was in ex-
lstence. In 1850 after 20 years of pro-
tectlve tariff, the country had shown
much larger growth than had occurred
during the interval of almost 100 years
from the foundation OF the government
until 1860.
In 1850 the number of farms was 4,OO0,-
900, an increase of 80 per cent. over the
number in 1860, with a like increase in
their value. In 1860 we produced no steel
rails but imported them from Great
Britain. Last year we imported but 2O7
tons from Great Britain.
In 1860 we produced only Gao, 600. 600
bushels Of cereals. Last year the produc-
ton was 800, 0O0, 900 bushels, and during
the same period the amount of wool
grown in this country had increased from
100000 pounds to 1863, 900, 900, with pro-
portionate increase also in the production
OF tobacco, cotton, coal and many other
products.
The history of this country shows that
from the outset protective policy has
built up American manufactures and given
opportunities for workingmen to obtain
employment and secure higher wages.
a surgical instrument maker, now of
Philadelphia, who has worked in several
foreign cities, reported in the Manufacturer
that his margin of saving is 43 per cent.
larger in Philadelphia than in Paris, and
40 per cent. larger than in Stockholm.
Probably 40 per cent. and upward would
fairly represent the additional saving pos
sible on the higher wages here, even with
the higher cost of living The English
farm laborer gets in money only about
half as much as the American, and out of
this he has to support himself, while the
@hAhSAASub iOuSSu leu III
dition to his wages.
Under the protective policy American
wages have steadily risen from the begin
ming of the present century. The average
rate of wages the land over in 1900 was
about $65 year, with food and perhaps
lodging, and at later date, when men
worked in Illinois, Indiana and elsewhere
in the West for 30 cents day, they paid for
common calico % to 80 cents yard. As
late as 1S42 the wages of frst-class ma
chinist in Lowell, Mass, was from 81 to
$l.25 a day of fourteen and one-half hours,
including an hour for breakfast and three
quarters of an hour for dinner Today
the machinist works but ten hours and
gets more than twice the wages he did
forty years ago. A barrel of salt that cost
$3.50 then costs 70 cents now; the neces-
sites of life are all cheaper.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18

The argument for protection, as stated
by John Sherman, is that no nation can
be independent without diversity of in
dustries; that every nation ought TO be in
dependent of other nations in resnect IN
all productions necessary for life and COM
fort that can be made at home. The
measure of protection is proper subject
OF dispute, but the Republican party holds
that there should be no dispute as to the
principle Of protection in a country like
ours, possessing almost every raw material
OF nature and almost every variety of pro-
ductions. We have prospered, best when
our Industries have been best protected.
Every president from Washington to
Jackson inclusive, every statesman of the
early period, including Calhoun, favored
protection. With the destruction of
slavery there should be no opposition to
the wise and discriminating protection of
American industry. The free traders, who
oppose the tariff, always overlook the i'm
portant factor of internal competition, ;"
while the protectionist holds that when
the United States has the raw material
the labor and capital to supply the Ameri-
can market, the internal competition of
American producers and manufacturers,
protected against excessive and ruinous
competition from the cheaper labor and
capital of Europe, will regulate prices and
Keep them within proper bounds. In this
way protection has reduced steel rails
from sizes per ton in 1867 TO $3.50 in 1850,
Increasing the production from $500 tons
in 1867 TO 693, 1l3 in 1879.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18

The new system of tax assessment is
proving perfect success. Its theoretical
merits were fully recognized, but it was
hardly expected to work so smoothly the
first time. Hitherto all city and county
taxes have been charged up to the owner
of record, but this led to great trouble and
confusion when property changed hands
rapidly. Now the tax is charged against
the property direct by description. and the
book says nothing of ownership beyond
memorandum showing by whom a tax
was paid. An unpaid tax remains a 70.
corded lien upon the property, and travels
with it from year to year until discharged.
The same rule applies to street grade taxes
under the charter, and the provisions with
reference to sale for delinquency are much
more stringent than formerly.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18
THE BENNINGTON MONUMENT.
To BE Unveiled Tomorrow on the Battle
HaiIowed Field.

To-day viii be dedicated the Bennington. VT,
battle monument The first movement for its
erection began in 1855. but nothing was accom-
plished until 1875, when the centennial en-.
thusiasn led 20 a revival of the project, and
new association was organized. by which & CEN
tenniai celebration WAS held on the 10th OF
August, 1871, that stands second only 10 the
battle in Bennington annals. The cooperation
of the national government and the govern
nrents Of the states of Vermont, New Hampshire
add Massachusetts VAS secured. aud the design
of Mr. J. Philip Rim, well-known Boston
architect, for a shaft sol feet in height TO cost
$4,000, having been decided upon, work was
begun. ana the cornerstone was laid in IS>7
with imposing ceremonies Congress sppropri-
sIed $4,000 Tor the purpose; Vermont, 81. too:
Massachusetts, $1,000, anu New Hampshire,
S,.eo, ana $1,000 was raised by private sub
scElpslon. TIE projections are sll looking u
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is 1T WORTH WHILE9

Is II worth while to iostle brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each other
In blac sness OF heart, that we war to the
knife,
God pity US all in our pitiful plight.
God pity us ali as We jostle each other
God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel
When fellow goes down meath his load on
the heather,
Pierced TO the heart; words are keener than
steel,
And mightier far for woe than veal.
Were 1t not well in this brief life's journey,
On over the tsthmus, down into the tide:
We give him fish instead of a serpent
Ere folding the hands TO be and abide
Forever and aye TO dust at his side
Look at the roses salutng each other
LOOK at the herds ali in peace on the plain
Man, and man only makes war on his brother
Ana laughs in his heart at his peril and pain.
shamed by the beasts that 60 down on the
plain. 0
Is 1t worth while that we battle to humble
Some poor fellow down in the dust?
God pity US all! Time too soon viii tumble
All of US together, like le4ves in gust
HumDIed indeed down into the dust
-,JGl0u4n 5filIer
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-18

Have you a Pittsburgh,
Rochester, Duplex, or a Stu
dent Lamp?
Do theywork satisfactorily?
Do Jour Lamp Chimneys
break? You getthe wrong sortl
The RIGHT ones are the
"PEARL GLASS" made by
Geo. A. Macbeth & Co., Pitts
burgh, makers of the cele-
brated "Pearl-top" lamp CHM
ney, which have given univer-
sal satisfaction.