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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-10
PENNsYLVANIANs, TAKE NOTICE.


The ADVOCATE desires to call the at
tention of all Pennsylvanians living
in Shawnee county to the duty resting
on them individually and collectively
in connection with the reunion to be-
held in this city on the 24th and 25th
Of this month. A large attendance of
former residents Of the old Key
stone state is expected to be
here at that time, and it is the duty
OF those who reside in Shawnee
county to prepare to give all who
may come a royal old Pennsylvania
welcome.
A meeting was held at the court
house on Saturday, the 9th inst, Of
the Shawnee county association, TO
make preliminary arrangements, and
many new names were added to the
already large list Of members. After
appointing committees to have imme-
diate charge Of the arrangements, the
association adjourned, to meet again
next Saturday, August 13, at the court
house, to still further complete tha
plans for the entertainment Of our
guests. II is earnestly desired that
all former residents Of Pennsylvania
now living in Shawnee county be
present on that day and unite with
the association, and also give the as
ISOLATION assurance of aid at the re-
union.
The meeting on the Oath will be
held at the state house during the
day and evening, and on the 25th it
is proposed to have a grand picnic at
Oakland grove. In order to make
this picnic success and make ample
provisions for the thousands who are
expected to be in attendance, it will
be important that every resident
Pennsylvania should provide liber-
ally Of the good things necessary for
such an occasion. We shall want
plenty Of yellow-legged chickens, to-
gether with all the usual accompani-
ments. Watermelons ought to be
plenty also by that time, and a few
fresh from the farms will
add to the interest of the occasion.
Let Shawnee county Pennsylvan-
ans come out next Saturday and tell
rs what thew will do DON'T RoP0ok n
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-10

JAY GoULD's Associated Press did
the usual amount of lying about the
Alabama election, and the Republi-
can party of Kansas has done a good
deal of rejoicing over the assumed
Democratic victory, but there is no
doubt that, with an honest count, the
Democratic party has been defeated.
The most sanguine of the mossbacks
now only claim about 10000 majority,
and that is q reduction of $1,000 from
the majority of 1883. The state is
as sure to go for Weaver and Field
in November as it is TO vote.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-10
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

1t may be regarded as a favorable
indication of growing intelligence
and increasing desire for a howl-
edge of the truth when Republican
editors subscribe and pay for The
ADVOCATE for their own use.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-10

REPUBLICAN papers are growing
over the failure Of the Homestead
iron workers to get what they de-
manded. No doubt mechanics and
lsboring men all over the country
viii keep right on voting for proteC-
ton.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-10
aaTANn Up For KANsAsn

4VOAyS 40 oV0AAAA6 Wy Ava AAN'-A~~'~
They have been In the business fol
some time, and they know how it ID
done. They were standing up fol
Kansas when they conceived and exc
cdted their infamous dynamite plot
in 1883. They were standing up for
Kansas when they created a new
Office by special act of the Legislature
with which to reward 9. A. Henrie
for his valuable services in the execu-
ton of that plot, because, LELAND,
we had to do it." "Mr. Humphrey,
of Independence" has been standing
up for Kansas, while giving it one Of
the most corrupt and demoralizing
administrations that ever disgraced
any state. He was standing up for
Kansas when he went to Colorado on
a grand drunk, and he has been
standing up for Kansas in pardoning
more criminals than any other gov
ernor of the state, and in executing
the pardoning power in absolute
violation of statute law. The party
also stood up for Kansas in sustaining
him in his disgrsceful conduct, and in
his defiance of the laws he was sworn
to execute, by re-electing him for q
second term. He has recently had
Lew Hanback, standing up for Kan
sas, according to Joe Hudson's testi-
mony, by sending him down into the
Third district to work for his nomins-
tion for congress and paying him
from the state treasury.
George 7. Anthony is also standing
up for Kansas. He is conducting a
canvass in the interest of his candi-
dscy for congress-st-large while
drawing the salary of a railroad COM
missioner, when the law distinctly
declares that he shall devote his time
exclusively to the duties of his Office.
Violation of law and disregard OF
public trusts are special methods of
the Republican party in standing up
for Kansas. George 7. Anthony
proposes to stand up for Kansas also
upon the plan of the Indiana blocks
of-five, only he wants to make it
-of-twenty.
The state house officials also have
; way of standing up for Kansas by
detailing clerks from their depart
nents in the pay of the state for
service in the Office of the Republican
,entrsl committee.
Republican editors have stood up
or Kansas in forging resolutions and
publishing them to the world as hsv-
ng been adopted by political oppo-
lents. The Topeka Capital, the
,ficial state paper, has stood up for
Kansas by denouncing her people as
anarchists and repudistors, and char
lcterizing them, because of political
alone, with every vile cpl
het to be found in the vocabulary of
he slums.
Lew Hanback, was standing up for
Kansas when he went back to Ohio
o assist in a Republican campaign,
rot in a drunken row, and fetched up
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
NORFOLK ENGLISH.
Marked Poculiarities or u Worry Strange
Tongue.

Marked PcculiRritics or Worry Strange
Tongue.
The peculiarities of Norfolk speech
arc many, sometimes not q little puz-
cling, says All tho Year Round Two
negatives do not make an affirmative.
II haven't no objections. ma'am. to
what you say" Here is another frag-
ment of dialogue:
"How do you do"-pronounced dew"
John, bor?"
Very well, thank yc, Mary, NOR"
What is "bor," and what is "lnor?"
we ask of etymologists and lexicograph-
ers.
Dor" is the vocative case singular of
n defective noun, of which no other
case, believe, exists. We might call
it an eXpletivc, q redundancy, not know
ing what other functions to assign to it.
Nor" is also the vocativc singular of
the pominntive ''mawthcr," great
girl, young woman, female hobby
de-hoy. Tho mother of n sickly and
fanciful daughter has been heard to
say. "My mawthcr, she do nothin' but
cat thapes and dodmans." Thapcs arc
green gooscbcrries; dodmans, snails.
Note the do" in the previous exam
pie. The grammar of the Norfolk peas
antry confounds the first person singu-
lar, presentte tense, indicative mood, with
the third person plural of the same.
Thus, they say: MY lord have liver SO
much money, SO he keep liver so many
servants and h0sscs, and drive about in
n coach and four. My lady smile livery
time She speak to me. Tom Noddy, the
coachman, live in of them there hous-
en-"
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THE JOURNALS OF CANADA.

Pleasant Summary of Canadian News
papers by a Canadian Writer.
The generality of Canadian newspa-
pers in their style, says Walter Black
burn Harte, Canadian journalist, in
the New England Magazine, are a cnri-
GUS mixture of English and American
methods. In the news department
they are very similar to the newspapers
in the smaller American cities, and in
the editorial columns they are modelled
after the English provincial papers.
Except in one or two instances, they
are destitute of all pretentions to lit
erary excellence. The Toronto Mail
and Globe maintain higher standard
than any of their contemporaries The
Gazette of Montreal and the Empire of
Toronto are almost exclusively political
III their scope, and exist as the organs
OF the conservative party The west
ern papers have little room for any-
thing outside of news and politics The
Montreal Star is always on the popular
side of every question. The Ottawa
papers, like those of Washington, carry
little weight and IRE miserable in every
particular. The French Canadian news
papers are less enterprising and ener-
getic in the gathering of news than the
English. but their editorial columns are
usually more striking in IL literary way.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
SOLAR SPOTS.

Description OF an Interesting AstronomI-
cal Phenomenon.
The curious and suggestive phenom-
enon of the fall of solar protuber-
ance into a sun spot has been recently
reported by NJ. Trouvclot, the French
astronomer. lie was enabled to OBJ
serve this fall very distinctly. The sun
spot in which the protubcrance was
lost was very quiet, giving not the
slightest evidence OF any volcanic crup-
lions going on. There arc in or near a
sun spot usually jets of incandcsccnt
matter, frequently thrown up to great
heights, but this voracious spot which
swallowed up the protuberance in
question was in almost entire repose.
NJ. Trouvelot hints that the most prob
able explanation of this most mysteri-
Gus phenomenon is that the class of
spots which are in Il state of repose cx-
ercisc some kind of attraction upon
certain protuberances. These solar
clouds, sometimes Elementary, some
times diffuse, sometimes seen to be gy-
rating like cyclone, are composed
mainly of hydrogen and helium.
Around the spot the motion of fllaments
is usually inward toward central spot
and then downward. 1t might, there
fore, be supposed that the prominence
seen by NJ. Trouvelot approached the
spot by aspiration.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
PARAeuAyAN IDEAS OF WORK.
A People Who Prefer Idlcncss to Ply
steal ExertIon.

A People Who Prefer Idlcncss to Ply
steal ExertIon.
a French gentleman who has recent
1y organized IL colony called Villa Sana,
about twenty leagues northeast of Villa
Conception, on land belonging to the
ParaguayoArg Land Company,
told me, writes Theodore Child, in Har-
pcr's Magazine, that in the beginning,
when he went to survey the ground and
to ascertain it's exact INTERNATIONALLY
ways troublesome business in these
countries, where there is as yet no top
ographical survey-hc had the greatest
difficulty in inducing half dozen Para
guayans to accompany him. They told
him that he would never find the land,
that he would be unable to cross the
river Aquidaban, and, i'll short, that
his was wildgoosc chase. However,
when they arrived ut the river and the
trenchman simply jumped in and swan
across, their amour propre was touched,
and they swan after him. These half
dozen Paraguayans have remained at
tached to the colony, but they have lost
the esteem of their countrymcn. When,
after the exploring expedition, our
Frenchman started from Villa Concep-
ton with his sixty colonists and his
train of bullock carts and impedi-
mcnta, the loafcrs of the town said to
the few Paraguayans who accompanied
him and were helping him in the load
ing: "What? Are you as big fools as
these Europeans, to work like that?"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
About Uruguay.

Uruguay is known in this country
chiefly through the frequent presence
of United States ships ut Montevideo
The capital of the little state is known
in naval parlance rs THE Mount" and
Rio dc Ia Plata is always spoken of
aboard ship as 1.-THE River" United
States ships returning homo by way of
the Cape of Good Hope usually touch at
Montevideo, and there, for the first
time in many weeks, the officers enioy
the luxury of n comfortable club and a
good shore dinner. Here the naval yes
sells of all nations congregate, and the
capital has an Importance quite aside
from its domestic relations. The river
ant Montcvidco is subject TO terrific wind
storms, and ut such times it is almost
impossible for small boat to live in
the stream. Many an American naval
officer has incurred the reprimand of
his superior by overstaying his leave
because of norther on the Rio de Ia
Plata
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
BRITISH BLUSTER.
An Illustration OF the bullying Tendency
of the English.

An Illustration OF the bullying Tendency
of the English
When the British press undertakes to
show that the Americans engage in
blustcr when dealing with weaker ma
tions, and by implication that England
does not, it calmly ignores the fact that
Great Britain has always acted the bully
in dealing with small countries. The
fSan Diego (Cal.) Union recalls the fol-
lowing instance to illustrate the truth
of this assertion: In 1882 the British
vice consul at San Jose. Guatemala, Mr..
MCGEE, was challenged to boat race to
an incoming Pacific mail steamer by the
boarding officer OF the port
Mr.. Niece was successful and was on
the gangway ladder of the steamer lust
as the boarding officer reached the step,
but the two went aboard together. Mr..
McGces success SO incensed the officer
that he notified the Guatcmalan author
tiles that Mr.. MCGEE had violated the
customs law by preceding him aboard
the steamer. Mr.. McGce was arrested
convicted and punished with fifty lashes
on his bare back. He explained the oc-
cnrrcncc to his home government, and
within thirty days British man of war
was in the port and demanded that the
vice consul be paid one thousand dollars
for each lash, and that the boarding
officer be taken out and shot or the city
would be bombardcd. The demand
was complied with.
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a GREAT ELECTRICIAN.
To Began Experiments with Leyden ,Jnr.
When II BOY or E.leve,

To Began Experiments with Ieyden .Jors
When IL Boy OF Eleven.
Anybody that has heard much about
che WORK of Prof Elihu THOMPSON. the
man whose name is in the title IF tho
great electric company and whose
Drain has worked out all the mcchnni
cal IDEAS thai have made the company
tremendously rich and famous in the
iasS decade, is very much surprised
usually when he meets the little pro-
1essor, says Boston letter The man
Oh genius is only five feet four inches
nlgh' or perhaps little taller. His
ngurc is even boyishly slight, and his
lace is very much younger in appear
auce than that of almost any man with
mustache in the senior class Mt Har-
ward university. His no-account brown
mustachc gives him an older look, but
II 1t were not for that he would be
startlingly youthful looking. AS it is,
he is n few years short of forty He
was always famed for his prccocity,
and he had to wait two years before he
could enter the high school in Philadel-
phla, because he was SO young He
was IL professor of chemistry before he
was twenty-thrce years old. When he
ments with Leyden jars, and contin-
ucd experiments in electricity unintcr-
ruptcdly until he was thirteen years of
age. He lived in Philadelphia, and when
he'd try his prentice hand on his first
dynamos he used to travel into the woods
away from his home to strip the elder
berry bushes and get elder pith to make
insulating material with When he'd
n fNf f1,sx, ,f,tl
bors the silver foil from tobacco and
use that. He ought to be worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to-day,
but he is comparatively poor, and he
dcvotcs his energies to the supervision
of the technical electrical works of the
8 company exclusively. Prof. Houston,
the man whose name is joined with his
in the title of the company, is not di-
rectly connected with the concern, but
is plodding professor of physics in
Philadelphia
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
SHOOTING FOR BEEF.
An Exciting Event Among Western Back
WOOdamen.

An Exciting Event Among Western Back
woodsmcn.
Some years ngo popular western
amusement was Il shooting-match for
beef, in which all the MAJ lssincn of the
ncighborhood participated. The home
ly sport is described by the eccentric
Davy Crockett in his Life and Adycn-
lures"
a farmer, wishing to raise money,
would advertise that on Il certain day
and ut given place, he would put up a
first-ratc beef to be shot for. After the
marlksr,cn had assembled, Il subscrip.
ton paper was handed round, with the
following heading:
"a. i. offers IL beef worth twenty
dollars to be shot for, at twenty-five
cents shot"
The paper was passed from hand to
hand until the number of shots sub
scribcd for made up the price of the
beef. Two persons who had subscribed
for shots were then selected to act as
Judges Every subscriber furnished his
own target-a board with n cross in the
centre.
The Shot that hit the centre, or came
nearest to it, secured the hide and tai
low, which was the first choice. The
next best shot got his choice of the hind
quarters; the third received the other
hindquarter; the fourth took his choice
of the fore-quarters; the fifth the re-
naming quarter; and the sixth was al
lowed the lead in the tree to which the
targets were nailed.
The judges stood near the tree, and
when Il man fired the shouted: "Who
shot?" and the shooter gave his name.
After all had shot, the judges examined
the boards and decided what part of the
beef each man had won. Sometimes
one man, being a good marksman, and
having subscribed for six or eightshots
would get nearly all the beef
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19
Now Alloys.

Seven new alloys have been invented
recently. They are niclsel-alumnum,
for decorative threads; zinc-nickcl, for
pigment; nickcl-hardlcd; for type;
platinidc, composed of platinum, nickel,
gold and iron, for cruciblcs and chem
ical utensils; rosine, composed of
nickel, silver, aluminium and tin, for
jewelers. work; sun-bronzc; composed
of cobalt. aluminium and copper; metal
line, composed Of cobalt aluminium.
iron and copper.
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BUSINESS COLLEGE,
IN OF ROANOKE,

Having been transferred to the under
signed, would respectfully invite an
investigation of it's merits before going
elsewhere. A thorough business course,
shorthand (Ben Pitman and New Rapid
systems), typewrit ng, English and
business and ornamental penmanship.
A thorough training school for young
men and young ladies who wish to fl,
for the active duties of the business
world. For terms, day or nigh session
call at the College. TIMES building, or
address j F. COZART, Manager the
National Business College, Roanoke,
Va.
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NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the under.
signed have qualified as the executrix
and executor Of the will Of F.. w.
Allen, and all persons indebted to the
said f. w. Allen are hereby notified to
come forward and settle all accounts
that may be due to his estate, and all
persons holding claims against him are
requested to present them properly
verihed In order that the same may be
settled.
SARA McC. ALLEN,
dec3O-2awlm WIN. N.MORGAN.
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NOTICE,

BY order of the board of directors, a
meeting OF the stockholders Of the
southwestern Investment and Trust
company, OF Roanoke, Va, will be held
az tne ONCE OF the Roanoke Real Estate
Company, No. III First street s. w..
roanoke, Va, en- Monday, February Is.
ds9"' at IL O'Clock M. e. d. TUCKER,
Secretary. ian15. 30d VS.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements in this column win repay
perusal.

A l.. FUQUA, ROANOKE, VA,
AZ Gas-fitting, steam heating, Sci
entiflc Sanitary Plumbing, Boilers,
Ranges and Hot Air Furnaces.
The latest appliances and most Ex-
pert Workmanship.
The plumbing. gas fitting and steam
heating in Hotel Roanoke, j. Q.
kawn's, A. s. Asbcrry's. Marshall's
Cafe and other fine buildings in Roa-
noke. done BY US, are offered as refer
cnccs
Estimates furnished from architects
Vest Vireinia and The Shenandoah
Valley.
A. l.. FUQUA,
Ill Commerce street,
1an15-tf Roanoke, Va.
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DIssoLUTIoN OF PARTNERSHIP.

The partnership heretofore existing
between j. Payne Thompson and w. S.
Gooch under the firm name of Thomp-
SON & Co., has been dissolved by the
purchase by d. S. Meadows of the in
terest and good will Of said w. S. Gooch
in said business. All debts due to or by
the old firm will be settled by the new
firm, which will continue to do business
ut the same old stand, No. 80 Campbell
street, under tho same firm name.
j. PAYNE THOMPSON.
w. S. GOOCH.
Roanoke, Va, Oct. 10, 1891.
ID. s. Meadows having purchased the
interest of w. S. Gooch in the firm of
Thompson & Co., as stated above, and
with increased facilities for doing bust
ness, we feel assured we can give salts
faction in every particular, and will be
pleased to have our friends and the
public generally CAN.
j. PAYNE THOMPSON,
d. S. MEADOWS.
decl9-3Ods
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

nISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The firm Of c. It. Whaling & Co.,
composed of G. T. Whaling and c.
O'Leary, is by mutual consent this day
dissolved. G. t. Whaling has pur-
chased c. O'Leary's interest in said
firm. All debts due by said firm will be
paid and all claims due said firm are
payable to said c. T. Whaling.
c. T. WHALING.
c. O'LEARY.
Roanoke, Va, Aug. /, 1891.
will continue business at the old
stand under the name OF c. II. Whaling
~ Co. G. T. WHALING.
dec2Otoian2O
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS.
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders OF the Old Dominion Invest
ment Company, will be held at office of
salo company, No. 30 Campbell street,
Roanoke, Va, on Monday, February ~.
ioos, at II m. ii. l.. CHiLES,
laniroou Sec'y.
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WE THANK OUR PATRONS FOR
w their pnst patronage and hope
TO continue our business relations
BILLS PRINTING HOUSE. In the
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NOTICE.

The annual meeting Of the stock
noloers OF the Buena Vista Land Com
pany' OF Roanoke, will be held at the
once OF the company on Tuesday, Feb
urary y 1872, at IL o'clock m. By
order of the board of directors.
1ans-tdm ASA ROGERS, Sec'y
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
dissolution NOTICE.

BUSINESS NOTICES..
dissolution NOTICE.
The firm of Brown, Johnston & Co., is
this day dissolved by limitation.
f. w. BROWN,
N. B. JOHNSTON,
A. r. BOWDRE.
Referring to the above notice, we an
nounce to our friends and tho public
generally, that having purchased the
interest OF Mr.. A. b. Bowdre, in the
firm of Brown, Johnston & Co., we will
continue the hardware business at the
old stand under the firm name of
BROWN &c JOHNSTON,
and solicit continuance of their pa
tronage.
All debts owing to the firm of Brown,
Johnston & Co. are now due and payable
only to Brown & Johnston.
Respectfully,
T. w. BROWN,
N. B. JOHNSTON.
Roanoke, Va, Dec. 81. ian15-3w
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ANSWER BULLETIN,

THERE ere letters at THE TIMEf
y office addressed to &c. d. E.
sG. H." IL. R." "Western." Zinc,