The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-23
my classes unless burned moro mid
night oil, and none of the stores kept it
there and 30 came ay,v


night oil, and none Of the stores kept it
there. and so came away.
1t was the same at Princeton. We
had the same trouble over lights. DIR.
McCosh said talked too much through
my hat. He then had me expelled. 1
should have been more careful and less
fresh. can see it now. Oh, how bit
terly we bewail these lost opportunities
when it is too latel If had finished
my theological course at Princeton, what
might l not have been today? Possibly
speaking to Phi Kappa Psi ut the opera
house in Jerusalem, or taking u buggy
ride through Capurnium, or trolling for
pickerel in the Sea of Galilee.
But let us not bewail the past. Be
wailing the past commands less salary
now under the Mckinley law than most
any other skilled labor.
Yesterday I received the following
letter from one of my many admirers
i'll Washington:
VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct. l.
Mr. Bill Nye, New York:
DEAR SIR-Can you tell mo where can get
good wife? Am poor man with good pros
poets; have set out Is acres of land In this
four years. don't know much about farm
ing. so would like to get II good strong woman
who understands the theory aud practice Of
prune growing.
III you will help mo 1 will buy one of your
books. Write soon. Yours,
ROGER DAGGETT.
Hero Is q man who is in earnest, and
should any bright eyed single person,
who knows the habits of prunes and
how to cultivate them, run across this
letter, let her write to me inclosing
photograph, and after few months cor
respondence can tell whether she would
be suitable wife for him or not.
Prune growing i'll Oregon and Wash
ington has grown to be immensely prof
liable, and as there are SO many two
dollar per day hotels i'll the United
States with fruit OH the bill of fare,
which is dried prune sauce the year
around, the prune crop has, as l may
say, grown to be IL terrific item. Prune
pies also, when inclosing the seeds of the
prune, are becoming popular at many
boarding houses, especially at mountain
health resorts. This pie is also, when
vitrified, taking the place of the Belgian
block in street paving-resisting wear,
frost and sudden changes of temperature
better than the latter.
Fill the pie full of prune juice mixed
to the consistency of umbrella sap, add
ing seeds of the prune and Feelings of
same sufficient to sustain the great
weight of the top crust of the pie. Now
make small opening in top of the pie
so that the lava can ooze out over sur
face while pie is being kiln dried, and
you havo glazed top and bottom to it
which, if decorated with metallic colors
in bright designs before baking, be-
comes highly ornamental when framed
or used as tiles in mantels or ceilings.
A primo pie glazed with maroon juice
and with embossed porcelain figures in
same. representing the discovery of
America by Columbus and framed In
fried cakes, was a very attractive
feature at the "expo" here, celebrating
the Tooth anniversary of the first at
tempt to pave Patton avenue.
A good wife, Mr.. Daggett, is not hard
to get, l judge, after reading few ad-
vertisements of same to be found in n
Chicago matrilr onial paper sent to me
In n sealed envelope few days ago, from
which copy:
NO -W.VUl-felltc DOnu, only seventeen
years of age, good musician and good cook,
well educated; would make some man q good
wife. Will inherit $4,000. but would not oh.
jcct to farm life.
Here is n very desirable wife for n
prune farmer. With such wife, $40, 900
and prune farm of is acres under
cultivation, one certainly ought to be
free from care. Love, think-true
love, earnest, honest love-with prunes,
$4,000 and salt rising bread three times
day, cannot be overestimated.
Hero is another:
No. 3.@l5 North Dakota-I know my ideal ia
waiting for mo somewhere. Should this meet
his ego hope he will write. am widow OF
forty-eight, feet inches, 1886 pounds; brown
hair, sprinkled with gray; blue eyes, good look
Ing, tasty in dress. and now taking lessons on
the mclodeon.
Here is a good chance for n prune
farmer who never knew mothers love
and care to acquire wife and parental
love Mt the same time. This ad. is
genuine, and leads one to ask why a
woman who should be looking around
for landscape gardener TO decorate her
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