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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
IN THE SENATE.
ago.

SENATOR HALE, of Maine, occupies
the desk which Mr.. Blaine used when
the latter gentleman was member of
the senate.
STEPHEN NJ. WHITE is the first native
of California to be elected United States
senator from that state. He married
Miss Del Vale, Il member of one of the
old Los Angeles families.
SENAToR-ELECr WHITE, of California,
is one of the counsel for the owners OF
the Chilian transport Itata, and argued
their case last week before the United
States circuit court of appeals.
SENATOR DoN CAMrRoN has seeded
one hundred acres of his Donegal farm
near Marietta with kentucky blue
grass, which he believes will do rs well
on his ground as it does on the historic
soil where it is Indigenous. He intends
to put the nutritious pasturagc to the
use of fancy bloodcd stock
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
CURRENT WIT AND HUMOR

AFTER You are good yourself it is
time for you to complain of the wicked
ness of Others. Globe.
JuLIA-"Nly husband is very hard to
please" Maud-''ilc must have changed
lots since he married you."-Brooklyn
Life.
''IIM has become regular cynic-a
woman hatcr.' rs that so? BY the
way, who was the woman that he want
ed to marry him?"-N. Y. Press.
The fascinating danscl is an adept at
tender smiles. but She isn't in it with
the barllccper; he does nothing but
tender ''smilcs" all day and half the
night.-Boston Courier.
SHE-'Mr. Sinnix, you ought to be
ashamed to say SO many mean things
about us women. cannot imagine
where You get your IDEAS" Hc-'From
other women, mostly."-Indianapolis
journal
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tho least desired. Some of thcm-a
good many-arc turned back at the no.
tel. Manager Sterry is getting to be Il
keen politician and can tell an Arkan-
sas democrat from Boston drummer
half mile off. When, however, visit
ors whose assistance is not required in
disposing of Offices do make their way
to the custard pie house they find Mr..
Cleveland reasonably patient under the
infliction.
Lakewood itself is an interesting
place, which was rapidly coming into
favor with New Workers like ex-Mayor
Hewitt and Park Commissioner Straus
before Mr.. Cleveland took it up It was
an iron manufacturing village, where
n man named Brick had works. He
had twenty-five thousand acres OF Jcr-
sey pine barrcns and died poor, as
might have been expected. His family
had the unspeallable folly to suppose
that winter resort named 'Bricllsburg''
could be success. They had the idea,
and in 1880 some New York men bought
out the property and supplied the name,
and things began to look up. The Jer-
sey Central built the finest small station
in the state; the land company spent IL
host of dollars in cutting roads through
the woods. The lake is IL narrow strip
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
VIRGINIA NOTES.

Newmarket" war play, will be
produced at tho Lynchburg Opera
House on Thursday nigh by an amateur
company for the benefit OF The Light
Artillery Blues OF that city, to enable
them to attend the Inauguration of Mr..
Cleveland.
j. Il. lIarwood, of Hampton, was found
dead seated in his chai- in his harness
shop Saturday afternoon. No inquest
was held, as it was evident death re-
suited from natural causes.
l.. Waters, jeweler, was struck
Thursday by a train on tho Richmond
and Danville railroad, near brakes
Branch, and receiyd injuries which
caused his death the next day.
William +. jennings, formrly e
Richmond, was run over at Newport
News Sunday by shifting train in the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway yard and
was instantly killed.
Mr.. M. Glennan, member OF the
board Of Worlds Fair commissioner fol-
Virginia, has secured in tho second
congressional district 81, 200 for the Vir
ginia building at Chicago.
Commissioner of Agriculture White
head Is preparing 4 hand book of Vir
ginia to be distributed at the Worlds
Fair. so as to furnish information TO in.
tending settlers.
The tax on real and personal property
in Lynchburg has been fixed at $3.50 or
tho 800, decrease OF ten cents per
500 compared with last years tax.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
SHE PROVES IT.
And the Proof is Just What Our
Readers Want.
OF How II Began She HASN'T the sIirhtest
ldea-But Concerning It's Ending She
Is Explicit and Exact.
We never know Just how a thip, ,crirs

Nc c never know just how thing begins
left VI '"e results "nich are
hese rehcctions were called ont by the fact
tnat IL is so easy to driit into anything In this
Worid VIC must keep eyes about us or we
s snail constantly find ourselves drifting into
We call to mind an instance In which n most
estlmablc lady unconsciously and without know
WI, VIA. when or now allowed herself to drift into
caused many years of anxiety aud sufrcrint
:, ms lady is widely known-Mrs Mary Jane
roster, OF so West 2ist street, New York CITY.
ana what she says arc trGc snd exact fncts ~
can be easily nd'rcadily n. cortancd by anyone
II experience 10 or any use, hers is certainly a
revelation to be needed by all
without knowing their meaning she had dull
iselihs head, headaches, dizziness. bad taste in
the mouth, cspcc ally mornings. Her sleep was
broken ana she would awake mornings and feel
urea and exhausted. After time the apuctitr
became Irregular, their was fullncss or biont ID
iieeiihs after meals. rising of gas. sour stomach.
nlinoushess ana constipation-su symptoms
sprir OF the year.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23

Why, she said, for years after suffered from
inc worst formcf dyspepsia. with gas and Ter.
mcntntion OF food, and terrible spasns that
the head ~ '''S
Even the Highest food caused great pain and
distress after eating. and so suffered with
great exhaustion. dizziness o. the head. and
Wcakhess OF the limbs so that could scarcely
stand on my feet.
~ But am now comi lctcly cured by the use of
Dr; Grccnos Ncivura blood and nerve remedy,
and take pleasure in giving my cxpcriencc ia
INC Pubhc IN order that other sufferers may be
cured n have hcon."
=, LOOK ont for such tr"ubleS in tho hcginr ing
NOW, in tho spring, when every body is certain 10
he more or loss out Of order and needs a sprinr
medicine. take DIR. Grccno'- Nciyura blood and
nerve remedy Immediately, for i, il the best a nd
snrcst OF all spring medicines. II will invigoratc
Tue blood. strengthen the NERVES Gnd give YOU
perfect digestion aid regular action or liver.
kiuheys ana bowels. All druggists keep it for
81; ana 1t Is purely vegetable aud harmless
II If the great remedy recommended by doctors
Tor spring debility and diseases because II l. the
discovery and prescription of the we'll known
physician Ir Greene, OF ~ w. 18th street New
1ork, IL success ful specialist in curing norvuus
ana chronic diseases. The doctor can he con.
suited without charge by anyone. .eithcr at his
Office or by writing to him.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23

mainly to the southwest. Only the big
Lakewood hotel, where all the visiting
statesmen stop, is anywhere near it.
Not even that is in sight. From the
station the hotel lies hidden beyond a
low swelling height of land for which
ridge Is term expressing altogether
too much. From the hotel, entirely sur
rounded by pines, no other habitation
can be seem No photograph of it was
over taken because no camera that was
ever made can take il all in at the
limited range made necessary by the
surrounding woods. Still another gen
tie ridge smaller than the last, and that
past, one comes to 4 valley through the
bottom OF which triciilcs stream, dry
iii summer, and too small to bear Il
name. Still beyond that, on the right,
stands the Cleveland cottage A ten
acre plot goes with it, but OF this only
an acre and Il half is cleared in part,
toward the south, and on the other side
the house, painted in custard pic
fashion, yellow with white trimmings,
and it's brown barn back up against the
rich dark green of the woods.
Up to this point most of the pines
have been ludicrous dwarfs, mingled
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
TIE MAKERS OF BOOKS.

GLADSTONE has decided to appoint no
successor to the late poct-laurcate.
PARKMAN, the historian, is said to be
the handsomcst literary man in Boston.
MARK TwAlN's funny stories have
only recently begun to be appreciated
in Italy.
MIR. SwINBURNE has written long
poem on Grace Darling. His carly life
was passed in the locality which was
the scene of her hcroism, and he knew
her father.
MARION CRAWFORD, the novelist, is
being urged to prolong his stay in this
country, and it is among the possibili-
ties that he may be one of the Chautau-
qua lecturers next summer
TIE officials who look after the
morals of the people of Kocslin, Prus-
STA, have given notice that the works of
Alexander Dumas, Alphonsc Daudct,
Eugene Sue, Count Tolstoi and Paul dc
Koch arc subject to conliscation.
TIIIEE is an elderly resident of Brook
lyn, who in his youth SAW much of the
Scotch and English writer's. through
his intimacy with The head of Il large
publishing house. He a!lrns the ti.ath
% the story that IT was the habit of
Thomas De Quincy TO draw a little
brush from his pocket, and tendcrly
dust his roll Of manuscript before sub
hitting it to publisher
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
[corYRIGHr, 1891

lCOPfRlGHT. 1893.
The little white house at Lakewood
is about the most lonesome place Of hui
man residence in the state.
The New York reporters have
spoken of it vaguely as approached
from the station by plank walk"
This is a generous figure of speech
Lakewood is designed for carriage
people" almost exclusively, and the
plank walk is confined to the business
section of the town. Elsewhere it is
sporadic. The station is away on one
side of everything and the visiting
statesman at first wonders where the
town is.
"Go right down that road past the
big hotel" says the native who has
watched the stranger look about He
didn't want to ask for what was look
ing.
The Cleveland house lies northeast
from the station and fully threc-quar-
tcrs of mile away. The village lies
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
AMERICAS FAIR DAUGHTERS.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX says that if
the waters want to continue wearing
dress coats they will have to change to
some other color than black.
Mrs. GEORGE HEARST, widow of SEN
ator Hearst, of California, is the most
heavily insured woman in the world.
Her policies aggregate $500, 600.
MRS. CUSTER attended her husband
in his camp life for twenty years, NOV
Ing from fort to fort. but she saws he
never coniidcd his military plans to
her.
Miss HELEN GOULD is, in her own
right, the richest unmarried woman in
the world. yet she is very simple in her
tastes and unaffected in her manners,
and is benevolent, domestic and rctir-
ing.
Mrs. lloUGu. Jay Gould's sister, who
receives by his will gift of So. 900. and
$4,000 yearly. is the wife of ii retired
Methodist minister. She and her hus-
band have always been acti-c in char
liable work, SO far as their slender
means would permit.
Mrs. PEAKE, who sharcs i'll the fame
of her husband, Lieut.. Pcary. the ia
nous explorer of Greenland, said in
conversation a few days ago that she
thought she felt the cold more here dur
ing orr recent siege of severe weather
than She did last year up where n zero
temperature is considered moderate.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23

pines are still allowed to remain For the
most part the village is devoid of them.
The Blaine family is represented in the
place by Emmons Blaine's wife ana her
parents, the McCormiclls, of Chicago,
and Nathan Straus, of New York.
who sold coal to the poor at cost at his
gard. is one of the big land owners.
The family life of the Clcvclands is
vcry quiet, sensible and democratic.
They are not lionizcd. nor do the Lake
wood people bother them in ANY way.
Mr. Cleveland comes down from New
York on the Lakewood special, getting
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
ON DIVERS TOPICS.

Tie total membership Of Greek letter
fratcrnitics in American colleges is esti-
mated 10 be about ~, 900.
Ice is quoted at six cents n ton at
Devils Lake. Mich, ana mt cent Il
pound 1T Shreveport, La.
The Louisiana lottery will be re-
moved to Honduras January 1, 1894,
having obtained charter from that re-
public on most favorable terms for fifty
years. The lottery company pays
$1,Ooo,o0o in American gold coin and II
percentage on the face value of all tick
cts sold, for the privileges gained
PERTH AMDoY, N. j., is said to be the
repository of some very fine furniture of
the colonial style. The town, which is
one of the oldest ports of entry in the
United States. still retains several of
its carly dwellings,, some of which are
occupied by the descendants Of those
who built the houses many generations
ago.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23

in just ut dusk. Tho oilers at the
station are no more numerous than at
any country village. Sometimes the
pretty pair of bays is waiting for him,
sometimes he walks up the three
Quarters of mile of slush with Il
sturdy stride. A modest retinuc of
servants sleep mainly in q small build.
ing back of the house
Everybody is interested in Baby
Ruth. She is now year and half
old, sturdy, ruddy checked and well de-
veloped. Lakewood people have seen
her SO often that there is no particular
mystery about her. Sometimes she
accompanies Mrs. Cleveland on n drive
behind the nodding red plumcs of the
Russian sleigh. Her own particular
favoritc is an ordinary childs sled with
baby carriage box without Il hood set
on top.
When | passed the house once she
was bowling in lusty American fashion.
But she almost never cries" said u
lady to whom 1 remarllcdit. This lady
has been at the old Laurel housc-the
one in the heart of the village and
nearest the station-whcn Mrs. Clcvc-
land was there before going to the cot
taSc and when every woman in the
place fell down and worshipcd the
child from Il discreet distance.
Saturday evening Lakewood was in
festive mood For the first time this
season Mrs. Cleveland attended pub
lie function" the occasion being the
ball given by the cottagcrs. She was
very quiet, did not dance and seemed to
enjoy the fun us much as anyone pres
cnt, but left at an early hour. She also
dropped in at the free singing class,
which is being instructed under the
auspices of the Frecmans and others
OF the visiting statesmen little is seen
in town. Mr.. Bayard and Mr. Lamont
are best known in the place. Lake
wood knows no more about the cabinet
than is printed in the papers, but every
statesman who shows up is In turn re-
gardcd as certainty for cabinet hon
ors. Harrity and Hensel were puzzle.
Both couldn't be ''slatcd," and SO Lake
wood pitched upon Mr.. Harrity as a
possible appointce. Such nuisance
did the visiting statesmen become final
ly that the New York and Philadelphia
afternoon expresses were called the
''office seekers special" A good many
people have come here from all parts of
the country, whose presence was not in
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
MONEY TO LEND.
RAILROADS
N : s : w Norfo|ksWesternR
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCTOBER 80, 1874

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCTOBER 80, 1874
wEsTBoUND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
740 a. m. washington and Chattanooga limited,
for Bristol and beyond. Stops only ut Rad
ford. Pullman slccpers to New Orleans Mem
phls and Nashville. Dining car attached
500 u. M for Radford, Pulaski, Brietol and nj.
Intermediate ,stations also FOR Bucheld, Pc
and Louisville via Norton Pullman sloepoI
to Lou svillc via Norton
75o p m; Il Radford, Pulaski, and Bristol alec
for Blucfcld-Ohio extension; leaves Bluc0eld
6lO n m. daily for Kcnova, Columbus and
the West Pullman sccpcrs to Memphis vio
Chattanooga.
NORTH AND rAsTBouED. LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY
Elo a. m: Tor Petersburg, Richmond Rnd
1915 p. IN. for Washington, Hagerstown. phi,a
dciphla and New York. pullman sccpc
Roanoke 70 New York, via Harrisburg ano
1915 y. IN. daily for Richmond and Norfolk. Pul
man patlor car to Norfolk, connects at Lynch
r., hnrg tCni0n station with Durham division.
D:l0 p III. for Bucna Vista and intermediate sta
II. lions No connections beyond.
V45 p III. for Richmond and Norfolk. Pullman
sleeper to Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich
1915 night tWashington and Chattanooga lin.
itcd) for Washington, Hagorstown, Phlladcl
phia and New York. Pullman sccpcrs &c
Washington via Shenandoah Junction and
New York via Harrisburg. Dining cal
attached stops only at Basic, Shenandoah
Lnray, Shenandoah Junction, Shepherds
town, Antictam, Grimes and ST. James.
station end 3;l5 p. m. daily for South boston
and Durham and intermediate stations.
Winston-Snlcm Division--Lcave Roanoke (Union
sation) $40 Il. m. daily for Rocky Mount
Martinsvillc, Winston-Salcm and inferno.
diate stations.
For all additional information apply at tickoi
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke. Va.
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of water only two miles long and never
more than Il quarter wide. 1t is com
pletcly surrounded by the property of
the company, and except at the dam at
its lower end there is no house upon it.
There is, however, kissing bridge"
an echo and other modern improve
mcnts The lake, again, has rather Il
funny "Carasaljo" -named from
Mr.. Bricks daughters, Caroline, Sally
and Josephine.
That man must have been genius in
nomenclature.
The special claim that Lakewood
makes upon the attention of Mr. Cleve-
land and others is its mild winter eli
mate.
This year the mercury went down to
eleven degrees below Zero" said Capt.
Bradshaw, the veteran of the place, to
me rs we were discussing that point.
Wasn't it cold?" l asked
"Oh, dear, no." replied the captain,
enthusiastically "You see the air here
is so dry and bracing that
That's just the way real estate men
talk in Jerusalem and everywhere else
However, the captain is right
Lakewood, with its virgin forest drives,
is beautiful place, and when the
Cleveands leave for Washington they
will probably feel some regret.
Is the white house to be the scene OF
that is TO say, will Baby Ruth have
or. rather, is it thought that there is
likely to be-?
don't know. But that's what they
say here. OWEN LANGDoN.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
THE LABOR FIELD.

THE Hudson ice crop employs nearly
10, 900 men.
ONE Maryland factory alone put up
100000 cans of corn last season.
Two hundred and sevcnty-two tex
tile mills were erected in this country
in 1892.
Ir is stated that machinery is pro-
ducing % per cent. of the manufacturing
labor of the country.
TIE value Of the honey and wax pro-
duccd i'll the United States during the
past year has been estimated at 500
900, 200.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
4 NIarringc at Ronsnck.

a beautiful marriage ceremony was
solemnized yesterday afternoon about
o'clock at the residence of the bride
at Bonsack, in which tho contrac ting
parties were VIII Muse, Of Vinton, and
Miss Carrie Gale, OF tho former place.
Inc ceremony was performed by Rev.
q. Ii. buchanan, OF Vinton, in the
presence OF large nun Ter of invited
guests. Tho wedding party repaired to
the residence OF Ellis Wright, near
Ninton, where Il reception was rendered
the young couple last night.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.

The Republicans Knocked Out In pitts
PirrsDURc, Pa, Feb, 22.-Late re-
turns on yesterdays city election con-
firm last nights report. Judge Bernard
Mckenna, Democrat, is elected MAYOR
by !, 'C0 plurality; Hon. II j. Gouriey,
Independent Democrat, controller by
1880 majority; Joseph Denniston, Re-
publican, treasurer by probably 1900
majority. The latter was the only can
didate on the Republican ticket elected.
In Allegheny City Mayor VIM. NJ. Ken
nedy, Republican, was reelected by
about 1000 majority.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-23
DOAN OKE STREET RAILWAY
HI SCHEDULE.
SALEM DUMMY LINE.

EAST. WEST
Lv. Salem IT. Roanoke lv Roanoke AR. Salem
6:l5 a ~. Gas I'm. 7:15 q. m. 7:45 a. 10.
500 am. $40 a. IN. 8:45 am. 9:l5 a. M.
$3.50 a. u. 1000 q. m. 10:15 a.m.1O:45 q. ~
l1:0O PIN. 11:3O p. m.11:45 p.m.12:15 p. m.
1890 pm. loo pm. lis pm. 1:45 p. m,
ZOO pm. ESQ pm. 2:45 p. IN. ais D. m
$3.50 pm. 400 I'm. AIS pm. 4:45 p d.
515 pm. 5:45 p. m. 6:15 pm. GAS p d
tbs pm. 7:45 pm. 9:45 p.m.1O:15 p. M
N. B.-Theater nights last train leaves
Roanoke at 10:45; arrives Salem 11:15 D.
m. Sundays, the first run is omitted.
Trains leaving Roanoke at S:45 a. M
and AIS p. m. on Salem dummy limo will
have baggage car attached for carrying
drum mers' trunks, general baggage and
merchandise, beginning May 25.
YINToN ELECTRIC LINE.
Leave Roanoke.
GOO a. .l040 am. 3:20 pm. 7:20 p. m
$40 a.m.11:20 am. 400 p. m. 500 o. m.
7:20 am .12:O0 m. $40 pm. $40 p. N /.
500 a.m.12:4O p. IN. $50 pm. 0:2O p. 10.
$40 am. go pm. 600 p. N. 1000 p. M.
$50 am. 900 pm. GAO pm. 10:4O p. N.
1000 am. 2:40p.m.
WE. CARR, General Manager.
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GROVER AT LAKEWOOD.
Ills Quot Family Life In the Jer-
soy Pine Woods.

haby Euth's Sled. tho Russian Cutter, tho
visiting Statesmen, Something About
The Cottage and Town and-LanE-
don Doesn't Know but Suspects.
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d. MORGAN, tho Shoemaker. Makes and ro
pairs NIL kinds OF boots and shoes ut lO4 Nelso,
street. opposite market house. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
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Salem avenue.
nv. LlNEBACK ucccssor to Eutslcr, % Salem,
avenue.
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PRACTICAL HORsEsHOER,

n. HALEY Greats all diseases of horses fest,.
Fourth svc, between Jefferson and Horny att.
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PLUMBING, GAS-FITTING, 40.
ROANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING CO., nc
~ South Jefferson Street. -
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w. II. CLARE ~ Co., Office 10n Henry stroos.
TINES building, =. o. box 1856 Everything
that goes into building Ut mill prices. BY tbs
car Dad only.