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and day and much of it had been so
warm with imaginative fcrvor that it
rushed out of the ventilators before it
could be taken down.
Il hope this warm wind won't start
the snow off these mountains" said the
railroad man as he lit n fresh cirar.
Just look at the weight of snow on
that peak above ms. If it should come
down that long toboggan slide it would
bury the track under fifty fathoms.
Ever see slide? No? Well, saw one
last week on another road. 'Twa'nt
bigger n II baseball when it started.
But 1T kept growing until finally it
jumped over 4 prccipicc an started II
chunk of snow bigger II barn. that
came plunging down, sweeping the
whole side of the mountain clean as this
floor.
IF the hand o God had struck that
train it couldn't have been more help
less. The flying mass of SHOW hurled
1t into the ravinc as if it had been ~
babys toy. Four men were buried un-
der the slide. We found three of them
Smothcred to death not far below The
surface. Whom we reached the fourth
victim thing happened I'll never for
got 90 the day die. He lay under the
engine, where he got just enough air to
Keep him alive. When we pulled II i'm
out The poor fellow raised himself to his
elbow, rubbed his eyes and said: 'Boys,
I'm bnricd.' Then he fell back dead.
The doctor said that we uncovered him
too quick Ii we had thrown something
over his face for an hour or two we
might have saved him. You see, them
Slides pack so hard it takes piclax to
make any impression on en-, an if they
cover IL man he's gone for good. Its
lucky that the best railroads are so
carefully protected and patrolcd that
there is practically very little danger
from Slides"
1t was rapidly growing dusk when
Powell, our good-naturcd giant of II
porter, laid our luggage on the platform
at Butte City. One meets so many i'm
pudent, lazy and rum-soallcd porters on
the far western roads that cannot
help praising. this mans careful attcn-
ton to our comfort. The great camp in
the mountains lay under sitting
cloud of SCOT and smoke. Though the
sun was just set we had to gropc our
way to the street ears. 1t was as if the
air and smoke OF hadcs had burst out of
some hole in the ground to ovcrwhclm
the city. The dogs in the streets were
Wheeling and painting. But half way
up the mountain the lights are burning
in countless shops and gambling houses.
and the miners are thronging in and
the nightly hazards of fortune have be-
gun, and even tie ncw come tcndcrfoot
who stands watching the game will
shortly forget how greatly this atmos-
phcrc doth offend the lungs
DAVID WECusLER.
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Jeanne has no more hair?' The girls
point at Jeanne the fingers and the
men laugh, and because the glory is
gone say rude things. All. well,
Jeanne, who cannot think to know that
the men love women for hair and bright
eyes, and not for kcrchicfs or sabots,
Jeanne has been well punished
And as the def little French woman
with the masses of cloudy hair touches
madamcs nerves with balmy words,
her hands stroke madame's trcsses-thc
few whisps that have survived tongs,
a!kali washes, modsh cuts and hercdi-
tary baldncss-with practiscd ease.
The apartments are handsomely fur
nished, homcliile rooms. Fires burn in
the CRATES, The latest magazines arc
strcwn about the tables, and we'll
dressed women. whose carriages are
known on Fifth avcGue, bend over them
awaiting their turn i'll the sllylit
severely practical chamber, through
whose curtains the little French woman
may be seen at her art. She is truly
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OVER SEAS OF SNOW.
Tho Stirring Incidents Of Plunge
Through North dakota.
Some New Stories of tho woolly West
Tho "Ole Marc" and tho Cattle
Tho Snow Wall aud tho
Deadly Avalanche.
fcopYR1Gur, 1881

1t was bright morning, and the
frosty iron scrcechcd and roared be-
meath us, when we swung out of the
Red river valley and squared away
westward for our long rush across
North Dakota. We had left st. Paul ut
eight o'clock the night before by the
Great Northern and had passed through
stormy inferno of cold. About mid
night we stopped for Il few moments
aud heard Il trainman inquire how cold
1t was of some one at the station.
Forty degrees below Zero" was the
cheerful response.
But with plenty of blankets we had
slept quite us comfortably as we could
have slept in our own homes
When we awolle at length and lifted
our window shades the snowy plains
were sparkling in the sunlight, the long
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pei the irritation with which New Yorl,
women of thirty years enter these apart
ments to ward off the too swift APP
proaches of age.
For it is here that scientific treatment
of the hair has been known not only to
tighten dropping tresscs and awaken
life in comatose bulbs. but to coax the
fiber from the heads long bald-mcns
heads, ut that, which have shown for
years in the orchestra circle bald as n
billiard ball.
Their wives como earlier in the Gav.
and in due season are ushcrcd into tie
operating room, where the couture is
pulled TO pieces, and various little curls,
which peep SO ulluringly from the
Psyche knot or the stately chignon. are
ruthlcssly picked out from the scanty
locks which madame praises.
Not long" She murmurs, with dis
paraging eyes glancing over the switch
cs and front pieces of the demolished
structure. Gin u few more weeks mad
anne will find Il new growth like the fuzz
on Il baby's head 1t is no miracle, oh.
no. The good saints intend all ladies
should have hair, but the scalp gets
tired, but rub it and am Il docteur, SO
that the hair must grow"
Then the doctor scizes Il magnifvinr
glass and examines every inch of the
head, after which she massagcs it for
several minutes. Next she rubs IL lotion
into the pores and an ointment down
the strands of hair. These She cure
fully dries, almost hair by hair; other
preparations make it glossy or fluffy, as
the operator sees fit, and much brush
ing and strolSing and smuggling of split
ends evolve the treatment for that duv
into Il mastery couture.
1t is only in serious cases that the
madame insists upon bistcring Il head.
1t is not good policy, because it is Ger
tainly painful and extraordinary care
must be taken for many weeks Yet
there is no other way tn remove the
thick cuticle from Il marble bald spot. :"
and reach the living bulb beneath.
Madame swcars by the virtues of her
process and vows that the madame in
the long chair will see the results be
fore long. And sometimes madame
does.
If she docs not, if the hair veSiclcs are
utterly dcfunct and the laborious life
of Il rich society woman has Slapped vi
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COMMISSIONERS. SALES.
4 COMMISSIONERS SALE OF r

4 COMMISSIONERS SALE OF REAL
- estate In Appomattox county, Va.
AS commissioner OF the circuit
cours of the city of Lynch.
burg, in the suit of S. M. Bocock
ana others against w. p. Bocock's ex-
ecutor and others, entered at the
NoVenoer term, 1887, the undersigned
VIII sell IN front OF the court house of
AppomattoX county on Thursday. April
d, 1893, all tho real estate in said conntv
of which Willis p. Bccock died seized
and possessed, containing 9, 800 acres,
situated on Bent creek, about six miles
from the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
ana about ten miles from the Norfolk
and Western railroad. There arc fine
and extensive buildings of-an descrin.
tions usually found in the country on
this land. The quality of this land was
originally good, consisting of creek bot
tom, high land, original forests and
neeas only the care and attention of q
skliiai farmer to make it all that could
be desired. Tho land has been owned
by tho testator for more than gener.
alton and his title has never been oues.
toned. This land will be sold as a
whole or in parcels to suit purchasers.
Judge ID. a. Christian, of Appomattox,
Will take pleasure in showing it to per.
sons desiring to examine it.
TERMS: Ten per cent. OF purchase
money cash; the balance in three equal
instruments at one. two and three wears.
bearing legal interest from day of sale
for bonds with good personal security,
retaining title. In case a purchaser
may prefer to pay down as much as one.
third of the purchase money, personal
security may be dispensed with.
b. w. BOCOCK. Commissioner.
In the ClQrlrfc 80
circuit court: Bond given as REQUIRED
| by above decree.
Teste: s. q. WINGFIELD, Clerk.
22 2taw ill arr6
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TRUSTDBS' BALES.

VNRl STEE'S SALE.-BY VIRTUE OF DEHD
OF trust dated the 18th day of July, 1871, and
recorded In deed book G6, page 2ll, in the clerks
nokc, Va, from w. ID. Myers and wife TO fine nm
.eIsiehcu trustee, default having been made in
nc terms thereof, and being required so 10 do nv
INC beneficiary therein secured will, ON TIL f.
S2D DAY OF APRIL. 1929. AT II O'CLOCK
No MCoN, on thc premises, in the city of Roanoke
oiicr lor SAFE c following described parcels of
land with the improve ncnts thereon consistinr
or dwelling house, etc:
FIRST BeginniI Z at the northwest corner OF
Ernest avenue and Twenty-third street thence
along said avenue north Is degrees 10 minutes
west 81 rect To point, thence north II degrees 80
ah ne east ~" iect to an alley. thence with
ealu alcf s0rth ~ degrees 81 Minutes east 20 ii
rect 10 1wentythird street, thence with said
street south II degrees 81 minutes west o. feet 10
the beginning. 49, ~
Second beginning at the southwest corner y.
jackson avenue and Twenty-third street. thence
along SAID Jackson avenue north 90 degrees 20
minutes west 50,GU feet To n point thence south
II degrees - minutes west 100 15 feet 10 n noint
on an alley thence with said alley south ~ de-
stees % minutes east 50.4 feet to Twenty, bird
strect, thence along Twenty.third street north II
degrees ~ minutes cast ~ feet to the bcgjnninr
known as lois and III, section 10 as shown on
map OF webb addition to tho city OF Roanoke.
TERMS or SALE: Cash as to the costs Of so,c
anu the sum OF $lil %, and NJ TO the sum of
sStS.i3 npon credit 10 become due in monthly
ths.aimchts or S2l.61. without Interest, on the
fourth Monday OF each succeeding month IRON,
the day OF sale, and the residue upon a credit OF
one ana Two years with interest deferred nav
nents TO be secured by deed or trns, r'
NOTE: The purchaser Mt this sale will buy sub
lect 10 TWO prior deeds OF truet on the premises
both In favor of the Peoples Perpetual Loan and
building Association. one dated the llth dav of
Aptil. 1881, and recorded in the clerks onlcc ar
thc CITY OF Roanoke, in deed book ~ page 3l2
day OF April, 1892 and recorded In the same Or
nn NC IN need TOOK ~. page PSI, for the sum OF
Si'tVc, NE credits upon which may be obiaine,i
oj applcation ~ tho undcr-lCned
. :. ,ds VIM, f. WINCH Trua,ee
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auburn, as mode dictates the color ard
the style.
Upstairs, where ones own locks are
liShtcned with scientific applications of
peroxide, or changed into dusly
bronze with ''mczzolina," there is much
discussion as to the coming manner of
coiffure.
I'VE cannot say positively" an
nounccd maiden whose head was a
GOOD advertisement for her establish
mcnt, for we haven't had any direct
word from the other side. But we are
pretty certain that the hair will be
worn very broad and low down on the
side of the head in puffs and rolls"
Rats" groancd a voice. eyes, rats"
was the reply. "And the bang will be
pointed in a long curl with side pompa-
dour. Perhaps it will be parted through
the middle for another year, with tiny
bang. Too bad the chignon is taking
the place of the three empire puffs, one
high at the point of the mead and the
other two lying against it. The regular
French twist will come again, too, and
the hair will not be crinlilcd with irons,
rs it is now, either. More and more will
be used; with the rolls and puffs great
many switches will be needed The
acw style will be very exclusive indeed,
hecanse everybody cannot afford to fol-
low it."
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about four feet high by as many feet II.
width, then when the drift reaches the
top of it we widen the foundation and
raise the wall until sometimes it is
higher'n the telegraph poles and MS
solid as n ledge of rock"
"Somethin's on the track" he con-
tinucd. Great Scott. Hes playin' n
tune with that whistle an holdin' 'cr
down to Il stan still. Cattle, probably.
Hello! Hes struck into herd of EN-,
sures yer born. See 'cm? Gosh! How
the ole mare as thmnped en-"
Looking out of the window we saw
half dozen cattle that 1.-The old mare"
(as the traclimau dubbed the cnginc)
had flung into the drifts. Some were
standing on their heads, shoulder deep
in the snow; others lay half buried,
their feet pointing up at the Sky.
You see" said the railroad man,
those cattle are turned out to shift for
themselves. Their feet got sore tramp
ing over the snow. It's the crust that
hurts en-. But We sec the tracks clear,
and when they strike it they think it's
the road to Heaven"
Don't you ever stop and try to drive
them ono" l inquired
Dangerously he answered, Shaking
his head wisely. 'Thosc critters'd make
for Il fellow an gore I'm to death N u
mint. They amt use to man unless
he's on Il horse, an if they see i'm
round, seems if they wanted to find
out what's inside of i'm. Our cnrin-
GERS have stopped before now an tried
to drive 'cm off with clubs. but they
IN, l.;
back on the ingync. Them critters
are glad { see YOU but they amt over
polite
Cattle are fools. anyway" said a
young fellow in high top boots and u
felt hat, who, they told me after he had
left the train, was the most extensive
sheep owner III Montana. Cattle arc
fools, but sheep axe just chunks of NUT
ton with four legs and the breath OF
life but no brains in EN-. On day like
this they'll run with the wind til their
lungs give out an then drop and pile
up like mountain. OF course, the
under ones are tramplcd to death. and
the coyotes git the rest. I've known a
flock of II thousand to kill itself in this
way. We have To watch en- an when
the wind blows hard we drive 'cn agin
it, tacliin' just rs you would with sail
boat. Sometimes it takes all the dogs
an riders on the ranch to keep 'cm from
turnin' around.
Shortly after noon the second day out
our ''old mare" Shot through the gate
of the Rockies. A hundred miles back
she had shaken the frost off her heels
III warm breeze from the south and
the iciclcs on her mighty sides were
dripping when we stopped to give her
another lunch of coal The gossip of
the smolSing-room had continued night
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tality until it cannot respond to the
"lsillfnl touch of the 'masscur of the
>calp,' there is another fincly-appointcd
suite of apartments not block distant
whore she may bctallc herself Hair
dressing Parlors" is the legend on the
card. but on the first floor one secs ONLY
the wigs, the artificial curls. the clab-
crate coitfurc, all ready to he pinned
upon the head which are the viyacious
French woman's abomination. The
prize hair of a large ncwly-imported
stock is here-poor little Jeannc's,
whose cropped head is bowed now dis
consolatcly beneath the jibcs of her
companions. The glorious masses of it
sell for Il sum which would delight her
peasant heart with kcrchief and sabots
for many day. The preparation of
the raw material is SO careful that n
woman may almost be pardoned for COW
ering her scraggy growth with soft,
clinging silky curls of naturally waved
gold or braids of brown, or puffs of
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FHE GLORY OF WOMEN
How to Trim and Dress Your
Locks and Keep Them Glossy.
fses of u Blistorcd Scalp - French
uairdrcsser Discloscs Some of tho
Secrets OF Her Art-Ideais
of tho Artists.
COPYRIGHT. 1891

"But l assure madame, it will not
hurt; just five littlo moments, and
madame VIII not know that her head
has been touched with the iron. Bis
|ered? That ugly word! Madame
links it is the torture, but swear to
madame she will not cry out. Pouf! l
screamed myself with the fright after |
vas ill with tho fever, and they
brought Tire iron. But when they
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an artful person. Whitc-capped maids,
III reality hairdrcssors. too. who are,
employed to AID the madame in her
business, pass back and forth -hroug,
tnS rooms; subtle penetrating odorS OF
Vi"'e'' hciioirops and rose subduc pom
adcS ana TONES and washes used for
scalp massage, wl,ic the ra;sicnne's
running voice AID cooling lies quite dis
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RN VIRTUE OF a DEED OF TRUST DATED
~ september ~, 1890 and OF record in the
crk's office or the Hastings Court for the city
OF koanoGe, Va, IL deed book 90 page ZIG,
whereby Il. u. Doln conveyed to the under,
signed trustee the parcel of land hereinafter
mentioned to secure To Josiah Friend the nav
mcnt or the sum OF $1,000 evidenced by ono nofe
or S25o payable GO days after date, 20 notes of
SO each, payable monthly, with interest from
GATE, ana whereas default having been made i'm
tue payment OF live or said notes and being re-
Gnestcd so to do by the beneficiary, WILL ON
THURSDAY, TIE BOTH DAY OF MARCH, 1888.
Al IL NJ in front OF the courthouse at Roanoke
CITY, proceed to sell Mt public auction to tho
nlshest bidder the parcel OF land in said deed
mentiohed and described as follows:
Beginning ut point on the cast side OF Wheat
street 10 feet south OF Dale street. thence south 80
degrees east 40 feet To alley, thence with said
alley south 10 degrees west BY feet to a point
thence north 81 degrees wcst 10 feet to Wheat
street, thence with Wheat street north 10 dcrrees
east S2H feet to the place of beginning
TERMS: Gosh sufficient to pay the expcnses
OF executing this trust, including trustees
commission OF legal per centum, and to pay OF
and discharge the amount OF notes in which de-
tault has been made, and the note to become due
march ~; ls!l3; say Sl72 Is, and the balance in
monthly instruments OF S2S.S0 each, with interest
until all unpaid notes above mentioned be paid
or and the remainder, IL any, in two years from
date OF sale, all OF said deferred payments to be
properly secured. BE COLE
% tue Trustee.
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showed to me my poor hairs all thin
and weak, ] said: 'Oui. oui, scald me,
blister me, take away the skin. 1t is
better to die than not to have the long
curls any more And SO. rs madame
may believe, they burned the head,
and 1 laughed at the hurt Madame
may sec that l have my poor
little curls, SO poor. SO dark beside
madame's hair of yellow. But it will
die and force madame to the wig. the
hidcous wig of an old woman Horri-
bic. Will madame let me save this for
her? In my France the fisher girl
wears Il little cap 70 hide her hair Her
hair is scarce, holy think, YOU call it,
and besides the men, those foolish mcn.
they run after the girls and whisper
silly words il by any accident they see
the great braids. And when the luck in
the boat is bad, and the pcrc and the
frcrc cannot buy new lscrchicfs or s;.-
bots for the fisher girls at home. the
little fools cut Off their hair for the
wrctchcd francs one send, from Paris.
Then what avail the kcrchicfs or the
sabots after 1t is whispered all about:
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MONEY TO LEND,
ToNEY TO LOAN NOW

MONEY TO LOAN NOW
On real estate security, no delay; now
Is the timo TO build home. Apply to
OSCAR D. DERR, No. Campbell ave.
nue. s. w, Roanoke, Va. Holm
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TRUSTEES SALE-BY VIRTUE OF A DEED
=. -, OF tiust executed 20 me ny Cyrus Lair and
Il. ! :. h inbred, Jr., dated December l. 1890 and
recorded in the clerks Office OF the lIustprs
Court OF Roanoke, Virginia, in decd book No Il
Pnse ll6, etc, and to secure to the Virginia Real
Estate and Investment Company the payment of
tnS snm ol wv. nty-fonr hundred and f,ty dollars
cIIi,to.( IN eighty tSo) instalmcnts or thirty
Goihrs (S3o) cacp, and final instalmcnt Of
hity dollars (:So), payable ON the first ay OF the
ing the date OF said decd, with interest thereon
AT the rate OF 6pcr cent. per annum from said
uatc evidenced by eighty (S0) certain negotiable
(ScfoD EACH payable on the first day of the eighty
~ months next succeeding the date OF said
u.eu on trust and one note for nifty dollars $50
payable IN eighty-one (SD months from said date
respectively, with interest rs aforesaid, and de-
iault having been made In the payment of the
swe,h,ty-ionrlh Ieithl twentyfth (a5th). twenty
instruments and notes. and having been required
so 10 90 by the beneficiary in said deed of 'truet
snail ouer for sale to tho highest bidder, by
DAY, APRIL 18TH. 1873. AT IL O'CLOCK Nj.
IN front or tho Huatings Courthouse In said CITY
~ Unit certain lot or parcel of land in the city OF
Noaahokc, State OF Virginia, designated aud de-
scribed as follows. to-wit:
beginning at point on the south side Of Tazc-
We'll street forty four (4D feet west OF Wheat
street street thc1cc south five degrees and nine
!5,S) west one hundred and thirty-nne and
th'rtt- two hundrcdths (l3g 32) feet TO an alley
.ncnce with said alley south seventy -four de-
srces anu nltccn minutes (iio $50 west thirty one
ana six tenths (3i.G) feet to point on same
thcnce north fourteen minutes (0e $50 east one
nnhnrcd and thirty five and thirty eight hun
dredths (la5.3S) feet TO Tazcwcll street, thence
nnHewcll street north seventy -four degrees and
uteen minutes ca $50 east forty.four (i.) feet
10 sne pace or beginning, together with the
TERMS OF SALE: Cash.
,or,, m EDWARD lLSLEY, Trustee
MOIE: The deferred instalmenrs or purchase
money on this property are said TO have been
assumed by Mrs. Laura Stormfcltz u 9Ct
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R ao SALE-BY vIRTUE OF TWO
deeds OF trust. one dated the 18th day of
s Way, lS'o: and recorded in deed book 3s, page
-, ana the other dated the 10th day OF ,Jnne
iS'o, ana recorded in decd book :S page 1S9 in
inc clerks Office of the corporation CONT for the
cry OF Roanoke. Va, from w. j. ~ L. Blair ,Jr
no ths nndsrsigncd trustee default having been
so TO DO by the beneficiary therein secured, will
U ~ ME ME ltdii DAY OF APRIL. 1898. AT IL
UCLpCh NOON, on the premises in the CITY of
Roanokc, ofrcr for sale the following dcscriecd
parcel or land with Its handsome IMPROVEMENT
consisting OF n large dwelling house
beginning At point on the south side OF
Blair avenue and 1915 feet from Franklin street.
tncnce with Blair avenue 5. ~ degrees L. ii feet
10 point, thence S II degrees w 15T feet to
spruce street, thence with Spruce street n. ~
uesteIs W 20 feet to point, thence N II de-
greSs b. l5I feet to the beginning.
TENNIS OF SALE-Cash as to the costs OF
Gals and the sum of Sl,5'2 ~ and MS to the sum OF
Si,G,I.i.' upon credit To become QUO in
monthly insts ments of SIC - without interest.
on on the dth Monday in each succeeding month
rom ire day of sale, and the residue upon n
crcuit OF one and two Years with interest Dc
lcrrcd payments to be secured by deed OF trust
WIN. +. WINCH, Trustee
~ nc nc aoove Gcscrine0 property has been sold by
INC Nlessrs B.air and the purchaser assumed tn g
No ia n'e"ts. Jim