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have Numbered, and Numbered badly.
Nevertheless, it was n brilliant scheme
to smugglc the diamonds into America
by this means"
The jewelers. argument proved cor
rect The arrest and trial of the ste W.
ard of the ocean steamer elected the
fact that he had been intrusted with %
bottle of wine by an acquaintance in
England, which he was asked to de-
liver to II gentleman, who would call
for it in Boston.
There was no name attached to the
package, and he supposed it was of no
more value than others of a similar
brand which he had in his charge, be-
longing to tho ships stores. He put it
in his room, and never gave it a sec
ond thought, until on reaching port he
was presented with an order for the de-
livery of the wine. Being in hurry
at the time, he handed the caller what
he thought was the.right bottle Then,
little later, when Damon came on
board, he made the reporter present
Of the one containing the gems.
The steward was consequently no.
quilted by the authorities, but received
his discharge from the steamship COM
pany for his indiscretion.
Damon. the reporter, was given the
reward, but could not prevail upon is
friends to share it with him. they urp.
ing that it belonged to him, and him
only.
Once year, however, up to the pres
ent time, the quartette sit down to q
little dinner together, and, as may be
supposed, the principal topic of CONVEX
sation is that wonderful bottle of Bur
gundy, whose contents were never
drank, though portion of them serves
to enhance much of the feminine
beauty both in America and England.
although few of the wearers realize
that their glittering gems were once
eagerly sought for when they were
stolen Diamonds" Marlton Down
ing, in Yankee Blade.
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Tenth Century Oaks In Maysac,,usetss

The great oaks of Waverly, Mass,
are survivals of an oak forest that must
have existed in that region, according
to the biologists and students of trees,
as far back as the tenth century. They
bear every evidence of great age, and
an elm tree in the neighborhood, with
its great limbs lying on the ground and
nearly all of its branches decayed, is
the most venerable object in the line of
trees that can probably be displayed in
any part of New England 1t is we'll
worth visit to Naverly just to see this
venerable elm. 1t is immense in the
size of its trunk, and it's dignity in de-
cay is very impressive. The dozen oak
trees in the neighborhood are of the
sort that attain very great age and
that maintain their virility nnimpaired.
We know of only one other tree in New
England that can be compared with
them. That is located in Ipswich md
is larger and more venerable apparent
~ than any of the Waverly oaks, and
that and the Waverly oaks, we are
glad to know, have been inspected by
the state park commissioners. and are
likely to be preserved. -Boston Herald
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1t so bad that the talk of its coming has
been kept up against protest for full
two years? Why, cores, of course. Do
you know what it means to get twelve
to fifteen yard circumference down to,
say, twenty-siX inches? It means cores,
it means gathers. it means no woman
her own dressmnker, it means also
trimmings.
Are we fighting bogy? Is the erin
oline an impossibility? Well, maybe,
but could you get men to have their
trousers cut six or eight inches en- the
pavement? You can and have got the
long gown, SO let us not be too com
fortably sure.
was at n reception the other even
ing where the popularity of present
dress conditions struck me humorously.
Making their bows to the hostess ut one
and the same time were tall and
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death, and the subject of a good article
Tor the morning journals"
cry of surprise escaped from tho
lips of the jewcler guests as each ST.
simultaneously stretched forth to grasp
the small object which had been the
means of SO disturbing the equanimity
of their host.
why, Damon! It's diamond" cried
Mr.. Wordsworth, excitedly.
"A diamond" reiterated the report
crs. aGhast with nstonishment.
IF it is not valuable gem, never
saw one" continued Wordsworth.
What say you, Richardson?" turning
to his companion in the trade.
ut is Il stone of the first water" con-
clusively replied the experienced deal
err in precious metals.
"How came it in the bottle, do you
suppose?"
Can it be one of the stolen Jewels,
think you?' asked Damon, his news
paper instinct leading him with light
ning-lillc rapidity to trace their find"
to the steward who had given him the
wine, back across the Atlantic even to
the vaults OF it's original owner
Perhaps" answered Wordsworth,
his voice husky with excitement. "But,
quick, Damon, bring us basin, and
we will examine the contents of the
flask"
His hands trem bling, Mr.. w ardsworth
struck off the neck of the bottle by a
single blow of n fruit knife which he
took from the table, then allowed
the Burgundy to flow freely out into
the china bowl. With bated breaths,
the men watched the glittcring spray
as it fell from the jagged edge of the
shattered glass!
Diamond after diamond mingled with
the ruddy wine, and sparlSled with
scintillations which dazzled the eyes of
the bcholders!
For moment the occupants of the
room stood about the table, speechless!
Then the jeweler grasped the hand of
his host and exclaimed:
Damon, your fortune is made! These
are undoubtedly the jewels which were
taken from the safe of Jaspar, Sturgis
81 Jaspar, London, and the reward of
twenty-five thousand dollars is yours.
A small fortune, my boy, small for
tunc!
"Then if the Establishments gold
NOihSS Nhio W. ~ SHull De QlNlueQ INTO
four parts, and you, my friends, shall
share with me-" returned the reporter,
promptly. but what is to be done?
l know column exclusive for the
morning paper" and the young man
sprang towards his desk, with the in
tention of writing out n startling story
of the wonderful recovery of the stolen
diamonds, valued Mt one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
He was restrained, however by his
friends, who assured him that to pub
lish the matter now would be to serve
as warning to the thieves and thwurt
the ends of justice.
1--WE will take the diamonds down to
my store and lock them up" said Mr..
Wordsworth. "rhen notify the police,
who will probably arrest the steward,
and then cable across the news"
II am sorry that have been the
means of causing trouble to the man,
for we are old friends" observed Mr..
Damon.
"The steward may be innocent"
urged Damon's companions. do you
think if he knew the contents of the
bottle he would be likely to give it
away? No. SIR" added Mr.. Wards
worth, you mny rest assured that
some of the principals in the affair
u I'm
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Her Motive.

Priscilla-Mrs. Wabash has filed an
application for divorce.
Prunella-Indeed! I wonder whom
She wants to marry?-Truth.
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short woman. The tall woman wore n
straight, short-waisted empire frock,
the short one wore an 1880 gown,
hounced and so suspiciously large in
circumference us to suggest steels in
the petticoat, one, il not two. Tho
hostess glanced from one to the other
and somehow kept her countenance;
but we who stood behind grinned. 1t
was the meeting of two generations;
and the older was by long odds the
more graceful
AT supper there was u fine chance for
the connoisscur in shoulders. Eating
her salad, just opposite, was n big,
plump, placid blonde. She scarcely
seemed to speak or to move aud her
skin was too smooth to allow the idea
that she ever disturbed her counten-
ancc with smile. She adorned life
sufficiently by existing and existing with
those shoulders. They had decided
slope to them, like the shoulders of
1850, and to bring out their old-ncw,
antique-fashionable shape more clearly
deep bertha of magnificent creamy
lace was pinned about them. She was
an ice maiden, frozen to the shape of
my grandmother.
Standing behind and looking down
upon her was Il FREELY. The FREELY had
black hair and dark burning cheeks and
IL black frocl with crimson bows stand
ing upon the shoulders The shoulders
were square and high and English as
shoulders have been for five years. 1t
made very pretty picture to look from
one to the other, but, impassively
against nerve bunch though it was, the
nerves had the best of it, for square
shoulders are wholesomer. 1t takes a
perfect digestion to stand out against
sloping shoulders.
I've seen some pretty walking dresses
lately, and it's time to drop ratings
against fate and fiat steels" and tell
about them. In winter trousscau at
which was looking this morning was
dark red street dress with n red brown
skirt scalloped and faced with rcd.
Two Sits formed pockets and the back
was laid in four plaits showing red on
6 Ser
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-15
CITY DIRECTORY.
OF the Principal Business
Houses Of Roanoke.

u'o frlnClpaI buSsne89
Houses of Roanoke.
The following is published daily for
she benefit Of strangers and the publia
generally. 1t includes all trades And
professions and cannot fail to provo Of
interest to all who intend trsns.ctin,
business in Roanoke:
AROHITEOTs,
holland % DE SAUSSURE, Architects, Nh.
VIM. L. REID, Masonic Temple.
WILSON q HIGGINS, second foor Commey
cial Bank Building.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw
MoHUGH u BAKER, Room 500 Terry Building.
BOOTS. SHOES, TRUNKS. RrO.
]. BACnRACH, 81 Salem ave.
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS.
I'd. AMWKG, Terry Building.
EhANA II. MAY. Room alo Terry Building
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
NAT. BUS. COLLEGE, Srd ave. d Henrvst
CANDY, M MAE,FR. FANCY 0AKE BAKAn
ICE CREAM FURNISHER.
CATOGNrs, so Salem ave.
CLoTHIER. TAILOR AND HALTER.
Jos. COIN (E. II. Dawson, Manages), q salsy.
ave. " ''~a
CORNICEs, SLATE AND TIN HOOFrra.
III HEX MOAN0KE ROOFING AND METAL COR.
NICE COMPANY, Room 7O3, Terry Building,
COURT srENOGRAPHER.
CHAs. E. GRAVES, Office room Cog Terry Bldg,
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
q: W. sIsLRR, 4O7 Second st. n. c. (cou,r., ca,
kets. robes. &c). Tel. 1O9
FURNITURE. CARPETS, ETC,
COPPER y STONE, 10 Salem ave. &. Q.
GROCERs.
r. II. WALKER, Campbell st., door cast Of Jar
HARDWARE. wH0LEsALE AND RH.
BROWN 3 JOHNSTON, II Jefferson street,
HAY, GRAIN, &c.
DANIKL & noLLADAY, IA Kirk, rea,P.O.
LIQUOR DEALERS.
OPPENHEIM q CO.'S EXCHANGE, cor Com
merce and Campbell streets.
LUMBER, LATHs AND SHINGLES
TINES building, p. .. box 1856 EyerythinS
that goes into building at mill prices. BY lbs
car Dad only.
MERCHANT TAILORa
LEWIS. TIMES Building.
PAwNBROKERs.
8. NYBURG, - Railroad ave-, 60.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
ROANOKE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, No.
H LlNRBACK ucceseor to Eutsier, % ss,sra
avenue.
PLUMBING. GAs-FITTING, 40.
| ROANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING CO., 10.
~ South Jefferson Street.
PRACTICAL HORsEsHoER.
Al; HALEY Greats all diseases of horses festA
Fourth ave., between Jefferson and Henry rita
REAL ESTATE.
SIMMONS d TINSLRY, i9 Jefferson at.
RENTAL AGENTS.
ri. r. O'MOHUNDRO, 5. Jefferson street.
sOAvENGER AND GARBAGE WORE
PRYOR WoODsoN, 2a3 Fourth ave. n. W.
SEWING MACHINES.
Henry street.
SHOEMAKERs.
ID. MORGAN, the Shoemaker. Makes and m.
pairs all kinds of boots and shoes At 10l Nelson
street. opposite market house. Satisfac tioN
guaranteed.
BTEAM LAUNDRIEs.
DIXIE, Franklin and Second sts., tel. 49,
STENOGKAPHERS s. TYPEwRITEHN,
U. Id. HoGsETT, room - Masonic Temple.
TRANSFER COMPANIES.
ROANOKE TRANSFER COMPANY, Package
Room, South Jefferson st.. tel. li9.
CITY MARKET.
CHOICE MEATS.
BREADY lkoepe the best, stall 6, Market Home
Z. =. GAIT, stall No. 1 (sausage 4 specialtyl
]. w. HOGAN, Stall 8.
THOMAS NELSON. etall No.
w. N. SALE, stall No. 49,
CURED HAMS. BEEF, LARD, DO.
r. j. KEMP Especially beef tongues), stsll Il.
FRESH FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCES,
b. Z. ODKLL BROS, City Market.
DRESSED FOWLS, VEGETABLES, Dc,
8. J. AKKRS, City Market.
j. W. sIMCOE, City Market.
u,,I PsRR0DUCE, FISH AND OYSTERS.
HUDSON u DEAL, 10 Salem avenue q, 8
wholesale and retaiD.
ROANOKE DRESSED BEEr 90.
N. RRNSCH. Stall No. g.
ROANOKE
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THR ROANOKE TRANSFER
Il Company Is prepared TO do ali
kinds of hauling. They keep good
wagons, good teams and rcspon-
eible drivers. Prompt attention.
OMcce, Freight depot and jefferson
street, south. Telephone, 11q.
oct1-1-yr
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-15

THE head pieces of all fish arc consid
cred the most delicate and desirable.
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THE OLD RELIABLE AND POP
Il ular Dye Works is the only place
TO have your clothes perfectly dyed,
cleaned and repaired.
Prices very moderate. Goods sent
by express will receive prompt atten.
ton. K. WALSAK, proprietor, cor.
nor Commerce and Campbell streets,
Roanoke, Va. may396m.
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EREDERICK J. AMWEG, c. EN-.
! Am. Soc. G. 2. q Kngr's Club OF
builder, Commercial Bank Building,
Roanoke, va. apr23-tf
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GOETZ'S BULLETIN.

GOETZ'S BULLETIN.
We have again accepted the agency
for the celebrated "LADIES' TEN
DER FRET SHOES" Will sell
them again under the same guarantee
and as low as ever.
Goods damaged by flood will be sold
at great sacrifice. Como and look at
them, there may be pair to at you.
GOETz'S,
No. 101 Salem avenue, Cor. Henry.
11b 6m.
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Why do you read this when
you know II Is an advertise
mcntP You have begun, now
finish your reading. What VIC
want you to know IL: That VIC
do printing.
LOOKABlLL'S PRINTING
HOUSE.
ROANOKE, VA.
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WlLLHOOP SKIRTS GOMEZ
Maybe and Maybe No; Unhappily
You Can't Tell.
To Say Thnt Women Hnvo Too Much
Sense Is Flying In tho Face of History
- Winter Street Dresses and
Pretty Luncheon Gowns.
lcopYRlGuT. 1897

lCoPYRIGIT 1897
isn't it absurd?" said the woman
who writes cowboy and ranch stories
from the safe seclusion of Washington
square north.
The woman had climbed the six flights
of stairs which lead to my office on the
roof, and had sat thereafter silent for IL
space. My visitors usually do. Then
She had broken out as above written.
Isn't what ubsurd?"
THAT English women should be beg
ging the princess of Wales to countc-
nance an anti-crinolinc league. Do you
believe any woman in her senses would
put on hoop skirts in this year of grace,
princess or no princess, fashion or no
fashion,"
l looked at my cowboy writer's six
inches of good camel's hair lying on the
floor. Then l said, scrcncly: eyes;
any woman who wears long dresses in
the street would wear hoop skirts if
her dressmaller told her to-
My Texas ranger was silent for an
other space. Then she pushed up he
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-15
PODY & KENNERLY,
AGENTS FOR

AGENTS FOX
the celebrated Lincoln Block coal and
dealers in Pocahontas gns Goals and
wood. Office: Norwich Lock Works.
Orders promptly filed. II 2G6m
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DRESSED FOWLS, VEGETABLES, Do,
8. ]. AKRRS, City Market.
j. W. sIMCOE, City Market.
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CITY MARKET.

CHOICE MEATS.
BREADY lkoepe the best, stall 8, Market Aoups,
Z. b. GAIT, stall No. 1 (eaueage q speci sltyl
]. w. HOGAN, Stall 8.
THOMAS NELSON. etall No.
w. N. SALK, stall No. IL.
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SHOEMAKERs.
ID. MORGAN, the Shoemaker. Makes and 70.
pairs all kinds of boots and shoes At 10l Nelson
street. opposite market house. Satisfac tloD
guaranteed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-12
A WOMAN'S VIEW.
Mrs. Stetson Says Man Is
by Nature Good.
She Expresses Her Ideas as to What
Socialism Would Do for Men
and Women.

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins-Stetson's lecture
on Socialism and Morality" at Metropoli-
tan Temple last evening was listened to at
tentively, and appauded most apprecia-
lively by fair-Sized audience Of social re-
formers.
''What is morality?" asked the lecturer.
"The popular confusion regarding right and
wrong is unnecessary, for both are facts.
Right conduct is such as helps In tho line of
growth. That eonduc9 which leads us on
and up in our development is right con-
duet.
'At first the human race asked itself what
line of conduct would keep it where it was.
Then it occurred to the wise men to set ND
a higher standard, and their idea OF the
higher standard was how to get into heaven.
ut never occurred 10 them that there was
a moral obligation to improve the world.
They said man was bad by nature, that
there was an error in creation, and that
man could not progress further because he
could not be good.
"The tro uble was and really is that our
moralists utterly ignore the natural law.
And the natural law, If examined very cur.
sorly will show YOU that man is by in
stinct good. Men are bad only because of
the evil artificial conditions forced upon
them from the cradle. We struggle to re-
sist the evil influences of our social life.
I'VE begin the evils of our social life by
teaching children obedience. Here is the
first great wrong. When the child has
learned the lesson Of obedience 1t has
learned 10 abrogate ils own judgment and
surrender its own will to the judgment and
the will of others.
$50 already the qualities which make the
great man and the wise man have been edu-
Gated out OF the child. We have robbed it
OF clear judgment and strong will.s
I'VE do not teach our children morality.
We do not know it ourselves. We teach
them obedience. Obedience Of what? or
ourselves; and our own know edge Is
founded on what the preceding generation
told us. So wedon't progress as we should.
So it is that only by the sheer force OF evo-
luton do we move along at all toward our
destined higher end"
The lecturer then dwelt upon greatSins
1.-The initial assertion that the earth is
private property" said she. sis itself dis
honest, aud all institutions founded upon it
are equally dishonest
"Intemperance Is but one OF the results of
our lily balanced economic conditions.
Remove poverty and the greatest cause of
intemperance falls.
NOW, what Is the upward, onward way?
What is the way of morality? Socialism
furnishes the answer. Socialism recognizes
the rights of the living to an equal share of
all the good things OF earth. Socialism
would abolish the Ubiquitous evils of the
economic system, whereby IL is imp ssible
for men to be moral. Socialism would open
the way for the good there is in man to as
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-12
COWS MILK CAUSES PHTHISIS.
So Declares DR.. c. A. McQuesten.

And he ought to receive a salary common
surate with the Importance of his positi ON
and the arduous duties involved
lit should be his sole duty 10 visit differ
ent diaries and farms every day IN the year.
He ought to have a conveyance at his dis
posal, and assistance when necessary. And
he ought TO be clothed with the power to
destroy cattle and throw away milk when
ever and wherever he finds it impure or
infected.
"Other physicians and myself have from
time to time given as much of our time
and services in this matter as could pos
sbly be spared from our private businesses,
though the compensation was nil.
But il is entirely out OF the question to
expect capable physicians who have prac-
tees of their own to look ont for this thing
unless some adequate recompense is al
lowed.
And the truth is that mans whole time
is needed in this WORK. lis Importance to
the health of the community cannot be over
estimated.
THE scenes that have witnessed right
in this city have been enough to give one
the horrors and turn him forever against
cows milk.
"On the outskirts OF the city | have seen
children and grown people actually suffer
ing with consumption drinking milk from
cows that were far gone with tuberculosis.
"Of course tie suffering ones ala not
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Consumption Is the result of drinking
cows milk"
Rather sensational statement this, when
Il stands alone and is unqualified.
Yet it comes from an authoritative source
and is meant to stand alone and unqualified
DR.. Charles A. McQuesten. secretary of
the United States Board of Examining Sur
geons and a well-known practicing physi-
clan of this city, is the authority.
He made this statement to a CALL re-
porter yesterday and then followed it with
yet stronger statements.
81 mean exactly what l say; no more, no
less. The primary cause CT consumption is
the drinking Of cows milk.
'Of, course, l don't mean to say that
every single case of phthisis is attributable
directly 10 the patients having imbibed
infected cows mllk-though even SO strong
a statement as that is very nearly true-but
do mean to say that if the American peO-
pie stopped using cows milk and butter and
cheese made from cows milk, tubeTcular
consumption would soon disappear.
Let me put it another way:
I'm countries where cows milk is not
used, there tubereular consumption is not
known.
1.-The scientific world is awakening 10 this
fact, and soon we may expect a more rigid
inspection of our daily milk supply.
But l must say t is taking US an uncon-
scionably loag time to discover this simple
truth.
"Aud the proof is right at hand and IN
mistakaby plain.
''In China there is no milk consumed, and
consumption is almost an unknown guam
tily.
take the steppes of Asiatic Russia. Oaly
goats and mares milk Is used here. Con-
sequently there is 10 consumption. Goats
and horses are free from this seOurge Of
civilization, and those who use their milk
have yet TO know the terrors OF phthisis.
The same condition is, or was until re-
Gently, true of the South Sea islands. No
cows. no tubercular diseases.
Take the North American Indians before
the white man brought his whisky and his
cows among them. They had no word in
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Is that good milk will turn under this kind
of treatment in very few hours if the
weather is at all warm.
when you see milk stay sweet for a very
long time in warm weather you may de-
pend upon it that it has been Fixed with
this preparation or compound for keeping
milk sweet.
II have had samples Of milk that kept
sweet when exposed to the sun for three or
four days.
you can buy the preparation somewhere
downtown. | did know where, but have
forgotten now. The stuff is made especially
for that purpose. and 1t does It's work well,
there's no mistake about that.
Now. if we had regular milk inspector
here We could stop all that, bnt it is i'm
possible as things now are. The most we
can do is to try to stop it. How far we fail
it is not for me to say, but 1t is a good ways,
you may be sure of that"