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tional malady, and had resolved to TAX.
unusual precautions during the dav.
Ny friend. the doctor, had cautioned me
against certain indiscretions such as
going out to my lunch without an over
coat. and others which he knew that |
would commit just the same. A physi-
clan never loses any money by giving
us good advice except when he neglccts
to collect the bill for it on the spot.
However, was thinking of what he
had said, when the bell in our fat
tinllled twice. This is the postman's
ring. and indicates that he has put
letter in the little box in the outer hall.
This signal is countcrfcitcd very sue
cessfully by people with bills, who en-
ploy it to decoy an unwary citizen into
n confession that he is ut home. If he
expects "a letter with n check in it he
will very likely run downstairs without
waiting for his servant to finish black
ing the stove, and if, at such u time, he
encounters II man who asks him for
nineteen dollars he will probably com
init assault and battery, for which Of
Tense, supposing am on tho jury, he
will never get anything worse than
disagreement. In this instance, how
ever, assured myself by prudent
inspection from the window that it was
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Police Court News.


The police court was rather a dull
place yesterday morning. William
Gains, colored. was arrested on war
rant and fined S.
Charles Thomas was convicted of
carrying concealed weapons and fined
$40 for the offense.
Ella Smith was locked up Tuesday
night for raising a disturbance and
fined s..
John Rodgers was arrested for tres.
passing on the Norfolk and Western
railroad and fined 50.
Harry Martin was fined $40 for carry
ing concealed wea mons.
The officers say tina; things are un-
usually quiet now.
Dick Smith, colored, was dismissed,
having been arrested On charge OF
vagrancy. In a few hours after he had
been given his liberty he WAS rearrested,
the officer feeling sure that be filed the
description of q negro wanted out in the
coun ry for stealing Il steer. TIE man
protested to his inn 'cencc, hut was
locke within toe iron cells To await
further ocr"tOaments
Tn" cas-" of Monthly. charged With
carrying c ncsaleu Weapons, was dis
msst ior la,k OF evidences Mount W
was in the room with Nellio licndricxs
when she killed herself Sunday night
and she committed the decd with his
weapon.
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physicians there is as the sands upon
the Nantaskct beach. l have seen so
many doctors signs on 4 single block
that L have doubted whether Il human
being could walk through and preserve
his ordinary health. New York has a
distinct advantage. for whereas in Bos-
ton they derive their colds from the
east wind, here we are not dcUcndent
upon any particular point of the com
pass. We have 4 good deal of fun with
our New England ncighbor, but we
continue to set out the cough medicine
as matter of etiquette when anybody
calls upon us. In Chicago the little
breczes blow the bacill of cold across
the city; and then the wind shifts and
blows them back again from the bound
less prairie.
There are many remedies for cold.
once looked the subject up in med
zeal work which devoted nincty-nine
pages to it, and the remedies averaged
thirteen to the page. The doctor who
went through this book with me was
more honest than the man who wrote
1t, and he admitted that they were all
utterly mo good" except one which
nobody had ever tried This is to alb
stain from the use of any fluid what
ever for sevcnty-two hours. am not
Joking about this; it is really SO set
down. If any man will actually stick
to this. it will cure him; and if he has
been sufficiently wicked in his life he
will never have cold again during the
remainder of eternity, nor any fluid
either, according to the doctrine was
brought up in. For he is man better
fitted to stand drought than am if
he lives through it.
My deduction from this mass of facts
is that the secret of the whole matter
lies in prevention. / said some of these
things to Maudc one morning about
two weeks ago. She was expressing a
fear that she had caught cold ven
turcd to suggest that she might have
done 1T on the previous night when she
spent some minutes leaning out of n
window to see whether a small fire a
mile or two up the street was likely to
spread to our residence. To tell the
truth, had experienced on that morn
ing some slight premonitions of the na.
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stoned to write another on GLOW Dis.
tlnguishcd Statesmen Blow Their
Noses but nobody wanted that his
torical article upon which had spent
so much time. Finally 1 sent it to the
Magazine of American History. After
Sin months wondered what had be-
come of it and called at the office to
find out
Mrs. Martha ]. Lamb, the editor. who
so recently died, received me with an
embarrassed smile. 81 was just about
to return your article she said. 81
have kept it so long because l really
wanted to print it,
why don't you, then?"
Because she said, ''wc can't afford
to pay for it. Comparatively few of
our articles arc paid for. But most of
them arc written by people who earn
their money in other ways and pursue
their historical studies in odd hours.
You are Il professional writer and not
used to working without pay"
That was the beginning of pleasant
acquaintance with one of the sweetest
and finest characters American woman
hood has furnished. I mention the
incident merely to show under what
difficulties Mrs. Lamb worked A
magazine which could not pay it's con-
tributors at all could pay its editor but
poorly, nor could it provide her with
much assistance. There may have
been typewriter girl at her disposal,
but certainly no such force as is con-
cerncd with making the ordinary
magazine.
But the zeal of the woman con-
quercd obstacles. She lived for twenty
years at the Coleman house Il very
quiet life, often in ill-health, seeming
to take little interest in what are
usually considered feminine interests.
Her reward was in her work itself and
In the name she left. For few. if any,
arc the American historians who have
done more than she to cast light upon
dark places. DAVID WECus1.ER.
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literally naked, though they usually
wear hats on account of the glaring
SUM-
One day a Costa Rica grocer sent his
boy to deliver some goods purchased by
n family newly arrived from more in
element ATTITUDES. The boy was wear
ing sore toe and brunette smile
When he returned he brought the
grocer note, vigorously objccting to
his attire, or lack of it.
"Cnramba" said the grocer stcrnly,
you young villain, don't You ever go
to that house again without putting on
your hat
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THE COLD WEATHER.
Howard Fielding Discusses the
Groat National Malady.
lilo lIns Given His Mind md Both Lungs
to tho subject, and Has evolved Some
Important General Principlcs-uow
to Keep Warm.
lCopYI,lGur. 1898 I

At this season of the year, when so
many of us arc suffering from colds and
others from the medicines they have
taken to get rid of them, think that
few words from man who has given
deep thought to both these applications
may not be out of place. have had
the subject on my mind, my lungs and
@ good working majority of my other
vital organs, for n long time.
Boston is supposed to he the head
quarters of the cold Physicians in
that city arc supposed to subsist almost
entirely upon the east wind. 1t must
be very nourishing, for the number of
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simply ideal hotel-keeper In politics
he has been successful, as he would be
In anything he might undertake.
There are just four reasons for the
cutlery against Murphy, in which many
democrats JON.
Though American born he has an
Irish name, and Irishmen are still not
too popular with some of our people.
He is brewer, and the state has q
large temperance element.
He is "Iiill'sman." and inhcrits Hills
enemies.
His connection with the aqucduct steal
was certainly unfortunate, for that lob
casts suspicion on all who had aught t
do with it.
For the rest, wait and see.
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turc are costly while color is cheap.
This he once illustrated by decorating
room for ten dollars.
1t was when Edmund met his aesthetic
ahnlty-so his friends say-that he be-
gan TO cloud his career by affectation.
Mrs. Edmund Russell is wonder
fully fine animal, "panthcrcsouc." n
woman called her, probably more than
once; stately, superb, gliding, graceful.
Merely to see her walk across n room
with every muscle in harmonious plav
under her thin vesture was a Sight
worth seeing. They got on very well
together for awhile. Mrs. Edmund alb
eorbed Edmunds ideas, and he in turn
basSed in the reflected light of her Of
fnlgence when Mrs. Whitney and 9th
ers took her up" They posed to-
gether at receptions. He talked of art
and tho hidden meaning of things;
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really tho postman. Accordingly, ]
wcat down i'll II hurry-such Il hurry, in
fact, that forgot the key of the letter
box. 1t is possible to fish letter out
OF such box with apcnknifc. Indeed,
there are in New York, am told, some
men who live by this occupation alone.
tried the penlSnifc game on the letter
in my box, but an honest man has no
luck in this town. The vcstibule was
colder than the place where Lieut..
Pcary froze his nose, and the wind blow
down into my slippers from all points
of tho compass. But when a man
starts to do little foolish trick like
that he will not be deferred by the
prospect of leaving his large family in
destitute circumstances. 1 broke my
pcnknife, cut my fingers, and under.
mined my constitution; but l got that
letter. 1t was Il cough medicine circu.
lar.
Maudc rcproachcd me for my i'm.
prudence in exposing myself to the
icy blasts of our vcstibule. As was
about to depart for the city she put a
large silk handkerchief around nv
neck and turned up my ovcrcoat collar
with her own fair hands. She then en-.
gagged me in conversation for about
fifteen minutes, SO that when emerged
upon the street my temperature was
several degrees above high fever.
AS approached the L station n train
was just pulling in. ran madly up
the stairs and burst out upon the plat
form just i'll time to have the gate shut
i'll my face. The exercise had put me
in a perspiration, and that is probably
the reason why the next train was very
slow in coming, so that had to stand
upon the platform while the wind whis-
tied around me with Il noise like the
signing of weeping willows above an
early grave. 1t was also natural that
the train should be so crowded that I
was obliged to stand in the doorway of
the car while other people, whose loss
would be of comparatively little account
to the community, were inside in COM
fort and security.
At the door of the building where l
have my Office I met Mr.. Moriarty, who
owes me seven dollars and wishes it was
more. If his conversation were worth
centpcr one thousand words should
get my money back every time I met
him. The spot where he buttonholcd
me this time is the coolest that can be
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RAILROADS
RAILROADS
N = 4 :: Wy AorfoIksWestern

SCHEDULE IN KFFECT OCTOBER 30, 1897.
wEsTBoUND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
$40 a. m. washington and Chattanooga limited,
for Bristol and beyond Stops only Mt Rad
ford. Pullman slcepers to New Orleans Mem
.o phis and Nashville. Dining car attached.
s:oo a. m for hadford, Pulaski, Bristol and all
intermediary stations; also Ior Bluched, Po-
cahontae, Elkhorn, Cinch Va ley Division
ana Louisville via Norton Pullman sleeper
to Lou svillc via Norton.
I:5U ,. m. Il tRadford, Pulaski and Bristol also
for BlucncdOhio extension; leaves Dlu.fl
b:l0 u. IN. daily for Bcnova, Columbus and
the West. Pullman slccpcrs to Memphis via
Chattanooga.
NORTH AND EAsTBoUND. LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
us a. m, for Petersburg, Richmond and
Norfolk.
l2:45 p. m, for Washington, Hagcrstown, Phila.
dclphia and New York Pullman elcepc
Roanoke to New York, via Harrisburg and
l245 p. III. daily for Richmond and Norfolk Pull
man parlor car To Norfolk, connects Mt Lynch
bnrg Union station) with Durham division.
b:10 y. IN. for Bucna Nistn and intermediate sta
tions. No connections beyond.
9:4o p. m. for Richmond and Norfolk Pullman
sleeper to Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich.
i245 might washington and Chattanooga lin.
itcd) for Washington, uagcrstown, Philadel-
pha and New York. Pullman slccpcrs to
Washington via Shenandoah Junction and
New York via Harrisburg. Dining car
attached. Stops only at Basic, Shenandoah,
Luray, Shenandoah, Junction. Shepherds
town, Antictam, Grimes and st. James.
Durham Divisio on, Lynchhurg, lUnion
- ana Durham and intermediate stations.
Winston-Salem Division-Lcave Roanoke (Union
elation) o:d5 a. IN. daily for Rocky Mount,
diate stations.
ofico or to w BEViLL.
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke, Va.
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found between the East river and the
eighticth parallel of north latitude.
Moro hats blow off there than any,
where else in New York, and if there is
an lnterminable taller in the city it is
in that spot meet him every cold day.
did not dare to cnticc Moriarty into
the building, because he would have
gone up to my office with me and I
could not afford the price of his exit.
lie took me into his confidence. Ihad
been there before, and knew that there
was nothing in it. He related the
various mishaps which had prevented
his returning the seven dollars. He
sketched the combination of circum-
stances which would enable him to re-
turn them in the near future, together
with as many more as 1 could let him
have. When finally purchased release
from him and assembled to my office
was so cold that / sat down to work
with my ovcrcoat on. Aftcrward, it
got to be SO warm that I opened
two windows and removed the over
coat
Presently, when the thin skim ice be-
gan to form in my ink bottle, l awobe
to the consciousness that had taken
cold, Then ran over to Briggs drug
store to see if he had anything new in
the way Of q microbe killer. 1t was
only one hundred yards or Il little more,
so it seemed hardly worth while to put
on my ovcrcoat On the street the bows
were crying an "eXtra," and stopped
to purchase one. The boy did not have
change for dime, but he said that he
could get it in n minute. ! waited for
those nine pennies while the boy gam
bled for them, and as the luck was
against him, had to wait few addi-
tional minutes while he wiped up de
street" with the other boy Although
this delay was worth only nine
cents to me, it proftcd my doctor
by about nine dollars. Briggs, the
druggist, also made something out Of
it, for by the time I reached his store
felt the need of something exceeding
ly searching" The boy behind the
soda water fountain prescribed for me
rs usual, and went away very sick.
During the afternoon i ran over to
Briggs frequently, and when it was
time to go home / had exhausted the
products OF modern scientific research.
Then went to see real physician who
is not in the drug business, and he rec
commended the old stand-bys, whisky
and quininc. took them. | took the
whisky internally and the quninc
home to my wife. This morning my
brains feel like two pints of dried APP
pies thoroughly noistcncd in q pail
holding one quart and having its cover
fastened down. They feel as those ap-
pies may just one second before they
blow the cover of the pail of.
And though ! am not in condition
when my thoughts are of any earthly
use to myself or anybody else, am
still dimly conscious of few ideas
Among them is one which hope that
my readers will seriously consider,
that n fool can get cold in any
while wise man can get along
on two handkcrchicfs day right here
In New York, if the luck is with him.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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pres cnce and
pleasant smile.
If he were n
q rum III err he
would sell big
bills of goods. If
he were an actor
h G w ould b G
called magnet
ic." IL he were
n II crchant he
would be enter
prising and sue
C e S s f IL |. He
would mclyo a
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DANCING NUTS.
Ihey Grow In Old Mexico and Arc Moved
by an Insect Inside.

by an Insect Inside.
remarkable curiosity is a nut which
| grows ut iermosillo, Sonora. Old Mex
leo 1t is called the neuz del diablo.
which means the nut of the devil. The
other afternoon Maj. Davis. who is inst
now holding down Col BARRIERS chair
as adjutant general in the department
OF Dakota, was sitting in his easy chair
contemplating half-dozcn of the meats
OF these nuts, which had just been sent
north by an officer of the regular army
who is now in Mexico. The nuts we're
dancing about in rather mysterious
way, and a Pioneer Press man and scy-
eral others who were watching the
strange performance were completely
myStificd
I'll not tell you what is the matter
WIN tncse nuts, said the major I'm
not going to give away my trick. When
man learns good straightforward
performance is he going to give it away
for nothing? guess not"
The nuts continued to dance. and
Lieut.. Sturgis, who was as much in the
dark as the reporter, began a critical
examination of the crazy objects sun
posed to be inanimatc.
on, yes, | think l have the trick.
SAID the lieutenant. "Thcrc is soma.
thing alive i'll these nuts. There is n
strange throbbing in them"
The reporter picked up one of the
nuts and surely enough there was a.
very peculiar throbbing sensation in it.
me ma1or!was so thoroughly amused by
TINS time that he could no longer with.
mold the secret. 1t seems that worm
is born on the inside of the meat of this
nut and that it lives there for soma
week, weeks and dies without seeing the
hight of day. The worm cats ont tho
inside of the meat, then becomes
FESTIVE and moves about good deal. It
Is IN this period that the nuts become
apparently animate. The moving ~
inc worm causes the nut to turn abont.
Pioneer Press
Manufacturing BroadcIoth.
In the manufacture of broadcloth
there are thir,y-fve separate processes
through which each piece must 90
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ICoPYRIGHT, 1891

as often as formerly and the champagne
has fallen off in quality. The butcher,
baker and electrolicr maker suffer, and
all tradedom repines because the queen
is too old to stir things up" socially.
Uradedom seems to think the court was
made for their especial benefit.
New York different? Rather!
Never before were private entertain
mcnts given with such lavishmcnt and
luxury. New York is the best market
for pictures, antique furniture of
certain sorts, jewelry, silver plate and
the like in the world. More money is
spent in the shops of New York than in
those of London. They are bigger and
finer. Paris hold its own better, large
ty by American trade. Americans like
Paris 1t resembles their own bright
cheerful cities.
When the politicians find out what it
lis that makes America rich we'll all
know why 1898 is going to be good
trade year.
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she complained that the papers didn't
call her beautiful. don't see why they
didn't.
'Suc them for libel and offer your
photo rs evidence" one of my friends
once advised her.
Sad to relate, the aflinitics are now
eight thousand miles apart, with APP
parcntly no desire to be nearer; sep
aratcd, in n word.
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himself and has
done and said
some extremely
sensible things
q l o N 6 W i t h
III a II y absurd
ones. Certainly
art principles as
applied to cloth
IL g-h i 8 first
h o b b y a r c
r e u $ o n a b lie
enough. So is his
aphorism of dec.
GRAFTON that
form and tex
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thought | would
sell the manu-
script for publ
cation. Nobody
would touch it.
My article on
THE + n | S c
Teeth of Well
known Men" was
gobbled up at
the first bite, and
l was commits
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DOA NOKE STREET RAILWAY
la SCHEDULE.
SALEM DUMMY LINE.

r.,
EAST. WEST.
Ly Salem. Ar Roanoke lLv. Roanoke. Ar. Salon,
o'lo m. GAS am. 7:15 am. 7:45 a. m.
o'Ou am. $3.50 am S:45 am. Oil a. m.
9:5o AMI 1000 q. IN. 1918 am. 10:45 a. m.
!i:oO pm. 1870 p. m.11:45 p.m.12:15 p. IN.
lS:5O pm. LOO pm. lis pm. 1:45 p. N.
S:OO pm. 2:3O pm. 2:45 PIN. 3:15 p. m.
$3.50 pm. 400 pm. Ais DIM, 4:45 y. M.
o:l5 pm. 5:45 pm. 6:15 pm. 6:45 p. m. .
E1o Pm. 7:45 pm. 9:45 pm. 10:15 p. m.
N. B.-Theater nights last train leaves
Roanoke at 1o:45; arrives Salem 11:15 D.
m. Sundays, the first run is omitted.
Trains leaving Roanoke at s:45 q. m.
and AIS p. m. on Salem dummy line will
have baggage car attached for carrying
drummers' trunks, general baggage and
merchandise, beginning May Is.
vINToN ELECTRIC LINE.
Leave Roanoke.
600 q. m.10:40 am. 3:20p.m. 1870 D. m.
6:4O a.m.11:20 I'm. 4:00p.m 500 q. m.
7:2O a.m.12:00 m. 4:4O pm. $40 p. N.
500 a. m.12:40 pm. $50 pm. 9:2O p. m.
$40 am. 1:20 pm. 600 pm. 1000 p. m.
$3.50 am. 300 pm. $40 pm. 1O:40 p. m.
1000 a. IN. 2:4Op.m.
W.T.. CARR, General Manager.
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1Esthctic Aninities.

sec that Edmund Russell is making
great hit in California, and | am sure
no one will begrudge him his success.
De is plump, pretty and pleasing
little man Who thoroughly believes in
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cign lands, the
most entranc-
ing topic OF
conversation on
earth, and the
doctor told this
story: In the
Spanish Amcri-
can countries it
is customary for
S c r'v S and
young people to
go about in hot
weather almost
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
DEFAULT HAVING BEEN MADE
Il h1 tho haraix. 4

EFAULT HAVING BEEN MADE
~ by the hereinafter named person
in the payment of assessments made
upon the shares of stock held by said
person in the Roanoke and New York
building and Investment Company, of
Roanoke, Va, shall, as directed by the
directors of said company, on Thurs
day, February 10th, at II o'clock M,
at my Office, 200 First street 8. W., sell
at public auction to the highest
bidder the following shares OF stock
for the payment OF assessments due
thereon
John A. Cook. shares. ...... $3.50 &c
e. j. BOND,
Secretary Roanoke and New York
Building and Investment Com pany.
l 16 got
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Senator Murphy.

Now that the smoke of combat has
cleared away, what sort of fellow is
6enator-elect Murphy after all?
He is what men call "a good fellow"
Q handsome. Mell-built man of chenru
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Stick them on your letters.
Stick them on tho wall.
Stick;them everywhere and help I'd.
vertise. tho town.
They are the Same as tho .careu IN
tho aret page OF TIN TIMEs.
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Mrs. Lamb.

once had occasion to prepare his
torical paper. Its purpose fulfilled, /
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An Improper Story.

The doctor, the author, the farmer
and were talking OF travel in far for
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Manufacturing BroadcIoth.
In the manufacture of broadcloth
there are thir,y-fve separate processes
through which each piece must 90.