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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
TwANT rs KNOW.

She came from way down east, they said,
And being introduced she led
Me there to recapitulate
Tho city's phases up to date,
And whom my full directory
had retailed she said to me-
II want to know"
told her everything knew
That worthy was of interview;
Retailed 20 her each shopping mart
The homes of drama, music, art,
The drives, menagerics and parks.
Described with eloquent remarks
Tho watering places roundabout,
Enthused DER each excursion route,
Talked till, in fact, my tongue grew weak,
Then heard again in accents meek
II want to knowf'
Angels of mercy! Had then
Obcyed the impulse born of mon
And with warm maledictions hurled
That spinster to tho lower world
From open window where sat,
Would not the gods approved of that?
want to know?
Boston Courier
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03

boornhouse for the purpose of getting
"thored out"
The boomhouse showed its little red
window just below us ON the rocks.
The two tiny rooms of the place
looked warm and bright as we opened
the door.
Half dozen men We're drinking coffee
from tin cups at u table. The BOOM
house man, apathetic as ever, with his
resinous looking hair in his pale eyes,
was frying bacon in q great skillet
The innkeeper joined the throng at
the board. His daughter and sat by
the stove in the inner room.
shall never forget that room, The
pattern of the homespun coverlet on the
boomhouse mans pallet is indelibly with
me.
Soothed by the heat the innkeeper's
daughter dozed off, with her feet on the
hearth. l remember observing with
dreamy interest the yellowness Of the
teeth exhibited in the graceful abandon
of her slumber. thought of snuff. I
think had IL drowsy moment myself.
Some ono stamped noisily into the
other room and asked for whisky.
glanced out. 1t was the mill man of
Idy's infatuation. He flung himself at
length on bench behind the cook stove
and lay with shut eyes. His clothes
were dripping with thin mud, and an air
of utter WEAKNESS pervaded his attitude.
"He had scarcely looked at the boom
house man. glanced at him, however,
and became aware that his aspect had
changed. Something like life shone in
the pale eyes under that unkempt hair.
He was standing still, just staring with
a half blind gaze at the man OH the bench.
Suddenly he stepped forward like a
shadow.
cts you, amt it," he said
The man on the bench shot round a
startled gaze. He saw the revolver in
the lean hand leveled toward him. He
must have recognized Idy's father in the
figure standing over him, sternly poised
as to deed of necessary vengeance.
81 knowed God Almighty d give you
up to me soon or late" said the old man
simply. II waited. They amt nothin
to say. You know what you're dyin
for"
The whole thing was singularly pas
sionless and without any aspect of trag-
edy. On the stove a painful of meat
cracked. Noises from outside came
distinctly. The candle flickered and
cast thread of light on the lifted face
of the man on the bench.
1 myself had a sense of inability to
move or speak. The innkeeper's girl
slept on. Whatever consciousness 1 had
seemed to be i'll the millmans frame.
passively awaiting Il sharp, metallic
click. There was no chance Mt all for
him. He seemed to see this and to take
it calmly.
$50 on" he said II wronged you.
I've gotta little daughter-myself If
you've any heart in you-don't say
why
His voice broke.
The briefest instant passed. And then
there was sound, but not the sound we
waited for The boomhouse man moved
n little. The rigor left his form, and 1
saw his arm fall slowly against his side.
81 amt going to kill you," he NUT
tered. "You got daughter. Gro and
see as no black hearted villain steals her
from you."-Eva w. McGlasson.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
Answered..

Agony of mind distorted her classic
features.
Kneeling upon the tufted floor of the
front parlor, she held her clasped hands
aloft.
"What have done,' she moaned, "that
l should be thus cursed?"
Then she went on to relate amid sobs
how many young and eligible men had
come to call on her. how they had uni
formly shown symptoms of an acquaint-
ance ripening into love, how they had
suddenly become cold and left with q
few perfunctory words of farewell.
"Heaven help me" she cried, with all
tho earnestness of a distracted soul
And even as she spoke breeze stole
into the window and gently turned her
cooking school diploma toward the wall
Ere yet another month had passed the
cards were out.-Detroit Tribune.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
THE SOLVER.

Eyes have they, but they see not-pota-
toes.
Noses have they, but they smell not-tea-
pots.
Teeth have they, but they chew not
saws.
Feet have they, but they walk not
stoves.
Mouths have they, but they taste not
rivers.
Hands have they, but they handle not
clocks.
Ears have they, but they hear not-corn.
stalks.
Tongues have they, but they talk not
wagons.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
Farm Lands In Different states.

The value of farming lands in this
country is greatest in New Jersey. In
1888 farming lands averaged in New Jer-
sey $65; Massachusetts, $50; Ohio, $i6;
New York, $44 Vermont, 500; Mary
land, $32; Wisconsin, S23, and in some
western states less than S. per acre.
Charleston News and Courier.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
CITY DIRECTORY.
ofthe Principal Business Houses
of Roanoke, Va.

The following is published daily for
the benefit Of strangers aud the public
generslly. 1t includes all trades and
professions and cannot fail to prove of
interest to all who intend transactine
business in Roanoke:
PLUMBING.
ROANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING COM
PANY.
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, ETC.
BowDRE SHOE CO., ITO South Jefferson st.
FURNITURE, CARPETS. ETC.
y. II. STEWART FURNITURE co.
WIN. f. BAKER CARPET co.
REAL ESTATE.
}. F. WINGFIELD.
j. 5. GROVES ~ co.
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS.
f. j. AMWEG, Terry Building.
ARCHITECTS.
CHAS. C..WILSoN. Commercial Bank Building.
GROCERs.
c. II. WERTZ, Commerce Street.
DRY GOODS.
HEIRONlNIUS IL BRUGH, Commerce Street.
ROSENBAUM BROS, Salem Avenue.
CLOTHIERS AND GENTS FURNISHERS
K. Il s., Salem Avenue
DUGGAN ~ SAUL Ell, Jefferson Street.
PIANOS & ORGANS.
HOBBIE:MuSIC co.
HOTELS.
HOTEL LEE, EUROPEAN, Commerce Street,
HOTEL ALEXANDRIA, Chicago
PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING.
STONE PRINTING CO., Opposite Hotel Roa.
noke.
ROOFING AND METAL CORNICES.
ROANOKE ROOFING AND METAL CORNICR
COMPANY.
IRON WORKS.
CUSHMAN IRON COMPANY
MARBLE WORKS.
JARRETT Il BROWN, Camp ell Avenue
DRUGGISTS.
MASS1E q MARTIN, Commerce Street
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03

OUSSAINT, 1.-THE
Man of the Hour"
THE Chief ofBan-
ditti;;" Napoleon,
"TheChief of Ban
ditti," 1.-THE Man
of the Hour"
Friends or enc
mics Of both eulo-
gized or cursed
them with the
same expressions.
Tous saint was
prince of the
blacks; Napoleon
pr in ce of the
whites over any
man of his time
b orn outsid q
the divinity that
h e dyes royalty.
The same social
upheaval brought
each in his own
sphere and time
To the front. the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
Don't ELAINE Him.

Jones-Robbins gave me this cigar.
Brown don't blanc him. Life.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-03
A BLACK SPARTACUs.
GEN. ToUssAINT L'ouvERTuRE, HAY
TVS WARRloR-SLAvE AND LEADER.
Tho Negro Uprising Contemporaneous
With tho Revolution In Franco Found
Him In n Cnbin-Genius and Character
Made Him Master of Santo Domingo.

Copyright, 1893. by American Press Associa-
ton. Book rights reseryedl
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14

There exists q difference of opinion
among bee men as to the value of Sec
tions partly drawn out and left over to
the next season. Some think that these
are only fit to be melted up. Others go
to the other extreme and think they are
worth very much more than sections
filled with fresh foundation. The editor
of The American Bee Journal inclines
to the latter view, and says:
If the sections are clean we would not
hesitate to use them over again. But
we should not want to put ON s1nch Sec
tions without knowing that they had
been thorouChl lily cleaned out by the bees.
For if q last years section should be
put on this year right in the busy stor-
ing time, and particles of granulatod
honey should be present, it is possible
the bees would go on filling up with
fresh honey without cleaning out the
old granulated honey, and thus the new
would be injured by the old.
1t is not necessary that the sections
should be put on the hive to be cleaned
out after extracting but it is decidedly
necessary that they be put somewhere
for the bees to clean out. They'll maxi
surer work of it off the hive than on.
Put your supers of sections somewhere
where the bees can visit them, protect
ing them from rain, and allow very small
entrances SO that only two or three bees
can pass at a time. If you allow too free
access, the bees will tear the combs to
rincaa
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
Selecting Seed Corn.

Long. straight ears with small cob and
but little larger where it joins on the
stock should be the ones chosen for seed
The greater ease of husking such corn Is
not it's only advantage. twill generally
ripen earlier, and this early ripening
makes crop many seasons when other
wise there would be soft corn, fit only
for immediate feeding. Corn that is
ripened under favorable conditions will
be filled out to the tips, and these large
round grains have been proved by ex-
pertinent to produce stronger plants
than those compressed and fattened in
the middle of the cob. The present year,
owing to the drought, much corn has
filed poorly. There will be many ears
where the grain is scattering, as drought
destroyed the pollen from the pistils be-
fore the silk was ready to receive it.
Such ears often have scattering grains
that, having plenty of room, grow very
large. American Cultivator thinks it is
worth while experimenting with such
corn, as, if the seed is well dried, it will
undoubtedly produce extra strong and
vigorous plants.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14

The feathers are plucked three times a
year-in July, in October and in Decem-
Der. The popular belief is that the feath-
ers of lean geese are better than those Of
fat ones, and those Of living geese better
than those of dead ones. The feathers
are plucked in July from the young
geese, and the down from under the bel
ly, wings and neck. The feathers, though
from a living goose, not being come to
maturity, are inferior to those plucked
in October, which, being taken at the
season when they would naturally fall
off, are in perfection. The feathers
again in December, being taken from a
dead fowl, are inferior to those procured
in July. On this principle it is evident
that the sooner the goose is plucked aft
CT it is killed the better.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
SIDE HILL iCEHOUSE.
Superior to Many, But 1t Is More Expen-
sive to Build.

Superior to Many, But 1t Is More Expen-
sive to Build.
Farmers who are not already provided
with an icehouse wi1 do well to con-
struct one before the season arrives for
cutting and packing the ice, and the
sooner now that this work is done the
better. A side hill icehouse has several
advantages, and it has also some draw
backs. 1t is more expensive to build,
but, The Country Gentleman says, it has
the advantage of the more ready filling
of the upper part by drawing the loads
of ice above and passing the blocks
through the upper door. A form of con-
struction suggested by the authority
quoted is that of building the lower part
of stone and the upper of common verti-
cal boarding. AS the lower part is more
than foot in thickness, the timbers of
the upper must be so constructed as to
give an equal thickness and to allow all
the contents to settle alike. If, however,
the whole Is built of stone, this provision
as to thickness is not necessary.
1t is hardly necessary to mention the
common provision for making noncon-
Quoting walls by allowing air spaces to
be filled with sawdust. This sawdust
should be 10 inches or foot in thick
ness and carefully and compactly filled
in. II there is perfect drainage below,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
Georgia In q Bad Way

One has to take only an occasional
buggy ride over our roads to notice that
they are growing worse and worse each
year. This is not only the case in this
county, but all over the state, and it
seems to be an evil peculiar to Georgia,
since we see no complaint of bad roads
in any of our exchanges from other
states
Something must be done, or the people
will have to stop travelling after awhile.
The general condition of our public
roads is already disgraceful to q civil
LIKED people. and they are growing
worse. If it is the reimbursement of
laws, let the authorities who have their
enforcement in charge be awakened.
If it is the need of better laws. it is high
time somebody was suggesting some
measures on that line. We must have
better roads or relinquish our claims to
being civilized, enlightened and pro-
gressive people.-Oglethorpe Echo.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
On the Country Road.

Oh tnc CounIry kSO80s
Turkeys need more grit than other
fowls.
Government crop report points to AGO.
300, 900 bushels of wheat, $50, 900 bush
els corn and 64O, 0O0, 900 bushels Of oats
The cherry tree appears to be peculiar
ly adapted to roadside planting. because
it thrives with little care and no cultiva-
ton. Cherries make handsome shade
trees, and their fruit can be sold profit
ably during certain seasons. Their
growth is also rapid, and few woods
command better prices for manufactures
Store the root crops in a cool, moist
cellar or pit.
A Country Gentleman correspondent
says that ne has found sawdust to be an
excellent covering for silos. He uses no
weight, but covers one foot deep with
sawdust that follows the ensilage closely
vixen il settles, as planks cannot, partic-
rlaIly if it settles .unevenly.
Reducing bones by turning is recon-
NEEDED by The Rural New Yorker as
the cheapest II ode when small quaint.
ties are to be applied, and it is recon-
mer ded also as the only way that some
farmers can get them into fine meal or
powder.
The whea. sent to the Worlds fair
from Oregon weighed heavier than that
from any other state. Its average was
between 62l and SO pounds per bushel.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
Putting Away Bacon Hams.

The following plan is recommended by
Rural New Yorker correspondent as
the very best for putting away hams
for summer use on the farm. He says:
After the hams have been properly
sailed and smoked, put each in COM
mon muslin sack-I make mine of flour
sacks or cheap brown muslin and as
nearly the shape of the ham as l can
roughly block it out, but they are never
perfect fits. Then stitch firm loop
made of a scrap of cotton folded and
stitched at one end. Have your sacks
large enough at the open side SO that
after the ham is in you can fold the open
edges over well and sew tightly. Now
have ready a tub or big bucket Of slaked
lime that is creamy in thickness and
warm enough TO penetrate cotton easily.
Put wire hook in the loop on the sack
and dip the latter up and down with the
ham in it of course) several times in the
lime water until you are sure the pores
of cloth are filled with the lime. Hang
them up in the air till perfectly dry,
then lay or hang away anywhere that is
convenient.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
Good Roads Benefit All.

II the farmers know their own inter-
ests, as men who want to get to markets
as easily as possible, and if the great
mass of consumers of farm produce, who
live in cities and have to pay higher
prices for farm produce that is hauled at
extra expense over bad roads, know their
interests, they will all put their shoulders
to the bicyclist's wheel and join him In
crowding state legislatures, city govern
ments and town governments to cover
the face of the country with good roads.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
PAIR OF TOULOUSE GEESE.

flock of geese makes no small addition
to the income of the farm. Not only
are geese valuable for their flesh, but
their down and feathers represent fair
money value. Practically the farmer
has but two varieties to select from, the
Toulouse and Embden, if the bes; meat
producers is to be the rule for selection
of his stock. William Rankin OF Massa-
chusetts, who has had 80 years expert.
ence in keeping geese, has been quite
successful with two crosses, thOse made
by mating an African gander and Emb-
den geese and then crossing the young
geese with pure African gander. The
two varieties Of China, brown and white,
although hardy, are not large enough
and do not make pounds enough of flesh
for the early market.
The TOulouses head the list as suscepti-
BILE to greatest growth for extra care.
They are good layers, and their heavy
bodies admit Of their being confined by
low fence. The Emblem, or Bremen,
although not quite SO large as the Tou-
louise, have the advantage of being pure
white. Their meat is white and deli
cate. They yield an abundance Of
valuable feathers, all the more desirable
on account of being white. Either the
Toulouse or the Embden will be profta-
BILE, with proper handling, yielding as
they do two crops a year, one Of mar
ketable goslings and another of feathers.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
f|!|I,ri}|f o5r.$,e;Stock
sSSa sslg ldEHlsGA
GEESE ON THE FARM.

rouitry Yielding Two Sources OF Profit,
GosiinGs and Prime Feathers.
1t Ia a subject for speculation why
geese are not more generally raised by
farmers. The profit accruing from a
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
Wintering Onions.

The chief difficulty in wintering onions
Is in keeping them too warm and too
cnoist. That is the trouble usually when
they are kept in cellars. Any place
where they can be dry and held at q
nearly uniform temperature about the
freezing point Is best. Onions may freeze
without being injured, provided they are
not allowed to thaw and freeze again.
Where, however, the winters are too
warm to make this method Of keeping
safe, it is better to prevent freezing, but
keep the onions where they will be at all
times very near the freezing point.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
A Handy Road Scraper.

Why spend money in buying elaborate
road machines? The 20 inch disk har-
row is found on every well regulated
farm. First go over the road, put in ths
culyerts, cover them with dirt and take
out stumps and rocks. Spread 90 inch
d;sk harrow to the full width of the road
bv boiling by 8 piece to the weigh.
hoy and another in front for hitching.
pnt a team and driver in front of each
Gang and 90 ahead, followed by another
so inch harrow spread to run inside the
St ;s the advice Of Rural New
Yorker correspondent.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
1cEHoUsE BUILT IN HILLSIDE,

the side walls we'll constructed, the ice
covered with sawdust on top, over which
there is a free ventilation, the ice will
keep we'll. An interior size Of IA by 16
and 8 feet high will hold about 40 tone
and will keep plenty of ice during the
time mentioned for moderate family,
if properly cared for.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
The Loss 20 One State.

Massachusetts,, according to the report
of the state highway commission. loses
$4,000, 900 annually on account of its bad
roads
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-06
HiRD TINES BENEFIT COSEY ISLAND

"Irs an Ill wind that blows nobody good and the
financial srlngcncy helps the local hotels and trades
men by keeping in town many OF those who USUALLY
seek cooler summer quarters. Business men gen.
orally. and those who feel too poor TO take their
summer trip, sim IN New.York. and take what
outing they can by going 10 Coney Island or else.
where IriIby The travel tho Coney Island
roads ~ for instance the Sea Beach Route. gives
fair idea of what this indirect local benefit amounts
TO one of the officers OF that road said yesterday
that its travel exceeded on each day OF this year
t,t of The corresponding day Of last year. and that
tho Increase on Saturdays and sundays was pienom
email The inability 10 procure boats only prevented
quarter hourly service being established. But
unusually large trains run for the comfort Of the
passengers on the other hand, with the exception
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-06
HELD FOR DEFRACDING HIS CREDITORS.

Emil Abeles thirty one years Old Of No. 446 East
One hundred and sXteenth-st. arraigned in the
Tombs Police Court yesterday charged with frauducnty
removing property with intent TO defraud creditors
Otto Wagner furrier. Of No 20 Prince ST.. was the
complainant on June %, Abees. who is a retail
furrier went TO Wagncr's store and got furs worth
1901, representing that he was perfectly solvent.
On July l5 he made assignment, giving no
valid excuse to his creditors when his assets
announced as 81 900 and his liabilities $4,000.
Bernard Scigel, OF No. lis Eldridge-st, said that
while he way in the employ Of Abces he had taken
quantities OF furs and bags to pawnshop IN the
Iowery, and TO the shop Of AbeleS's fathern-hw'
1SSa.aS,s nj No 80 south iifthavc. Justice
Meade held the defendant for examination Au-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-06
NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS.
VESTCHESTER COUNTY.
WHITE PLAINS.

The cornerstone of the new Hall OF Recorus' UT
addition 10 the Westchester County Court House.
was laid Yesterday afternoon at White PIaihs WIN
Masonic ceremonies by Frederick a. Burnhaih'
Grand Master of Masons Of the State OF New ork'
assisted bv a number of associate ohcers Mem
hers OF visiting lodges present In considerao!e
numbers The Grand Master made an appropriate
address Among the articles deposited were copy
Of the constitution and statutes Of the Grand Lodge
Of the State of New-York. including Est OF oni-
GERS and also list OF officers ana by
laws of White Plains Lodge. medals COM
memoratng the capture of Major Andre the
freedom of the Grand Lodge from debt a medal
lion OF George Washington and his headquarters al
Tappan. copies of the county newspapers. PORTRAITS
OF county officials and representative men, history
and directory of White Plains. and other docu-
ments. The site of the building is in Grand-st
west OF the Courthouse. The style OF architecture
is TO be Romnnesque. The building will have two
stories and basement. and will be 45XIo feet heavy
blocks of Kensco granite will compose It's outer
shire granite and the interior trimming OF OAK
The ceilings will be sixteen feet high The flooring
will be constructed of steel beams. filled In with
terra-cOtta arches laid with tile. The building Will
be heated by steam and ventilated through large
nues. and when complete will be considered fire
proof For the storage of papers hreproof vault
will be built in the basement The County Register
second floor will be given over to the County
Clerk and his assistants Both officials will have
private Offices also The building will be completed
next spring.