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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-20
$40, 900 Fire at dickson, Tenn.

NASHVILLE, Aug. 19.-Fire at Dick
son to day destroyed score or moro
buildings. The loss Is estimated at
SIS, 900.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-20
JURY LOCKED UP over SUNDAY.
Mrs. Shann's Fate Will Not be
Known Till Tomorrow.

The Prisoner vigorously Denounced by
Prosecutor Stockton for Assailing the
Character of Herl Dead son-Judge
Abbott Makes an Able and Impatt nj
Charge.
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Our Forty ImmortaIs.
A PUZZLE, WITH MONEY PRIZES

A well-known author has been asked by
large n. Y publishing house to write a
book about the Forty American Immo' :
mOrtals. rhe author is willing to UNDER
take the commission, but he does not know
who the forty Americans are who, by deeds
or works, have so distinguished themselves
as deservedly to have won The forty high
est places in American history, So he APP
peals to the Judgment of Knights and La
dies of the Round Table, who read the In
DEPENDENT, and offers them in payment
for such Judgment. $50, a$10, a SIS, and
nine 81, in prizes to the twelve who send
lists bearing the greatest number of the
forty names that receive the highest num-
Der of votes in this contest.
Include only native or naturalized citi-
zens of the U. S., men or women, whose ca
reers have been completed by death. The
contest ia open to all who have not passed
their 18th birthday. Ifyou have not and
are not member of the order mentioned.
apply to Harper's Young People for
membership certificate. Application may
be sent with your list. There are no en-
trance or other fees. Write the names
one below the other, number them consec-
ntiyely, and place your full name. with
address at top of same, not different
sheet. Mail lists not later than Jan. 1st.
1894, to Harper's Young People, Franklin
Square, New York. and put the words
Ground Table" in the lower left-hand cor
ner OF the envelope. At the head of the
list of names place figure 5-good size.
The names that receive the highest number
of votes, and therefore the prize list, will
be published, with names OF the fourteen
prize WinnerS-those who vote nearest
this list-in as early issue as possible af-
ter the close of the contest on the date
named. 1l-1S,5t.
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TOLEDO WEEKLY BLADE
And book containing ali the
Nasty Letters for one Dollar.


10 answer to a general demand
from all parts of the United States,
the Toledo Blade has published in
one volume, cloth bound, all of the
Nasty Letters" ever written by the
late D. R. Locke, emitting perhaps
a few unimportant letters on local
or forgotten topics. Only few of
these letters were ever published in
book form. Everybody has read
some OF them. but who has read all
of them? The book contains over
500 large pages, and all the Nasty
Letters written during a period Of
twenty-five years also portrait OF
D. r. Locke from his last photo
graph. 1t would sell at one dollar
OF more, but will never be placed on
sale. One hundred thousand copies
are now being printed and bound,
and one copy will be sent postpaid
by mail free to every person who
this winter RENTS one dollar for the
Weekly Blade one year. Everybody
invited to send for a specimen copy
of the Weekly Blade, which will give
a full description of the book "The
Nasty Letters"
The Toledo Weekly Blade is the
best and most popular weekly news
paper published in this country. 1t
has the largest circulation of any
weekly newspaper, and goes to every
State, Territory and nearly every
county of the Union. Only one dol
lar year, including the above men
toned book free. Send postal to
The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, for free
specimen copy of the paper. Send
the addresses of your friends also.
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A shrswd but Sleepy Dog.

A dog who usually accompanied
Lis master on evening visits to the
house of a friend fell asleep there
one night and was fogolten. Long
after his owner bad gone the sleepy
fellow awoke to find himself alone
and in the dark. The door was
shut and locked, and the family
asleep in others rooms, so his whin-
ing was not noticed. Though the
windows we're closed, one blind was
open, and the dog determining to
60 home, leaped through the window
breaking glass and sash as he went.
Some time after he was spending
the evening with his master 10 the
same house, and as before, he went
to sleep but not in the usual place.
When the dogs owner prepared to
leave his hat and cane we're mis-; ing.
A search showed not only the mis-
sing articles, but something else
The cane and hat had been taken
from the rack, and lay on the floor
while by their side lay the sleeping
dog. But one paw was in the hat
and the other across the cane. He
did not mean to be left again, and
he WASH Tx.
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Pearls Of Thought


The constant attitude OF love il
trust.
There is no deed more heroic than
to say no to yourself.
No great deeds are done by falters
who ask for certainty.
People generally set their hearts
most on what they need the least.
Cunning pays no regard to virtue
and is but low mimic of wisdom.
The man whose highestioy is found
in making Others happy, lives in sight
of heaven.
It was the man who didn't i'm.
prove his talent who believed that he
had a hard master.
Men resemble the gods in nothing
so much as in doing good to their
fellow creatures.
Tender rumors should not receive
early impressions of COLLINS, spec
tres and apparitions.
If the sinner could see when he
starts where he is going to come out
he wouldn't start.
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FinanciIlay Embarrassed.

A large manufacturer, whose af-
fairs were very much embarrassed
and who was overworked and broken
down with nervous exhaustion, went
to celebrated specialist. He was
told that the only thing needed was
to be relieved Of care and worry, and
have q change of thought. This doc
tor was more considerate of his pa
TENTS health than Of bis financial
circumstances. He ought to have
advised him to use DIR. Miles Res
torative Neryine, the best remedy for
nervous prostration, sleepIessness,
dizziness, headache, i'll effects OF spir.
it's, tobacco, coffee, opium, etc.
Thousands testify to cures. Book
and trial bottle free at A. NJ. Gill
belt's.
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A Lovers Miscalculation i.

am take this seventy-fve cent
bottle of perfume if you will take off
this cost mark and put on one with
one dollar and fifty cents on it," said
a young man to the clerk in o drug
store.
"All right"
1t was done.
"Great head" solllsquized the
young man. "Minnie will notice
that cost mark, and love me for
spending my substance so literally
for her. 1t never hurts young
mans chances for the object of his
alteration to think he regards her
worth getting the best for"
The bottle of perfume was sent,
and an evening or two later the do.
more called in person and casually
proposed marriage.
"James," said the girl.
"What is it, Minnie, dear?"
"You sent me bottle CT perfume?"
eyes. Did you like it,"
sit was good perfume, james, but
it wasn't worth any dollar and a half.
Seventy-fve cents is the regular
price for that perfume, and I can't
say that I have much use for a young
man who is SO careless of his money
as to pay for an article twice what it
is worth"
''But, Minnie"
James was going to explain, but
on second thought he refrained. 1t
occurred to him that a girl might
like him less for deceiving her than
for extravaganza. So he put on his
hat and departed, resolving to try
different tactics when he found an.
other girl.-William Henry Silviter,
in Harper's Bazaar.
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1894.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
ILLUSTRATED

HARPER's MAGAZINE for 1894 will
maintain the character that has made
1t the favorite illustrated periodical for
the home. Among the result of enter
prises undertaken by the publishers,
there will appear during the year
superbly illustrated papers on India by
Edwin Lord Weeks, on the Japanese
Seasons by Alfred Parsons ,on Germany
by Poultney Bigelow, on Paris by r.
Harding Davis, and on Mexico by
Frederic Remington.
Among the other notable features of
the year will be novels by George du
Maurier and Charles Dudley Warner,
the personal "reminiscences of W. d.
Howells, and eight short stories of
western frontier life by Owen Wister
Short stories will also be contributed
by Brander Mathews, Richard Harding
Davis, Mary E. Wilkins, Ruth McEn-
cry Stewart. Miss Laurence Alma Ia.
dema, Geo. A. Hubbard, Quesnay de
Beaurepaire, Thomas Nelson Page and
others. Articles on topics of current
interest will be contributed by distin
guished specialists.
HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
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A Rom nance I'm a Nutshell

She went to a ball wore too thin
clothing; caught cold; was very ill
for many days a devoted admirer
brought a remedy when her life
seemed to hang by thread she
took it; recovered and, finally,
married the man who had saved hel
life. And the remedy he brought
her was DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, which is a certain cure
for all throat and lung diseases and
scrofulous complaints, Of which con
sumption is one.
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Strength aud Health.

If you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try Electric Bitters. If la
grippe has left you weak and weary
use Electric Bitters. This remedy
acts directly upon the Liver, Stom.
ach and Kidneys, gently aiding those
organs to perform their functions.
If you are afflicted with sick head
ache, you will find speedy and per-
manent relief by taking Electric Bit
ters. One trial will convince you
that this is the remedy you need
Large bottles oply Soc. at e. G. Will
liams, Jr. & Co.'s Drug Store.
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White IS the color OF grief 10 Chi
"a Japan and Siam.
Partisan ladies ride bicycles fol.
lowed BY grooms, also on wheels.
Scion was the FIRST to establis an
exac amount of gold in the coinage.
National grants 10 aid of educa.
ton were first made in the United
States in 1903.
The first law degree is believed to
have been conferred by Che Univer-
sity of Paris, Il49.
A chestnut tree 2l2 feet through
and 1000 years old stands Il the
foot OF Mount Etna.
Uucle Eph Plunkvtt, Of Mirabeila
Falls, Texas has taught lattlesnake
to shake his tail to music.
Salt blown from the ocean during
the r cent hurricane has destroyed
plants and trees about Mantle, Conn.
A stranger in New York restau-
rant the other day created excite
ment by ordering and eating FIVE
sirloin steaks.
The first mention of q naval uni.
form occurs in l14S, when an order
WIS issued by the british admiralty
requiring a uniform and describing
Of what it consisted.
TIE doors which form the eni rance
TO the houses in Lapland are never
more than four and half feet high.
Yet the Lap does not have to stoop
when he goes inside.
A continental note bearing the
date OF the year 1879 is claimed to
be in the possession of j. n Carter,
of Athenes, Ga. The bill has been
il The Carter family for over ecu
tl.v.
GOA, which is now extensively
used in the manufacture OF umbrellas
and dress pieces, is product of silk
and wool OF fine quality, its high de
gree of lustre being due TO the silk
which it contains.
A curious relic is at the mercy OF
public sale by the death OF waiter
in Paris. He had served at table
ofmarble, and the famous men cor
cred it with Signed epigrapbs. Al
American offered tie waiter I0.O0k
francs for the table, but he refused it.
Over 900 serious visitations OF
loeusts TO Europe are recorded. In
years Sal Itay, Spain. France aud
Germany were all ravaged by AT
rican locusts. After destroying
every green thing they died in such
immense numbers that the eflluvium
caused q pestileDce that carried of
l,5U0,000 persons
Vernon, Texas, is the home Of an
absent-mindtd person, One day re-
Gently he was hurrying with a big
package, which be wished to express
and seeing that be could rot get to
the depot in time, laid down the
package so that he could run, reached
the train, but was surprised that be
did not have the package.
The bank of England note is MT
OF the same thickness way through.
The paper is thicker in the leit-hand
corner, to enable it to take better
and sharper impression of the Wig.
nette there, and is also considerably
thicker in the dark shadows of the
centre lie tiers and nnders the figures
at the ends, Counterfeit notes are
invariably of one thickness.
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About the only thing the Ameri-
can workingman will have to be
thankful for on the coming Thanks !.
giving Day is the somewhat encour.
aging fact that we have less than
three more years of Democratic rule.
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Postage free TO all subscribers IN the
United States, Canada and Merico.
The volumes of the MAGAZINE begin
with the numbers for June and Deem
Der of each year. When no time is
mentioned, subscriptions will begin
with the number current at the time of
receipt of order. Bound volume Of
HARPER's MAGAZINE for three years
back, in neat cloth binding, wiz be be
per volume. Cloth cases. for binding,
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Remittances should be made by Post
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Harper d Brothers.
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This is the oft expression OF the
weary sufferer of Rheumatism, Neu.
ralgia and other painful diseases.
The whole human frame is tortured
and racked with pain. Il is we'll to
remember no known medicine equals
Red Flag Oil for Rheumatism, Men.
ralgia, Sprains and Bruises. Price
Is cents at E. G. Williams, Jr. &
Co.'s Drug Store.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-11-25

Honest good humor is the oil and
wine of a merry meeting, and there
is no jovial companionship equal to
that where the jokes are rather small,
the laughter abundant.
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SUBSCRIBE
FOR THE WEEKLY
lNTELLIGENCER.
Mast Nirninia,a Rrinhfa.4 ard EasA Na.renana.

1894 will be an eyentiul year in the his
tory of the country. The Democratic par
ty which for the first time since the war,
is in control OF all branches of the govern
ional tariff policy. The proceedings of
Congress will tn 'tepr be fraught with
matters of thu T"',t~-t public interest.
The Intelligencer will lully and fairly re-
port the great debates of the session.
A new congress and State Legislature
is to be elected this year. The IntelEigen-
Ger will keep its readers thoroughly post
ed on the progress of the campaign.
All foreign and home news of the year
will be faithfully chronicled in the Intel
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IA Send in your Dollar Now.
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A GENTLEMAN, s sar,ss & s sss.
vous Prostitution, Seminal Weakness,
Premature Decay. an! all the evil eff
fects # early indiscretion and youthful
folly, is anxious to make known to
others the simple mode of self-cure. To
those who wish and will give him their
symptoms, he will send (free) by re-
turn mail a copy Of the recipe SO sue
cessfully used in his case.
Address in confidence, JAMES w.
PINNNEY- 40 Cedar ST.. n. Y.
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The human race is divided ioto
two classes-those who go ahead and
do something, and those who sit still
and inquire why it was not done an
other way.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-11-25

Much of the trouble in this world
happens because men take too much
time to make money and too little to
enjoy it.
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United States, Canada, and Me1ico.
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Some persons Of weak understand
ing are so sensible Of that weakness
as to be able to make good use Of it.
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A saint is a man of convictions
who has been dead hundred years,
canonized now, but cannonaded while
living.
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AAAIsI EN- y 1LIVIOOIOALOs
Per Year:
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Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appetite
is poor, you are bothered with Headache,
you are fidgetty, nervous and general gu
of sorts and .iant t, BRACE up. Brace up
bat not with stimulants, spring medicines
or bitters which have for their basis very
cheap, bad whiskey, and which stimulate
you for an hour, and then leave you in a
worse condition than before. What you
want is an Alternative hat will purify our
blood, start healthy action of Liver and
Kidneys, sore your vitality and give
renewed health and strength. Such medi
cine you will find in Electric Bitters and
pnlv so cents a bottle, ut =. q. Williams,
Jr & Co., Drug Store.
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The main reason why there are not
more good boys is because there are
not more good fathers.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-11-25

An odd and expensive hand screen
Is formed with wing of a raven at
tached to an ivory handle inlaid with
gold.
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1894.
HARPER'S BAZAAR.
ILLUSTRATED.

HARPER's BAZAAR is a journal for the
home. 1t gives the fullest and latest
information about fashions, and its
numerous illustration, Paris designs
and pattern sheet supplements are in
dispensable alike to the home dress
maker and the professional modiste
No expense 10 spared to make its artis-
tic attractiveness of the highest order
Its bright stories, amusing comedies,
and thoughtful essays satisfy all tastes,
and its last page is famous as budget
OF wit and humor. In its weekly issues
everything is included which is of in.
terest to women. The serials for 1884
will be written by VIM. Black and
Walter Besant. Short stories will be
written by Mary E. Wilkins, Maria L.
Pool, Ruth NICE. Stuart, Marion Har-
land and others. Outdoor sports and
indoor games, social entertainment,
embroidery aud other interesting topics
will receive constant attention. A new
series is promised of Coffee and Re-
partee."
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GI,s 3(nasps,,tlsnt.
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1894.
HARPER's WEEKLY.
ILLUSTRATED.

Harper's Weekly is beyond all ques-
tion the leading Journal in America, in
Its splendid illustrations, in its corps OF
distinguished contributors. and in its
vast army of readers. In special lines,
it draws ON the highest order of talent.
the men lest fitted by position and
training TO treat the leading topics of
the day La fiction, the most popular
s. ory- writers contribute to its columns
Superb drawings by the foremost artists
illustrate its special articles. its stories,
and every notable event of public inter
est; it contains portraits of the distin-
guished men and women who are max
ing the history of the time, while spec
ial attention is given to the Army and
Navy, Amateur Sport, and Music and
the Drama, by distinguished experts.
In a word, Harper's Weekly combines
the news features of the daily paper and
the artistic and literary qualities of the
magazine with the solid critical charac-
ter of the review.
HARPER & PERTODTGATS
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The Daily InteIIigencer.

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Castoria.

aCastoria IS an excellent medicine for chill
aren- Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
Da. G. C. Osooop,
rnurlf Macs
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"Castoria Is the Lest reruedy for children Ct
which am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the various quack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DE-. J. r. KNcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.