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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-09
AN ENGLISH JUNE:
Tho Delights OF an Early summer Even-
Ing IN Cambridge.

Tho Delights of an Early Summer Even-
Ing IN Cambridge.
In recent paper in the Atlantic on
the English Cambridge, Albert Gillette
Hyde gives this pleasant picture of q
June evening there:
Indeed, it is hard to imagine sight
more interesting in it's kind than that
which the winding, narrow thorough
fares of this ancient academic city pre-
sent on fine evening in June, particu-
larly on Saturdays. the Cambridge
market day.
"A continuous stream of townsrnen.
gownsmen and sturdy country folk,
with the usual proportion of woman
kind passes and repasscs with quick,
cchoing tread, many of them walking
in the middle of the clean asphalt
streets. The shops are lighted up bril-
llantly, as in most provincial towns,
though twilight ut this season lasts
nearly all night. In either of the main
arteries of neutrality-suspicious. street.
with its clear rivulets flowing at either
curb, which becomes Kings parade,
Trinity street and st. Johns before
uniting with the other, Regent street.
st. Andrews, Sidney street, etc.-and
in the narrow crossway. the Petty Curry,
one meets this tide at the full.
Tho undergraduate is necessarily
conspicuous, walking alone, or two and
two or three or four abreast. the toga
virilis lightly depending from his
shoulders, sometimes in the last stage
Of dilapidatlon, and streaming from hin
person in tags and ribbons. Mostly he
is slight, good looking, youthful and
beardless, or perhaps with IN incipieni
mustachc; seldom very ruddy, but at
the worst of a healthy paleness.
Naturally it Ia among the lightly
clad groups stridipg in from the boats
or the cricket fields that one sees th,
best specimens Of physique. These, in.
deed, arc often admirable, though hard
ly so striking in appearance as is com
monty supposed; yet II anyone doubts
the virility Of these young Englishmen
short walk or row with one of them
will quickly convince him Of his error.
Zone very pleasant feature Of the
streets is the dccorum usually prevail
ing among the students. in former
times land in some quarters of the
world even now an unruly and turbu-
lent element of the community. They
walk together, conversing almost in
audibly in the dulcet Cambridge tone,
which men from all parts of the is
land are said to contract soon after
coming up.
Singing, loud talking, or shouting
among them is rarely heard out of
doors, though sounds of mildly BAG
chanalian type sometimes issue from
college or clearinghouse windows.
This creditablc street behavior is doubt
less due to Cambridge tone as much as
to vigiiant proctorizing; yet even in the
cricket field and among the boating
crews Except the musical We'll rowed'
at the races the undergraduate is rare
iy vocifcrous. The English still take
their sports 'sadlY.' and silcnilvn
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ALMANACS IN RUSSIA.
They Play Prominent Part In the Dali
Life of tho People

They Play Prominent Part In the Daily
Life of tho People
Nv nat a prominent part the almanac
plays III Russian household. And such
almanacs! There is a recipe for dinner
for every day in the year; there are in
falliblc cures for burns and tccthinU
and commissions, for toothachc, corns
and bald heads. You arc told all about
the imperial family, and there are por-
traits of its mcmbcrs-vilc caricatures
surely.
The count gravely consulted it's
vaccinations in his colloquy with the
steward to learn when the weather
would best suit for sowing mangel, :"
says writer in the Christian World
Il saw the countess hunting in it for
an Interpretation of dream she had
Beyond the almanac no one ever reads
anything. l exclude, of course, the
young count and his tutor
There are, however, few books in
the house. In the drawing or sitting
room, one of the few articles of furni-
ture there Is an old-fashioned book
case, from which the glass has long
since vanished. had the curiosity to
examine its contents. There were ten
bound volumes of an illustrated weekly
paper, few oldfashioned books on ap-
riculture, two volumes of Nekrasoff's
pastoral poems, number of incomplete
works of French bellies lettres of Vol
taire's time, Russian translation Of
SCOTS 'Kenilworth,' much bcthumbed
and greasy. This was all olden-time
stuff, and represented the taste of some
bygone ancestor of the count.
Il looked for anything that might
denote the taste of the rising genera
ton, and found in corner Russian
version of Robinson Crusoc,' and a
well-hidden novel of Zola's. Do these
latter books signify the beginning of
renaissance in the house of Borisoff
10 whom did the lola belong? To the
countess, suspect. We had pleasant
evening in the drawing room-thc only
comfortable room in the house. There
were few easy chairs, capacious
sofa, grand piano and lots of cane
bottomed chairs. Over the sofa hung
portrait of the emperor; opposite the
emperor picture of the count when he
was gay dog in the guards. But there
was hardly sign of female occupancy
anywhere"
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Ho Was Not a kicker.

II don't mind your daughters prac-
ticing ten hours day in the next fiat"
said the tenant in the apartment house,
even if She does keep the piano cover
ap and the forte pedal down. But 1
would like family to suggest that three
thousand six hundred and fifty hours a
year of Chopin's second nocturne has
made slight change seem desirable
Would you mind asking her to play the
third or fourth nocturne on Tuesdays
and Fridays, so that my wife can have
different kind of headache by way Of
rclief?'
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-09
MESSAGES 10 THEIR DEAD.

Beautiful Custom In Siam of Sending
Candles Out to Soa.
At full moon in October and again Mt
full moon in November the three davs
show is held, says the Saturday Re.
view, and for some time previously the
houses of grandees and peasants, the
markets and bazars show sirps of
preparation for the coming event The
humblcst style in which the ceremony
can be performed is yet pretty enough.
The broad. strong leaf of plantain is
bent or folded into the shape of a boar
or raft. In the middle of this simple
structure tiny taper is fixed upright.
The "katong," or raft, of which this is
the simplest form, is then kept ready in
the house until the suspicious moment
predicted by the family pricst-has
arrived.
Then at this moment, when the water
is silvered over by the beams of the
broad rising moon, the taper is lighted
and the tiny raft is launched upon the
waves. Very slowly at first it makes
its way along the edge of the cbbine
tide; then, waited gently by the still
evening air into the swiftcr current, it
drifts further and further away until
only bright specl1 of light distin-
cuisines it from the ripping surface all
around. When the night is fine thou
sands of these little stars of light NAV
be seen twinkling on the broad bosom
Of the Menam, all winding their silent
way toward the boundless sea. all
bearing silent messages to departed
friends who have already gone to the
great unknown land
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RAILROADS
n : = :: w HOrfoIksWestern R.R
SCHEDULE IN EFFEoT OCTOBER 80, 1897.

SCHEDULE IN RFFRCT OCTOBER so, 1897.
wxsrBouFD, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
$40 a. m. wv ashington and Chattanooga limited,
for Bristol and beyond. Stops only ut Rad
ford. Pullman eleepers to New Orleans, Nom
soop pills and YdI Nashville Dining cor attached;
intermediate stations; alec for Bluc1eld, Po
cahontas, Elkhorn, Clinch Valley Division
and Louisville via Norton. Pullman sleeper
to Lou svillo via Norton.
5oO p. m. Il lRsdford, Pulaski, and Bristol also
LOT biucnold-Ohio extension; leaves Blueheld
GU q. IN. daily for Kcnova, Columbus and
the west. Pullman sleopers to Memphis via
ITO =: m for Petersburg, Richmond and
ia:4sp; n. for Washington, Hagerstown. Phila.
9%eipnls ana New York. Pullman sleepe
z. R.R.
1875 p. m. daily for Richmond and Norfolk. Pull
man parlor car TO Norfolk, connects at Lynch.
$40 p. m. for Buena Vista and intermediate ste
lions. No connections beyond.
G0 p. nj. for Richmond and Norfolk. Pullman
sleeper TO Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rieh
iS4. night CWashington and Chattanooga lin.
it S;g, Tor a washington. HsgesSsown phiiade.
Kew York via Harrisburg. Dining car
attached. Stopa only at Basic, Shenandoah.
Luray, Shenandoah. junction, Shepherds
Durhsm Division-Leave Lynch6urg (Unios
station) nnd BIB p. N. daily for South Boston
and Durham and Intermediate stations.
Winston Salem Division.Leave Roanoke lUnios
e!ation) e45 a. n. daily for Rocky Mount
Martineville, Winston-Salep, and intcrme-
diate etauope.
oface or to ". bRvILL,
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Curiosity shops In CHINA.

There are two kinds of curiosity shops
IN the Flowery kingdom. One is in
tended for guilelcss globe trottcrs and
the nouvcauX riches, the other for col
lectors and persons of taste In the
former the proprietor asks from two
hundred to two thousand per cent.
profit on his goods, and in the latter he
Is satisfied with anything between
twenty-five and one hundred lcr cent,
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81. ways Around the world.

The time required for a journey
around the earth by man walking day
and night, without rest, would be 4oS
days; an express train, forty days;
sound, at a medium temperature, 500
hours; cannon ball, 219i hours;
light, little over onc-tenth Of &;
scconda electricity, passing over copper
wire, little less than one-tenth of a
second
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TRAINS FOR CINCINNATI.

Parlor Cas- on 1886 A. N. train to Richmond
SLEEPING CARS on 300 A. NJ TRAIN FOR
RICHMOND. OPEN AT LYNCIIBUR9 FOR
TIE RECEPTION OF PASSENGERS FROM
S:25 P. Nj. BERTIIS ONE DOLLAR.
For further information as to rates. routes,
tickets, etc. address,
II. ii. PANNILL,
Ticket and Passenger Agent, Passenger Station
and sli. Main street, Lynchburg, Va.
JNO. ID. POTTS,
Division Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va.
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DOA NOKE STREET RAILWAY
III SCHEDULE.
SALEM DUMMY LINE.

EAST. WEST.
Lv Salem. Ar. RoanokelLv. Roanoke. Ar. Salem
6:15 IN. GAS am. 7:15 am. 7:45 a. M ,
500 a. M. $3.50 am. 8:45 am. 9:i5 q. m.
$50 a.m.1C:00 a.m.1O:15 am. 1O:45 q. M.
11:00 p.m.11:30 p.m.11 p.m.12:15 %. M,
1890 p. 10. 100 pm. 1:15 pm. 1:45 o. m.
ZOO p. m. ESQ pm. 2:45 pm. 3:15 p. m.
$3.50 pm. 900 pm. AIS pm. 4:45 D. m.
Sis pm. 5:45 pm. 6:15 pm. GAS o. M .
7:l5 pm. 7:45 pm. 0:45 p. m.10:15 D. M.
N. B.-Theater nights last train leaves
Roanoke at 10:45; arrives Salem 1l:15
IN. Sundays. the flrst 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.lo:40 am. 3:20 pm. 7:2O D. m.
GAO a.m.1l:20 am. 400 pm. 500 o. m.
1920 g. m.12:00 10. 4:40 pm. $40 D. M,
500 a. m.12:40 pm. $50 I'm. geo o. m.
$40 am. LEO pm. 600 p. m. 1000 p. m.
geo An. 200 pm. $40 IN. 10:4O p. Nc.
1000 q. No. 2:40 pm.
WE. CARR, General Manager.
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EREDERICK J. AMwKo, q. g., Il.
= Am. Soc. q. e. d Kugr's Club OF
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., contractor and
builder, Commercial Bank Building,
ROANOKE, Va. apr72H
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GORTz's BULLETIN.

THE OLD RELIABLE AND POP
n ular Dye Works is the only place
70 nave your clothes perfectly dyed,
cleaned and repaired.
Prices very moderate. Goods sent
Dy express will receive prompt atten.
ner Commerce and Campbell etrcofa.
Roanoke, Va. mays9Sm.
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The KINDRED COAL COMPANY. f. II
Kindred, president and general man.
ager; l.. l.. Powell, salesman. Office
and yard at Fishburpe's mill. Phone
teO
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SHOEBIAKERS.

SHOEHIAKERS.
d. MORGAN. the Shoemaker. Makes and re.
pairs all kinds OF boots and shoes at 104 Nelson
street, opposite market house. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
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SPECIAL NoT10ns,

Why do you read this when
yon know 1t 10 an advertise
mentf You have begun, now
anlsh your reading. Whist we
want you to know Is: That we
do printing.
L06KABiTL's PRINTING
HOUSE,
ROANOKE. va.
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PRACTICAL HORsEsHOER.
II. HALEY Greats all diseases OF horses' feat,
Fourth ave., between Jefferson and Henry as
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PLUMBING, GAs-FITTING, 90,
ROANOKE SANITARY PLUMBING CO., "a
10 South Jefferson Street.
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TlH Worlds Fair
SCENIC ROUTE.

TWELVE HOURS QUICKER THAN ANY
OTHER LINE TO CINCINNATI, LOUISVILLE
AND POINTS WEST.
THE POPULAR ROUTE To RICHMOND,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
Crusade Against kissing.

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 13.-Dr. c.. O..
Probst, Secretary of the State Board
of Health, to-day appeared before
the Pastors Union, OF this city, to
urge their cooperation in two sani-
tary reforms. One is to stop the
custom of indiscrlminate kissing and
the other to abolish the use of the
same cup in the administration of
the sacrament by several hundred
persons. DIR. Probst explained that
the most certain and most danger
Gus transmission of the germs of dis
ease is by this mouth tomouth meth
cd. He cited the almost universal
habit among ladies of kissing friends
on greeting them or bidding them
goodbye, of kissing babies and
children and urging babies and chill
dren to kiss each other.
Pastors, too, usually consider it a
part of their duty to kiss the babies
of their parishioners. All this was
well meant, but it was as dangerous
as it was perfunctory in many cases.
He quoted Moses as a sanitarian on
the subject, and said the great law
giver would not have tolerated either
the kissing on the common cup Gus
tom in the sacramental administra-
tons. The clergyman ask for some
practical suggestions as to how to
obviate the danger pointed out in
the communion service. Several
were given, but the one considered
practical was that each communi-
cant have his own cup. A resolu-
ton TO do all possible to bring about
there reforms was adopted.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
Iredell County.

Whereas, there has been charged
that there is in North Carolina Sc
cret political organization inside the
Alliance, known as "Gideon's Band -
and that men in Iredell county who
belong to it have been spotted and
were known. Now, therefore
Resolved, That we denounce the
charge that such organization is in
side the Alliance as false, and, furth.
er, that if such organization exists
AT ALL, it is not within our knowl-
edge, and we call upon those know
ing men to be guilty of such offence
against the laws OF the State to pros
ecute the same, and we pledge oul
hearty cooperation in helping te
bring all such to justice.
Whereas, A correspondent of the
Statesville Landmark, in It's issue OF
Jan. 9Th, 1898, alluded to the defeat
of Gov. Holt as "the work of Agri.
cultural Anarchists" And, where
as. We regard such illusions to the
Farmers Alliance as an insult. There.
fore,
Resolved, That we denounce any
paper as vile which will allow it,
columns to be used to SANDER it,
nelghbors and cOuntrymen.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
just as Honorable,

The Alliance is non-partisan of
course; but He Alliance man who
thinks his place, politically, is in
either of the old parties Is a queer
conglomeration of inconsistency.
He might as we'll declare eternal f.
deity to one woman and then neg
lect her and support another woman,
not his wife, and call it honorable.
The Alliance Declaration of Prin-
ciples is bis platform, and the ALI
anceman who will not vote for these
principles, but runs off after and
supports a political party that repu.
dates the Alliance and ignores its
demands is certainly chump.-St
Louis Monitor.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
POOrFellowsi

The man who swore before the
nomination of the Presidential cand-
idate that he would not support
Mr.. Cleveland if nominated, and
who after the nomination was whip
ped in and gave him only a half
hearted support, ought to be fatty
rebuked if he starts to carry around
a paper asking for anything.-Con-
cord Times.
Are you one of these poor devils
who has lost the confidence of re-
formers, who is now to be snubbed
by the machine? Ed
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
Banks, n. c.
Anxiousto see THE Caucasian

Anxious to see THE Caucasian on Its feet t.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Jan. %, 1872.
Marion Butler Esq.
Dear Sir and Brother:-I read your
letter informing me that the time of
the campaign subscribers had ex-
pired etc. The day you and Glenn
spoke here / gave Capt. JAS. Evans
so cents for six months subscription,
my time is not out yet, but | am SC
anxious to see you on your legs that
l enclose a years subscription. You
made one of the grandest fights in
the last campaign that.has been made
in North Carolina in long time,
hope you will be spared to make
many more. | am
glad to see some of the Democratic
papers realize the situation and
speaking out about the extravaganza
of congress, if the next congress Is
no improvement over this | don't
think many of them will go back.
What would Jefferson and old An
drew jackson think of such Demo
cracy as we have now7
Yours fraternally.
W. j. TOLAR.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
Wade, n. C., Jan, 81, '92.

The Devil in Church Livery Stealing Votes
HuNTERsyILLE, n. c., Jan. 81, '93.
For THE CAUCASIAN.
Dear Sir and Brother:-A copy OF
THE CAUCASIAN was handed me
few days ago, and / am so well
pleased with the sentiment contain
ed in its columns that | am deter
mined to subscribe for tt and try TO
raise you club.
desire to congratulate You IN the
success with which your efo,ts are
being crowned in again getting your
valuable paper started. Long may
it live to 90 fourth as an educator of
the masses Of our down-trodden and
oppressed yeomenry. / want TO tell
you brother Butler, that you have a
host of warm and true friends IN the
old patriotic county of Mecklenburg,
and also many bitter political enc
mics, and that they fear you more
than any man in the State. Doubt
less some of them would more than
hang you in effigy if they dared.
met you thrice during the cam
paign, in Raleigh at one State con-
vention, Charlotte when you met
Aycock and Mooresville when you
did up Robert Glenn in such a hand
some way. The Populist of this
county so far as can learn are not
discouraged but are more determined
than ever and will poll larger vote
in.1S04.than we did in '92, but to do
this will require hard work-we
must stand shoulder to shoulder,
patronize our reform papers, just
such as THE CAUCASIAN. Let me ap-
peal to every man regardless of party
utilization to read and take some re
form paper so that they can be in
telligent voters.
In Huntersville township we got
so votes for Gen. Weaver after be-
ing cheated out of Is or 20 votes.
In my next | will endeavor to show
to your readers how so many Of our
voters were defrauded, Oh the cor
~uption the corruptionM The deep
laid conspiracy of the machine lead
ers, men were in the plot who are
high up in church, make long prayers
to be heard Of men, and then go into
a conspiracy to steal the liberty of
his neighbor, fellow church mem
Der and a brother allianceman in
. many cases. / say emphatically that
a man who will defraud OIL steal
your rights as votel, Will under
circumstances defraud or steal your
property. l go farther and say, that
he who winks at, or approves of
these things is particeps criminls
and is also guilty.
All we want is free ballot and n
fair count, if that is given and we are
defeated, accept the defeat like men,
but on the other hand if we are beat
en- by fraud let us expose the fraud
and the men who have perpetrated
the crime, and remember them in
the future. "Justice may sleep but
never dies"
Brethren, let us rally around
brother Butler, the recognized
champion of the peoples cause
stand to him in his trials, and show
him by every way possible that he
and his work is appreciated.
More anon
POPULIsT.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16
Manure More and Plant Less.


The fields for the different crops
should now be decided upon, and
the necessary preparation be care
fully studied, and as far as the
weather and labor will permit, the
first steps toward this preparation
be taken. In deciding upon this
question of the crops to be raised,
We would once again strongly urge
the Importance of not attempting
too much. Do not work an acre Of
land which you cannot properly ma
nure and fertilize. Much of the I'M
proftableness of farming arises from
the neglect of this rule. To RELY
simply upon the natural fertility of
the soil to produce a crop is in the
South to rely upon broken reed.
1t only means that you will get your
labor for your pains. There will be
no profit. How can their be profit
in growing ten bushels of wheat or
twenty bushels of corn on the acre?
At least three times this yield should
be produced to leave a profit, and
this can be accomplished by good
preparation and good fertilization,
and the labor involved will not be
nearly SO great as will be required
for the cultivation of the AREA.
Better let some of your open land
remain uncnltivated than cultivate
it at loss. Make every acre You
cultivate rich, and then after taking
a crop from it, it will take we'll in
clover or grass, and continue to in
crease in fertility whilst resting,
and other acres can be brought into
a like profitable condition.-The
Southern Planter.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16

Persons democracy resembles the
Chicago platform about a. much as
q blooded Kentucky horse resem-
bies Brazil monkey. am really
sorry for the little editor who IL in
capahle Of discussing issues and IL
then efore forced to deal IN abuse and
v,Ilifieatton toward men whom he il
unable 10 meet IN argument. But
they all our enemies, may as veil nn-
dersiaud Row and for ali time TO
come, that every shot aimed by them
Mt tribune Of the people IL a shot
aimed directly at the vast army OF
reformers in North Carolina. and the
,eople go understand it. Times
change. men change and die but
right principles" said the immortal
| caIboon never die" We have great
faith in the final triumph of right.
| The principles Of the Peoples party
are az firmly founded on the rock OF
equity and justice, as any OF those
! of the dead martyrs of the past, and
bv the help of that God who controls
| the destinies of all nations, that love
and fear him, they will win. We
bid our reform leaders In North Car
DINA and the United States God
speed in their noble efforts in behalf
Of the down trodden yeomanry OF
this our native land. Let every re-
former keep in mind the immortal
words lido your duty" uttered by
Leonidas l.. Polk, God bless his
name. His name will shine with fan
more lustre a century from to-day
Then let us spread reform literature
over this once fair land Of ours
but now bIighted by vicious lepisla'
ton until we have once more gov
eminent of the people, by the PEG
pie and for the people. Cheer III
) reformers we are not defeated, the
} late fight has put US on the vantage
ground, and it is only a matter Of
time-victory shall crown the cause
of the people.
Truth crushed to the earth will rise AGAR
The eternal years of God are hers,
Error wounded writhes in Pain,
And dies amid his worshippers.'
EDMAND BANKS,