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A crow THAT COULD TALK.
He Was Hatched by Hen. Raised by
Hand and Taught to Ten Time.

~ VS. hatcnt0 ON a Hen. Raised bV
Hand and Taught TO Ten Time.
When was living mt the foot of
Pirxter peak had n tame crow that
was worth considerable to meg said
a IoyalSock man. The wcv L came
TO get the crow was a little singular.
One of my boys was flying his kite
early IN the summer. and when il
had sailed high ~ over a piece of
woods on my place the string broke,
and the kite lodged in the top of a
hernlock tree. Tho boy bawled about
the loss Of the kite. and had TO climb
the tree to get II for him.
"A crow flew oCs her nest near tho
top of the tree while | was climb
ing up, ana when l reached the
nest found one egg in it. After 1
had unloosened the kite and let it
drop placed the crows egg in nv
mouth end kept it there until had
backed down the tree, and then 1 ran
to the barn and put the egg under a
hen that had been setting day or
so. The old hen offered no obiec-
tons, and several days before She
came off with Ler chickens she
Matched out &v Lyeacst little crow l
ever saw.
We began to vciea the baby crow
IN the house. ~ hen he was biz
enough TO ran around on the floor /
named him Kite Eo learned to SOW
4 good many words ,v tive ,ime he
was year cid, and ouemoluing that
summer l heard him yelling down
the unused chimney at Il lot of swal-
lows that w17c nesting IN 1t. The
swallows we've making q great racket.
and KITE was singing out Hold your
tongue IS loud as ne could veil.
Kite could tell the time of dav by
the clock. and when the weather
was cloudy I sed 10 send him to the
house from the field to see what time
1t was, Instead OF asking my wife
the crow would look ct the clock
without saying a word 10 her. AMI
then sail back 20 the rot and sing il
out TO me. When Tx sky was clear
! could tell 10y the sun within ten
minutes what time il was, and the
crow got so that lie could guess a.
most as close as l could. one sun
shiny afternoon l told Kite to fy TO
the house and bring me the time.
The crow cooked his head to one side. |
glanced Up ct the sun and said. It's
i've minutes to II, Johnr l told
him 1t was later than that. and he
flew to the house and back and said.
It's TWO minutes TO III and he was
a. 2
The crow got feeble the winter
after he was > years old. He couldn't
stand the cold, and l kept him in a
box half full of shavings behind the
stove. He lost MS appetite soon after
New Years, and one night when l
had got ready TO go TO bed he called
me to him and said John. Kiten be
dead In the morning. fused over
him and told him he was good for
another year, but l couldn't make !
HIM believe L. Ny bed was neaIcthe /
stove, and IN the night the crow
erawled out Of his box and asked me
to take him in bed with me. Kites
almost gone he whispered, and when
awoke he lay dead on my breast. -
"'''@''.-,'g COmmercial Gazette.
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ABRAHAMLINCoLN

When leaving his home at Spring
Il -id. ia to ne insugurated PreSi-
dcni of the United States, made a
farewell address 10 his old friends
and neighbors. in which he said.
''neishhor> give Your boys a
chance
These words come with as much
force TO day Is they did thirty years
ago.
How give them this chanceS
Up i'm the MOI thwest is great
empire waiting for young. and stur.
DIV fellows TO come and develop it
and grow up with the country"
All over this broad land are the
young fellows, the boys that Lin
coin referred to, seeking to better
their condition and get on in
life.
Here is their chance!
The country referred TO lies along
the Northern Pacific II r. Here
you can find pretty much anything
vou want. In Minnesota. and in the
Red River Nalieyin Nor,h Dakota.
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IL viii Zoe am rysctirg session,
and every West Niruaian should
keep himself posted on what 30
villdo. The Daily Gazette, Charles
tom. W va. will give von rho best
reports twill have all TIE latest
Associated Press dispatches also.
The Daily Gazette is eight pag
in size and the hes. edited paper
iu t Nireiua Tie Kanavha
Woe .y 1al ttewli contain alI the
n.u on.v One dollar year fifty
cent? lor z months Tho Daily
isfffy cents per month Address
,he Gazette Charleston, vs. Va
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Tho Democratic Party W 500 shortly come
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The Legislature w.'I Boon assemble ft $500
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE:
Saw Mills for Sale 81 i s Land lying on nnls For.

on acres ofland lying on Miller's Fork, 81
al miles east of MAXINE g. H.. W. VA. for
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ALI Gag9 Wear Eg0ggTg(ao

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Real Estate Department..


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Address all THE I'D VANCE Ceredo Va
Read he following:
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CHAS. s. FEE,
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ST. PAUL, MINI
Better EUe1'Y Year.

Time was when the ylnri
Gus climate of California" did not
a,ract tourists. But year after yea
the tide Of travel sets in stronger
every fall and winter toward this
favored region There is no eli.
mate like iton dis continent for q
winter resort; the usual fne service
on the union Pacific System and
tie Southern Pacific Railway has
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Of perfection which leaves nothing
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FARM on WHITES CREEK
FOlS SAIE

hive for sale a farm oi iwo huudyea
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UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHY.

Photography Is n wonderful art. Incred.
lple as IL may seem, IL Is now possible by the
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DO YOU WANT TO ADOPT ABABr1

Maybe you think this Is a now business.
sending out babies on application; Dc has been
done before, however. but never have thU.a
iurul- ned been so near the original slmuIeas
this ono Everyone will eXclaim. " We'll
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sou buta faint idea of the exquisite original.
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leaves tho gun. Very much
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The Detroit Free Press (De-
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
THE ROANOKE TIMES. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1s. 1893

beggars, had helped where I had seen
chance, yet here I was almost friend.
less in a town where 1 had lived for
years-slmply friendless, not disliked-
merely because l had not had time to
| make calls.
Nobody cared suppose, when left
that town-a place where 7 had done
many self sacrificing kindnesses, and
where surely there was not q man, wo-
man, child or dumb beast who could say
or feel that had done him, her or it q
wrong. The simple fact was that nobody
knew me. had never made any visits.
had never left bits of pasteboard mt
peoples doors.
II went to larger place-a place
where there had dawned the daylight of
woman's club. In moment of in
spiration joined the club, astonished to
find that while had been such an alien
in my own land, unknown and uncared
for, the fame of some of my work had
reached the larger city, and was elect
ed by reclamation.
ut was most admirable move for
me. BY little planning 1 find that
can manage to give one day in a month
to my club without trenching on my
work. There find dozens of kindly,
pleasant, wise and attractive women,
many of them learned and accomplished
also, with whom have not only agree
able interviews, but some strong friend.
ships. am not obliged to spend whole
afternoon in calling on six persons.
see them all together and save time, and
no one asks me now why 1 have no wom-
OIL friends:"
HELEN L. STARBIEAK.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
produce and Merchandise.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Flour very
FULL, steady. Winter wheat, low grades,
.o5@2.45; fair to fancy, 2.45@3.45;
PATENTS, 340@4 90; Minnesota clear,
h 50@3.0o; patents, 39O@4.3o. South
frn flour dull, steady; common to fair
TO-, 3.15@4.25. Wheat dull, lower,
losing steady; No. . red, store and
Elevator 6s4@6sK, afoat Gsk@Gs%
options were very dull with trading
Snly local switching and scalping;
opened weak at 1s@ss decline, closed
lteady at 4 under yesterday; No. red,
flosed' August, 6s14; September, 69%;
Corn dull, steady; No. 2, 47h@4s
Elevator, AK @4s% afost; options dull,
flosed steady and unchanged August,
FIX; September, Az; October, 4s.
Pats dull. steady; options dull, irregu-
ar; August, 3oH; September, 3O%;
October, 31ss No. 2 white, October,
pass; spot No 2, 3O4@3OL; No. 2
white, 4016; mixed Western, 3l@32.
Wool unsettled; domestic fleece, GOA IS;
pulled, 16@25.
Beet steady. dull; family, 10. oo@l2 90;
extra mess, 5t@s 60; beef hams 8, esdy,
s. co; tierced beef quiet, steady, city
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
HELEN L. STARBLEAK.
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Do Women Send Flowers Only to Accusct d
Men and Nurderers?
Mrs. Haryot Holt Cahoon is editor of
the womans page of the New York Re
corder and writer of that lively column
entitled What One Woman Thinks"
From tho latter column clip the follow
ing extract about the gushing and tender
hearted members of our sex who send
| flowers to murderers and criminals.
want to know if it is true, as Mrs Ca
| hoon thinks, that lovely woman has only
| sympathy with men murderers. even to
the extent of not bestowing any OH a
woman who is unjustly charged with
murder. Ladies, what do you think of
this: The members of my sex. as they
lend and withhold their sympatiies in
the case of the fallen, downtrodden and
oppressed. present curious and inter
esting study? The case i'll point is that
| OF Lizzie Borden, than whom no prisoner
has ever been apparently more friend
less. sec my sex carrying flowers and
| preserves and various delectablc edibles
to the condemned murderer, and then
see Il woman, accused merely, sit dav
after day i'll the courtroom and no YES
tige of womanly sympathy bestowed
| upon her If Cain and Abel were on
earth today, to which one would we carry
the flowers? To Cain, of course. Woman
is ever an interesting and unsolvable
enigma"
The New York Sun, speaking of Helen
Gardeners address at the women's con-
| gress, mentions her as "the author of a
book whose name we do not remember"
In thus declaring publicly its lack of
acquaintance with Helen Gardeners
books the New York Sun proclaims moth
! ing but its own ignorance We are sur
prised that Editor Dana's paper should
| have made such a break as that. Here
is bit of information which it is to be
hoped will gradually percolate TheSun's
skull; Miss Gardeners last book, PRAY,
You, Sir, Whose Daughter" changed
the vote in the legislature of certain
western state III reference to an act
about to be passed that would have done
a great injustice to our sex.
| was more sor1y than I can tell TO
near young newspaper woman say that
her hardest and most discouraging cx-
periences had been among women ed
| ltors. For PHYS sake, let us kill that
old tradition that women are woman's
worst enemies. 1t is disgrace TO our
sex. The woman who would treat her
own sex slightingly is a monster and
ought to be imprisoned for life. My own
experience has been that women arc wo-
mans best friends, especially among the
noble army who work for their living.
Do YOU know what the late Senator
Stanford's motto was? "Obstacles are
only things to be overcome"
am so tired of seeing directions for
making can inexpensive trifle to hang
over chandelier or somewhere else.
Give us rest. l wish women would
not spend so much time over trines, ex-
pehsive or Inexpensive
AT the head of department in one of
Brooklyn's largest public schools the
board of education have recently placed
Mrs. Georgiana f. Putnam, colored
lady. ELIZA ARCfIARD CONNER.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18

extra India mess, 15.oo@17.oo. Cut
meats steaoy, dull; picked bellies, III
houlders, GI@7; hams, lOM@1IN;
middles nominal. Lard dull, easier;
western steam closed, &c, nominal; city,
8h@S]6: options. sales none; refined
quiet; continent, OTIS; South America,
IL; com pound, TX. Pork firm, qule5;
new mess, Ia. 5OGl5 so.
Cotton seed oil quiet, steady. dull;
Strained. common to good, 9o@95I
Turpentine quiet, easy, 25X@26. Rice
quiet, flrru; domestic fair to extra, 2%@
5%; Japan. 4%@4k. Molasses, foreign
nominal; New Orleans open kettle,
good to choice, 3O@3S; dull, steady.
Peanuts dull, easy; fancy hand picked,
Coffee. options closed steady, 15@a5
points up; September, IA 55@I4.75; No.
yember, ii 50@1455; January, 1850
AGO; March, IA 40; spot Rio ste adv; No.
Z, 15%@15%. Sugar raw, quiet steady;
fair refining, az; centrifugal, &c; test,
~ refined steady. fair demand off A,
Biologists; standard A, 5 3 16m5s6;
graduated, 3-16@5H. Freights, Liv-
erpool quiet firm; cotton, I'D; grain,
33sd.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
|INANcE AND COMMERCE.
New York Stock Market.

81 New York Stock Market.
& NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE movements
a inc STOCK exchange to-day were of
Aight Importance as is evidenced by the
Sansactions which reached only about
'she'half of yesterdays small total.
4 Tho dealing footed up only 1T, 600
mares ana were confined almost entirely
p trading on board. There was scarcely
my business Tor outside account and
pc commission houses are not encour-
s*lng speculative operations owing to
ae diiicu!ty OF securing time loan &C.
sPmmodations, business troubles of the
vest and the unfavorable reports of the
n issouri Pacific and ST. Paul roads for
pc second week OF August, showing de-
.3eased earnings. With the view of
7Fding to the uneasy feeling, some
socks were sold on sellers options at
afices to points below quotations.
ssflrrent and even bonds were attached.
aespite all this, however, there was
little selling for long &C
Spunts. General Electric declined 30
I'D Manhattan 3%, but the remainder
4 the list yielded only n to per cent.
Il FINAL quotations wore & to q above
nc lowest. Distilling ard Cattle Feed
ffR WAS advanced rs TO ~ carly III the
Rfy on the reports that Congress would
s#obably raise the tax on distilled
.4irits, but later fell back to 49, Not
angle stock on the list was traded into
BE extent of 10000, and in only three
distances did the transactions exceed
a. 900 shares. Speculation left off tame
s3ld weak in tone. Sub. treasury bal.
ialces: Coin, SD, 224 600; currency,
~ 7s7 900
Il Money on call has been easy. ranging
nom to 4; last loan at and closing
3iered at Primo mercantile paper,
10 IL per cent. Bar silver, 721G Ster-
Eng exchange is steady. with actual
4 lsiness in bankers bills at 4s2@4s2X
pr sixty days and 4s6M for demand.
9osted rates, 4s3@4S7X. Commercial
Iflls, 4S0@4s5H. Government bonds
#rong. State bonds dull. Railroad
Honds weak.
Il Clnsincr hids
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line in dull blue wash silk. A flat design
of single cherry blossoms intcrspersed
with irregular, broken lines is scattered
over the body of the cloth, and in each
corner are grouped odd japanese forms.
The designs on any of the blue and white
ware may be transferred for embroidery
purposes by means Of tracing paper SO a
pattern for the teacloth decoration may
be obtained exactly matching the china
used. ISABELLA PRoCsroS.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
ON TRACK OF THE FIRE Bua.
Fire Department VIII To-day Investigate
70 Clue,

Fire Department Will To-day Investigate
Clue.
For some time the number of mysteri-
GUS fires in this city have been in
creasing and the assertion has often
been made that FIRE bug was at largo
in Roanoke.
The police officers have been on the
alert for some time and have been con.
Meeting suspicious circumstances and
incidents link by link until, it is
asserted, chain of evidence has been
formed that will lead TO the identif-
cation OF the incendiary
An investigation will be held this
morning by the fire department. when
a strong effort will be made to appre.
bend the fire fiend, if any exits, and
bring him to justice.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
The Girls Defeated this Time.

The SpauldIng baseball nine, West
END Juvenile team and the "Littlo Po-
tatoes," composed of nine little girls,
crossed bats and played holly con-
tested game yesterday afternoon in
West Roanoke, in which the boys de-
feated the girls in a score of to l..
The batteries were Stacy and Black
we'll for the Spauldings and Myers and
Olives for the Little Potatoes"
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Needs to be Attended To

Robert Conner, who lives at 121 Kirk
avenue, reported to the police yester.
day that an abandoned cess pool of the
depth of six feet, partially filled with
water, was in his yard. Mr.. Conner
was walking over the pool carrying his
baby Wednesday evening, when the
plank and dirt gave way and he was
precipitated into the filthy place.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
Won by n. & W. Junior,s.

game of ball was played yesterday
afternoon between N & w. Juniors and
the Campbell street club, which re-
suited in favor OF the NJ & w. bows by
. score OF l6 to 6. The batteries were
Dickinson and Howe for the Juniors
and Bennett, Jones and Peck for the
Campbell street team.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-18
College Of William and Mary
williamsburg, Va.

Next session. begins October stu. 1898
Expenses for students willing to teach
two years in the public schools of Vir-
ginia, board, fuel, lights and washing,
$40 per month; other students from SI2
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