The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-23

tificates payable in one, two, three ana
four years your rowing machine is out of
the question.
Here is the state of the country as
get it laid down in the papers. will
write it to you:
The consumption of silver by those
who are wealthy has caused a shortage
among those that is poor. This, with
the export of gold ut time when the
home demand has been something to
make person leave his pie and has re-
placed for the circulating medium banks
full of mortgages, trust deeds and snide
watches on which banks cannot realize,
and poor people that have been so honest
that they have barely kept out of the
idiot house can't buy or beg or borrow of
the banks that have loaned all their
money on additions so far down town
that business man can only go out there
on Sunday, and some has to take va
cation to get home if they lives in an adj
dition.
Also one paper goes on to say that the
engagement of the channels of trade
with overproduction of unearned incre-
ment over the percentage of former years
and making the bmetallic and baser
metals snbservient to gold and tho re-
serve OF gold and paper money the gen
eral funeral of currency and noticeable
hesitation OF goods to go out during the
season OF mourning, together with
shrinkage of values of things you have
got, while things that you want real bad
become suddenly of great value. causes
what you might call stagnation of salts
faction and general revival of sadness
i'll the realms of traffic.
That's the way find it, and hence l
say, let us think no moro of the rowing
machine. l find that the muscles called
into play i'll hoeing corn are tine same,
and you get the exercise for the lower
extremities also at the same price with
out wearing out the seat of your pants,
which you now call trousers, ! notice
with great pain.
wish that you would consider this
matter in its true light, and if You could
come home before the fall term begins
you would get glad welcome from the
dog and your mother and me also. We
miss you a great DEAL but can see that
you have sort cf outgrowed us and are
easy i'll society, which never was.
l can see how advanced you are and
easy and comfortable, and you can sing
college songs. Even if the president was
in the room you would not give dang.
1t must be pleasant to he that way, while
can't be comfortable in the room with
a we'll dressed lightning rod man, and
about all can DO when Il fruit tree man
comes and has confidence in himself is
to sit there and crack my knuckles and
buy bunch of trees that don't want.
Oh, know that you are an ornament
to the abode of wealth and that houses
where you go and stay all night have
hired mon to pass the victuals that would
make Your poor old father mortified
nearly to death with his inferiority and
swcaty misery.
No young woman will ever he quite
good enough to marry you without pay-
ing tho difference. Your mother saws
that Il wife suitable for YOU does not
tread shoe leather, but goes barefoot
along the parapcts of the sky, and at
night with her long white wings and
plain bleachcd muslin robe scars away
to her own little pigeon house in the sky.
That's Your mother all over She loves
you more than any white flannel girl
from Long Branch, Henry. She will
love you even if you get to cutting up.
She will love You, knowing that YOU amt
worth IL cent, which it would be well to
tell the sailor girl with the PARKWAY
look. Tell her right ont flat footed that
you lack year of knowing anything,
and that your mother is wearing Your
last year private theatrical clothes on
cold days so that you can be warm and
respectable.
Also find out if She is worthy. You
. need not inquire at the information win
dow or look up her fathers name on the
Judgment docket of his town, but Just
praise her among the other girls, and
you'll find out things about her that will
be revelation to you. You know that
Heine says, Every man who marrics is
like the dogc who webs the Adriatic
sea-" and that's Il fact, too, Henry. She's
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