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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
NOTICE OF MEETINGS.
LOST AND FOUND.

&TRAYED OR STOLEN -CHESp-
~ nut sorrel horse, with white spot on
forehead and very short forotop Horse
was attached to top buggy with side
bars. Was loft tied to hitching post on
South Jefferson street Liberal reward
for return to +. c. OAKLEY, 534 Salem
avenue. ~ 1926
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
For Over Fifty Year.

MRS, WINsLows SooTHINs SYRUP has peen used
for children teehing. It soothes the child, sofens
the best remedy for Diarrhea Twenty.aJe ctss'
bottle So by all druggists throngh out the world
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
BUSINESS NOTICES

4 Ii PERSONS ARE HEREBY
N notified not to trust e j. Hall,
formerly clerk with Rosenbaum Bros
on my account as will not be RESPONSE
bio for any debts he may contract.
MRS. A. BARLOW. l63t.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

THE ENTIRE STOCK OF GOODS, CONSIST
Ing OF boots, Shoes trunks. vaises, etc, and
fixtures, etc, now in storehouse No. - Salem
avenue, Roanoke, Va. (Which stock rece atty
conveyed to me rs trustee by julius Goldstein),
can be purchased privately, very cheap, as 4
whole The greater portion OF this stock is en-
tirely new. EVERETT PERKINS, trustee
Room II, Kirk Building. l21w
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

TAXES-SPECIAL NOTICE. TO
Il the taxpayers of the city OF Roa
noke. Take notice that at meeting of
the Common Council held on the fifth
day of December, 1898, tho following
resolution was passed:
BE it resolved, That the city treas.
urer be instructed to remit the 5 per
cent penalty on all city taxes for tho
year OF 1898, which may be paid n cash,
between December 1, 1898, and January
l, 1894"
Therefore, in accordance with tho
provisions OF the above resolution, the
per cent. penalty will not be added
to taxes due to the city until after the
first day of January, 1894, provided,
that said taxes are paid in cash.
w. THOMAS, Treasurer. i2l3tf
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

Snyder d macBhin's ATTRACTIVE VindoWs
The most unique and attractive show
window ever arranged in Roanoke was
exhibited yesterday by Snyder e. Mac
Balm. In one of the windows is a life j..
like representation OF a COW, one of the
best pieces of work of an expert taxi-
dermist, and milk maid in way
standing by. Crowds Of ladies and
children were gathered around the
windows all yesterday afternoon.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

THE ENTIRE STOCK OF GOODS, CON
sisting OF watches, clocks, umbrellas, silver
ware, 1cwelry OF every description, &C, and FIX
lures, &C., now in the store house, No lOl Salem
conveyed to me as trustee by ID. l.. Solomon,
can be purchased privately very cheap as Il
whole. The greater portion OF this stock OF
goods Is new and consists OF every thing usually
carried by hrst-class 1cwccr EVERETT
PERKINS, trustee, Room -, Kirk Building.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
Miss vitter a,prize poetess.

The Judges selected by Fishburne
Bros. to decide on the merits OF the
prize poems on the Yellow Rose tobacco.
met yesterday and awarded the first
prize of $40 to Miss Belle Witter. The
second prize of S. was awarded to Miss
Emma d. Hunt One of the Judges
favored for the second poem the one
written by Dr. j. w. Davis, of the Even.
ing World,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
MATSUYAMA MIRROR.
A WONDERFUL JAPANESE DEVICE
THAT PUZZLES SCIENTISTS.

Images Reflected Through NIetai-A Jan.
ancso Fairy Tale That VIII BE Enjoyed
Around Every American Fircsidc-uow
n Mother Lived In IL Mirror.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

EGR RENT-TWO ROOMS. FUR
- nished or unfurnished, No. 4O5
Campbell avenue. Call at tho house.
IL "a tt
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
FOR RENT.

ITO RENT-LARGE FURNISHED
Il or unfinished house, on Patterson
avenue. Address, T., TINES office.
IL ii Ivy
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

~ ANTED-1Oo. MEN FOR THE
w Soudan'" Call stage door, Acad-
envy of Music, Monday, December IS,
at 6:30 p. M.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-16

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT.
Il communicating and otherwise, at
20 9TH ave. S. w, near Jefferson st. illtf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.

This is competition of rather an unusua
nature. II Is common to offer prizes Tor tie
best story, or picture, or architectural plan ,
all the con petitors risking the loss OF their
labor and the successful one merely selling
his for the amount OF the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different, Each person is asked
merely to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage Is to be
rewarded for doing it. The prize 10 only q
stimulus to do something that would be
well worth doing without 1t. The architect
whose competitive plan for club house on
certain corner is not accepted has not spent
his labor on something of very little use 70
him. But the person who patent simple and
useful de vice in the Press Claims Company
competition, need not worry If he fail to Sc
cure the prize. He has substantial result to
show for his work-one that Will command It's
value i'm the Nd rket at any time.
The plain man who uses any article IN MS
daily work ought to know better now 10 I'M
prove 1t than the mechanical expert VINO
studies il only from the theoretical point OF
view. Get rid of the idea that an improve
ment can be too simple to be worth patentlng.
The simpler the better. The person who best
succeeds in combining simplicity and popu-
larity. will get the Press Claims Company
TWENTY-FIVE hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company may be
DICED from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred of the leading news
papers of the United States.
Address The Press Claims Company, John
Wedderburn, managing attorney, ls6 Fstreet'
N. W., Washington, ID &C..
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
The Little Things The Nest Valuable.

Comparatively few speOple regard them.
selves as inventors, butt almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
wi tn ideas that see med calculated to reduce
some of theulittIe frictIons of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed witt out further
thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make its
car windows so that they.csn be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
backs?" eXclsims the traveller. eff l were
running the road would make the m in such
a way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking OFF" grumbles the cook. "He
never had 10 work over stove or he would
have known how it ought to have been fixed. D."
Hang such collar button!' growls the
man who is late for breakfast. eff were in
the business I'd make buttons that would mt
slip out or break off, or gouge out the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievar es and begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about car windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents. they might find themselves as IN.
dependently wealthy as the man who invent
ed the iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS.

A patent strikes most people as an appal /
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, like Edi
son or Be L; that he must devote years to
delving in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spent fortune on delicate
experiments before he can get new device to
a patentable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t desires
to get into the head of the public clear COM
prehension of the fact that il is not the great,
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
the best returns to their authors but the lit
tie, simple, and cheap ones-the things that
seem so absurdly trivial that the average citi-
zen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing
them to the attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents..on all his marvellous iuven-
tons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con-
ceived the idea of fastning bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, 80 that it would come
back TO the hand when thrown, made fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma-
chine is miracle of ngenuity-the product OF
the toll of hundreds of busy brRirs through q
hundred and fiftyr years, but the whole bril-
liant result rests upon the simple device OF
putting the eyeof the needle at the point in
stead of at the other end
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
Chicago Girls at the Theater.

1t is form now in Chicago for girls to
take off their hats at the theater. Al
the Duse performance one Saturday aft
ernoon the audience was intensely fash
ionable, and at least 10 women in the
parquet removed their hats, placed them
in their laps, patted their locks in man
ner not unlike the great Duse herself.
and then sat in placid contentment, as
sured that they were attracting much
attention and had carried out the latest
fad.-Exchange.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people to keep track of their
bright ideas and sec what there is in them
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer price.
To the person who submits to it the sim
pliest and most promising invention, from
a commercial point of view, the company will
give twenty-five hundred dollars in each, in
addition to refunding the fees for securing
the patent.
1t will also advertise the invention free
charge.
This offer is subject to the following con
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent fJr
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars.
Should this search show his invention beot
unpatentable, he can withdraw without fur
Their expense. otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take out a
patent in the regularway. The total expense
including Government and Bureau fees, will
be seventy dollars. For this, whether ne
secures the prize or not, the inventor will
have a patent that ought to be valuable
property to him. The prize will be awarded
by ajury consisting of three reputable patent
ATTORNEYS of Washington. Intending COM
petitors should fill out the following blank,
and forward it with their applications:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
POOR AUSTIN.
The People In Dam" Bondage and
the Banks Are Now Full OF
Trouble.
Special Correspondence Daily LIGHT.

Trouble.
Special Correspondence Daily LIGHT.
AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. IL, 1893.
The financial trouble deepens in
Austin. Several days ago the
banks here tried to secure exchange
on New York that would be recog-
niZed in st. Louis and other east
ern points. But they could not
make the deal. They have since
written to banks in New Orleans,
Nashville, Louisville and several
other points making the same re-
quest relative to New York eX-
change. One of the banks was in
receipt of a letter this morning
from New Orleans bank stating
in substance that they would have
nothing at all to do with New
York exchange. That the banks
in New York had held up man.
fully during the strain of financial
depression, but they could not
stand to have any of their money
drawn out. That New Orleans
banks did not desire to loose any
thing on New York exchange, and
hence declined emphatically to
have anything to do with it. Let
tiers from other cities advance SIM
liar reasons. 1t is learned that a
Galveston bank sent S24 900 worth
of New York exchange to New Or
leans last week and it was prompt
ly fired back at them.
A gentleman ltoday".,went to an
Austin bank with a draft on New
Orleans gentleman for s 100. He
desired to deposit it to his credit,
but the bank told him they would
try and collect it for him, but
would not assume the amount
without first getting it from New
Orleans. 1t was suggested that eX.
change be sent by express to New
Orleans for collection, but the gen.
tleman, desiring to hasten matters
concluded to telegraph his friend
to send the money by express
Several hours later he received a
telegram stating that the bank re-
fused to ship that much money as
they could not stand the drain
Thus is given birds eye view OF
the situation. All the above are
cold actual facts dug up in the
bank of Austin and they can be
relied upon. The man that all this
closeness effects the most is the
cotton buyer. What can and what
will he do if things do not change
An example of his position is as
follows:
Suppose he has a capital of S25,,
600 to start business on. If he is
any dealer at all his purchases
should reach several hundred bales
per day. Granting, however, that
he only buys 100 bales day in
lust six days he will be busted
and at present he could not borrow
y single cent from any bank. Or
the other hand if he complies will
the requirements of the banks III
will be out of business every two
= weeks, where he will be in il
one. For the bank will onl!
accept New York exchange for col
lection. So under the most favor
able circumstances the exchange
could not go east for collection
and the money return inside o
ten days or two weeks. In tn
meantime the cotton buyer mus
rest on oars. He cannot do bust
ness without a capital Of at leas
fifty thousand and possible seven
ty-five. He hasn't got it and coul'
borrow it from local banks. Wha
is he going to do? The public cal
interest themselves by studying
his case. "A. u. SMooT.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hum
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift Of a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents
that may Bring them In sill More.

Would you like to mske Twenty-Five hun
dred dollars2 If you would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous.
ands of applications for invent Ons, but it
would like to haud e Thousand more. There
plenty CT inventive talent at large in this
country, needing nothing but encourage It ent
to produce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company proposes to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
The Lamp Fad Carried Too Far.

Lamps are the prettiest means of light
ing, but why turn our rooms into lamp
shops? know a young married woman
who glories in the awful fact that she
has IA lamps in her drawing room. Each
of these lamps is shaded with an ao-
normal monstrosity in the way OF paper
ballet skirts, rag flowers and other trash,
until art is killed with vulgar quantity
and confagration imminent.-Boston
Traveller.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
TO VEHICLE BUYERS.

We have the finest stock OF
vehicles to be found in the state,
both in medium and highest grades.
If YOU want nice styles, and work
that will stand hard usage do not
all to call on Staacke Bros. D II I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12
Their Robes Deceived Her.

1t was at an evening service where the
music is rendered by a boy choir. A tiny
girl watched the proceedings with great
interest. It was a new experience for
her, and as the last white robed figure
disappeared from sight and the final
notes of the amen sounded the little
voice rang out shrill and clear IN the
stiffness as she asked, "Have they gone
to bed, mammaT'-New York Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12

Which is the best to try, if you have Ca,
tarrh-a medicine that claims to have cured
others, or medicine that is backed by
money to cure you The proprietors OF Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy agree to cure your
Catarrh, perfectly and permanently, or
they'll pay you $500 in cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-12

sT submit the within described invention
in connection for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company.
Evening journal., 1893-04-26
Literary Partnership.

"An important branch Of literary bust
ness nowadays is writing by proxy" said
publisher to a reporter. This is a very
busy world, and there are a great many
people in it who, having no time to produce
matter for publication themselves, employ
others to do it for them. For example, one
Of the best known physicians in this coun-
try has also a considerable reputation rs a
litterateur He has published a number Of
learned medical works, besides several vol
umes Of fiction. Not one Of them has been
written by himself He has hired other
men toproduce them, paying them so much
a page. / know all about it, because the
volumes I speak Of have been issued from
my own presses. That sort of thing is very
common.
II also am acquainted with a distin-
guished lawyer who chooses to have lit
erary reputation. He thinks it helps him
in his profession, and presumably his vanity
is gratified by it. AT all events he en-
ploys newspaper man of ability, with
whom he is on confidential terms, TO write
articles regularly for him. They are most
ly on topics which have some reference to
law. The lawyer signs his name to them,
and the journalist receives the pay. This
is advantageous to both because the law
yer's reputation makes the article fetch
double or even treble what the newspaper
man could sell it for as his own.
1.-THE lawyer also produces about four
short stories for magazines every year.
These also are written in type script by the
journalist, who gets 500 apiece for them,
while the lawyer signs his name and is con-
tent with the glory. Washington STAR
Evening journal., 1893-04-26
Mhnt nooomes Of "rronhles.n

The girl who has a brother knows-and
there is something sad in this-she knows
what becomes Of faded flowers, bits of rib
bon and the like. She has seen her brother
carefully fasten a red rose close to a certain
photograph upon the wall. She has noticed
his agitation when the housemaid happened
to dust both the rose and the picture to the
floor. She has watched him save the pieces
of that dried up rose, and after that she has
heard him wonder why he was such n sim
pleton about that girl, and has seen him
consign the broken posy, with lot of other
rubbish, to the flames. She has known
him to take out tender relics that have been
carefully wrapped and laid away and ask
himself where on earth they came from or
why he ever kept them.
On one occasion she proflted by a bitter
lesson which he learned They were board
ing-he and she-in a house where there
were a number Of young people, several Of
whom had been out together one evening.
When the brother had retired TO his room
that night. he drew flower from his but
tonhole and held itup. Another trophy, f"
he said languidly and dropped it in the
CRATE. The next day at table his blunder-
ing roommate was accusing him of being a
hardened flirt and to prove his statements
told the trophy" story.
The lesson came in here. The girl who
had given him the flower happened to be
sitting opposite, with FIRE in her eyes, and
heard it all. Since that time she has been
almost as wary about giving flowers to SEN
timental youths as though she had broth
er Of her own.-Chicago News Record.
Evening journal., 1893-04-26
A Rounuet spoiled Hla chanees.

Shortly after the inauguration Of Mr..
Cleveland in 1885 a young fellow came here
from one of the western states and applied
for a consulship in Germany. Hewas splen-
didly indorsed, and after an interview with
the chief executive he thought sure he had
a ''cinchn on the place. He returned to his
hotel in great spirits.
Days and weeks passed and nothing def
mite came from the White House.
Finally the young man concluded he
would remind the president that he was
anxiously waiting TO hear from him. Should
he send note? No, that wouldn't do.
The young man hit upon novel idea This
was TO send Mr.. Cleveland ahoral Offering
He went Off 20 Freeman's and ordered n
splendid bouquet, which he directed sent
to the president with his compliments
Two days later Senator --, the young
mans influence, went up to the White
House to ascertain what chances his con-
stituent had for that consulship.
"None whatever" wns Mr.. Cleveland s
emphatic reply 'I dismissed his case
from my mind two days ago when I re-
ceived a present at his hands. It was a
bouquet. Washington News.
Evening journal., 1893-04-26
A nabit Unrd 40 nreal, On.

II see" remarked q wen known maj
shout town the other day, THAT we are ir
the midst of another of those periodic ont
breaks against tipping, but IL won't make
a bit of difference. Tipping will 60 on just
the same. Some few people will conceive
the notion that as matter OF principle
they ought 70 refrain from tipping, and
they will try it for few days and then will
conclude that for the sake of their own
peace Of mind they'd better tip. They y
continue confirmed 'tippers' for the rest e.
their days.
1.-THE fact Is it requires more COURAGE Or
rebel against the tipping system than N
does TO revolt against almost any other $50
cial custom. / know whereof / speak 90.
I've been there and I'll just tell you how
it works. When you withhold the usual
tip, you become painfully aware that Tx
waiter thinks you are frightfully mean
You would like to explain to him that you
are only making n noble and heroic flghi
for principle, but Of course that is ont oI
the question. Now, nothing hurts a man
pride so much as to feel that somebody y
thinks him mean. He could better cndul
being thought gambler, or a 'bunko steer
err or a man who didn't pay his debts
You become afraid to look that waiter ir
the face Next time you dine somewhen
else and again incur the odium Of undo
served contempt. You don't get hardened
to It; you hate it worse each time, and aftc'
it has gone on three or four days you ju.
say TO yourself; Hang it, or somethin-
else, this thing has got to stop. l can
stand having people think am mean when
know ! amt. Devil take the principle OF
the thingp Then Won resume tipDinu and
are happy once more. New York Herald