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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-07
CALIFORNIA HERMlTS.
Mon Passing Their Lives In Lido Solitude
on tho Mountain Tops.

Mon Passing Their Lives In Lido Solitude
on tho Mountain Tops.
Is man essentially n social animal.
Tho scientists say so. But in the
mountains of California there arc al.
most enough men who for years have
led Il life of utter solitude to disprove
the generalization. These mountain
hcrmits can be found scattered through
the Sierras and the coast range from
one end of the state to the other. They
are particularly numerous through this
region, ccntcring about the Yosemite
Valley and extending far back into the
high Sicrras Some of them were once
guides i'll the valley, others have been
miners and some again seem to have
taken up the life of solitude simply be.
caue they like it
To this class belongs old p. r. Gibson
-"Old Glib" as he is generally called
who lives on a mountain ranch.
He is seventy-fivc years old, but
is possessed of as much phys
ical strength and endurance as the ay.
cragc man of half his age. He came
here thirty years ago from Tennessee,
where he left wife and large fami.
~ of children. One of his sons came
to sec him recently and tried to induce
him to visit his former home, but "Old
Glib" stcadfastly refused to leave his
little ranch and solitary cabin. lie
has never seen railroad, and the
stage drivers from the nearest station
try their utmost to persuade him to go
to town and at least look at n tram of
cars. But his invariab bic answers do
yen think I'm going down there 20 be
blowed up by one of them there blamed
engines? Not much"
Nearly all the men who live this life
of solitude very long get bit queer in
the head, and odd Glib" is no exception
to the rule. lie has a rigmarole de-
scription Of himself which declares
that he is 1.-THE best man in the United
States or adjoining territories, either
directly or Indirectly, financially. com.
mercially, enthusiastically or unchurch-
flied" The old man is hard worker,
and when he is not busy on his ranch
he is working energetically making
shakes" that is, clapboards split and
sawed by hand from big pine trees
Old man Lambert, who has a cabin
in the high Sicrras, some twenty OF
thirty miles back of the Yosemite, is
another of the mountain hermits. He
has neither ranch nor mining claim,
but lives by what he shoots and by an
occasional few dollars earned from
camping parties. He has lived alone
in that same spot for years and years,
and will in all likelihood stay there
until he dies. There are months at a
time that he does not see another hu.
man being. A party of campers last
summer found him making huge
stone wall that seemed to have no
purpose whatever. In surprise they
asked him what he was pilinG up those
stones for.
Why" he said, "a mans got to dc
something up here alone or he'll &c
wrong, surc."-AugustaC Chronicle.
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Arranging to 60 to washineton.

About twenty members OF the Central
Dem ocratic club held meeting Satur-
day night in the Office of Payne, Shelor
Il Co., in the Terry building.
The Odd Fellows hall, over Smiths
music store, was rented for future use.
A meeting will be held Thursday night
to make all the necessary arrangements
for transportation, etc, to the inaugu-
ration on March 4. full attendance is
desired at this meeting, as it will have
to DO known how many of the members
will attend. The club will be presided
over by the president, v. Ii. Payneo
Nj. Q. Jackson will still act in the
capacity of secretary and treasurer.
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Whenever | begin to feel ovcrtaxcd. mentally
or physically take this remedy, and so keep in
perfect health and spirits. | hnd il makes the
SKIN soft and wonderfully improves tho complex
ion: 1t increases the appetite and produces nat
ural and peaceful sleep.
This testimony l. gratefully and willingly
given III the hopes that it will benefit others
VIII snd!y communicate with those desiring it,
snb-tantiatng this
Now leaving asid tho question OF good health,
strength and spirits how much better il IL for
women To keep their complexion pure and clear
their checks plump and rosy and their eyes
bright by the use Of this wonderful vitalizcr and
lnvigorator for blood and nerves, DIR. Grcenes
Ncrvura block and nerve remedy. The testimony
or thousands of women corrohoratc the words
OF Miss Holland. All druggists keep this rcmccy
for 81 and 1t i purely vegetable and harmless
In fact, DIR. Grcenc's Ncrvura blood and nerve
remedy Is the prescription and discovery OF a
physician, Dr. Greene. Of 81 West l4th Street.
New ork. the successful specialist in curing all
forms or nervous and chronic discusses lie can
be consulted in any case free OF charge person
ally or BY letter
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matcics by cat;u:: Il whole turkey or q
small plr at :. si,:H.c sitting. Ny uncle
offered 10 bet him one hundred dollars
chat he could ind II boy that could beat
him eating raw eggs. lie accepted the
wager and was pittcd against him. l
was thea sixteen years of age. We sat
down to the contest and beat him on
the thirtyninth egg. He could swallow
no more and | dcvourcd the forticth and
won the wager for my uncle.
Since then | have had innumcra bic
contests. | have defeated every one l
have ever met and never experienced
any bad effects from these eating bouts.
For the past five years have given cx-
hihtionS at the various museums in
this country, where l never eat less
than one hundred eggs Il day. gcncr-
ally cat ten or a dozen ut Il time, and
sometimes rs many as twenty or TWEEN
ty-fvc. My greatest record is two hun
drcd and ten eggs in Il single day. Ere
Qucntly cot one hundred and fifty n
day at exhibitions. have made dur
ing my career about forty-fivc hundred
dollars by eating eggs and 1 hope to
make as much more before I die. l
have no fear of consequences.
EDWARD w. MANNING
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back To New York. l had to stay on
the farm and work out our board bill.
The provisions became very poor md
couldn't stand it. But the farmer had
n lot of suusagcs stored away for tho
winter and | discovered them. There
were tvo hundred of them and | ate
them in week. The farmer went
crazy and | had to follow Jcrry's OK
ample and depart for New York The
whole town of Trenton heard of the
trick and thought it was great.
In New York | entered two matches
in succession against two champion
Dutchmcn and beat them at their own
game. In the first match ate five hun
drcd sausagcs in ten days and in tho
second one thousand in twenty-one
days. Asscmblyman DRY Dollar Sui
Ivan backed me in both matches, and
won twelve hundred dollars in stakes
and side bets.
had no attacks of indigestion from
eating all of this good food and never
expect to have any trouble with my
stomach except when have nothing to
put i'll it. GEORGE (CHUcK) CoNNoR.
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Police Court News.

The police court had few Saturday
night and Sunday hooze 10 settle with
yesterday morning.
Theodore Clemants was changing cars
at the railway station and became too
drunk to travel" and was taken in by
the police. He had ON his person a
flask full of whiskoy, Sl3 50 and mutt.
lated railroad ticket from which it is
supposed that he was making his way
to Baltimore. Iii was fined SIS.
Harriet Brackott was fined SIS for
raising disturbance. e. l.. Moir and
Thomas Pentory were each fiued So so.
j. L. Smith was caught drunk on the
street with concealed weapons on his
person and was fined $40 for his offense
Samuel Holmes, James Biglow and
Dan Hodges were each fined So so for
being drunk.
j. w. Beaver, drunk and fighting,
was fined SIS
Patton Yarbrough and Robt. Tut
were arrested for disorderly conduct
and fined 81 each
Margaret Saunders was fined So so for
fighting
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WOMEN WILL LIKE 1T.
And no One Will Think of Blam-
ing Them.
Right That Women Should Re
gard Their Complexion, and This IL 40
Much Better ana Such an Excellent
Way.

We believe it perfectly right that women should
regard their complexion Nothing makes them
more beautiful We take pleasure, therefore in
publishing the following letter to women, writ
ten by that most popular and brilliant newspaper
correspondent, Miss j. Holland. OF - West 10Th
st., New York City. Miss Holland is a noted
and gifted writer, and her regular communities
tions and articles in the New ork World, New
York Recorder, Scw York Times, Home journal
Cleveland Tribune and other papers and maya
zines, will he remembered most pleasantly. She
writes for our paper IA follows:
so many friends ask how il Is that am al
ways in such good he nth and spirits, and have a
compcXion that requires no cosmetics, would
like TO state tor The benefit OF many besides
friends that owe it all to DR.. Grccnc's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy.
Several years ago severe illness left me with
20 little vitality the doctors said Nigh. finger
Tor Il time but would never recover.
VI then began taking DR.. Grcenc's Ncrvura
blood and nerve remedy. IN Il week. much to the
surprise OF all. was much better and in II month
was out shopping and going into society again
then took several bottles OF this MEG icinc
and after taking them my constitution was 80
thoroughly built up, although have since passed
thrt ugh severe mental strains from the loss OF
dear ones by tcath, have never been sick since
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"''''P'C Vflc'Il an. THU Is how / got
the name of ''Chuck" Conner. / never
met the man yet who could cat with
me, and would like to tackle Paul, the
quail eater, or that dago who Furnishes
the macaroni.
On sausage eating especially have
gained reputation. | made my first
hit at that among some Jcrscymcn
three years ago, when attempted to
train that little looking glass fighter,
jerry Barnett.
lie and were lodged in farmhouse
near Trenton. When the work became
warm Jerry 1ed the ranch aud vent
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JAMES a. ADAMS. do ted on. In
fact they are my principal article of
food. A good, fat apple pie will, in my
opinion, give man all the stamina he
needs for the hardest kind of work
In Vermont, years ago, when train
ing for some of my hardest foot races,
ate nothing but apple pic. This gave
me the nickname 'Pic eater" by which
| was known all over the United States.
In the big six-day-go-as-yo u-pleasc race
i'll Madison Square garden, few years
ago, l lived on apple pie Most of the
time. 1t would sustain my strength
when nothing else would.
| have never matched myself for large
stakes in any pic-cating contest. sim
ply cat pic because l like it. have
made tests of endurance though. The
most notable occurred at IIillsboro
county fair in Vermont in 1874 In
fortnight lived on nothing else but APP
pie pie, and consumed one hundred and
twelve during that time. | did not have
the slightest trouble from indigestion,
although many of my ncighbors who
cssaycd to keep me company for the
first week became dcathly sick and were
compelled to rclinquish the game.
Pie eating in my day was not the
sport it has since become. But few
practiced it and they were men. Now
see the women have taken it up.
Heaven knows where it will end. Per-
haps the babies will be the next to cul-
tivate dyspepsia. JAMES A. ADAMS.
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HERBERT FOR THE NAVY.
The Alabama Congressman Said to BE
Slated by Cleveland to Succeed Tracy

The Alabama Congressman Said to BE
Slated by Cleveland to Succeed Tracy.
New YORK, Feb. Ga special to.
night to the Herald from Washing ton
says that it is practically settled in the
minds OF nearly everybody around the
Navy Department that Representative
Il. A. Herbert, Of Alabama, is to be the
next Secretary of the Navy.
1t is not known exactly how the So
cret leaked out, but am assured by a
high official of the Department, who
stumbled on the Information by acct
dent. that Mr.. Cleveland has acquainted
Mr.. Herbert with his desire TO have
him accept tho Navy portfolio.
1t is further learned that while Mr..
Herbert has not yet formally accepted
the appointment. from certain cohver-
sations known to have taken plsce be-
tween Secretary Tracy and Mr.. herbert
upon matters affecting prniing naval
questions it is believed the.o is little
room for doubt that he will accept.
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Application for a Charter F,,cd.

The Virginia Real Estate and Insur.
ance Agency flied application IN the
clerks office for a charter yesterday
The purpose Of this agency is to con-
duct real estate, rental, collecting,
loan and insurance agency, and deal in
stocks, etc. The incorporators areJ. q.
Stevenson. G. O'Leary, A ID. Rice, W.
j. Wright and Junius McGhee. The
capital stock is to be S. coo, and the
limit in real estate is to be 5000 acres
The officers are as fol flows: j. Il. Steven.
son. president; C. O'Leary. vice presi-
dent; A. D. Rice. treasurer, and w. j.
Wright, secretary.
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RAILROADS
RAILROADS
N s 9 :. w Aorfo|ksWestern RR.

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCTOBER 30, 1899.
wEsTBouND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
$40 a. m. washington and Chattanooga limited,
for Bristol and beyond Stops only ut Rad
ford Pullman slccpcrs to New Orleans, Mem
phis and Nashville. Dining chr attached,
o:oo a. IN. for Rndford, Pulaski, Bristol and all
intermediate statione; also Tor Blueaod, Po-
cahontas, Elkhorn, Clinch Valley Division
and Louisville via Norton Pullman slcepor
to Lou svillc via Norton
C5o p. m, Il Radford, Pulaski, and Bristol also
for Bncneld-Ohio extension; leaves BlueAcld
6:lO u. III. daily for Kcnova, Columbus and
the west. Pullman slccpcrs to Memphis via
Chattanooga.
NORTH AND EAsTBoUNp. LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY,
E1o =: M for Petersburg, Richmond and
l245 p. m. for Washington, uagcrstown, Phila-
dclphia and New York. Pullman slccpc
Roanoke to New York, via Harrisburg and
i. r. X.
l545 p. III. daily for Richmond and Norfolk Pull
man parlor car to Norfolk, connects Mt Lynch
burg Y Mon station) with Durham division.
$40 y. III. for Bucna Vista and intermediate sta
tions. No connections beyond.
9:4b y. III. for Richmond and Norfolk. Pullman
slccper to Norfolk and Lynchburg to Rich
1915 night Washington and Chattanooga lin.
ited) for Washington, uagorstown, Philadcl-
phia and New York Pullman elccpcrs 10
Washington via Shenandoah junction and
New York via Harrisburg. Dining, car
Luray, Shenandoah, Junction, Shepherds
town, Antietam, Grimes and st. James.
Durham Divsion-Lcavc Lynchburg (Union
station) and 3:l5 p. m. daily for South Boston
Winston Salem Division-Lcave Roanoke (Union
eletion) 945 a. m. daily for Rocky Mount,
Martinsvillc, Winston-Salem and intcrme-
date stations.
o ES5 all additional intormatiSn spRy ticket
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke. Va.
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ally q hard, brittlc-looliing substance
which gives n merry ring when the
faliir clips it with his thumb and fore
finger to set suspicious minds at rest 1t
gives bcll-lille sound, like that of gen
uine glass when lightly struck and jars
on the senses when ground by the per-
formers teeth. Nevertheless it is mere
ly hard glucose substance which nclts
in the heat of the stomach and assIn-
ilatcs quite as readily as jelly or even
molasscs.
There have been and are at present
men living who can cat real glass APP
parcntly without suffering from the eff
fccts thereof. | am one of those few
individuals, but take no credit to my
SELF for possessing peculiar physical
quality. Nature gave me a caSt-iron
stomach and think nothing can affect
1t. first tried chewing and swallow
ing glass when boy at Nashua, n. III.
Myself and some other schoolboys had
been reading in our leisure hours a
flash book called The Gold Hunters in
Australia, wherein we learned that
drunken Yankee sailor had ground up
and swallowed glass tunblcrs during
his periods of intc,nperancc
told the boys in n spirit of bravado
that l thought l could do the trick
had frequently ground with my teeth
and swallowed grape seed and Judged
that this would not be much harder
feat. The boys urged me on. bought
n very thin shell glass and broke out a
piece Of it. This | ground exceedingly
fine and swallowed. No evil consc-
Qucnccs followed and after that did
1n
Eventually / went into the show bust
ness and made Il living out of my gas
tronomic toughncss have Frequently
been told by eminent physicians that
some day ! will do the trick for the
last time, as the glass is liable at any
moment to get into the intcstincs and
causc congestion, yet | have not ex-
perienced the slightest symptoms of
discomfort, and have ground up and
eaten as many as nine fine cut glasses
in {. day.
My theory about glass eating is sim
pie. | think that in my case at least no
great danger need be apprehended if all
the organs of the body are in healthy
condition and the stomach is fairly full.
always eat hearty meal two hours
or less before l give 4 performance The
glass thus gets mixed up with the food,
and not being nutritious passes away
in the course of digestion with food
which is not disappointing or blood
making. Just as peach stones and other
indigestiblc material do. 1t is not
necessary that should state the salary
l earn, but so far-and have only been
Six years in the busincss-I have earned
over nine thousand dollars by the cx-
hibitions have given. Pretty nearly
all of that money is gone, and will! have
to stick to glass eating for awhile long
er if the fad continues SO popular that
can still make capital from it.
BY the way, there arc two gentlemen
who belong to the Four Hundred who
can eat glass as we'll as / and make no
fuss about it. These gentlemen are
George Work, son of the millionaire
banker, Frank Work, and the eccentric
Fred May. hope neither will ever
have to follow it for a business, for the
pitcher which often goes to the we'll
will sooner or later be broken. The
fate OF the pitcher will Some day be
mine Il. j. M'KENNA.
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WOMEN AS DETECTIVES.

This Branch of susIness Is Grouins nno
Seoms Likely to Become Profitable.
One or two recent cases in the crimi-
nal courts in Europe have brought the
female detective somewhat prominently
into notice, and people have been rather
surprised to find that her services might
be of use quite apart from the divorce
court, says an exchange. AS matter
of fact, matrimonial litigation only con.
tributes n comparatively small proper.
ton to the total demand for her exer.
tons, which arc now called into requisi.
ton in many unexpected ways The
employment of the sex in this capacity
is increasing largely, for it has been
amply proved that rcsourccful woman
is frequently far more successful in
solving unusual situations and mystic
ries than n man would be. The Gabo-
riaus and the Conan Doylcs and all the
school Of detective fictionists have hith-
erto preferred to let men unravel the
astonishing knots they have tied up,
and it remains yet for some one to
strike out new path by giving us a
feminine marvel of intuitive astutcncss.
Perhaps it is because so much of their
work is domestically commonplace that
this is yet to be written. In large
shops, for instance, women are con-
stantly employed as detectives, to
watch for petty offerings both of the
smaller goods and of money. The pro-
prietors of swcetmcat and tobacco shops
III particular avail themselves largely
of this aid, us these wares are especially
easy to abstract surreptitiously; and aa
barmaids apparently they are called
in at intervals by most of the large
firms of caterers. 1t is said by those
most capable of speaking on the subject
that dishonest barnaids are the smart
est and ''dodgiest" thieves of small
money to be found, and that, under the
prctcnsc of adjusting collar or even
scratching the neck, they will drop
shilling or form inside their dresses
under the very eyes OF their master
Such thcfts can, of course, only be OBJ
served and proved by one working as
themselves Chicago Dispatch.
Not Making Rash Promises.
will you love me forcvcr?"
mo. Only rs long as we are mar
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
DEFAULT HAVING BEEN MADE

hEFAULT HAVING BEEN MADE
~ by the hereinafter named person
in the payment of assessments made
upon the shares of stock held by said
person in the Roanoke and New York
building and Investment Company, of
Roanoke, Va, shall, as directed by the
directors OF said company, on Thurs
day, February 10th, at IL o'clock M,
at my office, 200 First street 8. W., sell
at public auction to the highest
bidder the following shares Of stock
for tho payment OF assessments due
thereon:
John A. Cook. S shares. S23O 2G
e. j. BOND,
Secretary Roanoke and New York
Building and Investment Company.
16 3Ot
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boy on my fathers farm near Wor-
cester, Mass. They were luxury to
me in my boyhood days and used
to "hooll' them whenever could and
have feast by myself.
My first match came about in this
way: There was farmer named Eek
Miller, who lived in a township adjoin-
ing ours, who had n great reputation
for eating. lie won number of
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down to t h o
& "a " G. | can
C n t a II y t II i n &
t h a t C o IN c S
along, b @ ! t
quail, frogs legs,
m a caroni or
sausages. I play
no favorites, but
gonnn1n fLao. III
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out taking any
other kin d of
food. l have in
d e ed consumed
great quantities
of t h S yvatcry
delicacy, even
w h en- training
for a prize fight.
Some years ago,
when helping to
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c. w. c. Woolwine will leave TODAY
for Richmond to attend called meeting
OF the Virginia Funeral Directors Asso
citation. The meeting was called for tho
purpose OF revising and changing the
by laws governing tho association.
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ant ultimately
death. They say
that the organs
of digestion wear
out, and then
comes the end. I
don't believe it.
l have eaten
eggs in great
quantities ever
since / was n
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yet / have eaten
them for forty
years and more
and have never
experienced the
slightest distress
from heavy in
diligence there
in, and pies I
h Il V c always
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DOA NOKE STREET RAILWAY
~ SCHEDULE.
SALEM DUMMY LINE.

EAST. WEST.
IIv. Salem. Ar. RoanokolLv Roanoke Ar Salem
6:15 m. 6:45 am. 7:15a.m 7:45 a. m.
e'Ou Am. $3.50 a. m. S:45 am. 9:l5 a. m.
9'oO am. 1000 am .1O:15 am. 10:45 a. m.
ll:Oo pm. l1:30 p. m.11:45 p.m.12:1 p. m.
1S.5O Pm. LOO pm. lis pm. las p. m.
300 pm. 2:3O pm. 2:45 DIN. 3:t5 o. M.
$3.50 pm. 400 pm. AIS pm. 4:45 p. M.
o:l5 pm. 5:45 pm. 6:15 pm. Gas p. M.
7:15 pm. 7:45 pm. 9:45 1918 o. M,
N. B.-Theater nights last train leaves
Roanoke at 1O:45; arrives Salon 1918 o.
m. Sundays, the first run is omitted.
Trains leaving Roanoke at s:45 6. m.
and AIS p. m. on Salem dummy line will
have baggage car attached for carrying
drum mers' trunks, general baggage and
merchandise, beginning May IS.
vINTON ELECTRIC LINE.
Leave Roanoke.
600 am. 10:40 am. 3:20p. m. 7:20 p. M.
$40 a.m.11:20 a.m. 400 m. 500 p. m.
7:20 ami 1900 no. 4:4O pm. $40 p. N.
500 am. 12:40 pm. 500 p. M. 9:20 p. m.
$40 am. LEO pm. 600 pm. 1000 p. M.
900 am. 200 p. N. $40 p. m. 10:40 p. m.
1000 am. 2:4Op.m
WIZ. CARR, General Manager.