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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-09
EARLY SPRING
Season 1894.
HBIRONIMUS & BRUGH'S.
HELPS OF NEW THINGS NOW
READY In MANY DEPARTMENTS.

Probably our term early spring seems
little premature in February. 1t
should no, however. January LIST marks
the closing period of the Dry Goods win.
ter season. Progressive merchants the
country over are now engaged in show
ing their customers New Spring StuffS
The advantage is all on the side of u
customer. Instead Of crowding the work
necessary to prepare you to meet the
spring season, when it arrives, into q
few short weeks, you have now the
choice Of making that preparation de-
ltberately. and can occupy two months
at it.
Then the choice things are always
shown early. II fyr no other reason
this should bs sufficient for you to buy
now. We invite you to call and inspect
lines already open.
WE ARE SHOWING
New EN- broideries in entirely new de.
signs in Cam brio, Swiss and Nainsook.
New TorchoD, Vallenciennes, Silk
and Cotton Laces.
New White Goods in Plain, Plaid and
Striped Nainsooks. Dimities, Piques,
Linon d'Indes, Jones' Cambrics, Swiss
Muslins, Organdie Lawns, Tuckings,
etc., etc
New Ginghams,
New Prints,
New Outings,
New PercaIes.
The new printed White Ducks to be
used SO much this season:
Serpentine crepes in Evening
Tints, Yeddo Crepes, Satines,
New Silks. New Woolens,
ETC., Etc, Etc.
No Old Stuff in the Lot
Everything Brand New.
AGironinuS &BrQgh.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-09

IDr32erB for tho next week at 10
cents per hundred
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
Hasty Choice.

Au amusing anecdote is told Of
Lord Liverpool, a prominent peer
during the Pitt ministry, who made,
at least in one case, the mistake of
acting before he had sufficiently
thought over the matter in question.
Mr.. Pitt had some intention of Great
ing a new order of merit, and asked
the opinion Of the cabinet ministers
as to the color of ribbon which should
be used. Lord Liverpool called upon
him one evening and announced that
he had made his selection, and was
ready to show it.
"You see" he said, with a well-sat-
isfied air, Il have endeavOred to COM
bine such colors as will flatter the
national vanity. Here is red for the
English flag, blue for liberty, and
white to denote the purity Of mo-
tive"
1T is excellent" cried one of the
persons present.
"The King will be greatly pleased
with it," said another.
"You had better take it down to
Windsor" added a third.
Sdlu Lady teSUer SCdnnOpe,
"the King will be delighted with it.
l myself think the colors charming;
for 1 know exactly how they will
look, as l have seen them very often"
seen them? Where?:" asked Lord
Liverpool.
"Why, in the French soldiers cock.
AIDES"
He had overlooked the tricolored
flag, symbol of revolt and democracy,
as we'll as another national ensign,
of which no reader in this day will
need to be reminded. He was thun-
derStruck.
what shall 1 do, Lady Hester?:"
he cried. Il have already got 500
yards Of ribbon made. What can I
do with it,"
But there was nothing to do with
it, and so Lady Hester assured him.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

ment, like every other, must have
money, and. however poor the land
may te. its owner mu- t pay his taxes,
and plenty of them, too, and if he can-
not prevail on any one to buy the land,
he must keep on aging Indefinitely.
If he cannot get his money out of the
land, tn t j. hi misfortune. The Gov
eminent of Norway is Just as hard
hearted in such matters as any State
or municipal government in the United
States, AMI just as prOm t at enforcing
collections.
In one way or another the govern
mont of Norway manages to squeeze
out of the people Slz.tOJ,OOO every year
in taxes, and, as may be naturally sup
posed in a country so poor, the inhab-
itants are kept busy in the effort to
make a living and pay their taxes. But
they manage to do both, though it
must be confessed that, to people who
live outside of Norway, their efforts in
the former direction do not seem to be
to starve with oats and barley, with
eggs and butter and fowls and milk
and reindeer meat in comparative
abundance, and so the hardy Nor
wegians live, though it cannot be said
that they get fat.
The contrary, however, may soon be
| the case, for thousands of tourists now
crowd the coast towns of Norway, and
the hotel. keepers and other classes
that live On the travelling public are
rapidly learning how that public may
be feeced out of its last dollar, and are
acquiring a d~exterity that will soon
place them, in tt Q travelling mind, on a
plane of respect similar to that occu-
pied by the innkeepers of Switzerland,
France, and the t urist part of the
Rhine. If m~agniicence of scenery
were any Justification for robbery
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
AALESUND, A FISHING TOWN.

way peasant has few dainties, while
his style of living is on a par with his
plainness of diet. His house is never
luxurious, but one thing must be said
in its favor. it is always comfortable,
even in the coolest weather. 1t is of.
ten shared by his goats and reindeer,
and as cooking, eating and sleeping
are all done in the same room, the at
mosphere is often of overpowering
thickness; but to a Norwegian oxygen
does not appear to be a necessity; he
lives and thrives in air that can al
most be cut into layers.
Ordinarily regardless of personal ap-
pearance, there is one occasion when
every inhabitant of Norway must look
fine, and that i or the wedding day.
Even then, however, the distinction
between the rich and the poor is very
tritling, for in every church in the
kingdom there are kept a set of we'd
ding regalia and a silver gilt crown,
and by paying a small sun the poorest
bride can, for a day, look as gorgeous
as a queen. Many Of these wedding
crown are 600 or 700 years old, and
were worn by Nor>e b ides at a time
when the memories Of the viking in
vasions were still fresh along the Ger
man Ocean, and there is therefore an
odor of sanctity about these articles of
personal adOrnment which renders
their presence almost as necessary at
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

|tablished along the coast to carry the
Tourists from place to place; like
magic, hotels have sprung up at every
point where the least attraction is Of
tered to the tourists; dealers in natur.
al curiosities, in photographs, books OF
descriptions, and tho thousand and n
articles of which the travelling public
stands constantly in need, do a thriv-
ing business, and all Norway is rem
dered richer by the summer travel.
1t has need OF something to enrich
It's population, for, with the exception
Of Switzerland, there are few countries
on the globe that have fewer resources
of wealth than the narrow strip OF
coast, which seems to have been Gre
ated merely for the purpose OF making
Sweden al. inland country. But Norway
Is by no means so small as it looks.
Over 900 m les from north to south,
nearly zoo miles from east to west it is
double the size of Missouri. containing
more than 100, 600 square miles of terri
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

by hotel-keeper', walters, hack driv-
ers, and others of that persuasion,
the consciences of the Norwegians
ought never to give them a moments
disquietude, for in 10 part of the world,
a v the north coast of Lake Superior,
is there a grander spectacle than in
almost any inlet on the Norway sea-
line. Some one has said all Norway is
but one grand mountain after another,
and to this statement any one who
sails along the coast is forced to give
in his adhesion. 1t may also be re-
marked that the seaboard is really only
one inlet after another, for so numer-
Gus are the islands along the coast that
it is possible in places to sail for many
miles in the narrow passages between
! islands and the main land and rarely
| catch more than a glimpse OF the sea
without.
The islands are worthy OF the name
Huge masses of rock rise from the sea,
often 5000 or 1000 feet in perpendic'
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

above his head, n has earned by
their movements to Judge of the hear
approach of cold or warm weather.
They are true tourists. All day long,
with noisy ciamor, they travel; at
night, we'll aware of the danger, they
descend in perfect stiffness, feed and
rest. A passer-by might walk within
fifty feet of a thousand of them and
not hear a single sound. They are not
bothered with waiting for trains or
making connections, d. paying hotels
or tipping the lazy walters who do
more waiting in the kitchen than at
the table. For thousands of miles they
travel, and the birds that spend the
summer among the barren rocks Of
Norway pass the winter among the
wild rice marshes of Central Africa.
The NOrwegians they have left be-
hind would be glad to 60 with them,
for Norway is not over cheerful even
sun wheels round the horizon instead
of sinking below, but in winter the
d~esolation becomes tenfold more ap-
parent, and the limited Of
the inhabitants are taxed to the ut
most to get through the season. More
than one Arctic explorer has given a
graphic picture of the horrors of a
winter in the frozen north: but to the
Norsemen every winter is an Arctic
winter, and the inconvenience and
suffering of which the explorers com
plain SO bitterly are by him borne as a
matter of cou SO. To him a tempera-
ture of 40 to 80 degrees below zero
does not seem excessively cold, for he
is prepared for it. Well protected
without by q dress of fur from head to
foot, we'll provided within with an
abundant supply of fish and oily food,
his system defies the cold, and without
injury he endures a temperature that
would speedily prove fatal to the in
habitants of q warmsr n
Whether it is that only the strong
can live in such a climate, or whether
the climate makes all who live in it
strong, is a question that only those
versed in such matters can answer;
but certain it is that no country in the
world produces better examples of the
human animal than the Scandinavian
PENN 5ula.: Tall, we'll formed, robust,
the men of Norway ard Sweden are
capable of enduring alnott any amount
of labor and hardship. The soldiers of
the Swedish and Norwegian armies
average the tallest in EurCp and al
though during the last few centuries
they have not had tho opportunity to
keep up the reputation they won when
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
All They Wanted.

While Lord Coleridge was en- his
way to Chicago, an interviewer, fail
ing otherwise to draw him out, be-
gan to belittle the old country. Lord
Coleridge bore it all patiently; fin
ally, the interviewer said: II am
told, my lord, you think a great deal
of what you call your great fire Of
London. Well, I guess that the con-
flagration we had in the little village
Of Chicago made your great fire look
very small" TO which Lord Cole
ridge blandly responded: "Sir, 1 have
every reason to believe that the
great fire of London was quite as
great as the people at that time de.
sired"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
An Iron Coast.

The climate of all Western Europe,
tar a, the influence of the sea ex.
..snGs inland, is so tempered by the
Sainy waters of the Gulf Stream dur.
va; u% both winter and summer that the
~, rroS1ulation do not eem to be in special
ICED of going elsewhere to escare
na;.hpr The heat or the cold. In Eng
,ard. VI en- the summer temrerature
Uses above eighty degree, the heat
j. considered 0 %pressive; in winter
xhen the t ermOmeter sinks below
,wcuty degrees the cold is regarded
as exceptional. But like the in
babitants of other regions favored in
,he matter of climate. the people take
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
ular height; their SUBMITS have lever

ular height; their SUBMITS have never
been trodden by the Foot of man. No
attempt is ever made to ascend them,
for the difficult and danc erous task
would be utterly fruitless of re-
suit. From some of the Alpine
peaks the prospect, for variety and
beauty, is unsurpassed. For a hun
dred miles there is an alienation of
mountain and valley, while far away
In the dim southern distance stretch
the sunny plains OF Italy, dotted with
the domes and steeples of cities,
specked with the white marble vii as
OF the nobility and gentry. A score of
cities, every n famous in story and
song, are visible at a single glance,
while the beauty of the natural feat
ures OF scenery, the scenery that Gre
ated a Juror of enthusiasm when point
ed out by Hannibal to his dusky war
rlors from beyond the sea-. and later
drove NapOleon's soldiers wild, amply
repays the + tigCe and labor Of the as
cent. No such compensation awaits
him who climbs a peak in Norway. for
after the ascent, ii it can be made at
all. he sees to the north and soutl an
endless succession of gigantic peaks
similar to the one on which he stands,
to the east are apparently boundless
table lands, broken by an occasional
peak, while to the west is the sea that
has more than one been covered with
the sails of the Norsemen, whose
dread fame a thousand years ago
spread s. far and wide that even in
the south of France the monks to their
daily prayers added t e petition:
A fuIore Norman Drum LIBERIA nos, o
DJminc.
So nobody tries to a cend the peaks,
and, indeed, not a few are inaccessi-
BILE, having not sven a landing place
for the smallest boat. Rising perpen-
dicularly from the water, their bases
have been %tunnelsd by the busy waves
beating against them lOr thousands of
years; the pillows rush into the cav
erns with a sound like a boom of thun-
der, rush out again like a pent up
flood. and with a force that no boat
could withstand, SO that, sometimes
even the nimblest sailor could leap in
William Tell fashion from the boat to
the shore. But the mighty cliffs and
one shaped rocks that zeal their
heads among the clouds are not left in
solitude, even though their tops have
never been tro1den by the foot OF man.
Milliors of wild fowl of every kind
have their nests among the crags, and
fly to and fro in midair, suspended far
above the range of the sportsman's
shot. Ordinarily, almost unseen, save
for one sailing ont or lazily returning,
fish laden, to It's nest, nc idea
can be formed of their numbers. The
discharge Of a gun brings them out by
thousands; the air is darkened with
their numbers: the ear is offended by
their noisy remonstr&nces against the
invasion of their solitudes. When
winter approaches. they gather and
leave for the south in vast focks.
Every peasant in Central and Western
Europe is familiar with the sight and
sound of these aerial embarrassing far
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
From Chambermaid to Actress.

"Clara Norris" recently remarked
a Cleveland woman, used to be al
chambermaid in the house next doolE
to my fathers. We saw her daily
brushing, sweeping, and busting, as
is the habit of that craft After a
while we heard that she had gone
upon the stage, and later that she
was meeting with some success. We
knew her then as Miss Heriot. II
was o until Ellsler took her in
hand that she developed into any.
thing remarkable, however. I won.
der if she would remember me if ]
were to make myself known to hers
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

gotten their glorious past. There u
a great future before Norway and Swe-
den, and the evidence of e new ma
tional life is seen everywhere; in the
cities, whore modern structures are
taking the place of the old-fashioned
dwellings and offices; in the country,
where men and women dress better,
fare better and look better than did
their fathers and mothers. The time
may never come when the viking will;
again carry terror to France and En-.
gland, but the day is near at hand
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

the viking ships were known and
dreaded on every coast from the mouth
of the Rhine to the mouth of the Tt
Der, they are still prepared to give a
good account of themselves should the
political necessities of their country
ever agI in demand their services in
war.
Their home life is as simple as could
BE- imagined, for there are only two
leading lines of industry in Norway
farming and fishing and very often
both are practiced by the same indi-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

bOrth. and thus the ebb and flow OF the
human tide continues as regularly as
the migration of the birds.
The nearness OF the Norway coast
10 Great Britain, and the convenience
With which it may be reached from
kny part of Western Europe, have,
Turing recent years, made 1t an OK
keedingly popular resort among tour
BITS. Steamship lines have been es-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

advantage of the first warm wave or
the advent of frost to rush off to
localities where the climate conditions
|are more favorable to comfort. In
winter the Riviera, Italy, Greece and
North Africa are crowded with
refugees from the cold of Russia, Ger
many, France and Great Britain, while
Pr summer, travel turns again to the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
Lightning Heats the San,

Lightning, when it strikes a tree,
sometimes converts the sap into
steam with such energy that it ex.
plodes, scattering the wood in every
direction.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

JACK-If 1 should attempt to kiss
you would you scream? Jess-Why,
Of course, If any n was looking
Town Topics.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

viduals, who, during the short spring
and summer, do the heavy work of
agriculture, leaving the lighter tasks
to their wiSe acd children, while in
the winter they devote their time al
most exclusively to the fisheries. The
latter pay much better than farming,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

a wedding as that of the preacher. IN
the rural districts of this peculiar
country there still linger the tradi-
tions and legends which ara found
among the common people of every
country in Europe: nor, any more than
the Greeks Or Italians. have they for
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

sory; IN the case Of a country which
Is one-iourtn straight up and down a,
lourth more too steep to climb and
most OF the remaining half too rocky
" Gultivate, superfic. al area counts for
ilItie' lor, as was once said in the case
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

when the Scandinavian powers will
exert far more influence in the affairs
of Europe than they have ever done
before, and this broadening of their
power will be due in no small degree
to the improvement in the condition
of their reople.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22
ryDER MIDNIGHT SUN
.,opwAY'S SEABOARD AND ITS
MANY ATTRACTIONS.

Customs and Resources Of a Far Distant
o.,rtry which Has Little Besides Its
,.o,,, and Its Scenery-Grand Future
..d Glorious Past.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

MONEY makes some men so mean
that they hate to do even themselves
a favor.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

OF the bla k.ac'; lanl of q Western
state, the orc OF it a man owns. the
poorer he is. Il. at this il almost litey-
ally true in The cas-, Ct Norway nav
the more easily be seen when it is re-.
membered that u uro. can rnuern-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

for the Norway SUNNI err is so short
that only the quickest growing and
hardest grains, such as oats or barley,
have a chance to mature at all. But
oat cake and barley bread are good
enough for the man who has never
known anything better, and the Nor.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-22

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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-03-16
THE PROBABLE
.ast Words of Living Celebrities.

w VINO VI ~ShSDh hks~Ss
Grover Cleuelond: 81 shall at least be
free from the veto of the senate"
James j. COrbett: 81 never thought
death could knock me out so easily"
Wm. L, Wilson: 'Whither am 1
drifting?"
Adelina Patti: "This is my last fare
we'll"
John Y. McKane: "Good bye to Coney
Island"
Chauncey NJ Depeeo: 81 cannot speak
this evening-SOme other time"
Senator Hill of Nep York: 81 never
bore any i'll will to Grover"
William Mckinley: "This Bill will
60 through all right"
RObt. G. LngerSoI: 81 wonder if | was
wrong?"
Russell Sage: 81 cannot take any
stock in the next world"
Ward McAlHSter: James, see that
my dress pants are properly pressed"
Waiter Q, Gresham: GLOW far is it
to Hawaii"
John Wanamdker: Anything else
today please?"
Thomas p. Ochiltree: 81 never took
water yet and | will not do it now"
Tom Watson Of Georgia: "Where am
at?"
Lillian Russell: "What! are there
no marriages in heavenl"
George SloSsOn: 'Now for the long
rest"
The Prince of Wales: 81 am about
tired waiting for throne"
Joseph Pulitzer: '"The World is
mine"
Queen Liuokdldni: GLOW long am l
to be kept out?" SAM. PLANK.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-03-16

A public park, garden seat, an actor sat
thereon,
His gay attire part product of the season
lately gone,
For fifteen minutes there he rests, then rises
to his feet,
And with a calm and studious face he seeks
the crowded street,
But after him horde of boys precipitately
ran,
And shouted out stop thief! stop thief
there goes the guilty MANI
The actor wonderingly turned, as up the po-
lice came
And without hesitation gave his right adj
dress and name.
Among the boys tall slim youth appeared
to be the chief,
And he reiterated loud, This fellow is a
thief"
"Tis false!' the actor holly cried. This
charge Is base indeed.
In all my life never yet committed thievish
deed!
81 saw him steal" the urchin said, in making
the complaint.
way over in the hollow there watched him
take some paint"
you le!" the actor wildly Kissed, beside
himself with rage.
This is the greatest insult ever offered to
the stage!"
Here is the proof" the boy remarked, "be-
fore we let him bulge,
You've heard the charge ] made and now let
each one be the judge.
You can detect his guilt at once-he gives us
all the chance.
Observe the paint that's sticking there on the
seat of his light pants"
GEORGE EDGAR.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-03-16
HOW We THINK AND ACT.

1t is common thing to hear people
talk about what they think, of the
subjects they understand, and how they
reasoned this way ald that way, in
certain matters. But it is question
if one in thousand people has ever
stopped to consider h0lo they think,
and by what occult processes in the
brain the reasoning faculty, or intelli-
gence, performs it's duties? Never
theless it is probably the most inter-
esting study of any that pertains to
human anatomy. The material mo-
tions of the body are understood, to a
limited extent, but the actions of the
mind are rarely, if ever, thought of,
even by professional phrenologists.
1t might therefore be considered of
interest to the general reader to take
up this subject and explain, as lucidly
as our present facilities will permit,
the formation of the brain and the
performance of it's various functions.
1t is really as necessary that, a person
should know how his head is con-
Structed, as that he should under
stand the formation and mission of
any other part of the body-more so,
in fact, because in the head are situ-
ated not only the seat Of life, but also
the governing or controlling powers
which influence every nerve, muscle
and fibre of the human frame.