davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05
AGENTS WANTED.

" ED-SALESMAN; SALARY
w from start, permanent place.
BROWN BROS. & CO., nurserymen,
Rochester, N. Y. 9 I'm cod
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05
Work Before Council at tho Next Meeting.

The regular monthly meeting of
Council will be held Tuesday night.
The principal business will be the con-
federation Of bills on the calendar and
the reports of committees. There are
about dozen bills on the calendar
Amending the laws of the city so as to
conform to the new charter. Also the
bill introduced by Mr.. Ramsey allowing
merchants to occupy eighteen inches of
the sidewalks to exhibit their goods
land wares.
The committee on streets and lights
met last night and prepared their re-
4ports to be submitted to the meeting
Tuesday night.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05

ITO LET = THREE FURNISHED
4 rooms, bath and gas. MRS.
SKINKER, All Church street. 421 2w.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05

Have you seen the new bound copies OF
"The Magic City?" Call in and examine
them, either at The Times office or al
johnson g. Johnson's
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05

lAlleghany Institute Entertainment To-
night.
For the past two days the Y. NC. A.
hall has presented quite busy scene.
The hall is being put in order for to-
nights entertainment by the students
of Allegheny Institute. A stage has
been erected and curtains have been
put up, thus producing good scenic
leiiect. The programme is to be as fol-
lows Music, piano, Prof Rath; farce,
"A Chapter of Accidents" music, violin,
Miss Flora Louise Goldsmith; farce, "a
Country SCHOOL," music, violin, Miss
Flora Louise Goldsmith; farce, "a
Football Match"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-05

TWO NICE FRONT ROOMS TO
Il rent at MISS CRAWFORD'S, 10
Seventh avenue 8. W. 30 2w
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
WHY FISH BITE AT FLIES.
Some Say Out of Curiosity at First and
Revenge Later.

Some Say Out of Curiosity at First and
Revenge Later.
Sir Herbert MaXwell's recent argu.
at the fly from curiosity or from
mixed motives, not from hunger. A
second rise may be "motived" by
wrath at d slight prick. This we
think unreasonable. The more a
fish, salmon, that is, feels prick,
the less chance there is of his coming
again. The angler may be sensible
Of tug, and yet may hook his prey
on a second venture; but then it is
probable that the salmon never
touched the point. He got hold of
the feather or Of the body Of the
hook.
The hypothesis of his Indignation
was invented years ago, in the case
Of trout by the Spectator. Some
one argued that trout do not feel as
we feel, conse luently that angling is
not so cruel as angling for the editor
OF the Spectator would be. That
position is demonstrate. The mouth
Of the editor of the humane journal
is not gristly, horny kind Of SUBJ
stance. The theorist went on to
urge that you may see trout feeding
in clear water, may put dry fly over
him, hook him, lose him, see him
feed again, hook him again, lose him
and never put him off his feed. This
is matter Of fact. Last summer
we had occasion to observe IL. The
tout, twice hooked never ceased to
feed; he only shifted his position by
about a foot and a half, and went on
eating natural flies. Now this cir
cumstance shows that the trOut's
appetite was undiminiIhed, though
he had twice felt the steel and been
dragged across the stream.
The Spectator, however, urged that
the pricked fish, comes again, when
he does come, in anger and revenge.
Nonsense! He merely continues to
dine, taking such floating flies as
recommend themselves to his taste
and fancy. Now, If you hooked the
Spectator with white bait and
played him upstairs and downstairs,
and stirred him up under the table
and broke him on the banister, he
would not proceed to a outlet. The
trout does remain feeding, normally,
sometimes. The argument that he
snaps in anger may therefore be dis
missed. The fishs motive is appe-
tite. He is looking for floating flies,
and he sometimes takes the artificial
for the real article. If hooked. he
often does not feel pain enough to
brighten him. Saturday Review.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
SWISS CHEESE.
Details of the Manufacture Of the Tooth
some Delicacy.

Details of the Manufacture of the Tooth
some Delicacy.
The American public are not great
cheese eaters at the present time, but
it is habit which might be Guilt
waited that more cheese and less meat
might be consumed to advantage by
those who perform hard labor at
least. In a practical address by a
Wisconsin cheese maker is given the
method Of producing what is termed
Swiss cheese. He says: 1t is a sweet
curd cheese, made from milk as di-
rectly from the cow as possible. 1t
is usually carried twice day from
the milking places direct to the fac.
tory, and Immediately made into
cheese. 1t is thickened at temper
allure of about 80 degrees, with
enough rennet to complete the thick
ening in twenty to thirty minutes.
When thick it is cut into large pieces
with wooden knife; afterwards
stirred and torn into smaller parti-
Giles by an instrument termed a
breaker. Formerly merely wooden
stick with cross-pieces inserted or in
the primitive times a small bush
with the stubs of branches left on
were the breakers The operation is
performed in a large copper kettle,
hung on swinging crane to enable
it to be swung off or on the fire.
When broken into pieces about the
size of kernels of corn, the kettle is
swung onto the fire, and the mass is
gra 1ually heated while being stirred
to l20 degrees, then the kettle is
swung away from the fire, and the
stirring continues with circular
motion until the heat is reduced to
100 to 40 degrees. The curd is then
allowed to settle, which it does in
ten or fifteen minutes in circular
cake, which is then scooped out en-
tire by means Of a strong cheese
cloth, which is passed under the
cheese in the whey, then placed upon
the press table to drain for few
minutes. A flexible, open wooden
hoop is then arranged to the proper
size and the cheese placed therein by
means Of the cloth, then turned sew
eral times to facilitate the escape of
the whey. which readily flows off,
then it is placed under continuous
press, which, even in the best ar
ranged factories, is a large square
beam of heavy wood, one end fast
ened to the side OF the room. and the
other attached to a lever, by which
1t can be easily raised or lowered.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
The BahananS.

A most curious utensi of BAHIA
man dwelling is big cement oven,
like cone, at the back Of the house.
In this the. family bread Is baked.
Bahamas are physioloyically starved,
and their thin, attenuated forms
show it. An unvarying diet of fish
and fruit is not nourishing enough,
and the fact speaks for itself in these
islanders. The white Bahamas are
homely and sallow, I'm ess burned so
that the complexion is a thing OF tt e
plst They rarely-some never
wear shoes; hence feet in these lati
tudes are feet and not merely ends Of
legs. used to gaze in admiration
at the feet that daily and nightly
visited our schooner. The owners OF
the appendages could walk where a
shod foot could not. bear to tread.
The skin becomes tougher than
leather. Black Bahamas are the
finest specimens of the negro race to
be seen outside of Africa-strapping
fellows with magnificent arms and
chests; but they are dreadful teggars
and dreadful liars.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
HOW TO IMPROVE BUSINESS.
A ractical Talk to Advert's ,rs by Chas.
Austin Bates.

A Pra ctical Talk to Advert 8 ,rs by Chas.
Austin Bates.
Some merchants cutdown their ad-
vertising in the summer.
In everyday life, when thing is
hard to do, it only calls forth greater
effort. If the laborer can't move the
stone, he gets crowbar ana block
of wood. He makes lever-and the
stone moves. Ii the crowbar is not
long enough, he gets something long
er. He doesn't give up, because the
stone has to be moved.
Same way in business. Trade is a
stone. The funny thing is that the
lighter it gets, the harder it is to
move. 1t can be moved, though.
You may have to lengthen the lever.
Certainly you ought not to shorten
it. The best business lever is adver-
tising-newspaper advertising Is the
longest lever and the quickest to
move trade.
Dull times are the times to put
forth the greatest effort and the most
money. People don't usually ask for
what they have already. Advertising
is merely asking for trade. When the
store is full every day, cut down your
space. Don't expect that you will get
big trade in dull times, but keep
count, and you'll find that the adver-
Using was profitable Profitable right
at the time and enormously profitable
after while. The very fact that
only few merchants are wise enough
to advertise in dull seasons makes it
all the more profitable for those who
do. You are there when others are
not 1t gives you greater prominence.
1t will make your advertising in busy
times much more effective.
Common sense has great deal to
do with advertising. Think about it
from a common sense standpoint. 1T
may take some nerve" to pay out
money for newspaper space when the
business isn't paying expenses, but it
will pay.
More than half the business houses
in the country would be ahead If they
could shut up for three months in
the summer. But they don't do it.
Why? Simply because they can not
afford to- People would forget them.
Same way with advertising. Think
of it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

THE destruction of property and
damage to business resulting from
railroad strikes are always enormous
and exasrerating to all business men,
and the losses experienced during the
Reading strike in Pennsylvania, be-
sides the loss of life, was estimated
at nearly $8,0O0,O0O The English
coal strike, if we remember rightly.
nearly tripled those figures, and that
just over in this country inflicted
losses which will never be duly esti-
mated at their real aggregate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

OWING to scruples not felt by her
Majesty of Great Britain the Grand
Duchess Xenie, being forbidden to
marry outside the royal family Of
Russia, has been compelled to accept
a cousin considerably younger than
herself and not in any sense a de-
sirable parti. After a while, when
the Holstein Romanoffs are numer-
Gus enough, nieces will be able to
marry their grandfathers, and
nephews their aunts- The little in
FAINT of the Teck-Guelph combina-
tion has more relationships to it's
father and mother than can be en-
umerated outside blue book.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

The drouth and hot winds Of 1894
again emphasize the necessity of es-
tablishing irrigation plants in the
Dakotas, with ample capital behind
them. When this is done, and not
before, these States will reach the
full measure of their real fertility
and agricultural Importance. Very
large sections of both States are real
ly arid under ordinary conditions,
and the artesian well must do for
them what it has done for the desert
of Sahara and other locations having
a deficient rainfall.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
To 60 into all the details would takc

To 60 into all the details would take
too much time. I would only add
that the curd is never sailed, as you
would cheddar curd, before pressing.
After the cheese is fully pressed,
which takes ten to twelve hours, it
is carried to the curing rooms On a
round wooden lid on which it remains
on the shelves. The salt is applied
evenly on the surface with the hands
or brush, the moisture still in the
cheese, together with that in the
curing room, which should be mod
erately moist cellar, dissolves the
salt, and it is absorbed into the
cheese. Each day the cheese is
turned and the alternate side sailed.
until sufficient, which practice will
best determine Itshould remain in
the curing room at least three
months; six months is not too long
to ripen properly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

SOME time ago a good bishop OBJ
jected to women riding bicycles, and
now some pious laics object to clergy
men riding bicycles. Meanwhile
women have become as familiar a
sight on the bicycle as men, and the
pope has informed the Directing laics
that inasmuch as it was a cleric who
invented the bicycle, there does not
seem to be any good reason why
clerics shall not take to the wheel
whenever they please There are no
indications yet that the wheel craze
has reached it's climax or is likely to
decline in popular favor for a genera
ton, at least.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

ALGERIA is sending large Quanti-
ties of barley to France for the pur-
pose of horse feeding. In the south
of France it is given whole, like oats,
but in the middle region it is crushed,
while in the north Of France, where
farming is more extensive, the barley
is cooked. 1t is given mainly to
heavy draft horses, being wholly
withheld from omnibus and carriage
horses. 1t enters largely into the
commercial feeding stuffs, but on the
large farms, where the farmer has
his own mill and engine, he grinds it
himself
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

Low Wages on the Tea, Coffee and Sugar
Plantations.
Mr.. w. c. Knoofe, c)ffee and
sugar grower OF Java, was recently in
Boston, accompanied by several
friends. He has lived in Java ten
years and has large and f1ourishing
plantations. He tells an interesting
story about this queer country, for
SO many years under the control OF
the Dutch.
"You never saw such happy people
anywhere as these little Jayanese
They are always talking, laughing
and dancing. and seem never to have
any sort Of care. They work in the
tea, coffee and sugar plantations for
s or cents day, and the best OF
them never get over 10 or II cents
Yet they are entirely contented. The
women, who are the best for tea pick
ing, do not get more than or 5 cents
day. The tea is cut every forty
days, SO there is always work to do
There is big yield this year and it
is good tea, but it isn't worth much.
We got word from Amsterdam, where
much of our tea goes, that it was
worth only from to 10 cents a
pound.
with coffee and sugar the price is
different There never was as much
money in sugar as at the present
time. It is worth from SO. 20 to SO. so
for each picul or 1874 pounds. The
growers are getting rich. Both the
coffee and sugar crops are very large,
and, like the tea, they are very fine.
Coffee has veered around SO much
that there is no longer much money
in it. All that isgrown must be sold
to the government. That is re-
quirement. 1t is cheap. In Holland
it is worth but S. for each 1874 pounds
"All the labor used Is Japanese It
would not pay US to employ any
other"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

THE director of the Economists
Europeen states that the total gold
production of the world from the
discovery of America in 1892 to the
year 1892, inclusive, amounts to
$4,000 million dollars. 1t would form
cube of about 28.4 feet on each
side. With the same base the guam
tity of silver produced in that four
centuries would form solid column
of nearly 1000 feet high, or exactly
the same altitude as the Eiffel Tower.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
ALFALFA CULTURE.
The Merits and Dement'S of One %
Most Popular Forage Plants

The Merits and Dement'S OF one %
Most Popular Forage Plants.
Alfalfa is the modern name lo'
I,ncerne .medicago saliva, valua-
HE fodder plant belonging to tne pea
and clover family. There are NV
crops SO profitable as alfalfa on Tue
soils and in the climates adapteo 70
it's culture. A poor or exhausted sou
will not produce good grown o.
alfalfa. Sandy land suits II ralnel
better than clay, provided the planes
get we'll rooted before the grown 10
checked by the drought. ,,.oa
When the plant is once estaolisheu
the roots penetrate the soil very deep
" being sometimes twelve or fifteen
feet in length. Wet land, however
must be drained before it is sown with
alfalfa. In regions where the sum
mer is dry, alfalfa will pay well TOT
irrigation. In California and Colora-
do this is largely practiced, and four
or five crops are often harvested In a
single year. ,.,
The chief difficulty in the cultlVa,
ton of alfalfa is in getting gooo
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
Profitable.

Two years ago Portuguese fisher
man and his mate, a negro, were
given the carcass of a whale from
which the blubber had been cut. and
began to search for ambergris, which
drug was quoted at that time in tho
current price lists at somewhere
about 800 per ounce. Tney found
IA pounds. Many people interviewed
them and wanted to give from s25.-
900 to s45, 600 for the lot; but the
men understood the luck OF their
IND. 1t was sert to London, where
1t is still being realized, the fortu-
nate fishermen having already re-
ceiVea several thousand pounds
apiece.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

ONE of the common sights in Lon
don is the street sweeper, who is al
ways officious when he sees a gentle
man accompanied by lady passing
along. One Of the ilk, however, was
rebuffed during heavy shower. The
man calmly remarked: There is no
necessity for your services, sir; the
lady is my wife" And the sweeper,
seeing the force Of the remark, tipped
his hat and went searching for pen
MES at another crossing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

Hot water FOR cows is the maxim
Of the French dairy farmers in the
department Of Finisterre. They
claim to have proved by experiments
that when COWS drink hot water
they produce one third more milk
than when they are refreshed with
cold water only. Caution must, Of
course, be observed in adopting the
new system. Avaricious dairymen
must beware of scalding the threats
of their cows in their haste to avail
themselves Of this discovery, which
is vouched for by our consul at Brest.
The proportions, we are told, are half
Il pail OF boiling water and half d
pail Of cold.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
Anchors.

Some ascribe the invention of an
chors to the Tyrrhenians; Others "
Midas, the son of Gordius. The mos.
ancient are said 20 have been "
stone. and sometimes Of wood, "
which a great quantity Of lead WA
usually fixed. In some places oas
kets full Of stones, and sacks biea
with sand, were employed for lns
same use. All these were let cow
by cords into the sea, and by tbeD
weight stayed the course of the sDlp,
A fterward, anchors were made "
iron. at first with only one tluke ou,
in short time a second was addeu
by Eupalamus, or Auacharis, '''
Scythian philosopher.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

THE Popular Science Monthly de-
c'ares that, contrary to the common
notion, the sternly compressed lip is
not sign of strong will. Now, per-
haps, some other popular scientist
will prove for the instruction Of as
piring politicians that the con-
stantly relaxed lip is not sign of
strong mind.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

WHILE it may be true, as Secretary
Carlisle says, that the length of our
coast makes it impossible to wholly
prevent the smuggling in Of Chinese,
the authorities should not for that
reason refrain longer from dealing
summarily with officials who are
known to have permitted Chinese to
enter the country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
Easily Calculated.

Any one may easily calculate ~ ~
himself how many shingles are nes 1o
ed to cover a given space. AS ru S
a thousand shingles. laid with lo i
inches exposed to the weather, W. ~.
cover one hundred square feet OF SUI ".
race, and five pounds of shingle na'.
Will fasten them on. With a lov
rule and five minutes figuring ae
body can ascertain the expense o.
new roof.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

IT now appears that the reason the
Vigilant failed to capture those races
from the Prince of Wales Britannia
is that there was a lack of a good
spanking American breeze. 1t ought
to be insisted upon by American
yachtsmen that if they are to race in
foreign waters they shall at least be
allowed to take their own Yankee
brand of breeze along with them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

stand. When well established on
suitable soil and in suitable climate
it will stay there indefinitely. In
sowing fifteen to twenty pounds OF
seed are required to the acre. 1t
should be sown in drills fifteen inches
apart. Alfalfa is a success in the
arid regions of the West and South
west, but in the East, other begin
ners have been more successful.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

.DELMoNICO, the well-known New
York hasherer, is said to employ 800
walters, and bis monthly pay roll IS
given at only SIS, 600. Fl ON this it
may be easily inferred that belmont
co, like Pullman, allows grateful
public to pay his employees by means
Of the ancient and time-honored Gus
tom of tipping"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

Down in albuquerque, New Mex
leo, burglar broke into the house Of
a Judge, and the judge killed him
during the nocturnal visit-nothing
less than contempt of court. A
peculiar thing about the sentence
was that it could not be RENTED.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

JUST as surprise began to express
itself at the unusual quiet OF affairs
in South America comes the informa-
sion that there is another revolution
brewing in Venezuela Some of the
ex-preSidents have put their heads
together and decided that the quiet
of the country is becoming too mon
otunous TO make life endurable.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

The New York Press allege; that
a berry grower in that State got re-
ligion"; and from that time on put
the smallest berries on top Of the
box, instead of the largest, as before.
His neighbors at once took steps to-
ward landing him in the insane asy-
lum
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

SIsAT. hemp is being so succ essfully
cultivated in Jamaica, that next year
a considerable quantity OF the fiber
will be exported. The plant can be
grown on barren lands and impover-
ished soils. which are worthless for
other crops. The climate of the
island is very favorable to it's growth
and it is destined to become Il great
boon to tie planters
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

ALL summer hardluck stories Of
drought and heat-destroyed corn crops
come from Kansas. In the winter
corn is so low in price it has to be
used for fuel. These stories should
be turned over to commission for
arrangement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
Consolation.

J hose who declare that the earth
Is gradually drying out, and THAT
WITHIN a few centuries every drop OF
water Will have disappeared from
our llanet, will find consolation in
the announcement that the wator
llne mas risen one foot all around the
Hulf OF Mexico since 1850. -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

" THE charge is made that the Ezeta
ADMINISTRATION in Salvador stole
millions Of dollars. The charge is
probably true. The men SO anxious
to rule Salvador must have had some
motive other than the constant prob
ability of being lined up against a
stone wall facing a shooting squad.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30

One native journal recently appeared
with large blank space, for which
the editor apologized by stating that
at the last moment he found that
what he had written for that space
was entirely wrong, and must be left
out. Accordingly he had no time to
obtain matter to fill the vacant
columns