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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10
BARGAINS ..
g In FARMS
and FARM PROPERTY.

Suburban property at Bedford City,
14.room brick house, with all modern
improvements, 12 acres of land, good
barn and aorchard;price sc, O0O Add
tional land can be bought adjoining This
at $40 per acree.
Fine farm Of 1874 Il acres, 4 mile from
N. d w. station and IS miles from Roa-
noke, Sroom house, all necessary out
buildings, good orchard, we'll watered,
land of fine quality; price $4,000
$500 cash, balance $500 per year.
Eight-room dwelling with four acres
OF land at Cloverdale, all necessary out
buildings, small fruit of every kind;
price $1,000
Fine farm of 1917 acres at Cloverdale,
80 acres bottom land, acres in wood,
5-room dwelling with dining room and
Kitchen in yard, good orchard, plenty Of
out buildings; price Sc. 600
$50 acres OF fine land on Little Otter,
in Bedford county, rs acres OF bottom
land, 80 acres in grass. convenient
to churches and schools; can be bought
at bargain for cash.
% acres, 3 miles from Roanoke,
Well WaLereu, broom QWelnng, tenant
houses, fine location for truck or poultry
farm.
Six-room house on Campbell street
near Park ST. 500.
Nine-room house on Ninth ave. S. W.
Lot 50xl30, 81, 500.
Rare bargain in lot on the West End
boulevard, 75xl5O feet.
Four room cottage on Fifth avenue,
s. W., 81 ,000
One Of the best residence lots on JEFF
ferson street, price 81 600.
Splendid residence for sale on Terry
Hill; all modern conveniences. Sold for
$12,5oO; price $1,000. Terms easy
Houses for rent in all parts of the
town.
We represent the best Fire, Lite and
Accident Insurance Companies.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10
do NOT LOSE THE
Opportunity Of Your Life
Which you win do If you do not consult
Or. MATTnEz,

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Within a short time. After
one months active practice his
stay In Roanoke will soon be
brought to a close. Do not
allow selfinterested persons to
misgu1de you by directing you
to some one else or by telling
you DR.. Matthez' charges are
too high, for that is a mistake.
If your doctor has to treat you
for one month or more 1t nat
urally costs more than as
though he visited you but
once With every person
who visits DR.. Matthez
he makes an examina.
ton, finding out just what
Is the matter with the eyes
what is required In the way
of Glasses, and all about the
case-and this costs nothing.
If you then are convinced that
you want his service and
glasses, all right, If not, it has
cost you nothing. Gould any
thing be more fair than that ?
Look at his Endorsements from
home and abroad. Can you
doubt them? If you doubt
them go to his Office and see the
originals, and if you then doubt
them, you are like the man
Josh Billings wrote Of, who
was 80 skeptical that he
wouldn't touch a cast iron lion
for fear it would bite him. "Ig-
norance was what was the
matter of him." It isn't once
In a lifetime that one of the
same standing as DR.. Matthez
visits the interior profession
ally--he can't afford 1t. Go at
once without delay, and get
glasses to make you see as as
In youth and last you many
years.
Don't put on glasses unless
there Is actual need for them.
Don't be fitted by guess work.
More eyes are injured and
ruined at the hands of inexpe.
rienced persons and haphazard
adjustment Of glasses than
from OF by any other known
cause.
Which would you rather do,
pay out a few dollars at inter
walls of every few months, get
ting cheap ordinary frames and
glasses, changing continually,
increasing the defect of your
vision; or in the beginning
have the eyes exhaustively ex.
amined, guaranteed adjust
ment, and the work made to
your order ?
Facts to be remembered In
this connection.
DR.. Matthez does not treat
medically.
Oculls1n and optics are as
separate as drug selling and
medical treatment.
Optics Is a science; specta.
Gle sellingis not.
DR.. Matthez is the possessor Of twenty
years practice in his branch.
What Is more important than perfect
sight?
Are you following the best methods
| towards preserving it?
Can you read continuously without
the eyes becoming tired?
Do you see with ono eye as we'll as
with the other? Try first one, then the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10

THERE is an iron fence in Ohio that
has been in position for more than one
hundred years. 1t is as good to-day as
the day it was set. The Cushman Iron
Company can make you one tha at is Just
as good and look ten times better.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10
Electric ,Bitters

METsEL soup and dancing at the Way.
side Inn tonight
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10

Snyder & MacBain's
Midsummer
Bargains.
Boys Shirt Waists, were 2s
cents +; now II cents each; ali \
sizes.
Boys Shirt Waists. were 90 !
cents 4; now SO cents each; all
sizes.
Children's Gauze Vests.
short sleeves, sizes 22 to "a.
price ~ cents to IS cents each.
Ladies' Gauze Vests, 2s
cents each.
Ladies' Ribbed Vests, 81
cents ; were 10 cents each.
Ladies' Ribbed Vests, 10
and I2% cents.
REDUCTIONS IN PARASOLS,
Fancy Paraso1s, worth $1.75,
for $1.25 each.
Fancy Parasols,with rufles,
were $3.50, for $500 each.
Black Silk Parasols, with
ruffles, were $3.50, for $2.75
each.
White Silk and Black Silk
lace trimmed) Parasols, were
Sc to $3.50, choice for 81. 50.
Ladies Fauntleroy Collars
and Cuffs, were IS cents a set;
now 12H cents a set.
Ladies' Chemisettes, all
colors and sizes, IS cents each.
Stewart Duplex Safety Pins,
all sizes, S cents a dozen.
Best Household Ammonia,
S cents a bottle.
See our line of Soaps at IS
and rs cents a box Of 3 pieces.
10 cent bottle of best Ma.
chine Oil for S cents.
just one SIS Domestic Ma
chine left for $3.50.
Window Screens to fit any
wi-dow, 2o cents each.
| Snyder & haaCBain
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10
Four Big Successes.

METzEL soup and dancing at the Way.
side Inn tonight.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-10

Do your frames fit you? II not tn,
glasses become decentefed causing un,
necessary annoyance and injury.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
AN INFANT ARMY OF AN INFANT KING.

A Rome paper describes the infant
army being drilled at San Sebastian i'll
readiness for the arrival of the young
King of Spain, who, mounted on his
little pony, will review the army,
which consists of 400 boys of from five
to eight years of age. 1t has been re-
cruited from the Basque provinces.
The infant soldiers wear blue uniform
with red caps, and carry small guns
manufactured ON purpose to suit their
strength. All classes are represented
in the small army, from the son of
general to simple workingmen's sons.
The chief of the corps of sappers and
miners is boy only five years old. A
band of music composed of fifty boys,
whose ages are from seven to ten years,
can already play the national march
and other pieces. The army has six
companies, each with it's captain and
lieutenants London News.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05

tire season, first to see if there was any
profit in harboring poultry among small
fruits, and second, as to their value
as destroyers of insects.
| fed the small chicks with their
mothers in the plum orchard and II
the trees are Jared before feeding IN
the morning and wheat is then thrown
under the trees the curculio are gath
cred up with the wheat. The curculio,
as well as the plum gouger, will when
the trees are Jared double up and drop.
My plums were the freshest from these
insects they have ever been. When
cultivation was begun nearest the
chicken house, and many crops had to
receive frequent cultivation, it grad
ually drew the flock of chickens to any
portion of the ten acres under cultiva-
ton. When from 100 to 200 chickens
lined along the freshly stirred ground
behind the cultivators | found that an
incredible number of insects were de-
stroyed.
The chickens became so eager in their
search that they would be tramped by
the horses, and every person hoeing had
flock of young chickens following
him. 1 found when gathering berries
that they would follow the pickers,
and, as the bushes were brushed in
passing to and fro, all insects were
picked up that dropped and much good
done. Now with so much insect food
the chief feed they needed after they
became active in gathering insects was
corn and cornmeal, and as broilers they
brought So per dozen at two pounds
weight, and the demand for them at
that price, early in the season, was
greater than | could supply. l gave
them free range, and while they ate
some fruit, the damage was not enough
to make it worth while to restrain them
during fruiting season from anything,
even the vineyard.
For late feed sowed some buckwheat
on small, bare areas that were to be
fall plowed, and let them gather it from
the ground. Barring the individual at
tention that is required which was
merely to hatch out and see that the
young chicks were properly mothered
to a suitable age, the cost of this flock
was merely nominal, only little corn
meal and few bushels of wheat being
given until ranging time, and then the
noxious insects and worms were made
to yield something of profit. As an
insecticide they are success. 1t is
probable that the larger or Asiatic
breeds are the best among small fruits,
as the smaller breeds are such rustlers
that they not only destroy insects but
considerable fruit as we'll. But where
poultry is used as an adjunct to the Or
charding, it is best to give them free
range over a large territory. Poultry
can be made valuable adjunct to the
orchard since it is common that orchards
occupy hilly grounds. Warm hooks
can be selected for yarding and winter
ing This is favorable to winter egg
production and early spring laying.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05

While poultry raising and gardening
or orcharding are often disappointing
when carried ON ill conjunction, a writer
in an exchange evidently made a sue
cess of poultry and small fruits. In
relating his experience in this line he
says: 1t is likely that extreme advo-
Gates of spraying have found the spray
pump wasteful. 1t is of great value as
destroyer of such insects as the cod
ling moth. but when it is used to kill
insects that harbor ON the ground it's
use is wasteful. Nature balances her
forces by making some of them the foes
of others that become destructive. 1t
is within the province of man to assist
in restoring this balance and do it not
in wasteful or wanton way, but econ
omically, both as to profit and material
at hand. During the past season l
placed yard of White Brahmas in the
center of ten acres of fruits, consisting
of all kinds of small fruits and con-
siderable vineyard. I put the cooping
places and house in plum orchard.
The pen was increased from five hens
and male to nearly 200 fowls. These
we're sold for broilers early. l watched
he results very closely during the en-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05

The peach tree grows so easily and
so luxuriantly, and over such vast
extent of country, that few think of
supplying it with other nutriment than
is found naturally in the soil. With
out doubt this is sufficient i'll many
cases, particularly in the newer por-
tions of the country. But every year
of cropping in the usual way lessons
the fertilizing ingredients laid away in
the earth in bygone centuries, and fruit
trees, as we'll as corn, wheat, etc,
suffer by its diminution. Indeed,
fruit-bearing, particularly bearing heavy
crops of large fine fruit, marks one of
the heaviest drafts, if not heaviest of
all, on the land.
Among fertilizers one of the most i'm
portant for most crops--and particu-
larly for fruit trees-is potash in some
form. This is easily applied in wood
ashes, none of which, even if leached
for soap-making, should ever be wasted.
1t is very trying to see ashes emptied
out in the road or by the side of run
as has been observed more than once
The ashes may be applied whenever
convenient; not around the trunk
where they can do little good, but scat
tered over the entire surface as wide as
the branches extend. Anyone who has
tried this must have noticed the fine
growth of the trees and the thrifty dark
green of the leaves afterward.
1t is not probable that ashes will cure
the yellows now becoming so common
in some sections, though at one time
there was considerable hope in this
direction. But prevention is better
than cure; and there is good reason to
believe that peach tree kept in vigor-
Gus health will be able to resist the
yellows; just as perfect health in the
human system prevents, or throws off,
many forms of disease. Barnyard
manure is also good fertilizer for
peach trees as well as for most other
things dependent ON the soil. But it
should be remembered that ashes, or
anything containing potash, must not
be applied at the same time with barn
yard manure; for the ammonia, one of
the best elements in the latter, would
be liberated by the potash and lost.
Six months at Leaf should intervene be-
tween in the application of these two
valuable fertilizers-the best probably,
of all fertilizing materials, considering
everything. National Stockman.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
THE HOME CIRCLE.
Tidiness and Cleanliness Indicative
of Character.
THE ESSENTIALS OF GOOD TASTE.
Topics Upon Which all Lovers of Home
Should be Interested in.-Mainly for
Feminine Readers.

The secret of being we'll dressed does
not lie in costly apparel. Many women
are unsightly whose gowns are of the
richest materials and whose fingers
blaze with Jewels. Nor is it wholly in
becomingness, although a tall, thin
person in a gown with horizontal lines,
and short, stout one in parallel stripes
or huge figures is protest against the
eternal fitness of things, as much as
the overdressed and the dowdy. The
chief essential is tidiness, with that
daintiness which is compatible only
with absolute cleanliness. No matter
what nature may have done for her in
the matter of feature and complexion,
woman can never be attractive or
pleasing to the sight whose shoes are
not buttoned, whose gloves are ripped,
and whose gown needs stitch here and
there-a darn or fresh braid or hooks
and eyes, for which bright, conspicu-
Gus, shining pins have been substituted
A very excellent teacheronce lost good
position because she neglected her
finger nails and the front of her gown
was spotted with remnants of food,
which were never removed II may
seem specifically arbitrary and unjust
in school board to take such summary
action for what may be called a slight
offense. 1t was not slight offense,
for a teacher should be model in man.
ner and appearance as well as compe-
tent to impart purely textbook knowl-
edge.
A woman may be charmingly dressed
in the simplest cotton gown that has
been carefully selected and we'll made.
But at the same time her hair must be
tidy, her boots BACKED and buttoned,
and every rip in her gloves mended
when it first makes its appearance.
AS to the undergarments they are more
important than the outer clothing. No
woman of any real refinement will be
content with satisfactory external APP
pearance only. She must have the con-
seriousness that the rights of the bath
and the laundress have been respected,
as we'll as those of the milliner and the
dressmaker. She must feel that one is
not less essential than the other. I'm
cleanliness and ignorance are natural
COMPLIMENTS; and with real intelligence
and culture we demand purity of body
as we'll as purity of mind. Anything
less than this will fail to satisfy our
standards as to what should consti stute
the perfect woman.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
Green Tomatoes.

Few people know the value of green
tomtaoes, and they are seldom put to
any other use than making catsups and
pickles. They can be made to take the
place of other fruit in many ways,
which will be found great convent
ence to housekeepers, especially if fruit
is scarce.
A very nice breakfast relish can be
prepared by slicing full-grown green
tomatoes, soaking them in salt and wa
ter for several hours, and frying in
butter.
Green tomato pie is very appetizing,
and very similar to green apple pie.
To make it, line pie pans with crust,
put a layer of sliced green tomatoes in,
sprinkle with sugar, put in another layer
of tomatoes, cover with sugar, CRATE
nutmeg over and add little water
Bake in well-heated oven.
Green tomato preserves are very deli
cate. Make syrup of one pound of sugar
and a pint of water for every pound of
sliced green tomatoes. Put the latter
in and cook slowly until clear; flavor
with lemon or ginger.
Spiced green tomatoes are made as
other spiced fruit, and will be found
delicious.
Green tomatoes make excellent pick
les and catsups, and are suitable adj
dition for all vegetable catsups, as we'll
as mango stuffing and other similar
preparations. Household.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
Respect for Women,

When man habitually speaks slight
inlgy of any woman, of women as a
class, he betrays himself in attempting
to injure woman. 1t is related that at
a public dinner recently, at which no
women were present, man of this ilk
was called upon to respond to the toast
woman. He dwelt almost entirely
upon the weakness of the sex, claiming
that the best among them were little
better than the worst, the difference
being in their surroundings. At the
conclusion of his speech one of the
guests rose and said: 81 trust that the
gentleman in the application of his re-
marks refers to his own mother and sis
tiers and not to ours - This answer
turned his weapon against himself with
vengeance. A celebrated author
says: "The criterion of mans char
acter is not his creed, moral, intellect
ual or religious; it is the degree of re-
spect he has for women" An eminent
clergyman pays this noble tribute: 81
am more grateful to God for the sense
that came to me through my mother
and sisters of the substantial integrity,
purity and nobility of womanhood,
than for almost anything else in the
world" Some golden memories color
the book of life with the beauty of God.
New Orleans Picayune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
Pretty Dining-rOOms.

There are dining rooms and dining
rooms, but the woman with an atten-
uated pocket, but a wise head, can Sc
cure one of the prettiest imaginable at
an absurdly low cost. If the room is
one of those characterless apartments,
perfectly square, with two doors and
only one window except the horid place
in the wall through which the viands
are supposed to be passed from the pan
try, in the first place have the walls
and ceiling stained light grayish blue,
which will make the room seem third
larger with this misty impression
of distance Smoothly cover the lower
part of the wall from the dashboard to
just the height of an ordinary wains
coting with blue denim, forming a
most effective dado, finished at the top
with an oak molding, which matches
the wood finish of the doorways and
answers admirably as chair rail.
Cover the floor with blue denim, the
effect being the same as ingram filling,
and in the center of the apartment place
a lovely Japanese rug in soft blue and
yellow After you have bought a
pretty oak table and six chairs, if you
have not money enough left to buy a
sideboard, get a slender, inexpensive
oak serving table with slender curved
legs and place it directly beneath the
Objectionable serving window. Then
invest in two small oak wall cabinets
with glass doors made exactly alike,
and nail them to the wall over on each
side of the pantry window, with the base
resting on the table below A dainty silk
curtain in the same blue and yellow
shades as the rug may be hung before
the window. Then put your prettiest
cups in the cabinets, and after covering
the top of the table with a pretty en-
broidered scarf, put few pieces of old
blue china, if you have any, upon it.
A few pictures in oak frames and
palm in yellow jardiniere will
brighten up the apartment, while blue
denim draped over the doorway and a
white muslin curtain added for the pur-
pose of aiding, rather than concealing,
the light from the one window, will
make such pretty dining room that
every one will be asking its clever own
er how in the world did she arrange
such soft and graceful effects. Elk
change.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05
Label Fruit Trees.

1t needs little argument to prove that
frequent additions should be made to
the farm orchard. If this is neglected,
there will come time in which all
the trees will have passed their prime.
But little fruit will then be produced,
and it will be several years before
young trees can be brought into full
bearing Therefore it is well, where
much is attempted in the way of fruit
growing, to put out few trees each
year.
Not only should trees be obtained
and set, but they should also be perma-
hently marked. 1t is always pleas
ure, and is sometimes matter of con-
siderable Importance, to know what
varieties have been planted. But with
out some permanent record this knowl-
edge cannot long be retained. 1t will
not do to rely upon the memory. This
plan has so often failed that it may be
regarded as useless
Many, perhaps all, nurserymen who
do large business, attach label to
each bundle of trees which they send
out. Perhaps some label each tree, but
others prefer to put all the trees of the
same variety into one bundle and make
one label do for the lot. These labels
are usually of wood, written upon with
lead pencil, and are fastened to the
trees with copper wire. If the writing
is distinct, it will remain legible for
from two to four or five years, but it
gradually disappears. In some in
stances the labels have been attached to
main branches which, as they have in
creased in size, have been cut and seri-
ously injured by the wire. This evil
can be prevented by placing the wire
loosely around side shoot, but a much
better label can be made of tin. This
material should be new and bright,
rather thin, and should be cut into
strips three -eighths of an inch wide at
one end, one-eighth of an inch at the
other end, and four or five inches long.
Such scraps can be obtained at trifling
cost, at almost any tin shop. For writ
ing upon these labels sharp awl should
be used, and the pressure should be
bard enough to cut through the tin.
the iron underneath to rust. This will
make the writing legible, and it will
remain so for many years. This label
is easily attached to the tree by turning
the narrow end once around one of the
small side-shoots from main branch.
While it is important that every tree
that is set in the orchard should be Ia
beled, this work should be supplement-
ed by an accurate record in memoran-
dunn book. Even where a great deal of
care is taken to make them legible and
durable, labels sometimes become either
indistinct or are lost. A book record is
much more reliable, and it has the add
ed advantages that it can be consulted
at any time and with but little difficult
ty; that it shows how many trees, of
each variety that is represented, the or
chard contains, and also that it indi-
Gates in what year the tree was trans
planted
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-05

1t is probable that the practice of
making ornamental book marks dates
from the time when it was ordained by
English law that the daily lessons from
the Bible in churches should be read IN
the English language. When books
We're so scarce that they were worn sus-
pended by leather straps to mems CIR
dies, and the possessor of one book was
esteemed especially fortunate, there was
no necessity for bookmarkers, as the
owners could remember easily where
they left off. The rapid multiplication
of books has weakened our memories,
and bookmarkers are necessity to
some persons.
One of the prettiest and cheapest
markers may be made Of dried autumn
leaves, an ivy, oak or water maple be-
ing used for the purpose. Select two
leaves before they show any signs of