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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

SoUTH CARDINALS rapidly becoming
the banner State for political Blu ifoonery.
The circus started with Tillman's dis
pensary law. Then came thu Tillman-
Butler campaign, and now it is an
nounced that DR.. Sampson Pope refuses
to be candidate for governor because
great majority OF the voters are under
the lash OF the ring. South Carolina
evidently needs another earthquake in
order that she may regain her equilib-
rum.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24
HE'S AFTER 100000 ENeRAvlNes

Ambitious LnzurcIy and His Hopeless At
tempt Mt Making Collection.
Hello, Choily. Where's Lazurcly these
days.
"Lnzurely's working
working! Don't bcMcvc it, :"
"Fact; told INC so himself"
"What sort of work is he doing?"
"ie's making II collection
"Collcction of what2"
"Pictups.
"Paintings?"
mo; engravings."
Queer start for Lazurcly. Landscapes
and that sort of thing, 1 supposcP'
No; portraits.
ballet girlsf"
''No. It's the most extraordinary thing.
He informed mo confldentially the other
day that tho ambition of his life was to
secure 1000, 600 portraits of his dead I'M
clo."
His dead uncle? And WHO was the de-
funct partyf'
"Oh, he was distinguished general in
the war of the rebellion"
And what does Lazurcly want with so
many pictures of him.
Wants TO distribute them"
"Oh, l see; among his friends
mo; among his enemies"
His eneimes? Who are his encmics?"
"Crcditors and tradcspeoplc
wants to distribute / 900, 900 portraits
Of his dead uncle among creditors and
shopkeepersl Why, Cholly he's gono clean
daft
mot ut all. He's got as much sefee as
he ever had. You see, the portraits of his
departed relative were engraved ON series
Of 81 treasury notes.
"Cholly, you're trifling with my respect
for you, but what success is Lazurely meet.
ing with in making the collection?"
''Oh, he feels greatly encouraged. The
last time I saw him he had collected one
picture. "-Chicago Tribune
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24
Joint Owners.

In sailing from New York to Brcst in
1860 Charles G. Leland saw on the table OF
the smoking room before they had left port
copy Of the Ballads of Hans Brett
mann"
lis that your book" asked a fellow
traveller.
Yes" Leland replied.
Excuse me-" cried another, 'it'e
mine"
Il beg your pardon, said Leland, "but
1t is really mine"
"Sir, bought It,"
Il don't care If you did. 1t is mine,
for 1 wrote it."-Youths Companion.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

THE nomination of Hon. C. A. Swan.
son by the Democrats OF the Fifth dis
trict is deserved tribute to an efficient
public servant. Mr.. Swanson has made
an envieble reputation during the short
time he has been in Congress and Is
destined some day to become one of the
lead ers of the House.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

THAT public building spectre is loom
ing up again and we are informed from
Washington that bids will soon be ad-
vertised for. This perennial joke will
spoil.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24
Not ut All.

He watched tho flames in tho gratc as
they whirlcd into oil sorts Of fantastic
shapes
''Are yon not, he finally asked ''bcg-
ging tho question:"
She turned upon him with flashing eyes.
mo, SIR" she answered frigidly II
would inform you that am quite indiffcr
ent whether you propose to me or not"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

CLEVELAND Is still considering the
tariff bill. The prospects are that he
will continue to consider it until after
next Monday when it will become
law without his signature. Growers
thoughts right now would max interest
ing reading.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

The Roanoke baseball crank is an
object of pity at tho present time. I'm
less the homo team hurries up and wins
few games there 10 no telling how
many suicides and mysterious dis
Appearances will be recorded.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

no: speak as they pass by. That re-
form movem emit in the city by the sea
is not working as smoothly as its pro.
motors would wish.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

TIE TIMES can Do found regularly on
ale at the following places:
Roanoke, Va.-Hotels Roanoke and
Ponce de Leon, M. L. Smith, w. Frank
Carr, Terry Building, Elks' News Stand,
"a Salem Avenue, r. Goldstein, Jefferson
street.
Bristol, Tenn.-Hamner and Sullivan.
Pocahontas, Va.-Pocahontes Inn.
Radford, Va.-Redford News Depot.
East Radford, Vs.-Radford News
Depot.
Salem, Va.-F. "a. Love'ock.
Wytheville, Va.-E. n. Bailey
Norfolk and Western trains.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24

AND now Mayor Petit, OF Norfolk,
and the members of the police board do
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-24
"A Thorough Boarding and Day
School for Children.

Under the charge OF
MIST. R..Gilmore and
Miss Virginia Tucker Brooke.
:, special care and training OF young children
iiomeliKe influences combined with firm disci-
pine and thorough school system. French, Art
and Music. Opens September 10 Address
MRS. II. X. GILMORE,
lis Eighth Avenue S. w, Roanoke, Va.
8 IL to 10 49,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-06
WILD cossAck RIDERS.


Two Americans saw Them Break winter
Camp in Turkestan.
Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, who
went around the world on bicycles,
give the following account of one of
their experiences in Turkestan:
One of the chief incidents of our
pleasant sojourn was afforded by Gov.
Ivanoff. We were invited to head the
procession of the Cossacks on their an
nual departure for their summer en-
campment in the mountains. After the
usual religious ceremony, they filed
out from the city parade ground. Be
ing unavoidably detained for few
moments we did not come up until
some time after the column had
started. AS we dashed by to the front
with the American and Russian flags
fiuttering side by side from the handle
bars. cheer after cheer arose from the
ranks, and even the governor and his
party DOTTED their caps in acknowledges
ment. At the camp we were favored
with special exhibition of horseman-
ship. BY single twist of the reins the
steeds would fall to the ground, and
their riders crouch down behind them
as a bulwark in battle. Then dashinp
forward at full speed. they would
spring to the ground, and leap back
again into the saddle, or, hanging BY
their legs, would reach over and pick
up. a handkerchief, cap, or soldier
supposed to be wounded. All these
movements we photographed with our
camera. OF the endurance of these
CossaclSs and their Kirghiz horses we
had practical test. Overtaking a
Cossack courier in the early part of
days journey. he became so inter
ested in the velocipede. as the Rus
slams call the bicycle, that he de-
termined to see as much of it as pos
sible. He stayed with us the whole
day, over distance of fifty-fve miles.
His chief compensation was in wit
Messing the surprise of the natives, to
whom he would shout across the fields
to come and see the tomasha- adding in
explanation that we were the Ameri-
can gentlemen who had ridden all the
way from America. Our speed was not
slow, and frequently the poor fellow
would have to resort to the whip, or
shout, Slowly, gentlemen, my horse
is tired; the town is not far away; it is
not necessary to hurry so.' The fact
is, that in all our experience we found
no horse of even the famed Kirghix O.
Turkoman breed that could travel with
the same ease and rapidity as ourselves
even over the post ordinary rood
Century
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HERE AND THERE.

Your home tells the stranger what
you are. What kind of a reputation
does it give you?
--.'Wel1 fed is half bred- is a true
saying. No man ever starved money
out of live stock.
The man who works all the week
ought not to worry on Sunday. Worry
is the hardest kind of work.
"A modernphilosoph once said that
the man who worked for nothing and
boarded himself hardly ever earned
more than he got.
If you make companions of your
children you are laying up store of
comfort for your old age that viii re-
turn a very large interest on the in
vestment.
When you sell COW, sell the poor
est one you have, but don't swear that
she is the best one. 1t is pretty hard
to do this, but it can be done, and you
will not be sorry for it afterwards.
Somebody has said: "You must feed
your farm if you want it to feed you, =
and this is true. If you keep taking off
your farm and never put anything back
you are breeding poverty for your chill
dren.
Hard times are not made any bet
ter by brooding over them and whining
about them. 1t is better to smile than
to sigh any time. Half our evils are
inaginary--and most of the other half
preventable.
Most of hired men have souls, but
some employers treat them as if they
had not Nothing pays better in the
way of returns than to treat the hired
man as if he were human being. A
word of praise now and then makes
work much easier for the man.
some men work as if they expected
to sleep forever when they die. These
same men are going to be surprised
some time when they find out how
much time it is possible to waste at
work. : The American Farmer and
Farm News
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LET TOBACCO GET RIPE.
Too Much Haste in Harvesting the Crop
Causes Waste of Substance.


Too Much Haste in Harvesting the Crop
Causes Waste of Substance.
Mr.. NJ ]. Barker, one of she most ex-
perienced tobacconist in the state,
says that a majority of our farmers
make great mistake by not letting
their tobacco get fully ripe before cut
ting it.
Il can not understand" said he,
s'why farmers are in such haste to cut
their crops unless it is to avoid the
worms and suckers, which as you
know, are quite troublesome when the
plants are nearly ripe. The dews late
in the season are the making of tobac-
co, both as to weight and worth. 1t is
then that tobacco gets its gum, the
cool color and its real character.
Tobacco has characterize anything
else. If cut green, it becomes, when
the sap leaves it, thin, slazy, light, ir-
regular and undesirable in color, easy
to funk and of bad character gem
orally.
Real ripe tobacco. on the other
hand, has a substantial character, it is
bright red, or red and yellow, on both
sides, weighs well, has the keeping
quality, chews sweet and is always
sought after.
''Why, you hardly ever see we'll
ripe hogshead on the breaks, but when
you do you see all the buyers gather
ing around it; they are attracted by it
and often they themselves can hardly
tell why. The same thing is more
noticeable, though, in large manufac-
tories. When a nice, well-ripe hogs
head is opened up, the men gather
around it and are pleased with it-be-
cause it is ripe.
in letting it get good and ripe it
may sometimes spot some, but would
much rather have it with spots than to
have it green.
''The fact is, people don't raise as
good tobacco nowadays as formerly,
and it's because they don't let it get
ripe. They needn't fear, for real ripe
plant, even when late, win cure nicely
when an unripe plant would fail to
cure
What do you think Of the growing
crop. Mr.. Barker?
1.-THE general outlook is good, and in
this county the prospect is fine. The
crop has been well cultivated, too; lots
Of it has been topped; it is green and
spreading nicely. The farmers have
reason to feel encouraged. "-Carrollton
Ky Democrat.
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own business and makes her good liv-
ing, and If lie don't, she ought to have
the right to board him, and then just
keep right on boarding hip till she
makes man uf him.
! slipped the bride" the other day
and took run over to Crisp, in the
southeast portion of the county, on the
Texas Midland railroad, and tell YOU
it made me feel like taking of my hat
and hollering 'Rah for Texas. The
corn crop everywhere along the line,
and in fact all over the county, is as
good as the most greedy farmer could
ask for, and the cotton is as fine as /
have ever seen at this season of the
year. Some one has said, "You can't
hold a good COUNTRY down, !" and that is
about right We have made lots of
wheat, oats and corn, and we will
have lots of fat hogs and fat
cattle, and we are going to
live fat and happy if the congress of
the United States continues to act the
fool. The wise thing for the farmer to
do is to now begin to feed his hogs,
save his fodder, put up his hay, break
his stubble land, and break it deep; cut
down every weed on the place: be good
20 your wife; tell her that she is the
prettiest and sweetest woman in the
world, if you know you are lying. for
if you don't think so you ought to; GO
to preaching and try to do what the
preacher tells if you think he knows; if
you don't, do as your wife says, and if
you don't get to Heaven it will be your
own pure meanness.-Texas Farm and
Ranch
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FARMER AND PLANTER
TIMBER CULTURE.

Tennessee One of the Few States Not Yet
stripped and Making Effort at Renewal
of Her Forests.
Tennessee is one of the few states
that have not been stripped of their
timber without concern for future
needs and climatic conditions. About
90 per cent. of the land in Tennessee is
still wooded. There are &c, $50, 900 acres
an the state altogether, of which near
iy 100000 are timbered. Only three
states in the south have greater TIM
Der acreage-North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia. As the altitude
of the forests OF Tennessee varies from
200 to 6.9oo feet above the seas level.
woods every kind known to the
United States are to be found
there. In value, the oak has the
first place, but the ash, of which
there are two varieties, the white and
the blue, is hardly less important.
Even in Tennessee the forests of ash
are now found only in districts remote
from TIE railroads, but so rapid is the
growth of this tree that it is being
planted as an investment. A farmer
who set out grove of ash trees, COW
cring 10 acres, IL years ago, now has
1900 trees inches in diameter on an
average and IS feet high. There were
no expenses of cultivating, and the 10
acres of the $4,000 trees are worth
at the present time between 81, 900 and
$4,000. Besides oak and ash, Tennessee
possesses three varieties of elm,
two of gum, two of fir, three
of hickory, two of locust, three of
maple, two of pine, three of poplar and
two of walnut. Among other trees
found in abundance are the beech,
birch, buckeye, red cedar, wild cherry,
cottonwood, cypress, dogwood. bass
wood, mulberry, tupelo, sycamore and
the sassafras. OF oaks, there are no
less than twelve varieties. Cedar, I'M
fortunately, is going very fast. Bucket
factories in the state use 1000, 900 feet
of this timber every year. Telegraph
companies use it almost exclusively for
poles. Nearly 1000, 900 feet goes each
year to ST. Louis, where it is made into
fence rails. The rapidity with which
the cedar is being consumed has opened
the eyes of some of the friends of the
forests in Tennessee, and a warning
has been sounded.-N.Y Y. Evening Post.
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FRESH cURRENcIEs.

STEBuIzED milk is becoming popu-
lar hot-weather drink in New York
city.
The gripmen on the Broadway cable
road of New York are paid forty cents
trip.
A CAMBRIDGE (Mass.) court has de-
cided that the delivery of ice cream on
Sunday is a work of necessity and a
charity.
A DEER hunt, with a comical termina-
ton, was lately witnessed in Meath,
Ireland. The game, being holly pressed,
plunged into the sea and swan to an
island mile distant.
".STEAM-HEATED, as it appears on the
signs of flats and buildings of one sort
or another" said q citizen, seems just
now almost superfluity; butt will be
al right next winter"
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wINDow-sHADE HINTS.

ALWAYS place roller in brackets with
shade rolled up.
If the shade is tackled on properly il
will hang toward the window.
ALWAYS fasten the round-hole bracket
on the right hand side of the window.
To FIT shade to a window with in-
side shutters, measure inside holding
next to shutters.
If the spring is too strong, remove
roller from brackets with shade rolled
up, unroll few turns and replace.
To STRENGTHEN the spring, draw the
shade down few revolutions, remove
roller from brackets, roll up shade and
replace.
In replacing a window shade that has
been torn from the roller, use nothing
but one ounce tacks; longer taclss in
lure the spring.
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MUTTON SHEEP.
A Class of sheep to Which Farmers Should
Pay More Attention.

"A CLASS OF sheep TO which Farmers Should
Pay More Attention.
That farmers az class should use
more mutton can hardly be disputed.
1t is palatable, cheap and nutritious,
and when sheep are kept upon the farm
affords an opportunity of having fresh
meat at less cost and with less risk
of loss than almost any other class of
stock. During harvest and at thresh-
ing more or less fresh meat is neces-
sary, and with little planning head
of mutton can be made to supply all
that is needed, but it is not only on
these extra occasions that mutton can
be used to a great advantage. On too
many farms too much dependence is
placed upon fat bacon or picked pork
for the meat. During the summer
the constant use of fat pork in this
way is at least detrimental to health
if not positively injurious, and fresh
meat would be healthier as well as
more palatable. Many farmers are so
situated that they can not depend upon
the butcher, while in reality the NUT
ton is so much cheaper that the aver
dye Cttu DtbttT 10 XIII d
good fat mutton than to purchase
fresh meat from the butcher, even
though it be brought to the door rea-
sonably regular. One advantage of
mutton over other kinds of fresh meat
is that it will keep longer than either
beef or pork.
But to have supply when needed
and to have of a good quality it is
nearly always best to commence in
good season. Mutton to be good, should
be reasonably fat, but with plenty of
grass and water this would not be diff
ficult to secure.
There is nearly always wcthers or
ewes that have not proven good breed
ers that should either be fattened and
marketed or butchered, and when
fresh meat is needed it will be more
economical to butcher than to market,
as selling fat mutton and buying fresh
beef and pork is paying good profit
for converting animals into meat while
it is very questionable, all things con-
sidered, if the quality is as good.
The average farm family win readily
eat a good mutton before it will spoil,
and do this much more readily than
they would pork or beef, and this is
quite an item.-Wool and Hide Ship
per.
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GAVE HER THE DODGE.
Uncle Snort Gives short Homily on
Woman's Rights.

Uncle Snort Gives q Short Homily on
Woman's Rights.
Wife has for some time past been
holding the reins in one hand and the
whip in the other, and have been do
ing the prancing act, though l did not
Ego off in prance," for, as l said, she
has been holding the reins and the
whip, and every time / kicked she
struck, and guess that is one reason
that am so much opposed to strikes.
1t may be all right, for my pastor seems
to think that if my wife did not have a
good deal of grit, pluck, push and good
sense, / would soon be hanging on to
the ragged edge of poverty and gem
cral no-accountedness. / don't believe
that there is any such word as
that, but that is the way they
have fixed it. But there is one
thing that l am very sure of, and that is
that there are q great many other men
in this country who, if their wives held
the reins in one hand and good quirt
whip in the other. they would soon be
not be SO many weeds left in their corn
and cotton fields to go to seed. nor
along the fence rows and roadsides.
No, they would spend more time at
home and less time running to town on
every pretext, and thus spending SO
much valuable time in worse than idle
ness. Woman's rights! Yes. l am in
favor of woman's rights. Every woman
should have the right to see that her
husband stays ct home, attends to his
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NOTABLE MEN.

THE sultan of Johore wears an cleo
trio light in his shirt front.
LrszT's great skill with the piano was
In part due to his immense industry.
For years he practiced ten hours day.
THE Bookman makes the astonishing
announcement that no book of Mr.. Rus
kin's has ever been translated and pub
lshed in foreign language.
NINE BLANC says that Bret Hart is,
Of all the American authors of the
time. the most popular in France, and
that Howells is not generally liked b.
The French.
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A large number Of flowers are bored,
as it is believed, by humble-bees. They
collect the nectar in this way, instead
of entering by the mouth of the flower.
DR.. j. Schneck, of Mt. Carmel, Ill, one
of our most observing botanists, be-
lieves these are not humble-bees-mem-
bers of the genus Bombus-but belong
to the genus xylocopa, popularity
known as Borers, or Carpenter Bees
He has certainly seen these creatures
Sitting the tubes of clover, and bum
ble-bees entering the mouth in the To-
Ultimate way.-Meehan's Monthly.
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Cultivating Corn.

Experiments made in the cultivation
of corn show that once week gives
the best results. A plat cultivated
twice week made 4O.3 80 bushels, while
one alongside cultivated once week
made 41.29 bushels. Taking into con-
sideration the cost of the extra cultiva-
ton the advantage was all with the
onct--a-veelx cultivation.
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One at Time. -Bradley-"Say,
Flanagan, why don't yez take the ele-
vator up wild that trunk?" Flanagan
Gust over)-sIndade, I'll not. Ill take
but the trunk. It's yourself that kin
carry up the elevator"
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To wash Challies.

Rice water is recommended in which
to wash challies- Boil pound of rice
In five quarts of water. Cool it to the
tepid point; then put in the goods and
wash well, using the rice as soap. Pour
of the water, leaving the rice sediment.
Rub the challie well in this, rinsing in
the poured-off water. Use no rinsing
water, but hang the materials to dry
direct from the rice water.-Boston
Budget.
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DROWNING men catch at straws, but the
do not grasp them with the avidity Of me
who are trying to drown SORROWS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-06

A WOMAN moro easily forgets man whor
she has loved for years than one whom sh
mas hated for an hour.-Truth.
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WHAT is the difference between a Swis
mountaineer and dandruffi One scales tn,
Alps and the other ails the scalps.
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MAN may be partially known by tho com
pany he keeps; but not wholly so until said
company has married him and summered
and wintered with him.-Puclk
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-06

A SMART man must learn to read post
script In woman's eye.-Truth.
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APOLLO was stickler for the code OF
honor. 1t was he who first struck the Tyre
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-06

THE most distant relatives are not Away
those who live farthest Philadelphia
Record
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-06

THERE are educated pigs, but there ar
none that do not like mud.-Ram's Horn
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The wise dog beats generous world out
of living with his Galveston News