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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
Both Mistaken.

did you speak to me- sir," said the pas
senger on the seat in front, turning stnly
to stare at the passenger who had leaned
forward to remark that it looked like rain.
NO, sir" replied the other pleasantly. II
spoke to gentleman thought you resem-
bled. I see was mistaken" -Chicago
TribuDe
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
A,Dnngerous Exploit,

M. Fermain Zone of the seconds)-My
principal, the count, refuses TO consent to a
duel in the woods at dawn
NJ. lie Comte-Why nott
M. Fermain-Morbleui Think of the
risks! Both of the gentlemen might catch
cold!-Chicago Record
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24

Featherstone (nervously) - Whose over
coat is that in the hall, Willie, your fathers
or your brothcr'ss
Willie-It isn't my brothers. Sister told
him you were coming, and he said he
wouldn't trust it there. -Clothier and Fur
niShcr
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
Too Much Realism.

Too Much Realism.
o writors realistic,
Won't you. just to please a friend,
Be not so pcssimlStio
In the way your stories end?
And can't you now and then contrsVe
To let the lovers vcd.
Nor have the herotoe arrive
To find the hero dead2
The fair appearing things Of life
Are not forever bad.
And even in this vale Of strife
Are moments that arc glad
Oh, can't you TO your world Of doubt
Admit little flash
OF sunlight now and then without
Its going all to smash?
Quit blasting every happy bud.
Quit clouding every hour
Quit plastering our gods with mud;
Quit making sweet things sour.
We're tired OF rcpiners who
Imbitter every cup
Ring off, ye bilious whinersI Do,
For PHYS sake, let up!
Chicago Journal
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24

Friend-Thut old crank Whitehair, who
always refused to have doctor, died last
night.
DR.. Dosem-I knew it. knew it would
happen. prophcsied 40 years ago that he
would die some time.-New York Weekly
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24

Sally McAlulligan ton the left)-poor lit
tie girls! Dey fancy dcy are havink fun play
ink Mt dolls but dcy ortcr play Wit real
live babies If dey wants ter git de secret OF
enioyink dis life You kin bet know wot
real fun isl-Truth
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
An Old Friend.

She-This is the first time this year you
have worn your summer suit, isn't *.
Hc-Ies. How do YOU live iJs
She-Oh, always did ,Ec =. Gothic.
and Furnishcr.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
Pleasant.

Madge-This weather, Mr.. Pufrbrain,
how does it suit you?
MIR. Puffbrain-Drives me out of my
mind.
Madge-How you must enjoy t-Chica-
go Inter Ocean,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-24
An Objection,

Willy hate these four ring circuscs.
Mamma-Why, Willy:
Willy-Because they use up the circus too
soon. If they had only one ring, the circus
would be four times as long Puck
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VA S. GOOCH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LA
National Exchange Banks Building,
Room 12. Is If
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O. GBlrpIA. WV. A. GLAsa~w, ~
- Red ord Oisy, Va. Roanoke, w.
GRIFFIN & GLASGOW,
Attorneys-at-lsw, rooms ell, 61s AND
ol4, Terry building, Roanoke,v W Prao.
iioe in courts of Roanoke city sns
county and adjoining counter
tnneS-tf
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J. ALLEN WATTS. WIN. GORDON RoBERTsoB
EDWARD W. ROBERTSON.
WATTS, RoBRRTsON q ROBERTSON.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA
Room 6O1-2-t Terry Building.
0 Att
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JOHN w. WRIGHT B. LACY HoaE
WRIGHT & HOGE, Attorneys-at-
w law, Roanoke. Va, Room g.,
Moomaw Building, Jefferson street.
Oourts-Roanok city and county, and
Craig and Boetourt counties. Special
attention given to collection Of claims.
mar41y
The advocate., 1894-11-21

use. The man who uses land can afford
10 pay the value of,its use, but none can
afford to pay thessme rate for land not in
use' hence must improve and use or
abandon to those who will.
You soy: "It is only by use that taxes
can by any possibility be obtained from
land values"
l sm at loss to know what you mean
by this. Certainly taxes are paid on
perhaps one half the land and town and
city lots Of the United States which are
not in use, and CertRinly these taxes are
not paid at loss by tie men who hold
these lands and lots out Of use on specu-
lRtion.
Your contention that the user of the
land must psy the taxes on it out of the
profits of it's use will be true under the
siugle-tsx plan, as it is true now, but the
difference lies in the fact that he now
pays a double tRx-one to his landlord
and one to the stRte-whereas under
our plan he will pay but q single tax,
and that not really tax at all, since it
but returning to society the social
value he is permitted the use of-s JUS
ti6cstion Of accounts between the indi-
vidual and society. We both agree that
land monopoly is wrong, and that the
present system Of taxation is III just to
the poor and middle classes. l claim
the Single-tsx remedies both wrongs Of
fectuslly by equitable distribution Of
social values for social uses. What
other plan is Rs good?
The advocate., 1894-11-21
"AmOng the Ozarks."

''The Land Of Big Bed Apples" )" is an at
trsCtivs and interesting book, handsomely
illustrated with views of South Missouri
scenery, including the famous Olden fruit
farm Of 5000 acres in Howell county. IL
pertains 20 fruit raising in that great fruit
ola Of America, the southern slope OF the
Ozarks, and will prove of great value, not
0nIy 90 fruit growers, but TO every farmer
and home seeker looking for q farm and
home. Mailed free. Address,
e LOCKWOOD. Kansas City. Mn.
The advocate., 1894-11-21
TIE sIEGLE-TAx.
An Able Champion Presents His Side Of the
Case,
RY w, q, q. WAKEFIELD.

Q4HUluB 10 DuS VA0 mOAO RA~S@ '"S'S AAN
honest reRormer can critiCiss the single
tax philosophy without at the same time
showing that he has never comprehsnded
its basic. principles.
Presuming that you indorse the quo
tations you make from the siDgle-tax
preamble and platform, "Ihst all men
are created equal endowed by nature
with equal rights and entitled to equal
opportunities) and that we differ only as
TO the best method of making this prin-
Ciple q practical reality instead OF the
"RlittsrlnR generality" it is now, ] will
waste no space in arguing mans right to
an equal opportunity in the world with
his fellow men.
While single,tax men do not claim
that this is the only reform necessary,
they do cleim that it is the keystone OF
the arch Of reform, without which all
other reform measures will be Of az lit
tie value to the masses az would be an
arch in o building without its keystone.
The basic or underlying principle of
the sipg,e.tax is the separation Of pub
lic or social values from private or in
divldual values, taking the former Tor
use Of the community which has Gre
Sted them, IN lieu Of all other taxes, and
by 30 doing render it possible to leave
all OF the latter for the use and enjoy
ment Of the individuals creating them.
To do the latter without first doing the
former is msnifestly impossible. Solong
az any part Of the social values (un-
earned increment) produced by the pres
enCe and labor Of all is monopoliZsd by
q few, these few are benefited at the ex-
pense Of the many. And SO long as labor
is taxed, either on it's consumption or
products personal property just 30 long
10 labor deprived Of the use end enjoy
ment Of 8 part Of the wealth it has pro-
duced, These are self. evident truths
and require no demonstration.
The only question, then, 10: VIII the
sipgle.tsx on land monopoly accomplish
these desirable results?
You say: 'Q) Land, until labor is
applied to it, can, by no possible contrl
vsnce, yield any value to man or pay any
taxes. No land could ever be drawn
upon for taxes without first spplyinR
labor 10 it. ~ No matter IL taxes be
nominslly levied upon land values, they
cannot be paid from the land Itself, and
ust be paid from the products OF Ia
bor. The distirct ction made in this plank,
therefore, is merely one Of words. All
taxes are really levied upon labor and
are paid from ito products. They can
be paid in no other wOy. (8 The plank
10, therefore, inconsistent in declaring
that "sat b man 10 entitled to all that hia
labor PFC duCer," inAsmueh as he cannot
be permitted to retain it all, but must
contribute portion for taxss."
Is it not you who play upon words, for
do not all know that vacant or unim-
proved land does pay taxes now, and that
in the long rub, at least, these taxes are
not paid as q loss by the speculative
owner, The increase in value Of the land
exceeding the value Of the taxes paidS
Were this not SO, no land would be held
idle by speoulatOrs and land mOnopo-
lists. II speculator holds q quarter
ascAion of farm land, or q city lot, idleRor
The advocate., 1894-11-21

pAyB bDeB9 Y9GeBO anu 70 Wnom lB 10 pBlo!
In this case the labor OF the farmer Of
mechanic who purchased the land foI
use paid the 81O0 Of five years taxation
on the vacant land, az well as the 5000
unearned increment (speculator's profits,
to the landlord, for a value which moi
the landlord but the entire community
had created.
Under the single tax system this 81, ,0OC
would not have gone to enrich speCu-
lator, but would have gone into the peo'
ple's treasury to relieve the purchasing
farmer or mechanic Of all the host Of
direct and indirect taxes which now fol
low him from the cradle to the grave
and deprive him Of the bulk Of his
earnings. Moreover, instead Of the pur-
chaser having to pay perpetual interest
(or losing il) on the $1,000 invested in
the land, he would have invested but a
hundred or two Rs taxes, but, beng re-
lisVed Of that sum in other forms Of tax.
alton, really nothing at oil, and he would
have had his $1,000 to make improve
ments with, whereas, the speculstor now
has the 1900 to loan back to him on q
mortgage, which often makes the specu.
lstOr again the owner, not only Of the
land, but Of the improvements made by
the purchaser.
Who pays the taxes on William Soul
leys 100000 acres Of farming land IN IL
linois, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota?
His tenants, Of course. But in addition
they pay sculley about / or II millions
yearly for the privilege Of living in
America; for the use Of the land values
which not Soullsy, but themselves and
others h ave created. In addition to rent
to Sculy and direct land tax, they pay
tariff, internal revenue, and personal
properly taxes, and in addition to al
these, o tax to monopolies and trusts
created by IL d rect taxation.
Under the single tax they would pay
Scnlly nothing, and nothing for tariff
internal revenue, personal property, mol
monopoly taxes, while their land tax
would probably bs little il any greater
than now. Rent is now paid to a spec
cislly. privileged landlord, but under the
single-ts tax it will be paid to ones self as
just equivalent Of the community oil
public values one is permitted to mon
opoDizs. We say "paid to ones self" be
cause it Ia paid in lieu Of all other taxes
from which he is relieved, but which
would otherwise remain burden to his
industry. Surely, Doctor, it makes 6
difference whether the same amount ol
tax Is paid into the peoples treasury, ol
70 swell the fortune Cf q landlord.
Is THE SINGLE TAX JUST?
You Ask uB TO demOnsLrRLe the Bp
paEsntly self-evident fact that under
the single-tax men would contribute
to government in proportion to bene
fits conferred BY government. You
also intimate that some classes may
own or use NO land, yet have valuable
property requiring government protec
tion.
II 9 republican or q democrat inti'
mated that some men lived without
using land, or that rich men did not use
more valuable land than poor men do
it would not be matter Of surprise, as
thAv do not nrnfasa TO know or care any
The advocate., 1894-11-21

poor, since for q poor man to own Valu-
able land is q contradiction in terms and
an absurd paradox. But, il the two lots
are Of equal value, society owning the
use value Of both, why should not the
users pay equally for the same privilege
Why should We discriminate against the
one who has paid out large sums for
labor and has added to the wealth and
civilization Of the community, ard in
favor Of the dog in the mRnger, who
neither improves his land nor permits
others to do so, but holds it idle while
waiting for more people and greater
general prosperity to enable him to
exact larger tribute from the commu-
nifty.
The very poor now own no land, yet
are taxed both by the landlord and by
the state and nation, paying both rent
and taxes, the tsxes being expended for
public improvements which raises land
values, hence raise poor mems rent and
rich mems incomes. The middle Glasses
own only land Of slight value, and the
wealthy classes own the valuable land,
hence the single.tsx falls heaviest upon
the wealthy. In each case men pay tax
in proportion to the social values they
have the exclusive use Of, which tends
to equslizs incomes.
Tne first effect Of the single-tsx will be
to break up pSnd reclaim TO the wholepso-
pie the great fortunes Of the country, by
turning the revenues Of the mjllionslrss
and wealthy corporations into the public
treasures. The 16 millions paid non
resident owners in royalties on Rnthrs-
cite coal mines in one county Of Penn
sylvsnis last year; the millions annually
sent to Astor in England for New York
city ground rents; the millions going
yearly to the Gould estate from coal
mines IN the West; the millions drawn
yearly by the RoCktfsllsrs from their
Lake Superior copper and iron mines,
and oil fields, and 30 on through the lisi, (,
would be diverted from their pockets to
the public treasury,
But, why not tax stocks and bonds,
money and machinery, merchandise,
live stock, fine buildings, etc, is CfEen
asked.
Stocks and bonds are only pieces OF
paper, of no value in themselves, except
AZ they by law confer q taxing privilege,
and these taxing privileges it is the mis-
sion Of the sinRls-tax to destroy. IL
they represent stock in public utilities,
we would have all public utilities owned
and operated by and for the people IL
they represent shares in monopolies
(trusts, etc), we say it is the mission OF
the single tax to abolish all monopolies
by establishing industrial freedom. To
tax money, machinery, manufactured ID
goods, tools, implements, live stock, or
improvements on land, is to tax labor,
since labor alone produces and uses all
these things, and any tax upon them be-
comes part Of their cost to the consumer.
A tax, whether direct or indirecS, upon
any thing produced by human exertlon,
from q needle to a steamship or palace,
can be collected only by the price rising
to include the tax, and the price rises
only by reduction Of the quantity pro-
ducsd, hence such q tax depriVes labor
of employment, reduces wages and taxes
The advocate., 1894-11-21
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Philadelphia, Cincinnati, NiAgrA Falls, Pitts
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The advocate., 1894-11-21
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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
JOB WORE
--suoH As
Cards, Bill Heads, Circulars, Pos
ters Etc, Etc,
sxHourED TO onnxR m THE NnAsrsr AHS
rxoxfrEsr MANNER AND At
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tEApply here before ordering elsewhere
Apply here before ordering elsswhsrs-

CLUES the dust. The action OF soap dis
solves this union. Soap may theoreti-
cally be said 10 consist of alkalies
OF olalc and OF stearic acid. An nlkah
of itself would loosen the Dust from
the fatty matter on our skins, but
aikali by itself Is injurious To .he skin.
Here the two oily acids come in; they
counterfeit the effects of the alkali ana
have also modifying effect on the
skin itself Prof Lewis stated that
he spoke of the perfect soap as
aga INST the ordinary soap of commerce.
There Is Il good deal sold which Is
not perfect, which contains an excess
OF alkali, damaging 10 the skin--or an
excess of water profitable only to the
manufisturer Prof. Lewis added,
with touch of humor. that the object
of some manufactur 'rs seems to be TO
make water sufficiently stif to stamp
It into tablets Some soaps contain
30 per cent of water
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19

ton Tor g new trlal IN the ccleorateu
breach of promise case.
Miss Pollard has received numerous
offers to appear on the stage, but de-
MES that she has any intention of ac'
cepting any of them.
David Dudley Field died very sud
denly of pneumonia, at his home In
New York City on the 18th.
Senator Zebulon b. Vance of North
Carolina died in'Washington on the 14th,
General Henry w. Slocum died OF
pneumonia, at his home in New York
city, on the l4th. lie was 81 years
old.
The Pollard Breckenridge $50, 600
breach of promise case was given to
the jury on the 14th and the jury, after
being out couple of hours, returned
a ve' diet for the plaintiff IN the sum
of SIS. 900.
1t is now asserted that the wife OF
| w. c. p Breckenridge will begin &C
! ton for a divorce shortly. She is said
to have furnished the money for the
| defense in the trial of the congressman
and was Frustrated by the confessions
of her husband on the witness stand.
James j. Corbett, the pug,l,st, sailed
for Europe on board the Fuerst Bis
marcll on the l2th. A large crowd of
sporting men went on board the steamer
to bid Corbett good-bye The champion
expressed confidence that his match
with jackson would come off.
| The works of the American Glucose
Company at Buffalo, N. Y, burned on
the 18th. The plant consisted of a
half dozen very tall buildings, the
one occupied by ma jority of the work
men being eleven stories nigh. Eighty
men were in the building In ten mi n
utes the whole building was ablaze and
in twenty minutes the walls fell. At
last accounts a dozen men were miss
ing and it is supposed their remains
are in the RUNS.
A letter TO personal friend in
Frankfort, KY, has been received from
| SOl' W. " = bTcShCulluSC IL oNutCo
positively that he will make the race
for congress at all hazards. The fol
lowing extract from the letter will
show the tenor of the cpistle: 81 see
from the statements going abroad
through the papers that in the event
OF an adverse verdict here | would
withdraw from the race for congress.
l am in the congressional race to the
bitter end. am not going to be on
the defensive but am going to make an
aggressive fight"
On the 18th 400 strikers in the Penn.
| sylvauia coke regions raided the works
of the Frick company and compelled
the men to quit WORK.. They then
started on march to Leisenring's
where further trouble was anticipated.
A storm of great severity swept over
| New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey on the 18th. Snow fell to an
average depth of about six inches and
the wind blew furiously. On the coast
shipping suffered greatly and several
vessels went down with their crews on
board in sight of land and aid which
could not go to them. It's believed fully
score of lives were lost. Wires are
generally Frustrated throughout the
states mentioned
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
Thc Chemistry of Cleansing.

Prof Lewis. in his lecture on The
Chemistry of Cleansing" has put some
scientific Acts into very plain language
He says that dust is one of the mater
ials which nature used for her clean
irg-up processes. This comes about
since dust contains germs which, by
provoking and aiding decay, resolve
matter which nature wishes to remove
into the elementary constituents OF car
bondioxide and water yapor AS Iof
these germs, we swallow, each oil u.s.
some 100000 in a day, ana Wnen
nature arrives at the conclusion tIat
we are so feeble that we need removing
a few OF them are specially utilized.
Prof Lewis spoke of the usefulness Oh
tea leaves in Kidding US OF dust, and
then passed on TO the substitute Tor tea
leaves which we used TO get on the
dust accumulated on our skins-soap
The reason that mere rinsing in water
will not take The dirt from our mar ds
Is that the natural oil of our skins
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19

HUNTINGTON, Ind, April 13.-If the
Wabash Railroad company insists upon
enforcing the cut of 10 per cent in the
wages of trainmen it will probably
find itself in the courts The train
men at Andrews, a division of the
road, claim that when the company
accepted that road from the receivers
it also accepted the present scale of
wages, which was in effect at that
time. They say the company has no
legal right TO reduce that scale now,
and they will fight it in the courts il
the cut is insisted upon.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
important Decision Is Rendered.

WASHINGTON, April ia constitu-
tional opinion of great Importance
was rendered by Judge Mott of the
Court of Claims yesterday in passing
upon one of two cases arising out OF
the We'll and La Abra Mexican awards.
The question presented was as to
whether or not the President can law
fully approve bill after the adjourn
ment of Congress. Judge Mott held
that the President has that right, pro-
vided that it be exercised within the
days allowed him by the constitution.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
erayson's Army Burns Many Cars.

DENVER, Colo, April lS-A dctach-
ment of Grayson's Colorado regiment,
Coxey's army, seized u line of box ears
last night in the Burlington aud Mis-
souri, yards north Of here, and, driving
of the watchmen, intended TO force
the railroad To haul them east This
not being done several empty cars
were set on fire early in the morning,
but the fire was put out At noon the
cars were again discovered burning
and thirty were destroyed.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
The Horse and Electric shocks.

Everybody knows that the horse Is
easily killed by electricity, and 1t Is
popularity supposed that the current,
on entering the body meets with some
anatomical popularity or physiological
susceptibility" That makes the horse
more vulnerable than other animals to
the action OF such current. The Ban
Get holds that there Is no good grounds
for this assumption. The explanation
lies elsewhere. The hoof. and more
particularly its crust and sole, is good
insulator, but the shoe presents to the
ground large metallic contact, and
this contact Is In connection with me-
tallic conductors In the shape of nails,
which pierce the strongest part Of the
insulation, and affords an easy electri-
cal path into the body. The contact
with earth is further improved by the
great superintendent weight OF thej
animal, and 1t may often happen that
In passing over wet ground. the cxter-
nal surface of the hoof and the wet fet1N
lock- especially In the case of untrim-
med horses, may become sufficiently
wet to form n good surface conductory
and so carry a current directly from the
earth to the upper part of the body.
In this way. the safety of the natural
resistance of the hoof is neutralized1
A horse, too, covers more ground THAI
n man, and runs greater risk from be
ing in contact with points of groun
further apart.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-19
To Protect the Public Health.

WASHINGTON, April lo.-A bill will
shortly be introduced in the house
providing for the manning by acclim-
atcd seamen of fruit vessels trading
between ports of the United States
and Mexico, the West Indies, Central
and South America The object
sought to be obtained is to prevent the
importation Of contagious and infecti-
Gus diseases into the United States by
compelling vessels to conform to the
requirements of the quarantine regu-
lations and to observe the public
health laws.