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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

Edwin Farmer Concert as z. NJ. o. a.
The grand concert by Edwin Farmer
will be held 81 the Y. n. O. A. Hall, in
stead OF the Academy. A splendid
vocalist from Lynchburg has been Sc.
cured and arrived in the city yesterday.
A talented young lady from Virginia
College will favor the audience with
several violin solos, and altogether the
programme will be one of the most at
tracIive presented In Roanoke this eea-
son. The ladies of Trinity Church have
spared no pains to make the entertain
ment pleasant and ttraotive, and as the
proceeds aret to be applied to worthy
cause. the people should help them, and
give Mr.. Farmer g. hearty welcome to
the Magic City. Thirty.fve cents will
buy ticket at johnson Sc Johnson's
drug store.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
The Holiday
SHOW is
Ready.

Everyyear we gather from far and
near a host Of pretty things
for gift buyers. Those that
you like most are likely to
be the least expensive, and
there's no one to object if
you only come to look. II
is not a bad idea to buy
early, because shreWd
shoppers usually get away
with the best long before
Christmas time.
We enumerate below a
few of our Christmas novel
ties:
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
Outraged and Murdered.

News has reached this city of terri
BILE outrage having been recently in~
hicted on white girl in tho mountains
of lower franklin county by negro,
after which he murdered his victim
She lived long enough to describe her
nssailant, who was recognized from the
description as being from Bedford
county. A posse OF citizens was at onoe
organized and o search for the murderer
instituted. He was discovered, but
made good his escape by jun ping
through window. Tho names of
neither party could be obtained and the
particulars are very meagre.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
Mrs. watkins, Dressmaker.

CORNER Of Commerce and Church g.
W., mo. 323) Fret class dressmaking
the latest modes; perfect fitting; ex-
perienced cutters. Prices to suit the
times. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
A Thorough and artistic Pian,ct

ALL thorough and artistic pianists
must have q frst-class, high grade
piano TO play on. Edwin Farmer recog-
nizeo this in the Lindeman; therefore
selected and endorses this piano. He
will use o Grand at the Y. M. @. A.
Hall Friday night.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
a Successful Sale.

The ladies Of the Second Presbyterian
Church held their annual sale of Nmas
presents last night at the church on
Roanoke street 8. W. The sale WAS a
siccess financially and the refreshments
served were delightful. Tho cnurcn
was beautifully decorated and the affair
WAS we'll attandad
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
A Pleasant sociabie.

There will be sociable under the
auep.oies of The Mite Society of
Christ Episcopal Church held at the
residence OF Mrs. R. McOlelland to-
night from 1870 until II o'clock. All
are cordially Invited to attend. Pro-
ceeds will be used for the benefit of the
lot debt fund.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

useful articles such as aprons, bags,
housekeeper's articles of all kinds will
be put on sale. All are invited to come
and inspect them, since they will BIZ
very pretty for Christmas presents and
reasonable In price,
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
Local Bits.
News of People
and Events.
Happenings Briefly and Reliably
Put Before You.
Hastings Court.

Hastings Court.
In the busting court yesterday morn
Ing the only matter of Importance was
the granting OF q Judgment in the case
OF 4. L. Gregory, agent, Va. the Turkey
Gap Coal and Coke Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

THERE is music in the air I" Listen
Andrews' belled teams are delivering
coal and wood to customers. Send II
YOUR orders.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
The Judgeslip Fight.

The JudReship Eight.
The iudgeahip fight will be settled to-
night in the Democratic caucus st Rich.
mond, and whatever is agreed upon
there will be the verdict OF the general
assembly. Judge Woods friends seem
confident OF victory concerning their
efforts in behalf of their favorite, while
Mr.. Hsrdawsy's friends nre equally GER.
tain of success from the fact of Captain
Berkeley's influence being in his favor.
Much interest wan manifested over the
matter all day yesterday, and it was
rumored that in the event Of likeli-
hood Of Hardaway's defeat that his
friends would use their influence for
dark horse in the person Of one OF Roa
noke's most learned and able lawyers,
who has heretofore not been mentioned
in connection with the race This man
controls large and lucrative practice
and could Ill afford to accept the posi-
ton from o financial point OF view, vet
those who pretend to know the inside
workings OF the influential mem bers of
the legislature so far as the iudgeship
Is concerned claim that the dark horse
will accept.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

Bur Brush Mountain coal from w. z.
Andrews & Co., 219 Salem avenue. They
Will sell 1t cheaper than 1t has ever been
sold In the city. Look out for tho belled
teams.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
Edwta Farmer and tho Liudeman Grand
Piano.

SUCH musician az Edwin Farme
could not do himself justice on en- in
ferior instruments, but he will have tn
celebrated Lindeman Grand TO play O.
st the Y. M. G. A. Hall Friday night.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
he Again Enters the Field.

He Again EnterE the Field.
WE call attention to the card OF Col.
Thomas Lewis, insurance broker ard
adjaster. and can safely assure the pub
lie that any business entrusted to
him will receive prompt and proper at
tention. Col Lewis was actively en-
gagged as agent and adjuster from 1865
to 1900. during which time he incurred
millions in properly and persons and
paid over S200 900 in losses without the
least controversy. He now again enters
the field and is pre- pared to place any
and all kinds Of insurance; that is. fire,
life, accident, plate glass, steam boiler,
indemnity. employers liability, rail.
road or marine, in any company, and to
adjuet losses OF every character He ia
resident here and Is prepared to make
good any representations made by him.
Wrecks on Norfolk and Western.
wreck occurred on the Norfolk and
Western railroad, about four miles from
Norfolk, as late hour Tuesday night,
and four or five coal gondolas We 9
knocked to pieces. This was followed
by another wreck near Windsor station,
which was caused by the breaking of an
axle OF one Of the cars. In this wreck
eight freight cars were badly de-
molished & third wreck occurred near
Ford's depot and resulted from the
parting of freight train Six cara
were wrecked. The tracks were badly
obssructed and the trains were oil mors
or less delayed. The passenger train
from Norfolk wss delayed in its arrival
here two hourd and h.lf-Pe tersburg
1ndex Appeal
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

Go to Donaldson's for osk soits, verJ
cheap.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13

CALL and 500 our large and beauti.
full limo of lamps, onyx tables and brio
a-brac The e. II. Stewart Furniture
Compsny.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
Dolls I! Dolls I!
For the Little Ones.

For the Little Ones.
Best quality Bisque Kid-Govered
Dolls, 49C, 59C, 79C, $50,
and 9SC-aII with natural
Rubber Dolls Csc, and a larger
size, nicely dressed, Soc.
Mechanical Dolls Csc.
China Tea Sets 25c, 39C, 59c
and 79C.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
I Toys Toys !!

Noah's Arks, Laundry Sets,
Blocks, Ten-pias, Tool Chests,
Guns, Magic Lanterns, Tin
Kitchens, Tin Stoves, Checker
Boards, Tin Horns, Hobby
Horses WheeIharroWs, SIeighs
and Banks.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-13
FOR RENT

MO. $40 SOUTH JEFFERSON ST.
~ y. W., 10-room brick house. Col-
lar, attic and bath room. In good re-
pair. Price $25 per month.
MO. 511 ELM AVENUE s. W..
Groom house, with modern con-
venieDces. Cellar ard stable. Good
neighborhood. Price s15 per month.
MO. 435 MOUNTAIN AVENUE
s. W., Groom house. Room for
servant attached; also stable in good
repair: Price $40 per month.
MO. 1920 CHAPMAN AVENUE
~ s. W., 7.room house with modern
conveniences. Price sl1.25 per month.
HAVE STORES FOR RENT:
:. also bargains in sale of Real
Estate.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-10-10
CHAPTER II.
THE NORTHERN HOME,

Fourteen years have elapsed since
the occurrence Of the events related in
the preceding chapters.
The scene of our story is now laid in
the bleak, desolate region of the south
ern shore of Lake Superior.
Down in hollow, between two bluffs,
lies the iron city of Oretown, with its
even thousand inhabitants huddled to-
gether in implanted shanties and blocks
OF squalid tenements. Saloons of the
lowest description abound, the only
pretentious buildings being the school
house, the hotel and the hospital. The
whole region breathes of iron. The very
ground is the red dust of iron ore, and
miners and miners wives and children
ruddy with the stain of the brown
earth, meet you at every step. All
around the outskirts of the place, big
hills of clinkers and powders are
crowned with the engine-hbuses of the
mining shafts, while trade is limited to
the few stores" belonging to the min
ing companies, where the unfortunate
diggers into the bowels of the earth
are driven by necessity to spend at q
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ness of some beautiful statue, as she
stood motionless beside him.
zone of them" she said at last, sis
Wixon-Capt. Wixon."
"And the other?"
81 do not know. A stranger"
The round face of Mrs. Whitford
now appeared in the doorway, and, as
she noticed the familiar attitude, there
was ring of unwonted harshness in
her voice:
"Elsie, COON t. supper directly. Dun
ma stan gawpin' into tn gloamin' l.
that feckless fashion"
The girl started like wounded fawn,
a deep blush spreading itself over her
cheeks and neck, for probably the
woman's rough tone woke a chord in
the breast Of the maiden, and for the
first time she felt the innocent shame
of shocked womanly modesty.
But, if Elsie's cheeks were deeply
dyed in bushes, the imperturbable
schoolmaster showed no disooCposure
as he followed them into tie dlAing-
room.
It was most uncomfortable meal.
John Whitford was out of sorts and
more than half-repentant of his conf
Dental disclosures to his wife; Elsie was
in q state of uncomfortable nervous
ness; Mrs. Whitfield was cross and dis
agreeable, and Grey was wrapt in con.
lectures as to what that man
Wixon and the stranger could have
meant by their peculiar conduct
and why they should have made
such constant gestural allusion to him
self. What did it mean? He was con
fidedt that he had formed the topic Of
their conversation.
BE ye goin' to the schule-house to
night?" Mrs. Whitford asked, unable te
retain her morose demeanor any longer
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rest, but rough and uncouth in his
manner. This man, Jack Wilders, was
Frank Grey's mainstay, or, as he him
self styled it, ''the professors right
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while my poor niece and her little girl
are left to starve?"
. Sir Gordon's hard look softened.
"a babe? had no idea it was as bad
as that. Something must be done for
1t and her."
: eyes," sneered Gregson, something's
got to be done, an done quickly, too"
"a small annuity to support and edu-
cate the child" continued the baronet,
meel1ly. 81 will see my attorney"
"And what about Mrs. Richard Hill
borough"
"Oh, she is in India with her hus-
band. beg that her name may be
kept out of this unhappy controversy. )"
"Oh, no, she's not, my noble friendi
you are laboring under great mistake.
Mrs Richard Allestree Gordon Is at this
moment in Newton, Leicestershire."
"Great heavens!" gasped the bar
onet. "What do you mean?"
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laden with the scent OF wild flowers,
giant oaks and elms spreading their
mighty limbs to shade man and beast,
and sNylarks rising in the heaven with
foods of melody.
A valley with road running through
1t, and, in the near perspective, village
-Hetherton, it is called-and, in the
distance, the tall towers of Scarsdale
abbey, one of the stateliest homes of
the land.
You have the scene before you.
But not all harmonious is the aspect.
Man comes, as usual, to mar the beauty
of nature.
This particular man is eminently
qualified to scare away any poetic
fancies the scene may have prompted.
He is a spare, cadaverous fellow OF
about forty years of age, with sharp
features and red hair, and eyes that
would be bright and swapping, but
that they are so bleared and bloodshot.
His dress is the decay of gentish vul.
garity. When new, you can see that
his coat has been glossy as the glossiest
of shoddy; his trousers baggy in shape
and loud in pattern, and his shoes of
French kid, but the blight of poverty
is on them, and their original grand
ness makes their sha bbiness the more
apparent.
Neither is his manner more prepos-
sessing than his person, for as he
trudges along the road, his lip con-
stantly curls with the bitterness of his
reflections, and he viciously cuts down
the unoffending flowers with the cheap
cane he carries, as though the beautiful
were repugnant to him.
Yet his footsteps are turned toward
Scarsdale Abbey.
Little does Sir Gordon Hillborough,
the owner of the splendid demesne, as
he sits in his ancient library, tall,
stern, courtly old man of sixty, antici-
pate the visitor that fate is bringing
him.
Yet barely an hour has passed since
we saw the vaurien tramping along the
highway, and now he is sitting very
much at his ease in the presence of the
great man. who seems too astonished
ut the novelty Of the situation to offer
a remonstrance.
'Sir," the baronet says with much
dignity, "you have gained admission
into my house under the plea that you
have an important communication to
make concerning my son. Briefly as
possible tell me your business"
Don't happen ever to have heard
the name of Gregson, suppose" the
stranger, replied with a sheer.
Sir John shook his head in negation.
Nor of Newton parish in the county
of leicester"
"Ah!"
There was a look of painful recol-
lection in the baronet's face.
1.-The father, presume, of the young
woman, by whose allurements my son,
mere boy, pupil at private school,,
was nearly brought to the verge of So
cial destruction?" he asked, haughtily.i
Uncle, sir" was the airy reply,
"Uncle to as interesting a young fe-
male orphan as ever fell a victim to the
wiles of an aristocratic scoundrel."
''And you want"
"Justice. Sir Gordon! Has not your
son behaved like villain-going and
getting married and starting for India,
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ruinous overcharge the dollars they
have so hardly earned.
Here and there you see a better kind
of residence, and in this you may be
sure that an agent or captain resides.
the captain being the highest fight of
aristocracy to which the society OF the
metallic city aspires. These too are for
the most part English, though here
and there a New Highlander occupies
the covete OPPOSITION.
He is an autocrat of autoerats. Well
do the men know that they have to look
to HIM for every favor, and, as in the
old feudal days the retainers bowed to
the will Of their lords, these sturdy
mining giants give humble allegiance
to him, yielding even their political
sutfrages and voting obediently as the
"boss" wishes, though the new "Austra-
liam ballot box" will spoil that little
arrangement; but at the time write of
the free and independent citizen Of
Oretown had only the freedom to think
as his tashmaster thought.
In the hands of a good man this state
of things was not so bad, but OCCASION
ally were found among the captains men
of brutal instincts, who used their posi-
tions as levers for acts of pitiful oppres-
sion.
On the top of one Of the bluffs on the
outskirts of the city stood a gaunt,
square house, rudely put together with
implanted boards, and surrounded, by a
squalid settlement" Of temporary shan
ties. Hardly q roof was whole, for
when the blasting occurred huge
masses of rock were flung high in the
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-10-10
Won at Last
The Great Love Story of the
Season.
By Bernard Bigsby.
[CoPYRIGHTED 1895.
COPYRIGHTED 1851
CHAPTER ].
AN ,UNBIDDEN GUEST.

LITTLE bit of
rural England.
A d a / n t y
gil m p S Q o +
stream, m cad.
ow and wood.
land, su CHI a s
Birket + os t e r
would hav G
loved to picture.
II e d ges red
with hawS. air
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%...........
and, Notwithstanding its rude exterior,
when once you were inside, surprised
you with its homelilke simple comfort.
On this mild September evening Mrs.
Whitford was busy preparing supper,
while her husband sat smoking his pipe
III the chimney corner-she buxom,
jovial and pleasant featured, with the
bloom of the Derbyshire hills still on
her cheeks-he, silent and thoughtful,
with his honest face corrugated with
the wrinkles of care.
''John," the wife said, turning from
her work, and speaking in broad native
accents, which no change Of country.
had ameliorated, 81 Gamma abide to sec
thee so down i'th' mouth. Heart up,
now, may happen we shall get word
across the sea from Jacob, an, if the
worst betide us, Capt. Wixon may gle
thee a chance to work the new gang
next week"
Don't go on hoping against hope.
Bessie. Your brother-in-law is scoun
drel-nothing but broken promises and
bad faith from him-and as for Wixon
why, he's an American edition Of
Jacob in rougher binding. It's bad
lookout, an winter just coming on"
"Well, mon, Oh told thee how it I'D
be. Thou'st made a heap O. money
sim we come to this ughsome spot, but
thy daft head couldna keep it in thy
poke. Speculation - allus specilatin
and allus on the wrong side of the
fence TO rum"
Eyes," replied John bitterly, chit
man when he's down. That's just like
woman"
col didn mean to do so, mon," quoth
the repentant dame, brushing away the
tears with the back of her hand. "Only
there's nowt left, now them Keweenaw
shares be worthless, but the sticks O.
house-gear, and the duds we wear"
Nothing" was the doleful reply.
"No dodgers but the schulemeaster
an the two lads, an God knaws Oh
Gamma keep things together wi their
havings."
Then John, Illuminating, changed the
subject by asking his wife:
where's Elsie?"
''In yon, wi the schulemeaster," was
the reply, as the dame pointed to a door
on the inner side of the room.
81 don't quite know" John said, very
slowly, as if he were propounding diff
ficult theory, elf it is right to let the
lass spend so much time alone with that
young man. She's getting up in years
now, and"
He stopped, for the surprise and in
dignation depicted on his wife's coun-
tenance were enough to check the most
loquacious.
John Whitford," she demanded,
furiously, has trouble added thy
brain? A chit O. a child, as has ma left
off short frocks, an young mon as
has lived under thy roof welly a
twelvemonth, an never so much by
word or deed as showed he wasna a
perfec' gentleman! Who put that silly
craze i thy soft pate? Frank Holbrook,
III TEX my Bible oath ont"
ut wasn't"
"Who were it then? For none such
nonsense entered on its own account "
well, then, it was the captain"
What captain?"
'Wixon."
"Bah!" said the woman, as she burst
into supercilious laugh. "Oi thowt
thee was ne'er such gowk as to moind
that mischief-makin' tyke. Here,
how'd the heft O. this griddle, an Oil
see for mysen what they be dom of. "
With this, she crossed the kitchen,
opened a door very quietly, traversed a
short passage and abruptly opened a
second door at the end Of it
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whether they were obliged to give q
months credit for their labor, would be
discussed.
With these revolutionary projects
confronting them, the uppertendom Of
Oretown united in one common deter
mination to crush the viper they had
nourished in their bosoms, the Young
anarchist who had brought this evil
state to pass.
CHAPTER Ill
THE GREAT NIGHT SCHOOL OF oRETowN.
Mr.. Commissioner Eaton, in his elab-
crate reports from the Washington
bureau of education, condescended not
to notice the night school of Oretown.
Yet here was great and curious factor
In the educational elements of the coun-
try.
Inside the gaunt building were gath,
cred some hundred miners, chiefly Eng
lish and Swedes, with here and there a
native American. They were formed
into classes, some spelling in ponder
GUS earnestness easy words, some wrest,
ling manfully with the mysteries of
arithmetic, some laboriously porting
over the page of primer, and some
compelling their unpliant fingers to
guide pen over the May page of
child's copybook, but all strangely and
sternly in earnest.
Eight or ten teachers were scattered
around the room. They were miners,
who had little learning, or who had
themselves been pupils of the school.
One was exceptional.
He was a broad-shouldered, strong,
athletic fellow, better dressed than the
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air and fell so far that sometimes they
crashed through the neighboring dwell
ings.
The gaunt, square house have al
luded to bore sign with the inscrip-
ton:
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BOARDING BY JOHN wH1TFoRD.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-26

A foxy-looking old chap about 60 years
of age, with whskers which looked
as if they had grown in Kansas, and
clothes which looked as if they had been
made in England, ambled into the rotunda
OF the capitol the other day, accompanied
by his wife. woman weighing III the
neighborhood of two hundred. OF course,
the couple at once caught every guides
eye, and rush was made for the strang-
ers on the spot, but the old fellow stood
the crowd off. He chaffed them awhile
good-naturedly, and then passed on to see
the sights as he pleased. In the course
Of an hour he came back to the rotunda
alone, and took a seat on one of the
benches
A guide spotted him and came over to
have some fun with him.
Where's your wife?' inquired the
capitol director.
"Shes som'eres around lookin' at
things" responded the visitor.
"By herself?" and the guides question
would have indicated that the husband
was quite remiss in his duty to permit
his wife to go about alone.
''Of course. What's the differencew
swell, you don't know what might
happen to her in a great building like
this is, said the guide, whose business
it was not to let any more people 60 about
there alone than he could prevent, "She
might get lost, or something"
The Old fellow sat back with an air OF
perfect confidence and satisfaction.
"Oh," he said, she's all right. Con
gress amt in session. Washington Star.