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tation, to stock all the jewelers. shops
in Christendom, and to anticipate years
of production in the mines of south
Africa and Golconda.
But some ingenuity was displayed
even in the treatment of this stock SUBJ
ject. Sometimes, when the diamonds
were found. they turned out to be paste.
In other instances they had not been
stolen at all. but mislaid, and, again.
in few cases. the persons to whom the
diamonds belonged had hidden them in
order to throw suspicion upon an in
nocont party
AS a matter Of course, hundreds of
stories dealt with murders, some un-
der circumstances Of most revolving
brutality. and others on the most re-
fined, scientific and up-to-date meth
ods. Hanging, shooting, poisoning and
drowning We're much in favor. In one
story 81 man was murdered by tele-
phone in another n detective subject
to fits Of somnambulism arrived at the
conclusion that he himself must have
committed the murder, the perpetra-
tor of which he was seeking to dis
cover.
very largely in the contest but no spe-
cially ingenious treatment of the sub
ject was apparent in any of the stories.
Then there were ostensible suicides
which were murders, and ostensible
murders which were suicides. There
were also deaths by extraordinary or
unusual accident that in some instances
'ool;ed ~" murder and in other cases
like suicide.
Naturally the bulk of the stories were
written by Americans. There were
many. however, in which the scene was
laid in foreign countries, one, two, and
three hundred years ago.
There were several civil war and
revolutionary detective stories relating
to spies and stolen or intercepted dis
patches. Most of these were weak.
The superiority of the professional
writer over the amateur hand was i'm
madiately apparent to the reader Even
the poor stories by those accustomed
to write We're more easily read than
those of the on-professionals, who
took up so many pages in coming to
the point and getting their thoughts
under way.
The humorous and curious features
were numerous. One writer went to
the trouble and expense of having his
story set up in type. The scene was
laid in France, but in his endeavor to
give it n French atmosphere he had
only succeeded in investing it with a
Brooklyn tone, and his mistakes, even
in the simplest French phrases and eX-
DraSsiOnS were lu1icrOus
Still another was comic in its abusrd-
ity. 1t must have been written by one
of Lord Byron's bread and butter
misses at a boarding school in Bos-
ton, for the scene was laid in that
city. The humor of it lay in the ex-
traordinary ideas of the writer as to
the manner in which the business of
a large firm is carried on. and her curl
Gus ideas of legal procedure.
=. L. VALENTINE. .
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES

Central Railroad of New Jersey.
(Lehigh and ..usquehanna DivislonJ
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insur.
Ing cleanliness and comfort.
lhE TA5LE IN EFFECT JUNE2, 1895,
Trains leave Scranton for Pittston.
Wiikes-Barre. etc., at $50. 9.l6, u.3o a.m.s
l.23, ZOO 800, 900 1.lv y. m. sundays, yvS
n. M. 100, 2.15. 7.10 p. m.
For Atlantic City, $50 am.
For New York. Newark and Elizabeth.
S2o texpress) a. m. l.23 express v! !th Hui.
fet parlor carl. sos (exprsss) pm, Sun.
day, 2.l5 p. m. Train leaving 123 %, m.
arrives at Philadelphia, Reading Term.
inal. G.2 p. IN. and New York 6.46 D. m.
For Mauch Chunk. Allentown, Bethie.
hem. Easton and Philadelphia, $40 am.
l:3 3.O5, go Except Phiiadelphia) .. m,
For Long Branch. Ocean Grove. etc.. at
$40 n. M, ]. % y. m.
For Reading. Lebanon and Harrisbure.
via Allentown. $40 a. m. l.23, 500 p. m.
Sunday, 2.16 pm.
For Pottsvilie. 500 q. M. L23 p. IT.
Returning, leave New York, foot of Lib.
erty street, North river, at $40 (express)
am, Ll0. 1.30, 80 (express with buffet
parlOr carr pm. Sunday, 4.30 a. M
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal.
900 am. 200 and $50 pm. Sunday s.Y
am.
Through tickets to all points at lowest
rates may be had on application In ad.
vance to the ticket agent at the station.
H. p. BALDWIN,
Gen. Pass. Agent
J. H. OLHAUSEN. Gen. Supt.
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copyright 1925 by Irving Bac cller,l

hand that pointed straight to my cham
Der door, And all the house about me
and the dense air were filed with the
sound of grcaning ana little sharp
sErieks of ultimate agony, as of one
that wished to die but could not.
Whereat. for very agony, I tainted
away.
When | car1e to myself I lay along
the wall by the door, Vigorously cold
and as 1t had been stark frozen by rea-
s5n of the bitterness of the night. The
houce WIS silent within. and the latch
hole dark. But GbHut the house and
abor;. there vert the same whispering
al crying cf fan1s. r,sirT and fall
irg-.ow sharp ard quarrels ome, now
more laigh and fearsome. till in little
time the crying came 2gain worse than
ever below my chamber window. So,
borJrn ' dai,d to lllk ous. not know
ing hut whTt l migl: sae the devil ana
all his angels at carnival l n,lde shift
to commend mn fer preserva tion and
pro-C'tlon to the majesty of God.
At las, ! manned courage to so to
the window. end, looking out. l saw
upon the thin sprinEl,ing Of snow that
had fallen in tn, night. the veritablc
resemblance of evil spirits, dragging
away that which seem to be n heavy
burd2 and oncn more, even as l
lco%ed fo:th. there came the terrible
cry y'n% voice that awakened me. as high
as befHra so that again l fell down
as 8 dead man.
NeNertheless though l own that IN
thihgs Which are 80 counted Ga the hesh'
am iar from pelng brave man. ye'
row. from very oesperSNlon' ana pe-
cause reared that the eNll spirits
Woulo come anu take me away III IKE
manner Wnen they nad disposed OF their
nrc ent purceh' l gar courage 10 rise
ana ana 40 my pfeeches upon me. Ihen
went OUT ana followeu on TO see WHAT
the splrf's might cohtriNe' but because
py thelr masters a''s tHey were III
visible, saw no more OF then tiil hao
RIVER side.
1t is an Ill place thus to adventure
into under silence OF night, for the trees
grow close together, so that l knocked
and brui ed myself as | went. But to
my great JOY | came. by-the-way, to a
little burn with water still running in 1t
In spite of the frost. SO this l crossed,
and when once / stood on the other side
| thanked God, knowing that no evil
spirit could now overpass to me.
Then, whether it was that by my
crossing of the running water the spells
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.Frightful Catastrophe Threatened.

From the Chicago es-Herald.
What with the advent of the new woman
and threatened rise of % per cent. in the
price of chamber suits, a period of I'M
precedented dullness in the honeymoon
business is prophesied.
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IONS (as in my fantasy though them)
sd there, as 1t had been, watching
leir strHnge ship and its cargo depart
" anC.he country. Then / heard
lsm clamt'-r, crying and quacreling as
fore, up the hlnk out of my sight.
How I ever got beck to my chamber
know not, but certain it Is that when
re serving woman came the next
.ocning 70 light my fire she found me,
Ji.h bleeding fee. and scanty gar
rents, lying in the midst of the floor,
$ orc that had been overtaken un-
,enly, ard the bed-coverlets all
nrown hither and thither, even as I
I'D cast them abroad when l leapad
ON my bed.
BY which l am encouraged to think
hat the fury of the fiend had been
norcifully restrained in my case, and
hat Providence had more interest in
ne, in spite of my shortcomings, than
n my modesty / had believed.
ITO Be Continued
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MISS MARY E. WILKINS wins
The $1,000 Prize In the Detective
Story Competition Goes to Her.
PROF. B. MATTHEWS SECOND
How tho Largest Sum Of Money Ever
Offered for $4,000 Word
Story Was Competed for
and Awarded.

Copyright, 1885, by Bachelor. johnson &
Bachellerl
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good short story. indeed. Two thousand
dollars is the largest sum ever won in
short story competition, and the kind of
tale that could secure such prize is a
matter of the utmost literary impor-
tance as guide to the producer of
salable fiction. 1t was detective story.
Probably the great popularity. of the
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and
similar tales first revealed the possibil-
ties of detective fiction. At any rate,
such stories and their immense successes
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CHAPTER ITI.-THE NIGHT OF
DREAD,


DREAD.
Sir James and l took supper that Sat-
urday night in his own dining-h2ll
where we found n fire on and the tlo!e
set. For it had been the first OF ms
concern when we came to the house OF
James Mari to send a messenger to the
mansion house to warn them of our ar
rival.
But this very anxious care of his
brought trouble upon him. For so
soon as we entered the hall, heard
shrill voice call to Sir James from an
upper room. He went within, leaving
one Spofforth, his servitor. to take me
to the supper chamber. Then l heard
the sharp tongue which | took to be
that of the Lady Standsfield beratc sir
James because that he had not come
straight to his own home, but had
gone to a changehouse with guest,
What Sir James said in reply | could
not hear Nor indeed, did | hold II TO
be my duty to listen over carefully tof
the excuse which a man makes to MS
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ROOF TANNING AND SOLDERING

All done away with by the use of HART.
MANS PATENT PAINT, which consists
OF ingredients well-known to all. 1t can be
roofs. also to brick dwellings, which will
prevent absolutely any crumbling crack
ing or breaking of the brick. 1t will out
last timing Of any kind by many years,
and It's cost does not exceed one-ffth that
Of the cost of timing. Is sold by the Job
or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HARTMANN, 67 Birch 81.
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.

Trains leave Scranton for New York
and intermediate points on the Erie rail.
Honesdaie, Hawley and local points at
I 90, $40 a. m. and S.24 p. m.
All the above are through trains to and
from Honesdale.
Train for Lake Ariel $40 p. m.
Trains leave for Wilkes-Barre at $50 Q.
m. and 3.45 p. m.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-03

For those many women who have suf-
fered through the indoor life of winter
and spring, with tired nerves, sleepless
ness, neuralgia, rheumatism. the dys-
pepsia that Is best expressed by the
words "no sppetite"-for the many
WORKOUT women, many of whom will
get no real vacation, but must attend
the whole summer long to household
duties-for such women there Is every
need now Of 8 brisker feeding of the
reduced blood and nervous tissues by
means OF the best nutritive agent in
the wide world to-day-Paine's celery
compound.
After builiing up the body by the use
OF thia great modern restorative, dis
eases OF the special organs, heart trou-
bles, kidney disease, dyspepsia and
sleeplessness will disappear.
Neglect to satisfy the demands OF the
nervous system by rapid, complete nour-
tshment of all its parts, carries heavy
penalties. Paine's celery compound,
more effectively than anything else the
world has yet known, restores health to
men and women whose blood has been
robbed OF vitality from whatever cause,
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Rules to Follow.

Prodigious as arc tho. manuals of eti-
quette issued In these days, nobody with a
kind heart, n desire to please, and the
Inercst rudiments of knowledge of the SIM
pier social responsibilities need worry
about their manners. Tho self respect
that good conscience and self reliance
give will keep you from pushing and in
truding AS for "rules of conduct" pooh
You need hardly bother about any that
your own sense docs not suggest. Arbi-
trary rules of etiquette such as concern
tho proper way to shake hands, tho mum
Der of cards to be left at reception, the
way to turn out your toes, and the special
greeting that is the current fad-all these
rules arc liable to change from season to
season, vary in different localities and
mean very little anyhow A handshako
that is tho result of cordial intent can
never be rudo nor i'll done Bad temper
is always i'll bred. Conduct of any kind
that puts others to distress is always "bad
manners, disrespect to age or to dignity
that Office or high achievement confers is
always hopeless rudeness, and your own
heart will tell you that-New York Ad-
vertiser.
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SALEM NEWS
Special Correspondence to Tho Times, r
a Lovelook. Reporter.


At the,regular August meeting OF the
council Of the town of Salem, all the
members being present. the following
business was transacted:
Henry Forsythe applied to be exempt
from payments of sewer tax, which was
referred to sewer committee.
James Bowles was allowed the sum Of
six dollars in payment Of damages aris-
ing from the town having dug through
his garden.
The application of W. h. Tinsley for
rebate on water tax was referred to
water committee.
The mayor reported $3.50 collected
in fines since LAST meeting. also that he
had received the oath of Office Of W. g.
B. Fitzgerald, commissioners of revenue
for town of Salem.
The electric light committee reported
that they had discharged two employees,
and that hereafter the lights would be
turned of at midnight.
The sewer committee reported that
sewer district No. WAS practically
finished.
The public property committee re-
ported having insured the fire company
house apparatus for S1,S00. They also
introduced four sets of plans and speci-
fcations for the proposed Improvement
and enlargement OF she town hall, which
were explained by N. Hickman, who
had prepared them.
The committee were requested to
show these plans to the trustees of Roa-
noke College and ascertain in writing
what proportion of the expense the col
lege would bear.
The city engineer was requested to
furnish copy Of sewer district No. 1
to the secretary.
The city engineer submitted profile
OF grade on Main street from College
avenue to 800 feet west of Dry Branch,
showing four-foot cut at billiards. Hill.
Two motions were made to adopt the
above, the difference in each being the
depth OF the cut at billiards. Hill. Both
motions were lost, however.
A letter WAS received yesterday at
Hotel Duval addressed, "For the pref
test girl at the Lucerne House, Salem"
Half dozen guests claimed II.
George w. Carr, of Roanoke, created
q sensation here Thursday evening by
distributing freely bottles of Portner's
beer, from the handsome new wagon in
which he delivers beer.
Capt. j. Q. LsnRhorne 10 visiting in
Floyd, Mrs. Langhorne Is in Lynohburg,
their daughter is at Seven-mlle Ford
and Lewis Is at the Roanoke Red.
Judge Joseph w. Martin, OF Little
Rock, Ark, who has been ct the Roa-
noke Red. was at Hotel Duvsl yester-
day.
DR.. j. B. Taylor writes from Orlean,
Fsuquier county, where he is conduct
Ing protracted meeting: I'VE are
having immense crowds and great in
terest. The church is greatly revived
and there have been many professions
OF religion. A number have been re-
ceived for baptism, which takes place
Friday" The doctor will leave Orlean
Friday afternoon for Mount Salem, in
Rappshsnnock county, where he has
been engaged to conducs similar
meeting
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and whose nerves have lost their
healthy tone: Persons suffering from
rheumatism, neuralgia and any of the
countless results of loss of nerve power
find marked change for tho bette
almost at once upon faithfully using
PAine's celery compound.
Mrs. James Arthur, whose portrait ia
given above, writing from her home in
Spokane, Wash, says:
" suffered for three years with neu-
ralgia and rheumatism. tried differ
emit remedies which would give me only
temporary relief. Last year in January
and through the spring months 1 suf-
fered terribly. could walk only a short
distance, and some days not at all. But
then 1 began for the first time to use
Paine's celery compound. 1t cured me
permanently. and 1 have not been
troubled aince My knees were so bad
last year that could not sit down or get
up alone. Now ! walk every day, and
1t causes no stiffness or lameness in the
joints"
Testimonials from men and women In
every State and county and town in the
country might be published telling OF
similar speedy cures. They carry this
plain advice to other sufferers:
Take Paine's celery compound.
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ARIZONA INDIANS.
Names of the Various Tribes and the Hab-
itat of Each.

itat of Each.
: An Arizona correspondent of tho San
Diego Union gives tho following defni-
lions of tho names of various Indian tribes
in that wild and woolly territory and the
habitat of each:
Apache means man-Adam; of the
Apachcs there are the Tontos (fools), CHR
icahuo (mountains), tho Mojaves (half
brc9ds), the Coyoteros {coyotes), tho Mes
calcros (mcscal eaters). Tho Pimas arc
on the ella river; the Maricopas arc afllli-
atcdl with tho Pimas; Papagocs are bap-
tized Pimas; Yumas orc on tho lower Col
orado river; Mojnves are on tho upper Col
orado river; A1oquis inhabit tho Indian
city called by the Spaniards tho City of the
Buffalo and described by the poet Southcy
as descendants of the colony of AIadoc,
prince of Wales, who sailed west In tho
twelfth century with several ships and
never returned. These are by for tho most
interesting Indians in Arizona. They have
visited Salt Lake, u. T., and converscd
with Welsh Mormons, but the idiom is
much changed In all these centuries. There
was tradition that they had Welsh BIZ
Bile, but 1t has not been found
Tho Yayapais arc mountain Indians, In
tho northern part Of tho territory, IN w.
vapai county; tho Hualopais arc noun
tain tribe on tho Santa Maria; the Supais
arc remnant Of tho cliff dwellers, near
the canyons Of tho Colorado river; tho Co.
copas water Indians) arc on the Colorado
river In eastern San Diego county and
Mexico; tho Nayajoes (knifors) are in
the northern part Of Arizona and New
Mexico.
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Boston Signs

There Is no end to tho literature of
amusing signs, even in Boston, where cru
dition undoubtedly extends to tho COM
mercial classes. There is homemade
bakery" on certain street which contin-
ually excites the Listeners interest as to
what factory made bakery may be. But
this establishments is no funnier than the
"painless dental parlor'' on another street,
which makes us feel glad that tho par
Tor" suffers no pain, no matter what the
dentists patients may have to endure.
But perhaps the climax is capped by the
sign of tho Cambridge cobblcr, who an
nounccs, Tap your boots while you wait
for 80 cents
Some poor chaps could have large num-
bcrs of boots tapped while they wait for
the half dollars that never como.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY ~, 1895.
Weatbound Leave Roanoke Daily.
$3.50 o. m. Washington and Chattanooga
limtted) for Bristol and the South and
West. Stops ab principal stations west
Orleans and Memphis, dining car at
tRched.
S:05 Q. m. for Radford. Blueield and
PocahontaH e.
A;25 p. m. the Chicago Express for Rad
= ruSBueaeld, Pooahontas, Kenova,
Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis,
Kansas City. Columbus and Chicago.
Pullman Buffet Sleeper Roanoke
20 Columbus. Also for Pulaski,
Wytheville. Bristol, Knoxville, Chat
sanoogs and intermediate points.
Eorth and Eastbound, Leave Rosnohe
Daily.
lao p. N. for Petersburg, Richmond
and Norfolk.
lao p: M. for Washington, Hsgerstown,
Philadelphia and New York.
10:40 p. m. for Richmond and Norfolk.
Pullman sleeper Roanoke to Norfolk
and Lynchburg to Richmond.
sos p. N. Washington and Chstts~
nooga limited) for Washington,
Hagerstown, Philadelphia and New
York. Pullman sleepers TO Washing
ton, Philadelphia and New v,rk via
Shenandoah Junction and Bal .lmore
end Ohio railroad. Stops only st
principal stations
urban Dlvision-Leave Lynchburg
Union station daily 3;45 p. m. for
South Boston and Durham and inter.
mediate stations.
Winston Salem Divl5Ion--Leavo Roa-
noke (Union gtation) daily 2:1O p. M.
for Rocky Mount, Martinsville, Win
zton-Salem and intermediate stations
For all additional information apply
. ticker Office or TO w. B. BNVILL
fsneral Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va,
M. &. BRAGG,
Travelling Passenger Ager
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An Emcacious Remedy.

A gentleman went into chemists
shop and inquired:
do you keep good cure for corns?"
Yes, sir; here you have an excellent
preparation. One of my customers has
been using it for the last ii years with
very good results Ell Diluyio.
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Teaohers' Examinatious.

UNIFORM examinations for city GER
tihcates will be held in the high school
building as follows: For white teach.
ers-Tuesday, August and Wednes-
day, August z. For colored teachers
Thursday, Augusts, and Friday, August
8. Regular and substitute teachers
examined at same time. Session, a.
m. to 6p. m. B. RUsT.
City Superintendent OF Schools.
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Point Not Well Taken

Mrs NIcSwat-The reason I object to
your spending so much time at that
club of yours, Billiger, is that 1 am
sure it is nothing but resort for loaf
ers.
Mr.. McSwat-Great Scott, Maria I
WHAT'S any club ?-Chicago Tribune.
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Leave Terry building for salem-s6:4O a.
m, TOO a. m, $40 q. M, $40 a. M, 11:Q0 o. j;
1920 p m, LAG r m 500 p m 4:20 p. ~. $40 p.
Leave Salem for Roanoke-6:20 q. M, 740
M, 500 a. m, 1920 m, 1l:40 m. ,1OO p m -,
M, 500 p. m. and 1920 p m.
g. W. JAMESON,
49n President and General Manager.
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His Idea of Paradise.

II heah dem white men say dey ain' It
no heaven fer niggah?"
Don't you min 'em. Amt done
rent house in do middle of water
melon patch ?'-Atlanta Constitution.
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; :; 81; !; ENOCK BROS ; :; 81: !:
THE VALUE OF a DOLLAR

ours. Its purchasing power has been doubled, and in
some instances treb1ed. The goods going
fast, but the bargains still remain