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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
PURlTANlCAL LAWS.
How They Round Up Delinquent Debtor,
In Cultured Boston.

Just wait till l catch him in Bos.
ton. Then I'll make him como to the
CENTER" remarked an angry man the
other day while roasting theatrical
manager who owed him Il few hundred
dollars for services rendered. told him
that l supposed he would then clap the
debtor into tho Charles Street Jail.
That's just what 1 will do if l ever
catch him there, you bet" And then
the mad actor explained how easy it
was to get even with people OF that sort
i'll the Hub. No matter what tho debt.
nor where or how it was contracted, all
one has to do is to enter n complaint
and that settles it. If ono who owes is
averse to notoriety, he'll hardly take
the poor debtors oath, which releases
him for certain number Of years, but
does not wipe out his obligations, but
will linger i'll tho bastile until he can
interest his friends or realize on his col
lateral and settle.
l know several New Workers who
have run against creditors in tho bean
burg and have suffered. Some Joke
about their incarceration and the uues-
tons put tn them during the process of
administering the poor debtor S oath,
but most all agree that the Boston law
is Il puritanical provision that should
be materially amended. Bostonians who
are dodginS process servers are agitat-
ing change that will permit them to
pay. up on the installment plan instead
Of being forced to cash in tho full
amount or remain Il guest of the Charles
street hotel. If such Il law was on the
New York statute books and was ell
forced here-well, tho Tombs or some
other prison would be holding hundreds
who now look as if they owned tho town
instead of merely owing tho townspeoplc.
New York Letter i'll Pittsburg Dis
patch
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
One Spoon Enough.

4 Boston man travelling through the
south was obliged to stop over in a
small town where there was but one
hotel, at which the accommodations
wei hardly to be called elaborate When
the colored waiter brought his dinner,
tho Boston man found that he was to
have roast beef, stewed tomatoes, corn,
peas, potatoes and coffee, the vegetables
served in the usual stone china canoes.
Presently he said to the waiter, "Dick,
pass the spoons. The waiter rolled his
eyes in genuine amazement. "Spoons,
sab! What yo' want with the spoons3
There's yo' spoon ia yo' corn. ,t--San
Francisco Argonaut, ~ -
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
THE TELeGRAPHlc "THIRTY."
haw the Cipher. Which Is Now Universal
Had It's Origin.


l attended u funeral the other day
where there was lovely flower piece
with tho figures $50" in the center.
The deceased had been familiar all his
life with that signal, having been con-
nected with telegraph or newspaper
business for nearly 80 years, and yet 1
doubt if ever lie Or any one who con-
tributed to tho flower piece knew or
dreamed how 30 camo to mean any
thing, especially fms, or the end.
AS part i'll telegraph history I will
explain how this signal, which has
come to mean so much, had its origin.
Like great many other expressions, it
was started accidentally, as it were. In
the infancy of the telegraph business
dispatches were sent paid or collect,
many Of them abbreviated in telegraph
ing, and all newspaper dispatches were
not only abbreviated, but sent collect.
There were no news agencies then, rs
now, and papers had friends in all the
towns, who were authorized to send
chem dispatches to DO called for
Every beginner in the art of teleg-
raphy was given q book of abbreyia-
tions and signals, which he had to COM
NIT to memory and practice till ho be-
came expert i'll their use. Among those
signals that of 80 was found, and it
meant "coliect pay at the other end "
Whether news dispatch or common
business message, if not prepaid, the
signal 30 was attached. AS all press
dispatches were paid for where received,
they all had 80 at the end. So when
news agencies began their work the sig
nal was retained, for they were still
paid for where received.
This signal has como in these days to
be q universal fms to all press dis
patches, private, special and general,
and a secondary meaning, or perhaps,
better, legendary meaning attaches
itself as 'the end" and is proper and
beautiful expression of the fms of Il
telegraph operator or any other person.
1t we'll may be q signal to the spirit
ual dispatch of human soul to the
great center of rewards and as notice
TO estimate its value when received and
"collect pay at the other end st.
Louis Post-Dispatch
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
a TurfTian's Tale.

a New Jerseyman told mo Il good
story tho other day OH one of our fore
most turfmen, Il man whose name is
perhaps printed oftener than that of
any other connected with racing III
America. y good many years ago this
turfman, who was not then deep in the
racing business, arrived i'll Jersey City
with trainload Of mustangs from the
plains of Texas. He knew nothing of
the laws Of tho state nor of tho ordi-
nances Of the city. Ho knew that lie
wanted to sell his mustangs and thought
the best way to do it was to sell them
at auction. Being somewhat gifted in
speech, he determined that he would be
his own auctioneer. The sale started ont
we'll. Fair prices We're realized. Sud
denly 1T was interrupted by policemen,
who demanded Il view of our friend 3
license
"License:" he said amazed. "What
license? l haven't any license Of any
kind
"Well, you can't sell horses i'll this
city without a license. You'll have to
come along. No monkey business with
u.s."
VI course he went along. Jut he was
lucky enough to find ut court il friend "a
lawyer), who went bail for him in the
sum Of $50. Then tho lawyer said:
"a license costs $3.50. You are under
bonds. Go ahead and finish your sale,
collect your money and skip out Give
mo $50 to settle the forfeited bond, and
you are $500 ahead of the game. "
1t WAS done accordingly. Tho turf.
man and his friend met in the st. James
hotel lately and laughed over tho joke.
New York Press.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
N : 8 : w NorfoIkaWesteIa 4

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. 3, 1895.
WoBtbound Leave Roanoke Daily.
1850 8. m. (Washington and Chattanooga
Limtted) for Bri ,sol and the South and
West. Stops only at East Radiord and
Pulaski. Pullman sleepers to New
Orleans and Memphis, dining car a.
thched.
6:35 .. m. Tor Radford, BlueHeld and
Pocahonta1, Pulaski, Brist and all
Intern ediate stations.
ABS p. m. the Chicago Express for Rad
ford, Bluefeld, Pocahontas, Kenova,
Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Oolumbu and Chicago.
Pullman Buffet Sleeper Roanoke
10 Columbus. Also for Pulaski,
Wytheville, Bristol, Knoxville, Chat
sanooga and intermediate points.
North and Eastbound, Leave Roanoke
Daily.
11:40 q. m. for Petersburg, Richmond
and Norfolk
11:4o q; M. for Washington, Hsgerstown,
Philadelphia and New York.
1880 p m. for Richmond and Norfolk.
Pullman sleeper Roanoke to Norfolk
and Lynchburg to Richmond.
1045 p. m. Washington and Chattaa
nooga limited) for Washington.
Hagerstown, Philadelphia and New
York. Pullman sleeperS to Washing.
ton, Philadelphia and New vork VIA
Shenandoah Junction and Ba, .lmore
and Ohio railroad. Stops At FL ,llins,
Buchanan, Natural Bridge, Buena
Vista, Basic. Shenandoah, Luray and
Shenandoah Junction.
Durham Division-Leave Lynohtur
(Union station daily 200 :. II. Tor
South Boston and Durh .m and inter
mediate stations
WluBton-S.ie.u Dvi, ion-Lasve Roa-
noke tUni,n ',a'ion) daily 1850 O NJ.
and 1880 a. M daily, except Sunday
Campbell street station), or Rocky
Mount, Martinsville, Winston Salem
and intermediate stAtioDs.
For all additional information apply
ticket Office or TO W. B. BEVILL,
Geuorsl Passenger Agent, Roanoke. Va.
NJ. r. BRAGG,
TesvelinV Passenger Agent.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
CONTRASTS OF SEWING WOMEN.
Advantages of tho Factory Girl In tho
Country Over Her Sister In the City.


Advantages of tho Factory Girl In tho
Country Over Her Sister In the City.
You may see i'll any one of perhaps
hundred shops in this city colorless, sad
eyed, dinghy clad women bending over
sewing machines amid sQualid sur
roundings, with no outlook save through
window opening upon sordid street.
You may see i'll ut least II score of coun-
try villages so miles from any great
city crowd of neatly clad, happy look
ing girls and women busted with like
tasks, but amid clean and pleasant sur
roundings, with glimpscs of IL smiling
landscape through every window.
The New York women, released from
their toll, hasten home to gloomy teno-
ment lodgings and unwholesUno fare
The village girls troop from the factory
to modest but clean and pleasant homes,
where food is fresh and abundant The
New York sewing machine woman is
an insignificant unit in IL great com.
munity. She feels daily the pressure of
her fellows that are ready to take her
place and her earnings She hears from
embittered men and women talk of the
rights of labor and the greed of wealth
She knows that her earnings would not
keep somc Of her rich sisters in cut flow
ers. Whenever she stirs ont of her own
dingy quarter, it is to see ut every stc,,
evidence OF the luxury in which some
1.-Two and of the contrast between he-
lot and theirs
The village factory girl has hardly
heard that there is Il labor problem. Her
5000 or $3.50 Il year. earned ut the sewing
machine, clothes her we'll, procurcs for
her small luXurics and helps to keep the
family above want. She makes little
pleasure trips hithor and son when work
is slack and looks forward with conf
dence to marriage and home of hor
own, clean, sweet and comfortable She
never secs among her fellow townsfolk
one who has any essential comfort that
she lacks, and nine women out of ter
in the village have less to spend or
dress than she has. She never sees q
hungry or ragged person, unless it he
an occasional tramp. and she hardly
grasps the meaning Of what she now
and then hears about tho lives of the
poor in great cities.
Tho New York slave to the sewing
machine lives half an hour from the
heart of tho western world and may, if
she will, on any night see Broadway
and its throngs by electric light. The
village factory girl believes that she
would be happy to give up all her COM
forts for the others privilege of seeing
at will tho splendors of the great city.
The New York sewing woman would
not, if she could, change places with
the village factory girl. New York
Sun.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
Whero We Are Going.

l find the great thing i'll this world
IS not so much where we stand as in
what direction we arc moving. TO reach
the pert of heaven we must sail some
times with the wind and sometimes
against it, but we NEST sail and not
drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
His Money All In Stocks.

There's money III stocks" said tho
man who is young and enthusiastic.
Yes" replied his seasoned FREUD,
I'm sure there is. l have been pat
ting half my salary there for tho last
four years, and it's all there yet. -
Washington Star, -
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
THE ROANOKE TIMES TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1895
That Tired Feeling

Is common complaint, and 1t is q
dangerous symptom. 1t means that the
system is debilitated because of impure
blood, and in this condition it Is
especially liable to attacks of disease
Hoods Sarsaparilla Is the remedy for
this condition, and also for that weak
ness which prevails at the change Of
season, climate or life,
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05

If you wish to get the best quality of
coal and wood buy it from w. K. An
drews & Co., 219 Salem avenue. Listen
for the jingle Of the bells.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
Lessons In Garman

1 WILL give lessons in the German
Language. Am native of Germany and
practical teacher of the German
languages; also lessons in drawing and
painting. Terms moderate. A. L.
MOVER, 231 Fourth avenue N. w.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05

Hoods Pills act easily, yet promptl,
and efficiently, on the bowels and liver
25c.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05

lannon's R-itc: cures SICK jea,l.cna.
Neuralgia, Cramps. Cholera Morbua.
Diarrhoea. sc 2Sc for large hottie
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
Why General Butler Was Relieved.

Colonel Woodwork told some good
stories about General Butler He said
that Butler himself told him as late as
1884 that he never knew the real reason
why he was deprived of his military
command by General Grant. 1t was
only few years ago that Woodwork
got the facts from Grants brother-ln-
law, Major Dent. who was the staff
officer sent with the order for Buffers
relief He said that while no reason
was openly given at the time, Butler
was actually displaced because he was
not a graduate of West Point. This
would not appear on the face of 1T to be
"a sufficient cause, but Grant explained
it to Dent one day i'll the course OF "a
confidential interview.
1T, " said he, Il were to send But
Ter a specific order to do something with
his army, he might obey and he might
not. He was too able and original not
to reason himself into the belief that |
might have given different instructions
if knew all that he knew of the local
situation. He therefore almost always
had a plan of his own that he thought
was better than mine or anybody else's,
so that | could never tell just what he
would do or where he would be at a
given time OF course that was fatal to
any systematic campaign, and / had to
replace him with a West Pointer, whose
first lesson in war is the necessity of
prompt obedience 10 the commanding
general. Butler was too brilliant TO be
reliable. Boston Advertiser,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
SUFFERED FROM HIS THREAT.
When He Wanted Candy and Peanuts
They Were Not to He Had.

! When He Wanted Candy and Peanuts,
They Were Not to He Had.
Just as Mr.. Suffer was starting for
/ the railroad station with his wife and
/ children to take very long journey,
Mrs. Stuffer exclaimed:
"See here, John We can never go
away without some fresh broken can
dies. No one ever went on a railroad
journey who didn't have "a lot along"
and l, D." put in Miss Della Suffer,
aged T, Insist on some peanuts and
cough drops.
That all right, said Suffer. 1--WE
can buy all those things on the train.
There are about ten men who spend
their time marching through the cars
selling fresh broken candies and cough
drops. Whatever else happens to the
traveller, he's never allowed to run short
of those commodities. y
But when they boarded the train the
army of peanut vendors, cough drop
dealers and fresh broken candy mer-
chants was nowhere to be SEEN Ordi-
narily the traveller was pelted with
these goods until he had to buy and eat
some i'll self defense. On this occasion,
however, not "a single peddler was in
sight.
Outrageous. said Suffer to the
conductor. ''Do you mean TO say that
the company has ceased to provide its
patrons with fresh broken candies and
recently roasted peanuts? What has be-
come of the fellows who chucked apples
and oranges on your lap and funny
magazines and things? Is this concern
run by railroad men or WHAT
Mr. Stuf1or, " replied the conductor,
1.-The last time you travelled on this road
you kicked because the traiEboy biffed
you in the eye with an apple which he
wished to dispose Of and made your nose
bleed with packet of cough drops
which he SHE'D at you with little too
much force You said you'd sue the
company for damages for assault and
battery. The company got scared at
your threats and had the boys taken
off. "
The traveller burst ont into torrent
of invective, Blame the bloated cor
porationsl" he yelled. That's the sort
Of ballad and waltz that we shall get
from them until the day comes when
the government will be in complete con
troll of all the transportation interests.
Then he went back to Mrs. Suffer
in the rear of the car and began some
heated remarks about millennium or
something which it was understood he
had sighted on the starboard offing. -
New York Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
CHAMPIONSHIP.

In all the out door sports of the season
the weather is playing champion to knock
out and close up games. A change will
come, of course, and with hot weather will
CO M the fiercer struggle to make up for
lost time. All this means greater amount
of wear and tear to the body, to It's muscles
nerves and bones. What the damage in
all will b. from sprains, bruises, wounds,
hurts, intlammations, COMMISSIONS and the
like, no one can tell but there is u cham
pIonship 10 lie won, important to all, TO
which few give sufficient consideration,
and that is the triumph over all these
pains and mishaps in the surest, prompt
est way. st. Jacobs Oil is the champion
remedy for ali such ailments it does not
disappoint and never postpones a cure tor
any cause whatever.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
A OlnNER IN KOREA.
II Is Ceremonial That Extends Through
tho Entire Day.

II Is a Ceremonial That Extends Through
tho Entire Day.
Korea, the country which caused all
the trouble between China and Japan.
has many queer social customs, SAID
J. A. Morrill,. land remember going
Co banquet given by member OF the
foreign office there, which, in many re-
spects, was quite unique. The guests
arrived long before the dinner hour, for
Ia Korea an affair of this kind lasts all
day, and were ushered into pavilion
adjacent to the one i'll which the dinner
was to be served After several half
hours had been whiled away i'll smoking
and in conversation the dinner was at
last announced, and we were summoned
into the other hall.
las soon as we had entered the Off
oials began to divest themselves of some
of their clothing, for parts of natives
wearing apparel seriously incommode
him in taking food. We took our places
at large rectangular table, which was
heaped with food of all kinds i'll bra2en
dishes of hemispherical shape For the
first course we had soup and sui, which
is a kind of wine, and for the second tho
walters handed around some of the 9th
er dishes which stood Oh the table
These contained meats of various kinds
beef, pork and fried fish cut in thin
yellow slices. At this juncture there en-
tered several Korean singing girls, clad
Ill the gaudiest costumes, and whose
business it was to make themselves gen
orally agreeable when at a banquet, for
they constitute all the female society
that there is in that country. Their sing
ing was not what an American would
call good, nor was their dancing, but
their conversation and presence certain
" added Zest to the occasion.
Long as it is, Korean banquet
eventually comes to an end, and this
one closed with decoction of pear juice
oolored crimson and spiced with pine
nuts. This we slipped at our leisure,
while the attendants lighted pipes for
us. After watching the performances of
the singing girls we summoned our
chairs and were carried TO our various
home, at least feeling much wiser by
having participated i'll one of the queer
customs of queer people. st. Louis
Globe Democrat
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
A GREAT SLAYER.

As competition increases it becomes harder
and harder for the business man to succeed,
aud in rec gnition of this fact, the public is
often informed Il at this or that thing has come
to stay" A strong purpose is good, but doing
the thing is even better. One of the gre Attest
stayers we know of is Pain-Killer, the advertise
ments of which we are printing elsewhere.
This famous old family remedy has stayed in
the homes of the country So years. and is today
more popular than ever. This one fact proves
its value, and makes argument unnece, sary.
1t only remains for the proprietors (as they are
now doiug) to remind each coming generation
that for over half a century Pain-Killer has
been recognized AS the handiest, surest aud
cheapesl cure for the common ills of humanity,
all that bottle on their shelf will sooner or
later save them trouble and suffering and
money.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-15
A DISLIKE OF DUKES.
A Handicap Which the Highest of Eng
Iish Peers Have to Carry.


We may note a popularity in the
English feeling about titles OF which
we have never seen "a reasonable expla-
nation The political populace dislikes
the title of duke. Some of the ablest
peers in politics have been dukes, but
to be duke weights instead of tighten
ing "a man in the great race for power.
There is a widely diffused impression,
the origin of which we cannot trace,
that a duke is sure to be little stupid,
that a brilliant duke is, i'll fact an i'm
possibility. The title is positive draw
back to the Duke Of Devonshire, and q
Duke of Derby would never have been
described as Rupert of debate. y
The Duke of Argyll, who is an intel
lectual athlete, would have been far
more completely recognized as Earl OF
Argyll, and we ara not sure that the
dukedom has not impeded one or two
promising politicians in the house OF
lords. Certainly a duke rarely rises
there unless he has become known to
the country before the title crushed him.
Is it that the rank overpowers the pop
ular imagination till men cease TO see
the persona thing which constantly
happens in the case of kings-or is 1t
that men can never forget the special
rank by merging it in the simpler and
more familiar title of 'lord?'
No peer except duke is invariably
mentioned by the title which marks his
grade We have not an idea of the true
explanation, but we know that pollt-
ioal earl who accepted dukedom would
lose heavily in popular estimation, and
that even a marquis like Lord Sails
bury, who would alter his rank so lit
tie, would find that the coronet OF
strawberry leaves acted, TO certain
extent, as an extinguisher, while II his
son never entered the house of commons
he would have to struggle against some
inexplicable weight The fact is one OF
the very oldest i'll the whole of the odd
history of the influence of rank, but or
its reality we entertain no doubt what
ever. To say THAT is ducal opinion
is to say it is an opinion that no one III
our days need consider London Spec
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