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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16
STORM ON rHE COAST.
a Large Building at Atlantic City
Wrecked by the Wind

r'chcu by tlc w ma.
Atlantic City, n. j., Dec. 15.-A heavy
wind and rain storm is raging along the
coast ut this point. To-day the large
Casino building where the Ellls disaster
happened two years age, collapsed with a
crash, carrying with it an untenanted
cottage next door. No one was i'm the
building. Both buildings were owned by
Coroner William Mclaughlin. The storm
had reached such II height tonight that
local observer Brand received instructions
from Washington to warn mariners not
TO leave port, as there is u storm of hur.
ricane force on the way. Special nstruc-
tons were also issued to the crews of the
life saving stations all along the coast
THE SEA RUNNING HIGH.
Cape May, \. j., Dec. ia severe
northeast storm is prevailing along the
coast and hurricane signals have been
hosted warning vessels of the danger of
going to sea. y driving rain has been
falling and the sea- Is running unusually
high.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

Mandolins, guitars, sheet music, etc.
Special attention TO the 10 cent line. ].
Il. ROGERS.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

For buggy, surry and wagon harness,
brides, blankets, etc go to farmers
Supply Company
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

Reduccd prices for December at Hob
bic Piano Co.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

PRICES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ES-
PECIALLY EASY.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

Some dealers sell combination of coal
and slack. We sell them separ; lely.
Farmers Supply Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

The United States Government reports
show Royal Baking Powder superior to
all others.
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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

w. X. ANDREWS & CO., 2l9 SALEM
AVENUE,
haze the largest and most convenient coal
and wood yard in the city They have
more shed room than any other dealers in
the city. They have polite drivers They
screen their coal and deliver IL promptly.
Look out for the belled teams.
BARGAIN.
Slightly used Stieif piano, walnut case
at j. Il. ROGERS.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16

Phone 900 u. C. eaRaEe, He Puts Up Prescriptions.
The advocate., 1896-05-20

animals, and perhaps loses enough to
buy 20 hog leaders.
AS to how wide to make the chute,
mine Is about two feet, with plank on
one side, so as to close the balance Of
end of wagon bed, to keep small pigs
from getting out. The end at the wagon
should be just as high as the bottom of
the wagon bed.
The cut represents one of the most
convenient and labor-saying imple-
ments l ever used. This is an invention
of my own, and | never saw one just
like it. One man or boy can load from
little pigs up to 500 or 6OO-pOund hogs
and never lift a pound or dig wheel
pit or take off hind wheel. 1 have
used this device for years, and my neigh
bors come and borrow it, and all praise
its merits. Any greenhOrn in one or two
hours can make one. For the upright
posts l use scantling two by four inches,
and for the sides scantling one by four
inches. The cut shows it so plain it
needs no detail. took two six-inch
pulleys, put one on the outside of each
front post at the foot, simply passing
One-half-inch bolt through the foot Of
the post and pulley. then take hold
just like a wheelbarrow and move It
where please. For the incline floor 7
use one by ten scantling, placing top
one on first; then it forms foothold.-
E. j. Newkirk, in Farm and Fireside.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
The Curse OF the Profession.

There are lawyers who not only So
llcit business, but they make 1t. They
hunt up dead clslms-they fnd out
technical errors committed by honest
people-they pick holes in mems title
papers, and upon such pretexts en-.
courage parties to sue. Such men are
the curse of the professiOn-the pests
of society Benjamin Harris Brews.
ter, Attorney General of the United
States.
From various causes there have
crept into the legal profession q too
large proportion of disreputsble men,
some Of whom are disreputsble by
reason of their ignorance Of the tech.
nicsl learning of the profession, others
on account Of their lack of good breed
ing and good msnners-they are not
gentlemen, No lawyer has a right to
be other than a gentleman always.
Such men are often fairly intelligent
and honest, but they are coarse and re-
pulsiVe; others still are disreputsble- -
q long dark roll of them-becsuse they
cheat and lie and say and do mean
things. They lack in character, in
courage, in manliness. They would be
thieves were they not lawyers; they
would be asssssins were they neither
thieves nor lawyers. They are the hy-
enss of the legal profesSion-the buz-
yards of the bar who delight In conflict
only that there may be more csrrion.
They lie to the court, they lie to their
clients, they lie to each other. They
are the men who have made lawyer
and liar so indistinguishable to many
ears. They are the men who, caring
nothing for personal reputation them
selves, have so shsmeleSSly, cruelty
compromised the reputation for integ-
ritY Of splendid and honorable pro-
fession. n.-Southern Lam Reoie1O.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
DRAFT-HoRsE BREEDING.
A Revival Which Means Prosperity
Throughout the West.

Throughout the West.
The revival of draft-horse breeding
in the horse breeding states, after this
unprecedented decline in breeding for
three years, is simply the law of supply
and demand. The revival of business
and commercial industries calls for
more big draft horses, while the sup
ply of good horses is far short of the
demand, and must be until we can pro-
duce a new supply and mature them
for the markets. Prices meanwhile
must advance and the weights increase
to 1900 and 1000 pounds, while in 1892 a
1,000-pound horse was a good draft
horse. Farmers have about concluded
that they will stick to the farm, and il
they farm draft horses are the most
substantial, reliable and profitable
branch Of stock breeding.
The revival of draft and coach
horse breeding throughout the west
ern states means greater prosperity.
Already these horses top the markets,
and the many foreign buyers are eager
ly looking for the best of them, while
our own city markets complain of the
short supply, just when they want more
of them and little larger and better
than ever before.-Live Stock Journal.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
Road Horses Are Profitable.

Plenty of people are making money
out of the horse business to-day, but
the majority of those who are securing
a fair proportion of the coin Of the
realm are breeders who pay particular
attention to breeding and developing
trotting horses into handsome park
and road horses, for which animals
there is demand at present which
cannot be supplied. Too many of the
breeders expect to breed in every in
stance sensational race horses, and pay
too little attention to the carriage
horse or the one for which there is q
never-failing demand.-Colman's Ru-
raj World.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
Kansas Lump ROCK salt EOr stock.

Healthiest and most convenient way Of
sailing 1t Is not generally known that the
use Of common loose salt for cattle, sheep
and hogs is injurious to them, but such,
however, Is the fact. Their nature re-
quires only so much salt as viii be ab.
sorbed by the saliva By the ordinary
method Of sailing more or less Of the loose
salt is carried undissolved into the stom.
ach, causing irritation to the membranes
and coating, while In using lump salt your
cattle have free access to salt all the time
and only get what they need. One hun
dred pounds is guaranteed to go as far IS
a barrel of common fine salt. Try It. Best
and cheapest way to salt cattle.
The advocate., 1896-05-20

the difference between a people ac-
customed to eat mutton and one that
is not. The greatest reason for the
English being greater mutton eaters
than ourselves is that we do not have
the quality in the mutton on our tables.
The English have good mutton, and
what they buy from us is the very best,
We eat the scrub meat. The remedy
lies in breeding mutton sheep that will
give the quality desired.-Farmers' Re-
view,
The advocate., 1896-05-20
Republican Convention at st. Louis, ViE
Burlington Route.


For the National Republican convention,
at st. Louis, June Is, excursion tickets will
be sold at very low rates over the "Bur-
lington Route"
This will be the greatest political gath
ering since the war. Preparations are
being made for entertaining on grand
scale; scores Of marching clubs In uniform
will take part in the psrades; all the prom
inent Republicans Of the country will be
present.
Write to Maj. G. G. Rsinwster, 30
Washington Ave-, Chairman Of Hotel and
Boarding House committee, In regard to
your accommodations.
Consult your Ticket Agent in regard to
time and rates.
L. w. WAKELEY, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
St. Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
Six Weeks without a Drink.

An incident that shows the wonderful
power sheep possess of living for Il
long time without water is reported
from Invernesshire. About seven weeks
ago three sheep were missed from the
farm of Balsparden, Andersier. Every
effort was made to find them, but with
out success. A few days ago, however,
a barley stack was taken down and the
missing animals were discovered inn
prisoned in the wooden framework in
the center. They had subsisted for
more than six weeks on barley alone.
One has since died
The advocate., 1896-05-20

officials Of the road to reduce his force
during the month Of April for the pur-
pose Of cutting expenses for the stated
time. In response, he asked that he
himself be permitted to lay off for thirty
days without pay, and that his employees
be allowed to continue at work. Thisre-
quest was granted, and Mr., Adams
superintended in general way the work
Of his department for thirty days
without remuneration. - Burlington
Courier.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
A Look Through South Missouri for 4 Cents.

A Look Through South Missouri for Cents,
The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
Railroad Company has just issued mag
niRcent book Of sixty or more photo
engraved views Of varied scenery In south
Missouri. From these views an accurate
knowledge can be obtained as TO the pro-
ductlons and general topography Of that
highly-favored section that is now attract
ing the attention Of home-seekerS and In
veStors the country over.
The title Of the book Is 'Snap Shots In
South Missouri" 1t win be mailed upon
receipt Of postage, 4 cents. Address
]. E. LOCKWOOD, Kansas City, Mo.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
Sheep Here and in England.

England has more sheep than people.
The United States now has about one
sheep for every two people. The
United States is exporting mutton and
EnRland 10 importing It. That gbnwa
The advocate., 1896-05-20
A COnsIderate Railway Official.

A railroad official has been found
whose conduct is worthy Of the millen-
nial age. He is Edwin Adams, general
freight agent Of the M. X. & T. railway,
at Parsons, Kas. Some time ago Mr..
Adams recsived an order from the head
The advocate., 1896-05-20

In addressing adveI tisers invariably
include every word and figure given in
the address, as this will greatly assist in
insuring prompt delivery Of your COM
munication to the appropriate depart
ment.
The advocate., 1896-05-20
CONVENIENT HOG CHUTE.
A Device That VIII Save Lots Of Labor
on q Stock Farm.

ON q Stock Farm.
I get my stock into close pen; then
at the door 1 pull up my chute, take
out end gate, back up the wagon, get a
good supply of switches, get in among
the hogs or sheep, throw some corn in
chute and wagon and drive the bed full.
If have enough to fill it put in end
gate, drive to market, stay an hour or
two and get home in time to see some
fellow who drives his hogs along the
road hauling water to cool the tired-out
The advocate., 1896-05-20

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

qualities may be averred with manifold
meaning of the new vessel.
The following appears in the report of
Commodore Rodgers of June g. 1866:
81 have the honor to announce the safe
arrival of the Vanderbilt and the Monad-
mock at the navy-yard, Mare Island. The
Monadnock found no weather on her
voyage from Philadelphia to San Fran
cisco which seemed to touch the limit of
her sea-going qualities. The engines have
performed as satisfactorily as the hull and
have arrived in complete order. The sue
cess of the voyage amply vindicated the
judgment of the department in undertak-
ing it, and the hopes of the most sanguine
of monitor people are fulfilled in this
crucial experiment"
Captain Bunce. in his report, said ::
During the passage of this ship from
Philadelphia to San Francisco the Monad-
mock has run by log 1885 knots. Her
average speed has been 6.32 knots. The
engines have been run about sixty revolu-
tons per minute, that being the point
judged to be the most economical in fuel
and in wear and tear of machinery. Not
a single piece of the spare machinery has
been used, and the engines are all now in
good working order. They nave been able
to perform all the work demanded of them.
''In her present condition she is as per-
fectly safe and trustworthy for cruising in
In any part of the world as vessel can be
relying on steam alone for its motive
power, and twice as safe as most steamers
for she has two independent pairs of steam
engines, either OF which is sufficient to
keep the ship under control IN any
weather, and to propel her in ordinary
conditions of wind and sea five knots an
hour. At sea she has never needed or re
ceived assistance OF any kind whatever
from other vessels, and therefore regard
her or any vessel of her class as a thor
oughly competent, Independent cruiser"
And such was the successful voyage of
the first turreted vessel from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast.
To-day in one of the machine-shops at
the Mare Island Navy-yard there is hung
up as momento of the original Monad-
mock catamaran that was kept when the
old vessel was torn TO pieces. The sailors
have quite a veneration for the old raft.
1t speaks to them of times that are. grow
ing dim to the memories of the OLD tars
who carry under their caps some history
of experience in the war that shook the
foundations of the Republic. 1t seems to
say to them: at am all that is left of the
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course, is not the first of her name, but the
successor of the Ironclad of that name.
which was the first vessel of her class to
make the passage from the Atlantic into
the Pacific.
Monitors were never designed for cruis-
ing purposes, but for harbor defense and
operations upon the coast of the United
States. Owing to the laundering of the
original Monitor off Cape Hatteras and
another of these vessels in the blockade off
Charleston, an impression prevailed that
they could not be sent with safety outside
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COAST DEFENSE MONITOR
a made y a ar&a

monitors complete. But the cause of the
delay was not local, and if the controversy
over the Venezuelan question had not as
sumed portentous aspect it is quite pos
sible that the new Monadnock would be
receiving its finishing touches toward the
tailend of the year, instead of being made
ready to 60 into commission during the
early part of March.
If the appearance of a war cloud on the
Nations usually clear and peaceful sky
shall result in the extension or material
strengthening of our coast defenses and
the speedy upbuIlding of our navy, 1t will
be a blessing that the ominous shadow
arose. Thus the safeguards of the future
win be in measure the offspring of the
grim warnings of to-day.
While not taking any exception to the
old proverb about the dangers of delay,
there is something interesting in the OBJ
servation that delays have been decidedly
beneficial to the Monadnock In fact de-
lays have invited improvement; delays
have given opportunities for more numer-
Gus inspections Of even the minutest de-
tails; delays have been the means of
bringing about action on new and valu-
able suggestions delays have permitted
more thorough tests to be made, impor-
tant changes to be introduced and desir-
able alterations to be effected. The not
able benefit is that the sleeping compart-
ments are better arranged and more COM
Portable (the ventilation being more
nearly perfect) than in any other naval
craft that afoats. Besides airshafts she
viii have six steam blowers and one cleo
trical blower.
When the Monadnock goes into com
mission and steams out to pay her COM
pliments 10 the great white squadron, the
men who walk her decks may proudly
boast that she is the neatest and COM
pletest vessel of her size and kind that
ever cleaved the water.
On Friday the last of her big guns was
placed in position in the after turret.
Inside OF month, if the weather permits,
she will be in readiness for her captain and
crew. She is now being painted and
polished and will shortly be furnished.
The Monadnock is, IN every way, a model
boat of the monitor type. She has two
barbette turrets and one military mast.
The drawings presented in THE CALL to-
day are the first to be published and afford
an excellent idea of the general dimen-
sions and appointments of the new boat.
The length of the Monadnock's water
line is 259 feet inches and her extreme
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was placed in her successor, the Monad-


mock of to-day.
Under command of Lieutenant-Com-
mander Francis M. Bunce, at present rear
admiral, the old Monadnock sailed from
Hampton Roads, Virginia. November ..
1865, in company with the Vanderbilt and
Powhattan, paddle-wheel steamers, and
the Tuscarora, a screw-ship. Arrived at
st. Thomas, in the West Indies, Novem-
Der H. her ability to go anywhere on the
sea was already established, and from that
port to her Western destination only the
Vanderbilt accompanied her. She stopped
at Rio Janeiro and was visited and adj
mired by Dom Pedro II, the emperor.
1.-THE passage through the Straits of
Magellan and Sarmiento Channel to the
Gulf of Penar." writes her commander,
presented no difficulties which were not
easily overcome. I feared, in passing
through the narrow places and abrupt
turnings, the length of the ship would
give trouble, but in practice found none
whatever"
On April 25, 1866, the Monadnock ar
rived at Callao. Peru, and on May Is at
Panama, and after one stop in Mexico. ar
rived in San Francisco on June 90
The reports of officers with reference to
the trip of the old Monadnock are valuable
as showing that vessels of this type are
capable of doing even cruiser service. It
must be noted, too, that the Monadnock' S
successor and namesake IS an incompar-
able improvement on the old craft in every
particular and, therefore, whatever was
said in commentator OF the old monitors
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IMPORTANCE OF BOAT DRILL.
Bad Results of Neg1ecting an Old Naval
Exercise.


The disaster to H. M. s. Acorn on the
southeast coast of America, following so
soon after the still more distressing acct
dent to the boat of the Edgar off the coast
of Korea, induces us to call attention to
the comparative absence of boat drills in
the navy nowadays. In barbors and road
steads steam launches and pinnaces do so
much of the work that it is seldom one
hears the boatswains calls, Away first
cutter, Away second cutter"
The captains gig is the one rowing or
sailing boat that is kept pretty frequently
going. So, after the young gentlemen"
leave the Britannia, they have little
enough opportunity of handling boats
under sail, and there is so much to be done
in mechanical work aboard that boat that
drill Tor the crews are, though not a thing
OF the past by any means, but far less
usual than 1t was ere steam superseded
sails. This is pity, for more reasons than
one.
The command of a boat was fine way
OF bringing out any smartness budding
officer had. AS Lord Charles Beresford
used to say, it accustoms the youngster to
command and to take responsibility, for
when his boat is once clear of the ship he
is as much her captain as the officer whose
pennant flies from the truck is his cap
tain. Then again boat exercise tends to
keep up in the crews that peculiar handi-
ness which used to give bluejackets their
unequaled versatility.
In floating batteries or factories such as
are most of our ships at the present day
there is little opportunity of becoming a
handy-man. Indeed, sailor man need
not know very much more than a m arine,
and the reason for keeping sailors and
marines as classes apart seems to be dim
inishing yearly. We hope the Admiralty,
spurred by the two sad accidents we have
referred to, will insist on more attention
being given to boat drill, especially under
sail.-London Chronicle.
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the harbors in which they were con-
structed. To dispel this false impress
sion the Secretary of the Navy de-
cided, among other things, to send the
Mcnadnock, via the Straits of Magellan, to
California.
The Monadnock, after navigating the
Atlantic and Pacific, reached this port in
safety, and was then placed in ordinary at
Mare Island, Her wooden hull decayed
and hardly ten years had passed from the
time she left the East when she was
stripped, and the best of her machinery
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The auxiliary guns consist of two g.
FOUNDER rim-f fires, two 3-pounder rim
fires, two 37-millimetre Hotchkiss re-
volving cannon and two Calling guns.
AS to the armor, the side plates of the
vessel vary from to inches, turrets ~
inches, barbettes 11K inches, and her pro-
tective deck has layer of III inches of
steel.
Her complement will consist of twen-
ty-six officers and las men.
The last closing plate of the side armor
was received in May. 1895, and about the
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ers. Her maximum draft aft at the lowest
point of the keel, when the ship is ready
for sea and her bunkers full, is IA feet ~
inches.
The batteries of the Monadnock are very
formidable. Complete, she has four of the
very latest and most approved 10-inch
guns. Each of these guns is % feet long
and each of them weighs % tons, a ton of
steel to every linear foot. Two of these
guns are placed in each of the revolving
turrets, and these guns can hurl missiles
of destruction nine miles.