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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
Special Bargains in
Real Estate.

S-room house Ga Campbell avenue large lot,
good location, q 200; small cash payment, balance
monthly.
8 room house, large corner lot, Sixth avenue e.
W., $50; $50 cash, Sl6 per month, nicely painted
and well pspered.
7-room house, good location In southwest, in
good condition, with sewer connection, stable on
lot, $1,000 $50 each, $l2 so per month, interest
on Eighth avenue e. near Holiday street, 81, 50o
$50 cash, Sl2.50 per month.
7-room house on Seventh avenue g. W., Si,oo0
centrally located and very desirable.
$500; SIS each and IS per month
PARK stre.t viii not he long on the maTkct
One OF the best residences on Church street, IS
rooms, large lot, best location. cost $500. 10
beautiful condition inside and out. Price $3.50;
$500 each, SIS per month; lie renting now at S25
per month. Also two other splendid bargains on
Church avenue.
One of the most desirable and best located bus
mess houses in the very best part OF the business
centre OF the city. One fourth of the price cash
now for IL per cent. of the price asked. There is
no better Investment in the city than this We
several 0sher fine
Groom house, large lot, nicely located in north
west, near Park street, in good condition, 81 ,2O
$50 cash and $40 per month. Come quick II you
want this.
& room house near West End round house, $500,
$50 each and $40 per mouth.
Elegant IS room house in the West End with
hard wood finish, cabinet mantele, every modern
Improvement and convenience, with speaking
house, horse and cow lot. good garden. plenty OF
fruit and good shade in thorough repair. cost
$500, price now s5a5O; small cash payment and
the balance In nine years.
Splendid business lot near the new public
building, 50 feet front. Price $2.500 on easy pay
ments. This lot will double in value in two
years
Good Groom house, Eighth avenue 8. w. mod
ern improvements stable on lot and shade, 81, lC0
easy payments.
Nicely papered room house on he best part OF
Seventh avenue n. e., Ss75; $50 cash and IS per
month,
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
Blue Blood.

The American physician" who
makes some amazing medical or scien-
tific discovery about once a week with
undertaking regularity, and has long
since become an established journalistic
institution, shows signs of tendency
TO abuse the hospitality SO lavishly ac-
corded him by the newspapers of two
continents. His story of having found
actual blue blood i'll his own veins, for
instance, which vyas cabled from Phila-
de!phia. is only fit to be told to the Ill
tGaLiarincs. If blue blood is ever found
anywhere, it will probably be elsewhere
than i'll the United States London
World.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
A GREAT SHOT.
But He Learned That Cold "Pisen" Had
Beat the Gun.

Beat the Gun.
1t was on California ranch in early
springtime. John, the cook, aged about
II years, had offered to Stay several
thousands of the myriads of blackbirds
which were swarming around the ranch
if Brown, the boss, would furnish pow
der and shot. The birds were so numer-
Gus that the wheat had to be covered as
soon rs possible after sowing. If this
was not done, tho ground would be
cleaned rs free of the seed i'll u very
short time as if it had never been seed
ed Under these conditions Brown was
nos slow i'll furnishing tho necessary
ammunition.
The next morning after the breakfast
dishes were cleared up John made his
appearance i'll the field, armed with the
old muzzle loading, double barreled
shotgun. After slowing away q liberal
amount of ammunition in the old gun
he took deliberate aim at place where
the blackbirds seemed to be most nu-
merous on the newly seeded ground
With tremendous report the old gun
belched forth its deadly charge When
John recovered from the recoil and the
smoke had cleared up, he was surprised
and delighted at the havoc he had
caused i'll the swarm of birds Perhaps
40 or 90 lay dead on the ground, and
others dropped every few yards us the
birds few toward q clump of trees about
$50 yards distant
Loading the barrel which had been
discharged, John proceeded toward the
trees, intent ON securing another shot,
h,,f I,ol l,.,. 4
to see the birds still dropping to the
ground. When within about 80 yards of
the trees, he stopped, undecided rs to
whether he had better fire again or not,
for it seemed as though he must have
wounded all Of the birds, so continuous
ly were they falling AS the birds did
not seem to be alarmed by his presence,
he concluded to count tho dead ones,
and find out how many he had killed
with one load. Cautiously making his
way under the trees, he commenced
counting, and the birds kept falling.
After counting about 200 dead birds,
and seeing that they were still falling,
he commenced to feel little suspi-
cious, and noticed that the birds were
acting in "a very unusual manner up in
the tree.
"Ha ha, har' yelled Brown, who
had been taking it all in at II short dis
tance, unseen by John. Laughing until
he could scarcely walk, Brown approach
ed, and John. who was sure something
was wrong, demanded an explanation
well" said Brown. Il had just sown
about peck Of poisoned wheat when
you came out, and the poison com
menced taking effect just after you
fired "
The boys all call him "Blackbird
John. FOREST and Stream
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
troublesome Creeks New Woman.

There lives ON Troublesome creek, In
Knott county, KY, Aunt Mary Crab
tree, who will be 81 years old the 10Th
day Of August Aunt Mary is now in
possession Of all her faculties, has cut q
new set of teeth, and can read without
glasses The most remarkable fact Of
all, however, is that her hair, which
was snowy white begun to turn dark
again IS months ago, and now is Of q
dark, glossy brown, just the color 1t
was when she was girl of 18.-Phila-
delphia Press
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
FARMS.

81 acres OF bottom land y miles from Hollins,
with 1880 brick house, at the edge OF beautiful
10 acre grove OF forest oaks Price $50 per acre
40 acres with 40 acres OF rich bottom land, good
dwelling, one OF the best truck farms In the
comfy. Price $40 per acre.
10 acre truck farm, 100 full bearing apple
i31 acres OF very rich fertile land $50 fruit
trees of every variety, well watered and fenced,
new - room brick dwelling that cost 5000,
large new barn 1890, ali necessary ont buildings
aud Improvements. Price $4,000; 2H miles from
Roanoke and one OF tn. most productive farms
IN the Valley OF Virginia.
100 acres near Hollins Institute, teven miles
from Roanoke city, forty acres of which is level,
the balance upland partly tim bered. good water
fairly good improvements, fiue peach and apple
orchard, land well adapted to truck farming, all
kinds fruit and grapes. Price 81 $50; very cheap.
Also great many other bargains in city and
country property, which we would be glad to
chow at any time.
II you want to buy or rent, sell or exchange,
come and see u.s.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

If you would write to any purpose,
you must be perfectly free from within.
Give yourself the natural rein; think
on no pattern, no patron, no paper, no
press, no public; think on nothing, but
follow your impulses. Give yourself as
you are-what you are and how you see
it Every man sees with his own eyes or
does not see at all. Emerson.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
dissatisfied.

Elsie OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. don't
like these toys
Mamma-Why. Elsie, you said just
now you were pleased with them
Elsie (pensively )-Sometimes I don't
even like what pleases mo Christian
Advocate
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

Disorder in drawing room is vulgar
In an antiquary's study, not The black
battle stain on soldiers face is not
vulgar. but the dirty face Of house
maid is. -Ruskin.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

Settler water derives its name from
the village of Lower Settlers, in Nassau,
where several springs. united in one
basin, yield 8. 600 cubic feet an hour of
this sparkling mineral water.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

While wild geese are ON the wing,
they are laxative and noisy, but when
they aight to feed, as they do generally
at night, they are 30 quiet that one may
pass within few yards Of 100 of them
and never notice their presence
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

Every great and original writer, in pro-
portion as he is great or original, must
nimself create the taste by which he is to
be rclished. Wordsworth
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

English laborers, taken the country
over, average about 3d. Sc a week, from
which they are expected to board and
clothe themselves and their families
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

Maine is called the Lumber State, or
Pine Tree State, from the character Of
Its leading industry, the name being
self explanatory.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
Fogg-Charioy, you were born to bc ,

FURg-OharIey, you were born to be =
writer.
Chhrley eplushing with conscious pride)
All, you have seen some Of the things
have turned OFF,
Fogg-No; l wasn't referring to what
you had written. was thinking what
splendid ear you had for carrying a pen.
Immense, Charley, simply immense!-
Boston Transcript.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

An Irish plumber makes, in his native
country, about 1915 week and pays lis
assistants $2.67.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

machine, the automatic cutting Knife sharp
ener, and tableting appurtenances are on
this floor. The wonderful and powerfv.
electric motor, which propels the machines
on all three floors, is also on this floor. Over
in one corner, hardly noticeable is kept in
readiness, as supplementary power an
improved Gas Engine to be attached at
mOmentary notice, in case of accident to the
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

are right, our work ~ 500 if you don't
bring us work we WI, o...., a.ter it, in ono
way or another, either by bringing to your
notice our prices, facilities and quality OF
execution, or personal interviews. We are
not grumbling; far from it. We've had our
share; we are still getting our share. But we
have placed at your disposal modern, and
almost ideal, printing establishment, with
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

DBM0FS Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets,
perfect Treatment for constipation
and biliousnesa. gay One pill dose.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser
gives more plain useful information about the
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

human-body and all the ailments
to which 1t IL subject than any
other single book In the English
language. II is really n medical
encyclopedia in one volume, a
large heavy book of 1908 pages,
with over 900 illustrations. The
outlay of money. time and effort
III producing this great book was
paid for by the sale Of the first
edition of $4,000 copies at sI.so
each +; aud the profit has been
used in publishing the present
ambition copies TO be sent abso-
price to all who will remit the
,f al cents i'll oue-cent stamps to
Of mailing Onip Address, with
s Dispensary Medical Association,
trect, buffalo. N. Y.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

Farming lands in lots to suit purchasers at IS
and up per acre.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

such facilities as to command admiration
have business intercourse. We are not We
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17
What's the Use of Waiting?

things to him who waits but we have no
waiting don't to wait "" KNOW our prices
! dnlt
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-17

The Pedigo-BeIIer Real Estate Co
1o6 Jefferson ST.. Roat oke, Va.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

THERE is not country on earth that has
the free coinage of silver where there is a
dollar OF gold in circulation. In other words,
gold goes to premium and becomes a COM
msdity at once. If free coinage should win
in the election, the immediate result would
be contraction of the currency to the ex-
tent of one third of its volume. or about
5000, ooo, 900. II, as the democrats and
populists claim, that the volume Of the cur
rency fixes prices in direct ratio 10 its volume
what would prevent the immediate fall n
prices OF about one thire--or say thirty pes
cent?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

IF the free and unlimited coinage of silver
would advance its price to SI.2e per ounce,
the figure requisite to make the silver dollar
equal in value to the gold dollar, wherein
Mould there be any relief to the debtors who
desire cheap dollar wherew;h to discharge
their indebtedness? A s:.ver dollar would
then be just as hard to 6 as a gold dollar,
and the only one profted would be the bull
lion owner. And if, as is claimed, the ad.
vance would be world wide, the financial and
commercial system of every silver using
nation on earth would be instantly revolution
lied.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

The Dubuque Telegraph makes this
coed point: In the lase seven years the
United States has exported OF merchan-
disc, gold and silver 81 9.979, 1923
more than it has imported. In other
words, for this vast amount OF wealth
sent out of the country not dollar in
goods or money has been received in re.
turn. The resources of the country are
great. But il they were twice as great,
h low long can the Americanpeople stand
the tremendous drain?-Duiuth Herald.
The Telegraph and the Herald both
very CONSIDERABLY fail to state what
proportion OF this enormous value was
in gold, in silver and in merchandise.
The average economist would be willing
to stake his reputation that any nation
can stand surplus of exports several
times as many years as it could sur
plus of imports. 1t should be borne in
mind that these goods and this money
was not given away-value for value
was returned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
/ PLAYED AT BOILING.

Editor Herald.-Will you explain
through your columns what the refer
ence in Mr.. Morris speech to Mr..
Towne's wearing borrowed badge IN
the st. Louis Convention- means?
READER.
Mr.. Towne was not entitled to the
badge OF a delegate nor even OF an alter
nate. But in order to march out as a
disguised delegate, with the Free Silver
ties from that Convention, he borrowed
the badge OF an alternate went out with
the bolttng silver men. 1t means that
Minnesota's real delegates were solidlv
against the Silver craze, and it was 9
serious thing for anyone to make it ap
pear otherwise. 1t Mr.. Towne had beer
a delegate he could have done as h,
chose about msrching out with thu
boilers; as it was he usurped the right tx
do so. He attempted to put his statein
a false light,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

MR., ToWNE says he does not believe
the old soldiers who fought so nobly in
the war, and who suffered at Anderson.
v'lle will tail TO vote for free silver even
II it does cut down their pensions one
hall. In other words he thinks that the
OLD soldiers are used to suffering and
hardship and why should they not want
to suffer for the rest of their lives? They
cannot live forever. and of course they
might just as well suffer as not during
the balance eft their lives,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

WRESTLING to keep the courage up IL
practice that really is perfectly harmless
and so long as it SERVES to amuse
the whistler no one else need giyei it any
consideration. Mr., Towne's friends are
engaged in this sort of by-play. They
are claiming the earth and will fail 10
get that part OF it of it which they most
desire-the Sixth Congressional District
of minnesota. 1t is declared upon good
authority that Mr.. Towne was heard
to saw that his hope OF election hung up
on good big majority in Stearns Co
unity. II that be so he is already defeated
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
IT is fact beyond dispute that labor h

1T is fact beyond dispute that labor had
advanced in money steadily and to the
amount OF forty per cent, between 1873 and
1892, when the Wilson bill went into effect,
and the purchasing power of the dollar
nearly thirty per cent during that time by
reason of the cheapening of methods of
manufacture. The laborers of this or any
other county were never so well paid and
prosperous as they were from 1873 to 1902,
and as necessary sequence the farmer was
equally prosperous.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

. Congressman Towne' delivered po-
litical speech in Duluth Sunday last.
de is evidently intent upon breaking
the record. On tuesday he spoke six
times in this county, and he started in
on the next week one day ahead OF the
ordinary political schedule. If he keeps
this mp to the end he will have won the
distinction OF outspeaking any man on
earth-a satisfaction which ma, he
pleasant contemplation when relegated
to the quietude OF private life.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

Hard times extending over two,or three
years, such as we have and are experiencing
are great memory distroyers. One would
think, to listen to the average free silver
advocate this country and all Its inhabitants
had been on tobogganl slide of calamity
for the past twenty three years, whereas the
greatest prosperity eveI experienced by any
nation was period from
that date to 1892, when the Wilson bill be-
came an assured fact.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

Page Morris is making clean, good
and honest campaign. He puts just as
much zeal into an argument out in the
little red school house as he does before
the crowded halls of the large cities. He
is sound thinker and clear in argu-
ment. He NAV not be Towne's equal IN
rhetoric and oratory, hut he surpasses
him in good judgement backed by state
eman-hke ability. The people OF this
section OF the 9th district will be glad OF
an opportunity to hear Mr., Morris
Delano Eagle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

THE way that silver was demonetized in
1878 was by dropping from the listeof minted
coins the standard dollar which had neither
been wanted for circulation or actually cir
cnlated for forty years, and providing for a
trade dollar, more of which. were coined in
year than all the standard dollar coined
during eighty years: and in 1873 law was
passed under which 100000 standard
full legal tender dollars were coined, The diff
terence between thecommercial or market
price of silver.bullion, and the'coinage value,
insuring to the government.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

WHEAT has advanced nearly forty per
cent since last June, while silver has de
clined about four per cent, during the
same period. What then becomes OF the
claim SO often made that silver and
wheat are tied together by some short,
strong and mysterious bond? The. fact
is that they are as independent of each
other as are any two commodities on
earth, each governed by the same law
working under conditions peculiar to
each OF them independently of the other.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

CHARLES A. T,wNE mas ability, but
his energy and talenty are not superior
to those Of hi. brilliant opponent, Page
Morris, the latter having the advantage
OF clear and forcible reasoning faculty
though he INDUCES in no fight OF ora
tory.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

This settles it. Every well regulated
and patriotic ghost will vote for Bryan.
A Michigan man has received spirit
message" from Mr.. Lincoln, which says:
Il urge you to support the man who
stands for the principles that will do
YOU the greatest good in the end. This
ne an is William J. Bryan"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
Farrn I-ands wanted.

The undersigned wishes to get full
OF few choice pieces of land
that can be bought at a bargain. Equi-
ties in improved farms bought for cash.
c, B. MABEN,
3O6 LIST ave. s., Minneapolis. MINI,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

Four years ago it was free trade and a
dollar wheat that was promised at Chicago;
this year it is free silver and dollar wheat,
and four y ears henceit will be free paper and
dollar wheat-at any rate the word ''Free"'
will be used to cenjure with.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
sAUk CENTRE HERALD
CHAS. F. HENDRIX Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION $50 PER YEAR.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President WILLIAM M'KNLEY
of Oho.N
For -President-GARRET A. Ho-
BART, OF New Jersey.
For Governor DAVID NJ, CLouGH, OF
Hennepin.
For Lieutenant .Governor-JoHN l.
GIBBS, of Ffeeborn.
For Secretary OF State-ALBERT BERG
Chlsago.
For Treasurer-AUcusr T. KoERNER
Meeker.
For Attorney General-H, w. cHnDs
OF Ramsey.
For Congressman, Sixth District
PAGE NORRIS, OF st. Louis.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
Buy' Grapes.

When you can get six baskets for
dollar there is no excuse for going grape
hungry. S. P. Hansen is selling choice
ruit at that price. Drop in and buy
dollars worth,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08
Organ for sale.

Pianotorte scale. Handsome walnu!
case. A rare bargain. Cheap for cash
Call at the Methodist parsonage.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

TO the Voters of Stearns County.
beg leave to.announce myself as an in
dependent candidate for the Office of Super
intendent of Schools. J. l. DoNoHUE.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-08

General Gomez leads in person and
routs the Spanish. Eight hundred Span
ish killed and 900 wounded. The great
victory is attributed to the fact that the
insurgents have discovered that DR.. Saw
yer's Family Cure gives new life and
strength and purifies the blood.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-12-24
Life Mt Washington.

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