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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
NO REAL CONFUSION.
"Coin' Harvey Explains How harmony
Between Democracy avid tho
Peoples Party Viii! be
Brought About.

is tidal wave on, and that the people
are thinking for themselves. but they
have been immersed in party politics so
long that they cannot accustom them
selves to yielding any of their party or
ganization.
After IL week or two everything will
begin to assume shape, and by Septem-
Der it will be readily understood by the
people The only objection urged by the
fusion plan on electors is that the voters
will not he educated sufficiently to vote
the combination ticket. 1t is feared that
after placing the cross ut the head Of his
ticket, in case II is the ticket where the
electors are left blank, the voter will neg
lect or not know how to use his pencil on
the other ticket where the electors
names appear. This is answered by the
statement that in each State the newspa-
pers will print the form of he>.ballot
with the check mark rs they should he
placed by Democrats and Populists and
silver Republicans. thus making it plain.
And, in addition to this. the national and
State committees will make up dummy
form of the Australian ballot illustrat-
ing how the voter should be governed in
making his crosses upon the ballots. As
most of this dual voting must come from
the Populists. !; is also urged on the part
of the Peoples party men that their
voters are all students OF politics and
well educated in such matters as will
probably fit themselves TO cast their
votes inteligently upon this fusion plan
1t shoUld be remembered that by the
constitution and the laws..of the United
States the people do not elect President
and President. What the people
do is to elect electors. who meet AT the
capitols of their respective Statese.and
cast their votes for whOmsoever they may
choose for President and Vice President
Ii is electors that we elect. and not a
President and Vice President The cleo
tors elect them. The electors may vote
for such persons for President and Vice
President as they may elect to so vote
for. The nomination for candidates for
President and Vice President is custom
without sanction of law, and by usage
the electors are expected to vote for such
persons "a their national convention has
declared for.
Hence it will be readily understood
that division by .naming Sewall for
Vice President on the Democratic ticket
and Watson for Vice President on the
Populist ticket does not, in its result by
a fusion plan. divide the vote of the peo-
pie, but in effect operates to make GER
tain the election of either Sewall or Wat
son. 1t is only in few States where, by
reason of the law, there will be com
plication or..needss.of specially educating
the voters. In most of the States the
names of the same electors can 20 on
both tickets
W. II. HARVEY.
Author of Coins Financial School"
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
CARE OF THE EARS.

|. Never wear cotton in the ears il they
are discharging pUs
,. Never attempt to apply Il poulticc to
the inside of the canal of the ear.
). Never put anything in your ear for
the relief of the toothache
1. Never drop anything into the ear UNI
til it has been previously warmed.
&. Never wet the hair if you have ten.
dency tn deafness; wear an oiled silk cap
when bathing and refrain from diving
I. Never strike or box a child's ears;
this has been known To rupture the drum
head and cause incurable deafness.
). Never let the feet become cold or
damp, or sit with the back towards "A win
dow. as these things tend to &ggravate
any existing hardness of hearing.
3. Never scratch the ears with anything
but the finger, if they itch. Don't use
the head of Il pin, hairpin, pencil tips, or
anything of that nature.
10. Never put milk, fat or any oily sub
stance into the ear for the relief of pain.
for they soon become rancid and tend to
incite inflammation. Simple warm water
Will answer the pun pose better than any
thing else.
II. Never be alarmed if living insect
enters the ear. Pouring warm water into
the canal will drown it, when it will gen
orally come to the surface and can be re-
moved with the iingrs. y few puffs of to-
bacco smoke blown into the ear will stu
pefy the insect.
u Never NEEDLE with the ear If :, for
eign body, such as n bead, button or seed,
enters it: leave it absolutely alone until a
physician can attend to it. More damage
has been done by the njudicious attempts
at the extraction Of foreign body than
could ever come from its presence in the
ear.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
CROW WHO PLAYED SENTINEL.
And Kept Tab on a Company of Cadet
Bows


\ naturalist who is much interested
in birds says that the crow is the wisest
OF all the fcathercd animals. He has
made number of experiments recently.
and declares that an ordinarily well
educated crowcan count to twenty. and
that he has found sentinel crow. very
old and very wise, that can count to
tweniy-siN. He made these discoveries
in very interesting way.
Last summer he spent much time in
the mountains, where a cadet company
of boys was camped- one day he found
a flock Of crows gathered around a dead
animal that lay near a little old shanty
in the woods They Tapped away when
he approached So hc hid himself in
the old shanty and waited, but they
would not come back. Then he went
out and walked up the mountain and they
all settled down again TO the feast That
afternoon he took four boys from the
cadet camp with him and the five march
Ell into the little building and waited.
NO crows came back Two of the BOYS
went out still no crows Then the
other two went out and only the natural
LIST remained. But the old sentinel crow
had evidently counted them as they
went in, and he knew they had not all
come out 80 he sat on ii dry pine stump
and said "Iaw. cav" quite derisiyelv.
At last the naturalist left the building
and straightway all the crows returned
This experiment WAS repeated number
of times with varying numbers of BOYS.
but the crows kept count and would NOT
come down until the building was en-
tircly empty
Al last whole platoon Of the cadets,
twenty six boys in all. and the naturalist
| marched into the cold building. Then
slowly twenty OF them went away. The
crows did not stir. Two more. four
more, five more. went. but the old sen.
tinel warned his companions that the
! men had not all gone. Then the twenty
sixth cadet marched away, leaving only
the naturalist In Il very few minutes
there We're a number of very hopeful
| caws and Hopping of wings and the
crows returned. The old sentinel could
| evidently count twenty six, but numbers
beyond this puzzled him. The expert
ment was tried several times more, and
IT was found that the crows could keep
the count without difficulty up..to twenty.
but beyond that they were uncertain.
This shows that the crow is very wise
old bird. --Chrcago Record.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
JAMAICA's BANANA KING.
He WAS Yankee skipper and First
* Brought the Fruit to Cape Cod


Something over twenty years ago New
England skipper used to make several
trips year from Boston to the northern
ports of Jamaica, and would return to-
Cape Cod Bay, his fleet schooner laden
with bananas, for which he found ready
and remtinerativc sale Other vessels
were added to the business, which grew
and prOspered. and soon became too inn
portant longer to depend upon the un
certain winds, and steamers replaced the
schooners. Bananas were offered in guam
titles larger than our Yankee mariner,
with his limited means, could handle, and
Il company was formed in 1877, with II
capital of 5000, 600 and two steamers and
the business of Systematically growing the
bananas for export to the United States
commenced. From such small beginnings
spranG the American company, which
now practically controls the fruit export
trade of jamaica. Its present capital is
$500, 900, and it has Il surplus of 1000
600. and employs twelve steamers. 1t
ships to the United States every year
about 1000, 600 punches of bananas, be-
sides upwards of &, 90, 900 cocoanuts and
quantities of pimento (allspice), employs
nearly 1000 men. More than 600 mules
are daily in harness engaged in drawing
To ports of shipment its varied products.
1t owns and controls more than twenty
estates, comprising nearly so 600 acres
Free schools are provided for the chill
dren of its employees. 1t has brought
great prosperity to Il languishing country
and practically created an industry; and
its president, the man whose foresight
began ali this work, and whose energy is
now pushing it EDWARDS. is commonly
known among the Jamaicans as the Ba-
mana King -IIarpcr's Weekly.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
PARADE OF THE LENGTH ADVER.
TlSED.

Il was travelling with p. I. Barnum
once, said Mr.. STOW, long before the
railroad shows We're in existence. We
Travelled by wagons from town TO town in
those days. halting on the outskirts Of
the town to enable the circus people to
put on their show clothes and prepare
for the parade. We were 10 show in a
small town in Pennsylvania, and had
noticed that bridge over which the
wagons were to pass WAS weak. | sent
word TO Mr.. Barnum To put the rhinoc
eros wagon at the rear, but he did not do
so. and As il was in advance it broke the
bridge. The show did not reach the town
in time to make much of parade.
That night Mr.. Barnum was seated in
the village hotel, when an angry lot of
people who were disappointed at the size
of the parade waited upon him and told
him that he was Il fraud.
How so:' said Barnum.
well, - replied the spokesman of the
crowd, you advertised two miles OF pa
rade and there was only one"
Yes, replied Barnum, there was one
mile of parade and another mile of
cussed fools following it. That makes
two miles, doesn't it:' Syracuse
Courier
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
HIS WIFE coRNERED HIM GOOD

See here, Iolanthe," said Mr.. So-and-
SO, as he arose suddenly from the coniu-
gal breakfast table: do YOU see what the
postman has brought me:n
1t looks like Il letter, my dear" re
turned his wife, as she swcctencd her sec
ond cup of coffee.
It's Il bill, Mrs. So-and.So \ bill
which, = with majestic calmness, Il have
already paid
Then you can simply show them the
receipt and that will settle
"Hump! That merely goes to show
what thieves those people are
Are you quite sure you sent them the
money, dear? Sometimes you-n
'Of course sent the money. Am II
person to neglect my business affairs
No, l remember distinctly that | wrote
the check and -
Then perhaps it was lost in the mails.
| once wrote to New York for some sam
Piles. You Yourself mailed the letter and
| never heard Where are you going
now
II am going, my dear, to telephone
TO that company. / shall tell them to
stop delivering ice, ana shall also in.
form them that it is because that | de
cline to deal with IL band of organized
robbers and The .rcst was lost in the
banging of the door
After Il brief but animated conversation
Mr.. .Soand-So returned to the dining
room.
We'll, is it all right, ,lear&'' asked his
wife
1t was all wrong. that's what it was.
Look here, lolanthc, want YOU to get
ont my business suit. put on few but
tons and set a stitch here and there.
want to wear it to-day"
But You said last month that ii was
not fit 10 Wear again
That was before knew that YOU had
ordered ice from pirates. Now that
find that shall be compelled 10 pay all
my household bills twice | shall wear the
old clothes and put away the new ones for
a rainy day
But why wear snew ones on..a rainy
day, dear: When you-"
II do not expect you to understand the
principles of economy, Mrs. So.and-So
BE kind enough, however, to do what
ask. If you can remember it long enough.
1t will be great thing when you learn
10 remember things as | do
Five minutes later Mrs. So-and- So
burst into the room with white object
in her hand
Just look what have found in the
stamped, and addressed To the ice COM
pany. You evidently wrote it and forgot
TO mail II ''lolanthe So-and- So re
piled her husband pale and calm II shall
overlook it this time. but if | ever know
you 10 20 through my pockets again
shall apply for divorce
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
YOUR BOY WON'T LIVE \
MONTH

So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill
street, South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had lung trouble
following typhoid malaria, and he spent
three hundred and Scventy-fve dollars
with doctors. who finally gave him up
saying: y our hoy won't live month. ="
He tried DE-. Kings New Discovery, and
few hotties restored him 10 health and
enabled him to 20 to work n perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health To use OF DR.. Kings New
Discovery. and knows ii to bee The best In
the world for lung trouble Trial boz.
ties free IT Paul Mas,ie's Pharmacy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
SOME RECENT NOVELTIES.

An oven door with wire glass panels
y revolving stand for holding dishes of
food TO bring the different dishes within
reach.
\ fly trap consisting of a string cover
ed with sticky preparation wound upon IA
reel. from which the string is taken a.
required.
y stopper for bottles, esscd'eXternal-
~ or internally, to serve as measures for
the contents of il vessel.
method of securing stones in icwelry
by employing small rings on the face of
the hezel To take the place of the usual
claws.
An ax blank. in which the eye is form
ed 10y turning over an extended portion
and riveting to the blade part
y coupling for uniting bicycle spokes
at the crossing points. made 10y bending
sheet metal to form TWO channels and
afterwards closing.
y movable inner cover for casks TO
keep the meat under the brine. the cover
having an adjustable claw at one side
and a pointed lever at the other.
a tennis ball formed of a number of
hollow india rubber compartments. each
section joined by webs OF felt and after
wards covered with thin vulcanized rub
Der.
y stirrup which is held in a position
ready for the riders foot: that is. ut
right angles To the horses side. by n
strap OF spring metal attached to one of
the feathers.
y horse shoe composed of three clips
with groove 10 fit the inner edge of the
shoe, each clip being attached to n
T-shaped bolt by means of which it is
clampcd 10 the foot with nuts
molder's ohaplet, composing two
horizontal fianges united by a web. and
which are thickened where they Join the
web. Holes are formed in the web for
the reception Of the molten metal
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
ONE OF THE RAREST OWLS.
y Prize Much Valued by the University
of Washington.

\ specimen of the rarest owl was OBJ
tanned 10y Henry III. .Hindshaw. Curator
O.. the University of Washington's
museum on his recent natural history ex-
petition To Eastern Washington. The
only other specimen of this owl was taken
in Idaho III 1888. IL was sent TO DR. {.
Hart Merriam. of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. who pronounced
it IL distinct geographical variety of
Megascops tiammeola. He thcreupon
described it as Il variety new to silence.
and called it Megascops nammeola
idahoensis. That specimen is male On
May % Mr. Hindshaw saw a strange
little owl on Snake river, about twenty
five miles from the mouth of the river,
and after great difficulty. secured it, 1t is
Il female of this rarest of American owls.
Its common name is the Idaho dwarf
screech owl. Megascops fammeola. the
type of this owl, is Mexican species.
and is found only occasionally in Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. This little owl is
one of the finest specimens obtained by
the University of Washington collectors
in years.
Another most interesting member of
the owl family was recently-taken on the
university grounds. Early in June Mr.
Hindshaw obtained Il fine pair of Magas-
cops asio kenncottii. or Kennicott's
SNIStCil OWL. HIS OWL WAS never nplOrG
taken outside of British Colombia, 50 far
as is known, and it is interesting for the
history it suggests. 1t was discovered in
British Columbia by Bob Kennicott.
and named in his..honor Mr. kennicott
was in charge''of the Wetern Union Tele-
graph Company'S expedition to extend a
line of telegraph to Europe by way of
Alaska, the -Aleutian Islands and Siberia.
as it was then, about 1857. expected
that the Atlantic cable would prove Il
failure. There are now occasionally
found in the forests of.the northwest piles
of glass insulato.s and other reminders of
this abandoned cnterprisc St
Mr.. kennicott went on to the far
North, and was the first man to ascend
the Yukon river. He died on that river
w. II. Dali. now IL famous scientist and
author, of the Smithsonian institutions
was young member of the party. and he
brought the body of kennicott out OF the
Alaskan wilderness. Many times the
only thing that saved the party was
Bob kennicott's big medicine" large
watch with many singular attachments.
BY showing this to the natives the party
would he ferried ..on towardscivilization
They finally reached San Francisco. and
the remains of the explorer were sent to
his home in Chicago by way of Panama
The history of this expedition was pub
lished by the Chicago Academy of
Sciences When the hook was printed
a copy was hastily bound and sent to Mr.
kennicott's mother, who lived just out
side of Chicago. and another unbound
copy was sent away for proof reading
On the following day Chicago was de
stroyed by fire. and no other copies OF
this interesting record have ever been
printed. Some time the Chicago Acad-
envy of Sciences may reprint the volume
All this is suggested by wise looking
pair of little screech owls in the univer.
sity museum. Spokane (Wash.) Spokes-
man-Review.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
FREE PILLS.

Send your address toll. +. Bucklen x
Co., Chicago. and. get a free sample box
OF DR.. Kings New Life Pills y trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and particularly
effective in the cure OF constipation and
sick headache. For malaria ana liver
troubles they have been proved invalua-
Die. They are guaranteed u he perfectly
free from every deleterious substance and
70 he purely vegetable They do not
weaken by,-.their action, but by giving
tone to stomach and bowels greatly invig-
crate the system. Regular size poe. per
box. Sold ut Massie's Pharmacy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
THE.TIMES' PRIZE PIANO.
Roanoke, Va. Nav II. 1S0G

- 'eothohe, Va. May ii, 1910.
To The .Times:-We desire to say
that the Jewett. Upright Piano, which
the Times has purchased from us and
placed on exhibition at our warerooms.
Is IN every respect one of the finest and
best pianos on the American market for
the price. The retail price of this piano
Is fixed at. S4OO by the Jewett Piano Com
pany.
We.further desire to say that the Hob
bic Piano Co hereby offers TO the winner
of this,instrument 800 cash for the same
provided he or She purchases "a Piano
from us at any time between now and
when the final decision is made.
rms offer is made to prevent any one
holding OF the purchase. of an Instrument
nntll. TINS Piano. Jaw trded. Very truly
Hobbie Piano Co.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30
Chicago, July g.

Chicago, July u.
Tow r. Hearst, New York Journals
What appears to he an irreconciliable
confusion resulting from the failure of the
ST. Louis convention to nominate Sewall
Is not such, and harmony will soon be
brought about
The fact that Bryan's name is to he on
both tickets will bring about Il fusion OF
electors in each State that will draw out
the full strength of both the Democratic
and Peoples party votes. To illustrate
it: Illinois has twenty. four electoral
votes. The Democratic State convention
should name, say,twenty electors and the
Peoples party State convention four cleo
tors. In many States, under the Austria
liam ballot system, the same name or
elector cannot 30 on two or more tickets.
This is obviated by putting the names of
the twenty Democratic electors and four
Peoples party electors all on the Demo
cratic ticket. In States where the Peo
pies party has more votes than the Dem
ocratic party, and there are some ten or
twelve of these, the above plan will he
reversed by putting the Democratic cleo
tors on the Peoples party ticket.
In the case of Illinois, as above cited. a
Peoples party man would vote his ticket
Staight by putting Il cross at the head Of
il, but, as the place for electors on that
ticket is blank, he would. after voting
his party ticket. go over To the Demo-
cratic ticket on the Australian ballot and
cross the names of the twenty-four cleo
tors.
1t is also worthy of suggestion that, in
view of the large number of Republican
voters that are being organized under the
national bimetallic party they should also
be invited to name one .or more electors
in each State that will be recognized and
placed on the ticket.
If this combined movement. now as
suming form, should be successful in
November, the result would be as fol
lows
If there Were enough straight Demo
cratic electors elected to make a majority
in the electoral college. it will mean
Bryan and Sewall. If not. then it means
Bryan and Watson. BY this plan it is
not necessary for Sewall TO withdraw
from the ticket. and it is better for him
to stay on-the Peoples party are given
hope of electing their candidate for Vice
President and chance to hold their
party organization together. 1t means
the combined strength of the 'organiza-
ton of the two political bodies in COM
mon movement.
This plan would have been readily I'M
derstood at st. Louis. and all the anxiety
experienced since then would have been
avoided, if it had not been for the fact
that few Democratic leaders were then
selfshly disposed, from a party stand
point, to crush out or brighten all oppo-
sition TO the Democratic party having the
sole right of way. They know that there
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-30

FOUND dead
There is something so shocking about
sudden death that the mere mention of II
wfenches the nerves of sensitive people.
Millions of people pray for deliverance from
It, Every Sunday in every Episcopal church
From battle, and murder and sudden death,
Good Lord. deliver us"
Just why sudden death should be shock.
ing, and death after lingering disease easy
to bear, would puzzle any one to tell It
would seem that it would be more terrible
to see some loved one wasting away, daily
becoming weaker-.daily slipping toward
death no less certain because it was slow in
coming. Consumption causes more deaths
than heart disease more than cholera
more than yellow fever more than any
other disease the world has ever known.
And yet people are careless about it. A man
in danger Of sudden death from heart dis
ease can avoid the danger simply by keeping
quiet and avoiding excitement. Consump-
ton goes right on with its deadly work no
matter what the man does or how he con-
ducts himself if he doesn't take the right
medicine to cure it. Consumption affects
the whole body. 1t is blood disease It
pcrmeates the whole system. 1t shows in
the lungs because the blood goes to the
lungs for publication. 1t carries impurities
impurity, the lungs are over-worked-over-
loaded the impurity stops there. The
germs of disease stop there. They develop
and multiply and then consumption takee
definite form. DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery cures es per cent of all cases
of consumption, lingering coughs, throat
and bronchial diseases if II is taken accord.
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