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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28
WOMEN AS NATURAL KICKERs.
She Kicks Physically, Mentally, Morally
and PSychOiOgically

She Kicks Physically, Mentally, Morally
and Psychoiogically.
IA woman is natural Kicker any
how" said the man who felt he was being
cornered in the argument ''She's a
kicker physically, mentally, morally and
psycholOgically. Beside her man isn't in
it for anything
81 don't see it, was the rejoinder.
ANY man can give her cards and spades
whatever that means-and beat her. -
He can, eh? Where are your high
kickers on the stage? Where man goes
at anything with his fist she goes at it
with her foot She could kick chande-
lier down while man was hunting a
chair to reach it. Did you ever notice the
diningroom girl? No? Well, you know,
out West and throughout Canada they
employ girl mattresses instead of men
walters. Sometimes they have both.
can tell as soon as l enter diningroom
whether the help is male or female.
Women almost invariably open the
swinging doors with their foot-men open
them with their arm or hand. The con-
sequence is the doors are either worn out
or patched with brass above or below, as
1T happens to be men or women. When
a woman approaches n swinging door she
just gives it kick that sends it flying
open. and she walks through like the Is
raelites through the Red Sea. In case of
a man the door is opened by hand, or, if
his hands are full, with his elbow or fore
arm. All through Canada you'll see the
doors worn out at the bottom-sometimes
clean through. In many cases they are
covered with brass where the kick is adj
ministered. A woman is kicker by ma
ture. New York Herald.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28
KNOCKING BIRDS AS DANCERS.
Queer Performances They Sometimes Go
Through in the Woods

Through in the Woods
The power Of the knocking birds to
amuse folks is not confined to it's abilities
as rich voiced singer. The more birds
are studied the more the students Won
der what they can't do. Birds with some
marked characteristics are sometimes
neglected in other respects than their pc
culiarity, and so ii happens that the mock
ing bird is better known as an initiative
singer than as an original one, and that
it was dancer as much almost as heron
or crane few were awnre. ------~e.--' ~--------e-
The mockingbirds dance methodically,
like woodsmen in a square dance rather
than with the wild gyrations of darby
hoe-down. They keep their bodies stiff.
with head and tails erect, their wings
dropping and feathers fiattened out,
something like the English sparrow when
hopping about before it's sweetheart; but
the sparrow's feathers are thrown out
usually instead of being fattened against
the body.
Two of the hooking birds make n set,
and the bound along, jumping rather
high, but not far, going from one end of
the playground to the other, one behind
the other about foot, and each one at
the end of the playground turns in cir
Gle slowly, and with dignity, and goes
back again. Sometimes they stop and
look at some distant object day dream
ing, apparently, then away they go again
Mr.. Blake tells about hen that was
disturbed by the actions of pair of
hooking birds in their dance, whereupon
she left her brood of chickens and charged
the couple with the clucks and fluttering
feathers. Up went the hooking birds
with the true hooking bird talk, scolding
and suffering at the hen until they
fairly drove her away.-Popular Science
Monthly.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28

mixed, 10. Rye easier; No. Q, so 1-a.
Lard easier, 500. Bulk meats easy,
3.37 1-2. Bacon quiet, 437 l.2. whis-
key easier, lower; sales 461 barrels, 1.1S.
Butter quiet. Sugar easy. Eggs firm,
10 1-2. Cheese steady.
CHICAGO.
Chicago, August 27.-Depression was
the leading characteristic of all the spec
ulative markets to-day. December
wheat closed LIZ cent under yesterdays
figures, Corn declined 3-S cents, and
oats Ia cent. Provisions managed to
gam the early losses, and closed 1-2
cents lower to z 1-2 cents higher.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28
A BONANZA.

Lots 5)x130 feet each, back of the
West End round house, on Second and
Third avenues. Price S175 each.
Special bargain for a short time for
dwelling on Campbell avenue, between
Roanoke and Park streets.
Large brick dwelling, with 20 rooms,
and all conveniences, in good location.
Price $4,000.
Dwelling, 10 rooms and every modern
convenience, on Jefferson street. Price
81, 800, $500 cash, balance S25 per..month
Elegant 10-room residence on Terry
hill, with bath, hot and cold water, cab
met mantles, and everything first-class
dwelling should have. Price 81, 900, on
easy terms.
We have farms near Roanoke for sale.
Let us insure your furniture this week.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28

a handsome second hand Knabe piano
at bargain at j. f. Rogers, 104 Jefer-
son street.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28
MONEY MARKETS.

New York, August 27.-Money on call
very firm at Gals per cent; last loan, 6,
closed 9. Prime mercantile paper, nomi-
nal, 7aS per cent. Sterling exchange
weak, with actual business in bankers
bills at 4S3 3-4a4S4 for demand and
4S2 1-2a4S2 "a for sixty days Posted
rates, 4S3 1-2a4S5 12 and 4S5 1-2a4S7
Commercial bills, 4S2. Bar silver,
66 1-2. Silver certificates, GO 1-2a67 IA.
Government bonds steady. State bonds
inactive. Railroad bonds irregular
Petroleum strong
CINCINNATI
Cincinnati, August 27.-Flour steady.
Wheat quiet; No. 2 red, 60a61; receipts,
700; shipments, 1000. Corn steadier;
No. mixed, 24a1-2. Oats quiet; No 2
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28

Flour weaker; No. 2 yellow corn,
~ 1-Sa2l 1-S; No. 3 spring wheat, 90 81;
No. 2 spring wheat, 80 1-2a54; No . red,
90 IS; No. corn, 20 5-Sa3-4; No. 9 oats,
10 3-4a16; No. 2 white, (. o. b., 10a20 l. 9;
No. white, 15a19 12; No. rye, 81 1-2:
No. barley, nominal; No. 3, t. O.. b.. e.,
22a34; No. 4, 81; No. 1 flax seed, $50 IA;
prime timothy seed, go; mess pork, per
barrel, 5.50a55; lard, per 100 pounds,
8. 3Oa32 l-2; short ribs sides, loose, 3.20a
81; dry sailed shoulders, boxed, 3-4a4;
short clear sides, boxed, 3 1-2a3.S: whis.
key, distilers' finished goods, per gallon.
liz: sugars unchanged.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28

Mr.. G. D. Yonker, well-known drug
gist of Bowling Green, Ohio, in speaking
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says:
II take pleasure in recommending it to
my customers, for ! am certain that it
will always please them. l sell more of
it than all other kinds put together. {"
For sale by The Chas. Lyle Drug Co.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28
III THE WORLD OF FINANCE
NEW YORK STOCKS.

New York, August 27.-Dealings in
stock were again upon very slender
scale to-day in spite of various favorable
developments, including increased gold
import orders, bringing the total amount
engaged and afloat to about $40, 600, 900.
The prevailing financial stringency
doubtless is as much responsible as any
other present condition for the specula-
tive apathy, as lenders are discouraging
anything like extensive operations as far
as practicable, as compassion houses are
insisting, as a rule, upon cash transac-
tions Calling of loans were partly re-
sponsible for an advance in call money
rates to an extreme of 10 per cent. The
stock market left off firm.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
BULLETIN OF
TIE ST. PRUI GLOBE.
SUNDAY, DEC. 81, 1896.

Weather for Today.
Fair and Warmer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
OLNEY Is RIGHT
IL the View of Ex-MiRfster Phelps
Is Correct.

BURLINGTON, VT, Dec. 26-Hon. E.
J. Phelps eX-mirister to England,
gives his opinion upon the recognition
OF Cuba. in the following language:
Il have no doubt that the position
of Secretary Olney as recently publish
ed is entirely correct. The question
what government shall be recognized
in a country where an attempt at re-
vClution is III progress is certainly one
for the executive to determine and not
for congress. No legislation by that
body can under any provision of the
constitution decide. Congress can, of
course, pass resolutions on the subject
if the members please, but they in no
respect can control the discretion or
the action CT the president. Besides
no government can be recognized until
if exists.
"The government recognized by other
governments when q dispute in regard
to it exists. is always the de facto
government. The recognition by other
governments Of a government once in
existence must always continue, un-
til it is actually subverted, and new
one put in it's place. When it is over
thrown and another established that
becomes entitled to recognition.
The rebels in Cuba have no organiz-
ed government, nor even abiding place,
which they can call their own. They
are merely q guerrilla force, which
would speedily be annihilated if drawn
into n general enga cement with the
1nuch superior. Spanish army 1t
would be apsurfls ste say that such a
force constitutes a. gov ernment or that
the Spanish gayernnent in Cuba has
been overtbrowai or that any diplo-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
DIRECTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS
OF THE BANK OF MINNESOTA
ARE UNANIMOUS
IN FAVOR OF RE0PENING IT
At THE EARLIEST DATE CONSIST
EMF WITH PROTECTION TO
THOSE INTERESTED.
PLAN WILL BE FORMULATED
This Week by q Committee Consist
ing of Messrs. Dawson, Peet
and haIman.

Deposltors in the suspended Bank of
Minnesota will be pleased to know that
during the week a vigorous effort will
be made to formulate a basis of reor-
eganization for the bank. This action
Swas decided upon at meeting held at
the old rooms of the bank yesterday
&0facers and directors and number of
stockholders of the bank were present.
The situation was discussed thor
oughly by all present, and after all was
said, 1t was apparent that the meeting
was unanimously in favor Of reorgani-
cation, and a resolution was adopted
to that effect, although 1t was decided
not to hamper the reorganization COM
mittee by a verbose resolution. The
one adopted is brief, but to the point.
as Follows:
Resolved, That it Is the sense of the direc.
TORS, stockholders and persons present at
this meeting that the Bank of Minnesota be
reorganiZed.
Messrs. William Dawson, 3. w. Peet
and Arnold Kalman were made a re-
organization committee, and they will
call the meeting together again as soon
as they have formulated a plan Of re-
organization. They will go to work
Immediately, and from the unanimity
or sentiment which exists, 1T is believed
that some successful plan of reorgani-
cation Will be agreed upon early in the
week. There seems to be no opposf-
ton on the part either Of officers, stock
holders or receivers to a speedy settle
ment Of the banks affairs on basis
which will permit its early reopening.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
oUENCHING NATURES THIRST.
Report on the Years Irrigation
Work in South Dakota.

PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 26.-The report
of the state engineer of Irrigation Just
out is full of information as to the
artesian system of South Dakota, with
statements of results and practical
suggestions as to the best manner to
conduct this work.
Comparatively few wells were SUNK
nv the public in 1896, investors being
afraid of the bonds issued for this pur-
nose their fear being founded on the
decision of the California supreme
court on the Wright law, which is
very similar to the law of this state.
But now that the United States su-
preme court has sustained that law,
the doubt is removed, and bonds Tor
the purpose of sinking wells find
more ready market.
Rr1,la county has taken the lead.
Rr11le commissioners issued warrants
for the purpose and collect from the
townships, and from the land directly
benefited Up to the present that coun-
tv has issued $7S,565 Of such bonds.
Several counties have tried the eX-
periment Of purchasing we'll machln-
ery. and allowing parties who desire
to sink wells the use of the machinery,
and in all cases the plan has proved
failure. While public wells have
been DELAYED on account of the failure
of townships to float bonds, private
narties have been more active in this
line than in past years, and number
of wells have been sunk by private
capital.
number of cases are cited where
artesian irrigation has proved com
nlete success, and others where it has
proved a. failure. In the latter cases
the failure has been largely from the
use of too much water
The cost of an irrigation plant is put
ait about $40 per acre on a half section.
The deep wells are found in all coun-
ties of what is known as the "artes1an
basin of the James river valley" and
the shallow wells from the south line
of Beadle county, especially in the
counties Of Minor, Sanborn, Hutchin-
son. Douglas and Yankton. Hutchin-
son county has 400 of these wells from
sixty to 300 feet deep; Davidson has 10G
which average $50 feet in depth, and
flow from 200 to 800 gallons per minute
with little pressure. There are about
LOO Of both classes of wells in the
state, the high pressure wells being in
the counties of Beadle, Sphinx, Brown.
Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Jerauld
Brule and one we'll at Cheyenne agency
and one at Crow Creek, which have
been sunk by the government.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
PAISTEUR SYSTEM
Defended In Spite of the Recent
Apparent Failure.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Dr. Paul Glib.
Ter, who followed the seven boys to
Baltimore from the Pasteur inetitute In
this city after they had been discharg-
ed as inhnunized from hydrophobia, re-
turned tonight. He refused to say
anything about the death of Robert J,
Henry and Conrad Eppers, two Of the
patients from rabies.
DR. Labladie, of the institute, said
that the death of the boys did not
prove that the Pasteur system was a
failure. 1--WE do not he said, "abso-
lutely guarantee that our treatment
will prevent hydrophobia, amy more
than that vaccination is an unques-
tionable preventative against small
pox. About one patient out of 200 we
have treated has died. We cannot tell
whether incubation has been effective
until Is days after the patient has been
treated. The boy Eppers was bitten
about the head and neck, which were
the worst parts Of the body to be Bit
ten. The boys were not brought to
the institute until four days after they
had been bitten, instead of being sent
here Immediately. Had they come here
at once, L believe their recovery would
have been assured"
Baltimore, Dec. 26.-Robert Perry, one of
the boys bitten by mad dog and treated
at the Pasteur institute New York, died to-
day of hydrophobia. This makes the third
victim within the past week. All the boys
forty-eight hours after receiving their in
juries, and all who have thus died were bitten
in parts Of the body unprotected by their
clothing.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
THOUSANDS STOLEN.
Daring Work Done by Clever Mail
Robbers.

NEW YORK, Dec 26-several bust-
ness firms that had wondered why
important letters containing large
sums of money had been delayed in
the mails. have received the letters.
put not the enclosures, stained with
the waters Of the bay in which they
had tossed for two or three days be-
fore being picked up. The letters had
been opened, the money inside, trans
mltted by the firms correspondence in
chicago Cincinnati, San Francisco,
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, taken out.
after which the thief had dropped the
letters into the bay. Investigation
made at the postoffice confirmed the
story. The robbery is evidently one
OF the largest and cleverest ever known
In the history Of the department and
the total loss reaches many thousand
dollars. The postoffice officials admit
this much, but decline for official rea-
sons to say anything further. 1t was
learned that the mail bags were stolen
at a depot in this city from a Western
express that reached here Tuesday,
that the letters were carried away.
that the thieves boarded an outgoing
steamer and are now on their way to
Europe or to one Of the Southern ports.
All that l am at liberty to tell" said
Postmaster Dayton today, lis that
these letters were found in the bay
just off Coney Island, having been
dropped by an outgoing steamer. That
is all we can tell at present There has
been a robbery and the postoffice In
spectors have the case In hand.''
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
ALLY ORGANIZED AND OFF,
GERS ELECTED.
RED LAKE FALLS THE SEAT.
A TRIVIAL QUARREL AT
STANLEY.
IRRIGATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
BILE DiscOvery-Family of Five
Dead.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RED LAKE, Mimi, Dec 26.-While
the Christmas eve Of 1896 was the oc-
casion of much jollifcation the world
over, the village Of Red Lake Falls
was doubtless the merriest, for Gov.
CIough had issued his proclamation es-
tablishing Red Lake county as one of
the legal counties Of the state. The
final act OF organization was perfected
today at a meeting of the county
commissioners. The following officers
were elected: Auditor, w. T. Mullarky,
Thief River Falls; treasurer, M. A.
Hatton, Lake Pleasant; register, s. A.
Swanson, Wylie; sheriff, Sam Dainerd,
ST. Hi1aire; county attorney, Charles e.
Boughton, Red Lake Falls; superin-
tendent of schools, Frank Geffois, Terre
Bonnie; surveyor, P. o. Heglund; cor
oEer, Joe Belaire. The establishing of
Red Lake county is complete victory
for Red Lake Falls over Crookston,
the county seat Of Polk county, from
which Red Lake is detached.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27

had an injunction served on the First
State bank, Of this city, restraining
it from paying over to the bank Of
Caledonia any of the $4,000 that they
now have in deposit here. The de-
scription Of the dead bandits partner
in crime, who is still at large, is given
as follows: He was about five feet
eight inches in height weighing about
135 pounds, was of dark complexion
and had about ten days growth of
whiskers on his face, but no mustache,
and black hair which was quite long
He has mole or lump on the left side
of his face just between the eye and
the ear : He has habit when not talk
ing to any one of seeming to be study
ing. He was somewhat of a whistler
and smoked. He would not look per-
son in the eyes. A reward will proba-
bly, be offered for his capture.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
NEW RACE TROUBLES.
Negroes and Whites at Odds In
Several Kentucky Localities

PADUCAH, KY, Dec. pa race riot
seemed impending last night at Princeton,
KY Pat Hawks and another negro attacked
Harry Rand, white man, in Stevens saloon,
with brass knuckles. The two negroes left the
saloon and attacked two other white men,
whom they met outside. AS soon as the news
was received posse Of whites went In search
Of the negroes. Hawks, who started the diff
Guilty, is q notorious character, and if he re-
turns to Princeton, will likely be hanged.
There came near being a general fight be-
tween whites and negroes at Elva Marshall
county, last night. ElYa is near the Calvert
City section, where no negroes are allowed to
live and where seven or eight were recently
shot by mob of white men. Negro tramps
met a white man in the road and asked him il
he knew where Calvert City was. He said that
he did but that it was not very healthy there
for negroes. This enraged them and they both
assailed him with clubs and seriously hurt
him.
McCracken county has also come to the
front with race troubles. Last night Ollie
Overstreet a brother OF Otie Oyerstreet, a
prominent grocer of Padacah, attacked
by two negroes near his home. five miles
from the city on the Lovelaeeville pike. He
was beaten into insensibility and left. When
afterwards he managed to get up and give
the alarm, crowd of neighbors proceeded
with guns to scour the woods, but failed to
find the negroes. The feeling between the
races down in this part of Kentucky is in
tenEe, although well suppressed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
WHOLE FAMILY DEAD,
Hunters Make a Horrible Discovery
Near Hewitt,

VERNDALE, Mimi, Dec 26.-The
Sun says that two young men residing
near Hewitt were in Verndale yester-
day and reported finding the dead
bodies Of family of five in their own
home several miles north of here.
A party of hunters had stopped at
the house and were Mortified to dis
cover the badly decomposed remains
of Charles Bectler, his wife and three
children. They Immediately reported
the matter TO friends living near
Hewitt, where the family formerly re-
sided, but were unable to state whether
it was case of foul play or not.
Mr.. Ward, who moved the family to
their new home last spring, has gone
to the scene Of the suspected murder.
but has not vet returned
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
SPANS NAVY.
Two Strong Additions to Her Fight
ing Force,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-An inter
esting item in the last publication by
the naval intelligence Office is the
statement of the naval construction
that the Spanish government has in
hand. 1t appears that orders have
been given to a big italian firm near
Genoa, to build Immediately an ar
mored cruiser which will be named
the Pedro Aragon. She will be ON the
lines Of the crack cruiser Guiseppi
CaribalH II which Spain has pur-
chased and rechristened the Cristobal
Colon. The latter is to be delivered by
the builders to the Spanish govern
ment complete, next February. Only
fifteen months are allowed for the con-
struction of the Aragon. Both of these
cruisers are to be supplied With the
tubular boilers in vogue in the
French navy When finished the yes.
sells will be slightly more formidable
than our best armored cruiser, the
New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27

matte relations could exist between
these rebels and the government of
the United States.
''If this country interferes by arms
in that contest, it must be by assisting
the rebels in Cuba to displace the
Spanish government and to set up an
other, and this would be a declaration
Of war against Spain, a country with
which we are and always have been
at peace, and from which we have
received no injury and no provocation.
1t would be a gross and utterly I'M
justifiable violation Of international
law, which no country can afford to
perpetrate in the eyes of the world. It
would in my judgment be fatal to that
restoration of business prosperity which
is now our most vital necessity"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
Flour Mill Failure.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Judge Hancey this
afternoon appointed the Chicago Title Trust
company receiver fol the firm of Norton G.
Co., which operates the Lockport Touring
mills, one of the oldest concerns in the vicin-
ity of Chicago. The partnership has been in
existence for nearly forty years. the present
partners having taken the mill from their
father: The failure is regarded as large
one the assets reaching nearly half a million
while the liabilities are said to be consid-
erably less. The failure is attributed to
heavy speculations by one of the partners
on the board of trade some years ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
GOLD BRICK GAME
Successfully Worked by Prominent
Colorado Italian.

PUEBLO, Col, Dec. ga sensation was
created here today by the arrest of Hector
Chiariglion. a well-known business man;
Charles Mosco, wife, and Zelius Selist,
their possession. The prisoners are Italians.
and Chiariglion at the national meeting of
the Italian Societies of America, in Chicago,
recently was elected president of the gen
eral organization. 1t was first believed an
important gang of counterfeiters had been
caught, but late tonight it is learned the
men had been working a swndle similar to
the green goods game using gold coins
and rolls of lead. In the cellar of Mosco' s
house was found a complete counterfeiting
outfit. and this, 1T is said, was used in heec-
ing the victims of the gang. They are said
to have done a f1ourishing business for
months.