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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
One OF the Lost Tribes.

Scattered over the breezy downs of the
Nilgherries, i'll little village of wicker
houses that looks ut IL little distance like
nothing in the world so much as II col
ony Of beehives, live community of
600 or 700 people, who are variously be-
lieved to be the descendants of one of
the lost tribes of Israel, the aborigines of
southern India, and community of
Manichasens.
They believe i'll strange trinity and
hell, Il dismal stream full of leeches
and this they must cross by means of a
single thread. The soul burdened with
sin is too heavy for this slender support,
and the sinner falls into the stream, but
the thread sustains easily the souls of
the good.
The funeral of Toda, for that is the
name of the singular tribe, is as odd in
its way as its religious belief. His body
Is wrapped i'll new cloth and his toes
tied together with red thread. Grain,
sugar, tobacco and money are concealed
Ill his funeral toga to provide him for
his journey across the Styx and the dark
plain beyond.
Two buffaloes are slain beside the
corpse, and the dead mans hands are
placed upon their horns. a piece of his
skull, his hair and his finger nails arc
removed to be used later on at the great
celebration of the death of all those who
during the 10 months have taken the
leap over the great precipice into the bot
tomless abyss. When these tokens are
removed, clarified butter is smeared OH
the fragrant wood of the funeral pyre,
and the body is burned to ashes and the
ashes scattered to the four winds. -
Pearson's Weekly
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
HE WASN'T A DUDE.
And Didn't Want Gas When the Woman
Dentist Pulled His Tooth.

Tho pioneer woman dentist of New York
Is Mrs. Philippine Dieffenbach. AL
though not graduate of any institution.
she has practiccd dentistry for 80 years her
knowledge having been gained in assisting
her husband. So proficient did she be-
como that after his death she took up his
practice and was eventually elected an
honorary member of the Now York College
of Dentistry.
Mrs. Dicifenbach complains of the treat
mont accorded her by her male competitors
and voices the opinions of her fellow fe-
male dentists when she says that they arc
discourtoous in tho extreme
These women have some queer experi-
enccs with their male patients. This is
what ono of them says:
1.-The first man who ever oame into my
hands fairly frightened me to death He
couldn't have been less than feet tall and
was broad in proportion. In basso pro
fundo voice he demanded the extraction of
"A double tooth. Timidly 1 asked him
whether he would take it with or with
out With glance of deep disgust. no
said, Il always take mino straight After
l had explained to him that my inquiry
meant did Inc want gas, he became still
more indignant
Do look like n dizzy dudef' he que
ried sarcastically.
Then got him into the chair, and no
weakened. AT the sight of the forceps he
quailed, and when l asked him to open
his mouth his teeth chartered so that no
couldn't move his jaws. Finally, howev-
err he managed to unclose them, and
promptly inserted plug that put him
completely ut my mercy. BY this time
the perspiration WAS standing out on his
forehead from fright. Go gently, please, >
he managed to calculate. My heart is
weak and tho doctors say that pain is the
worst thing in the world for my complaint
and have II large family too.
well, got the tooth out with ease be-.
fore lie knew it and had placed it on the
table, when he cried: Say, guess l don't
want that out, it'll hurt too much. Lot
me up please. L extracted the plug, and
then the fact dawned upon him that the
operation was over, and he remarked
We'll, I'll be blessed only he didn't say
blessed. New York journal.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
FAME-AN AlLEGORv,

A temple In the morning light
Rose fair upon the mountain heighe
And shot its turrets high
Against tho vaultcd sky.
The youth set forth, with heart afame.
Full armed with faith to writo his name
Among the deathless great
Who conquer adverse fate.
He leaves his home with pouch and staff
And answers buck with easy laugh
Tho warning and distrust
OF those whose hearts arc dust
Tho mountain roads are hard to CLIMB
The solemn centuries of time
Have pressed the wrinkles deop
On every rolling steep.
Wild hungry beasts crouch in his path,
And Shiny serpents hiss their wrath,
While from the trees the owls
Hoot i'll black robes and cowls.
Then follows Night, "a pilgrim old.
A miser hiding tho suns gold,
His dark breast decked with stars
Won i'll celestial wars.
Still through the gloom the temple shod
It's radiance round the travellers head,
But i'll its pallid light
His brown hair turns to white
BY colder winds his face is famed.
Ho longs to clasp some friendly hand
Or feel the welcome touch
OF lips that love him much.
At last the temple gates are won
He enters in, his Journey done,
Thon sinks in blank despair
No living thing is there.
He cannot breathe tho sitting air.
Tho light, n phosphoresccnt glare,
That round his path was shed
Falls only on tho dead
Theodore L. Cook in New York Sun.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

"fo IISHVi V'fr "VIh TIT '''sf IL "
bring us work we will come after II, IN one
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, 1896-05-30

all little this
In Our Press-Room
Can be the rapid dimn4vs and monster cylinder
thousands of shso every day Our largest best pp eu'ng
machine, automatic knife sharp
and tbleing
this floor The wonderful and powerf0:
BLACK WHITE electric It" motor which p'ops the e. machines hines
Attorney. Law. in corner, hardly noticeable 5
p0S1ae Roanoke Va improved Gas Engine to at
momentary notice, n caseo accn to the
electric 5s. motor sn s ss s s s sss This p'' the possibility of
On the Second Floor
ha long s S~ s . a p ms usd . s'D 'nV ,S sn
piece @ establishment
Ticket Printing Machine Think you purchase
ticket Secured behind double locks,
suggests government bonds, witha all hsosa safeguards
Our Establishment
just opposite overlooking Roanoke Gone
the finest finest hotels in t. the sao which gives & magnificent bright
with the Electric Bells, Tubes
Elevators all departments bountiny ppuedw all
kinds of Labor and Tme-savhg Appliances.
Further Along
pesetdng department expert
fingers think and act rapidly and correctly interpreting at times hand
LARGE large type permit handling very large
orders most satisfactory expeditions
department ca Sc many pages in a
:ed plentiful supply of AgD"ica Astronomical Geomoti
@ hsde dims u and ness work. in special ne enable u"
On the Top Floor
which psa probably ,ne nsS" a Ph %ps1 our 1ss Hp
sie which will take wire from SPOOL cut it the length
shape it. and drive through book hFeoOurth of inch thick
of twenty paforsing, punching
machines and the depamentwhich latter
We Print Anything
That can be desired devised from movable type and ink
type It the combination that tells We do not mean to be
egotstcal combining to hamo
NOUS result has been tudyand claim our
right thoroughly.
All together
of things largely success of
systematic together" of
forsi in a departing hasrduced
o a motion lis
IRsorwrooe % be ound in largen Industries. f
be saved there
ne-anhou i thu
Five mini
daily by employees would
$4,000 year. n o margins each of
Quite Recently, Too
The hard tight everything handled econom.
cary-but possibly pushing
("no showing rcuponus
worry; in of peace
preparing i havean stab
o ina COMES am1ni :hes
do not Recently Tor of
lOp
And Our Stock-Rooml
O ourfren Who usually oofp
time could look this department.
d no exagg particle wle
see TON OF KIND TEN TONS OF A KIND
You What, paper in ownGk
Roanoe?" That's what &C. And besides
hundreds other kinds of plain, fancy unique estac
Of Cardboard of a kind as high a a he nOtbe
Iiliputan, either
What Can We Not Do
ucha iits? A card a circular hce nvolope pam
a table
ruled blank OOpage ledger on ALL, assure our
friends AT HOME, from January LIST
The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co.,
Printers Ensraves Manufacturers
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
NOVEL TEAM.
How an Ingenious Fisherman Utiiizes Tur-
ties In His Rusiness.


'Thcrc are ingenious contrivances that
do not find their way into the patent of
flee, " remarked IL clerk in that department
to reporter. Il might also say, in the
same Coz. neotion, that there are men who
seem to be able to turn almost anything
To good account. l was thinking of a fish
erman l know down on the Florida coast.
"A casual observer would see nothing
remarkable about him, and "A visit to his
rude hut would give the impression that
he was poor and shiftless. The principal
thing that interested me when happened
to call at his house for drink of water
while hunting one day was the presence
of two monster sea turtles, both alive
I'VE started q conversation, tho result
of which was that 1 employed him to take
me in n boat OH II fishing expedition the
following day.
I'm the morning called ut his house,
and he was ready. He held two stout
leather thongs in his hand. one end of each
being attached to Is turtle. / was some
what astonished when he started driving
the sea reptiles ahead of us but in reply TO
my questions he said, You'll SEQ.
And i did. We entered the boat. and
tho turtles began to swim, drawing the
boat through the water at u good rate of
speed. The thongs We're fastened TO their
nccks, and he could guide them by simply
turning their heads, exactly rs no would
horses.
In about an hour we reached the fish
ing place, and, tying his turtles to "a tree
on land, my companion proceeded to tho
business of tho day. We went back, drawn
by the turtles, in tho Same way. WASH
ington Star.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

such TO comman admin
not wait
An Up-to-Date Printing Office.
of the the made "devi"
n i owned
would be clcan at least by
arson. time he for he
il immediately
beginning and over it all
q dutesbut not like
the boy who washing his face because 1T will get
oled a establishment
n light and heat
power. the vow ha kept. and
We Do Not Believe
i n which small
blank Northern
friends o business
ism O little, this
In Our PreSS-ROOm
diminutve and cylinder
including the Keeper turning thousands
every and best paper
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
What's the Use of Waiting?

They "all things him who waits but we have no
been waiting and don't propose wait We KNOW prices
A Il nd dont
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

and tainted. Instead of carrying nourishment
to the different parts of the body it carrier
poison, which settles at some point and eats
away the tissues. According to where it set
ties it is called liver or kidney or skin dis
ease--scrofula, erysipelas, eczema, or con-
sumption if it settles on the lungs 1t is all
one trouble: tainted blood clear out this
faint and build up the tissues with rich
blood and the disease is stopped side
tracked it can't go any further. No matter
what the name of disease is if it's blood
disease, DIR. Pierces Golden Medical Dis.
covery will cure it by driving the poison out
of the circulation and creating a new sup
ply of healthy, red life-giving blood to re-
vivc and nourish the wasted tissues. It
puts the digestion III order, invigorates the
blood making organs and builds firm
healthy flesh. Consumption is a blood
disease. Don't believe It can't be cured
1t rs cured every day by DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
Dfar SRI cannot say enough for your Col.
den Medical Discovery" For two years my little
boy suffered with lung troube-frst taking la
grippe; second intermittent fever third lung
trouble. For two years he coughed. The phy.
sician could do no good and thought he must
die was told to try DIR. Pierces Golden Med
ical Discovery. did. and before he had taken
one bottle he began to mend and could cat
little. When he had taken four bottles he was
well and now is as stout as before.
Respectfully yours,
tMr') >zue/zLAa RaeA<
Proctor, Morgan Co., Mo.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30
Before and After

Boiorc-Command me, my queen, even
To the wnolo OF my kingdom!
Aitor--Ton dollars for IA new hatg Ag-
noS, YOU must think am made of money!
Detroit Free Press
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

Probably the highest priced book i'm the
world is an ancient ps4ltcr, for which
luaritch of London asks S26, 600, but no.
body will buy it for actual use.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

Oteea1e ID Like q
railroad train. Il
has q regular way of
IN d giving
and keeps on stead
lily along q certain
track. You can al
always tell how
a disease starts, and
where it will prob
ably end. 1t won't
go out of its way
to oblige you any
than q locomo-
tive will. Disease
usually begins when
the appetite gives
out-that's the first
warning w histle.
Then the stomach
and nutritive organs
fail to supply good
blood. The circula-
xt0r nrN,-a ~@@~ A..
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-30

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
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
Washington stock Exchange.

saiSsm od calI-12 o'clock m.-BeIt RAN Dad
2s, sleg9 at 80; $1,000 at 80; $1,000 az ~. CO.
Insurance, at los. Lincoln Fire Insurance. ~ at
rs M Merge Il, Lno;ype 10 at l2a; at I29:
IanstOn Monotype 10 at ~: Norfolk and Wash
Government Bonds|U S. IS. registered. loss.
BID IS 1925 ASKED i9 hid T. s IS coupon lS2 hid
District Of Columbia Bonds. year fund SIS, ,O3
bid 3o-year fund Gs gold, los bid. Water stock
currency, 112 bid 3.G5s funding, currency, 1913
Miscellaneous Bonds metropolitan Railroad IS.
107 bid. Metropolitan Railroad cony 6s, l2rIs hid
l2G1s asked Belt Railroad 5s. 10 bid 81 asked.
lumhia Railroad IS, Il5rs bid, iiiIs asked. Wash
ington Gas Company 6s, series A, ITO bid. Wash
inston Gas Company COW. es. ia2i5 bid. .. 5.
Electric Light COW. IS, 100 bid. Chesapeake and
can security and Trust Is. +. and A.. 100 bid.
American Security and Trust IS. 4. and o. 100
Washington Market Company imp 6s. los bid.
washington nSSl Market Company ext Gs los bid Ma
Light Infantry list es. 100 bid ''"'''7' W."
-, National Bank s;ocks9Bank Of washinstOn 80
and Mechanic. $50 bid second. iss bid, rs
cspa IL 5d West be End G nG9 6 l2o S
81 bid. Lincoln, loS bid. 10 asked. Ohio. ~ hid.
Deposit and Trust liz bid 10 asked WashinsaR
Loan and Trust, i2l bid, iaa asked. American Sc
ctrllN ana trust, l40 Di0, lfO asked WaSlIingt
Safe Deposit, so bid.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Company. al
bid as asked. Metropolitan, ll15k bid. Columbia
50 bid. Belt, 30 asked. lexington. bid.
Georgeown and Tennallytown. 10 hid. 30 asked.
Gas and Electric Light Stpcks.-Waslington Gas.
AK bid, 46 asked. Georgetown Gas. As bid L. $
Electric Light, 1l74 bid, llsH asked:
Insurance Stocks--Franklin rs bid. Mctropoli-
tan, 20 bid Corcoran. so bid Potomac G5 bid.
Arlington, 1873 bid. German A American. 1T5 bid.
NS ia Ri Union 10 La bid ~ asked GGunsa -
rs hid. Commercial, 4A bid
Title Insurance Stocks.-Rcal Estate Title, 102
bid. 10 asked. Columbia Title. 5' hid 81 asked.
Washington Title. bid. District Title, bid.
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylvanla, IS bid, 20 asked
oIhone. sly hid 2 asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage
20 bid. .25 asked.
Miscellaneous stocks - Mergenihalar Idnoty g
125 bid, lbs asked Lanstcn MonOtype, bid.
asked, Washington Market, IL bid. Great Falls
lee 100 bid. 100 asked. Norfolk ard Washington
Steamboat, 100 bid. Lincoln Hall, 30 asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
THE DU POINT CASE.
The Delaware Claimant Believed to
Have Fair Chance.

Should the river and harbor bill be finally
disposed of this evening" the Senate will
devote tomorrow and Friday to final con-
slderation of the case of Henry A. Du
Pont, who claims to have been elected a
Senator from the state of Delaware BY
the unanimous consent agreement reached
a week ago Monday, this case Is to be
taken up Immediately after the routine
morning business the day after the river
and harbor bill is passed by the Senate
and to be voted upon at o'clock on the
day following. This will result in a vote
Friday afternoon at that hour.
For the last day or two there has been a
general feeling that Du Points chances,
which up to few days ago were regarded
as very slim indeed, were considerably
brighter, and the story was in circulation
that a deal had been arranged whereby
Mr. Du Pont was to be seated by the votes
OF Senators Stewart and Jones in consid-
Grafton Of certain votes to be delivered for
the Santa Monica harbor proposition in the
river and harbor bill. This project was
laid at the door of c. P. Huntington who
1t is known by everybody at the Capitol, is
the father of the Santa Monica plan and
has great personal influence with the two
Nevada Senators, whose votes 1t Is con-
coded alone stand between Mr. Du POINT
and the SenatorShip.
he Santa Monica matter, however, has
not been compromised, and it remains to be
seen whether the alleged deal was reality
ard VIII become matter of record by it's
results or whether it was merely fiction.
The vote on the Du Pont resolution will
certainly be very close, as the party lines
are drawn strictly between the republicans
and the democrats, and the populists hold
the balance of power. Four of the Dopu-
lists, Allen, Butler, Kyle and PETER, have
already taken ground against Du Pont. and
1t remains with Senators Jones and Stew
art of Nevada to settle the matter either
by their votes or their silence. Ir the vote
taken a week ago Monday to take up the
Du Pont resolution these two refused TO
vote, Mr. Stewart Icing in his chair in the
Senate and Mr.. Jones icing in the cloak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
HE HAS ARED.
Father of Irving Ford Not to BE
Found.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
BURNT MILLS. Md, May 13-Ths sec
ton, which has had comparative quiet for the
past four days, is, as far as the colored resi-
dents are concerned, again worked up by
the supposed mysterious disappearance Of
the father of Irving Ford, the murderer The
old man dressed himself with great care on
Sunday morning last, and told those in his
house that he would take a little walk
toward the woods. but would return for
breakfast He has not returned vet, and
nothing has been heard from him, though
some of his friends here searched the woods
very thoroughly for him. Among some there
Is theory that the old man is playing an
Insane dodge, so as to help the sons defense
1t was thought that the old man had gone to
Washington, but parties who went from
here to Washington looking for him have
returned without ascertaining anything
about him or his movements
The wife of Irving Ford suddenly packed
up her furniture yesterday morning and
rented a room in house on 11th near v
street northwest, and says she has no in
tention of.returning; that she Is more fear
ful of old man Ford than she was of her
husband. She complained that all the way
through the father endeavored to create the
impression among the police and detectives
that she, the wife, had been fully informed
OF Fords crime, when the fact was all the
information she had about it came from the
old man himself. Some of her colored friends
about here raised enough money to pay her
room rent for a couple of months in Wash
fngton and support herself and child, should
SIZE not De able to secure work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
Free Water for the Thirsty.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
,Jou,p 10 Wv, oR,o -

In coming down to pay office this morn
ing I witnessed a sight which brought up
a picture of the good old days when the
Columbia engine house used TO stand on
the corner of New Jersey avenue and B
street southeast, surrounded by grand old
elms and with hospitable pump before its
door, from which flowed cool, pure water
welcome to ALL The sight was a poor
newsboy begging a drink and trying to
get it from the hose with which the coast
survey lawn was being watered.
The Commissioners have taken away the
pumps, which once could be found on every
square, on the ground of health. Can they
not replace them with hydrants, as was
promised, on that same ground?
The Star will receive the blessings of
many If 1t will add one more to it's long list
of victories by interesting itself in this
question of water for thirsty public
Not only those who have no water in
their houses will show their gratitude but
the many on our streets these warm days
who, desiring a drink. prefer Potomac
water TO beer PERCY E. CLARKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
POSTAL TEL EGRAPH Y
The Senate Post Office Committee Con-
slider It.
Interesting Statements Today by Ex-
pert Electricians and Prac-
teal Photographers.

The Senate committee on post offices and
post roads gave a hearing today on the
Butler postal telegraph bill. p. B. Duany
of New Jersey. the electrical inventor and
expert; b. Morgan Esler of Philadelphia
and Mr.. Bell, who represents the Typo
graphical Union, were present in support
Of the measure. Mr.. Bell announced that
he would give. way at this time to Mr.. Du-
iany, whose testimony would be of great
value to the committee, and would himself
ask for a hearing at another time.
Mr.. Dulany made very int eresling argu-
ment, pointing out to the committee how
the cost, both of construction and opera
ton of a government telegraph, through
the use of machine telegraphy, would be
greatly less than the present service by
private corporations. Senators Chandler,
Carter. Butler. Hill. Villas, Burrows and
Mitchell OF Oregon were present and in
dicated deep interest in the statements
of the speaker
MIR. Dulany stated that il was practi-
cable to send by the multipIex system 1000
words a minute from Chicago TO New
YORK, and 1900 words a minute between
Washington and New York. He explained
the postal telegraph system of England,
and showed why it did not pay expenses
He contended for cheap service furnish
cd by this government in the place of the
present private service, and held that it
would pay.
At their present excessive capitaliza-
tion and by the method of manual opera
ton he did rot think the existing COM
panies could furnish much cheaper serv-
ice, nor could the government if it assum-
ed the same burdens furnish any cheaper
service. A completely new service could be
supplied. however. at less cost, which
would be infinitely superior and greatly
cheaper
Mr.. Dulany occupied about three-uuarters
OF an hour, and many questions showing the
interest of the committee, were asked At
the close of his remarks the committee or
dered that his statement be printed as con-
gressonal document.