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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
CHINESE FUNERALS.
One of the Most Gorgeous Scenes in the
Far East


y well conducted Chinese funeral is
one of the most gorgeous scenes in Asia
At the front of the funeral procession
walk the noisy musicless musicians.
Then come men bearing the insignia of
the dignity of the deceased, if he had any.
Next come more men, carrying figures of
animals, idols, umbrellas and blue and
white streamers. After them come men
carrying pans of perfume. Just before
the coffin walk BONES, Chinese priests.
Over the coffin Il canopy is usually car
ried. The casket is borne by about Il
score of men. Immediately behind the
coffin walk the children of the deceased
The eldest son comes first. He is dressed
i'll canvas and leans heavily upon stout
stick. He is supposed to be too ex-
hausted by grief and fasting to walk
without the aid of the staff. The other
children and relatives follow this chief
mourner. They are clothed in white
linen garments. The women are carried
i'll chairs. They sob and wall at intervals
AID in unison When the burying place
is reached the BONES begin chanting n
mass for the dead and the coffin is put
into the tomb. a large oblong white
marble table is placed before the tomb.
On the middle of it is set censor and
two vases and two candlesticks, all of as
exquisite workmanship as possible. Then
they have paper cremation. Paper
figures of men, horses, garments and
score of other things are burned They
are supposed to undergo material re-
surrection and to be useful to the dead.in
the Chinese heaven. The tomb is sealed
up or closed and an entertainment con-
cludes the ceremony ut the grave.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

In a recent letter to the manufacturers
Mr.. w. F. Benjamin, editor of the Spec
tator, Rushford, n. T., says: ct may
he pleasure to you to know the high
esteem in which Chamberlain medicines
are held by the people of your own State,
where they must be best known. An
aunt of mine, who resides at Dexter,
Iowa, was about to visit me few years
since and before leaving home wrote me
asking if they were sold here, stating if
they were not she would bring quantity
with her, as she did not like to be with
out them The medicines referred TO
are Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
fan Gus for its cures of colds and Group;
Chambe:lain's Pain Balm, for rheuma-
tism. lame back, pains in the side and
chest, and Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel com
plants. These medicines have been in
constant use in Iowa for almost quar-
ter of n century The people have learn
ed that they are articles of great worth
and merit, and unequaled by any other
They are for sale here by the Chas. Lyle
Drug Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
NOW IT'S PAPER MATCHES.
1t is Not Unlikely That They Will Take
the Place of the Wooden Article

a match has just been invented by an
English genius which promises to become
n formidable rival to the present match
in general use. The idea of the invention
is based on the old plan of rolling up
paper and lighting it at IL flame already
in existence.
The paper is immersed in wax, stearine
and similar substances, and burns with
light, smokeless and odoress flame.
Cut into match lengths it is dipped into
PHOSPHORUS wax, like the common wax
match. The invention is regarded rs
timely one,as the wood used in the max
ing of matches is constantly growing
more scarce and costly
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
THE ONE RESTRAINING FACT.


"Do you know that you are hindering
fifty people that want to get down town
to their businessy' yelled the motorman
of Wentworth avenue car the other
morning to the ~~driver of II coal wagon
just ahead.
"That's all right" cheerfully respond
ed the driver. There's lot of people
waitin' for this COAL
you'll get there just as quick if you
turn out.''
81 can't turn out"
"That's lien
"You wouldn't tell me that if l was
where could reach you
"You can reach me any time You want
to, and you know it, you dirty faced
Algerine You're monopolst and a
hog, and can smash the mouth off you
the best day you ever saw"
"If it wasn't for leaving my horses"
No, you wouldn't, you smutty-faced
whelpW shouted the motorman. YOU'RE
Il mean, low, gum blasted sneak! You
haven't got the decency of sewer fat!
You're n goldinged, insignificant, pusil-
luminous, ragged, dirty, cheap scate of II
tenth assistant barn-yard CORPORAL
Say interposed passenger on the
car, ''that's horrible language you're
using. For the sake of ordinary pro-
priety, let up, will you:'
AT this moment the driver of the coal
wagon turned leisurely down Il side
street, and the angry motorman said, as
the car shot ahead again:
I'D have talked a burned sight worse
than that to him if he hadn't been my
brother"
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
DID YOU EVER

Try Electric Bitters as n remedy for your
troubles? If not get Il bottle now and
get relief. This medicine has been found
to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and
cure of all Female Complaints exerting a
wonderful direct influence in giving
strength and tone to the organs. If you
have Loss of Appetite. Constipation,
Headache, Painting Spells, or are Ner-
vous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or
troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bit
tiers is the medicine you need. Health
and Strength are guaranteed hy its use
Fifty cents and T1.00 at Massie's Pharm-
acy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

70 bed. He is 1istless and without energy.
The chances are he is dizzy, has "heart-
burn" palpitation, sees black spots be-
fore his eyes, has headache and is bilious
What nonsense it is to let condition of
that sort continue. Ninc-tenths of all
the sickness in the world comes from
constipation and neglect OF it. 1t is a
simple thing to cure if you go about it
right. It's bad thing and a serious thing
If you don't take the right medicine. DR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are designed for
the cure Of constipation. The Pellets {"
are tiny, sugar-oate,l grarules. One is
q laxative, two mild cathartic. Every
body who has ever used them has good
word for them. They have prevented
more serious illness than any other
remedy ever sold. Druggists sell them,
and an honest druggist will not Try to
sell you something else.
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser is the greatest family doctor book ever
published. Il explains human physiology
and the laws of life and health in plain vet
scientific language. 1t has lad tremen-
dous sale; $50 COO copies at 81. 80 each bound
IN cloth. The present free edition is the
same in all respects except tina; It is bound
IN strong manila paper covers. copy will
be absolutely given away 10 anyone wlu
sends III one-cent sidiu;s TO pay cost Of
mailing only, 10 Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, No. 665 I1aiu Stre.:
Buffalo, n. y.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
BUCKLEN's ARNICA sALvE.

The Best Salvc in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhcum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
hlains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quircd. 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded Price %
cents per box. For sale at Massic's phar.
macy, 100 jefferson street, Roanoke
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
THE FAIR.

Have you been to the Fair? Now open
at No. Salem avenue, with an elegant
inc of books, stationary, glassware, inks.
pencils, tablets etc. Give MS call and
inspect our stock. George Gravatt, Man
aver.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Having no soda water nor ice cream
customers, prescriptions are given imme-
date attention. H. c. Barnes, "He puts
up prescriptions.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
Bad dreams dis

!. Bad dreams dis
tress the man whose
digestion is out of
order. Constipation
creates more dreaIns
than are i'll the infer.
nal regions. Peoplx
who are troubledwith
constipation ele er
badly and restlessly.
Sometimes they can
not sleep at all, and
when they do sleep,
the dreams come. 1t
doesn't take so very
long to wear a man
out with that sort Of
thing. He gets up
in the morning feel
ing worse than he
did when he went
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
COLOR LINEN SOUTH AMERICA.
1t Is as strongly Drawn There in Any
Part of America.

1t Is as strongly Drawn There in Any
Part of America.
1t rarely if ever happens that a native,
whatever his rank, is received on any
social occasion inside a white house; in
deed, he would seldom be permitted, eX-
cept as a domestic servant, to enter a
private house at all. When Khama, The
famous chief of the Ba-Mangwato, a
Christian, and a man of admittedly
high character, who ruled his people
with singular wisdom and ability, was
in England last autumn, and was there
entertained at lunch by the duke of
Westminster and other persons of social
eminence, the news excited general an
noyance and disgust among the whites
in South Africa. A story was told me
of a garden party given by the wife OF a
leading white ecclesiastic, the appear
ance at which of a native clergyman led
many of the white guests to withdraw
in dudgeon.
Once, when I was a guest at mission
station in Basutoland, I was asked by
my host whether I objected to his bring
ing in o the family meal a native pa tor,
who had been preaching to the native
congregation. When / expressed some
surprise that he should think it neces-
sary to ask, he explained that race feel
ing was SO strong among the colonists
that it would have been deemed i'm
proper, and, indeed, insulting to make
white guest sit down at the same BILE
with a black man, unless special permits
sion had first been given. Thus one may
say that there is nc social intercourse
whatever between the races; their re-
lations are purely those of business.
Now and then a black man gets ahead
of the white. but the latter's pride of
race remains. 1 was told of white
who condescended to be hired to work
by a Kafir, but stipulated that the Kafir
should address him as "Boss."
OF intermarriage there is, of course,
no question. 1t is not forbidden by law
in the two British colonies, as it is in
most, if not all, of the southern states of
America, but it is excessively rare; nor
does it appear that there are now other
irregular unions outside marriages, as
there constantly were in the old days
while slavery existed. In this respect
the case of South Africa remarkably
resembles the southern states, where
also there is now very little mixture of
blood, though there was a great deal
so years ago. Probably in both cases it
is better that the races should not min
gle their blood; for the white race would
be likely to lose more than the black
race would gain.-James Bryce, M. p,
in Century
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
POPULAR TIMEPiEcES.
Some Facts Concerning the Sale and Pro-
duction of Open-Faced Watches.


duction of OPen-Faced Watches.
In this country almost everybody
carries watch Probably nine-tenths
of the men, great numbers of women
and many Young people carry watches
In the best trade of the city many more
watches of gold are sold than of silver;
of all the witches sold throughout the
country about 25 per cent. are of gold.
The percentage of gold watches is in
creasing. The fashionable watch OF
the day is open-faced. The sale OF
open-faced watches is increasing, es-
pecially in fine watches, but it is in
creasing also in watches of other
grades. OF fine gold watches sold in
the city probably two-thirds are now
made open-faced. OF all the watches
sold in the United States, gold and sill
yer, probably from quarter to third
are now made open-faced.
The modern watch has for one of its
characteristics th;nness. A mans
watch, which is now made more es-
pecially to wear with evening dress
and is all the time growing in favor,
is a plain, thin, open-faced gold watch
which takes up but little room in the
pocket Perfect in its simplicity, this
watch is at the same time of fine work
manship and great beauty. 1t sells
at $3.50. A gold watch not so thin nor
so finely finished, but a very handsome
modern watch and an excellent time
keeper, by the same makers and bear
ing their name, can be bought in open
face, the case of 1S-carat gold, for sos;
in double case, for $40. But gold
watches and good watches, too, can be
bought for very much less than these
prices; in fact, there never was a time
when watches generally were made in
such tasteful shapes, or when they
were so good for the money or so cheap
as now.
Taking all the grades together, the
American production of watches is
about 1000 daily; the importation OF
watches amounts to about the same
number. One might at first wonder
what becomes of all these watches
A great number are taken up annually
by the new buyers coming into the
market for the first time, out of the
constant and large increase in the pop
ulation. Great the percentage of
watch owners now is in this country
that is also increasing. Many immi-
grants buy watches as soon as they get
the money; some men own more than
one watch; watches wear out, or their
owners lay them aside for better
watch or for one of newer style;
watches are lost and destroyed, and
when one comes to take all things into
consideration it will be seen that the
great production of watches may be in
large measure easily accounted for
n. Y. Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
WE MIGHT HAVE HAD WINGS.
Man Reduced to Using Legs Because the
Earth Was So Attractive.

Man Reduced to Using Legs Because the
Earth Was So Attractive.
If the attractions of the earth were
less powerful our winged tribes might
have received much greater develop
ment. In virtue of the unquestionable
principle known 1.-The struggle for
existence" these winged creatures,
dominating all others, would have been
the strongest. Progress would have
been effected along this line. The SUI
perior race, the human race, would
have been a winged race. These simple
considerations, which it may be easy to
extend much further, are enough to
convince US that our human form is
essentially terrestrial, and that the in
liabitants of Mars cannot resemble us.
They are different.
Upon Mars, for example. one might
suppose, without scientific heresy, that
the remarkable lightness of their bodies
may have developed the winged race
more highly in the direction indicated,
and that the inhabitants of this planet
may have received the privilege of
flight.
Does this amount to saying that, for
this reason, they must necessarily have
the form of birds? No. The bats, are
they not mammals which suckle their
young? Is it saying, then, that we must
imagine them under this form? Not
at all. May they not rather be like
dragon flies futtering in the air above
the lakes and canals? As to this point
we can imagine everything and prove
nothing. 1t is even highly probable
that the reality is something absolutely
different from all our terrestrial con-
ceptions.
On the one hand the 1ightness of the
Marian beings is favorable to their
winged constitution. On the other
hand, however, the atmosphere is hard
" well fitted to sustain them. But still
we recall that terrestrial zoology fur
nishes instances of birds which are very
heavy, such as condors and the vultures.
and these are just the ones which fly
highest in the most rarified regions of
our atmosphere; they have been OBJ
served even above the SUBMITS of the
Hima1ayas, the Andes and the Cordil-
leras, at elevations of from 5000 to 5000
meters (27,OOO TO 10000 feet, where
they can still soar freely, thanks to the
enormous spread Of their wings No-
must we lose sight of the fact that n
human being weighing 20 Kilograms
054 pounds) would weigh not more
than &c Kilograms Csc pounds) if trans
ported to the globe o. Mars--Nortb
American Review.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
Judicial advice on Leg Pulling.

The question is frequently asked:
What shall we do with our daughters? p
To this last week an applicant a the
Greenwich police court added, when
they will not get up in the morning."
The applicants daughter was FL, and
so rooted was her objection to early
rising, or, apparently, rising at all, that
her father was driven to ask the near
est magistrates advice. The latter had
no sympathy with the young lady and
advised that she should be forcibly
dragged from her bed by a string tied
round her leg But one point seems
10 have been missed ny the magistrate.
Like the hare of cookery-book celebrity,
rhe irate father viii fizst have to catch
the leg before he can attach the string
TO it, and it is extremely proba bic that
ne viii discover that a young woman
with such an overpowering fondncss
Tor her bed will find means to outwit
both magistrate and parent Cold
water administered externally at in
tervals N igist prove more efficacious
than the str:rE.--St. James Budget.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
The Eskimo Character.

We found the Innuits very quick-wit-
ted and intelligent; with unvarying
good nature and a keen appreciation of
fun, they proved themselves compan-
ionable in spite of their uncleanliness.
Their skill manifested itself in many
ways during these long excursions.
Later in the year it showed itself, on
one occasion, in particularly interest
ing way. Having found it necessary to
cross a glacier on hunting trip, our
Innuits paused at the edge and halloed
to ascertain the direction of the echo.
On the return a storm of snow and fog
had obliterated all landmarks, but the
Innuits easily found the way by means
of the echo.
There was always a charm in their
strange melodies, and particularly at
night, as they slowly rowed along the
black waters among ghostly, beautiful
icebergs, under the starless sky. And
such melodies! They were like the
signing of the winds, low, contented,
full-breathed, yet with an undertone of
sadness. But at times their songs are
vehement with joy and action.-Frank
Wilbert Stokes, in Century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Il ne church property in the United
States is valued at $500, 900 900.
I'm tie mathematical honor list of
Cambridge university appear the names
of w G. Grace. the son of DIR. Grace, and
H. Gray, both members of the univer-
sity cricket IL.
a leaf of the book of EccIesiasticus,
the first fragment of the book found
written in the original Hebrew, has
been discovered among the manu-
scripts brought from Palestine by Mrs.
Gibson and Miss Lewis.
Madrid schools are so bad that
German residents of the city have
united to establish a school where their
children may obtain as good an educa-
ton as in more civilized parts of Eu-
rope for a reasonable outlay OF money.
The Christian Advocate says that
Prof. James Taft Hatfield, of Northwest
ern university, has not accepted the
chair of German in Wesleyan university.
He will spend the coming year in Eu-
rope, after which he will resume his
duties in Northwestern university.
The archbishop of Canterbury's
choice of third English bishop for
Japan to be called bishop of Hok-
kaido-has fallen on Cambridge
-Sloidi, INC'- NCLubsiIl
principal of the Theological college at
Osaka, who has been in Japan since
1873.
Church of England ehaplains at
Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo and other
places on the Riviera have issued an adj
dress suggesting that English clergy
men keep away from the gambling
tables, concerts and other amusements
of Monte Carlo, as their presence there
furnishes bad example.
downing college at Cambridge is
in financial straits and has sold some
acres of its grounds to the university
for building purposes. The college
perpetuates the name of the notorious
Sir George Downing, Bart, one of Har-
wards earliest graduates, and one of
the most sl1illful diplomats of the conf
monwealth and the restoration.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
EARTH's GIANT VALLEY.
Fierce Natives Indulge in Strange and
Disgusting Customs


The greatest valley in the world, ac-
cording to DIR. j. w. Gregory, an Eng
Hsh explorer, is the Great Rift val
ley, which is an immense depression or
trough which runs through eastern
Africa 1000 miles from the Lebanons
almost to the cape THE Great Rift
Valley is the title of DIR. Gregory's
book, which has just appeared in Lon
don, which is the newest, most compre-
hensive and important of the works
that have appeared on this region.
One of the most fascinating portions
of this record of travel is that relating
to the Nasal, the most ferocious of the
African races. You never can be sure
of your Nasal, even when you have
spat upon him and he upon you. That
is how they swear eternal friendship,
DIR. Gregory says-the harder one spits
the more the other feels f1attered. How
it is done and what the Nasal equivalent
for Misunderstanding is the traveller explains
in this wise:
The chief came up, and for the first
time held out 'knobkerry' cut from Il
rhinoceros horn for me to shake. ], of
course. shook it, glad of this expression
of friendliness, though quite aware that
if it stopped at this it meant nothing.
But as 1 walked down the slope from
the camp after the men he came up
again, and this time not only held out
his knobkerry, but as L shook one end
he shook the other. After walking
few yards he repeated this more Wig
orously. Then at last he held out his
hand; We shook hands, at first coldly,
and then more cordially. Finally, after
we had walked a couple of hundred
yards, he repeated the process and the
chief spat upon me, a salutation which
l returned with perhaps unnecessary
vigor. I had been warned that when
ever Nasal retire from a conference
without splitting the spit of peace
squalls may be expected. was. there
fore, much relieved when the friendly
rite had been performed
But all this meant nothing, for that
very night band of Nasal warriors,
led by this same chief, came crawling
snakily through the grass, bent upon
massacring the camp. But the traveller
was ready for them and they crawled
back, leaving several of their dead upon
the field.
DIR. Gregory's botanical and zoolog
ical observations are full of interest
He seems to have solved one of the prob
lens that have vexed African explorers
for long time: Why there should be
in some places vast heaps of bones of
animals all mixed together. Some
writers have attributed this to the ac-
ton of a deluge, but DIR. Gregory says
the bones are the remains of animals
that in season of drought have fought
around the water holes for their last
drOp.-N. Y. journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01
A VERY WILD FLOWER.

Within a garden once there grew
A How that seemed the very pattern
OF all propriety; none knew
She at heart wandering siattern-
The gardener old, with care and pain,
Had trained her up she should grow,
Nor dreamed amid his labor vain
That rank rebellion lurked below
A name sufficiently high-sounding
He diligently sought for her,
Until he thought that the "Reboundfng
Elizabeth he should prefer.
But when grown UP the flower began
To show the tastes within her hidden;
At every chance quite wild she ran,
In spite of being sternly chidden-
They told her beds for flowers were best;
But daily greater grew her failings;
Up to the fence she boldly pressed,
And stuck her head between the palings.
Then to the street she struggled through,
Tearing to rags her silk attire,
And all along the road she grew,
Regardless quite of dust and mire-
You'll find her now by country ways,
A tattered tramp, though comely yet,
With rosy cheek and saucy gaze,
And known to all as Bouncing Bet.
-Milfred Howells. in ST. Nicholas