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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-07
I.n9AL NOTICES.

a certain deed of tl'nst from w. J. & L.
Blair, Jr., to George y. Peet, trustee, by
deed dated the 9th day of May, 1891. and
recorded in deed book G3, page 1874. save
ana except the following parcel of land
which has been released from the lien of
SAID deed OF trust and will not be sold
under the decree above rendered.:
Beginning at II point 800 feet north of
Day street and g. feet east of Henry
street on the west.line of the above de-
scribed lot, thence easterly 30 feet to n
point, thence nol therly 46 feet to a point,
thence westerly 3l.5 feet to n point.
thence southerly with the westerly line
OF the above described lot i6 feet to the
place of beginning.
TERMS OF SALE: One third cash.
the balance TO be paid in one and two
years from the day of sale, with interest
from that date, for which deferred nav.
menfs the commissioner shall receive the
notes of the purchaser, and the title of
the land sold will be retained until a deed
shall have been ordered by the court in
the above cause.
LUCIAN II. COCKE,
Special Commissioner.
l, ,. ;. Brooke. clerk of the hustincs
court, city of Roanoke, do certify that the
bond requiI ed of the special commissioner
TONED cause has been given.
Given under my hand this the 9th dav
of November, 1896.
ii til s. S. BROOKE, Clerk.
By VIRTUE OF \ CERTAIN DEED
of trust from Anna T. Woodruff to the
undersigned, dated the 10Th of December,
and recorded in the clerk Office for the
city of Roanoke, in deed book n. page G6
winch was given to secure the payment
of certain bond to tine Old Dominion
Building and Loan Association. default
having been made in the payment of Il
part thereof and being directed by said
association SO to do, we shalt offer for
sale ut public..auctioh on the premises on
TUESDAY,. NOVEMBER 30. 1896. at / /
o'clock II. m. the following described par
Gel of land with its improvements:
Beginning ut point on the southwest
corner OF Salem avenue and Welch street,
thence west with Salem avenue CD feet to
point and running back in southerly
direction between parallel lines 200 feet
to Rorer avenue.
ERMS-Cash as to expenses of sale as
we'll rs the sum of S2,9Sl.61, being the
amount due under the deed of trust above
mentioned, the balance upon Il credit of
one and two years, the purchaser to give
his negotiable notes, to be secured 10y a
deed of trust on the property conveyed
l.. III. COCKE.
j. w. SHIELDS,
10 80 til Trustees.
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AN EARLY GRADUATION.

"Is your daughter still taking music
lessonss'
son the pianny, do you manc:"
eyes"
''Lord love you, no. She only took
swim lessons. She's teaching nowr'-
Cleveland Plaindealer
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-07
GETTING HIM READY.

Wife lin the usual strain)-Archibald,
have you taken a drink to-day?
Archibald-No, my dear-on no Tor.
Wife-Well, go and take two, have a
milliner's bill for your consideration
Exchange.
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1880 til

10 80 til Trustees.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE.
Roanoke and Southern Railway. Notice
is hereby given shat pursuant TO II decree
of foreclosure and sale of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the
Western District of North Carolina, filed
on the 9TH day of October, 1896, in II GER
tain cause in equity pending in said
Court, entitled the Mercantile Trust and
Deposit Company of Baltimore, Trustee,
Complainant, VS.. the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad Company, and the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company,
Defendants, and certain other decree
ancillary thereto, entered in Il cause in
equity pending between the same parties
in the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Western District of Virginia,
We, Ct. II. Bowden and Charles Sharp,
rs Special Masters, will sell Mt public
auction, to the highest bidder or bidders,
Mt the passenger station upon the railroad
of the Roanoke and Southern Railway
Company ut Winston, Forsyth County,
North Carolina, On Tuesday, the 2ith day
of November 1896, at two O'Clock in the
afternoon, the railroads, franchises, prop
crty and premises mentioned in the said
DEGREES and described rs follows:
All and singular the entire line of rail
road of the Roanoke and Southern Rail-
way Company constr ucted on March 10th
1892, or thereafter constructed, extending
from the City oil Roanoke, in the State of
Virginia, and running thence through
the towns of Martnsville, in Henry
County. Virginia, to Winston Salem in
Forsyth County, North Carolina, Il dis
lance of about one hundred and twenty
two and fifty. three hundrcdths O22. 53)
miles, and all extensions thereof, and all
lateral or branch roads from any part or
parts of the road Of the Roanoke and
Southern Railway Company, including
the right of way therefor, the roadbed
thereof, and superstructurc aud tracks
thereon, and all stations, dcpots and shop
grounds, yards and other grounds used
in the operation of the said railroad, aud
all rails, railways, tracks, sidings,
switches, bridges, fences, turn tables,
water tanks, yiaducts, culverts, main
passenger and other dcpots, station
houses, freight houses, machine shops,
docks and all other structures, buildings
and fixtures whatsoever acquired for the
Use and operation of said railroad; and to-
gether with all the rolling stock, machin-
cry, tools, implements, fuel and materials
of said Roanoke and Southern Railway
Company owned or acquired ms part of
the said railroad, and all the real and per-
sonal estate owned on March 10Th, 1892,
or thereafter acquired anu used rs part of
saiu railroad.
ioSether Wl'n aii ohe coil orate rights,
privileges ana franchises OF the said de
leroaht toahoke ana southern hallway
Company possessed on said last-mention-
cd day, or thereafter acquired relating TO
1he sal" rallroa'i ana the construction,
maintenance use and enjoyment OF the
same.
an" a'i Vhc streets ways, passages,
Nn "'t'gr.Go''rse7 e''9'nentS' rshtS;
lpcrt'eS' PrNiieGcs' hereH'VamehtS ana
n ndi1 m'i'tSot'fr unto any o.
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Good advice: Never leave home on a
journey without bottle of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy. For sale by the.Chas Lyle Drug Co.
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Nervino and It's effect was simply WON
derful. heartily commend your remedies"
DR.. Miles Remedies are sold by all drug
gists under Il positive guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart
and Nerves sent free to all applicants.
DIR. MILES MEDICAL co, Elhkart Ind.
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IA HS MS.

l5oacre farm, with nice dwelling, with lovely
grove or forest oaks around the house. good
barn, large orchard OF welLselected frult ana mn
abundance OF timber we'll watered very desir-
ably located; price $4,000. Situated three miles
from Roanoke city.
Thirty-acrc farm, nice room dwelling pood
barn, three miles from the city, for $1,000
Good storehonse, fine stand for business al XIV
acre farm attached, good improvements, for saio
NJ q bargain. '"'o
~ acres OF bottom land X miles from Hollins
with $4,000 brick house, at the edge OF beautiful
loaerc grove OF forest oaks Price $50 per aero
13O acres near Hollins institute, seven miles
from Roanoke city, forty acres of which is level.
the balance upland, partly timbered good water,
fairly good improvements, fine peach ana apple
orchard, land well adapted to truck farming, ali
kinds fruit and grapes. Price $1,650; very cheap
Also great many other bargains in city and
country property. which we would be glad to
show at any time.
II you want to buy or rent. sell or exchange
como and see US.
I, W. SPINDLE & GO.
i04 Jefferson Street. Roanoke. Va
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utes reading would
make me almost wild;
there were pulling and
drawing sensations in
my legs all the time,
SO that l could not sit
still. In this condi-
ton l began taking
DR.. Miles Restorative
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To PAMELA w aud H. A. Sims
You are hereby notified that ON the LIST
dny of the December term 1896, OF the
hustings court for the city of Roanoke,
Va, the National Mutual Building and
Loan Association OF New Work will move
said court to appoint Juuius McGehee as
trustee il a certain deed of trust exc
cuted 10y you, dared the 9Th day OF June,
1896 recorded il the clerk : Office OF the
hastings court for the city oi Roanoke.
Va, in deed book IS, page |, in the place
OF Georgc.j peet the trustee in said deed,
he ithe said George j. Pect) desiring to
be relieved of said trust
NATIONAL MUTUAL. BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, OF NEW
YORK.
l}y Cooke and Glasgow, Attorneys.
10 % I'm
| Having lost OF had stolen from my pos
session certificate No Nc for six shares
of stock of Roanoke Building Association
and Investment Company standing in the
name of J. w Coon on the looks OF said
| Association, said stock being held by me
| rs attorney tor d. s. Hendricks. here
| by give notice that have this day applied
| to said association for new certificate
| to be issued TO said d. s. Hendricks.
III III Nv K. X. HICKS.
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v A WIEN Il we'll known minister after
WN suffering for years with heart dis
ease, is cured. it is not surprising
that he should publish the fact for tho
benefit OF others Rev. j. p Smith, 1915
Fulton St, Baltimore, Md, writes: For
years suffered from Il severe form OF heart
disease. used DR.. Miles New Heart Cure
and my heart is now in good condition
Recently, other Affections came upon me.
There was humming. painful sensations on
top and back OF nv head Fifteen min
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BY VIRTUE or 4 DECREE OF THE
hustings court rendered mt the September
term, 1876, in the chancery cause pending
in the name OF the Central Park Land
Company against Rush u. Derr, trustee.
viii. as commissioner appointed under
snid decree, offer for sale ut public auc-
ton, in front of the courthouse Mt u
O'Clock NJ, en- MONDAY, FILE It'll DAY
OF DECEMBER. 1896, the following
described real estate, with its improve
ments. situated in the city of Roanoke:
Beginning at II point ON the north side
of Day street 9th avenue s. W. 20 feet
east from the northeast corner Of Day and
Henry streets Qst street southwest, and
running thence north = degree . min
utes west l2O feet to point, thence north
SS degrees east 30 feet To II point. thence
north O-degree 30 minutes west l6 feet
to point, thence north So degree, min
utes east 10. d feet to II point thence south
degrees II minutes east 1853 feet To
Day street, thence in westerly direction
with Day street south IS degrees , min.
utes west o0 feet to the place OF begin
ming, with all of the improvements and
| appurtenances thereto belonging. it being
the same property that WAS conveyed in
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COWEN, CROSS & BOND,
solicitors for Complainant Mercantile
trust and Deposit Company OF Balti-
more, Trustee. Baltimore, Maryland
10 22l II W ) w
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

uncleanly habit at all times, but one to
which men are far more addicted than are
women. Who ever saw woman stoop to
pick up pin in public place? But 1
have known man to keep a crowd wait
ing on the Oakland ferry while he deliber-
ately picked up pin from the stairs.
Business often calls me into the neigh
borhood of Montgomery and Sansome
streets. 1 think l never walk there. how
ever, that do not see life and linn b-threat-
ening banana or other fruit skins lying on
the sidewalk. When, as / occasionally do,
/ find these in the upper part of the City,
| reflect that it is the work of careless or
lily taught children, for women do not
eat fruit in the street. But children do
not wander through Montgomery and
Sansome streets to any great extent, and
/ am afraid I have seen more than one of
my brothers walking thereabouts eating
bananas, dropping the peels upon the side
walk for some one to step upon or kick
into the gutter. Which reminds me that
in the many published articles for and
about women / read one some time ago
by some medical pundlt, who argued the
mental inferiority of the gentler sex from
the fact that, as he asserted, women al
ways eat between meals, thereby showing
themselves to live upon childish level.
l do not know how generally true this
assertion is. 1t is my own custom TO eat
whe1 am hungry, regardless of orthodox
times and seasons. To do otherwise seems
to me unreasonable.
After all, when the whole story is told,
is it not true that men and women are
good deal alike, and that the foibles of
each arise more from environment than
from essential differences of character2
1t is curious feature of modern thought,
the amount of advice, instruction, analy-
sis, criticism and nonsense written for and
OF women. l sometimes wonder if, after
all, we women are not very largely to
blame for it.
When we will gather ourselves into con-
crosses to talk about ourselves, into clubs
to read papers TO ourselves on ourselves in
every possible relation under the sun,
when magazines are published by our
selves for the exploitation of ourselves in
everv possible way. the other half of the
world can hardly be blamed for supposing
this to be the subject of paramount inter-
est to US. The most of us know, when we
think of the matter, that it is not, and our
brothers know it, too, but it sometimes
seems as though We kept our thoughts for
private consumption. Judging from the
small amount of real thought that appears
in print great deal must be secreted some
where. Perhaps, some day, it may be un.
earthed. when men and women alike may
reap the benefit of the discovery. Mean
time, however, it is worth while to re
member that for just about every sWhy
will women" there is corresponding
"Why will men,"
PENELOPE PowELsoN.
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was rich in more than visible wealth; that
it abounded in gold, not tinconvenient ore,
but ready-made coin buried there years
before by Mormons who passed through
California. Yet all this treasure was, in
his belief, guarded by watchful men who
would at once be cognizant of any attempt
to secure it. He stated that once while
making some excavations he had found
can of gold coins, which he examined and
then left temporarily on the fence. A
strange man immediately appeared and
made inquiries concerning the coins. The
Frenchman gave the desired information,
whereupon he was told that all the buried
wealth belonged to the Mormons, and
that whoever disturbed it did so under
penalty of death. He declared that he
knew of and had marked various localities
where treasure was buried, but that under
no circumstances would he dare to touch
it. believing that his life would be taken
by some of the secret guard.
Those days of his prosperity passed,
and, for lack of gold. he was compelled to
seek a new home *-but the forest mon
archs still faithfully protect the little
dwelling. ETTIE L. THOMPSON.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

stein have been mentioned, the FORMER in
1882 and the latter in 1888. These consti-
tute the best and accepted records of the
Pacific Coast.
Next We take up 120-yard running.
This is an uneven distance, but very popu-
lar for handicap meeting. 1t is particu-
larly so in England, where it is used as
much as 100 yards. The very best time
on record is 111l, by George Seward of the
United States, at London, England,
May 3, 1S47. G. A. Bradley, for the past
four years amateur champion Splinter of
England, accomplished the distance in
IL 3-5, remarkable performance, GER
tainly. The honors in America are di-
vided between L. E. Myers, who ran the
distance in New York, May 3d. 1882. in II
seconds. and A S. Henderson, who
achieved the feat on the Olympic
grounds, near Golden Gate Park, Sep
tember 8, 1891. The latter, therefore,
stands as the coast record.
Passing over number of interesting in
termediate distances, we come to $50 yards.
The best performance is 141l, by Harry
Hutchens, the English professional, the
fastest man that ever lived. This was
done at Sydney, Australia, March 2, 1887.
The best amateur time is Ia As, py two
Englishmen, c. G. Wood at London, July
81, 1887 and G. ]. P. Moneypenny, Cam
bridge, February q, and March 1, 1892.
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People Who Have No
Use for Money Metals.
Shell Money IS the Currency in the Realm
Of the Barbaric King
To-Knkin.

dime or nickel's worth, he chops off
section with mis- knife and hands it over.
Usually the money is worn in coil
about the natives neck or over his arm
when he goes shopping. Small pieces,
which correspond to the change or chick
enfeed of this country, he carries in his
hand or in his hair, for the natives are not
very well supplied with pockets.
"Chief To- Kinkin, who may be called
the Vanderbilt of the Bismarck Islands,
because of his relatively enormous wealth,
has $4,000 fathoms of this money, for, be
it known, the fathom is the unit of value
there, and values are reckoned up or down
from it. The thrifty chief has his cash all
locked up in a strong native house, and
there it has been, or a large part of it, for
almost twenty years.
Nobody has ever robbed Chief To-
Kinkin, and he has grown more prosper
Gus as the years rolled on. He got the
foundation of his fortune by selling
islands to traders and missionaries some
years ago and taking Snider rifles in ex-
change. These guns he sold by retail to
his subjects.
"Rifles were great rarity there and
possessed ah enormous value. The result
was that the chief had the natives coming
from far and near to him and bringing
their shell money, which they had exerted
themselves in an extra hazardous way to
obtain. He was soon 'on velvet, as you
say in America, and he stayed there.
HE doesn't draw any interest for this
money, but stored it away, and as it is his
storehouse has become to all intents and
purposes bank. If boy there wants
rife and goes to Chief To-Kinkin to get
the money to buy it the chief charges him
10 per cent for a short loan. In this and
other ways he makes his shell money earn
other money for him.
"a wife there costs from $40 to $15 ac-
cording to whether or not she is good
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

swept the ground and whose hollow trunk
was clearly available as one apartment of
the "hotel." An excavation was made
among the wide-spreading roots, thus sup
plying cool storage place for liquid re-
freshments. A cabin was erected inclos-
Ing part of the tree and a platform built
and furnished with seats where the weary
traveller might rest in the cool shade of
the branches which stretched outward
and downward. AL around, great trees
with the grace of mighty strength uplited
their marvellous heights toward the
heavens. Voiceless giants are the red
woods, for they have never learned the
mystic song of the pines.
The Frenchman selected the in.posin G
appellation of Hotel de Redwood, 4" and
for years he held sway as proprietor OF a
stage station, a position OF no little conse-
quence in the s'days of DID,"
Steps lead directly from the highway,
but so well have the trees protected the
building with their heavy foliage that the
quaint old hostelry does not now attract
even passing glance.
On the bench against the massive tree
trunk, and in the shade of boughs down.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

Anent the talk on silver and gold, which
one hears everywhere, there is an island
chieftain out in the Pacific who will have
neither, nor will any of the 2OO, oOO people
over which he holds sway.
This chief is To- Kinkin, the ruler OF the
Bismarck Islands. In the land of To
Kinkin nothing is good but shell money,
and this chief has been so thrifty in times
past that he has accumulated $50, 900 in
shells and has them all garnered in a
strong house of his own building, against
a rainy day.
You can visit the island possessions of
this barbaric king and scatter your gold
around aAwilI, but you cannot allure the
natives with it. They will not have 1t. If
a man was starving there and a meals
victuals depended on the purchasing of it
with the yellow metal, or with white,
either, he would become food for the
ravens.
Lieutenant Peter Kolbe, the extensive
trader and planter of the Bismarck Islands,
who is now at the Palace, tells the strange
story of the finances of these islands. In
all his dealings there he uses the shell
money, and he says it is the only kind that
is any account.
"The question of sound money is just
as important there as it is here" said
Lieutenant Kolbe to CALL representative
Yesterday, sand shell money Is the STAN
dard. If you haven't got shell money you
can't do anything.
"If / was offered the alternative of $10,-
600 in gold there or $4,000 in shells, 1
would take the shells every time. The
gold would be worthless unless l shipped
it out, and to do this l would have to
stand the expense, or what is called the
exchange. Not exactly the exchange
either, for no native will consent in any
wav to have anything to do with gold.
Silver would rank in the same category.
These metals are simply dross there and
of no more value than the glittering
pyrites which one seas in the mountain
pathway.
This shell money of the natives, of
which Chief To-Kinkin has so much that
he has become the CrGsus of the islands,
as well as the ruler, has been money back
before the time to which the mind OF the
earliest white explorer runs. 1t may be
that it has been money there for hundreds
of years.
The money is made from the cowrle
shells and the native word for it is de-
warra. 1t is little ivory-like looking
she'll and is found 300 miles from the
Bismarck group on the shores OF the Vii
laumer Islands. 1t is just scarce enough
and pretty enough to make it valuable as
a medium OF exchange.
Into each little shell the natives bore
small hole and then string it on pieces OF
rattan. the rattan being about the dame
Ter of stout twine string.
''Six feet of this money is worth about
four marks, or 81, and when the possessor
wants quarters worth of anything, or