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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
COMING and GOING

John W. Wertz, of Floyd county, was
IN the city yesterday, accompanied by his
son, George.
David Sisson, Floyd county merchant,
is in the city on business
T. b. Stultz and wife, of Martinsville,
are visiting relatives in. the city.
Mrs. Allen, Miss McClanahan and the
Misses Rorer have returned from the
Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs, accompa-
MED by Miss Susie Payne, of Norfolk,
J. NJ. Watts, of Cave Spring, was III
the city yesterday.
Mrs. S. j. Harris, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. G. +. Roberts, re-
turned to her home in buckingham
county to-day.
Miss Myrtel Ballard is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Garviu, corner Grove street and
Campbell avenue s. W.
Geo. B. Trout, of the county, was in the
city yesterday, accompanied by his ten
year-old daughter, who left on the noon
train to attend school in West Virginia.
Mrs. A. T. Powell, of Lynchburg, is
visiting Mrs w. c. Williams on Ninth
avenue S. w.
Mr. and Mrs. r. d. Vellines and baby
returned from his old home in Eastern
Virginia, where he spent the past. two
weeks WIN MS mOtner.
Mrs. NJ. Bready, of Campbell avenue,
will leave to-day for Hagerstown to visit
friends.
DIR. Goodwin, of Fincastle, was in the
city yesterday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Beckley and
daughter, Miss Lila, of Fincastle, were
here shopping yesterday.
Turner Mcdowell, assistant clerk of
the court at Fincastle, spent yesterday in
the city.
Mrs. c. B. Camper, of Fincastle, spent
yesterday in the city.
Mrs. VIM. Mitchell and daughter, Miss
Frances, of Richmond, are guests ut
Hotel Roanoke.
Il. S Oglesby, of Lynchburg, was in
the city yesterday.
Mrs. 5. j. Gray, Miss Lucy Gray and
w. ID. Gray are visiting at Hotel Roa-
noke.
u. L. Underwood, formerly of Hotel St.
Lawrence, Bristol, and Glenwood Inn,
Kenova, has accepted the chief clerkship
at the ST James Hotel and is now at his
post of duty.
Mrs. ]. A. White went to Knoxville
yesterday to visit relatives for a few
weeks.
Paul Taylor, formerly night clerk at
the st. James, has been transferred to the
bar at night.
p. H. Dillar, of Rocky Mount, is in
the city on legal business
Rev. J. f. Noftsinger, of Milledgeville,
ILL.,, is visiting relatives at 515 Roanoke
street.
Frank Taylor left last night for Peters
burg to visit relatives.
+. Ashby Watts, of Lynchburg, was at
the Ponce de Leon yesterday.
The piano and organ warerooms of
Hobbie Piano Co. will be open every night.
The largest and finest stock on exhibit
ton. Good music and courteous atten-
ton for all who will call
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
HUNTER & CO
12S Salem Avenue s. w.
Phone 1913.
THAT NEEDY FAMILY.

In your paper yesterday as we'll as
Tuesday you made mention of family in
distress. 1t is very kind in you to lend n
helping hand in this way. But the facts
in the case ought to he stated. This
family is needy beyond doubt and any
thing given will be thankfully received.
But they are not suffering for the neces-
saries of life. They are members of Cal.
vary Baptist Church and we have been
taking care of them in the past for years
and propose doing it in the future. Reg
ularlv they are visited by the proper
church authorities and their needs ascer-
tanned and supplied rs best we can. 1t is
the purpose of our church to take care of
its needy poor and any one knowing
members of our church in need will please
notify the pastor or some of his members.
who will report the needs. Very respect
fully, LEN G. BROUGHTON, Pastor.
From all accounts Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is Godsend to the
afflicted. There is no advertisement
about this. We feel just like saying it.
The Democrat, Carrollton, KY. For
sale by the Chas. Lyle Drug Company.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
White Goods.

We have just opened large lots of the
most popular things in White Goods
just such things as are wanted daily.
Sc pieces Nainsook Checks, excellent
quality, at only &c. This represents the
best Sc grade.
1000 yards 40-inch India Linen-big
value at l0c. This goes at other places
for IL / &c.
Plain, soft finished Nainsook. SO
inches wide. only IL Lee per yard, or
Sl.35 per piece OF IL yards. This will
cost you tic per gard at other stores.
The Imperial" Long Cloth. SO inches
wide, 10c per yard, or S1.15 for 10 yards
Real "Chsmois finished" Long Closh,
very fine grade, IL Lee per yard.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03

Fruits in season at Crystal Spring
Cafe.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
Tailor-made SuilingS.

Our sales of this popular material
have been simply enormous. During
the past few days we have added some
new things and now the limo is again
com plete, and embraces the Novelty ef-
fec,s. pretty mixtures, Black and White
and Brown and White Shepherd Plaid 8,
and other popular things. Come before
the line OF styles Is broken. Only
IL l &c per yard.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
Ducks Also.

Another big invoice of that fine Rus
sian Duck. This is far the prettiest
Duck in the market. The new ones
come in pretty salt and pepper mix
lures, polka dots and stripes. Price
12 Lee.
Fast Navy Blue. only l2 lao.
A regular tic White Duck for 12 1. &c.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
Ready-made Sheets and Pillow
Cases.

Here's an opportunity-the goods
made up, hemmed and ready for use for
less than materials would cost ordi-
narily. We throw to-morr o big heap
OF them for sale. "First come first
served"
One lot 10-5 Blesched Sheets, soc each
81 pair.
One lot 1914 Bleached Sheets, SOC each
81, Is pair.
One los 9-4 Blesched Sheets, $50 each
81. Is pair.
One lot 45x36 Bleached Pillow.Cases,
IL 1-2c each-25c pair.
One lot 45x36 Bleached Pillow Cssea,
$50 each-aOc pair.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
Roanoke, Va, July 90, 1896.
r. NJ. Sutton & Co.,
Importers and Jobbers,

Dry Goods and Notions,
Baltimore, Md.
am now opening up, at my sample
rooms, Hotel Lee, Roanoke. Va, the
largest and most complete line of fall and
winter samples of dry goods and..notions
l have ever handled, which l offer to the
merchants of the city and surrounding
country at as low prices as same goods
can be bought in any of the Eastern mar
kets. Respectfully,
D. G. BOOTH,
Agent for II. NJ. Sutton & Co
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
Remnant White Goods.

just opened another box OF Remnant
White Goods. This lot Is made up
principally of the finer grades. Each
piece neatly folded and plainly m arked,
yards and price.
Remnants India Linens.
Remnants Fine Dlmities.
Remnants Nainsook Checks.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
LOW RATES.

The Roanoke Telephone Exchange offers
service on the party Wire Plan" at
rates easily within your means. Com
munication with over 700 telephone sub
scribers. Call at Roanoke Telephone
Exchange, telephone 1879.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02
NEED WOMEN.
Where the Fair Sex Is In Great
Demand.
From the San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
There is city in the western part
of Canada, close to the Pacific Ocean,
which is named by all who visit it the
most desolate spot on the face of the
earth. Its climate is good, it's natural
resources excellent, it's houses fair, it's
streets we'll paved, yet within this
town there is an air of forlorn defect
ion that strikes the most careless trav-
eller that comes within it's boundary.
1t is on Vancouver Island, a sweet,
fair spot. And the desolation is caus-
ed by one thing-one only. The lack
of women and girls.
This particular town is scarcer of
the product than any of its locality.
There are many towns upon the is
land, but this one lacks women so
sadly that in recent census of the
place it was found nearly 10000 short.
uio uuuOoT luCluO0S cOuQC OF SSTV-
ing women, women to do the work of
the house, cook, wash, and iron. It
also includes working girls and women
who are not expected to marry. Aud,
of course, it took in the queens of the
city, the fair matrons of the homes
and the mistresses of the pretty estab-
lishments.
To-day the doorsteps of these houses
yawn vacantly and the vines futtering
over the portals seem to say: "She
comes not yet"
It is uct to be expected that such
condition of affairs could exist without
becoming known. The thrifty long
shoremen of the place and the wood
men, the miners, and the merchants
have written East about it, and a few
days ago the Mayor of the place was
surprised and delighted to receive
letter containing a suggestion. 1t
was that, as women are too numerous
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02

and sort Of shaking them along.
That's the skin of their mother up
there by the window of the house.
Somehow I didn't want to sell it.
shall make it into big rug to put
down in front of the fireplace
about the other bears | killed?
Oh, there isn't any story about them
to speak of; that is except the grizzley.
All the other bears just happened to
come my way while was out shooting
and they just didn't go any further,
that's all. As l said, most of them
took to their heels as soon as came
along, but I'm pretty good at long
range shooting, and dropped them.
l bagged three in one day. That was
a great days sport, wasn't it? Idon't
believe there is man in this canon
that has ever done any better. But
bears are getting scarce up this way.
The city hunters are learning how to
kill them at last. They used to get
one Of our men to go out aud kill
their bears for them, but they know
how themselves now. some of them.
There are three hunters that come up
here from San Francisco every season,
and they kill four or five bears apiece.
They don't do anything with them, ex-
cept to cut off few steaks, and l
don't think it's right. They ought to
bring in the hides, but l guess they're
too lazy to skin them. Can l skin a
bear? l should say so, and 1 don't
make long job of it, either. Not
that l like the work. l think it's
mans job, but on occasion l peel off a
hide. 1t only takes about half an
hour, but the first time you try it
takes all day. You learn by watching
some experienced person go at it. My
father used to be quick enough, but
he's laid up with rheumatism now and
can hardly hold knife in his hands.
''The grizzley! Oh, 1 killed him
down at Snow Creek; near where it
joins Skunk Creek. He didn't come
at me until 1 bad put one ball in him,
and then he fairly tore up the ground
with rage, and came like a deer through
the brush, crashing everything before
him. There was something the mat
ter with my rife. I'd got cartridge
she'll caught in it and couldn't work
the magazine. But l didn't run, only
just stood there figeting and fussing
with that rifle. I guess 1 threw out
half dozen good cartridges, and it
was just a wonder I had any left in
the gun when the grizzly got up to
me. I was 80 excited that 1 snapped
the trigger twice before got the gun
closed, but the she'll that had lodged
was out and the gun should have work
ed we'll enough. 1t was a sort of re-
petition of the black bear shot, for I
laid him low without taking sight or
hardly glancing at my gun. was all
eyes for the big charging grizzly, and
it was lucky he didn't get me. When
l told Pa 1 had killed grizzly he
didn't believe me. but l showed him
where he lay. Then he wanted me to
quit hunting. 1t was too dangerous,
he said. But, you see, somebody's
got to keep 'em in meat, and as long
as there's deer and bears and small
game hereabouts I guess can do it. :"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02
: Adopted in the Public Schools

of New York City and elsewhere. Its
new educational features are extremely
valuable in training pupils to correct
use of words, capitals hyphenS, etc. Its
illustrations are superb. Its tables of
coins, weights and measures, plants
animals, etc, are exhaustive and can
not be found elsewhere.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02

1t is in use in all the departments of the
United States Government at Washing
ton, and all the departments of the
Dominion of Canada. Government ex-
perts give it the preference on all dis
puted points.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02

They are especially commended by the
Atlantic Monthly. Boston, the West
minister Gazette, London, Sunday School
Times, Philadelphia, and scores of 9TH
erS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02

President Milne, or New York State
Normal College, says its definitions are
best to be found dny,rhere. Scores of
critics say the same.
IFS nj
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-07-02

Contains 3O1 800 words, many thousand
more than any other dictionary ever
published. More than 100000 were
expended in it's production. PAT Special
lists and Editors were engaged in it's
preparation.
lis. ID q u itians q re Clsaar nd
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29
THE SUNDAY LIGHT.
SUNDAY. MARCH 80, 1896
ABOUT THE lBoERs.
Some Things Learned ~ an American in
the TransvaaL

Some Things Learned Nv an American in
the Transvaal.
"The Peers are a peculiar race and
totally different from and uncongenial
to the Americans and English that live
IN the Transvaal. The latter are there
for speculative purposes only, and they
are getting rich much more rapidly
than the Beers, who, as their name in
d1cates, are farmers or field workers
purely. An ordinary farm covers a.
BOO acres, and the proprietors are &C
cumuiating with every year. They are
great cattle breeders as well.
"The Beers are very religious people,
their church being the Dutch Re
formed. There are no Catholics among
them. On their church edifces they
spend literally, and while content to
live in a very poor house are determined
to worship amid fine surroundings.
Every three months they hold nacht-
maal, which is nothing more nor less
than o monster prayer meeting lasting
ten days. They journey in from their
farms in wagons drawn by bullocks
and these are outspanned in the public
squares during that time. There are
many vacant houses in the towns, and
in, these the farmers quarter themselves
while in the city. Otherwise, the only
church observance until the next
nachtmasl comes is held in their
homes.
81 had the pleasure of meeting Presi-
dent Kruger, of the republic. He is a
very shrewd man, and is for the Beers
first, last and all the time. He will fight
the proposition to build q railroad into
johannesburg district as long as he has
the breath. The advent of this would
destroy the very profitable transport
business by bullock teams that is now
controlled and carried on by them
selves. All items of commercial ma
ture that enter into the daily opera
-tions of The cities are carried in from
Kimberley, the railroad terminus, 300
miles away, by these bullock teams.
'The Boer as fighter is on a par
with the American Indian. He will
fight only from behind roclzsor trees or
under cover of the deep grass, and as he
is always a shorpshooter, he can do
considerable damage to a foreign in
vader. He also has an advantage over
the foreigner who attacks him in that
he has knowledge of the peculiar at
mospheric conditions that enable him
to shoot accurately where the for
eigner win fall short. the air being SO
clear that distant objects are brought
@uch closer by the vision than they
really are.-Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29

in league with some capitalist, will tell
the prospector that the ore will run
about So to the ton, with an attempt
at looking wise.
But the prospector is shrewd, If he
does wear bucksl1in pantaloons. An
other assayer tells him that it is $40
ore, when it is really $50 ore. They
smilingly ask him: where did you
get it?' He grufly replies: I'm the
mountains" He then comes to Den
yer, hunts up a capitalist and sends in
o piece of this rock for visiting card.
He is at once admitted. The prospector
and the millionaire "talk the matter
over" and the millionaire has his own
assay made. He knows that the pros
pector has not the money to work the
claim, and offers to buy it for q small
sum, which often is accepted. The
prospector, with his few thousands of
dollars, has grand time for few
months, and when he is ''broke" he
applies to the capitalist for a grub
stake" of $50 or 500, and returns to
the mountains in search of another
find. In few weeks his provisions are
exhausted, and his second application
is bluntly refused by the man who has
made 100000 or more by the pur-
chase. He applies to another, and an
other, and year after year he goes
through the same routine, changing
lis base of operations from California
to Colorado, and thence to other points
where the boom is on. A few strike it
rich, but sell out too soon, and others
reap the benefits of their years of toll
and suffering. A few hold on, and join
the throng of millionaircs-and forget
their prospector companions.
When prospector has found good
mine, the news rapidly spreads, and
there is great rush to the new dis
trict. The new arrivals begin stalking
off claims, commencing at the very
edges of tine first claim, and in "a hours
the district for several miles in each di-
rection resembles a patchwork quilt
It is staked off like boom land town,
only on a smaller scale. A vein of
ore, in the original claim, gives it
value of 100000 or more, according to
its richness, width and thickness. The
other claims are valued in proportion
to their relative distance from the
original mine; though the vein may
stop short and not enter even the ada
cent prospect. So all is speculation,
except as to the first mine, which is
styled producer" The others are
called prospects," and some of them
are very remote. Prospects" are cap
ltalized, usually, at 100000, the
shares having a par value of 81,
or supposed to have. Strangely, they
are sold at few cents each. This is
done so that the "proSpectors" can
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29
FLOODED WITH SCHEMES.

Express Companies Receive Numerous De-
vices for Preventing Robbery.
Express companies are flooded with
letters from all over the country offer
ing all sorts of devices and patents as a
-kseguard against robbery.
aIAly short time ago we had let
ter ny chap who wished to keep
what he, had to offer an inviolable Sc
cret," said the manager of the company.
HE said he had not patented it, and was
only waiting to hear from us. Els plans
called for the construction under the
roof of the car of a chamber with fall
ing doors. AS soon as the robbers en-
tered the car all the messengers had to
do was to throw a switch. This let
down the doors of concealed chamber.
AS soon as the doors fell blast of air
was created from some mysterious
source and countless numbers of little
balls of India ink would be thrown into
the car, branding every man Jack OF
the robbers indelibly for future identi-
iication, to say nothing of soaring them
to death.
another chap / remember had a
scheme that was unique. 1t consisted
of the placing of a cylinder in the car.
The moment the messenger appreciated
that he was attacked all he had to do
was to drag the safes into the cylinder
and lock them up there along with him
self. The cylinder was punctured with
holes which commanded every part of
the car, and through them LIE could
shoot the robbers down one by one.
When we asked him what was the mat
ter with the robbers shooting back
through these same holes and punctur-
ing the messenger he was stumped and
retired.
"On some of the western roads they
are trying a new plan. Each express
car is equipped with one or more cylin-
ders of small diameter, which are filed
with a powrful chemical preparation.
The instant the messenger inside has
reason to think that his car is threat
ened he takes the cylinder down from
its case and drops it through prepared
opening in the floor of the car. Then,
by the pressure of foot or some other
simple method he ignites the thing.
The chemicals fame out and illuminate
the country for great distance around.
The cylinder becomes a great torch
The experiment is being tried there,
but whether it will be success or not
remains to be seen."-Boston Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29

still mad rush of gold seekers and ad-
yenturers 10 all these points. The gold
product of the past year is estimated at
5000, 00o, O09-greater than ever before
in the worlds history. Of this amount
the United States produced rs per cent,
and of this $50,0o0,CO0, Colorado pro-
duced ST, 900, 900, about half of this
coming from the Cripple Creek district.
Thus it will be seen that district three
miles square produced one-sixth of the
gold product of the United States. This
years estimate from Cripple Greek is
$1,000, 900 a month. If the other dis
tricts in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Cali
fornia, Arizona, Alaska and New Mex
leo, but slightly increase, the yield will
be about $75,OOO,OOO this year. And if
the fields in the other parts of the world
increase proportionately gold must
soon become drug in the market, and
will necessitate a remodeling of the
basis of finance. 1t will become as
plentiful as silver, and also cause re.
vision of politics. 1t will solve the
problem at which our statesmen are
hammerirg, by upsetting their theories
and giving them new conditions to con-
slider.
A recent estimate shows that there
is 5000, 100000 of gold in the United
States, and at the present rate of pro-
duction the amount would be doubled
in IL years. Unless business and pop
ulation increased proportionately, per-
haps silver would be at premium.
The cause of this widespread gold
fever is due mainly to science and
the invention of improved machinery,
which greatly lessons the cost of pro-
duction. Without giving expert de-
tails" that would need explanation, the
matter may be illustrated with the
statement that during the Leadville
boom Is years ago, ore that did
not yield at least ten dollars to the
ton was thrown away as useless. 1t
lust about paid expenses. Now there
is profit in ore that yields only three
dollars to the ton. Improved ma
chinery and the new scientific process
of extracting ores take almost the last
particle of gold out of the rock, and
as effectually as the life is squeezed
out of lemon. These improvements
have caused a revival in the mining in
dustTy, and the wild rush of "pros-
pectors" to the new fields. Or rather,
they rush wherever they believe gold
may be found.
There are, in the west, thousands of
'proSpectors" who follow no other vo-
cation than that OF mining. They
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-29

are not experts" as mining par
lance goes, and laugh at the ''wise"
opinions of experts" who have
learned mining by theory. Several
experts have stated that "by the
very nature of tho formation gold
could not exist" in the mountains now
known as the Cripple Creek district
the richest in the world. The prospec-
tor trudges over the mountains, exam
lining pieces of rock as botanist does a
flower, and when he has found "good
Indications" he camps. That is, he
ties his burro to stake, unloads his
months supply of provisions, and with
his pick begins to dig. He finds a piece
of rock glistening with golden parti-
cIes. His trained eye estimates that a
ton of tSNt kind of rock should contain
$50, 800 6r $1,000. He continues to
dig to satf sly himself of the extent If
the vein, kr deposit. After stalking o
claim Of J., BOO by 300 feet, and posting
notices, IL puts several of these "speci-
mems" in bis pocket, and himself and
bis bprrol tramp back to the city. One
: OCCASIONAL assayers, perhaps