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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24

New York is somewhat premature in
her Christmas celebration. The eight
pound dy nalnite cartridge that was acct
IDENTIFY exploded there on Wednesday re-
lleved the neighborhood windows Of about
five thousand panes of glass.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24

Texas scores one on.Virginia in its ire
mendous snow storm of Sunday. The
"balmy South" must not always be taken
too literally.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24
THEY HOLD THE FORT.

Springfield Republican: The gold Dem
ocraiic committee of Texas has practically
agreed to adjourn without day. But
Chairman Bynum aud Candidate. Buckner
still hold out.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24
One Large Scar
Is All That Remains OF Great
ScrofuEa Sores
Neighbors Could Not Eea. to Took
Upon Her a Grand, Complete
Cure by Hoods SaysapaYi!ia
After Others Failed.

81 was taken with neuralgia in nv
head and eyes. Not long after this, a
scrofula sore appeared on my left cheek,
extending from my upper lip to my eve.
Other sores came on my neck and OF nv
right arm and one OF my limbs They
We're very troublesome and painful and
soon became great running sores NV
face looked so bad that some of nv
neighbors could not bear to look at me
and advised me to wear bandaee, but
feared this would irritate the sore and
make it worse. So
Could Not Hide the Sores.
My niece, who was familiar with case
similar to mine, which had been cured bv
Hoods Sarsaparilla, urged me to try it.
Finally was persuaded to do so, and in
short time 1 saw it was helping me.
The sores began to heal and the neu-
ralgia in my head was better. In few
months the sores on my arms and limbs
all healed; those on my neck gradually
disappeared and now they are all gone.
have never mad any symptom Of scrofula
since. One large scar On my right arm is
all the sign that remains of my terrible
affection. The neuralgia is also cured %
Mrs. j. M. HATCH, Etna, New Hampsh;re
I Hood S Seam ps1;i;a
lsthe best--in fact the One True Blood Puria.r
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24

We pride ourselves on keeping the
BEST of everything in our line and in
making prompt delivery. Lool, ont for
the belled teams. w X. ANDREWS
g. CO., COAL AND WOOD DEAL
ERS, 2i0 Salem avenue &
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24
DEAD ACTORS WEALTH

London, Dec. 23-lt is estimated in the
probate rapers fled today that Actor
Terriss was wort nearly e50, 00O.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24

Bonner's oysters ard meals needs no
recommendation recommend them
selves. Best ON earth
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24

Oysters by the pint, Quart or gallon at
Bonner's restaurant
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-24
EREI PILLS

Send your address to II. T.. Buck!en 81
Co, Chicago. and get u free sample box
of DIR. Kings New Life Pills. a trial
will convince you of their merits These
pills are easy in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure of constipation
and sick headache. For malaria and
liver troubles they have been proven in.
valuable. They are guaranteed to he
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance anu 10 be purely vegetable
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to the stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size zoe per box. Sold by Massies Phar-
macy.
a SPECIAL OFFER TO ALL WHO
WILL ENTER THE BUSINESS COL
LEGE BEFORE JANUARY /, 1898
MAKE INQUIRIES.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14

One strange feature Of Australia So
cial life is the perfectly casual way in
which men marry for no ostensible pur.
pose except the purpose Of vanishing
wearily around the corner immediately
after the ceremony. In a Sydney case
now ON hand the husband, it is alleged.
married in 1894 and shortly afterward
made his tired. indifferent exit around
the corner and never came back. In
1896 he married again and Immediately
faded away mp the street He never liv-
ed with his second wife When he was
arrested ON charge of aggravated har-
EN-, he offered no explanation whatever.
Apparently he only did it because a fell
low must do something. Sydney Bull
letin
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14

upoa tnsss seven hundred slahs h en-
graved TIE whole Of the Buddhist Bible.
a vast literature in itself, equal to
about six copies Of the Holy Scriptures.
This marble Bible is engraved In the
Pail language. thought to he that
spoken by Buddha himself in 500 B. c.
Photographs OF some OF these inscrip-
tons have reached England. and Prof
Max Muller-perhaps the greatest lin
guist in the world-has examined them
But alas for all this merely human in.
genuity and perseverance. II His Mai.
esty Mindon-min thought to perpetuate
the teaching Of the Great Buddha by
causing IL to be craven on the rock, he
nourished a vain ambition.
The climate OF Burma Is moist. and
its effects have already wrought havoc
on the surface Of the white marble. and
the photographs show a partial etfaee-
ment OF some OF the Burmese eharac.
tiers in which the Pail text is engraved
This Is certainly the largest known
copy OF any portion OF literature. Even
the National Encyclopedia OF China. IN
1 five thousand volumes occupies com.
paratlvely small space Saturday
Evening Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Emile Zoln "a He L.

This IS how Zola is described by
Stuart Henry in Hours with Famous
Parisians:" A businessman, no emo
ton, no ideals, no imagination, no poe
try, In his personal intercourse. He
does not try to win or entertain you.
He takes no personal interest in you,
and does not expect you to take any
personal interest In him. He talks
frankly and freely about everything,
but In secular way, He makes life
seem to you merely a commercial ca
reer Fiction for him is editions of
100000 francs n year. His magisterial
and magnificent pan0ramas of descrip-
tons, unequaled for their kind, are all
measured off in his mind as SO many
rods of printed matter at so much a
rod. No personal magnetism, no SEN
timent, no perfume, no rose colors. Life
has been for him a blunt, rude, british
thing. He has conquered merely be-
cause he has worked harder than any
one else. With him naturalistic litera-
ture succeeds only by the sweat of the
brow. What loins of strength, never
theless! What Titanic capacities to
achieve! He towers over all his Paris
ian contemporaries, as Victor Hugo
lowered over his epoch-New York
Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
R,Il Was Fooled.

"Seen anything of Teller round
here with red whiskers an squint?"
queried Bill Sykes of Newberg, as he
adjusted his red comforter and blew a
sonorous blast from his bibulous nose
preparatory to taking little stimulant,
cause if you have I've got business
with him. He come to my house yes
terday, an after talking around spell
an telling Hammer he thought she was
my darter an making fool of her he
said he would have to inspect the well.
Sent out by the state, you know
well, l got a pailful of water, an
he poured some i'll sasser and looked
at it through mikyscope Then look
ed at it, an say, fellers, that water was
full of alligators foot long-microbes
he called 'em. The upshot was l bought
the milxyscope and some stuff to put in
the we'll to kill the animals, an paid
him $40, but twas partly Hammers
fault.
Here Bill looked around defiantly and
continued: "That stuff was salt an wa
ter an there want no bugs. They We're
painted ON the glass to the mikyscope. !"
And with a rather derogatory remark
about the honesty of man generally Bill
left in quest of the man with the squint.
-Dowagiac Republican.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
War Veterans In tho senate.

AWashington newspaper correspond
ent, glancing over the membership of
Congress, directs attention to fact as
remarkable as 1t is interesting. says the
New York Mail and Express. Out of
total of ninety men In the United States
Senate, more than one-third-or thirty
two-are veterans of the civil war,
which ended full generation ago
while two of these thlrty-two, who are
to-day actively engaged in solving a
new war problem. were participants in
the struggle with Mexico more than
half century ago. The House, too,
despite the lapse OF time and the ad-
vancement of young men In political
life, has large percentage of men who
were active in the rebellion. This Is a
record of American vigor of which the
country may well be proud.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
n.d va, Anvhsw.

Gedrge Ober once overheard some ac-
quaintanoes in the hotel lobby at Has
tings-on-the- Hudson discussing the de
mise Of one Bill Icnes n well known
character in that lively country village
Ober Immediately joined tho group.
whereupon the following conversation
ensued:
" Did l understand You to say Bill
Jones was deads'
Yep Died last Thursday
Is that possibles'
Yes that's right.
Z" 80 Bill Jones isdead. Well. we'll 2
Yes. he's dead.
Do you know, can scarcely be.
heve it, POOR chap! Poor Bill knew
him we'll So he's really dead, is he:'
Well, if he amt dead. he's in a
darned bad predicament | saw him
buried. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
RFcENT INvEhIlona

Dishes can be quickly washed and
Sinsed by new apparatus which has
racks TO hold the dishes In revolving
pan, which has a perforated bottom to
drain the water into pump cylinder.
when il Is forced 10 the top OF the cover
aud discharged against the dishes re-
peatedly.
\ Tennessee woman has patented a
thread holder and cutter for spools.
consisting OF clamplng band to en-.
gage the end fiange OF the spool. pro
yided with a fiat spring on Its outer
face, with cutting blade at one end,
the end OF the thread being held under
the spring to prevent 1t from unwind
ing.
Dirt can be eradleated and handled
easily by Dewly patented machine,
which Is mounted on rails, an overhead
track being provided on which a car
riage supports n series of pulleys, over
which the ropes run. The buckets are
hoisIed up To the carriage and locked.
when the carriage is drawn over the
track 10 any desired point for dump
ing.
Carpets can be cleaned without re-
moving them from the floor by new
machine which has metal strips set
Inside casing to beat the carpet as
the cleaner runs over the floor, fan
being mounted In the top of the casing
+ TO draw the dust into water compare
ment which has an air passage cover
ed by molstened screen TO retain the
dust particles.
/ Bicycle riding can he learned alone
without the danger of falling by using
new English trainer, which has a
pair of rollers set in n frame 10 sup
port the bicycle wheels and revolvc as
the pedals are turned, pair of rods
preventing the wheel from overturn-
Ing and vet leaving enough play to en-
able the rider to balance himself as he
learns.
The free edges Of newspapers are
sealed, to prevent resale or reading
without buying, by new machine
+ which has a paste receptacle. which
feeds onto a roller mounted on levers,
in such manner that II Is brought In
contact with one edge OF n partially
folded paper, after which the last fold
Is made and the edges are pressed TO
gether.
A European inventor has designed a
steam candy kettle which is hung on n
pivoted shaft with a lever TO rocE II
back and forth, coil of pipe being
placed around the kettle and connected
with steam pipe by universal joint.
A covering of asbestos surrounds the
steam pipes to force the heat in toward
the kettle.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
41sss8|tsslsFs
y 3k ARID
s|1NVEY fBON

In Australia spring begins Aug. 20:
summer, Nov. 20; autumn, Feb, %. and
winter, May 20
All the flowers of the arctic region
are said to be either white or yellow,
and there are 762 varieties.
There are three times as many mus.
cles In the tail of the eat as there are
In the human hands and wrists.
IL the surface of the earth were per-
fectly level, the waters Of the ocean
would cover It to the depth OF six
hundred feet.
The first botanical garden in Europe
was laid out by Cosmo de Medlc at
Pisa, In 1874. 1t was enriched by
plants from every part of Europe, and
with many from Africa and Asia.
The age of whales is ascertalned by
size and number of laminae of the
whalebone, which Increase yearly.
Ages of three hundred and four years
have been assigned TO whales from
these indications.
The New York Legislature has given
$4,000 to Cornell University to estab-
lish Il college Of forestry. A tract, not
exceeding 10000 acres In extent, is to
be purchased in the Adirondack State
park, and the college, with a faculty
comprising one professor. two instruct
ors, a forest manager, and proper
number of rangers, is TO give practical
instruction In the latest forms of
scientific forestry.
According to an English weekly jour
nal it is estimated by n competent for
eign authority that only nine hundred
persons out of one million die from old
age, while 1000 succumb to govt, 49,
400 to measles, 200 to apoplexy, 1000
to erysipelas, 1900 to consumption,
$4,000 to scarlet fever, $4,000 to whoop-
ing cough, 10000 to typhoid and typhus
and 1000 to rheumatism. The aver
ages vary according to locality but
these are considered accurate as re-
CARDS the population of the globe as
whole.
few miles southwest of Syracuse,
| New York, in a cavity whose bottom Is
220 feet below the surface of the ada
cent upland, lies GAINESVILLE Lake, a
body of water 500 feet in diam le- and
GO feet in depth. Eastward from the
lake extends a gorge through which
flows Butternut Greek. Professor
Quereau Of Syracuse says that in for
mer times river flowed here and that
GAINESVILLE Lake is the pool that was
formed under great waterfall. Steep
cliffs rise around 1t on three sides. and
AL the features of dry Niagara are
here disclosed In great detail"
One of the methods of testing the
question of the existence of percep-
tible atmosphere on the moon is the
observation of n star at the instant
when 1t disappears, or energies from
behind the moon. If there were a lu-
mar atmosphere 1t should produce some
effect on the appearance of the star.
No such effect has ever certainly been
observed. Recently this method has
been rendered more delicate, perhaps,
by the application of photography.
Photographs of stars, made as they are
about to disappear behind the lunar
disk, show no indications of change in
the intensity of the image. such as
would be expected to occur IL the moon
had perceptible atmosphere.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Enects Of Imagination.

Some years ago number of students
In Europe were concerned in charge
which demonstrated the powerful effects
of imagination. In frolic they donned
DISCUSSES and arrested another student,
whom they tried in Electrically ar
ranged and dimly lighted chamber and
condemned to DEATH For several hours
they kept their horror stricken victim
in darkened room, and having inform
ed him that he was to be beheaded band
aged his eyes and led him to another
apartment.
A crowd was assembled, but restrain
ed their mirth as the victim of the
practical joke was forced to kneel down
and placed his neck across the spindle
of three legged stool. They prepared
for great outburst of laughter as the
neck of the poor young fellow was
touched with slender cane, but instead
had to shed tears of regret for the ac-
ton, as Immediately upon being touch
ed with the cane the young man fell
dead.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14

Another of Laura +. Richards
charming idyls of the Maine coast. en-
titled Love and Rocks" is soon to APP
pear.
Louis Zangwlll, whose new novel,
"Cleo, the Magnificent has recently
been issued, will now drop his pseudo
nym of II. d. under which he wrote
"A Drama in Dutch" THE Beautiful
Miss Brooke" and other novels.
1t may not be generally known that
the late William James Linton, the
poet and engraver, whose death recent
ly occurred, was the husband of the
distinguished English novelist and es-
saylst, Mrs. e. Lynn Linton.
The late Alphonsc Daudct Is said to
have been an ardent music-lover. At
his Thursday evenings there was al
ways music. The masters he admired
particularly We're Gluck, Beethoven,
Wagner, and, above all, Chopin.
The University of Jena has confer
red the doctors degree on Pater Leon
thus Allshan, an eminent Armenian
scholar, who is also popular among his
countrymen as a poet. lie Is q years
old. One of his former friends was
Alexander Won Humboldt.
Justin Mccarthy has two volumes
nearly ready for the press; one, entitled
"England's Nineteenth Century" to he
issued in the Story of the Nations Sc
rles; the other, "reminiscences of dis
tlngulshed Europeans and Americans
whom Mr.. Mccarthy has known, and
the title of which he has not yet de-
cided upon.
The title Of the new book which W..
ii. Mallock will publish through the
Macmillan Company in the course of a
few weeks will be "Aristocracy and
Evolution" Its aim is to demonstrate
that the chief progressive movement of
society is due to n minority, the part
played by the majority being altogeth-
er subordinate, alike in the sphere of
thought, government, and wealth pro-
| duction.
The third of the Critics new series
of Authors at Home is devoted to
DR.. s. Weir Mitchell, the most famous
Of living American physicians. Like
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, DIR. Mitch
4 ell is no less eminent in letters than in
medicine, and bids fair to become even
more SO. Unlike DR.. Holmes, however
/ 1t is In fiction that his greatest sue
/ cess has been made. DIR. Mitchell's
father was physician who dabbled In
verse and prose; one of the grandsons
is poet and playwright, and another
a physician. The family home is In
Walnut street, Philadelphia, and the
account of the authors home life is
written by Harrison $. Morris, direct
or of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
biting the Nails.

A simple and very effective way to
cure children of the bad habit of bit
ing their nails is to wet the fingers
with quassia tea and allow them to dry.
When tasted it will be bitter remind
er to cease the practice. If there are
no sore places on the finger tips, very
little colocynth powder, which is in
tensely bitter, may be busted over
them. When, however, dipping the
finger ends in some bitter tincture fails,
as 1t sometimes will, each finger end
ought to be incased in stall until the
propensity is eradlcated
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
A French Way to Cur. Badness.

A French surgeon announces novel
cure for badness, which. however, is
only within the reach of the wealthy.
The first thing is to find some poor,
starving wretch with fine head Of
hair of the color which the patient de-
sires. The former having consented to
part with his hair for stipulated sum,
the doctor scalps the pair delicately and
applies the hairy scalp of the subject to
the bald client, and vice versa. With
luck the graft is said to be a success. =
New York Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Attractlve to Customers.

How to attract "trade" is the success
full shopkeeper's consideration. In Ger.
tain portions of Germany the telephone
Is introduced by tobaeconists as an
additional attraction to customers. Any
one who buys cigar may, II he desires,
speak over the tobacconist's instrument
to subscriber to the telephone service
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
BEWARE OF OINTMENTs FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY,

As mercury will surely destroy the sense oil
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering II through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten.fold to the good you
Cure, manufactured by +. ]. Cheney q Co., To
ledO, o., contains no mercury, and is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genu
Inc. 1t IL taken internally. and made in Toledo
Ohio, by +. J. Cheney 4 Co. Testimonials free
Sold by Druggists, price Use, per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
1rs. ". 2. BATES. nansileld, Ia, writes.

Before writing to you | suffered
dreadfully from painful menstrual
ton. leucorrhea and sore feeling in
the lower part of the bowels. Nowmy
friends want to know what makes me
look so well. lido not hesitate one min
ute in telling them what has brought
about this great change. 1 cannot
praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound enough. 1t is the greatest
remedy of the age"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Continuous Laughter.

Strange as it may seem, John Brelner
falls into commissions of laughter be-
cause eliot of blood is pressing his
spinal cord At least the doctors at
tribute his laughter to that cause. For
three hours one night recently the man
laughed uproariously without a mo-
ment's hesitation,
Two weeks ago Brelner was taken
sick while at work in an iron mill.
Since then he has been confined to his
bed. He has almost lost the power of
speech, and Is unable to utter a word.
But his laughter Is free and apparently
natural, as If he were intensely anus
ed.-Bethlehem pa special to New
York World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
PRETTY SHOW OF PAraIorIsM.
Any Girl with Dextrous Fingers Can
Garry Dat This Idea.

Put small. circular table in the
center OF the room. and. after draping
u with siiken American eolors. make
an Uncle sam" hat out Of pasteboard
and I'LL Il with flowers thar represent
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
CAT MAscoTs THE VIzcAYA.

Spaniards Have Pets on Warships
Same as DO Americans.
The Spaniards have animal mascots
aboard their warshlps the same as do
American man-o -warsmen. The pet
of the Nizcaya. it seems, is man.
moth cat, with an unpronounceable
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
PROPOSED ALLIANCE WITH ENG
LAND.

II the United States and England should form
Al alliance, the combined strength would be 50
great that there would BE- little chance for
enemies to overcome Us. In q like manner,
when men and women keep mp their bodily
strength with Hostetter's Stomach Birters, there
is little chance Of attacks from dis ease. The
dtime remedy enriehes the blood, builds up
the muscles, steadies the nerves aud increases
the appetite. Try il.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Theatrical villain.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Was there any vii
lain in that play you saw last night?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak--Not on the stage.
He sat few seats from me, though,
and insisted upon climbing over my lap
togo out between the acts.-Yo nkers
Statesman.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14

our country's colors. The band around
the hat should be of blue, and the stars
on 1t should contain miniatures OF our
latter-day heroes. This sketch shows
the result obtained by following the
above instructions. ANY girl with dex-
trous fingers can carry out the idea.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-14
Ho1rr.s SCHOOL ron Bors.

At Burlingame, San Aate0 county, Cal,
Is one of the most thorough, careful and
practical "Home school" 10 be found on
the Pacific Coast. Accredited at State and
stanford Universities. Thorough prepsra-
ton for business. Send for catalogue. la
g. Horn, Phi. D., Principal. Re-opens
Aug. 9th.