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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-11

uay at D O'Clock and Jos. L. Englebv
was elected permanent chairman and C.
NJ Armes permanent secretary.
After discussing matters of interest
Cwo subcommittee were appointed as
follows: c. w. c. Woolwine, J. r.
Andrews and Jos. Rosenbaum as an
executive committee with power to
select attorneys, to take immediate &C.
zion to protect the interests of the tax
payers and to assist City Solicitor w.
"A. Glasgow in getting an omnibus in
junction.
The other committee appointed was
nnance committee composed Oh TIE fol-
lowing gentlemen: r NJ Goodwin. C.
NJ. Armes, II. S. Trout. G. r. Hender.
son and j. "A. Jamison, who were in
structed to tale such action AS they
deemed fit to receive funds for their
work.
Inc matter OF memorializing the leg's-
nature will be taken up at n later meet
ing after conference with the ATTORNEYS.
The meeting adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman.
APPEAL FROM FINANCE COMMIT
TEE.
The undersigned, having been an
pointed as finance committee of the citi-
zens committee to secure relief, immedi
ate and extended, against the operation
of the delinquent tax laws, call upon all
property owners and others interested to
promptly make contributions for the
purpose of defraying the necessary legal
and other expenses contingent upon
men:orialzing the State legislature for
the desired relief. Payments may be
made to any of the committee.
7. w. GOODWIN,
Chairman.
]. y. JAMESON,
c. NJ. ARMIES,
II. S. TROUT,
&. Il. HENDERSON,
Finance Committee.
WE'LL WORTH READING.
The tahnlated statement printed on
the third page of The Times this morn
ing will furnish food for reflection to ali
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-11

WE'LL WORTH READING.
The tahnlated statement printed on
tho third page of The Times this morn
ing will furnish food for reflection to ali
OF our citizens interested in the delin-
quent land tax scheme.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-11

State of Virginia, City of Roanoke, to-
wit:
|, w. f. Penn, not airy public for the
city and State aforesaid, do certify that
this day personally appeared before the
undersigned notary public James r.
Terry, who made oath that the allie
cations in the above bill in equity are
trne to the best of his knowledge anu be-
lief w. +. PENN
Notary Public
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
NeSASfN<zERxA>SeUA
'|I
THE GOLD FEVER.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he,
So he called for his pipe.
And he called for his bowl.
And he called for his flddlers three.
They brought his pipe and they
brought his bowl,
And they brought them speedily,
But he called with his might,
And he called with his soul.
out in vain for the fiddlers three.
He looked up high and he looked down
low;
And not a one could he see.
So he called for his man,
And he told him to go
Where he thought they would likely
be.
The man went west with a merr,
heart,
Oh, away off west went he,
And he found all the men
In Klondyke part,
And they captured some million.
three.
And old King Cole, the merry old
soul,
When he heard their history,
He called for his pick,
He called for his bowl,
And he sailed for the Behring sea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
LEAVES HIM THE BANJO.
Mrs. Collins Writes Note and Elopes
With Her Brother-in-Law.

Blountville, county seat of Sullivan
county, Tennessee, is all torn up over
a sensational escapade that has just
been made public. -Four months ago
Miss Rowena Ross, an attractive
young lady, belonging to a good fam
lily, was married to Ambrose Collins, a
mechanic. They seemed very much
devoted to each other and began
housekeeping under suspicious cir
cumstances. For the first few weeks
their married life was the happiest,
but when Milton McCary, brother-in-
law OF Mrs. Collins, entered the home
trouble began. McCary is handsome
and Mrs. Collins became infatuated
with him. The husband suspected
nothing wrong. Monday Collins went
fishing. When he returned a few
fcurs later his home was deserted.
On the bed was a banjo, the wedding
gift of the husband to his bride. Tied
to the banjo was a lock of hair and
note from Mrs. Collins, stating that
she had gone with a handsomer man.
ana she hoped to meet her husband in
heaven, if never again in this world.
inquiry developed that Mrs. Collins
and McCary had eloped. Collins
sought the law to recover his wife. but
she has not been located.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
KILLING BUTTERFLIES.

Stopping at the sea-shore few
days since we saw a number of inter-
esting little children gathering butter
flies, grasshoppers, and other varieties
of insects, and fastening them with
pms to the side of the hotel. where
the poor creatures were writhing and
struggling to escape. 1t was not the
fault of the children. They were very
young, and knew no better. They did
not once dream of the agony endured
by these insects, and on being told of
it all assented to their being at once
k lied, and cheerfully stopped further
pursuit of them. But it was your
fault, fathers and mothers of those
children, and one for which God holds
you accountable. If you neglect your
duties to your children in that period
of life when the moulding of their
characters is in your hands, and they
grow up more and more merciless, I'm
til in your old age you reap the har-
vest you have sown, you have no one
to blame but yourselves.-G. T. Angel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
IGNOTAE PUELLAE.

do not know the maidens name,
l only know her number:
But, oh, last night a vision came
And played the deuce with slumber
Upon a shining brooch she wears
Her number as waitress;
Light-heartedly away she bears
Me captive in a stray stress.
She never handles words with me
Indeed, I'm glad she doesn't
But fetches me my cup of tea,
And says l really mustn't.
Oh! is it Kate they call you by,
Or Maud, or Ruth, or Annie?
Were l to guess, the name I'd try
Would probably be Fanny.
l watch your busy fingers fit
Past my small corner table,
Contemptuous of the labored wit
Of all the smoky babel.
And sometimes, as you pass, your eysa
Meet mine, and, half-relenting,
Your parted lips just tantalize,
And close again, repenting.
SO. though the buffers margarine,
The tea beyond expression,
L like to see your way serene
With youthful indiscretion.
And L shall never know your name:
But, sure, that doesn't matter,
Whlle, Phyllis, you remain the same
Untouched by idle chatter.
"A. H. Diplock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
AN ULTIMATE CATACLYsM.

Probably it can't be helped. but if
Is really pitiful to think of two such
good towns as Chicago and Detroit
1athomS deep under the flowing water.
caused by the great tilt in the earth's
crust now going on and which is
gradually upheaving the lake bottoms
aud turning the waters to the south
west. The rate at which the fitting
business is going on is only one inch
IN ten years, or ten inches in a CEN
Jury; but 1t is inevitable that within
a few thousand years Chicago will be
under water and sooner, perhaps. be-
cause the tilt of the crust may be more
rapid after little. If the whole lake
region is fitting toward the southwest,
however other towns than Detroit and
Chicago will be obliterated. What will
become of Toledo and Cleveland?
Professor Spencer says he has taken
the measurements and there is no
doubt that these cities are doomed,
but he does not look for a great river
which will drain the lake region to
flow in a deep, broad stream over Illi-
nois from Lake Michigan until the
year 1897. Perhaps by that time
science will have advanced so that
Chicago and Detroit can, by improved
systems of canalization, give egress to
the waters without being overwhelmed
by them. For some years it has been
known that the bottom of Lake Erie
is slowly emerging and the lake is
sboaling, so the obliteration of Niagara
Falls is inevitable.
Professor Spencer does not say any
thing about the effect of the crust tilt
upon Lake Superior. If that water is
ID the line of the tilt, the ultimate de-
struction of Duluth and Superior as
lake ports is certain and there will
be plently of lots for sale there on
the dusty lake bed. If these two
towns are left high and dry it does
not follow that Minneapolis and ST. J
Paul will suffer, too. The probability |
IS that Lake Superior's water will be |
tilted into Wisconsin and work it's way |
between the Chippewa and St. Croix
rivers and valleys and so pour down
nto the Mississippi, leaving Minnea-
coils practically seaport on a great
inland sea with water communication
iirect with Europe perhaps
OF course there is time enough to
hink about the matter and prepare
or it. The final phase of the trans
ormation will not occur until 1897.
That is 5000 years away. We can
Iuietly leave the disturbing matter to
'ur descendants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
FOREIGN.

Charles Compton, the actor, died in
London.
Michele Angiolillo, the assassin of
Senor Canovas del Castillo, was gar
roted.
Canovas' assassin has a cousin in
New York, Mrs. Rosi, who says he
was the black sheep of the family.
The ameer of Afghanistan has issued
firman forbidding his subjects to
join the rebels who are in arms against
the Indian government
The car received at the Peterhof
Palace physicians who were on their
way to the international congress of
medicine at Moscow
Louis H. Davies, Canadian minister
of marine and fisheries, said in an
address in London that all sentiment
in favor of Canadian union with the
United States had disappeared in his
country.
Fifty seamen have deserted and
many others are undergoing punish
ishment at Portsmouth, England, on
the British battle-ship Royal Sove-
reign, as a result of an uprising against
grievances.
information received at Christiana,
Norway, confirms the report that a
message from Herr Andree was found
on pigeon which was shot on the
north coast of Lapland From the
message it is inferred that the ex-
rlorer had passed 80 degrees of north
latitude
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
FARMERS WITH LEVEL HEADS.
Will Fatten Big Herds of Cattle With
Overplus of Cheap Corn.

Farmers throughout Marshall county
ILL.,, have cut and are thrashing hun
dreds of acres # timothy. This is a
quite unusual occurrence. AS a reason
for so doing they state that next year
they will seed down and convert into
pasture many acres that have for some
time been producing corn and oats.
The pastures will be stocked with big
herds of cattle and in this way the
rig bulk of the cheap corn will be
used. At this time butcher stock is
very difficult 20 secure, few farmers
are raising scarcely any cattle, and
butchers stock commands a good price
in local markets. They figure that by
first feeding the corn to cattle and
then placing the latter on the market
they will make much better interest
on the money invested
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
VALUES THE ROLLER.

L consider the roller one If the most
valuable implements on the farm.
know my corn comes up quicker and
much more evenly when, after plant
ing, the land is thoroughly gone over
with the roller, SO 1 might say in re-
gard to most other crops, beets in par
tlcular are benefited by the roller. The
water runs off without Outlying the
land, and the seeds terminate quicker
and hardly a hill will fail to have
one Or more plants. A corn field that
las been rolled is a puzzle for the
crows and a lot so treated is seldom
troubled by them. a roller is ind1s-
pensable on my farm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
SAYS HE'S NOT BROKE.
Lucky" Baldwin Objects to Stories
That He is a BANKRUPT.

The famous plunger, Lucky" Bald
win, objects to statements that have
lately appeared in print east and west.
to the effect that he is bankrupt. In
order to convince his friends that he
is still lucky, he has had himself in
terYiewed as follows:
i am not bankrupt I never owned
so much property. I never had my
business interests in as good shape
and have never considered myself -
rich, but if any three disinterested
people will appraise the value of the
papers in New York that have been
printing the sensational stories about
my business affairs and scandalous lies
about my private character, l can buy
them all ten times over, have money
left and then not know I've done much
business. Why, when 1 bought the
Baldwin hotel property I put a mort
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

have lectures and dissections apart
from the men. The women vets" will
confine their dissecting to cats, dogs
and smaller animals, as it seems that
most Of them wish TO take up the
profession with a view to treating
household pets.
There is a growing belief that the
wheat crop of Kansas for 1897 has been
underestimate The total product
may run up to 55,000,000 or $4,000, 900
bushels. The Santa Fee says the crop
will greatly exceed the official estimate
Of 5000, 900 bushels. Mr.. Hudson ad-
vises farmers to sell their wheat while
the price is high rather than to take
the risk of a possible falling market,
when the present foreign demand shall
be supplied. On the other hand Min
nesota wheat looks bad, so far as No.
| 1 is concerned.
! A letter received at Denver from
| Edwin w. Wallace, the American con-
sui at Jerusalem, gives details of
| scandal0us misuse of large amounts OF
money sent from charitable Jewish
societies in America to aid INDECENT
Jews in Palestine. About a year ago
a protest was made to the leaders OF
the Jewish organization that the
funds, instead of being spent 20 aid
Hebrews who had gone to the holy
land to spend their last moments, were
being squandered in luxurious living
by native dignitaries of the Jewish
sy nagogue. This protest by the Amer.
before and was the cause of a great
deal of secret persecution of members
of the American colony.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
HARD ON THE G. P.
Canada's Railroad Hit by Clause in
the New Tariff

A clause in the new tariff law which
relates to the importation of goods
through contiguous" countries is
Just now causing not a little excite
ment among the railroad men OF the
northwest. This clause seems to pro-
vide that all goods imported from
foreign country through a contiguous
country-Canada and Mexico being the
only ones coming under this term
shall pay duty of 10 per cent. What
is, if they are free articles, 10 per
cent. shall be paid, and if they are
dCtiable articles 10 per cent. shall be
added to the duty.
This clause would seem to Apply TO
all such goods as are now coming into
this country from the orient via Brit
ish Columbia and the Canadian Pacific
railway, as well as to all importations
through the Atlantic Canadian steam
ers. Special Agent C.. S. Crane of the
treasury department is now looking
after the matter and has telegraphed
to Washington for instructions as to
certain importations of tea which have
arrived from Vancouver. He has re-
ceived a reply to take no action until
The United States attorney general
passes Oh the question, it having been
already brought before him through
he raising of the same point by the
collector Of customs at Chicago.
# this section is interpreted to
mean just what it says, and is strictly
it will mean a heavy blow
o the Canadian Pacific railroad and
he British steamers from Japan and
nina landing at Vancouver On the
Their hand, it will add much to the
eVenue of the Great Northern and
'orthern Pacific roads.
The object of the clause is evidently
, encourage American steamers and
ailroads and the building up of all
ne seaports of the United States
ather than those of contiguous coun-
les.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
SETTING HENS.

On no account should hens be al
lowed to set in the henhouse during
the warm season. 1t is too dry a
place at any time for healthful develop
ment of the chick in the shell. In sum-
mer 1t is particularly Objectionable, be-
cause vermin are sure to breed in the
henhouse if a hen is sitting there
night and day for three weeks. When
hen at this season steals her nest
and makes it on the ground the mois-
ture which will rise through the soil
1nVigorates the chick and enables it
to peck its way to the outer world.
instead Of becoming exhausted and
dying in its she'll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
CHARGE OF THE VERSE BRIGADE

All in mail, all in mail,
Plunging straight onward
Full tilt at the editors,
Rode the Six Hundred.
Forward the Verse Brigade!
Charge all for fame" they said.
Down on the editors
Rode the Six Hundred.
Forward the Verse Brigade!
Was there a soul afraid?
Never a verse-monger
Guessed he had blundered.
Theirs not to lose conceit,
Theirs not to beat retreat,
Theirs but to make more feet
When ballads f1oundered.
Down on the enemy
Rode the Six Hundred.
Critics to the right of them,
Critics to the left of them,
Critics in front of them,
Beloved and Numbered.
Bold to the advancing squads
Fired in their paper wads,
Fearless of men and gods.
Valiant Six Hundred.
Waving the battle crest,
Dactyl and Anapest,
Spondee and all the rest
Leaped on defenses.
Editors wondered
Breathing tobacco smoke
Straight through the clouds they brok
Critics and editors
Reeled from the sonnet stroke,
PLACED and plundered
Then they returned-but not,
Not the Six Hundred
Critics to the right of them,
Critics to the left of them,
Pondered and wondered.
Riddled with shot and spear.
Sonnet and sonneteer
Stretched on their funeral bier
Looked cold and dead and sere,
Shattered and sundered;
But out of the jaws of death,
Fighting again for breath,
once more the hosts appear
Dauntless Six Hundred
Who can forget the raid?
D, the wild charge they made!
Editors wondered.
When shall their dust be laid?
Terrible Verse Brigade,
Deathless Six Hundred,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
Madison, August q.

Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday
the legislature, which was convened
in adjourned session Tuesday after
revision bill, adjourned without day.
The only work OF Importance done
during the session was the passage OF
the revision and the Milwaukee garb-
age bills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
SHORT SKIRTS IN BALL ROOMS
They are out of Place and the Bicycle
Girl was Told so.

Feminine bicycle costumes have
been ruled out Oh place at ball room
gatherings in the east. 4 young wom-
I'll IN short bicycle skirt was one OF
The most conspicuous figures at a re-
cent mop given at a seaside resort
WhIle her skirt was eminentIy proper
On wheel it was objectionable in
large parlOr at an evening dance The
master OF ceremonies at TINS particular
hotel is a mistress. 1t was her duty
to see that the offender to the ethics
OF good taste left the floor. waltz
was in progress, with only a few
couples dancing. Shaking her finger
in pleasant, Gliding manner, the
mistress of ceremonies approached the
young man and short-skirted maiden,
as they danced, and though the words
could not be distinguished there was
no doubt as to their import, as the
couple stopped dancing and slipped out
OF the room, the young woman first,
with a laugh which had something in
it OF bravado, but evidently was only
the cover OF feeling OF embarrass-
ment. Then The criticisms could be
heard from the spectators, but, strange
to say, not LOT the short-skirted young
woman, though no attempt was made
to excuse her bad taste, but all the
blame was for the mistress of cere-
monies. THAT was too bad" they
said. THE girl need not have stopped
OF the floor; it would have been much
better to have waited until she had
stopped dancing, and then spoken to
her quietly Then came another
criticism which was interesting:
How much better man would have
done that" 1t may be said that the
last remark came from a man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

An unsuccessful attempt was also
MADE at this adjourned session to
withdraw the state park lands from
the market.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

blymen W. H. F'lett, Merrill. d =
Jones, Sparta; W. G. Wheeler, James,
vile; L. c. Harvey, Oconto.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

Prince Henri of Orleans continues
to recover from the wounds which he
received in his duel with the Count
OF Turin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

Another bill passed sppropriates $500
apiece to A. L. SanboTn and John R.
bergman, both Of Madison, clerks of
the committee, and to the members of
the revision committee, who include
Senators D. E. Riordan, chairman,
Eagle River; J.E. Roehr, Milwaukee;
John NJ. Whitehead, Janesville, Assem-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
JUST WHAT WASDONE
RESUME OF ADJOURNED SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE.
SOME THINGS LEFT UNDCNE

Solons Pass Revision Bill and Sew
eral Minor Bills and Then Go Home
-Sleeping~Car and Express Com
pany Taxation Bills not Passed
What Assemblyman Davidson Says.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

1t also passed a bill providing for
the publication of the revised statutes
by Sanborn & Bergman who are to
furnish the state 10000 sets at Sc a set.
The statutes will be ready for distri-
button in about year. The revision
Tor the most part does not go into eff
feet until a year from Sept. 1 next.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

Just before final adjournment was
taken the governor submitted a COM
munication to both houses expressing
his qualification at the results of the
adjourned session. Both Lieut.. Gov.
Baensch, presiding officer of the senate,
and Speaker Buckstaff of the assembly
also said that they were well pleased
with what had been accomplished
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

Before adjourning the legisla-
ture passed a bill authorizing a jul
dicial election in Milwaukee in the
spring Of '99.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

streets. The expense is to be covered
from the proceeds of the bicycle tax
ordinance. The asphalt strips are to
be- placed over the granite blocks, so
that the expense Of the improvement
will be comparatively small The
strips are to be four feet in width and
placed just outside the gutter
President Mckinley, Mark Hanna
and National Committeeman Cy. Lee
land will be required to testify under
oath whether the postoffice at Wichita
was promised to ex-Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court S. N. Bridgeman. Bridge
man says they did; and that a Witchi-
Ia paper has hurt his chances by pub
fishing his name in connection with
a big shortage in the accounts of ex-
County Treasurer John Doran. Bridge
man sues the paper for damages.
In a signed article DR.. William
Smith, a professor in the Kirkville
Mo-, school OF osteopathy, exposes
the national school of osteopathy."
Sc called, Of Kansas City, which he
declared sold him a diploma for $3.50
within week, although he had not
taken days study in the institution.
The officers of the Kirkville school.
whose founder is DR.. A. T. Still, the
dIscoverer of the science, have decided
to bring criminal proceedings against
the concern.
Several women will enter the New
York College OF Veterinary Surgeons,
with a view Of qualifying with the
degree of D. V. S. France has one
such graduate and there are a few in
Germany and Russia. The women will