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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
CURTAINS

ZIG line OF Chenille Curtains and
Plr.ifrres right from the mills. We
ong IN j)bbers' quantities, and there
r. Tor lower ptices. Our prices are
much lower than others.
yard Chenille Curtains. all colors,
list VIVA, our neighbors get $3.50 pair
i-T Our price only 81 60 psir.
yard Chenille Curtains, Just what
others ask So so for. Ours are only
81 20
Full lines OF other grades up to 81 a
pair
oar Laca Curtain stock is simply i'm J.
mense. Soc1 great vslues as we are
prepared 10 cnrr this aea.on have M yer
before been known. Abou: zoo pairs OF
tho latest things now ready
see what We have a ST pair.
See what we do ior y"u =. 81 so
Sc what pretty s. IS Curtain we
have for So
Sec the tremendous big y.'uos wa a-e
giving at so: f5c. 81 Sl.25 $ 81 81 rs,
So S; So S. - So. 81 and s. pair
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
RUGS! RUGS!

aseat big line of the celebrated
Burnley's Smyrna Rugs We buy in
larger quantity and for a much lower
price IMAM our competitors; therefore
we can and do sell for less. We never
aeek TO make ourselves popular by
copying prices
This Is our last big Rug deal for the
season.
Door size, l6x3O inches, Csc
Bureau siZ5. 22X44 inches, Sl.12%.
Soils sz'. 27s52 inches, Others get
S225) only Sl4o
Large Sofa. SOx56 inches, worth else.
where So only 81 9S
Extra large. 3Gx6s inches, worth
S}T5. only 81 60
Another lot tho now and beautiful
Nubia Rugs, the lates. idea from the
O.lcnt, 81 30
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
BIG APPROPRIATIONS
The Sundry Civil Bill Carries Il Large
Amount of Money.

[tiiiOuue vi
Washington, Feb 25-Tbe Senate com.
mittce on appropriations to-day finished
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
Among the additions made by the COM
mittee were the following:
Completing approaches and grounds,
Charleston, S. c., postoflice, $l2, 900.
Nicaragua canal commission. continu-
ing survey and examinations with view
of making plans for the entire work of
construction, $l50,000. The President is
to appoint three engineers us Il commits
sion.
The employees of Congress are given the
month extra pay that is cutomary 1T
the end of the session.
Improving and completing roadways to
tue national cemetery, Pensacola, Fla,
$4,000.
y new piece Of legislation provi,les that
hereafter the Secretary of War shall an
nunliy submit estimates in detail for river
and htrbor Improvements required for
the ensuing fiscal year to the Secretary OF
the Treasury, to be included in and car
red into the sum total OF the book Of esti.
mates. and all such river and harbor esti-
mates shall he considered and reported on
in subsequent bill by the committee of
each House having charge OF river and
harbor improvements. The Southern
items follow:
lIarbor ut Savannah, from 800. 600 to
100000.
Cumberland Sound. Georgia and Flor
ida, from $i00.000 to $500, 600.
Winawyc Bay, South Carolina, from
500, 600 to S300,0O0.
Sabine Pass, Texas, from $500, 900 to
$500, 900.
Bayou Plaqucminc, Louisiana, from
100000 to $300,0O0.
Cumberland river, above Nashville 10y
construction of locks and dams, from
$780, 600 to 100000
Falls of ohio, ut Louisville, from 800,
900 to $500, 900.
The Senate made n net addition to the
bill of 81, 1862 9S} the total carried being
SOL, S2i, 12,. The act for the current year
carries $33 0)6, 40.
The total increase amounts to So. 153 :
9J2, and the tota reduction to 50 ,6l9, 1863
UNCLE SAINTS MONEY.
New York, Feb 25.-Treasury bal.
anceS: Coin, $129.534,612; currency,
$50, 29D, $50
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
lRAPERlES.

One case New Japanese Draperies. the
Imported kind, real Japanese designs,
very pretty, only 121Sc yard.
New Persian Tapestry for upholster-
ing purposes. so inch, only SOC; worth
soc i.
Finer grades at soc and 75c yard
Upholstery 0mp, all shades, wcrtn
sc yard, for only Sc yard.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
DENIED AT HAVANA.
Lee Has Neither Resigned Nor Received
His Passport

Havana, Feb. %. Dispatches received
here from New York says a rumor is
prevalent there that United States Con-
sui General Lee has received his pass
port. This is not true. General Lee has
neither received his passport nor has he
resigned his pest. The fact is that II day
or two ago he intimatcd his disposition
to resign if the United States Govern
ment failed TO sustain the attitude he
had assumed in the cases of DR.. Ruiz and
Mr.. Scott. c.has gone no .further than
this
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
DOWN QUILTS.

The last OF the Down Quilts will 20
tomorrow This is your opportunity.
7sxsl inches. extra fine French
Saline. largo and perfec:ly filed, onIv
two left, price So so each; now only S..
T2xSl inches, French Saline Tons,
plain lining, only three left were IS,
now only 50
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
NASAL
CATARRH

This rcm cdy docs
not contain mercury
or Othcr Injurious
drug.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALvE.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhcum,
Fever Sores, letter Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptious,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
quircd. 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded Price %
cents per box. For sale ut Massie's phar-
macy, 100 Jefferson street. Roanoke
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26

REMNANTS.
Ooened Saturday. case OF frs.
grade Gingham Remnants. Buy these
now anSAsSve money-5c o yard.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26

UNCLE SAINTS MONEY.
New York, Feb. 25.-Treasury bal.
dnceS; Coin, $1a9.554,612; currency,
$50, 29D, $50.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
WHITE GOODS.

Our reputation Tor big values in
White Goods will be more than sus-
tanned this season.
To arrive Monday, fifty pieces finest
grsde Long Cloth. 12-ysrd lengths, the
usual price OF this grade Ia 15c d ward;
our price will be Sl5O apiece.
AT 81 Is apiece, IL yards. fine grade
OF Long Cloth, chamois finish, 36 inches
wide.
At sl.a5 piece, ~ yards. Fine Eng
lish Nainsook, SO inches wide.
AT 9sc piece, I2 yards, real good
grade Lonadale Cambria, SO inches wide,
AT rs; apiece, ~ yards. real good
medium weight Lonsdaie Cambria for
Simmer underwear
AT SC, three thousand yards Checked
Muslin, worth IS.
AZ ]5c. fifty pieces verv fine Sheer
India Linen, the regular 2Oc sort.
Specials in fine Sheer India Linens at
Sc. 1Oc and 1oEc.
Specials in 40.inch India Linens ct
loo, l2Tc and )5c.
a. 12kc, beautiful Lace Striped
lndis Linens; regular value tic.
AT l2Hc, fine corded white Indian
Dimity: usually nc
Az Csc, White Organdie, two yards
wide
At 33c. 39;, soc. and up, big line OF
the finest White OsYandlef, two yards
wide.
At l5c and &C. all colors in fine
Organizes, thirty inches wide.
AT zoe, exquisite Dotted Muslina with
lace stripes.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-26
Dress Well

1t costs but little now. Come
and see Us. We want to talk
Spring Suits to YOU. We've all
the Newest things and can tit
YOU at II small cost. Ii we Sue
coed in pleasing you, we please
ourselves even more.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
Mixed English.

American and English tourists who
visited Ischl, in Austria, recently were
confronted with the following notice on
a signboard over the door of one of the
hostelries of the place, "To the gentle
mans Englanders and Americaners, here
you become asses. y Upon inquiry it
was learned that the purport Of the sin
gular sign was that the proprietor of the
place had donkeys to let which were
used for excursions into the neighboring
mountains. A much travelled cobbler,
who professed to be able to master the
English language, was responsible for
the unique wording of the sign. He had
translated the German sentence, can
die Herren Highlander und Amerikaner,
hier bekommt ihr Esel, y the latter four
words meaning here you can hire
asses "
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
Rose to the Occasion.

The story Of young woman who
wound up her letter to friend with,
Up. ST. forgot to tell you was mar
ried, is matched, says the London Tel
egraph. Miss Kate - of Belfast re.
Gently consented to adopt the name of a
gentleman friend, and so they were
married She is in Dublin now and is
stopping at the Gresham hotel The
other day she made some purchases,
and in going home she said, "You may
send them home for me-Miss Kate
-, Gresham hotel
She had reached the sidewalk before
she recollected that she had given her
maiden name With admirable wit she
stepped back and said to the clerk, '.Oh,
by the way, send that package to Miss
Kate -, care Of Mrs. -, Gresham
hotel, " and she swept out of the store
as if she had been married 10 years
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
MODERN NEWSPAPERS.
There A re--Nz- zeiriicss 5E,e the Way vi
the New Journalist.


There ra--NzPsses rasiices 5s.4ts.e way of
the New Journalist.
The new journalist has no prejudices
that interfere with his business ends.
The founder Of his school was the first
man to make an absolutely nonpartisan
paper, and the successful men | talked
with declared that the best way COM
mercially to make an editorial page
was to turn it over to some man with
mind and character who would direct
it's policy independently and in good
faith in the interests of the community
as whole, regardless of parties,
cliques, advertisers or any other inter
ests, however powerful. But while this
is being done the business man who
proposes to conduct the enterprise
would have an equally independent
news department., and, having the most
intelligent readers to begin with, he
would broaden the news policy from
their point of view, spending as much as
sensationalism costs for more important,
better written news. In short, the COM
mercial ideal contains distinct apprecia-
ton of the power of opinion, but it
prizes just as highly the value of the
authoritative statement of all the news.
There's not room for many such
newspapers, but that's the kind that
would live and pay forever, " said my
new commercial journalist. j. Lin
coin Steffens in Scribner's.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
HOMEMADE ELECTRICITY.
Some Simple Methods by Which II May
Be Generated.

SUNNI DAAhptC NACthO0c ny W taACAA ~ 4AAdy
Be Generated.
1t has been discovered that if a steel
knife and silver fork be inserted in a
large orange an electric carrent will be
generated. If the end of the fork and
the end of the knife sticking from the
orange be connected with an electric
measuring instrument, quite percepti-
bic current will be found to pass The
same kind Of battery may be made by
substituting a cucumber for the orange
In fact, any acid fruit may be used
In order to make yoltaic pile it is
only necessary to procure ten or more
pieces of zinc about an inch square, the
same number of pieces of copper and a
like number of pieces Of paper The
paper should be thoroughly soaked in
vinegar
First take a piece of zinc On it
place a piece of vinegar soaked paper,
then put ON a piece of copper, then a
piece of paper, then another zinc and
then paper, and so on until all the
pieces of zinc, copper and paper have
been usede 1t is important that piece
of zinc should be on one end and piece
of copper ON the other. After the pile is
completed again soak the whole slight
Iy in vinegar; then clean it off on the
outside
If the forefnger of one hand be held
against one end and the foreinger of
the other hand be held on the other end
Of the pile, quite perceptible current
viii be felt. Ii several persons clasp
hands and the persons on each end of
the line touch the voltaic pile, the cur
rent will flow through the bodies of all
those in position.
The thermopile is another electrical
current producer that may he made i'll
any household at trifiing expense
The electric current is generated in this
case by heat, and anything from can
die to a live coal may be used to pro-
duce the heat Take lot of German
silver and copper wire and cut it into
six inch lengths Then take German
silver length and copper length and
twist the ends together You will have
shaped arrangement of wire. Take
ttAObIS1 1CASl11 VI OSl Sl1fSI w II z
and twist one end of it tightly around
the copper end of the V. Continue the
process until you have a long succession
of what might be called WIS or double
VS. arranged with alternate pieces of
copper and German silver wire
Now take two large curtain rings.
Bend your string Of wire lengths until it
has assumed the position of star and
clamp it between the two curtain rings
One end of the string of wires should
be copper and the other German silver.
You will find when these are clamped
between the curtain rings that the in
ner points of the star form small cir
Gle in the middle of the rings. The
rings should be placed on uprights and
candle should be lighted, SO that the
fame will play between the inner
points of the star New York Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29

The public debt of France is the lar
gest in the world and amounts to about
SIS, 600. 600. 600
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
The Duration of Life Varies According to
Circumstances.

The Duration of Life Varies According to
Circumstances.
Among the long lived III the animal
kingdom we may mention birds, fish
and reptiles, although even in the lower
animals the duration Of life varies inn
mensely, according to the species. OF
fish, the carp are especially long lived.
Among birds, some of tie parrot spe-
cies are supposed TO live over 100 years.
The swan, the raven, the eagle, are also
credited with great length of life.
In the mammalia, the elephant at
tains the greatest age. 1t grows for 20
to 80 years and is said to live from 100
to $50 years and even longer. We have
no accurate means of ascertaining the
whales age. A lion is said to have lived
70years i'll the Tower, but there is no ev-
idence that he attains any thing like that
age in the natural state. Forty years is
recorded by naturalists as the extreme
age. The camel may attain the age of
so. 1t eats little and drinks less. The
horse is comparatively short lived ami
NAL, but it is we'll known fact that
WueH Nc uOes llGtle WOIh anu passes the
greater part of his days in pasture he
may attain to about 40 years of life,
but when horse is hard worked and
fed, moreover, upon beans, oats and
other ossifying foods his days are much
shorter.
In the vegetable kingdom the yew at
tains great age. Those at Fountains alb
hey are about 1900 years old. Two
orange trees at Rome, planted respec-
lively by st. Dominic and Thomas
Aquinas, are said to be from 500 to 600
years old, and there are records of trop-
ical trees that, counting by their rings,
are supposed to have attained the age
of 800 to 1000 years. Nineteenth Cen
turV
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29

Four-ffths of the worlds supply of
cloves comes from Zanzibar and Pemba,
frina
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
YOUNG MEMS CHANCES.
Best Avenues to Success Are Found Out
side Our Largest Cities.

Rest Avenues to Success Are Found Out
side Our Largest Cities.
Business conditions of the great cit
les are not favorable to yeung men, -
writes Edward w. Box in The Ladies
Home Journal, advising young men
about to begin their careers against go
ing to the big cities. ''It is said, . he
continues, that competition develops
men, 1t does unquestionably. But to
cope with present competition as it ex-
lists in the centers calls for a vast
amount Of experience. That experience
man must have back of him before he
can enter the competing arena. But
how can better acquire that experience
than where there is constant need of it?'
How better, my young friend? By serv-
ing long apprenticeship in some city
smaller than the greatest The large
cities are today poor places in which to
learn the rudiments of business COM
petition, for while the young man is
learning the experienced man swallows
him up But that is experience, per-
sists the young man 1t is, but more
severe kind than there is need ola
kind which, once INDUCED in, does not
leave a pleasant remembrance. Compe-
tition in smaller city may be just as
keen proportionately but, what is all
important to the young man starting
out, the risks are not so great, the ex-
perience is not apt to be SO costly
should he fail to succeed. 1t is true
saying that a man before he succeeds in
business must expect to measure his
height on the ground time or two.
But it is not necessary that i'll his first
Touchdown he should be knocked out
But there is another and more inn
portant fact which the young man
away from the large cities does not
realize 1t is that the number of posi-
BILE positions in the large cities is not
increasing, despite the reiterated asser
lions constantly made to the contrary.
The very opposite is the truth. Various
causes explain this-higher taxes, high
er prices of lots, OF lack of building
room, labor strikes and lower cost of
production. The manufacturing inter
ests of this country are constantly tend
ing toward the smaller cities and away
from the centers. And this means fewer
positions, since only in rare instances
does the executive branch of business
call for a larger number of employees
than does the manufacturing side.
Strange as the change of current may
seem, it is nevertheless fact that the
young man who today leaves good
sized city of actual manufacturing adj
vantages turns his back on what in a
few years will be one of the industrial
beehives of America y
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29

Warming pans containing perfume are
now used to heat the beds of guests at
English country houses.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
swordswomen Abroad.

Some day it will be the women of
foreign countries who will defend their
nations honor after the French Italian
style recently witnessed. Women of the
upper classes in France and Spain are
generally expert swordswomen. They
are taught to fence as carefully and ac-
curately as their brothers, and there are
numerous schools in the two countries
where young women are taught not on
~ to fence. but to handle the broad
sword.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
Too Much salt.

The New York Journal of Hygiene
says that many people eat altogether
too much salt The result is that the
skin and kidneys are excessively taxed
to get rid of the salt, and both are in
jured by it Few people have healthy
skins. and it is believed that many
cases Of arrangement of the kidneys are
due to the salt habit
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29

In some of the Nevada canyons in Sc
we're weather the jack rabbits freeze to
death, huddled together in clusters,
vainly trying to get little warmth out
of one another Then the Washoe and
Piute Indian hunters break them off in
lunches and food the market with.
them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29

Patience is a most necessary qualifi-
cation for business Many man would
rather you heard his story than granted
his request. You must seem to hear
the unreasonable demands of the petu-
liant unmoved and the tedious details
Of the dull untired. That is the least
price that man must pay for a high
station. New York Ledger
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-29
The Cause of Confusion.

Isn't it strange the way people make
mountains out Of molehills?'
"Oh, dom know When you aren't
big enough to see over them, there isn't
Auch difference. Chicago Journal
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-04
CONTESTS IN THE HOUSE.
Clerk Receives Notice of Twenty of
Them.

WASHINGTON, December 3.-The Clerk
OF the House Of Representatives has re-
ceived notice Of twenty contests to be
made in the next House. The list will be
presented to the House on Monday next,
and includes the following:
Second Alabama District-F. H.. Clark
Natlonal DemocraD VS.. j. +. Stallins
Democrat).
Third Alabama District-G. L. Conner
National DEMOCRACY VS.. Henry d. Clay
ton Democra).
Fourth Alabama District-W. F.. AL
drich CPopulisD VS.. Thomas II. Plowman
DEMOCRACY.
Fifth Alabama District-A. r. Goodwin
Third Kentucky District-W. Godfrey
Hunter (Republican) VS.. j. l.. Rhea
Democrat).
First Louisiana District-A rmand Ro-
main Republican) and Joseph Gain la
bon VS.. Adolph Meyer Democracy.
Third Mississippi District-C. j. Jones
~CRepublcam VS.. I. c. Catchings Demo
First South Carolina District-G. w.
Murray Republican, vs.. William Elliott
Second South Carolina District-G. r.
Republican) VS.. w. Jasper Tai
bot DemocraD.
Seventh South Carolina Dlstrict-Thomas
Johnston Republican) VS.. j. William |
Stokes lDemocraO.
Second Virginia District-R. A. Wise |
Ocratl.
Fourth Virginia District-R. It. Thorpe
;rat).
Fifth Virginia District-John r. Brown
Kepuollcan) VS.. Claude A. Swanson
Democracy.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-04
WENT UP IN SMOKE.
AN EXPLOSION AND BIG SCARE IN
PORTSMOUTH.
No One Hurt-The Norfolk Navy
Yard to Work on Full Time Again.
Other Notes of Interest.

NORFOLK, VA, December 3.-(Spe-
cial)-An explosion occurred at 2:30 o'clock
this afternoon in j. II. Edward & Co.'S
torpedo factory, on Water street, Ports
mouth, by which 10000 torpedo caps
vanished in smoke. A panic ensued
among the employees in the wrapping de-
partment. where the explosion occurred,
but nobody was injured.
The Norfolk navy-yard is at last to
run on full time again and employ nearly
a full force. on account, it is said, of
economical considerations. several battle
ships, gunboats, and cruisers have been
ordered here for repairs. and the wharf
space will soon be crowded. The Massa-
chusetts and Indiana have been ordered
here TO have their smoke-pipes heightened
in order to secure Tor them the
greater draught which gives the Iowa
and Brooklyn their great speed. Esti-
mates for this work were also mad by
the Brooklyn yard. but the ships were
ordered here on the ground Of greater
The Puritan, for work for her
boilers and furnaces, has also been or
dered to this yard. Among the arrivals
at the yard to-day were the Wilmington
and the Foote, and the tug Wahneta,
from Annapolis. The Wilmington will
90 into the dry-dock to have her rudder
repaired.
The Terror sailed to-day for Hampton
Roads. She will be examined there by
the Inspection Board from Washington.