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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
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women grow selfish ana vain since the
divine institution Of plural marriage has
been frOwncd upon. They think of their
own foolish vanity ind their own selfish
feelings instead of thinking of the glory of
soul sanctillcd by suffering"
Tint Is o1c story. There is another.
a woman told nc this, too-u woman in
the prime Of lifc-n rosy, bright eyed, rcd
Tipped woman. with strong, self reliant
face and pair of deep set, willful eyes.
My dear, said this woman, ~ am n
fourth VITO. I'm not going to talk to you
about the religious part of our belief In
plural marriage. You wouldn't under
stand. I'm going to talk plain English.
believe in ii because think it's better
for women When wOman'S growing
tired, her children Juggling ut hrr dress for
attention, She has no limo TO bother with
husband. She needs all her time and
strength for her children.
You tnko Il woman In tho palmer
ranks. Rich people can got along in any
condition, plural or single, but you take u
farmers wife or carpenter wife. Now,
whom her husbands around she's got to
get throe meals II day, three meals day,
three menls day. the year round, sick or
well, happy or blue She's got to keep
looking out for her husband.
NOW, 1t comes pretty good news to that
woman to know that her husband Is going
TO take now wife. She knows he'll be
taken up with the new wife for awhile.
and she can get few minutes breathing
spell. Then when the first glamour of
tho now wife is over she and tho new wife
Will divide duties, and she'll go visiting,
and the new vito will como over and look
after tho children, and then by and by
She and tho new wife learn about another,
and they breathe another sigh of rolof, and
they help tho newest wife, and sho helps
them, and life isn't nll drudging and hard
work
"Thon mans better to his wives thnn
he is to one wife. If one of them is stupid,
no comes to her when he wants rest. When
he's tired of rest and wants amusement,
no goes to the wife who can talk and sing
and dance, and he doesn't 'hctchcl either
of them into misery telling her what she
ought to DO and isn't.
Men arc many sided creatures. Won.
en- arc one sided. That irritntcs u man,
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

A waitless messenger boy should be in
vontcd to go with the wireless telegraph.
Detroit FREQ Press
1t is getting to DO easier to arrange an
arbitration than to provoke war Gnlilci
was right. The earth moves.-Now York
World.
L he treasury decision that calves 0ro
cattle is calculated to start n bull move.
inent In tho veal market -Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
So long as we are compelled to rent
British drydocks to repair United States
gunboatS an arbitration treaty is not need
ed.-Detroit Tribune
A party OF Now York boys has gone to
the west to study farming. Wo assume
from this that all the Indians have been
shot.-Philadelphi North American.
A New England minister claims TINT he
writes his sermons while in % trance. His
congregation no doubt listens to them i'm
much tho same condition.-Dcnver Post.
1t is pleasant to hear of dishwashcr be-
coming count, but it would be better
still If few useless and penniless counts
became honest dshwashers. -Kansas Civ
Times.
Astronomers shy that If Mars Is inhnbit-
cd its people breathe through lungs on tho
outside of their bodies. 1t is not improb-
able also that they talk through their hats.
Philadelphia Press.
We venture to say that very few reckless
bathers who, having got into trouble arc
bravely rescued over think of apologizing
for tho sclilshncss which required other
persons to risk life in their behalf.-Now
York Tribune.
a word of caution to Mr.. S. X. Hatah,
representative of tho mikndo, who Is
here to get ideas for uso I'm the building
ara equipment of railroads in Japan:
Don import the American grado crossing
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14

and then he gets cross md disagreeable
When hc has wives enough to fit all his
moods, hos happy, nnd so arc the wives.
I've heard people say plural marriages
took the sentiment out of marriage 1t
does not a man loves all his wives. He's
not in love with just ono of them.
Tho other women? Oh, they don t
mind 1t, or If they do they do us other
women do In plural marriage and in sin.
glo marriage. Men, my dear, are not an
gels. They no rather troublesome crcn-
lures, but they're bcarablo when they re
managed right. Plural marriage Is the
right why TO manage them.
That woman WAS not first wife She
was Il last wife. 1t is said by her friends
thnt her husband is very much in love
with her.
All these things arc not overwhelmingly
amazing. Human nature Is human ma
ture, and lnws do not mean law biders in
Otah any moro than they do In New York
Men do not marry plural wives openly.
The Mormons declare thnt they nro a law
abiding people, but very few Mormons
deny with any gront show OF severity that
tho mon who were living in poIygamy be-
fore tho nntipolygamy law are living in 1t
now, with due and discreet Difference to
tho law
1t would be curious II n whole system
of religious teaching could DO overthrown
In moment by "a legal phrase. The singu-
lar thing, and to most people tho sicken-
ing thing, about tho situation in Utah is
that the women of Utah are almost uni
yersal In their condemnation of the law
against plural marriages
Thoy mako their arguments for plural
marriage with strange mixture of relig-
ious feryor and miserable cynioism
which makes of marriage simple affair
of matter of fact convenience. The women
who have been first wives talk of self sac.
riflcc. The women who have been last
wivea Talk of self advancement The girls
who have not yet married talk of the
good sense" of polygamy.
But old or young, polygamous or single,
the women Of Utah seem to bu utterly
without the one thing that makes life pos
sible to the civilized women of the world
Saints-the belief, the pathetic unrea.
outside the strange valley of the Latter Day
soning, blessed belief in the one man for
the one CONAN. and the heaven that comes
to them through the better and tho worse,
the richer and tho poorer the sickness and
the health, in this dull world.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14

back among tho fire fighters urging her
horse from one omincncc to another to di-
rect the progress of the fighters.
Not satisfied with having notified her
ncighbors, tho farmers and stock people of
their danger, she remained in her saddle.
acting ms n field officer. When night came
and tho men wcro still fighting, the chill
drcn and women having been sent home
to rest, she would not quit her post.
For three days and nights the fro queen
worked without more than intervals of n
few moments rest, and then, the fire being
under control, she headed her good horse
to the little store she keeps Mt Hurleton
and again took up the monotonous exist
enco she has led for years. Miss Hurles
is practically the head of her family and
has kept them together and run tho little
store in the foothills since she was littlo
moro than u child.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
LEGAL NOTICES.

made), to the undersigned trustees to
secure certain bond or obligation of
Mary Boiling to The Iron Belt Building
and Loan Association of Roanoke. Vir.
ginia. and default having been made
therein and being directed by the said
beneficiary so to do. the undersigbe d
trustees will on 2ND DAY OF OCTO-
BER, 1897, at IL. Is o'clock p. M, proceed
to sell in front of the court house ia Roa-
noke City, Virginia, ut public auction, to
the highest bidder, a certain lot of land.
with desirable dwelling house and other
improvements thereon, situated On Pat
ton street, in the city of Roanoke, Va,
and fronting on that street so feet, and
extending back of that width ia feet to
an alley; being known and designated as
lot No. 4, of section 3, according to the
map of the Rogers, Fairfax 8. Houston
addition to the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
TERMS Cash. There is due on said
bond S636.6S, rs of August 31st, 1877.
Fl. S. TROUT,
G. A. McHUGH,
Trustees.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14

~ "A MAN LOVES ALL HIS WIVES"
look on marriage rs a mere selfish right.
4 We look upon 1t rs a religious duty. You
know, we believe that the woman who rears
1.-THE most children has the highest place in
heaven.
1.-The same way with q man. a man
rules overall his descendants when no dies.
The more descendants he has the greater
is his kingdom. We believe that we were
], put upon this earth to marry and that we
nre robelling against tho laws of heaven if
. we do not marry.
''Then, putting aside all reasons and
all explanations, tho Lord revealed his
SS'will to his prophet, Joseph Smith, and it
\ is not for us to question that will. If it
A made us miserable, if 1t bound us down to
\ all the fortunes of earth to obey, still wo
must obey.
~ plural marriage! 1t is u blessing.
There were no homeless women when
there were plural wives. There were 10
children sent out to beg, rs read OF gen
tile children doing. Each wife had her
I place in the world-an honorod place. Hor
sister wives respected and nearly always
Flowed her. Plural wives were bound to-
gethcr by common interests. They nursed
sNeach other in sickness and they comforted
each other in sorrow. They lived in scpa-
.,rate houses almost always, but they were
: mono tho less of ono family for all that.
Looked at from the merely worldly point
Aeof view, plural marriage was great bless
ing. From religious point OF view there
is no answering It's arguments.
~ "Scntimontal? We do not believe in en-
/, couraging foolish sentiment. 1 do not
sftleny that wo first wives made sacrifices
when our husbands chose II now vito.
q do not say that we did not have weak mo-
ments Of rcgret"--a spasm of pain passed
over tho womnn's worn facc-"but," she
Fsaid, her eyes lighting with sudden bril-
lnnoy, 1--WE were snnctiled by our suffer
q ings. The gold must bo tried by fro. Onr
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
Fast Trains the safer.

"There seems to be an impression, said
II railway superintendent. THAT tho fast
trims are the most dangerous for people
to rido on and that moro persons are killed
by them In crossing tracks, etc., than by
slower trains. This Is mistake. The
pennsylvania Railroad company has given
this matter special attention and has
statistics to show that, in proportion to the
fnst and slow trains run, moro accidents
have occurred to the slow trains and mon,
persons not in the employ of the company
have been killed by the slower trains"
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
AMIABLE POLYGAMISTS
'Mormon Women Who Believe
In Plural Marriages.
THEY SAY IT WAS A BLESSING.

12Thc New Wife Brought Relief From Re-
sponsibility to the Older Ones-An
Lived In Harmony, md the Husband
Lovod All His Wives.
Tho women Of Utah nro mourning and
will not be comfOrtcd
T. Times arc good in Utah There has been
no panic" among the Mormons. There
| are very few Juils there, and there ism t n
paupcr In tho church. Saloons do not
flourish, and tho Mormon farmers seem to
have solved tho problem of how to farm
)'without mortgage.
The Mormon women vote, they run for
ofiiee and they make very successful poll
Il ticians, but they arc not content. They
arc mourning for "a return to the days Of
poiygamy, so the lenders in tho church shy.
H. havo met some of tho best Mormon
women in Salt Lake City, writes Annie
Laurie in tho San Francisco Examiner.
The best" Mormon women arc n great
deal like the " best gentle women. They
are pretty, well hammered and VOL dressed
Alost of them seem tn have plenty of money
for all ordinary needs. They 1.-Two In neat,
pretty houses, which look decidedly like
homes.
\ 1t Is II little startling to hear them tnlk
Nnbout polygamy. They don't Gull it polyg-
amy. They Gull it plural marriage, and
|, they say 1T Is not only religious duty,
abut very practical and useful privilege.
4 The first woman who told me about
plural marriage and why she and the 9th
er Mormon women wished tho United
: States had not interfered with it was u
mothcrly soul, with hair like pure silver,
kind, twinkling blue eyes, and n voice that
sounded rs II 1t had sung SO many cradle
songs that 1t couldn't help grooming fer
l ever after.
My husband had ton wives. He's dend
now, and There arc only five of lis left to
mourn him. was very happy with my
husband. All of lis wero happy with him.
He was n good husband. guess he was
happy with us, too, though l can't say l
envy IL man with ton women to plense
( Thnt's tho mistake you gentiles make
You always say, Oh, it's oil very well for
( the man! Now, toll you, it isn't always
SO very well for n man. 1t takes pretty
7 good man to live in plural marriage and
1.-Two happy"
The woman's blue eyes twinkicd with u
sort of retrospective mischief
Well, we'll, she said, 'that isn't oil
AOf it-tho happiness. We Mormons don t
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
n NV 8 nv Norfolk slsWesterll
1aza1azlszzasza Schedule in Effect
July 4. 1897.
WESTBOUND LEAVE ROANOKE
DAILY
July 4, 1897.

$40 r. M washington and Chattanooga
limited) for Bristol, intermediate sta
tions and the South and West Pull
man sleepers to New Orleans and Mem
phis. Connects at Radford for Blue
held and Pocahontas. "a
ago p. M, the Chicago Express for Rad
ford, Bluefield, Pocahoutas, Kenova.
Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Columbus and Chicago.
Pullman Buffet Sleeper Roanoke to
Columbus. Also for Pulaski, Wythe-
vile, Bristol, Knoxville, Chattanooga
and intermediate points.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT ROANOKE.
From Norfolk $50 a. m. 4:1O p. m.
From Hagerstown 1850 n. IN. 4:05 p. m.
From Winston l:l5 p. m.
From Bristol aud the West 1886 p M:
1880 p. III.
NORTH AND EASTBOUND, LEAVE
ROANOKE DAILY.
1850 p m. for Petersburg, Richmond and
Norfolk
l:45 p. m. for Washington, Hagerstown,
Philadelphia and New York.
l0:45 p. NJ for Richmond and Norfolk.
Pullman sleepers Roanoke to Norfolk
and Lynchburg to Richmond
l0:45 p. III. Washington and Chattanooga
limited) for Washington, Hagerstown,
Philadelphia and New York. Pullman
sleepers to Washington via. Shenan-
doah Junction and Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
Durham Division-I.eave Lynchburg
Union stationrdaily, except Sunday,
400 p. m. for South Boston and Dur
ham and intermediate stations.
Winston Salem Division-Leave Roanoke
Union station) 4:30 p. IN. and
1880 a. m. daily, except Sunday Camp
bell street station), for Rocky Mount,
Martnsville, Winston Salem and inter
mediate stations.
For all additional information apply
at ticket Office or to w. b. Revill, General
Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
NJ. f. Bragg Travelling Passenger
Agent.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
LEGAL NOTICES.

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF
the circuit court for the city of Roanoke
entered mt its April term. 1897, in the
chancery cause of j. p. Hudson VS.. Ma
tional Mutual Building and Lonn Asso-
ciat on of New York, the undersigned as
special commissioner. appointed by said
decree, will offer for sale at public auc
ton, in front of the courthouse 'of Rom
oke, Va. mt 12 O'Clock noon ON THE
18TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1897, the
following described parcel of land situated
in the city of Roanoke, together with the
improvements thereon:
Beginning Mt point oil the north side
of Dale avenue two hundred and sixty
two (262 feet east of.IIolliday street and
running thence north ten degrees east
one hundred and thirty (l30) feet to an
alley, thence with said alley south eighty
degrees east thirty eight feet to II point
en- said alley, thence south ten degrees
west one hundred and thirty feet to Dale
avenue thence north eighty degrees west
thirty-elght feet to point, the place of
beginning. designated on the map of the
Park Land and Improvement Company
as lot No. 6, section o, Roanoke. Va.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash as to sum
sufficient to pay # the costs of the above
named suit and sale, ms we'll as the sum
of Sl,2l5, with interest thereon from the
18th day of May. 1896, and RS to tho resi-.
due. upon IL credit of one and two years
with interest from day of sale
JUNIUS McGEIIEE,
Special Commissioner.
I, S S. Brooke, clerk of the circuit
court of the city of Roanoke, do certify
that bond has been given Ivy the commits
sioner in above styled cause, as directed
in the. decree. S. $. BROOKE.
CIarly
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
THOS. w. MILLER,
Special Commissioner

BY VIRTUE OF y DECREE OF
the corporation court of the city of Roam
oke. Va, entered on the LIST day of July,
1897, in the chancery suit of Josiah
Friends administrators and ais. vs. y.
p. Staples, trustee, and ais, the under
signed MS special commissioners appoint
ed by said decree will offer for sale in
front of the courthouse at public auction
to the highest bidder at l2 O'Clock noon
on the 10TH DAY OF NOVEMBER,
1897. the following property situated in
the city of Roanoke, Va, towit:
First. Beginning Mt u point on the
southwest corner of Campbell and Ran
dolph streets, thence south 2 degrees 10
minutes west 100 feet to II point. thence
north 81 degrees - minutes west lO0 feet
to y point. thence north degrees Is min
utes east 100 feet to Il point, thence sout n
81 degrees As minutes east 10C feet to the
place of Beginning.
Second. Beginning at point on the
northwest corner of Campbell and Ran
dolph streets, thence with Campbell street
north IS degrees west 100 feet to point.
thence north degrees east 100 feet to Il
point. thence south So degrees east 100
feet to Randolph street, thence with Kan
dolph street :. degrees west 100 feet to
the place of beginning and known as los
40, Ill, ll2 and 1l3 in ward ). according
to the map of the Roanoke Land and I'm
provement Company.
TERMS OF SALE CASH
l.. II. COCKE.
NJ. J. COLEMAN,
Special Commissioners.
|, S. S. Brooke clerk of the corporation
court of Roanoke city. Nirsinia, do hereby
certify that the bond required in abo,o
case has been executed.
5. 5. BROOKE, Clerk.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
ANNIE HURLEs, FIRE QUEEN.
a Genuine Heroine of tho California
Foothills.


Foothills.
AMMO Hnrles, "tbe fire queen of the foot
hills, is the tnls of the northern section of
California. During tho fires that ragged
over tho hills and mountains from Tetha
ma down to Yuba and Sutler counties this
girl accomplished wonders in tho saving
of life and property.
One day ono of the ranohers not far
from Hurleton was startled from his work
by the sudden hating in front of him of
Annic's well known horse, with Annie
astride, both rider and beast breathless,
the horse pulling like racer ut tho tape
and Annie exclniming ms hurrietily MS her
painting breath would permit:
"Tho hills nrc OH fire! 1t started be-
yond the store md is sweeping this way
like cyclone Get your wet sacks and
hurry over there, and I'll go get tho rest
of tho people OUT
Then she dashed on to warn tho rcst
Through tho blistering sunlight of tho
foothills she rode from house to house
When the ncighbors were aroused, she was
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14

TRUSTEES'--SA OF VALUABLE
Improved Real Estate BY virtue OF deed
of trust dated 18th day of May, 1895, and
duly recorded in the Office of the clerk of
the hastings court for the city of Roam
okc. Virginia, in deed book 81, page l3l.
whereby Mary Boiling and her husband
conveyed the real estate hereinafter re-
ferred to, and more fully described in the
said deed 10 which refer euce is hereby
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
A Conductors Nerve.

Remarkable nerve was displayed by
Conductor G. A. Hess of the Reading rail
road freight train, who, when his left
hand was crushed between tho cars at
Bridgeport, Pa, wrote out formal re-
port of the accident before the member
was amputated
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
In Dawson City.

Can't give You nothing but straight
whisky. friend" said tho barkeeper 10
the Klondiker. "All the sol. drinks ~
froze hard. - Indianapolis Journal.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14
letter, salt.Rheum and Eczcmo

The intense itching and smartins, Incl
dent to these diseases, isinstantly allayed
by. applying Chamberlain S Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples.
chapped hands. chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box.
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COMMISSIONER SALE OF VAL.
L Ri DE L,SE 4 l,- .-i.4..., ~

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VAL.
TABLE REAL BY virtue of
a decree entered by the corporation court
for the city of Roanoke. Virginia, on the
Bird day of August, 1897, in vacation, in
the chaneery cause therein pending
styled New York National Building and
Loan Association vs.. Jane Donaldson ct
ais. the undersigned commissioner named
in said decree will on MONDAY, the 9th
DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1897. at 10
o'clock M, in front of the courthouse in
said city, proceed to sell 10 the higheat
bidder at public auction, that certain
parcel of lanh lying in said city and de-
scribed as follows:
Beginning mt point on the west side
of Henry street 41.5 feet sonth of Kirk
avenue, thence with the west line of
Henry street in southerly direction So 5
feet TO the middle of an alley, thence in
a westerly direction with the center line
of said alley 100 feet to a point, thence in
northerly direction 52.5 feet to point,
thence in an ensterly direction l20 feet to
place of beginning
TERMS-Cash
THOS. w. MILLER,
Special Commissioners
Jno. f. Peck, anctioneer
hereby certify that Thos. w. Miller,
commissioner, has executed the bond
with approved security rs required by
the above mentioned decree.
$. S. BROOKE. Clerk.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-14

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