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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-24
THE sOUTHERN'S EARNINGS

New York, Feb 23.-'rhe Southern Rail-
way earned gross for January 81, 565, 936,
decrease of S1S, l06; and net, $40, 1913, in.
crease, S2S, 235; and gross from July |,
1896, to january 81, 1897, Sl1 ,404, Dis; de-
crease, $651, 6S3, and net, S3.719, l46, de-
crease, $203, 906
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-24
DOWN QUILTS.

The Last Of the Down Quilts will 60
tomorrow This is your opportunity.
72XSl inches, extra Inc French
Saline, large and perfectly filled. only
two left, price ST so each; now only S.
72xS1 inches, French Saline TOPS.
plain lining. only three left. wsre SIS,
now only SIS
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
He Expressed His Opinion.

One of the most prominent physicians
in Washington owns "A farm somewhere in
New England, and whenever he gets I'M
bearably tired of his fashionable patients
in town he goes there puts on his Oldest
clothes, lays in stock of corncob pipes
and rusticates One day last summer he
was jogging lazily along country road in
rickety old cart drawn by "a horse almost
as rickety. A countryman walking on the
same road asked for lift and the two fell
into conversation.
who are you workin for?" asked the
countryman.
"Oh, I'm working for DR.. j., down
there, answered the physician.
"What doin?"
"Oh, " went on the doctor, 81 do every.
thing for him. / take care of him, you
know. l dress him and feed him, and
even wash his face and put him to bed.
do everything he needs DONE"
"How much do you get for itp" asked the
native.
My board and Clothes"
An you do all that for him-wash him.
an dress him, an feed him, an all that?'
eyes.
The countryman looked at the doctor a
moment in silence Then he leaned over
the wheel and spat solemnly.
We'll, of all the dern fools | ever see''
was all he said. Washington Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Violet Perfume.

1t would appear as If the cultivation of
the violet for its perfume alone will short.
ly be numbered with the things of the
past Violet perfume is now produced by
chemical means, and the result quite SUI
persedes and surpasses, it is said, in dual.
lty and persistency, the flower itself. This
latest discovery in chemistry has been
made by two Germans in Leipsic and the
Importance of it may be measured by the
fact that many thousands of pounds have
been offered for the patent. Already this
substance has been sold at a considerable
reduction upon the cost of the perfume
made from real violets, and so intense is
the odor in its concentration that the man
ufacturers sell only 10 per cent solutions
o. 1t. This 10 per cent solution has 70 he
again diluted hundredfold before il is fit
Tor sale to the public. The perfume of
Vlolets is not, we are told, the only in
stance in which chemical science as an.
pied to perfumery has trumphed, and
though some of the other chemically made
perfumes are not so remarkable in their
similitude to those actually extracted from
MOWERS, they are of sufficient importance To
greatly limit the use of flowers they imi.
tate New York Ledger.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Mr.. Hogg's Quiet Joke.

Mr. Hogg seems to imagine that man
kind are prepared to believe anything in
respect to dogs which partakes of the mys-
ferrous and accordingly plays off the fol-
lowing quiet joke upon his readers, says
Our Dumb Animals:
Its coed sign of dog when his face
grows like his masters. It's proof he's
aye glow'rin up in his masters cen TO
discover what he's thinkin on, and then,
without word or wave of command, to be
aft to execute the wull o. his silent thocht,
whether it be to wean sheep or to run doom
deer. Hector got so like me, afore he deed
that remember, when l was owre lazy to
gang to the kirk, used to send him to
take my place in the pew, and the min
lister never kent the difference. Indeed he
once asked me next day what thocht of the
sermon, for he saw me wonderful atten-
tive amang rather sleepy congregation.
Hector and me gied ane anither sic a
look, and was feared Mr.. Patton would
have observed It,, but he was a simple,
primitive, unsuspecting old man, very
Nathaniel without guile, and he jaloused
nothin, though both Hector and me was
like to split, and the dog, after laughin
in his sleeve for mair than hundred
yards, couldn't stand it rae longer. but
was Obliged to loup ava owre q hedge into
potato field, pretendin to scent par.
tridges -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
FORGERY.
Leadin. . Principles of the Experts as APP
piled to Its Detection.

A very curious fact about the philosophy
IF handwriting is tbis-that n man never
writes his name twice I'm exactly the same
way. or in other words, one signature is
never a facsimile Of any other So that II
an expert finds among some genuine sig
natures one that corresponds In every de-
tail with disputed signature--and such
a thing has happened several times-he Is
absolutely certain, first, that the latter
really is bogus, and, second, that he has
before him the very model used by the
forger All detectives of the ink pot agree
that the discovery that two signatures on
being superimposed and held 10 the light
are identical is conclusive proof that
there has been tracing
Such are the leading principles of the
expert S profession. How are they applied
In some cases they are not applied at all
The paper itself, the stamp, If there Is one,
may proclaim a document to be forgery.
Then the microscope and other appliances
will sometimes show whether signature
is fraudulent. Swindlers commonly write
a name in pencil and then ink IL over. III
the expert has reason To believe that this
method has been adopted-and 1t is not
difficult to detect, because, for one thing,
the signature looks duller than the other
writing-he has only to put drop OF acid
on the letters, and, prestol the ink disap-
pears, revealing the glistening plumbago
beneath. But it is practically impossible TO
obtain by any mode of tracing sign
manual that will successfully bear the
closest scrutiny In following the model,
whether that be facsimile in pencil or
carbon or genuine signature held 10 the
light, the pen hesitates, giving the writ
ing zigZag appearance, which, although
not visible to the naked eye, can be clearly
seen with the aid Of the microscope. The
most useful ally of the expert, however, is
the camera, which has no equal for show
ing signs of erasure, correction and pen
hesitancy.
In one way or another then, n docu-
ment may be pronounced a forgery with
out any comparison of writing Rarely is
this so when the work of really accom-
plished professional penman comes to
hand. He generally practices a signature
till he can initiate it closely enough to de-
ceiye any bank cashier, when he dashes it
off at the foot of check with greater flu
ency perhaps than could its owner In
this art Jim the Penman was an adopt
the greatest adept in the annals of crime.
No tracing or BICYCLING for him, no rub
bling out or touching up. He wrote at once
exactly what was wanted, initiating the
most difficult hand with freedom, an ease
and perfection that were marvellous
Cassel's Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
1T SAVED THE SHIP.
The Remarkable Device That Was Used to
Float a Stranded Vessel.


"If there be one thing upon which l
pride myself next To my hobby of the
strictcst accuracy, remarked Colonel
Monkhouse, lit is upon my presence of
mind. 1t has often proved of the utmost
value to myself and also to others.
"On one occasion l saved thousands up
on thousands of pounds to a steamship
company, simply by my habit of rapid
thought, followed by equally rapid prac-
tice.
at was in the Mediterranean, when
was on my passage out to India. BY some
blunder of the first mate we ran on to a
sand bank, and there we stuck. The sea
was calm, and there was no panic but the
question arose as To what was to be done
"Wait till the tide roseg There was no
use in doing that, for in the Mediterra-
mean thcro is only rise and fall of an
inch or two.
"Tho captain proposed to signal the
first vessel that passed to take off the pas
sengers and crew and leave the vessel to
her fate, as she was SO fast that to attempt
to get her of by towing would have been
of no use.
"A storm might have proved useful, the
captain said, by giving us little more
water owing to high waves, but there was
not even the most remote chance of one,
but the observation gave me a suggestion.
II knew that the cargo which we were
taking out consisted largely of chemicals.
l asked the captain if he knew what these
chemicals were, but he did not. We there
fore examined the ships manifest, and
at once knew that the steamer was saved.
Among the contents Of the hold were
large consignments of tartarated soda, of
carbonate of soda and of tartaric acid.
caused the casks TO be brought up on deck
and had the heads knocked out, the two
former chemicals being piled up on one
side of the deck and the third on the other.
At a given signal the whole of the crew
started to shovel the material overboard-
there was altogether several tons of it.
Immediately the sea in our immediate
neighborhood rose and got into the utmost
connection, though quite close at hand
the water was as calm Us duck pond.
There was heavy luroh, and the vessel
slipped off into deep water.
How WAS it that throwing chemicals
overheard raised II storm? The matter was
simple enough. l had selected the ingredi-
ents that constitute q seidlitz powder, but
l did it on large scale.
mo, l was not awarded salvage, but
the passengers and the owners presented
me with testimonials. London Judy.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
The Hypnotism of "Trilby,'

AS regards the mesmeric powers pos
sessed by Svengali, and the apparently
improbable incident of stone deaf girl,
like the lovable Trilby, being able to pour
forth such brilliant vocal music while I'M
der hypnotic influence, the experience of a
well known investigator in the phenomena
or mesmerism is worth recalling.
Mr.. James Baird, a surgeon residing at
Manchester, England, entered upon the
study of the pretensions of animal mag
netism, In his own words, as IA complete
skeptic.'
Anton Mesmer had performed his ex-
periments with cGbalistic surroundings.
Mirrors hung on the walls and odors
waited through the room, and he himself,
dressed as n magician, glided among his
audience, affecting one by a touch, and
another by look and making passes at
a third. But after long course of inves-
tigatlon Mr.. Baird came to the conclusion
that the peculiar condition of the mind
ana body might be self induced by the
patient maintaining a steady, fixed gaze
at any inanimate object"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A Thouphtful WIFE

The young physician was tired when he
returned from his evenings calls, but as
he settled back in his easy chair and his
pretty wife of only month or two took a
seat beside him he asked affectionately:
And has my little wife been lonelyY"
"Oh, no." she said animatedly: lat
least, not very I've found something to
busy myself WITH
"Indeedl' he said What is itY'
"Oh, I'm organizing class. A lot of
young girls and married women are in It.
and we're exchanging experiences and
teaching each other how to cook {"
What do you do with the things YOU
cook?' he asked interestedly.
"Oh, we send them to tho neighbors Just
to show what we can do. There's one lodg
ing house gets most of it. It's great fun"
Dear little woman, he said, leaning
over and kissing her. always thoughtful
OF your husbands practice Always anx-
ious to extend 1t. "-Strand Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A woMAN'S CONVENTION.
It's business Is WiclSediy Reported bv /.
Merciless Male Scribe.

"Now, ladies, A" said tho chairman NJ ~.
convention, rapping with her gavel. "re'
member, please, that we must have order
must ask you to refrain from whisrerip,,
during the progress of the meeting"
Still the low sibilant sound from tho
group of pretty heads that had got toceth'
or In one corner of the hall continued
The chairman looked annoyed and Pan.
ped with her gavel more severely.
The group of pretty heads broke up. and
the whispering ceased In that quarter hut
over on the opposite side of the hall n dol.
egate was seen to lean toward her neigh-
Dor, and the disagreeable Kissing was 70.
sumed.
SIS 1t possible" said the chairman
"that l must repeat my request? Yop
will refrain from whispering, please"
The offending head nodded approyinplv
but the whispering did not stop.
"If necessary" said the chairman. with
touch of anger, 81 shall become personal
in my requests. Will tho delegate from
Boston kindly postpone her private con.
versation with her neighbor till the meet.
ing is overY"
The delegate from Boston straigbtoned
up in her seat and flushed hotly.
SIS it possible" she exclaimed. "tbat
you meant meY'
Certainly" said the chairman; "thero
was no one else whispering at the mo.
ment, l believe"
but, said tho delegate from Boston.
~ was only saying To my neighbor what
a splendid chairman you made to stop the
whispering of those ladies from Ohio over
there. l don't see how you can object TO
my saying that &"
I'VE will have no whispering on any
subject" said the chairman STORMY.
And with that at least dozen heads in
different parts of the hall bobbed over to.
ward their neighbors' desks, and the sibi-
lation grew into prolonged hiss, from
which could plainly be distinguished such
expressions MS Served her rightp' "The
ideap' what splendid chairman!" etc.
A look of despair came over the chair
mans face, and she sat down, with
mute signal to the secretary to go on with
the reading of the minutes and let the
whisperers have their way. -Buffalo Ex-
press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Frederick the Greats Monumon.

The magnificent monument to Frederick
the Great which adorns the space between
the palace of old Emperor William and
the University of Berlin furnishes strik
ing illustration of the radical difference
between constitutional and n militory
government The monument I reCor to t.
one OF the grandest equestrian composi.
tions in the world made by the foreuost
sculptor of his day, paid Tor Inv grateful
population and commemorating non,rch
not only glorious rs a soldier hut nIsn a.
the patron of art and letters This mon.
ment, as every American tourist knnws
Is supposed to bring together all the cre,t
men who lived under this king son,rtbir,,
after the manner Of the A bert menorto,
In London ''''
Among the dozen who crowd I'm aa7c,
ABOUT the base of this statue could az.
cover but two whose profession was NOT
exclusively that of killing their fellow
man These two were Kant and Lessina
'he only names In the whole CROWD rho,
would today be generally known among
iairiy educated people - Harpers Weekly
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
SUE AS A SURGEON.
How the Great Writer Attended 20 His
Friends Damaged Leg.

Eugene Sue and the eccentric wit Ro-
mieu were intimate friends, and often en-
joyed the widest pranks together. One
evening they dined at the Cafe de Paris
On the way home Romieu made a misstep
and sprained his ankle. Sue, who had
been surgeon in the navy, picked his
grooming companion up, placed him in u
carriage and drove him rapidly home,
where, after putting him to bed, he hur-
riedly dressed his foot.
AT the commencement of the operation
Romieu, who was suffering greatly, faint
ed away and did not come to until it was
over, when he murmured his heartfelt
thanks for the relief he felt. Eugene Sue,
justly proud of his professional skill, went
away. promising to return the next morn
ing TO renew the treatment
When morning arrived, so did Sue, still
a little anxious about the sprain. Romieu
was asleep as he entered the room
well, my dear friend how do you feel
this morning." inquired Sue.
"Ah!" said Romieu, yawning, "never
better in my life. My foot must be well.
/ have not stirred all night.
AS he spoke he attempted to leap from
his bed but the action was attended with
yell that almost shook the house. He
sank back upon the bed as pale as a sheet.
WHAT cried Sue. "Can your leg be
brokenY Does it still pain you like thatp
Let me see itl'
"Youl You! See, then, what you have
donel" cried the victim, throwing back
the clothes with dramatic gesture and a
horrible face.
Sue looked. The leg that was carefully
bound and wound in cloths never looked
better, but the other-it was so badly
swollen that the bones could not be seen.
" Alasl" cried the erstwhile surgeon. II
have dressed the wrong foot. Why didn't
you tell me that it was the other one that
hurt?"
" My dear Eugene" said the suffering
patient, sitting up in his bed, "you are
great writer no doubt, but" waving his
hand toward the door, kindly hasten and
send me surgeon. Youth Companion
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
A FINLAND LOVE STORY.
: Night Almost BE Called a Tragedy 81
the Telephone.

Mrs Alec Iweedie has recently brought
cut book entitled Through Finland In
Carts, " full of raoy chat Of travel. She
srcnks of Finland as being, like Norway,
"ridaled with telephones and tells the
following little story TO illustrate the ex-
.essivo use Of the telephone by Finnish
folk:
"PCkka was madly in love with lima,
wondrously beautiful maiden. He heard
rumors that she was trifing with another.
He could not stand the torture, even for "a
few hours, and 50 rang IN the mansion OF
the family Heikkila
10y. lie heard the voice of lima in
answer and said; Is it you, dear one: /,
PekLa, am here.
"A soft sigh replied
Are you glad to hear PekkaP Do you
care for him just n littleS
Yes sighed the fair maid.
Darling, il is not true that you care
for Armas Merikantoy
Z" No, nor she cried
"You like meg You love meY'
"'Yes, she softly murmured.
Will you be my wifey'
al will, Pekka.
"Overjoyed, Pekka almost Rugged the
NuoNOn bOA blub MN suCn GNU
tidinRs.
"'When may l come to see you, darling
my little wifeY'
90 Come, Pekka, come for dinner at
o'clock. a few more sweet nothings, and,
quite enraptured, Pekka returned TO his
office routine. At 3 o'clock, spick and
span, with golden ring in his pocket, he
presented himself at the house of the Helix
kilas.
sin the salon stood the mother. Re
went toward her TO receive her motherly
congratulations. She rushed forward 20
meet him, as all good mothers-in law
should, and throwing herself into his arms
she cried:
Take me, Pekka, dearest Pekka.
am yours till DEATH
"'Minep
"' Yes. l have loved you long, darling
Pekka, and am ready whenever you can
fix day for our marriage.
"Tableau. Moral Beware of tele-
phones
AS there are, according to Mrs. Twcedie,
some &C., 900 moro women than men in
Finland, the action of Pekkas intended
law is explainable. Electrical
Engineer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

The heaviness Of earth and air,
The force of passing breeze,
The weight of crowns and ships and
worlds
I wonder not at these.
I sec the awful griefs and pains
That faint souls undergo.
And wonder how the human heart
Can stand such weight of woel
The measurement of time and space,
Tho depth of deepest seas,
The distance of the faintest star
marvel not at these.
The measure that | marvel at
All measurements above
u thistle woac-cus height and depth
And length and breadth Of Lowell
-Claren.s Urmy in Munsey's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
He CORNERED MOSBY.
But the Excitement Overcame Him, and
the Famous Guerrilla Escaped.


The late Captain Oscar Taylor was born
in Poughkcopsie in 1918. When the war
broke out he organized ard equipped at
his own expense Company + of the Thir-
teenth New York volunteers and was
made captain of the company. He had
seen lot of active service in command of
scouting parties in Virginia when in 1868
he got after the guerrilla chief Mosby.
Eventually he located his man at farm
house near the Fairfax road and surround
ed the place y roughly dressed man tried
TO run away from the house, but was shot
down. As he fell several women ran out
screaming, and picking up the man car
Rcd him into the house, barring the door
behind them. When the door was opened,
one Of the women told the troops they had
shot Union soldier but one who knew
Mosby entered the house and found tho
guerrilla in Union uniform under bed.
Leaving Mosby there, the soldier rushed
out 10 report his find. He was particularly
elated, FOR the reason that reward of
100000 had been offered for Mosby, dead
or awe on account of his many atrocities.
Leaving the man alone even for moment
proved fatal mistake. The news of the
capture was so exciting TO Captain Taylor,
who had been on the hunt for four days
without sleep, that he fell from his horse,
suffering from stroke of paralysis. The
fall of their captain threw the troop into
confusion. They supposed he had been
wounded, and while they were working
over him they paid no attention to a seem
ingly decrepit old woman who hobblcd
away from the house on tho arm of an at
tcndant. 4 li;tlc later tho sound Of horses
gaIOping down tho trail some distance
from the house reused the troop, but when
they searched for Musby they learned that
he and not AN cid woman had hobblcd
Hway.--ECW Tu9E san.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
Logs and NIealers,

"A summer visitor i'm Mount Desert fell
INTO conversation with u native who was
Dusiiy engaged in doing nothing "How
IN the world do you manage to make a
hVlng hereY" inquired the summer visitor
When the conversation had become some
what confidential. "Waal, stranger said
inc native slowly, There amt anything
10 make hereabouts, true to say. But, ye
see, III winter haul logs, an i'm summer
maui mealers, an twixt them two man
age To scrapc along" "McalcrsY" repeated
tho sltordoubtfUily. Cottage folks that
take thcif meals TO tie hotels an amt got
strength TO walk bali ROD, 4" explained
The native. "Ah! And which do you en-
Joy better summer or wntorY" inquired
inc suinlhcr visitor. Weather don't trou-
oie me. One N.a' or mother" replied the
native, "bGt WAec you come to haulin-
wen, dCnno. Logs is harder to list,
,here oiii any two ways about that; but
When you get 'em histed, there they be.
AN there'sno high hcelod shoes nor trailin
skirts TO log TO ketch. l reckon, on the
Wnoie, logs is Just about us payin an con.
SIDERABLE less precarisome than mealers.
NATIONAL Hotel Reporter
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-23
The Mole Has Ewes.

The majority of people believe that the
mole Is even "blinder" than the proverbi-
al bat, but the naturalists know that such
Is not the case. Sir John Lubbock and
Carl Hess, the latter noted German Lat
urallst, have by careful investigation
proved that tho mole has eyes which are
as perfect as those of horse or an ele.
phaht' They are very small optics, to bo sure
tohiy one millimoter in diameter), but in
the matter OF reflection and refraotion do
not dliier rom the normal eyes in larger
animals.-St. Louis Republic.