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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-18

Breakfast, 20 cents; dinner, % cents;
supper 20 cents. Meal tickets, 81. j.
j. Catogni's restaurant
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-18

Breakfast, 30 cents; dinner, % cents;
supper % cents. Meal tickets Fl. j.
togni's restaurant.
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MR.. TERRY and
MR.. BUCKNER.
Council Proceedings En|ivened by
an Entertaining Encounter.

ga HOT TINE IN OLD TOWN" LAST
NIGHTTIME CITY FATHERS
WITNESS A SPIRITED, woRDY
COMBAT BETWEEN TWO OF
:, THEIR COMRADEs-MR. BUCK
NER'S RESOLUTION AROUSES
THE IRE OF THE PRESIDING
OFFICER.
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DUsENDERRY's CREoLEUM, BOTH IL
QUID AND POWDER, SOLD by MAsslE's
PHARMACY.
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THE wEATHER.

Forecast for Virginia.: Fair; station
AIRY temperature; westerly winds.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
CHAPTER vi

fSynopss OF the preceding chapters-The crew
OF the steam yacht California having come to
New Guinea from san Francisco rescue a Ger
man sailor who was compelled by Gambia. in
the country beyond the skull Mountains to play
at being King for them, were attacked by an
army OF warriors Of New Guinea by land and by
fleet Of war canoes by sea, night The begin
ming OF the battle described in the fifth chap
ter OF this story. The savages were driven OF
without loss to the whites. Six California boys
the same who were in Camp Call, are OF the crew
Of the California and are giving fine account of
themselves in the first struggle with the savages.
By the gray light OF the early morning
Harry Ostend saw at distance more war
canoes coming into the lagoon from the
sea. They were ali fully manned. Clearly
an alarm had been sent far and wide, and
the warriors oil all the seacoast were gath
ering TO crush the white men. The men
on the yacht watched the canoes, twenty,
thirty, forty. as they came in and Joined
the already large feet in the lagoon. The
California now had steam up and could
easily have run out of the lagoon and
gwen the savages the slip. But Harry
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THE CRUISE OF THE CALIFORNIA;

| They were seen to carry off one of their
company, and three others limpeG pain
fully away.
"a good shot-a very good shot," said
Mr.. Ostead. my opinion is, Binnie, that
you will do"
The effect of this bomb practice was to
hasten the combined attack OF the saw
ages on thu yacht. First a bird call was
heard on the shore. This was repeated
many times, on the shore and on the la
COON. 1t was the signal.
up anchor" commanded Harry o.
tend, as he got ready to move, if neces-
sary.
The crew lost no time in getting into
position. The lookout at the bow called
hastily to Mr.. Ostend, who went forward
and directed his attention to a great guam
tity OF logs that were steadily approach
ing the yacht. While they all were COM
ing from one direction and so might be
accounted for by a current in the Ia .oon,
there was something about them that Mr.
Ostend did not like. HIS marine glass en-
alb ed him to see a movement of water
near each log that indicated that under
each was a swimmer VINO was pushing
forward the log and using it 10 shield
himself with. Making a hasty estimate
Mr. Ostend concluded that there were be-
tween 800 and 400 savagos in the water.
The savages in the woods waited and
did not yet show themselves. Neither
did the great number of sayages in the
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SARAH, THE KIND
MOUNTAIN GIRL.
BY ELLA NJ. AIGELTINGER.
u 4-L1A NJ z1IU1I I440OI491E'
THERE once lived. high I'D in the

THERE once lived, high up in the sler-
i ras, little girl whose name was Sarah
She had no brothers or sisters. her
mother was dead, and she and her father
lived there alone. She did the house work,
cooked and did the sewing. Though she
was but IL years old, she could WORK as
well as any one. Her father got up at o
O'Clock every morning and did not get
home until o'clock every evening. so
Sarah was alone all day, and in order to
keep herself company she would knit or
sew.
Travellers often went high up in the
SieIras to see the scenery, and they we're
often tired and hungry when they reached
Sarah's house. As Sarah was a native
daughter and as Californians are noted for
their hospitality, she always told them to
sit while she got them something to eat.
Sarah grew fast, and when she left she
was young woman, and was Is years of
age.
She was born and raised in the noun
talns and liked living there very much.
She went to live in the city, but she
always said, "Some time 1 will go back to
my beautiful mountain home"
Some of the travellers whom Sarah had be-
friended while she lived in the mountains
often came to see her after she moved to
the city. When she went to the city she
went to school, next TO college, ard had
good education, but still she pinned for her
mountain home.
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saw that the crew were preparing to lower
boat, they were not slow to see that
this was a very favorable time for them
10 renew their attack.
From coves and creeks and from little
sheltered harbors the savages' canoes were
gotten under way. The forest was filed
with savages, who elm bed to tree tops
and there cluny like monkeys, shielded
from the view of the sailors on the yacht,
that they might watch the fray.
Crowds of the blackmen gathered on
headland where the forest was thick, and
with their tough irorwood bows began to
rain down arrows upon the deck of the
yacht, which with fettered propeller, but
having torn the sea growth from it's hold
ings at the bottom of the lagoon, was
drifting slowly toward the shore and now
was in easy bowshot for the strongest and
most expert savage bowmen.
Mr.. Ostend personally now took charge
of the Maxim gun and gave it range so
that nothing in the shape of flesh and
blood could stand before it. To this day
the fame of the rain of Kissing iron'
which Mr.. Ostand sent hurtling through
the forest on the headland is fresh in
mind.
The savages ran in all directions, and
the crew of the yacht had spell in which
they were free from attack from the shore
side; but now the logs, favored by the
tide, which had turned, once more became
threatening. Behind each log q savage
face was turned upward.
The logs were still coming on the port
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Clangl The bell in the engine-room of
the steam yacht rang sharply out. The
propeller began to churn up the water
astern and the yacht forged ahead to get
away from the fire rats. II all the saw
ages In New Guinea had yelled at once
the sound which followed this move of
the yacht could hardly have been more
startling. The fire RATS came on with
new speed, making it clear that savages
were pushing them.
A jingle of the bell and the yacht went
rapidly. She minded her helm beautifully.
and wore neatly, so that in a few minutes
she was asiern of the fire RATS, which now
were only drifting, the swimming savages
having started to the shore. The yacht
pursued them a short distance, the boys
and men at the rails keeping up rapid
fire with small arms.
While the yacht was on this course her
propeller suddenly was fouled. Under
the surface of the water there was a heavy
growth of seapiants, and in the long and
cilnging leaves of this growth the pro-
peller had become entangled. The more
the wheels turned the more the fukes of
the propeller were wrapped up in the
weeds.
1t was not due to the generalship of the
savages that The yacht followed them into
the dangerous Locality. They knew moth
ing about the way in which the yacht was
propelled; but, when they saw that the
yacht had come to a standstiIl and also
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side. Mr.. Ostend left only three men to
guard the other side of the yacht and
summoned the six boys and all the crew to
port to stand by TO repeI boarders. In the
mean time Mr.. Lane was not idle. He
and John Letour brought up from below a
diving-suit and ali the paraphernala be-
longing to it.
A volunteer was wanted to go down in
the suit armed with an ak to cut away
the sea growth which was holding the
yacht fast prisoner.
I'VE must clear the propeller before
dark, said MIR. Ostend, cor we will be
surrounded and compelled to battle for
our lives by electric light and by the
glare OF the fires that the savages seem to
be able to float to US. Who will volunteer
to undertake the dangerous task of going
down to clear the propeller? Let no one
be deceived; the savages may dive to at
tack the diver we send down. Who will
go?"
a." said Binnie. az claim the honor"
"Binnie, brave Binnie!' said the other
boys in chorus. They all knew Binnie so
we'll that they felt that he would be equal
70 the emergency. They were ready to
stand aside for him.
Il Will go" Binnie said quietly.
No time was lost. While the apparatus
was getting into proper shape bv Mr..
Lane and John Letour, Binnie made
ready. Inc Maxim gun was now playing
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fleet of canoes put out from behind the
headlands where they were hiding.
But, around steep and high point of
land mile astern, there came suddenly
into view a strang4 looking affair. SEEM
ingly great raft, upon which was piled
many cords of WOOD. all blazing, and from
the wood was proceeding a dense smoke.
The wind blew this fire raft directly
toward the yacht Hardly had it come
into sight when another and another
came from the same direction. The
smoke above the fire RATS was so thick
that nothing behind them could be seen
from the deck of the yacht.
THAT is not bad plan," said Mr.. Os-
Tend, land l begin to think that there is
some generaIship among these savages
after all. Behind the fire RATS will come
the savages in their canoes; and, if they
were able to hide themselves IN that fash
ion, there might be good chance that we
would furnish forth feast for the mar
eaters at no very distant time
Now it cannot be denied that Binnie.
Ned, Shorty of San Jose, Tom OF Fresno
Billy of Oakland and Sam OF Los Angeles
began to think the situation a little seri-
Gus. The bird-calls we're heard constantly
on shore. aud they knew that the SOUNDS
were all signals to a gathering army of
hostile savages. They knew that there
were hundreds and perhaps thousands OF
savages on the shore. shielded by the
bushes, and that the land force was only
waiting the signal to take part in the i'm
pending battle.
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Ostend would not go until he had gwen
the savages a lesson that would cause
them to have wholesome dread OF the
yacht and her brave company.
The marine glasses directed toward the
shore, as the daylight incre ased, also
brought TO view that crowds of savages,
their faces smeared with mud to make
them look more horrible, were cominc
from a distance 10 join the army OF black
men already swarming there. The battle
to be fought would be historical in New
Guinea. The chief who had been in COM
mand the night before was seen TO be
moving about among the savages on shore.
and he was evidently preparing plan of
battle. Finally all those who appeared to
be chiefs gathered on a knoll and there
counseled, and were pointing in the direc-
ton of the yacht, when Harry Ostend
said quietly,
"Binnie, aim that forward gun at that
clump of trees, where the chiefs are, and
see what effect you can make"
In another instant Binnie had pulled
the lanyard, and a bomb-the first one
ever fired in New Guinea-went scream
ing over the forest. With a tearing sound
the iron bomb few into many pieces,
and the fragments raiDed down like a
storm of tiints upon the heads of the
chiefs.
Frightened by the screaming of the
bomb as it sped through the air, they
were more frightened and more thorough
Iy surprised as the broken iron came tear
ing through the trees in their direction.
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FROM THE LAND
OF THE ALFALFA
BY CHESTER ]. WHIPPLE.

I CANNOT say anything about Northern
| California, as 1 am what some people call
an alfalfa seed" name given to boys
born in San Bernardino Valley. 1 guess
it is because they raise so much alfalfa in
our valley. The alfalfa fields are such &
lovely green, and look like an immense
green carpet. and l am sure the Northern
California boys don't have the lovely
orange and lemon groves we have.
We have horse and buggy, and mamma
and l often take drive to Highlands,
place noted for its fine oranges. You may
drive for miles and have nothing but
orange trees on both sides, and when the
oranges are ripe, think there IS nothing so
pretty as an orange tree. The brig yellow
fruit and the different shades of green,
together with the sweet smelling blossoms,
is a lovely sight, and then we meet SO
many people from the East, and they Just
get crazy over the oranges.
My papa was raised in Ohio and he
says that oranges used to be so scarce
there that the boys would even eat the
peel. and it was only the rich people who
could buy them. but 1 guess they get
plenty of oranges there now, for there are
thousands of carloads shipped away from
here every year. And they send the best
ones away and leave US the windfalls.
1 am writing my story mostly about
oranges. because, 1 guess, the San Fran
cisco girls and boys viii like 10 read about
them. l am not a member of the G. r. c.,
but would like to be ana 1 hope my story
will suit.
If l am lucky enough to get my story in
print I'll just jump up and shout, Hurrah
for San Bernardino and the"alfalfa seeds ~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
LITTLE HARRYS
NARROW ESCAPE

nNCE there was little boy named
" Harry who was always playing with
matches. One day his mamma was
away and he was going to have a dinner
all by himself, as his mamma had taken
his brother and sister with her. So he got
some matches and went next door into
the schoolhouse woodshed to make the fire.
Now in this shed were kindling-woo
and straw, and when the fire caught onto
this wood 1t made it very hot, and Harry
wanted to get out; but the door had
Latch on the outside, and in closing the
door it latched and would not open, so
the little boy had to stay in this fire till
the firemen came.
Then the door was unattached and Harry
was found in there nearly dead. But
when the doctor came and took him home
to his mamma he felt much better. In
about two weeks he was quite we'll. He
never has played with matches since.
LEON NJ. HYsLoP &C. K. CT
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
HOW OUR GRANDPA
FOUND HIS FAIRY.
BY KATTRYN LEE CULVER.

IT WAS cod, rainy evening, and the
| Buckbee family were seated around a
cheerful fire, popping corn and telling
stories.
Now, grandpa, you tell one" they
cried. Grandpa appeared to be greatly
surprised but after seating Johnnie on
his knee. he began as follows:
when l was a small boy lived in the
State OF Maine, many miles from here.
behind our house was a large orchard
with brook running through it.
"One afternoon I wandered down to
this brook. l filled my pockets with ap-
pies ana sat down to eat them.
Somehow l 1ell asleep. However, l
was soon awakened by strange sound,
and saw close beside me, a-what DO you
think?" asked grandpa.
"a bear" cried Willie.
"a lion, said Fannie.
No" said grandpa, Il saw g beautiful
little fairy.
"She had a very soft voice and 1 lis
tened attentively to what she said.
You are under my enchantment,' she
whispered, and are bound to hunt for
me until you find me. The place where l
live is called California and is far from
here
Then l awoke and found it was only
dream; bur the beautiful face and words
still haunted me.
81 wrote the name that then seemed so
strange to me on a large piece of paper
and hung il IN my room that might not
forget It.
And so time passed on. still leaving
me under the dream-fairy's enchant-
ment.
AT last when I was a young man,
about 20 years old, there was great excite
ment about a piece of land way out
West, so ran the report, where gold was
to be found in abundance
"a great deal OF this land was owned bv
Spaniards and 1t was named California,
after one of their legends.
You can imagine how felt I rushed
up to my room and took from my bureau
drawer a crumpIed piece OF paper, yellow
with age, on which was written in boy
ish hand California;
"Yes, it was true, and now 1 could find
my fairy.
"a month later 1 started for the Golden
West, as it was called. You must remem-
Der that there was no railroad from Maine
~ OdA4AO4 Aieas anu 81 IL WAS nOG III after
many months OF hard travelling that ar
rived there.
ITO Us weary travellers California was an
ideal place-a land flowing with milk and
honey.
Zone day was working in my mine. 1t
was the same kind OF a day as the one
when I lad my dream, and somehow
kept thinking of it. l had not yet found
my fairy, and was sorely discouraged
about ii.
CRASH What was that? A boulder
had fallen. l sprang to my feet and
looked around. There on the rocks lay
the form OF a young girl; and oh,
Joy" - here grandpa became so excited
he could hardly sreak-"there was the
face had so long been hunting for; it
was very pale and the beautiful golden
hair hung all around it.
Il picked up my lair burden and hastily
carried her to the nearest camp.
Il need not tell you any more, but if
you want to see my fairy you had better
look al grandma.
And SO. children, in this beautiful
State found both my fairy and nv for
tune"
And the little ones knew without ask.
that grandma was the fairy he told them
tbout,
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OF YEARS AND
TEXT BOOKS TEN.

1 saw boy, a little boy,
But tenor scarcely more
Come staggering HON beneath weight
OF textbooks that he bore
In sch oil from nine to three he toilcd.
From seven to nine with tears
He tagged at homework" sleepily,
This boy of tender years.
"What 10 you learn, little boy?"
And he answered dolefully,
"Why, history, word analysis
Advanced geography,
Language aud physiology,
Drawing and m usic-well
And physics-and arithmetic
And sometimes read and SPELL"
"But when do you play. o little boy
OF years-and text books-ten?"
"Why change my clothes and 40 the chores
And play till dinner. then"
His head was large, his face was pale,
And l wondered how the nation
Whose hope he was) could ever lean
On this victim of education!
LILA NJ. SEXTON,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
OUR CORRESPONDENTS

LEON NJ. HYsLOP-One of your stories will
soon appear.
GERTIE BUTTERWORTH writes: 'I have a
pet cat and two pet dogs. Ny cat is named
Mewy New. My papa has just made me a
colored scrapbook. 1t is lovely. 1 have two
lovely dolls I live in the city and go 10 St.
Peters Academy. am 8 years old"
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steadily upon the water 10 keep the saw
ages under the logs from approaching too
near Amid the volleying roar of the re-
pea:ing gun and the popping of the rifles
Binnie dropped over the stern of the Cali
tornia and disappeared from view be-
meath the waves OF the lagoon. D. H. ".
10 be continued.)
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WHEN THE HEART is YOUNG

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose swan, lad,
And every lass queen
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away.
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every cog his day
CHARLES KINGSLEY
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-31
Rates are Going Up.

NEW YORK, July 28.-The Tribune
says:
The rise in ocean freights for grain
carrying steamships is found to be ex-
tending to all grades of ocean freights,
and steamship companies are looking
forward to a season of great prosperity.
The large demand abroad for Ameri-
can wheat has caused a hardening of
wheat transportation prices at high
figure, which is bound to go still high
er when shipments of spring wheat be-
gin in August.
1t is not certain whether or not this
increase in grain-carfying prices is re-
sponsible for the boom in other freight
rates, but it is certain there is boom
and u decided one. With the excep-
ton of the season of 1898, ocean
freights have not reached SO high a
figure as they are now since 1891. In
1893 they were the same as they are
now. but present rates, it is said, are
bound to be increased. Already rates
are from 35 to 40 per cent higher than
they were last year in July, and 20 per
cent higher than two years ago.
A member OF shipping firm said:
"We have the fortune to have in
this country the greatest aggregation
of crops we have ever known, while
abroad the yield has been poor. Peo-
pie think that when there is a great
wheat crop vessels will be loaded
down carrying it out Of the country:
but wheat is small factor in the
whole. Corn is more important, and
barley is beginning to be so. though
few years ago VIC shipped almost none
of II -
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-07-31
TINE IO SELL,

All the benefits that can possibly
accrue from the levying of a duty up
on imported woods in the way of fixing
prices this year are now realized fully.
and it would seem that the prices pre-
yailing now are the best that will be
obtained until another clip is shorn.
Buyers generally are not making
purchases on speculation, but to fill
such orders as they may anticipate
from manufacturers. consequently
they will not offsr speculative prices.
With this state of affairs existing we
believe it will be to the interest of
wool raisers who have their product
stored in the warehouses here to &C.
cept the ruling prices and make sales
at an early date. Fair prices can be
realized now, and even should wool
advance slightly within the next few
months, which is improbable, there
would be little gained by holding
longer. The proper time to sell any
produces is when buyers are plentiful,
and that time seems to be at hand in
the wool market at present.
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q Telephone Company have teen filed
with the county clerk of San Francisco
The capital stock of The organization
is $3.50, 900 of which s100, ,OOO has been
subscribed by the directors.
The proposition is TO construct a
telegraph line which will connect Dyea
with the town OF Dawson, and branch
lines connecting pyea with Juneau,
and Dawson with Circle City. The es-
timated length of the proposed line is
1000 miles.
The plan of construction will be
after the style of military systems used
in war times. A wire quarter of an
inch thick, covered with keritn in
sulation will be used. The wire will
be laid along the ground, instead of
being stretched on poles. Trees or
poles will be used only to cross gully.
The promoters of the enterprise ex
pect to get to work laying the wires in
tire re :F--~Aa and to have them laid six
weeks later