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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

or the erection of new system to be
operated, perhaps, at greater cost to the
taxpayers than we are now paying for
lights. is a subject calling for thorough
consideration before action. Would it
not be we'll to fur nish the officers of the
electric light company the figures to
show that the city can erect and operate
plant at n saving of so much compared
with present cost. If they are business
men they will either meet the figures or
offer to sell to the city at II fair consider
alton and quit the business. We know
nothing Of the calibre of the men who
own the present electric light system;
perhaps little cheap blufling by the City
Council may have the desired effect, but
would it not be better for ali parties to
show their hands, quit the feint racket
and make square business of the matter.
We all want lights Mt less cost than We
ar now paying, but who wants two sys-
TENS with both conducted at loss: Such
condition would in the end leave us
with but one system.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30
AFTER THE y. AND W.

According to IL dispatch from Parkcrs-
barg w. Va, j. Pehpont Morgan, Mr.
Clcveland's negotiator for the issue of
United States bonds, has his eye on the
Norfolk and Western and is reaching out
to gather in the ducats in this case as he
did when tho New York bankers, run on
the gold reserve compelled the last nd
ministrat!on to make u safe of bonds
which resulted in bencfiting IL few at the
expense of the many. Every body rcmem-
bers those dark and disastrous DAYS when
II few New York bankers, with Picrpont
Morgan at their head dictated the iinan-
cial policy of II so.caled Democratic M.
ministration. and, rs explained in the
dispatch below, it seems that the same
individual is reaching out to draw i'm
the Norfolk and Western railroad to n
combination of which he is the head cen
ter.
The dispatch is.from Parkersburg, w.
Va, TO the Cincinnati Post, dated March
26. and is as follows:
There is an apparent desire on the
part oil d. Plcrpont Morgan TO get control
OF and rcorganize the Norfolk and West
crn railroad.
This company depends for the major
portion of it's traffic upon coal 1t is
animated that fearful cut i'm traffic
rates by the coal carrying roads is intend.
ed to cripple the Norfolk and Western.
This road on account Of it's recent
financial troubles canno5 meet the cut of
other lines which are rich enough to lose
on every ton carried in order to accom-
plish their end.
The reorganization of the Norfolk and
Western is making plucky figh, for sue
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

cess and will win, it is thought, in spite
of the ccmhined assault of the coal-carry-
ing companies
The Norfolk and Western railway has
expended more money and done more to
develop Virginia and West Virginia than
all other railroads in both States, AMI
gratitude if nothing more should cause
the people OF both commemorative to sus
tain them. 1t may not be in their power
to render such substantial assistance as
they wish. but it is in their power to help
the Norfolk and Western in every way
possible. For the road to pass into other
hands would be n disaster, but that un.
desired event has not yet occurred nor is
it likely to Happen. All the people of
Virginia and especially Roanoke and the
Southwest are fully aware of what the
Norfolk and Western has done to pro-
mote their interest and however the strug-
sc may terminate they are for the Nor
folk and Western, as that corporation
now stands, first, last and all the time.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30
PHoNEs: Business 0iice 1a3

Hon. VIM. r. Alexander, of Frederick
county, scents fat and honors in the office
of attorney general and proposes to meet
Attorney General Scott ut Phillip. Mr.
Alexander is evidently II hustler as well
as a believer in VoX Populi. About three
weeks ago he got the whole Democratic
population of Frederick county in barn
where n batch OF fulsome resolutions OH
which the ink had been dry for about IL
week were adopted with whoop and u
rush and Mr.. Alexander came from under
the shed full Pledged candidate with
the solid phalanX of old Frederick ut his
back. Go it, Alex.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30
THE NEGRO'S FRIEND.

Senator Vest, of Missouri, spoke as fol-
lows recently:
GLOW was it in regard to the Freed :
mans Bank building: Mr.. Bruce was
then Senator from mississippi, II col
ored man, and the only one in the Sen ate
"A gentleman, an honor to his race, Il
man who am proud to call my friend
l was associated with him, our committee
rooms were contiguous, -and knew him
well. He appealed to me and to other
Southern Senators to take the assets of
the old Freedmans Bank, all that were
left to that poor, oppressed coored race,
whom know as we'll as any man living,
and pay them $3.50, 900, all that the poor,
Ignorant depositors would ever get. Why,
MIR. President, who could have resisted
that appeal: L would have paid, 1 con.
TESS, more than the property was worth
under the circumstances that surrounded
that case, but it was the best purchase
that this Governemnt ever made
While the negro has his enemies in the
South, both open and disguised, every in
telligent and patriotic Southerner has
more sympathy than aversion for the
negro. There are disreputable negroes,
but to assert that u negro cannot be Il
gentleman is simply to state fnlsehood
and utter Islander. The average OF in
than among the whites, but when their
conditions for dozen generations are
contrasted the white man has none too
much to boast Of.
The negro has been we'll treated by. and
as n race has held the respect of. the hest
element among the whites in the South.
There arc two classes of whites in the
South who have done much to degrade
the negro and prevent him from receiv-
ing the fruits of his freedom The con
scienceless Republican office hunter and
the uuprincipled Democratic bulldozer
have kept the negro between the upper
and neither milestone. Between them
they have done all in their power 10 grind
the negro down to the level of the beast.
There are some noble and patriotic white
men in the Republican party in the
South, but many o. those who use the
negroes vote to give themselves Office have
rs little sympathy for him as the buzzartl
has for the beast that furnishes it carrion.
When the negro can rid himself of these
vampires and the better white element
rid themselves OF that disgraccfu band
that would rather create 1t race riot OF
steal n negro's vote than pay an honest
debt both races will have cause for reioic.
ing The negro is in the South to stay.
1t is his home by the law of God and the
law of man. Common sense and common
honesty tell us we should elevate him,
not degrade him.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

1t is understood that the committee on
lights will present IL report at the next
meeting of the City Council recommend.
ing the building and operating of i'm cleo
trio light plant by the city. When possi-
BILE every city should own its light, water
and street railway systems. There is no
good and sound reasons why these sys.
TENS cannot he operated under municipal
ownership with the same businesslike
care and economy as under private own
ership That in many cases they are not
we concede, but no sound argument has
vet been advanced to show why they can"
not. We presume that the real, but for
the present sub rosa, object Of the Coun-
Gil is, not the erection of new electric
lighting system, but the purchase of the
plant now in operation and that the talk
we hear is merely scare thunder intended
for the ears of the owners of Roanoke
Electric Light Company. In many in
stances such trumpeting has had the de-
sired effect ami brought forth good re-
suits even if it does smack of Bowery
methods. The owners OF orr electric
light system may enjoy regular aud fat
dividends so far asw we know. The straws,
however, point the other way and indi-
cate that with two electric light systems
in Roanoke one must sooner or later 90
to the wall and it is not to be presumed
that anyone desires this, result. if the
present system can be had for fair and
Just consideration it would doubtless be
wise move on the part of the city to
make the purchase The purchase Of the
plant Mt an cxortitant price, however,
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

Mr.. Ellyson, who wants to be governor
of Virginia, is the president of the Old
Dominion Building and Loan Association
of Richmond, an organization that has
grown rich by charging usury His as
ISOLATION has loaned thousands of dollars
in various sections of the State and as
the usual results of such loans may be
expected to follow, about eighty per cent.
of the victims will probably sooner or
later lose their all to satisfy the appetite
of Mr.. Ellyson's usury gathering octo-
pus. 1t is whispered that Mr.. Ellyson
has issued orders that all advertisements
of trustee sales of his association must
be placed with. newspapers that either
openly espouse his candidacy or keep
mum. Those papers that oppose his po-
litical schems are to be made to feel the
power of his whitening hand. They are
to be boycotted unless they ''come Overr
or keep quiet. This action if true goes n
long way to indicate Mr.. Eilyson's cal
ibre. AS governor what would such n
man not resort to to promote schemes for
his personal benefit. When public
journal can he made to change or smother
its convictions by the promise ..of an adj
vertisement God help the country.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30
IN The WORLD Of FINANCE
NEW YORK STOCKS.


New York, March 29-The depression
shown in the closing days of last week
consequent upon the supreme court decs
ion in the Trans-Missouri Freight Associ-
alton case was increased to-day by news
from the West about rate cutting and
also by adviccs from London and the
ccStinent of II more warlike feeling on
the Eastern question. The bears had the
upper hand and pushed their ADVANTAGE
with vigor, being encouraged by receipt
of numerous selling orders by commits
sion houses from Philadelr hia, Boston,
Chicago and other cities. The decline in
prices ranged from ? to 3 Ia per cent.
and as the downward movement made
progress many stop orders were execu-
ted Missouri Pacific was singled out
for special attack on the reports current
That the company had taken the initiative
in rate cutting by making n reduction
from the regular schedule charges Oh
eggs. This story afterward met with an
emphatic denial by President George
Gould, who also pronounced the rumors
being without the slightest foundation in
fact. Before the receipt of Mr. Gould's
denial, however, Missouri Pacific had
dropped 3 IA to IA 1-2 Other marked
declines in the early trading were SIS in
Rock Island; 3.4 in Burlington and
Quincy; Is in Northwest; 3.S in St.
Paul; 1-2 in Jersey Central; 1874 in SUI
gar; 1-2 in American Spirits preferred;
in Atchsun preferred; | rs in Tobacco;
1.2 in Omaha, and l 81 in New York
Central. During the afternoon in addi-
ton to the denials concerning Missouri
Pacific came the February statement of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
which showed n large increase in the sur
plus rs compared with last year, and the
announcement of an advance of 1-6a1 g
cent in certain grades of refined sugar.
The advances that followed were equal
to 3'4 in Lake Shore; = l-2 in American
Spirits preferred; 34 in Jersey Central.
and IA to IA in the remainder of the
list. Near the close, however, the Gran
gers developed renewed weak ness, but the
improvement noted was we'll maintained.
The Grangers closed with only fractional
recoveres and in the case of Rock Island
the final sales were at the lowest of the
day. Net changes show declines of Ia
a D ) per cent, Rock Island leading
Lackawanna gained 81; Manhattan 1-2
and Jersey Central Is per cent Total
sales of stocks wee 32S,346 shaM, of
which $4,000 were Sugar. 81, 800 st. Paul,
$4,000 Chicago Gas, 49, 900 Tobacco, 6, 800
Missouri Pacific, 49, Reading, $4,000
Burlington and Quincy, and II, 800 Atchi-
son preferred.
The bond market was active and weak
to-day. The transactions aggregated
81, COZ, 900.
CLOSING nIvnTATJn\-c
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

The city will never pay that stupendors
bill of 81, 600 rendered by Messrs. Watts,
Robertson & Robertson for the indefinite
and unknown quantity OF Services rem
dered' while we have City Council with
the backbone of ~ straw, nor the half of
it. Nevertheless the matter furnishes n
fine object lesson to teach the folly and
danger of selecting men for the impor-
tant office of city attorney who are more
interested in the pay than the work. The
office should be filled by man who not
only has the ability to discharge the du.
ties required but one who has some ap.
probation of his duty to the taxpayers
who furnish the money to pay his salary.
The City Council at it's March meeting
unceremoniously squelched proposition
TO relieve the taxpayers of So, 600 for legal
work that the city is now paying the city
attorney salary to perform. Let the
Council do as much for the 81, 600 bill for
services rendered" and the.'pcople will
begin to realize that that body is rising
to fun sense of its duty. Pay what is
just but not one farthing more. Accept
no mans estimate of the value of his own
services. Men are whales in their own
estims ton: the other fellows arc the
minnows. The foundation stones of the
human fabric are II big l and little IL.
"Give me what ask and You will soon
have nothing is IL proverb that is old
but still alive The rule and guide of II
councilman should be justice To the tax
payers.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-30

Fresh lot of Lowney's Chocolates and
Bon Bons just received at j. J. Catogni's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20
That Fall Feed Question,

1t is of such Importance that we can
not let it alone. Here is a scrap from
John Gould in the last Hoord's Dairy
man, which will be appreciated by u
readers. He says:
Northern Ohio is at present, harbor-
ing a strange sort of weather, dry all
the time, and alternating between
ninety-six degrees in the shade at noon,
to a stout frost in the morning--killing
frosts too, which have dried up every
thing of a vegetable nature. The corn
fields are white to the ground with re-
peated frostings, and the green has left
the grass lands. The silo men are cut
ting the silage as fast as help and en-
gines can be secured, and most Of them
are running more or less water over the
silage as it goes into the pits. The
ground is like dust, and wheat and rye
drilled two weeks ago, is either not up,
or ct best showing faint pencilings of
green in the drill marks. The shrink
age of the COWS is remarkable. The re-
lance for extra feed has been tho corn
ceased to be green food, and now is no
better than that from the shocks. A
few, who have late sown oats and peas,
have a good soiling crop and one which
can stand several hard freezings in the
| way of frosts, and will hold the cows
up well on their milk yield. 1t is a
pretty good lesson to the others, to
another year 60 and do likewise, and
take advantage Of a wet spell in Aug
ust, to put in, on some good, stubble
land, a small field of this combined
crop, as the peas will, if put down four
inches, make a fair growth, 80 that a
fair amount of soiling material will be
secured, and after the tops are gone for
feed, the root growth of the crop ia
worth the labor for it's f~ertilizing and
mechanical effect upon the soil. To
day, this last day of September, we put
in an acre of oats and peas, to see what
they would do at this late day in max.
ing growth, and in any event, they will
make winter mulch for the soil.
The editor of Hoard's Dairvman says;
The milk flow is falling off very great.
ly all over the country, owing to the
serious drouth which has occurred all
through September. The result is that
milk dealers in cities are very much
concerned about their supply, and but.
ter prices are stiffening rapidly. Now
o word for the dairy farmer, who was
wise enough to fill q big silo. He ia
not worried whether his pastures fail
or not, for he has an abundant supply
of juicy ensilage that he can turn over
into cash milk at once. 1t is taking
some farmers a great while to learn the
lesson of modern dairy farming, that is,
that we must have a constant supply of
milk producing food if we expect cows
to give milk. Year after year of severe
losses have not taught very many of
them yet, but they are learning.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20
MICHIGAN.
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
Current Comment.

OATs.-The demand for pats has ruled
quiet and the general tone is easier as o
whole.
CoRN.-The market is dull, and prices are
quoted weaker, in sympathy with the
lower cost to ship from the West.
Eaas.-There has been little change in
the condition OF the market during the past
week. Receipts have been liberal.
PoTAToKs.-Receipts have been heavy
this week, and q large stock has accumu-
lated. Prices have continued on the down.
ward turn.
BUrrRR.-Receipts have been consider
fresh made butter has been 80 slack hat
prices have been barely sustained. Strictly
fine fresh Northern creamery in assorted
sizes has had a moderate sale.
CHEEsE.-Receipts for export 2,406 boxes.
There has been no change in the condition
OF the market during the past week. There
has been a liberal supply offering and a dull
trade, with the finest New York and YER
mont stock selling as wanted at about Ole.
BEANs.-Receipts of white beans have
been quite moderate this week, but demand
has been as slack as ever, and the market
continues in a very dull and unsatisfactory
condition. New yellow eyes and red kid
neys are coming in small lots and are meet
ing with a slow sale at easy prices.
FLouR.-The market for f1our has ruled
slow during the week, with the tone of
values about steady. Some moderate ex-
port business is being worked and local
buyers are only operating q uietly as they
need supplies. No one appears to take
much stock in higher prices, and no attempt
to fill up the break is being shown. At the
close wheat is tirmer, and this gives more
tone to the market, although it does not
start buying to any extent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20
AGRICULTURAL
HOard's Dairyman.

We do not see how any farmer who
keeps cows can get along without this
paper. Its columns contain from week
to week the best dairy lore, original
and selected, editorial and contributed,
the whole dairy world is laid under
tribute for its columns. As our readers
we'll know, we lay its columns under
tribute for some of the best of our ag-
ricultural matter. We do not know of
any paper which begins to take the
place of Hoard's. Some weeks there
is not much in it that particularly in
terests US, but perhaps the very next
week there will be column after column
which is ofthe greatest interet to us, and
which we think will interest the readers
of the WATCHMAN. There is 30 much
in which the farmers of Vermont need
and those who do not take it lose 80
much of most valuable information that
we feel free to advise all farmers and
especially those who keep cows for any
purpose to read the paper. w are
sure that all such can get from the
paper all the subscription costs and
more too. 1t is printed at Fort Atkin-
son, Wisconsin, and the subscription
price is 81 per year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20

every action of the pillow to spring into
life. 1t is true that the drag pillow
turns the earth over smooth, and at first
sight, pleases the eye. The bull -tongue
and surface-stirring devices used before
1877, did not completely invert the sur
face soil. The weed and other foul
seeds were kept les the surface where
termination would soon take effect,
and they could be %uprooted, hence the
land wal kept much more free. No
wonder after this farmers claimed that
the early turning plows made the land
foul.
5. The drag plow is of hard draft; in
best form it requires 500 pounds and
more draft to the foot furrow-two horses
to drag a twelve inch pillow; three and
four horses to drag a sixteen inch pillow
eight, ten and twelve horses to q forty
inch gang Of drag plows, and ten to
sixteen horses to draw a %fifty-inch gang
of drag plows, six inches deep. The
draft Of the drag pillow is from fifty to
100 pounds to the inch of furrow slice
under favorable conditions, and there
are plenty of conditions where eight
and ten horses are used on single drag
plows. The facts are that, from first
to last, the drag plows have been horse
killers.
We rejoice now that the days of the
drag pillow are numbered, that the time
when blowing to please the eye is over,
that blowing instruments are now made
that will destroy the pillow crust, save
the fertilizers, make an excellent seed
bed, and o O kill out all foul rubbish.
GEO. M. CLARK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20
The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop.

We have, of late, had some inquiries
in relation to the soy bean, or as it is
sometimes-though incorrectly-called
''soja BEAM" and now comes Farmers
Bulletin No. SO, of the United States
Department of Agriculture, which
treats in an exhaustive manner or this
forage plant.
According to this bulletin, it has been
grown in the southern states for many
years, but it is only within the last ff-
teen years that it has received much
attention as a forage plant.
1t Ear be grown in nearly all parts Of
the United States. There are several
varieties; the larger and later varieties
are adapted to the south, while the
earlier and smaller varieties do we'll in
the New England states, or where a
similar climate prevails.
1t can be planted in drills from
tw~enty-four to thirty-two inches apart
with five or six seeds to the foot in the
row, or it can be sown broadcast. The
amount of seed required to the acre is
from one-half bushel to n bushel.
When drilled in, the smaller amount
may be sufficient.
The planting should be done after
the ground gets warm in the spring, or
about the time of planting corn, and
very little cultivation is afterward re-
quired.
In the South, under favorable condi-
tions, twelve or thirteen tons of fresh
fodder may be produced on an acre. In
the New England states, under ordinary
farm conditions, yields of from nine to
tuva1un fono M nra orQ rQnnrfQd from
the medium varieties.
1t makes excellent hay when cut in
full bloom, or when the pods are first
forming, and will yield from two to
two and one-half tons per acre of cured
hay.
Chemical analysis shows the soy bean
to be rich in protein and fat. The
green fodder has much the same COM
position as red clover, being slightly
lower in crude protein and higher in
crude fiber.
At the Massachusetts station, exper-
iments were tried in feeding the soy
bean and also the green forage to milk
COWS, with excellent results. 1t pro-
duced fully as much as any other feed
that was given, and the milk and but
ter were of the best quality. The
green fodder was found to make an ex-
! cellent combination to feed with sorg-
hum or fodder corn.
1t was found good for silage, being
readily eaten by stock and the silage
kept well.
The crop can be allowed to ripen,
and the seed used as a grain feed. 1t
should be ground into meal, and then
it is said to be almost without an equal
as a concentrated food. The yield of
seed per acre ranges from fifteen to
forty bushels, according to the soil and
season. AS high as n hundred bush
els per acre have been reported.
Those interested in providing new
varieties of feeds for mich cows should
send for this Bulletin No. SO, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
d. C.-Hoard's Dairyman.