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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-10-14
7 OCUST DALE ACADEMY,
MADISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
Near Rapidan Station, Virginia.
DAVID +. BOYD, PRINCIPAL.

Ably Assisted in tho Academic Departmen
by Graduates of the University Of Vir-
Einia, and by a competent Officer
III the Military Department.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-10-14
James II. StrOtller.

James II. StrOther.
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Monroe La.
II Will practice law in North Louisiana,
before the Supreme Court at Monroe, Fed
eral Courts of Louisiana, Court OF Claims,
and Supreme Court of the United States ut
Washington City.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-10-14

IL. Richardson.
A TTORN1SY AT LAW, MONROE, La,
"A will practice in all the parishes OF
state, the Federal Courts, and in the Land
Office Department OF the General Govern
ment. August IS, 1SSl.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
a STREEECAR IDYL.

Perhaps you think I'll rant and rave like the
At the wealthy folk. because they are gay
Dye s'pose don't know that when we put on
our best
And they their worst, they're Just as sure to
Or rather one is-you're laughing now; but
1t does one good such pretty young things
Put thousand colors before me, I'd choose
Because her eyes are SO blue and so bright
and sweet.
And there's something about her walk that
As if her footsteps. like hower-throbs.
touched my heart,
And her smile is like sunshine on clover buds
My shop mates tell me that everything
there is art,
And that have always had notions odd and
They dub me "poet," because I make
rhymes now and then.
But telling the world of her beauty with
gladstone pen.
They say say she is idle Well, SO is the rose; and
1t fills with fragrance and color the earth
They say she hates poverty. makes white
poodle her pet,
And that she's as false and cruel as angel.
fair.
It may be, but once in a crowded car 1 stood,
Sore, tired and sad, for had been ailing
She sat just before me, looking SO gentle and
good,
And she said, " You must letme stand; = am
young and strong"
Yes. true she did, all dressed In shining silk,
With feathers like curled mist round q
With laces like frost work and forehead as
white as milk,
Bright from the hem OF her robe to her
pretty, dainty glove.
And with one little hand she softly pushed
And 1 sat down like sluggard in his
I'm sure tried to smile and tried to say.
But neither would come, though her voice
made my pulses leap.
I'll never forget the touch of that tiny hand
can feel 1t now when sit by myself and
And it makes me dream sometimes of that
other land.
Where we Of the rougher sort may rise from
the brink
OF all these needs and breads and terrible
To something that our lives lose as we live
to-day,
To that fine, delicate sense of grace that
clings
Round them that seem made of fairer,
rarer clay.
So I'll never rant and rave and go on like the
rest,
At the richer sort, because they are gay and
fine.
We show at our worst; they don't always
shew at their best;
But I've seen one angel among them that
makes all the others shine.
Mary Il. Denison, in Christian Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03

Betsy's voice saying in his ear: ERE
member your mothers last words" He
went forward and touched the man on
the shoulder; when the whole scene i'm
mediately faded away, and he awoke.
much importance to dreams, and seeing
sufficient in what had occurred the pre-
vious day to account for the troubled
state of his brain in the night, he soon
dismissed the subject of his dreams from
his thoughts. An advertisement in the
local paper, however, which met his eye
in the course of the morning, brought it
all up again. The advertisement ran
thus: "Wanted, q resident agent for
Wheal Splendour. Apply to Captain
Benny, c."
A rise in tin had again taken place ;
enterprising mining men were again
looking out for suitable ventures to rec
ommend to their clients; and once more
Wheal Splendour, after being neglected
for twenty years found advocates
who could speak confidently of its
chances of success with tin at sixty
pounds ton. And some gentlemen
being willing, and that not unreasonably,
to believe this, company was formed
as before to give the mine q trial.
Hence the advertisement which William
saw, and resolved to answer.
In applying for the situation, he men
toned, as q circumstance that would
stimulate him to use every exertion in
experimenting clearing the shaft, that
he trusted to find some relic of his faith
er, who had been lost there twenty-five
years ago. His application was grant
ed and William soon found himself es-
tablished as agent at Wheal Splendour.
In due time the adit was reached.
They had found nothing so far among
the debris in the shaft; and the young
Captain concluded that when his father
fell down, he must have dropped straight
into the water in the shaft, and have
been borne down by the falling mass.
After a careful examination of the plat,
he turned aside into the adit level; but
he had not gone far before he saw some
thing which made him stop short and
tremble from head to foot. It was his
dream come back to him! There, few
feet of, was an object that one might at
first have taken for q human being, in
exactly the same posture as the man he
had seen in his dream.
"LOOk!" he exclaimed to the men be-
hind. "Isn't that the figure of man?
1t is my dead father!" And reckoning
them to follow gently, he approached
the figure. 1t was like clay in appear
ance, smooth all over. Resting on a
stone and leaning forward, the general
outline of the head and trunk was pre-
served. and the two legs reaching to the
ground were quite distinct.
A solemn pause ensued. The men
looked at each other, but knew not what
to say. At last William stretched out
his hand and touched the figure; it i'm
mediately collapsed and fell, q little pile
of dust, at his feet.
And William laid his fathers dust in
his mothers grave.-Chan'bers' Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03

have noticed the sudden and inexplicaJ
BILE increase Of winking among young
persons have similarly jumped TO tho
conclusion that disease Of tho eyelids he's
become fearfully frequent in conse-
quence of the dnst which fills the streets.
They may put their miEds at rest. The
human eye6d is for the first time in ito
history in . fair way to have its great
and useful powers developed. and the
happy time may yet como whom the
Senate of the United States win debate
with silent winks, and . political CAM
paign will lose half les horrors BY losing
all its noise.-Nesc TWt TInses.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
Freaks Of the Telegraph.

Names are always, great stumbling.
block to the clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of us have
tricks of writing names in any but dis
tinct fashion; and although the Post
Office persistently reminds us, on the
forms given us to write our kilograms
on, that the writing should be plain, this
advice, like most other advice, is but too
often neglected. Hence many kilograms
get altogether astray, sometimes to the
not slight discontinue of those into
whose hands they fall, and who, unwit-
ting that any error has been made, forth
with act upon them. It is related that
q woman residing in some small street
in Manchester once received what APP
peared to be summons from her hus-
band to come up to him in London.
Very much alarmed, she at once start
ed. On her way she got into converse
ton with another woman who was in the
same carriage, and who she found was
also going up to see her husband, who
was in London i'll. This woman had
been expecting to receive telegram
from her husband, and, not hearing,
had grown anxious and had finally set
off without the telegram. Further par
ley revealed the fact that their names
were the same; that their husbands
names were the same; that they both
lived in the same quarter in Manchester;
and e finally TRANSFERRED that the tele-
gram which had been delivered to the
first woman was the very one which the
second had been waiting for-the error
in delivery having been caused by some
such mistake as " Hamilton Street" for
/" Henrietta Street "a mistake very
likely attributable to want of distinctness
in the writing. Another curious case of
coincidence Of which we have heard
was that Of . telegram addressed,
John Stillingwise, Brookdean, mr..
Kirkby, Lonsdale, (" from Robert Stilling-
wise, his brother, begging him to come
at once to him at . hotel which he indi-
Gated, in Leeds. The address "Brook-
dean" was in some way altered, and the
telegram was delivered to another John
Stillingwise living somewhere in tho
neighborhood of Kirkby, Lonsdale. This
unfortunate man, who had not heard
anything of his brother Robert for
some twenty years, at once started of
in stormy, wintry weather, reached
Leeds in the evening. and was told by
the landlord that he could not see his
brother that night, as he was very far
from well, and had gone to bed. The
next morning he was ushered into
Robert Stillingwise's room expecting TO
see this long-lost brother, when, to his
extreme astonishment and disgust, hs
found himself confronted by an uttsa
stranger !-Black,cood's MaQcNne.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
A New Method Of Conversation.

It is pleasant to learn that the human
eyelid has lately been turned to q new
and useful purpose. Hitherto the two
recognized uses of the eyelid have been
the protection of the eye and the pecu-
liar process known as winking. 1t has,
however, been held among all well-bred
people that winking is an offense not
more excusable than punning. 1t is
permissible for a man to wink at anoth-
er man either with view of explaining
his own joke or as cautionary signal.
but winking for any other purpose, and
especially between the sexes, is sternly
prohibited. And yet the power of quick
ly moving the eyelid is one which nature
has given US for good purpose. That
we have failed to develop this power
and put it to good uses has always been
a reproach to US, and all true lovers of
progress will be glad to learn that this re-
proach is about to be taken away.
For some little time we have heard a
good deal concerning the alleged spread
OF diseases of the eye in this city, and
the doctors have unanimously attributed
it to the dusty condition of the streets.
Undoubtedly eyes have been inflamed
by dust, but the symptoms which the
doctors have attributed to an epidemic
of Inflammation of the eyelids are really
the results of the new use to which the
power of winking has been put. A
profound and well-known philosopher,
having noticed that an Ineligible sig
nal was made in his presence by one
young man 20 another by means of a
wink, and having somewhere met with
the axiom that in certain circumstances
a wink is as good as q nod, conceived
the idea of making q complete code of
winking signals by means of which .
silent conversation could be carried on.
For this purpose he adopted the Morse
telegraphic alphabet, which, as every
body knows, consists of dots and dashes.
He decided that q quick wink should
represent dot and slow wink dash.
He engaged the cooperation of . young
lady who was IN operator in telegraph
office, and found that she could read his
winks with perfect ease. In the course
of q mouth the two became so proficient
In winking that they could sit ON oppo-
site sides Of . room and converse with
winks almost as rapidly as with the
voice. The philosopher at first made
all his winks with the right eye alone,
but his fair assistant improved the sys-
tenn by winking with both eyes-a plan
which, she assured the inventor, would
save his invention from the reproach
which attaches to ordinary single-eye
winking between the sexes.
The new system of conversation has
spread with amazing rapidity in the
Eastern States, and especially in this
city, where its able inventor resides. At
our theaters, on the street, and at
church young men and young women
are now constantly conversing in the
language of the eyelid. The ignorant
man, when he sees . young lady wink
ing rapidly with both eyes, Instantly i'm
agines she is the victim of some disease
Of the eyelids, although, In point of fact,
she. is merely informing some young
man that she expects to Be 1.-THE Metro
politan Museum next Thursday after
noon at three o'clock. The doctors who
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03

-Four poor Philadelphia housewives
joined in the purchase of whole barrel
of flour, and found it considerably
cheaper than their previous practice Of
buying few pounds at q time. They
extended the plan to other supplies, and
then to additional members. Next they
hired . room and q woman to superin-
tend the purchases and distribution.
Fifty. families now get all their groceries
through this association at the lowest
wholesale prices
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
GENERAL.

-Henceforward the State Of Con-
necticut will exact from III itinerant
physicians license Of go day.
The doctors say that the increase Of
typhus fever in New York portends .
possible epidemic of Asiatic cholera.
Mrs. Ellie Grover, of Beach Ridge,
in York. Me-, reached her one hum
dredth birthday q few days since, re-
ceiving and entertaining friends.
An offer of . free passage to this
country and home when they reach it.
is the most powerful argument that the
Mormon missionaries use in making
converts.
Miss Bette Green, of Forsyth Coun-
ty, Ga, has two silk dresses which she
made herself, having raised the worms.
spun the silk, colored and woven it with
her own hands.
Nearly 5000 innocent persons
men, women and children-were left on
the Paris pavements when the French
troops were wheeled during Louis Ma
poleOn's coup d'etat and poured their
volleys into the defenseless crowd. The
French Chambers have just voted an in
demnity for the surviving sufferers Of
81, 5OO, 900.
Mrs. Garfield has decided to restore
their distinctive colors to the White
House parlors, and to replace the woven
carpets by others bought by the yard.
It is q beautiful testimony to American
manners that the reason for doing this
is the carelessness of visitors who do not
care to brush the mud from their boots
before entering the house of the Chief
Magistrate.
"A little boy in Ballachalish. Scot
land, who was never taught anything OF
arithmetic, possesses an extraordinary
intuitive mastery over figures. "Get-
ting hold the other day, writes visitor,
"of large slate, we figured question
in simple addition, of nine columns and
with sixteen figures to the column. We
ordered him in Gaelic to add up the
sum. This he did in q few seconds.
He seemed to add column after column
in the usual way, but with extraordinary
rapidity, muttering the addition to him
self in a soft, bee-like hum, until the
sum total was reached. 1t was the same
in the most difficult questions of COM
pound addition, though where he got
the knowledge of the money table, indis-
pensable in the working out of such
sums, neither father nor anybody else
could tell"
The Project of St. Petersburg, NJ.
Baranoff, suddenly gave notice, the 9th
er day, that the town would be sur
rounded by military Gordon, and per-
sons entering or leaving the town sub
jected to a rigorous examination. St.
Petersburg is chiefly dependent for its
daily supplies of milk, butter and eggs on
the services of persons who live in the
environs. One fine morning the town
awoke to find the breakfast table minus
the accustomed accessories. The peas
ant purveyors we're being vigorously ex-
amined by the authorities. On the sub
sequent morning the Gordon was undis-
turbed by the demands of the dairyman
for passage; but milk. butter and eggs
were, however, as plentiful as usual in
St. Petersburg. The peasants had dis
played knowledge of the by-ways into
the city which had baffled the authori-
ties. After such q fasco the Gordon
was removed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
"Measuring the Baby"

Don't measure the baby! There is an
old superstition that if you do it will die
before the year is out, and it's always
best to be on the safe side. Do you see
that name written in lead pencil on the
decreasing? Well, that's where we
measured the baby. If you get down
on your knees you will be able to read,
"Jim; just so high" 1t wasn't a year
ago that we all came out here, father,
mother and the girls, and got down on
the grass and stood him up there. He
was a sight to look at-an pink and
white, with the softest rings of hair, and
eyes like violets in the spring, and he'd
laugh and tumble down and we'd all
laugh and cheer him up again, and Jen-
ny laid the pencil fiat on his head, and
notched the wall, and then we wrote
that to mark the spot, but I've wished
many time since I'd never had it done.
You see we had been reading some pref
ty verses about that very thing, and it
just fitted to our baby exactly in the be-
ginning:
We measured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall,
A lily grew on the threshold,
And the boy was just as tall.
That was so like our baby that I cut
that verse out and pasted it in the blank
leaf of the big Bible. Then Jenny said
there were more verses that suited him,
but after getting the full drift of the
poetry most wished we hadn't seen it,
but took two more verses and let them
60 with the others; here they are:
His eyes were wide as blue bells,
Chats little Jim eXactlyD
His mouth like flower unblown;
Chats him AGAIN.,
Two little bare feet, like funny white mice,
Peeped out from his snowy gown.
And we thought. with thrill of rapture
That yet had q touch of pain,
When June rolls round with her roses
Wen measure the boy again.
Now, if it had stopped there, as I ex-
pected it would, I'd have nothing to
say, there'd be another mark on the
decreasing $50 much higher" but
but-well, what's the use of beating
about the bush in this way! You see
there's no mark there, and it wasn't su-
perstition after all. I went to-day into
the room where he lay, all white and
peaceful like, and so still that it was q
sin to cry and disturb his sleep, and I
added the rest of the poetry, that Jenny
had kept without knowing why, to the
Bible.
We measured the sleeping baby,
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below.
And out of the darkened chamber
We went with childless moan
To the light of the sinless angels
Our little one had grown.
That tells the story of little Jim bet
ter than I could tell it; that is why
there's hush over all the house, and
the sun is too bright, and the birds have
stopped singing, and we can never
again measure the baby, for he has gone
$50 high" that we can only reach him
by the golden ladder of death.-Detron
Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03

his post at the Devonshire mine, one of
the men there died underground, which
circumstance greatly affected him. The
man had been working with boy in q
branch shaft when, saying that he felt
unwell, he left his comrade to 20 to the
surface. On the boy subsequently, max
ing inquiries for him, he could not learn
that he had been seen at surface since
he first went down to work; nor had he
gone straight home, as the lad found on
calling there. His wife being alarmed,
hurried back to the mine with the youth,
and persuaded two miners to go down
and search for the missing man. They
found him in q corner Of . plat about
halfway up from the place where he
worked, sitting on piece of timber,
dead.
The excitement attendant upon this
incident kept William, or Captain VIII
liam, as we must now call him, awake
for . long time after he retired
for the night. Scenes of peril
in which he had been placed himself,
stories of accidents that he had heard,
rushed upon his mind, and when
he did at last fall asleep, they mixed
themselves in wild confusion in his
dreams. Toward morning his mind be-
came more settled and less extravagant;
and in the last dream of all, he was in q
level gazing at q man sitting on piece
of rock, leaning forward, with his face
buried in his hands, his elbows resting
on his knees. The man had no hat on,
and his hair was thick with clotted
blood. As the dreamer stood and
looked, not with astonishment or fear,
but as it were spellbound. he heard Aunt
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03

he had received orders from London
that morning to stop the mine; that as
it was the general opinion that William
must have been killed by the fall or
drowned in the shaft, he did not think the
adventures would attempt to recover
the body, especially as weeks must
elapse before they could get down to the
adit. The only thing he could think of
was to recommend the company to offer
substantial sum by way of compensa-
ton to the widow.
ST will try to keep her quiet; but it
will be q hard job," said Aunt Betsy.
+" She will be asking all sorts of ques-
tons; and how to conceal the truth I
don't know. could not think of telling
her a downright lie about it,
Aunt Betsy was right in her conjec-
ture. It was no easy task to induce Mrs.
Pollarrack to rest satisfied. Every few
minutes she would restlessly inquire if
William had returned yet; and she
would want to know where he was sent
and on what business.
"My DEAR Aunt Betsy would re-
ply, ST cannot tell you more than I
have told you already. Your husband
has gone on q journey; nothing is said
as to when he viii return
As time wore on the difficulty of pac-
flying the young mother increased. The
suspense and anxiety told upon her Sc
riously. The doctor, who was unre-
hitting in his attendance, visiting her
two or three times q day, told Aunt
Betsy she was in . critical state. The
brain was overtaxed, and there were
dangerous symptoms of fever.
The third night after the accident
Aunt Betsy was keeping watch by
Mary's bedside. The tallow candle was