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From Daylight.

To the Standard:
Mr.. Thomas Clark, the gentleman
from Kentucky who purchased Mr..
Yager's farm some weeks ago, ar
rived with his family Saturday.
Elder Whitlock went to Grundy
county last Saturday to attend a
funeral Sunday.
Farmers are progressing with their
farming considering the late plant
ing and the bad stand many of them
got.
John Henegar boasts of being the
first to have a mess Of new potatoes
this season.
Eli Jones, overseer, had his hands
at work on the road last week, plac-
ing it in good condition, measuring
the distance and putting up sign
boards.
Mrs. w. B. Cummings is very sick
this week with pneumonia.
]. H. Dodd went to DeKalb county
last Saturday, returning Sunday.
A little daughter of U. VanhOoser
is quite sick. JIM.
Daylight, May 9th.
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VIOLA.
The NeighbOrhOOd News from Our
Regular Correspondent.

Vegetation is growing very fast
since the recent rains. Wheat is
heading out where there is any. Oats
are looking very well. Clover is
growing fast.
Mrs. w. H. Moore made a visit to
Beech Grove last week.
A party composed of DR.. E. H.
Jones, John F. st. John, S. McRaln-
sey, p. II. Price, Col. r. f. Burn
ham and G. r. Gwyn, are on fish
ing excursion on Caney Fork this
week.
Elder j. l.. Sewell and wife, of
Lebanon, are circulating among rela-
tives here this week. According to
appointment, Mr.. Sewell preached at
Philadelphia Sunday, and will preach
next Sunday at Antioch at II a. M,
and at Viola at 4 p. m.
TObe Sain made business trip to
Nashville this week.
A. H. Gross and wife, M. p. Hood.
enpyl, Mrs. Jennie Hamilton and
one hack load of Mr.. Gross children,
of McMinnville, took dinner at j. F
st. Johns Sunday.
7. A. Hardin made business trip
to Marshall county this week.
Haskell Stubblefield, of Nashville
is at home this week.
r. G. Wooten made a trip to Man,
chester this week.
Gilly Brown, one Of Viola's prom
ising young men, who is in the liv,
cry business at Manchester, paid hi,
home folks visit this week.
Prof. Clark, of McMinnville, was
in our village Saturday. We are al
ways glad to see Mr.. Clark, as mum
Der of us used to go to school to hin
when he taught here in 1876.
Miss Nettie Jones made trip t
Northcut's Cove this week.
We are sorry that Jim Hill had tt
stop school this week on account O
his eyes.
j. A. McCulloch was seen goins
through Viola Saturday evening lat,
enquiring the way to P. H. Winton's
He was not heard from any more un
til Sunday evening, and we fear h,
got lost.
Mr.. Nathan Fults, of Fults' Cove
died last week, aged about eight!
years.
Mrs. E. A. Powers, of Texas, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. NJ. H. Gwyn
Miss MOllie Burnham and brother
of Waco, Texas, are visiting thei
father, Col. r. E. Burnham.
Mr.. Sam Orr, of Nashville, wa
among our merchants this week.
Viola, May 9th.
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From Collins River.

To the Standard:
We have just had a good rain,
which will be of benefit to the grow
ing crops. Corn is looking well,
though it is rather small for the time
of year. Oats and young clover are
growing nicely.
1t has been predicted that we would
have a large fruit crop this year, but
later developments have proven to
the contrary. l don't think we will
have more than a third of crop, if
that much.
Last Sunday was communion day
at Philadelphia. The day being fine
a goodly number attended. The SER
mon was preached by Rev. j. K. P.
WhilOck. All behaved themselves
well except two young men who
seemed to have too much tanglefoot.
lobe Sain, of Viola, was circula-
ting among friends here yesterday
He wants it distinctly understood
that he is not around buying old
cows. II.
Collins River, May Goth.
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MIR. i. P. Wheat writes to the
Southern Planter and states that in
every case where he has administered
soft soap to lot of hogs affected with
cholera they have recovered. The
remedy is identical with the recon.
mendation of General w. Wickham,
of Virginia, who had previously made
the same statement.
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The Iola register., 1885-01-16
SINGLE BEDS.
An Element OF Household Economy Which
Is Seldom Practiced.

An Element OF Household Economy Which
Is seldom Prscticed.
Years ago. before the discussion of
sanitary and hygienic methods had be-
come common, and the majority of peo-
pie logged on in familiar ruts. 1 watched
the rise and progress of little family,
the five children in which represented
every phase of the keen, nervous life
belonging to this generation. The
father was scientific student, over
worked always, and knowing no other
life as possible or desirable; the mother
intense and eager, with small physical
vitality, and depending chiefly on her
will, assisted by strong tea, to carry
her through each busy day. Her COM
mon sense was admirable. and, so far
rs knowledge admitted, she did all that
she knew for the best development of
the five restless little souls in her
charge. They had abundant fresh air
and good food, and they were not over
stimulated in any direction; but they
had tempers of such dimensions that
the ample backyard in which they spent
much of their waking time was often
more like a cage of vigorous hyenas.
Fond of one another, resenting fiercely
any injustice or presumption from
other children, they squabbied from
morning till night, chronic ill-temper
settling down on the bright faces, and
lurking in the soft hazel eyes they had
inherited from the father. The baby
alone seemed equable and tolerably
mild; but Mabel and Bess, the seven
and nine year old girls, and Harry and
trank, the younger boys, each pair
The Iola register., 1885-01-16
SACRED BREAD STONES.
How the Zunls Prepare the Waters Wlicf
Enter Into Their Religious Obsery

How the Zunls Prepare the Waters Which
Enter Into Their Religious Observ-
snoss.
For no art or industry within the
range of the domestic duties of Zuni,
is SO much care and instruction De-
slowed by the old women on the young,
as for every process in the making of
the he-we or wafer breads. Year in
and year out. too, while these lessons
are being piled, it is told how the famed
and beloved Goddess of the Whi.e
Shells" taught not few of her graces
and some secrets-in connection with
the daily occupation which forms their
theme. Of the secrets, y chosen few
old women of the tribe are keepers.
With many mysterious rite and severe
penance, they quarry and manufacture
the enormous baSing-stones on which
the tl3ky toothsOme he-we is made
GarrulouS enough. mercy knows! are
these old cronesO on most other subjects:
but they guard with sphinx-like jeal-
ousy such of their methods and OBJ
servaDces as add prestige to experience
in their occasional calling. The usual
number of old women making up a
party of "stone finisherS" is four or
eight, rarely more. Four days previ-
Ously to the tempering of the stones
they retire to an estrIfa or lone room,
there to fast and engage in certain
ceremonials, in which croning tradi-
t,onal chants and repeating rituals
play an important part. During these
four days they never come forth unless
at rare intervals and for very short
time (and then under the protecting in
tluence of warning head-plumes) that
they may not be touched by the unin-
itiated. Yet. during the intermissions
of their religious Observances, they
prepare great cakes of pinion gum.
carefully wrapping them in strips of
Cedar bark. and in other ways make
ready for the work at hand. On the
morning of the day succeeding the last
night of their vigil. they repair in sim
Gle file. headed by particular clan
priest ''Bauyer," who on no
account touches one of them-to the
quarry. Before lifting the stones, be-
fore even quarrying any of them. they
recite long, propitiatory prayers, cast
ing abundant medicine-meal to the
'Flesh of the rock With other but
shorter prayers the fire is kindled by
the old priest, who uses as his match a
stick of hard wood with which he drills
vigorously into piece of dry. soft,
root, until the friction ignites the dust
of its own making. and to the flames
thus generated. offerings of dry food
are made. The stones are then brought
and when warm enough. placed over
the fires; being constantly anointed
with pitch and cactus juice, which they
greedlly absorb, so that they at least
seem solid masses of carbonized SUBJ
stance rather than gritty rock. From
the beginning to the end of this tenn
pering process never a word is spoken
aloud nor the least excitement or
sprightly action indulged in. Sounds
uttered would penetrate the grain of
the rock and, expelled by heat or con-
fiicting with the new ''being" (func-
tion) of the stone, split, scale or shiver
it with loud noise. So also. the evil
influence of undue passion or hasty ae-
The Iola register., 1885-01-16
tion would alike be communicated to it
with blighting future effect. .-Frask
Gushing, in the Milestone.
: THE ART OF WAR.
The Duke OF vellington's Opinion I
cerning It.

The Duke OF Vellington's Opinion Con.
eerning It.
In coming % see me Gas he had done
the day but che before September 2d)
he (the Duke, had chosen to walk from
the station to our house, and without
even a guide. He said he had found it
a rough walk, and the ground inter-
sected in way he had not expected;
so l said to him: .It seems you forgot
to guess what was at the other side OF
the hill" This was in allusion to q
circumstance which had occurred be-
tween him and me some thirty
years before. When travelling on the
north road. we amused ourselves by
guessing what sort of a country we
should find at the other side of the hills
we drove up; and when l expressed
surprise at some extraordinary good
guesses he had made, he said: "Why,
l have spent all my life in trying to
guess what was at the other side of the
HILL"
had reminded him of this just as we
were driving across the ravine that had
impeded him, and he turned round to
Mrs. Croker to explain it to her, adding:
"All the business of war, and indeed
all the business of life, is to endeavor to
find out what you don't know by what
you do; that's what l called guessing
what was on the other side of the
hill
He said the perfection of practical
war was to move troops as steadily and
coolly on field of battle as on parade
..Soult's fault WAS that, though a great
strategist, he never seemed to know
how to handle the troops after the bat
tie had begun"
| then told him what Guizot told me
of Lannes having said that ''le plus
grand general etait celui que la canon
made faisait mieuX entendre, ct que la
fumee faisait voir plus Clair
Duke-Humph! IA pause.] That's
only a cleverer phrase for what | have
been just saying-sang froid-presence
of mind; but that is not enough; the
mind, besides being cool, must have the
art of knowing what is to be done and
how to do it.-Croker's Conversations
Vith the Duke of Wellington.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16
CALLED BACK.
a WeI-Told Story Of Continuous
and Absorbing Interes.
BY HUGH CONWAY.
CHAPTER vIu.-Cosr,suxn

CHAPTER VIII.-CONTlNuEp
Ever since that night have wondered
how found the presence of mind to sit
there and repeatedly call up. by the aid
of that senseless girl by my side, that
phantasmagoria. 1t must have been
the burning desire to fathom the myster-
les OF that long past night. the wish to
learn exactly what shock had disarrang-
ed my wife's intellect, the Indignation l
telt at the cowardly murder, and the
hope of bringing the criminals to jus
tice. which gave me the strength to pro-
duce and reproduce that scene until |
was satisfied that l knew all that dumb
show could tell me, until nv heart
smote me for letting Pauline lie SO long
In her present state.
Then wrapped her cloak around her.
raised her in my arms and bore her
from the room, down the stairs to the
door. The hour was not late; I soon.
by the aid of a passer-by, summoned a
cab, and in a very short time reached
home, and laid her, still insensible, up
On her bed.
Whatever strange power she had
possessed of communicating her
thoughts to me, it ceased as soon as we
were outside of that fatal house. Now
and hereafter l could hold her hand,
but no dream. vision or hallucination
followed the act.
This is the one thing can not explain
the mystery at which limited when |
commenced my tale. l have related
what happened; if my bare word is in
sufficient to win credence, must be
content on this one point to be dis
believed.
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OPENED BY MISTAKE.

The Horrible Missive Opened Unsuspect-
ingly by a Detroit Lady.
"There has been a mistakes dread
full mistake" she said as she called at
the chief clerks window in the Post
office yesterday.
"What is the matter, ma amp"
why, called here on Saturday
for letter"
'And hope you got one"
"Yes, sir. My husband is in Buffalo,
you know, and I've been expecting a
letter from him every day for fort
night. He was to send me some money,
YOU know, and / was on my last shil-
ling when got that letter.
"WeIl?"
"Well. sir, hurried righ. home and
opened the letter and out fell dollar
bill. Just think of loving husband
sending his loving wife dollar bill
with which to run the house and pre-
serve her station in society for whole
month";
"But you put the money in your
pocket and burned the letter"
"Oh, no. sir! threw the bill into
the fire and set out to read the letter.
1t started off with: Dear Madam and
then l began to suspect something, as
my husband always calls me his angel.
And then it went on to say, so you
want bangle, eh? Well, take the in
closed and jingle down town and ban
gle your old head off and be hanged to
you!' Oh. sir, nearly faintedrF
"Wello"
"Well. 1 looked down at the sigma
ture. and it was signed SLOUGH Then
I saw. sir, that it couldn't be from my
husband at all, for it was written from
Chicago, while he is in Buffalo. 1t was
addressed to my name, but it couldn't
have been for me"
The clerk received the letter and care
fully scanned the envelope, and she
handed him a dollar with the remark
'Put it in the letter, sir. and write
on the envelope: Opened by mistake
dreadful mistake-but the opener
won't give it away If You can think
of anything else to soothe the poor
woman, put it on, too"
"Yes, 1 will"
"For / know exactly how she'll feel
about it, and / know if my husband
should tell me to tangle my old head
off and jingle around / wouldn't nave
any one to know it for a million dol
lars. Dear me! but I'm so sorry, and
it was such a mistake-drsadful mis-
Free Press.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16
TO BE Continued

Some ladies are beginning to com
plain of the kissing nuisance as now
practiced between members of their SEX
tits declared that the practice of one
woman saluting another with kiss
whenever she meets her after an absence
Is becoming too common, and that the
osculatory welcome should be limited
to ladies who are very dear friends
and to gentlemen, when properly
authorized. Many ladies who do not
like to seem rude are compelled to kiss
other ladies of their acquaintance when
they meet them because it seems to be
expected. and to refuse to return tho
salutation would be embarrassing.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

afternoon in searching every nook and
Granny in the house, but no discovery
rewarded my labor. There was, be-
lieved, no place in which the body of a
victim could have been hid-there was
no garden in which it might have been
buried. took back the keys and said
the house did not suit me. Then l re-
turned home, and brooded on my grief,
whilst Macari's lie ate and ate its way
to my heart.
And day by day it went on working
and guawing. corroding and warping,
until was told that the crisis was over;
that Pauline was out Of danger; that she
was herself again.
Which self? The self / had only
known, or the self before that fatal
night? With beating heart | drew
near to her bedside. Weak, exhausted.
without strength to move or speak she
opened her eyes and looked at me. 1t
was look of wonder, of non-recogni-
ton, but it was the look of restored
reason. She knew me not. 1t was as
the doctor predicted. l might have
been total stranger to those beautiful
eyes as they opened. gazed at me, and
then reclosed themselves wearily. /
went from the room with tears running
down my cheeks. and. at my heart a
feeling of mingled Joy and sorrow.
hope and fear, which words will not
express.
Then Macari's black lie came out from
its lurking place and seized me as it
were by the throat-clung to me,
1nJ al 81 fr,,Iaf
Push me away. l am still true. The
lips of villain spoke to me, but for
once he spoke the truth. If not for this,
why the crime? Men do not lightly
commit murder" Even then, when the
moment l had prayed and longed for
had come-when sense, full sense. was
given back to my poor love-I was in
vaded. conquered and crushed to the
ground by the foul lie which might be
truth.
1--WE are strangers-she knows me
not.n | cried. LET me prove that this
lie is lie, or let us be strangers for
eyer!''
How could prove it? How could l
ask Pauline? Or asking her. how could
| expect her to answer? Even if she
did, would her word satisfy me? Oh,
that | could see Ceneri! Villain he
might be, but felt he was not such a
double-dyed villain as Macari.
Thinking thus, formed a desperate
resolve. Men are urged to do strange
and desperate things when life is al
stake-with me it was more than life.
1t was the honor, the happiness-every-
thing, of two people!
Yes, l would do it! Mad rs the
scheme seemed, Iwould go TO Siberia,
and if money. perseverance or craft
could bring me face to face with Ceneri.
| would wiring the truth, the whole truth
from his lips!
The Iola register., 1885-01-16
In Great Britain and Ireland

In Great Britain and Ireland the
number of envelopes manufactured in a
year is said to be 200. 1000, 600; in the
United States they amount to about
,, 800, ,0lO,000. If hard labor were
compelled to do the work now done by
machines in simply making envelopes,
taking no account of the printing done
on some of them, it would take 275, coo
workmen. According to the census,
United States envelope manufacturers,
in 1880, numbered 1,204 persons.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

"A Baltimore paper says that city
a one put up the past season l4,OO0..
600 cans of peaches. 1000, COO cans OF
peas, 100000 cans of string beans, 10O,-
000 cans of pears, 3,000,OOO cans oi
tomatoes, and 100000 cans of fruits
and other vegetables
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

-Manlius, the Roman, is said to
have put his own SON. though victori.
Gus. to death for disobeying orders, and
Cassius Brutus killed son who had
with the enemy.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

"A Boston colored man, who recent
" wooed and won the object of his love
offered as one of the Inducements to
the desired match: Eyes. honey, an
you needn't do q stitch of work for .
week after de weddin'. Bostos Josr-
nal.
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

Celery four feet tall and measuring
a foot and q half round the lower stem
was raised the past season in Swamp
scott. Mass, by Colonel John JefrieI
-B0st0n Budget
The Iola register., 1885-01-16

had already seen Pauline, and knew eH-
actly the state in which she had been.
l think he believed, as many others will,
all told him except that one strange
occurrence. Even this he did not scOff
at, accustomed. as he was, to wild fam
cies and freaks of imagination. He at
trisuted it to this cause, which was
but natural. And now what comfort or
hope could he give me?
..As l told You before. Mr.. Vaughan. "
he said. ''such thing as losing the rec
objection of the past for long while
and then picking up the end of the
thread where it fell is not altogether I'M
precedented. Will come and see Your
wife; but as the case now stands it
seems 10 me it is an attack of brain
fever, and as yet no specialist is needed.
When that fever leaves her should like
10 know, that l may see her. 1t will. |
expect. leave her sane. but she will be-
gin life again from the hour that her
mind was first unhinged. IoI. her huS-
band, may even be Is a stranger to her.
The case, i say again, is not unprece-
dented, but the circumstances which
surround it are.
| left the doctor and walked to the
agents in whose hands the house in
Horace street was placed. l obtained
the keys and made some inquiries. l
found that at the time of the murder
the house had been lie. furnished for q
few weeks to an Italian gentleman
whose name was forgotten. He paid
the rent in advance, SO no inquiries had
been made about him. The house had
been vacant for long time. There was
nothing against it except that the owner
would only let it at certain rent,
which most people appeared to consider
too high.
i gave my name and address and took
the keys. Ispent the remainder of the