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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
TERMS $500 PER YEAR
PURITY OF ACTRESSES.
women In right. who are >uII Cloth
ed In uode.y.

Actresses, like all other women have
10 obey certain laws Of social life. If
girls come up from the country, 30 into
lodgings alone and live without personal
guardianship OF social protection of any
kind, they NAV be Unas and Virginias
to the backbone, but they will have 10
pass through mud heaps by the way,
and their experience will be more or
less abominabe. Also they will be
roughly handled by the censorious and
loosely regarded by the vicious. The
fact of being on the stage does not eman-
cipate modest girl from the conditions
held necessary for her social preservation
elsewhere. Aed to hold that one
daughter may not go to ball at private
house without chaperou, and another
may live alone in lodgings. 90 on the
stage without protection and travel about
siest pretence ofa caretaker, is stupidity
scarcely worth the trouble of discussing.
Girls have to BE- protected against
their own ignorance, their own in
nocence, their very selves, until they
lave learned something of life and its
dangers, and to know the look Of bird
lime and how to &void springes and
snares 1t may not be possible to in.
cun,ber the side scenes with mo hers,
and yet we know for instance where
this is done and where girls never sci
their pretty feet inside the theatre un-
accompanied and unprotected This is
the main reason why, in a family G
actors and ac' resses. bred to the board
from their birth, the women can be, an
are, as blan eless as a nest ful! of dove.
Father and mother and brothers are all
there to watch, to guard. to check. to
protect-if need be. to avenge. Thev
themselves, these doves in tights and
spaDgles. know all the nets spread by
outsiders, and thew escape where others
are caught and fall in. They can even
dress in those tights and snangles, dis
pense with petticoats, dance break downs
and perform acrobatlc feats with their
toes, with clear eyes and pure con-
science. They are so accustomed to the
whole thing from the beginning that it
is all impersonal and mere Cuisines, u
no more shocking to the moral sense
than IS the low cut and sleeveless bodice
of the present dav to the ordinary lady
They have never had ANYTHING to gel
over; consequently they have never
dropped part of their moral furniture in
the scramble. They were born on The
other side of the leaping bar, and til
is no more difference between theil
, modesty and that ofthe primmest prude''
7 than there is between ours and the
Chinese womAn's, who holds it shame
full exposure to show her hands, whil'
we have onlv gold cord and bracele
for all covering from the shoulder to the
P finger tips.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
THE MYSTERY OF NlAGARA.
Tremendous Depth of the Water at
WhirlpOOl Rapids.

The mysterious and awful depths of
Niagara's canon are fruitful subjects of
comment. Some portions of it are reas-
onably supposed to be bottomless.
When the first railway bridge was con-
structed here some ambitious persons
attempted to sound the canon directly
beneath it. They filled large tn pail
with stones and lowered it. The cur
rents merely played with it. Then they
took a stronger cord, attached bar of
railway iron to it. which actually fioated
owing to the fierce counter currents.
A few years ago the United State
lake survey. came here, and, as record
er of the survey, 1 krow of the remark
able data obtained. We saw at once
that the current would buoy up a large
:inknr, and proposed TO test the smalles
possible surface with the greatest possi-
BILE weight. We took a lead weight in
the form of a plumb bcb, weighing thir-
teen pounds, and attached it to smal
but strong cord. Then we secured the
services of one of the ferry boatmen and
started out into the stream. The boat
man was ordered to row as nearly un-
der the falls as possible, and the result
will never be forgotten by me nber OF
the party in that skiff. F,
AS we approached the falls the roar
became more and more terrible, until we
were not only unable to hear, but the lips
positively refused to open and utter a
sound. For several days afterward some
of the party were so deaf as to be unable
to distinguish one word from another
| The lead was cast first Dearthe American
falls, where bottom was found at eighty
three feet. Nearthe main falls We foun6
100 feet of water. Here the oarsman':
| strength failed and the little craft begar
| to dart down stream.
| At every cast os the lead the watel
| grew deeper, until in front of the in
| clined railway the old guide and most o
the party became terror stricken and re
fused to 90 further down stream. Herr
the lead told off 1913 feet. We were ther
able to compute the depths lower dowr
by simply ascertaining the width of ih'
stream. Directly under the lower bridge
the water narrows considerably ano
deepens to 210 feet. Lower down, at th'
Whirlpool rapids, the gorge becomes
very morrow and the currents terribl,
fierce. Here the computed depth wa
$50 feet. One place in the gorge is stlI
narrower, and would exceed depth
400 feet.
When the depth of water is taken int
to consideration the height of the canor
walls above the surface must not be for
gotten. The walls range from 27O to so
feet in height, often perpendicular, b
that the total depth of the canyon range
from $50 to 700 feet. This great depth Q
the gorge leads directly in imagination
to the canon's wear. New York Times
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
JACKsON,s RELIGION.
How Ii Backed Him Up I'm Time of
Battle.

General John ID. Imboden, whose bat
terry bore the brunt of of The artillery
fight at Bull Run, relates some of the
incidents of the battle, in the May Gen.
tury.
Several other batteries sooE came in
to line. SO that by the time Griffin and
and Ricketts, were in position near the
Henry house we had, as i now remem-
ber. twenty.six fresh guns ready for
them.
1.-The fighting was renewed and was
terrific. Jackson ordered me to 60 from
battery to battery and see that the guns
were properly aimed and the fuses cut
the right length. This was the work. Of
hut few minutes. on returning to the
left of of the line Of guns | ."ppcd 20
ask General Jacksons permission - re-
Join my battery. The fight was jL-'
then hot enough to make him feel WclI
His eyes fairly blazed. He had way of !.
throwing up his left hand with the open
palm towards the person he was address
ing. He threw up his hand as he told
me to go. The air was full Of flying mis-
siles, and as ne spoke he jerked down
his hand, and saw the blood was
streaming from it. ] exclaimed: Gen
eral, you are wounded He replied, as
he drew a handkerchief, from his breast
pocket and began to bind it up: Only
scratch, mere scratch, and gallopec
away along his line.
General Jackson's wound, received
under the circumstances l nave describ-
| ed, became very serious when iDfiam-
nation set in. On hearing, three days
after the fight, that he was suffering with
it, rode to his quarters in little farm
house near Centreville. Although il was
barely sunrise he was out under the trees
bathing the hand with spring water. 1t
was much swollen and very painful, but
he bore himself stoically. His wife and
baby had arrived the night before. His
little daughter Julia was still in long
dresses, and remember tossing her, TO
her great delight, while breakfast was
being made ready on a rude table under
the trees. Of course the battle was the
only topic discussed at breakfast. i re.
marked in Mrs. Jackson's heaiing
General, how is it that you can keep 81
cool and appear so utterly insensible tc
danger in such a storm Of shell anc
bullets as rained about you when you
hand was hitF He instantly became
grave and reverential in his manner sn(
answered. in low tone of great earnest
n, ss: Captain, my religious belle
teaches me to feel as safe in battle as il
. bed. God has fixed the time for m,
death. | do not concern myself abou
, that, but to be always ready, no matte
when it may overtake me- He adde
, after a pause, looking me full in tn
face: Captain, that is the way all me
should Eve, and then al men would b
equally brave"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
A STUDY Of the Camel.

No European army has made study
of the camel, and the ignoraI 'e OF its
master is fatal to the beast. Its routine
of life is directed, or shoIld be, upon
principles as immutable as the laws that
govern the solar system. Its existence
has all the rigid fornality Of legal pro-
cess. To disorganize, disarrangea camel
is to spoil it; 10 hustle it is to kill it.
Spleen, liver complaint, heart disease,
are the result of Irregularities in hours
or habits; it breaks up altogether under
unusual conditions CT life. You cannot
work one of these beasts 20 death if you
use it in proper way. But anything
out of the common shrivels it up-de
stroys it. Its timidity is of the stupid
superstitious kind. Substantial causes
for fright, such as would alarm an intel.
ligent horse, are disregarded by the
camel. Yet it will take fright fT nc
reason whatever, or next to none. Aud
then. as is always the case with the un
reasoning, it passes in moment from
perplexity TO panic. The only plan
therefore, when conveying with camel;
through an enemy's country is TO hobblt
the animals as soon as danger threatens
The moment the scouts fall back th'
camels should be made to sit down anC
their legs should be knee haltered il
such a way that they cannot move, 10
their tremor be what ii may. For onc'
on their legs, they are stampeded, anC
all attempts at rallying them are as futil'
as irving TO coax sandstorm to stop
This fact about hO5bling took us SOM
time to learn. but We learned it at last
and STAN pede is no longer among tn,
dangers upon which those who accom-
PAW the conveys have to count. Lon
don Telegraph.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06

about three minutes walk?"
Just about"
Good view from the windows
"Splendidw
Garden. l suprose?"
Certainly"
Mice ne;ehbors."
Couldn't be better"
Lawn in front of The house."
"Of course"
"No malaria?"
"NDt Bit"
"well, Ill take it. Pay in advance?"
"Yes."
OCTOBER FIRST.
That's the meanest house | ever lived
in"
Pm surprised"
The furniture was all worn out"
"Nor"
"And there wasn't shade tree within
twenty rods. Hot as an oven"
SIS that SOP"
"And it took about an hour to get to
the train"
well! Wellw
"And there's house right beside il
that shuts off all the view-can't SEE a
thing.
Cant!
"You couldn't find enough earth around
it to plant a rose BUSH"
"YOu don't tell me?"
"The neighbors ara disgusting"
"Really?'
at sets plump on the dusty road-no
a sign of lawn"
"You don't mean il?
"Ev ry one of my children and my
wife are all down with malaria"
"Well, declare!"
Now, look here, sir. ihave just come
in to tell you that it wasn't at all wha
YOU said it was-not at all, sir that yol
wanted to lent the house. and deliber
ately lied !"
II must havep Puck.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06

Changes are agreeable to the opulent.
Learn to govern yourselves, and to be
gentle and patient.
Guard your tempers, especially in sea-
son of i'll health. irritation and trouble,
and soften them by sense of your own
shortcomings and errc re.
Never speak or act in anger.
Remember that. valuable as is the
gift of speech. silence is often much
more valuable.
Do not expect too much from others,
but remember that II should forbear
and forgive, as We often desire forbear-
ance and forgiveness ourselves.
Never retort sharp or angry word.
II is the second word that makes the
quarrel.
Beware of the first disagreement.
Learn to speak in a gentle tone Of
voice.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
Two Dates.
MAY FIRST.

"Nice house, is it?'
Fine p
"Newly furnished, I SUPPOSE"
Everything bran new"
"Not too much shade-just enough to
make it cool and pleasant"
"Just enough"
"Near the depot?"
Yes"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
MARKED UNCLAIMED. ,"

uIn the company's building watchmen pa
troll night and day, fully armed, and their
faithful performance of their duty Is insured
by detectors and electric time clocks. In
thousand and one unlocked for and unex.
pected places, alarms, police calls and ap-
paratus for severely Furnishing those i'm
prudent enough TO lay their hands where
| they should not be, are hidden.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06

I notice don't like ma half as well
when che bangs her heir as when she
leaves him alone.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06

1t is shameful for man to live as
stranger in his own country, and to be
uninformed of her affairs and interests.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06

a yearly letter from Ellice, | gained from
these that things were going along the old
way, aui thai Iiy g'si,iaugntcT nad Dcen
placed In a pOarding school preparatory tO
being sent 10 the seminary at Mt HOlyOke,
from which her mother had been finished
Upon my return home called upon the
widow, as In duty bound. Old Gradgrind
was in the parlOr when ! called
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
RIDDIEp WIN BULLETS.


80 dii,,i ,iisiii y iii,iy hv frii. insirai
of getting an ambulance they took his
body IN on dirt eat. Next day the
body was put into noN mahr of rough
boards, with tie seams an inch or more
apart, and with a chaplain riding behind,
was taken away and put III the ground.
When man dies and l. bCried, a board
il put up AT the end of the grave, giving
his whole criminal hst"r,. The crime
Of which he is charged L. put down, and
all the fines and puuishments he receiy-
ed for bad conduct or vocation of rules.
Aud there il remains for everybody to
read. There can be no excuse for this.
as they have all these things on the
books.
WHEN MAN IS ONCE CONVICTED
of an offensc, there is no such thing as a
pardon. No mitigating circumstances
are admitted. Hon. 5. 5. Cox. the new
minister to Turkey, appealed In my be-
half and long petition was gotten up,
but all to no purpose. The reply was
that my conduct had been very bad.
The facI was that during my imprison-
ment was only CHARGED with one breach
of rules, and that was looking to one
side when marching along one day.
THERE Is ONE THING"
Leo obsC rived with emphasis, that |
would like 10 saw a word about it, as it
has got manv men into trouble. When
mans time is nearly up-say within
six weeks or mopth--he gets parole
un,il his time has expired. During this
time he has the run of the place and is
generally employed as servant to some
| of the petty officers. During my six
weeks on parole daily ran the risk Of
getting shot, Stable |. hanged or i'm
prisOned for life. was sort of ho1st
servant for one of the petty officers.
washed the dishes, swept out the place
made the beds, chopped wood and al
that kind of work / was also a sort o
BODY servant IF this petty officers wife
! combed out her hair, buttoped he
hoes anG made the bed tor her. WheI
| would come IN the morning and knocl
at her door she would open it with onl!
her night dress on. At other times il
the day she would wrestle with me
throw me on the floor and sit down ol
me. But if began TO fool with her sh
would halloa and say she would repor
me and have me put in irons. 1t
totally wrong to be sending young fel
lows TO do work such as | was doing
cembing the hair buttoning the shoe
and even helping to lace the corsets G
women" Taken all in all, the insid
workings ard daily life of our mili.ar
camps and stations would seem to atfor
a fertile field for investigation by Dot
social and political reformers.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
QUAKER.
JOHN r. LEO

mentioned in the above communication,
tells some further stories about the treat
ment bimself and others received at
Jefferson Barracks, st. Louis, and in the
military. prison at Fort Leavenworth.
"The discipline in the prison." he said,
.s;s of the most cruel kind. When
marching along if prisoner happens to
look around or to one side in the least,
he is fined three days. Two months in
twel ye are allowed off for good conduct,
but the prisoners are invariably cheated
ont of this. Fines are imposed on the
slightest excuse that eat up all this time.
For the slightest report. and without
examination or chance OF defense, men
are locked up in dark cell for twenty
four hours and sometimes for ten days
on bread and water, supplied once In
every twenty.four hours. One day when
a man was put into the dungeon, he
was received by three large Dlack snakes
| 7 will tell Of the case of an insane man
The man was under sentence OF deser'
| tion. and his great idea was to escape
| We all saw and said that he was insane
and knew he would make an effort to
escape if he was rut out to work. We
GOT up a petition and signed it, stating
that we believed the man to be insane
and asked that he be not put out to work
We sent this petition to the proper Off
Ger. but no attention was paid 10 it. The
man was sent to work in stone quarry
He ran away, just as we said he would
do, and was fired upon by the guards
and
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
GOOD PRECEPTs.

Changes are agreeable to the opulent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

The cattle baroDs of the West, who have
beer growing rich upon the lands in the
Indian reservations, are making every pos
sible plea to have the time Of their removal
extended, but President CLEVELAND decides
they must go at the time that hiss been de-
cided upon. 1t is to be hoped that none Of
the petitions they may send up may move
Mr.. CLEVELAND from his usual frmneSs in
dealing with such people, and that be will
support Secretary LAMAR in al his efforts to
eject these wrong doors Of course the cat
tie men will send up an uneArthly howl but
let them howl Justice has already been
too much WroDged.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

THE statement of Postmaster General
Villas makes it plain that the offers made
the American steamship companies for car
rying the mails were refused because the
companies were acting in concert in the
hope Of c~Oercing the Government into dis
bursting the 100000 appropriation. He
says that be went to the full limit Of the
law and offered them both sea and inland
postage, which was three times IS much as
they hsd been receiving and three times
what is paid for the service across the At
lsntic. If these companies want to act in
this manner, they may possibly learn to
their sorrow that the Government can posi-
bly, get along without them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

Or the twenty-five pail bearers at ABRA.
sRAHLM LNcoLSs funeral only seven are
alive. Thess seven are General SIMON
-CAMERoS, ELIHn B. WAsHBuRyE, Colone
81. G. woRTHISGToy, the Rev. GREEN Clay
SMTH, ALEXANDER II. GoFFROrH, HENRY
L. Dawes and JOIN CONFESS.
The dead pail bearers are LAFAYETTE s.
FosrER, EDWIN D. MORGAN, REvERpY JoHx
son, RICHARD YATES, BENJAMIN F. WADE.
SCHUYLAR CoLFEx, General q. s. GRANT
General HESRx WAGER HNLEoK, General
W. A. NICHOLS, Admiral DAVID G. FARRA-
CUR, Admiral W. B. SHUBRIcK. Colonel
JACOB ZELER, 0sEnLE b. BsOwHSG,
THOMAS CoREIS and GEORGE AsHSUx.
President LINCOLN was buried twenty
years sgo the 4th Of last May, and his sur
wing paIl bearers must be grati6ed to see
the Increased frstsrnal feeling between the
North and South since that time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

TIE Investigations of Mr.. JACQUES, the
electrician Of the Bell Telephone Company,
show that placing al telephone aud tele-
graph wires underground is practicable and
that the yearly cost Of repairing an over
head system is not less than 80 per GEN.. of
the cost of construction, and the line would
have to be renewed onee in twelve years.
The cost of repairing an underground sys-
TEN is practically nil" If such be true, the
companies in some of our Eastern cities
could have gotten along Just as probably
with a little less kicking when orders were
were passed for their wires to be put under.
orourd
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

fearful ravsges among the cattle Of
eastern Arkansas and the Mississippi bot
toms sre caused By Charlton, s disease now
raging in that region. Senator Peters, Of
Arkansas, says that the disease is really ma
ligusnt ~erysipeles, or what was once called
black tongue. 1t is an epidemic produced
By continued East winds The part Of the
BODY attacked is at FIRST hard or swollen.
If the heart or throat is reached death re-
suits. If it strikes the stomach the animal
lives until modification sets in. When it
touches the thigh or shoulder the swollen
part rOts and drops out and recovery fol-
lows.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York World
urges the calling Of a special term Of the
New York Legislature ito passs bill to pro-
tect the people from the proposed gob6lng
up Of the West Shore railroad By the New
York Central, and to make it q misde-
q for 8 corporation BY any device
whatever to control the property or mar
Agement Of q competitor" The people
are getting somewhat awakened Of late in
regard to the curious workings Of certain
railroad cnrporations.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03
Sale Of Valuable Real Property.

DY VIRTUE OF A DERp OF TRUST MADE
ID 10 u BY Alexander Cotn, datd on the I'm
day OF July, iSSs, and duly recorded In the ohoe Of
the Clerk Of the County Court Of Ohio county, "
viii s. II st public auction nj the front door Of he
Court Hou,e Of said county, on
Saturday, August Goth, 1888.
beginning at 10 o'clock q. IN the following properly:
/. The east forty Ave H)) feet Of lot Hunberd
forty I'VE (,5,, situate on the north side OF vinibi,
street, on Zane's Island. In u. Zane's addition IA
the city OF Wheeling, on which the dwelling hous
now occupied BY the ssid Alexander Coen !, ,ita
ated.
2. The remainder Of the said lot numbered iorty Ave
(4sl and the eastern half OF lot numbered forty -sI
l46), adjoining the ssmseon which are situated tee
as a whole and In two parts. DIVIDED BY the esLta
line OF the dividing wall between the houses and
sold In whichever way shall appear best
8. The borth bali oil lot numbered thirty-threctg
and the south three (S) feet O. lot numbers thirty.
two (S3) In 1heo. Fink's ad !ition /, the said cltys
Wheeling, fronting thirty three (SS( feet on Ike oa
side Of Penn street, ON which Is situated a ifaus
4 Lot Numbered nine 10y In Armstrong. Bup,srA
Co.. addition 70 the said city Of wheeling, situate
on the west side OF York street, south OF ohio street
on Zane's Island, having q front OF thirty la0l lssi
on York ST. eet. and running west OF equ4l width one
hundred and twenty (i20 ieet TO the ley NTH
5 Lot numbered eight 49, In William Armstrong;
addition to the said CT OF Wheeling, situate 90 The
west side Of York street south oil Ohio street, on aid
Island.
6. : he right. title and interest Of The said AleIu.
der Coen In and TO the property mentioned. dertsS
and bcquesihed in and BY the will Of Edward Cocn,
day OF April, 1881, In the ofice Of the said clerk.
TERMS OF 81 LH-One-thyd Of the purchase money
or 50 much more thereof n the purchaser may elect
cash on the day Of sale. and the rtmsinder 10 ,so
two yean from The day Of sale. with Interest IRON
that day, the deferred Instruments being secured By
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03

THg chic fengineer Of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad makes q statement that is not
very encouraging to the railroads that have
besn repl iron rails with steel. He
says the rails on his road had to be removed
on accounted crushed ends in less than
two years. But much of this rapid wearing
out is accounted for BY the Stag, cinder, ETC.,
that we're worked in the rails in manufac-
turing in order to make them cheap. Does
such ~chespness psy, especially when terri
BE accidents may Iesulr2