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Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

turneth away wrath.
Who keeps her sweetest smiles and
most loving words for her husband.
Who is his confdante in sorrow or in
Joy, and who does not feel the neces-
sity of explaining her private affairs to
the neighborhood.
Who respects the rights of hus-
band and children, and in return has
due regard paid to her.
Who knows that the strongest argu-
ment is her womanliness, and so she
cultivates it.
Who is sympathetic in joy or in
grief, and who finds work for her hands
to do.
Who makes friends and keeps them.
Who is not made bitter by trouble,
but who strengthens and sweetens un-
der it.
Who tries to conceal the faults of
her husband rather than blazon them
forth to the uninterested public.
The woman whose life-book has love
written on every page.
Who makes a home for q mana
home in a house and in a heart. A
home that he is sure of, home that is
full of love, presided over by one whose
price is above rubies.
She is the model wife.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
She Didn't Run the Town.

No matter what may be mans per-
sonal convictions on the temperance
question, he is bound to respect those
of his wife. The venerable Senator
Thurman was never considered rabid
on that issue, but his wife, for reasons
of her own, was fully imbrued with the
touch not, taste not, handle not" prin-
ciple. It is related that upon one oc-
casion Senator Thurman's friends yis-
tied his house to apprise him that a
new political honor had been conferred
upon him. He was pleased, but after
they had been seated few moments
the conversation Jagged, and the old
Roman seemed to be i'll at ease. His
wife tried her best to entertain the
campaigners, and the Senator excused
himself. He presently appeared with
his boots and top-coat on.
Gentlemen, said he, eve will now
go out and get something to smoke
My wife is the boss here, and we never
have anything to drink in the house."
Mrs. Thurman looked pleased as she
closed the door after them.
AS l was saying" added the Sena-
tor, "she runs the house: but, thank
God! she doesn't run the town" ."-Neu
York Herald.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
Two Womanlv Women.

One was perhaps 25, the other lit
tie younger. They were pretty, and
were stylishly dressed. A carriage
stood at the Fourteenth street entrance
of Willard's Hotel, awaiting their
pleasure. It could not be supposed
that they were in very distressful finan.
cial straits.
They sat at table in the reception
room of Willard's, devising, concocting,
and instituting telegraphic message
to send to some friend. The elder on G
did the writing, and scratching, and re-
writing, which used up six or seven
Western Union blanks. The younger
one leaned closely over the scrivener
and furnished suggestions at just the
right time to make the scrivener tear
up blanks.
"We will be there tomorrow.
That was what they wanted to say.
That was what they did say in the
very first writing.
But" said the younger. @H we say
we are coming home We shall both
have to sign it."
Carrie and 1 will be there to-mor-
row."
That was the result of much men
tai effort spent in composing aud much
physical exertion spent in erasing.
Il guess that will do" said the
younger, and the two seemed to breathe
with that freedom which tells of great
responsibilities unshouldered.
"Hold on" said the elder, at the
door,
WHAT" asked the other
@'Carrie land I will be there to-
morrow One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven-only seven words"
"Well?"
"Why, we have to pay as much for
seven words as We do for ten"
Here was more difficulty. It would
never do to pay for ten words and send
only seven. That would be reckless
and wicked waste. They proposed
many ways to lengthen it, but each
time they talked off a new message on
their fingers they found they had either
too few or too many words.
"Pshaw" said the younger one; "why
didn't think of it before? Ihave it. :"
Have you? Have you?"
"Why, of course. Leave it just as it
is and add, Yours, very truly"
If the young lady had had an inspira-
tion she could not have looked proud
er of it: and as for the older one, she
simply looked on the sweet face before
her as that of wonderful being.
"Carrie and 1 will be there to-mor-
row. Yours. very truly" was the mes
sage that went through some operators
hands yesterday afternoon. flashing
tom Critic.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
He Came Out q Winner.

A couple of old salts met after a long
absence and the following amin ated
conversation ensued:
A-Well, old man, how are you get
ting on?
B-First rate; have taken a wife.
A very sensible idea.
B-Not bit of it; she's a regular
Tartar
A-Then I'm sorry for you, mate.
B-There's no need she bought me
large vessel as her marriage por-
ton.
A-Then you made good bargain
after all!
B-Nothing to boast of, 1 can tell
you; the ship turned out worthless
old tinder box.
A-Then I'm sorry I spoke.
B-Bah! you can speak as much as
you like! The old tub was we'll in
sured and went down ON her first
voyage.
A-So you got the pull there, any
how?
B-Not so much mate; only got
five thousand dollars out of the job as
my share.
A-That was too bad!
B-Toe bad? Nothing of the sort |!
Wife was on board and went down with
the rest.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

Iacture was nOG suppressed until long
time after everybody knew as well as
| the officers themselves that the coun-
terfelt was manufactured somewhere
up the stream. The "Big Sandy dol
lar" as the counterfeit was denomina-
| ted, was as common as its more legiti-
mate brother from the mint at Wash
ington or New Orleans along the Ohio
valley, and it was claimed openly, and
believe frequently admitted to this
day by the older people, that the "Big
Sandy dollar" contained as much sill
yer and was as handsome piece of
money as the genuine Even long after
the discovery of the coniackers' den in
the mountain the bogus dollar re-
mained in circulation. To account for
this the writer has been often told that
the counterfeiters had discovered a
vein or mine of silver in the mountain,
and that they were "using pure silver
and more of it" than was contained in
the genuine. Be that as it may, the ira
dition still exists that silver mine
existed and was long worked at some
point on the Sandy.
believe none of the counterfeiters
were ever arrested, and the reason
given is that there was code of ethics
among the inhabitants which granted
every one the privilege of using his
raw material as he saw fit. The same
code prevails to this day in another
branch of illegal trade-that of moon
shining, or making illicit whisky-for
it is well known fact that although
the article can be gotten at almost
every hamlet no one has yet been fool
hardy enough to betray the maker and
then remain in the country.
The traveller, if he is not spy or
marshal, has no difficulty in getting as
much of the clear, impid, but terribly
strong stuff called "pinetop" OF" moon
shine" as he wants. 1t would be little
or no use, certainly very unsafe, to un-
dertake to hunt down and capture the
moonshiner, for every tree, or gulch,
or mountain side would be very apt to
be the hiding place of sharpshooter,
and these men can shoot, and that thev
are overly and uncomfortably fond of
prove.
With all these strange characteristics
and backed by pedigree somewhat
unsavory these people are kind and
hospitable in the extreme to any one
who may come among them. The
writer at one time, and that during
one of their bloodiest wars, spent sew
eral weeks in the mountains and val
leys, ate and drank, rode and walked,
and slept with them and he never met
with an unkind word, until after the
expiration of several weeks time which
he and his guides had spent alternately
between the factions some one started
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
To Be Remarked.

Frank Stimson and Mary Ballman
were married in Asheville, n. c., in
1865. Subsequently Stimson secured
a divorce from his wife. Five years
ago Mrs. Stimson, accompanied by her
two children, came to Georgia and To-
Gated in Camden County. She bought
a small farm, which was tended by her
son, aged 10 years.
Soon after Mrs. Stimson left her old
home the former husband married
again, and one year afterward his secs
ond wife died. Stimson found the life
of widower not pleasant one, and
he cast his eyes about for another COM
panion. When he thought of his first
wife the old love revived, and he wrote
to her, pleading for a renewal of her
love.
Stimson was successful, and Will
marry his divorced wife some time next
month. The comiag wedding has set
the whole neighborhood to talking, and
great preparations are being made to
do honor to the couple.-Atla'ata
Journal.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

tonnage 1858 net. In the construction
of this big ship 700 tons of Virginia
oak and l, 200, 900 feet of Virginia pine.
timber were used. The frame is of o<
and well seasoned when put mp, and
the first quality of Georgia pine was
used in the ceiling, deck frames and
planking. The Rappahannock is the
heaviest spared ship that ever fioated
the stars and stripes. Her mainmast
is SO feet long and 384 inches in diam
eter; the foremast is 80 feet long and
80 inches in diameter; the main top
mast. SO feet; gallant-mast,
II feet; main yard, % feet; fore yard,
95 feet; lower main-top-sail-yard, 81
feet; upper main-top-sail- yard, 81 feet;
lower main-top-gallant-yard, 20 feet;
upper main-top-gallant-yard, Ga feet;
main royal yard. 53 feet; main sky
sail-yard, 43 feet. The lower masts
are Of Georgia pine and the other spars
OF Oregon pine. Her spread of canvas
is $1,000 yards. When loaded she
draws twenty eight feet of water. The
Rappahannock took on her first cargo
st Philadelphia, consisting of 200, 900
gallons of oil in cases for Japan, the
largest cargo of the kind ever OK.
ported.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

a report that We were spies. Fortu-
nately We got wind of the fact that q
crowd" was coming after US. Three
horses were never saddled more quickly
and three men never made better time
for over forty miles than did we, and
We made it none too soon, as a couple
of bullet-holes through the overcoat of
the man in the rear as we flew down
the mountain told US that Big Sandy
sharpshooters with Winchesters at 500
yards were dangerous creatures when
riled.
Across the State of Kentucky,
through the northwestern part, is a
long range of mountainous country
filed with forests and lined by a dense
growth of underbrush. Through this
dense forest there are passes which are
known like every trail and road to its
citizens. Many of these passes are
narrow defiles, where two or three men
with Winchesters can keep back a
regiment, and it is through these
passes that the many escapes from the
officers are made. It is well-knovn
fact that for many years large band
OF horse-thieves has preyed upon the
people of Kentucky, Indiana. Tennes-
see, and even Illinois, and that they
have been trailed to the mountains of
Kentucky and into the neighborhood of
some one or more of these passes
say Crackers Neck" near the West
Virginia ine-but very few of the
thieves were ever captured, or the
stock recovered. After the band sue
ceeds in getting through into the
mountains, it considers itself safe from
pursuit.
Crackers Neck is q fair sample of
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

excitement, both before and after the
event; so that, apart from the expos
ure to the chances of ~chill," and i'm
proper food and drink on the occasion,
there is an amount of wear and tear
and waste attending these parties
which ought to be estimated, and the
estimate can scarcely be q low one.
It may seem ungracious to strive to
put limit on the pleasures of the
young, but it must not be forgotten
that early youth is the period OF growth
and development, and that anything
and everything that causes special
waste of organized material, without a
compensatory stimulus to nutrition,
ought to be avoided. We turn from
these to the mental and nerve injuries
inflicted on the growing organism.
They are certainly not to be disregard
ed. A perfect storm of excitement
RACES in the little brain from the mo-
ment the invitation has been received,
and the affair is talked about in the
nursery until after the evening. Sleep
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

many of these mountain passes. It is
a narrow defile between the Overhang-
ing rocks of mountain, which by
some conyulsion of nature must have
split in twain. Great, rough stones,
covered and wreathed with laurel from
the bottom of the pass to the apex,
afford impenetrable hidingplaces from
which the riders can be plainly seen,
while the bushwhacker is as much out
of sight as though he had never ex-
listed. Land spectators at one time
some years ago were as badly hated as
were the officers of the law, and they
Jared roughly when caught, although
that fact has changed considerably of
late. Some years ago land specula-
tor. whom I will call Brown, as the story
is still reminiscence to thai gentle
man, and a Baptist preacher started
through the mountains toward Cum
berland Gap. They were riding splen-
did horses, and, of course, carried the
old-time saddle-bags with them. They
had not gotten into Crackers Neck fifty
yards before they were halted by sew
eral armed men, whom they did not see
at all until the guns were stuck almost in
their faces. They were dismounted in
a jiffy, and while one of the men went
through their clothing and saddle
bags the others stood guard over them.
The SPECTATORS papers soon betrayed
his business, but the documents car
ried by the preacher were q puzzle.
They were sermons. The speculator
was tied to tree and whipped with
wythes most numerically, after which
his hands were tied and he was seated
on log while the gang tried to olsen
tangle the preachers documents. They
were written in a miserable hand at
best, as the preacher afterward admit
ted. The only thing either of The gang
could make out was the title to one OF
the sermons, Saved from the Wreck" +"
After poring over it for some time
the leader said to the preacher:
Say, mister, was it steamboat OF
train you was blowed up on?"
The preacher then told the men that
he was man Of God and that he was
merely going through the mountains to
North Carolina, where he was going to
take charge of a church. After talking
the matter over for some time they gave
the preacher his horse and other prop
erty and told him he might 60 on, but
advised him to go back, as he would
be more apt to find the devil than God
In these mountains. The speculator
was cleaned out and started back afoot
and advised never to attempt to come
into that country again, and don't be-
ieve he ever did.
This is the character of the country
wild, mountainous and almost inn
penetrable, and thinly populated by
people who are a hundred years be-
hind the times and who to-day are liv-
ing over again in somewhat modified
form the lives of their ancestors of
century ago. Is it any wonder, then,
that the Hatfelds and McCoys, the
Tollivers, Underwoods, and others of
like ilk can and do defy the laws and
laugh at the efforts of courts, backed
as they often are by companies of SOL
diers and even batteries of artillery?
but greater civilization can
Or will remedy these troubles, but that
seems now in fair way of accomplish
ment, as several railroads are projected
and more than one commenced through
the hills and valleys of this rich but at
present almost valueless country.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

dreds Of desperadoes, it got a wide
spread notoriety.
Along in the '40's and SOS the coun-
try for hundreds of miles above and
below was filled with counterfeits,
principally silver dollars. The Gov
ernment of the United States sent out
a number of its best detectives, and
after long time they located their
manufacture at Sandy, but the manu-
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
A Weather Prophet.

Scientist-So you have followed the
sea all your life! presume you are .
thorough meteorological prognosticator
by this time.
Jack Tarre-A which?
A-Imean you can easily foretell :
gale, can't you?"
Easy 'nough, sir. When you see
the captain dancin' around an yellinp
out forty orders at onct, you hin lest
make up y'r mind thet it's eoiu' tar
blow. ."-Neao York Weeklv.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
THE PAST.
" MRS. NAPOLEON B. MoRANGE.

Like mist upon the mountains far,
Like moonlight on a sleeping stream,
Or, like some pale and distant star,
Our past lives seem.
Their memories eIude our grasp,
Their events perish like the flowers;
In vain we stretch our hands to clasp
Those lives of ours.
The Past how vague and shadowy all!
Did we those misty pathways tread?
And they who answer not our call,
The silent Dead,
Were they once with US as we deem?
Their images are fading fast,
Or is il but a cherished dream,
This phantom Past?
Comes there from that shadow-land
AuGht else but shapes as in dream!
We greet no actual kindred band;
We catch a gleam,
'Tis true, of what we call our Past:
4 visionary glimpse we get,
As Of q twilight waning fast,
And then-forget.
NV YoRE CITY.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

is disturbed by dreams, or, in some
cases, prevented, by thinking of the
occasion, and afterward the excitement
does not subside until days have
elapsed, perhaps not before another
invitation is received.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
IN A WILD COU MIR Y
Where FeudS Do Most Prevail.

HE mountaineers
who live along
the Big S n d y
river. which forms
the dividing line
b e t W e n West
Virginia and Ken
lucky, and their
n e i 6 h b Or s of
\ ort h e a S t ern
Kentucky, who
have b e e n so
prom in e n t for
many years in
feuds, vendettas,
and bloody bat
ties are a most
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

An inventor of Belfast, Ireland, has
made pneumatic tire for bicycles that
is claimed to destroy all vibration. 1t
is about two and one-half inches In di-
ameter, and consists of an outer cover
ing of rubber inclosing an inner air
tube. Air is pumped in by foot
blower. and valve prevents its re-
turn.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

An interesting astronomical discov-
cry is announced from Italy. After ten
years of investigation, Schiaparelli has
found that Mercury, the planet nearest
to the sun, has rotation like that of
the moon. The planet turns once on
its axis during the period of its revolu-
ton round the sun, so that the same
side is always turned toward the sun.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
Who Is a Model Wife /!

MODEL wife is
the WON an in
whom the heart of
\ her husband doth
ssafely trust.
She is the woman
who looks after his
h o S e h hold, and
makes her hospi-
tality a delight to
him, an d no t q
burden.
Who has learned
that a soft answer
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
Children's Parties.

VI only In WIN
ter, but at all
s ca ms, tn e
amusements of
young children
ought to be sim
pie, unexciting,
and as free as
possible from the
characteristics of
the pleasures"
of late years.
The So called
pleasure" of q
children's party
involves o very
large measure Of
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
The Biggest Ship AflOat.

HE new ship Rap
\pahannock. recently
completed at Bath,
Me-, at q cost of
s125, 0O0,is the larg-
est wooden vessel
ever launched. Her
dimensions are 2S7
feet long, 489 feet
beam, and her total
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

The price of game in France is al
legged to depend principally upon the
state of the moon. When the moon is
dark the poachers cannot see to set
their snares at night, and game is scarce.
When the moon is full there is plenty
Of light, and the poachers get lots Of
game.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
STREET MASKING IN GOTHAM.


WELL women OF
New York are Just
now discussing tha
question whsths(
it is not more dam
gerous for q pretty
woman to go on the
streets alone dur
ing the day time
than at night.
From personal OBJ
'servations, on o
'matron declared
that the time will
come ere ng
when New York
parents will adopt
the rule of the
French, and never
permit o young
woman to 60 on
the street alone
without an attend
ant. / do not know
whether the nd
Of so many
foreigners b 9 T .
has brought about
Z fho nroaaDt ranrA.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17

The old topper always has gin phiz.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
An ADVENTURE WITH WOLVES.
A True Sketch o. Border Lif..

WENI1 years ago,
when / was q child
of twelve, my par
ents moved to q
wild part of the
Rocky Mountains
of Colorado. He
built a small but
comfortable house
on the mountain
side. in the midst
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-18

shake her from the throne. ! did not know
that because Of fear and the weight Of
policy only she slowed scant mercy to
those whom had betrayed, or that because
Of cunning and not for the holy sake of
woman's love-though, in truth, she liked
me well enough-she chose rather to bind
me to her by the fbers Of my heart And
yet this will I say in her behalf: Even
when the danger-cloud had melted from
her sky she kept her faith, nor, save Faulus
and one other, did any suffer the utmost
penalty Of death for their part in the great
plot against Cleopatra's crown and dynasty.
But many other things they suffered.
And so she went, leaving the vision Of her
glory to strive with the shame and sorrow
Of my heart. Oh, bitter were the hours
that could now no more be made light with
prayer. For the link between me and the
Divine was snapped, and no more did Isis
commune with her Priest Bitter were the
hours and dark, but ever through their
darkness shone the starry,;eyes of Cleopatra,
and came the echo of her whispered love.
Fornot yet was the cup of sorrow full. Still
hope fingered in my heart, and almost could
think that / had failed to some higher end,
and that even in the depths of ruin should
find another and more flowery path to tri-
umph.
For thus those do who wickedly deceive
themselves, striving to lay the burden of
their evil deeds upon the back Of Fate, striv.
ing to believe their sin may compass good,
and to murder Conscience with the sharp
plea of necessity. But naught can it avail,
for hand in hand down the path to sin rush
Remorse and Ruin, and woe to him they
follow! Ay, and woe to me, who of all sim
uers am the chef!