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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
THEY SAY

W
That the cook bas give Pete the
,old shoulder.
That Dick ard Bob have a white
elephant on their hands.
That If a counting match is not de-
c!ared off it must end in tie.
That stealing glass eye is ain
that should not be winked at.
That the girl at the boat race is
always looking for u beau-trace.
That man cart be sober at q
banquet when his health is drunk.
That man cannot belong TO a
SOCIAL club II the club belongs TO him.
That a thin man has slim chance
OF running away from his shadow
That little poker now and then
sometimes does up the best of men.
That prosperous butcher is al
ways able TO meat his Indebtedness.
That some girls are like a violin
| lit takes beau to make them talk
That an empty larder ought to be
enough TO keep the wolf from the
door.
That it makes man feel very
SAD to SEQ SIS straw hat on a 5 cen
head.
| That the locomotive fireman, nc
matter how high ho rises, always
has tender recullections.
That good may of our "swelf
young men have nothing about then
10 merit that title but their heads.
! That policeman should never
cuff person on tine ear. Hand
cuffs are the only variety he shoulc
use.
| That Adam SAID to his better hal
after he had eaten the core. "Eve,
believe We are going 10 have trouble
In our midst.o
| That that which is called Skin
dancing is taken up as fad by 30
ciety girls. There is not mucl
skirt about it. 1t liz nothing bu
limb dancing, after all,
j That there is great difference II
her tune on Sundays and her tun,
on week days. Through the week
} 1t is Johnny get your gun" and OF
Sundays "Jesus lover Of my soul"
That it may be true the world |
all u fiecting show. but the man VIII,
hegina to fear an assessment for ~
Easter bonnet, will hardly be- con
vlnced that ii isn'ta dread reality
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
COD ONLY KNOWS.

are going, with hurrying feet,
Forms that are passing tonight on the
street?
Faces all sunny and faces all sad.
Hearts that are weary and hearts that
are glad;
Eyes that are heavy with sorrow and |
strife,
Eyes that are cleaning with beauty
and life;
Pictures OF pleasure and crosses of
care,
Going. all going. God only knows
where.
Hands that have earnestly striven for
bread,
Hands that are soiicd with dishonor,
inetead;
Hearts that are turned to purpose
sublime.
Hearts all discorded and tangled with
crime;
Souls that are pure and whito as the
snow,
Souls that are black as the midnight
of woe;
Gay in their gladness, or drunk in de-
spair,
Going, all going, God only knows
where.
Some to the feast whore tho richest
red wine
And the rarest OF jewels will sparkle
and shine,
Some in their hunger will wander, and
somo
Will sleep nor awaken when the morn
ing shall como.
The robed and the ragged, tho foe and
tho friend,
All of them hurrying on to tho end,
Nearing the grave with curse or u
prayer,
Going, all going, God only knows
Chicago Evening Post.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

People who have pride in home
industries, patronize them. People I
who have no pride in home affairs,
patronize foreign industries. The |
merchants and business mon OF luka
should practice what they preach.
II you go TO them TO buy quire OF
paper, they will tell you they can't
afford 10 sell it for less than ten
cents per qnire. Still they refuse to
pay the REpoRTER office ten cents
per quire tor paper. printed-le,ter
and pill heads. Envelopes. a frat
class article, high cut, they will ask
you ten cents bunch, This Office
will furnish them at thousand rstes
with cards printed on them, at e,gh,
cents per pack. "Oh, consistency,
thou art a jewell" We have no
| fight to make on the business men
of Iuka, hut like them, we are here
TO try and make living by fair
and bon, At industry. Suppose we
should send off Tor AL our meat
sugar, coffee, syrup, flour and other
necess .ries OF life, that we buy from
these same men at good large
profit? We can buy our goods from
Memphis, and get them at the same
price they pay, and save this pei
cent. Is this fair and honestl
Every dollar You spend away fro II
homo for letter and bill heads, il
that much money gone, rcver Il
come back here. Again, how many
men have had to quit publlsh;ng :
newspaper here for the want of pat,
ronage? Even the board of super
visors will send their work to ST
Louis, Nashville aud other places
and pay them higher prices for tn,
sumo identical work they could g
at this Office, less the freight. Blu
look at the record on file and Sc 0 !
any of the members of the boart
who are so economical. and cut bill
at figures below the actual value
and see it they ever cut on their fou
dollars aud their per diem?
Many years prac ice have give C. A.
Snow & Co., Solicitors of Patents a
Washington, ID. G., unsurpassed sue
cess in obtaining patents for all classe
OF invention. They make a specially o
rejected eases, and bave secured allow
ance Of many patents that had beer
previously rejected. Their advertise
ment in another column, will be of in
terest to inventors, patenlees, manufac
turers, and all who have to do will
patents.
Rent or buy Mlller's cottage
, store-house and lots. from church L
shop.
w. G. Hubbard has Just receive
q fine line of Croqnet Sets aud fame.
Hammocka. Gail and make5Eyou
selections. feb 5-2t
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
NEW SpApER DECISIONS.

|, Any person who TAX s paper reg
n'arly from the postoilice, whethe,
directed in his name or another's or
whether ho has subscribe or not, il
responsible for payment.
2. If u person orders bin paper dis
continued he must pay arrears, or the
publisher may contln ne to send i. until
payment Is made and then collect The
whole amount whether the paper is
taken from tina postoili 70 or not.
3. The courts have decd, q hat re
fuSing to take newspapers oi period ais
from the postotlice, or removing or
leaving them uncalied for, is PRiMA
FAcIE evidence of Intentional fraud.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
The First Step.

Perhaps W u are run down, amt rat, cent
sleep, can't ink. cart do any thing to yuur
Satisfaction, and yOu wordar what ais
you. You should heed the warning; -ou
are taking the first step in nervous I'r,stra-
tim. You need nerve tonic, and in Flee
tric i,itters you viii find the exact remedy
for restoring your nervous system to It's
normal, healthy condition. Surprising re-
suits follow the use of this great nerve toGic
and Alternative. Your appetite returns. good
digestion is restored and the liver and kid.
neys resume healthy action. Try bottle.
Price 80 cents, lat aR. II. w atson & Co. 5
drug store.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
McElree's Wine Of Cardul

and THEDFORD'S BLACK DRAuGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
lishutnlnsv county:
w. q. Hubbard 4 Co., Iuka.
pr. G.. w. Hutton, Durnevile.
8. "A. Smith, Burnt Mills.
q. 7. Mel.ican & Son. Tynes.
Our readers Will please excuse y
the REPORTER seems somewhat Lacks
ing this issue. Owing to the large
amount of work now on hand We
were unahie Ia devote ar much time
ss usual on The paprc. We will Try
4and make up for lost time IN the iu-
turc.
For The cure of colds, coughs, and all
arrangements of the respiratory organs
no other medicine is 30 reliable rs
Ayor's Cherry Pectoral. 1t relieves the
Asthnatic and consump,ive, even in adj
vanced stages Of dlseasa, and has saved
innumerabie lives.
WI. Digger has placed an ad-
vertjsen.ent III the REPORTER, asking
fnr the patronage Of the public in
! il line ~ husir, ~. He IL Well
known in this Locality as black
s,nrh ard wood workman. He has
erec.ed'a new building and is better
prepared thrh ever to do " ork.
Read his I'D. in another column.
The following item has Ueen going
the rounds If the press, and as our
druggist, 5. H. Moore, hanoies the
go.ds, il may interest our readers:
Having hid occasion to use Bhsm 5er-
laln's Cough Rsmedy, it gives me
pleasure 10 state that found il TO be
the best medicine for cough | ever
psed in fact, it cured me of cough
that, bad bafilsd several other cough
medicines IN. II Burnett. Isalissa, Ia.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
a Safe Investment.

Is one which is guaranteed TO bring you
satisfactory results, pr in case of failure a
retuaL of purchase price. Gu this SAFE plan
you Can buy from our advertised Druggist II
bottle OF DR.. Kings New Discovery for COM
sumption. IL is guaranteed 10 b ing relic
in every case. when used for airy affection OF
throat, lungs or chest, such as consumption
inflammation of lungs, bronchitis, asthma,
who ping cough, Group, etc.. etc. 1t IS
pleasant and agreeable t. taste. perfectly
sale. and can always be depended up"n.
Trial bottles free at j. Ii. Moore's Grug
store.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

That it may be true the world Is
all f1eeting show. but the man who
heglns to fear an assessment for ali
Easter bonnet, will hardly be- con-
vInced that it isn'ta dread reality.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

All kinds Of fancy stationery kept by
w. G. Hubbard-cheap for cash.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

Here it is, and 1t fills the bill much
b tier than anything wa could say: sit
gives me the greatest pleasure to write
you in regard to Chamber ain's Cough
Remedy. During he past winter
have sold more OF 1t thrn .ny other
kind, ard have yet TO find any one. but
what was oere6tted by taking it.
have never had any medicine IN mj
store that gives snch un,versal satisfac>
ton" j. NJ. Roner, druggist, Geuda
Springs. Kansas so cent bottles iol
sale by j I'll Moore.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

The trains have been running
very Irregular OF late, on account OF
the wash-uut at Poeahnntss No
mail arrived rom Memphis in two
days this week.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
The Mississippi Press Association
will meet in Yazoo City on May l..
ny RlAok.paAuoMT tee for Dyspspaia-

All kinds of fancy stationery kept by
w. G. Hubbard-cheap for cash.
In 500 or 1000 Tote we will dup
iicato in price bill heads and envel-
opes, either from Memphis, Nash
vile, ST. Louis or Atlanta, using tne
same quality of paper.
Mr.. o. p. French will again visi,
1uka, on the days Of May 8, 4 aud 5.
He will be assisted by the King
Daniels male quarte,te, WHICH will
give concerts ut the Baptist church
son Monday and Tuesday nights.
Notices will be sent from time TO
time.
11 sLAck-psAuoHT tea cures Constipation.
Call on w. G uubbard,for best per-
fumes.
IS Sheriff MsGeheo captured a man
NJ Gortneys saw mill, by the name
of Richey, one day last week, who
is wanted in Arkansas. The priso-
ner was lodged in jill To await the
Z proper papers from Arkansas.
When Maabe: b ironically said, "Canst
thod minister To a mind diseased" ne
little knew that mankind would some
dav be blessed with Ayers Sarsaparilla.
In purifying the blood, this powerful al
teratlve givea tone and strength to ev-
cry function and faculty of ihe systsm.
From the present outlook, if we
could judge from our columns, the
county offices will not be filed this
ear. There has been no announce
ine,ts made yet by any OF our cam
siidafess Still there is a full quote
10 be elected.
SGr WINE or cARDui, Tonic for women.
Prof. Dean, editor OF the lnka
Normal, is making an extra et1'or,
TO increase tho number nf stud MT
in the Institute for the Spring and
Summer terms. He intends having
1000 extra copies OF his paper print
I'd and sent out this month.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

We are authorized to announce w.
Il Walker as candidate for re-elec-
tion to the Office of District Attorney
for this judicial district. subject to the
action Of the Democratic party.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12
NaELsEE,s WINE OF cAapyl for wea. Nerves

Mr.. James Lambert, of New Bruns-
wick, Ill.,, says. II was badly a1il c,ed
with rheumatism in the hips and legs,
when | bought a bottle of Chamber
lsin's Pam Balm. Ii cured me in lhree
days. | am all right today and would
insist on every one, who is afflicted with
that terribls di'ease. to use Chumber-
lain's Pain Balm and get vel. at once"
For sale BY j. H. Moore.
lTA-cA, Tex, March l, 81.
EDITOR REpoRTER:
Please allow me u short spnc. in
your paper. | have been reading
the REP, RTER tor some time, and
have never seen the like of land ad-
vcrlised ia all my ifo. would like
to know the cause of it.
AN living tour miles south OF
ltasca. on fine, black land farm.
Can't raise beans o. peas or peanu 8
like did when | lived in ola
Mo her Tlsh., but can raise more
com and cotton than [ could there.
II takes more 10 do a man out here
tha', y does there, iavlng every
thing to buy that he us-s. 1t costs
renter rs much to start To farm on
hlR own hook IA a small farm there
womb co., n''h, l mere are great
''a"y "a ! isho'''"goS o'd farmers
mere vi i'''i county, ahc out niue
"'o'o 'ooa', u"'eSs some mat are
~ "u'e e''e' 'eAS s,ou"a 'hah 'hey 90.
."s'o ny Wal, waving mere gong
~ "1 o"e"po' '"'u, innn
:" . .'', 'oA' S'''s ',os" w 20 600
'os' a oob'c@'bEh'
Trader ~. 49,
enacted ~ 'hc state OF Mlsslssippi,
II IL required that every legal voter
of the state be registered anew. The
registers hooks arc now omen and
VI u. ~. Erwin IL ready 10 register
yunr name We advise All ner,u,p.
WHO Gun 10 come up ana register.
There Is a limitad t,ma 10 AZ th;s Il,
:" '''' ~
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

''Dispatch il the soul Of business"
Ches terrified.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-03-12

AMI those troubled with nervousness resulting
from care or overwcrk win b., relieved BY taking
By0Wus fr0ss Bitter.. Genuine
haa f.alc raar and crossed red lines op wrapper.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
Whisky Cruelty to Animals:

Not long since l published the
statement OF a gentleman who came
to our Bluegrass Region, as to the
difference between our distilleries
as he saw them here, and as he
saw them in the pictures.
A few days since a gentleman of
this city came to me and asked me
to correct the statement of a news
paper reporter who was travelling
through our city and county, that
we were inhuman in the treatment
OF our cattle.
An article in late Chicago
Chsmpion-a liquor paper-in an
swer to an article in the National
Temperance Advocate, was to
prove that the distileries did good
by putting grain into the form
OF "still slop" to feed cattle.
My father WAS one of the most
prominent and successful feeders
of beef cattle that ever lived in this
county, and it is the thing about
which more than anything else in
farming | know most.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14

husband. Her cooking stove,
her bed, her little store of meal
or potatoes,-he may seize all TO
supply his selfishness or his de.
bauchery. Not every man who
can induce young and confdirg
girl to unite her fate with his is
fit to WELD such unlimited power
over the very being of another.
But such is the law of Kentucky.
There is not community in
which sickening cases of oppres.
sion and city are not practiced
upon helpless wives under Il
sanction of this law. And the
little children little children
share the fate of the mothers. A
man who will rob his wife will
not support his children. While
men talk of chivalry and women
say they have all the rights they
want, there are women and little
children hungry and shivering in
attics and cellars, into which the
husband and father comes only
as a robber, to seize all that the
pitiful wages of the woman may
provide, over the bare necessities
that keep the wretched slave
alive and in working condition.
This is the law. Can it be that
men and women with hearts in
their bosoms will let these iniqui-
ties pass without their voice
raised against them? In vain the
women, represented by the Ken
lucky Equal Rights Association
have petitioned the General As
sembly; in vain they have pleaded
before the Constitutional Con-
vention. These things are fixed
in the laws, and the laws are
changed only by the voters. Let
the voters face the fearful respon-
sibility of the consequences Of
such laws. I beseech that every
voter who may sec these lines
will himself investigate the facts.
Let him look around in his own
neighborhood, and see the atroc-
ity of their working. Let the
truth on this subject be freely,
fully discussed in political meet
ings, in the newspapers, and in
daily conversation. If no help
can be obtained from the Consti-
tutional Convention, now sitting,
then let every man make it his
first requirement of fitness of can
didates tor the next General As
sembly that they shall pledge
themselves to do justice to women
in property rights.
LAURA CLAY,
President of Kentucky Equal
Rights Association.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14

in bed with a leg that he had &c
cut oil, and that little boy tina,
ran off from his parents to go into
the army and got shot twice the
first day anil died, and that fel.
low that had q minnie ball hole
right square through his breast
that came out right close to his
backbone, that wore his girls
bonnet, and made so much
fun for us, and would run and
jump in bed and make out he was
drawing his last breath when.
ever he saw Yankee hospital
inspector coming, to keep them
from sending him to Camp Chase.
Aud then he recollects how he
and I read the responses in an
Episcopal church on Sunday
when there was only a lady and
child and we two in the whole
congregation.
Hes got sense enough" as DR..
Chinn says, to see that four years
war was mere picket skirmish
compared with the war that
whisky is waging against this
country.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
The DenOuei ileni Of an Old Col
lexe Memory.

l have just read that Richard
Harding Davis has been made
editor-in-chief of Harpers' Week
ly, at the age Of twenty-six.
In June, 1858, l was in my
senior year at College in tn,
mountains of Virginia. The day
was perfect, and l was one of
party of young ladies and stu
dents who We're going fishing in
u beautiful stream. All of the
young ladies, except one, lived
in the village, aud all except her
were most bewltchingly dressed.
All except this one were exceed
ingly gay and bright in manner
and conversation. The plain
young lady was visiting friends
in the village. Her dress was not
only plain, but it was not adjusted
80 rs to show to the best advan.
tage. and between the buttons
behind, a little below her shout,
ders, the skin could be seen.
She didn't appear to be posted
in society talk, and the boys
seemed 20 think that her escort
for the day would have u dry
time, and the young ladies who
Were managing the excursion
feared that the girl would have
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
Seventh Resolution Of the Lou.
isville Conference.

WE ARE IN FAVOR OF WHAT Is
GENERALLY KNOWN AS WOMAN's
PROPERTY RIGHTS" When I see
this resolution among others from
the Louisville Conference as
recommendations for the State
platform of Prohibitionists, I feel
moved to make an appeal through
the Blade, not only to Prohibit
tionists, but to every just-minded
man in Kentucky to sustain such
action by his voice and his vote.
Do the people of Kentucky real
ize the cruelties which are prac-
ticed upon married women in the
name Of the law by the property
laws OF the State? Think Of the
full bearing of the laws regulat-
ing the personal property OF mar
ried women. There are large
class OF women who are never
likely to become possessors of
other than personal property,
and 80 these laws touch all they
will ever own. By marriage,
under the general law, the hus-
band becomes immediate possess
or ofpersonal property the wife
owns, or may afterwards acquire
in any manner. Nothing snort
OF expensive and tedious legal
proceedings can in any way In.
tertere with his disposal of it, or
prevent its being seized by his
creditors. In compensation for
thus stripping the wife of the
means of livelihood, the law has
provided no recourse in cases
where the husband refuses to per-
form his duty of supplying her,
except to give her the right of
purchasing the necessaries of
life on her husbands credit.
Suppose such a husband has no
credit? Suppose no tradesman
Will sell goods on such a preca-
rlous chance Of payment: There
is then no recourse for her but
slow starvation or the poor-house.
1t she earns wages, law was
passed by the last General As
sembly, at the petition of the
Kentucky Equal Rights Associa-
ton, which prevents a husband
from collecting them without her
written consent. But even now
it the unhappy wife invests them
in a seizable form, they immedi-
ately tall into the power of the
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
A Letter from Tennessee.
BETA, MEIGE Co., TENN, |
February 3, 1891. !

u " 1Noore, LS4', Lexington, ny.
Dear Sir:-I have received sew.
eral copies Of The Blue Grass
Blade which were forwarded from
Big Spring, Tennessee. ac-
copied them as a, gratuity, not
knowing who was the donor. I
do not know how my namehap-
pens to be on your mailing list,
but your article in a recent issue
headed "Just as You Please"
prompts me to write. I have
been an interested reader of every
number of your paper that L have
received. Would be glad to con-
tinue reading your paper but on
account of my financial condition
1 must forego the pleasure. l
am a firm believer in that system
of religion taught and exempli-
fed by our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and His Apostles,
and am therefore a Prohibitionist
in principle and practice, (having
voted the ticket straight ever
since there has been one,) for
conscience sake.
l presume you are a Prohibi-
ZIONIST for reasons that are as sat-
isfactory to you as mine are to
me-this being true we are agreed
as far as Prohibition is concerned.
1 like your paper because you
seem to think what you please,
and write what you think.
81 honor the man who is ready to
sink
Half his present repute for the
freedom to think,
Who. when he has thought, be
his cause strong or weak,
Will sink the other half tor the
freedom to speak,
Caring not what vengeance the
mob has in store.
BE that mob the upper ten thou
sand or lower"
am a native of the "Bluegrass
Region" of Kentucky, and hope
that the time may soon come
when through your efforts and
those OF others enlisted in the
same cause, the whisky demon
may be driven from the fairest
and most rum cursed portion, as
we'll as all other parts of our
common country.
Yours respectfully,
ID. w. EVANS.