Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-05
Special correspondence.

"S'HttNS OuV i4bSiS u6WS 10 RECORD.
But as the fast approaching winter
draws near we may soon expect to hear
of several hymenial picnicl1s, and we
may soon expect during the latter part
of (some day in some week. during
the Indian summer to be ushered in
the august presence of some of our
clergy, or possibly his honor, S. III.
Dean.
Harvey Jourdan respectable col
ored man in our vicinity had the mis-
fortune to have his house and all its
contents burned last week, it was u
total loss, and not insured.
This is about midway between our
circuit courts, and we frequently about
this time of year, see congregated at
some squires Office, some OF oueSeigh-
bors. and we notice at some of these
Justices courts that the legal profess
sion is like all others, the old dropping
out, and new ones filling their places.
And while young practicing attorneys
delight in pouring forth their elo-
quence, it is Il good place to hear a
mans reputation Thoroughly discussed.
No man knows how much the hui
| man heart can endure and yet not
! burst, until he sees his portrait pain
| ted and his general character discussed
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of woe that one soul may wrestle with,
and yet not become unhinged and
| loosed from its frail tenement of clay.
Men go on, year after year, gaining
the esteem of their fellow-men by an
| upright course, only to lose it all by
forgetting themselves at an unfortu-
nate and weak moment, by doing or,
saying things that will take him a
whole life time to undo. But what /
wanted to say is this, in this country,
there IS very little excuse for home
less man. He is social tramp, as a
rule he can offer but poor excuses for
his condition. But the minated and
homeless woman, whose brOws may
never be crowned with the bays OF
household authority, claims not our
pity, but our esteem, our admiration,
because it is not always her fault that
she has no home. Sometimes she has
not had chance. And we love these
unselfish and devoted lives, which work
in single harness, and carry so cheer
fully life's burdens and cares, with
none of those beautiful incentives to
duty which animates the married sis
ter. She may never have any cigar
stumps to pick off the piano, no pipe
ashes to dust off the window stills, no
muddy foot tracks to brush from the
hall carpet, no one to whom she may
gladly give up the rocking chair and
the new magazines; no one to drag up
stairs and put to bed election nights;
no one to get up In the cold winter
morning to build fire for; she seems
to have none OF these joys that makes
her SISTERS life song. Sometimes,
when l look at one OF these lone wo-
men, and think that she may never
know what it is to SEQ the man who
has given her his name for the crown
OF her love. pity her for she is starry
ing, not for food; oh no. She can get
plenty of food, but for tho love of some
truo hearted man. Woman's sympa-
thetic, dependent, trusting nature feeds
on love, and her life,' her heart, her
heart, her voice is never reused to the
broadcast, fullest capacity for express
sion and action, until she has blessed
and filed some mans life with meas
ureless riches of her maiden love, and
then found some other woman's pho
tograph in his over coat pocket. The
home is the cline where the man is
king, at least he is some kind of con-
sort, any way. If he is not governor
he is lieutenant governor. He is al
ways sure OF some place in the admin
istration. And how comforting to man
is the assurance that home is tho only
place in the world that will remember
him when he goeth to his long home
and the mourners go about the streets.
When we have strutted our brief hour
and gone off the stage, little enough
the world will miss u.s. The day we
die, will be as full of life and song and
laughter as Yves The day when we was
BORN. Lo, out in the quiet grave yard, !
when we lie at rest, lovers will come
n the days OF June, and sit on our
onely graves and wear off the grass, !
nd contract bad poetry and worse
rheumatism, while they burden the
aunted Air with labial confectionery.
hut at home, how will our names be
lessed. Our vices, aud thank God
one Of US has one, will be forgotten;