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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02
LOCAL AND PERso NAL.

We greet our readers this week with
a new title. THE IUKA VIDETTE.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02
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They tone up the system, aid digestion, cure
loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correct
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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02

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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02

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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02


day evening by Misses Myrtle
and Lizzie Walmsley and Henrietta
Castleberry. Musicians were out and
refreshments were served and the fol-
lswing young people are indebted for
a very pleasant time: Misses Corrie
Harvey, Carrie Mckinney. Mamie
Aydlett, Mary Flynn, Maggie Allen.
Grace Reddick. Virgie Allen. Jennie
Wells, Lille Miller and Messrs Bayless
Williams, Tom Harvey. Sydney Prince.
j. Hirt, c. Walker, Albert Cotton, Ed.
Mckinney. Tom Dudley, George Hight.
The. Normal Educator, published by
the Iuka Normal Institute, comes to us
this week in handsomely illustrated
SPACE form. 1t is interesting as well
as instructive and gives to the public
some OF the most remarkable facts in
regard to the adv antages of this insti-
tuition that has ever been presented to
young knowledge seekers. The l. n. l.
has one OF the most desirable school
locations in the South and for the first
time in its history has enough room TO
accommodate its patrons. Students
can make their expenses here so low
that it is cheaper than staying at home.
The banquet of the |. n !. Alumni,
given Wednesday, night under the
management of Mrs. X A Seay and
ii !. Lee was complete success in
every respect. The party present en-
dyed themselves to the fullest extent
The menu was AL that could be desir-
cd and suited 10 the taste OF an epicure.
Course followed course and there was
no cessation in tho merry making I'M
I'll the hour tor departure. Those pres
ent were Misses Jennie DeLoach Ma
Belle Williams. Elicit, Halle Garrett,
Lizzie Haskins. Alyce kedus, Annie
Dean, Loula Bryan, Minnie Young,
Edna Mosely, Guy Dean, Myra Dean,
Grace llagler, Inez Boyle, Mae Seay,
Is anch Hubbard, Katie Hubbard, Lau-
IA Hammerly, Katye Seay. and Messrs
Il B Wiley, Owen, Tom Dudley. El.
Mckinney, ID NJ Russell w II barber,
ID l. Ross. Gay Dean, Will brown, L Il
Hooker, J L Holmes, & A Robinson
Prof. H A Dean.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02

Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment
Is a certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
Granulated Eye Lids, Sore Nipples, Piles,
Eczema, letter, Salt Rheum and Scald Head,
rs cents per box. For sale by druggists.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02
Or IUKA, MISS, ON July 18TH, 1894
Published by Direction of Chapter ii Of
Annotated Code of 1872,
RESOURCES.
I tS

!, G. ]. Hyatt, President OF the Bank
of Iuka, IulSa, Mississippi, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true,
full and exact statement of the assets
and liabilities of said bank ON the day
and date named therein, as sh own by
the books of the same.
G. j. HYATT, Prest.
OSworn to and subscribed before me,
Il Justice of the Peace in and for the
county of Tishomingo. Mississippi,
this. this the 9th day OF July, 1894.
S. M. DEAN, j. p.
Examined and found correct.
w. w. TTONE, Auditor.
This 31st day of July, 1894.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-02

IT. w JoURDAN. Iuka, Miss,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
SPOUSE CT A SIOUX PRINCESS.
Charles r. Jordan, Cousin of General Custer
and n Typical border Scout.

The queen of the Sioux is the wife Of
white man. Neither of them is or has
any reason to be ashamed of it, Red
Cloud, without question the greatest
Indian chief of this generation, gave
her away Mt the altar on the Sioux res.
ervation. The Sioux queens husband Is
Charles p. Jordan, brother of Licuton-
ant Colonel Jordan, United States ar
my, cousin of General Custer and one
Of the most tried representatives of the
government in the Indian country. He
bears the honor of being the only white
man who was ever elected member of
the Sioux council. In their days Of pow
er, before hardly single white face had
been seen west of the Missouri river,
the Dakotas (jioux) were one nation,
ruled by one chief. Tho last of this au-
tocratic dynasty was Old Smoke, who
died in 1859 after seeing his people
pushed westward and his power curtail.
ed. Although the husband Of more than
ono squaw, he left but one child, tiny
girl, who could hardly coo when Old
Smoke got ready to float upward to the
happy hunting grounds When dying,
he took her in his arms and named her
The Beautiful Woman, and so she has
since been known. The Beautiful Won.
an was princess. She did no work,
but learned of missionaries, scorned dog
meat and kept her nails trimmed and
her glorious black hair plated and
combed She grew to womanhood, high
spirited, proud and capricious-an ideal
squaw. But as no ideal chief came to
WOO her she scorned an alliance with
any common member of the tribe.
Young Jordan, a tall, bright eyed
fellow of good education and address,
came west as clerk to the Indian agent
at Pine Ridge He fell in love with the
princess, and his love was rociprocatcd
by the Sioux maiden. And so they were
married by priest in stole and surplice
and with all the formalities of the white
mans laws and customs. The big Sioux
chiefs came from miles around to attend
the wedding the army officers from the
neighboring posts jingled their spurs in
the Old Virginia reel, which followed
the benediction, and the pretty Sioux
queen has since been plain Mrs. Jordan.
A bevy of black eyed children bless the
alliance. Charles p. Jordan, the Sioux
queens husband, has lived on the from
tier for many years. He is still in his
prime, and his adventures would fill n
book-or several of them. He has been
scalped shot full of arrows, has been
tortured and even condemned to death
by the hostiles. Thirty miles from Rose
L N n
ranch, well wooded with oak, elm, ash
and box elder. There is n big orchard
of cultivated fruits close by and series
Of artificial dams down the valley, in
which beaver are encouraged TO con-
struct their own peculiar Notifications.
Sioux City Journal
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
Queer Guests.

Lady Morgan records in her DIARY"
that while dining at the palace Of the
archbishop Of Taranto she met with
guests whose presence would have been
more becoming to the playroom Of a boy
than to the dining room Of an Italian
prelate.
Between the first and second courses
the door opened, and several enormous
ly large and beautiful cats were intro
duced by the names Of Pantaleone, Des-
demona, Otello, etc. They took their
places on chairs near tho table and were
as silent, as motionless, as we'll behaved
as one could desire.
On the bishop requesting one Of the
chaplains to assist Signora Desdemona
to something, the butler stepped up to
his lordship and observed:
"Desdemona will prefer waiting for
the roasts. Youths Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
Size of u Whales Throat.

One of the favorite arguments of the
skeptic is that the Biblical story Of Jo-
nah and the whale cannot be true sim
ply because the books ON natural history
say that such animals have very small
throats. Appleton's American Cyclic
pedia says, "The food of whales consists
only of the smallest of the marine mol
lusca, n herring being the largest fish
they can swallow. Chambers Encyclo-
pedia, in the article whale" says:
''The gullet of whales is very narrow.
IL is said not to be more than - inches
in diameter even in large whale, so
that only very small animals can pass
through it," In McMillan's book on the
curiosities of the ocean, "The Sea and
Its Denizens," chapter 3, page so, 1
find the following: "That the story Of
Jonah and the whale cannot be refuted
simply because such animals have, as q
rule, very small gullets or throats may
be inferred from the fact that there are
certain species of the sperm whale now
living that can swallow an object feet
in diameter. l myself was present at
Lamarck when buoy as large as a 10
gallon water cask, and greater in diam
eter than the chest and shoulders of
200 pound man, was taken from the
belly of a whale which was not more
than two-thirds grown. st Louis
Republic
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
THE ToUcAN.
A Queer South American Bird with an Ex
traordinnrily Large Biil.

A Queer South American Bird with an Ex-
traordinnrily Large Bill.
A queer kind is the toucan 1t seems
to have been made expressly to take
charge of its huge banana shaped beak,
which, in some species, is fully inches
in length and more than 3 inches in
width-entirely ont of proportion to its
comparatively small body. This beak
is the most brilliant possession Of the
toucan, being orange and black, scarlet
and yellow or green and red, according
to the species of the bird.
Its home is in the wild South Ameri-
can woods, where, mingled with the
screaming of parrots, macaws and other
tropical birds, is heard it's monotonous
cry, "Tucano, tucanop' from which
its name is probably derived 1t is q
fruit eater, and climbing among the
branches it gathers its food with its
long beak, whose strength no stem can
resist.
The toucan nests in trees, end it is
uncertain whether it excavates its bur
row or builds in natural cavity.
Nothing more comical can be imagined
than the head of this creature, with its
sparkling eyes and enormous, gayly col
ored beak, appearing from a hollow in
the trunk of some forest monarch. 1t is
said that the young birds are subject to
the attacks of monkeys and birds Of
prey, and that when the parent bird is
alarmed all she has to do is to poke her
head out of the aperture leading to the
nest The assaSant, seeing so huge a
bill, fancies an animal Of corresponding
size behind it and leaves, without bow
ing or saying farewell.
Toucans are sociable birds and go in
large flocks They make common cause
against their enemies, such as owls and
falcons, which they surround and mob,
as the rocks do in England Having
thus no need for protection, they are
noisy and clamorous, like parrots and
monkeys.
The plumage is generally black, but
the throat is white, tinged with yellow
and commonly edged beneath with red.
The tail is nearly square or moderately
rounded, with the upper feathers red
and the lower scarlet. Alterations of
the brighter colors are displayed in the
feathers of the throat, the breast and
the tail.
The bird is kept easily in confine-
ment, and no doubt from early times
many were brought alive to Europe
Some of its brilliant tints are very fleet
ing, and they often leave little or no
trace after death, so that little idea of
its beauty can be obtained from stuffed
ypecimen. .--Philadelph Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
RIPE AND uNrlPe BANANAS.
Those Allowed to Ripen on Tree Arc Not
the Best Favored.

Whether for shipment or for homo
consumption the banana is cut us soon
as it is ''full''-that is, when 1t has
reached its adult form and size, but is
still quite green Tho plant is cut off
by single blow of machote wioldci
by powerful arm As it falls the
bunch is caught, Topped Off and laid
aside, while the harvester goes on TO
the next bunch. 1t is popular SUPPOSE
ton that bananas ''ripcned on the tree"
are incomparably superior TO those cut
green. But, as matter of fact, one
never eats them thus ripened in Jamai-
ca. They are said TO be not so good. At
all events, one finds no better fruit in
texture and flavor than the best of our
own markets. But every lover of this
fruit knows that it's quality varies ex-
traordinarily rs it is offered to u.s. This
is due partly TO the different sources
from which it comes
The best that is brought to us comes
from Jamaica. 1t is also due still moro
to the condition of the fruit when cut
Bananas which are perfectly full will
ripen mellow and delicious, but those
cut when immature, as too many are
will turn yellow yet never truly ripen,
retaining always their hard texture and
unripe taste In jamaica, rs elsewhere,
the competition of buyers leads the un-
scrupulous ones to accept fruit of any
sort, even when totally unfit, and this
sort of competition makes all the more
unavailing the efforts of honest buyers
to raise the standard and to teach the
people to withhold their fruit until il
is properly developed Americans can
give more moral support to these efforts
by accepting only such fruit as is ma
ture at any price. A little pains will
soon enable one to distinguish good
from poor fruit, though it is difficult to
give general statement of the distinc-
tive differences. But, as rule, it will
be found that bananas which are lar.
gest, deepest yellow and least angular
are the most mature and best. .-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
VOLUME 3.
Iuilroan oimr 0ahiro.
BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTS
- BURGH RAILWAY.

The short line between Dubois, Ridgway,
Bradford. Salamanca, Buffalo, Rochester,
Niagara Falls and points in the upper oil
region.
On and after June nth 1891. passcn-
ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls
Creek station, daily, except sunday, as fol-
lows;
I.2O T.. NJ. and $50 p. INSTRUMENTATION
from punNSutnwney and Big Run
500 \. M.-BululoHud Rochester mHil-Eor
BrockwayNlllc, RldgWay Juhnsuuburg, Nj.
Jcwctt, bradford salamanca, Buftalo and
Rochester; connecting at Juhnsonburg
with y. 4 T.. train 3, for Wilcox, Kane,
Warren, Cory and Erie.
1O;jJ A. M.-AccommodutiOu- sykes,
Big Run and punNsutawncy
2;2O =. M.-Bradfurd Accommodation
BccChtrcc, BrucltWgyVillC, EllmOnt, Car
mon, Ridgwly JOhusonburg Mt. Jcwctt
and bradford.
$40 =. M-Mail-For Dubois, Sykes, Big
Run, punNsutUwucy ana Nnlston,
Passengers are requested to purchase tick
cts before entering The cars, IN excess
charge of Ten Gents will be collected by con-
ductors whom fares are paid ON trains, from
all stations where ticket OiiiCC is maintained.
Thousand mile tickets at two cents per
mile good for passage between all stations.
j. II. MCINTYRE, Agent Falls creek, Pa.
II. G.. MATHEWS T., &. LNrEY
General Supt Gen. Pas Agent
Buffalo, y. Y. Rochester y. Y
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08

Insanity is very frequent among rail
way employees Two dramatic illustra-
tions can be mentioned. There is living
in New Jersey, not far from Philadel.
phia, man who for many years was
the foremost passenger engineer between
New York and Philadelphia on the
Pennsylvania railroad. He ran all the
specials and best trains, and in 10 years
never had an accident. One night in
the CLEAN of the headlight he saw q
woman. He had only time to see her
hands raised and to hear her cry, and
before he could put his hand upon the
lever he felt a jerk under the wheels
and knew that all was over Since that
night he has never been on an engine.
For months he did not sleep and later
became practically insane, but only on
the one point of seeing and hearing the
woman his engine killed. Now he goes
about harmlessly and aimlessly, but he
has to be kept away from railroads, and
in his fretful sleep he awakes with cries
and paroxysms Of horror The other
case is that of man who was conductor
of a train on the Camden and Amboy,
whose train had an accident He came
out all right himself, but it preyed so
upon his mind that one night he left his
home, and going to the point where the
accident occurred threw himself in
front of passing train, receiving in.
juries from which he died. d.-Philadel-
phia Times
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
The Latest In Letter Writers.

An enterprising country publisher,
who has remarked that immense mum.
bers Of people suffer from an almost un'
conquerable repugnanoe to letter writ
ing, has prepared a special post card for
the use Of lazy correspondents. The
back Of the card is divided lengthwise
into 10 unequal spaces, and the energies
Of the reluctant scribe are spurred by
the following suggestive headings, one
Of which is conspiouously printed to the
left Of each Of the divisions: 1. Date.
2. Excuse for not having written sooner.
8. State of health-(O of self, (b) Of
family. 4. The writer's recent expert
ences 8. News. @. Family gossip. 2.
Questions to be answered in your next
8. Love to -. 0. Love from.
10. Signature. london Tit-Bits.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
A Dog with Eyeglasses.

Pedestrians ON Market street the 9TH
or morning jostled each other to see a
novel sight. A huge dog, with sleek
drab skin and generally contented
look, plodded along the thoroughfare
wearing spectacles Of large size astride
his shapely nose. The dog was not at
all inconvenienced seemingly, and ap-
parently was not aware that he was do
ing anything out Of the ordinary, as he
critically surveyed the public through
the spectacle glasses. The spectacles
were much too large for any human be-
ing, and probably were made with
glasses without magnifying power, at
the order of some waggish owner. San
francisco Bulletin.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08

And Bill Zach was glad About three
weeks after that Bill Zach was startled
out of his sleep at half past in the
morning by a noise that awakened mem.
ories. He listened The noise broke out
again. IL ratified the windows; IL echoed
among the hills; it walled; it yooped; 1t
heehawed.
Pete, by the living jumperl' yelled
Bill Zach, jumping ont of bed and hur.
rying TO the door A mule was leaning
woarily against the front fence. He was
thin and scraggy, his eyes were hollow
and his cars half way to his knees. like
n yallcr hounds When this mule saw
Bill Zach at the door, he lifted up his
voice again and actually wept 1t was
Pete, back from Louisiana II is 800
miles from Tangipahoa parish to Hum.
boldt by road, and SO you may know
what Pete must have thought of Louisi.
ana to take his overburdened heart with
him, so to speak, and pull out for Ten.
nessee on the hoof Pete was as slick as
ever he was in few days and started
in to be pretty near as sassy and cussed
as ever, but Bill Zach said one day to
his wife when Pete was by:
I'm going to send Pete back TO
Tangipahoa parish again, Susan.
''Peto dropped his ears and walked
away, and ever since then he has been
the best mule in the whole of Gibson
county, and Bill Zach wouldn't take
81, eco for him. New York Sun
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
The Smith Family Ham.

1.-THE average citizen is fond Of o
piece Of sweet ham, but it is an absolute
waste to set before an uneducated palate
slice Of a genuine old Smithfield that
has been two years in curing" said
Colonel Thomas Longley Of Virginia
"The fame Of the Smithfield ham has
been spread to the uppermost parts of
the land, and / never yet knew man
who was cognizant Of the merits of both
that didn't prefer the product of old
Virginia to the choicest that ever came
from Westphalia. l can't describe the
process of tho formers treatment in de-
tail, but know it is enveloped in ashes
q good while and subsequently buried
in mother earth, where it stays for many
moons.
''Some high flying epicures aver
that a Smithfeld should be literally
drenched with champagne while in
process Of cooking, but don't think
wine is at all necessary. My mode is to
parboil it till the skin comes off easily,
then put it in the baking pan and baste
judiciously with vinegar and sugar
Then it comes out a dish fit for the
Olympian gods OF course all the hams
that bear the name do not come from
the little town Of Smithfeld, for that
little hamlet couldn't supply one-hun-
dredth part of the demand.
IA member Of the universal Smith
family, old Captain Isaac, for whom
the town was named, and who was If,
! mistake not, q contemporary Of Gen
eral Washington. invented the process
of curing that part Of the hog in ques-
tion, and today his imitators are scat.
tered all over Virginia and Maryland "
Washington Post
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-08
DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
IN EFFECT NOV. 10, 1893.

-. Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Division Time
Table. Trains leave Driftwood.
EASTWARD
1904 A M-Tran :, daily except Sunday for
sunbury, Harrisburg and intermediate sta
tlons. arriving AZ Philadelphia $3.50 p. M,
New York, i0;0s p. m. Baltimore 5:20 D. M;
Washington, S;6 p m. Pullman Parlor ear
from Nilliamspurt and passenger coaches
from Kane TO Philadelphia.
3:M II. M.-Train q, daily except sunday for
r%pg 9oa o 1nd rGaa'S @ :'SS,@ny Se@ yorE ar
1888 A. NJ. Through coach from Dubois to
Williamsport. Pullman Sleeping cars from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia and New York.
Philadelphia passengers can remain in
sleeper undisturbed until 200 \. NJ.
0;S5 =. M.-Train 4, daily for sunbury. Harris
burg and intermediate stations, arriving at
Philadelphia, $50 \. NJ; New York, g:30
A.. NJ; Baltimore, $3.50 A. NJ; Washington, 1880
AN. Pullman ears from Erie and Williams
port TO Philadelphia. Passengers i'm sleeper
for Baltimore and Washington will he
transfcrred into Washington sleeper at liar-
risburg. Passenger coaches from Erie to
Philadelphia and Williamsport TO Balti
more.
7;3e A. M.-Train /, daily except Sunday for
Ridgway, Dubois, CIcrmont and inter
mediate stations. Leaves Ridgway at 300
$3.50 A. M.--Train 3, daily for Erie and inter-
G;27 p. M,-.Train II, daily except Sunday for
Kane and intermediate stations.
THRouGH, TRAINS FOR BRENTWOOD
TRAIN II leaves Philadelphia $3.50 A. M;
Washington, $50 4. Nj; Baltimore, S:i5 A. NJ;
Wilkesbarrc, l0:l6 A. NJ; daily except sun
day, arriving at DTlftwood at G:27 T., NJ. with
Pullman Parlor car from Philadelphia to
Williamsport.
TRAIN . leaves New York at 8 p. M; Phila-
delphIa, ll20 p. MI Washington, l0,4O II. m;
Baltimore, 1l;i0 p. M; daily arriving at
Driftwood at $3.50 u. m. Pullman sleeping
cars from Philadelphia TO Erie and from
Washington and Baltimore to Willamsport
and through pnsspunpr rDnphps from philu-
delphia TO Erie and Baltimore to Williams
port and to Dubois.
TRAIN leaves Remove NJ G:35 n. M, daily
except Sunday, arriving at Driftwood s32
a. m,
JOHNSONBURG RAILROAD.
DAILY except Sunday
TRAIN 10 leaves Rldgway at g:4O a. M; John
sonburg At 0:55 u. m. arriving AZ Clermont
at 10:45 II. m.
TRAIN 90 leaves Clermont at 1855 Il. m. ar
riving at Johnsonburg at 1l:i0 a. m. and
Ridgway AZ 1l:55 a. m.