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The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

sooth, when the loved ones Ct their
home went astray their papers were as
silent us the dead Some newspaper
reporters and editors would SANDER tho
dead and smirch the purity of the liv.
ing to get n sensational article. That
is desperately mean kind of mean
ness.
| have known some meanness among
dirty politicians when venom and
SANDER, libel, vitriol and poison fell
from their tongues and pens as grace
fully as the clear beautiful water falls
from the old spring by the hillside.
have known some mean boys, as un-
grateful as a snake, as deceitful as the
devil, as unllind as death. They would
trample upon heart strings and gray
hairs as hilariously as ever Nero fid-
died over burning Rome.
have known some girls whose mean
ness would reach its climax only as it
listened to the swapping of mothers
heart strings and looked upon the
bowed and bereaved head of noble
father.
| have known some men who had the
meanness of treachery, that meanness
which betrays a friend, forgets kind
nesses shown and turns with the venom
and poison of n snake and bites the
hand that was held out to help them.
Then there is the meanness of selfish
ness, the selfishness which seeks the
place of another and lays its schemes
and devises its plans by which it can
rob another of the place he holds or the
position he fills. OF all the internal
meanness the human heart is capable
of, we see it in its last analysis here,
the meanness that resorts to schemes
and plans and willfully sets in to dis
place another and thereby get his posi-
ton or place, and thereby leave him
without job with wife and children
leaning upon him for support-the in
famous scoundrel who does this is not
fit to hang on the back door of hell
itself.
l dare assert in my place that the
man who schemes and works to displact
another i'll order to get his place is more
| infamous in character than John A
Murrell or RUDE Burrows, more desti
| tute Of character than Benedict Arnold
more despisable in his nature than the
burglar or rapist. If | had a class o
scoundrels | would stand him at tn,
| head. Yours truly,
SAN 7. JONES.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

The Right Interpretation Student
Ar dreamt last night had lent you
ten marks" Student B.-''And now
you want them back again, l sup
pose?"-Unsere Gesellschaft.
This old fellow" said the team
ster, fondly patting his horse on the
neck, "has been hauling for the city
tor twenty-five years" Got pull, /
suppose" sneered the mugwump gem
tleman.-Indianapo journal.
do you love me, mammal" Yes,
my child" "But not so much as love
YOU, am sure" "Why not?" "Be-
cause you have to divide your love be-
tween me and my two sisters, while
have only one mamma to love. lie
Figaro.
"A Wabash girl of nineteen, who re-
Gently eloped and got married, took
the precaution to paste the number
''2l' in her shoe, so that if the preacher
asked questions she could truthfully
say she was lover twenty-one. In
dianapolis Sun.
Magistrate Ito witnessl-'I under
stand that you overheard the quarrel
between the defendant and his wife?'
Witness - "Yis, sor." Magistrate
Tell the court, if you can, what he
seemed to be doing" Witness-''He
seemed to be doin''th listenin'. =
Tit-Bits
Rambling Raggsy yer please
give me dime, sir, to get sumthin' to
eat?' Citizen-''What can you get for
dime?" r. RI kin get plate OF
hash fur a nickel, sir" C.-"What do
you want with the other five cents?'
r. R.-"That, sir, is fur "a tip fur the
waiter. IN. Y. Press.
Mrs. Small Wort-'It seems to me
that you might find something to do, if
it were only acting as n scarecrow."
Everett Wrest-''I tried that one time,
mum, an it didn't take the crows
more'n two days to find out that l was
perfectly harmless. Crows is that
smartm--Cincinnat Tribune.
One of the judgmentsof Sir Francis
johnson, chief justice of ths superior
court of the province of Quebec, was ap'
pealed to the court of appeals and sus.
tanned. On being met by Judge M
the latter said: well, Frank, l have
just sustained Judgment of yours. y
Eyes? Well, my dear M, / still
think was right"
--Hijinls (sarcastically)-''I suppose
il misfortune should overtake us we
could live comfortably for year CT
two on money derived from the sale OF
material from some of your sleeves?'
Mrs. thinks (sweetly) YES, dear;
adding what we'd get by disposing OF
the cloth IN the tails OF two or three Of
your soaip, "~sBpflase coHFIsr.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07
Queer superstitions,

We have long been acquainted with
the peacock feather superstition, but
were not aware until few days ago
that it extended to all feathered
creatures. A young girl admired the
beautiful pigeons strutting, cooling
and summing themselves in the covert
of the house where she was boarding,
and asked the landlady TO sell her a
pair to take home with her. mo, in
deed, child" was the immediate re-
Spouse. Not for any money would
sell you those birds. When one person
gives or sells an acquaintance feath-
cred thing there is sure to be trouble
between then, and | do not wsnt to
fall ont with you,"-~N. 0. Tiusss
pemeeFsL
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
thedseased portion of theear There isonly
one way to cure Deafness, and that is bycon-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
an nfiamed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
gets nflamed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
he destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflame1 condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free
Il. J. CHENEY 4 Co, Toledo, o.
u Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Hnll,s Eamilu Pills % GENTS
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07
Highest Of all in Lcaycning Power u Govt Report
{!>!a!l! RskidRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE

"TEL'. u.s." cried the group of maidens,
chow to remain always young and attrac-
tive" "That is easy replied the sage,
without even raising his eyes from his book.
Get a fortune and stay single. "-Indianap-
oils journal.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

DESPERATE from Colorado) -0Your
money on your life" Iraveler-"H Here
take this purse of gold"' Desperate with
fceling) keep it, stranger. I'm thief
but amt no goldbug Harlem Life.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

MERCHANT CLERK. why do you leave
that yardstick lying in the sun! Didn't You
learn in school that heat expands bodiesP'
Fliegende Batter
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

Mis-. ScRAPLEIGH (angrily) -"Just look at
playing poker" Mr.. Scrapleigh Calmly
Yes and just look ut the money you lose
every Monday morning buying bargains"
-Puplf
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

OSE or BosToNs AMUsEMENTs. -"After a
long spell of wearing rubbers, leaving them
off is as enjoyable as d joke whispered TO YOU
in prayer time at church. '-Transcript
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07
e" Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills. % cents.

MRs. SITrP-4'Why, you are home quite
early, for change" Mr.. Situp-"Yes, my
throats swollen sc l can't swallow any
thing PUCK
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

EQUAL TO EITHER FORTUNE. --"Do you
want a model, sir, for Poredicear, or--Not
We'll, thon-lets clean out yer studio for tup-
pence. Pail Mall Budget.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

MoTHER-'You are at the foot of the
spelling class again, are youln Boy
''Yes'm.i GLOW did that happenln II got
too many Us in scissors. Good News.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

HE-'.l think you love me. Am right I"
She-s'No; you are left. i'-P. q S. S. Co.'s
Bulletin.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

WrLIE--'I am ambitious to go before the
/ footlights" She-'Thon you had better
run along before papa comes downstairs"
! Syracuse Post,
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

II FEEL really sorry for my husband dur
lug the holidays" remarked the very com
placent woman. "Indeed." eyes. He is
| so correct In his habits that when New Year
comes he can't swear o3."-Washingtop
Efnr
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

BEATING ABOUT THE What
You call Inc a swiBdleri" B-"No; but
am prepared to give ten marks to anyone
who proves TO me the contrary. "-Deutschs
! \NpspCn.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

Two PASSENGERS on western train be-
came involved in controversy, which
waved so hot that one of them tailed the
other liar "What's that, liari' and he
was on his feet in an instant. eyes, a
liar" was the emphatic response, .or my
namo amt John Smith, of Sinithville."
''What, the hardware merchant" The
same" mir. Smith, / am delighted to SEQ
you. ] represent MIR. Sharpedge q CO., OF
New York, and can show you line of sam
pies that viii make your fortune. "-Texas
Siftings.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

AN Irishman, comparing his watch with
the clock of st. Paul's, burst into fit OF
laughter. Being asked what tickled him,
he answered: SAN how can l help it, Here
is my little watch that was made by Paddy
O'Fiaherty, that cost mo but five guneas,
has beat your big London clock there a full
hour an aquarter since yesterday momin'."
Tit Bits.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

SYMPATHETIC PLAIN FmEND ito inconsola.
bic young widow -''The last time met your
dear husband he stopped and spoke to me
with such sunny greeting that l was the
happier FOR II all day long, Young Widow
Eyes, that was Just like dear David.
There was no woman so humble, or homely,
or unattractlve, or dull, but that he could
find something pleasant to say to her, and
would take pains to say it. Life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07

sumption. The resumption bill made ma
tional banking free and fixed the date
for specie resumption four years in adj
vance. The bill was carried through the
Senate by Republican votes without
much discussion before the holiday re-
cess and sent to the House. where it
was made a special order for Jan. z,
1875. and on that day passed under an
order for the previous question without
discussion. Several Eastern Republic
ans voted against it, but it was carried
as party measure. Time has vindi-
Gated the wisdom of it's trainers and the
party which enacted it. If the Demo-
Gratis in the House were such party as
was the, Republican at that time they
could pass a currency bill which would
be acceptable to the country. Unfortu-
nately the party is without such leaders
and men. Among the Senators who
gave the measure sturdy support was
Oliver p. Morton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
HILL AND MoHAMMED.

But why did not Grover have Senator
Hill his guest before the November cleo
tion Toledo Blade (Rep0
Since Hill dined with Cleveland, one par
ticular version of the Washington hatchet
may well be buried.-Philadelphi Times
Oem.)
In conduct a soft answer turneth away
wrath in politics a good dinner at the
White House mends Philadelphia
Press CRep.)
r Senator Hill and the White House have
got together and the Senator seems to be
ON the inside of the executive mansion
Boston Herald Qnd)
The New York Suns office cat had a
fit when it heard that President Cleveland
and Senator Hill broke bread together
sPittsburg Post Dem.)
The fact that Senator Hill called at the
White House, secured a good dinner and
got away unscathed, shows us the wonders
adroit person.-New York Advertiser (Rep)
By and by when the nominations for Of
fees in New York, which have been sent
80 the Senate, or which are to be sent,
come up for confirmation we shall see how
nearly together Hill and the President have
come and we can then, and not till then,
figure out the full effect of this dinner
Springfield Republican Qnd.}
ar What enthusiasm there must have been
when the hand of the senior New York
Senator rested for a moment in the palm
that tried to push Queen Lii back on her
throne; what sincerity tingled through the
veins of those clasped hands, and how the
two men must have longed to square off,
after the handshake, in true Marquis of
Queensberry fashion.-New York Press.
David Bennett Hill and Stephen Grover
Cleveland have saluted with the kiss of
peace. Dave put his feet under the Presid-
dents mahogany and enjoyed a good din
nsr. The idol of the Mugwumps and the
chief of the boys will unite their ener-
gies. to save the Democratic hulk. Too
late! the piratical old craft is on the rocks
and the people of the country will not
stretch forth a hand to save it.-Boston
Traveller Rep)
: The mountain had to come to Mohammed.
This dinner incident, coupled with Presi-
dent Cleveland's recent attitude toward
Hill, is the first evidence the Stuffed Pro-
phet' has given that he intends to obey
the mandate of the party that elected him.
Mr.. Cleveland has dragged the party down
to the worst defeat it has met in all its
history, and in his dependency and despair
he tacitly, if not openly, entreats his an
Gent foe to come to his relief and rescue
New York Recorder Rep.)
o!
1t
A jubilee,
OF the very, very first degree.
Just think it over
David and Grover
\ Reunited Jan. 3,
Under the latter's mahoganee!
Chicago Dispatch RepD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
FOREIGN PROTESTS AGAINST AMER
ICAN POLICIES.

The adminstra ton has new trouble
on its hands in the protests of the
French and German governments
against the stationing of American
medical officers on their soil as means
of carrying out our quarantine laws.
The case as stated in a Washington dis
patch is as follows
When there seemed to be great danger
of the introduction of cholera into the
United States last summer medical officers
were placed at the principal European ports
and. under the terms of the act of $685.
they were required to make sure that the
vessels clearing for the United States were
free from all traces of disease. Naturally
the requirements of these officers were very
unwelcome to the steamship companies and
finally the French government protested
against the attendance of our medical rep
resentatives. The Germans did not go so
far at the time, but they resented the oper-
alton on their soil of agents of foreign gov
ernments who were not clothed with diplo-
matte powers. In the end they protested
strongly and now have gone so far as to in
innate that if the provisions of pending
legislation which contemplate a still fur
Their extension of the inspection principle to
immigrants is carried out they will not per-
nit them to operate.
There is some reason in the position
assumed by the foreign governments,
but there is reason to fear that it is
| assumed merely as a pretext for Interior
| purposes. AT the threshold of any dis
| cussion of the subject there should be
| recognized the indisputable right of
! every government TO make and enforce
| its own immigration laws so far they
| relate to it's own territory. Every gov
| eminent has right to say what people
| or classes of people may enter the coun-
| try and under what conditions. The ex-
| crcise of the right involves response
/ ,.fs-ly Of xr.Alyi
| taliation or i'll will on the part of other
|; governments, but the right is indis-
| putable. European governments exer-
] else it in one form or another contin-
/ ually.
| The right to establish and enforce
| quarantine regulations is quite as clear
| as the right to regulate foreign immi-
grafton. and no government would think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

George Eliot wrote for eight years with
walled her misfortune almost too hard
to bear.
John Milton loved to play on the organ.
He made his second wife sing, and said
she had some voice, but not the slightest
idea of tune.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid is a musician of no
little merit, and has a sweet voice for sing
ing. Her little daughter who resembles
her very strongly, has a taste for music
day present not long ago a small white
piano, with her name inlaid in mother-of-
pearl on the cover
A hall boy in New York hotel owns a
relic upon which he has placed large
price. 1t is box of cigarettes given him
by Robert Louis Stevenson, on the back
of which the novelist had scrawled his
name. The hallboy has kept the little gift
for several years, and rightly considers 1t
valuable at present.
Mrs. Brockholst Cutting prides herself on
having the most perfect drawing room of
the period of one of the Louis in New York
city. Whether it Louis XIV of Louis XVI,
/ blessed If / remember now, but what
ever it is il is regal. There is a quantity
of gold and red, besides wonderfully EN-
broidered hangings. SO L guess it must be
in the period of the gorgeous and gaudy
.Roi Soleil"
In connection with Walter Damrosch's
opera on the subject of THE Scarlet Let
ter" it is interesting to recall the following
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
LINCoLN's SARCASM.
He Could Use 1t with whitening Eff
feet When He So Desired.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Speaking of Billy Herndon and Abe Lin
coln, said old Illinois man, Mr.. Azariah
Wendell. who is resting in his advanced
age upon a farm somewhere south of
Springfield .it reminds me, after that story
of yours about the distillery pigs, of an in
.cident in the early life of these two men
that has never found its way into print
A Globe-Democrat reporter had Just re-
lated to the old gentleman at the Southern
Hotel an experience at great Kentucky
distillery, where hogs are fed on the sour
mash residuum from the stills. The pork
ers after their meals became tipsy, and
often fell to fighting. when they were
whipped into submission by stalwart ne
This incident he observed, illustrated
as well as anything L ever knew Lincoln to
say, and l knew him, more or less intimate
ly thirty years, his keen wit and sarcasm
when he wanted to hit hard without giving
fighting talk. Billy Herndon, as everybody
knows, was addicted at times to the excess
i've use of hard drinks 1t happened at
Phoenix, one of the stopping places in the
don, Judge Logan, Shelby CulIor Ward
Larnon and the others used to ride over. Lin
coin was very fond Of Herndon, but. was
always annoyed and Disguised when he let
liquor get the better of him-for Lincoln,
you know. was the most temperate of men,
and in the midst of the hard drinking and
the careers of many brilliant young men,
he was always sober and always had his
wits about him. The first oysters that had
ever come to town had just arrived Though
it was cold weather, they were a little the
worse for their long journey from the sea-
board; but this made no difference, evident
ly, to Herndon and Lamon. who were in
an unusually convivial mood after long
days ride on horseback and they did great
Justice to the new delicacy Their artificial
appetites lent zest to the feast, and they
sat there and ate oysters and drank and
cracked jokes till some of the tired lawy ers.
among them Lincoln, went upstairs TO bed.
Presently Herndon taken with sud-
den queer feeling about the stomach, and
he made an unsteady rush for the back
door. He passed on out into the darkness
and kept going till he ran against a fence.
He steadied himself by the top board. al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07

The coming Legislature should not for
get that the real meaning of the Repub-
lican contention that the State institu-
tons be taken out of politics is that in
all appointments connected with the in
stitutions fitness should be the first and
paramount consideration. The mere
creation of bipartisan boards would not
be a compliance with this demand.
Members Of such boards who are APP
pointed primarily or mainly for political
reasons. whether Democrats or Repub-
licans. are pretty sure to make politics
the ruling motive of all their acts, and
while this may result in a division of
patronage it will not take the institu-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07

Complaint was recently made by the gov
eminent Printing Office that the depart
nlents furnished hasty and imperfect copy
to the printer thus causing waste of time
in correcting proofs. Secretary Hoke Smith
has accordingly issued a circular to officials
and employees in the Interior Department,
in which he says:
81 am informed that these practices exist
in the various branches of this department.
and, wishing to cooperate with the Public
Printer in the reforms he desires to inau-
gurate and in which l heartily concur, you
are instructed to require of your Subordin-
ates careful preparation of all copy pre-
pared in your bureau, so that proof viii not
BE necessary only in extreme cases. and give
such instructions that will prevent the use
of expensive paper for unimportant blanks"
Congress should supply the head of the
Interior Department with an intelligent high
school boy to instruct him in English COM
position.
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a seasick passenger does at the taffrail OF
ship, and proceeded to unload on the
other side. 1t proved to be pig pen he
had come to. and the surprised occupants
rushed quickly to the trough. 1t was
new sort of feast for the pigs. but they
took to 1t kindly and when the supply
ceased they set up great squealing. Then
Herndon began to swear at them in a loud
voice. The way he talked TO those hogs.
you would have thought he making
one of his characteristic sledgehammer
arguments to a jury to clear horsethief.
Lincoln heard the rumpuS came down
stairs and asked Lamon what the trouble
was
Billy out back, dividing his liquor with the
shoats.'
Lincoln went to the door and yelled out
in his keen. treble voice. Billy Billy!
For Gods sake, don't stand out there in
the dark quarrA" with those hogs!
There's certainly n of the id stuff in
the country for of your =
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paragraph from Hawthorne's English Note
Books. dated Liverpool, 1850: Il saw in
an American t,1, paper YESTERDAY tnaI an an
the story of The Scarlet Letter. and that
several scenes of it had been performed
successfully in New York. / should think
it might succeed as opera, though it
would certainly fail as play"
Mrs. Thomas Edison is extremely domes-
tic in her tastes and very devoted to her
genius husband. She has three lovely chill
dren-one, Marion, aged eight. who looks
very much like her handsome mother. Mr.
Edison has his laboratory in separate
building from his residence, connecting by
a wing. Here he sometimes laDorS 1or
hours in the evening, and Mrs. Edison, TO
keep him company and be near him when
those experiments are being made, often
goes to sleep on couch which she has
placed in the room for just such occasions.
When the copper wires. and the other mys.
teries which go to make monographs ana
microscopes behave properly ana genius Is
successful he wakes her up to tell her, ana
she is perfectly contented and happy
On earth to gladden. mortal view.
Ne'er fairer maid was put;
But she will wear a 2-B shoe
New York Herald.
AS swiftly Ger the ice they flew
AS snowfiakes whirl,
With no one nigh what could he do!
He Rugged the girl.
1nconStant mani crash, crack,
distant roar.
Proclaimed a thaw, and then, alack,
He Rugged the shore.
Washington Star.
sOur Bud is home from college,
Ez slick ez he kin be,
He knows about a hundred times
More'n Sary Ann, er me.
He wears a standin collar
An necktie solid white
An SEE them 'siety germans
Wuz simply out o. sight
can he amt half ez bashful
Ez all his brothers wuz,
An smokes the Segarettses
Like city fellers doesI
t'Hes bound to climb the ladder
Away up purity high,
Ans shore to be the President
Some day, 1 'spect, err try
Calhoun (Ga) Times