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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

A Child Marvel.

There is now in Louisville negress
who is perfect child wouder. She is
scriptural marvel. She does not even
know her letters, yet she can quote ac'
curately almost any passage III the
bible.
At the age Of nine months she could
talk and would frequently tell her
mother what her idea of heaven was.
As she grew older she would sit for
hours and expstiate on the beauties and
olories of the other world. The old
colored folks would listen to her say
ingsfor hours.
Atthe age Of three years she began
to lecture on heaven, it's wonders, or
God and his omnipotent power. She
has lectured in many places, and has
created Juror in every place she has
ys. visited. The prodigy lectured at
the York street colored church yesterday
afternoon, and at night spoke to large
crowd at the Green street colored
church. Her speech Was good, and her
delivery impressive.
A Areporter of the Courier Journal in
terngated her last night.
sVhat is your name, little girl?'
"Alice Coatny."
ssHoyy old ora youp''
"Ise just four years and twenty eight
days old tonight. i"
"Where were you born?"
"I was born in Liverpool, England
cross de Atlantic.
Chow long since you felt the power
within you?"
81 don't know; Ise always felt the
power of God"
"What do you talk about when you
speak to crowd?"
81 talk about Jesus, about heavenly
things, about how Jesus died aod was
crucifed, how he rose again in three
days and sitteth on the right hand of
God"
"Can you spell?'
"No, Sir; don't know my A, B, C's
yet"
She then went on rapturous strain
about things biblical and spiritual CONS
pietely nonplussing the reporter.
She was accompanied by two colored
men. They talked in an enthusiastic
manner about her. She said in her
that she believed in two
kinds of baptisms. She spoke of the
different modes of salvation; how to
reach paradise: how to be converted
from bad man to a good one, etc.
Her sayings were entirely original, and
were not spoken in hesltating voice,
but in quick, keen and forcible man
ner. AS young as she is. negress,
Iwiuhoutsesluoation in the principles she
sets forth, her power pactakes strongly
of the marvellous.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Learning To Save.

The first thing to be leaned by boy
or young man, or anyone else having
the least ambition to become useful
member of society, is the habit of say
ing. No matter if a boy or girl has
wealthy parents, each should learn to
save, if for no other reason than that
riches are we'll known ito take to them
selves wings and fly away" Few are
SO well-to-do as to be secure against
poverty and want.
1t is especially important that the
children of people III moderate cirs
cumstances and of the poor, should
learn to take care of the money they get.
boy who is earning fifty cents, SEVEN
ty-fve cents, or o dollar a day, should
manage to save portion of it, If pos
sihle. If he can lay by only twenty
five cents week, let him save that. 1t
doesn't amount to much, it is true; it is
only thirteen dollars year, but it is
worth saving; it is better than wasted;
better saved than fooled away for to-
bacco or beer, or any other worthless or
useless article or object. But the best
thing abont it is, that the boy who
saves thirteen dollars year on very
meager salary acquires habit of taking
care of his money which will be OF the
utmost value to him.
The reason why workingmen as a
class do not get ahead faster-are not
more independents that they have
never learned to save their earnings.
1t does not matter great deal whether
q man receives salary of q dollar a
day or five dollars,ssif he gets rid of it all
during the week, so that there is moth
ing left Sunday night, he will not get
rich very rapidly He will never have
much ahead. But the individual who
receives one dollar per day and is able
to save twenty cents, or the one getting
five dollars who ls careful to lay up o
dollar, is laying up something for o
rainy day.
This is the first lesson to be learned,
and the youth who cannot master it
will never have anything. He will be
menial, dependent.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Me GUfsih.
Influence of Newspapers.

A school teacher, who had been en-
gagged long time in his profession and
witnessed the influence of newspaper
upon the minds of family and children,
writes rs follows: / have found it to
be universal fact, without exception.
that pupils of both sexes and OF all
ages, who have access to newspapers at
home. when compared With those who
have not, are:
1. Better readers, excellent in pronun>
citation, and consequently read more
understandingly.
2. They are better spoilers, and de
fine words with ease aud accuracy.
3. They obtain practical knowledge
of georgraphy in almost half the time
it requires OF others, as the newspapers
have made them acquainted with the
location of the important places, Of
nations, their government and doings
on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians, for
having become so familiar with every
style in the newspaper, from the CONS
monplace of advertisement to the fin
ished and classical oration of the states
man, they more readily comprehend
the meaning of the text, and constantly
analyze its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better compositions,
using better language containing more
thought, more clearly and more correct
~ expressed.
6. Those young men who have for
years been readers of newspapers are
always taking the lead in debating
societies, exhibiting more extensive
knowledge upon greater variety of
subjects, and expressing their views
with greater fuency, clearness and cor
rectness.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
On Titles.

A respected correspondent asks us
the following questions:
"Has any President of the United
States ever had the title of his Excel
lency conferred npon him by law? If
not, where did the President obtain his
title of His Excellency?"
No President has ever had this title
conferred Upon him by law; aud no one
has ever obtained it, except from fools
and snObs.
In the Convention which framed the
present Constitution of the United
it was proposed to bestow upon the
President the title of His Excellency.
Another proposition was that he should
be known as His Highness. Both OF
these propositions were rejected; and II
was determined that his only title
should be President of the United
States. Accordingly, the proper way of
addressing him, and the only title which
is ever employed by persons of sense,
self-respect, and knowledge. is simply
"Mr. President. All the rest is hum
bug and nonsense.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
What the Country Needs,

The country needs fewe, men who
seek Office and more men whom the
Office seeks.
Fewer dogs and more sheep.
Fewer trucking demagogues who are
anything or nothing, as interest dic'
tates, and more brave men who dare to
do their own thinking and say what
they think.
Fewer great men made to order, and
of small material; and thrust in front of
men who have capacity for greatness.
Fewer juvenile statesmen, who are
enger to rush into the places seniors
and betters ought to occuy.
Fewer impetuous young men, eager
to rush into print and raise muss
generally.
Fewer wire pullers in popular con-
ventions, and more people.
Fewer leaders to kuuckle to popular
prejudice and more real leaders to conS
bat such prejudices when wrong.
Fewer bar rooms and more schools.
Fewer fences and more pastures.
Fewer scrub cattle and more good
ones.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
A RACE FOR A WIFE.

Efiie Morris was the only child of a
wealthy farmer, and Solomon Dreef
and Jonas Bikes were suitors for her
hand.
AS a landed proprietor, Mr.. Dreef
WAS naturally the choice of Efie's IA
ther, while Mr.. Bikes, the stylish
merchant, quite as naturally found fa-
vor in the sight of her mother.
But Ef1ie sided with neither party.
Her choice was George Wilson, whom
she ran off with and married in spite of
the consequences. He was not rich
but was rising in his profession, and
able to supply his pretty wife with all
needed comfort.
Mr.. Morris was much incensed at his
daughters disobedience, and in the
height of his displeasure, called in his
lawyer and altered his will. After
suitable life provision for his wife, he
gave the whole of his property to his
nephew, whom he scarce knew, instead
of leaving it to Effie, as he had all
along intended
A man shonld never make his will in
a passion. Death may come before he
has time to cool. Mr.. Morris furnish-
ed an example of this. The day after
the codicil was signed he lay limp and
helpless, stricken with paralysis, as
void of mental and physical power as
he was three days later when the breath
had left his body.
Effie hurried to her fathers bed side,
but he died without knowing she was
there. Her mother did not long sur-
vive. and Efie returned to her home in
the city to seek solace from her sorrow
in the loving sympathy of him who
was her all iu all.
But heavier stroke was yet to fall.
George Wilson's business called him to
make voyage abroad. The time ran
out for the ships arrival at her destined
port. and still she was not heard from.
Days and weeks went by. Anxious
friends besiege the shipping office. At
last message came. The vessel had
gone down in a storm with all ON board,
save such as we're able to crowd into
one small boat-the only one there was
time to launch.
The eager listeners bent forward to
catch the names of those who had es>
capped. At the end, u piercing cry was
heasd, and slight, womaniy form was
seen TO stager back as if struck by a
blow. The name of Efie Wilson g
husband was not or the list of the saw
ed, and it WAS from her lips that the
hesrt rending wall had come.
Solomon Dreef and Jonas Bilkas met
one dey in small railway town in
France. Che former had gone abroad
to look after en inheritance, the latter
on sosne affair OF bEsiuess. They met
cordially, for though both had heard
That Efiie Wilson was nov widow, her
fathers broad acres having now passed
into other hands, neither at present,
felt the slightest jealously.
- they stood chatting plessantlv, the
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Walking Fever Cases.

A New Orleans physician, in pri-
vate letter writes us that he follows the
old treatment in yellow fever. and has
had oyer a h updred cases, with only
sixteen deaths. Two of the latter We're
walking cases" The term is techni
cal one, understood in yellow fever dis !
tricts. A walking case" is a patient
who refuses to go to bed and keeps his
feet until he drops dead. Sometimes
the walking case" manifests the most
abject fear. an ag lin he displays the
courage of a spy led out to execution.
Sometime the walking" is confined to
the patients chamber, and then again
he roams the streets, with the seal of
death on his brow, the dreadful black
vomit oozing from his lips-an object
of horror to all whom he encounters.
This stalking death is not an uncom-
mon feature of life in New Orleans dur
ing the prevalence of an epidemic.
Many who passed through the fearful
ordeal of 1858. in which nearly eight
thousand victims p erishel, will remem-
bel the case of John c., Mem.
phis printer. He was man of splen =
did physique and handsome presence,
but an unfortunate love affair had
made him reckless. He developed a
walking case" of yellow fever, and for
two days and nights roamed the streets,
the drinking houses of the
city, in spite OF all his friends could do,
finally falling on the street, and dying
before he could be conveyed to his
lodgings. He would wipe the black
vomit from his lips, hold up the hand>
kerchief, critically examine the horrible
exhudation and remark with a grim
humor that his coffee didn't agree
with him that morning. Death is
dreadful at best, but no disease pre-
sents so great q horror as walking
case" of yellow fever.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
English Mothers.

It is marked feature of social life in
England, and certainly one of its specs
ial charms, that N others and daughters
are so uniformly seen together ut home.
Not only is the mother the first lady to
whom you are introduced at the house
where You visit, but she is mistress of
the ceremonies throughout; not only
does she preside at the dinner table,
but at all evening parties she sits as
queen. Whatever may be your first
impressions of such an arrangement, if
it happens that your sympathies are
with the younger ladies, you will very
soon learn to think that the mother 8
absence would be very sincerely regrets
ted by the daughters. AS picture, all
must admit the arrangement to be per-
feet. The portly form and matronly
dignity of the mother are an exquisite
foil to the youthful beauty and maiden
ly coyness of the daughters. And You
will find nothing to mar, but everything
70 enhance, the interest of the picture.
The mothers presence never seems to
operate as an unwelcome restraint
Between her and the daughter you will
mark the most joyous, playful, loving
freedom, without the sacrifice of
little of maternal dignity and authority
on the one hand, or of sweet and grace
full duty on the other. 1t may be said
of English families, generally, that
these two things are emiEently charac.
teristic, namely uniform parental su-
thority, and the most charming freedom
of intercourse between parents and
their children.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
How to Get on in the World.

A bit of advice to young men who
gre trying to get ahead: Never COM
plain That your employers are selfish.
Not that they are otherwise, but it will
not help matters to growl abont it.
They are selfish. Their employers,
when they were young, were 30 doubt
selfish, and from them they learned the
lesson. You, too, will learn it, and
when you become employers yOu'll be-
come selfish, too. 1t is from selfish
motives that men engage in trade and
seifshness rules their actions. OF
course it would be better, and wiser,
and all thai, it they were not selfish,
but they are. Now, what are you go-
ing to do about it? Why, make it for
their selfish interest to do better by
you, and they will. Respect yourselves
and you will make them respect you.
Remember that you are at disadvan-
tage, aud that there are a hundred
others ready to climb iIto your place If
you do not Eli it, and that those who
employ you are fully aware OF the fact
and ready TO make the most they can
out of it. Remember that if you are
getting 81 900 this year and want 81, 500
next year, you have got to earn 81, 500
this yer. You have got to pay for
promotion, often an exhorbitant price.
and as you have no other means to pay
with, you've got to pay in work. OF
course it's unjust, of course it seem
hard that your employers should keep
and spend money that You have justly
earned, but, Causeur's word for it. it
won't pay to fret or growl about it.
Never be satisfied with having learned
your money" Earn more than your
money, and then in manly, straight>
forward, business-like way, ask for
more pay. Ten chanches to one you'll
get it. If you don't, look about, and
as soon rs you have found better
place, discharge your employer. The
hard work that you have done, the re>
cord of it, aud the reputation you will
have established for hard work, will
make the task of finding new employ
ment comparatively easy. Your capao,
ty for work is your only capital. In-
vest heavily and you are sure to win.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Poultry Hints.

Iron nails thrown into the drinking
water will make good tonic for the
fowls.
A London editor says that the hens
don't do near the damage in a garden
that women do throwing sticks at them.
In onion is strength for fowls, ac-
cording to the Poultry World. Chop
fine and feed three times week, as
many as will be eaten clean.
Where waste fish can readily be OBJ
tanned they make q. valuable food,
when boiled and fed, but do not feed
too literally, or you may cause your
birds to ''scour" badly.
While all breeders like to have and
to breed "heavy weights, and customs
ers buying breeding turkeys all call for
large birds, it is fact that, for market
purposes, moderate sized, and even
small turkeys command q more ready
sale than do largo ones.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Whv Women Can't Vote.

It's no wonder women can't vote
It's no wonder men fear to. trust the
ballot in the hands of people who can
not manage their own offairs. No per-
son should be allowed to vote who cam
not dress without the assistance of a
paper of pins. Now, if a mans tailor
should send his suit home in the fear,
fully incomplete and unfinished state
in which new dress reached It's wears
er, how quickly it would be sent back,
tied up in bundle Of "cuss words.
But woman receives her new dress
from the dress makers gladly, ioyfully,
contentedly. and fills her mouth as full
of pins as it will hold before she puts
it on, knowing that she will need every
one of them aud more before the dress
is on. Oh woman, woman, if you only
knew how your husband hates the man
that makes pins.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
1iferary.
a Mothers blue and Gray.

a Mothers Blue and Gray.
Each thin hand resting on grave,
Her lips apart in prayer,
A mother left her tears
Upon the violets there;
Ger many a road or vale and lawn,
OF hill and forest gloom.
The reaper, Death, had reyeled in
His fearful harvest home.
The lest unquiet summer shone
Upon fruitless fray;
From yonder forest charged the Blue,
Down yonder slope the Gray.
7 he hush of death was on the scene,
And sunset DER the dead,
In that oppressive silentness,
A pail of glory spread;
know not, dare not question how
met the ghastly glare
or each upturned and starless face
That shrunk and withered there,
I knew my noble boy had stood
Through all that withering day
| knew that Willie was the Blue,
That Harry was the Gray.
thought Of Willie's clear blue eye,
His wavy hair Of gold,
That clustered on fearless brow
OF purest Saxon mold;
OF Harry with his raven locks,
An eagle glance of pride;
Of how they clasped each others hand,
And left their mothers side;
How hand in hand they bore my prayer,
And blessing on the way
A noble hear. beneath the Blue,
Another 'Eeath the Gray.
The dead, with white and folded hands,
That hushed our village homes.
I've seen laid ca!my, tenderly,
Within their dark ened rooms;
But there saw with distorted limbs,
And many an eye aslare,
In the soft, purple twilight OF
The thunder-smitten air;
Along the slope and on the sward,
In ghastly ranks they lay,
And there was blood upon the Blue.
And blood upon the Gray.
| looked and saw his blood and his
A swift and vivid dream
OF blended years flashed DER me; then
Like some cold shadow came
A blindness of the eye and brain
The same that seizes one
When men are smitten suddenly,
Who overstare the sun
And while blurred with the sudden stroke
That swept my soul, lay:
They buried Willie in his Blue,
And Harry in his Gray.
The shadows fall upon their graves,
They f II upon my heart,
: ID through the twilight OF my soul,
Like dew, the tears will start;
rhe sta, Eight oonies so silently -
And fingers where they rest,
So hopes revealing starlight falls
And sinks within my breast,
They will no. ask in yond.r Heaven
Where smiles eternal dav,
Why Willie went to wear the Blue,
Why Harry wore the Gray.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

ALEXANDER, Emperor of Russia,
takes, in early morning, cup OF coffee
and biscuit, aud then a walk. He
can't drink tea because his nerves are
shattered by his persistent attention to
the government of his country. At IL
he takes luneheon-a simple one, as he
ia not able to eat rich food. Then he
walks or rides, and be goes to his study.
He dimes at 5 or half-past. and after
several hours Of work, retires at mid
night, sometimes concluding his labors
with one round of whist.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Girls Attitude to Young Men.

There is a thing of which l want to
speak and that is of the behavior of
girls to young men who are not lovers,
but SIMPLY friends. Let me tell you
plainly that our sex were not meant to
be wooers. The custom prevalent
among a certain class of young ladies of
asking, directly or indirectly. the at
tentions of young gentlemen, is not an
admirable custom. my son." said q
lady to me not long since, sis much
prejudiced against young girl whom
admire, because she is constantly
sending him notes, inviting him to be
her escort here and there, and plann.
ing to have him with her."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

A YOUNG fellow in San Francisco sud-
denly snatehed kiss from q lady
friend. and excused himself by saying
that it was sort of temporary insanity
that now and then came upon him.
When he arose to take his leave the
pitying damsel said to him: ''If you
ever feel any more such fits come right
here, where your infrmity is known,
and we will take care of you"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
To Bake Ounces.

Select perfectly ripe ounces, and
have them all about Of sizs. Bake
them in the oven as you would a sweet
apple. Do not pare them, but take out
the stem and eye. When they are per
fectly cooked. arrange them on dish
and serve them with powdered sugar
and cream. Very nice for dessert, lunch
or supper.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

, THERE is dark aud also bright
side to every providence, as there was
to the fiery, cloudy pillar that guided
Gods people of old in the desert. Ma
.tnre looks on the dark side. and calls it
sorrow and sadness but faith sees the
sun dispensing the darkness, and calls
it by the name of Joy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
CHE 3rookllarem ge,lasr.
Advertising Rates.

Marriage notices and deaths, pot G. Y
ceeding six lines, published free. All
over six lines charged for at regular ad-
yettising rares.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

AN Ashantee negro, who spoke q
little English, on seeing cake of ice
for the first time, felt of it then added"
Him be water fast asleep."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
Abshagen,
u. L. B0een, Sr.

Justice of the Peace, Notary Public and
T. 8. Commissioner for the Southern Dis
trict of Mississippi.
Office in the Court house. Justice of
the Peace court, the 2nd and 4th Satur-
days in each month. Office hours from
a. m, to sp. -,n unless officially absent.
Prompt attention given to business.
Brookkay~ Miss. may2.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14

TRUE politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. It simply consist IN treat
others as you love to be treated your
self.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
"VECETINE."

Says a Boston physician, "has no equal as a
blood purifier. Hearing of Its manySwonderful
cures after all other remedies had failed, yisi-
ted the Laboratory, and convinced myself OF its
genuine merit. 1t is prepared from barks, roots
and herbs each OF which is highly effective, and
they are compounded in such manner as to
produce astonishing results.n
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
TO SOUTHERN PAPERS
EXCLUSIVELY.
ENDORSEMENTS.

We select the following endorsements from
many on file in our ONCE:
To H1orn 4. May Copcsrn:--
BRooKHAvEN. MIss, May 9th, ISIS.
r. II. Henry Bro, Advertising Agents OF
this place, enjoy the full confidence Of this
community as gentlemen of integrity, and full
responsible to carry out all their engagements
and we do, without hesitancv, recommend them
to the public as worthy Of trust in business
matters. Respectfully.
r. w. MILLsAPs.
DAUGHTRY x SMYLIR.
STORM SON, #. PFEIrER.
H. Y. JOHNSON, and Others
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-14
NEW RESTA URANI,
BY
Vim, J. SMITH,
IN
sa1eon8u1
BaooKHAvEN, Miss.
MEALS DAY OR NIGHT, },
TABLES SUPPLIED WITH THE
BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS

Respectfully call the atte entisn OF the
public to my restaurant, and will use my
best efforts to please all who favor me with
their patronage. Prices to sui. the time
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