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, 1880-12-26

The Doctors practice Is mostly diseases Of eaSa1
nature. and cases given up incurble A1oossas.. ss.
KEaduaie OF medical university a:> method o. ~
ment IL peculiar to hu$ef. tnOu1h there hase sta
men IN all aKes who have halt the same Matass !ms
cali Il tho GIFT OF II HEALING" YET few hare pos
sessed It to such an extent over nearly a. eo
and persons. It Is life md vitality passed iIo1h ~
strong healthy body to weAS one TINT redp:ss
lost or unequal circulation Ut the vl;al Or no
have fog ninnJ Years suffered from diseases r madt.
have been pronounced ncurubte. nnd ~ when hs1s
cine h0S been administered with no Enod e1eS- sS
been rcztorc1 to health In An incTedble MN
Or perform other Representatives,. but i VIII 80
love iskln from whatever cAuse ine psassnes:
based upun the riust str!cs principles u nhmntf;
there ao nothing mtr:eeulous Or supernatural ~o~
it u In harmony with nll natural laws ,. N, IA.
By this treatment takes bat few nlnoteS a
veterate cIses Ut anl-st nnJ cnrabe Gnfon!s neoue
and sure Is tue eject that bus few dlseoses R1nes
astc$'ust treatment except Dcn17e*s IA aunput.
uNidG:ltton. Had Curvature OK tAe spne' Ane "AV'
ating Fum011- -. .ors-
The diseases which yield most readily % W. . sre:
tive agency ut this method. Us p:actesa ~ pac,Ura
DysPentin+ Constipation As1hEna. n9tnn, ,t.nrst4
ChloFusts tAnss nx Voce. Rheunntssh., nMe.rness.
Gout. Ltver btseasc. all kinds IT ssxua, TeRn ~ Rssn
Bronchitis. CaiaEsh- Diseases Hf tho head hed 1Tfusn
Diseases Convnlsions. itystera, Seosanaa ~ aatnmsch
Congestion Ut the sptecn Congestion q 5ae inramsaS
DlseaAes ot The Kidneys, Ulcer ..lon a!d Ter
eral Debility, Weak SPINE. Serron: Dspftysapp' tysap I'd
ncMlt Breathing with pA'i, IN the Lna.s+ ths He'd
n!$cihrse* from tho Ears. cancers 4o'oo'@
Worm. Piles. Suffering, eta. etc ,. .,s ,4eux
The Doctor has. In connection WIG 1 1,sripis tts.
ease. kfIl.El"rlC FITS, nhd particularly
those Afflicted with the 5pasins
, 1880-12-26

Not pimple or freckle remains upon the skin
beautAed nE Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
, 1880-12-26
A Remarkable Cure of Neuroto;.
of the Heart.

I hereby certify that have suffered rros, 49,.
physicians have pronounced neuraletn of ths h9 hs49
applied TO I,r- q. Dodge Phelps On The afs H. I;
his asriyal In orr city and received one trsstn1M
and was It once relieved Of nl1 pain and snortn..s y
breath. It being four weeks since vss s,estsdT y
feel thai the euro Is radical viii answer 49,
qHt1tes- MARIETTA REED ~
6ua West AdAaas.ss
, 1880-12-26

For general debility and prostrasiou Hop Bit
ters viii do wonders. Prove 1t BY trial.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
Total .22. .6s5. 4o4 25.37O, 80

o An analysis of the above fig.
ures shows some interesting and
surprising facts. ALI the western
states but four are included in the
table, notibly those which have
shown the largest proportionate in
crease-Minnesota, Nebraska and
Kansas. A more favorable basis
to the north for comparison could
not, therefore, be selected. What
do these figures show? That the
north is doubling up in popula-
ton while the south remains sta
tionary? Not at all. On the contra
nv, it is found that the south is
gaining population even Imore rap
idly than the boastful west. The
fourteen northern and western
states from which returns have
been received, show an aggregate
increase of 4, 4,51O,925, or an average
gain of 1892 per cent. II will
surprise many to learn that this in
crease of percentage is nearly dou-
BILE in that portion of the south
from which we have returns. The
seven southern states named have
a total population of 9,169,33l, an
aggregate gain of 2,756,SS2, show
ing an average increase of nearly
43 per cent, or, to be more explicit,
|42.99. The aggregate increase in
the twenty-five states and Utah
is 7,235,021, or an average gain OF
nearly 20 per cent. If this rate is
maintained in the portion of the
country from which no returns
have been received, the full census
will show population of 81, ,4S5, 900,
being an increase of 1885, 900 du-
ring the decade.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
Om direside.
Stop Before Yon Begin.

u
Success depends as much on not
doing as upon doing; in other
words "stop before you begin" has
saved many boy from ruin.
When quite young lad, / came
very near losing my own life and
that of my mother by the horse l
was driving running violently down
a steep hill and over dilapidated
bridge at its foot
AS the boards of the old bridge
flew up behind us, it seemed al
most miraculous that we were not
all precipitated into the stream
beneath and drowned. Arriving
home and relating our narrowlescape
to my father he sternly said to me;
"Another time hold your horse
before he starts
How many young men would
have been saved if early in life they
had said, when invited to take the
first step in wrong doing:
"No. ! thank you," .tl
If John, at this time u clerk in
the store, had only said to one Of
the older clerks, when inyited to
spend an evening in q drinking-sa-
loon, "No, / thank you." he would
not to-day be an inmate of an inc
briate asylum.
Thames, a clerk in another store,
when invited to spend the next
ON a steamboat excursion,
had said, "No, l thank you," he
would have been an honored officer
in the church instead of occupying
a cell in the State Prison.
Had William, when at school,
said, when his comrade suggested
to him that he write his own excuse
for absence from school and sign
his fathers name, mo, / thank
you," he would not to-day be serving
out term of years in prison for
having committed forgery.
In my long and large experience
as an educator of boys and young
men, have noticed this-that in re-
s;sting the devil, in whatever form
he may suggest wrong-doing to us,
is one sure means of success in life.
Tampering with evil is always dan
gerous.
"Avoid the beginning of evil' is
an excellent motto for every boy
starting out in life.
Oh, how many young men have en-
deavored, when halfway down
the hill of wrong-doing, to stop, but
have not been able! Their own
passions, appetites, lust and bad
habits have driven them rapidly
down the hill to swift and irredeem-
ableruin.
My young friends, stop before
you begin to go down the hill;
learn now to say to all invitations
of wrong-doing, from whatever
source they may come. ''No, /
thank YOU" and, in your own age,
glory-crowned, you will thank me
for this advice, and that you prac-
ticed it from the time you read it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

WHAT q strange provision Of ma
ture it is which produces from
corruption and filth fields Of waving
wheat and acres of golden grain.
The waste and offal Of q great city,
if not dissipated, can be made to
add thousand-fold to the fruitful
ness of q farm. Our great cities
pour their filth into rivers to p0llute
the streams and kill the fish. The
city of Paris some time since turned
its sewage upon the Plain Gennevil-
liers. The residents did not like it.
The ordors were not those OF
'Araby, the blest.'' But this foul
stream added amazingly to the pro,
ductivness Of the district; and land
which could not be sold for SIS
per acre rose in value to ever $700
per acre. Truly It has been said
that 4edirt is matter out of place .
What millions and millions are
wasted in our large cities. Were il
possible to collect and spread the
sewage upon the waste places, il
would add hundreds Of millions tc
the wealth Of the world,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
Trouble With the Census Man.

Old ST came in rather late yester-
day, looking somewhat fatigued
After minute he said. "Dis am
er moughty kurus persedin, desc
men kerryin' on round hyar wild
desc fortfolyos.'' 'Do you mean
the census takers?' ~ beleev dat
ar de name dey goes by" "What
have they been doing now?' t'Why,
dey's been down in my naborhood
jess stirring up mo- rath dan all de
parsons inside the korprashun kin
put down in er munth." "That is
unfortunate Have they visited
you yetY "Dat's what makes me
hind time to-day. One oh dem
cum down to my house dis mo'nin'
and tap on the gate,,; l axed him
what's the matter, an he say he
done cum to take my census; an he
hahn no mon got hit out dan |
sed to jest go way from dar 'kase
dar want no business in dat shanty
fur emmy drummers from the loony-
tick 'sylums" What did he say?'
ale says dat eff / fools wild de sen
sus he done gwine to put de law on
ter me; and den he 'splained de
law. Den l seed hit wuz alright an
/ axed him in" elbow did you get
along them" "We got long purity
we'll on tell he cum to de colyum
whar de chillun; den he say ter
me what am de cullah OBJ my chill
lun? I say: lookie heah, you jess
figure on what de law lows and,
don't cum round hayah akin sui
tin queschins, like dat. He say
dat he got ter put down whether
dey is black er melatter'-and den
ole harrycane broke loose!" ''How
was that?" 'De ole oman was
listenin', an. when she heah dat
she onset de table whar de fortfolyo
war lyin' emptied de starch bowl
all ober de returns and gin ter hol-
ler 'Heah Tiger! jess like de forty
theeye done broke in de house
De sensus man he grabb d up his
dockyments an made fer de fence,
and 'twixt holdin' de ole 'owan wild
one han and de Tiger wild de od-
der l got most tuckered out.
"Where did the census man goy
"De las I seed oh him he was ur
on top oh er box kyah by de Ar
Line shop dryin, out de returns OF
de districk on de tin roof "And
how did you get the old lady quiet?'
"She hain't quiet yit. l jess had
ter make my 'scape, too, kase she
war gwine fer me fer lettin' de mai
in, an she say dat eff de Unitet
States wants to know de cullah ot
her chillun she ar bound ter hit OF
de eye oh ebery munerashuner de.
sends prowlin' round her cam
groun'! She's er vigorous oman
too, fer er bon fackr' And the olt
man got up to go to the supervise
and explain matters.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
Morality without Theology.

God is the basis. of the universe.
God is the anchor OF all thought.
God is the source from which all
things stream out; and the goal to
which all things tend. He is the
ark outside of which the dove of in
telligence seeks in vain for resting
place for its feet.
Ill this we mean seriously litera-
ry and without the faintest shadow
Of rhetoric or figtire. We mean to
say that without God there can be
no complete consecutive thinking
at all. We mean to say that the
first and last link in every chain of
logical thought is necessarily God.
We may plant ourselves upon God
as the bliss of series of syllogisms,
and argue out from him in an in
definite number of directions; and
provided We make no slips in our
steps our conclusions will all be alb
solutely true. And we only slip in
one or two ways-by starting with
a false or partial conception Of God,
or by joining our thoughts together
falsely somewhere along the chain.
On the other hand, we may plant
ourselves upon any of an indefinite
number of different paths, towards
God in the center. And we may do
this surely, clearly, indubitably.
For every particular fact and reali-
ty locally implies to God. 1t is as
impossible for a stoneNto rest un-
supported in mid air, as for any
fact in the whole universe not to-
imply to God. For, how came the
fact to be? Suppose it is q plant
how came the plant to exist?> Did it
cause itself? That is absurd. Did
the law of nature make 1t? What
are laws? Are they things? or are
they simply modes Of action? No
one will say they are things; all
say they are modes of action. Bat
action of what? of whom? If they
are action of forces, who set these
forces into action? For thing
does not act of itself; it acts only as
it is made to act. And, then the
person who made it act is the only
real actor. Now, who runs the
forces of nature? There is-there
can be, but one answer - God.
Thus the plant lands us in God.
And there is no escaping it. We
must either follow out the implica.
tions until they drive us back to
| God or we must throw dnst in our.
eyes by imagining laws are things
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
1ifera1y.



The Voices Of the Flowers.
II you lie with your ear to the soft
green earth,
When the rain aud the sunshine fall,
You can hear the flowers in their gay
glad mirth
To each other whisper and call.
For hush'd d like an infant IN sleep they
lie 1ii tt1. 4
In their moist cool cells below,
Aweary Of hearing the winds bleak
. sigh,
And tile falling Of the snow. r..
But when Spring comes down to the
earth. and her feet
Sends . thrill through woodland and
plain, ., ls.e...s =.
And the clouds weep tears that are soft
and sweet, .
But which we miscall the rain.
Then they. waken~ up with light, iD
their look, a4Ergs
And in low. sweet whispers they cry,
Sisters. \ Frmur is heard in the
And 'aafss 4 is seen in the sky.
''It is time we should burst through
the young green earth. arse
As the stars through the heavens by
night, l-v
That the young and the old may rejoice
in our birth, .'' 1sEt ft
And we in the calm, sweet light. "a
Then one said, "Sisters, where shall we
grow? ...... .e.-t. 81.
shall grow by the side of the stream
And all day long I will blossom and
blow, a g .......
Till the dews fold me up in dream.
"And ]" said another. "will bloom by
the way
Where the children go in o band;
They will stop for moment their glad
some play, rt -.e
And touch my lips with their hand +"
II will peep from the long rich grass, -
said one,
"When the meadows bow to the wind,
And will catch like dew drops the fairy
tone
Of the music it leaves behind
"And l." said one, 'in some garden
rare,
Where my fairer sisters abide; ..
And it may be that I may be twined in
the hair I'D Z
OF the maid as she blooms into bride. ,
Then sweeter voice held the rest in
thrall- 4.
80 sisters, what things ye have said
| shall grow in the sweetest spot of all
On the graves of the calm pure dead.
They will know that I blossom above
their dust,
And will yearn, in their silent abode,
For the grand Resurrection to crown
| their trust
In the love and promise of God"
Thus the flowers whisper, and if you
! lie
When .he rain and the sunshine fall
You will hear them question and make
no reply
If your heart is at one with all.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

We are told that Cato, at the age
of so, began to study the Greek Ian
guage: Socrates, when past middle
age, learned to play on musical in
struments Plutarch commenced to
study Latin when nearly 80; DR..
johnson learned the Dutch language
shortly before his death; and our
Benjamin Franklin didn't amount
to anything as philosopher until
he was past So But Connecticut
boy Of 13 began the language of
love last week with girl of IL; they
ran away from home, were caught
and brought back and both suffered
an ignominious spanking from their
angry mothers-all in single day.
That beats your classical days all
hollow.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

g. 49, S~ssUref j.. a-+At ffA-#~
While DIR. Tanner was masties-
ting a beefstake last evening at the
residence Of DR.. Gum, he was asked
by a visitor what his sensations
were during the fast. L p1a -. 1slL
II suffered the most, he said,
A"from deprivation Of air. It is most
difficult to, describe how ! felt. But
lack Of pure air seemed to have a
distressing effect upon the gastric
nerves. My sensations seemed to
center in the stomach, but it was
not apparently q longing for food.
II could control my stomach to that
extent by my will. / suffered at
the stomach from a sense Of weak.
ness and depression there which 4
cannot make you understand very
we'll with words. When / held the
peeled peach in my hand 9 few lmin,
utes before noon yesterday l longed
to set my teeth in it, but probably
with no greater intensity than you
have often longed for a delicious
morsel when you have tasted an
hour or t 40 longer than the ordina-
nv interval between meals. l suffer
ed most at the first part of the fast.
I depended on good, pure air, 1t
cost me Sc dollars day for air.
This. is what it cost me for
INV carriage rides. My experience
IN that fast was much the same as
that Of my former fast, except in
this case 1 suffered more from lack
of sleep, which was caused by dis
turbance. Some of my watchers
we're very noisy. ass d, G .
or II have been asked if / dreamed
| of feasts," DIR. Tanner continued, ''as
| it has been reported that starving
men usually do. The fact was that
III did not dream at all, because
had no sound sleep. There was
too much noise and excitement. 4
| was sorry for that, because ! hoped
| to be able to make psychologists
studyo of myself. My sleep was
such that I had little opportunity
! for dreams. In my waking hours
would not allow my thoughts to run
on feasting." i.a. s.ta... -4.
F. It. was suggested to him by :
caller that Lieut.. Truxton Trains
exploring party on the 1sthmus O
Panama called for sugar on theil
rescue. as they had been reduced tt
the last extremity by starvation
and that he had selected sweet
fruit.
"I had no special reason for thu
selection of watermelon" said DIR
Tanner, with which l found it 81
delicious when l broke my formel
fast. I don't know that 1 had any
particular longing for sweetness
aHow have you felt since the fas
was broken?" he was asked. I'm
| Il feel" he answered "as il every
vein and artery were filling up. i
| Il like coming into new life-a new
birth. To-day I can stand III
| straight for the first time. 1t was
said during the fast that my height
| had decreased, and there was &
great deal of nonsense talked about
Absorption of ths cartilages betweer
the vertebr@ of my backbone.
| appeared to grow shorter because !
| gradually bent over. through empti
ness and weakness, and because
| I was measured in the course of the
fast, 1 wore slippers instead Of the
! shoes in which I stood when was
| first measured"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

A Galveston man, who has been
plain Mr.. Blank all his life, and had
never takeA any part in politics
was induced to attend ward meet
ing. Next morn he reads in the
paper that "Gen. Blank, one of the
most prominent citizens, was here.
'sThere," said he, dashing nown
the paper, "Gen. Blank. They
have made a general of me, and now
I amt no better than anybody else.
aGen. Blank, said his wife.
s'bssakfast is ready"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
Bill Arp On Nswspapers.

Your paper is great comfort to
me: in every number find some
thing to store away in my mind and
memory; ssmething that did not
know before and that will be of ser
vice to me in time to come. If a
man can read he can get a good edu-
cation by taking a good paper
Ehe can keep up with~the world and
make himself an entertaining mem-
ber in sncisty; he can talk upon
any subject; Book learning is a
very good thing, but I know a man
who has power of that, but he
never reads the newspaper, and
passes for fool in his neighbor-
hood. Some papers are not much
,, I I'd looks, but I nexers took one that
didn't pay me some way more than
II paid for it. One time an old
friend started q paper away down
in southwest Georgia and sent it to
| rne, and subscribed just to en-
courage him, and after awhile it
published notice that an admins
traitor had an order to sell several
lots Of land at public outcry, and
Zone of the lots were in my own
county,. So inquired about the
Hot, and wrote down to my friend to
attend the sale and run it up to If
| lty dollars. He did SO. and bought
the lot for me at thirty dollars, and
sold it to the man it joined, for .
hundred dollars, and $50 l made
seve aty-eight dollars by taking that
paper. My fathsr. told me thai
when he was q young man he saw
! notice that school teacher was
| wanted in distant county and h
| went down and got q situation, anc
Ia little girl was sent to him, ant
4 she grew up mighty pretty ant
4 sweet. and he fell in love with he
and married her. Now, if he hat
not taken that paper, what do yo'
reckon would have become Of me
lWouldn't / be some other fellow, o
may be not at all. ~ '''2 - "
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
The Census.

The census returns Of twenty two
states and one territory are at hand.
Some of the figures are official;
others are based upon nearly com
plete returns, and are sufficiently
proximate for purposes of calcula-
ton. They are as follows;
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
The Partner Of Life.

MANY man has seen his choice
for a partner in life in the humble
girl far beneath him in the opinion
of the world, and although
love and pride may have struggled
with him for awhile, yet PRIDE tri-
umphed, and he sought one from
the higher walks of life. In all the
yicissitndes of social existence,
there is nothing capable of inflict-
ing more certain misery than is
sure to follow such course. 1t
distracts the general hatmony of
our days, mis-shapes our ends,
shortens the length of life, lessons
the stature of manhood. and is con-
trary to the divine Instructions OF
the Bible; for it declares where
love is there is peace, plenty and
thriftiness. Everything is sure to
follow happy union Let not
pride interfere in this matter.
Rev. DR.. John Hall says four
perils threaten our young men,
shallowness, mistaken conception
of what constitute success, GER
tain unsettleness in life, and the
danger which come from being sur
rounded by enervating influences.
He also says there four perils threat
ening the community--a defective
public spirit, a weak commercial
conscience, an exaggerated idea of
personal freedom, and the feeble
nsss of religious life among us.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

~ Gar Driver--.You can't smoke in
'this Galveston strest car"
Passenger-Why not?"
because there are ladies' in the
car" 49, 80. .,.s
"Why that's the very reason /
want to smoke; / want to deaden
the smell Of musk and patshouly X"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

~ E-EtE LII. -5H
"Look here, Matilda said a Gal
weston lady to the colored cook,
"you sleep right close to the chicken
house, and you must have heard
those thieves stealing the chickens. !
t'Yes. ma am. I heerd de chickens
holler, and heerd de voices oh de
men, .g,' .,.,4 s4s. III Iet3,5f4g Il
4 "Why didn't you go out, then?"
ssCase. ma am bursting into tears
case, ma'am, / knowed my ole fod-
der was out dar, and I wouldn't hah
him know Use los confidence in
him foah all de chickens in de
world. II ! had gone, out dar an
cotched him, it would hab broke
dis ole heart, and he would hab made
me tote de chickens home foah him
besides. He done tole me do day
before dat he's gwine to pull dem
chickens dat night"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

MoncIar, An eminent French ag1.
'cnlturist, proposes to feed cattle,
sheep and pigs on provender con.
tanning savory herbs, to give flavor
to the flesh. Hsssss
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
NEW ORLEANS, La,
April, 1880. !


have the pleasure to inform you
that l have effected such arrange
ments with the best manufacturers,
that l will be enable to sell goods in
New Orleans at the regular Boston
and New York prices, I am now
ready to fill country orders to any
amount at figures that will convince
all, that they can buy in New Or
leans as cheaply as at the North, or
East. Purchasing goods at close
figures, and in large quantities, !
can sell at a small advance and thu
give my customers q better chance
to make a profit.
NV establishment is heavily
stocked, and a greater variety OF
shoes of all grades can not be found
in any Southern City.
Hoping to be henored with youl
visit, or your orders by mail.
remain, yours truly,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09

| FADACHE, EAR
ache, Toothache. in
stantly.
| NEURALGIA. in six
minutes.
Relieves r Fl U NJ A.
tism, in one day.
IPLEURISY, in oneday
| PAIN IN the BACK or
| side in five minutes.
COUGHS OR COLDS
l in one day.
4 ASTAMA, B R o N.
Y chial Affections. Dys-
\ pepsia, LIVER, Liver
\ Complaint, Palplta-
!. ton OF tn. Heart
1 inflammation of the
! Kidneys, Pies and
| Erysipelas.
/ A SPECIFIC FOR