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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

LOST a hOys
He went from the old home hearthston
Only six years ago,
A laughing, frolicking fellow,
1t would do you good to know,
Since then we have not seen him,
And we say, with nameless pain,
The boy that we knew and loved so
We shall never see again.
One bearing the name we gave him
Comes home to us to-day,
But this is not the dear fellow
We kissed and sent away,
Tall as the man he calls father,
With mans look in his face,
Is he who takes by the hearthstone :.
The lost boys olden place.
We miss the laugh that made music
Wherever the lost boy went,
This man has smile most winsome,
His eyes have grave intent;
We know he is thinking and planning
His way in the world OF men,
And We cannot help but love him,
But we long for our boy again.
We are proud of this manly fellow
Who comes to takes his place,
Who hints of the vanished boyhood
In his earnest, thoughtful face;
And yet comes back the longing
For the boy VIC henceforth must miss,
Whom we sent away from the heartf
stone
Forever with kiss.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
st Won't"

The other day a little boy burst
out crying in school, and he cried as
if his heart would break. Did an
other pinch or hurt him2 No. Was
his lesson too hard2 No. What
were those tears for? His
teacher called him to her side and
asked Freddy what the matter was.
II want to go home. 10! do let
me CO." sobbed Freddy.
"What for, my dear child?" asked
the teacher in her own kind way.
"O," said Freddy, Il said Il
won't to my mother before school,
and / want to go home and tell her
how sorry / am, and ask her to for
give me?"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
Ne Girsside.
Christ's Sentenoe ~ nesth


| The following is an alledged COPY
of the most memorial judicial SEN
tence which has ever been pro-
nounced in the annals Of the world,
namely, that of death against the
Savior, with the remarks which the
Journal LIE Droit has collected, and
the knowledge of which must be in
terestlng in the highest degree to
every Christian. 1t is, word for
word, as follows:
Sentence pronounced by Pontius
PIlate, Intendant of the Lower
Province of Galilee, that Jesus OF
Nazarth shall suffer death by the
cross.
In the seventeenth year Of the
reign of the Emperor Tiberius, and
on the twenty-fourth day Of the
month of March, in the most holy
city of Jerusalem, during the pom
tifcate of Annas and Caiaphus.
Pontius Pllate, Intendant of the
Province of Lower Galilee, sitting to
Judgment in the presidential seat of
the Pretors, sentences Jesus of
Nazareth to death on a cross be-
tween two robbers, as the numerous
and notorious testimonials of the
people prove.
/. Jesus is a misleader.
2. He has excited the people to
sedition.
8. He is an enemy to the law.
A. He calls himself the son of
God.
5. He calls himself, falsely, the
King of Israel.
6. He went into the temple, fol-
lowed by a multitude carrying
palms in their hands.
Orders from the first centurian,
Quirrillis, to bring him to the place
of execution forbids all persons,
rich or poor, to prevent the execu
ton of Jesus.
The witnesses who have signed
the execution of Jesus are:
l. Daniel Robani, Pharisee.
3. John Zorababel.
3. Raphael Robani.
4. Capet.
Jesus 10 be taken out of Jerusa-
lem through the gates of Tournes.
This sentence is engraved on q
plate of brass, in the Hebrew Ian
guage, and on its sides are the fol-
lowing words: "a similar plate
has been sent to each tribe" 1t
was discovered in the year 1880, in
the city of Aquilia, in the kingdom
of Naples, by a search made for
Roman antiquities, and remained
there until it was found by the COM
mission of arts in the French army
in Italy. Up to the time of the
campaign in Southern Italy it was
preserved in the sacrisity of the
Carthusians, near Naples, where it
was kept in box of ebony. Since
then the relic has been kept in the
Chapel of Casert, The Carthusians
obtained, by their petitions, that
the plate might be kept by them,
which was an acknowledgment of
the sacrifices which they made for
the French army. The French
translation was made literally by
members of the commission of arts.
Demon had a fac-simile of the
plate engraved, which was bought by
Lord Howard on the sale of his
cabinet for $500 francs. There
seems to be no historical doubt as
to the authenticity of this. The
reasons of the sentence correspond
exactly with those of the gospel.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
The Rapid Telegraph.

The capacity OF a Single inc Vi
telegraph wire has alway been linn
tied by the qulckness of the opera
tor. The electricity passes from
end to end of the longest line with
out appreaciable loss of time. A
sender of average ability can trans
NIT twenty-five words a minute, or
fifty messengers an hour. This be-
ing the limit Of a single wire, many
lines have become necessary be-
tween large cities, to provide for
the constant increase in the use of
the telegraph by all classes. A few
years ago, Mr.. Eddison discovered
and applied the quadruplex system.
BY this invention, four messages
can be sent at one time over the
same wire, two each way. AS it's
name implies, it increased the car
rying capacity of a wire four-fold.
But the new system OF the Rapid
Telegraph Company is even more
wonderful. BY this method the
messages are transferred to paper
tape which is perforated by a ma
chine with a keyboard, operated
like typewriter. Many persons
are kept busy at these machines
preparing the messages. When the
tape is ready it is wound on a
wheel. Now instead of the opera
| tor making each letter by success
siye clicks Of the telegraph key, he
simply turns the wheel, and steel
points, like the nibs Of pen, trace
their way over the perforated tape,
and wherever there are holes the
Icircuit is completed and the cleo
trio current reports at the other
end of the line, in dots or dashes,
long or short, as the performation
may be. The messages are then
translated from the telegraphic code
and printed in full by the aid of the
TYPE writer ready for delivery. By
this invention, the capacity of 9
wire is increased thirty-fold. One
Thousand words minute may be
sent, involving five hundred pulsa
tions q second of the electric cur
rent. All these improvements are
lin direction Of cheap and efficient
telegraphy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
Cream for Two,

Cream for Two.
Pleasant here, in this dim retreat,
Hidden away from the dusty street;
Safe from the glare of the sun outside,
One is so utterly satisfied.
Cool as the dew of the dawn, in here!
Take Whit of these flowers, my dear
Nosegay, ah! could plunge my nose
Down to the depths OF your deepest nose
Oh VANILLA, thou queenly cream,
China-throned! o thou frozen dream!
Empress thou OF the sultry noon,
Sceptered with but asilver spoon!
Faithful subjects, my love and !,
Fen as thy vassals watching nigh,
Waiting the clink of our bell the while
Fill 'em again? Well, should smile!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A Georgia paper says that a law
against smoking on the street IS
still on the statue book OF many
States, and is of the opinion that 1t
should be enforced against cigarette
smoking boys under sixteen.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
l,l64 Deer Killed.

The Elmira Free Press says
Charles O. Smith lives in Tuscaro
ra Township, Steuben County.
about four miles from Addison. Ir
conversation with our correspon
dent he said: Il came from Chenan
go County into this region in 1S40
1t was wilderness into which We
went. Not tree of the old forest
had been felled. There was great
hunting hereabouts in those days
continued Mr.. Smith. Il remem
Der well when my wife would say to
me, well Charles, want you to &C
out and get me a deer l would
start in the afternoon when the sun
was only an hour high and get three
or four deer before it got very dark
Why, l have myself killed as higt
as eighty-four deer in one season
l have killed and il is one thousand
one hundred and sixty four, all, too
within radious of six or sever
miles from this spot, and every one
in Steuben county. My father
taught me to shoot on the run
long years ago, when we were liv-
ing in Chenango county, and when
1 was but a little boy. We would
90 out on a side hill and my father
would roll a pumpkin down it
While it was under way 1 fired, and
/ practised SO constantly and pa
tiently that l got so 1 could hit the
vegetable every time. l did this SC
I could learn to shoot a deer on the
run, and it gave me excellent prac
tice and skill"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

If religious teachers stop to re-
flute all theiaonsense ahoat they will
have time for nothing else. Pre-
occupy the ground with the truth,
and there will be no room for error.
Preach the gospel.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
MISS. THURSDAY. JUNE 80, 1881

do not tremble and cry, and cling
to me now-for l shall be liberal to
you. AS much Of my fortune shall
be yours as you DESIRE
He pushed her from him. She
fell upon the sofa. From a heart
torn with anguish she shrieked
aloud:
"Frank! Frank! why did / send
you from me? Why did ! sacrifice
love and happiness to such fate as
this? Why was ] blind till sight
brought me to misery?
She lay upon the sofa sobbing
and weeping passionately. Gradu-
ally her grief appeared to exhaust
itself; her head lay peacefully on
her arm, over which swept her dis
sheyelled tresses-until, with o start,
she cried:
Crank! oh, Frank, come backp'
aHere / am" said a soft voice by
her side.
She raised her head. She opened
her astonished eyes, Frank stand
ing before her.
"You have been asleep" he said,
smiling kindly.
"Asleep?' a
"And dreaming, too, / should say
not pleasantly, either"
''Dreamingy' murmured Katie;
"and it is all dreamY
81 hope so," replied Frank, TAX
ing her hand.
"You could not mean to send me
from you SO cruelty, know! l wait
ed in your fathers study. where !
have been talking to him all of an
hour. / came back to plead my
cause once more-and found you
here where l left you-asleep."
"Oh what ho-rid dream" mur-
INJURED Katie, rubbing her eyes. at
was so like a terrible reality, that !
shudder now to think of it. /
thought l was marriedw
"And would that be so horrible?'
asked Frank. II hope then you
did not dream you were married to
mer'
"No-I thought l gave my hand,
without my heart
"Then, if you gave me your hand,
it would not be without your
heart?,'
"No, Frank" said Katie, her
bright eyes beaming happily
through tears-"and here it is"
She placed her fair hand in his
he kissed it in transport.
And soon after there was a real
marriage; not splendid, but hap
py one; not followed by life of lux
ury, but by life of love and con-
tentment; and that was the marri-
age of Frank Minot and Katie Yale.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

He who puts bad construction
on a good act reveals his own wick
edness Of heart.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

If there is any person to whom
you feel dislike, that is the person
|of whom you ought meyer to speak.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A mind that is conscious OF its
integrity, scorns to say more than
lit means to perform.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A noble part Of every true life is
to learn to undo what has been
wrongly done.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

The first step to self-knowledge
lis self.dist-ust.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
NEW ORLEANS.
Diseases Of the Eye aud Ear.
DIR. G. BEARD,
OCULIST AND AURI IS +
142 Canal Street, New Orleans, La.

Office Hours from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m.
bag"A fine selection of Artificial Eyes.
[ feb24-tf
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Crops are doing well.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

= n. HENRY. Editor and Proprietor
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25

LETTERS are sometimes lost and found
in an odd way. A letter containing
money and directed to . New York
man, was, with others, given to the car
rier to deliver. Soon after, the man to
whom the letter was addressed COM
planned that it had not been delivered.
An investigation Was made, but without
any satisfactory result. The next year,
during the season Of ''spring cleaning"
the mystery was solved. The oilcloth
in the hallway was taken up, and on the
floor, close to the front door, was found
the letter which had 80 long been miss
ing. The place had been closed when
visited by the carrier, and in thrusting
the letter under the door he had pushed
it beneath the floor covering. Some
years ago, . young man was discharged
from a Connecticut post-ofice on sus-
picion of dishonesty. The suspicion
arose from the unaccountable disappear
ance of some money letters from the box
rented by an insurance company. When
the cool weather of autumn caused the
president of this company again to wear
the light overcoat which he had laid
aside at the end Of spring, he found
these letters in one of the pockets. Then
he remembered that he must have
taken them from the Office one Sunday
morning, on his way to church, after
ward forgetting them, and putting away
his overcOat for the season. Thus an
innocent young man had suffered from
the criminal carelessness Of another.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25

MEg IND sPzpxRs.


FLUNG stone into grassy field. 4'} D 343
how MANY tiny creatures there may yield
'n1 pnds mt sh their petty Awe. through that
To me pebble, tits to them a rock,
oiean,ac, cruel, and franght with sudden
Pperhapsit crushed an ant, perhaps its breath
Alone tore down white and giittering pal
And the small spider damns the giants NAL.
Who wrought the wreck-blasted his pretty
Who knows what day a saunterer, light OF
An idle wanderer through the fields of space,
Large -hmbed, big Drained, t. whom our uny
Seems small as insects; one whose footstep
On some vast Continent islanded by stars
Who knows when he, just leaning DER the
May disg astone and'crush our earth to bits.
ana an that men, have builded with their
All. what q loss! you say; our bodies go,
But not our temples, statues, and the glow
Our poets have illumed through myriad ages.
What boots tile insects loss? Another day
VIII see the self same ant hill, and the play
VI ns ' on dainty web the Aes same. y.ny...S0
The spiders work is not original
But whatOf ours? All! friend, think that all
we do is just the same thing over and over.
Take Lie: you have the woman and her low
IT'S old as Eden, nothing new in that! 80,
Take Bnilding, and you reach ere long the
Nile desert sands, by way of France. Rome.
Greece.
And there is Poetry-our bards increase
In numbers, but, before John Keats, the robe
OF Song was worn by Shakespeare, Dante. job.
No, no! The forms may change, but even
they --e-s . go o. - -F'ss
Come round again. Could we but scan it
heavens
planet
Whence all we are was borrowed; and if
TO-DAY
The imagined giant flung his ponde-ous
stone, .ft.E- -
And we and all our mighty schemes were
DONE
His were a scant remorse and short lived
trouble 80 tfE
As mine for those small creatures in the stub.
70 Die.
r.. ". Glider, in Scrsbncr's Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25
PITH AND POINT.

SHIPWRECKED sailors never need
starve while there is blight of rope
eft.-Lowdl Citizen.
THE world is filing up with educated
fools-mankind read too much and learn
too ittle.-Josh Billings. .a..a
"WHAT is fame?" asks the Philadel-
phia american. Fame is the result of
being civil to newspaper men.-B0stou
Post.
ARKANSAS women love to whistle
Boston Post. And what is more lovely
than tulips well blownp-Philade!phid
Bulletin. - ''..tie
No matter about the strike of the ice
cutters up the Hudson. The ice crop is
large and well set, and the harvest will
be immense, unless an untimely frost
should nip the Observation-Disclosures
Queen.
WHAT becomes of all the cold war
horses - after the campaign is over and
the President is electedp Do they 20
back to the ploughP And echo answers
+" neigh; they 60 to the trough. bur
lington Hoa0Geye.
= THE young men of this S are ing in
and are un led for gazing;
they are =. of fashion, and do not
need ~a lamp-post to keep them
selves perpendicular.-Nyack CITY and
Country. ....... If..-
MANAGEMENT of the worlds fair''
is troubling New York just now. It is
q problem that Adam struggled with
when there was only one worlds fair,
and she got the best of him.-NeU
Hdven Register. s-'i.
GLIMPSE of future event: An i'm
mense ship carrying the Washington
Monument from the United States, then
an ancient and abandoned country, to
the grand republic of Africa, to be set
up in the big square in the City of Tim
buctoo. But we may euchre the Van.
dals after all by not completing the
monument. Ha! ha! We shall prove
too much for posterity. We are won
derful people.-N. =. Graphic.
The Textile Record has an engraving
of an s'improved self-acting- mule" II
is generally understood that all mules
are self-acting, and it is with pleasure
that we note any Improvement in the
animal. The Improvement seems to do
away with the familiar appearance Of
the mule in fact, the picture makes it
look more like spinning machine than
q mule. Still it is to be presumed that
the kicks are softened' like the gentle
Of an autumn zephyr.-Detroit
Free Press. .....--
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25

A MAGNETIC sand, imported from the
Isle of Bourbon, and since found near
Morbihan, is said by n. Edard to have
the property Of rapidly reviving plants
which had shown pronounced symp-
toms Of decay through disease.
TaE experiment of running . locomo-
tive without brakes has just been sue
cessfully tried by the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western Railroad Company.
An appliance BY which power was ap-
piled against the piston was used.
DIR. OSCAR JENNINGS, q physician Of
standing in Paris, writes to the London
disease he has constantly usod music,
which Gains and soothes the mind, and
is too precious an agent to be neglected.
Concerts form q part of the regular
treatment in many asylums. 1t viii be
remembered that Saul found satisfac-
ton in music. ,ss.f 4.Ft
Dr.. CZECH, of st. Petersburg, suggests
to inventors the desirability Of securing
some apparatus which will collect tho
fine volatile oil of the coffee bean, one
half of which is lost by represent mode
Of roasting. The beans contain to Is
per cent. Of this oil, which has all the
flavor of coffee, and which would, IL
saved, form an excellent material for
liquors. In 1873 the quantity of coffee
roasted Is estimated at about 123, 600
tons. iiait-Ii -: re i"A f..
MICA has been applied to new use,
that of fashioning it into middle soles to
boots and shoes. The invention con-
sists of q sheet of mica imbedded in thin
coatings of cement, and placed in the
boot or shoe under and adjacent to the
in-sole, the upper leather of the shoe
tapping over its edges, or next under the
filing, or between the filling and the
outer or bottom sole, and covering the
upper space from the toe to the instep.
To obviate the dangers and troubles
caused by high steps to passenger
coaches, Miss Skerritt, q young lady OF
Albany, N. Y, has invented and pat
ented folding step which when low
cred comes within foot of the ground.
When the train is ready to start the
stops are turned out of the way by means
of q lever, which always holds them Sc
cure. This renders them free from ice
and cinders, and in descending from
them one is in no danger of slipping.
Another Important feature is that when
folded these steps prevent passengers
from jumping off or on the cars. The
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company
IS testing the invention.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25
1 Mother's Sad Meeting With Her
Four Sons.

one of the saddest scenes ever wit
messed in the Missouri Penitentiary
transpired to-day. A mother met four
of her sons wearing the striped suits as
convicts within its walls. Their names
and crimes, as recorded on the Peniten-
tiary rolls, are: James Greenwade, aged
80 years; ten years for robbery; re-
ceived November 80 last. Luther Green
wade, aged 26; seven years for robbery
and larceny. Breckenridge Greenwade,
aged %; seven years for robbery and
larceny. Henry Greenwade, aged 20;
ten years for robbery and larceny; re-
ceived day before yesterday; all from
Bates County. h
The father and mother of these men
live In Jefferson, near Mount Sterling,
KY; keep hotel there, and are
tolerably we'll to do in life. Four or
five years ago the elder brother came to
Missouri and bought farm near Butler,
in Bates County. The younger brothers
followed soon after, and the four lived
together on the place, the oldest being
married. Neighbors looked upon them
as people of means, and respectable.
For two or three years all sorts of devil
ment was perpetrated in and about
Butler. Persons were waylaid and
robbed by disguised men, mails were
rifed, burglaries committed and hogs
stolen. At length suspicion conferred on
the Greenwades, and they were watched
by officers and citizens and at last caught
''dead to rights" Mail pouches, cut
open and rifled, were found in the
cellar, and other stolen property on
their premises. Conviction was
easy, and they were landed in the Peni-
tentiary. At the time stated the mother,
hearing her sons were in trouble, posted
in haste to Bates County, only to learn
that they had all been convicted of
crimes and taken to the e-prison.
With her daughter-in-law and the lat
ter's two children she reached Jefferson
City to-day and at once proceeded to the
Peniten6ary. The meeting with her
sons was terribly affecting, and it is as
serted Deputy Warden Bradbury for
once in his life gave way to the melting
mood.
"My God" she exclaimed, s'that
mother should live to see four Of her be-
loved boys in such . place!"
The officials were kind and tender to
the afflicted ones, but they had at last
to use force in separating the mother
from her sons, and induced her to leave
them after Q visit Of three or four hours.
Mrs. Greenwade, ST., is . woman of
not over fifty years in appearance, well
hammered, ong-minded and inteli-
gent; but the fearful realization was
more than her mothers heart could bear
unmoved, and she gave vent to her
shame and sorrow in . manner more af-
fecting than was ever before witnessed
within the prison walls. She left for her
Kentucky home this evening, taking her
daughtH-in-law and the children with
her.
There il one more son, who win
doubtless never disgrace his name, for
he is . minister Of the gospel in good
standing. One of the convicts is in the
Prison Hospital.-Cdr. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-25

ton to my peculiar friend.
At length the silence was broken by
the carriage stopping suddenly.
"Here we are!" he cried, eagerly
preparing to get out. slf
81 beg your pardon" I said, detain-
ing him "but t should be obliged if
you would tell me your name; it is awk-
ward, not knowing" A,t p
He burst out laughing.
"Come, drop that nonsense, Teddy !;
it's too absurd!''
The carriage-door few open, and I
followed my companion ont.
+" Good might, Mr.. Edward" said the
"Glad to see you, sir!" exclaimed
the butler. This Is an unexpected
pleasure; thought as how you were at
Cambridge still, Mr.. Edward" -a
My strange acquaintance locked at
me triumphantly. , -.
:" Where is your mistress, Johnson7
is she up still?''
80 yes, sir, and Miss Ida, too; they
both said as how they would wait for
you. SIR"
! It did not take us long to relieve our.
selves of our hats, ETC., and then found
myself following my host and the butler
up some broad, softly -carpeted stairs.
The man threw open door, and l could
see before me drawing-room of large
proportions, beautifully furnished, and
two ladies advancing to meet Us with
outstretched arms.
"Here is an unexpected pleasure for
you, mammal" said my companion,
blithely.
80 Edward, my darling!" exclaimed
the elder lady, throwing her arms about
my neck and hugging me heartily.