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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-15
He Wanted a Notice.

Are you the editor?' said a man,
who wore q conciliatory smile and a
dyed beard, as he took seat in our
office.
We acknowledged that at present we
served and instructed the public in
that capacity, and to prove our asser-
ton, we showed him the blisters made
on our hands by our exertion in oper-
ating the Archimedian lever that moves
the world.
"Well l want you to surprise me
with q dattering personal notice in
your paper. I'm going to run for con-
stable in the Eight Ward and, l want
something neat in the way of send
off,"
"Our columns are always open to
lie, but we shall expect you to first
surprise us with a pecuniary COM
pensation, not necessarily for publica
ton, but merely as a pledge of good
faith"
"rll pay. A man can't expect to
be surprised without paying for it in
advance. What have you got?'
"We can accommodate you with
almost any kind of personal notice
from cheap electro-plated biography
to an eighteen carat obituary, and at
scale of prices varying according to
the strain ON our columns and veracity.
In molding public opinion we defy
competition. Now, how would you
like this? 1t is a neat little pre-Raph-
aelite gem and will cost you only Sl.5O:
"'Our enterprising townsman, Colonel
B, than whom there is no more
popular and genial gentleman in the
length and breadth of our great Empire
State, has consented at the earnest
solicitation of many friends, to sacri-
flee his very profitable business for
the public good. and has authorized us
to announce him as candidate for the
honorable Office of Constable of this
precinct"
If that is not strong enough here is
a Michael Angelo, full-length, in which
your good qualities of head and heart
will be touchingly alluded to, and you
will be commended for your generous
impulses-only $3.50 each insertion.
Then we have a brilliant thing, after
Mozart, which is really intended for
Gubernatorial candidates of
your simplicity of character, jean
clothes and payas-you-go-proclivities-
but it can easily be modified to suit a
prospective Constable. 1t will cost you
$500. There are several others from
81 90 to $1,000 each. For referring to
you as an 'old landmark one dollar
extra is charged"
81 reckon you can saw me off three
dollars worth, but you must throw in
something about my brilliant war re-
cord"
ave always do that"
"And just wind up by surprising
Captain Bill Smike. He is running
against me. 1 wouldn't say anything
he might take offense at. Only say he
is not fit for the office, because he has a
breath like buzzard and the record OF
convict. You might add that my
brother hasn't got wife that has fits.
That will hit him where he is sore, for
his brothers wife is subject to fits. l
don't care to lug any personalities into
this campaign, unless l am obliged to. y
| "We can't do it. Colonel. Your rival
is our personal friend. He is SUBJ
scriber."
"Pshaw! thought you were running
an independent paper in the interest OF
the people, but, l see you are the subsi.
died organ of political clique" and
off he went to see the editor of the other
paper.-Ierds fittings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-15

Il don't 'spose you'll believe it.,
but it's fact that when L was down ter
Norfolk in '63 shell burst right in
front OF me and the contents lodged
right plum in my stomach; n I'm live
now" "Same thing happened to me
down ON the wharf day before yester-
day" The two friends gazed at each
other, as if trying to see which was the
biggest liar. They were both telling
the truth for this once. They had in
dulg.ed in Virginia oysters ION the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-15

The once celebrated Giulia Baruc-
Gel used to say: at is more shameful
and more disgraceful for pretty
woman to have corn or bunion on her
foot than to deceive her dearest friend
without cause.' '-1-'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-15

~ When a man told his wife that he
mad lust traded for a new spring wagon,
she replied, ''You Ounce, you! why did
you get a spring wagon In the fall OF
the YearP'
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Tho st. Louis Fly Pest.

st. Louis is in great wonderment
over her visitation of peculiar flies.
No one knows what manner of in
sect they are nor whence they come.
The St. Louis Republican says:
Last night the corridors of the Lo-
tel swarmed with them, and they
fitted about the electric lights like
sparks from a fire. They twisted
and turned about in the light, and
caused noise such as is caused by
a gentle breeze through the trees.
Around the portico on the Washing
ton avenue side of the hotel a great
crowd gathered to watch the whiz-
zing. whirling insects. Every one
thought that the sight was worth
walking a mile to see. But evident
ly the hotel proprietors cannot see
any beauty in the. insects, as two
men were employed smoking them
away. Three or four newspapers
were tied up in a bundle and placed
on the end of long pole and then
lighted. 1t was thrust right up
among the flies, and they swarmed
into the flames, leaving great gaps,
with the multitude preceptibly di-
minished; but in few moments the
swarm was just as large as ever.
1t was dumb crowd that watched
this process, for it was dangerous
to open the mouth to speak, as the
flies would surely get inside. They
seemed to take especial delight in
getting into peoples ears and buz-
zing and hopping about enough to
drive one crazy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Are Tracts Wasted.

Some people think that the day of
the usefulness Of tracts has gone by
and that the tract, distributors task
is as idle as the throwing of sand to
the four winds of heaven. But
though printed word may be was
ted, just as careless word may be
addressed to careless ears, no one
knows upon what ground the seed
will fall.
Recently it was reported in the
news columns of New York daily
paper, that man sterped into q
horse car in New York, and, before
taxing his seat, gave to each passen-
ger little card, bearing the inscrip-
tion, :Look to Jesus, when tempted,
when troubled, when dying"
One of the passengers carefully
read the card and put it in his pock-
ct. AS he left the car he said to the
giver, "Sir, when you gave Inc this
card, / was on my way to the ferry
intending to jump from the boat
and drown myself. The death of
my wife and son had robbed me Of
all desire to live. But this ticket
has persuaded me to begin life
anew. Good day, and God bless
your
All this is no imaginary story,
taken from a religious novel. 1t
happened to be on a Fulton Ferry
car, ON day in March, 1878, and
the man that distributed the cards
was Mr.. James Higgins, the pro-
prietor of the Pearl-street printing
establishment.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Scraps.

One by one come the desolate
days. 1t is only to-day that touch
eth thee. Look straight before
thee! Some guiding rays shine down
on thy path. Go on with praise in
the light that thou canst see.
1t was amid the darkness of the
night, at the brook Jabbok, that ia
cob of old wrestled with the angel
and prevailed. 1t is the souls dark
lonely, and solitary seasons still the
church's moral and spiritual wrest-
lers are crowned with victory, and,
as princes, haye power with God.
A man ought never to get rid of
his childhood. He may put away
childish things and yet retain what
is sweet and beautiful in childhood.
There is a simple faith, an inno-
cence and q liberty of childhood
which should be carried up into and
become the bloom of our manhood.
We are timid of the man whose life
brings with it none ofthe fragrance
of boyhood, who cannot be a boy
again whenever burdens of mature
years may be laid aside?
Thus far the Lord has led us thro'
the wilderness, and his guiding, sus-
tanning hand should be devoutly
and gratefully recognized; and as
those disciples whom our Savior
loved he loved unto the end, so this
same gracious, invigorated hand
will lead us further on our heavenly
course until the end thereof is reach
ed and heaven possessed. OF this
we may be assured, and thereby
and encouraged to per-
severe. What believer is looking to
the past, cannot say, "Ebenezer;"
or, in looking to the future, may not
say, "JehovahjirehT
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Convention Pleasantly.

During the balloting in the State
Convention on Friday, the following
colloquy took place:
The Chair (Mr. Hall, Of Pamela,
1.-THE Chair will state that a pair
of specks have been found, which the
owner can have by calling at the
desk p"
Mr.. Reynolds-"I move that the
specks be presented to the Chair" )"
The Chair-"The Chair will state
that he is able to see through the
gentleman from Monroe without the
aid of specks."
Mr.. Reynolds-"Are the specks to
be the property of the gentleman
from Monroe? They might aid him
in seeing through the Chair
The Chair-"It would take bet
ter pair of glasses than these to aid
the gentleman from Monroe to that
extent.
The following resolutions were Of
fered by Mr.. Street during the clos
ing hour of the Convention:
l. Resolved, That in all future
caucuses of the Democratic party OF
Attala county, the words zone and
three -thirteenths" be adopted "a the
countcrsign, and the giving Of said
countersign shall be the only evi-
dence required of loyalty to the
party.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Glover and Rye for Hogs.

In my experience says writer, l
have seen nothing so profitable for
hog pasture as clover and rye,
and l think rye prefera-
BILE, and the reason they are better
than timothy, the grass and all sim
liar grasses is they remain more
tender for a longer period than 9th
er grasses, which soon become wiry
and hard, partaking of the nature
of hay, and / have never known
hogs to thrive on it, although other
stock does. To use rye profitable
for pasture, fall rye should be sown
for spring pasture, and by not pas
turing too long and too close there
will be considerable head out,
which, when ripe. will, with the
weeds that naturally grow among
grain, make good pasture until the
time to commence feeding corn-at
least such is my experience. As to
using any Of the grasses named for
hog pasture, I would prefer q good
weed pasture and will here say that
I am opinion if some of the weeds
SO eagerly eaten by hogs were do.
mesticated and properly cultivated
they would prove more satisfactory
for hog pasture than anything used
of the grass kind.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
A Rare Talent.

The faculty of drawing out OF
persons with whom one is convers-
ing the best there is ia them
brighter things than they even sup
pose themselves capable offs the
rare gift with which nature has en-
dowed some women. George Eliot
was most charming person in con-
versation, though she was q woman
Of few words, because Of her intui-
tive insight into the thoughts OF
others. A few words would put her
into possession, not of what they
said. but of what they would fain
have said, and she would SO im-
prove upon it that ordinary people
went away charmed with her who
had made them for once, at least,
feel themselves to be wise. Long
afterward, perhaps, she would recall
to their remembrances the wise or
witty things which they could hard
" believe themselves to have said,
and which they assuredly never
would have said but for her quick
ening influence.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
A Year Without q Summer.

In the year 1916 there was a
sharp frost in every month. 1t was
known as the year without sum :
mer. The farmers used to refer to
it as eighteen hundred an starve to
DEATH" In May ice formed half an
inch thick, buds and flowers frozen
and corn killed. Frost, ice and
snow were common in June. AL
most every green thing was killed,
and the fruit was nearly all de-
stroycd. Snow fell to the depth of
three inches in New York and Mas.
sachusetts. July was accompanied
with frost an ice. On the fifth, ice
was formed of the thickness of
window glass In New York, New
England and Pennsylvania, and
corn was nearly all destroyed in
certain sections. In August ice
formed half an inch thick. A cold
northern wind prevailed nearly all
summer. Corn was so frozen that
q great deal was cut down and sold
for fodder. Very little ripened in
New England, and scarcely any
even in the middle States. Farmers
were obliged opay So and IS a
bushel for corn of 1916, for the next
springs planting.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Commedy Of Errors.

Two babies were born in the
same house at Oakland, Tenn. The
mothers were sisters, closely resem-
bling each other, and the infants
were both girls. In the excitment
of the occasion the little ones got
mixed, and this happened before
they had been dressed, or in any
other way marked for Identification
There seems to be no way out of the
uncertainty, for three months have
passed without developing any re-
semblance to the father in either
case; and if the children grow up,
as they seem likely to, with no ply
sical characteristics of their moth
ers, nobody will ever know their ex-
act parentage. The present agree
ment is to decide the question By
lot.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Chinese Beds,

There are two kinds of Chinese
beds and both are arranged for a
complete shutting in by means OF
hanging curtain and tapestry. The
expensive kind is like a sort of
cage, having a fiat wooden roof,
just the size of a bed proper, sup
ported at a height of about eight
feet from the floor on four corner
posts and two intermediate ones.
Then there Is a sort Of frieze or en-
tablature work running around hor-
izontally, above and below, SO that
when you are in bed you are
safely penned in SOFT Of
cage, and cannot possibly tumble
out. The carving on these heads is
sometimes very rich, and they cost
much; but the ordinary and cheaper
kind is made of two frames of wood
shaped something like the skeleton
of an old fashioned "settle," which
are stood on the floor facing
each other. A mattress is placed
on the projecting parts Of these
frames and a couple Of light sticks
across the top; then curtains or
hangings shut all in, and make it
look as pretty as the taste and mon
ey of the owner are able.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
VOL. 1I.--NO. <.


Jay Gould was born at Stratton's
Falls, Delaware county New York,
in the'year 1886. When sixteen years
Of age, he made his first move in life,
and became clerk to esquire Bur
ham," at Roxubury, two miles from
the falls, who kept small store, re-
markable for the variety, original
character, ,infinitesimal quantities OF
it's stock. Here his auditory nerye
became SO susceptible that his en-
ployer thought it altogether too SEN
sitiye for so small an establishment.
Mr.. Durham had managed to obtain
intelligence that a very desirable
piece Of land was for public sale,
cheap, in Albany, and determined
to purchase it. This he cautiously
whispered to some parties in the
presence of his young employer. On
proceeding to put his design into
execution, however, he found that,
in the interim, his clerk had become
possessed of the property, having
availed himself of the astuteness OF
his hearing.
The genius of Jay must have been
of no ordinary character, for before
he was twenty years of age he ap-
peared sudtiesly fall-blown civil
engineer, and made q survey of Del
aware county.
In 1859, Mr.. Gould began to spec.
ulate in Wall street, in railroad
stock; and, it is said, as curbstone
broker. At that period his means
were limited, and his quarters in
New York most unpretentious.
From the very first, however, he had
the reputation of being the most
successful man; and this was itself
an amount Of capital not ca
silly estimated. He neither smoked,
drank nor gambled, and was always
on the qui vivs for business. Dur
ing the war he profited largely by
the sale Of gold and of stocks, and
took advantage Of every defeat or
success of the Union army. Long
before the close of the struggle he
was said to be q millionaire.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
GIRLS, remember that above every

GIRLS, remember that above every
other feature that adorns the female
character, delicacy stands foremost
within the province of good taste.
Not that delicacy which is perpetu-
ally In quest OF something to be
ashamed of, which makes merit Of
a blush, and simpers at the false
construction its own ingenuity has
put upon an innocent remark; this
spurious kind of delicacy is as far
removed fiom good taste as from
good feeling and good sense; but
the high minded delicay which
maintains its pure and undertaking
walk alike amongst women as in the
society of men, which shrinks from
no necessary duty, and can speak,
when required, with seriousness and
kindness of things at which it would
be ashamed to smile or blush.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
CHE aireside.
Where am I Going.

One fine summer evening, as the
sun was going down, a man was
seen trying to make his way through
the lanes and crossroads that led
to his village home. His unsteady
staggering way Of walking showed
that he had been drinking;. and
though he had lived in that village
more than thirty years, he was now
so drunk that it was impossible for
him to find his way home.
Quite unable to tell where he was,
at last he uttered q dreadful oath,
and said to person going by, "Pve
lost my way. Where aD l going"
The man addressed was an earn
est Christian. He knew the poor
drunkard very well, and pitied him
greatly. When he heard the inqui-
ry, "Where am / going9" in quiet,
sad, solemn way, he answered:
"To ruinw
The poor staggering man stared
st him wildly for a moment, and
then murmured with groan:
That's so.'
"Come with me-" said the other
kindly, "and I'll take you home"
The next day came. The effect
of drink had passed away, but those
two little words, tendcrly and low
ingly spoken to him, did not pass
away. ITO ruin to ruin" he kept
whispering to himself. ats true,
I'm going to ruin! o God, help me
and save mer'
Thus he was stopped on his way
to ruin. By earnest prayer to God
he sought the grace which made him
a true Christian. His feet were es-
tablished on the rock: 1t was
rock broad enough to reach that
poor, miserable drunkard, and it
lifted him up from his wretchedness
and made useful happy man Of
him.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
Worrying or Praying.

When we find ourselves in trouble
with no apparent way out of it, do
we commonly give more time to
worry 1t, or to prayer about it? The
worry can never make our path
palmer. or our troubles the less.
Prayer may do both. There is q
great deal of time lost in thinking
over our burdens and perplexities
instead OF talking them over with
God.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

We ought not to add, by word or
look, to the unhappiness Of those
who already have load Of sorrow
to bear.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

He is happy, save for the sad
memories which come, as they sure
ly will, to all those who, by word or
deed, have embittered the life Of
another.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
1iferazy.
where would Die,

where I Would Die.
A soldier of the late Confederacy, while
living on his back in Virginia, with the not
very pleasant prospect before him Of hav.
ing his "eyes sealed by strangers hands, i"
wrote the lines below in his memorandum
book:
Let me not die on the rolling deep,
Where the wild winds nightly howl dirge
And pillows with ceaseless fury surge,
= And no silence keep.
Oh! a grave would be too lonely, where
No footsteps fall, no flowers are found,
No voice but oceans eternal sound
Let me die not there.
Let me die not on the CORY field,
Meath the Turing of glory's star,
Where futed bugles mock the loud jar
OF gun, sword and shield.
Where man meets man in famous career;
Where Death buys his victim with name,
And rides through the day in smoke and
flame,
Grim in his red car.
In the wild fury of passions storm,
Hurting to earth the embattled brave,
There's no time to smooth the troubledwav
OF life's ebbing stream.
Such, perhaps, is the glory of war,
The patriots hope, the soldiers aim,
And rejected lovers fitful dream,
But let me die not there.
Let me die not meath the city's dome;
Not an eye would weepin all that throng,
Not falter a step as it slaves along,
For a soul gone home.
Meath the city's glare and splendor rare
Wickedness and crime together band
And woe and darkness go hand in hand
Let me not die there.
Let me not die in the strangers land;
would not that my hand be held,
Nor that my dying eyes be sealed
By strangers hand.
The kind strangers skies are bright and fair,
The strangers home has many charm,
And the strangers heart beats true and warm
But let me die not there.
Far beyond the hazy mountains peak,
And many rivers rolling tide,
And wild ravine deep and valley wide,
And lone hill top bleak;
There is a spot of all others blest,
Scene OF childhood's sports and manhood's
care,
And early sorrows first rising tear,
The purest and best.
IT'S 4 spot where holy memories burn;
The light of the past plays round it e'er,
And the loved and true keep vigil there,
For the fond return.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Boston gives free Sunday con.
ce-ts on the common.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Oh! grave would be too lonely, where
No footsteps fall, no flowers are found
No voice but oceans eternal sound
Let me die not there.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

The Servian government will al
low Jews to become citizens,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

There are 500 men in New York
worth $3, 600, 600 or more.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

They watch the march of the moving year,
Only because return not home;
Oh! Father grant when ce. to roam,
That | may die there!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
NEW ORLEANS.
Diseases of the Eye and Ear.
DIR. c. BEARD,
OCULIST AND RIST,
142 Canal Street, New Orleans, La.

Office Hours from 10 a. IN. to p. m.
gY"A A fine selection of Artificial Eyes.
feb24-tf
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Let me not die on the rolling deep,
Where the wild winds nightly howl dirge
And billows with ceaseless fury surge,
And no silence keep.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

A soldier of the late Confederacy, while
lying on his back in Virginia, with the not
very pleasant prospect before him OF hay,
ing his "eyes sealed by strangers hands, ,"
wrote the lines below in his memorandum
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Let me die not on the CORY field,
Meath the Turing of glory's star,
Where futed bugles mock the loud jar
Of gun, sword and shield.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

IT'S spot where holy memories burn;
The light of the past plays round it e'er,
And the loved and true keep vigil there,
For the fond return.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Where man meets man in famous career;
Where Death buys his victim with name,
And rides through the day in smoke and
flame,
Grim in his red car.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

In the wild fury of passions storm,
Hurting to earth the embattled brave,
There's no time to smooth the troubled wave
OF life's ebbing stream.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18

Let me die not meath the city's dome;
Not an eye would weepin all that throng,
Not falter step as it slaves along,
For soul gone home.