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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
BROOKHAVEN. MISS. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1881
lifera'gy.

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Yours aad Mine.
They lie SO far apart from this day forth,
Your path and mine,
And still the sun will not have altered
much,
The sun will shine
As if no shade had fallen DER our lives,
And lips will smile,
And may be we, too, may forget,
After awhile.
1t will seem strange, at FIRST, to feel no more
The sweet content
Which has been mine, and l shall miss the
Your presence lent
My weary way, but Time will dull the pain,
And Memory twine
Her willow boughs above the graves that
Your past and mine.
We may forget, ah ! it Is better SO;
The world is wide,
And Joy and Sorrow journeying past each
day,
Go side by side.
Change brings relief to many an aching
heart,
And our Il ~
Is sometimes softeaic, e. 49wldie our checks
With AZ, rStWer.
We called each other "friend;" one of us
erred.
could not know!
Had We been only friends it would have
Far better so.
| loved you, and you blindly would not see.
had no sign
To tell how different were the feelings in
Your heart and mine
Some time, perchance, our paths may cross
again,
Before Life ends,
And l shall think half sadly, "Once we
The best of friends.
She was too true woman to deceive,
Too kind to know
How deep wound she made within my
heart
So long ago.
| know not what the years may bring to
OF veal or woe,
But through the gloom around me l shall
pray
For you, and oh,
Should human comfort yield your heart
relief,
May OnNdivine
Reach down in gentle Consultations guise
And strengthen mine.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
Sentiment.

The dependence Of the mind on
the senses is seen in the fact that
the deaf and dumb are apt to be
stupid.
Blessedness consists in the ac.
complishment of our desires, and in
our having only regular desires.
The true proof Of the inherent no.
bleness of our common nature is in
the sympathy it betrays with what
is noble wherever crowds are collec-
ted.
Nothing is small or great of it
self; it becomes SO by the spirit We
pnt into it. There is no peace for
the man who makes his starting
point from himself.
Tho progress Of truth through the
character is slow and requires time
for its full establishment long after
it has been vitality and sincerely re-
ceived.
There is no holy past. The world
revolvcs in its annual orbits and
brings seed time and harvest, and
also it makes it's diurnal revolutions
and brings day and night. But the
days and the years which have pass
ed away carried with them all events
which distinguished them. The
now is all that we can claim. The
past is memory, the future q hope;
the one possesses sentimental in
terest, the other nothing. We think.
act and live In an eternal to-day,
and will do 80 during the lifetime
lof the race.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
The Storage Of Petroleum.

There is at present, in round mum
bers. $4,000, 900 barrels of crude Pc
troleum stored iu iron tanks in the
oil regions of Pennsylvania. 1t is an
inland lake of oil that may be de-
scribed as having reached its high
est ebb, inasmuch as indications
now point Enthusiastically to q falling
off ia the daily production Of the
wells and a consequent decline in
the amount tanked. Not the least
striking feature of the oil regions
are the clusters Of these enormous
iron reservoirs located on ghill and
in valley, and whose construction
keeps actively employed great work
shops and an army Of men in Pitts
burg, Ttusyille, Oil City, aad else
where. The oil held by the 1900
tanks dotting the oil regions would
fill to the depth of ten feet a square
reservoir lake measuring STAT feet
each way.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
A Soft Answer.

Can l see the lady Of the house?'
inquired the peddler.
We'll, yes, you can if you amt
blindp snapped the woman who an
swered the bell.
oh, beg pardon, madam; you are
the lady OF the house, then?' +.
Yes, / am! what do you take me
for? Did you think / was the gen.
tleman of the house, or the next
door neighbor, or one of the farm
hands. Or the cat, or the ice chist?'
i did not know, madam, but you
might be the youngest daughter
oh, did yer? Well that was nat'rl
too. replied the !. of the b.
What do you want sir? Then
the peddler displayed his wares,
and when be left that door step an
hour later his face was full Of pleas
ure and his pockets were full Of
money. He understood human na
ture, and had made a good sale.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
Things Worth Knowing.

A poultice of fresh tea leaves
moistened with water, will cure q
sty on the eyelid.
For ear-acke, dissolve assafGtida
in water; warm a few drops and
drop in the ear, then cork the ear
with wool.
The true physiological way of
treating burns and scalds is to at
once exclude the air, with cotton
batting, flour, scraped potato, or
anything that is handiest.
Use fresh water. Water that has
stood in an open dish oyer night
should not be used for cooking or
drinking as it will have absorbed
many foul gases.
Mix q little carbonate Of soda
with the water in which flowers are
immersed, and it will preserve them
for fortnight. Common saltpetre
lis also q good preseryatiye.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22

Hope is like the sun, which, as
we journey toward it, casts the shad-
Iow of our burden behind us.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
Postal Savings Banks.

Postal saving banks exist in Ger
many, Switzerland and England, so
that our government does not enter
upon ah untried experiment if they
are tried here. The object is to
encourage habits of thrift and
economy by providing for the people
absolutely safe repositories for small
sums. There is no country where
this is more needed than our own.
Americans are notoriously prodigal.
A foolish notion obtains that it is
mean to be saving. Hence we have
as a people, actaully never learned
the art of saving small sums. In
part this is due to the fact that there
have been no small and absolutely
safe securities drawing interest.
Then there were no savings banks,
save during short time when
institutions under that name man
aged frequently by scoundrels swim
died the poor and laughed in their
faces when charged with it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
Is It Rightp

Is it right for men who profess
and call themselves Christians to
pray, Lead US not into temptation
and then needlessly expose them
selves to the influence Of drinks
which have tempted and ruined so
many thousands?
Is it right for men to ask God to
Give us this day our daily Bread
and then support system which IL
censes men to destroy good grain by
converting it into body and soul de-
stroying drink?
Is it right to build churches,
chapels and schools to help to save
the people, and at the same time IL
cense men and women to open shops
in which liquors are sold which will
destroy the people?
Is it right to license a man to sell
drink which will make people drunk,
and then fine men and women for
getting drunk?
Is it right to license men to make
paupers and criminals, and tax So
ber and virtuous people to pay rates
to keep them?
Is it right to derive a revenue out
of a system which demoralizes and
degrades the people?
Is it righ: for people to wish the
cause success and at the
same time continue to drink and
support the liquor traffic?
Is it right for any man or woman
who wishes we'll to their country to
stand aloof from the only certain
cure for our national intemperance?
Is it right for a Sunday school
teacher to teach scholars to beware
of the dangers of the public house
with breath smelling Of strorg drink
which comes from such places?
Is it right for a minister Of the
gospel to preach against drunken.
ness, while he continues to use the
drink which alone produces it?
Is it right to admit into Christian
churches, as members. liquor sell
ers, Or persons in any way interest
ed in the traffic, who, by their bust
ness. are constantly hindering the
spread of the gospel, and leading
professors ofreligion astray?
Isit right to expect God to help
Christian efforts when these efforts
are tainted with the money which
comes from the ruin of souls?
Is it right to do wrong and expect
wrong to produce right?
Is it right to ask these questions,
and if SO, what answer can each
reader give to them?
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22

The Mother,s Leisnre Hour.


Home has been called woman's
kingdom and fitlyso because within
its walls she who is wife, mother,
daughter or sister, holds the scepter.
"'rhe many make the household,
but only one the home," says the
poet, and in sense his words are
true, for in every home the house.
mother is the one who gives the tone
to the family. The family life sell
dom rises higher than the mohter's
ideal will let it rise. Whatever 10.
her predominant aim, the ultimate
desire OF her heart is revealed in her
sons and daughters. If she is sell
fish, frivolous and full of worldly
ambition, her children are in fair
wayst become the same. If she is
chGUfy, earnest and consecrated in
her purpose to live the best and
highest life possible to a Christian
woman, Is;,children usually follow
in her footsteps.
Few leisure hours are possessed
by mothers with their little ones
around them. The days are crowd
ed with cares. The cooking, the
sewing, the tying ofstrings and fas-
tening of buttons, the training of
the hearing of lessons, the
many, many things which make very
little show but consume a great
deal of time, fill up a mothers day
so that her resting spell seldom ar
rives till evening.
Then, when the older boys and
girls are busy with their maps and
states, when father is indulging
with the paper or favorite
book, when the little ones have said
their prayers and the baby has gone
to sleep, the mother feels that she
has earned the right to a little bit
Of a recess. She is wise ifshe takes
it. Far too often she seizes upon
that hour, instead, to finish Susie's
new frock, or patch Tommy's new
trowsers; to put new wristbands on
fathers shirt or patch on the ia
BILE cloth. She works on with ner.
vous energy, when she ought to be
reading an entertaining story, or
listening to her daughters music, or
playing an air or two herself. She
reluctantly lays aside her basket
and needle when the clock strikes
eleven, and drags herself wearily to
bed.
This is poor economy. We would
persuade, if we could, all the moth
ers who read this paper to take the
leisure hour or half hour whenever
they can, even though they let some
thing else go. 1t will be better for
their families and themselves in the
coming days, when the children
shall be grown up, and ever more
than at present their mother shall
be their guide, companion and their
friend.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
A Washington special says that a

A Washington special says that
singular story comes from Wash
ington's old home at Mt. Vernon.
At 1 80 Tuesday afternoon, an old
clock, which was bought by Wash
ington more than century ago, and
has stood for many years in what
was known as the s.River-room, !"
broke its silence by distinctly stri.
king, it is said, three times. The
superintendent of the place says the
old clock has not been wound up for
more than forty years. In fact,
many Of the works had been carried
away by relic hunters. The color
led servants refuse to enter the room,
Ideeming the striking the work Of
1.-THE Generate ghost
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
"A WAR Incident.


The cry of sOn to Richmond
awakened no enthusiasm in the
hearts of the Third Ohio one day
when they found themselves en- route
as prisoners of war for that famous
capitol. Nor were they enthusiastic
when they halted for the night and
prepared to sink supperless into
dreamland.
The Flfty-fourth Virginia regi-
ment was encamped near by, and
some of the men came down to have
a look at the 'Yanks.'
Had your coffee? asked one, of a
blue coat, stretched disconsolately
on the bank. N
Not sup answered hepther.
'Aint you had any rations to-
night p
Only a erumb or two from the
bottoms of our haversacks.'
This was told to the boys Of the
Fifty-fourth, and old Virginia hospi-
tality showed itself at once. The
men soon made their appearance
with coffee kettles, corn-brcad and
bacoL, the best they had. In few
minutes the coffee was steaming,
the bacon cooked, and prisoners and
captors sat down together around
the camp, fire, 'like kinsmen true
and brothers tried The hungry,
grateful Yankees ate with a relish
such as no one can appreciate un-
less he has been in a like situation.
No wonder there was q warm spot
in every heart of the Third Ohio
ever after for the generous Fifty
fourth.
A fresh slide in the magic lantern
gives another of these shifting war
pictures. In the distance is Mis-
sion Ridge, which has just been
stormed. That long line of prison
ers passing over the pontoon bridge
and up the stony mountain-road is
the Fifty fourth Virginia. A soldier
on duty at Kelly's Ferry asked in
differently of one of the prisoners,
as the regiment passed.
what regiment is this?
The Pifty-fourth Virginia. was
the reply.
In an instant the loungers sprang
to their feet and rushed to camp
The Fifty fourth Virginia is at the
ferry they shouted, as they ran in
and ont among the tents of the
Third Ohio.
The Ohio boys were quickly in
motion. Boxes from home and all
reserve stores were speedily ran
sacked. Coffee and sugar, beef and
canned peaches and the best they
had of everything were freely
brought forth. They remembered
gratefully their debt of honor, and
paid it nobly. 1t was the same old
scene over, with the shading re-
versed. For one night at least both
Confederates and Yanks enjoyed
again the sweet grace of hospitality
that could bring a smile even to the
grim visage of war.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
VOL. 1I.--NO. go.
solemn Autumn Thoughts.

There can be nothing Sadder tnan
the solemn hush of nature that pre-
cedes the death Of the year. The
golden glory of autumn, with the
blllowy bronzed and velvet azure of
the skies above the royal robes OF
oak and maple bespeak the closing
hours of Natures teeming life and
the silent farewell to humanity's
gauze underwear.
Thus while Nature dons her regal
robes of scarlet and gold in honor
Of the farewell benefit to autumn,
the sad-eyed poet steals swiftly
away to the neighboring clothes-line
and in the hour of Natnre's grand
blowout dons the fannels OF his
friend out of Prospect for the hectic
flush Of the dying year. Leaves have
their time to fall, and SO has the
price OF coal. And yet how sadly
at variance with decaying nature is
the robust coal market.
Another glorious summer with its
wealth'of glorious memories is stor-
ed away among the archives of our
history. Another gloomy winter is
upon US. These wonderful colors
that flame across the sky OF Indian
summer, like the CORY banner of a
royal conquerer, come but to warn
us that In few short weeks the wa
ter pipe will burst in the kitchen
and the decorated washbowl will be
broken.
We fit through the dreamy hours
of summer like swift winged humble
bees amid the honeysuckle and
pumpkin blossoms, storing away,
perhaps, little glucose honey and
buckwheat pancakes for thesfuture;
but all at once, like a newspaper
thief in the night, the king of frost
and ripe. mellow chilblains is upon
us, and we crouch beneath the win
try blast and hump our spinal col
umn up into the air like a Texas
steer that has thoughtlessly swal-
lowed raw cactus.
Life is one continued round of
alternate joys and sorrows. To-day
we are on the top wave of prosperi-
ty and warming ourselves in the
glad sunlight Of plenty, and to-mor-
row We are cast down and depressed
financially, and have to stand off
the washerwoman for our clean shirt
or stay at home from the opera.
Oh, Time! thou bald-headed peli-
can with the venerable corn cutter
and the second hand hour-glass !;
thou playest strange pranks upon
the children Of men. No one would
think to look at thy bilious counte-
nance and store teeth that in thy
bosom lurked such eccentric
schemes.
The chubby boy knows that time,
who waits for no man, will one day,
if he struggles heroically on, give
him knowledge and suspenders, and
a solid girl, and experience, and a
soft, white moustache, and eventu-
ally low grave in the valley be-
meath the signing elms and the
weeping willows, where in the misty
twilight Of the year. nolselessly up
on his breast shall fall the dead leaf,
while the silent tear of the gray au.
tumnal sky will come and sink into
the yellow grass above his head.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-31
A Question of Official Propriety

The New York Erening Post O.
July 18th says OF the fund now being
raised for Mrs. Garfield: It is clear
that the PIesi ent's recovery viii
make his relation to the fund very
peculiar and delicate one, and on
many accounts IL is Tor hla interest
and tina: OF the public that this should
be discussed by the press 10 advance.
One or two of the subscribers have
made their subscriptions conditional
upon his death. In cage of his recov-
cry it will be very difficult to distin-
guish between gift to the President
and a gift to the Presidents wife.
The plan Of putting the money in
trust does not relieve this difficulty.
Among the subscribers are men inter
ested In the promotion by legislation
OF private enterprises of all sorts
This legislation must CONE before
the President for approval or disap-
proSal, and il is of the utmost impor-
lance, not merely that he should be
subject to no private bliss in favor OF
the promotion of such enterprises.
bat that he should not be open to any
suspicion OF such bias. The genera
sympathy with him 10 his presen
condition should not blind us 10 the
fact that his acts hereafter will be
crliio's1d With all the fie-ceaess and
ingenuity tbst party spirit cen sup,
ply, and that the acceptance OF
money by his wife from men who are
knocking every year at the doors of
congress for favore, will be handle
for his enamies which they will not
neglect to use.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-31
Building Lots.

DULL LOT, TEN BY TWENTY RODS. Ey
L collent building site, horse cars and hydrant
water, stylish neighborhoOd; substantial adobe
house pulled down would furnish ample build.
ing MATERIAL all for the price of the land. nous
thrown In gratisl Call and enquire.
DULL LuF 1ex1O RODS Doth WARD. NEAR
IL horse car line, all fenced; $3.50.
RASS LUT, NINETEENTH WARD. $50
S1,OOO-Sx10 rods, choice location, On Firs,
beautiful BUILDING LOT 18TH
ID ward, 1Gx o rods, one block above John q
Gaines Bids will be received
TWO FULL LOIS on BRIGHAM STREET,
&T00 6xI0 HoDs, EIGHTEEN a
S4I } Lots, 18th Ward. 0NASS
& SO0 GROUP OF TwU GRASS LOTS.
~ OUO 18th ward
ERAME SHOP, ON LEASED GROUND.
T. 14xs0 feet, in the centre OF business; cheap
TTHAT SUPERB BUILDING Let AT THE
l. hesd Of Main street, fronting three streets /,
beautiful view and nice neighborhood; will be
sold In three parcels Call and see it,
TWO VERY CHEAP LOTS IN THE
i Goth Ward, on the BED Butte ditch.
MICE CORNER LOT, TWENTIETH EARD.
IN below water, nesr Oalder's 7x1O rods at $50
per rod; will cut it in two parcels.
MICE BUILDING LOT, ARSENAL HILL,
LIZ fine view, plenty water 81 100
DULL Lot IN 2OTH WARD, ONE BLOCK
l. from horse car II e; $3.50.
- PLEN l I'D ESIOENCE LOT ON MAI
y Street, in choice neighborhood; water
and gas; price 81 $50
A VERY DESIRABLE BUILDING LOT
II on 9th East street, near ID South, west
front, choice orchard, three sides fenced; 6x10
rods; 81 100.
$5Oo.-Half lot I'd Ward.
Sc00.-HAlf lot, 9th Ward, near railroad.
SS25.-Hs ali lot 21st Ward, near car line.
S675. lox1o rods. 9th Ward.
1925. 5x10 rods. in the 9th Ward.
sS5O. Corner Lot 5x20 rods. EIaYenth Nard
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-31
For Rent.

We shall soon have for rent several nice
Offices and sleeping apartments, single and en-
suiIe, in Keyser Moritz' Block. soon to be
completed; on first and second floors
SlX-roon Adobe House, LIST South, $50.
The Montana Brewery for rent.
rick store on Main street, good location.
800
Vt invite pa ties who are building houses
for rent 70 notify us when ready for occupa-
ton, ss We have daily applications for houses
We have great many inquiries for small,
cheap houses of two to four ROOMS. Owners of
such houses Will do wolf to place the same in
our hands for rent, as our charges for such SER
vices are very light.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-19

The making of steel rails in the
United States is in the hands of
eleven rolling-mills, who have pur.
chased royalties from Sir Henry
Bessemer, the inventor of the new
steel-making process. The turnout
Of these mills for 1880 was us, 900
gross tons; the production for 1881
will be 1,150, 900 tons. One-half of
this is already contracted for and the
whole would be were it not that the
mill.owners are afraid the cost of
pig iron and ore would so advance
that they would not be able to reap
their anticipated profits. Looking at
this vast business from rolling.
mill standpoint, and it will b. seen
that it looks perfectly lovely. he
mills get $50 and $62 ton for tn r
product, $28 of which IL premiu
or subsidy forced out of the pockets
of consumers for their benefit TAX.
ing the output at the statements of
the mill. owners, and Use who con.
troll the Besemer process in the
United States, and it will be seen
that they taxed the people the
enormous sum of $21, TO, 900 last
year for their benefit: next year they
will tax them $4,000, 600. The
railroads pay this tax They repay
themselves by increasing the charg.
es of carriage. NV, while each of
the 100000 in the United States
contributes something towards this
the number Of it's direct benefciar.
les could be put in q street railway
car without c,owding. Chicago
News.