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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21

DooroRs live by pillage.

Doorons live by pillage.
CALIFORNIA is rafsin' raisins.
A HEALTH-elvINa number-Q iinine.
The man who had SO elastic step
wore rubbers.
How man decides how he will buAd
his house-By lot.
The chiropodist first dates from Will
lam the Corncurer.
The term Mormon means the NOR
mon-y you have the more wives you can
be sealed to.
THE man who hesitates is lost. That
is why Charlie Ross hesitates ahont
coming back.
In the voyage of life every man is
provided with a skull, with which to
paddle his own canoe.
WICKED New York men want to be
buried in Greenwood, because it won't
burn SO quickly as the dry.
DARWIN says: "Man, only can
whistle" Darwin certainly never lived
anywhere near railroad crossing.
A PROCESSION Of men passed through
the Bowery and were an hour passing
given point. The given point was sa-
loon.
WHATEVER you have to do, do it with
your might Many lawyer has made
his fortune by simply working with a
will.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's children stand in
great awe of their regal mamma. No
wonder; she is SO much great awe than
they.
ALWAYS pay as you CO." said an old
manic hisnephew. "But, uncle, suppose
have nothing to pay with ?" "rhen
don't go.
Do TRY and talk little common
sense" said young lady to her visitor.
"Ah, but wouldn't that be taking ali
unfair advantage of your"
WHAT swindlers there are in college
business An institution in tbs State
which claims to fit young men for the
ministry doesn't own single croquet
set.
WHosoEvER shall smue thee on thy
right cheek, turn to him the other Also,
is a biblical expression. In molern
parlauce it is termed ga reversible
cuff"
IT seems that competition has forced
the price OF false teeth down 50 low that
it isn't really worth boay's while to
cut his natural .-Burlington
IIawh-Eyc.
SCENE: Bridal reception. Several OF
the guests, alter shaking hands with The
bride, AMI all spolking nj the SAM
time: "Wh,rs is the briloyroon?
Bride, naiyely-" Oh, he's upstairs
watching tie wedding presents
ONc"moGe ny c'sec, se9,rciug eyes
y sigh; %. tl.1c hath -,,ai,lunel
GAGE more ten b. n, st :. he I surp:so
40 him .i.iac 40 cnce n;Idenrd
I,1loils thy p..rl-si..:.. Il AID i.A:l !,.. aed
itst =o.., rt'ict l. er,
Come let luc clasp thee, 70 my breast
bls loved and lost umtre T.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
w o w "A IN. !.
HER HEALTH AND LIFE.

Depend more on THO regularity OF her mems
strual functions than on any or all causes
combined. An actual or living death is
the inevitable result of arrangement of n
funct on which makes woman what she is
in every respect, and especially in her men,
tai and bodily constitution. Hence inlme-
diate relief from such arrangements is the
only safeguards against wreck and ruin. In
all cases Of stoppage, delay, or other irregu-
larity Of the courses" DR.. J. Brad6cld's
Female Regulator is the only sure remedy.
It acts by giving tone TO the nervous CEN
tres, improving the blood, and determining
directly TO the organs OF meEstruation. It
is a scientific prescription, and the most in
teliigcnt physicians use IT, sse,e
Prepared by Dr..J. Bradfehl, Atlanta,
Ga. Price: trial size, 75c; large size, 81 so,
For sale by all druggists. july20-2m
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21

II you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid
Nature Ill making You we'll when all else fails
If You are coStive or dyspepfc, or are suffer-
ing from any other of the numerous diseases of
the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if
you remain i'll, for Hop Bitters are a sovereign
remedy in all such complaints.
II you are wasting away with any form Of
Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this mo-
ment, and turn for Il cure to Hop Bittcrs.
II you are sick with that terrible sickness
nervousness, you will find a "Ba,m in Gilead"
i'll the use of Hop BitterS.
II you are u freqaenter, or n resident of a
miasmatic district, barricade your system
against the scourge of all coultries--naiarial,
epidemic. bilious and intermittent feyers-by
the use of Hop Bittcrs.
II you have rough. pimply, or sallow skin,
bad breath. pains and aches, and feel miserable
generally, Hop BitterS will give you fair skin
rich blood, and sWcctcS breath, health, and
comfort.
In short they cure all Diseases of the stom-
ach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves. Kidneys,
Bright Disease. 500 will be paid for Il case
they will not cure or help. g
The poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister
mother, or daughter, can be made the picture
Of health. by Il few Bottles of Hop Bitters. cost
ing but tritlc. Will you let them suffer!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
LONGFEEL0E's EIfsT POEM,

When our great poet was 8 years old,
his master wanted him to write COM
position.
Little Henry, Ike all children, shrank
from the undertaking. His master sail:
"You can write words, can you not?"
"Yes," was the reply.
"Then you can Pit words togcthcr?"
"Yes, sir"
"Thep, said lis master, "ycu may
take your slate and so cut behind the
school house, and there you find some
thing to write aEon., and then you can
tell what it is, what ii is for, and what
is to be done with it, and that will be a
composition"
Henry took his slate and went out.
He went behind EIr. Finney's barn.
which CHANGED to be near, and, seeing
fine tlrnip growing up, lie thought he
knew what that was, what it was for,
and what was to be done with it,
A hdii Iitu4 iitttt itttll u!iONtu 10 lIcl-
ry for his first undertaking in writing
compositions. III a half hour he carried
in his work ali accomplished, and the
master is said to lave been affected al
most to tears when he saw what little
Henry had done in that short time:
MIR. FINNEY'.5 TURNIp.
Mt Finney HAD tlIrnip,
And it grew ant! it grew;
And it grew behind the barn,
And the turuip did 10 hahn.
And it grew, and it grew,
Till it coud grow 10 taller;
Then Mr.. FinEcy tool, i: up
And put it in the cellar.
There it lay, there 1t lay,
Till it began to rot,
When his daughter Susie washed it.
And she put it in the pot
Then she boiled it ard boiled 1t,
As long as che able;
Then his daughter Lizzie took it,
And she put it On the table
Mr.. Finney and his wife,
Botb sat down to sup;
And they ate, and they ate
.s- Until they ate the tarn'pup.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
A Bird With Bells,

A buzzard with bell on may be seen
frequently, almost daily, in the neigh
borhood of New Carbon. How it got the
bell on is among the things unaccounted
for. Some time ago lamb with bell
ON was killed by a dog. 1t is supposed
that the buzzard dined on the lamb, and
in some way got fast in the strap on
which the bell Was and has continued to
carry it since. Greensboro (Ga) Pat
i.i0f
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
4 SENSATION.

HAS OFTEN BEES MADE
by the discovery of some new thing. but moth
ing has ever stood the test like DR., c. w. Ben
sons Celery and Chamoinile Pills.
They really do cure sick headache, nervous
headache, neuralgia. nervousness. slecpess-
neSs. Indigestion, paralysis and melancholy.
Sold by all druggists Price 30 cents n box
Depot, iDj North Eutaw ST., Baltimore. Md. nv
nail, two boxes for ST. or six boxes for 80 30. to
my address.
G. N. Crittenton, New York, is Tie wholesale
agent for DR.. c. w. Bcnson'S rcmcAics.
aug II
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21

a sKEPTIcAL nearer once said to q
Baptist minister: How do you recon-
Gle the teachings Of the Bible with the
latest conclusions Of science?" az
haven't seen this mornings papers,
naiyely replied the minister. "What
are the latest conclusions Of modern
seience?n
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
IL Ms. --
hAfrn.H DaaAn

See sixteenth chapter Of Luke from
the nineteenth to the thirty first verses:
Study it well and mediate ON it deeply.
There is more in it than you can we'll
conceive. 1 would also say read the
bible well for the interest of your soul.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21

GRAND PRIZES At ATLANTA INTERNATIoN-
AL COTsroN EXPOSITION.
The great contest at the Atlanta Exposition
resulted in Il report of the committee consist
ing of Il. $. Kicks as judge, and Thomas nj.
Smcdes and Col w. Barlow as group judges,
recommending to the Executive Committee
the award to the Eagle Cotton Gin Company
for the best cotton Gin for ginning rough or
huly cotton" recommending $50 and piece
of plate or medal The same committee also
awarded an additional prize of medal to the
Eagle Cotton Gin Company for the best Cotton
Gin Feeder. These awards have been APPROX
ed and endorsed by the Executive Committee
and received the signature OF IL. j. Kimball
the Director General.
The above mentioned awards, made by two
prominent planters, assisted by Col. w. +. Bar
row, the President OF the Williamantic Cotton
Company, who Is an expert us judge OF cot
ton, were given to the Eagle Eclipse Cotton
Gin, Feeder and Cleaner Large sales have
been made the last season of the Eagle Eclipse
Cotton Gins and Feeders, and they have given
universal satisfaction and received the en-
tlorsemcnt of our largest planters as the best
gin they have ever used. On account OF the
large demand for the Eagle Eclipse Cotton
Gins, we request planters to send In orders Tor
future delivery at once, and secure the best
Gins ever made. Liberal arrangements made
for payments. Address all orders to
". Il. CUSHING = CO.,
MANUFACTURERS AGENTS,
1865 Eravier & Ia Union street.
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80.
tFronl Frank Leslie's Illustrated Sewspa,ss !
- A LADY SAID.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21
THE BEST COTTON GINS
Stedman's Engines and Machinery

Stedman's Engines and Machinery
Stedman's new PORTABLE ENGINES have
:. steam pump attached to boiler; have steel
shafts and are the most perfect Portable En-
CINE ever put upon the market. The Station
cry Engines are made of 81 sizes. We do not
make the light, fiimsy SO-CALIED Stationary
Engines which have been put upon the market
by Portable Engine builders, and which are
merely detached Portables. The names Of 2G7
planters can be given who have had our Stan
tiard Stationary Engines in use over 20 years.
We also manufacture SAW MILLS, SHAFT
ING HANGERS and PlII.LEYS, and are pre-
pared to contract at very low prices.
WI CUSHING, Agt. 166 Gravier ST..
Opposite st. Charles Hotel.
QIIE.iiN SOUTH CORN MILLS
Having been appointed Agent of the SNIP
son & GAULT Manufacturing Company, a
full stock of all sizes of the Celebrated Queen
of South Corn Mills will be keptin stock read Y
for immediate delivery. We are also making
Portable Cocke-head Undcr-runncr Mills, usu-
ally known as the Bradford & Coleman style,
with all late improvements, and finished in
much better style than any such mills now on
market w. l.. CUSHING,
Manufacturers Agt., 166 St.,
Agent for Victor and Great Western Sugar
Mills, Cooks Perpetrators.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
PERSONAL AND LTTERAFY.

Mrs. ''Stonewall'' Jackson has fall.
en- heir to 50, 600 left by q Memphis all
mirer of the General.
Tho Georgia fr;ends and admirers
of Colonel w. IT. Thompson, the author
of "Major Jones' Courtship,'' are about
to take steps to erect a monument to-
his memory in that State.
1t is said of Mr.. Samuel Read, of
Watertown, N. Y, who died recently,
that he had 9 remarkable record for
health, not having been confined to his
house for q single day in seventy
years.
Nancy Lee is one hundred and sew
en- years old, and lives in Lexington,
KY. She is not the famous ''sailorS. &.
wife, but a ncgress who lived on tho
site of Lexington before the town wai
ever thought of. ...~
III. w. l. Garland, the editor of tbs
I"thotic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, died
in that city recently Of pneumonia. He
was considered the brightest, most
cultured and most promising young
man in the profession there. He it was
who once interviewed Salvini in Italian
and Bernhardt in French. He was an
Englishman by birth, and was thirty
two years Of age. Chicago Tribune.
--Apropos OF the pronunciation Of
Whittier's MAUD Muller" wo quote
the following from q letter to the Bos
ton. Joawnut, which seems to settle the
| matter: "Last summer I met MI
Whittier, and in answer to, the same
question, which has been asked me
scores of times, Mr. Whittier replied
that the family whose name suggested
the word to him pronounced their
name Muller They were Hessians. "
Mrs. Dwyer Gray, wife of the
I editor os Feemam's Journal. of Dub,
lin, Ireland, is a very handsome and in,
terestipg woman. Her acquaintance
with her husband happened in q
| romantic manner, while she was on q
visit ut Ballyrock, on the sea-coast nea,
Dublin, where Mr.. Gray's father had 6
summer residence. During a storm &
schooner was driven on the rocks op
| pc ito his home, and, in the presence
of his future wife, MIR. Gray swan will
a rope to the rescue of the crew. Fol-
this heroic deed he won the modal o
the Life Boat institution and a wife.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
The Tomato as q Dietary.

1t is worth noting that typhoid fever
is most prevalent among the poor, to
whom this expensive vegetable is almost
unknown. Sailors, too, just after land
ing, are particularly liable to typhoid
and in them we may always expect q
more or less sccrbutic condition. But
the question of the protection against
disease by certain diets, and by such
habits as the use Of alcohol, tobacco
anu opium has as yet been hardly
inquired into. Experiments are now
being made on the tincture of the
tomato. which will help in determining
its therapeutic value. Meanwhile, eaten
cooked with hUt meats, and in the form
OF salad after cold lunch, it is pleas
ant and useful addition to our ordinary
regimen. The fruit-acids it con-
talns, combined with the mechanical
effect OF the seeds and skins, render
IL TO some extent an enemy 10
scurvy as well as laxative, and the
sulphpr, with it's known power over
septic conditions, would probably con-
tribute to make its use d protection
against the poison germs of those dis.
eases like typhoid, that find their way
into the system primarily by the ali
mentary canal. NO caution is needed
to the lovers OF this eaculent. The taste
for it being an acquired one, it is the
moro likely to be mdUIgcd in to excess,
and we have known almost as MANY
tomato -maniacs as astro-maniacs. All
k 'nds of raw fruit, it should be remem-
bered, except used with care, are liable
to irritate, and we have known an in.
stance where person working hard all
dav on raw tomatoes only, was seized
with inflammation of the bowels, which
proved fatal in few hours. AS an ar
ticle of diet, then, two or three toma-
Toes will be found aS effective as, and
safer than, a dozen, ,--Aust,a-
IiGn Medical Journal.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
Chasing Reindeer.

On our way north, we had teleRraphed
TO Hammerfest to send down from the
hills given number OF I4apps and rein.
deer, as per order, for the benefit of such
of our passengers as had not yet seen
either. the money for the show being in
trusted to the Captain. Unluckily, the
steamer arrived late; the Lapps, getting
tired of waiting, went off into the mount
aims again, and the deer, finding nobody
TO attend them, wandered away toward
the upland pastures. Thus, when we
landed, our view of Iapp encamp.
men" was like the Irishmarl's picture of
Israel crossing the Red Sea, in which
nothing was visible but the sea, itself, the
Egyptians being oil drowned and the Is
raelites gone by. So, as the reindeer
would not come to us, we had to go to
the reindeer, and ascertain, by personal
experience, not how many laps go to one
mile, but how many miles go to one
Lapp. Away we trudge, as best we may,
over country suggestive Of continent
of sponge-cake crumbled into ON ocean
of molasses, after an hour of which en-
livening exercise we suddenly perceive
that the herd-which has been grazing
below us in deep hollow-is showing
signs of making for the mount
aims again. There is not monen-
TO lose. While the rest of the party amt
bush behind a rock, the Captain and
strip to our shirts and trousers and start
off at full speed round the elbow of the
ridge, to head the deer back. Down, up,
down again, splashing through .blICk
duasg iniss ssE, stun bling oyer goss-grown
rocks, sprawling upon beds of wet
heather, with our breath coming in gasps
and onr hearts humping like hammer.
AT last I came out upon the higher end
OF the gully, with my bare feet bleeding
at every step; but between me and the
deer lies q broad sheet of hard snow,
and before cen cross it the wary herd
have taken the alarm. Right past me
they scurry, the long procession thrown
out In bold relief against the background
OF snow, and tossing their autlered heads
disdainfully as they dart away toward
their sanctuary in the misty heights far
above. There is nothing for it but to
hobble back rs fast as my frozen toes
will let me, and strive to thrust away
the haunting presence of conundrum
which suddenly recurs to me as if in bit.
Ter mockery: "Whnt is the difference
between o hundred head of deer and q
deer with hundred heads?" ''The one
isa herd Of deer, md the other an un-
heard-of deer. er."-NorWcgtan Corre-
S110ndence of NetU York Times.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
Flower Color Changes.

Mr., Grant Alien says that changes in
color of towers appear TO follow a regtl-
lar and definite order. All flowers, it
would seem, were in their earliest form
yellow; then some Of them became
white; after that few Of them grew to
be red or purple: and, finally, a COM
parativcly small number acquired
shades of lilac, maure, violet or blue
Even the successive stages OF single
flower sometimes afford us hues of
progressive law Of color change from
yellow to blue. For example, an En-
glish forget me-not, Myosotis rersicOlor.
is pnle yellow when it opens, gradually
becomes fain$ly pinlIish, and ends by
being blue; and L0'a'nnn noticed in
South America by Fritz Muller was ycl-
low Oh its first day, orange on tho
second, and purple on the third. Such
ehhanges tha ags are notrare among flowers and
eral direction
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
Locked His POcket.BOo& Out Doors.

There is man in this city who is
considerably given to speculation; goes
out into the country and luys a few
carloads of potatoes or anything else
that he thinks he can turn to advantage
The other day he gathered together
every cash dollar he had, and borrowed
all the spare cash that merchant friend
OF his had, the whole aggregating quite
largo sum of money, with view to a
speculative trip with plenty. That
night he was very careful to soc that
all the doors and windows in the house
were secuHely fastened. When hn arose
III the morning he threw ND the window
TO see'if the milk.man had got around,
when, much to his horror, his eve lit
upon lis pocket book in the grass near
the garden walk. The first idea was
that it had been stolen, rihcd and
thrown there, He rushed down stairs.
and much to his Joy found the pocket
cook all safe, with contents intact, It
seems that he had stepped i1to the gar
Den the previous evening to get a plant,
ana IN STOPPING the wallet slipped from
ms pocket. - Portland me. Press.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
Good Taste.

Good taste is sometimes as useful as
money !; indeed it has pecuniary value
Of it's own. How often do we see a
cheap but tastefully planned and ar
ranged cottage exceeding in attractive
ness the spacious and costly but ill-con-
trived dwellings, The difference be.
tween taste and the want Of it ia strik-
ingly manifested in the laying out Of
grounds and the planting of trees and
shrubs. And it is also manifest In other
ways. One person always appears well
dressed another nevlG. Yet the one who
is l-dressed may pay his tailor twice as
much IN the year as The other.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
The Dead Horse Festival.

v. ! .
This amusing ceremony often takes
Placeon board of English ships sailing
TO Australia On joining n ship the
sailors are advanced a mouths wages.
with which they arc supposed to have
bought horse, which dies at the end
of four weeks. A dummy steed is pre-
pared in the forecastle, the BODY being
tsn old -four barrel, the neck and head
OF canvas. stuffed with straw and
painted. In place of q saddle, o hole is
eut through the body, large enough to
admit the legs of the rider.
About half-paSt seven in the evening
s. small procession, headed by man
who carries a bato> }, furnished with q
rude imitation of a human face. issues
from the forecastle. Following him is
sailor with long White whiskers, who
h2!ds can for penny contributions. He
is protected by number of policemen,
armed with canvas clubs like those used
in pantomimes, with which they lay
about them rs freely as Now York
policeman, but with no other aieu
than eliciting shouts of laughter The
procession is closed by a nTnber o.:
sailors who sing jolly sea songs ,turing
the march. After the collection has
been taken up, the party returns to tho
torccastle. ~
Shortly aftefward u larger pro-
cession issues from the forccastle,
with a number of comic characters
in addition to those just men,
toned, among them the auctioneer, in
frock coat and tall hat. with q roll Of
papers in his hands, and attended by q
clerk. Immediately after the auction
eer comes the horse, ridden, or rather
carried, by q sailor dressed as jockey,
and led by groom. The procession
parades about the deck. the rider max
ing the horse prance in tho most lively
and amusing manner.
The auctioneer then mounts o barrel
On the quarter, deck, and after long
and laughab!o harangue on the merits
of the horse, puts up the animal for sale.
Previous to all this the hat has been
passed round among the passengers and
officers, and ten to fifteen pounds have
been collected for the benefit of the
sailors. The bidding is spirited and
amusing, and ceases when it reaches
the amount collected, which is then
handed to the sailors by one of the lady
passcn gers.
After the auction, the leading charao-
ters move off to the lee side, near the
mainsail, and n solemn dirge is chanted
about the poor animal dying suddenly.
each verse ending with "Poor old
Horse" The horse and rider are then
hoisted to the end of the mainyard over
the ships side, blue-lights are let off,
giving a ghastly aspect to the scene,
and ut q given signal the rope is cut,
and the horse falls into the sea, leaving
the rider suspended in the air, and
floats astcrn in tho darkness. The pro.
cesSion again forms and marches around
tho deck, the sailors singing "Rule
| Britannia. --''''