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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-20
vel. 1I.--NO. 81.
LOyys, APHORIsMs.

THERE'S Isggary In the love that can DO reckoned.
Shakespeare.
LIFE is love, and love is eternity. -
Nenkcn.
LIFE outweighs all things if love ie'
within it.-Goethe.
TRUE love, like Greek fire, is inextin
guishable-k Marvel.
Love depends on the loving, and moi
ON the loved. -BuIWer.
WE seldom think how much we owe
our first love.-Goethe.
TINE, which deadens hatred, secretly
strengthens loye.--Rirtter.
PURE love ought to burn like oxyger
in oxygen.-John Foster.
IT YVES not song that taught me love,
But it was love that taught me song.
L. Ell.
One clairvoyance on earth is certain
and that is the clairvoyance Of love.
Love not told, {
And only born OF absence and by thougnt,
With thought and absence may return to naught !,
--~,ean Iagssen. 4
A MAN 81 sense may love like a d Ead
man, but never like fool. Roche
OucdmN. .-.
BASE men, being in love, have then
nobility in their natures more than is ma
tive to them.-,Shakspedre.
AwoMAN's love is essentially lonely ant
spiritual in it's nature. It is the heather
ism of the heart. She herself has createt
the glory and beauty with which tn
idol Of her heart stands invested
L, e. l..
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n NEW S9Unl E. nv: ,jLE.

When Lincoln was lract!riig il IL,
old Sangamon count. Court H.u.e. IL,
the days Of the old d-fashi.,ned aettees.
tai, slim lawyer, noted fcr wearing =
very short coat, slid along On the seat tu
be nearer the advocate addressing ths.
Jury. A protruling nail tore the seat OF
the lawyers pantaloons. Obliged to
follow his opponent Immediately, there
was no time to sew up the rent in the
garment. A legal wag present wrote
subscription paper: "We, the under
signed, agree to pay the sums set oppo-
site to our several names for the purpose
Of purchasing Brother Brown new pair
of pantaloons. Several of the lawyers
put down sums ranging from so cents to
10 cents. The paper was presented to
Lincoln, who sat opposite the rear Of
the advocate, who, bending over in ges-
ticulation, made quite an exposure.
Lincoln took out his pencil and wrote
upon the paper: "I have nothing to
contribute to the end in view." The
lawyers roared with laughter; the Judge
asked to see the paper, when he, too,
in turn, had to roar All this time the
unconscious victim of the fun was igno-
rant of the cause Of the laughter, and at
last joined in the merriment.
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AMADMAs's HlyD0M.

Arab literature is full OF anecdotes of
wise and sober men who have reproved
their dissolute "betters." Here is one
of the kind. A certain King went to
visit mad-house, and found there an
intelligent-looki youth, who, after re-
plying sensibly to u number Of questions
put to him by the sovereign, ut length
addressed the latter. saying:
"You have asked me many things
I will now ask you one. At what
period does sleeper enjoy his sleep
most ?"
The King reflected awhile and said
"While he is actually sleeping"
"That cannot be" said the madman,
"for he has no perception while
asleep."
"Then, before he Goes to sleep" said
the King.
"How can one enjoy anything, +"
asked the madman, "before it comes p
"Then, said the King, "after he has
been asleep
MAY" said 'ihe madman, ga man
cannot be said to enjoy thing that has
passed away"
So pleased was the King with the
others wit that he determined to make
q companion of hun, had table set III
front of the window of the mad house,
and bade his attenuants hand cup oi
wine to himself u i one to his mad
friend. 'You drink your cup" said the
latter, "that you may become like me
but if drink ninc whom shall be
like ?"
The King, on hearing this speech
threw away hi, cup, and remained ,
total abstain. fJrevermore. Apple
TOMS ~
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LONDON MISERY.

The moment there is trouble among
the thousands who live by odd jobs
along the river, the public houses are
full. The abject appearance of these
unattractive drinking dens, filled with
men women and children, covering on
the comfortless benches, with pots Of
beer or glasses Of spirits in their hands,
is indescribable. No city in America
affords the spectacle Of such hopeless
and seemingly useless degradation as
may be observed now any day, even at
certain hours on Sundays, and all Sum-
day evening, in this largest city Of the
world. Old women begging and ours
ing those who give nothing, and spend
ing what aims they receive in getting
drunk ;.young girls overcome with liquor
ard tumbling against the sides Of the
houses, nauseatingly overcome with
drink men singing and swearing at one
moment, and perhaps fighting the next
all this may be seen on public and re-
spectacle thoroughfares in London any
evening. g.-Boston Journal.
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BROOKHAVEN. MISS. THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 1880
NOW EAsY xr n 70 DIE.

"H I had strength to hold q pen, l
would write how easy and delightful it
Is to de-" were the last words Of the
celebrated surgeon, VIM. Hunter; and
Louis XIV. is recorded as saying, with
his'last breath, "I thought dying had
been more difficult"
That the painlessness Of death is
owing to some benumbing influence act
ing on the sensory nerves may be in
ferred from the fact that untoward ex.
ternal surroundings rarely trouble the
dying.
On the day that Lord Collingwood
breathed his last the Mediterranean was
tumultuous; those elements which had
been the scene Of his past glories rose
and fell in swelling undulations and
seemed as it rocking him to sleep. Capt.
Thomas ventured to ask il he was dis
turbed by the tossing Of the ship. "No,
Thomas" he answered, 81 am now in Q
state that nothing can disturb me more
u am dying, and I am sure it must be
consolatory to you and oil that love me
to see how comfortably I am coming to
my end" In the Quarterly Review
there isrelated an instance of criminal
who escaped death from hanging by the
breaking of the rope. Henry Nv. of
France sent his physician to examine
him, who reported that after moments
suffering the man saw an appearance like
fire, across which appeared a most beau
tiful avenue of trees. When pardon
was mentioned the prisoner coolly re-
piled that it was not worth asking for.
Those who have been near death from
drowning, and afterward restored to con-
sciousness, assert that that the dying
suffer but little pain.
Capt. Marryatt states that his sensa-
tions at one time when nearly drowned
were rather pleasant than otherwise.
"The first struggle for life once over,
the water closing around me assumed
the appearance'of waving green fields.
It is not feeling of pain,
but seems like sinking down, overpow-
cred by sleep, in the long, soft grass OF
the cool meadow"
Now, this is precisely the condition
presented in death from disease. In
sensibility comes on, the mind loses
consciousness of external objects, and
death rapidly and placidly ensues from
asphy1ia.
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Mlss nrxnsvA.. DrsArrorsr,nxr


Yes, Debby, twas disappointment; and. though,
Of course, TRY
To look IS sf didn't mind 1t, won't tell you ie
fs'ss. he'd ben a-comin' stddy. and our folks ,sz
IT'S you. Minesvy. that he's ater he's sure 70 pop
He'd walk in with the eveniD shadders, set in that
And praised my aoushnu'', kinder dshin' about
And then his ak was 70 improvin', he msds tho
doctrines plain,
And when he'd pint moral, always looked straishs
She'd laugh and give such silly answers that no ons
But, lsw! the men can't fool n.s, Dsbey-is isn't
sense they love.
It's rosy cheeks, and eyes a-spszkhn'. Yea yea you
That when . woman's smart and handy knows how
to bake and mend,
And Keep her house and husband tidy, why tho
70 satisfy "''''''
Now Mr.. Reed was alters talkin' Of what vito
Do, Debby, was it any wonder thought his hints
IS meant mel
And then when Mary, Jane would giggle, and he
would turn SO red,
Cosh you have guessed that they we're courtin',
when not word was said?
1t al came out at last sudden. Twas Wednesday
Of last week,
When Mr. Reed cine in quite fustered. Thinks I.
He means to SPEAK"
In own my heart beat quicker, Dsbby; for though,
To like man before he offers, thought him good
asgold.
Well, there we sot tailed and waited; he hemmsd
He seemed 80 most uncommon bashful I oouldn's
help but smile.
thought about my pine-tar balsam that drives
cough away,
And how when We was fairly married, I'd dose him
every day.
just then he spoke: Dear Mis-, Minervy, yos
must hev seen quite plain
That I'm In love" Il hev," answers Sea he-
Whu did I d',' nearly tainted, 't~as such q
cruel shock,
Yet there had to SET as q,.sst as ii 1 wis rook
And hear about her "grlish sweetness" +" and " bud
din beauty too.
Don't talk to me Of martyrs, Dsbby-I know what
I've gone through.
Well, that's the end. The weddin's settled for Juns
he's in sach haste
Eve given her the spreads quilted, 50 they won't
go to waste.
I'd planned new curtains for his stady all trimmed
with bands uf blue.
I'm sure her co,kin' never'u suit Mm-he's fond OF
eatin', TOO.
Well, no, I WANT at moetin' Sunday dOn't and
Mr. Reed
Is quite as edyfyn' lately; he can't move nss, in
deed.
And, Debby, when .cu see how foolish man in
love can act,
You can't have sech high opinion o. him. and that's
a fact.
"I don't look irenf" Spling wealhsr, msbbe; It's
gettn warm, yC@, know.
Good-by; Pm goin' |. Uncle Jo,han's to stay wack
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TO COOK A 'POSSUM.

Senator Garland. of Arkansas, was
appealed to by Forest and Stream for
directions how to cook 'possum. "The
bent of my mind" he replied, sis that
if you would boil the 'possum in salt and
red-pepper water until he is quite ten
der, and then brown him well in an old
fashioned oven or skillet, wherein around
his body a goodly number Of potatoes
are baked and Drowned, you will have 9
dish unrivaled and more than Oriental,
aud person who could not relish il.
whether he took the 'possum hot or cold,
would have no celestial fire in his soul,
nor music either As to whether pos
sum is best eaten hot or cold, the Sena.
tor confessed inability to decide. "Rath-
er than miss him entirely" he added,
"I would try to eat him in any way
could find him, a1a really am of opin-
ion that he is better hot or cold accord.
ing to the state he is in when I hast par.
take of him."
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rnz arr or cosfosrr1ox.

In still another branch have the Ger.
mans succeeded. AnAEicsn teachers
know to their sorrow the difficulty en-.
countered in educating scholars to be
easy writers--that Is, y write what ID
GENERALLY y..known with vs. as essays or
compositions. The fanlt lies just
where it does in all our other higher
studies-it is not begun early enough.
We wait until we think that their minds
are trihe mature and then come upon
them with-a wild rush Vt rhetoric, his
tory and all the frightfuI curriculum.
German girls begin to write essays
when they are years and continue to
do it, not once a month or twice quar-
ter, but every week of the school year,
until they are 16 or IS years Of sge.
For the first year it takes the form mere
ly Of dictation with an occasional es-
say. Twelve German poems are learned
during Il year and pay be used as ma
terial fob aositionafh prose. Enter,
ing the class asbove sS this ! found a meth.
cd in progress certainly very strange to
the most American schools. The
teacher wasa gentleman /; the girls were
10 years Did on an average. Standing
out before the class, lie began to tell
them the fable of the woman whose hen
laid for her daily golden egg-a story
told so simply, every word Of it weighed
so carefully, every idea expressed with
the acme of precHion-and all in voice
so low and distinct that the class sat
hushed while he spoke. He then began
it again, pausing this time at the end Of
every sentence to talk it over with the
school, asking whit nouns, what verbs
what adjectives they had noticed whih
he talked. In this manner no carrie'
them through the fable to tho end
Then he went back and told it connect
edly all over again. Finally hc calle'
upon one little gnl to repeat what she
could of it. Where she failed others
came i'll to help her. Then another girl
took up the story and told it better, un-
til, after many times told, the fable had
entered all their little minds and become
q fixed mental possession, and when the
master asked, "Now, do You know it
quite we'll" "Doch r' "Doch u
"Ja, ja! gew;ss!' = went ~ in shout
from AL parts OF tie room.
""ei!. wr,.c all you know abont it
and bring it tn me Monday. GORE
spo dcncc Eosfpa Jo,nttot.
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AoooD xDirO1

A good editor, q competent newspaper
conductor, is like General, or poet.
born, not made. On the London daily
papers all the historians, noyelists, po-
cts, essayists have been employed. and
nearly all have failed. We might say
all. for after display Of brilliancy, brief
but grand, they diedout literally. Their
resources were exhausted. "I can.
said a late editor Of the Times to Moore
find any number Of men Of genius 10
write for us, but very seldom one Of
common sense" Tho "thundsrers y in
the Times, therefore. have, SO far as we
know. been men Of common sense. Near
all successful editors have been man
OF this description. Campbell, Bluwer
and Disraeli failed. Barnes, Sterling
and Phillips succeeded. A good editor
seldom writes for his paper. He reads
Judges, selects, dictates. alters and CON-
bines, and to do all this we'll he has but
little time for composition. To viii.
tor paper is one thing. to edit : paper
is another.
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THklFT IN FRANCE.

The sense Of economy and thrift OF
the French people is especially striking
to those who have lived much in other
countries. Nearly everybody possesses
something in this country. If anybody
does not, you my be pretty sure it is
his own fault Love Of economy often
verges on avarice. Go into any house
in Paris, question the servants, and you
may be certain that almost every one OF
them has some small treasure in the
shape Of cash or bonds. 1t is tbs saving
of every day. The" old servant in the
house will often consult his master about
how he is to employ his money. The
head servant of private house here,
who has often filed my glass at table,
has saved enough to bring him in 47O0
year. He has been for twenty-five
years in the same situation, and does his
duty as strictly as he did the first day Of
his service. He seldom goes out, never
takes anything between his meals, and
all he gains is carefully put aside. I
have met with so many examples that I
am bound to believe this thrift to be the
rule. A careful observer, who has occa-
sion to mix with the middle classes in
France, will be even more struck by the
qualities I have indicated. The whole
mode of living is made subservient to
the children the babe has hardly seen
daylight before the parents are already
saving for him. Every child's future is
provided for at his cradle by the earnest
efforts of his parents, and it is rarely
their fault if they do not succeed.
There is a curious exception to this al
most general rule-the workman, the
artisan. Here you find many, and es-
pecially the better paid, in towns and
cities, who have not preserved the good
qualities of their fellow-countrymen.
Here you find drunkenness, improvi-
dence, and with them Communism.
Still it may be confidently declared that
these are a small minority.-Times.
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SOME FAMILIAR SAYINGS,


Shakespeare gives us more pithy say.
ings than any other author. From him
We Gull: "Count their chickens ere they
are hatched," "Make doubly sure"
"Look before you leap" Christmas
comes but once year" Washington
Irving gives us the almighty dollar" +"
Thomas Norton queried long ago, "What
will Mrs Grulidy say?" while Gold
smith answers, "Ask me no noquestions and
I'll tell you no fibs." Thomas Tusser, a
writer of the sixteenth century, gives us
"It's an i'll wind that turns no good, +"
"Better late than never" "Look ere
you leap" and "The stone that is roli1
ing will gather no moss" 'All cry and
no wool" is found in Buffers "Hudi-
bras" Dryden Gays: "None but the
brave deserve the fair" "Men are but
children of the larger growth, ,"''Throagh
thick and thin" "Of two evils have
chosen the least" and The end must
Justify the means," are from Matthew
Prior. We are indebted to Colley Glib
Der for the agreeable intelligence THAT
Orchard is himself again" CowtMr
tells us That variety is the spies q
ife." TO Milton we owe "The Paradise
of Fools" From Bacon comes "Know-
ledge is power" and Thomas Southerne
reminds us that PHYS akin to love.
Dean Swift thought tina. " Bread is the
staff Of life." Campbell found that ''Com.
ing events cast their shadows before, "
and "'Tis distance lends enchantment
to the view." "a thing of beauty is q
Joy forever" is from Keats. Franklin
says "God helps those who help them
selves, and Lawrence Sterne comforts
us with the thought that "God tempers
the wind to the ssAorn lamb"
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an EVENING AT HOME.

Barker says that he made up his mind
that he would give his wife pleasant
surprise by spending the evening at
home, and after supper he settled him
self down for cozy time in the bosom
his family. He had no more than COM
fortably fixed himself, when his wife
asked him if his friends didn't want him
any longer, and that was why he had
concluded to get acquainted with his
family. Then his mother-in-law asked
him if he had exhausted his credit, and
was obliged to stay at home. The
hired girl asked him if he was sick, and
proposed to make some catnip tea. One
of the neigilbors came in and wanted to
know if he had been having any TROUBLE
and was afraid Of the Sheriff. And Bar.
.ker says all that occurred in less thar
twenty minutes, and he knows, for IL
exactly half an hour he was downtown
again.
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THE CUL7UkE OF FROGS.

The "frog WHO would wooing go"
Is now native of the great republic'
and his matrimonial leap is taken across
the broad waters which separate America
from Europe. He descends from this
stupendous saltatory exercise, not upon
the rnsympathetic shores of Britain,
where his race is looked upon with
disdain, and even aversion, but upon
the hospitable and friendly shores OF the
new republic in France, where his kin
has been appreciated warmly BY gour-
mands of every class. The Figaro re-
ports with much gusto the arrival of the
distinguished strangers, who are to be
introduced with due honor into the
breeding establishments which supply
the markets Of the gay capital. The
Yankee frog is quite worthy Of the
country in which his first mortal croak
is made. He is twice as big as the we'll
known inhabitant Of the mashes of the
Seine, whose delicate limbs are SO eager
ly bought up dy French epicures, and so
daintily served to table by the cordons
bleus Of the Cafe Anglais and the Trois
Freres. The precious consignment has
been received by the frog breeders with
unbounded JOY, aud it is anticipated that
skillful treatment Of the new race will
infuse fresh virtues into the stock Of the
frog ponds, so that in time, by careful
system Of propagation, the legs Of the
croakers supplied to the French restaur-
ants will rival in size the legs Of chick
ems, which they are said to resemble in
flavor, and it win no longer be necessary
for the giver Of feast to sacrifice =
holocaust OF the expensive victims. It
seems, however, that the newcomers are
all Of the ruder sex. The Yankee has
come a-wooing, and "whether hia
mother would let him so or no" is still q
doubtful point. But. st any rate, neither
his mother nor his sister have accom-
panied him 70 Europe. he win be wed.
ded to the wife Of wives provided ioi
him in the French 0re,soHillerss, and we
sincerely hope that be will hive happi.
| " ever afterward. : md be the father q
an increasing and interesting family d
Franco-American croakersr. london
at0be, al
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NO MORE "ExHoRTERs."

The "Exhorter of the Methodist
Episcopal Church is said to be rapidly
becoming extinct The disappearance
Of this order Of men is not owing to the
want Of field in which they may OPP
erate-for the field was never broader,
nor more in need Of such a service, than
at this time-but 10 the decadence Of
deep and clear convictions for sin among
profeesed Christians, and the sense OF
the fearful danger incurred by living
without repentance and faith. With sin
reduced to misfortune, and hell to q
myth, the occupation Of the Exhorter il
Qone.-Nsw York Methodist.
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an IMPORTANT NATTER.

Printers, and, to soue extent, the
public generally, will be interested in
the following article, which appeared in
q slate number of Mdckell0r's Typo
graphic advertiser Instant atten-
ton is called to o petition prepared by
some publishing house in New York,
and addressed to the Secretary Of State,
praying for the negotiation of treaty
with Great Britain to confer interna-
tional-copyright privileges on British
and American authors. The method
proposed to accomplish the object, by
treaty instead of open Legislative action,
is not likely to meet the approval Of the
American people. The subject should
be fully discussed in Congress, with .
searching scrutiny into its details and
bearing. Untold millions have been ex-
pended in educating our people and
making them . nation Of readers. This
market to British authors is conse-
quently worth immeasurably moro
than the British market is to Ameri-
can authors. and the conditions are
therefore immensely unequal. Some
compensating advantage would seem to
be due to our citizens hut, so far from
this, the treaty proposed has . cunning
proviso that can only work injuriously to
our artisans and operatives-the third
CLAUSE saying that foreign books, to be
entitled to copyright, shall be manufact-
ured in this country /; and then nearly
entirely nullifying the effect Of the clause
by these words And the word mana.
factssred shall not be held to prohibit
printing in ono country from stereotype
plates prepared in the other and import
ed. for this purpose Are Americaz
compositors, engravers. stereotypers,
and pe-founders prepared t. sanctior
measure 80 injurious to themf Lei
them speak quickly and decidedly, end
70 prevent tho consnmmation q ons
sided scheme, cunninglJ contxived fol
the profit of publishers only.
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ONE AS BAD AS THE OTHER.

Bill Pitx and Joe Nagel had 50 game
Of billiards in she " Gently Dreaming
saloon, ON Galveston avenue, Bill lost
the game, but instead Of paying the %
he said: 81 haven't got cent OF money
with me, Joe"
The you haven't! Whatsort o.
I way is that for gentleman to do-to
como into saloon and play without .
can't Of money in his pockets How now
am / to pay the barkeeper what ! owe
him ''-G GalUest0n Netcs.
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ENTERTAINERS.

UNREASONABLE ENTERTAINERS.
"The landlord of country hotel is
SO unreasonable in his charges during
the season." sighs the fond parent Of the
1O-year-old boy, whose board-bill is
equal to their own !; and, seeing that the
average 10-year-old boy seldom eats
more than two plates of soup, three
helpings of fish and four of meat. quart
of pudding and half pie, three saucers
of cream, with such triAing additions as
sweet and white potatoes, turnips,
onions, beets, carrots, cabbage, ct i'd
genus onarae, with perhaps half loaf Of
bread and half pound of butter, the
frugal repast washed down with q pint
of milk, it does seem rather hard to
place him on a par with grown folhs,
especially as his abstemionsness at
mealtime forces him to make incessant
raids on the cupboard and orchard from
morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve.