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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-02
The Force OF the Pledge.

Forty years ago Father Mathew went
up and down Ireland as the apostle OF
Temperance. He administered the
pledge as a religious rite. Hundreds OF
men and women would kneel down be-
fore the good priest on the greensward,
as he recited the pledge, and then 60
sing of the cross on the forehead, say
ing: ''God give you strength to keep
your resolution"
A gentleman relates how he once
tested the force of the pledge on an
Irish guide. He was impatient to get
on, and refused the man permission to
change his dress for more respectable
one. The afternoon was raw and cold,
and he drew up on summit of noun
tain to take some refreshments. The
guide partook of the sandwiches, but
declined the flask of whisky. The tour
ist to test him laid down a crown-piece
and said: ''Now, my lad, you shall have
that if you will take sup of whisky"
''Not for ten thousand times the
crown-piece, nor for all the lands you
see, would touch single drop. Your
honor must hear me.
low greater blackguard than l was
fighting and drinking was all day and
night; the rags l had on were not worth
traueen; and often the pratees l ate
L begged from a poor neighbor. The
old granny that lived with me starved
and prayed. There was but one house
in the place, or near it, would open the
door to me-that one was the public
house, where / spent all the little |
earned. That was the way of it, yer
honor. How is it nowp 1t isn't this
coat I'd have worn if you'd given mo
time to change it, for l have better
one, and top coat beside. If you'd
gone into my cabin you'd say you'd
seldom seen one more comfortable; and
you d noticed the old grandmother sit
ting on her hunkers knitting by the side
of turf fire. There isn't a neighbor,
boy or girl, that wouldn't say to me:
God save We kindly and / have five
pounds in the savings bank; and when l
make it ten there's one I'll ask to share
the cabin with the old woman and me-
'.Now that I've told yer honor what l
have to tell, and how all that is the
work of the pledge took, will yer hon
or ask me to break it, and take the
poison drop from yer hand?'' i.
1T is needless to say" said the tour
list. Il was greatly touched. My an
swer was instant:
. Indeed, my lad,I will not, but Twill
at least pay You this compliment and
flung the flask over the cliff, far out
into the lake beneath. The guide liter
ally danced with joy Youth's Conn
canton.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The right name of Henry Irving,
the English actor, is Broadrib.
Mr.. A. A. Abel, proprietor of the
Baltimore Sun, is estimated to be worth
S15,000,000.
General Bradley T. johnson has
finished writing book on the early his
tory of Marylend.
Clara Louise Kellogg has leased q
house at New Hartford, Conn.,, near her
birthplace, and will spend the summer
there.
The two candidates for Governor of
Ohio, Judges Foraker and Hoadly,
vote in the same precinct in Cincinnati.
Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Alma Tadema, wife of the
English painter, is one of the three sis
tiers who are called "Nutritious,"
GRATEFUL and Comforting"
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., has
given up the pulpit, become a perma-
nent Partisan, and is to be the general
European agent of the Equitable Life
Insurance Company, of New Yerk.-
N. y Sun.
The breach of promise case OF
Mary Alice Livingston against Henry
Fleming, New York millionaire, in
which the lady got judgment for $751;
600, has been compromised by the pay
ment of $50, 900.
The following ex-Governors of Yer
mont are octogenarians: Hiland Hall,
Bennington; Ryland Fletcher, Caven-
dish; Julius Converse, Woodstock; Paul
Dillingham;, Waterbury; Frederick Hol-
brook, Brattleboro.
In Burke County, Ga, a few days
ago Daniel Dowse, aged ninety, married
Rachel Jones, aged seventy-fve. The
timid bride nervously clutched the arm
of her groom, who bore himself with
manly pride.-N. T. Graphic.
Mayor Bulkeley, of Hartford,
spends much more for the city every
year than his salary covers. His enter
tainment of the Charleston Is. c.
militiamen cost him several thousand
dollars, the expense of the little feast
at his own house being about $l,700.-
Hartford Comm Post.
United States Minister Hunt and
Admiral Baldwin have received the
large gold medal commemorative of the
Cars coronation. Admiral Baldwin
has received gold snutf-box, with a
portrait of the Car set in brilliants, to
mark the Cars personal appreciation
of the courtesy of the United States in
sending a special naval mission to Mos
cow.
Mrs. Margaret Haughery is to have
life-sized statue in New Orleans. For
forty wears she was the most self-sacri
ticing philanthropist in that city. Many
instances of her heroism are borne in
mind by her admirers. On one occa
sion, when she applied at a large
grocery for provisions, she was laugh
ingly told by a member of the firm:
"We'll give you all you can pile on a
wheelbarrow, if you will take it to the
asylum yourself" She accepted the
offer and rolled the barrow in triumph
through the Streets Chicago Journal.
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hundred passengers were lost. There
wouldn't have been any need OF any OF
'em being lost, but they got scared and
jumped overheard. My father and
brother were both on one mast together,
but my father got washed of, and he
was drowned. / guess he was drowned,
for we have never seen him since.
was on the Servia then, and we got to
the Cimbria few days after she had
gone down. She hadn't gone all the
way down, but was still fioatin' around
with little of her hull out of the water.
We helped to raise her."
"Your brother wasn't lost thenp"
"No, he got out all right, and he's
here in Louisville now. We made two
or three more trips, and then our moth
er made us quit the ocean. She was
afraid that we would get lost like father
did,"
"Weren't you afraid yourself?"
"Afraid of what?"
"Afraid that you'd be shipwrecked
some day."
Nav. After you get used to it you
don't mind it at all"
"Were you ever mistreated on board
the ship by the mate or Captain?"
"They didn't have anything to do with
me. / was a potato-peeler, as / told
you before, and was kept in the cook
house most all the time. The second
cook was my boss"
care you ever going to sea again?"
'If my mother lets me will. I'd &C
right now if she'd say so.''
''Can you swim?"
"Well, should say so. learned to
swim when | was six wears old"
Jump overheard here" said Cap
tain Devan, land let's see if you can
get out without us helping you"
mo. My mother might find it out.
She's scared to let any of us boys go
near the water since father got
drowned"
"Where do you liveP'
"Up here on jefferson street, near
Hancock" The youthful mariner
espied the cook-house of steamboat
lying above the station. 'I'm going
up there on that steamboat" said he,
as he started off, Ito see what kind of
cook-houses they've got on these little
fresh-water crafts" In the course of a
few minutes he could be seen aboard the
boat in earnest conversation with the
potato-peeler No doubt he was relat-
ing to the latter his experience ON the
ocean in the same capacity.
Alex. is a bright little German lad,
with large blue eyes and an honest ex-
preston of countenance. He will be
eleven years old on the 26th of next
month. He loves to be about the water,
and can handle pair of oars like an
old tar. He is very small for his age,
and nobody would ever suspect that he
has had the experience on the Atlantic
which he says he has.-LouisuiAe Com
naerctGi.
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There are many people In this world
who know full well the true meaning Of
this truth. Among them is a man in
Madison County, n. Y. While / was
engaged in NJ, village in Madison
County, one of the leading men of the
town, a church member, and a pro-
| fessed Temperance man, attended the
meetings. He refused to sign the
pledge. Not only did he refuse, but he
said he did not believe in pledge sign
ing. His presence at the meeting be-
came injurious to the work. Other peo-
plewho looked upon this man as lead
er, were kept back by his argument and
example. Among those who stood be-
hind him were his two sons.
said to him one night: "Do you
know you are exerting bad influence
in these meetings? Do you know you
are virtually saying: This reform
movement is all wrong?"
"No, dom t mean any such thing.
l am as good a Temperance man as
you" 81 beg pardon, my dear sir. /
can { see it; you are not only refusing
to sign the pledge yourself, but you are
telling others, and among them drink
ing men, there is no use of signing a
pledge. l have got three hundred to
sign the pledge in week, and you have
kept one hundred from signing it," His
answer was: ''I'll do as [ see fit.'' He
did, and refused to help in any way. He
little knew that his constant opposition
influenced his boy to still continue in
| the bad way. Six weeks ago this faith
er gathered the harvest, from the seed
he had sown four years ago. 1t was a
full harvest of drunkenness, of ruin, of
crime, and of shame. When the news
was told the father that his oldest son,
the dear one of his heart, was gam
bier, thief and forger; that he had fed
the State in disgrace; that he had left
stain on the good name of his family, it
nearly broke his fathers heart This
was not the hardest for him to bear. In
letter from his son, excusing his flight
from the scene of his crime, he said:
Don't be too severe on me, father; for
had you not opposed and denounced the
temperance work and the signing of
the pledge four years ago, your most
unfortunate son would never have be-
come the drunken outcast and felon he
is to-day. Your example for right at
that time would have saved me; you
did not giUe IL. So you have no one to
thank but yourself for my damnatlon
and your shame" How the truth of the
fact, ''as ye sow, so must ye also reap"
came home to that father This is no
fancy picture, but something from real
life; you don't know how your disap-
proval of right and truth may return to
you. On which side of this movement
are youp-Rechdbtte
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Not for Beer.

Men have fought. bled and died, but
not for beer. Arnold Winkelried did
not throw himself on the Austrian
spears because he was ordered to close
his saloon at nine o'clock. William Tell
did not hide the arrow under his coat to
kill the tyrant because the edict had
gone forth that the free-born Switzer
could not drink keg of beer every Sun
day. Warren did not die that beer
might flow as the brooks ripple and
murmer seven days in a week. Tea
mild, harmless, effeminate, much
snecred-at Temperance beverage that it
Is is a grander figure, and fills a grand
er, more glorious place in the history OF
the noble struggle for human liberty
than beer.
Men liked it, but they fought rather
than take it. The fights around a
whisky-barrel do not pass into history;
they pass into the police-court records.
Even the Battle of Brandywine was not
fought that whisky might be free.
No clause in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence declares that Sunday con-
eert-garden, with five brass horns and
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-02
Temperance Items.

DR.. MACON, of the Inebriates' Home,
at Fort Hamilton, l.. l.. has looked into
the family history of one hundred and
siXty-one patients there. He learned
that. ninety-eight of the number had
drunken fathers; six, drunken mothers;
and sixteen, grandparents and other
near kindred who were intemperate.
Fifteen were of families in which insan-
ity existed, sometimes along with ine-
briefly. Indianapolis Journal.
ALL WHO ARE FAMILIAR with stories
of the sea realize what a traditional
feature of ''life on the ocean waver is
effaced in the stopping of the ''grog ra-
ton" by the great steamship lines. One
by one these companies have done this,
substituting coffee in the place of rum.
We know, too, how much advance has
been made in the requirements of rail-
way corporations toward their EN-
ployes, concerning drink and drinking
habits, thus insuring economy for them
selves, and comparative safety to the
public. If these things are wise for
great companies and public interests,
what shall be said of leaving open to
the tempting forces the sanctuary of the
individual beingP-Unios Signal.
TEMPERANCE PAYs.-This county
(Randolph, Miss voted for prohibition
about one year ago, since which time
not one drop of whisky has been sold in
our county for any purpose-that l
am aware of, and our county has been
changed from hell on earth to para
disc! No pen, no tongue, no imagina-
ton can picture to outsiders the change.
While, at the first election, some men
of responsibility and good standing OPP
posed prohibition, now, / do not believe
there is a respectable, good citizen in
the whole county who would vote for
the return of whisky in our county,
Some said it would injure our trade to
prohibit the sale of whisky. Well, in
stead of injuring our trade it has in
creased it, aud the whisky men are
bound to acknowledge the facI-AiG-
6anad Baptist.
The RECORDER OF DUBLIN said re-
Gently: al have been for week trying
cases such as no Christian Judge ought
to try-cases of outrage and violence.
marked the evidence in every single
case, and every one of them began in
the public house. 1t is the drink sys-
tenn, and the drink alone. that leads to
all this crime and misery and sorrow.
Yesterday went through mile and
three-quarters of miserable, wretched
streets, manifesting on every side the
penury and wretehedness of the unfort-.
unate people who lived in them. The
only bright spots were the public houses
which, brilliantly lighted up. reflected
and contrasted with the surrounding
misery. / hate this magnificence. /
look upon it with horror. know it but
too well. AS each case of crime and
violence comes before me, the same
wretched story is told-the drink de-
mon is as necessary part of every case
as the police or myself,
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A Young Traveller.

"Do YOU call this life-savin' sta
tion?" asked little eleven-year-boy of
Captain Devan, yesterday, after sizing
up the boat-house from one end to the
other.
"That's just exactly what it is, and
there amt better one in the service, ="
replied the Captain.
Pshawv" muttered the urchin, ''you
don't know what a life, savin' station is.
You oughter see them on the ocean"
'On the ocean! What's little shaver
like you know about the ocean?"
"Wen, / just made twelve trips over
an back, and you bet yer life know all
about it. I'd be on the ocean now if it
wasn't for my mother; but you see after
my father was lost at sea she wouldn't
let me ship any more"
"Where is your mother nowP"
"She' here in Louisville. Been here
over year"
"Where'd you live before you came
hereP"
"In Germany"
"You say you were sailor and made
twelve trips on the oceanp"
"No, didn't say was sailor, but I
was potater-peeler."
son what shipp"
"On the steamship Servia, running
between New York and Hamburg"
"You must have been pretty young
when you started outP''
"About eight years old"
How'd you come to go on the
oceanp"
"Well, I'll tell you. My father was
mate on the steamship Cimbria. His
name was Lewis Fuar. My names
Alexander Fuar. There was three of
us boys, and we wanted to go to sea.
My father took one of my brothers with
him, and shipped us other ones on the
Servia as spotater-peelers. After we had
shipped and made few trips he brought
my mother to this country, and brought
her here to Louisville. Then he went
back to the Cimbria and crossed the
ocean in her. On her way back to
America she was run into by another
ship, and my father and three or four
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MISSISSIPPI, AUGUST 2 NUME

ball as croquet or lawn tennis. / do not
play baseball myself; not because /
would as lief be hit with brick as catch
baseball, any time. think you might
play cricket, if you have few weeks you
can spare for that purpose. l consider
1t most excellent game to develop a
man patience and build up habit of
long-suffering endurance. / have never
seen a game played, clear through. /
am too young. If you become addicted
to croquet, however, remember to what
an undue indulgence in this fascinating
game may lead. 1t requires a great
deal of grace to play game of croquet
without cheating some and quar-
reling a little. Especially after the
evening grows dark. l do not like
to play croquet, because | am
sure to be caught in the act, and it is
not pleasant to be suddenly called upon
to play and discover that you put the
wrong ball in your pocket. But if you
enjoy any of these games. put on soft
felt hat and play. Don't attempt to
play baseball in a stove-pipe hat. Don't
be too dignified. Rigidity isn't dignity.
The wooden Indian who stands before
the cigar store never bends, and never
laughs. But he isn't majestic and he
isn't dignified, by long chalk. Don't
be wooden Indian. Better be live,
wild one, hair, paint, grease, dirt end
all. wouldn't carry pistol in my hip
pocket, if were you, but if you have
gun and love to shoot, a day in the
marsh or on the meadows may infuse
new life in your sermons. 1 hunt
great deal, both in and out of game sea-
son. l used to carry gun with me.
But it was heavy, and trouble to car
ry it, and I was always leaving the caps
or wetting the powder, so gave the gun
away. shoot just as much game with
out it, l think, as | used to bring down
with it, and have just as good time.
So can you.-Burlingto Hawkeye.
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Temperance.
EHE STORY OF TIE WINDS.

We come from the North with a story Of woe.
Let MS whisper IL in your ear:
Our shivcring blasts with the frost and the
Have entered the hovel where none ever go
save the wretched slave to his appetite low,
The drunkard; from us you will hear
How with mad delight we have shrieked until
Has trod the dim halls of the past:
We have walked tn his heart some fond mem
Ere the days OF his thralldom caused him TO be
The wreck of a life on the shore of the sea,
or bitter regrets, roughly cast
We come from the East with the rays of the
Alas! there's chill in our breath;
The spring-timc of hope had structure begun
For the groom and his bride he so lovingly
won:
Rum laid it in ruins. but ere he was done
Came the grim, stern conqueror Death,
With his icy fngers-how firm his embrace;
We moaned, while the drops of the rain
So silently fell on his rough. boatcd face,
And trusted their tears might forever efface
The trace of sin on the last of his race,
Once proud with so LOFTY an aim.
We come from the South, the birds and the
Have caroled and breathed their per-
fume:
And sadly we whisper to you of the hours
Laden with grief as the cloud of sin lowers
And bursts-its victim inebriate covers
And lists 10 his story of doom.
o weird is our moan, for his home once so fair
Has vanished, no more to return.
No longer a fond, loving mother is there,
And laughter of childhood rings out in the
air:
Their sorrowing hearts in the grave of despair
Are laid as the story you learn.
We come from the west we are cool, do you
say,
Revivify, comfort and bless?
Owould we might all your sadness allay,
As wearied you rest at the close of the day:
But over the mountains of sin you must stray,
And hear our sad tale of distress.
The land, rich with promise, withholds from
your sight
The terrible struggle within.
As prosperity dawns thief in the night,
The demon of drink, in the power of his might,
blight,
And planted the seeds of his sin.
From the North and the East, the South and
the West,
We watt you our breezes again;
The many awake from their sleep, and with
Zest
Will enter the conflict and never will rest
Till the woes of the traffic sore on them
Have fled from the children of men.
For God and for Home, and their dear Native
Land,
True women will fight till they feel
The flames of their ardor our breezes have
famed.
They go forth to conquer, a resolute band
Their work the great God of the universe
planned,
Their victory, time will reveal
Lizzie Campbell Smith, in Union Signal.
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sixty-eight kegs of beer, is the ina1icn,

sixty-eight kegs Of beer, Is the inalienI
able fight of a free people and tho
cornerstone of all good government.
The battles of this world have been for
grander things than free whisky. The
heroes who generally fall in the struggle
for the supremacy of rum are usually
shot in the neck, and their martyrdom
is generally clouded by the phantoms OF
the jim-jams. There will be no Tenn
perance war.
Whisky makes men fight, it is true,
but they usually fight one another. And
If they don't the chances are all in favor
of the sober people.
1t is poor Temperance man who
can not get away W tn drunken neigh
Dor, if he can get him drunk enough
burlington Hai0beye.
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BY b. t. HOBBS.
r,rx,aa, I'm Advances
ADVERTISER ENTs.
A PLEA For THE DUDE.

The dandy of these latter days
Has much that men may rightly praise;
For he, with all his vapid ways,
Is something new.
Uc differs from the olden style
In being free from fraud and guile:
Ills harmless frown and vacant smile
Alike are TRUE.
Some foreign airs he can't escape,
some foreign styles he has to ape,
Recause they suit so well his shape
From top to toe;
No vulgar copyist is he,
But truly boasts himself to be
A quite unique vacuity-
"Rathah, yah know"
In dressing up neither limb
No padder's art disguises him;
AS nature made that member slim,
Slim 1t remains;'
And nature rules in all the rest
OF his attire when he is dressed,
Unless, perhaps, his hat suggest
Too much of brains.
In disposition meek and mild,
Almost as harmless as a child,
Silly by some he may be styled,
But seldom rude;
Though stronger souls may scorn his dress
All must admire his cleanliness,
And find therein good cause to bless
The modern dude.
" Y SIM