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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
A Daughters Misery.

eleven years our daughter suffered on A
bed of misery,
" From a complication of kidney, liver,
rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility,
Under the care of the best physicians,
"Who gave her disease various names,
"But no relief,
"And now she is restored to us In good
health by as simple remedy as Hop Bitters,
that we had Stunned for years before using
1.-THE PARENTS.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

A SEASIDE belle having left her bathing
shoes out of the hotel window to dry, the
town paper announced that the hotel had
erected new awnings of unique design.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

A GRANGER whose name is Bob Shield,
Was moving the grass in his field,
BY snake he was bitten,
And he has just written,
st. Jacobs Oil has the bite healed"
A lame Chinaman Oh the Pacific,
OF pains and aches was prolific;
He limped all around,
Until he had found
St. Jacobs Oil, the great specific.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

DR.. C. w. BENsoN's Celery and Chamo-
mile Pills are prepared expressly to cure
and will cure Headache of all kinds, Neu-
ralgia, Nervousness and Dyspepsia. Proved
and endorsed by physicians.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

IT has been remarked that every miner
knows his lode, but the history of the rise
and fall of the toy pistol has proven that
every minor doesn't know his load.-Chi-
cago Times.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

Hale's Honey of ii orehound and Tar
Soothes the lungs convulsed with cough.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

.'IT isn't that / care about little work
now" said lazy tramp, "but am afraid
II once begin to earn my own living shall
always be expected to do it."
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
Advertising Cheats fti

"It has become so common 10 write A..
beginning of an article, In an elegant mt
estlng manner,
Then run Il into some advertisemeu.
that we avoid all such,
"And simply call attention TO the merit,
OF Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms !,
possible,
ITO induce people
ITO give them one trial, which so prov.,
their value that they will never use anytbps
else"
"THE REMEDY so favorably noticed IN
all the papers,
"Religious and secular, Is
Having large sale, and is supplantinp
all other medicines.
"Therc is no denying the virtues OF tina
Hop plant, and the proprietors of Hop Blt.
tiers have shown great shrewdness
"And ability
In compromising a medicine whose viz.
tues are so palpable to every ones obserya.
tiOn,v
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

"DR. BENsoN's SKIN Cure erddicdted my
pimples. They used to break Out continual
y." Steve T. Harrison, Rochester, N. Y.
81 at druggists.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

"Misery loves company" That's the
reason a hen-pecked husband advises his
friends to marry.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

JoKE-After the Philadelphia method
in the Press: The might of Britain just
now appears to be mostly dynamite.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

If your horses have sore shoulders,
scratches, cuts or open sores of any kind,
use Stewards Healing Powder.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water Druggists sell it, 25e.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

PRECoCIoUs boy (munching the fruit of
the date-tree)-" Mamma, if | eat dates
enough will grow up to be an almanac!"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

THOSE COMPLAINING OF SORE THROAT
Hoarseness or Cold, should use BrOlUn'S
bronchial IrOcheS." Sold only i'll boxes.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

THE wake of a vessel is never celebrated.
~ Y. Adrertiser.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

UPON what should the dude be fed,
Upon dew drops, of course.-LJe.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

THE latest mineral discovery in Cali
fornia is soap mine. Good stock to
water.-BOStOn Star.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

CHICAGO calls itself an Eastern city, and
the law offers US no redress.-LotgeH Citi.
zen,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

BISMARCK thinks that the American pig
Is the rooter of all evil.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

STANDS TO reason-A debater who won't
sit down.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

ONE of the sweetest pictures of domestic
economy is poet backing white stock
ing so that it won't show through the fis
sure of hisNboot.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

81 AM free to confess" as the thief re-
marked when he turned States evidence.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
Did She DieP

MOI
I" She fingered and suffered along, pinlnp
away all the time for years."
1.-THE doctors doing her no gOod;"
And at last was cured by this Hop Bit.
tiers the papers say so much about"
"Indeedl Indeedr'
How thankful we should be for thai
mpdipina ~
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

BRANDY improves by keeping 1t; so does
the man who owns it.-Bdlism0re Euery
Saturday.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

REDDING's Russia Salve, best family salve in
the world. and excellent for stable use. 25cts.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

in the shortest time. Write for free 40-page
pamphlet on rheumatism, to r. X. Helphen-
slime, Druggist, Washington, D. G.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

STRAIGHTEN old boots and shoes with Lyons
Patent Heel Stitfencrs. and wear them again.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
Rheumatism Positively Cured

SLANG never heard from the lips of
bride" don't give me away.-LOuiScHle
COltrier-.JOuyndL.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

A BOARD full of nails is the worst we evel
saw.-ErchdRge.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

Two GOOD signs-$ G. Waterloo ObSeru.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
PERSONAL

THE man who "dies game" should never
be Shot out of season.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

To AVOID colds, keep your mouth shut.
"Most politicians are suffering from colds"
says the Rochester IN. W Union.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03

The New York papers report an in.
creasing strength and impetus in the
temperance movement in that city.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
Father is Getting Well.

my daughters say:
'How much better father is since he used Hop BIT.
ters"
ale is getting wen after his long suffering from
disease declared incurahlc'
And are SO glad that he used your Btters."
"A LADY OF UTICA N Y.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-05-03
"a vision, less beguiling far,
Than waking dreams by daylight are"

" health after sickness? To be well
man, to feel pure blood coursing through
your veins, to know that lungs, liver, kid.
neys, and all the Grand Machinery Does
its duty perfectly in one's bedy; to carry
health's ruddy mark on the cheeks All,
this is Good Most Decidedly. This was our
hero's case, and thousands can tell the
same story. The good angel has come to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
riIial peYotion q a Biz.

We have a saving that charity begins
at home. and it has been added that 3
GREAT deal of the charity that begins at
home stays there, OF this narrow sort
of benevolence, too, we find examples
amono the animals. There Is the bar
bet. for instance. 1t is a solitary bird,
and sits most of the time in morose
silence on a twig, waiting for its food
lin the shape of an insect) to fly by.
Sometimes it is said to rouse itself and
make a descent upon the nest OF some
smaller bird and eat all the little ones.
Certainly, one would not look for any
sort of benevolence from such bird;
and vet it offers d very striking and
beautiful example of the begin-at-home-
and-stay-there kind.
The celebrated naturalist, Levaillant,
who has told so many interesting things
about the birds of Africa and South
America, SAYS that he discovered a bar
bets nest in which there were five birds.
Four of them were young and Vigor-
Gus, but the fifth was so old and weak
that when it was put into cage with
its comrades it could not move, but lay
dying IN the corner where it had been
placed.
When food was put into the cage the
poor old bird could only look at it long
ingly, without having the strength to
drag itself within reach of it. Then it was
that the Younger birds manifested a
singular spirit of kindness. Quickly,
and even with an air of tenderness, as it
seems, they carried food to the decrepit
old bird, and fed it as if it had been
only a fledgling. Struck by this spec
tacle, the naturalist examined the nest
from which the birds had been taken,
and found it was full of husks and the
remains of insects, showing plainly that
the old bird must have been maintained
long time by its vigorous companions,
which probably were its own offspring.
Further study of other birds of the same
species convinced the naturalist that ii
was the custom for the old and infirm
birds to be cared for by the young and
strong.
There are several different species OF
barbets found in Africa and South
America, and though not graceful in
shape, many of them are exceedingly
beautiful in plunage. They get their
name of barbet from the French word
barbe, meaning beard, because they
have tufts of stiff hair at the base of the
bill. Naturalists place them in a genus
called Bucco, and some persons call
them puff-birds, because they have an
odd way of putting out the feathers all
over the body, which then looks more
like bale of feathers than a bird
VIII Wo0dn1ap, III st. Nicholas.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
The Greatest Of All Whistlers

Morere, the tenor, has been shut up in
an asylum, incurably mad over his pet
hobby, whistling.
For years he cultivated that hobby,
until he was able to emit blast that
would brighten the cab horses on the bou-
levards of Paris, and drive cornet play
ers wild with envy.
Once he was arrested and fined for
disturbing the public peace when he had
only whistled an air while walking home
from the opera-loud enough, however,
20 wake up every one within half mile,
more or less.
On another occasion he was singing in
Faust at the Grand Opera, and, hav-
ing a cold, gave some false notes. The
audience Kissed. Down he sprang into
the orchestra, and cried: "Since you
have begun to hiss, let me tell you that
you don't understand the art in the
least. Now, listen" Then he gave a
whistle minute long, and loud enough
to make a calliope sick. There was no
more kissing, and the opera went on.
At present he believes himself commits
stoned to learn to whistle loud enough
to drown the sounds of locomotive and
all the bells of Notre Dame together:
and, as he practices faithfully ten hours
a day his fellow lunatics in the asylum
are objects of pity. -MuStcaE Herald.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
ssBeen Away"

Smith has been up to Alpena for four
days. He returned yesterday. He had
scarcely left his house to come down
town when he was halted by an ac-
quaintance with:
''Say, how was the corn looking up
that way?''
Smith gave favorable account, al
though he could not recall having
seen a single ear. Half block further
on he was met by another man with:
'.Hello! back again? Say, how did
you find the potato crop?"
Smith did not see an acre of potato
field, but he felt bound to reply that po-
tatoes were a good crop. AS he waited
for the car third man greeted him with:
$50 you were up North? How did
wheat pan out up there?"
Smith did not know whether the crop
was ten or ten thousand bushels, but he
replied that wheat was good yield. On
the platform of the car fourth man
grasped his hand and anxiously re-
marked:
81 hear you have been up to A1penaP
How were oats up there this fall?''
Smith didn't hear the name spoken
while on his trip, but of course he ans
wered that oats were a fine yield. AS he
got off the car the fifth man was ready
with:
.sWeII! well! So you have been up
to Alpena? Say, Smith, will the yield
of buckwheat be up to the averaged"
Smith replied that it would. He
would have been queer man not to.
The sixth man evidently had something
on his mind He ran clear across the
street to shake hands and call out:
'tJust the man / was looking for!
Hear 'em say anything about short
hay-crop up there?"
No, he didn't. Indeed he didn't
hear the word used in any connection.
He believed the crop was fairly up.
There was a seventh man. He was
at the post-office. He caught sight of
Smith and dropped his mail on the floor
in his anxiety to shake hands and OBJ
serve.
''Say, want to ask you few ques-
tons. How did you find barleyP"
Splendid. I"
''And cabbage?"
Immense.
''And turnips?"
dead loads of EN-"
Sand how are times up there?"
''Flush. Lots of money, real estate
booming, and everybody happy"
'sGood! Much obliged"
Smith travelled the route by night,
made no inquiries except abont pine
lands, and did not speak to six persons
while absent, but he knew what was ex-
pected of him and he followed the usual
custom. Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
A Cat That Prefers Elevators.

The Tribune elevator car had started
on its upward trip last evening, and the
elevator boy was gazing upward into its
furthest corner, evidently lost in reverie.
Presently there came a distinct call in
the shape of a plaintive ''Maouw." The
elevator boy checked his car forthwith
on a level with the floor whence the
sound came. There was no one to be
seen, and the smallest boy would have
been visible
''Going up?'' asked the elevator boy
''Maouw, maouw!' was repeated.
The elevator boy slid open the door
and a gray cat walked demurely in,
sprang upon the seat and began licking
her paws until two floors had been
passed, when she uttered another cry
and sprang down before the doorway.
The car stopped, the door was opened,
and Tabby passed out.
SIS she a regular passenger" was
asked.
..Is sheP" said the elevator boy. s'Of
course she is. She lives in the building,
she does. She never walks up or down
stairs 'cept on Sunday, when the ele-
Yator amt q running in front. If it's
evening she uses the back elevator"
''Where is she going nowP"
''She's jest dropping In to see friend
of hers. He's a lawyer, and he often
stays late to write, and she goes in and
sits on the table and watches him, and
he gives her a bit of something to eat.
In bout an hour, before my times up,
she'll come back to go to the top floor.
Mebbe she'll stop little in the editorial
rooms; then she goes up TO the restau-
rant. She always gets there about
twelve o'clock, when the printers get
their lunch. They all know her.
Sometimes, he added, '.she sits
down in the car and keeps me company
for while. She amt any bother. She
knows how to behave herself a great
deal better than some of them lawyers
and sharp chaps who are always asking
a teller whether he's going to get mar
ried, and how's his girl. She goes all
around downtown by herself. she does.
The other morning one of the fellows
saw her down in Fulton Market. She
knew him and came mp and rubbed
against his legs-'top floor here, sir, If
you want to get out. IN 7. Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
Better than Honey.

There was once q poor man, linen
weaver, who sat every day, from earli-
est dawn, In his workshop, hard at work:
and as ne was one who put his trust In
God, to pass away the time he would
sing many hymn or innocent song. as
he felt inclined. And he had so clear
and strong a voice that the neighbors
required no alarm to wake them in the
morning. But this greatly ANNOYED =
rich merchant who lived near him: for
ne never could sleep before midnight,
owing to his anxious thoughts about his
money, and very early In the morning
he was awaked by this noisy, vexatious
sing-song of his neighbor, the weaver.
He reflected how he could put an end to
this annoyance. He could not forbid It:
for singing, like praying and working,
is the right of every man in his own
house, with which no one can interfere,
He must use other means then. He sent
for the workman, and asked him at what
value he estimated his singing. The
workman replied that he thought that it
was certainly worth a days wages, as
it made the days work itself so easy to
him. The merchant inquired how much
that was. The man replied, and it was
certainly not large sum which he
named.
Then the merchant said he would pay
him months wages in advance, not
for the singing, indeed, but that he
should hence sing no more, but keep a
strict silence. And he laid down the
money before him.
The weaver thought to himself it
could not be easier earned; so he took
the money and promised he would be as
still as mouse in his WORKSHOP. When
he got home with his money he counted
it oVt full of joy; and they were all good
new coins-more money than he had
ever possessed before. In the evening,
before he went to sleep. he gazed at his
treasure for nearly an hour; and at
night he put it under his pillow, lest a
thief should steal any of it. At midnight
he still had it in his head, and thought
about what he should do with it. And
in the morning when he arose it seemed
to weigh down all his limbs like lead
his head was weary with lying awake so
anxiously, his hands were heavy and
lazy, and refused their usual service
All, and he dared not sing!
Time passed away slowly and tedious
ly, so that he could scarcely endure the
day. Meanwhile he had been thinking
the matter over and had come to con-
clusion, for the man who stood at eight
that evening in the merchant's Office was
the weaver.
''Sir, with your permission, - he said,
''here you have your money back again;
it is an evil spirit which does not allow
me to sleep quietly"
And before the merchant could say a
word in reply, the weaver was already
outside the door, and singing, with a
clear, full voice:
A fresh and merry heart
Is worth more than money or wealth.
TriGrum, Tralirum.
-CBdtteTbOr.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
An Eccentric Editor.

The late Charles Hazewell, of the
Boston Traveller, was one of the most
curious ornaments the journalism of
this country ever had. His memory
was prodigious. Inmatters of American
history many fine critics placed him
above Bancroft as an authority. In his
library at Revere, some eight miles
from Boston, he had choice collection
of rare books to the number of five
thousand, and knew them as another
knows her child. He could repeat the
Scarlet Letter. word for word, from
lid to lid. But his greatest feat of
memory was to repeat the sovereigns of
England from the old Danish days to
Victoria, giving the number of children
each had, the dates of their birth and
death, and the entire collateral connec-
tiOns. What is the sense of blowing
Macauley up to the skies because he
was able to call off the Popes of Rome
and the Archbishops of Canterbury in
their historical order when our native
institutions have produced this greater
miracle in Hazewell? With all his
irritability of temper, the old gentleman
was as tender-hearted as a woman. He
knew his strength, and in the line of his
duties had one infleXible rule. If the
topple it over into the ste-basket,
but if he dared to change word he did
so at the peril of his life. His great
work was to write review of the week,
which always appeared on saturday and
gave the TraUeller a reputation for
brains which it has now probably
forever. The way Hazewell would Jug
gle his facts and dates and historic
| Drecedents was wonderful to behold
His bump of reverence was alarmingly
small. He was, perhaps, the most
gifted and original artist in profanity
ever bred under this great republican
form of government, and could compete
in this accomplishment with the Red
headed Ranger ofthe Rio Grande, other
wise known as Tom Ochiltree. In his
last hours he turned to his son and said:
Edward, bury me not deep in some
crowded church-yard, but near the
| grounds surface in Christ's green
pastures, where my remains can fertilize
and fructify when my brain is gone. -
| az r World.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
Around the Loan Exhibition Hall.

young Paul Jenkins has sent on one
of his beautiful landscapes from New
York. They were hanging it when 1
came out, and it is a great addition, ="
said energetic Mrs. Harvey, who was on
her way home from the town hall, where
a loan exhibition was in progress, and
had run for a moments chat with her
neighbOr and co-cOmmittee in the enter
prise, Mrs. Wells.
THAT is very nice" said Mrs. Wells.
Hes fine young fellow and quite a
genius, but you know him, SUPPOSED"
Never met him." said Mrs. Harvey.
1.-The family moved away before my ad-
vent In town, you remember, but hear
them often spoken of. f"
Paul was always a great pet of
mine" said Mrs. Wells. 'sHe sent me
his photograph only the other day. He
promises to be as handsome as a man
as he has been as a child and youth, -
and Mrs. Wells went to the center table
thinking to put her hand on the cabinet
photograph of her young friend.
why, 1t is not here, nor here" she
said going to a side-table, and finally
making tour of the handsome rooms,
looking upon the piano, mantels, cabi-
nets and tables, and calculating: 'sWhy,
II Was mere, on q bracket, at nrSJ, and
then upon an easel. The last time I
noticed it, Agnes Fisher and Helen
Brooks were looking at it. Agnes
wanted to carry it up to the seminary to
show the girls. Just for fun, you know;
such young things are always up to 8
frOlic of some kind, but would not al
low of her taking it. Ihave not seen it
since, / am sure"
sc not lfiroixr che mould 70 = 4
garry it away without leave. :" said Mrs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-15
A Nine DAYS, Wonder.

Common as the telephone now is, lei
me remind you thatif but six short years
ago it had been suggested to you that
we should within two years of that time
be able to reproduce at a distance not
merely sounds, but articulate speech,
and not merely articulate speech, but
every trick and accent of the voice of
the sender, so that any one listening
could say: Chats my friend" or
THAT is a stranger, :" or THAT is a
Scotchman, y or That is an Irishman''
who is speaking, would you not have
secuted it as the language of an enthu-
siast? Yet it is but six years AGO. in
this age the world very soon becomes
accustomed to marvels; it does not Won
der long-not even the proverbial nine
days. believe if tomorrow YOU found
man comfortably flying from the top
of this building to the end of the pier,
and alighting there without injury, it
might attract spectators for about a
week to see 8 daily repetition of the
flight, and at the end of that time they
would pay no more attention to it than
if they had been in the habit of seeing
men fly ever since they were born.-SiT
r. BrGn11eH