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The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03
How It Paid.

The first saloon licensed by the Board
of County Commissioners, nearly nine
years ago, paid fifty dollars for that
privilege. 1t met bitter opposition
from the friends of Temperance and
good order; but the rum men were
alert, and, by presenting bogus petit
ton asking forit, the thing was granted,
| and fifty dollars are supposed to have
gone into the treasury.
A change at once came over our
town. Drunken men began to be seen
upon our streets. Men who before paid
their bills regularly now paid so much
for rum that their bills to honest trades
men had to go unpaid.
The air of that saloon, night and day
was made black with profanity, vulgar
ity and rum. Our young men went there.
and stayed until the hour of midnight.
What effect it had upon them will never
be written
A poor hard-working settler down on
the river, who had opened up farm,
and Heretofore maintained family, be-
gan to visit the saloon and to neglect
his home. One morning he was found
outside with his head fatally crushed by
drunken companion. A long and
tedious series of trials followed, costing
the county over one thousand dollars,
resulting in sending the murderer to
prison for fourteen years, and breaking
up his family.
The murdered mans widow made an
attempt to keep her family together on
the farm, and to furnish them with food;
but in two or three years she died-no
doubt from privation. A daughter soon
followed her mother from the same
cause; then the ragged children were
sent to their friends in Ohio, at the ex-
pense of the county.
These facts are given from my knowl-
edge of them, and just as they are.
Now let us see how this transaction
paid E
Paid to keep murderer fourteen years,
say 500 per year. <2,oOU
Convict murderer 1000
Send children to Ohio, say. 20
Industry for six children, lost to the State
ten years, at 500 per year r............. 5000
Total expense. ................. ss,sT5
Deduct license. .,...................... 50
Lost by transaction tion.....s .ss,ss5
Kansas State Sentinel.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03
Temperance Items.

THE YOUNG LADIES of Topeka, Kan,
have organized Red Ribbon Clubs, the
members of which pledge themselves to
reject all attention from young men
who use intoxicating beverages. This
is practical prohibition.-Chtcaqo Inter
Ocean.
THE PROPOSED PROHIBITION AMEND
MENT was passed by the Senate of Ore
gon by a vote of eighteen to ten, and
BY the House by vote of fifty-two to
six, two members being absent from
each house. The measure will come be-
fore the next Legislature, two years
hence, and if agreed to then will be sub
mitted to the vote of the people.
DIR. NORMAN KERR recently stated
in Exeter Hall that of $4,000, 900 cases
of disease every year in the United
States, large proportion arose from
indulgence in intoxicants. Some sew
enty diseases are described as arising
directly from alcohol. The estimated
annual mortality cansed directly and in
directly by drinking was given at
10000.
INDAYs PAsTI have seen some drunk
enness and the effects thereof. / have
seen the dead bodies of women muir
dered by drunken husbands; / have
seen the best men in America go down
to disgraceful graves; / have seen for
tunes wrecked, prospects blighted, and
have pursued great many pages OF
statistics. There are crimes on the cal
endar not resulting from rum, but were
rum eliminated, the catalogue would be
so reduced as to make it hardly wcyth
the compiling. Directly or indirectly.
rum is chargeable with q good ninety
per cent. of the woes that affiict ouf
country -Nas6y, in Tie Toledo co.
RL1de
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03
Something Better Than Railroads.

During Western trip of one of New
York's railroad kings, made last year,
it became known through the passenger
coaches that his private car was at
tached to the train, and as the conductor
entered one of the coaches a man from
Northern Indiana beckoned to him and
asked:
"Is Mr.. Gould's car with this train?"
"Yes; sir.
"Is Mr.. Gould in that carp"
"He is"
"Can go in and see himp"
"H you can get in"
"Well, I'll try" said the man, as he
rose up. "I've got model here of the
smartest, cutest and best washing-ma-
sheen ever invented. and if Mr.. Gould
will drop his railroads and take hold of
this with me, I'll warrant him steady
income, after the first year, of forty dol
lars a week"
He didn't succeed in entering the car,
and that may be the reason why Mr..
Gould is still in the railroad business
Wall Street Ne,oS.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03
BY b. T. HOBBS.
ADVERTISER ENTs.
LIKE A HOUSE.


Men are like houses. They are flats.
They too, have bricks-within their hats.
They're mortgaged, hammered, nailed anC
tiOorcd,
And have room-attics, and their board.
Houses have tenants, and, we guess,
man has ten aunts more or less.
Both have top stories, empty quite,
And each doth take carpenter right.
Houses and men of ancient dates
Have scanty locks and broken gaits.
Houses on coriiers stand, with stairs;
Men do the same. Both need repairs.
Houses are lathed with plaster. Men
Are plastered all with lathcr when
They shavings have. They'r" Shingled, too,
Upon their mans hard roof 20 true.
A house well built will settle some;
A man well billed will settle-grum.
Scanolds on houses hang; hut men
Hang on scaffold oft again.
Unlike "A man a house of wood
Foundation has for stories good.
Both fire insurance need below
For manshuns burning much we know.
H. @. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03
Temperance.
BREW! SELL! DRINK! BUY!

Brew, brew, brewI
For there's gold in the sale
OF our jolly brown ale,
Aud together we'll wink.
While the poor ninnics drink.
How they 20 for the slush
When their money is flush,
Till they quarrel and fight,
As they reel home at night,
All us drunk as can he,
Coming fresh from spree:
But you know it's our trade,
While our license Is paid;
So huZza and huzZa!
For the drinking brigade.
Brew. brew. brewI
Through the whole of the land
We'll supply the demand,
For we care not for right,
Let the people get tight;
We have nothing to lose,
Let them drink when they choose,
For we feel not the pain,
And we see not the slain;
Or the murdered ones gore,
As IL flows on the floor.
All our fortunes are made,
And our taxes are paid,
And we stand at the head
OF the drinking brigade.
Sell, sell, sell!
We have influence great,
In each county and State;
And we care not for those
Sober people, our foes,
Those fanatics, who think
There's no good in strong drink
Let them blow about jails,
And complain of our ales,
OF the drunkarls who die,
And the women who cry
Ger the graves that are made
BY the old sections spade,
On behalf of themselves
And the drinking brigade.
Drink, drink, drink!
Let each Jolly old soul
Hug his firm friend, the bowl;
And forever well sell
Till they sink into hell;
As we laugh at the deed,
While the children in need
To the wOrk-house are led,
And on charity fed;
Till they blow OFF the frOth,
Ere they suck in our broth.
Their own selves to degrade,
In support of our trade,
And the revenue drawn
From the drinking brigade.
Buy, buy, buy!
You should drink while you can,
'Tis by far the best plan,
For the use of your tin
we ii Nil up your skin
With our jolly brown beer,
Which we brew every year.
'Tis to finger your cash,
That we simmer and mash
The vast mountain of grain
From the valley and plain.
'Tis alone by our aid
That the drunkards are made.
So three cheers, and huZZa
For the drinking brigade.
r. Thompson, i1l NetU Hduen Commonwealth
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03

Two young fellows stood in front OF
billboard the other night intensely
perusing the announcement of the Bos-
ton Ideal Opera Company. Finally one
remarked: ''What is the Boston Ideal
any how?" The latter looked at him
half contemptuously for moment and
replied in deprecatory tone: Don't
you know what the Boston Ideal is?
Why, you ninny, it's baked beans. y
Hartford Globe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-03

"A little girl visiting Niagara with
her father, and seeing the foam at the
foot of the falls, exclaimed: "Pa, how
much soap it must take to make SO
much suds!'
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24
Pie and PathOs.

AS she stood there with her soft,
white arms twined lovingly around
her neck, and her deep hazel eyes up.
raised lovingly to his, he saw that she
had been weeping, and around the
wan dropping lips that in the happy
bygone days had been so often raised
pouting so merrily, to be kissed by
his own, there were traces of pie.
Richard Erwin shuddered as he
drew the 1.-the, yielding form closely
TO him, and MS her head nestled con
fdingly on his clayicle, his head
was bent toward her, and he wept
bitter, scalding tears Of pain, to think
that his wife, Clytie Stisgins, Boston
born and bIed-a girl who had hal
itually read Emerson, and whose es-
say on the theory of the horizontal
cleavage in red sandstone, was only
excelled by her paper on the fauna of
the pliocene peliod--should be re-
duced TO eating pie in the morning.
But mastering his emotions in an
instant, he turned again to Cytie, and
said :, sit is no use sweetheart, | have
walked the streets for weeks vainly
searching for work. Winter is COM
ing and what is to become of us is
more than / know"
Just then a noise of some one
slowly and YEARLY dragging himself
up stairs was heard. Presently it
ceased, and messenger boy kicked
open the door, and walking to where
Richard Erwin sat, handed him a
telegram. o..
ave are saved, Clytie," he said in
low, broken tones. your father is
dead, and all his mackerel fishery is
yours"
eyes," murmered the girl kneeling
beside the chair on which her husband
sat. "We are saved, Richard, saved
by acanthopterygian fish of the scom-
beroid family. Its body fusiform,
it's first dorsal fin continues, and it's
branchiostegal rays are seven in num-
Der" then looking up suddenly,
she saw the man she loved SO well,
and for whom she would have
sacrificed her life, lying cold and
pulseless across the chair. fl..
She had talked him to DEATH
Chicago Tribune.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24
Why Washington is Remembered.

This is essentially an iconoclastic
age and an alarming number of the
idols of history have been knocked
down from their pedestals of late and
found to be only common clay. 1t is
a notable thing that neither the
philosophic historian on the one hand
nor the digger-up of secret memoirs
on the other has in any way dimmed
the lustre that for near century has
surrounded the fe ure of Washington.
There was a time when an artificial
and exaggerated idealism threatened
to raise the character of Washington
so far above all human sympathy Oh
interest as to make it practically use
less for influence or example. We
have found out now that our hero
was not hedged by any such divinity
as should exempt him from every day
scrutiny; but being only a man, OF
ordinary human impulses and endow-
ments, he maintained character so
pure and purpose SO true that ne
will stand for all times as type of
honorable manhood and devoted
citizenship. :.
The great Importance of Washing
toms place in history lies in the very
fact that he was not a phenome nal
man, except as we may regard as
phenomenal so rare combination OF
those qualities of human excellence
that in most men are mingled spar
ingly with baser qualities. Beneath
and a bove his military skill and his
political judgment was the noble
character.--the marvellous equipose,
the unselfsh devotion, the unswerv-
ing integrity---that gave victory to the
soldier and to the statesman influence
and power. -,
Most of the great men of the world
have had some darker side, IN their
public or in their private lives that we
must agree to forget; but we may
turn the full light of inquiry upon
| Washington, as a soldier, as states
man or as a man, and find nothing
that we need to cover up; nothing
that lessons our respect for one who
holds a place in the hearts OF ms
countrymen---in the hearts of all en-
iightened peOple,--such as no other
man, however ardently admired, has
ever held. And this, after all, is the
test of enduring honor, the secret OF
enduring influence. 1t is this that
will make it always worth our while
to keep the birthday of Washington
as a holiday,for ourselves and our
children, whatever other days Of
patriotic commemoration may fall
| into neglect. He was not alone great
man in time; he was type OF the
public and private virtues, the
patriotism, the integrity, the strength
Of lofty purpose, that make men really
great in every time. Philadelphia
Times.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24

to subdue her. Time and again he
went TO the fort, but at last in the
chape. easement, which is still there
in the fort, she finally refused and
dehed him. The fair Inez was now
cast in the deepest dungeon, a gloomy
place as old Sergeant Mcguire points
It ont, and hoping TO win the lady in
another way, Mendenez sent Don
Manuel to her, believing that his love
would cause him TO advise the lady TO
relent in order to escape such horrid
dungeon, Don Manuel, however,
determined 10 use the opportunity to
restore his beloved Inez TO liberty.
melting the Indians, who hated Men
denez, II strong party entered the font,
and Don Manuel, seizing Inez in his
arms, carried her to the parapet, and
throwing her in the water in the moat,
plunged in and swan with her amidst
II shower of arrows to. the north side
of the fort, and finally escaped to the
woods. The couple were tracked by
bloodhounds, and on being captured,
were placed in two small iron cages
four or five feet apart, which were
chained to the wall of the inmost
dungeon, and left to die. In 1885,
an army officer discovered an opening
to a new dungeon in the fort. He
tore away some mortar and Coquina
stone and found a room twelve feet
square. Pursuing his investigations,
he discovered two iron cages and the
bones of man and woman. One of
the cages is almost destroyed by time,
The other, it is said, is in the Smith
sonian Institute, with the bones that
were found, but this is probably not
true. The story of Lady Inez and
Don Manuel may be a fiction, but
two cages and the human bones were
undoubtedly found. The dungeon
in which they were discovered is
reached through the easement and
two dark and dismal cells. AS old
Sergeant Maguires torch lit up the
dark and noisome place, the sugges-
lions of the suffering of the poor NOR
tails who ended their lives so horribly,
was overyhe1minp.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24

n -. ---s nate - bone By the fus1ust-s
IIous. Dest business uor befars 40
~ pubIc- Capital not Eeedci- WsuR
- - STAR y0u. Nea. uorneu. boys ~ x1rfa
vsnt.l erery uhs-e % wcrE for "a. Now = tka
tlr1e- Yes can SSrk % pare tine rye ruu-
whoie une % tte b-firCs.. No other 5u 49,
I'll ~ yeu ueaflF - vel. No one rl1 fnH
z1nft crcrmous raT- ~ erF4EsE a. u1ce- go.
outtt 80 terlas ircs- Nsner rIn1e fzsI- -sHflF
Na-lf-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24
How Willard Made Fifty Millions.

l. dohcu SehuOlnoh, well u "''AiN'
to know, about the Willard party. He
said: Willard has made great for
tune. 1t is put up to all kinds OF
figures. Some say he has from $780,
100000 to $4,000, 900. Willard was
a young German of respectable, but
not at all aristocratic family, who
came to this country some years be-
fore the war. He had a knack for
business, and although for some years
he had to be newspaper correspond
ent and get beaten around from
point to point, he kept money in his
mind. He made his first money in a
big whisky deal in Washington.
Aware that the taxes would have to
be raised in order to provide the gov
eminent with revenue, he addressed
himself to knowing when and to
what extent the taxes would be raised
on vital matters like whisky, tobacco,
etc. In that way he became con-
nected with Horace White, who was
a political correspondent, clerk OF
committee, etc. Those men and a
few of their friends made good
round sums of money for that day,
perhaps $4,000 to $4,000 apiece.
The pile was operated between Wash
ington and Chicago. Then Mr.. Vii.
lard, having some means, put himself
to work seriously to make money IN
the larger fields of finance. He be-
gan with the Kansas Pacific railroad.
There he made connection with the
Holland and German bondholders,
obtained their confidence, and on the
boom which followed the panic OF
1878 he probably raised his fortune to
$500, 900 or more, and gave one or
two of his friends the benefit OF his
and their cooperation. Then ne
took up the Oregon railroad, and, IN
the meantime, the times had much
improved, and he and they greatly
benefited by it, perhaps raising his
fortune to $1,OO0,000, OF some think
S2,COOOLO. His next operation was
to form blind pool, so called, by
means of the circular which he issued
to certain parties who had confidence
in him through previous success, and
the sum of $4,000, 600 was raised, to
be used as he saw fit. With 1t he
began to buy the deprecated Northern
Pacific stock until he had a majority.
Before the public could wink, he was
the master of the great property,
though he and some of his friends
had Systematically deprecated it dur
inc the burden and heat of the day,
when jaw Cooke and his friends were
irving to carry it forward.-"Ga@
in Cincinnati Enquirer.
-ColoTaIo Clipper: We claimed
last spring that $4,000 head of beeves
would be shipped from Colorado in
1850. Some of our friends laughed
At ms. but in the final count it proved
even greater than we claimed-12,OOO
Reeves. There were in all 1O9,OOO
head of stock passed through the
rens durinp the year. Now we claim
tbat $50. 600 head of beeves viii be
Skinned .,;- through the pens this season,
and that $50, 900 head of stock dunng
the wear viii be handled through the
Colorado pens.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24

TIE first fast maiI-the prOdigal
son.
PETErxs into the future-loek1ng
5ovn IN. upuzzle of loaded gun.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-24

UHIuAEpeopie are always On the IsokUu
wv Tor chances 20 increase their sxrn-
" UnE ings. and in time besoms wealthy
|" 49, sThosR who do not Improve tAsdr
opportunities remain In poverty. We OFFER Ereu1
chance 20 ma money. We want many me- n. pEp-
men. boys and girls 70 work for ~ right ~ thslr
own localities. Any one can do the work prOrrT1y
frnm the Lrs; start. Tie business VII pay insre
ihsi ten ufD<s orclnAry wages. Expensive Sufnf
f1ruishsd Tree. 80 one Who engages al ~ - IoAke
uou-y rapifiV. Gou esn devote your ~hof si1rs
." r-e = Oh, or only your spafs nluf-sDts. kals
M srni-iiDn add al hat D. needed seat lr-e a.
80 srtSS'S A 10. Portland. MaidEr-
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-15

P..snssrs and freight eazs q the O.
seattle every day Sundays excesssd0 u
10 q n. and : ~ n. Arrive q Rsntoa q
$50 q m. and ; y. m Ar eat NewcAGeae
q 80 O. m. and p n.
Returuin9. leaoo Newcastis aa O q q.
aad p. N. Arrive q Renton q Il16 q.
N. and e;l5 ,. n. Arrive - 6ea&11o q q
m. and p. "a.
Depoe King Street. rooe a Second oooa
Ftp. WEYMOUTH. A11 ouu4
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-15

cesses In natures years - such - Loan q
Memofy, LAssitu1e, Nocturnal kmteGooA
Aversion 10 Society. Dtmress Of wilson.
Noises In the Head; the vital frtd pasaina
unoeservcd In the urine. ant many otAa
diseases that esd to insanity and dessA.
DR. AISTIE will agree 10 forfeit xNt
Hrxp2xD De-L.Ez for Q case Of this kind NJ
VITAL REsToRArIyg tusder his spsctai
advice and trestmen;i viii nos cure. % 10
anything impure o. injuriccs found IN u
DR. NINTik treats ali Privste ptseess -
cessfully without mercury. CosscfxAnes
Ekxx. Tksroush examination and stytce. IL
pudding analysis Of urine. $40. Prics q
VEAL RESTORATIVE. $500 Q bottle, % fen
tines the quantity. s1o.o0: sent 10 ny ~
dress upon receipt OF price. or O. o. D.
secure from observation, and IN pffvss hsns
A. Z. MrNTIR, N. D..
II Eeaxry Street. San frtuctscos CAl
SAMPLE BOTTLE Fs2x
sent on application by letter eating eyny-
tons. Sax and Age. Communications ssxifty
confidential.
DIR. NINTiRc aIp.sET REM DY, NkPh
dkTiCCA, cures al ziaas OF kidney an1
Bladder Complsln:s. GoloUhos, elect. La.
eo1hcra- for sale oy ali Mesgtsts; ai.W
,ottle. siI bottles Cor $40.
DH. AISTIE'5 DASpEII0s PILLS ~
the oees and ehsapes. DYerEfsn -
BILIOUS cure IN the nsr1e,. fof rals ~
drugs tssx.
All Orders for medicine 10 o d. must b
wi 81, a. . guarantee Of god
faith. which will BE deducted when the pack.
ago Is shipped. iai3dvN
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-15
"A cO0D sOOK.KEEPER.

We met "old Nose" yesterday, and
noticed there WIS dark cloud lowering
over his respondent brow.
"What IL the matter, uncle n We
asked.
'Tse in a peck Of trouble. De Lord
knows whar dis heah il gwins to end.
rss done glib it up"
"What il the trouble about p
After several signs that seemed to
come up from the bottom OF bis boots,
he expla med that he was the secretary
Of the local lodge Of Freemasons; that
he was the custodian Of the books; that
for keeping the books he was paid by
the lodge SO month; that every Satur-
day night, after the lodge vas over, be
carried the books home and turned
them over 10 the ole CONAN, Aunt
Dinah," for safe keeping, and she
slowed them away in her trunk. "along
Wild her 'tshal flowers, an fedders, an
nneyy, an sich." He also stated that
he had forgotten 10 mention to Aunt
Dinah that he was receiving $l0 q
month for keeping the books, and
he had uniformly forgotten 70 turn
over TO her the aforesaid tio, bus had
squandsred tho same for his own little
personal expenses that some unknown
demon had informed Dinah that Old
Moss vas getting $40 for keeping the
books, and consequently, when he no
marked the other evening that 1t was
time 10 20 10 the lodge. and upon re-
Questing her 10 hand out the books, In
etsad OF doing % abe sat down ON the
trunk, and positively refused 70 turn
over the Documents until he paid over
the tl0. When he told her the vle
were his'n for keeping the books. she
retorted: "Who's been keepin' demar
books Hasn't been keepin' de books
in dc trunk all dc time Ham out dem
funds watts comm 10 me for keepin' Dc
books."
"Whas did you tell her. Moeef
~ tols her wanted de books 70 keep
minits In, dat she didn't know how to
keep do books, bot abe lowed she was
gwine 70 shew me abe knoved how 70
keep do books, and, foah God I! abe u
kespin' en-. De lodge has pinted a
COMMITTEES 70 investigate my eooounte,
and dar shs 10 squattin' on de trunk
holdin' out he ham for Dc go rss done
spsnt. Doesn't yer know somebody Who
wants $40 wud Of whitswashin' done In
advance r.
The best part Of the foregoing ID that
u u based on actual results.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-15
Notice Of Final Proof.

C.S LAND OFFICE AT OLYMPIA, ". T.
July 10. 1855. !
~ Notice il hereby given that EN6ABox
PETERSEN, widow OF Peter Petersen. has
n'ed notice Of intention 20 make fnAl proof
before tie Judge. or in his absence, the Clerk
Of the District Court, at his once, in Seattle
". T., on Monday. the losh day Of September.
A. d. 1883. on Homestead application No
ss9s for the lot ]. Of section =, township -
north, range esst
She namss - witnesses Martin Morten-
son and Mrs.. Mary Noftenson, OF Seattle.
King county,. and Andrew Holt and Mrs. An
ME Holt. Of Port Blakely, K,tsap county. WI.
iy26 ew JOHN Il. CONVEY. Register.