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National Republican., 1883-11-15
The Dakota Ranchero,

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cattle and borses, also for rheumatism and
neuralgia in his own case, says that from his
observation Of twenty-five years there is no
pain cure its equal. He is never without it.
National Republican., 1883-11-15

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National Republican., 1883-11-15

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WILL OFFER PLUSH Tor TABIE ES AT $lS5.
WILL OFFER GIT. DINING TABLES Al
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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
A BackWOOds Home.

To the Eastern eye how rough in its
outfit and how pathetic in its lack Of
comforts is the home of one of these
pioneers. The one / have in mind
stands close to the brink of the river, so
near the waters that the rise of last
spring swept up to the door sills. 1t is
made of logs squared and fitted at the
ends, with the long interstices between
the timbers closed by wooden wedges
and mud work. Two or three rugged
outhouses similarly constructed give
shelter to the farm cattle. The half
cleared tract of one hundred and sixty
acres, taken by the settler under the
Homestead Act, is thickly SCARED with
blackened stumps, between which rise
struggling patches of grass or grain.
Nearer the dwelling is scrubby garden
covered with weak growth of carrots,
and the whole cleared tract is circled
by the ghost-like array of those dead
pines which all over Michigan record
the sweep of the forest fires. The dis
NAL environment of the settlers home
has its counterpart in the rough walls,
the uncarpeted floor, the squalid chill
dren chasing each other from corner to
corner, the flock of frowsy chickens that
enter and go out at will, and, most
pathetic of all, the housewife, worn with
toll who, with an infant at breast, pulls
wearily through her dreary round of
drudgery. In closet fitted with dirty
berths sleep the children. Go up now
to the upper story next the roof where
the grown people and visitors sleep.
The garret, for it is nothing else, runs the
whole length and breadth of the struc-
ture. In each corner is a rude bed fit
ted with sheets and coverlets on which
seem to have gathered the dirt of ages.
On one of these in the open room slept
my comrade and myself. In another
was the mistress of the manse, whose
husband was away in one of the lumber
towns; and in a third narrow couch
slumbered two hired men. With one
exception the nearest neighbor of this
backwoods family was some ten miles
away; all supplies had to come from the
lake town OF AuSable, fifty or sixty
miles distant, over sandy roads, and the
only visitors were the rude lumbermen
or an occasional sportsman. Yet amid
all these shadows of poverty, hardship
and squalor, there were some riffs of
light. Faint glimpses of culture or
comfort were to be seen in the coarse
prints on the wall, the sewing-machine,
and some stray efforts at household dec
grafton. The children, though untidy,
were red-cheeked, and precocious in
speech and observation far beyond their
years; and the temper of the inmates of
the rude dwelling reflected the most
kindly and generous hospitality. When
found that this backwoods home had
been wrested, only two years before,
from an unbroken forest, realized the
real dignity and import of those hum
BILE frontier beginnings from which the
greatness of nation has sprung
Michigan Cor. ~ y, Post,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
Hints About Studying Languages.

Suppose the language to be acquired
is German. A faithful translation in
German of some English or American
novel should be selected. With this and
the original open before him, with a
dictionary and grammar for reference,
the student is prepared for work.
vivid story, in which there is much ac-
ton and conversation, is hest suited to
the purpose. One should then proceed,
as best he can, to read the German.
OF course, at the start he will have to
refer to the English original for the
meaning of every word and he will
have much difficulty. Until he be-
comes familiar with the commonest
words and the construction of SEN
tences he will have to use the dictiOn-
ary great deal, as he will at first not
be able to tell which word in the original
corresponds to any particular word in
the translation. But after very short
time this difficulty will cease to be con-
siderable, and with the English open
before him he will proceed rapidly, and
many of the words he meets on one
page he will meet again on the next,
and the chances are that after reading
dGtChllfClS al paSO VI WV hS VIII h's' y
learned the meanings of a
number of words; and this
merely by repeated contact without
special effort; for he need not dwell on
each sentence till he has committed all
the words to memory, but only know,
for the time, their meaning and read far
ther. In this way he will be able to 60
over so much ground that, without the
fatiguing effort to memorize abstractly
a certain number of words, he will in
the course of his hours or evenings
work make a considerable addition to
his foreign vocabulary. Having chosen
for reading the translation in German
of an English book he will see how the
thoughts as he would think them are
rendered into the foreign language.
This will be more conducive to progress
in learning to speak the language than
would be the reading of an original
German book. Reading a novel, he
will soon become interested in the story;
and as he pictures in his mind the Incl
dents about which he is reading, the
words will be connected with the OBJ
iects or actions they signify, and in this
is a great advantage over the common
method of committing isolated words to
memory, and of translating disconnect-
ed sentences.-TheC Continent.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
HUMOROUS.

"A baby-carriage is sometimes called
a crycicle.
-Lightning-bugs would be a lively
and suggestive name for telegraph ope-
rators.-BOStOn Commercial Bulletin.
-"Are trade-dollars taken at par?"
inquired little Rufus Bolts of his mother.
"No, but they are taken from pa when
he goes to bed with his boots on
TEXAS Sytinqs.
1T is said that the United States
would stand a poor show in a naval en-
gagement because she has so few war
ships. This can not be. She has plenty
of navy to- -backer.-BoSton Star.
"A stone-cutter received the follow
ing epitaph from German to cut upon
the tombstone of his wife: Mine wife
Susan is dead. If she had lived till next
Friday she'd been dead shust two weeks.
As tree fall, so must it stand
Chicago Tribune.
Did you see that meteoric display
last night" asked Smith of Gilholy.
when did it come OFF," about
mo. of course l didn't. live out in
the suburbs of Harlem, aud never get
chance to see anything that is going on
after dark in the business portion OF the
city. ~. Y. NeWs.
Amy good shooting on your farmp"
asked hunter of farmer. Splendid"
replied the agriculturist, "there's dry
well man down in the clover meadow, q
cloth peddler at the house, a candidate
out in the barn and two tramps down
in the stock yard. Climb right over the
fence, Young man, load both barrels,
and sail in. Toledo Blade.
-"What influence has the moon on
the tide?' the teacher asked John Hen
ry. And John Henry said it depended
on what was tied; if it was dog it
made him howl, and if it was a gate, it
united it, Just as soon a cow or a young
man came along. 1t is such things as this
that make school teachers want to lie
down and die every day at four clock.
Burlington HaWkeye.
The grandma of little four-year-
old had been telling her one day not to
say people lied, but rather that they
were mistaken. Her grandma, to amuse
her, told her bear story, which was a
tough one to believe. After she had fin
ished the little girl looked up into her
face and exclaimed: Grandma, that is
the biggest mistaken have ever heard. :"
San Francisco NetcS Letter.
1T is weally quite amusing" re-
marked New York dude, after land
ing in Philadelphia; 81 am-aw-used
to being admired by the women, don't
you know, but to-day as 1 came down
the steps to the Bwoad-stweet station, a
dozen men began exciaiming Hanson,
hanson, hanson, in such loud tone of
voice that weally could not help over
heawing. ."-Phiiddelphia Press.
HAS the Colonel been around this
morningp" inquired guest at a sum-
mer hotel. "Colonel, what Colonel?"
asked the bell-boy. "Why, the boss;
the man who runs the hotel" Colonel
Huh! He amt no Colonel" EVERY
body about here calls him Colonel. :"
That's nonsense. He had so many
corns one year that some one called him
kernel in fun, but he amt no Colonel !"
-CAicago Times.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
Catching Elephants.

The other part of elephant shooting,
which l can only characterize as ''fun,
and not as sport" is "kraaling' them.
This is done for the purpose of obtaining
recruits for the public works depart
ment, temple elephants for service in
the temples, and now and then for cir
cuses, elephants to be trained to stand
on their heads and take coppers in (not
policemen) with their trunks. The
way they are caught is in this wise.
The head man of the village receives a
notice from the Government that they
require so many elephants. Then the
temple priests and the circus people, if
any, want so many more, and they come
in second hand. The position of the
.kraar' is determined on, and then the
whole village, man, woman and child,
turn out as beaters. A radius of say
ten miles is taken in, and they 'spot"
the herd and then begin to drive them
toward the 'kraal." By day it is all
done by shooting, but at night large
fires are lighted in a circle, and, as a
rule, the herd never attempt to break
through, but now and again they do,
and then the whole performance has to
start again. 1t takes very little to
frighten ''herd'' of elephants into 60
ing the way you want them-quite diff
ferent from the solitary rogue. Half a
dozen men with white wands will keep
a whole herd together, like a flock of
sheep. The ''kraal'' is about two hum
dred yards in diameter, and is formed
by making strong stock alley, with a
narrow entrance, into which the ele-
plants are driven. Once there, tame
elephants are introduced with mahouts,
who make friends with the wild ones,
and two tame ones will slide up to a
wild one, one on each side, gradually
closing up on him until he is jammed
so tight that he can not move. Then
natives creep in underneath and
make ropes fast all round his
legs, tying the end of one to strong
tree. This is gradually shorted until,
from sheer fatigue, he lies down, and
then goodbye to freedom. He is
starved there until he either rises as
elephant No. 80 of the Public Works
Department" or as "the great and only
Jumbo" of the greatest show on
earth" When herd is driven in there
is generally big male elephant along
with it, who has to be shot before any
thing can be done in capturing the fe-
males. He is a true gentleman, and
goes tramping all over the 'kraal !"
trumpeting and trying to protect his
friends from the animal man. When
the Duke Of Edinburgh visited Ceylon q
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Dolly White, of Newbury, VT,
has twin daughters seventy-two years
old.
Mis-. Lippincott, "Grace Green
wood" is in London, and is said to be
engaged upon a biography of Queen
Victoria.
S. II. Howard, a colored man, who
died in Brooklyn the other day at the
age of eighty-four years, left fortune
of nearly $500, ,000.-N T. Sun.
james Marian Roche, a wealthy
and eccentric young Southerner, has
assumed the care of Frederick n. w.
Crouch, the author of Kathleen
Mavourneen."
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Dunbarton,
n. H., granddaughthr of General John
S.ark, of Revolutionary fame, has been
elected an honorary member of the New
Hampshire Antiquarian Society.
Boyle O'Reilly, the poet-editor of the
Boston Pilot, who started from the head
of the Connecticut River to paddle ca
noe to Long Island Sound, capsized,
lost his paddles and took the cars.
Ned Roach, of Florence, Oneida
County, n. Y, in his eighty-fifth year,
was married recently for the sixth time.
The bride was Mary Quinn, of Roches-
ter aged seventy.-Rochester Express.
Mr.. Austin F. Pike, New Hamp-
shire's new Senator, is sixty-four years
old, tall and slightly STOPPING; has a
well-shaped head, bald across the top,
with fringe of dark hair and iron
gray whiskers. His eyes are shrewd
and kindly, while his whole appear
ance shows the gentleman.-Bostors
Post.
In "reminiscences of a London
Drawing Room Thackeray is made to
tell the story of the birth of VANITY
Fair in this wise: 81 was ransacking
my head for title to my novel when
it came upon me unawares in the mid
die of the night as if a voice had whiS-
pered, Vanity FART | jumped out of
bed and ran three times round the
room shouting out, Vanity FART Van
ity Fair.' -"
Mrs. Webb, wife of Captain Webb,
the lost swimmer, is small in stature
and of refined appearance. They had
been married for three years, and came
to America last May. She says she has
not been left so much money as re-
ported-only about $500. She says
She had great confidence in his powers
as a swimmer, and did not attempt to
dissuade him from swimming the Mag
ara.-BOstOn Herald.
The now famous Clemenceau, so
Labouchere says, made the acquaint-
ance of w. II. Huntington, an Ameri-
can journalist, and conceived for him
such liking that he took it into his
head to seek a fortune in his native
State of Connecticut. There he OBJ
tanned the chair of French literature in
a college. All the girls who attended
his lectures, save one, were engaged to
be married. That one is now Nine.
Clemenceau, and "the sweetest, most
unaffected, refined and least vain speci-
men of American ladyhood in Paris. y
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
A Strange Presentiment.

In the year 1866 the late James S.
Thorn, who was the city editor of this
paper, was lying on his death-bed,
slowly succumbing to the inroads of
that fatal disease, consumption. The
intelligence was brought to the office
that he could not possibly last more
than a day or two longer. He was a
man of such genial and loving qualities.
and had so tenderly entwined himself
around the hearts of all his associates,
that no one could endure the thought of
writing his obituary in advance of his
death; and yet it was quite important,
if not imperative, that proper memorial
should be prepared, ready for insertion
in the paper at a moments notice upon
the receipt of the news of the death of
our young associate. One after another
declined to write the obituary, until it
was finally determined that Abram
Fonda, an editorial writer on the paper,
should perform the melancholy task.
Mr.. Fonda accordingly began it, omit
ting the introduction, and was engaged
some time upon the work, when the
writer of this paragraph, who occupied
a chair in front of Mr.. Fonda's table,
turned around and inquired how he was
getting along. He replied that he was
not progressing satisfactorily, that it
was harder task than he had antici-
pated, and then went on with his work.
Instantly, as quick as thought could
frame the expression, there flashed
through the brains of the writer these
words: "Old fellow, you'll die before
Jimmie does" And he did. That
night after retiring Mr.. Fonda arose for
some purpose, went to an open window
in his room, and fell headlOng out of it
to the sidewalk below. In the morning
he was found lying upon the ground
speechless and insensible. He died at
rine o'clock in the forenoon of the day.
MIR. Thorn survived until nearly noon.
The hand that writes this wrote the in
PRODUCTION and close of the obituary of
Mr.. Thorn that Mr.. Fonda began, and
also wrote hasty tribute to the memory
of the latter.-Utica Observer.
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great "kraal was gotten up for his
benefit, which attended. He was due
at certain date, but he was two days
behind time, and when he did arrive he
entered the temporary village of huts
under as unique a triumphal arch as
expect he ever had gone under. 1t
was composed of all the empty beer,
champagne, soda-water, whisky and
brandy bottles that had been drank
while awaiting his overdue arrival. and,
can tell you, the arch was a pretty big
one, as the climate is very "thirst pro-
vocative." At the same "kraal" he
had a very narrow squeak for his life.
Two good shots, Messrs. Fisher and
Varlan, were put alongside of him, and
a big elephant was to be the subject of
slaughter. When he charged the Duke
fired and missed, and, strange to say,
both Fisher and Varlan did the same.
The elephant was almost on the Duke
when the sound of rifleshot rung out,
and the great beast dropped almost at
his feet. No one knew where the shot
had come from until attention was di-
rected to small cloud of blue smoke
floating from tree-top, and it was dis
covered that "Cingalee shikarree
had shot the elephant, when the others
had missed, with an old flint-lock musket.
So the mourning warehouses in England
lost big trade.
When the elephant is caught and
tanned, there is no animal under the sun
that exceeds him in sagacity. The
touch of his trunk is as gentle as the
touch of woman's hand, and the stamp
of his feet or a blow from that same
gentle trunk is as powerful as that from
steam-hammer. The Government
uses them chiefly in the public works
in moving huge blocks of stone, where
it would be expensive and, in fact. i'm
possible to use steam-englnes. They
have been known to drag up huge
blocks of stone, shove them into posi-
ton, and then sway slowly backward,
and. if the stone was not perfectly right
ly placed, give it a push, either TO the
right or to the left, until it was.
A public works department man once
told me that he was experimenting the
unloading of a lot of steel tubing. at
which elephants were engaged. The
tubing had been oiled to prevent rust.
and when the elephant took the first
piece up in his trunk it slipped on ac-
count of the oil. He took it up again
with the same result, and finally he
seemed to understand it. and, pushing
it with his foot 10 where there was some
sand, he rolled il over and over until the
sand stuck to it and prevented it slip
ping, when he took it up and triumph
antly carried it.
Stories of the sagacity of the elephant
might be told al infnitum. 1t is no
doubt shame to shoot them except
when they are "rogues. Wien they
are that, it resolves itself into queS-
ton of You kill the elephant OF the
elephant will kill you Cnn@jnna'i
| E1l02jrer
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
After the Style OF the French.

$50 you love my daughter, ehP'
"Y-yes, sir.
"And you have money to support her
in good style?"
II have $3O,O in bank and an in
come of $1,000 per year"
money in bank! All! l see you are
no financier; you should have invest ed
in bonds and doubled your intere, t..
For instance, l have securities paying
ten per cent"
TIE young man hurried off to get his
cash and buy bonds of his father-in-law.
After he has departed Lucy enters the
library and asks:
"Father, did William ask your con-
sent?''
'He did, dear"
"And you said yesp''
'.No, darling; he has no wealth to
give you station"
..But he has 100000"
.'Oh, no! / just raked that in fol
bonds that won't be worth ten cents on
the dollar six months hence. l love
you too well to see you marry a poor
man and have to live in sixth-story
rooms"-RaR Street Nescs,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
ADVERTISER ENTs.
WHAT rs SHE WORTH?

-,o-o "a a maiden arrayed in her beauty,
ITairest and sweetest of maidcns on earth,
pIain her attire, and those who admire
bft will inquire Pray, what Is she worthF'
1v,r,bv of love. and the hearts alteration,
worthy of loyalty, reverence, truth;
worth ali that you would give to renew
The freshness and dew of your innocent
youth.
1H,Ic of silver or gold is her portion;
P"or is her lineage, humble her birth;
Yet in her pride unto kings shes allied,
And none may decide the amount she is
worth.
Inst os she is in her innocent beauty,
Ttted for firc-side comfort, we know
she the bome-dove, other treasures above,
Is worth all the love that our hearts can be-
stow.
Here Is another In silks and In satins,
Iaccs and furbelows finely arraycd;
Proud of her birth and her station on earth,
What is she worth, this immaculate maid?
Selfish and sortid it's easy to reckon
Her wealth and importance; but, ah me! so
Her heart and her mlnd-if you're not too
She's worth, you will find out-just nothing at
all!
For the heart is the test; and the man or the
Whose friendship with gold or with silver is
bought,
Despite their pretense, and their dollars and
cents,
Are worth mo offenseD scarcely even a
thought!
josephine Pollard. in N. Y. Ledger.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30
Temperance.
rs 1T NOTHING ?

1t is n6thing to me- the Beauty said.
With careless toss of her pretty head:
The man is weak If he can't refrain
From the cup you say is fraught with pain.
II was something to her in after years,
When her eyes were drenched with burning
tears,
And she watched in lonely grief and dread.
And startled to hear staggering tread
II Is nothing to me, the Mother said;
| have no fear that my boy will tread
The downward path of sin and shame
And crush my heart and darken his name
II was something to her when that only SON
From the path of right was early won,
And madly cast in the flowing bowl
A ruined body and sin-wrecked soul.
II is nothing to me the Merchant said,
As over his ledger he bent his head;
I'm busy to-day with tare and tret,
And have no time to fume and fret
II was something to him when over the wire
A message came from a funeral pyre-
a drunken conductor had wrecked train,
And his wife and child were among the slain
It nothing to me, the young man cried;
II his was sS9 Of tS0gs Saf
/ can rule myself, know full well.
Twas something to him when in prison he lay,
The victim of drink, life ebbing away,
As he thought of his wretchcd child and wife.
And the mournful wreck of his wasted life.
1t is nothing to me the voter said;
The party's loss is my greatest dread
Then gave his vote for the liquor trade.
Though hearts were crushed and drunkards
made.
II was something to him in after life,
When his daughter became drunkard's wife.
And her hungry children cried for bread,
And trembled to hear their fathers tread
Is it nothing for us to idly sleep
While the cohorts of death their vigils keep,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-08-30

Lewis Jaeger, of Hamburg, Pa,
has neither legs nor fingers. While
travelling in a stage in Montana last
winter. he was caught in blizzard and
snow-bound. Several of his fellow pas
sengers were frozen to death.
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DIR. HOLLAND was a strict Temper
ance man. When asked as to his hab-
its, he said: II neither drink wine nor
give it to my guests. Strong drink is
the curse of the country and the age.
Sixty thousand men in America every
year lie down in the grave of the drunk
ard. Drink has murdered my best
friends, and hate it. 1t burdens me
with taxes, and denounce it as nuis-
ance, on which every honest man should
put his heel"
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Two SIDEs.-There are two sides to
the hqnor-drinking question, and it is
best to keep the liquor on the outside
N. O. RcGayxse.
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BY B. T. HOBBS.

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