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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

F. V. Greene is the youngest Cap
tain OF Engineers in the United States
army. He is known in literature by
his clever writings on military subjects.
Josh Billings was born in Lanes
boro', n. H., and he has directed his
children to bury him there and mark
his grave with rough stone from
quarry hard by.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a taste
for book collecting, and paid one thou
sand dollars for a copy of "Elliot's In
dian Bible which the old Commodore
would consider a ridiculous waste OF
money! y Graphic.
Miss Ida Ward, the English actress,
has come over to stay. During a form
er visit she conceived so strong a liking
for America, the people and their ways
of living, that she has come to go back
no more.- Chicago Journal.
Henry Labouchere, the editor of
London truth, never writes at night,
not being believer in the midnight oil
as applied to the journalistic machine.
His working hours are from ten in the
morning till three in the afternoon, aft
er which comes recreation.
Among the citizens of this republic
there is at least one undoubted child of
royalty in the person of Rev. William
j. Barnett, pastor of the Shiloh (col-
ored) Baptist Church, Williamsport,
Pa. He is the son of once powerful
African King, Dumba by name.-N. I.
HerdLd
Josiah Hinman. founder of MOnta-
tho fret fo,vr, b,,ilt IL, 'nlnraln Iiad
recently at his home in Nergens. Vt.
He was the leader of the first party that
left Lawrence, Kan, for Pixies Peak in
May, 1858. In February, 1859, the new
town of Montana was Incorporated by
the State of Kansas. Not even a log
cabin now marks the towns location.
Among the interesting political
relics in the estate of Montgomery
Blair are six large trunks containing
letters, manuscripts and various public
papers left by Frank p. Blair. Mont
gomery's father, for the purpose of pre-
pairing his life The father did not take
time to write his life, and left the papers
to his son. who in turn leaves them in
their original shape, never having had
the time or inclination to prepare the
book. Among these papers are many
manuscripts given to the elder Mr..
Blair by Andrew jackson. Chicago
Herad.
The Pa1I-1IaH Ga2ett?, in its criti-
cism on Ouida new novel "Wanda,"
draws attention to the extraordinary
size of the hero;ne's library. The critic
says: 1T contained half a million vol
umes; or. aS is stated on another page,
million, Taking the former number.
and estimating that the room had
twenty shelves, and that each volume
had on an average an inch of shelf, we
find that the wall space in this great
cedar-lined room must have been a
little over 1000 feet or that the apart
ment measured say 800 feet long by
200 wide-a large room for a Tyrolese
castle"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
The Want Of Supplies.

The Temperance work in the past has
made rapid strides, and has accom-
plished great work, but has not done
what it could, nor all that it should
have done. The great cause of not ad-
vancing faster is the want of supplies.
1t is impossible for an army to 90 into
battle expecting to have success unless
they are furnished with supplies, but
this is Just what the friends of Temper
ance have been expecting of their lead
ers. They have expected that this war
fare was to be carried on against the
most powerful combination in the
world, running business that pays an
enormous profit, and with all the money
they need, without any money from
those who advocate and favor the cause.
The money contributed by the advocates
of this Temperance cause for its sup
port does not amount to One-hundredth
part of that contributed by its OppO-
nents. This is all wrong, and should
not be so, but that it is so is an undeni-
able fact. A cause doing SO much for
humanity as the Temperance should re-
ceive the hearty support of its friends.
Not only is it true that the Temperance
people proper do not support the cause,
but it is also true that the churches, who
should be deeply interested in this
question, do not aid the work as they
should. There is wealth enough among
the Christian portion of our COM
munity to supply the Temperance cause
with all the money needed, and never
feel it. Our people contribute to every
other cause, and literally, too, but
when it comes to Temperance they get
close, and seem to think very little will
go great way. Our people contribute
literally for the support of the poor.
This is commendable; but when we take
into consideration that nine-tenths of
the poverty of the land is caused by
strong drink, would it not be better to
contribute to the suppression of the
evil, rather than providing for its re-
suits. Our people also contribute
literally to the support of the Prisoners
Aid Society, the necessity for which ex-
lists only as the result of the drink hab-
it. Would it not be better to contribute
to that cause which eradicates all these
evils. We think it would. The pres
ent condition of the Temperance cause
is such that it only needs a liberal pc
cuniary support to make it perma-
nent success at very early day. Whilst
this support is withheld the day of final
triumph will always be in the future.
Our people need to be educated upon
this question of giving, nd we hope
they will not be dull scholars, but will
learn rapidly, and when educated put
their education in practice.
Our churches need to be enlightened
as to their duty in this matter. They
should give a hearty support to the
cause. They can raise thousands for
missionary purposes, which is all right,
and for this work equally as important
as the missionary cause, but few hun
dred dollars.
We hope our people will realize the
importance of money in the prosecution
|. of our work, and give it. Baltimore
Weekly.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER

scheme its quictus gave the opinion that
the United States Government would
never permit its courts to enforce mort
cages given TO evade and nullify the
amendment of the Constitution prohib-
iting the payment of the Confederate
debt. The second disappointment left
Van Raelti no other resource than the
desperate "boycotting" scheme, of
which we have lately heard so much.
There may be Londoners simpleenough
to be willing to part with their hard
cash, in the hope that the Southern peo-
pie can be frightened by an empty
threat into paying or compromising a
debt which they do not owe; but it is
probable that Van Raelti himself is sick
enough OF his scheme by this time, and
would be very glad TO be rid of his Con
federate waste paper, which hardly cost
him more than thousandth part of it,
face value, at fraction of the price he
paid for it Charleston (S. c. NcUs
and Courier
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
HUMOROUS.

Upon seeing tire-engine at work,
an exquisite remarked: ''Who would
evah have dweamed that such a vewy
diminutive-looking appawatus would
hold so much wattah!' Chicago 1ri6-
une.
The last case of Incidence related
is that of a man named John Hole, who
was so lazy that, in writing his name,
he simply used the letter j" and then
punched hole through the paper
~ Y. NeWs,
"A newspaper is much excited over
what it calls the Diseased wife's sister
Bill" But what the wife's disease
WAS. and why her sisters name was
Bill, is not at all plain in the article
discussing the subject.-DetroH Free
Press.
One man was asked by another,
with whom he was on the best of
terms, where he had taken up his
abode. "Oh," he replied, I'm living
by the canal at present. L should be
delighted if you would drop in some
evening""
-"I 1t was pitched without" said a
clergyman, having Noah's ark for his
theme, and an old baseball player who
had been calmly slumbering awoke with
a start and yelled foul" The first
bass from the choir came down and put
him out.-N. Y. independent.
-"Send anything to this Office in pay
ment for subscriptions. potatoes, cord
wood, string-beans, rags, old iron, any
thing, only send it," walls an impe-
cunious country editor, and then adds:
Not necessarily for publication, but as
a guarantee of good faith. - Rochester
POst-ErpreSS.
-"And how old did you say she
WASP" asked Mrs. jenkins of the muse
um attendant, pointing her sun-shade at
the Egyptian mummy in case.
-Four thousand years, ma'am," an
swered the man" do tell; wonder
fully well preserved at that age, amt
she? Are her teeth false?"
The scarcity of gentlemen at a
neighboring summer resort was so ap-
parent that a Boston lady telegraphed to
her husband: George, bring down lot
of beaus for the hop this evening""
Thanks to the telegraph manipulator,
George arrived with q 'pot of beans, y"
Boston Courier
His Vacation
He wanders the street in an old striped coat,
With ink marks all over his arms,
And neX er a shirt collar graces his throat,
And no waistcoat his brave bosom warns.
A scraggy beard grows all over his face,
And he looks very much like tramp;
His hair is uncut and in heats grim embrace
He appears most decidedly damp.
Why does this younp man. SO careful i'm dress
Now look very much like a hummer?
All bitter the truth that must here confess
His girls gone away for the summer.
-Hastfngt0n Republican.
Everybody in Texas knows Colonel
Bill Fritz Hugh, the man who talked
old General Holmes out of the ring dur
ing the war. Bill was at the Great
Windsor, in Dallas, and sent waiter of
with his order. In course of time the
fellow came back. Bill looked at him
in astonishment moment and then
asked: 'Are you the same man gave
my order top To which the waiter
replied: "Yes. sir, am that same" "
swell, my goodness" retorted Bill.
you have aged so that would not have
known you from Aaron's scape-goatr'
-Ieras SJti,sgs.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
Extent Of the Liquor Traffic.

The extent and expense of the liquor
traffic in Great Britain, the United
States and Canada is truly enormous.
1t has been estimated that 100, 100000
bushels of grain are annually destroyed
in the Anglo-SaXon world to make beer,
an amount that would give two barrels
of flour during the year to every fam
lily in the three countries mentioned.
During the last seven years Great Brit
ain has spent 1887, 100000 for liquor,
or f200, 900, 900 more than the national
debt of Great Britain. But this was not
all, for it cost at least f100, ,000, 900 to
pay for the mischief caused. So that
the liquor traffic of Great Britain an
nually costs f241 100000, or ''as much
as would support 100000 missionaries
at 81, 200 a year, 500, 900 school-masters
at $500, build 5000 churches at
$4,000, 5000 school-houses at 81 900;
would give to the world 200, 0,000,0 600
Bibles at twenty-five cents each and
5000, 900 of tracts at one dollar per 100;
would give 100000 widows 500 year
and 100000 poor families fifty dollars
per year. In short, would provide a
machinery that would evangelze the
world in short time, or pay
off the National debt in four years"
In the United States the liquor
traffic causes direct and indirect
outlay of over 81. 400, 100000; while in
the Dominion, the present cost of the
traffic is about S52. 900, 600, or over S11
per head of population. An interest
ing comparison is made to show that a
decrease in the consumption of liquor
would more than compensate for the
temporary loss of revenue, by the re-
stra n NJ of crime and consequent
diminution of expenditure. In Vine
land, n j., there is total prohibition.
Yonkers, N. Y, licenses AS saloons,
and has in addition Is places where
liquor is sold in violation of the law.
Vineland has about $4,000 inhabitants,
and Yonkers less than $4,000. Yonkers
spends on its police $4,000, and the
police duties of Vineland are per-
formed by one Constable at the annual
expense of $50. Yonkers has Police
Judge at a salary of $4,000, and a
clerk that is paid $500. Vineland has
no police court and needs none. The
paupers of Yonkers cost the town
$4,000; Vineland only has six; pays
800 for the same. Altogether these
articles of expense cost Yonkers
S43, 800; in Vineland $475. Making
proportionate allowance for the differ
ence in population, the government, SO
far as the expenses are concerned, costs
more than ninety times as much as
that of Vineland.--C Christiais Guardian.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
THE OLD READING CLASS.

loan not tell you, Genevieve how oft it comes
10 me -
r.., rn,y @ Of eiocutionists who stood so straight
,,d cbarged at standard literature with ami
uo dij not spare the energy in which our
words were clad;
We gnye the meaning of the text by all the
Nm, stiIl fear the ones who wrote the lines
we read so free
uoplI scarce have recognized their work in
District Number Three.
o,,,sido the snow was smooth and clean-the
winters thick-laid dust;
The storm 1t made the WlnuoWss speak ateNery
sudden gust;
priobt slcigh-bells threw us pleasant words
when travellers would pass;
The maple-trees along the road stood shiver-
Rovonde the white-browed cottages were nest.
ling cold and dumb,
And far away the mighty world seemed beck
Tho wondrous world, of which we conned
what had been and might be,
In that od-fashioned reading class of District
Number Three.
We took hand at History-its affairs, spires
and flames
And uniformly mispronounced the most i'm
DOrtant names;
We wandered through Biography, and gave
And with with some some subjects fell in love-"good
only for one day;"
In Romance and Philosophy we settled many
point,
And made what poems we assalled to creak at
every joint;
And many authors that we love, you with me
will agree,
We're first time introduced to us in District
Number Three.
You rccollcct Susannah Smith, the teachers
sore distress,
Who never stopped at any pause-a sort of
And timid young Sylvester Jones, of incon-
sistcnt sight
Who stumbled on the easy words, and read
the hard ones right?
And Jennie Green, whose doleful voice was
always clothed in black
And Samuel Hicks. whose tones induced the
plastering all to crack
And Andrew Tubbs, whose various mouths
were quite show to see?
Alas! we can not find them now in District
Number Three.
And Jasper Jenckes, whose tears would flow at
each pathetic word,
de in the prZe-fight business now, and hits
them hard, I've heard;
And Benny Rayne, whose every tone he MUIR
INJURED as in fear,
CIis tongue is not so timid now: he is an auc-
tiOnecrl;
And Lanty Wood, whose voice was just en-
deavOring hard to change,
And leaped from hoarse to tiercely shrill with
most surprising range:
Also his sister Mary Jane, so full of prudish
glee-
Alas! they're both in higher schools than Dis
trict Number Three.
So back these various voices come, though
long the years have grown,
And sound uncommonly distinct through
Memory's telephone;
And some are full of melody, and bring a
sense of cheer,
And some can Smite the rock of time and
summon forth a tear;
But one sweet voice comes back to me, when
ever sad | Grieve,
And sings a song, and that is yours peer
less GenevieVe!
it brightens up the olden times and throws
smile at me
A silver star amid the clouds of District Num-
Der Three.
-Wut Carleton. in Harpsr's Ndgdztne.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06

Thrilling Experience of Tramp Artist
While Swinging Two Hundred Feet
Above Terra Firma.
mo, sir, | can't patter flash; / don t
understand the meaning of a square with
dot in it painted on farmers fence
post. I'm a tramp, to be sure; but IN
no beggar. l don't run with the rest
of 'em, and l don't. understand their
signs"
He was resting from his arduous la
bors under shady tree in Lincoln Park,
and if he could have been held under
the fountains stream for half an houl :,
it would probably be possible to ap-
proach him without holding ones nose.
However, as water was apparently his
sworn enemy, the reporter did not insult
him by the suggestion.
Il suppose you have met with great
many adventures in the course of your
trampings?
Adventures! Well, slightly. How
would you like to hang over Il precipice
at the end of a fifty-foot rope, with two
hundred feet of clean air under you
and gang of bloodthirsty Apaches up
above?h
Tell us about it"
You see, I'm sign-painter. Look
here"
He drew aside the lapel of his savory
coat and displayed about dozent paint
brushes of various shapes and sizes,
tightly bound together with strings and
resting in his inner pocket.
4" don't work in little 6x9 shop for
$3.50 day from one weeks end to the
other No cir. tha world &c INV uyorly-
shop. and make what l can-some-
times it is twenty dollars day and
sometimes it is nothing. / got five dol
lars for painting patent medicine sign
on the river wall over at the Newport
Barracks two summers ago; but the
blamed police of that town yanked me
in for it, and the Mayor fined me ten
dollars and costs, and made me paint
out the sign besides. So you see l
didn't make much by that job. You can
see traces of the lettering on the wall
there yet if you look close"
'But about that little adventure with
the Indians?"
'Got any terbacker? What's thatp
Keep the whole plugp Oh, thanks"
He bit off about half the plug, moist
ening the remainder with saliva in the
course of the operation, and then went
on with his tale
.'lt was two summers ago. was
painting the Southern Pacific for a
Baltimore drug house, and had pretty
well plastered the rocks and fences
along that line with liver pills, electric
pads, etc. Of course, I would make
big jumps now and then, when l
thought the scenery was too tame to be
painting, or never would have got to
the end of the road.
II branched off at Benson, in Ari-
zona, and took run up the San Pedro
River as far as Tombstone, meaning to
lay the paint on that town pretty thick,
because its name makes it kind of con-
spicuous, you know, and thought the
boss would like it.
''But the first pot of paint was the
last. started in about ten o'clock one
morning to decorate little shanty that
was not fit to keep billy-goat in: 1t
was made of about three dozen rough
planks nailed to four posts, with lot
OF tree branches as roof.
II swung black paint all over one
side pretty lively as a groundwork for
the white lettering. but I no sooner
started in with the white when Q big
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
Temperance.
| Il QUESTION ANSWERED.
That reminds me of a story:

That reminds me of a story:
In the fail of -
You remember that the Hoosiers
We're disposed to take the view
(Or at least port on of them
That they ought to have the right
To prohibit such CXccsSeS
A. excessive getting tinht."
So tney organized canvass
To substantiate their claim,
And the Anti-PrOhibitionists
OF course must do the same;
Consequently for the battle
There was summoning of clans,
There was blowing of wind instruments
With splitting of tympans;
There was posting up of posters.
There was gathering from afar,
by the small boy, of old barrels
Made combustible with tar;
And the relative advantages
Of faucet and of pump
Were discussed with frenZied eloquence
Upon the storied stump.
Now an honorable senator
Was stumpiDg Of the state
FOR the ''Anti-Prohibtion'
And the "Pro-take-sOmething" slate.
His were blows that lit like Vulcan's,
And among the various links
That he forged to make his argument
For freedom en-! fee drinks
Was question. He had argued
Against sumptuary laws
With frequent punctuation
Due to sumptuOus applause;
But more telling than ms rhetoric,
Unresisting as his foot
When the platform came against 1t,
Was this question that he put:
"NOw, my friends and fellow-citiZens,
Your optics please to turn
On the wide ungarnered harvests
That around us glow and burn
In the golden hue of autumn,
And permit me to inquire,
As try to curb my choler,
To keep down my rising ire,
If these Prohibition Zealots
We're to carry out their wills,
BY shutting up the sample-roOms
And shutting down the stills
Tell me, here among the cOrn-fields,
Tinted with the blush of morn
Tell me what. my brother Changers,
We should do with all our cornI'
He had made that simple question
Very numerous, indeed,
But in calling out an answer
He could never quite succeed;
Till one day, he having asked it
In its customary place,
He was startled by HOosier's
Asking him. with solemn face,
If he really wished an answer
He replied, of course he did:
He had asked for information.
Then that Hoosier moved the lid
OF his dexter visual organ
And answered in tTicc:
81 nope that we would try to raise
More bacon and less vice"
The Continent.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06

ence is in the rapids above the fall. He
may continue to breast the stream:
with God all things are possible.
But after all. what business has he
there? Lord lead as not into tempt
ATOMS. S. Times.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06

A COOP ExAMPLE.-Some of the
Women temperance workers in Illinois
are making arrangements to have the
penitentiaries of the State supplied with
Temperance literature. That seems an
example worth following by others,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06

SUGGEsTIvE.-That was suggestive
fact which was brought out recently by
the New York newspapers. Two of the
wealthiest of New York's iquor-sellers
never drank glass of liquor in their
lives; of one this was true literally. the
other had once taken milk punch in ac-
cordance with a PHYSICIANS order.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06

"A hospital professor was making
an amputation in the presence of his
students; meantime the patient groaned
and sobbed. Irritated at hearing so
much groaning, the professor said to the
patient: ''Do me the favor to be quiet,
for we can't hear ourselves talk. There
are one hundred persons here at least,
and you are the only one who is making
any fuss. THE Monitor, MeTico
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-06
PAINTING A PRECIPICE.

Thrilling Experience of a Tramp Artist
While Swinging Two Hundred Feet
Above Terra Firma.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-28
IT MAY NOT BE.

tmay not be our iot 10 wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours 10 hear. on summer eyes, The reapers' song among The sheAves. Yet when our duiy's task is wrought, In unison with Gods great thought, The near and future blend in one, AHd uha;so'er IS ~illed is done. And ours the grateful service whence Comes. day by day. ihe reeomrens-, The hope, ihe trust. the purpose stayed, The fountain. and the noonday shade. .lnd were this life the utmost span, The only end and aim oi man, Better the ;oil of felds like these. Than waking dreams and sioihful ease. But fife. though failing like our grain, Like that resi.es and springs again And eariy called. how blesi are they Who vat Tn heaven thelr harvest day
 = fass C. bhI9.S,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-28
He Lost the Bes.

Western Commercial Traveller
 You all have heard of the man who won be: by saying .h., he had but 2 half shirt on his back. The other night in a well-kno resort. heard a man make a similar wager. He was taken up by spruce looking young chap. The bel was made and the smart man said
 .'0f course, have a whole shir on. but only half is on my back, the res; is in front
 This created quite laugh. and when the noise subsided the spruce looking chap said:
 $ That's good. I've heard i, before. but, by the way, have you no, so. an under shirt on:r
 !" l have. was the reply.
 Well then. you have half an under shi1 on, together with half of the other shirt. and when went 10 school was taught that two halves make a whole"
 He gave in and in the future when he wants 10 make such be; he will leave the andershirt of.