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The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
Temperance Items.

A LITTLE THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
was recently found so enslaved by her
appetite for lager beer that it was i'm
possible to trust her alone ON the street.
WERE | TO COMMENCE my admin
istra,iOn over again, with the knowledge
which, from experience, | have ac-
quIred, the first question | would ask
with regard to every candidate for pub
lie Office should be: Is he addicted to
the use of ardent spirits" "'-1hOnsdS
jefferson. ..
A sALoON-KEEPER in Massachusetts
was forbidden by the wife of a drunkard .
to sell him liquor; the saloon man
laughed her to scorn, and said he would
sell him whisky as hong as he could pay
for it. But one day the drinker fell
under the wheels of locomotive, lost
his legs, was disabled for life, and then
the wife sued the saloon keeper and
made him pay her 81 800 to make good
her husbands disability.
THE Journal Of Freedom is seriously
alarmed at the proposition to teach in
the public schools the nature and effects
of alcohol in the human system. 1t
wants that most important matter of
education shut up from the children,
lest they should become total abstainers
and worthy, sober citizens, and not
slaves of the beer tub. 1t says, if we
teach these lessons in the schools, a
vegetarian will have right to demand
similar lessons against the use of meat.
Yes, that is so; if science ever proves
that meat is a poison, vitiates the blood.
leads to three hundred diseases, short.
ems the life of its users fifty per cent. on
the average, kills 100000 American
citizens a year, fills all our jails, asy-
lums, hospitals. brothels. poor-houses
and grave-yards with people thatwould
be good, wholesome, useful citizens but
for having eaten meat; if we find that
one of every six or seven who eat steaks
or chops becomes a loafer, cheat,
thief. a murderer, awife-beater, abcast.
maniac or a suicide, the school-books
will warn the children against the aw-
full properties of meat.-San Francisec
Rescue.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26

truthful one, snd second. electricity
cured me of inilammatory rheumatism,
which was worse than any balky horse
YOU ever saw. Well, ] got almost To
rhe cheese factory. and the old mare
balked. She had baked there before,
and all the neighbors and the hands at
the factory came out to tell me how to
start her. / told them to all stand
back, and | would show them how to
start a balky horse. They stood back
and laughed and | touched the button
with my foot, and | could sec that the
old mare got the shock, because she
stuck up her ears and shook her head.
just as | stepped on the button again,
to give her the second dose, she switched
her tail around and caught the wire,
which was quite slack, and wound it
around her tail about four times, and
my foot was on the button. o, hour she
kicked. | forgot to take my foot off
the button, in the excitement, and
kept the electric current going, and /
hope to die if the air was not full of
heels, and pieces of wagon, and milk
cans, and me. She seemed to have the
strength of hundred horses. and it
seemed to me as though the whole con-
veyance, horse and all, went over the
trees as though carried by cyclone. |
and the wagon came down first. and
then it began to nail milk cans and rain
milk, and the old mare stood there with
the copper wire wound around her tail,
kicking and paving milk cans, and tip
ping pieces of wagon on me. The boss
of the cheese-factory got me by one leg
and pulled me out of the wreck, and
one of the neighbors got hold of the bat
terry and pulled the wire off from
around the mares tail, and she went to
eating grass and drinking some of the
milk that had collected in hole in the
road, and they got me home, and |
have been in bed ever since till this
morning. | came in on the train to see
what you would give to settle. | don't
want to be hard on any man that is
struggling to build up a business, but
by gaul, it docs seem to me there ought
TO be a responsibility somewhere for
such outrages.n
The editor looked wise some more,
and finally told the man that if he had
not paid a royalty to Edison for the use
of the electric balky horse persuader,
he was liable to be arrested by United
States Marshal and taken to New Jer-
sey for trial on a charge of infringement
of patent, and that it would cost him
thousands of dollars, so he concluded to
keep still about it if the editor would.
and he went off, after saying that he
still had faith in the battery, if they
could keep the wire from getting around
the tail of the horse, and as he was 60
inc to take city boarders at his farm
this summer, he would get some of them
to practice on the old mare with the
electric current.-PtcL'S Sun.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26

He has blighted the sunny, happy
wears of childhood, and caused the It,
tlc ones TO pass their lives in sgualOr,
misery and want; and homes that might
have been the abode of perennial hap
uiness have been turned into habita-
tions Of Internal miserr.
He has prostrated the public press to
his purposes and uses, so that, too oft
On. instead of nobly speaking out for
Justice and right, and the good of the
people at large, it basely yields to his
demands to lie sustained in his efforts To
crush and ruin our race.
lie has infatuated very many Of the
oilicc-seekcrs and ollice-holders with the
belief that it is far more important to
promote his interests than to labor for
the welfare of the people at large.
He has changed, in many places, the
Holy Sabbath, with its hours of peace
flIl quiet, day devoted to religious OBJ
scrvanccs and the worship of Almighty
God, to day of revelry, drunkenness
and debauchery.
In every stage of these expressions
we have petitiOned for redress in the
most humble terms; our repeated pc
titions have been answered only by re-
T ,atcd injury. A ruler whose character
is thus marked by every act which may
define tyrant is unfit to be the sovel-
eign of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our at.
tentiOns to thosC engaged in making
and selling alcoholic drinks. We have
implored them to have pity upon the
suffering wife and the ragged, starving
children; we have appealed to every
sentiment of our common nature to in
duce them to withhold the deadly
draught from our boys and young men,
and the habitual drunkard, but all in
vain. They. too, have been deaf to the
voice of justice and humanity, and have
laughed us to scorn.
We have exhausted all our resources
in our endeavOrs to obtain relief from
those engaged in the traffic in distilled
and fcrmented liquors, and have utterly
failed. The only course left us to pur-
sue is to dis solve completely our con-
nection with so unjust, so tyrannical,
so oppressive power.
We, therefore, appealing to the Su.
premc Judge of the Universe for the
rcctitude of our intentions. do solemnly
publish and declare that the people of
this land are, and of right ought to be,
free and independent; that we are alb
solved from all allegiance to King Alco-
hol, and to all his adherents; that, as
free and independent citizens of these
United States. we have the right to
break away from his control and to
Danish the tvrant from our land.
And for the support of this declara-
ton and the accomplishment of our
arduous undertaking, we earnestly in
woke the aid and sympathy of the civil
lied world, the fervent prayers of all
Christian people and the help and
guidance of Almighty God. And we
mutually pledge to each other our lives,
our fortunes and our sacred honor.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
Popular Science Catechism.

What is this?
A druggists clerk, darling.
Is he not a druggist?
No, dear.
But he is putting up a prescription.
Oh, no! he is not.
What, then, is he doing?
He is trying to put one up.
Is he succeeding?
He is very near success.
How near?
Well, the doctors prescription calls
for five grains of quinine in each dose.
And what is the druggists clerk
doing?
He is putting five grains of morphine
in each dose.
Oh! But will not this hurt the poor
patient?
Not very much.
But how muchp
1t will kill him.
My! But what dreadful thing for
the clerk!
Not half so bad as for the patient.
What will the poor druggist say
when they arrest him for the murder?
He will say his clerk put the prescrip-
ton up.
And what will the poor clerk say?
He will say he was sleepy and mis-
took the bottles.
Why, are the bottles of morphine and
quinine kept on the same shelf?
Certainly.
Then such mistakes are liable to oc-
cur at any time?
They are, my precious.
But why does not the poor druggist
hire clerks who know the differences oe-
tween quinine and morphine?
Because he can hire Il boy who does
not know for less money.
Then we are in danger whenever we
take the medicine the poor doctor or
ders?
We are, darling.
Can we do nothing to protect our
selves?
Oh, yes!
What?
We can throw the medicine out of the
window.
But is not the druggist or his clerk
punished for killing innocent people in
this way?
No, dear.
Why?
Because the over-zealous Sheriff fills
the jury with druggists and dealers, and
they acquit both the druggist and his
clerk.
Oh! the druggists and doctors stand
by each other?
Every time.
But when the poor druggists clerk
puts up such dose by mistake, does he
not really murder the poor patient?
Oh, no, my pet.
WhyP ....
Because the poor patient commits
suicide by taking it.-N Y. life.
"A man named Schelling, in Tai
botsville. is suffering from trichina,
from eating ham. Here is an excellent
opportunity to quote the old saying,
"Too much pork for Schelling," but
there are limits, even in punning.-
NorristoWn Herald,
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
ADVERTISER ENTs.
An ODD FELLOW.
TOM TO WILL At SARATOGA.

TOM TO WILL AT SARATOGA.
Yes. as you say, they're charming girls,
Bright, lady-likc and witty,
And whether they wear bangs or curls,
They're all uncommon pretty.
And then they dress so well, tis clear
They think it's wOman's duty
10 study just what kind of gear
Will most enhance her beauty.
But really | begin to find
The place triflc dreary-
OF So much lOvcliness combined,
Old chap, I'm growing weary.
And truth to tell, I'd like to see
A girl a wee bit hOmcly:
I'm sure IL would refreshing be,
Among q host so cOmCly.
And am thinking of one now:
Her nOse-well, IL is funny,
And though the sun has kissed her brow
Her tresses are not sunny;
Nor are her eyes of wOndrous size,
Like some that I've seen lately;
And while she with no fairy vies,
She's neither tall nor stately.
Her laughter wakes the echoes, and
She's altogether jolly;
No diamonds sparkle on her hand;
Her names not "May," but molly;
She never sounds the final ''g,"
Says ''puddin, - "walkin', "stunnin',"
And speaks no French, and yet to me-
BY Jovc. she's awful cunnn'.
And though these girls much lovelier are
In fact, with graccs laden
I'd rather have, would by far,
My little homUly maiden.
Margaret EBtinge, in Hdrpcr's Weekly.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26

hardly knew that for while-it was
raining softly on me; | heard drops
pattering on leaves.
Then a terrible sense of pain and
dizziness came upon me. ! could hear
my heart flutter; my whole body felt
prickly. as ones arm will when by
chance he hits the end of an elbow. |
felt chilled, too; and it seemed as if
months passed, while still lay in that
painful, half-cOnscious condition. At
last | became fully conscious and reused
up. was cold and in great pain, and
for awhile could not move my arms.
1t was dark, and raining gently.
felt the rain on my face, and heard it
on the broken-down corn, in the midst
of which | lay. | was wet through and
covered with mud and dirt.
A long time passed before could get
up; and then | kept tumbling over the
corn, which lay snarled and PROSTATE
all about. | wandered around in the
dark, amongst the corn, for knew not
how long; but at last | got out of the
corn-field, to rail-fence, which | fol-
lowed till ! came to the river. Here |
sat down, being very faint and in great
pain, and did not move again till it be-
gan to grow light. | then discovered
that | was on the opposite side of the
river from home, and at a place more
than a mile below where we had been
fishing Not far from where | sat there
was a boat; and, after time, | mus
tered strength enough to paddle across
the river in it. On that side the road
ran along the bank, and getting into it,
| staggered on towards home, feeling
the worst that | had ever felt in my life
had not gone far when | saw man
with a horse and wagon coming
towards me; and | soon recognized one
of our neighbors, Mr.. GOldby. When he
saw me he seemed astonished.
Harry Lincolnn he at length ex-
claimed, sis it you or your ghost?'
| answered that could not be quite
sure which it was, as yet.
Mr. Goldby turned his horse round in
the road, and said Get in here, quick
twill be the gladdest morning there ever
was at your house"
"Why, my dear boy he said, after
| was in, 1.-the folks are about crazy ut
your house They think you were
drowned yesterday afternoon. Harvey
was picked up, Just over the river from
where you were fishing, with broken
arm. Close beside him was dead calf
and about two hundred feet of wire
fence. We hunted till dark for you, and
gave you up for lost in the river. The
tornado's done no end of damage, but
your folks won t care for that. now
You should have seen that man drive.
He seemed in hurry to see how glad
my folks would be. And to tell the
truth, they were rather reioiced to see
me. In fact, my mother shed some
tears over her boy, "come back to life. "
as She said had never known, until
then, that they cared 50 much about me
at home.
1t was week before | went out of the
house again. And the next time | saw
Harvey we agreed to dig a tornado
hole before another summer--a cellar
out of doors, to be covered up with
planks and turf, with trap-door to drop
into it by.
We dug the hole-it is all ready-and
when we see another black balloon COM
ing, we are going to cut and run for it.
- -YOuth'S Companion.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
Battling With an Octopus.

Hon. Edward Eddy is, according to
all reports, having a grand time upon
his Eastern trip. Last Sunday he
joined the immense crowd that was en-
route to Coney Island, and ere long it
became nOised around that there was
in the party the champion swimmer of
Colorado. 1t was proud moment for
Mr.. Eddy, but perhaps not prOuder than
that in which, attired in his yellow bath
ing-suit. he issued from the bath-house
and walked majestically down the peb-
bly, beach toward the raging surf. With
a wild snort, Mr.. Eddy plunged into the
seething pillows, and at once COM
mcnced series of antics and pranks
that were absolutely bewildering. He
was Just about to execute that acrobatic
aria whereby his head and his heels
would change places, when he felt
something sharp and Shiny and cold
seize him by his left big toe and begin
pulling him out into deeper water, Mr..
Eddy gave kick in the hope of shak-
ing off his unknown assailant, but the
biting and pulling continued-in fact,
the unknown asSailant refused to be
shaken off The awful truth then
flashed upon Mr., Eddy that he had been
attacked by an octopus. The octopus
is the most ravenous and cruel of nat
ural monsters. 1t coils about its prey,
crushes his bones, sucks the juices from
the mangled mass of pulp, and finally
leaves the dry and quivering corpse in
purple shreds for the fishes to nibble at
and the tides to toss hither and thither
until no remnant remains. All this
horrifying truth passed through Mr..
Eddv's mind with the velocity of an
electric current. Mr.. Eddy is strong
man, and when we say he struggled
tiercelv to regain the surface of the sea,
we would have the reader duly i'm
pressed with the magnitude of that
struggle. The octopus pulled hard, but
with Mr.. Eddy it was case of life and
death, and it was entirely to Mr.. Eddy's
credit that he pulled trifle harder than
the octopus.
While thus battling Mr.. Eddy was
again drawn under the water and he
then thought his last hour had come
His past life passed like a momentary
panorama before his mind, but there
was nothing in it to occasion him re-
morse. Should he suffer himself to be
carried off and devoured by a dirty,
soulless octopus, an inappreciative,
plebian cuttlefish? No, he would die
rather than be slain by such an ignoble
reptile! Yet he felt he was growing
weaker and weaker, an awful chilliness
swept up and down his veins and his
brain seemed. to reel. He made another
heroic attempt to rise to the surface.
The octopus clung to him like grim
death.
Help! help! help!' shrieked Mr..
Eddy once more, and then he lapsed
into Inconsistencies.
Mr.. Eddy was lying in a life-boat
when he came to his senses, and
strong men were chatting his benumbed
limbs and pouring brandy down his
throat.
'Thank heaven, 1 am savedr" he
murmured. ''But where is the oc-
topus?"
There" said the Captain of the life.
boat, pointing to the insatiaUe monster
that writhed in the agonies of death near
the hawser mainsail of the larboard
watch.
Mr.. Eddy looked at the hideous Great
ure. 1t was a soft-shell crab.-Denrer
Tribune. t1-
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
Temperance.
THE FEARFUL TRAMP.

Tramp. tramp ira rp. iu tho drunkard's way
HarCh tine feet ul million men;
II none shall pity unl none shall stay,
Whore VIII thC H.a 'Ch tBey are making cndy
The young the strOng and tho Old are there
Ia wOCiul ranks a. they hurry pISt,
With not a mOm"n' 70 think or cure
What J., the fate that comes AZ las.
TTanp. tramp. tramp to "A druuSards doom,
out of bJyhuOd pure AMI fIi,
over the thoughts Of love aud hO uc.
Past the check of "a mot 1"r'~ y aver;
Onward swift 10 H drInkarls : crime,
Over the plea of wife aud child,
Over the h li"~t tics Of time
Reason dcthrOncd aud soul gone wild.
Tramp. tramp, tramp, till drunkar,l's grave
Covers the broken life of shame,
While the spirit Jesus dicl to ave
Meets a future we dare not n me.
God help us all. tn res cross to bear,
And work to do for the mighty thrOng!
Goo giNCus strength. till the toll AMI prayer
Sna end one day in the victor song.
-H1rg +. LtthrUp, IN NetC Jersey Central
ItguEt
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26

Willie: Mamma, will Susie and me
have birthdays after we're dead2 Nam
ma: Why, what do you meanp Willie:
Why, like Washington-don't you
knowp-Harrqrd Lanlpoon,
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26

"A man named Schelling. in Tai
botsville. is suffering from trichine,
from eating ham. Here is an excellent
opportunity to quote the old saying.
"Too much pork for Schelling," but
there are limits, even in punning.-
NorriStolVn Herald,
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-07-26
BY B. T. HOBBS.
Terms, In Advance:

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-09
City Personals.

Ex-Gov. Williams went to Boston yester.
day.
Steward Soule of the Hospital was in Port.
land yesterday.
Mrs. f. f. Blackman and son, are in
Machias on visit.
Hon. James G. Blaine is grandfather
Mrs. Coppuger has a son, Wednesday of this
week being his birthday.
Mr.. George West of the Eastern railroad.
and wife returned home, yesterday, from theil
visit to Rev. DIR. Kicker.
L. NJ. Leland, Esq of Brooklyn, N. T.,
returned home yesterday from visit to his
son in law, Mr.. William Brooks of this city
Mr. Edmund Longley, who forty years age
went to Virginia from Sidney, was in Angus
ia YESTERDAY. He is q professor in Emery
and Henry College.
Col. Thos. S. Lang, proprietor of the Wasco
Weekly Sun, al The Dalles, Oregon, has
started a smart little daily paper called ''The
Daily SUM-" Mr.. Lang was formerly of this
county.
MFR. s. b. Goodenow Of Iowa, is in the
civ visiting relatives here. He is stopping
at the residence Of Ira Sturgis Esq, al
present. Mr. Goodenow was formerly q
classmate of Benjamin Butler, in Water
Vile College, and informs US that he is &C
qusinted with all the "Widders' roguer,
and rascality from boyhood up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-09
How that Luminary "went Under,

How that L" minary "went Under,
Editors Of the Journal:
On Tuesday, Nov. 9th, you ANNOUNCED the
fact that on that evening ''the moon occults
Beta Caprisorni, a star of the third magni-
tude." and you gave the disappearance of the
star behind the dark part of the moons disc.
as occurring at IS minutes before O'Clock
by Boston time. At our house we watched
the star till the moment it disappeared As
it approached the dark side OF the moon, it
rent under out of sight, predicted; but
this occurred at just "a minutes after BY
Augusta time. Here is a discrepancy of 43
minutes (and more), the phenomenon COM
ing that much too late. How do you account
for this?
As we turned away from the sight. the re-
turns we're coming in from Boston, proclaim
ing to the excited public, that the luminous
magnate, the "supreme magistrate of Mass
achusetts, was that day whipped out and
squelched. And we could not help thinking
what a timely omen was here; how at that
very hour, the baleful star that had lowered
so threateningly over the political sky, was
being totally and forever eclipsed! So Ben
Butler Went under-out of sight! But not
quite so soon as he should. 1t twas not star
even of the third magnitude eclipsed; but an
ignis fatuus, a riU o. the Visp, smothered
under the frown of an indignant people.
S. b. GoODENow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-09

Richmond Lodge, No. Sc, I. o. OF,
Celebrated it, sixth anniversary, Wednes-
der evening, with IS members Of Pejepecot
Lodge Of Brunswick. DR.. c. W. Price.
acted - Master of Ceremonies, and Past
Grand, J. W. L-mont. as Toast Msst.r.
Remarks were made BY Past Grand, G. d.
Parks OF Brunswick Lodge. former mem.
Der OF Richmond, Past Grand, C. E. Town
send. John Dyke, John Getchell, Thomas
Melcher, P. G. Peterson, c. P. wills.
Frank Snow, A. w. Townsend, all of
Brunswick Lodge; Geo. A. Reed.
OF Lincoln Lodge, Bath; David
Thompson of Hartland Lodge; F. J.
Buker, ID. S. Richards. ii. z. Spauldine.
Z. Z. Dinslow, s. S. Spaulding. The his
tory of the Lodge was written and
read by Past Grand C. E. Dinslow.
The lodge then adjourned to the Mitchell
House for supper. Followingsupper the mem
bers went back into the lodge room, after
which came the toasts. Taking it all around
the brothers seemed to enjoy il very highly.
Little over year ago Pejepscot lodge and
Richmond lodge passed resolution that each
lodge should visit each other once a year.
This is their second visit. Pejepscot expects
to have their new hall ready to be dedicated
about Dec. 25th.
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The regular monthly meeting Of the dir.c.
tors va held Wednesday noon At the office in
Portland. President Jackson presiding. Ali
the directors were present except Gov. Co.
burn and Col. French.
The president reported to the directors the
result OF the business Of the road for the pa.t
year. From it We learn that the gross earn.
inRs Tor 1888 were 81, S6t els 81, and for 1882
tney we're 81. 1852, l4O. 80. gross gain for 1854
OF sZ32.47o OIL. The operating expenses for
1883 were 1888, 7O6 so. leaving a. net earn.
lngs Sl,624 ,9Os.5l. The total number of
miles operated was 1872 and eight-tenths, as
against S49 and nine-tenths for 1882. This
increase was caused by the addition of the
miiage from the European & North American
and Eastern Maine roads.
The report of the special committee on the
Boston & Maine matter was received but. il
being suggested that there had probably been
further correspondence between the Boston
Maine directors and Maine Central com.
mittee, no action was taken thereon and it
was laid on the table until the next stated
meeting.
The report that the company had bought
four locomotives from the Southeastern road
Is untrue but the president was authorized to
purchase four new engines where ne deemed
it advisable.
At $40 P. NJ. the president and directors
left for Bangor on their way to inspect the
Mt Desert railroad.