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The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
HUMOROUS.

Many patients at our best hospitals
receive Cruel treatment.-Ltfe.
Why are deaf people like India
shawls? Because you can't make them
here!
-"My Watch Below is the singular
title of the last novel; The writer's
time-piece had probably, by reason of a
hole in his pocket, found its way to his
boot via his pants leg.-PHtsburgh TEL
egraph. .,..... -.....
An Irishman, seeing Dude emerge
from Delmonico's the other night, ex-
claimed: "Oi say, come down out of
that will yez, from under tn hat May
be We think OF can't see the legs of yez
a danglin' down. IN Y. Graphic.
An ''unmerged'' woman at the
West, who applied for a position as
driver of a street-car, was asked if she
could manage mules. "Of course l
ean," was the ready reply. 81 have
had two husbands. y Chicago Tribune.
"A woman returning from market
got into street-car the other day with
basket full of dressed poultry. To her
the driver, speaking sharply, said:
are! - NO, Salu Une WOmdD,
"fowl!' And everybody cackled. N
Y. Mail. .yf- a.. t..rt. Ets
The fashionable theater hat is, now
built two feet tall, and it should be
decorated on either side with dozen
or SO good sized ostrich plumes. This
style of hat is always sure to create a
sensation-in the seat behind you.-N
: Y. Commercial Advertiser. 20 "s.'tt
You write beautiful hand. ]
wish that 1 had such. a hand" said Mr..
Flasher to a lady clerk at the hotel.
cam to consider this as a proposal!'
asked the bright lady. Weller
yes-if my wife is willing to let me off, "
replied the accomplished Flasher
NorristotOn Herald. U
Her father stood at the gate talking
with a gentleman, and the seven-year-
old miss threw out several hints about
supper being ready without success. AT
length, anxious and impatient, she
called out from the side stoop: Papa,
if you don't come right in to supper, the
ice-cream will get cold. Detroit Free
Press ~ - san 4sssg-.S.t O
Tracks of a human being have been
found in Nevada showing the length OF
the foot to be eighteen inches and the
width eight inches. If Chicago mothers
don't keep their daughters at home, in
stead of letting them wander around
Nevada, they will get the scientific
world into worse mess than the Cardiff
Giant did. Oil CITY Derricks aLi a. 81
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
Progress in the Temperance Cause.l


The National Temperance Society
and Publication House celebrated its
eighteenth anniversary at the Broadway
Tabernacle, on Thursday evening, the
10th inst. The Secretary, Mr.. j. N.
Stearns, presented the annual report,
which states that marked and rapid
progress has been made in the cause of
Temperance during the last year," ii"'i
The friends of the cause are more Lnumers .
Gus, better united. have clearer perception
of what is to be done to eradicate the evilsof
intemperauce: and although they are not all
aTreed % S that II the S home m and the Nation must be
protected and preserved from this fell de I
stroyer. Seventeen States have had Consti-
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, prominently before them, IN three
of which 1t has been voted to submit it to
popular vote, of the people. In three, others it.
passed one House and failed in the other. In
only one. State has there been a backward
There have been added Ill new publica7.
tons to the already large and extensive list,
making LIZ now ON the catalogue; Of which
f9Rlss asys pase MAKING 1ns
umes, containing 9l,S23,T86 pages, printed
since the organization of the society The so-
among the freedmen Of the South and among
other classes.
The report of the Treasurer, ". D. Porter,
were s60,56s 81, and. the total expenditures,
S61 1870. The donation of the late President
of s2ODl0 has been ses apart, at his reqiest.l
can be used, for the gratuitous distribution of
literature. The John III. Blair fund of $2,500,
the interest and income of which is only TO be
used for the distribution of Temperanee1itera-
turc, especially among railway employes
Rev. DR.. T. L. Cuyler, presiding, pro-
nounced glowing and eloquent eulogy1
ON the late President, Hon. William E.
Dodge, placing him at the head of
American philanthropists Of the present
age, and portraying his eminent useful-'
ness in the Temperance cause and
every other good work. He spoke par
ticularly of his consistency, courage,
self-denal and liberality, which had no
parallel in the activities and benevo-5
lence of the day. In .conclusion, Dr..
Cuyler announced that the society had
elected TO the vacant chair the venera-
bic ex-President of Williams College,
Mark Hopkins, ID. D. Mr.. G. FL. Mead,
who has been travelling in the South,
recounted his experience and observa-
tions there, and Mr.. and Mrs. Stebbins,
added to the interest of the meeting by
singing several very effective songs
N. Y. Observer. ~
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
A Shameful History.


The history of King Alcohol is a his
ty, rage and ruin, ..4, Ii grsay . Z
He has taken the glory of health from
the cheek, and placed there the hue OF
the wine-cup. .susy 70 eiv'-
He has taken the luster from the eye,
and made it dim and bloodshot. 7
He has taken vitality from the blood.
and filed it with poison and seeds OF
disease and death. i'- ,as H'H,' aug
He has entered the brain, the temple
of thought, dethroned reason, and made
it reel with folly. '''"
He has taken the beam of intelli-.
gence from the eye, and exchanged, it
for the stupid stare of idiocy and dull
ness ft - i Il az l3i3 Tan 90 t4lE
He has taken the impress of emo,
bled manhood from the face, and left
the marks of sensuality and BRITISH
ness. ....----,.,..-.,
He has taken the beauty and cofie-
illness from the face, and has left it ILL.,
shaped and bloated. ,a fsgnites ryan
He has taken firmness and elasticity
from the steps, and madethem faltering
and treacherous. Ya sGE9 ldgQeS
He has taken vigor from the arm, and
left fiabbiness and weakness.
He has bribed the tongue to utter mad
ness and cursing-i, fatrt@ :, IL .eg,}
He has taken cunning from the hands.
and turned them from deeds of useful
ness to become instruments of brutality
and murder. -..,,.,a.a,
He has broke the ties of friendship,
and planted seeds of ehmity. z.ei vns
He has made a kind, indulgent father
brute, tyrant and murderer. House
and Home. elafs w. aaT
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14

court. There one of the men gave q
whistle, and close wagon Ike an am
bulance drove up. He was liftedin, and
then the Others got in with him and
d hardly know what said or did
during the fight, - said Mrs. Buckley to
the reporter, .'but didn't faint. Aft
er he was secured, one of the men
said something about his being anges-
capped lunatic, and that i mustn't say
anything about it. As they passed into
the street think I recognized one of
the men as keeper at the Boomingdale
Asylum, but 1 am not positive about
that. IN Y Sun. ~. 4 Gl a,.i.s5,.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
The Truth Admitted.


Thaddeus Stevens, once defending
the public schools that had with diff
entity been legalized, said that the
Pennsylvania Dutch cared nothing for
educating their sons and daughters
provided they could breed fine pigs and
cattle and horses. This was made the
most of by Stevens enemies, and he
had to defend himself publicly when he
went back to Gettysburg, and; did it
with the argumentuns adhomi,se1n.
"Isn't it trueP" he said. .'You, Jake
Snyder. have got ram that cost q
Thousand dollars and none of your
daughters can read. You, Hans Deit-
man, paid four thousand dollars for q
bull, but make all your sons work
winter and summer. You, Jimmy
Lootman. own Westphalia boars aud
brood sows, and can't read yourself.
Don't you love beasts better than your
children and your mindsP" The honest
Dutchmen began TO confer: THAT is
right" they said; ''he told the truth. :"
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
personal AND LITERARY.

The ID late Peter Cooper, is men,
toned in Florida paper as :" the great
novelist" go '1'1 ''.-
'7G-Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico,
lives in a house which is three hundred
years old. 1t is a mansion of one
story. '''
A very wealthy New York girl has
adopted a Japanese baby of two years.
She paid So, 900 for him, and has named
him James A. Garfield In Y Herald.
Charles yelling, a New York dry
goods merchant who failed in 1865, pay
ing fifty cents on the dollar, has Just
paid his creditors the balance, $500. 900.
IN y. Tines. a.J - srE i~'.EfGI.
Prof. John Fraser, of Chicago Uni
versity, has been engaged to write the
articles on "Utah" and Universities
(American) for the Encyclopedia Brit
annica. .. fla. ..4 ,,,f
The youngest telegraph operator in
tie world is probably little girl ten
years old, Halle Hutchinson by name,
who lives in Texas, and has charge Of
the telegraph Office at the railway sta
zion at which she resides Chicago
Herald ..-aa... 81. ...--.a a,.tt.i..ga
Colonel Cockerel, late. of the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, who killed Colonel
Slayback, lawyer of that city, last
year, and was acquitted on the ground
that he Killed him in ;elf-defense, IS
now the managing editor of the New
York World. i0E .siln-rg .sr
Horace E. Scudder has been select
ed by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. as the
editor of their proposed historical series
on p American Commonwealths.o y
These monograms will deal with those
States which have had distinct and
powerful influence upon the develop
ment of the nation. d. Both, new and
old States will be treated under this
plan. '.irH'.@'" ..'' ' :" '
of the late Bishop Peck, of Syra-
cuse, n. Y, the Utica Herald says: '1n
the midst of other work he found time
to write books. True Woman The
Central Idea of Christianity and
What Must l Do to Be Savedp' are
those which are best known. He was a
very industrious man, and very devoted
to his church. His whole life could have
hardly been more entirely given up to
it had he been monk in the Middle
Ages a.u ~. s
Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitz-
maurice, Marquis of Lansdowne, who.
according to a cablegram, will succeed
the Marquis of Lorne in the Governor
Generalship of Canada in October, is
the fourth bearing his title in the peer
age of Great Britain. He is in the sixty
seventh year of his age. In addition to
his English titles he is Earl of Kerry,
Viscount Clanmaurice and Fitzmaurice,
Baron of Kerry, Lixnaw and Dunkeron,
in the peerage of Ireland. = Chicago
Journal.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
Temperance Items.

If ALL MEN could be dissuaded from
the use of Intoxicating liquors, the Of
fee of Judge would be. sinecure.--
Judge Alderson. E.. -ta -..
BRITISH GOVERNMENT FIGURES esti-
mate that one-fifth of the ESQ, ,O00,0 900
earned by the British workingmen and
women yearly, goes for beer and liquor.
SAYS A CORRESPONDENT of the, Con-
cord Monitor: "The most pitiableresult
of the rum traffic here is the houible
abuse of horses by drunken men. Such
exhibitions of cruelty as are occasionally
witnessed here are a disgrace to- any
community that boasts a church spire."
: WITH OR WITHOUT aid from those
who call themselves respectable in the
liquor trade, its costly and ,corrupting
abuses viii be corrected in time, and
the recent efforts to shield them viii
only make the reform measures more
stringent and more popular r.
Times. 9
q VICE SEEMS WORSE in Chinamah
than any other being. .0pium-smoking
by one of these seems infinitely worse
for example than whisky-drinking by
one of Uncle Sans free-born citizens
But it is not. Both practices lead TO
equal degradation and disgraces.- Chi
cage Inter Ocean. - @ @
The ATLANTA (Ga.) Star says that
while liquor was sold in Polk County
between seyenty-five and one hundred
and twenty-five true bills were found at
each term of court, and the jail was
nearly always crowded; now the aver
age number Of bills is less than fifty,
and the jail is empty,
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
Tea-Tasters.

Tea-tasters are employed by import
ers of teas, by great tea firms in China
and Japan, in London and New York.
Their duties are very onerous. Their
taste has to be instinctively correct, as
reliable as a car-eonductOr's bell punch,
and yet the most expert of them could
no more ascertain the facts required by
the law than could the trained consumer
of eating-house hash tell what curiosi-
ties of the animal, the vegetable, the
mineral and the red-haired world had
originally been chopped up in the old
oaken hash-bucket that hangs out in the
kitchen. His whole duty is to merely
tell the merchantable grade of the tea,
and, by tasting pinch of the leaves, to
accurately anticipate the flavor that the
same tea will offer to the consumer of it
when it has been STEPPED and served.
He puts pinch of the tea as prepared
for market into his mouth; he works his
mouth unpleasantly for few moments
till the tea is softened with saliva; then,
with " click = like the cooking of an
Arizona, six-shooter,. he. obtains the
"taste;" then he spits the tea out, care
fully rinses his mouth and gives his
verdict. His is the most melancholy of
lives. He may never taste intoxicants.
His diet must be such that it will never
deteriorate his tasting powers. But
he gets an enormous salary. The aver
age of his usefulness is only eight years.
Much mistaken was the Irish poet who
wrote of whisky: t'' ''' I'.'.'l-
You're shtronger, shwater, daycenter,
You're shpunkier nor tay. sfs- saf
Because ''tay'' in eight years leaves the
faster hopelessly palsied invalid, to
spend his savings in, the vain hope of
regaining health. That tea will inebri-
ate is proven. When the tea plant is
lust about to bloom experts go through
the gardens and carefully clip the most
advanced blossoms just about to bnrst
into / flower. These are manipulated
generally, as is all tea, but with the
most jealous care. The result is a tea
that even sells in Japan and in China,
at from ten dollars to eighteen dollars q
pound. The travelled Americans are
numerous who unanimously attest that
the leisurely drinking of four little
china cups Of the sleeping Of this kind
Of tea has almost precisely the same eff
feet upon them as the drinking OF o
quart bottle of champaign, only that
the exuberance is far more lasting and
that Ii leaves them without head ring
ing like dinner gong and with no pre-
sentiment Of resulting ''jim-jams." ~
7. Star.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS.


t1e FOOb Ot ~ 0esiTe IOf SUCH ueep poPu--
l8rity. So far from such a mans be-
ing "no ones enemy but his own," he
is the ehemy of all who are dependent
upon him, and all who love him; the
enemy, likewise, of the order and
stability Of the society of which he isa
member. p1.tr .tast.l s.,rf
1t is time that the sickIy sentimeh-
tality about drunkards being the moss
noble and generous men in the world, !,
should be dispelled, and that we should
know that in all weak self-indulgence'
lie the seeds of possible, il not prob
able, felony. Time, too, that parents,
learn that eft is better TO make their
boys self-denying. >pains-taking and
conscientious, than to, have, them grow
up the '"best fellows in the world. "-''
AZ. T. WInslOU, in Union Signal. AL
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
A Coed Deed.

There is nothing so noble and touch.
ing as a really spontaneous act of gen
erosity, after all. The other day a
rough, careless-looking stranger was
walking up Mission street, when he OBJ
served lot of hoodlums clustered
round the gate of a small farmhouse,
in front of which a poor woman was
weeping bitterly, surrounded by her
terrified children. A scanty array of
household goods on the pavement
showed that it was case of ejectment.
/. What are you abusing that woman
for?n demanded the imam from below"
addressing an ill-favored individual who
was carrying out the furniture.
q sI amt abusing her. growled the
landlord; 'sshe can't pay her rent, and
I'm going to bounce the whole outfit,
that's all" ug.ua q az
Eve a good mind to bounce you,"
said the stranger, Indignantly; "what's
the amount she owes your h.
b "Twenty-two dollars. H sEs o. 81
"Here, take il out of that" and the
angry man took out his wallet and
handed over one hundred-dollar green
back. d this rfes i@i'ta91 tHt
II The evicter respectfully turned over a
receipt and the change. Forcing can
addional '.'V" on the, happy woman.
the stranger walked rapidly away. M,
"'Cehtric cpss, that" said the house
owner. looking after the phiianthropist,
musingly. e.e. er
P But the philanthropist said nothing
until he turned the corner, when he mur-
INJURED softly to himself. as he put on a
little more pedestrian steam: gio 70
Its no use talking virtue is its own
reward. j couldn't have gotten another
such chance to work of that counter
felt in . year."-San Francisco Post.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14

vice who visited the several localities
whence they were reported. These ipves-
legations show that the month of June
had Of the 600 the largest number, 112,
with April, 81; July, 80; May, 81; Sep
tember, 80, and August, AZ. The show
ing Is that most tornadoes occur in
summer and the next largest number in
the spring, Illinois ranks next to the
highest State in regard to the number
of tornadoes, the following being ten
States in which the highest number of
tornadoes occur. -. ..'Hnr yrfa .
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14
a GoopNrGHE.

with the days garments lay "a. y..'
Thine earthly cares away,
hid the wild throbbing cease I -
That broke thy heart deep peace,
Amid lifes surging waves of griefs and Joys.
50 i'a1Take to thy darkeued room
I'D, r.. No shade Of inward gloom, eb Oh .
Since angels gather there to guard thy rest;
= And thfough the silent night siJ .
Gather from fields of light "a l,Y.-,fa. .
Some healing herbs to bind unto thy breast.
.. From iife's perplexed Affairs, sr
Its memories, hopes and prayers,
Thou wilt lie down 20 slumber sweet and deep,
But who can say for thee
..,' where shall the wakening be7 ''
win earth or Heaven the future harvest reapi
Go, then, forgiving all, .I.
Upon thy God to call,
Idfe's crown OF thorns no longer on thy brow
And, famed by angels wings, ...
Dream of all glorious things,
And, with thy guides, at Heavenly altars bow
Fresh rs the morning dew
Begin thy life anew, iis Ea '.
III such thy Fathers will, upon the earth;
Pluck from the past Its flowers,
To garland future hours.
But leave the thorns in soil that gave them
birth. +'t
.;..t.s#.a ~. II. Farmer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14

~ was SO mad ut George last
night" said Q girl. of her sweetheart.
yes" said Aer nl-natured brother. 81
noticed when ! looked in the parlor that
you were up in arms "-zDetrox Post.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-14

where Tornadoes Arise and whittier They
Go-Theories Coneerning the Origin and
Pathways of wind.sterms-safety Pre-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-20

again they would set up opposing
camps, with king In the midst Of
each. The king was a willow wand
stuck into the ground, with an outer
circle of immortals to defend
him Of firmer, sitter sticks.
Then each party would come
with stones, hurting at each
others king, and trying to over
throw him. Perhaps as the day
Wore on they became romancers,
leaving the jOust deserted. When
dlnner-time came, and they all sat
round the table, each in turn put a
chapter Of his history underneath
the potatoe bOwl-long endless his
tories, chapter after chapter diffuse,
absorbing, amending, as are the
stories of real life Of which each
sunrise opens on new part; some
OF these rOmanceS were in letters,
like c 0Ttssa HarIotee. Alfred used
to tell story which lasted for
months. and which was called The
Old Horse"
Alfred's fist verses, so I once
heard him saJ, were written upon a
slate which his brother Charles put
into his hand one Sunday at Louth,
when all the elders OF the party
were going into church, and the
child was left alone. Charles gave
him a subject-the flowers in the
garden-and when he came back
from church little Alfred brought
the slate to his brother all covered
with written lines of blank verse.
They were made on the models of
ThomsOn'S Seasons, the only poetry
he had ever read. One can picture
it all to ones self, the flowers in the
garden, the verses, the little poet
with waiting eyes, and the young
brother scanning the lines. Eyes,
you can WRITE" said Charles, and he
gave Alfred back the slate.
l have also heard another story OF
his grandfather, later on, asking
him to write an elegy on his grand
mother, who had recently died, and
when it was written, putting ten
shillings into his hands and saying,
"There, that is the first money you
have ever earned by your poetry,
and take my word for it, it will be
the last" y Mrs. THAoKERAY-
RITCHIE, in H0rper's Magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-20
THE CHILDHOOD OF A POET.

The wind that goes blowing
where it listeth, once, in the early
beginning of this century, came
sweeping through the garden Of this
old Lincolnshire rectOry, and, as
the wind blew, sturdy child of five
years old with shining locks stood
opening bis arms upon the blast and
letting himself be blown along, and
as he travelled on he made his FIRST
line Of poetry and said, "I hear a
voise that's speaking in the wind"
and 10 tosasd his arms, and the gust
vhirisd ca, sweeping into the
abyss Of winds. One might perhaps
still trace in she noble familiar
face Of eur Poet Laureate the feat
ufes q this child, one Of many
dssp-sysd sens and daughters born
in the 4uiss rsebsry among the elm
trees.
Alfrsd Tsalysea was bern On tie
9Th sf August, 1909. He has heard
many and many voice calling 10
him since the time when he listened
10 the wind - he played alone in
his tAtAer's garden, or joined the
ether Children Of their games and
jouss. They were . Rsble little
clan Of psets and OF knights, cons
ing OF . knishtly race, with castles
TO defend with mimic tournaments
to fight. Ssmsrsby was so far away
from the world. - behindhand in
its echoes (which must have come
there sOfteneI through all manner
Of green and tranquil things, and as
it were hushed into pastoral silence),
that though the early part of the
century was stirring with the
clang of legions, few of its rum
DIS seem to have reached the
children. They never heard at the
time of the battle of Waterloo. They
grew up together playing their own
games, living their own life; and
where is such life to be found as
that of a happy, eager family of
boys and girls before doubt, the
steps of time, the shocks of chance.
the blows of death, have come to
shake their creed?
These handsome children had be-
yond most children that wondrous
TOW at their command which some
people call Imagination. The boys
played great games like Arthur's
knights: they were champions and
Warriors defending stone heap. OF
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|
Cored Silk Department. will be found goods
of the colOng and designs which VIII sell
usual low prices.
VELvETS AND PLUsHEs.
Having Vlvet Pushes.
sss S S ossss
the most ay we nsnde f0ns' oe
DRESS GOODS AND CLOTHS.
sales early and we had such stock
sb1is inches
sSes Fouiss shood.
inch al. wool Cashmere Ct so cents nothing LIKE here for the price We
hbrcs, and our prices challenge competition - l
CLOAKS AND GARMENTS.
anything department. Our
prices always right
- DRESS TRIMMINGS
display ls! most slsg.n: novelties il Pss:nep' orpsm
pertaining Cleak and Dress in black and IL
HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR.
English French and German Hosiery from the beS
and most reliable a enP s ae the cebsteG Star nd
Brunswick Underwear continually on hand coas
figures IN or o11rc
Celebrates. especially made for BY Poser with
nUSs Is csnts more
FLANNELS BLANKETS AND HOUSEKEEPING GOODS
ram II oes eouneSs prices the closest sell
Mills Ito & Thih well
Lace in Noinghan Madras and real La Msele Quilts
H. LACES AND EMBROIDERIES.
department full with all the styles sod novelties Ladies
In BUTToNs had such stock have this
~ SHAWLS SKIRTS JERSEYS, ETC
zn ns gaod sb s D nsw It quite npo everything
CORSETS.
reta old favore and constantly adding
Special attention paid all satisfactory BE-
CONN 32CS.