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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
Concerning Soap.

am "notional" about soap, and one
of my very explicit directions to the
dish washer is: Never use laundry
soap in the dish-washing. for it is made
of dead beasts of any and every descrip-
ton, and far from being tit to wash
clothes with, even" And every box buy
of it, make a weak VOW that it shall be
the last A gentleman was telling me
the other day that "Out West" where
he had travelled much, hogs that die
from cholera a!e rendered for soap
grease. Scientists inform us that many
skin diseases are produced by impure
soaps, and that infectious diseases are
sometimes generated through them.
Upon reflection the possibility and
probability of all this are easily appar-
rent. Even in home made soap care
should be observed to keep the grease"
clean and sweet. This can be done by
the frequent rendering of it, by at once
putting it in strong lye. 1t is perfectly
obvious that what is used to wash the
hands. particularly, which are often cut
or otherwise injured, should be free
from all poisonous substances. lfthere
can be enough of homemade soap to
supply the needs of the house, it should
be a cause for thanksgiving. But if
one has to buy soap, there are room
and reason for the exercise of discretion.
For dish-washing and cleaning pots and
pans use washing soda. 1t is quite as
cheap and greatly to be preferred.
For the toilet choose soap made from
oil. 1t costs more, but like ev ry
other best thing. it is cheapest in the
end Palm-oil soap is fully as nice as
that made from olive oil, and |, for
one, like it better. Genuine CASTLE soap
is made from olive oil and soda. andsI
have been assured that even for laun-
dry purposes the CASTLE soap is as
economical as the ordinary hard soap
sold for that purpose. Carbolic soap
is, of course, excellent for skin diseases
and wounds of all sorts; but much that
is sold for good soap is nothing of the
sort 1 r. member sending young
person to a country store with the in
Junction to purchase some CASTLE soap,
and the article he brought home was
never used for any purpose. OF course,
the store-man would never have at
tempted to palm off so spurious an ar
ticle upon an intelligent adult. As the
cultivation of the sundower increases,
the oil from its seeds will be largely
utilized in sOap-making. Cotton seed
oil, / believe. is not altogether agree
able in soap. but that objection will
probably be overcome, so that the COM
ing man will delight solely in vegetable
ps.-Mdry W. Fisher.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
HUMOROUS.

"A clerk in Government Office was
recently injured by an acc dental dis
charge of his duties. 1t will not occur
again.-N. Y. Graphic.
1t was a pale seamstress who, when
directed to take to pieces dozen shirts,
lacking one. remarked that she had
been served with an order of rip-levin.
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Speaking of a commercial traveller
who was arrested for embezzlement, an
exchange says: "He confesses his
guilt A drummer may own up to
gilt but to brass-never.-Bost Tran
script.
"A news item says the male men,
bers of Pennsylvan family are be
witched" The next door neighbor evil
IDENTIFY has several pretty daughters.
1t often happens that way. -NorrTstoWn
Herald.
"A retired vocalist, who had ac-
quired large fortune by marriage. was
asked to sing in company. "Allow
me-" said he, "to initiate the night
ingale. which does not sing after it has
made its nest
A little fellow, going to church for
the first time, where the pews were
very high. was asked, on coming out.
what he did in church, when he replied:
~ went into cupboard, and took q
seat on the shelf"
When things get dull in Oregon
some one builds bonfire on the crest
of Mount Hood, and the telegraph re-
ports that the supposed extinct volcano
shows signs of breaking out with re-
newed fury. -Detr0 Z Free Press
"A gentleman boasted that the pa
pers in his v llage pay SO much atten-
ton to soc ety matters THAT lead ng
C tizen can not go home sober late at
night without having the fact published
as an interesting fact. IN y Journal.
A Berks County pa young wom-
an threw a pair OF scissors at a man
who was teasing her. AS one of the
points penetrated his eye ne couldn't
see the joke. although she claimed it
ciGL Advertiser.
The maiden point of view-Mamma
Ito Maud, who has been with her BROTH
er to the play, and is full of it); ''But
there is no love in the piece then?"
Maud: "I owe, Oh dear, no, mamma
How could there be? The principal
characters were husband and wife, you
knowg g-Punch. E
The ArkansaW TrGUeHer tells of a
lady who knows that her husband never
shakes dice for the drinks, and that he
is strictly sober, was awakened the 9TH
er night by her husband, who in his
sleep exclaimed: Three trays to beat
Horse on me-" ''What do you mean ?'
asked the wife, shaking him. ''What
does who meanp' "You." What
aboutr" why. you cried out: Horse
on me-" That's all right merely
had q nightmare"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The Polish novelist Kraszewishki-
whose name. IL you have q cold, you can
sneeze-has written 490novels.
-Pere Hyacinthe, accompanied by
his wife, will spend the coming summer
in this country and will lecture in vari-
ous cities. y Times. t
George Alfred Townsend ('Gath'') }
Is capital interviewer, but never uses
q note book. He has an astonishing
memory. His articles are dictated to
an amanuens;s, and he does as much
work as four ordinary men. He makes
$50. 600 year.
Mr.. George Russell, OF Philadelphia,
says the North american, of that city,
has the o dest Bible in the English Ian
guage in the United States. 1t is a
black letter Bible, dated London, 1897,
bound with the Apocrypha and Book OF
Common Prayer.
Re :. DR.. Robert Lands, the relig-
ioHs author and the most eminent Pres
byterian divine of Kentucky. died at
Danvile, la ely, in the garret where be
lived hermit life. cooking his own
meals and sleeping on rough plank. -
Philadelphia Press. -.
In return for the autographs which
Senator Tabor so industriously collected,
as related in the New York Tribune, the
thirty days Senator gave each of his
colleagues a unique present. This was
an elaborate after-wcdding card, bound
w tn a heavy band of Colorado silver,
and cost ng $50. so each.
Henry Little, in his "reminiscences
of the ermont Legislature of 1905,
writes from personal recollectioDs-a
marvellous instance of clear mind and
retentive memory. Another remark
able fact is that he writes clear, legible
hand, which would put to shame ma
jority of the young men of the present
time. Boston Post.
"A new portrait of the poet Long
fellow, said to be an ,xcellent one, has
Just appeared. 1t was engraved by
Charles Burt, the principal engraver oi
vignettes and portraits for the Treas ,ry
Department at Wash ngton, and repre-
sents Mr.. LoDgfellow as he appeared
in his SEVENTEEN birthday-white
haired, fun bearded. his face already
showing little of the emaciation and a
great deal of the serenity of age, sitting
in re ective attitude, and resting the
jaw lightly on the right hand, but look
ing full at you.-M Y. Post.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
The Dying Child's Appeal to Her
Drunken Father.

"Please, papa, don't drink" A
bright, golden head was laid on the
broad shoulder. the deep blue eyes
looked pleadingly up, while little plump
fingers clasped as we'll as they could the
large. strong hand. Lovingly she
rested there. but tears fast filled the
eyes, and the curly tresses trembled
with emotion, for the dear child was
thin ing of her fast changing father, OF
the bloated face and CLASSY eye, of the
caresses which now never came, of the
angry words often spoken. of the pale,
worn, tired mother; of the bare feet,
and the supperless nights when they
were hurried TO bed: of the changes
that had crept into their once lovely
h me, and, most of all, over that dear
one on whom all her childish love was
centered. Child that she was, she felt
the change in home and father, and
with instincts almost divine had learned
the cause Her troubled young heart
could brook the difference no longer;
so, creeping no;selessly to his side, put
with one hand in his and the other cir.
cl ng his neck. softly said: Papa, dear,
Please don't drink any morem
- lease, papa, don't drinkp' The
| tile sufferer lay upon couch OF pain,
intently looking up at the wreck of her
devoted parent The accursed god of
Bacchus had sto'en away his former
self, and the burning fever had wasted
her lovely form. She k 1ew she must
die, that the dark angel would take her
soon from those she loved and bear her
spirit away to a brighter aud better
home How could she leave that faith
er, so loved and yet so altered, the dear
father of her childish sports and youth
ful SORROWS? Something must be done;
he must be saved; an eaort-the very
last she could ever make-must be put
forth to arrest his downward areer.s
he parched lips move, the feeble hands
raise, and the bowed head of that once
strong man catches the whispered
words; Papa. o, papa please don t.
don drink any morer' and the tired
spirit winged its way to another world.
U, that some power would turn the
ewes of men inward, that they might
see themselves as they really are, and
beholI the degradation and misery they
infiict upon those given them 10 guard
and to keep! ould they for just one
short moment SET the tears wrung from
anguishe hearts, the cheeks grown
pale, and heart-strings broken, could
all the poverty, shame and suffering. all
the vice and crime, the blasted hopes
and ruined homes. come be ore them as
it comes before the world, there would
be forever an en- to this arc rsed raffic
and drink. BIT now, from every ham,
let and dale. from every city and town.
from the length and breadth of our
land. comes the same heart-rending
CRY, and hosts of shame-faced children,
robbed of their paternal rights. are
pleading in a agonizing tones: "Please,
papa, don't drink any morer'-M Y
IelLGer.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05

Speaking of b 'rdy plants reminds me OF
the candidum. which neither neglect nor
kindness will kill"
"what do you mean by killing plant
by kindness9
"rl tell you. Most of the people who
cultivate eowers indoors don't under
stand the business. To begin with,
they are likely to plant the seed too
deep-to bury them, in fact, and then
wonder why they never 'come up No
absolute rule can be laid down upon the
subject, but l usually tell people to
place the seeds in their own thickness of
earth. A common error is to suppose
that plant is perpetually thirsty, and
accordingly it is generally overwatered.
The fact is that except in very arm
weather, a plant should be watered only
once day, and that at night. Besides,
amateur florists manure their plants too
much. The treatment of frozen plants
also, is in most instances wrong. A prev
alent mistake is the supposition that sun
shine, in large doses, is the only thing
for frozen plants. A person who would
cure frozen feet by putting them in a
hot oven would be denounced as a
lunatic yet it seems that people will
never learn that plants and animals
have many things in common. A grad
ual increase of temperature is the thing
for frozen plants / suppose it would
surprise you to learn that many plants
die of haSty consumption.
Il shou as soon expect TO hear OF
their diving OF cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts" replied the Star man.
III ~ he
hot-h ses the plants are rushed until
ready for sale. Then they are taken
straight from the lighthouses to the cold
markets. whence they go back into warm
air agan. The inevitable result is that
the plants take cold. and in little while
die of consumption, as have said"
$50 far as you know, what class OF
the population is fonde It OF flowers?"
Il think the Germans. They culti-
vate plants more inteiligently than most
other people You will find scores of
German florists in the suburbs. The
/ Irish are also fon1 flowers. / never
saw plants better C Iltivated than among
| the Lancashire, miners in England.
Each man con- mes himself to one kind
| of over, and the result is that he grows
healthy stock. He exchanges cuttings
with his neighbors, and now that region
is a pcrfe t garden OF flowers"
lis domestic Horticulture expensive?'
"No. You can get plants enough to
make your parlor o paradise or two
dollars, or three dollars at the utmost.
For that expenditure YOU can get q
years pleasure if yo only exercise com.
mon sense in managing your plants. "
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
The Fresh POker-Player.


The hotel man turned to a by-stander
and said: That's just the way it goes,
and that makes the third case of that
kind I've seen this winter. These
young suckers from some little town,
come down here with few dollars, and
getin with the boys. and expect to play
the eye-teeth out of them. and go back
home with half the money in Milwau-
kee in their pants pockets. don't be-
lieve there is bigger fool on earth
than young man who has learned to
play. poker little, and who gets
mashed on the game, and has played
with the other boys in his town for
kernels of corn, out in tn barn. til he
thinks he knows more about the game
than the oldest gambler in the country.
In every little town. almost. on earth,
there is just such a gang of young men,
who get an insight into the game of
poker, and get so they can open a Jack
pot for four kernels of corn and not
blush, or come out of game ahead,
when playing penny ante with their
chums, and ten chances to one there is
one of the number who has more gall
than the rest, who imagines himself a
thoroughbred, and who makes up his
mind to go to some large place and win
a few hundred dollars, and come home
and make his chums eyes hang out
when he shows them his pile. He goes
to work carrying in coal or driving
lars, and buys a ticket for some large
city. He scorns the idea of purchasing
return trip ticket as he thinks he will
have big stake when he gets ready to
come home, and he can stand it better
to pay railroad fare. Well, he gets to
the city and hunts up some gambling
rooms, that he has read about in the
local paper, and he sits into a game
along with a lot of old chaps. old
enough to be his father, and he thinks
he has struck snap. and wonders what
such crowd Of old du ,ers know about
poker, anyway. He commences to play
and the first thing he knows the old fell
lows make bets that causes his hair to
stand, and his face turns red, and his
shoes are full of the perspiration that
leaks out of him as it would out of tin
water cooler. He thinks he ought to
show what sand he has, as he used to at
home, and he makes an effort to raise a
bald-headed old party out of his boots
by making a big bet, but when the
show down comes and he finds that
he has been betting against one of the
biggest hands he ever saw in his life. he
gets more nervous than ever, and he
goes it blind. and it don't take more
than a few minutes before he Is laid out
fatterthan tramp, the old buffers have
got his money and as they ask him to
take a cigar or some. hing to kind O.
smooth it over, he feels sick. and
wishes he had never seen pack of
cards. Then he does Just what you saw
that young fellow doing just now. Gets
some fellow whom he happens to meet
from his native place to loan him money
enough 20 take him home, and he de-
parts, poorer and confounded sight
wiser than he was when he came to
town. Oh. you bet know just how it
is with that class of young men," and
the hotel man sighed, and shook his
head, and walked away.-PecE's Sun.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
Fashions i'm Plants.

A few days ago New York Star re.
porter calle upon gentleman well
versed in domestic Horticulture.
D. Are there fashions in house plants
as in dress, musi: and morals" asked
the reporter.
"Not in house plants" replied the
scotsman, because the varieties which
can be cultivated at home are limited in
number. But the fashions in flow ers
in general change, of course. This is a
tickle world
With this bit of philosophy florist
finished sorting some bulbs that loo ed
like wrin led onions, and carefully
busted his fingers.
"What is the latest blooming agonvp''
"Holl hooks. Last year all tn s
world " ent in for suniowers, thanks tt
the great y. w. But of tour e, sun
flowers could not be Gu tivated indoors
unless people chose to alter roofs and
floors to suit the gro tn of the plant.
You want to know about house flowers,
though; those which waste their sweet
ness on the parlor air. Well, / think
they may be divided nto two classes
the plants which grow only from the
seed. and the ones which may be cult
waited from cuttings 10 the former
class belong mignonette and nastur-
tium. To the latter geraniums, pc
tunias, verbenas, vincas, heliotropes
and portulacas. l have named some
of the plants most in demand for home
culture. Portulacas, particularly are
much sought after. Here are some.
! Did you ever see anything more deli
cate and pref y than those blossoms?
And yet the plant is miracle of hardi-
ness. You can't burn it up, no matter
how much you expose it to the sunshine.
Notice the variety of eolors. We have
some tints of all shades. from scarlet
to yellow. Blue, think, is almost the
only color not found in portulacas.
Vincas are also. very popular but more
expensive than most of the other house
plants. Here is heliotrope in blossom.
This is another favorite. .te H34"
What is this that looks like carna-
nation" ~ set 9aDs1h
'.This is a phlox, and also plant in
high favor. You will notice that the
over has fewer petals than the carna-
tion."'
Il. 87oi spoke of seraninms; how many
varieties OF that plant re thereg
fi = Half a doz, n. The ge anium is a
!, ha dy p ant, so far as hot weather is
concerned. 1t will stand any amount of
h at and u oderate degrees of cold,
Many peopl, like chrysanthe nuns for
fall growing." "fhb
"How q out rosesp Are they much
in demand for house plantse"
.,0h, yes; there is always a ready
s'le for them. Tn " are not expen i've.
You cln get rose pl nts all the way
from fifteen to fifty cents apiece. We
St II ten of h IN for one do lar. There
are II ore than two thou and varieties.
At present the t ros :. dainty flower
in delicate shades of pink and y low.
is the favorit z. Did yoa ever hear OF
blue no esp You can produce them by
putting ferr oxide. commonly call
iron rust, bo. tn roots of the plants.
which, in the course of nat re, would
yi0ld pink flowers Lilies? Yes they
ere IA .or.tss. You know what swe t
d licat ;, frail-looking over they are.
ye. they ar, exceedingly robust. ard
win stand no end o. hard teatment-
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PRoHIBlT'oN rs TO BE prominent
iss-e this fall in the campaign for MEM
bers of the Maryland Legislature.
THE TEMPERANCE WAVE still gath
ers strength. A Masonic Lodge. to be
conducted on Temperance principles. is
about to be founded in Manchester,
England.
NJ. GLADSTONE IS CREDITED with
the remark that the drinking customsof
Great Britain are bringing on that coun.
try all the evils OF war, pestilence ana
famine.
THERE ARE NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND
drinking saloons in Chicago; aud 1t Is
estimated that thirty million dollars are
expended annually for Intoxicating
liquors in that one city.
TaE New YoRK Commercial Adrey-
tisr says: avery ease Of hanging that
takes place in this country is a ghastly
tribute to the efficacy Of liquor. and
terrible lesson to the men who grow
rich through its manufacture and sale"
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ApvERTisEME ENTs.
BY NEIGHBOR s WELL.

I would they'd come again. John.
Those days when we were yt tung
BY neighb RS well: ah! then, John,
We sat whole evenings long.
Tho silent moon we watched % erhead
From out the white clouds peep,
And talked of how the heavens were high,
And how the well was deep.
just think how still that was, John
The world all hushed to rest
IT'S thus no moro, alasi Jehn, --
Or just in DIRE inns at best
And when some distant shepherds song
Trilled DER the moorsnd lone. ...
Oh, John. twas music that, indeed.
Was sweeter ever known?
Sometimes at eventide, John,
I feel my heart still swell,
As when once side b y side. John,
We sat by neighbor's well.
Then fagerly turn me round,
AS tn ugh you still were by;
Ab, John. the only thing l find
1s-that stand and cryi
Temple Bar
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glass of beer from the count

glass of beer from the count
er and drank il, MS first taste. IL was
enough. Before the others had finished
the first glass, Charlie called for sec
ond, then in an eager, hurried way
called for brandy. The boys grew sober
and his Uncle Dan was alarmed and
tried to interfere. Charlie turned on
him fiercely.
What had aroused in the boy such
wild desire?
In little while they put drunken
boy in the carriage and took him home
home to his mother--what deed!
And her-oh, let such heartbreaks be
yelled always. They are beyond tears
and telling. This was but beginning.
He still lives. but with every good i'm
pulse lost in the whirlpool of appetite.
Il simple g,ass of beer did h.-Mary
C. Ward, in Union sigma.
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= Miss DIR. Har. is, a young Ame'i-
can lady who opened an Office in Hong
Kong. was called TO attend the wife OF
one Of the chief officials of China The
native doctors were fu ious. bat tie
Princess got well.
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tured out yet.
Just the day to be in." said Unc' e
Dan. in his hearty way. So Char lie
yielded and went. The day was love-
~. and hayin been a prisoner so long.
the fresh air aud sunshine seemed like
a new world to him
This Uncle Dan was his father s
brother, and the roadside tavern and
bar ha its attractions.
You'd better get out and come in, -"
he said to Charlie, "it will rest you.
declare, believe you d better treat on
this. you look as bright as a dollar.
"YoI know don drink and ldon't
like to see. you." was the emphatic
answer.
"Oh, we'll. want something. any
way. and you'd better come in.
I'm. linking OF the danger of utting
one foot in the way that leads into de-
struction. the boy went in en- enter
ing. he found sousin and other young
men with whom he was acquainted who
were ready with rough and hearty con-
gratulations on his re oyery. The ride
had been exilharatingi this was excit-
ing.
Believe you'll have to treat" said
his Uncle Dan. rubbing his hands
Yes. u treat. old boy" echoed the
young men. hilariously. Charlie
cheek flushed. Give yo orders
boys" he said. thrusting his hand into
his pocket i'm search of change.
..have glass of beer yourself" said
his cousin. Charlie shook his head.
Hard up; have to save the price of ons
glass" guessed one OF the young men.
The boy was weak from sickness. ex-
cited by the circumstances. Always
proud and foolishly sensitive, the ran,
dom remarf irritated him. He snatched