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The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
A Talk With a Dude.

At high noon youth emerged from
the Brunswick and stood for a moment
in the brilliant blaze of the April sun
listlessly buttoning his gloves. He was
languid, somber and inert.
Up and down Fifth avenue stages
rumbled and roared, and carriages
whirled. The doors of the hotel
slammed necessarily, brightly dressed
women tripped by, men strobe briskly
to and fro, laughing nurse-maids led
groups of frolicsome children to the
park, and even the cabmen whistled
and sang as they went about their work.
1t was cheerful scene.
The youth did not seem interested in
anything. Men who passed glanced at
him somewhat contemptuously, or with
palpable sneers; women looked admir-
ingly.
He was narrow chested, and his legs
were lank and wavering. On his head
was bellcrowned English beaver, with
a mourning band two inches wide, and
around his neck he wore collar of pre-
posterous height. A drab covert coat,
such as Englishmen wear when riding to
meet" was buttoned closely about
his far from robust figure. The gar
ment was so short that the ends of his
spike-tailed coat fell far below it, pro-
ducing q weird and eerie effect. His
trousers were SO tight that the uneven
contour OF his legs inspired pity, and
bis feet were squeezed into long and
narrow shoes. Over his breast dangled
a single glass, and he wore English dog
skin gloves. the color of ripe brick dust.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
Temperance.
THE OLD MANS OATH


Get out your ink, squire, paper and pen
Get them out quick, for I'm just from ths
den
Just from the hell that ruined my life,
BeRgared my children, and killed my wife.
Write IL down quick and accordin TO law.
50 there will be not break nor a flaw.
Pledges I've given, but they will not stick
Get out your ink and write it down, quick.
Say that he kicked me, tonight, from his
door
Kicked me. as often he's kicked me before.
Tellin' me then to go home to my shed,
Where my poor children were crying for bread
Place that In capitals, as large as you can,
For that was the hardest kick from the man
Who had been robbin' me until he had got
Every last dime from the miserable sot.
Start, then, another clause, Squire, and tell
Well yon remembe9 me' S 'souire. m r't the time
When thought drinking a horrible crime;
When my good angel was part of my soul
How she. too tender a flower to stay
Long with drunkard, soon withered away
Place that in capitals, Squire, and let
Just Few tear-drops each capital wet;
For these eyes, blood-shot, have long ceased
to shed
Tears for the livin, or tears for the dead.
Start there another clause, Squire, and say
How threw home, friends and kindred away;
How first neared then stood on the brink,
Pleadin' and cursin' and cryin' for drink;
How friends would rescue me, but to return
Back to that hell that in me still would burn,
Untf my ruin was hnished-complete,
Maxim me lower than hogs on the street.
Write it all down, and I'll sign 1t and swear
BY my sweet angel, so Heavenly fair;
BY my true God, whom I've oft cursed tc
By my poor children, I've left so forlorn;
By my dear mother, who died at my birth;
BY all that's in Heaven or here upon earth,
! will be true to my oath and my God
Until they bury me under the sod.
@. w. Clark tit Nidmt Helmet.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
Progress Of Temperance Principles.

We note with great satisfaction the
decided progress of Temperance prin-
ciples in many parts of the country.
The plans of action differ, but all tend
in one direction. the diminution of the
liquor traffic. High-priced licenses are
advocated here and elsewhere. This,
says the Mail and Express, "reduces
the number of groggeries to minimum,
and at the same time discourages the
sale of rum without license, since it
gives the holders of license pecuniary
motive to prevent illegal competition.
If license cost $1,000 or 81 500 in
New York the rum shops might soon be
reduced to one for every 500 of popula-
ton, and the clandestine dealers would
be less numerous than at present, be-
cause the licensed dealers would COM
bine to drive them out of the business"
In the State of Georgia the Local
Option law is said to be working well.
This is thoroughly democratic meas
ure. 1t allows the voters in a definite
district to determine, by majority,
whether or not liqnor may be sold. A
law of that kind keeps the subject in con-
slant agitation, and the more it is dis
cussed the more clearly it appears that
the traffic is hostile to the welfare of
the community.
Some Arkansas people were very
rnuch surprised the other day to see a
man convicted and fined two hundred
dollars under the Especial Liquor
law which forbids rum-selling within
two miles of an academy. This is a pc
culiar feature. "Within two miles of
any church" is another provision. We
would like to see such law in this part
of the country. But they must be get
ting ahead of us in Arkansas if they
protect their schools so effectually as to
forbid the sale of liquor within two miles
of one.
In Arkansas the new law enables the
majority of the adult inhabitants, male
and female, by petition to secure Pro-
hibition within two miles of any church
or school, except in cities of the first and
second class. 1t allows native wines.
Ohio submits two propositions for the
votes of the people at the next State
election:
1. THE General Assembly may by
law provide for levying special taxes or
liquors, and shall by law provide against
the evils resulting therefrom."
2. THE manufacture and traffic in in
toxicating liquors in this State to be used
as beverage is forever prohibited.
Electors desiring to vote in favor of
the first proposition shall have on their
ballots the words: Taxation of liquor
traffic, Yes and the electors desiring
to vote in favor of the second PROPOSE
ton shall have ON their ballots the
words: Prohibition, Yes"
Under Local-Option act passed by
the Legislature of Alabama, Prohibition,
at an election held February %, was
carried in Calhoun County in that State
by twelve hundred majority.-N. y
Observer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
HUMOROUS.

The fault of the animal: ~ do wish
cattle would grow larger" sighed the
st. Louis belle; my shoes pinch my
feet.''
The sailor is very much like his
ship. When either 60 ashore they are
very liable to get broken up.-Phitadel-
phia Chronicle.
Liberal landlord. "What are you
doing in my Backyard" Irish tramp
engaged in mending his clothes.) Il
was jist gatherin' in me rints, sorr!"
Ella five years old, who has
broken a window =" Papa, dear,
don't beat me; subtract it rather from
my marriage dowry." ."-Fliege'sde Blat-
ter.
q really was puzzled what to do for
the best" said our own Mrs. Rams
botham. "I was quite 'on the corns
of a duenna,' as the saying is. ~ T.
Journal.
=" Investigator wants to know
what is good for cabbage-worms. Bless
your heart, man, cabbages, of course.
A good, plump cabbage will last several
worms a week.
A five-year old, who went to school
for the first time, came home at noon
and said to his mother: Mamma, l
don't think that teacher knows much"
.'Why not, my dear?' ''Why, she
kept asking questions all the time. She
asked where the Mississippi River was"
Chicago Tribune.
The pawnbroker takes unusual in
terest in his business. The mariner who
casts the sounding lead has great depth
of feeling. No matter how high-priced
roses may be, they can always be
bought for scent. 1t is astonishing
how modest an empty pocket-book is.
1t shrinks from publicity.--Book-
Keeper.
-" There's something about your
daughter" MIR. Wanghop said reflec-
lively" there's something about your
daughter" Yes" said old Mr..
ThiStlepod, "there is; had noticed it
myself. 1t comes every night at eight
O'Clock, and it doesn't get away usually
till about eleven o'clock. And some of
these evenings am going to lift it all
the way from the front parlor to the
side gate and see what there's in it."
Enquirer: You wish to set Mr..
Snaggs and his next door neighbor to
fighting. Easy enough. Some dark
night Just take load of ashes and
oyster cans and dump them in Snaggs'
back yard. He'll lay it to his neighbor
and sling 'em over the fence. The
neighborll be madden than a candidate
for Office beaten by one vote, and will
sling 'em back. Then things viii hum;
law suits. pulled noses and bloody heads
viii result. and you can sit back and ses
the fun.-N y Post.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Paris is successfully stereotyping
her books on celluloid instead of type
metal.
John r. Perry, one Of the editors
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
lives and does his writing in Exeter,
N. II.
The property of the late Alexander
ii. Stephens is valued at $4,000. Mr..
Stephens was in public life for over
forty years.
There are ten ex-GovernOrs now in
the Senate, namely: Anthony, Brown,
Colquitt, Coke, Cullom, Garland,
Groome, Hampton, Harris and Hawley.
Robert Toombs' granddaughter,
who refused $780, 900 rather than give
up her lover, is in the condition of the
person who eats her cake and has it
too, as her grandfather has now re-
stored her to favor.
DR.. S. l. Prime, after o vacation of
twenty years, has resumed his place as
editor of Harper'S DrdUer. Lovers of
old stories and other antiquaries will
heartily welcome him back. He will
begin where he left off
Josephine Gallmeyer, the German
actress, who is making a starring tour
in this country, is able to write interest
ingly about what she sees. She sends
two letters week to Vienna news
paper, and gets fifty dollars apiece for
them.
George Alfred Townsend lives in
Twenty-third street, New York, and
makes twenty thousand dollars a year
writing about people just as he pleases.
Nevertheless he is described as "digni-
fled and unobtrusive." We all change
as we grow old.
A Western preacher, whose con-
gregation had begun to fall off some
what, had it intimated that he would
discuss family scandal the following
Sunday morning. As a consequence
the church was crowded. The minis
ter's subject was Adam and Eve.
Bishop Peck, who tips the beam at
three hundred or thereabouts, was at
one time attending conference where
the supply of beds was not equal to the
demand. The Bishop, after being in
troduced to the party who was to share
his couch, eyed him all over, and said:
so you are to be my bed-fellow, Ell?
Well, when l sleep alone I'm crowded."
Indianapolis Journal.
DR.. Francis NJ. Nye saw the name
of DIR. Frances A. Nye, of Harlem, in
the Medical Register about "a year ago.
Thinking she might be a relative, he OBJ
tanned an introduction to her. A COM
parison of family histories revealed that
they were not related. A years ac-
quaintance proved that the coincidence
of names and professions was also
united with coincidence of dispositions.
Recently they were married. The bride
graduated at the New England Medical
College twelve years ago.-N. Y. Times.
Rev. j. S. Swift, who died at Wilton,
Me-, a few days ago, was one of the oldest
journalists in that State, and probably
the most enthusiastic. In his youth he
purchased ''for a song" a small font
of worn-out BREWER type which had
been pied in a Bath newspaper office.
He sorted it, arranged it in case of
his own construction, made wooden
chase of some tin rules, engraved a
heading on block of wood with
jack knife, and, with a worn-out cheese
press, printed seven by nine weekly
paper, called the Harpswell Banner.
He continued this publication for six
months, and then secured position in
a regular newspaper office. He was
actively engaged in journalism for
nearly fifty years.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
THERE s NO USE IN LOOKING
BACK.

There's no use IN looking back
Der the way that we have travelled,
There's no use in going over
All our sOrrows, draped In black;
What our yesterdays have brought us,
What our Yesterdays have taught us,
viii be of no advantage
If we're always looking back.
There's no use In looking back,
Every day and date recalling:
Twas here we made good progress,
Twas there we left the track;
Not by constant retrospection
Will we ever reach perfection;
The past Is ours no longer,
There's no use in looking back.
There's no use in looking back,
Be the furrow straight or crooked,
Lest we should be disheartened
And strength and courage lack;
Through paths not always pleasant
We reach the golden present;
The goal is still before us,
There's no use In looking back.
There's no use in looking back,
And remembering with horror
Those weary days and hours
When the soul was on the rack;
For he who wins life's prizes
From grief and gloom arises.
And early learns this lesson:
There's no use in looking back.
Wen never reach the mountain
If we linger In the valley;
Well never win the battle
If we never make attack:
And the foes we put behind us
May seek but fail to find us,
If we overcome the habit
OF forever looking back.
Josephine Pollard, IN ". Y. Ledger.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
Not So Very Crazy.

Nose Schaumburg had loaned Sam
Bingtom seven hundred dollars. AS
Nose had not seen Sam on the streets of
Austin for several days, it occurred to
him to call at Sans house and find out
how he was coming on. He did not see
Sam, but Mrs. Bingtom was at home
She looked very sad, and had black
rings around her eyes.
~ am in great distress Mr.. Schaum-
burg"
''Vat wash de matter?"
.'Mr. Bingtom has lost his mind, and
has been taken out into the country"
"Did he leave dot money NIT you
to pay dot note what comes due next
weekp"
20. no. Mr.. Schaumburg. he is not
crazy enough to do that He has not
lost his reasoning faculties entirely. -
Teras StJtinas.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10

/ CAN NO BETTER ILLUSTRATE the
heart work of a missionary, and give
you glimpse into home and street life
than by relating to you briefly part of
one afternoons experience. often see
the little ones carrying home beer
under fathers or mothers orders,
while we are clothing them and teach
ing them the awful sin of using it. l
have seen the old mother take the bottle
from son or husband who had purchased
it for her, but never realized there was
such depth of depravity among the
children until this afternoon of which l
speak. Not far from where the brew
cries are doing their terrible and de-
moralizing work met group of boys
and girls. They gathered around me
until there was a great crowd, and /
tried to talk with them. They were
reeking with the fumes of tobacco and
liquor, and all the while the boys and
girls were wrestling, pushing and using
rough slang. A little fellow about
seven came up, and they cried out to
him: "Jim, you was drunk as fool last
night" Then Jim's brother Put in an
appearance, staggering under the inf1u-
ence of drink. Last Saturday l found
nearly every one of the girls in the sew
ing school.-Mrs. Alexander Cooper. in
Chicdqo Union Signal
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10
As to the Postal Card.

1t is a good rule never to use postal
card for any message which could not
with propriety be shouted across the
street. There are many matters to be
communicated from one human being
to another, which are nobody's bust
ness outside of those who do the COM
1t does not necessarily
follow that these things are always
secrets, or that they are anything to be
ashamed of. But there is sanctity and
a degree of decorum in a sealed letter
which never can pertain to the open
card. The card is easy, hasty and Of
little trouble to write. But for the
message of affection, the neighborly
greeting, the exchange of social fellow
ship or the conveying Of important in
leo us enjoy the old-fashioned
sealed letter.-Philadslphia Press.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10

1.-THE subscriptions raised in Great
Britain after calamities are often aston
ishingly large. That for the relief of
the families of the 167 fishermen who
perished in 1882, off Eyemouth, amounts
TO over $4,000.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10

The RECORDER of Dublin said re-
Gently: 81 have been for a whole week
trying cases such as no Christian Judge
ought to have 10 try-cases Of outrage
and violence. / marked the evidence
in every single case. and every one OF
them began in the saloon"
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10

DRAINED By A BEER BorrLE'' is tn.
headline Of q Monday mornings paper
IS it chronicles one. only one OF the
cruel misdeeds Of the open Sunday
saloons. Chicago UnioD Signal
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-10

The females outnumber the males
in Alabama by 1924
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-06
Letter from Dr. Murrnr.

A letter from DR.. r. D. Murray.
Marine Hospital Surgeon, dated Quar-.
antine Station, Pensacola, FLA, August
Sd, says: There was yellow fever in
Pensacola a year ago this time. | do
not think there is any there now. If
we get through thiSmonth here, / will
be easy in mind as to tho season. i
feel certain that fever will not be-
sent out of this station. But even il
1T is not actually sent from here, any
cases will be BY huggermuggery traced
to me.
We have now seven vessels, all
healthy; waiting the lapse of time f25
days. to go to the city. Out of 100
arrivals since May 18th therA have.
been but three cargoes; one coal. one.
railroad iron, one potatoes Pract;S
cally all come in ballast or emntv for
lumber and timber ~
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-06

Golden hair fluid at hrs. McAnally's.
Mr. N. Schwartz, of Ottenheimer &
Schwartz, lett for New York yesterda,
OF business trip.
Received smother choice selection
of Japanese poles. For fishing tackle.
etc., 30 to K. Kupferschmidt, 200 Main
The best assortment Of 6ne fshinp
tackle at Frank Schunian's gun stvre
No. Az Main street. lI7t
John 7. LittletoD, ir a we'll known
journalist OF Chattanooga. was in the
city yesterday en- route TO Little Rock.
Miss Mollie Folwell, ACCOMPANIED
by Mas MOllie Welsh, of Court street,
have gone to visit relatives in Fisher
vile. "
W. A. Wheatley. rental agent
oHeFs several stores. cottages, fats az
well as suburban property ior rent
Bee For Bent" column. l37
Among the visitors registered At
the Peabody are Matt +. Allen. OF
Nashville; J. Compton, Nashville, and
Samuel NJ. Compton, Of Worcester,
Mag.
Mr.. Nathan Back, formerly halter
under the Peabody Hotsl. bit now
travelling fer a large Philadelphis
boQse, has returned to this city with
his family on 8 brieivisit.
The Arkansaw City Msil of The "a
says: "Mr. Alfred Werner. who was
WoaBded by mob some days since, Is
recovering, and qt present prospects,
will be able 70 be around Ia few
days. lie is still at the Arkansaw
City HOTEL
| Mems tastes in drinking differ az in
oil other things. Some prefer a plain
straight drink, while others Ike A
fancy mixed one. Either kind made
VI the purest and best can always be
had at the WslnEt Palace Saloon, 81
Beal street.
| The Rev. G. 7. Stainback. formerly
OF this city, now resides at MeMinn.
vile, Tenp., but was visiting at Stew.
arts Station, Ala, Ehep informed Of
the death Of Mrs Leidy, and be esme
here 70 conduct the funeral rites from
the last named point, I"
Miss yirgie Ise Cash, one Of Miss
Carls bright end ambitious young art
pqoils, has drawn a very Ian dsone
crayOn likeness Of Colonel n. w.
ROyster, alter q photograph taken Of
him several yesFa ago. It attracts
much attention 10 tie Main street
window Of Wilkins jeWelry store,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-06
AN OvER-zEALoUs OFFICER
Capturing = Very Small Boy In
Very Small Way.

An orphan boy. about sixteen year.
OF age, named Joe McGee, a hard.
working and industrious little fellow
was put in the stationhouse, yesterday
aiternoc7. and kept there all nigh
without q mouthful to eat, all fol
nothing more than to appear as a wit.
ness against couple who had 9 feht
on lower Main street. Officer Hurst
arrested the lad as he YVES about to
enter bis boarding house, and for his
action IN the matter charges of I'M
otheer>iike conduct will be made up
and presented to the Firs and Police
Commissioners at their next meeting.
The little b oy relates that be was
IN company with man nmed Jack
McGinty, who works at the car sta
bles, and while it rained he and Nc
Ginty stopped for shelter under an
awning at the corner Of Main and
Linden street. While there pesSon
came BY in tipsy condition and I'm
dertook to pick q quarrel with Nc
Ginty. The latter parted a few
words, and the lad said, Come on
Jack and go home and don't quarrel
with the man or you may have fuss"
or words to that effect, This enraSed
the strange fellow and he hit The
small boy a severe blow with his fist,
directly in the eye. McGinly at.
tempted to defend the boy, when the
beligerent individual struck McGinty
with stick he had in his
hand at the time. The boy, after
picking himself up, pursuaded Nc
Ginty to leave the spot, and the lad
separated from him shortly after. AS
the boy was entering the yard of the
premises where he boards, on bis way
to supper, the officer arrested him and
would not let him 90 into the house
to get his coat, but conveyed him to
the stationhouse where he was inoar>
cerated as mentioned. The man who
started the row turns out to have been
U. III. Green, a shoemaker, and this
morning he was fined So for being
drunk and lighting. while McGinty
was fined So on the same charge. The
friends OF the lad are considerably irri.
tated over the matter, and they say
McGee is a good boy and deserves
more consideration than was shown
him by the officer, hence are deter
mined to prefer the charges alluded to
above.
1t is alleged by the friends Of Officer
Hurst that during the row between
McGinty and Green the boy (McGee)
threw bricks at the latter, but when
the case was on trial this forenoon
nothing was said about anything Of
the kind, and the lad was discharged
rom custody after giving his test
mony. Even if he did throw bricks,
however, the offense was not grave
enough to warrant the unceremonious
treatment he received at the hands Of
the officer.