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The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A Los Angeles (Cal.) man is ex-
perimenting on ripening wines by elec-
tr.city.
Mrs. Belle NJ. Sahlein, of San Fran
cisco, has been granted patent for a
box-coyer attachment. She is the third
California lady that has been honored
by a patent award from the United States
Government.-Sdn FrdnciSeO Call.
The Canadians have perfected a
velocipede sleigh. The rider is seated
on bicycle of the usual character, the
large wheel having spokes to catch hold
of the ice. There is an outside frame
attached, on which are four pieces of
steel the shape and size of the steel at
the bottom OF an ordinary skate. Chi
cagO Times.
John l.. Mcmillan, who is making
a type-settlng machine in Ilion, n. T.,
with which he expects to set 5000 ems
an hour, says that 100000 was spent
on the Alden pesetting and d!strib-
u.ing machine before it was given up as
imprac.icable, and that Sl,00O,000 was
wasted on the Page machine, whose
patent right was subsequently sold for
so, 0,000.-M y. Sun.
There has been found new species
of native clover in Florida, that grows
in the flat woods in detached stems and
punches throughout the timberland.
The Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington says that if it could be grown in
quantities so as to get seed, ETC., it
would be valuable as forage plant.
There seems to be plenty of seed in the
proper season.-PhilHieLDhiG Press.
In letter to the London Times a
gentleman states thateXperiments made
with a view to investigating the scatter
ing of shot have convinced him that
with an ordinary gun and ammunition
there is much more scattering than peO-
pie imagine, and to this fact he attrib-
utes many shooting casualties. For
this reason he publishes the result Of
his experiments, with the hope that per-
sens who use firearms will be more
careful in the matter.
"A device to radically change the
present method of ventilating cars, both
horse and steam, has recently been in
vented. It's operation is to furnish a
constant amount of fresh air and with
drawal of similar amount of vitiated
air. 1t consists of opening at the ends
of the cars at the upper corners or in
the monitor tops with covering on all
sides, having the appearance of large
tube or pipe open at the ends and also
opening into the cars, with a partition
in the center Thus the air in the first
half of the car is compelled to enter the
car, while the work of withdrawal is
done by the latter shaft openings
Boston Globe.
-"In the Chelsea High School," says
the Boston Transcript, ''is telephone
made of the halves of cigar box, with
the diaphragms of sheet-iron and cleo
tro-magnets whose distances from the
diaphragms are controlled by screws of
the simplest kind. In every way the
instrument is very crude. The thing,
however, works satisfactorily, and be-
cause of its large and easily seen parts
it is still employed to illustrate the fun
damental principles of the telephone.
The instrument was the invention Of
Mr.. Albert H. Low, of Chelsea, who
had got thus far in working out his
ideas when the announcement of Pro-
fessOr Bells invention rendered further
experiments unnecessary.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24

toned, they are equally exclusive as re-
CARDS those whom they hold beneath
them in the social scale. This class is
composed of Government clerks and of
people in comfortable circumstances.
There are good many colored men in
Government employ as clerks. These
form the basis of the society of the sec
ond rank. Many of them own comfort
able homes, and one of the finest streets
in the city is occupied by them. This
is Sixteenth street, between the Scott
statue and the White House. 1t is a
splendid avenue, broad. well-paved and
in the heart of the most fashionable
part of the city. Nearly all of these
colored residents own Their houses, and
refuse to sell. The property is very
valuable and must ultimately pass out
of their possession. These people are
very fond of social life, but they do not
find it in entertaining, but rather in So
ciables, balls, picnics and esp 'cia!ly in
their churches. They are well dressed,
seem to prosper, and are happy. For
the great bulk of the colored popula-
tion-the servants, laborers and the
poor-they have sympathy, but no more
have soc al relations with them than a
white family would. These latter in
the main are thriftless, living from hand
to mouth; happy if they do nothing,
happy if they get a job. Their social in
stincts are gratiiied by the organization
and maintenance of societies of all sorts,
benevolent, patriotic, social and eco
nomic. There are nearly one hundred
of these organizations. supported al
most entirely by the laboring colored
people. j WaShington Post.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
Organizing to Control Elections.

The liquor sellers in this city are or
oaniZing to control the elections. The
Herald says: About fifty met last week
to effect an organization to assist them
in securing a more lenient Excise law.
John Cavanaugh was elected Presi-
dent. and NJ. z. Gilmore, Secretary.
MIR. Cavanaugh stated at length his
views on the subj and the course that
should be taken by the dealers. be
claimed that each liquor dealer in this
city controlled from five to ten votes,
and if the dealers wanted TO put stop
to the police raids they must unite their
patronage and support.
IF the II 900 licensed liquor dealers
in this city, controlling. as we do, 1O0.-
900 votes, would work together for the
election of Mayor and District At
torney,n said Mr.. Cavanaugh, ''there
isn't money enough in New York to de-
feat any big brewer if we should NOM
mate him for Mayor. l don't care
what the party is we join or whether
we start one of our own. i am o DEM
ocrat. but I'll vote for the blacklist Re-
publican if he will say he is in favor of
a far Excise law" Mr. Cavanaugh
then went on to say that the licensed
dealers ought to be considered as hon
orable as other merchants, but the pub
lie would not discriminate between
them and the unlicensed dealers who
encourage vice. This ring under
which we suffer originated at Police
Headquarters, said he. land has grad
ually worked down to the District At
torney's Office
A committee was appointed to per-
feet the organization and secure the CO.
operation of the dealers in the other
wards.
Mr.. Corragin thought that by closing
the saloons on Sunday while those in
Brooklyn, Jersey City and the suburbs
were kept open, the bread and butter
were being taken from his mouth. He
was in favor of closing during church
hours, but keeping open for a stipulat-
ed time during the day. Mr.. Piper
wished no action taken on that subject.
1--WE don't wish to advertise ourselves
as law-breakers, said he, Though ev-
erybody knows we are. For there is
probably not an hour in the day that
we don't violate the law. The law
saws we shall not sell liquor to children.
Yet l am afraid some of us do" The
meeting then adjourned.
The above shows what powerful
foe is to be met by good citizens. In
the last State election the liquor dealers
demonstrated their power. Now they
are preparing to take this city in their
own hands. They can do it, and they
will unless the friends of order and
good morals are vigilant and faithful
N. I Observer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
Temperance
REAORSE OF THE RUM SELLER.

AN ECHO FROM CRUSADE TIMES.
81 have come home to you, mother Father.
your waywaTd son
Has come TO himself. at last, and knows the
harm he has done.
have blcached your hair out, father, moro
than the frosts of years.
I've dimmed your kind eyes, mother. by many
bitter tears.
Since ] left you, father, TO work the farm
alone,
And bought a stock of liquors with what /
I've felt ashamed to see you, knew It broke
you down,
To think you had brought up a boy to harm
his native town.
I've given it all up. mother; III never sell it
more
I've smashed the casks and barrels, I've shut
and locked the door.
I've signed the Temperance pledge, while the
women stood and sang;
The clergymcn gave three hearty cheers, and
both the church bells rang.
But one thing seemed to haunt me, as came
OF all the wrongs that 1 have done not one
can undo.
There's old Judge White just dropping into a
I've pushed him down with every glass of
whisky that gave.
And there is young Tom Elliott. He was
trusty lad,
/ made him drink the first hot glass of rum he
ever had.
And now he drinks night after night and acts
rufhans part.
He has MANNED his little sister. and broken
his mothers heart.
Then. there is Harry Warner. who married
Bessie Hyde.
He struck and killed their baby, when 1t was
sick and cried.
And poured out the poison that made him
strike the blow;
crazy now, you know.
/ tried TO act Indifferent, when 1 saw the
women come.
There was Ryan's wife, whose children shiv-
cred and starved at home.
He had paid me. that same morning, his last
ten cents for drink:
When saw her poor pale face, it made me
start and shrink.
There was Tom Eliott's mother, wrapped in
her widows veil,
And the wife of Brown. the merchant, my
whisky made him fall.
And my old playmate, Mary, she stood among
the band,
Her white cheek bore a livid mark, made by
her husbands hand.
1t all just overcame me! yielded, then and
there;
And Elder Thorp, he raised his hand and Of
fered mp prayer.
l knew that he forgave me, and yet had to
think
OF his own boy, his only son, whom l had
taught to drink.
So 1 have come back, father, to the home that
gave me birth.
And will plow, and sow, and reap the gifts
of mother earth.
Yet, if prove Il good son nOw and worthy of
you two,
My heart is heavy with the wrongs l never
can undo.
Mrs T. q KcTr1n
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
PITH AND POINT.

Some people drop tears at the sigh.
of distress; others, dimes.-M. Y Com
mcrcim Adrertiser.
"A mole on the nose indicates that a
man will be a great traveller probably
to get out of the way of people who
make personal remarks.-LOaCeH Citi-
zen.
A piper in a Northumbrian town
was once asked if he could play with
in Mile O. Edinboro' loon. .Within
a mile!" he exclaimed; "wey, maun, !
cud play within ten yards OF.
"A young lady refused to wed man
of fifty, saying that he was neither one
thing nor another. He was too old fol
a husband and too young to hold out
hope of immediate widowhood.-ChicG
90 Tribune.
"A visionary financer who had a
thousand ways to make a fortune and
not a single one to make a living, is de.
scribed by friend as "a man so san.
guine that the mere getting hold of a
shoe-string makes him think that he is
already the owner of a tannery. ."-B0S-
ton Post.
=" Allow me to compliment you on
the last issue of your paper" said a
gentleman to an editor. 81 think it is
the best number that you have ever is
sued. "Your kind words are too late, "
the editor replied. "for with the last is
sue suspended the publication of the
Horn" ''Yes, know" rejoined the
friend, "and that's why | thought the
last issue was the best. ."-Erchange.
Young Spoonbill: "Ah, my dear
est Miss Shillinworth, if may-I have
long wished for this sweet opportunity;
but hardly dare trust myself now to
speak the deep emotion. But, N
short. l love you! and-your smile
would shed-would shed-would-"
Miss s.: "Oh, ne, er mind the wood
shed! How's your aunt's money in
vested? And where are the securities
deposited?"-M y Independent.
"A misunderstanding: "How's yer
gal comm on, Aunt Malviny?" ''She's
ober to San Antonio, and dat ar Gabe
Snodgrass, what's jes' come from dar,
done tole me dat she's got stage-struck. "
''Is dat SOP" ''Yes, Mr.. Johnsing, it
am fac" "When am she gwine to
play?" mot for a right smart while
yet, reckon, kase de wheel OBJ anuder
vehicle break two of her ribs when de
stage struck her." Il miscomprehend
yo', Aunt Malviny, at fust. Good eben-
in. '."-Teras Sytfngs.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
be bought in Boston the expenses Of the
City Government would not be one

be bought in Boston the expenses of the
City Government would not be one
quarter what they now are.
BY recent law in Missouri licenses
are granted, but high price is demand
ed for them. The money thus raised is
added to the school fund. and, as re-
suit, commodiOus school-houses are be-
ing erected, and the cause of education
has received an onward impetus. If Ii
ceDses are to be granted the income de-
rived from them should be sufficiently
large to cover all the expenses accruing
from the liquor traffic. In other words.
the money derived from licenses should
be enough to build and maintain nine
tenths of the alms-houses, prisons and
iails; three-fourths of the lunatic asy-
lums; one-quarter of the hospitals, be-
sides paving tive-sixths of the bills for
police officers and police courts. Other
wise the business is a burdensome tax
upon the sober and industrious elements
in the community, and should be resist
ed as an unwarrantable encrOachment
upon the rights of the citizens at large.
Golden Rule.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
Reducing the BlemiShes.

A sallow complexioned old lady, ac-
companied by remarkably unprepos
seSsing daughter, recently walked into
a Photographic gallery.
''Be you the PHOTOGRAPH man?' she
inquired, wIping her spectacles, and
carefully adjusting them to the various
spurs, dips, angles and sinuosities of her
Corinthian nose.
"Yes, ma am" replied the artist in
plate glass and chemicals, ''can L do
anything for you?'
"No, I'm too far over the bay to
waste any mechanical genius on me.
It's my daughter, Partheny, here, that
l wants TUX
"All right, madam, will you -"
Cant yer soften down her COM
pexion little, an tone up her nose
what was broke fallin' out of win
der?"
Il think so,' replied the artist.
"An' kin yer wipe off them freckles?"
go yes"
.I've seen photographs of our relations.
an I've alters noticed that the picters
fiattered 'em clean out of sight. l
know enough about the biz to recognize
that you've got the whole thing in your
own hands, an kin turn out a perfes-
sional beauty of the first water, Just as
yer please. DO You think you kin re-
duce those ears trifle jest leetle. |
know Partheny has got big ears, but
still she aint no rabbit Partheny is a
generous girl, as yer kin see by her
ears"
81 think there will be no difficulty
"How about that air squint in the left
optic? Do yer think yer can manage
that?"
80 yes, can touch it up with India
ink"
"What particular pose do yer think
Partheny would take best in, full face
or side SHOVE"
"You mean quarter view or pro-
file?"
Il guess 1 do. Yer see the photograf'
is goin' to a young feller what put an
advertisement into newspaper for cor
respondents, an Partheny's writin' to
him. Now yer see how necessary it is
for the picter to kinder favor her little
blemishes. You'll do the fair thing by
Partheny, won't yer?'
Certainly; what size, madam, cabi'
net or cards?"
(Which is the biggest?"
cabinet"
"Guess, then, we'd better try her on
cabinet. Eff the photographer does'a
good job, the bigger the better. What's
yer figgers?'
Twelve shillings dozen for cabi-
nets"
"How much for one?"
"Samc price. tits the negative that
costs, not the number"
"Well, all right. You just 60 ahead
an square them shoulders back little,
an bring the nose down fine, an wipe
off the freckles an straighten the eye,
an reduce the ears, an whiten the
complexion-an' the hair! 1t won't be
red in the picter. will it?'
80 no. There will no color be shown
but black"
"Ihat's a comfort. Gracious! Par
theny, what would he think eff yer sent
him an oil paintin' taken from life!
Kin stay In the room?"
80 yes"
"All right. Strike an attitood, Par
theny, an well rope in that young man
as sure as yer O foot high. ~. y
Star.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
At the Opera.

What is that man doing on the stage
with his mouth wide open?
He is singing, darling.
But can hear him.
That is because the girl at the piano
is playing so loud, dearest.
But why does she play so loud?
She wants the audience to know, my
precious, that she is bigger man than
the singer.
But is she playing the tune?
Ono; only the accompaniment, dar-
ling.
Then she ought not to play so loud
that we can't hear the singer; had she !?
Dyes, my sweetness; she must make
all the noise she can.
Then it's no use for him to sing while
she's playing.
Not much my love.
Why don't they make her play softer.
She would not do it, my treasure; she
wants the people to know she's there
Does the singer like it?
Not much, he wishes some one would
tie her hands behind her.
Do the audience like it?
Not much; they wish somebody would
throw the piano and the player into the
river and give them chance to hear
the music.
If it were to be done, would the brave
men who threw them in the river be
punished?
Not at all, my angel; it would be a
work of charity and mercy.-M CITY
Derrick.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
The Right OF 1t.

Some time ago saw it proclaimed in
the press, by authority of prominent
and influential clergyman, that he did
not favor abstinence from alcoholic
drinks, but, on the contrary, that he
approved their habitual use. 1t seems
to me there must be right and wrong
as to this matter, and it ought not to be
difficult to find.
Some time ago a stranger to me and
[ were the only occupants of a carriage
on an English railway. The gentleman
knew me; he was a rector of the En-
glish Church. He commenced a con-
versation brusquely by asking:
"Mr. Dow. do you Temperance peo-
ple) hold that to drink glass of wine
is sin for us?''
I'VE say nothing of that, but this is
our view. An intelligent man must
know something of the sin, shame.
crime, horror, which in this country
come from intemperance. He must
know that intemperance comes from
the drinking habits of society. He
must know, also, that these are upheld
and perpetuated by the example and
influence of the better classes of the
people. For man who knows all this
to lend the influence of his example to
uphold the customs whence all this
mischief comes, is a mortal sin. We
hold it to be primary Christian duty
SO to live that if all the world should
follow our example no harm could come
from it. If our example of total absti-
nence should be adopted by all the
world, the sin, shame, crime and infinite
misery coming from intemperance would
cease in a day, and the world would be
relieved of nine-tenths of the wretehed-
messy by which it is now cursed"
The rector made no reply.-Ro's.
Neal DoO, in N. Y. Independent. =,
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
A Wary ScOtchman.

In English family life there are reserve
and constraint, but no intimacy, no ex-
pansion. There is friendship, but little
love. Sons seldom kiss their mothers,
never their father; and hence it natur-
ally follows that, when the father dies,
the only question which is asked is,
'Was he insured?" and, that point be-
ing satisfactorily disposed of, the worthy
man is buried, and no more is thought
about him. In Scotland the relations
of father and children are even worse.
Unless you have been in Scotland you
can have no idea how serious life can
be. A Scotch friend of our authors
goes, it appears, every year to spend a
month with his father, a minister of the
Presbyterian church and in other re-
spects person of consideration. On
the day of the departure he always
finds on the breakfast table his little
account for the month, and being q
wary Scotchman like his father. care
fully checks the items, and the addition
before paying it, when this is the sort
of conversation which takes place:
.But, father, l see that you have
charged me with eggs and bacon for
breakfast yesterday, assure you that
1 never touched the eggs"
''You are wrong my boy" says pa
pa. ''They were on the table. There
was nothing to prevent your using
themw-AH the Year Rou,td.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
Temperance Items.

NEW YORK chemist says he wants
nothing more than three pals of water
and twenty cents worth of drugs to
make six gallons of jjust such cham
pagne as fools pay dollar pint for.
Hon. THEODORE FRELINGHUYsEN
said: "H men will engage in this dis
astrous traffic, if they will stoop to de-
grade their reason and reap the wages
of iniqu:ty, let them no longer have the
law book as pillar, nor quiet con-
science with the opiate of a court
license"
SENATOR GARLAND, of . Arkansas,
never drinks. 81 was passing by the
cemetery near my home one day." said
he. and / saw the graves of dozen
brilliant men who began life with me.
every one of them hastened to his end
by whisky. / made up my mind that
! had drunk my share, and stopped"
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24

Some one has classified the present
House of Representatives at Washing
ton as to occupation as follows: Law
yers, 22l; manufacturers, 10; farmers,
Is; editors, 10; merchants, s; bankers.
q; doctors, 5; lumbermen, 2; railroad
presidents. 2; railroad operators, 2;
minister. 1; pharmacist, 1; zoologist,
/; halter, /; railroad ticket agent 1;
cooper. /; printer, Il; capitalist, |; pol
itician, l. The occupations and pro-
fessions of twenty-five are not stated. -
Chieago Journal,
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24
A WEIGH.

~Jump en- the scale, the butcher said
into a miss ore day,
aTm used to Weighing. " and, said he,
I'm tell you what you weigh"
-. All YES" came quick the sweet reply
From lips seemed made to kiss;
arm sure. sir, that it wCu!d not be
First time you've weighed amiss.
The butcher blrslcd: he hung his head,
And knew rot what to say;
He merely wished to weigh the girl
Himself was given away.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-01-24

Two enterprising boys of Tarif'ville,
Conn, having secured an old musket of
revolutionary fame, two revolvers and
a supply of powder and shot, started for
Colorado to fight the Indians the other
day. They were overtaken by big
brother and brought home, much to their
chagriR. Hartford Post.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
The Story of the Renders.

The St. Louis Republican recently published a story on the alleged author ity of one Capt. Rivers, or Reives, of Appleton, Mo, to the effect that the no- tcrious Bender family were all killed by the York party, who followed them out of Montgomery County, Kan, when they disappeared from there, and that he himself went along and saw the killing done. Gov. Click, of Kansas, thereupon wrote to Dr. A. M. York, who is now in Des Moines, Iowa, and inquired as to the truth of the story, and received a re- ply that the article was an entire fabri- cation, in fact without even the sem blance of a foundation. Dr. York some what significantly adds: "My brother, J. H. York, of Fort Scott, was visiting me here when the article appeared, and we determined to take prompt measures to trace the authorship and responsibil- ity, and we will make inquiries for the purppse of ascertaining whether such a person as Capt Rivers lives at Appleton, Mo-, and if so we will call upon him and request proof of his statements. We will give 5000 for proof that the Renders were killed, and with such proof we believe we can trace their connec- ton with others. In my opinion state ments such as the one in hand have been put in circulation from time to time to prevent a continuance of the the search, and it is quite remarkable that these statements that the Renders were killed are revived simultaneously with some positive movement tending to tbeir discovery. Whether there is con- nection between the two I cannot say, but it is most remarkable coincidence. Otherwise my brother will place the matter in the hands of our attorney, J. D. McChevarty, of Fort Scott, and he will no doubt have occasion to communi- cate with you"
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
NO CURE! NO PAY!
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Remember. No Cure. No Payl