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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
Can Women Drive !

.'Can women drive?' repeated the
proprietor of livery stable the other
dav. That depends on what you call
driving. Some Of them can make
horse get up and get for all he is
worth, BUT few know how to handle one.
Once in a while you'll meet with a
farmers daughter who used to ride a
horse a la Mary Anderson in her early
life, and thus became intimately ac-
quainted with equine accomplishments
in all its phases of riding and driving;
but in the city you'll find the women
who know how to handle trott 'r less
numerous than the dainty darlin2s who
are given to driving lovers tandem
though it takes an artful one to work
tandem. Seriously speaking, | don't
believe women generally are fitted by
nature for that kind of employment. A
cool head and a steady hand are pre-
requisite to a COOL driver, and wo-
men, YOU know, are nervous and easily
excited. You may say the professional
Jockeys are elem nate and nervous, but
if they are SO naturally they learn to
subdue their emotion and draw steady
rein before they attain any reputation.
Another horseman differed with his
colleague.
Certainly they can drive" said he.
"Somc of the best drivers | ever saw
were women. There's Miss Eva Brit
ton, editress of the Hurricane, of
Charleston, S. c., the little girl in blue.
who flashed like a meteor through the
Northern States some years ago, turn
ing our heads and emptying our purses:
and Louise Armaindo, the bicyclist and
Blanca Chapman, the prima donna
Fanny Davenport and Rankin's wife,
and host of other women
whoe names are not before the
public, some of whom are residents of
Detroit But of all the women drivers,
Lolita is the best. When she gets into a
buggy she always acts as if she were
going to frolic, and the horse gets so
friendly with her that he at once starts
off at his fastest gait just to please her.
All he needs in the way of inducement
is one of her ripping laughs thai starts
awaY down about her toes, and gurgles
upward, and pops and effervesces like
bottle of champagne, and dies away
lovingly like lovers sweet good night
when he hasn't forgotten the usual box
of confections.
II say. though, about driving-I
know lady living on Lafayette ave-
nue. who can hold her own with any
man. She knows how to groom a
horse, knows al about vehicles, and
has every appointment perfect before
she will make start. 1t is all nom
sense to talk about women 5 nervousness
Some of them are not whit more ner-
vous than men, and between you and
me, think much of the feminine ner-
vousness is affected = it is becoming,
YOU SEE, and makes fellow feel rs if
he, strong, calm sovereign of his
country and masher of his country
women, was relied ON for protection,
and lot else by the delicate, sensitive,
loving creature by his side. Bosh! Put a
girl in a buggy by herself, and if she
had as much experience at driving as
he has she'll drive every bit as well. ="
Detroit Times.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
My NeighbOr aud l.

am mad at the man on the south
west corner of the block, and he Is mad
at me, and its all on account of moth
ing at all. We bought a mantel and
CRATE just alike and costing the same
price. We had tling just Of the same
pattern. lad down by the same man.
For five years we were like brothers.
If had a sick horse | consulted him.
We went over to his house to play old
sledge, and his family came over to my
house to play croquct. I'd have turned
out of bed at midnight the darkest
night you ever saw and walked twenty
miles through mud thirty feet deep to
bring doctor in the case of sickness.
and I'm certa he'd have done fully as
much for me.
In an unfortunate hour my brother
in-law from Chicago paid me visit.
He said the mantcl was very handsome
and the graft perfect beauty, and
added:
''But you want a brass fender"
''No,'
"Certainly you do. 1t will be an i'm
mense Improvement
A day or two after he returned home
he sent me brass fcnd from Chicago.
He not only sent it as present, but
paid the express charges. Some one
told the man on the southwest corner
that had a brass fender.
at can't be.
"But he has
''i'll never believe it."
"8ut I've seen it. -
Then he is scoundrel of the deep
est dye. Some folks would mortgage
their souls for the sake showing OF q
little"
When this remark was brought to
me turned red, clear back to the col
lar button. | called the southwest cor
ner man liar and a horsethief. | said
that his grandfather was hanged for
murder and that his Oldest brother was
in State Prison. | advised him to sell
out and 90 to the Cannibal islands, and
otfere to buy his house and turn it in
to a soap-factOry.
The usual result followed He killed
my cat and | shot his dog. He COM
planned OF my all'y and | male him put
down a new sidewalk. He called my
horse an old plug and lied about his
COW and spoilt sale. He got my
church pew away by raying a higher
price, and | destroyed his credit at the
grocery He is now maneuver.ng to
have the city compel me to move my
barn back nine feet, and have all the
arrangements made to buy the house
next TO him and rent it to an under
taker as colin wareroom. M Qudf,
in Dra ..c'S IrQCctCr.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
PITH AND POINT.

Question: How many dogs can n
man keep who can not afford to take a
paper?
The tendency to sleep too soundly
can be overcome by having hot soda
biscuits for supper.
1t is not every woman who can
travel all over the country on a dollar;
but the woman whose picture is on that
coin manages to do it.
DE laugh what doan' come nachul
CRATES mighty harsh on de human YEAR
De dry, hoarse lau III O de owl makes a
chicken feel mi ghty oneasy.-.ArkansaW
Irdreter.
After a man has been moving hea-
ven and earth to get job, and finally
succeeds, it is so soothing to his feel
ings to learn by the papers that he has
accepted position. "-Detroit Pos.
An editor says if as many people
knew how to pay their subscriptions as
we'll as they think they know how to
run newspaper, editors would have an
easier time of it.
A learned dentist speaks of "enu-
clea ing a tooth" Sounds fine, does n
it? but tine operation hurts as bad as
though he had said '.yanked out. "
Boston Transcript.
1t is claimed that the coming tea
crop is short by one-fourth, but you
can't scare this country by such story.
ANY shortage down to One-half can cas-
lily be made up with marsh hay.-De-
troit Free Press.
-..If you would Freeze" said George.
smuggling up little closer, ''you would
make delicious ice-cream." If you
were to Freeze" responded Amelia with
severity, after cat hing Whit of lis
breath, ''you would maze good rum
punch. ~. Y. Times.
Edmund C. Stedman, the banker
poet, who has begun for the sec )nd time
to make his fortune, was offered several
positions in journalism soon after his
recent failure. He declined them, how
ever, as he had family to support and
couldn't afford the luxury..M T.
Graphic.
Mans life
II a man could live thousand years.
When last his life had lassed
He might, by strict economy,
A fortune have amassed.
Then. having gained some common sensc,
And knowledge, too, OF life.
He could select the woman who
Would make him true wife.
But as 1t is, man hasn't time
To even pay his debts,
Aud weds to be acquainted with
The woman whom he gets.
III O. Dodge, IN Detroit Free Press.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
A FATAL CONUNDRUM.

" Why Is it," asked u wicked man, who iI3 the
sanctum strayed,
why is il that AL editor who's regularly paid
Is like a hungry little boy dodging from
mothers eye,
And waiting for "a chance to steal piece of
apple picr'
The editor quick gave 1t up, and then the
man went on:
" The difference is plainly seen, as darkness is
from dawn:
It is because (and here he got in shape to fly
away
Because one lays for pie, you see, and the
other lies for pay.
The editor upon him fell in blind and fiery
rage,
And on his wicked carcass he did bloody
warfare wage;
And when his work he had got in the room
was ncckcd with brains,
And purp.c gore, aud matted hair, and
scrambled up remains.
-Bism1rch Tribune,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

"Not bad thing to do" said Cap4
tain Raynor, when he could control his
voice so as to speak. "If l had one I
believe I'd sign it, myself" /
$50 would l." echoed the others.
40 papa! would you? Would you.
really? Ill run up to Miss Miller's and
get some; it is only STEP"
And before they could stop him the
happy boy was off. IIe returned pres
emily, with four pledges; and those four
men signed them.
Improbable, do you say? Not at all.
This is true story. and happened, as 1
have told you, in Maine.-A. O. Nor.
rO1r, IN S. s. Times.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

The Norwegian shoe, or skee run.
ner, is used in Colorado for long jour
neys over CLASSY snow, or when going
up or down steep mountain. Every
one has par of these ungainly shoes
men, women and children. Those
who have mastered the art of snow
shoeing can 60 very rapidly on them.
There is Norwegian there who is will
ing TO wager that he can travel fifty
miles across the country in ten hours,
but that is much faster than the ma
iority of skee runners.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

"A Bridgeport Comm dead-beat
recently appeared at a drug store in
the character of prospective purchaser
of cider barrels. After looking over
about thirty he agreed on a price for
the whole lot, and had them marked
with his own name. 1t then occurred
to him that he had some very fine cider
brandy that he would like to trade for
the barrels, and to know how it COM
pared with the druggists brandy, he
asked for q sample. He got a large
one, and drank it. He decided that his
was better and would bring it the next
day. He never brought it. He had
succeeded in getting what he wanted
a free drink.-N. Y. Sun.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

A man dropped diamond ring in
a Sherman Tex. saloon cuspadore, and
told the negro to clean the utensil and
get the ring. The negro denied finding
It. but when searched the ring was
found in his mouth.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

THERE are five murders and City,
fights in that barrel. said an Indian.
pointing to q cask of whisky; and his
estimate was none too high
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

When the territory of the United
States is as densely settled as that of
France there will be $50, 900, 900 people
here.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

There can be no good in man who
emits bad language when he opens his
mouth. Ckieaqo Times,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

"A hos cry mill at Columbus, S. c.,
turns out five thousand pairs Of stock
ings eye-y day.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06

Marriage and death notices, not exceeding
six lines published free. All over six lines
will be charged for at regular advertising
rates.
sxATl advertisements due when inserted,
unless otherwise agreed upon.-"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
A BidcOus Story.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, December PA.
story comes from EgremOnt, Berkshire.
Hills. which states the people thereabouts
say that EStelle Newman, about thirty
years old, died in EgremoiJ in 1873, and
after funeral services in Little Methodist
Church, was buried in the town cemetery,
and the forgotten sensation comes from the
dying testimony of II. Worth Wright.
of Connecticut, who is SAID to have con-
fessed to his brother that he a medical STU
dent in the Albany Medical College, was
present at the funeral with other students.
and lay in wait az the cemetery till the bur-
ial was over and the graveyard deserted,
and then helped to disinter the body and
carry it in sacks TO the medical college
They at once went 10 work on it in the
dissecting room. While Oh the table the
body showed signs OF life and was resus-
citated. Finding the woman alive on their
bands the authorities of the college had her
taken to the insane asylum of Schoharie-
County, \. Y. This is the last Wright is.
said 10 have known of her whereabouts
The Newman woman's grave will probably
be opened to see what the story amounts to-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE United States South American Com
mission was presented to President Diaz a
few days ago. President Diaz promised
his administration would leave nothing un-
done to promote commerce between the
two countries and thanked the United
States for taking the initiative.
COLONEL OYAMA, japanese Minister of
War, was presented to the President by the
Secretary of State a few days ago. He was
accompanied by the Secretary of the Chi
nese Legation.
THE first acts of Diaz's administration in
Mexico are giving general satisfaction.
Congress authorized President Diaz to re-
form the present unjust stamp laws, cut
down the supernumerary force of Govern
ment employees and reduce public expenses
in all possible ways. A portion of the
money due journalists in drafts COL
lected through the post-office has
been paid, and the remainder is
promised this month. Gambling houses
in the City of Mexico have been
closed by the new Governor. The Senate
adopted the following: That the State
Government of Ceahulia is illegal, and that
the President appoint an executive officer
pro TEN, and that such officer Immediately
order new election under the constitution.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

On the afternoon of the 13tu about B: :45 a
desperate attempt was made to blow up
London bridge. The bridge itself was not
harmed, though lamp posts and houses ad-
iacspt were seriously damaged, and pedes-
trains were stunned. An examination
showed that the explosives had
arch of the great structure. The police
and home detectives were unable to find
any clues whatever. Great excitement
prevailed in the vicinity OF the home Office.
THE Secretary of the Navy received a
cable message recently from Rear Admiral
Davis, at Nagasaki, announcing n revolu-
tion at Corea, and stating the United States
vessels Trenton and Ossipree will go there
Immediately.
A CONVICT of the Missouri Penitentiary
named Mason recently seriously injured
three fellow convicts while laboring under
temporary insanity caused by epilepsy.
The names of the convicts injured are
Charles Segner, Louis Haelscher and Andy
Allison. They were all seriously beaten
over the head by heavy iron poker, their
skulls being broken.
AN accident recently occurred in East
Newark, n. s., to freight train of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad. Fireman John
Pfetzinger of Easton and Engineer E. G.
Black were buried in the wreck. Black was
severely injured internally. Pfetzinger's
body was literally cut to pieces, his body
cut in two and his head crushed in. Con-
ductor Ross Parker was also buried in the
ruins, but was not seriously hurt.
THE safe in the agents Office of the Mem
phis, Cairo & st. Louis Railroad at Dres-
den, Tenn, was broken open December 14th
and 81 coo taken. Two hundred dollars re-
ward was offered for the arrest of the
thieves. The agent suspects two men seen
about the Office, one of medium size, small
whiskers, red complexion. The other
small and of dark complexion.
THE Barry Opera House and Hotel Barry
of Corning. n. Y, burned few DAYS ago.
Loss, So, 600; insurance, $4,000. The fire
started, fortunately, after the close of the
performance.
The Salvation Army opened the cam
paign at Montreal, Cam, recently, with an
open air meeting. The crowd was very
disorderly, pelting the salvationists with
snow and ice. The police took the army to
the police station. The army was later
bailed out and at night they held a meet
ing In hall. The crowd again howled the
army down, broke seats and did considera-
bic other damage. The army retired,
followed by the mob, yelling and pelting
them with snow and ice.
A TASTE of a cyclone struck Dayton, O.,
recently, whirling signs, store boxes and
everything loose, making sidewalks dam
gerous at places for people going home
from church.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
A Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL


In the Senate on the 9th a new COM
mittee of conference was appointed On the
Naval Appropriation bill. The Senate re-
fused to take up the Oregon Central Land
Forfeiture bill, but by a vote of p to "a
agreed to take up the bill for the admission
of Dakota. The bill to provide for the sale
of the Cherokee Reservation in Arkansas
was passed, also the bill to prohibit the de-
livery of registered letters and the payment
OF money orders to lottery companies. The
Dakota bill was then debated until adjourn
ment. In the House, after the introduc-
ton of bills, consideration of the Inter
State Commerce bill was resumed and the
debate continued until adjournment.
In the Senate on the 10th, Mr.. Sherman
occupied the chair. The Eads Ship Railway
bill was withdrawn. The bill for the admis-
sion of Dakota into the Union was taken up
and opposed by Mr.. Vest, and after executive
session the Senate adjourned. In the
House the joint resolution for continuing
the work of the Census Bureau was passed.
In Committee of the Whole the Military
Academy Appropriation bill was discussed
and ultimately passed. After some minor
business, the Interstate Commerce bill was
taken up, and after debate the bill went over.
The Speaker laid before the House mes
sage from the President urging immediate
legislation for the purpose of bringing the
United States statutes into conformity with
the international regulations for the preven-
ton of accidents at sea, which regulations
had been adopted by all maritime countries
excepting the United States. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 11th Mr.. Van Wyck
offered resolution that inasmuch as the
treaty with Spain had been made public that
its discussion in the Senate be in open ses-
sion. The Oregon Central Land Forfeiture
bill was then taken up and discussed at
length, and then theDakOta bill was taken up.
After transacting some unimportant business
the Senate went into executive session and
then adjourned until Monday. Soon after
the House met the Interstate Commerce
bill was taken up and debated at length. A
resolution was adopted calling on the Secre
tary Of the Interior for information relative
to the fees of claim agents in pension cases.
The House then adjourned.
THE Senate was not in session the 18th.
In the House a resolution was adopted
that the exigencies of the public service
would prevent the attendance of Congress
at the opening of the New Orleans ExpoSi-
ton, but that a delegation from each State
and Territory be present at the executive
mansion to witness the starting of the ma
chinery by the President by electricity. The
House then engaged in long debate upon a
resolution offered upon question of privi-
lege by Mr.. Warner. OF Ohio, eXpunging from
the Congressional Record remarks made by
Mr.. j. ID. Taylor, of Ohio, in which the latter
was charged with violating the privileges of
the House in printing unparliamentary re-
marks. The resolution was adopted. The
House passed ten pension bills, including
one granting $50 a month to Emma DeLong,
and adjourned until Monday.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

AN eagle kept in Vienna, Austria,
died after a confinement of one hun
dred and fourteen years. Swans on
the river ThameS-about the ages of
which there can be no mistake, since
they were nicked annually by the Vint-
ner's Company, under whose keeping
they have been for five centuries
have been known to survive for one
hundred and fifty years and more.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
Preparing for a Strike.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, December 10.
The dint glass blowers of this city
held meeting last evening, the object
being to make final arrangements to in
Rugurate strike in resistance to the re-
ductiOn demanded by the manufacturers.
The question of getting the apprentices
to cease work is one that puzzles the
minds of the strike leaders, although the
cider apprentices are strongly desirous OF
assisting the workers who intend 10
strike. One of the leaders said they had
public and private funds that viii enable
them to maintsin the strike until next
year at this tine, il it should be necces
sary to do SO.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

The bill for the fur suits made for
the Greeley relief expedition has just
been approved by Pay Director Clark
at the navy yard. The entire cost of
the fur outfits, including the sleeping
bags, is set down at SS1, ,S92. There
were 1,500 reindeer skins used and 257
suits made of them. The skins cost
S6,092.40 the freight from Stockholm
$523.81, and the cost of making was
$2,9S7.5O. In making the sleeping
bags S54 elk skins were used. Each
bag cost S31, and each fur suit S41.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

In Japan the rich owners of cats
have apparently high regard for de-
funct pussy. The report of regal
cats funeral comes from Yeddo. The
coffin was covered with a white
silk pail, and body of chanting
priests followed the body to the grave
Later on a handsome monument was
erected on which was inscribed many
virtues of the cat.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

FIFTEEN orange trees near Plant CITY.
Fla. yield this year one hundred and
fifty thousand oranges-ten thousand
to the tree. These trees are about
forty -ears old, and furnish another IL
1ustration of the persistent vitality of
the orange tree in Florida. One hun
dred and fifty thousand oranges at one
cent each is $500, but the reader
should not, from this fact, jump to the
conclusion that fortunes are made
without risk and great labor raising
oranges in Florida.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

Few people know that there is quite
a valuable collection of diamonds and
other precious stones in the Treasury
at Washington. They are the gift in
past years of oriental Nations to our
Government. 1t is said they ''have no
definite owners, and are placed in the
Treasury vaults because they are too
valuable to throw away, and nobody
dareS to claim them because nobody
has any right to them
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18

MARK TWAIN and George Cable went
TO Albany to call on Governor Cleve-
land. They also visited the Adiutant
Generals office. That gentleman was
out Twain sat down to wait. and
with his usual sang-froid, made chair
out of one of the Office tables. The
party were chatting cheerfully and
conducting themselves peacefully when
a dozen clerks and deputies of the de-
Partment came rushing into the office
and with unusual vehemence asked
what was wanted. None of the visit
ing party seemed to understand the
situation. An investigation disclosed
the fact that Twain, by accident or de-
sign, had planted himself on long
row of electric buttons, and thus set
singing as many can-bells.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
The i.A.eS War.
NEW YORK, Decembe


Limited tickets are to-day being sold by
agents Of the trunk lines. New Orleans
tickets are becoming large factor in the
sales OF the ''scalpers." Agents of the
trip tickets be signed at the sale, and
again at New Orleans, but the scalpers
are provided with facilities that enable
them to sell tickets one way at $50, while
is S3l. The rates TO points west OF Chi
cago are said to have been restored, and
East-bound rates from Chicago.