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The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
The Popular Vote.

An attempt is now being made to
show how the popular vote stood at
the late election, and to find which
candidate obtained a majority. The
result cannot, of course, affect the
election, as under our system the
popular vote does not count, and it
is the electoral vote that chooses
the head of the nation, yet, at the
same time, the country likes to
know that the man chosen Presi-
dent has the support of the majority
of the American people. While
several Presidents did not receive
an actual majority of all the votes
cast, the occupants of the Presiden-
tial chair have, since the war, with
one exception, been the plurality
candidate. In the election Of 1880
Garfield secured the very slender
majority of 1000, which sufficed,
however, to prove that the Republi-
cans bad a majority in the Union.
How is it to-day?
Some Republican papers, notably
the Philadelphia Press, have been
pretending that Blaine received a
small popular majority-3000, they
figure it at. Their estimates, for
they give no official returns, but
simple, round, estimated figures are
utterly untrustworthy. Enough re-
turns have come in to enable us to
give very nearly the correct figures
ON the election, which are as fol
lows:
For Cleveland, pluralities: Ala
bama, 1859; Arkansas, 22,12l;
Connecticut, 1915; Delaware, 1915;
Florida. 51O4; Georgia, 46,603; In
diana, 1902; Kentucky, 51,250;
Louisiana, II 7,45O; Maryland, lO, 1856;
Mississippi, 35,6s2; Missouri. 49,
928; New Jersey, 4,112; New York,
ll49; North Carolina, 1881; South
Carolina, 3S.215; Tennessee, 1928;
Texas, 115, 200; Virginia, $3.50; and
West Virginia, $500.
Cleveland's pluralities, 4S0,S77.
For Blaine, pluralities: Callfor-
MIA, 1858; Colorado, 4510; Illinois,
25, ,l42; Iowa. 1912; Kansas, g.
346; Maine, 20,960; Massachusetts
27.776; Michigan, 1888; Minnesota,
Alto; Nebraska, 16,50O; Nevada
1864; New Hampshire, 1920; Ohio,
,SO2: Oregon. 21O0; Pennsylva.
MA, so, 1870; Rhode Island, $3.50;
Vermont, $4,000, and Wisconsin,
l4.75O.
Blaine's plurslities, 393,725
Cleveland's popular majority,
1852.
AS compared with the presiden
tial election of 1880, the Democrats
increased their vote, as against the
Republicans, either increasing theil
pluralities or reducing the Republi
can majorities in every Northern
State except on the Pacific slope, in
Maine, Minnesota and Pennsylva
MIA. In all the New England States
except Maine; in all the Middle
States except Pennsylvania, aud in
all the Western and Northwestern
States except Minnesota, the Dem
oeratic party gained.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
How the prosrdent Is Chosen.

| Technically speaking the presi-
| dent is not elected by the people,
and the people do not vote directly
for any presidential candidate.
They cast their votes for electors,
and these electors choose q Presi-
dent and Vice-President. In each
State the number of electors is equal
to the number OF Senators and
Representatives which the State has
in Congress. In New York there
are sixty-six electors. Each party
has an. electoral ticket with tho
names Of these thirty-six electors
printed on IL. The electoral ticket
which receives the greatest number
of popular ballots in the State will
be chosen by the people, and the
electors named on 1t will be en-
titled to give their votes for the can
didate whom they represent.
The electors who are chosen
meet in each State on the first We'd
nesday in December and cast their
votes tor President and Vice-Presi-
dent. As a matter Of law they can
then vote for whom they please.
They are not legally bound to vote
for Cleveland or Blaine, or any other
person who was candidate before
the people. AS g matter Of usage
and public trust they are expected
tn vote for the candidate whom they
are pledged to support.
Certificates of the votes cast by
the electors in each State are then
made out and sent to Washington.
These certificates will be opened in
the presence of the Senate and
House of Representatives and count
ed on the second Wednesday in
February. The total number Of
electoral is 401. The candidate for
President receiving a majority OF
these that is 201-will be declared
President. If no person has such
majority, then the election goes into
the House Of Representatives, who is
required to choose President from
the persons--not exceeding three
who have received the most electorsi
votes for President. In the House the
vote is by States, each State having
one vote e.-ET.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

The Hon. j. r. Tucker, who was
recently reelected to Congress from
the Tenth Virginia District by the
Democrats, has been appointed
guardian for the minor children
of the late President Garfield. His
trust includes all the property own
eel by Gen. Garfield in Virginia
Mrs. Garfield, in making the re-
quest for his appointments, referred
to the kindly relations which had
existed between Mr.. Tucker and
her late husband.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
Rev. j. G. W. Mallet, who cast

Rev. j. G. W. Mallet, who cast
his first Presidential vote for An
drew Jackson, was carried in bug
gy to the polls in Corinth on the
4th and voted for Cleveland. He is
now old and feeble, and next to his
prospect of resting "under the shade
of the trees" when he "crosses the
river" he rejoices that he has lived
to see another Democratic Presi-
dent elected.-Corinth Herald.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
a.Jentba. - asked Mrs. Jone

"Jeptha," asked Mrs. Jones. who
was writing a letter home. elbow do
you spell sign p "S-i-n-e." answer
ed Jones, who always spells by
sound. 81 thought there was a .g'
in it somewhere" remarked Mrs.
Jones, douhtfully. "Thst would
make sing of it. S i-n-e spells sign" y
"That's 81" said Mrs. Jones proud
ly, and wrote home that h4r hus-
band had a new sine painted for his
store.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

"Da tells me dat Cleveland is
erlected," said an old negro &C
quintance. "Yes, dat's what da
says, an l 'spect times is gwinter be
much harder fur US niggers." Oats
jes' whar good many pussons is
mighty apt ter make er mistake
| hab found Dimmercrats, an
'publicans mighty nigh erlike when
yer works fur 'em, an l doan
b'lebe dat its gwinter be much diff.
ent. Dar's one thing sartin. Times
kahn be no wus wild ne den da hab
been. FIR coon would jes' ez leave he
shuck by yaler dog ez er black
one arkansas Traveller.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs. Nc
Donald.

has the following from Washington
Society is on tiptoe here over the
threatened outbreak In the event
of the selection of "Joe" Mcdonald
as a member of Cleveland's Cabinet
The trouble between the Hendricks.
es and Mc-Donalds is Of long stand
ing, and thus far the genial Joseph
has been the worst for it. The wife
of Senator Mcdonald is an estimable
and very beautiful woman.
She was the belle of indianapolis
society, and her prestige made her
Objectionable to Mrs. Hendricks,
who is quite as accomplished but
not so beautiful. Mrs. Hendricks is
credited with having admonished
her husband before the recent Chi
cago Convention that he needn't ex-
pect hearty welcome upon his re-
turn if Mr.. Mcdonald was nomina-
ted "My DEAR" said Mr.. Hen
bricks, II must do as my constitu
ents instruct me-"
"Thomas," added the fair diplo-
matist, "you know just as well as /
that you would rather fall off a
grain elevator than see that man
succeed"
Certain observing gentlemen who
were present at the Chicago Conven-
ton are authority for the statement
that when Mr.. Hendricks nominated
Mcdonald for the Presidential nom
ination he did it in such choice,
freezing language that poor "Joe"
was worse off after the speech than
before its delivery.
Mrs. Hencricks was represented
on this occasion by q bevy of fasci
mating beauties, who charmed the del
egates into believing that Mcdonald
was "too horrid for anything"
Since the election the apprehen-
sions Of Mrs. Hendricks have in.
creased, and the report that McDon-
aid is to he given Cabinet position
has stirred her martial nature to its
marrow. Should Mcdonald reach
the Cabinet, the social position of
Mrs. Mcdonald will be superior to
that of Mrs. Hendricks, as the wife
Of Cabinet officer ranks higher
than the wife Of a Vice President,
nor is Mrs. Hendricks anxious to see
Mrs. Mcdonald the wife of a JUS
tice of the Supreme Court for that
would give her a more prominent
social position.
The belief in this city is that the
Hendricks family are coming to
Washington with the idea that pret-
ty much the whole responsibility,
both political and social, for carry
ing on the next administration, is
likely to rest on their shoulders.
Hendricks, it is said, boasts openly
that it was he who carried Cleve-
land safely over the political bridge,
and Mrs. Hendricks is quite as pro
nounced that it was she who pushed
Hendricks into a position to do the
carrying. There are a number OF
ladies' here who are admirers of Mrs.
Mcdonald, and who will defend her
against the Vicious attacks Of hel
powerful rivals.
In response to letter from a
Washington friend, Mrs. Mcdonald
recently wrote that she did not
wish, as a rule. to associate herself
with contests which were likely to
arouse personal ill-feeling, but that
she considered it to be her duty,
not only to her eminent husband,
but to her own good name, to refute
the i'll natured innuendoes which
the Hendricks clique was engaged
in circulating to her injury. Alto
gether it is very pretty battle, and
the sympathies in this section are
mainly with the lady who has been
placed upon the defense.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

Mrs. Fcgg-"Only think of 1t
This paper tells of a woman who has
been for one hundred and eight days
without food, and she is still livingl'
Mr.. Fogg-"Nothing very remarka-
Bile about that. II she had gone
without a new dress all that time it
would he something worth mention
ing" Mrs. F.-"If she were your
wife, Fogg. it wouldn't be worth
mentioning"
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
BROOKHAvEN MISS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

your understandings and your
hearts; that such noble sentiments
as they shall utter may find a lodg.
ment therein, and widen your sym
pathies; fill you with compassion
for your weaker brothers, and de-
velop and strengthen in you a
courageous love Of Right.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns 'in
extremis." 'Ponsonby, dearest, the
claimant is at large at last! Don't
you think we might get him to
come and dine, or something /? Sure
ly, there are still some decent peo-
pile who would like to meet him."
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

First lady OF color-"Dinah, why
doan you ncbher wear white elo'es ?"
Second lady Of color-"White clos
D'you think i wan to look like a
tly in a cream jug 2"
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

A man whose name appears upon
the "church book" and also on q
whisky petition, reminds us of the
story Of the unsettled condition OF
the mind of the sick man who cried
.'good Lord and good devil, not
knowing whose, hands he'd fall
into E&.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

A belated joke:-"Sam," said
Mrs, Weeks to the Secretary of the
Republican National Committee,
"there's man outside with q wag-
on-load of apples sWell, go out
and claim 'em. Claim every one OF
'ean,' said her husband.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11
ADDRESS OF WELCOME,

By Mss Claudia B. Money, To
The Ladies Of The Womda's
Christian Temperance Union III
the keeting at Hisona, October
S1st, 1854.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

That Settled him. - Masher:
All b. Permit me to escort you,
ladies Ladies': Certainly; were
just going to get some oysters.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-12-11

Jeremiah Austin, cf Coventry.
Conn.,, is the oidt st voter ia tire
world; probably, bsing loI yeass
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
" and the gross earthly, and therefore

IL and the gross earthly, and therefore
that which is purest on earth ascends
to the regions of the stars. At the same
time hermits and other ascetics began
to be credited with the power of ac-
curing extraordinary longevity, and
the stork became the animal which the
Immortals preferred to ride above all
others. The idea of plants which con-
fer immunity from death soon sprang
up. The fungus known as Po1yporus
lucidus was taken to be the most effica-
cious of all plants in guarding man
from death, and 5000 ounces of silver
have been asked for single specimen.
Its red color was among the circum-
stances which gave it its reputation,
for at this time the FIVE colors of Baby
lonian astrology had been accepted as
indications of good and evil fortune
This connection of red color with the
notion of Immortality through the
medium of good and bad luck led to
the adoption of cinnabar as the philoso-
piers stone, and thus to the construc-
ton of the whole system of alchemy
The plant of immortal life is spoken of
in ancient Chinese literature at least a
century before the mineral In CORE
spondence with the tree of life in Eden
there was probably Babylonian ira
dition which found its way to China
shortly before Chinese writer's mention
the plant of Immortality. The Chi
nese, not being navigators, must have
got their ideas of the ocegn which sur
rounds the world from those who were,
they would receive it with its legends.
= Nof,yro
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Ill-Bred Smokers.

There is no one thing, perhaps, in
which the difference between the we'll
bred man and the ill-bred man more
appears than in the manner in which,
the place where, and the time when
they smoke. The wen-bred man does
not smoke, nor does he seem to smoke
to show off; whereas, the il-bred man
very often smokes in sef-conscious
manner that seems; to say: Look at
me! see how skillfnlly my lips hold this
cigar; how I can shift it from one side
to the other without touching it with
my fingers, and how / can articulate
with it in my mouth; in short, look you
what perfect control / have over my
1abial muscles, and, having seen. adj
mire!a In short, there are many low
bred young men-very many-that APP
pear to smoke only to display their
imagined grace and skill; when, in
fact, in smoking as they do, where they
do, and when they do, they hut publish
their vulgarity. The well-hred man,
on the contrary, the gentleman. the
man that smokes only for the love OF
it, puts but as much of his cigar in his
mouth as is necessary in order to draw
it, keeps it in his mouth no longer than
is necessary, and never fails to remove
is when he talks or passes any one to
whom he would be respectful, especially
q lady. Further, our best bred men
never smoke in any street at an hour
when It is much frequented Bostos
Beacon.
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Blaine and His Political Revenges.

If half what is rumored of Blaine's
defeat on sundry and divers individuals
be true he is made of weaker timber than
we credited him with. Life is too short
for political revenges," and the man
who deyotes himself to them generally
finds that he is engaged in an exhaust
ing and fruitless business. Occasional
" it falls to the lot of a man to enjoy
the confounding of his enemies, but it
is rarely the result of his own acts.
But if Blaine adopts the policy of re-
venge his contract will indeed be a
heavy one, for the prominent individ-
uals connected with his defeat are so
numerous as to need alphabetical ar
rangement in order to be remembered.
The easiest way for him to get even is
to put them all in his book. By a
modification of the original design he
can embrace the period of the late cam
pa1gn, and on this he can become as an
alytical, satirical and prophetical as
he pleases to. He can ''bottle
them up in epigrams," after the
manner of George Francis Train,
whilom candidate for the Presidency.
IhlS scheme OF revenge he Will ind
much more satisfactory than attempting
to bring political ruin on their head by
plots and intrigues. Besides, it will
leave his political capital in better
condition for the coming campaign of
1888. If he desires to pursue the wisest
course of all he will abandon the re-
venge programme and also the spirit of
his last speech. A man with griev-
ance is never attractive, and equally
is the Individual who seeks
to advance himself politically by stirring
up old feuds. Blaine's reputation for
arose from his jovial man.
ners and good humor, and should he
allow himself to become soured and dis
gruntled his personal following will
rapidly decline. He has made '.the eff
fort of his life'' and has failed, and fall
ure itself will lose him many friends.
He had better be careful of those that
remain if he still entertains ambitious
projects. He naturally feels sore over
his reverse, but as the blame must rest
upon his own record and the jud gment
thereon of the American people, he had
better simulate virtue even if he have it
not.-St. Louis Republican.
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QUEER NATIONS,
What the Chinese Believe Concerning I'm
mortality.

What the Chinese Believe Concerning I'M
mortality.
A writer in q recent issue of the
North China Herald discusses the early
Chinese notions of Immortality. In
the most ancient times ancestral wor-
shipwas maintained on the ground that
the souls of the dead exist after this
life. The present is a part only of
human existence, and men continue to
be after death what they have become
before it. Hence the honors accorded
to men of rank in their lifetime were
continued to them after their death. In
the earliest utteranceS of Chinese Ma
tional thought on this subject we find
that duality which has remained the
prominent feature in Chinese thinking
ever since. The present life is light;
the future is darkness. What the
shadow is to the substance, the soul is
TO the body; what vapor is to water,
breath is to man. By the process of
cooling steam may again become water,
and the transformation of animals
teach us that beings inferior to man
may live after death. Ancient Chi
nese, then, believed that as there is
a male anu IcHlaie pTiuciple III all
nature, a day and and a night as insep-
cradle from each thing in the universe as
from the universe itself, so it is with
man. In the course of ages, and in the
vicissitudcs of religious ideas, men came
to believe more definitely in the pos
sibility of communications with super
natural beings. In the twelfth century
before the Christian era it was dis
tinct belief that the thoughts of the
sages were to them a revelation from
above The Book of Odes' frequently
uses the expression "God spoke to
them,n and one sage is represented
after death knowing up and down in
the presence of God in Heaven Anew
centuries subsequently we find for the
first time great men transferred in the
popular Imagination to the sky, it being
believed::that their souls took up their
abodes in certain consultations. This
was due to the fact that the ideas of
Immortality had taken a new shape,
and that the philosophy of the times re-
garded the stars of Heaven as the pure
essences of the grosser things belong
ing to this world. The pure is heaven
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THE RED SUNSETS OF 1884.
An Explanatory Argument Concerning
Their Origin.

An Explanatory Argument Concerning
Their Origin.
The red sunsets which were so con-
spicuous year ago have excited this
autumn great attention in both henis-
pheres. The various theories pro-
pounded to account for the phenome-
non, especially that which attributed
the sky glows to vast clouds of vol
canic dust discharged at the eruption
of..Krakatoa in August, 1883, seems to
have lost ground, and some new n.y.
pothesis is needed to clear up the mys-
terry. The English astronomer Mr..
Backhouse reports in Nature his obser-
vations of red corona round the sun,
which, he says, sis still plainly visible
in England" eft has been habitual,"
he adds, s'for me to scan the neighbor-
hood of the sun for halos during TWEEN
ty-fve years, and I never observed it
previous to the date mentioned, -No-
vember, 1883.
The reddish halo to which Mr.. Back
house has called attention has been
this fall noticed by several observers.
An English scientist, Mr.. E. Douglas
Archibald, visiting the summit of Mount
Washington ON September 9Th, at SUM-
rise. noted, Gin addition to the
usual sunrise effects, a large
circle of rosy purple haze situated about
fifteen degrees above the horizon, and
apparently having no connection with
the yellow and red horizontal bands
beneath it, Though this observer had
witnessed the sun rising from various
attitudes up to twelve thousand feet, he
had never seen anything SO curious as
the sunrise on Mount Washington. His
suggestion is that the rosy solar halo
has of late become so conspicuous be-
cause, while the sunrise and sunset
glows have exhibited marked decline
in duration and brilliancy since 1888,
the halo has undergone no similar dim
mutton of intensity, and thus attracts
more attention relatively than it did at
first. This explanation of the recent
CLOVIS appears to be satisfactory as far
as it goes; but astronomers will have to
explain why, if the phenomenon is due
to terrestrial dust floating in the upper
atmosphere, it has been SO rarely re-
corded in the history of their science
" y HeTnIG
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WATER
An Important Element in the Compost
ton of the Human Body.

An Important Element in the Compost
ton of the Human Body.
The muscles of the body are about
three-fourths water; the cartilage,
three-ffths; the brain and nerves and
blood, each four-ffths. The lymph is
nearly all water (ninety-seven hum
dredths). Even the bones are one
tenth water. OF the body, as whole,
sixty-eight parts out of one hundred
are water.
Moreover. water, not only consti-
tutes the larger part of all the secre-
tons, but it holds in solution all the
various elements of which the body is
renewed, and is a flowing stream to re-
| ceive again and carry away the waste
which is as constantly thrown off at
every point Further, without it the
chemical changes in constant progress
in every tissue would be impossible.
Now the water of the body is no
more fixed than are it's solids. Like the
latter, having done its work once, it
enters into the great waste current,
and is thrown from the body through
the skin, the kidneys and the lungs,
at an average of over ten pounds a
day.
Keeping these facts in view, the
reader will see why water is so much
more essential to life than food-a man
being able to live several times as long
without the latter as without the for
mer. The following facts, condensed
from the american journal of Medical
Science, indicate the sufferings conse-
quent on brief withholding of this
fluid.
In 1877 forty American troopers in
pursuit of Indians lost their way, and
for three days failed to find water. The
second day, some fell from their horses
exhausted. The third day, the most
loathsome fluid would have been hailed
with delight.
The salivary and mucous fluids had
utterly failed, and the men were una
BILE to swallow their bread. All were
affected with vertigo, dimness of vision
and deafness. Many were delirious.
Their breathing became difficult, and
they had sense of suffocation. Their
fingers and palms were shriveled and
pale. Their minds became affected, so
that they grew suspicious of each other.
On the fourth night they were unable
to sleep. When, the next day, water
was reached and drank, for while it
was vomited up as fast as it was swal.
lowed, and the thirst remained insatia-
BILE until the remotest tissues of the bod5
had obtained supply Youths Com
pd7aion.