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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14
The GIobe-Trotter in A.i.
-Londoa Illustrates Views

Most Of us know the story Of the Ansri-
can who, visiting some provincial museum
on thu continent, was shown arusty blade
which, be was assured, was the Identical
kaife used By the brave Charlotte when
she finished the bloodthirsty Jean Paul.
Where's tie fork" asked the American.
de must have been twin brother 10, II not
the seIf-sau1e American globe-tr otter Of
whom / heard lately at Caniy, Ia Ceylon.
He was visiting . Buddhist temple, and
be priests showed h.n q lamp, in which
turned sacrificed FIRE, which, they said,
1ad not been eItinzuisaed for two thou
sand years. lis that so'" asked the
American. "lt IS" replied the priests.
Then the American stopped down, pursed
his lips together, ar!. ~ith oas vigcro Us
pzT. e1,.n.1i.hsi tie sacrei fire. Il
guess It's o.: now" ne remarked quietly,
as be walked away.
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Arch woran's Kingdoms.
Bat- Ne Independent

Ms. Mexican. Of Brooklyn, y. 7, Is a
wealthy laiv, SAID 70 te worth 100000
In bank s.aek aleus Her lrecre = es.i-
mated at from so, s1] % sJ)J,g 90 year.
She owns Jewell. fslsnl. for which she
paid S.i,rp0. aud proposes Ibis fall and win
ter 10 tuili dosen cottages wherein she
MAJ another season entertain her friends.
When sic IS j! snI needs doctor she
acis:s signal. wh..l 5 noted on Nun
Joys Hi. Portland, AMI q physician
zones. Waea she is IN ueei Of provisions
and the weather "a bad she bels's suothsr
lag. aris T5r;.a-i steamer IS sen; wiz
stores. On the .slani the lady has thirty
Eve saee7. many lambs, two yoke o. oxen,
I've COWS, b1-t, I've aoEs and iackass-
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whep il IS the oil fashioned blue mass, blue
pll sort. and insist on using DR.. Pierce :
" Pleasant PIrga;i7e Pellets. . modern
medical luxury. being small sugar.coated
grana.eS. an:a.niug the active principles
Of certain roots and herbs and which will
b found to contain as much cathartic
power As any OF the o'd-fashioned, larger
p:,ls without TIE latter's violent drastic
effects. Inc pellets operate thoroughly
hGt h4-mIes,lv. establishing a permanent
l. lsl.tay action Of the stomach and
Tow. a. ! as an ant.-bilious remedy are
r.a-.LLi-..I
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14
Ser,an,-GirI and Philosopher.
Book Chat

The provsrt.al philosopher. Upper, in
bis autobiography, touches nCilsntly up
IT the tarrors q ser-ant'zir ism IN an as-
cunt q a z-alons. Vel 'uisrti5ne1 maid
y. no arrangss Lls papers. II pou my eau
t!yning her he writes, no: 70 destroy
my thing, I was horriEed By the uncon-
sclous Audreys reply, Oh. sir never
turns no paper bu: what is spoiled b. be-
IN rltten on. :"
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- LITTLE Ere = quickly trotcen out
Which. .yIH- suffered. -4Te:s can not quench."
P.ocrastination may rob You Of time,
but by increased diligence you can make
W the loss: bU- If il rob you # life the loss
is irreInediable. II your health IS delicate,
your appetite fck,e, your sleep broken,
YOUR mind depressed, your whole being out
OF sorts, depend on it you are seriously d s
eas-d. In all such cases DR.. Pierce's Cod
en- Medical Discovery Will speedily effect
genuine. radical cure-meke new man
OF you and save you frcm the fortunes Of
lingering disease.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

EVERY person is interested in their own
affairs, and if this meets the eye Of any one
who is suffering from the effects OF torpid
liver, we will admit tlat he IS Interested IN
getting well. Get a bottle of Prickly Ash
Bitters. use it as directed. and you will al
ways be glad you read this item
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i sign bearing the following inscrip-
ton j, wy prominent on the Freemans-
burg road: "F5r Bitten Fer d7esspassing
over ta.s Ground. Five dollars Fine For
any Bgdy Sewei on This ground"
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Piles. fstulR, rupture and strict
urs radically cured Book Of particulars
10 cents in stamps Words D-sPsnsary
Medical Association Buffalo, y \.
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p -N.--rB CoSszE. f v ashinEtcn D.
c. was prompts cured BY Red Star Cough
Cure.
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LADIES will be delighted with the action
Of DR.. Dromzoole's English Female BitteTS
1t sends red blood 70 SICILY woman
cbeaks- ard bv giving az appetite and aEt-
ing digestion. builds up the system
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

q months treatment for 5nc. Piso's
Remedy for CatArTh. Sold b. druggists
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

We nave used Ayers Cherry Pictorial in
our family. for colds, with perfect success
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

Az earthquake is not like other trouble
Il won't bow ovsr.-SIa ErJzeise0 Ala.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

= .SIFuEM I'D natura, color Of the whiS-
kers IS Produced ~ using Buckin CHAM s
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

BEEF tongue and o1-tsl soup naks both
ends n eat Prs4rL< Ezrnssr.
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AFlEr-PIacE has CRATE opportunity
Cal Prs--s's Wse<t4.
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WIFE. is the doctor WHO does not ike
his couzh-feA
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Pointed Discourse on Profanity,
Drunkenness and Kindred Evils.

The Occasion Ripe for God to Arise and
Scatter His EnemIes-Ths BHghting
Evils Of Intsmperanes ano swear
ing ThroughOut the World
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A ROPE is thing that is easily taut-
NGr4:hGA I,GdrselsdeHt.
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Pgrs ~ who take measures to enlarge
their us.nass-Tailors.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14

Principal Once, ssI Main ST.. LOUISVILLE, KY
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great cities. Ever ana anon there are in
the newspapers explosions of social life
that make the story of Sodom quite re-.
spectacle; for such things, Christ saws,
were more tolerable for Sodom AMI Co
morrah than for the Chorazins and Beth =
saidas of greater light. 1t is no unusual
thing in our cities TO see men in high posi-.
ton with two or three families, or ref ned
ladies willing solemnly to marry the very
swine of society il they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen years a 90
were almost free from all sign Of the social
evil, now night by night rivals upp er
Broad way in its hamboyant wickedness.
The Bible all afame with denunciat ion
against an impure life, but many of the
American ministry uttering not one point
blank word against this in EQUITY, lest some
old libertine throw up his church pew.
Machinery organized in all the cities OF
the U nited States and Canada by which
to put yearly in the grinding mill of this
iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting
of the country farm-houses, one
procuress confessing last week in
the courts that she had supplied the in
fernal market with 15l souls in six months.
Oh, for five hundred Pail Null Gdzettes in
Am erica to swing open the door of this
lazar- house of social corruption. Expos
ure must come before extirpation.
While the city van carries the scum of
this sin from the prison TO the police court
morning by morning, it is full time, if we
do not want high American life TO become
like that Of Louis XIV, to put millionaire
Lotharios and Pc mpadours of your brown
stone palaces into a van of popular indig-
nation, and drive the IN out Of respectable
associations. What prospect of social
publication can here be as long as at
summer watering places it is usual to see
young woman Of excellent rearing
.taud, and shipper, and giggle, and roll up
, 1886-04-17

Some years ago Charles Busch, q
n~aturalized German-American, com
panied by his pretty Italian wife, sailed
for France to accept an engagement as a
tenor singer in one Of the opera COM
panies in Paris. En- route, a child, who
named Charles Herman Busch, was born
to them. The mother died shortly after
reaching France, and the father soon
followed her. The child, having beer
born on the high seas, was literally with
u a country. The French authoritie
refused to administer upon the father'f
estate or provide a gurdian for the infant.
because neither of the parents was a cih-
zen of the republic. Consul Shackel-
ford could do nothing without permission
from the government.
After two years delay this permission
was finally granted. The American
colony in Paris became interested in the
child. who is said to be remarkably
bright and ~precocious, and a fund has
been subscribed sufficient to rear and
educate him until his 10th year, when an
effort will be mado to appoint him a
cadet at thenaval academy at Annapolis.
The little fortune of 1917, 900 francs, the
proceeds OF his fathers estate, will be
invested for him and placed at his dis
posal when he shall have finished his
education w Cor. Chicago
Nauc
, 1886-04-17


In the southern central part Of the
state, however, extending nom latitude
20 degrees 80 minutes to latitude rs de-
grees 30 minutes, is a network OF little
lakes, rivers and swamps, which was
long considered unfit for any of the pur-
poses Of civilized life. This region is be-
tween forty and sixty feet above the
level Of the sea, so that there is no reason
why it should be considered undrainable.
The lakes and swamps have been formed
by the rank vegetation. which for cent
uries grew, decayed and fell into the
rivers, thus damming them up and
partially flooding the surrounding
country.
The company organized by Disston, Of
Boston, obtained from the government
a grant OF all the lands which should be
drained by it. The company brought
down dredses and began its work by
clearing out a channel from the Lake
Okeechobee to the Atlantic, a distance OF
forty miles. II the project is ever carried
out, it will shorten by about 260 miles
the sea voyage between points on the At
lantic coast and the gulf ports. The
company also intends to drain the south
east Everglades by the same method en-
ployed in retaining the northern
swamps.-Florida Cor. Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
, 1886-04-17

II Beelzebub means -Gnat God,- the
temple Of that deity ought to be erected
at Barras, near the junction Of the ANA
ron and the Rio Negro. Even at Fonta-
boa, some 800 miles further inland, the
mosquito swarms surpass any conception
a North American could have formed in
eastern Arkansas, but at the mouth Of
the Rio Negro the great plague becomes
so absolutely intolerable that neither
commercial advantages nor exuberant
fertility Of the virgin soil has thus far
induced any Caucasian bipeds to make
the delta their permanent home.
The lower eighty feet OF the atmos-
phere are literally saturated with clouds
OF winged b~lood-sucken. Thousands and
thousands of them hang like a gray mist
about every tree, and hover and hum
over every pool, and a drunken man fall
ing to sleep in the open air would prob
ably be bitten to death before morning.
The w~ood-cutters at the steamboat land
ing wear gauze wells, like Carmelite nuns,
and defend their cabins with a battery of
ever-smoking Observation-Disclosures
filed with a smouldering mixture of dry
dung and waste tobacco leaves.-Dr. Fe-
hx l. Oswald.
, 1886-04-17

The members of the compilation COM
mission yesterday selected from the ter
%ritorial library a book which for style Of
binding, typographical makeup, etc,
they propose to adopt as the pattern or
sample Of what the new compilation Of
the laws Of Wyoming hal be, and when
the commission get to the point where
the contract for printing and binding the
new book is let the book alluded to will
be the one from which the figuring on
prices will have to be done. The COM
misSioners propose to have this work COM
pleted aud the book printed and bound
by September |, 1886.
, 1886-04-17

We desire to call attention to our grand
combination sale, to be held at Des
MONIES, Ia, April ~, of Hereford stock,
include imported and native thorough
bred cows, heifers and bulls; also will be
included about 100 grade yearlings, bulls,
and heifers. Contributions from some of
the most famous herds in the country
have been promised and others respect.
fully solicited, and should be received not
later than April Is, to be promptly cata-
logued. Entries O grades can be made or
shipped M to April "a, by sending par
ticulars to the a~uctioneers. Bennett,
Boyd 4 Co., who will esteem II a favor.
Every accommodation for stock consigned
for sale. Sale to be held at our barn 3il and
2l3 Locust street, at 1880 o'clock sharp.
This being the first public sale Of thorough
bred Hereford cattle ever held in Des
Moines or neighborhood, the auctioneers
will spare neither time nor expense to
make il n grand success.
Terms will be announced on the day Of
sale. For terms and particulars write to
or call on the s~uctioneers at their office,
SOL West Walnut street.
n. B.-Sales Of Hereford stock a special
". Prompt attention given to all farm
stock sales. Stock bought on commits
sion.
, 1886-04-17
DIAMOND fIeLps O. souri, AEalcA.
Ho- = city sPr.ns UP In the Dessrt-A
vast Human Aut-Hm.

He- = city sPrans Up In ths De>srt-A
vast Human Ant-Hm-
As the p~an-wsshing and grading OF
the adv enturous prospector of 40 has
given way, on the Pacific slope, to the
operations OF organized and scientific
mining industry, 30 the individual opcr-
atoms Of the individual diamond diggers
of G~riqualand. South Africa, in 1871,
with their rude bucket and ~windlass.
followed by the inclined wire. have been
replaced by skilled labor. Tunnels have
been blasted through solid rock, shafts
have been sun hundreds Of feet mi the
earth, and yet the precious bits of carbon
are found in quantities to supply the
greed Of avaricious man and furnish a
living to thousands and wealth TO a
lucky few.
! In 1879 what is now known as Kimber-
ley was called De Beers New Rush and
had already been yielding up its carbon
crystals until a city of tents and cor
rugated iron houses, with one huge music
hall and between 300 and 400 drinking
places had clustered around the enor-
nous excavation. whence the earth had
been removed by single bucketfuls. This
marvellous result of the labors of the
human ants who swarmed in its depths
and on its borders was the spot which
became known the world round as tho
Kolesberg Kopje before it became the
Kimberley mine.
Some idea of the size of the Kopje and
the number of people working on it daily
will be gathered from the statement that
at the time now spoken Of 800 claims.
each being thirty feet square. and an
average Of about thirty men-say twenty
six black and four white-worked in
zach claim, giving a total Of "a, 900 work
ing there. The first licenses to work
claims at the Kopje were issued on the
Goth OF July, 1871, and in little more than
a year the claims were carried down 50
deep, many over eighty feet, that none
of the roadways were left standing com
plete, though immense portions of them
having the appearance of huge broken
walls remained.
The kopje has been aptly described as
a vast human ant-hill, ; says a writer Of
the period referred to. Il do not know
a more effective simile. Human beings
are everywhere moving about with an
activity and in numbers, like ants. They
pass over the narrow roadways, glide
down the face of the excavation, or are
at work at a depth which dwarfs their
s~tatures into that of mere miniature
men. Here men are feverishly risking
their necks day after day in the pursuit
of wealth. They pass over places where
a false step-the slipping Of a foot or the
incorrectness Of the eye in measuring a
distance-will aus their death. They
climb up ascents that to the expert seem
unascendable. They slip down ropes
that are only fastened to frail tree
branches driven into the loose earth.
They stand on lodges that are perhaps
forty feet away from the roadway above,
and forty feet above the bottom of the
claim below. They wheel barrows along
narrow pathways that would startle
even some expert mountaineers. They
work beneath lettering masses, and
every now and then these fall, manning
and killing.-Detroit Free Press.
, 1886-04-17

The name of the late Charles L. Davis,
Esq, of Portland, stands on the list Of
Names great lawyers. His intellect wa
subtle and his diction choice. He made
one of his incest and most involved ar
guments before Judge Colt one day.
After he had addressed the court learn
edly and warmly for an hour or more he
asked: Does your honor see the thread
Of my argument Il don't quite see
the thread Of your argument, Brother
Davis" said the court, with a smile, -but
/ plainly neal the spinning of the wheel"
Lewiston Mel Journal.
, 1886-04-17
AlNIs From TIE JAPANESE.
How We Could Learn from the MikHdo's
People 10 Simplify Our Homes

How We Could Learn from the mtkhdo's
People 70 sImpiify Our Homes
We have been looking At some Japan
csc dwellings, interiors. How simple
they are, how little furniture or adorn-
mentl how few things" to care for and
be anxious about Now the Japanese are
a very ancient people. They are people
Of high breeding, polish, refinement.
They are in some respects like the Chi
nese, who nave passed through ages and
cycles OF experience. worn out about all
the PHILOSOPHERS and religions then On,
and come out on the other side OF every
thing. They have learned to take things
rather easily, not to fret, and to got IN
without a great many membranes that
we still YEARLY carry along.
When we look at the Japanese houses
and at their comparatively simple life,
are we warranted in saying that they are
behind us in civilization May 1t not be
true that they have lived through all
experience and come down to an easy
modus vivendi7 They may have had
their bric-a-brac period, their overload
ing-establishment age, their various
measles stages OF civilization before they
reached a condition in which life is a
comparatively simple affair. This
thought must strike any one who sees
the present Japanese craze in this coun-
try. For, instead of adopting the Jap
anese simplicity in our dwellings, we are
adding the Japanese excentricities to our
other Accommodations Of odds and ends
from all creation and increasing the in
congruity and the complication of our
daily life.
What a helpless being is the housewife
in the midst Of her treasures. The
Drawer has had occasion to speak lately
of the recent enthusiasm in this country
for the cultivation of the mind.r 1t has
become almost a fashion. Clubs are
formed for this express purpose. But
what chance is there for it in the in
creased anxieties Of more and more
involved and overloaded domestic lifei
Suppose we have clubs-apanese clubs
they might be called-for the simplifca-
ton of u dwellings and for getting rid
OF much Of our embarrassing menagel-
Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's Hag-
azine.
, 1886-04-17

There is q story told Of Dn. Chalmers
and Stewart, who argued on the street
corner on some knotty point of theology,
with Scottish ~pertinacity, until it wa
time to separate, when one of them re-
marked; -You will find my views very
well put in a certain tract, = OF which
he gave the title. Upon which. to his
surprise. his antagonist replied: why,
! wrote that tract myself.-Ths Argo-
nAut.
, 1886-04-17

We have on hand, for sale, a choice lot
of thoroughbred bulls, consisting of Here
fords, Deyons and Short Horns. This
stock is from the herds Of the most prom
inent breeders in the East, and are guar
antced in every particular. Part Of them
is now on hand. Two carloads will ar
rive the first of May. Our prices are
reasonable, in reach Of all. Address
JOHN D. DoBYss l. Co,
Chevsnpe. Wyo.
, 1886-04-17

All travellers stopping for a time in
Cheyenne can find the best accommoda-
tons in the city at the Western Hotel on
Fifteenth street. The location is agreea-
bic and convenient, rooms pleasant and
newly furnished, meals the best a first
class cook can prepare from the finest
materials in the market, walters who I'M
derstand their business. the best liquors
and cigars in the bar room arc among the
many attractions of this popular house.
HERMAN KIMME, proprietor.
, 1886-04-17

The Cheyenne Suns abdomen is aching
because a squib appeared in THE LEADER
to the effect that people will know some
thing about the new depot by July
Fourth, etc. THE LEADER will simply
suggest in reference to this that There's
a land where they don't shovel snow"
and if the Sun sees fit to suspend pub
LEGATION in Cheyenne and set up business
in the place alluded to. it has the per
mission of THE LEADER to do so.
, 1886-04-17

John Burroughs finds that since he
gave up the use Of meat his health has
been materially improved. Il find /
need less physical exercise, that my
nerves are much steadier, and that ]
have far fewer dull, blank, depressing
days; in fact, all the functions of my
body are much better performed by
abstaining from meat. Chicago Trib-
una
, 1886-04-17

Great ezcitement has been caused in
Paris, Tex. by the remarkable recovery
OF J. E. Corlcy. who was so helpless he
could not turn in bed, or raise his head;
everybody said he wHs dying Of eonsump-
ton. A trial bottle Of DR.. Kings New
relief he bought a large bottle and a box
Of DR.. Kings New Life Pills by the time
he had taken two boxes 81 pills and two
bottles Of the discovery. he was well and
had gained thirty-ux pounds, Trial bot
ties Of this great discovery for consump-
ton free at W. N. Hunts.
, 1886-04-17

A doctor is called to a mar suffering
from asthma. His visit over, he is stopped
in the entry by the sick mans wife.
well, doctor, what do you think Of
my poor husbandf'
-Reassure yourself, asthma 5 a patent
Of longevity"
But you will cure him 4 it, won't
you?~-Detroit Free Press.
, 1886-04-17
rHn pENvEn pnY eoopn noon

Since Messrs, NJ. j. McNamara 4 Co.,
the enterprising dry goods merchants OF
Denver, began TO announce the exhibition
Of their spring goods, their store has been
crowded every day, while hundreds of
letters are received daily from nonresident
patrons, for samples. prices, etc. This
firm exhibits the largest line OF novelties
ever shown in Denver, while their prices
are said to be remarkably low. g 81
, 1886-04-17

While money is close, wages and prices
low, expenses should be cut down in every
household. Economy the watchword for
mothers. head off doctor bills by always
keeping in the house, a bottle Of DR.. Bo
sanko's cough and lung syrup. Stops a
cough, relieves consumption, cures Group
and pain in the chest in one night. II is
Just the remedy for hard times. Price
so cents and 81. Samples free. Sold by
w. N. Hunt.
, 1886-04-17

A German test for watered milk con-
sists in dipping a well-polished knitting
needle into a deep vessel Of milk and
then Immediately Withdrawing it in an
upright position. If the milk is pure a
drop OF the fluid will hang to the needle,
but the addition of even a small proper
ton OF water will prevent the adhesion
Of the drop.-Chicago Tribune.
, 1886-04-17

A genuine opportunity to make MONEY
without investing capital. County rights
now being given in Wyoming for our at
~tractiye and fast selling new work. Stan
durd in character, rich in illustration and
attractive in form. A book the people
wan and will buy everywhere. Address
at once, A. l.. BANCROFT & Co.,
San Francisco, Cal.