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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-11-26

She's tenderly blending two in one
Her boy and her boyish lover!
And half OF her soul is reft away,
So Irvine the dead and the living,
In the little home wherein today
Her children keep Thanksgiving.
There are tiny hands that pull her gown,
And small heads bright and golden;
The childish laugh, and the childish frown,
And the dimpled fingers folden
That bring again TO the mother breast
The spell OF the sunny weather,
When she husbed her brood in the crowded
nest,
And all were glad together.
truce to the jarring notes OF life,
The cries OF pain and passion;
Over this lull in the eager strife
Love hovers, Eden-fashion.
In the wee brown house were lessons taught
or strong and sturdy living
And ever where honest hands have wrought
God hears the true thanksgiving.
Margaret E. Sangster, in the Home Maker.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-11-26
A CHASTITY PUN.

watch me gobble," remarked the
fat Thanksgiving turkey cock, as he
strutted by the small boy.
That's all right" replied the small
boy; but wait till next Thursday, and
feel me gobble. Puck.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-11-26
GINNING OUTFITS!

Cotton Presses. Gins, ShaftinE, Pulleys, Atlas
Engines and Boilers, Fire Fronts. Crate Bars,
General Repair Work. Machinery Supplies.
cHiCKkSAW IRON WORKS, Memphis, Tenn
c1EAhR THIS PAPER Ina vra
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04

worm into one of them. Then he
reached over and waited upon n of
the young birds as its own mother would
have done. A few moments after he
came to his. own brood with a worm or
insect, and then the next triple visited
the nest of the neighbor again. greatly
to the displeasure of the vireo, who
scolded him sharply as she watched his
movements from a rear branch. My
correspondent says: II watched them
for several day 8; sometimes the bluebird
would visit his own nest several times
before lending u hand to the vireos.
Sometimes he resented the vireos' plain
tive fault finding. and drove them away.
never saw the female bluebird nea the
vireos' nest"
That the male bird should be broader
in his sympathies and affections will
not. to most men, at least, seem strange.
Another correspondent relates an
equally curious incident about q wren
and some young robins. lone day last
summer" he says, while watching q
robin feeding her young / was surprised
to see a wren alight on the edge of the
nest in the absence of the robin and
deposit a little worm in the throat of
one of the young robins. 1t then few
off about ten feet, aud it seemed as II it
would almost burst with excessive
volubility. 1t then disappeared and the
robin came and went. just as the wren
returned with another worm for the
young robins. This was kept up for an
hour. Ones they arrived Simultaneous.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
True to General Jackson.

"There used to be an old fellow up in
my country" said Judge Upton Young.
''who was famous in the early days as a
militia Colonel. As a drill master he
was perfect and in discipline very severe.
Just before the wal he closed every drill
with these orders:
Company, attention! All who favor
General Jackson for President of the
United States, three PAGES to the front.
Forward, march?
1.-The entire command always voted.
But one day one of the soldiers got it
into his head that General Jackson was
dead, and so at the next drill, when the
Colonel had given his customary order.
this fellow stood stock still. This in.
subordination created a momentary
panic, but the Colonel recovered himself,
and, with his face purple with rage.
shouted:
Jonathan Thompson, attentionl You
vote for General jackson Or I'll have you
court-martialcd and shot sir. Three
PAGES to the front, John Thompson.
Forward, msrch!
"'And you bet John Thompson
marched-white and scared as any pei
rabbit you aver saw. After which the
Colonial said:
"'I have the honor of announcing tc
this company that General Jackson has
again been elected President of the
United States magnanimously." st.
Louis ReDubLic.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
They Arc Different.

''They are an awfully patient people
in this town." he was saying to an &C.
o%uaintance in a Park row car.
"In what respcct?' qucried the other.
"Why, Eve beer on these horse-cars
fifty times when a team got in the way
and bothered 'em half to death. l ex.
pected to see the driver heave q brick
bat, but he always took it as easy as
grease"
Eyes; I've seen the same thing"
DO you suppose we'd stand that in
our town? Not muchl Why, I was on
the bus going over to the depot the
other day when we met Hank Johnston
leadin' his red COW to the river"
"'Git off the face of the globe3'"
hollered Bill Haynes, they driver"
"'I won't! saws Hank"
with that, Bill put the horses and
wagon right at him. The COW was
knocked into Joe Turner's hedge fence.
with ner neck broke. and Hank got so
mixed up with the off fore-whcel that
he had to have four doctors piece him
together."-M. Quud.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04

", when the wren was apparently much
agitated, but waited lmpatiently on its
previous perch, some ten feet of, until
the robin had left, when it visited the
nest as before. l climbed the tree for
q closer inspection and found only a
we'll Regulated robin household. but no.
where o wren's nest. After coming down
I walked around the tree and discovered
a hole. and upon looking in saw a nest
Of sleeping. featherless wrens. At no
time while l was in the vicinity had the
wren visited these little ones"
OF all our birds the wrens seems the
most overlooking with life and activity.
Probably in this instance it had stuffed
its own young 10 repletion and its own
activity dubbed over into the nest of its
neighbor. 1t is we'll known that the
male wren frequently builds what is
called 'cock-nests."ls lt is simply SO full
of life and Joy of the .p%ropagating in.
stinct that after the real nest is complet.
ed and while the eggs are being laid it
gives vent to itself in constructing these
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
CRADLES OF THE BIRDS.
BURROUGHS PRESENTS THE RESULTS
OF HIS OBSERVATIONS.
Strange Rehearsal of the Crows-A Blue
birds Fatherly Acknowledgement Of
the Wren.
tho Wren.

The other day l was walking in the
silent woods, when l said to myself:
''There is nothing in the woods"
l sat down upon a rock. Then I lifted
up my eyes and beheld a newly con-
structed crows nest IN the hemlock tree
neal by. The nest was but little above
the level of the top of a ledge Of rocks
only a few yards away that crowned the
rim of the valley. But it was placed
behind the stem of the tree from the
rocks, so as to be secure from observa-
ton on that side. The crow evidently
knew what she was about. Presently I
heard what seemed to be the voice of a
young crow in the tree-tops not fur off.
This l knew to be the voice of the
female and that she was being fed by the
male. She was probably laying. or
about beginning to lay eggs in the nest.
Crows, as we'll as most of our smaller
birds, always go through the rehearsal
Of this act of the parent feeding the
young many times while the young are
yet a long way in the future. The
mother bird seems timid and babyish,
and both in voice and manner assumes
the character of a young f1edgling. The
male brings the food and seems nor
than usually solicitous about her vel.
fare. Is it to conserve her strength or
to make an impression on the develop
ing eggs? The same thing may be OBJ
served among the domestic pigeons and
is always a sign that a new brood is not
far off.
When the young do come the female
ia usua1lv more active in fading them
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
"JlM" BENNETT.
A Mar Who Never Admits that He Has
Made q Mistake.

heard a good story in New York
the other day on James Gordon Ben
nett, writes an Atlanta Constitution
man. .'One of the maxims of Ben
nett's life," said a well-known club
man, lis never to make a mistake,
and, therefore, never have occasion to
correct one. Bennett makes few
errors. He never acknowledges one.
1 remember a few years ago he went
into his club Christmas day for dinner.
1t was his usual custom to give his
waiter s. on Christmas. He had two
small rolls of money in his pocket.
One contained five 81 notes. the other
five 81. 900 notes. When Bennett had
finished he handed the waiter one of
the rolls of money without examining
It, presuming it to be S.. The waiter
thanked him and showed it into his
pocket without examination. After
the great editor had gone the waiter
drew forth his roll of bills and dis
covered to his surprise five 81, 900 bills.
He was actually frightened, and went
to the steward, giving him the money
to lock up in the safe until Mr. Bennett
returned, stating that he knew that
Mr.. Bennett must have made a mis-
take.
IA few days later Bennett returned
to the club. The waiter and the
steward called him back into a ear
apartment and handed him back the
roll of bills, both stating that he must
have made a mistake. At this Bennett
Strengthened himself, without even
looking at the roll of money, and with
an air of Indignation replied:
'"James Gordon Bennett makes no
Mistakes and strobe out"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04

A>3A ~
than the male. Among the birds of
prey, like hawks and eagles, the female
is the larger and more powerful, and
therefore better able to defend and to
care for her young. Among all an
finals the affection of the mother for her
offspring seems TO be greater than that
of her mate, though among the birds
the male sometimes shows a s%uperabund.
ance of paternal regard that takes in the
young of other species. Thus a cor
respondent sends me this curious in.
cident of a male blueblrd and some
young vireos. A pair of bluebirds were
rearing their second brood in a box on
the porch of my correspondent, and q
pair Of vireos had a nest with young in
some lilac bushes but a few feet away.
The writer had observed the male blue
bird perch in the lilacs near the young
vireos, and, he feared. with murderous
intent. On such occasions the mother
vireo would among the upper
branches much agitated. If she grew
demonstrative the bluebird would drive
her away. Ore afternoon the observer
pulled away the leaves SO as to have a
full view of the vireos' nest from the
seat where he sat not ten feet away.
Presently he saw the male bluebird
come to the nest with a worm in Its
beak. and as the young vireos stretched
up their gaping mouths he dropped the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
mot a Line of Room"

The last page is down-not q minute too soon.
For the hands of the clock point to l.
Like time and tide-you know the old saw
The early fast mail waits for none.
They're making the plates in the regions be,
wher to tie h~issing-hot metal they pour.
Soon the swiftrmoving presses will start with
Then a deafening rattle and roar.
But the work of the night is only half done,
And the weary night editor grOans.
The second edition has yet to go down,
mot q line of room: either" he means.
Click. click from the wires in the telegraph.
As they fairly throb with late news.
Here's a Cabinet crisis, a Cars ukase,
And more of the Grand Old Mans views,
"A railroad wreck ~East-twenty passengers
killed,
With a long list of injured, alas!
Grave fears Of another Johnstown food,
lnd Queen Victoria at Grasse.
Fhe President has just made another speech.
And Cleveland has written a letter,
More Malta murderers, tits said, have. been
The drought is broken-tt's wetter.
Fierce riots abroad and strikes at home.
IOhn l.. and Slavin are fighting,
Bad Jack the Ripper discovered once more.
Conditions in Wall street exciting.
While the wires thus are burdened with news
from all climes,
The city itself is not sleeping.
Sensation sufficient to fill up a page
Must ''go" or suffer from keeping.
For all who nave been there must have OBJ
served,
AS the weary night editor has done,
That when there's no news there's plenty of
room,
And when news is heavy there's none.
80 he cuts, and he slashes, and kills right
and left,
To put in his pint a quart cup,
Discarding the worst and keeping the best.
And hustling around to "make up"
And when at the last all the forms have gone
down,
And all the late mails have been caught.
There comes to his dreams as in peace he
sleeps
One sweetly comforting thought:
If all they have told us of heaven be true,
Thereu be no newspapers there;
No hurry, no worry, no more the old cry,
Not q line OF room to spare"
Z. Rule,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04

Phillips Brooks was asked some time
ago to furnish a sketch of his career
for the record of his class in Harvard,
and replied in the following character
istic fashion: II shall certainly he at
commencement. and shall not miss the
dinner on commencement day. As to
your question. l have little to say. /
have had nc wife. no children, no
particular honors. no serious misfort-
une, and no adventures worth speak
ing of. 1t is shameful, at such times
as these, not to have a history. but I
have not got one, and must come with.
out"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
Mirrors as Detectives.

The proprietor of a large cafe and
restaurant downtown thinks he has
solved the problem of keeping an eye
on two or three score of employees at
the same time. His place is a verita-
BILE beehive for two or three hours in
tho middle of the day and in order to
keep the employees we'll up to their
duties it became necessary to make
them feel that the watchful eve of the
employer was on them all the time.
To effect this al ingenious arrange.
ment of mirrors was devised. A dozen
of them were built into the wainscot-
ing in such a way that they NOT only
formed a rich ornamentation to the
place but they enabled a man at the
cashiers desk to view every nook and
corner of the room without turning bis
head.-M Y. Times.
A Chinese capitalist. under the con-
cession of lands free of rent, is making
arrangements to colonize lands on the
1sthmus Of Tehuantepec with Chinese
agriculturists.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04

YIN l11E 11tACh UT IL COoN COA NIo
HAIR.
sham, or cock-nests. have found the
nest of the marsh wren surrounded by
half a dozen or more of these make
believers. The gushing, ecstatic nature
of the bird expresses itself in this way.
have myself known but one instance
of a bird lending a hand in feeding
young not its own. This instance is to
be set down to the credit of a female
English sparrow. A little ''chippie'
had on her hands the task of supplying
the wants of that horse-leech, a young
cow-bunting. The sparrow looked on
from its perch a few yards away, and
when the "chippie" was off looking up
food it would now and then bring some
thing and place it in the beak of the
clamorous bunting; 1 think the "chip-
pic" appreciated it's good offices. Ger
tainly its dusky foster-child did. This
bird, when young. seems the most
greedy of all 1edglings. 1t cries more!
More!" necessarily. When its foster
parent is u small bird like "chippie' or
one of the warblers, one would think it
would swallow its parent when food is
brought it. l suppose a similar spectacle
is witnessed in England when the cuckoo
is brought up by a smaller bird, as is
always the case. Sings the fool in Lear:
'The hc~dge-sparrow fed the cuckoo SO long,
That it had its head bit of by its young"
Last season l saw a cow-bunting fully
grown following a 'chippie' sparrow
about, clamoring for food and really
looking large enough to bite off and
swallow the head of its parent, and
apparently hungry enough to do it.
The ''chippie' was evidently trying to
shake it off and let it shift for itself, for
it avoided it and flew from point to point
to escape it. Its life was probably
made wretched by the greedy monster it
had unwittingly reared. John Burroughs,
IN ChicQgo NeWs.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
"Rocker" Mining in 40.

The most expensive instrument of
the early miner was the rocker, which,
though simple in construction, cost in
the mines from fifty to a hundred
dollars. In general appearance it was
not unlike a baby's cradle as used by
our grandmothers and as still cen on
the frontier. 1t consisted of a nat
bottom with two sides that fared out
ward, and an end board at the head.
while the foot was open save a rifle
about an inch and a half high at the
bottom to catch the gold that might
pass another rifle across the bottom
near the middle. At the head of the
cradle was a hopper about eighteen
inches square with a perforated sheet
iron bottom or wire screen. Under
this was an apron, or board, sloping
downward towards the head. Two
substantial rockers under the whole
completed the simple machine which
gave to the world millions of dollars.
The modus operGndi may be de-
scribed as follows: Two sticks of
wood hewn on the upper side were
imbedded at the rivers brink, one
four inches lower than the other, on
which the rockers were to rest, thus
securing a grade in the machine to
facilitate the outward flow of the
water and sand. Two miners usually
worked together as partners. One
shoveled the earth into the rocker.
while the other. seated on u boulder or
block of wood, dipped the water from
the river and poured it upon the earth
in the hopper with one hand. all the
time rocking with the other. When the
earth was thoroughly washed, he rose.
lifted the hopper from its place, threw
out the stones and gravel. replaced it,
and thus the work went on. As the
GROUND about the rocker became ex-
harsted to the bedrock, was
had to the bucket and the earth was
carried sometimes a few rods. making
laborous work for the miner. 10 keep
the rocker going another hand would
be employed TO carry the earth, and
each would carry two buckets at a
time.
Hard work of this kind suggested
improvements in mining. At noon
the gold and black sand collected
above the rifles were taken up on a
scraper and thrown into the pan. which
was carried to the river and and care
fully washed to remove as far as posi-
bic all but the gold. The yield Of the
forenoon was carried to the camp, and
dried over a blaze, the dry sand blown
out. aud the gold weighed in scales or
guessed at. aud poured into the part
nership purse and deposited under the
bed or anywhere else out of sight
Century.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
Down with Euchre.

Determined to break up the single
gambling-house in the place. the village
authorities of Sclloolcraft, Mich. have
prohibited the sale aud use of playing
cards. The order is being carried out
to the letter and progressive-euchre
parties have keen interfered with. The
gamblers rejoice at the strictness of
the regulation and are of opinion that
the euchre-players will propose o COM
promise.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-04
You are right. senor."

you are right. senor."
I held out my hand.
II see," l replied. You are wiser
than I in these matters. and l believe
your plan will work"
1T is our only chance" he said, in
q calm tone; land if it fails we are
lost"
Having completed every arrange
ment for carrying out Manuel's plan,
we took our stations to watch the
movements of the savages till night
should give US an opportunity for
action.
1t was not our purpose to wait until
darkness had fully set in, but to carry
our plan into action just at dusk, when
the light would be sufficient to show
the Indians that the horses had riders,
but not enough to reveal the deception.
As the twilight settled over the plain
I could see that the Indians drew
closer together, as if holding a final
council.
'.It's time now, senor," said Manuel
In a low tone.
Keeping in the shadow of the house
we led the two horses to the outside.
then. turning their heads to the north,
we struck them several sharp blows.
They reared violently and plunged
away in the darkness.
At the same moment we threw our
selves in at the door and lay fiat upon
the ground.
We held our breaths as the sound of
rapidly retreating hoofs broke the
stiffness. Then rose a fierce tumult to
the east and west, with a succession of
terrific yells from a score of savage
Threats. The Apaches had discovered
the two retreating horses and had
gone laundering IN pursuit.
Through the open door l could see a
line Of dark forms moving to the north
against the eastern horizon, and knew
that our ruse was having the desired
effect.
Come" said Manuel; 1--WE must not
lose a moment. We must be as far
away as possible before they discover
the trick and return to search for u.s."
Carrying u rifles in our hands,
ready for quick use. we darted from
the cabin and ran with all the speed
we could command to the southwest,
while from the north came the fierce
yells of the Apaches as they swept on
in pursuit of u two flying horses.
We ran for nearly a mile. and then.
being almost exhausted by the violent
exercise, and hearing no sound of Dur
suit, we dropped into a walk.
We travelled steadily for three hours,
until we found ourselves among a
range of low, sandy hills. and there,
secreting ourselves in a patch of mes
quite bushes that grew in a small can
yon, we rested for nearly an hour.
Then we resumed our journey, and by
travelling in a circuitous route reached
Mason's ranch at sunrise the following
morning.
Thus ended one of the most danger
GUS adventures of my life, and but for
the shrewdness of a Mexican boy
should not be alive now to tell the
story.
Two weeks a%fterward. as we were
returning to Mutt station, we came up
on the dead bodies of our two horses,
which had been literally hacked to
pieces by the savages. so enraged had
they been on discovering the decep-
ton that had been practiced upon
them.-Golden Days.
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