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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
A Discouraged Boy.

Crabapple's boy had read that touch
ing Thanksgiving story about the chap
who ran away from home when a boy
and went to sea and was not heard of
for years and years and how every
Thanksgiving day the mother sat a
plate for the wanderer, and kept seat
for him at the table, and how the gray
haired sire, when he offered blessing,
prayed for his hayward son-prayed
that he might return in safety to the
paternal roof.
And then one Thanksgiving day, when
they had about given him up for dead.
although the plate and vacant chair told
the story of a mothers undying hopes.
just as the family had sat down to the
Thanksgiving dinner, there came "a"
at the door. "Come in J" cried the
sire, and in bounded the boy in sailor
jacket and O tarpaulin hat just home
from a whaling voyage. Such rejoicing
as there was in that house. How his
father shook both his hands, and how
his mother wept over him and embraced
him, and how all the brothers and Sis
tiers, aunts and cousins hung around
his neck ard tugged at his sailor jacket.
1t was worth Drawing the dangers of
the sea to meet with such q welcome on
his return. He sat ct the feast in the
chair that mothers deathless love,
and hope, and recollection had always
placed for him, and never was there
happier Thanksgiving since that cher
ished anniversary was invented.
Crabapple's boy wept over that story
every time he read it, and he got to
wondering whether such fuss would
be made over him. should he run away
from home and then turn mp again
some Thanksgiving day.
He thought about it so much that he
finally determined to test the business,
anyhow. He would see how the people
would act when lie played the prodi-
gals return. So about a week from
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
PaWnbrOkers.

Few of our readers are probably
aware of the immense extent 10 which
the poor in this city make use OF loans
from the pawnbrokers' shops. There
are in New York and Brooklyn some
400 of these, and in jersey City and
Hoboken sixty. They advance to tbs
poor during each year some 81, 900. 600.
These loans are usually for thirty days,
and the rate of interest is from eight
to twenty per cent. per month. The
article pledged for the loan is usually
three times the value of the sum lent,
and is often never redeemed, owing to
the distress or poverty of the person
borrowing. If the interest is from
eight to ten per cent. per month, it will
be seen that the pawnbrokers make
some hundred per cent. on their leans,
or about four millions annually from
the poor and it is not improbable they
get as much more from the eale of the
articles pawned.-Ne,o York Times.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Fat in FORAGE Plants.

The Scientific American makes the
following statements, which are well
worthy the attention of stockmen and
farmers generally, showing as they do
the value OF the grasses as fat forming
food, both in q green and dry state
To any one not a chemist or q quad
ruped, the last place to look for fat
would be n hay-mow or a stack of hay,
yet it appears from rec. mt investigations
that fat is not only an essential constit.
uent of hay, straw, and similar forms
of vegetation, but enc of considerable
economic value.
In the lower leaves of oats in bios som,
Arndt found as much as 10 per cent. of
the dry weight to consist of fat and
wax, the latter appearing as the blush
bloom so conspicuous on the leaves Of
luxuriant cereals. In fodder crops gen.
orally the greatest portion of fat is
found In young and thrifty. Thus Way
found early meadow grass to contain as
much as 81 per cent. Of fat, while in
that of the same meadow, collected in
the latter part of June, there was but
little more than q per cent TheSpro-
portion of fat il incEeased by nitro
genous manures the graes Of sew
eyed meadow at Rugby contained above
Z Pei OChus "a 1aOs WnAAO E1doos
not sewage5, afforde d less than 3 per
cent. of fat. - ~ =
The nature of this sort of vegetable
fat was Investigated some little time
ago by the German chemist, KoniR, who
found that by treatment with strong
alcohol, the fat of gIass md glover hay
could be separated INTO twozp parts, one
solid wary substance, the other . fluid
fat, soluble in alcohol. At first be
considered the latter to be . true glycer-
inc, but changed his mind after the in
vestigations of Schulz, who proved that
though it containsthe same proportion
of carbon and hydrogen as ordinary
fat, the fluid fat of hay is something
quite different, since no glycerine can
be obtained from il,
KONG has since confirmed these re-
suits and carried forward the investi-
CATION, showing that the fat of oats, rye
and vetch seed is similarly constituted.
In all these forms of vegetation, hay,
oat straw, the grain of oats, rye. vetch-
es, and possibly others, he finds oleic
and palmitic acids, not combined with
glycerine, but in. free state; and as
these acids in their combinations are
well known as large ingredients of nu-
tritive fats and oils, it is likely that
they have a considerable influence on
the value of these plants for fodder.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
The English Five O'Clock Tea.

Our British cousins have fashion
able " five O'Clock tea" which is be-
coming excessively the elegant thing"
in London. The entertainment is of
many kinds. There is first the informal
gathering, which only nece estates the
production of mora cups and saucers to
supplement the hostess's usual ante
prandial rejection sec ond, the meeting
of ten or twelve guests invited specially
to meet each other; third, the larger
assembly, when the lady announces on
her invitation card that che will be cat
Home" for certain number of days
fourth, the tea devoted to "Amateur
Music ;" and, lastly, the tea which is
merely day instead of night recep-
ton. For the casual five O'Clock tea
but little or no preparation is required.
Intimate friends find the lady with her
two-tiered tea table by her side, the up
per shelf bearing the silver teapot,
tie, and one or two cups and saucers
the lower shelf has plate Of thin bread
and butter, q cake, and the reserve
cups. A harlequin set is considered
prettier than ono of which all the cups
are alike; those sauoers which have
sort of an-shaped addition for holding
a piece of cake or bread and butter
when convenient. The second enter
tsinuent differs somewhat; the scene is
changed from the boudoir to the draw
ing room, and thu tea is placed on a
larger table. If the hostess has no
daughters. she generally gets some
young lady to preside over the tea
table, 60 as to leave her at liberty to
entertain guests. The use OF white
though not absolutely I'M
known, is decidedly unusual. The
tables which have flaps that fold down
so thst when not in use they stand al
most fiat against the wall, are the most
CONVEX lent for the purpose, as it obvi
ates the trouble, of moving the things
off table in ordinary use. For the
third there are two methods /; one like
the preceding. only using a larger
table and having two or three young
ladies to assist in dispensing the tea, or
else to have long narrow table across
the end of the back drawing-room, and
let two maids be in attendance behind
it. This suppoees larger party. and
therefore ices and claret cup should be
provided. In summer, of course, straw
berries and cream find a most appro-
pirate place on the tea table.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
A Mar Quis's Marriage.

The following is given as French
romance of the present year: :" Near
the town of Castres dwells noble fam
lily called Gayraud d'Aurilhon. The
eldest son of the heuse lately fell in
love with a young lady of Castres,
whose birth was far from the caste of
We're de We're. Nine. de Gayraud d'Au-
rilhon forbade the marriage, and the
marquis, being but twenty. three years
old, could not legally contract it. After
vainJy trying to shake his mothers res
olution, he betook hims elf to Castres,
from whence he sent letter, calling
the marchioness thither on business.
Without suspicion she set out. Her
son meanwhile lay hiding near his aft
anced, who defied sander under the
guardianship of a grocer's lady. As
soon as the ancestral carriage had dis
appeared, quite early in the morning,
the marquis and four friends, with the
ladies', made their appearance in the
villa chapel, where the curats was Just
beginning mass. Safely entered, made
moiselle threw off her cloak and showed
a bridal dress, orange flowers, veil, and
all. The marquis also displayed a ira.
ditional tail-coat and white cravat.
Very considerably astonished, the priest
went through the service, at the end of
which the pair knelt suddenly before
him, and NJ. Henri d'Aurilhon ex-
claimed very loudly, L declare Miss
Blanche Bouscaut my wife 7 And T.
replied the lady, take NJ Eenri for my
lawful husband The priest there
upon turned and ran away. Folio wing
into the vestry the eccentric young peo-
pie summoned him to give certificate,
which he of course refused. The we'd
ding party then proceeded to the cha
teau, whtre NJ. dAurilhbn assembled
his mothers servants and presented his
wife to them. A great feast was or
dered, to provide which they had to
break open all the drawers, cupboards,
and plate chests, since the marchioness
had carried off her keys. That lady,
warned by an old servant, hastily me
back, taking up on her way the village
policeman. At sight of hum the wed.
ding guests dispersed suddenly; bride
and bridegroom also made themselves
scarce. But they persisted in the valid
ity of their marriage, and few days
after NJ. Henri expressed his intention
of coming home. Thereupon the
mother appealed to the magistrate of
Toulouse. After one decision against
her, they decided that the young mar
quis d'Aurilaon had no right to bring
q bride against his mothers will into
house where his sisters lived and
they further pronounced indirectly that
Mile. Blanche Bouscaut was not mar
ried at all"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
The Origin Of Indian Names.

A member of Major Powell's expedi-
ton, which has been engaged in the
territories, furnished the Tribune some
interesting notes of the discoveries
made in the origin of Indian names.
It seems that each tribe or primary or
ganization of Indians, rarely including
more than two hundred souls, is, in
obediance to the additional laws OF these
people, attached to some we1l-de6ned
territory or district, and the tribe takes
the name of such district. Thus the
U-intats, known to white men as. a
branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah valley. U-imp is the name for
pine too meap, for land or country !;
U-im-too- meap, pine land but this has
been contracted to U-in tab, and the
tribe iphabiting The valley were called
U-in.tats. q is the term signifying ar
row U-too- meap, arrow land. The re-
gion of the country bordering on Utah
lake is called o too-meap because of the
great number of reeds growing there from
which their arrow-shaftsw were made. The
tribe formerly inhabiting Utah valley
corrupted into the name Ute by the
white people of the country. The name
U.tah-ats belonged only to a small
tribe living in the vicinity of the lake,
but it has been extended SO as t. in
clude the greater part of the Indians of
Utah and Colorado. Another general
name used by white men is Piutes. A
tribe of U-tah-ats being defeated and
driven away by stronger tribe, who
occupied their country and took their
name, were obliged to take new name
corresponding to the new home in which
they settled themselves. But they also
called themselves Pal q. tab ats or true
U-tah-ats. The corrupted name Piutes
is now applied to the Indians of large
section of country. Several of these
tribes have numerous names, and in
this way the number of individual
tribes has probably been much overesti-
mate ].
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

Thanksgiving he ran away from home.
He didn't go to sea, because the sea
was too far of, and he couldn't make
much of a voyage in a week anyhow.
He got a job in a lanyard, grinding
bark, which answered all the purposes,
for he could imagine his bark was on
the sea-" as he rode the old horse
around the circle. He called the mill
the world, and imagined himself sailing
around the world at every revolution.
With beating heart he approached
the paternal mansion. He locked in at
the window and saw the folks just sit
ting down TO the Thanksgiving supper.
A chill of disappointment crept over
him as he saw there was no vacantchair
and there wasn't an idle plate on the
table. He listened at the door as the
blessing was asked, but although several
prophets were honored with fattering
notice, his pane wasn't mentioned.
This was little hard on fhe boy who
had ran away from home and WAS liable
to turn mp on that or any succeeding
THANKSGIVING day.
Rscollections of him didn't seem to
cluster around the hearthstone to any
very great extent.
REFRESHING chilling foreboding that
--~SS Az A.Ac ASeS's dO fuhS OIpch buc
door, rushed into their midst and ex-
claimed" Gather |. mother It's I,
Sammy Crabapple !-home again home!
home II and then threw himself on his
fathers breast, sobbing convu'sively.
What did that father do? Did he hug
him and sob tears over him, and cali
him his long lost bo-bo-boy 2" Not
much. He took him by the collar, led
him into the wood shed and worked
over him more than an hour with a bar
rel-stave, his brothers and sisters dane
ing around on the back stoop in an
ecstacy of delight, while his mother
"That's right, .Ambns give
it 10 him ! Learn him better'n to run
away from home again !" f'-' "+
Then lie was sent to bed without any
Thanksgiving supper at all, and threat
ened with being deprived of both Christ
mas and New Years dinners.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Conversation as an Art.

We all converse-or, in other words,
talk with each other-unless forbidden
by upkindly nature, as in the case OF
deal mutes, or compelled by arbitrary
force to maintain q silence we abhor.
We occasionally read of people who. in
B Atof caprice, resolve never to bestsw
upon their fellow-creatures the benefit
of their discourse. But such people
may be called phenomenal. Men and
women may be taciturn, Just as men
and women may be loquacious, but
voluntary silence is never to be expected
of any human being possessed of the
ordinary desire to secure information
supposed to be locked up in the bosom
of another, OF any one gifted with a
common anxiety to import information
to others. Tont ues were made for vocal
purposes, and humanity is apt to regard
them, in its own case, as made for
speech. Whether the inferior ords rs of
creation enter tain each other with con-
versation or not is question we leave
to scholastic disputants; but that no
two of the human family will long re-
main silent if placed within sight and
hearing of each other, is an accepted
fact. If they can think, as strangers,
ofno other congenial point of interest,
they will dilate upon the weather, and
The way to mutual discourse thus opened
upon neutral ground, the path to So
ciability becomes one of facility.
But, after all, mere speech is not con-
versation in the stricter sense, and of
those with whom we talk every day,
how few really converse well-how few
of them so interest us with <their-con-
versation that we listen to what they
utter with qualification, and in their
absence long to listen to them again.
Is conversation, then, an art? Speech
we know to be a natural gift !; but is
conversation itself-the kind of CONVEX
sation that first wins and then fasci-
mates our attention. gift only &C.
quired by tuition and experienced The.
French think SO, we presume, fora we'll
known professor in Paris advertises to
"give lessons in the art of converse
ton ;" and if professors teach Ladder, in
youth, how to walk gracefully, why not
how tn talk in the same manner? For,
although everybody walks and talks,
not more than one in q hundred
do either, without instruction, in a
manner calculated to earn an honest
compliment. The art OF conversation
is realized as such in a moment by a
person unaccustomed to society, if sud
denly introduced to a gathering of in
tellect. However fluent in speech ard
self possessed in manner upon ordinary
occasions, even the boldest feel dis
mayed upon entering a sphere pervaded
by an atmosphere of mental culture.
They are at once conscious of their in
ability to rise to the level of their sur
roundings. They have language, and
they may have assurance, but they lack
the buoyapcy inspired by familiarity
with the art OF conversation-just as the
untaueht hounderer in deep water sinks
because, with hands aud feet like bis
neighbor. he lacks a knowledge of the
art of swimming. ~
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Fad's Jetty Bill.

The west and soRth, irrespective of
party. unitedly favored the bill. The
provisions of the bill, as amended
and passed the house, are these: That
John B. Eads, of st. Louis, be au-
thorized to construct such permanent
and sufficient jetties and such auxiliary
works as are necessary to create and
permanently maintain a wide and deep
channel between the southwest pass of
the Mississippi river and the Gulf of
Mexico, and for that purpose he may
construct in the river an outlet or pass,
and likewise in the Gulf of Mexico
such walls, jetties, dikes, levees and
other structures, and employ such
boats, RATS and appliances as he may,
in the prosecution of said work, deem
nee sssary. Provided, that no such
structures employed shall materially
interfere with the free navigation of
said pass, and to protect said works he
may build and maintain such levees as
may be necessary to secure their per-
manency along the banks of the river
| or southwest pass. Provided, that un.
less the construction of the work shall
be substantially commenced within
eight months from the approval of this
act, and prosecuted with due diligence.
these provisions shall be void, aud un.
less Eads shall secure navigable depth
of twenty feet of water through said
pass within thirty months after the ap-
| proval of this act, congress may revoke
| the privileges granted and cancel the
obligations assumed by the United
States unless Eads shall, after securing
twenty feet of water secure an addi-
tional depth of not less than two feet
each succeeding year thereafter, until
twenty-six feet shall have been secured,
and four feet additional, or thirty feet,
within twenty-four months after having
scared twenty six feet and ia case
Eads shall fail to comply with the fore
going conditions as to depth of water
and time for any period of twelve
months in excess of the time fixed,
and the act shall absolutely become
null and void without action by con-
gress. These conditions are made OBJ
ligatory upon Ead's hens. That the
conditions prescribed being complied
] with, the United States agree to pay
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
A Generation or Vipers.

"what? No scandal about our good Queen
Elizabeth hoSe!'- fold Play. ff-'
Every age has its vices, but ours has
more than its share. It. has all of its
own and nearly all of those ages that
have preceded it. One of the worst of
these is the fondness Tor gossip. and
Scandal fondness which is being
illustrated, we are sorry to say. in our
own city, and at this moment is almost
assuming the form Of an epidemic.
Neither courtno cottage can escape the
of the kings, finds access to the hum
BILE home of the peasant and often
nesties it's elimy head in the bosom of
innocence and love. But few months
ago there was an indecent and cruel
story going the rounds of the American
papers. and reproduced in certain dis
reputable sheets of England, seriously
affecting the honor OF the Duchess of
Edinburgh. The duchess had only
been married some six months, and one
newspaper said that an event of some
interest to the royal couple was imme-
diately anticipated which should have
followed more slowly and decorously,
in the ordinary course of nature /; and
another quoted with malicious zest the
words of Horatio to Hamlet:
g Indeed, my Lord, it followed hard upon"
The story was false, as subsequent
events proved, aud yet, a scaudal-lovipg
society had swallowed the entire calum-
ny without the preliminary preparation
Of greasing. There have also been
other scandals circulated, the victims
being in our own country and selected
from some of the highest and most re-
spectacle walkso life. There are some
of the grossest in our own city.
We sadly need leform in this respect;
for the evil has gone to an extreme OF
persecution and prescription which
rivals the atrocities of any other social
inquisition known to history. The
murder Of reputation is worse than
the taking of life for what has young
girl to hope for or live for when her
character is stabbed at every turn by
subtle and invisible shafts cunningly
fixed in her pathway and glimmering
with pc son? 1t is not necessary to say
this or that is SO. There is language
kno wp to the initiated scandal mopger
which is far mora fatal because less re-
sponsible, and because it affords the
broadcast area for the play of the imaei-
nation of the malicious and evil-minded.
Swift satirized the class with deserved
severity, saying, in one of his bitter
epigrams, that they could .-
- read nod, shrug, look,
Far better than a printed book;
Convey libel in a frowp,
And wink reputation down;
Or, by the tossing Of fan,
Describe the lady and the man!
And another poet, who suffered by
the same brood of revilers, tells how
some hope things might rot turn out as
they fear how some swear they can
how some look perple1ed, while others
look profound, and others pity with
sincere regret. It is this mendacity of
hints that leaves the most ranking and
inchrable wounds. Louisville Courier
Journal.