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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
Olive Logan at the Opera.

fancy have heard and enjoyed Is
much grand singing as most of them
but it was with the truthful confidence
of childhood that | took three fresl
handkerchiefs along whenever [ went
to hear Chistine in concert. | knew
| should stand the first verse or so with
stoicism, but when Nilsson''s pathetic
voice grew fearful over that line about
"-the little hut among the boo-shes'
those handkerchiefs did their duty, | can
tell you!
The Dryasdusts used to say it was
a concession made by a great artist to
the uncultured taste of her savage
American public which made Christine
sing ''rhe Old Folks at Home" Rub
bish! | heard Nilsson set London
audience mad with rapture at the Albert
hall with Il simple song called, "Please
give me Il penny" and nobody said
anything about concession then. Nor
did they when Mario sang, "Good-bye
sweetheart" Mile. Titiens does not
feel her artistic standing jeopardized
when she sings her little dream song;
nor would it be if she sang ''WiIlie, we
have missed you" The longer / live
the more | feel that there is no nobler
Office for music than that of moving
the purest impulses i'll us with simple,
unpretcnding songs which appeal di-
rectly to the heart.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
How He Wanted His Picture Taken

Yesterday n young man with Il wart
on his nose dropped in at the Sherman
photograph gallery and remarked that
he wanted some pictures taken.
"Will you have it standing, or a
bust?" queried the artist.
"Bustw exclaimed the fellow, rs he
picked up his hat. ''Bust, Mister! do
| look like a fellow that would come
into picture gallery to get on bust?'
They explained to him, and finally
persuaded him to sit long enough for a
negative. The picture was good one,
and the nose stood out like black cat
in bay window
The fellow looked at it, and as he
handed it back, said:
"Shoot again, old pard," and see if
you can't make the wart look like a
piece of chewing gum"
They told him that it couldn't be
done.
"Well, see here now, pard," he
pleaded, "my names Trufiles, and Pm
engaged to girl back in Injiana, she
wants my picture. She don't know Eve
got this wart; its growed here since |
left there; and if you could just rub it
out of the picture and make it look
like something that she's familiar with
"a slice of bacon, for instance--Pd
feel better"
They fixed it up for him, and when
he went out he chuckled.
"That'll fetch her; she'll just natu-
rally think I'm foatin' round in solid
comforts, like bacon and string beans
and SIGH"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

While the total value of the farms in
the United States is put down at 50,
262 ,S03, SOL, the value in the above
small-farm states foots up s., 407, 5S7, ;
17S, or nearly three-fifths of the total,
and this, too, while the area of the
states is less than one-tenth of the area
of the whole country. No more con-
elusive exhibit of the practical superb
ority of the small-farm system could be
given than this.-Ruug Nc,C Yorker
One of the curses of Kentucky and
other states to-day is too much landand
too little capital. The individual who
is i'm debt for his land, unless he is man
of rare push and energy, to enable him
to get rid of the incubus, is much
worse than an ordinary slave. His
mind has lost its freedom. He is I'M
able to give his thoughts to his bust
ness. Every now and then the image
of the party to whom he is in debt will
rise up in horrible proportions before
him. Young man, don't be in too big
a hurry to own large tracts of land.
Hasten slowly, as the old German
proverb has it, and what you do, do
well. The spread-eagle style of agri-
culture is played out, and there is no
sort of analogy between thousands of
acres which the eye can not range and
an immense mercantile project, every
part of which is right under the per-
sonal inspection of its manager
Farmers Home Journal.
A GRANGER in Virginia made the
test of the efficiency of the grange
agent by sending two loads of wheat
for him TO sell, and on same day sent
two loads 10 commission merchant.
Result: Wheat sold by grange agent,
81 48 per bushel; by commission mer-
chant, 81 40 per bushel.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

WRITES a female reader of the New
York Mail: "Do you think it impcr-
atively necessary that woman should
go into her kitchen and redden her
face and ruin her hands by the drudg-
cry of cooking? Is not this eternal
catering to the stomachs of men rather
derogatory to women?" This question
implies that men do all the eating, and
that women and children derive sus-
tenance from the cheap and universal
atmosphere; but let us not be deceived.
Rather let us drop into the dining
rooms of the hotels, and look for two
minutes at the Roadway made by the
feminine portion of the boarders in
that brief space of time.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
On AS A DRESSING FOR WOUND

On AS \ Dressing FOR WOUNDS. -
DR.. Joseph w. Howe has recently in
troduced at his hospital ordinary sweet
oil for the treatment of aii kinds OF
wounds. Ii has several advantages over
any of the other dressings in use, and
apparently yields better results. The
advantages arc, that it keeps the air
from the wound, and mt the same time
is Il grateful dressing to the patient. 1t
also promotes healthy examinations.
The mode ofapplication varies with the
variety of wounds for which 1t Is III
tended. In necrosis, after the sequcs-
trum is removed, the cavity is filled
with the oil. and Il lint tent introduced.
Every day the oil is renewed. in one
ease of necrosis OF the lower jaw this
procedure was had recourse to, and,
shortly after, the patient was attacked
with facial erysipelas, but, strange to
say, the side of the face which had been
operated upon was not affected. In
incised wounds, the edges are brought
together, and soaked in oil used as an
external dressing.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
Your MOther-in-LaW.

Treat your mothcr-in-Iawas you would
your own mother; don't let her feel
that she is Il stranger in her sons
house. You ought to love her for the
good husband she has given YOU
Don't be jealous of the affcctionate at
tention he shows her; remember how
well she has earned it. Your hus-
bands heart would he poor, con-
tractcd one, if it could not find room
for wife and mother. Help him love
and cherish her. Think of the vacant
chairs around her hearthstonc-of the
voices she misses that used to make
melody in her heart. 1t will be but
for little while; and when her work
is accomplished, when her work is
over, and the shriveled hands are folded
mcckly upon that bosom on which your
husband has wept out his childish sor-
rows, comlortcd by those now silent
lips, it viii be the sweetest joy to your
heart if you can say, She was to me
as Naomi was to her It's Ruth
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

OMELET.-Few articles of food are
so readily attainable, attractive in APP
pearance and so quickly cooked as
omelets. A good and economical
emelet is made with four eggs well
beaten and added to one cup of milk,
into which has been stirred one table
spoonful of pounded cracker and one
small teaspoonful of flour. Stir the
mixture well together just before pour
ing it on the well buttered griddle,
which should have strong flavor of
scorched butter. Turn it as soon as it
begins to "set.' around the edge with a
wide-bladed knife, fold it over once,
and then again, and at once lift the
griddle and turn the omelet upon a
small plate. It will, of course, be of
four thicknesses.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
THE GRAVES VOICES.


FROM THE GERMAN, ny ASToNLA DICKSON.
: unk in dreams, and lost in anxious thought,
My footsteps brought me to this lonely spot.
To whom belongs the field this howery bed
The dead
Enter thou in, my soul why shoultlst thou fear?
Nought hut sweet buds and flowers blooming here.
Whence comes the essence for these perfumes?
From tomhs.'
See here, q man where all thy paths must end,
However varied he the way they wend
Listen the dead leaves speak aye hear thou must:
TO DUST
Where are the careless hearts that on the earth
Trembled in pain, or beats high in mirth?
Those in whose breasts the flame of hatred smoul-
dercd?
'Mouldcrel.'
Where the mighty who take life by storm?
Who cen to heavens heights wild wishes form.
W hat Croak the ravens on yon moss-Srown wall
Buried all
Where the dear ones in Deaths cold sleep living
To whom Love sworc memory undying?
What wall yon cypress trees oh hears thou not?
Forgot
To see where these ones passed. did no eve crave?
May no wild longing pierce beyond the grave?
The fir-trees shake their weird heads one by enc;
None, none
The evening wind amid the trees is signing.
Fettered in dreams, my saddened soul is lying,
The twilight falls the red glow paleth fast
Ills past
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

SCnENCK's SEA WEED Tonic,

ScnENoK's PuLMoNIc SYRUP,
SCnENCK's SEA WEED Tonic,
SCuENcK's MANDRAKE PILLS,
Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
ConsuH ption.
Frequently medicines that will stop cough will
occasion the death Of the patient they lock up the
liver, stop the circulation of the bl"nd hemorrhaSe
follows, and in fact, they clog the action o the
organs that caused the cough
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the causes oil
two-thir,ls of the Of Consumption. Many per-
complain of a duh pain in the side constipation,
coated tongue, pain in the shouer-blide, feelings
Of drowsnss and rescssness, the food lying heavily
on the stomach accompanied with acidity and bcch-
i'm, up of wind.
ordered condition of the stomach torpid liver.
colds. and il the cough in these lie suddenly
remaining torpid and inactive, and almost before
they aware the lungs mass of sores, and
liberated, the result of which is death.
Schenck = Pumonic Syrupis an eNpcctorslnt which
docs not contain opium or anything calculated IL
check cough suddenly.
ScHESK's Sea Weed Tonnes dissolves the food
mixes with the gastric juices OF the stomach ai'ls
digestion, and creates Il ravcnous appetite.
When the bowels c.,Stive, skin s;illow, or the
symptoms other wise of bilious tendency,
Mandrake Pills required.
These mediicin,s prepared only by
J. II. St'UENCK 4 Son,
y. r. of Sixth and Arch Streets I'hila.
And are for sale 10y MI druggists and dealers.
f. J. HART X co, Nos. ~, - and a. Tchoupi-
toulas Street, New Orleans Wholesale Agents.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

The PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE
PLANET MERCURY.--Dr. Zollner has
dcduced some important conclusions as
to the condition Of this planets surface
from measures Of the intensity of its
light, which he succeeded in making on
two occasions by the Use of his pho
t0meter This instrument, contrived
by several years ago, is very beautiful
application of the principle that if light
be reflected from smooth surface, such
as plate of glass, inclined at certain
angle, it undergoes a modification OF
such nature that the amount reflected
from Il second plate inclined to it at the
same angle varies as the plate is turned
about the ray us an axis, being greatest
when the two plates are parallel, and
nothing when the second plate is turned
round through right angle from this
position Thus by turning the one
plate round, the light of a lamp may be
reduced in any required degree till it is
equal to that of the heavenly object of
which the brightness is required, and
the angle turned through from the pO-
sition for extinction gives a measure of
this brightness. DIR. Zollner uses Il
rather more convenient arrangement
than two glass plates, viz: two Nichols
prisms, but the principle is the same.
From his measures of the brightness of
Mercury with his photometer, he con-
cludes that the reflective power or
albcdo of this planet is much the same
as that of the moon (being little higher
than quartz porphyry); and that the
change Of brightness with the phase
probably follows the same law as in the
case of the moon, which is very different
from that of smooth body. A dis
crssion of numerous measures of the
moon in different phases led Zollner to
the conclusion that the change of bright
| ness is Just what would hold for rough
surface in which the average slope OF
| the hills was $50; and he now infer a
similar condition of things in Mercury
which must therefore be without an at
mosphcre. The albedo of the other
planets, with the exception of Mars, is
very much larger, and they have, there
fore, probably very dense atmospheres
which reflect all the suns rays Mars
would appear to hold an intermediate
position; part of its light being reflected
from its atmosphere, and part from it,
surface. DIR. Zollner has also attempted
to determine the albedo of the eartl
from comparison of the dark and
bright parts of the moon, these being
respectively lighted by the earth and
tie sun; but he has not yet obtained
sufficient observations TO settle thi.
| DOint.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

The Best Evidence!

The following letter from REV y. s. BEST Pastor
NJ. f. Church, Natick, Mass, will he read with inter
by physicians. Also those suffering from the
dseasc afflicted the son Of tho Rev f. $ Best
No person doubt this testimony and there is no
doubt about the curative powers If vEaEriNr.
NATicK, Mass. Jan. l, Is7i
bear SIR We have good reason for regarding your
snfrd hat III" means Of "a Wing "ur som
two ,ar :. be- n ir" M f, 10" IF lie lie last I
raus' lev sernuius affection and was far reduced
possible. council Of able physicians could give Us
but fs "n ." he r@nT th t~ reach be
human remedies, that even "mputation conid not
operation. Just then We commenced giving him
been ipSoyn@ " % aey re@s 1 n"i
his studIe-. thrown away crutches and cane, and
Thoush there is -tiIl discharge from the open
g w%rr nj , nm Tgs Hrr' we haze the fullest
- q. has taken about thrc. dozen bottles of vEGE-
he is too we'll &" l." taking medicine.
Respectfully yours Ii Mk Is i /. Z. F. BEST.
The range Of Disorders which yield To the Influence
OF III. medcinr and the nnIter Of defined dis'F-'s
.rTer single ccinc tisSras been even i' rr' any
ss gu s ny "' TEo ," s@ 1 n
and AZ Ernrtixe Iis,':,,7 AID TnmoI- rheumatism
nammntory symptoms l'crs, all :, philitic dir'as"s
train Of painful disorders which GENERALLY afict
American women. and which carry annually thou
sands Of them 10 premature graves; Dysp"p.iH that
un.vrrsal curse Of American naulIp"d Heartburn,
Files Constipation, Ncrvonsncss, Inability sleep
and impure blood.
Th- : . Formidable ii-t 81 human ailments for any
single medicine to successfully attack, and il not
probable that article before the public has
the power the quarter of them cNcrptinG the
NEGETINE. 1t lays the ut the root of the Of
dsense 10y first eliminating inpurty from the
boo promoting the scCIctit,Is. opening the
grrat escape valves of the systom -nvigorutfnc
liver It's full and natural action cleansing the
It, fancI aud strengthening digestion. This much
accomplished. the speedy and the permanent cure Of
only the diseases have enumerated. hnt like
wise the whole train of chronic and constitute nal
disorders, is certain to follow This is ecisrly what
yEGErfSE does and il does il soauckly and casilv
that ii is accomplished fact almost lefure the
~ tie1t il of IL himself,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

SHORT SAYINGs.--A good life is val
liable, but lad one often costs more.
Passion i; Il storm, and spares
moth ng.
Each Pisgah of labor has its glimpse
Of the promised land.
Every good deed that we do is not
only present pleasure, but prop for
the future.
What pleases is good only to the
properly instructed.
Children grow so fast we must be on
the alert, or they will escape much of
our instruction, getting that of others,
often deleterious, as children will learn.
Life is a sum; and it becomes us TO
90 it properly, as it can be done but
once.
Most people drift. To do this is
easy 1t costs neither thought nor eff
fort. On the other hand, to resist the
tide one must have principle and reso,
luton. He must watch, and pray, and
struggle continually. And yet nc
thoughtful person, who cares for his
soul, will dare to drift.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
The EGYPTIAN Book OF THE DEAD.

The EGYPTIAN Book OF THE DEAD.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or
Funeral Ritual, contains, probably, the
oldest existing record of the faith of
man in the Immortality of the soul.
Its chapters are found on mummy
cases or written on the rolls of papyrus
within them. The book recounts the
experience of the soul after death, from
its passage across the land of darkness
into the blessed fields, to its final iudg-
ment and admission into the presence
of its Father in the eternal dwelling
place Of the prepared spirit" The
following passages show its express de
claration of IA future life: "The osiris
(the souD lives after he dies the osiris
rcjoices with life as they rejoice" 40
God, the protector of him who brought
his cry to Thee, he is Thine, let him
have no harm let him be rs one OF
Thy flying servants. Thou art he he
is Thou Make it well with him in
the world of spiritsH' 1t is supposed
that the Book of the Dead had its
origin two thousand years before the
birth of Christ.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

There are persons who carry two
faces-one for their families and the
other for their friends. The face they
wear abroad is smooth and sllnny-the
one they wear at home is rough and
dark. The forbidding aspect is as dis
agreeable as the pleasing one is fair to
look upon. Abroad they are generous;
at home they are selfish Abroad they
are the pink Of courtesy; at home they
are habitually rude. Abroad they are
amiable at home they arc churlish.
Abroad they are mild and tolerant; at
home their word is, and the law is Civ
en- in no gentle tone They change
their faces on the threshold of their
homes, and there all their mean and
odious traits are called into play. They
are prepared to make the most of the
slightest cause for angry complaint and
spitefui censure.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

An UNDERGROUND FOREST.
man living in Essex county, Virginia,
in digging well recently, at depth of
about thirty feet, came upon the trunks
of large trees several feet in diameter,
which were found to be cypress. Fear
ing the water would be injured by the
wood, he determined to abandon his
well, and dug another some distance
off. When he had reached about the
same depth he again encountered the
trees; and a third attempt, at still
greater distance from the first well,
again brought him in contact with this
subterranean forest, the trees of which
are Of great size and well preserved.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
A Quiet Smoke.

Julian Hawthorne, in an article en-
titled ga Peaceful Pipe" says: Reader,
| were unmannerly to talk thee down
pense. There lies my pipe OH the little
stand between the windows The Jap
anese tobacco-box, carved in cunning
figures from a section of giant bamboo,
stands guard behind it. One flank is
defended by an oddly designed ash re-
ceiver; an ASS head full of matches pro-
tects the other. Over. all is she'd a
genial glow from the crimson cloth,
gold-edged, which drapes the stand and
fraternizes jovially with the afternoon
sunshine. The pipe itself is of unusual
size, carved into the likeness of a human
face; very peculiar face, which pro-
vokes at once a smile and sigh. In
all these years / have not wearied of
it, for it is full of ever fresh interest
and suggestion. The features eshaped
by a bold hand but guided with mas
terly skill as well as profound knowledge
and feeling. Uglier the face could not
well be, but with an ugliness thoroughly
human. A brow low and projecting,
the foundation of pair of curling
rams horns; eyes large, deep-set, OK
pressive of pathetic weakness; nose
aquiline, albeit broad and fattened; a
thick, projecting upper lip, and tim
OrOus, retreating chin. A weak smile
glimmers over the features, not broad,
hardly mirthful; rather as if striving to
reflect the merriment which their I'M
gainlincss might excite. Whoever de-
signed this pipe was an artist, and one
who had looked into the human heart
Well, pick him up and fill his empty
head with brains from the tobacco-box.
Tobacco is all his intellect, and smoke
the sole manifestation of the cnkindle-
ment thereof; yet how many orators,
think you, or authors, or pulpit min
isters even, have the art or power to
soothe, beguile, inspire, that this I'M
demonstrative but subtly potent Ell
chanter possesses? He never speaks;
the greater part of his life he lies cold
and dead upon the table; but the brief
hours of his life are full of fervent fire.
The oftener we are under the spell of
his yoiceless eloqucnce the oftener arises
the longing to yield to it again; his mo-
notOny never bOres us because the very
breath of his life comes and goes Also
lutcly at our own command. Fill full
and press down hard; there must be no
empty chambers in this occiput Now
a match from the ASS head, which we
will scratch upon the under side of the
mantelpiecc yondcr; so to do is one of
the universal instincts of mans nature,
and were mantclpieces polished under
meath it would he general calamity.
Blue burns the match, then yellow; we
draw the flame downward through the
pipe-bowl, and straightway up rises the
brown tobacco into a glowing mound.
In the same moment the first smoke
cloud issues from our lips and the pipe
is lit. We seek the easy-chair, and
gently yield ourselfto its embrace. No
reading, no writing; the true smoker
will not so prof;ine his enjoyment.
is am elevated mental and
pleasure; he who finds in
it merely an assistance to digestion or
the qualification of Il morbid craving is
the brotherhood"
BACTERIA AND PUTREFACTION.-D |
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS TREATING
RuPTURE-The Ei-stic Truss Company have
produced greet revolution III me 're''''.eh.
If brrni, Their new truss is worn easy night
and day; adapts itself to every motion of the
boJ,; never displaced by hardest exercise
retaining rupture comfortably, till soon per-
manently cured. Sold at the office of the
Company, No. 6S3 Broadway, New York city.
Trusses sent by mail. Send for circular.
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Facts and Figures

Every one of the nearly 30, 1000 CHARTER
OAK STOVES now in the hands of as many
housekcepcrs have proved eminently practi-
cable, easily kept in order, doing all kind, of
cooking quickly, clcanIy, and with great
economy OF fuel and labor.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
REMINGTON,

NYPERSON owning "a Sewing Machine which
"A is nearly worn ont, or does not d" the work re
quifc'. will md it 10 their advantage To send Us
description of their Machine, anl get our liberal
terms of exchange for the s.ieh ssu"utrs; rss ni,
ingtOsl- 1t is fully warranted t'ir hNe wears, AZ
satisfaction is guaranteed in every ir-tan. or u
mnncy will he returned 10 the purchaser. tn" MOI
literal aitd cash buyers Srniri's
work mud all particulars hy mail - yartlc. Ni@ g
n distance Address - f's1AtSs a. s'fb sseh
Ay-..,ess Summer ST. NASH lille. Trssp
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13

THOUSANDS SPEAK.--Ncgetine is re-
commended by physicians and apothecaries
t" he the basi purifier and cleanser of the
blood yet discovered, and thousands speak in
its praise who have been restored to health.