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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06
Little Gertir.

Gertie Mayhem wound her golden
curls in massive coil around her
shspely little head, fastened the dainty
ruff1s at her throat with q rose coral
pin, hung the drops in her delicate
ears, and threw herself into q sleepy
hollow chair to think.
So absorbed was she in her medita-
tions that the dinner-bell sounde d twice
ere she needed it, and when at last she
rose we .rily from her seat, the blue
eyes were trimming with tears. and the
rosy mouth was quivering. *'*
Twelve years before, when John
Rooheford stood by the bedside of his
only sister, and received from her dy-
ing lips the charge to be kind to her
little girl for her sake, if for nothing
else, tears stood in the strong mans
eyes, and his lips tremb1ed as he prom
Used to be father to the little Gertie,
who looked on with wide-open blue
eyer, too young to understand what it
meant. and only wondering Z" why NAM
ma didn't get we'll"
so Uncle John took her fway from
the pretty village where she had always
lived to his own grand home in London,
and stately Aunt Irene kissed her and
babe her welcome.
her; but Mr.. ROCKFORD was wholly alb
sorbed in his business, and his wife
was fashionable woman of the world,
indulging her own child en-, Irene and
Bell, in every within.
And so Gertie was a stranger and I'M
loved, with the sole exception of Lloyd
Preston, her uncle's ward, who, from
the time. he first saw the beautiful
child, constituted himself her protector.
But, two years later, he was sent to
one of the far-famed German univer-
sites. And during the long ten years
of his absence G-rtie was lonely indeed.
Now, after this long absence, he was
home sgain !; and it was no wonder that
our little Gertie trembled as she de-
scended the stately staircase. and en-
tered the brilliantly lighted dining
room. where the family had alreaoy
assembled.
It is a week later Christmas Eve
and Lloyd Preston entered the bril-
iantly lighted -drawing4oom.
"Where is Gertie ?" he asked.
"Gertie ?" said Belle. "Moping, I
suppose. She always is"
: "WIn you please bring me book
you'll find on the ibrary-table, Lloyd I"
asked Irene.
And SO entering tho dimly-iighted
library, he found q very -disconsolate
little girl sitting in the corner.
"Gertie !" he exclaimed, "why aren't
you with the girls ?"
A half suppressed sob was her only
answer.
"Little one, come to me only give
me your love, and tomorrow will be a
blessed Christmas"
All there was no installing the look
in the brown eyes then, ard In the dim
light little white hand was slipped
into his, and they only knew that they
were very happy.
Irene opened the door.
"Can't you find"
And then she paused, for she read
their secret in the happy faces before
her.
"Eook, girls, here is pretty tab
leauw
eyes," eaid Lloyd, .pfoudfy drawing
Gertie's hand within his arm, Sc Miss
Mayhem has promised to be my wife. )"
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Eads eight million dollars for construct
ing the works and obtaining the depth
of thirty feet in said channel, and the
annual rum of one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars for each and every
year that said depth of thirty feet shall
be maintained by the jetties snd auxil-
larry works aforesaid in southwest pass
during twenty years after securing the
said depth. An amendment was added
to insure the permanency and durabil-
ity of the work. It directs the secre-
tary OF war, If Eads is not permanently
constructing the jetties, to report the
facts to congress for action.
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Published Every Saturday Aoniae,
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
A CHARMING WOMAN.

A charming woman, I've heard It said
By other women as light she;
But all in vain I puzzled my head
Her r. f. .ee i ssA i n sss ses 49, b
And her form II qu1te as 2oo1as the bsst, =
Where naturs has Givsn q boz stun,
And . clever mtllinH all the rest.
~ n 80 F@k. -
Intellieentf Yes-,n q certain vay
With the feminine gift OF ready spoech,
And Knows very well what NOT to say
whenever the theme transcends her reach,
But turn the topic en- things to wear
from an opera cloak to . robe de nuif-
Hats, bas ques or bounets-'e~ill make you stare
To see how fluent the lady can be.
Her laugh is hardly thing to please;
For an honest laugh must always Start
From gleeeome mood, HE . sudden breeze
And hers In purely matter Of at
musculsr form made TO show
What nature designed to lie beneath
The inner mouth but Whist can she do,
II that 10 ruined to show the teeth7
To her seat in church, good half mile
When the day 10 fine she IL sure to go,
Arrayed, OF courne In the latest style
la mode de Prris bas got to chow,
And she puts her hands on the velvet pew
(Csu hacds so white have . faint Of sin ~
Must harmopizs with her niIkylskfni : -.
All what shAll Ne - afons 49, 0sahs- $780,
In fields Of flowers to choose the weeds?
Read: .uthor. q yhoR sAs nev1 takkS
ss And tsiss e er!1prs q. 2eys9nssf
By o.Sss .o9 - iSasssh& + 'aa 4,
But all in vain puzzle my heed
To ind wherein the,.nErnfpV D..
-yokn 9. Sare.
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~ gLoss Of Memory.

The loss of memory during illness or
from some sudden shock has, no doubt,
been observed by every one but some
curious phases of it not generally known
can be found in the books and journals
OF physicians. A Scotch Highland wo-
man, long accustomed to use English
language, was placed under the care of
DR.. Macintosh at Edinburgh, during
an attack of apoplexy. She go far re-
covered as to look around her with an
appearance of intelligence; but the doc
tor could not make her understand q
word he said. At last It occurred to
him to have one of the attendants speak
to her in G@lic, her long-unused native
tongue and to that she Immediately
and readily responded. When she re-
covered her health more perfectly. her
Eng ish came back to her. DIR. Rush
mentions the case of an italian gentle
man, who, died Of yellow fever in New
York, and who underwent, during the
rnalady, q series of mental changes.
During the first part of his illness he
spoke English, which had for some time
been his familiar Language in that conn-
try during the middle period English
was driven from his mind by French,
which he had learned earlier and on
the day of his death he spoke only his
native Italian. Abernethy, the great
surgeon, told similar story of a man
whom he attended, who was born in
France, but had spent the greater part
OF his life in England. and had for many
years lost the habit of speaking French.
An injury to his head brought him I'M
der the care OF Abernethy, who OBJ
served that during his illness the man
spoke only French, going back to his
English as he recovered. We all know
how, to the very old and the dying, the
language of their child oodcomesagaip
and the old scenes rise before the oying
eyes like pictures, 80 that from the re-
covery of childish peace they go ont
across the tide to the unknown, new life
beyond. y
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Literary oonposition.

Byron wrote The Corsair" in ten dsyp,
at the rate of two hundred lines a day,
and sent it to the prees rs it was writ
ten, published it with hardly . correc-
ton. Lope de Vega wrote three hum
dred dramas for the stage in one hum
dred days. The average amount Of his
work was nine hundred lines a day.
Voltaire wrote "Zaire, in three weeks,
and "Olympie" in six days; Dryden
wrote his code te st. Cecilia" at q sit
ting. The finest O: Elizabeth Barrett
Prowning's poems, "The Lady Geral-
dimes Courtship," was the work of
twelve hours. It was written to COM
plete the original two volumes of her
poetry, and to send out with her proofs
to America. Shekspeaxe was not one of
these slApldssh workers.; and Shaks-
peare, With his thirty-four plays, has
conquered the world. Dickens, when
he intended to write Chriatmas story,
shnthimseH mp for six weeks, lived the
lie of q hermit, and came ont looking
a. haGgard q . ma1derer. Tom Moore,
with an his e9erysseeuce and spark'e,
thought Il qusck eolk u he added sew
euty lines 70 % Ealls nokhs IN week,
although Hying out Of the world in a
writing box IN the peak. Planche pro-
duceu his buf1eeque at an equally slow
rate, thinking ten or dozen lines q day
good work. The author of "Caste"
and School was one Of the slowest OF
workmen. Even Albany Eioublanque
often wrote his articles in the Examiner
six times over before he thought them
fit to go to press-it is said he wrote and
rewrote his 1.-Two Queens" eight times.
Tha. exquisite tribe of Kinglake's,
{" Eothen," was rewritten five or six
times, and kept in bis desk almost as
long Is Wordsworth kept "The White
Doe of Rylstone."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

saw himself the victim of his ambition
to possess a fine horse. which ultimately
cost him his life upon the scaffold, may
be easily conceived,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

A GREAT Ice SLDA- a correspond
emit Of the Scientific American, who re-
sides in Norway, states that, in the
eastern part of the country, large guam
titles of ice are gathered and stored in
the ordinary manner, during winter, for
shipment abroad. Last summer com
pany tried to make the vast glaciers
near Bergen supply the ice; to that eff
feet a shoot made of spars was built,
starting at an altitude of 1900 feet,
running down the ford, the whole
length being 5000 feet; the incline
varies from l in to in feet. At the
lower end, the shoot runs level for
short distance and terminates in a shed,
at which the vessels are loaded. The
blocks of ice make the run in 4 minutes,
although the speed is checked at several
places. The average velocity of the
ice blocks is "a miles an hour The ice
is of fine quality. and the supply is,
of course, next TO inexhaustible.
JoLLIBoY-" say, waiter, which did
You put in first, the water or the spir-
its ?" Waiter" Whisky. sir and You
told me to ill it up" Jolliboy-"Ob,
that's all right l haven't come to The
whisky vet "
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In a GOndOla.

Susan Coolridge writes: "Would
you know how gondolas are ordered
in Venice? You step out on the balco-
ny and call eGiscomo + Instantly fro m
below comes the response, AT your
service, SignoraP and the gondols,
your little private carriage, shoots to
the door. We are fond of our Giacomo,
who was a stout, handsome fellow, with
face and arms dyed by the sun to
beautiful lumber brown. He affected
bright colors, and his orange and red
awning, his yellow shirt and scarlet
cash, made, when taken in connection
with his brown face, a vivid bit of
moving color which was joy to see.
This evening, my evening, We were
without awning, and 1 was glad of my
parasol as We shot into the Grand
Canal, which was all dazzle of gold
and red from the sun, as yet good
way above the horizon. Where will you
Go to the other side of the Giudecca,
and I'll choose q place. Another
second and We were gliding towards
the Giudecca, which is the widest of all
the Venetian canals. The motion of a
gondola is unlike any other motion in
the world. Smooth, swift, effortless,
without jar or culver, without apparent
motive power (for the oarsman is be-
hind and out of vie W, it is very bliss
of movement like birds flight, like
darting fish, or, better still, like pro-
gress by volition, turning, swerving to
right, to left by the power of thought.
Giacomo has poetry in his nature. He
rowed softly, and did not speak TO break
the spell of silence as we moved on.
Leaning over the side of the gondola 1
could see the swaying figure reflected
in the blue camel, distinct red and
yellow shadow. On the other hand was
the SUD, ball of fiery gold floating in
an intense pink sky. The light was too
vivid could not look, and closed my
eyes, but still the color pursued me and
danced in almost painful brilliancy upon
my BRAIN"
SIBERIAN ExILEs. May and
October, 1874. there were babished to
Siberia, 16, 889 persons. OF these I'M
fortunates, 300, being criminals of the
worst description, were sentenced to
hard labor, and !, 1874 had been expelled
from their communities as obnoxious,
drunken, or burdeDscme. These exilPs
were voluntarily accompanied by 1,080
women and children over Is years of
age, with l, 269 younger children. Ten
years ago the number of criminals ex-
lied to Siberia in n twelve onth was
ten times greater than the above total,
which shows either diminution of
crime or n merciful mitigation of pun
ishment.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

THE Shakers are not making much
Roadway in Paris. 1t is said that IS 600
babies are born there every year.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

AN Iowa lady concludes an anti-suf-
frage lecture as follows "You may
look at this matter in Whatever light
You like, but simmer il down and il is
but quarrel with the Almighty that
we are not all men,"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

IDnENEss is the dead sea that swal-
lows up all virtues, and the self-made
sepulchre of living man. The idle
man is the devils urchin, whose livery
is rags, and whose diet and wages are
famine and disease.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

A GIRL was smothered to death while
on a sleigh ride near Bangor, Me-, on
one of the reeentintspsely cold nights.
frolic, filing . long sleigh. This girl
grew very cold, and to keep her warm
her sweetheart wrapped her closely in a
huge blanket, covering her head and
face. Too drowsy and benumbed to
stir, she sufEoca'ed without her COM
panions being aware that she was dying.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-06

A KANSAS hypochondriac, meditating
upon the death of a dog-fancier in his
neighborbood, gives vent to the mourn
full thought sour great men are Pc
te,ine out sort O. rapid like these times.
Whisky kills most OF 'em some tum-
BILE overheard, and 'casionaily one gets
HING"
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HOME INTERESTS.

To STUFF FILLET OF VEAL.-Take
a slice or two of the fillet and a few
slices of pork, chop these very fine, add
sweet herbs, pepper and salt; if the
pork does not make it soft enough, moist
en- it with an egg.
CHICKEN CELERY.-Boil chickens /;
when cold, take the meat fromthe bones,
chop it fine with the yelks of nine eggs
boiled hard, two heads of celery chopped,
add sweet oil, mustard, cayenne, little
salt; mix it well together.
CHOCOLATE FOR THE SICK.-When
an invalid uses chocolate it should be
made in the ordinary way and then suf-
fered to stand until cold. The oily part
collected on the surface should be taken
off Then boil the liquid again, and
sugar and milk as usual.
GOOD ROLLs.-2 quarts of flour, and
of sugar, lard and yeast half a cup each.
A pint of boiled milk. In winter make
up at night; in summer, in the morning.
AT noon roll it out, cut with goblet
and roll up; let them rise till tea time.
Put a good many in the pan so they will
not spread.
BOILED CABBAGE SALAD.-BOil a Sa-
voy cabbage until tender; then drain
and chop it. Serve with salad dress
ing made out of 2 hard-boiled eggs
mashed very fine, teaspoonfuls of
thick, sour cream, teaspoonful of mix
ed mustard, ! teaspoonful of salt, 2 Ia
blespoonfuls of vinegar Stir till per-
fectly smooth and turn over the cab
bage.
POTTED MEATs.-It sometimes hap
pens to the ladies, from some unforeseen
circumstances, that large quantities Of
cooked meats, prepared for a party
which did not come off, perhaps, re-
main on hand, which are measureably
lost. Such should be ported. Cut the
meat from the bone and chop fine, and
season high with-salt and pepper, cloves
and cinnamon. Moisten with vinegar,
wine, brandy, cider and Worcestershire
sauce, or melted butter, according to
the kind of meat or to suit your own
taste. Then pack it tight into stone
jar, and cover with about quarter OF
an inch of melted butter 1t will keep
months and always afford a ready and
excellent dish for the table.
THE QUEEN OF ALL PUDDINGs.-
Soak teacup OF tapioca and tea
spoonful of salt in tumblerfuls OF
warm (not ho0 water for an hour OF
two, till softeHed. Take away the skin
and cores of apples without dividing
them, put them in the dish with sugar
in the holes, and spice if the apples are
without flavor, not otherwise. Add q
cup of water, and bake till the apples
are softened, turning them to prevent
drying, and then pour over the tapioca,
and bake long time, till all looks a
brownish yellow. Eat with hard
sauce. Do not fail to bake long time
This can be extensively varied by mix
ing chopped apples, or ounces, OF
oranges, or peaches, or any kind OF
berries, with the tapioca; and then
sugar must be added according to the
acid of the fruit, though some would
prefer it omitted when the sauce is used
The beauty may be increased by acovel
of sugar beaten into the white of eggs
and then turned to a yellow in the oven
Several such buildings can be made al
once, kept in cool place, and, wher
wanted, warmed over; many relish il
better when very cold Sage can be
used instead of tapioca.
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scbenck,s Mandrake Pills

viii be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attacks,
prompt to start the secretions of the liver, and
give healthy tone TO the entire system. Indeed,
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science to
have invented a remedy for these stubborn COM
plants, which develop all the results produced by
heretofore free use Of calomel, mineral justly
dreaded by mankind and acknowledged to be de-
structive in the extreme to the human system.
That the properties Of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues of caOmel without its injurious ten
denotes is now an admitted fact, rendered indis-
putable by scientific researches; and those who
use the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines are those provided by nature in
the common herbs and roots of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct oil bill
iOus arrangements without salvation any of the
injurious effects of ealomel or other poisons.
The secretion of bile is promoted by these pills as
will be seen by the altered color Of the stools and
disappearing Of the sallow complexion and cleans
ing Of the tongue. ...--
Ample directions for use accompany each box of
pills. .-zlEErIs 80
Prepared only by J. IT, Schenck & Son, at their
principal Office, corner Sixth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia and for sale by all druggists and deal
ers. Price 25 cents per box. -t'
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they babe adieu to the good people Of
Bismarck and started on their Journey,
with a full stomach and light hearts,
happy with the thought that in three
days they would bring up at Headquar-
tiers Hotel, Fargo, a distance of 200
miles, where they could rest a day before
seating themselves in the comfortable
coaches of the Northern Pacific, and be
whirled along their journey. After be-
ing out few hours and getting pretty
tired, an idea suggested itself which
proved blessing during the rest Of the
journey. MIR. Rusk had an ~ A - tent,
and with it they made a sail, which re-
lieved them from the hard work of
pumping and gave them leisure to
view the objects of interest along the
route. Old Boreas proved to have bet
ter supply of wind than they did them
selves, and they bowled along at speed
that sometime made their hair stand on
end, making the distance from Bismarck
to Fargo in seventeen and a half hours
an average of II miles an hour. Mr..
Walker, the operator here, informed
the operator at Bismarck of the time of
their arrival, and the quick trip excited
general astonishment among those who
are posted on the beauties of hand-car
travelling generally.
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HOW Doctors Differ.

A patient has dull, heavy feeling about
the head, with a dizzy, whirling sensation
when rising up suddenly, bad taste in the
mouth, with foul breath, a feeling like a load
on the stomach after eating, with faint,
sll-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach
that food will not satisfy, pains about the
side, back or shoulder, hands and feet some
times cold and clammy, alternating with hot
fushes, sour eructations from the stomach,
eyes tinged with yellow, blood thick and
stagnant, with eostivc bowels, and all at
tendant symptoms. One doctor. examines
the case and calls If liver complaint, another
kidney disease, another dyspepsia, and still
another impurity Of the blood. Now the
fact is all Of these doctors are right and they
are all wrong, because such patients have
all of these diseases combined, and the
reason such diseases are not cured is because
the custom is to treat one of the diseases at
a time. While one is being cured the other
gets worse. We should treat the disease
with a remedy that will act upon all at the
same time. The SHAKER EXTRACT OF ROOTs
mot patent medcine) is so. made by the
Shakers as to effectually remove all of these
distressing symptoms. Sold by u. White,
3l9 Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted
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The Grizzly of Fort TETON.

The Southern Californian says: w.
w. Hudson, of Fort TETON, tells good
story of the grizzlies that infest the
mountains overlooking our valley.
Not long ago, while he had large lot
of mules in charge in the mountains, he
had in his employ an Irishman who had
never had an opportunity of staring at
a bear, and whose anxiety lest he should
be called upon to look one square in the
face kept him whistling whenever he
walked away from camp. One evening,
near dusk, when they started to sur
round the mules, passing through a
grove of low oaks, where the young
cubs spent most of their timein the trees
knocking off acorns, Hudson saw
large grizzly and Immediately started
for tree The Irishman, who was
nearest the bear, did not see her so soon,
but when she came up on her hind feet
she looked to be sixteen feet high, and
Pats hair rose in proportion. He
jumped about eight feet, which carried
away his hat, and started with lightning
speed for the nearest tree. As he caught
hold of the low branches, down came a
young bear plump on his launches
within a few feet of Pat. He dropped
from the limb and started for the next
tree, which he had no sooner reached
than down came another cub with
thud on the ground, and away went Pat
again, his hair on end, crying out,
" Howly Moses, it's rainin' grizzlies"
He went to the top of the tree before
he stopped and as soon as he could get
breath began to look around for his
companion. Seeing nothing of him, he
exclaimed, "Oh, Lord, they've got him;
Just swallowed him like huckleberry.
The old she bear walked under the
tree and cast look OF pity toward Pat.
"Oh, Lord!" said he, =" one is enough
for We tonight, and don't be looking up
here. Go and take care of your family.
can't bear to have any thing to do
with ye." To his great relief, the bear
walked away, his companion descended
cautiously to the ground and called to
Pat, who crawled out of his tree and
embraced his companion as if he had
come ont of his Grave