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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
Space in Planting Corn.

There is more or less disagreement "a
to the distance corn should be planted
apart, and the number of stalks in q
hill. Good crops are realized from
three and half feet planting, three to
four stalks in hill. Better have been
grown, as I have witnessed, with the
rows four feet apart, including the hills
(Which makes the space between the
hills about three and half feet), with
three to four stalks in the hill, the diff
ference in this case being mainly in the
greater number of ears grown, usually
two to a stalk, and large at that, the
larger space between the hills giving
chance for the sun and air to circulate.
have also Witnessed growth of corn
where the space between them was but
half that last mentioned. It was on
soil which for several years had grown
large crops of carrots, and was specially
favorable to corn, being black, highly
manured and deeply rich, a we'll drained
alluvial deposit. There resulted an
immense growth of stalks, but no corn,
although it was the intention of the
owner, confidently expressed, TO raise
an unusually superior crop. 1t was n
failure, save in the amount of fodder it
made. In that it paid, so great was the
growth. We want the sun and the fresh
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

HEART DfsEAsr.-Many persons suf-
fer with heart disease without knowing
it-suddenly they drop of, and their
friends are astonished, on post NOR
tenn examination. to learn that they
died of heart disease. The heat, like
the brain, is the seat Of ife-its dis
eases are of several characters. The
most common are valvular disease, fatty
degeneration, and functional derange-
ment. If the liver becomes deranged,
and digestion is impaired. the heart,
through sympathy and juxtaposition,
becomes abnormal. The following symp-
toms indicate approaching disease ;
palpitation, giddiness, faintnees, ner-
vous prostration, deranged digestion,
vertigo, cold extremities, etc., etc, for
which the old school will administer
iron, opium, anthony, mercury. and
many other mineral poisons. Heart
disease is blood disease-purify the
blood remove distractions to limpid
circulation by taking that Vegetable
Alternative, Vinegar Bitters, and you
will be sound person in two or three
months.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

IT is now proposed that since the use
fulness of whales has largely diminished
through the discovery of mineral oils
for Illuminating purposes, the animals
might be domesticated and employed
for towing ships.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

return home for bottle OF Johnson's Ano-
dyne Lniment which we gave him, and which
he says has entirely cured him of the trouble
some and dangerous cough he had when here.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

air in our corn as in our fruit trees.
That result being secured, we can plant
as close as we please.-Cor. Country
Gentleman.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

THE most stylish collar that is worn
now is the Improved Warwick. 1t fits better
than any other on low cut shirt. All the
edges being folded and the surface looking 80
much like linen, we recommend all to try
it. Ask your gents furnisher for the Inn
proved Warwick
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
Modern Women.

1t is q sad commentary upon our boosted
civilization that the women Of our times have
degenerated in health and physique until they
are literally race Of inva1ids-pale, nervous
feeble and back achy, with only here and there
q few noble exceptions in the persons Of the
robust, buxom ladies characteristic Of the sex
in DAYS gone by. By q very large experience,
covering period Of years, and embracing the
treatment of many thousands Of cases Of
those ailments peculiar to women, DIR. Pierce,
of the Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. has
perfected, by the combination of certain veg
etable extracts. q natural specific, which he
does not extol as a cure-all but one which ad-
mirably fulfills singleness Of purpose, being
q most positive and reliable remedy fer those
weaknesses and complaints that aff1ict the
women of the present day. This natural
specific compound is called DIR. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription. The following are among
those diseases in which this wonderful medi-
cine has worked cures as if by magic and with
cines Weak ack, nervous and general debil-
ity, falling and other displacements of inter-
nal organs, resulting from debility and lack of
strength in natural supports, internal fever,
congestion, Inflammation and liberation and
very many other chronic diseases incident to
women. not proper to mention here, in which,
as well as in the cases that have been enumer-
ated, the Favorite Prescription effects cures
the marvel OF the world. 1t will not do harm
in any state or condition of the system, and
by adopting its use the invalid lady NAV avoid
that severest of ordeals-the consulting Of a
family physician. Favorite Prescription is
sold by dealers in medicines generally.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
AGRICULTURE.
Fat In the Best Grasses.

Prof. Way, for many years chemist to
the Royal agricultural society OF Eng
land, found six and half per cent. OF
fat in the best meadow grasses when
grown and growing, after perfect dry
ing. Allowing these grasses to ripen
their seeds, and then testing for fat, he
found only two per cent. of fat left
more than two-thirds was lost. 1t is
green and fat heritage that pays best
to fatten bullocks, wethers, dry ewes
and lambs for the London market.
Rich plant food improves the quality
of grass.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

THE military force in Manitoba CON-
sists of 40 officers and eighteen pri-
vate soldiers, and they talk of discharg-
ing ten of the soldiers 10 even things up.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

Foul Breath, Flatulence, Constipation, Bill
ious. Colick, Sick Headache, Indigestion, Pain in
the Pit of the Stomch are cured by TUFTS Pills.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

It is fact we'll known that farmers
colts are poorly wintered as q general
rule. There are exceptions of course.
We would have better horses If the colts
were better wintered.
The form and character of the colt is
formed in the first three or four years
of its life. Its character may be good
or bad it depends almost wholly upon
the handling to which it has been SUBJ
ject. Its form or build, depends, in a
great manner, on the way it has been
fed. There are more colts injured by
poor feeding in the winter than in the
summer, for the reason that there is
more pasture in the summer than fod-
der in the winter.
A colts build may be spoiled the first,
second or third winter by poor feeding,
and no amount of feeding afterward
will restore it to its original build.
When it has arrived at q working age,
it is not only ugly and ill-shaped, but
its value is also below par.
We import stations at many thou
sands of dollars apiece, for the improve
ment of our stock, which is money
almost spent in vain, and will continue
to be spent, until we, as class, winter
our colts better. Colts should be
housed through the cold, rainy days of
the fall, and when it is pleasant they
should run out. In winter they should
have liberal allowance of hay. They
should also have few oats. Oats are
better than corn for they make bone.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
ON the death of one of England's

On the death of one of highlands
most eminent physicians, all his effects were
sold by auction, and among other things was
sealed packet, marked "Advice to Physi-
clans" which brought great price. The pur-
Keep the head cool, the bowels open and the
feet warm" II physic is necessary, use Par
sons Purgative Pills; they are the most scien-
tifically prepared pill that has appeared in the
last hundred years.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
Curing Hay.

The Paris correspondent of the Amer
loan Farmer says an analysis made in
Belgium of two samples of hay. de-
rived from the same field, mown at the
same time, but saved differently, one
left thirteen days exposed to wind and
weather and the other housed in three
days, showed nine per cent. difference
in the soluble elements of what was
originally the same grass. Five-sixths
of the nutrition value of the long e1-
posed hay was lost. The wood IN the
stems of grass straw remains, but not
the substances that form the blood,
flesh and bones of farm stock.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30

THE UNHAPPY VMLAaE.-Show me
two villages, one EMPOWERED in trees
and blazing in all the glories of Octo-
Der, the other a merely trivial and tree
less waste, or with only a single tree or
two for suicides, and shall be sure
that in the latter will be found the most
starved and bigoted religionists and the
most desperate drinkers. Every wash
tuo and milk-can and grave-stone will
be exposed. The inhabitants will dis
appear abruptly behind their barns and
houses, like desert Arabs amid their
rocks, and shall look to see spears in
their hands. They will be ready to
accept the most barren and forlorn
doctrine,-as that the world is speedily
coming to an end, or has already got to
it, or that they themselves are turned
wrong side outward. They will per-
chance crack their dry joints at one an
other and call it a spiritual communion
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
The Hum0r Of Sarcasm.

The sting of sarcasm lies in the in
tention of the speaker, and one may
trust that the best of the pleasantries
over which succeeding generations have
made merry were uttered with enough
good humor to take most of the venom
out of them. There was surely a
genial smile on the face of M. d'Argen-
son when he congratulated his ignorant
nephew on his appointment as librarian
to the king, and observed that he would
now have fine opportunity of learning
to read. Illuminated with q gracious
smile must also have been the famous
retort of the projects wife upon Napo-
leon. She had been an object of gossip,
and Napoleon, meeting her at state
ball, rudely addressed her. "Well,
madam, are you as fond of men as
ever?" The poor lady had enough
presence of mind to answer "Yes,
sir, when they are polite ;" upon which
the emperor turned away rather alb
ruptly. And the alleged impertinence
of the celebrated Abernethy must have
been relieved with a grim humor and
bonhomie that took away much Of their
grossness. The duke of Norfolk, who
applied to him for treatment, probably
enjoyed as we'll as needed an heroic
diagnosis, for he VIGOROUSLY paid little
attention to his person. "Did your
Grace ever try a clean shirt ?" asked
the old doctor.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
Crafts from Bearing tt ees

Colman's Rural World has the follow
ing: "From long experience, We have
not been able to see difference whether
the ciops be cut from bearing trees or
young ones in the nursery. The whole
thing depends upon the stock upon
which the gratis are worked. Will take
the top of Seeding but one year old,
graft it upon bearing tree, and have
fruit the third year, nine times out of
ten while the same Seeding, if left to
grow to bearing, would, in all probable
i.y, take eight or ten years. We have
often gathered apples from nursery
trees when they were but three years
old, simply because in digging out
other trees near it, its roots got cut
somewhat. The reason that in old
times gratis bore, was owing to the
fact that the stocks they grated
were somewhat stunted. Vigorous
growth is always adverse to productive
ness. We never go to any trouble to
get gratis from bearing trees, if We are
sure of the variety but when any un-
certainty exists, by all means resort to
the bearing ones"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
A Breeding Mule.

The greatest curiosity at the famous
acclimatizing garden in tho Bots de
Boulogne, near Paris, is a mule that
drops a foal every year. The Chase
nlustree publishes an excellent likeness
of the mule, her two colts a: d their
sire, an African barb. The mother il
All Arabian mule, admirably formed and
gray in color. The sire of her colts is
a light bay, with a star. The first colt,
a FLY, now nineteen months old, was
foaled at Orleansville, Algeria, on the
23d of April, 1873. The period of ges-
tation was ten months and twenty. three
days. Her next, also a FLY, was foaled
at Paris, April %, 1874. The period of
CESSATION was eleven months and nine
teen days. The same mule is now in
foal to the handsome white jack SO much
admired at the Garden of Plants. The
two fillies, both iron-gray, with stars,
are much more like the sire than the
dam.
A fertile breed of mules may be de-
veloped like the fertile hybrid between
the American buffalo of the plains and
our common European cattle. This
Cross is valueless; but if all female
mules would raise colts the advantage
would be worth millions to the farming
interest.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
Blue Grass.

A correspondent of the Iowa Live
Stock Gazette says that it is a fact that
many varieties of seed lose their vitality
but a short time in dry state. By
cutting and sowing as soon as cut, it
will generally prove successful where it
is sown on land that has been we'll
tramped by cattle, and the vegetation
mostly killed out. Sowing on old pas
lures where the cultivated grasses have
been partially killed out, is very good
plan for starting blue grass. Sowing
on the ground with no covering is the
most natul al as we'll as most successful
plan with all kinds of grass seed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16
Large Families.

The editor of the Brunswick (Me. }
TtlegrGph has been investigating the
matter OF the size of some of the FIench
Canadian families employed in the mills
at that place, and gives a few of the
facts he has asceftained. He says:
"There is family at work in the cotton
mill which consists of father and mother
and twenty-four children, all the chill
dren large enough being at work. The
woman is the fourth wife. A brother of
the husband living with his fifth wife in
Montreal, has twenty-five children.
Three families arrived here last week to
go to work in the mill, and they number,
all told, thirty-seven persons. A lady
friend Of ours. few days since, met a
French woman, vino, looking at the babe
il the carriage, said to our friend, Il
have go. fifteen Of those. The only pos
sible reply of the lady with the one babe
was, Gracious Ten, and twelve, and
fifteen children are by no means uncom-
mon III the French Canadian families,
but twenty-four is little above the aver
age"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16

be well if he would leave Naples
with as little delay as possible. This
forced murder-for such it really was
lay upon his conscience to the end OF his
life, and filed it with one long remorse
"a living nightmare-for that scene
was always present in his mind. The
change that had so long puzzled us
puzzled us no more. He could not carry
his secret to the grave with him, so gave
it into our keeping.
"It's terrible story !"I exclaimed.
"And, unlike most terrible stories, it
is true" he answered. "Come out for
a breath of fresh air and sunshine, to
blow this gloomy subject from our
senses. ."-PictOridl World.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16
The Simeon of the Desert.

1t is generally thought that the simoOH,
or sand whirlwind, destroys entire cara
vans by burying them alive. But Father
Charmetant, a Roman Catholic mission
airy in Africa says this is q mistake, ag
the sand is very light, and may be easily
shaken off. The greatest danger is the
breakage of the water skins. The hot
air which accompanies the simeon is sp
intense as TO cause the water to eTapdr--
ate so rapidly as to extend the skins xa--
til they break, and then the water is lost
In this way whole caravans can be lost.
One great danger of travelling III the des-
ert is the liability of being lost The
missionary tells the following incident e
remember TO have fallen into an e1-
ceedingly interesting conversation WITH
a very intelligent Arab. Whilst talking
we forgot ourselves, and allowed the rsat
of the caravan TO go on in front, wltllsrtt
taking heed of its movements.
Now il should be remembered thar tfie
desert is full OF sand-hills, behind vlsieh
il is easy to lose sight of the Yess
of your party. Suddenly the CONVERSE
ton was interrupted, and 1 perceived
that my companion was seriously fright
ened.
We we're lost. We tried in warn 1U 6t.
tain trace of our friends. The sand
had Immediately hidden the traces
of the camels and caravan.
We ascended one of the high sand en-
bankments, but all in vain not q living
creature was in sight.
Ny companion advanced, with hisNvcs
fixed upon the ground, as If seay,llsHs
for something. At the end of aber an
hour he exclaimed, joyfully, "Fatlxr.
we are safe. see the camels have bit,
ten these leaves" and he pointed 1a s.
little plot of wild absinthe plants.
We Immediately directed our course
TO the South, and presently heard the
noise of guns and shouts. Our payfy
was searching for rs in all directio,sl
and in state of utter CONSERVATION
When they saw us they were indeed ro.
joiced, for we had caused them txs
hours of the most terrible anxiety.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16
. A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE.

You seem TO be very much struck by
that picture" said my old friend the
Colonel (for, as / don't mean TO betray
family secrets, shall speak of him as the
"Colonel" only, at whose cozy nook in
Buckinghamshire / had quartered my
self for few days. The picture he al
luded to certainly had attracted an un-
usual amount of my attention, consider
ing that as rule, / am strangely
deficient in artistic taste.
Well, yes" / answered, my eye re-
turning to rest on that particular object
which had attracted il many times before; !;
regarding it as picture, l should say
it is by no means the best of your col
lection, but, regarding it as a portrait,
there is something about it that 'fetches'
me. 1t is not that the face is either
handsome or intellectual, but there is a
strange, weird something about it which
the artist seems TO have caught fresh
from the living face and transferred to
the canvas, and which all his after art
had failed TO paint out. "
The picture which gave rise to these
observations was that of man certainly
not past middle age, dressed in the fash
ion of the earlier period of the reign of
George LII. The face and figure, as re-
garded mere form and feature, were
commonplace enough; there was moth
ing sufficiently remarkable in the por-
trait to attract more than a passing OBJ
servation; indeed, on looking at it, you
felt it ought to represent kindly, genial
gentleman but somehow il didn't.
There seemed to be something behind it.,
working out through the painted eyes as
though it or they had seen what they
should not, and were haunted by some
awful mystery that would not be hidden
even in the grave. Turning my back
upon it / shifted the conversation, and
my friend seemed by no means dis
pleased to dismiss the subject. We had
long, gossipy chat ON many matters
interesting TO old friends who meet but
seldom, and with long lapses of time be-
tween. 1t was late before we could make
up our minds to separate. At last, as
left the room, candlestick in hand, j
could not help, against my will, casting
a furtive glance at the portrait; and
hastily shut the door behind me. was
dead tired, for / had come off a long
journey; but when got to bed it was q
long time before / could compose my.
self TO sleep, and when / did i was
troubled in my dreams. The portrait
had followed me upstairs, slipped into
the room after me. and tried to get into
the bed beside me; but, failing in that
went and leaned against the wall and
came out of the frame and climbed up &c
the top of my bed, hid the curtain folds
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-16
A Dogs Long Journey Home.

The Cincinnati Commercial asserts
that although the following story is not
sworn to before Justice of the Peace il
is strictly true " In August, 1872, Mr..
Grauel, the venerable gardener of Larz
Anderson, Esq, and Mr. Anderson's son,
Charles, were on prairie chicken hunt
in the neighborhood of Sheldon, III.
They had along with them Mr.. Grauel's
favorite imported dog Maxy. During a
hot, thirsty tramp one day, when the
stock of water with the party had been
exhausted, the dog was overcome with
with heat and fatigue. Poor Maxy was
lett for dead on the prairie, after the
body had been covered with freshly
plucked grass, aud other suitable funer-
al rites had been performed. On the fol-
lowing day the hunters passed that way,
and out of sympathy visited the grave OF
the dog. The body had disappeared.
The suspicion was aroused that, mayhap,
the burial was premature one, and ac-
cordinelv a search for Maxy was made,
but without success. The hunters lin
gered in the vicinity for several days,
and under an offer of a liberal reward,
village boys secured the prairie for the
body of the missing beast, though in
vain. and the unfortunate fellow was
given up for gone. On Wednesday last,
who but Maxy himself should run into
Mr.. Grauel's house, in this city. and
greet Mrs. Grauel in the same old friend
iy manner. But he was tottering on his
feet, and seemed sorely battered and
aged and thin in flesh. He gave no his
tory of his travels, or how he had spent
the three years away, or how he had