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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
Down with the Conventional Black Coat
and I'antRIOOns and White Vest and
N.RfS-

and I'aniaIoons and White Vest and
l'ravats.
A writer in fashion journal finds fault
with the masculine regulation dress suits,
as follows: "The dress coat and panta-
looms black, vest and cravat white, is the
mode for the ball, opera, state dinners,
theater, (for such rs go with ladies, and
not to cat pea-nuts), and evening enter
tainments in general that demand dress.
How Incidentally ugly it is! 1t is the
dress also of Il Underwater; sensible for
such an occupation and position, but that
it should also be the evening toilet for
gentlemen is too ridiculous. The only
true test of dress is art, and any costume
that will bear repetition neither in a pic
ture nor statue is false in its conception,
and should be numerically frowned down
by society. Test a gentleman's evening
dress by putting it either in picture or
a statute! 1t is skinny, stingy, utterly
devoid of grace, unindividual, uncharac-
teristic Look at salon! Women in
flowing robes of silk, velvet, satin, or
tulle, radiant in jewels and flowers. What
charm, what grace, what spirit of refine
ment, what genius and pride of civilian
ton and culture thrill the beholder. No
two alike possibly. The various require
ments of beauty are fulfilled in color; the
woman's character and personality are
stamped on her costume in its complete
ness. She has expended time and thought
on her dress, it is evident. 1t was the
tribute she owed to society, and she came
into it as she should, a priestess, in fitting
robes. And the priests! An army of
garcons from the Grand hotel would have
given precisely the same character to the
salon. And all these men to man hate
this dress, despise this dress, make fun of
it, feel like fools in it, and yet keep on
wearing it! Men and brethren, do you
think women-weak, silly, frivolous wo-
men-wouId endure for one year, this
tyranny of fashion that you have borne
so faithfully for fifty? Not bit of it.
They are not so weak-they are not so
strong. Let this be reformed. If there
is any one thing especially like it is re-
vOlution. And what revolution this
will DO! What Il fortune laid at the very
doors of the journalistic fry who go into
society to write descriptions of costumes,
What a spice, what fascination it will
give to the costume historians to be able
to inform the waiting world what sort of
lace Beecher has chosen for frills, the
color of VanderbiIt's velvet coat, the
precious stones that glittered in the
buckles of Tilden's pumps, the lovely |
of colors in Bierstadt's dress,
and the poetic charms of Emerson's cos
tune. Then salon will be picture
with the crows transformed
into golden pheasants. When shall it be?
What lady will immortalize herself by
opening such a salon? What man will |
De the Bayard of the new school of mas
.uline toilet?
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dat Tornady.U

| There were a dozen or more of them
seated IN front of the colored St Charles
and they were talking about tornadoes.
"De worstest tornady ever did see,'
remarked an old negro, "war sixteen
years ago, in Alabama"
"Did she blow much ?" inquired an
other
elbow much shoe niggers, but dat
was no deck passenger, dat tornady
Why sab, it jist lifts me right up to re-
member it ~
Eberyting went kitin,' ch !"
Kitin Dress you you poor ignorant
niger, but l seed mule lifted up like a
fodder, an how fur dye 'spose it bIode
him? Jist gin a guess"
"One mile ?"
"Free miles ?"
Across de ribber!"
Into Il tree"
Each one in the crowd made a guess,
and when all were through the hoary-
headed old man repeated:
Niggers, you is all wrong. Dat tor
nady cum for dat mule, and howIed
around, an got under him, and lifted
him up, an he was blode list exactly
four inches by de watch, sure's YOU
Iive!"
There was a painful pause, and then
the crowd rapidly Trimmed out, while the
old man remarked:
" Four inches by the watch, and I'll
stick to dat statement if | die for it."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

and move and carry on his devilish plot
us safe from discovery as if he possessed
one of those malign charms that i'll olden
times were accredited to the human
agents of Satan. We turn from the cruel
story with modification at the made
ouacy of our methods of common pro-
lection, and with sorrow confess that, in
the stories of real life, the mystery and
power and romance are all with the vii
lains.
The trial at Westervelt, in Philadel-
phia, for being an accomplice i'll this plot,
leaves very little doubt in the public
mind of his relation to the principals.
But the conviction Is .orced upon every
thinking mind that from the very start
he PLAYED the deeper part by battling the
police at the very time he was supposed
to be aiding them. In word, one of
the principal police agents was himself
the confederate of Mosher. Two weeks
after the abduction of Charlie Ross, the
police of New York had satisfied them
selves that Mosher was the man. Indeed,
their conclusion was reached from two
widely-separated starting points. Pinker-
tons men had struck the trail In one
place and the men of the central office
had crossed it in another. There can be
no doubt now that if Pinkerton's men
had not also run across the path of the
New York detectives, and to avoid a
sguabble with the central office been
called off, Mosher would have been cap
turcd alive. The efforts to secure the
kidnappers and to discover the where
abouts of Charley Ross, were from that
time to the present confined to the exc
cution of a number of stock devices pre-
sented for all cases alike by the formula
of the central office.
Accident may some day reveal the story
of Charley Ross. Nobody now, for a
moment, dreams that the police will I'M
ravei it. 1t is a mystery, planted in the
full glare of the century, and in which
every mother and father in Christendom
is interested, a mystery which is incom-
patible with The age, and alike disgrace
full to our era and our civilization. But
it shows us how far superior is ordinary
craft devoted boldly to the accomplish
ment of given purpose to the hobbling
and INSTRUCTED intelligence which we
employ in the detection of crime.-N Y.
World.
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Desperate Fight with a Deer.

Yesterday afternoon three young wO-
| men, residing near the big brink pool, in
Shohola township, Pa, started to go ber-
rying. They were obliged to cross the
pond to reach the woods Before entering
| the boat they saw something in the dis
lance swimming in the water. Thinking
it was a dog they paid no further atten-
| ton to it, but started on their way across
| the pond, which is about two miles wide.
| After rowing for several hundred yards
the girl who was plotting the boat saw
that what they first thought to be Il dog
swimming in the water was a buck, which
was coming directly toward them. Hav-
ing clumsy pair of oars it was some
time before the boat could be turned, and
then the deer had reached to within few
yards of them The girls became greatly
| terrified, for the deer was fast gaining on
them, and from the way it snorted and
| plunged they were satisfied it meant mis-
| chief While the one rowed, with all
their might the other two padded, thus
somewhat increasing their speed; but the
| deer was slowly gaining on them, and,
knowing they could not reach the shore
before being overtaken. they ceased row.
ing to prepare for the inevitable battle
When the deer, snOrting and plunging
had reached to within few feet of the
boat, it stopped for moment. Then it
made sudden plunge, and as its head
struck the side of the boat the brave girls
brought down their raised paddles upon
it with such force as to drive it under
water. The girls again raised their only
weapons, and as the head rose to the sur
face they again brought their paddles to
bear upon it with the same result.
When the deer again raised from the
water it seemed to realize that this was
to be the death-struggle, and its eyes
cleaned like balls of fire. 1t made
lunge and threw its fore feet over the
side of the boat, near the oar-locks. This
nearly capsized the clumsy craft and
throw AIet-sio Jordan, tire eldest of tho
three, into the water; but as she fell she
caught the edge of the boat, and was
hauled in by one of her companions.
Then the heroine at the cars, as she felt
the animals breath in her face, raised
paddle and struck for her life, and, as the
blow fell across the doors head, the blood
started from its nostrils and it sank back
helpless and seemingly dead, but really
only stunned. The girls then started for
the shore, leaving the deer struggling,
between life and death, in the water
Reaching the shore, one of the girls
ran to a small log cabin, one-eighth of
mile distant, in which lived family by
the name of Berger, and told what had |
occurred. Mr.. Berger seized his rifle and |
went to the pond, where be found the
wounded deer yet struggling in the water,
a few rods from the shore. He rowed out
to it and, Selling it by the antlcrs, cut its
throat, and then lowed its body to the
shore. The deer was the largest ever
killed in the neighborhood, weighing 227
y. SIN.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

SCIIESCk'S fULMDS1C SYRUP,
SCHENCK's SEA WEED Tonic,
ScHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS
Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
Consumption. .
Frequently medicines that will stop cough will
occasion the death of the patient they lock the
liver stop the circulation of the blood, hcmOrrhaSt
follows and in fact, they clog the action of the vel
organs that caused the cough
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the causes OF
two-thirds of the cases Of Consumption. Many per-
sons complain of a dull pain in the side, constipation
coated tongue, pain in the shouder-bade, feelings
Of drowsiness and restessness the food lying heavily
the stomach, accompanied with acidity and bech-
ing up of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from dis
ordered condition of the stomach torpid liver.
Persons affected, if they take one or two heavy
colds and if the cough in these cases be sudden
checked, will find the stomach and liver clogged,
remaining torpid and inactive, and almost before
they are aware the lungs mass OF sores, and
liberated, the result of which is death
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an expectOrant which
does not contain opium anything calculated to
check cough suddenly.
SCHEMES Sea Weed Tonnes dissoves the food,
mixes with the gastric juices of the stomach, aids
digestion, and creates Il ravenous appetite.
When the bowels costive, skin sallow, or the
symptoms otherwise of bilious tendency, SCHESk 5
Mandrake Pills required
These medicines prepared only by
J. ii. SCHESCK Son,
N +. corner of Sixth and Arch Streets Phila.
And are for sale by all druggists and dealers.
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Housekeepinp.

In one of her contributions to current
literature, Jennie June" says that Their,
Is no habit more disastr ous to good house
keeping than that of allowing the hus
band to do the markcting-sen in the
supplies. Not that he may not be gen.
crous, what is called good provider''
like the one who ordered home a barrel
of yeast, because his wife had taken a
fancy to have homemade bread; but he
acquires the habit of disbursing the en-
tire income according to his own tastes
and ideas, and no matter how liberal he
may be to begin with, he will grow into
questioning and disputing every item of
which he himself does not exactly see
the importance, until it will become too
great humiliation to press any need
upon him; life will lose all its rest, and
the wife become mere working drudge,
or the idle recipient of whatever her hus-
band chooses to bcstow
HOusewifcry as an art is considered of
less Importance, at the present dav, than
formerly, because so much is now done
that once depended upon the skill and
industry of the housewife To perform.
But if the housekeeper has less of handi-
work she requires to bring more of the
knowledge of schools, more capacity for
directing, more of the higher kind of
ability to her work, and
has, moreover, not untrequently, the
double part to perform of assisting in
finding the means, as well as dispensing
fer the benefit of her household. To
these and such other novel conditions rs
the housckeeper may encounter, she has
TO adapt herself, and if she fail to accom-
plish all that may be demanded of her,
!, g., IL l..
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

BEATTY OF FARMING.-Therei is moth
ing mean about farm work. There is
nothing ungcncrous or ungratcful in the
stock. There are no such sore and sour
things To deal with as we meet every dav
among mean men. Dcfaultcrs, liars. and
thieves have no place on the farm. These
miserable characters are in towns. The
farmer ought To he Il good man. He has
less temptation to he bad man than
any character we know Of All his work
is cnnobling, his contact with nature.
His dealing is with old earth, which is
the mother of us all, and which will take
us all into her kindly arms again, when
lifc's fitful fever is over
o.. it is delightful to turn the back
upon anxious, quarrelsome, struggling
men, and look upon the greenfelds, and
commune with the honest cattle, and live
with nature and her children. The
noble work is worthy Of Il noble
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
Aud Lang Syne.

go YOU are here again, Sarah Mon
roc?' hailed his honor as the next prisoner
appcared-a woman who has been at the
station twenty times a year.
''Sarah Monroe?' she repeated; ono,
sir-my name is Mrs. johnson, and | live
in Toledo"
Pooh-pooh! Haven't I seen you
here a score of times, SARAH
"No, sir-I was never in the city till
last week"
"Git out, I'd know that nose of yours
if I was to meet it in Delaware and the
train was running sixty miles an hour.
You were intoxicated again last night p
81 know now where your mistake is, !"
she said, smiling blandly. "don't you re-
member that knew you when you were
boy about so high"
"No, madam"
"WeI, I did. Don't you remember
how we used to wade in the creek, swing
on the gate, and go berrying?
"No, madam"
"You don't? Why, it seems hardly a
month ago since we rode down hill and
you helped me build play-houses. All.
Judge, don't you wish we were young
againT
"Mrs. Monroe, you can't play that on
me. What about this CHARGE"
And YOU were such sweet child, y
she continued; chad such tender ways
with you! All. I'd give four dollars to
be little girl again and have you draw
me around in wheelbarrow, as you used
tor
"And I'll give you six months, Mrs.
Monroe, and if Bijah don't stop grinning
I'll take care of him as we'll"
"You'll send me up?"
"Yes''
"An old childhood friend?"
"The same"
"And didn't used to say you'd come
to the gallows?' she sighed, as she re-
entered the corridor.
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The Charley Ross Story.

The Charley Ross story, which by this
time is looked upon by all the fathers
and mothers of the country as the most
heartless and terrible crime of our era,
has unfolded, in the slow and uncertain
methods of the law, details of iniquitv
that must make every readers blood
both freeze with horror and boil with
Indignation. The letters of these kid
nappers are, without doubt far ahead of
anything the Imagination of Sue or Rev
nolds fabricated for the special delight Of
their morbid readers. 1t would be folly
to 90 back to fiction for astounding bold
ness, crafty and mcrcenary rascality COM
bined, so long as our courts can present
us with such records as these. No i'm
aginary plot can equal i'll defiant vilainy
and successful mystery this actual oc-
currence. Mosher and his confcdcrates
worked against the most fearful odds,
and, 80 far IA the fate of Charley Ross is
concerned, they fulfilled their threat and
won. 1t was, without exception, the
most daring challenge that rascality had
ever made to our authorities And our
authorities had everything on ther side
The boy for long time must have been
alive, must have been carried by human
means from point to point, and during
that time, while the attention of the
entire American people was called to his
case, while his features and general ap-
pcarancc were made familiar to every
body by photographs and descriptions
circulated broadcast in circulars and
and the police of dozen
cities were stimulated to the utmost by
offers of reward and the eagcrness of the |
public, while we may say 100000 OF |
Eyes were looking for the lad and for his
lbductors-these secure miscreants who |
.arried him off were negotiating with |
he parent through the public press. II
Gems incredible now, with the advan-
age of telegraphs and all the skill of the
'olice the country affords, with the com
nunity itself turned into an Argus-eycd
watcher, that this young man could live
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
Bank of England Counterfeits.

In the report OF the parliamentary Sc
Iect committee on banks of issue some
very curious information is given about
forgerics on the bank of England A
table was prepared for the committee by
the bank officials, stating the number
and kinds of forged notes presented at
| the bank for the past seventy years. In
the early part of the century these for
gcries were very common. The Il
note was the flvorite with counterfcitcrs.
In 1920, $4,000 false notes of this de-
nomination were presented at the bank,
with small proportions of higher NOM
| inal value Since 1929 there has been a
rapid decline in the circulation of coun-
| terfeits of all kinds on the bank of Eng
land, and in 1874 only 81 countcrfcited
Il notes come to light, and So of other
denominations. The forged 81 notes ap-
pear to be mostly the work of the former
age For fifty years the bank has ceased
to issue this denominations The new
| countcrfcits which appear are chiefly of
the e5 note. OF these twcntv-seven
were presented in 1874, against 7I5 in
1920. The total face value of all the
counterfeits in the latter year was f33a3,-
6S2, against e475 in 1874. This remark
able contrast is almost wholly owing to
the unsparing energy of the bank of
England in discovering and arresting
those who tamper with its issues, and
the very severe penalty inflicted on con-
victed counterfeiters. The paper, the
watermark, the engraving, and the signi-
lures offer no obstacle to the ingenuity
of roSues. These can all be inflated
but bold is the man who dares to take
the chances of bringing the bank sleuth-
hounds on his back. They will follow
him all over the world to catch him;
and on his conviction he is sent to pris-
on from which there is no escape through
political influence or executive clemencv.
If the government of the United States
would exhibit Il little more of this apti-
tudc for chasing up and arrcstin@ coun-
tcrfeItcrs-not at intervals to make Il
sensation, but continuously-we should
hear but little complaint of forged notes
in circulation.-N Y..jomnalcf Commerce.
THE INTELLIGENT CoMPosIroE TALKS
BAcK.-An exasperated and sarcastic
blacksmith " who sets type in Cairo,
writes; "Who ever heard tell of an cdi- |
tor making an error during his whole cdi-
torial career? No one. The merchant
swears at the printer; 80 does the occa-
slonal correspondent humbug, who writes |
about the people, sovereignty tyr
amy, etc; 50 docs the cheerful hero
glyphical prodigy, the associated press
agent; and those intolcrIbe frauds, the /
poctcss and poet of the city; the man
whose friends desire that he should he
mayor; the individual who received Il
benefit and stuffed watch for his bril-
liant talents, and in his card of thanks
used the glittcring commonplace, the an
tlquatcd and excessively vain pronoun
> thus in fact the printer ,rrts
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

As intelligent and thoughtful care for
others can do it. The best men have
paid eloquent tribute to the good wives
and able housckeepcrs who relieved them
from minor cares, and if food and other
essentials of existence can do much to
help, when they are all right, it must not
he forgotten that they can do as much to
hinder, where they are all wrong.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
The Most De-ir.bIe Stove to Buy.

ALL our customers agree in saying that the
CHARTER OAK is without doubt the best
Cook Stove they ever used or sold, and be-
leve its large, high oven, ample warming
closet, and excellent reservoir make it the
most desirable stove that a housekceper can
hIIx-
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WHAT'S NEEDED.

DoSToS, To- Ell
Mr.. II. II. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-About one year since found my self in a
feeble condition from general debility. FEGETINE
strongly recommended to me by "A friend who had
been much benefited by its 1 procured the arti-
Gle and, after using several bottles restored
health, and discontinued its feel quite conf
dent that there is medicine superior to it for those
complaints for which it is especially prepared, and
would recommend il to those who feel that they need
something to restore them q health.
Respectfully, yours, U. l.. PETTlNGILL,
Firm of 5. l.. Pettngi Co., IOState Street. Boston.
Ncgetine extends its influence into part of the
human organism, commencing with it's foundation
correcting disea action md restoring vital powers
creating health formation and publication of the
blood, driving out disease, and leaving Nature
perform its allotted task. Vegetine sold by all
druggists
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

FIRST Grand EXPOSITION of the Tradesmens
Industrial Institute, Pittsburg Pa.,opens Oct.
Z, closes Nov. 6. Address A. j. Nellis, Pres.
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cONsUMPTION CAN BE CURED.

DR.. TUFTS PILLS relieves the most obstinate
cases Of Constipation, cures Piles whether internal
or external. They produce nausea.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

lN putting mp stove-pipe remember
that the elbow WAS made to fit the oven
door, and that siy blows from an aX will
knock thunder and lightning out Of amy
Joint.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

SAVING SEED CoRN.-In gathering
corn, take such ears only rs are finest
from the most prolific stalks. Never
take from stalk having but one ear, if
large and thrifty stalks can he found with
two or more good-sized ears Generally
but one of them is fit for seed, and that
usually the second from the ground; but
if the lowest is the best, take that. AL
ways take the ears that are filled out to
the end, and that run beyond the husk,
if such can he found. When you come
to plant, before Smelling, break every ear,
and see if the pith of the cob is dried
up, for, if it is not, the corn is not ripe.
MANY valuable horses die from the
effects of collie. The best thing to do in IA
ease of this kind is to pour bottle of John
sons Anodyne Liniment into a long-necked
junk bottle, add half-pint of molasscs and
water, then pour the whole down the horse
throat In ten minutes the horse will begin
to eat,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

NEGETINE does not deceive invalids
into false hopes by purginl and creating fictitious
appetite, but assists in clearing and purif
the whole system, leading the patient gradually to
perfect heath.-Com
Parsons Purgative Pills will greatly
relieve, if not entirely cure, dyspepsia when
everything else fails. They have been tried
in some desperate cases, and have given
more relief than any other medicine.
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q, if the good deeds ofhuman creatures
could be traced to their source, how beau
tiful would even death appear; for how
much charity, mercy, and purified afcc-
ton would he seen To have grown i'll dusty
graves ,-DickcnS.