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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
The Jews of the Holy Land.

In recent sermon on the relation
of the Jews of modern times to Jeru-
salem and its inhabitants, preached by
the Rev. Professor Marks in the Berke-
ley street synagogue, London, he paid
a tribute of respect to Sir Moses Mon
tefiore for his benevolent and untirlng
work in the cause of the Jerusalemlte
Jews, and gave brief sketch of the
history of the Montefiore testimonial,
dwelling on the demoralized condition
of the Jews of the Holy Land, caused
by the disgraceful system of pauperlsm
prevalent among them, and deplorlng
the deceit which had been practIced
on the venerable baronet. lie sad;
Il hope that those whom am now
addressing will not fail of the manll-
ness and honesty of purpose, whenever
an opportunity is afforded, to raise
their voices in public, to speak out to
the full the truth of their convictions,
and to Use every means in their power
to prevent one of the most SINGLE
minded of philanthropists from be-
coming the dupe of sycophancy and
deception, and to help on the scheme
now afoat, us far us they can, so that
it may prove a solid and lasting good.
| do not recognize it in any way as
religious duty incumbent on Israel to
promote the settlement of a Hebrew
colony in Palestine. The final restor-
alton, as predicted by the prophets, is
not to be accomplished by human con-
trivance. On this matter scripture Is
positive and clear. jeremiah predicts
that the final ingathering is to he
marked by events so preternatural as
to eclipse those that attended the cN-
odus. At the same time it is much to
be desired that land so renowned MS
Palestine, for the memorable deeds
wrought them by Israel, should never
be wholly bereft of some CONGREGATIONS
of that race. What, however, is above
all things needful, is that the habits
and manners of the Hebrews who in
habit Palestine should be such rs wouIf>
reflect credit on the whole community,
and he in harmony with the high moral
element SO closely identified with the
utterances that issued from lbs
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
The Boys Rooms.

We wish especially, says Scribner's
to urge upon mothers the propriety of
giving up to the boys, as soon as they
reach the age of twelve or fourteen,
one room mot bedchamber), for whose
reasonably good order they shall be
responsible, and which they shall con-
slider wholly their own. The floor
should be unexpected, of oiled wood;
the furniture of the same material.
Let it be papered, curtained, decorated
according to the boys own fancy; if
the taste is bad, they will be interested
after awhile in correcting it. There
should be plain bookcases, big solid
table in the center, by all means an
open fire, and room after that for Joe's
printing press, or Charley's box of
tools, or Sans cabinet of minerals; for
chess and checker boards, or any other
game which is deemed proper. To
this room the boys should be allowed
to invite their friends, and learn how
to be hospitable hosts even to the ex-
tent of an innocent little feast now
and then. Father, mother and sisters
should refrain from entering it except
as guests; and our word for it, they will
be doubly honored and welcomed when
they do come.
Somebody will ask, no doubt, what
is-the use of pampering boys in this
way, or of catering to them with
games and company? Simply because
they will have the amusement, the
games and company somehow and
somewhere; and if not under their
fathers roof, with such quiet surround
ing as befit those who are to be bred
as gentlemen, the games may be gam
bling, and the company and supper
those which the nearest tavern affords.
As for the cost, no money is i'll spent
which develops in a right direction a
boys healthy character of idiosyncra-
sizes at the most periIous period of his
life, or which helps to soften and
humanize him, and to make more dear
and attractive his home and family.
If 1t can be i'll spared, let it be with
drawn for this purpose from dress,
household luxury, the sum laid by for
rainy day-even from other charities
and duties. We do not wish to help
the lad sow his wild oats, but take care
that the oats are not wild, and are
well sown.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER 4, 1875

growing up will not be as reliable, as
truthful, or as honest as are the ex.
slaves. The schools have given them
the little learning" always so danger.
Gus; through their newspapers they
have been made restless and pleasure
loving, and the few educated specimens
that have yet appeared have shown,
many of them, Il personal hostility to
the whites, and a dislike Of hard work,
which argues i'll for the future of a
State where they are in the majority.
They are, however, dying much more
rapidly than the whites, and this, COM
bined with emigration, will, within the
next decade, place the political power
again in the possession of the white
population consl.mmation devoutIy
to be wished.
HOW FARMERS WASTE THEIR MANURE
The Crop Reports of the Georgia
State Agricultural Department are in
structive documents, always containing,
in addition to consolidated returns from
all parts of the State, some useful in
formation or suggestions. Here is
what Mr.. James, the able and efficient
Commissioner says in his September
Report, on the waste of manure:
1t is Il matter of surprise, that only
fifteen per cent. of the farmers of
Georgia save, under shelter, the manure
from their stock. This is record of
deliberate and objectionable waste.
Animal manure exposed to the teaching
effects of rain, and. the evaporation of
the sun, lose large portion of their
soluble plant food. Experiment shows
that nearly one-half the value ofanimal
manures are lost by such exposure.
Farmers will consult economy by
shelteringall the manure saved on their
farms. In composing manures that
have been exposed, it will be necessary
to Use more concentrated material to
supply the waste thus occasioned
BY composing such manures, at least
six hundred of acid phosphate, and
fifty pounds of sulphate of ammonia
should be used to the ton, or six hun
dred pounds of an ammoniated super
phosphate, composted with one thousand
four hundred pounds of manure and
cotton seed.
LONG MOSS FOR IRISH POTATOES.
The Tampa Fla Guardian, of the
31st ult., says: "Mr. Samuel L. A.
Branch has given us Il novel way of
planting Irish potatoes and preparing
moss for mattresses at the same time,
which is indeed good idea: First
dig out your trenches as deep as you
desire them, then put a layer of green
moss at the bottom; cut your potatoes
and lay them on the moss, then put a
layer of moss over them and throw
over your dirt. Though the season be
extremely dry the moss will keep moist
sufficient to give you a larger yield of
potatoes than you ever had before,
white and clean rs if they had been
freshly washed in water, and the moss
is now thoroughly dried and killed, and
by washing and beating it little you
have nice lot of moss ready for mat
tress-making." -
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NUMBER %.
Reflections in the Shade.

1t is related of Ant:eus who aspired
to wrestle with the gods, that if they
could by amy means induce him to leave
his mater terra, and grapple with them,
they found but little difficulty in worst
ing him; but so long rs he could keep
his feet firmly planted upon his native
soil, he was more than match for
them.
When men Outgrow their true posi-
ton, and aim to live remote from the
cares and duties of this world, like
Anteus, they lose their footing and
fall in the conflict of life.
In order to battle successfully, we
must never forsake our proper sphere
of action. IF we succeed in this
sphere, let it be what it may, if here
we have faithfully developed the ele-
ments of manhood which were i'm
planted within us by the Creator, we
secure a title to the rank of true
aristocrat. Nothing is more untrue
than the declaration of some that
riches form the basis of genuine aris-
tocracy. But suppose this to be so,
how many thousands are kept poor by
the silly attempt to ape the customs
and notions of the rich r? How many
more, who are rich, become poor be-
cause their vanity will not allow them
to keep what they have accumulated.
What grievous thing it is for these
kind of people to look back upon the
line of their ancestry.
Thirty years ago, this one butchered,
that one made guano or candles, an
other sold cheese, and a fourth kept a
rum-shop. Those moneyed aristocrats
are acquainted with both ends of soci-
ETY., as their children will be after
them, though it won't do to say so
aloud.
Often it is that these toiling worms
produce a gaudy butterfly that lives
but season. Death brings division
of property, and new generation of
financiers. The heirs-at-law take their
revenues and travel on towards pow
erty. A few good seasons of cotton
will send a generation of men up, and
score of years will bring them all
down, and return their children again
to labor. The father grubs and grows
IlCI, WIIlc Ills CIiltiIcll strut anu SDcnu
the money; their children inherit van
ity, a mean element of character, and 90
swift to poverty, while the fourth gen
Grafton, reinvigorated by the smell of
the clod, come up again. Thus. So
ciety, like a tree, draws its nourish-
ment from che earth. From the ]
springing sap comes the bud, the
blossom, the flower and leaf; these to
wither, to die and fall back again to
mingle with the soil and reappear in
new ties and fresh garniture.
The only true aristocracy is that of
merit--springing from no sickly pcdi-
gree of titled dignity, but from the
moral, intellectual aud social worth of
the individual
at is worth that makes the man,
The lack of it the tellO,c
And all the rest is leather and prunella." |
Sunny South.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
Old Time Detectives.

A New York paper speaking of the
inefiiciency and corruption of the detec-
tives Of the present time relates this
anecdote of Il detective of the last
generation:
One of our banks kept losing money,
only in small sums, yet the loss was
constantand mysterious. A celebrated
detective was called in. "Lct every
body leave the directors room," he
said. "Send in everybody, one by one,
who has had a chance to steal" So
the president, the cashier, the tclhrs,
the book-keepers and clerks had a pri-
vate interview with the detective.
Every one in the bank knew the pur-
pose of the visit, and all but one were
slightly nervous and uncomfortable I'M
der the searching questions of the
chief. The last who entered was a
nephew of the president. He walked
in cool, unembarrassed and Indifferent,
and with an air that said ''Toeeed."
He was dismissed us well as the rest.
The detective said not word, left the
bank, and in one week returned. He
had been shadowing the Presidents
nephew. In a clear, fair hml, was
written out the whereabouts of the
young man for the past six days, the
company he kept, what he dark, the
hours he spent on the road, his night
orgies, and all his movements Iy night
and by day. Nobody in the bank
knows to-day that the Presidents
nephew was the thief. That his health
was not good, that he was travelling in
Europe, and that his place in the
bank was filled by another was well
known. The bank was saved from
robbery, the family from (ishonor, the
commended for his skill and
prudence, and all TIE happier for a
check of 81 900.
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HOUSEHOLD HITS.

Silverware may be keptbright and
clean by coating the articles (warmcd)
| with a solution of colloGion diluted
with alcohol.
Milk PUNCH-Half pint of new,
rich milk, with some cream, three
tablespoonful of brandy, sugar and
nutmeg to taste. The secret of max
ing milk punch lies in the god shak-
ing you give the ingredients.
NEGETABLEsdo not ordinarily form us
large apart of the ordinary aIbsistcnce
of an American as thg should.
Whether cooked alone, orpintly with
out the cheaper pieces OF meat i'll the
form of Il ragout, they will always
serve Us a substantial means of nutri-
ton and tend to diminish the cost OF
household consumption.
APpLE-ToDDY.- One pint Of good
applc-brandy, one pint of good peach
brandy, one pint of good jamaica
spirits, sufficient water, sugar and nut
meg; pour over these quarter of =
peck of good apples, well baked, and
then Il little mashed. This toddy, bot
llcu ana put AWAY lor IL year, VIII nc
come remarkably fine.
WAsHING-DAY will insist upon max
ing lis unwelcome appearance once
week. The linen for Mondays wash
should be collected on Saturday, sorted
aud put to soak in cold water, accord
irg to the various kinds. The body
Enen should be put into one tub, the
bed and table linen into another, and
the fine things separately. Plain col
hrs, cuffs, wristbands, should be
strung through the button-holcs on a
piece of bobbin long enough for the
articles to be easily divided for rub
bang, starching, &c. Colored muslins,
prints and hanncl- must be lain aside
to hc washed in II different manner
from white cllico or linen. Properly
boihd strds are far better than soap for
washing, particularly if II washing ma
chine he employed. The suds should
be prepared in the following manner:
Shred into an carthenware jar the best
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yellow soap cut into very fine shavings,
and pour boiling water to the quantity
required. One pound of soap is
plenty for one gallon of water. Add
to this quantity half a pound of the
best Scotch soda, and set the jar Gov
ered) on a stove or at the back of the
kitchen range till the soap is quite dis
solved. If this be done on Saturday
evening the soap will be a smooth jelly
fit to use on Monday morning.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
The Sewing Machine MONOPOLY.

The prices asked for sewing ma
chimes, says the Philadelphia Times,
are usually beyond the means of the
poor, and even the monthly payments
demanded are surrendered by 50 many
possible losses in the way of chattel
mortgages that many who have strug-
gled to pay the first demand, and the
subsequent monthly stipend, not only
lose their machines but all the cash
they have already paid. Worse than
this, however, are the hypocritical sys-
tens we see advocated in advertise
ments of giving ladies work to pay for
their machines. One case presented
to us is exactly as follows: A lady Wis
tied an establishment of this sort and
was told that after paying the prelimi-
nary ten dollars the proprietor would
give her work enough to pay for the
balance of the machine. She paid ten
dollars and received nine dozen of
handkerchiefs to hem on it as the first
installment of work Taking these
back when finished, she was told that
she was credited with thirty-six cents
on her machine -four cents per dozen),
and that they had no more work at
present, so she must pay cash for the
machine. The lady indignant, refused
to do so, and the next day the propri-
etor removed her machine, declining
to refund her money. Thus she lost
her cash and time, and hemmed nine
dozen handkerchiets to pay for her
a woman of another
stamp, however, after having gone
through the same formula, closed her
doorand declined to permit its removal.
She said she had bought the sewing
on the condition that it was
to be paid for in sewing, and it was
their fault, not hers, that it was not
forthcoming. The driver Of the wagon
who went for it rang the door bell
until he broke it, and made sundry dis
agreeable demonstrations on the pave
ment, and, at intervals, the proprietor
makes her Il domicilary visitation, in
which he threatens sundry terrible
things, but as she still-holds out it is
probable that he will alternately find
sewing to be done.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04

FARM AND CITY,
And old farmhouse, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover ON each side;
bright-eyed boy, who looks from out
The door with woodbine wrcathed about,
And wishes his one thought all day;
"Ohi if ! could but fly away
From this dull spot the world to see,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy should be"
Amid the city's constant din
Il man who round the world has been,
Who, mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, thinking all day long,
oh couid only trace once more,
The licidpati To- the farmhouse door,
The green old meadow could s-e,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy / should ~
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A MYSTERY IN MAINE.-A large
mound stands near the Maine Central
track, about mile from the village of
Cumberland Centre, and in plain sight
from the road. Mr.. Sweat, a track
man, has several times lately seen two
men standing near the mound aud
pointing toward it, Last Tuesday
morning the mound was discovered to
have been disturbed 1t had been dug
into in Il slanting direction five feet and
then down five feet. The prints of II
box were plainly discernable, two and
half feet long by one and quarter
feet broad. Mr. Sweat's description of
one of the men answers to Il man named
Elisha Philips, aged about seventy
years, who is II native of the village,
and was convicted twenty or twenty
five years ago in Massachusetts for rob
bing Boston bank. AT the time he
pretended to he able to point out where
The treasure was hid to the officers, but
ran away from them and was afterwards
recaptured His term of imprison-
mcnt must have expired not very long
ago, and the villagers think he has re
turned for the bank treasure.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04

ALPHoNsE kARR was once heard to
say that from the moment he furnished
house he ceased to be an independent
creature. "From that hour" he CON
tinues, "the chairs and tables that |
thought / owned owned me. They
we're the masters of my whole destiny,
and it was my duty to see that they
met with no ill-treatment and were
not scratched, smashed or otherwise
abused" Many housekeeper can
corrobOrate this confession of the witty
Alphonse. This is one of the chief
reasons why 70 many families break
up housekeeping and 90 into board
ing-houses, where the scratching and
are so common that nobody
hecds the destruction.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
PRoF. TICE ON THE COMING WINTER

PROF. lice ON THE COMING WINTER.
In recent publication the iar-iamed
Prof. Tice, of St. Louis, takes direct
issue with his lately discovered rival,
Prof. Kroeger, of Wisconsin, by say
ing: "The coming winter certainly
will not be an agreeable one. First
cold, really so, will set in about the
10Th of November, and continue for
nearly a week. II will be warmer
about the 9th of December, and then
cold for anothc' week. 1t will he
cold again. About the 20th it will be
warmer from the 18th to the 18th and
then warm, and about the 30th cold to
very cold until Jan. 6; then warmer till
the 10Th; then very cold to the 20th
then warmer fora icwday@, followed by
cold weather till about the close of the
month The month of February will
be very hoiStcrous, generally warm,
hut short spells of intensely cold
weather.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
LIES AUTUMN.


The last wan petals leave the rose,
The latest swallows plume for fight
The summers gone where no one knows,
With dead mems love. and spent years light,
And warm hearts buried out of sight
HeifBsRs are the crown Of youth:
The warm light strikes on lowers IipS.
Laugh through and fondle happy mouth
And yet, remember, sweet time slips
Death hurries on with fun eclipse.
So short, sad o, let not Death
+ ind only faded flowers and wine,
when hungry for the joyous breath
,nat uresuns not OF the years decline,
He laws his cold white mouth to thine.
Cling to the flying hours; and yet
let one pure hope one great desire,
Like song ON diving lips lie set.
That ere we fail in scattered fire.
Our hopes may Lift the worlds heart higher
Here in the autumn month Of Time,
Before the great New Year can break,
some little way our feet should climb,
some little mark our words should make
Clear brain and sympathetic heart,
Spirit on fame with love for man;
Hands swift to labor, slow 10 part
II any good since time began,
The soul can fashion. such souls can
And 20 wlsen are dead and past
The undyins world will some day reach
Its glorious hour Of dawn ut last,
And we across Times sunken beach,
May smile. one moment. each TO each
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Either Il man must be content
with poverty all his life, or else be
willing to deny himself some luxurics
and save, to lay the base of indepcnd-
ence in the future. But if 4 man
defics the future, and spends all he
earns (whethcr his earnings be one
dollar or ten dollars every day)let him
look for lean and hungry want at some
future time-ior it will surely come, no
matter what he thinks
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04

To do business Il man must have
dollars and sense.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-04
HOW ABOUT TIE BLACKS?

"How about the bIacks?' some one
will ask. If carefully selected, and
properly treated, they are very good
servants, possessing, III many instances,
the rare quality of personal attachment
and devotion. The generation now
, 1875-07-10
THE GRASSH0PP.ERS.
Continued Investigation of. the
Damage in the Missouri
Bottom.
Tho Farmers. for tlc Most Part, In
Easy circumstances, and
Cheerful.
From Half to a Whole Crop Prom
ised Throughout the Grass
hopper Region,
Replanted Lands Turning Out
Remarkably Well.
The Grass1,opper-slifeser :" Of This
Year an Unmiligated Fraud.

ronf},m lin reno,,e 1yon ~. =, svorp notrt
,rn,rn ,,,nao s,a,,;.s ,,.,, s,o,, ~ ~ 11ry,
, ,,.'. "aa' 4'''lu'4''-''a' efen IA 'No "o''@
fasaecd afAtf'cts
THE DESTRUCTION WROUGHT nr TIE 'norrEns
Ina been far from cnn,p1eto, Instead of moving
Il, a d,roct lima aoro,rinr al, l., ihcir trorl ,ho
.I,onrar. .aan,, s.a.,. ,xa,,, "no
HopPels hoppea apout' from ono locality 10 an-
ot1o7, sometimes TUNED III tlier course by q
river or crock, so.nctmoa by tract OF oucu
nrofr1c pn1 .om,f}nea {,v n fTcnuonllv,t,nrnicd
r,nd IN asy,:ral 1ncoiI.ics IN stn.hoa,.o+,, No.
hr"st, ,r ar n,'a :i5a ~ ra.3 wsro -. na ~"
g1ain-lelds that Lad been almost wholly do
ssroycd by tic 'Eoppera willie OH tho o.hos next
tc no damage liau lccn, done. In
r,1r u1.uo,uI u,vrn re.,,o,t.
raw almost lnnametab1o f'eldH in which were
considerable patches that had wholly escaped
tho grasslIoppess, 5y1,,lo the remainder Ind boet,
oatcn down to tho rruuud. A sio,t ,]iataucn
west Of Atensou. Ran., tl,oro is strib % from
j 10 miles Ill With and rcrl1ara twico
that in length, which was loft untouched by tho
'hoppots, and in whici. today The corn s,antla
ehnnt a fcct l;oh rI,1o lie .r-,,n,1i,,.
.ss;a,, 49,. - ssr;- % ii, ~ .s ao nu'I oe.'',,h -,
scslo.1 ""a sst'ppca o' growing etopa ny tHo
jumping potts. At Drownyi1lo, keb,, farm
er told mo that hs cltire crop in tho bottom
laptla m Tho Lttt,o Nobrnskn 1;ror x,u uorea I'm
the'astthst TO get at It tho'honpef wond have had
to cross tie river. Iley camo up to tho oppoalto
bauk, cla,nbered up on tho trees on tho rivos's
edge aotl in Ills laue,1aro snuyreyet tt,e aitun
IT,, !. 1y,o Nnn,nta ~ 49, .oi,t ~. 49,
"on. oo t"o t'emana - ~ 'nu1 po'"t ID ou'y
apouE ~ sh1ua "lae' put iilo hoppcfs Ind not
yet rcarhca TIC stage OF full development, mud
could tjy but short DISTANCES. 4 few Of them
o1;nto;1 mn IN ,1,o f.rt,,or,,,o, bro,,,o. 800
,'..s..,.' IT,, ~ .o 4@..ao' ~. .."aeaso o's.
hanging sho wafer aao efoHroo. nnt the foat a'o
not follow. and Homo Of tboso that osaayod tho
no r1ns cuop WAR e.,rn
, ~. ~ ~, -,
anu n'H e"l,'' no toi! 'ne. now rrom'aes so
bushels to tho aero. ln Misaosirit back Of tllis
city, nm informed, the corn is tle eane-wholo