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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02
Household Hints.

If you have been picking or handling
any acid fruit, and have stained voul
hands, wash them in clear water, wipe
them lightly, and while they are yet
moist strike a match and shut youl
hands around it so as to catch the smoke
and the stains will disappear. If you
have stained your muslin or gingham
dress, or your white pants with berries,
before wetting with anything else pour
boiling water through the stains, and they
will disappear. Before fruit juice dries
it can often be removed by cold water,
using a sponge and towel if necessary.
Rubbing the fingers with the inside of
parings of apples will remove most of
the stain caused by pairing.
Tubs and pals saturated with glycer-
inc will not shrink and dry up, the hoops
will not fall off, and there will be no ne
cessity for keeping these articles soaked.
Butter tubs keep fresh and sweet, and
can be used a second time.
To clean and restore the elasticity of
cane-chair bottoms: Turn the chair
bottom upward and with hot water and
sponge wash the cane; work well, so
that it is well soaked should it be dirty,
use soap, let it dry well in the air, and it
will be as tight and firm as new, pro-
Niucu hoilc VI tilc CstIies are DTOken.
Match mats can be made of ordinary
cut in circular and octagonal
shapes, fastened upon pasteboard and
bound with bright-colored braids, ring
attached to each, and the whole hung
near the match-safe for use whenever a
match is lighted. The unsightly marks
that disfigure many walls may by this
inexpensive and simple arrangement be
entirely prevented. There should be one
in every room in the house.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02
Darwin on COnsanguineOus Marriages.

In letter to the London Academy,
George Darwin, son of the great scientist,
says:
My father has now been carrying on
experiments for about nine years on the
crossing of plants, and his results appear
to him absolutely conclusive as to the
advantages of cross fertilization to plants;
although as the investigation is as yet
unpublished, Mr.. Huth, of course, could
not be aware of this. Now, all modern
biological research points to the legiti-
macy of arguing by analogy between
forms even as distinct as animals and
plants, and accordingly the fair deduction
to be made from this inquiry will be, that
what is good or bad for plants is the same
for mankind and animals. But this
purely scientific point stands rather apart
from what is in fact the main practical
question at issue, viz: Is consanguineOus
marriage, to the extent to which it is now
practiced by civilized nations, detri-
mental, and is the detriment so great as
to justify legislative interference? Mr..
Huth himself must be forced to admit
that it must be to some extent detri-
mental from the multiplication of identi-
cal pathological germs, and from the fact
that no man knows with certainty until
towards the end of life what ills may lie
hidden in his edition of the family con-
stitution; but by his work he makes a
good case for the opinion that the evil
seems thus far practically small, and that
legislative interference is so far uncalled
for; and this opinion my own recent in
UlIiry confirms
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girl. After a long and tedious march
they came upon the enemy in the neigh
borhood of where Metropolis city, ILL.,,
now stands. A furious battle was fought,
in which the attacking party, headed by
young Wallahalla, dealt death and de-
struction to their foe until the ammuni-
ton was exhausted. At this moment
the enemy was reinforced, and the attack
ing party was compelled to retire across
the Ohio. The father of Agnes Robert
son was almost crazed with grief at the
loss of his beloved daughter. In his great
agony he published to the troops the fol-
| lowing announcement:
~, Andrew Robertson, will give to
the rescuer of my daughter from the
hands of the Iowas her hand in marriage,
1000 acres of land, 100 head of cattle
and horses, 100 pounds of powder, and
two rifles" ANDREW ROBERTSON.
Twenty men, warriors and rifleman,
among them Wallahalla, stepped forward
and rendered their services. The girl
herself was a fortune to any man. The
parent and his trusty friends, with the
exception of those who were to GO in
pursuit of the Iowas in search of Agnes
Robertson, returned to the settlement on
Little river, near the place now known
as Cadiz, in Trigg county, KY, to rebuild
Their huts and the stockade which the In
dams had destroyed. Wallahalla separ-
ated himself from both parties, and by
circuitous route wended his way to the
cavern in search of his beloved Agnes,
whom he found in almost a starving con-
dition. The full moon shone forth in all
its splendor ON the night of the 18th of
May as they rose to the surface of the
water and entered their canoe to return
to the arms of the lovely Agnes parents,
. nd receive the reward and blessing.
Their advent into the settlement on the
following morning was an occasion for
great rejoicing. Feasting and dancing
were the order for several weeks, and the
young chief Wallahalla was the toast of
the country for miles around. He was
the recipient of presents of land, horses,
cattle, skins, etc, to a larger extent than
any man living since the foundation of
the world. OF the nineteen men who
stepped forward to offer their services to
Andrew Robertson, not one returned to
give in his experience, and the general
impression existed at that time that they
were either tomahawked or burnt at the
stake. Wallahalla married and changed
his name to Robertson. Many of his
descendants lived in the neighborhood of
what is now known as Crittenden county
and Trigg county, KY, till about the
year 1918, when they removed to Eastern
Georgia.
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An Asthmatic Prisoner.

lie was a fat man, almost as wide as
the corridor door, and as he came out one
of the newsboys whispered:
"What a sinker he'd make for fish
liner
Your name is Rufus jackson, is it ?''
asked the court
Yes-certainly-o course my name S
Rufus Jackson" wheezed the fat man in
reply.
"Why, yes-certainly. Lived there
twenty-eight years"
"And you were drunk last night ?'
No, sir-no, sir-I deny the charge in
totum. Never was more astonished in
my life, sir. Perhaps you have taken me
for some one else"
perhaps l have, Mr.. Jackson, but if
you weren't drunk, how came you to be
lying fiat on the walk, hat in the gutter,
satchel in the street and your feet spread
all over? And when an officer raised you
up, Mr.. jackson, you plainly and dis
tinctly said: 'Zon't g'way an femme
lone I'll knock FER head OFF, Would a
sober man make such a remark?"
"May it please the court" wheezed the
fat man, g am victim of asthma. |
was born of honest parents, and my life
has been one long epoch of responsibility.
| am fat. I'd give the world to be lean,
but | can't be. l can't run. Other men
can skip and gambol, while 1 must sleep.
l can't sing. / can't whistle | am an
enthusiastic politician, but can't holler
for the candidate on my ticket. If | try
to, my voice merely makes Il sound like
wind sobbing through corrugated stove
pipe elbow. This asthma is killing me
by inches. The doctor says that | may
live to see the Strawberries come again,
but beyond that | dare not hope. Last
night as | came into your beastiful city
| was seized with faintness and fell
down, and if the officers had not found
me | should likely have been robbed and
murdered. l am indeed greatly obliged,
and | cal. It close my remarks without
complimenting the efficient police force
of your handsome and orderly city"
Fat man from Milwaukee," said the
court, as the prisoner paused, "Once l
was like child, looked at things as a
child. | believed every story and state
ment, and my heart was free from suspi
cion. Men took advantage of me; wo-
men deceived me with their crocodile
tears-I felt sad for the men who cut their
hair close and bet their money on dog
fights. l have changed, Mr.. Jackson.
The lamb has become a cougar That
was good speech of yours, but l can't
part company until you hand the clerk a
ten dollar bill"
The prisoner smiled sadly, paid the
money, and was not long getting out of
Free Press.
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Tricks OF Speech.

Nothing Is easier to acquire, nothing
more difficult to lose, than Il trick of
speech and manner; and nothing is more
universal. If we look round among our
friends and acquaintance we shall find
scarcely one who has not his favorite
word, his perpetual formula, his auto
matte action, his unmeaning gestures
all tricks caught probably when young,
and, by not being corrected then, next to
impossible to abolish now. Who does
not know the familiar al say" as the
preface to every remark ?-and the still
more familiar you know" as the middle
term of every sentence? Who, too, in
these latter times, hos not suffered from
the affection of awful" and "iolly y
milestones in the path of speech inter
spersed with even uglier and more obtru-
sive signs of folly and corrupt diction-
milestones that are forever turning up,
showing the successive distances to which
good taste and refinement have receded
in this hideous race after slang to which
our youth is given. Then there are the
people who perpetuate CALCULATIONS; who
say "GOodnessr as a mark of surprise,
and Good gracious!" when surprise is IL
little mixed with reprobatiOn; lower in
the social scale it is "My wordw "Pa-
tiencew "Did l everw and indifferently
to all stations, "You don't say SOL" or in
voice ofdeprecation, Nor and '':Surely
notn' To judge by voice and word,
these eiaculatory people are always in
state of surprise. They go through the
world i'll unending establishment; and
their appeals to their goodness and that
indeterminate quantity called good gra-
cious are incessant. In the generation
that died with the fourth George the
favorite CALCULATIONS were "By Jover
and "By Georgew with excursions into
the region of ''Gadv' and "By jingop
Before then we had the bluff and lusty
squires who rejoiced in Odsbodikins' y
and BOUNDS" with other strange and
uncouth oaths that were not meant to
offend the hearers, but were simply tricks
of speech caught by the speakers. So,
indeed, is the habit of swearing and using
bad words generally. 1t is emphatically
a habit, trick of speech, meaning for
the most part no more than the Good
nessl" and Patience" of the milder
fOlly
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02

greatest monument to their care, judg-
ment and skill.
How many of the young breeders of
to-day have any definite plan of breeding,
or fixed standard of excellence? We re-
greet to say they are not a ma ority, but
most of them blindly follow fashion to the
exclusion of the highest aim of all short
horn breeding-quality and beef. We
are as strong advocates as the strongest
for f;ishionably bred cattle, but we de-
mand merit and quality as well as blood;
and this is what we want to impress upon
young breeders. Buy the best and most
fashionable strains of blood, but see that
the animals possess the other great quail
ties requisite to form the model short
horn.
We desire to see our young breeders
take pattern after such men as Mr.. Abram
Renick, who has linked his name imper-
ishably with the great Rose of Sharon
family, that not only possesses fashion
able pedigrees, but are extra in touch and
quality; to take pattern after the Van
meters, who made famous the Young
Marys, Young Phyllises and Gems; to
take pattern after the AleXanders, Robert
A. and A. j., who made distinguished the
Nazurkas, Nictorias, Filagrees, Belle
Duchesses, Rosabellas and Moss Roses; to
take pattern after such veteran as Major
Jerry T. Duncan, with his Louans; to
take pattern after George NJ. Bedford,
with his Duchess of Goodness, and E. NJ.
Bedford and VIM. Warfield, with the re-
nowned London Duchesses. Young breed
ers, choose what particular tribe pleases
your fancy, but, when decided on, never
quit the family until you have carried it
and your own name to the top of the lad
der.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever
came out, and if our breeders will breed
to fixed standard of excellence, both in
touch and quality, as well as pedigree,
we have no fear of the future of short
horns, but their course will be upward
and onward to state of the highest per-
fection.-LiUe Stock Record.
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A Dream that Parted Man and Wife.

Bundy has been married two weeks
and has left his wife. Bundy is little
man, and his wife weighs 80 pounds,
and was the rclict of the late Peter
Potts. About ten days after marriage
Bundy was surprised, on awakening in
the morning, to find his better half sit
ting up in bed crying as if her heart
would break. Astonished, he asked the
cause of her sorsow, but receiving no
reply he began to surmise that there
must be some secret on her mind that
she withheld from him, that was the
caufe of her anguish, so he remarked to
Mrs. B. that as they were married she
should tell him the cause of her grief,
so, if possible, he could avert it, and
after considerable coaXing he elected the
following from her:
'Last night | dreamed I was single,
and as l walked through a well-lighted
street | came to store where a sign in
front advertised husbands for sale. Think
ing it curious, l entered, and ranged
along the wall on either ride were men
with prices affixed to them. Such beau
tiful men; some for $1,000, some for
$500, and so on the $50. And as | had
not that amount l could not purchase"
Thinking to console her, b. placed his
arm lovingly around her and asked:
''And did you see any men like me
there?"
ooh, yes" she replied, drawing away
from him, ''lots like you; they were tied
up in punches, likes asparagus, and sold
for ten cent bunck."
Bundy got up, and went to see his
lawyer if he had sufficient ground for
divorce.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02
The Sort of Revival That is Needed.

We need a revival that is not only a
revival of sounder scriptural preaching,
but a revival of true Christian living.
We have had quite surfeit of the re-
ligiOn which luXuriates in the devout
fervors of the prayer-meeting and the
camp-ground, which sings sweet hymns
and applauds sweet sermons, and then
goes straight off to its money-grasping
and its pleasure-seeking, and its pander-
ings to self and sin. God forbid that we
speak lightly of true spiritual emotion.
But the Christ ianity which Christ de-
mands is something deeper than song
or sermon or a sacrament. 1t is the holy
and the humble imitation of himself
The revival, then, which we need is
revival of the religion which keeps Gods
commandments; which tells the truth
and sticks to its promises; which pays
twenty shillings to the pound; which
cares more for good character than a
fine coat which votes at the ballot-box
in the same direction that it prays;
which denies ungodly lusts of tempta-
ton. A revival which will sweeten our
homes, and chasten our press, and purify
our politics. and cleanse our business and
commerce from roguery and rotteness,
would be boon from heaven. A revi-
val which will bring not only Bible
knowledge but a Bible conscience to all
is what the land is dying for. The
worlds sorest want to-day is more Christ
like men and women. The preaching it
needs is-more sermons in shoes.
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Read Your COuntry's History.

In the action of Lundy's Lane Colo
mel O'Neil General, he came to call nm
SELF got scratch on his leg. The
wound was matter of great JOY, and he
nursed it through after days, growing lamer
with every year, that the memory OF ms
bravery might be ever near him. Gradu-
ally, from sheer bordering over his stories
he grew to think that the success OF the
battle was largely owing to his services
One dav, late in his life, as he sat nurs-
ing his leg and bordering over the gloriSs
past, young man, visiting the family
for the first time, approached and SYM I'm,
pathetically remarked, " Lame General.
. Yes, sir" after pause, with lnexPres-
sible solemnity, Il am lame" Been
riding. sir?,' mo-" with rebmklng
sternness, Il have not been riding.
"Ah! slipped on the ice, General, and
hurt your ieg?' "No, sir, with actual
ferocity. perhaps you have sPrained
YOUR ankle. sir?" With painful slow
ness the old man lifted his pet leg III
both hands, set it carefully on the hoor'
rose slowly from his chair, and looking
down upon the unfortunate youth with a
stare of mingled wonder, pity and WRATH
" forth in the sumlimity OF rage
burst read the history of your country
you--puppy!"
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How a Trial is Conducted in Egypt.

The Hon. George Ii. Batchler, now a
judge in Egypt, has written an interest
ing letter to a friend, describing the
peculiarities of the Egyptian courts,
which has been published in the Troy
Times Here is portion of it: 81 will
attempt to describe trial in the court
of assizcs, which is like our Oyer and
Terminer. The criminal was indicted
for burglary After the reading of the
Indictment, the attorney general makes
short speech to the jury, and the counsel
for the prisoner follows. Then the nov
city begins. The attorney general sits
quietly by, and so does the counsel for
the accused, while the presiding judge
examines the witnesses. Commencing
with the prisoner himself, he puts him
through fire sharp and severe, debating
points with him, and commenting on his
statements rs he rattlcs along. Then
the witnesses are brought in, and, after
being asked few questions by the judge,
he tells them to make their statements to
the jury; here the judge often breaks
in, and so does the prisoner, but seldom
the encouragement or the counsel. The
prisoner often gets up Il sharp discussion
jury, and occasionally judge and jury
and attorneys all talk, keeping up a run
ning fire for some time. And thus the
evidence is taken. At the close the at
.ortcy-A .ylal sums up to the jury first
and i, followed by the counsel for the
prisoner, and then the judge sums up
usually against the accused i'll his charge
to the Jury"
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The Turning Tide.

1t is noted as a significant fact that the
southern and western merchants now
crowding into New York for fall pur-
chases, almost universally take a more
favorable view of affairs than they find
existing in that city. The United States
Economist says they all report that bust
ness in their districts is active; that the
crops are abundant, and that the plant
ers and farmers are in a more favorable
condition for supplying themselves with
the commodities of which they stand in
so much need And they afford the best
possible evidence of their views by pur-
chasing with freedom and Hberality
that affords assurance of an active trade
just as soon as the crops begin to move
forward freely. An impression also be-
gins to prevail that the less favorable con-
dition of affairs in the northern manu-
featuring states is more apparent than
real. When the crops in the other parts
of the country begin to move forward,
orders will pour into the factories from
all parts of the country to supply the
demand for agricultural utensils, cloth
ing, and household goods generally. The
manufacturers as Il rule were never in a
better position to take advantage of any
improvement that may take place in bus
mess. In this connection the following
remarks of the Economist indicates that
northern manufacturers begin to realize
that protection" is not without its
drawbacks:
1t is significant fact that the chief
complaints of bad business come from
what are known as "the protected in
dustries," those which enjoyed the high
est bounty of the government now max
ing the most complaints, and in fact suf-
fering most severely This is especially
the case with the iron trade, which has
been benefited to the amount of scores
of millions of dollars year by federal
legislation. 1t exhibits least vitality and
energy.-NdshriUe american.
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CRor rRoDUU"rIpN- LAST GEtG.-
The % lowing summary i from the re-
port of the department of agrlculturist:
The product of wheat for 1874 was
greater in the aggregate than in any pre-,
vious year, exceeding 300, 000,0 GOO bush
els. There was an increase of acreage OF
fully 100000.
Rye gave a product of II, S91 200 bush
els, being 9S per cent. of the previous
crop.
Oats, 24O, 00O, 900 bushels, being de-
cline of nearly 30, 600, 900 bushels.
Barley, 32,703 900 bushels, being an
increase of l per cent.
Potatoes, LOG, O00,0 900 bushels; being
about the same as the previous year.
Hay, %, 500, 900 tons; an increase OF
500,0 tons.
OF corn, the following statement en-
bodies the crops q . past SIX or seven
years:
In 1868, 9O6, 0O0,0 bushels, valued
ut 90 cents per bushel.
In 1869, S74 900, 900 bushels, valued
at 70 cents per bushel.
In 1870, LOIS, 200, 900 bushels, valued
at 81 cents per bushcl.
In 1871, 991 ,OO0. 900 bushels, valued
at IS cents per bushel.
In 1872, f,092, 000. 900 bushels, valued
ut 50 cents per bushcl.
In 1873, 932, 000, 900 bushels, valued ut
IS cents per bushel.
In 1874, S54, 000, 900 bushels, valued
at 10 cents per bushel.
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comes in all the dark stylish shades for
suits, such as myrtle green, prune, seal
brown, slate blue, gray, navy blue and
| black. MOyen age brocaded silks or sin
gle color, blue, green or brown, are also
shown for parts of suits. They measure
twenty-four inches and cost $3.50 yard.
The winter gros grains are exceedingly
soft and of medium fine reps. They are
to be made up in connection with plain
and figured velvets and with matte silks !;
hence merchants have imported in shades
to match the handsome novelties Just de-
scribed. At every large house the an
nouncement is made that myrtle green,
seal brown and slate blue will be the
leading cOlors. Prices range lower than
those of last season. Dress silks begin as
low as $3.50 a yard, in new colors as well
as black, and increase to s. or Sc. For
So and even less can be bought hand
some gros grains for costumes. Trim
ming silks in all the rich park shades are
$1.35 a yard. Striped silks for parts of
costumes, black with colored stripe,
can be bought for IS cents a yard in
qualities that formerly sold for 81.
Hand woven black silks are highly
are spun and woven entirely by hand
instead of by the powerloom. They are
richly repped lustrous blue-black silks,
very soft and finely finished and as this
softness and lustre are in the silk itself,
they are not lost by usage. They are
imported in four different grades, and
sold for 81, $3.50, So and $3.50 a yard.
They are said to wear better than any
other silks. Those at So are as rich and
lustrous as many silks sold for 81 or So
yard.
ENGLISH PRINTS AND cAMBR1cs.
English calicoes are. IN the plaid pat
terms so popular in wool stuffs. They
come in blocks, cross-bars and in bias
plaids as well as in plain ones Shaded
brown plaids, black barred with violet
blue barred with black or with white,
and black plaided with gold are the best
patterns. These colors are also shown in
irregular stripes. Price % cents. The
soft-fnished cambrics initiate twilled
Cheviots, and have diagonal stripes and
plaids. Blue, brown and gray are the
prevailing colors. Navy blue grounds
are barred with white in Greek key pat
tern. The slate blues are also pretty.
These goods are yard wide, and cost
IS cents. They ere being made up with
side-plaited basques, or else with loose
basques. They have long round over
skirts plainly hemmed, or else bordered
with stripe of calico. The lower skirt
may also be quite plain, but one gathered
flounce does not detract from the neat
style appropriate for such dresses.