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A telegram from Madrid saws that the

advance guard, now the extreme left of the
troops operating against the Carlists in
Havana, has suffered check, owing to over
confidence in its commander. The Carllst
chieftain, Mendert, was arrested for treason
and shot by order of Don Carlos.
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Furnwalt & Coz weaving es-

tablishment in Brooklyn burned Tuesday
Loss on stock and building, fifty thousand dol.
lars; insurance not known; one hundred
persons are thereby thrown out of employ.
meQt,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Caesar. NJ. D. Conway writes an ac-
count of the spring gathering of these
disciples of the ancient Druids. They
meet at the solstitial period twice
year, and, it CHANGED, assembled this
spring on Christian Palm Sunday.
They claim that in their great festivals
the Christians have borrowed ancient
customs and rites which prevailed
among the Druids long before the COM
ing of Christ. The Savior's resurrec
ton is invested with symbols that once
meant the resurrection of nature. So
with other festivals At the Welsh
meeting the archdruid gave an account
of the revival of Draidism in this
country, and read the names of some
Thirty persons residing in or about
Rochester, New York, who were appli-
cants for admission into the order. An
American apostle, Ale Kedna, proposes
to start Dfuidic newspaper in Roches-
ter, and has already translated their
great work. "The Pristine Glory of
the Welsh" A circle OF Druids has
been formed in New York, and a gath
ering of bards is to bs held during the
summer. At the celebration such as
Conway describes, it is customary for
the archdruid to alter prayer from the
Stone to kei (the concealed) and recite
a poem. Esthetic as this worship may
be, its revival is not imminent.
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Queens of the Day and How They Look.

Three days ago Queen Victoria paid
a visit to the Empress Eugene at Whis-
lehurst, accompanied by two or three
ladies whose names | can not remember.
They. passed me at the station, and /
had.a good opportunity to see her mai
esty, as she was very close to me, she is
medium sized woman, somewhat in
clined to stoutness, and has very ford
countenance. The features are not
marked; her mouth falls open very
often, anu her lips are rather full. She
seems kind and gracious in manner, and
very simple-entirely devoid of affecta-
ton. Her voice is not trained TO such
sweetness and grace of utterance as
mark that of the ex-empress. OF
course, being somewhat stout, she does
u OF move SO gracefully as she might;
but take her all IN all she is pleasant
looking, and one instinctlvely likes her
for a noble woman. She was plainly
dressed in black silk, with heavy trim
mings of crepe, and wore widows vail
and white cap.
Queens look very like ordinary hui
mainly, fairy stories to the contrary
otwithstandin Elizabeth, the en-
press of Austria, is tall, slender, very
graceful woman, some thirty-five or
thirty eight years old. Her eyes and
hair are brown, and she is rather thin
in the face and OF rather sallow com.
pleixon. But her manner is very
charming.
The daughter of the car of Russia,
who married the duke of Edinburgh, is
decidedly plain, in spite of all said to
the contrary, while the Princess Alex
andria has been and is still fine look
ing woman. I never saw the empress
of Russia, but 1 know her maid of hon
or, Hademoiselle Annenkoff, who told
me she was plain and rather masculine
looking.
To speak of the sultana of Turkey
would take more paper than l have got
handy; there are many of her. But
it is safe to say that you will find there
a very beautiful woman or two after the
Turkish taste. A fat, round woman,
with red cheeks and black eyebrows, is
a Turkish beauty-one easy to make
since Banting wrote his book on dining
and corpulency, and cosmetics ere SO
all-embracing.
OF the ex-Empress Eugene I have
already spoken, so shall but say that
she still holds her scepter of beauty
and queenly dignity.
But the beauty of all is the fair young
Queen Olga, of Greece. Rarely have L
seen any person in any walk of life who
was SO really lovely in all ways AS she
is, and it is not to be wondered at that
the whole exposition stood petrified to
see her pass, ard that murmurs of APP
probation and delight followed her.
She was dressed in light blue dress,
with a white burnous carelessly thrown
over her magnifcent shoulders, and
blue and white bonnet-the Greek co..
Ors - Tou7o72 LETTER.
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AFTER MARRIAaE.-A philosopher
writes: "The girl is generally educated
on novels, and her first disappointment
comes in on the quiet Indifference of the
husband after the honeymoon. You
love me no longer said bride of a
few months to her better half in his
gown and slippers why do you say
that, Puss?' he asked quietly, removing
cigar from his lips. You do not ca
ress me nor call me pet names; you no
longer seek so anxiously for my COM
pany,' was the fearful answer. 'My
dear, continued the aggravating wretch,
did you ever notice man running
after a carr How he does run-over
stones, through mud, regardless of
everything till he reaches the car
aud he seizes hold and swings on.
Then he quietly seats himself
and reads his paper And what
does that mean? AN illustration,
my dear The car is as import
ant to the man after he gets in as when
he is chasing it, but the manifestation
is no longer called for. I would have
shot any one who put himself in my
way when in pursuit of you, as would
now shoot any one who would come be-
tween us, but as proof of my love you
insist upon my running after the car.
Learn to smoke, my dear. and be phil
osopher. The two combined clear the
brain, quiet the nerves, open the pores,
and improve the digestion.
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We were lately trying to discover the
qualities which made literary work a
part of literature, and sincerity was
named as perhaps the most important
quality. Sincerity is a great matter,
but is it the principal thing? Is not
the principal thing, after all, the mind
and mood of the writer? At first this
will seem a trite enough statement, but
a very good argument can be made for
mere style,
We have all been struck at this phe-
nomepon we are profoundly impressed
by a passage we have read, and. after
some time, we turn back to read it once
more, when, instead of finding at least
half page of print, as we had ex-
pected, we find only two or three lines.
There is another allied phenomenon
a single line or passage, in poem, or
an entire poem of but few lines, OBJ
tains great currency, and is constantly
praised for its charm. You cannot tell
what gives it such fascination what
keeps it so fresh in your own mind, and
in the minds of all cultivated people.
You have seen other passages ana po-
ems by obscure writers, which appeared
at first to have more thought and orig
inality. Your amateur friend has, in
moments OF confidence, read to you his
code to the Inscrutable." Some of
the lines were really Wordsworthian,
not to say Miltonic ! Nothing, indeed,
is more common in amateur verse-mak-
ing, of certain kind, than lines which
remind you of Shakespeare. when read
aloud by their authors. But, somehow,
when the verses get into print, the world
is not moved by them. and you confess
that type has queer effect on poetry,
and that it is never safe to commit
yourself critically until you "get the
poem into your owa hands"
So it happens that the simple phrase
which the great poet himself set little
value upon. and which seemed to him
a miserably inadequate statement of
his thought-the phrase, tie poem,
comes, with light in its garments, from
a high and pure mind, from a golden
and immortal mood.-Scribner.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Two HUNDRED HORSES KILLED By
BUFFALO GNATs.-On last Sunday the
buffalo gnats made their appearance in
this and Clayton counties, also in Dunk
lin county, Mo-, in such vast swarms as
to prove very destructive to stock. We
were at Clarkton, No., at the time they
made their appearance, and on our way
home the sight of dead horses and
mules along the road, and the report of
others off the road, was distressing in
the highest degree. We have made an
estimate as best we could from the vari-
Gus reports we received on our way
home Tuesday, and think the number
of horses and mules that have been
destroyed within two miles of the road
leading to Chalk Bluff, from that place
to within eight miles of Gainesville, will
reach It's or 200 while the number in and
around Gainesville will add at least 25 or
80 more to the number. We have no
report from below, but hope it is not SO
bad in that direction. A great many
farmers have lost all their pillow stock,
while many others have not enough left
to cultivate their farms. This sad dis
pensation, added to the restitution that
existed before, has cast heavy gloom
over our people. Gainesville DIRK.
Times.
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Poison BY ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. One
branch of the industry in which chill
dren are employed is technically known
as grass-work. 1t consists in fastening
small glass beads or "dew drops" to
the artificial grass, and SO simple is the
work that mere infants can help at it.
The master of a ragged school in a
densely populated district of London
found that when a particular kind of
artificial flower was in fashion the young
children neglected to attend school.
He told James Greenwood, who wrote
an article which appeared in the London
Telegraph some time ago: you may
always know a grass hand if he has
been at work any time from the appear
auce of his hair. You will find the
front part of it-that which is most ex
posed, as the head is bent over the
work-to be of a different color from
the rest. If the child's hair is light
colored, the patch in front, just where
the parting commences, will be changed
to dull yellow; if the hair is naturally
dark the patch will be rusty, almost of
the color called carroty. If they work
long and hard at the grass the hair will
fall out" The threading of the beads
on blades and leaves of grass, and the
subsequent shaking to see that all is
right, dislodee particles of the arsenical
green, which poisons the air and tells
its tale upon the poor children.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
A Patriotic Girl.

At the time General Greene retreated
before Lord Rawdon from ninety-six,
when he had passed Broad river he was
very DESTROYS to send an order to General
Sumter, who was on the Wateree, to
join him, that they might attack Raw
don, who had divided his force. But
the general could find no man in that
part of the state who was bold enough
to undertake 30 dangerous mission.
The country to be passed through for
many miles was full of blood thirsty
tories, who on every occasion that
offered imbrued their hands in the blood
of the wings. At length Emily Geiger
presented herself to General Greene,
and proposed to act as his messenger !;
and the general, both surprised and de-
lighted, closed with her proposal. He
accordingly wrote letter and delivered
it, and at the same time communicated
the contents of it verbally, to be told to
Sumter in case of accidents. Emily
was young, but as to her person or ad-
ventures on the way we have no further
information, except that she was
mounted on horseback upon side sad
die, and on the second day of her jour-
ney she was intercepted by Lord Raw
don's scouts. Coming from the direc-
ton of Greene's army, and not being
able to tell an untruth without blush.
ing, Emily was suspected and confined
TO n room, aud,ns the officer in command
had the modesty not to search her at
the time, he sent for an old tory matron
as more fitting for that purpose. Emily
was not wanting in expedient, and as
soon as the door was closed and the
hustle little subsidized, she ate up the
letter, piece by piece. After awhile the
matron arrived, and, upon searching
carefully, nothing was to be found of a
suspicious nature about the prisoner,
and she would disclose nothing. Sus-
picion being thus allayed, the officer
commanding the scouts suffered Emily
to depart whittier she said she was
bound but she took a route somewhat
circuitous to avoid further detention,
and soon after struck into the road to
Sumter's camp, where she arrived in
safety. Emily told her adventure, and
delivered Greene's verbal message to
Sumter, who, in consequence, soon after
joined the main army at Orangeburg.
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The Servant Girl Question.

The "help" in Germany are good gen.
orally, because the ''police" take charge
of them in reality, and success depends
upon good account of them at the
police. Every servant girl is provided
with Dienstbuch (service book, dealt
out her by the police authorities, and
she has to announce herself at the
police office every time she changes her
situation. In this Dienstbuch are reg
istered her name, age and native place,
and on each page is a printed formula,
which the mistress she is leaving is
obliged to fill up as to her cleanliness, in
dustry, moral conduct, sobriety, etc. :,
as we'll as the reason of her leaving her
situation, the date on which she entered,
and that on which she left it. In ordi-
nary German households only one ser
want is kept. In engaging servant
she invariably bargains for her "Sun-
day OUT" she belongs to Kranzchen,
or club, and departs early on Sunday
afternoon for coffee garden where the
festive meeting is held. OF church-go-
ing there is, in Protestant Germany, no
question; but OF much dancing during
Sunday afternoons with the brautigam
(betrothed) of the moment there can be
no evasion.
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WHEN ANY ANrIDoTE or remedy for
any particular class of disease obtains
wide-spreading notoriety, it is but
reasonable to suppose that it must
merit the popularity it receives. 1t is
within our province to mention that DIR.
J. Walkers California Vinegar Bitters,
so long and favorable known as the
safest and most reliable remedial agent
for the cure of liver, kidney, bladder,
and glandular diseases, mental and
physical debility, and all complaints
emanating from a corrupt state of the
blood, etc., are in great demand. So
satisfied are we of the intrinsic worth
of this medicine, that we do not hest
tate to notice it in our columns. 1t is
we'll to mention that this medicine is
compounded of roots, herbs, and flow
ers of California, and has no fiery ma
terial or alcohol used in its prepare
ton. We can add no better eulogium
than the fact that we use it constantly
in our own family, AID each member
thereof partakes of it, when necessary,
according to directions.-Ne,o York
PN71er
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The VALUE OF HEALTH Horace
Mann says somewhere: 1 am certain I
could have performed twice the labor,
both better and with greater ease to
myse If, had / known as much of the laws
of health and life at twenty-one as [ do
now. In college 1 was taught all about
the motions of the planets, as carefully
as though they would have been in dan
ger of getting off the track if I had not
known how to trace their orbits; but
about my own organization an the con-
ditions Indispensable to the healthful
functions of my own body, l was left
in profound ignorance. Nothing could
be more preposterous. 1 ought to have
begun at bone, and taken the stars
consequence was, l broke down at the
beginning of my second college year,
and have never had a well day since.
Whatever labor have since been able
to do, L have done it all on credit
instead of capital-a most ruinous way,
either in regard to health or money.
For the lest twenty-five years, SO far
as it regards health, have been put
from day to day, or my good behavior;
and during the whole of this period, as
an Hibernian would say, if 1 hao lived
as other folks do for month, l should
have died in fortnight.
VALUES OF METALS The following
table of the respective values of metals
is not wi hout interest. The first four
are so rare as to be sold in minute guam
titles, yet their rates are given for the
sake of comparison with the others !:
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THE CLIFF.

There's great gray cliff by the deep blue sea,
There a maiden that loved not me.
To the great gray cliff came the sea to WOO
With a love That was great and deep and true.
The sea came up and kissed the feet
OF the great gray cliff with kisses sweet.
Tie cliff said 80 Never to thine embrace
VIII l stoop, it's enough thou shouldst see III!
face
Said the sea, with a ripping smile, q" IN wait
Till to NV embrace thou are sent ly fdte
And the great gray cliff, the tale did tell,
INTO thu arms of the blue sea fell.
loved my love sh. cold to me
As the great gray cliff to the deep blue sea;
! wGoed my love for many a day:
have wen my love, she is mine for aye.
London Orchestra.
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DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.

is very strongly recommended by the Medical
Faculty and is largely prescribed among their
female patients. 1t is worthy of all confidence,
a. NAV be seen form the foltowng testimonials:
Dr.G b. Chapman, PIattsmouth, Neb.. writes:
Ihave under treatment a lady, who, for the past
seven We airs has been afflicted, and, after irving
several physicians without receiving benefit, is
gaining rapidly on your Favorite Prescription.
ATLANTA Ill.
Dr. r " Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, Dear Sir
have not words to express my gratitude to you
for your advice and assistance in my case. There
is not one who has used your medicines since
they have been brought here, but that can say
with me they have been greatly benefited. Since
| have been 20 helped by its use. six or seven
around me left off all doctors and other medl-
cines and now use it in their families, after be-
ing cured OF the same disease mine. You do
not know what a wonder it created in our city,
by it- restoring my sister wrote you about, for
she had been under the care of TIN ee of our best
doctors but could not sit up but for a few min
utes at one time. l begged Of her to try your
medicines and before she had used half the bot
ties she could go all around the yard, and has now
just come home from visit five miles away.
Mrs. THos MCFARLAND.
DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription is sold by
dealers il, medicines generally.
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What is LONELINESS?

It is not in pearl powder, nor in
golden haIr-dye, nor in jewelry. 1t
cannot be got in bottle or box. 1t
is pleasant to be handsome but all
beauty is not in prettiness. There is
higher beauty that makes us love peo-
pie tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin
never did that yet though it is pleas
ing to see fine features. What you are
will make your face ever for You in the
end, whether nature has made it plain
or pretty. Good people are never i'll
looking. Whatever their faces NAV be,
an amiable expression atones for all.
If they can be cheerful also no one will
love them The less because their features
are not regular, or because they are too
fat, or too thin, too pale, or too dark.
Cultivation Of the mind adds another
charm to iheir faces, aud, on the whole,
if any girl is DESTROYS of being liked by
many and loved by the one, it is more
III her power Than she may believe TO
accom- plish that object Cosmetics will
not accomplish It, however. Neither
will hne dress, though woman that
docs not Dress becomiBgly wrongs her
self. Forced smiles and sffected anna
bIlity will be Of no avail but if she
can manage to feel kindly to everybody,
not to be jealous, not to he cross, to be
happy Il possible, and to encourage
contentment, then something will come
into her face that will ou'last youth' Is
roses, aud gain her not only II husband
but life-l long lover.
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The Most Deadly Disease,

The most deadly acute disease from
which the people of the United States
are to day suffering is pneumonia.
There are not less than 1000 cases at
this hour in the city of New York
alone. Many are rearly down with
it who do not suspect it, and these can
bring it on by single act Of indiscre-
ton. Ten minutes on street corner
in the cold wind; glass of brandy CT
whisky late hours and exposure at
night an evening in badly ventilate j
church or theater any of these may
permit the latent disease to manifest
itself.
The disease attacks the lungs, but is
not, as generally supposed, species of
hasty consumption. There is very
little expectoration in pneumonia, and
in many cases none at all. The cold
settles on the lungs, the air passages
fill up with mucus, and death is due to
the impossibility of breathing, or to
the weakness which the disease brings
on, as cautious dieting is necessary.
When the trouble in the lungs is over
come, the patient is often left in SO low
condition that it is impossible to
make him rally. 1t is rather singular
phase of this deadly disease that the
percentage of cases is as four to one in
favor of men. Women very seldom
suffer from it. This may be due to the
greater exposure to which men are sub
iected, and the more sedentary life of
women, who do not suffer from such
constant changes and such shocks
to the lungs. The best preventive
against pneumonia is to keep the
mouth closed when going from a
hot place to cold, and breathe
through the nose. 1t comes like flash
OF lightning; there is no preparation
or means of averting it. One may go
to bed healthy, to all appearances,
and wake up with the disease in full
blast. Then it is simply question of
constitution. Medical skill avails but
little, and physicians pursue but one
course-to keep the patient in a warm,
equal temperature to give remedies as
much as possible to clear the lungs,
and to seek to keep up the proper ami
NAL heat. The patient ordinarily partly
loses consciousness on the third day.
and the crisis is reached on the seventh.
If not dead then, there is a small
chance of recovery, and all depends
on the strength of the patient.
Pneumonia is far more fatal with us
than it was years sgo. We may attrib-
ute the increaaed mortality from this
disease to a multitude of causes. AL
cohol gives the disease more victims
than all else. Other causes are steam
heating devices, bad ventilation, and
tobacco smoke. The devitalized heat
of the steam pipes is most injurious to
the lungs. The action of the heat on
the iron coils sends off a deleterious
gas, which seriously impairs the lungs,
and renders the inhalation of cold air
positively dangerous. Tobacco smoke
dries up the mucus membrane of the
throat and air passages, and dispels
their healthy action. Alcohol destroys
the power of the stomach, and so les
sens vitality that a simple cold I"
speedily becomes pneumonia. These
causes-added to the absurd custom of
bundling up the throat while leaving
the feet nearly without protection-are
sufficient to account for the enormous
mortality from this disease. -HaW s
Journal of Health.
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ion of an arch 1 900 metres in length,

ton of an arch 200 metres in length,
for the purpose of proving the FEAST
bility of the scheme of NJ. Botlet, ergi-
neer, at Bourges, of throwing a bridge
across the Straits of Dover. A model
of this bridge, consisting of road for
vehicles and foot passengers, will prob
ably be erected in the Bots de Bologne
or Champe de Mars, at height of fif-
teen metres above the ground. The
directors maintain that, whereas the
tunnel would take eight years and cost
at least %, 900, 900 francs, the bridge
could be erected in few months at an
EXPENSE of only 600. 900 francs,