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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-29
The Pope-Wm He Gene to America ?

The correspondent OF the London
Daily Telegraph at Paris writes:
The CORRESPONDENT of the Debats in
Rome writes thus: The appointment of
an American cardinal is an act more i'm
portant than has been generally sup
posed. At the same time the pope
nominated a considerable number of
bishops for the United States. The
prelate who carries to Monsignor
McClosky his beretta will not perform
mere act of ceremony; he Is charged
with a most important mission. The
holy see has firmly resolved to transport
itself to the United States, should the
stay in Rome become insupportable. 1t
knows well that neither France nor
Austria could give it asylum without an
almost certain risk of war with Germany.
1t is doubtful whether England would
maintain the offer she once made OF the
island of Malta, and Spain is too much
disturbed for the pope tothlnk serloCs1y
of refuge there, at least under existing
circumstances. We must not forget
that the saint siege has taken the pre-
caution to create a considerable reserve
fund, which would be by no means
useless in the states. This reserve does
not count hundreds of millions, as some
papers, unused to calculation, are
| pleased to declare. but it amounts to
over forty millions (f1, goo, OOO), and in
creases almost daily.
| / have often heard this idea broached
in Paris by Ultramonraines, and there
is every reason to believe the Debats
CORRESPONDENT to be well informed. II
remains only TO learn how the statesmen
of America will receive the rotion. The
same obvious reasons which have mBdC
England tacitly withdraw her pToffere6
hospitality will carry their weight Owe
| kl.x,ks.
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Night in the Moon.

At last, however, night sets in. Crate
fully it comes after the sun has gathered
up its shifting beams and gone to his rest.
All at once we are plunged into compar-
alive obscurity, for again there is no
twilight to stay the steps OF departing
day. At one stride comes the dark.
But, looking up into the sky, we behold
a vast orb. which pours down a milder
and more benefcient splendor than the
great lord of the system. 1t is such
moon as we terrestials cannot boast, for
it is not less than thirteen times as large
and luminous as our own. There it
hangs in the armament without apparent
change of place, as if "fixed IN it's
everlasting seat" But not without
change of surface. For this great globe
is a painted panorama, and, turning
around majestically on its axis, presents
its ocs ans and continents in grand sue
cession. As Europe and Africa, locking
the Mediterranean in their embrace,
roll away to the right, the stormy At
lantic offers its waves to view when the
two Americas, with their huge forests
and vast prairies pass under inspection.
Then the grand basin of the Pacific, lit
up with island fires, meets the gaZer's
eye, and as this glide5 over the scene
Tile ehobSTu I'LL Vi aSlh da1l buc
portion Eof Australia sail into sight.
The Indian ocean, and, afterward, the
Arabian sea spread themselves out in
their subdued splendor, and thus, in
four and twenty hours. "the great TO-
tundity we tread" turns its pictured
countenar ce to the moon, and gra Oily
repays the listening lunarians by re-
peating, to the best of its ability, the
story of it's birth. Nor is the sky less
marvellous in another respect. For the
absence of any atmospheric diffusion of
ligt permits the consultations to shine
out with distinctness which is never
paralleled on earth. They glitter like
diamond points set in a armament of
ebony. Stars and clusters which we
never see by the naked eye, fiock into
view and crowd the lunar heavens
British Quarterly.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-29
Mrs. SiddOn's Lady Randolph.

Macready says in his "reminiscences in
speaking If Mrs. Siddons But who
that had ever seen it could forget her
performance of Lady Randolph? In
the part of Mrs. Beverly the image of
coDjugal devotion was set off with every
charm of grace and winning softness.
In Lady Randolph the SORROWS of widow
hood and the n ural fondness of
the chieftain's daughter assumed a
Ioftier demeauor, but still the mothers
heart showed itself above all power of
repression by conventional control. In
her first interview with Norval, pre-
sented as Lord Randolph's defender
from the assassin, the mourpful admira-
ton of her look, as she fixed her gaze
upon him, plainly told that the tear
which Randolph served to start in her
eye was natures parental instinct in the
presence of her son. The violence of
her agitation while listening to Old
Norval's narration of the perils of her
infant seemed beyond her power longer
to control, and the words, family artic-
uIated, as if the last effort of mental
agony, "Was he alive? p sent an electric
thrill through the audience. In dis
closing the secret of his birth to Norval
and acknowledging herself as his moth
er, how exquisite was the tenderness
with which she gave loose to the indul-
gence of her affections. As he knelt
before her she wreathed her fiugers in
his hair, parted it from his brow, in
silence looking into his features to trace
there the resemblance of the husband
of her love, then dropping On her KIN. es
and throwing her arms around him, she
showered kisses on him, and again
fastened her eyes on him, repeating
the lines:
Image of Douglas, Fruit of fatal Lowell
All that owe thy sire pay to thee.
Her parting instructions, under the
influence of her fears for her sons safe
ty, were most affectionately delivered.
When he had fallen under the treacher-
GUS stab of Glenalvon she had sunk in
state of insensibility on his body. On
the approach of Randolph and Anna
she began to recover recollection. To
Raudolph's excuses her short and rapid
reply, "Of thee think not p spoke her
indifference and disregard of every
worldly thing beyond the beloved OBJ
iect stretched in death before her.
Leaning over him, and gazing with
despalrIng fOndness on his face. she
spoke out in heartrending zones
MY SON. My SON.
My beautiful brave How proud wasI
or thee, and OF thy valor; my fond hort
o'eriiowed this day with transport Wen
| thought
OF growing old amidst race OF thine"
The anguish of her soul seemed al
length to have struck her brain. The
silence of her fixed and vacant stare
was terrible, broken at last by Ioud
and frantic laugh that made the hearers
shudder. She then sprang up, and with
a few self-questioning words, indicating
her purpose of self-destruction, hurried
in the wild madness of desperation from
| the scene.
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Going to the Dentist

like to come across a man with the
toothachs. There's something so pleas
ant about advising him to stuff cotton
in it, to use camphor cfe0sotE, pepper
mint. and "relIef," that [ always feel
better after giving il.
] have been 1here-had an aching
snag, and [ know inst how it feels. It
used to wake me up at night and make
me mad at noon, aud set me TO swear
ing early in the morning.
1 didn't meet man or woman but what
they advised me. Ore said that a hot
knitting needle pushed down on the
root was excellent another said that
opium was an excellent thing and
others said that it must be Gug out by
the dentist.
If sat down to dinner that old tooth
began to growl. If 1 went to bed, or
got up, or went to a party, or stayed at
home, it growIed just the same.
1t wasn't always a growL. Sometimes
it was a Jump that made my hair stand
up, and again sort of cutting pain that
made me make up faces at the baby,
slam doors and break windows. L ate
cotton, peppermint, camphor and opium
until got black III the face, and that
old song kept right on. I Pit bags OF
hot ashes to my cheek, app ed must
ard, held my head in the oven, took a
sweat, and the ache still ached.
After the third week neighbOrs didn't
desire to let their boys pass my house,
and hawkers and book canvassers went
a menagerie, and at u.s. decided to
have my tooth out. I decided to, and
then 1 decided not to. l changed my
mind four times in enc afternoon, and
at last went.
The dentist was glad to see me. He
said that if he con!d not take the tooth
out without hurting me he would give
me million.
1t got easier as he talked, and I con-
cluded not to have it pulled. started
down stairs, but jump caught me. and
I rushed back. He said he would look
at it perhaps it did not need pulling
at all, but he could kill the nerve.
By dint of f1atterv he got me in the
chair. Then he softly inserted knife
and cut away the gums. ] looked up
and said L would kill him, but he beg
ged me not to-said the cutti was all
the pain there was in it. He finally got
me to lie back and open my mouth, and
then he slipped in his forceps, and closed
them round the tooth.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. T. I cried.
But he dind't pay any attention to it.
He drew in full breath, grasped the
forceps tightly, and then he pulled.
Great spoons but didn't it seems as
if my head was going tried to shout,
grasped at him, kicked, and then he
held up the old snag, and said
"There. guess you won't feel any
more aching"
I leaped down and Rugged him. I
promised him ten millions told him
to make my home his house forever I
Rugged him again. Ishook hands with
everybody in the street, kissed my wife,
bought the baby dozen rattle boxes in
a heap, and it seemed to me as if the
world was too small for me, was SO
happy.
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| glass and silver, and another FOLLOWING
on behind carrying my travelling bag
| and parasOl while an ele CANT French.
man, curled and perfumed, stood in the
middle of the door bowling as if he
were under eternal obligations to me
for so much as coming in his establish
ment.
I sat down, feeling much as if 1 were
an imposter, venturing meekly to look
around q little after the waiter had sim
mered away.
Then, for the first time. noticed q
superbly dressed young lady one or two
tables beyond, in lovely hat. with a
long. lilac willow plume, and hair like
a shower of gold.
"Oh, how pretty she is" thought L.
How proud her lover must be of
her."
l leaned the least bit in the world
forward, to gee the young man in ques-
ton.
Good heaven
1t was Clarence.
And as 1 sat staring, completely con-
ceal@d from his view by the golden hair
and the lilac willow plume, l could hear
his light, peculiar laugh.
You wouldn't have me yourself,
self to blame for it,
"That's no reason you should throw
yourself away" pouted the lady.
"She's desperate old maid" said
Clarence, "as old as the hills and twice
as antiquated. But she's got the money.
A man IN my position has got to lcok
out for your money, you know, Kate.
Would you like to see her photograph ?"
"And then the two heads we're close
together for an instant, and the young
lady's ripping laugh mingled with
Clarence's mellower tones.
"The idea of carrying such a thing
next to YOUR heart p said she.
cit does seem rather outrageous,
don't it ? said he. "Bnt when we are
married all that sort of thing will be
over. I'll see that she finds her level"
Yes, when thought I, now thorough
ly disenchanted.
And I got up and hurried out of the
restaurant, nearly stumbling over a
tray, a dish of oysters and a cup of
coffee.
Give changed my mind" said I,
flinging sovereign toward him. 'Never
mind those oysters.
l took the next train to C., and
wrote scratching nots to Clarence the
same evening.
Do you want to know what was in it
OF course, like all women's letters,
the best part of it was in the postscript:
"Our engagement is at an end.
Fl. H."
"P. S.-The next time you examine
ladies' photographs in a crowded res
taurant, it might be well to examine
your neighbors."
Clarence had some sense after all.
He never came near me with useless
apologies.
1 gave the wedding dress to little
Dorothy Miller, who was to be married
in October, and couldn't afford trous-
sean.
1 suppose I shall wear out the blue
and the peach color and the maroon in
time.
Oh, I forgot to say that Mrs. Rich
ford was very angry.
1t seemed that Clarence had prom
ised to pay her hundred pounds that
he had borrowed of her when he got
hold of my money.
And am thankful from the bottom
of my heart that 1 still remain Hattie
Hyde.
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Mode Dresses.

A Paris correspondent writes {: The
Bon Marche has recently had an exhl-
bition of mode dresses. The vast show
rooms of the silk department presented
the curious and novel spectacle of a
procession of gorgeously attired though
headless DANES. Some of these toilets
are excessively pretty, while others were
rather too snowy for perfect good taste.
In this category must be placed bril-,
liant dress of poppy silk, trimmed
with scarfs and drapery of white surah.
An olive green dress trimmed with folds
of plaid in white and olive green was
very striking. A tunic and sacque IN
ecru lace over a richly trimmed skirt OF
palest rose pink, and caught mp behind
with large pale pink bows, was one oi
the prettiest dresses exhibited. Some
of these toilets were finished out to the
.u1,.,rAaat Jatoilo pvan tn tho c,1p my,
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The White House.

The presidential mansion is just one
mile and half from the capitol. 1t
stands on elevated ground, and forms
conspicuous object in the landscape,
seen from a distance. It is an old
fashioned, cumbrous-looking edifice,
with double porch, immense windows,
and has the appearance of a cross be-
tween a demoralized Greek temple and
a New England village town house. 1t
is ITO feet in length, by 81 feet in depth,
and is two stories in height. The en-
trance hall is so feet in length by 40 in
width, the two parlors which flank it
80 by % feet, while the famous east room
is so by 40, requiring five hundred yards
.of carpeting. The height of these
rooms is % feet. A writer, some time
since, in describing these apartments
happily says they are as "home like as
a connected series of meeting houses"
The reader who has never penetrated
the mysteries of the presidential mansion
may be astonished to know that the
entire first floor is public property, and
that the care of it does not at all apper-
tain to the household arrangements of
the occupying family. The private
portion of the building is confined to
part of the second story and three rooms
III the basement. Inc REMAINDER Oh buo
second story is occupied by the presi-
dents offices. At the foot of the en-
trance hall is the "oval room," which is
.fanked by the two square parlors.
From the one on the right the visitor
enters the large dining room; from that
on the left, the banquetirg or east room.
In these rooms are held the presidential
levees and receptions. They are gorge
ousIy furnished, and the amount of
paneIing, and glass, and gilt, and mir
rors, and gingerbread work is absolutely
painful to behold. There has been little
change in their decorations and arrange
ments for the last forty years. The
furniture and carpets have been renewed
and re renewed, but with sort of re-
lgious veneration for the taste of the
original upholsterers, the general ap-
pearance and effect has been retained.
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PROTECTION FROM FRosT.-To pre-
vent frost from iniuring fruit blossoms
in orchards and vineyards, few hours
preparation, in having on hand a supply
ofwet and dry sawdust, shavings, leaves,
or straw, with a good thermometer in
dicates the approach of frost. Then,
with cart, small heaps of dry leaves
are deposited about the orchard or
vineyard and set on fire. Immediately
after, each heap set on fire is. covered
with wet leaves, causing it to evolve one
enormous volume of smoke, which at
once settles in clouds over the orchard.
Thus all around, but especially on the
windward side, the heavy cloud of smoke
effectually prevents the frost from kill
ing the fruit blossoms. In Peru the
vineyards are thus planted high m on
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Macready.

A reviewer of Macready's reminis-
cences and diaries says: He came into
contact with most of the eminent men
and women OF his time, and lived on
intimate terms with many of them. No
actor since Garrick had SO completely
won a place in what is called society !;
and Macready had won it by his own
strength and skill. There are innumer-
able memoranda of dinners at his own
house during the last twenty years of
his professional life, which, Judging by
the company assembled. must have
been as agreeable as any then taking
place. He had relations with all the
eminent actors of the century, from
Mrs. Siddons and Master Betty down
to Mile. Rachel and Miss Cushman.
He played young Norval to Mrs. Sid
donss Lady Randolph, and was called
into the great actresses room after the
play to receive some stately but most
benignant and intelligent advice. His
account of the scene suggests to some
trembling young aspirant admitted to a
supernatural interview with the sacred
Muse in person. He has a number of
sketches of Edmund Kean, who, ac-
cording to his account, played at times
very badly and also of the Kembles,
whom he evidently disliked, and con-
corning whom we should say his testi-
mony must be taken with allowance.
Speaking afterwards very intelligently)
of Mile. Rachel, he says that In many
points she was inferior to Miss O'Neil
"a statement that renews ones regrets
at having been born too late to see this
actress. concerning whose mastery of
the pathetic contemporary evidence is
SO singularly unanimous. But there
are some remarks in one of his letters
late in life about Ristori which are
strangely unappreciative, and which
confirm ones impression that his own
acting and the acting he admired had
little of the natural realistic quality
that we admire SO much nowadays. We
get sense, however, that, natural or
not, the English stage in Macready' s
younger years was in some ways a more
respectable institution than it is now.
| The number of provincial theatres was
greater; small country towns had fire.
quent visitations of players and the
most accomplished actors did not think
it beneath their dignity to play short
or secondary parts. Macready, in the
fitness of ms younger reputation
piryed Friar Lawrence, Prospero, ant
jose oh Surface.
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brella suspended by chain from the
waist-belt. The most daring combina
ton of color 1 have yet seen is seal f
Of deep poppy-red worn with dark
plum colored satin. The effect, though
startling, was admirable, but in min
CLING two such snowy and widely con-
trasting colors the utmost care is neces-
sary in selecting the tints that exactly
correspond in tone.
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How the Ladies Assist the London Re.
Yivalists.

Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the re-
vivalists who have succeeded IN awaken
ing such grand religious demonstrations
in England, despite the protests of some
of the eminent divines, both Catholic
and Protestant, are receiving efficient
aid in their work from the devout women
of London Tney do not mount the
public rostrum, bat go about the city
distributing tracts and organizing com
mite es for ''house- to- house" visitatiOns.
By their constant labors in this direction
the crowds that have attended the
preachings of the American revivalist
and his co-worker have gradually In.
creased since their advent into the great
metropolis. The ladies conduct monster
tea meetings for the poor. The latter
are thus gathered together in large
numbers, and it is comparatively easy
then to persuade them that their souls
need the evangelical tutelage of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey. This may seem
somewhat ludicrous, but it is said that
without these tea dripkings not even
MIR. Moody can attract the sinners in the
south and east of London. Certain it
| is, says a correspondent, ''that in the
north, where as yet there has been no
tea drinking, the attempt of the evangel-
| lists to reach down to the masses has
been thus far futile" The principle
involved in this tea drinking expedient
may be suggestive of good TO the revl-
Waists on this side of the waters.
THE longevity of toads is again under
discussion, owing to a discovery made
near Orsay. In digging up a garden
| some workmen unearthed some terra
| Gotta vases. which they at first supposed
to contain treasure. On breaking them
however, two live toads were found clad
in green velvet. This strange attir,
showed that they must be Mt least 20t
years old, rs an ancient treatise OF
magic and demonoiogy mentions tina
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century sorcerers dressed up toads il
this manner for the achievement o
L cartailI charnnc
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SILENCE.

We are but little sands in Slanca
That sucks and settles round rs line ths ss,.
BUT drop pant, song dsed-then see how syx If,
The s1lences again aNove Il drift
And cover, smooth as ever, Has Been and S,,ll
Be. ~ ' y ~
VI nst tnat strange sea tapping in the dark
Then loud and subtle currents puIse ami paa,.
When IN the night inclosed q shut box,
Si,ep.ess We lie aud long to pick the locks
ny some new. nameless ser se the soul can M al
Ana AZ the last Silence submerges all:
Inc ioftlest head, the proudest work swept OF,
ny Ms high tide sink down and disappear.
het diffing: foreign wood and wee il do cheer
oie Fouls with certain signs Of some rich Shore
Iben why should We question Silence fear
its dufio ways and DIRE sd its tieeps to tlxres
Have We Co'umbus-like no yearnings Grand
% ne ocrne on and find that untrie Land?
silence. We trust thee; ony bear us there,
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How 10 Fat An Orange.

Always, ON Southern gentleman's
table, the dessert of oranges is furnished
with small silver fruit knives and spoons,
The orange is held in the napkin-iust
asIyou hold an egg-and with the slender
point of the knife a circular incision is
made in the stem-end of the orange,
and the stem core is nicely taken ont,
leaving an orifice large enough to admit
the egg spoon. The orange is held and
eaten then, Just like Commands eat an
egg III Its own shell and ths skill and
grace with which tins IA done, that IL,
without sOilIng your fingers or napkin =
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A Portrait of POcahOntas.

The Richmond (Va) Journal says:
Doctor James Beale has deposited in
the state library portrait of the Indian
princess Pocahontas to whom many of
our leading Virginia families trace their
origin, which was painted in 1880 by the
elder Sully from the original portrait in
the possession of the Boiling family.
This portrait makes Pocahontas a very
pretty woman of about twenty years of
age, and clothed in the upper crust toy
gerry prevalent in the nation of her
father, King Powhatan. A copy of this
portrait is published in the History of
the Indian Tribes" now in the state
library among those of one hundred and
twenty other distinguished aboriginals
taken from the Indian gallery of the
department of war at Washington. The
portrait deposited by DR. Beale is an
exact copy by the elder Sully, made in
1880, of an original portrait of Poca-
hontas, painted bstween the years 1916
and 1917, during her visit to England,
in company with her husband, John
Rolfe. The remains of the original
portrait were in 1843 in possession of DIR.
Thomas Robinson, in Petersburg, Vir-
trusted with the duty of reproducing
the portrait, took great pains and per-
fectly succeeded in his undertaking.
Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas, was
born at Plymouth, England, in 1916.
soon after his mother arrived there, and
his mother died in Gravesend in 1917.
Her son, af err his arrival at mans estate.
returned to Virginia and married, and
died, leaving an only child, John Boil
ling, whose daughter, Jane, married
Richard Randolph, Of Curles, in the
county of Henrico, state of Virgil ia.
Ryland Randolph, son of the latter, pro-
cured from England the original por-
traits of John Rolfe and Pocahontas and
placed them where they hung for many
years in his mansion at Tuckey Island.
Mr.. Randolph died in 1871, when both
pictures passed into the possession OF
Thomas Boiling, of Cobbs, in Chester.
field county. These pictures are named
IN an enumeration of the estate of Mr..
Randolph recorded in Henrico county
court in 1884.