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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
Men as Lovers.

In the first place, it is an imposition
on any well-bred girl, to keep her up
later than halfpast 10 o'clock, when
YOU have the opportunity of seeing her
often. If you always leave her with
the wish in her heart that you had
stayed longer, you gain so much: Never
run the risk of wearying her with your
presence. Be just as earnest ana
straightforward as in your honorable
dealing with men. Impress your friends
with the worthiness and seriousness OF
YOUR love, so that vulgar and senseless
bantering will appear to them as SUCH
Love in religion--the supremest hap
piness, wear it manfully and proudly.
but holly. Woo a woman bravely. 1t
there is anything humiliating to
woman, it is to have a lover whom she
wishes to honor, weak and vapid, ever
Welding and halfafraid of her. one
Ionos to tell him to "act like a mani
The nan who conceals or denies his
love for fear of being laughed at Is a
coward. A love that has no element
of divinity in It is not love, but passion
which of itself has nothing ennobling.
That was a beautiful inscription ON an
engagement ring, Each for the other
and both for God" Miss Ab6ieJ. Terry.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD

IT took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest the
principles of gravitation, while an In
diana farmer spent eleven years trying
to find out why cow never kicks until
the pail is two-thirds full.
| AN easy way to drive screws into
hard wood is to file a fiat about I inch
long on the side of the screw beginning
at the point. This cuts the wood and
forms thread in the same way that a
tap does. The screw follows and holds
well.
The richest man in Boston is said to
be Weld, of Weld and Co., East India
merchants, worth 81 8, 000, 600. Joshua
Sears, who died several years ago, left
young son property estimated now to
be worth $50, 600, 900. There are Or,
binary millionaires without number In
Boston.
A MAN whom DIR. Chalmers engaged
to manage disorderly Sunday-school,
kept his eyes wide open during prayer,
and when one boy thrust pin into
another, he marched UP the aisle, still
praying, and cuffed that boys ears and
went back again, praying ali the wy.
After that he was master of the situa-
ton, for the boys thought that man
who could watch and pray like that
could not be put down.
YOUNG man, if you should see your
girl gazing intently at your feet don't
shift them uneasily, or draw them up
and sit upon them, under the impress
sion that she is overwhelmed by their
immense size. She is merely taking
their measure mentally for pair OF
slippers, on the toe of which she III
tends to work big dog with a green.
tail and scarlet ears.
A CURIOUS BIRD.-The chaparrel-
hen is described by a sportsman IN
Texas as very pretty bird. The
female lays one egg, and then COM
mences setting. While setting she
laws four more, the first being the
largest, and the fifth the smallest. The
birds, when grown, seem to be of the
same size. BY the time the fifth egg
is Matched, the first is nearly full
fledged bird. The first egg is about
the size of a pheasant's;, the others
range in size between the pheasant's
and the quairs egg.
THE VOYAGE
ANCHORED
o weary DAYS and night, so still, SO still
The useless sails hang tapping stiff and
slow, -,
We pine and chafe, and set our helpless Will
In vain revolt ut what to change, to know
Is not for u.s. We hear the strong winds
blow
And fret as in the east, the west we see
Great ships and small go sliding fast and Fl %
ADRIFr.
O fearful DAYS and nights, so dark and cold
The swift waves mock and leap on every
side; -,
No rudder steers; no mast nor spar can hold
We think no ear could hear us if we crl
We think God would not miss us If we
died;
We feel forgotten, helpless, east away;
We shut our eyes and do not even pray.
on SHORE.
D peaceful DAYS and peaceful nights whose
Cannot be uttered! green shores OF life
Beyond the body! Shall we ever cease
TO smile that through such hot and SHY
strife
We cease? That doubts and fears could
grow so rife?
That we could fail TO see how Ooos gooo
hand ..,ap
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
Shattered Lives.

Many of the misfortunes of women's
lives owe their origin to vacant or dis
satisfied minds. Few women attach
sufficient Importance to the care of the
mental faculties. Their sphere of life
being more limited than that of men,
they have not so wide choice of Oc-
cupation or amusement. This often
causes women who are naturally capa-
BILE of considerable mental exertion,
to use their powers in an inordinate
and unnatural degree, until they be-
come masculine in manner, or eccen-
trio. Often they fall into the opposite
extreme. Not being possessed of suffi-
cient force of character to take up any
really intellectual pursuit, and being
easily influenced by any unusual ex-
element, they rest their hopes of hap
pincss on such slight foundations that
when these fail them they have no
power to rally. The vacant mind
broods over trihes for sheer want of
occupation; inaction produces feeling
of fatigue which induces desire for
solitude; solitude soon gives rise to
melancholy, and general WEAKNESS
of existence makes the sufferer only
too glad to embrace any chance of
relief. Hence arise ill-assorted mar
riages, melancholia, religious mama
and conventual life. To prevent the
mental faculties from sinking into
lethargy, nothing is more effectual than
change of occupation or scene. 1t
should be the practice of every one to
cultivate Mt least one form of mental
occupation other than that which forms
the chief object of life; for a wide
range of knowledge is of inestfmable
value, and may prove TO be not only
means of recreation and pleasure in
profitable times, but source of profit
and comfort when accident or mistor-
tune renders it impossible for the ordi-
nary pursuit to be followed.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
THE FIsHeRMAN's FUNERAL

Upon the breezy head-lsnd the fisherman.
grave they made,
where, over the daises and clover bells, the
oirchen branches swayed;
ABOVE us the lark was singing IN the cloud
less skies of June,
And under the cliffs the pillows were chant
ing their ceaseless tune;
For the creamy line was curving along the
hollow shore,
Where the dear old tides were flowing that
he would ride no more.
HE dirge of the wave the note of the bird,
and the priests low tone were blent
In the breeze that blew from the mocrland,
all laden with country scent;
But never thought of the new-mown hay
tossing ON sunny plains,
Or of lilies deep in the wild wood, or roses
gemming the lanes,
Woke in the hearts of the stern, bronzed
men who gathered around the grave
Where lay the mate who had fought with
them the battle of wind and wave.
How boldly he steered the cable across the
foaming bar,
When the sky was black TO the eastward, and
the breakers white on the Scar!
How his keen eye caught the seuall ahead,
how his strong hand furled the sail
As We drove over the angry waters before the
raging galei
How eheery he Kept all the long, dark night,
and never person spoke
Good words, like those he said to us, when at
last tbs msrning broke!
30 IT, Jught the dead mans comrades, as
silent and sad they stood,
while the prayer was prayed, the blessing
said, and the lull earth struck the wood;
And the widows sob, and the orphans wall,
Jared through the joyous air.
How could the l. eyht wind Ger the sea blow
on so fresh and fair?
How could the gay waves laugh and leap,
landward DER sand and stone,
While he. who knew and loved them all, lay
tapped in clay alone?
But for long, when to the beetling nights the
snow-tiPped pillows roll,
When the cod, and skate, and dogfsh dart
around the herring shoal;
When gear is sorted, and sails are set, and
the merry breezes blow,
And away 10 the deep sea harvest the stall |
wart reapers go,
A kindly sight and hearty word they win |
give to him who lies
Where the clover springs, and the heather |
blooms, beneath the northern skies
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

strong men trembled and hearts stooc
still. All eyes were riveted on tn,
spot where Mabel was last seen. A
moment more, and Julian emerged
from the dressing-room with Mabel il
his arms. Dashing through the flames
he gained the edge of the fly gallery
was seen to stagger for a moment
but finally, mastering his remaining
strength, he leaped with his precious bur-
den (Which he had hastily muffled in
various articles of costume to the stage
below-a depth of twenty-four feet.
A mattress, the stage carpet and other
articles of soft goods were previously ar
ranged to receive them.
Better far had the unfortunate couple
persisted at once in the flames. 1t
would have spared one of them days of
dreadful suffering, and the other long
years of imbecility worse than death.
They were taken to their lodgings, fol-
lowed by melancholy train of actors
and firemen, rendering all the assistance
within their scope. Although there was
no outward sign of fire on the poor
girls person, except the loss of her
beautiful dark brown hair, still she
had inhaled its fiery breath and no
power on earth could save her.
Julian was also in critical condition.
His hands and face were fearfully bis
tered, and he, too, had lost his curling
locks a painful disguise the poor fel-
low wore, and it was hard, indeed, to
recognise in his mutilated and suffering
person the gay and light-hearted youth
of few hours previous. The terrible
ordeal which he passed through had
him of all consciousness, while
Mabel had passed away into that long
and quiet sleep which knows no sorrow,
knows no pain.
Julian awoke to learn that she whom
he so tenderly loved was dead. He re-
ceived the sad intelligence without
murmur, but the agony expressed upon
his features called forth the tenderest
sympathies of all present. For hours
he lay with closed eyes, silent and mo-
ticnless, as if he, too, had gone out into
The night, a cold and weary pilgrim, in
search of her.
At length the paroxysm passed
away, the lethargy was broken, he was
reused to life, but his reason was dead
and buried. And so he lived for two
and twenty years, a helpless maniac,
capable of neither joy nor sorrow.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

of the late Mr.. Trask, it is difficult t.
remember any sect, as it is quite i'm
possible to recall any nation or people
among whom its use does not in great
er or less degree prevail. 1t certainly
seems to supply human need or allie
viate human craving which is univer-
sal, bounded by no lines of latitude,
nor circumscribed by conditions OF
climate. The Esquimau, living under
the arctic borealis, likes his pipe as
well as the naked Papuaal, or the Anna
zoian Tupinamba, blackened with the
equatorial sun; the hill-dweller as well
as the inhabitant of the plains; the
jolly Jack-tar breasting all seas and
sliding through the zones like water
bird, as well as the sI,,terranean toiIer
in the mine, on whose labor the sun
beam does not beat and whose girdling
iron walls are only larger grave-for-
lOrn as the lesser and later one but for
the fund of solace in his cheek or the
black dhudeen in his jaws. In fact it
may be said that with the exception of
some women and children in the
United States ana Europe, the entire
human race are addicted to this habit,
and it is therefore of first consequence
that staple in such universal use
should not be tempered with as if it
were only bread, or GER, or wine, or
oil, or other commodity whose use he
comparatively restricted and local.
Our reporters, however, inform us that
a fellow-citizen or two have embarked
in the business of making the worse
appear the better tobacco; in other
words, they take the refuse of this
world-embracing staple and by putting
it through certain chemical and
thermal processes bring it out in a
shape calculated to impose ON old to-
bacco-worms as a first-class article.
These ingenious fellow-citizens declare
that the weed is decidedly improved
by these dimensions and manipula-
tons; that they supply to it refine
ments of taste and flavor which ma
ture intended to impart, but in some
way failed in her intention. For the
sake of the smokers who smoke, and
the chewers who chew, and the shutters
who Snuff these products, we hope
that this is true, though We should not
be surprised if they had extolled their
new-fangled craft somewhat, and
sumed for their improved tobacco a
virtue which the conservative con-
would DENY to it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
Brazilian Turtles and Turtle-Butter

One of the NEST abundant and useful
animals of tropical South America
is the turtle, which yields to the natives
large supply of food in its flesh and
eggs. So eagerly and necessarily has
the animal been hunted for many years
that, great as are its numbers at the pres
ent time, they have susceptibly dimin-
ished within quite recent period, and
the day seems not far distant when it
may be altogether exterminated. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Franz Keller, there
are five species of turtles living on the
| Amazon and It's affluents, the largest
and most valuable of which are called
the tartarusa. The market price of
this species has doubled during the last
dozen years, showing that it is growing
gradually more scarce. 1t Is hunted at
all seasons, and the animal slaughter is
enormous.
In the month of September the turtle
visits the sandy shoals of the rivers TO
| deposit their eggs, and are then assem-
bled i'm incredible numbers. So blind
are they to all danger while engaged in
providing for the perpetuation of their
species, that they easily become a prey
to the hunter, who has only to turn as
many upon their backs as he has n
mind to, and afterwards dispatch
them at his leisure. At n single point.
Praia de Tamundua, on the Madeira
River, 5000 or 1000 turtles are regu-
larly caught in each laying-season,
besides those, amounting to many
hundreds, that are taken by passing
canoes for immediate consumption,
or to be kept us live stock. The
turtle, with wonderful rapidity, digs
large hole in the sand, foot and Il
half deep, wherein it lays from 100 to
| 800 eggs So great is the throng of
builders intent upon the same work
and eager for an opportunity, that the
nests already made are often broken
up and their contents scattered about.
Vet the dcpredations that the turtle
unwittinely practice upon each other
a,e as nothing compared with those
which they suffer from mankind The
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

Projection TO TRAVELLERS. A
Glasgow, Scotland, man recommends;
as a means of preventing the personal
injury and damage to property which
result from railway collisions, that pas
senger carriages should be constructed Of
strong yulcanized India rubber, which
he says can be moulded up to any thick nc;
ness and degree of elasticity. The
carriages would be rounded at the
ends, instead of having buffers at !,
tached: and these convex ends would
become concave in collision, but wonld
not Jerk the carriages of, the rails like
buffers. He proposes that the train
should be united by a wire rope
passed through eyes underneath each
carriage to windlass on brake be-
hind, which would tighten it up to
any tensity,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

when the pies are done spread over the
top and brown. This receipt is suf-
ficient for two pies.
AMERICAN YORKSHIRE PUDDING.
When scraps of bread, and such
meat as is no longer available only as
''hash," have accumulated, chop the
meat finely, soften the broad with
boiling.water, then mix meat and bread
together, add an egg or two, some salt,
pepper and sage bake in an ordinary
baking pan. Thus you save bread and
meat and have an excellent dish that
isn't hash.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

PmLopENA.-Plenty of 'philope-
mas" will be eaten during the coming
festivities, and perhaps our young
friends may like to know the origin
of the word and of the custom. The
word is of German derivation, and
was originally "velleibchen," "well
beloved" but the inhabitants of Alsace
and Lorraine, where the custom orig
mated, partly lost the use of their ma
tive language while under French do
minion, and what remained to them
was corrupted and changed. SO it
came. that velIeibchen was altered into
phiIIipo, or philippine, which sounds
like il. 1t was an old custom among
them for young couples to engage
themselves by eating the halves of
double almonds, and then to salute
each other-as well beloved (phillipina)
Zach time they met.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

A LITTLE HINT--The teeth are
covered with delicate enamel that
is liable to injury from the use of any
hard substance, like a knife or gold
toothpick. The enamel once broken
or Clipped off opens the tooth to decay.
The gums and lining of the mouth are
also likely to be injured. A quill or a
soft piece of wood make the best tooth
pick. A celebrated aurist, or ear
doctor, once said that no person should
put anything into his ear smaller than
his elbow.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

1t is affirmed by statistician, of
whose competency thus to affirm we
know nothing, that the 200, 900, 600
inhabitants of the globe more than ! :
O00, Too, 900 use tobacco in one shape
or another. Except the Wahahccs the
latter-day adyentists, and the disciples
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
ADVERTISING RATES.
SCRAPS FROM THE SHIP IN THE
DESERT"
by JOAQUIN MILLER.

by JOAQUIN MILLER
INDIGESTION.
The blacklist rain-clouds muffie fire;
Between duty md desire
There lies no middle way or land;
Take thou the right or the left hand
And so pursue, nor hesitate
To boldly give your hand to fate.
n helpless indecision lie
The rocks on which we strike and die.
'Twere better far to choose the worst
OF all life's ways than to be cursed
With indecision. Turn and choose
Your way; then all the world refuse.
TOMORROW.
o thou tomorrow Mysteryl
o day that ever runs beforei
What has thine hidden hand in store
For mine, tomorrow, and for me?
o thou tomorrow What hast thou
In store to make me bear tle now?
o day in which we shall forget
The tangled troubles of today
o day that laughs at duns, at debit
o day OF promises to payi
o shelter from all present storlni
o day in which we shall reforml
0 day of all DAYS for reformi
Convenient day of promisesi
Hold back the shadow of the storm.
o blessed tomorrow! Chiefest friend,
Let not thy mystery be less,
But lead us blindfolded to e end"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15
The End of POlygamV,

In the recent case of the United
STATES against George Reynolds, tried
in Salt Lake City for bigamy, Chief
Justice White very clearly defined thu
crime and told the jury that it was nc
| defense to say that the defendant was
under the influence of religious be-
| lief, which amounted as he conceived,
to inspiration, which he believed as
thoroughly as is possible within the
limit of the human mind. This is ac-
cording to the law and common sense.
A citizen of New York might believe
in the religious obligation of human
sacrifice, and nobody could lawfully
interfere with his enjoyment of the
belief; but let him undertake to make
sacrificial offering of man, woman
or child, and he would speedily hear
from the police. There is no crime
which might not go UNPUBLISHED if the
religious belief of the criminal should
be accepted as plea in justification.
Freedom of faith never implies free
dom to violate law. This is the rule
in all civilized states, and it ought to
be the rule in Utah. The sooner a
final judicial decision upon the real and
fancied rights of the Mormon is made
the better. The Reynolds case will go
to the Supreme court OF the United
States, and it is to be hoped that there
will be no delay in the hearing of the
appeal. If the court of last resort
affirms the judgment, as there is no
ree.,n to doubt that it will do, the
Mormons will be without excuse of
farther law-breaking. They may then
believe in polygamy as heartily as they
choose. but they must not practice it.
From certain circumstances it appears
very probable that if the Supreme
court decides against them they will
peacefully yield to what is inevitable,
and that the remaining one of the
"twin relics of barbarism will disap-
pear without violence.-N. Y. Eueni,,9
Invf
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

RAW CoTToN AS A DRESSING FOR
WoUNDs.-Surgeons in Europe and
America are now using raw cotton a. a
dressing for wounds, and with excel
lent effect. A layer of cotton spread
over wound or over the surface ex-
posed by amputation, protects the
part thoroughly, filters the air, and
prevents the access of floating germs,
whether poisonous or not. 1t is i'm
portant that the cotton be fresh and of
good quality; and if it is to be used in
a hospital, it should not be previously
exposed to the air Of that hospital ;
moreover, dressing should never be
renewed in the foul air of ward. In
time of war and on the battlefield
the cotton would prevent much suffer
ing "In civil practice" as remarked
by DR.. Van Buren,, ait promises to be
useful principally in the large hos
pitfalls of great cities, where pyamia
and erysipelas are always liable to be-
come epidemic, in preventing the
poisoning of open wounds by those
diseases, and also by thus enabling
surgeons to save limbs which might
otherwise require amputation." The
cotton above described is that manu-
featured in the form of wadding.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

EYEs.-By far the most remarkable
arrangement regarding the eyes of ami
mails is observable in the vision of the
insect races. In this instance the eye
is fixed to to the head; whether be-
cause another provision is better, is no
consequence. Such is the fact F.; and
see how nature has compensated the
want of moving process. In the COM
mon fly, which offers ready example,
are seen two small round projections
at the side of the head. These little
dull protubcrances are not single eyes.
Each projection contains many thou
sands of eyes disposed in rows, each
one of which is capable of transmitting
an impression of outward objects; and
by this means the fly can see as well
behind us before, as well down as up,
and is therefore put on its guard
against attack. A German naturalist
counted 6,236 eyes in silk-worm.
Another naturalist counted II, 900 in a
drone fly, and $1,000 in a dragon fly.
1t has been proved by actual expert
ment, with the help of microscopes,
that each .onc of these eyes was capa-
Ele Of receiving an independent and
distinct impression.
AN ink-stand was turned over on Il
white table-cloth ; Il servant threw over
,4o1t MI al
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-15

An ink-stand was turned over on Il
white tabIe-cloth II servant threw over
II mixture of salt and pepper plen-
tifuIly, and all traces Of it disappear
Cd
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KEGEREE.

Take some cold fish, and with two
forks flake it off in small pieces, melt
a bit OF butter in a stewpan, and toss
the fish in it till thoroughly warm.
Have ready cupful of boiled rice, and
two soft-boiled eggs, add them to the
fish, season to taste, give one turn
over the fire and serve. This was a
favorite dish among the monks of old,
and has lost none of the SAVIOR those
cunning astronomers detected in it..
So says the London Agricultural
Gazette.
BRIGHTsIDE OATMEAL. CAKE.
Mix the meal the night before with
Just enough water to swell it. In the
morning add milk to make soft bat
ter, bake it in thin cakes in Il hot oven,
allowing full thirty minutes. Gut III
square pieces to serve. 1t is Il favorite
form of bread, adding pleasant va
riety. 1t may be baked, same us the
gems, in baking irons.
LEMON CUsTARD FOR PIES.
Take one pint of boiling water and
thicken with two heaping tablespoons
fuls of f;trina, cooking it until thick +,
while hot stir in small half teacup of
butter and one of sugar when cold
add four eggs well beaten, and the
juice and grated rind of two large
lemons or three small ones. If pre-
ferred, the whites of the eggs can g
separated, beaten to iroth, swceten'd
with half Il cup of siited sugar, and