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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-09-14
Stsnektys

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Leave New York $40 p m.
Leave Philadelphia 7.I0 p IN.
*Via Morris & Essex II. Il.
j. T.. WOOTTEN,
Genl Supt.
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ters &C., for this office, 20 secure
prompt attention should be addressed
as follows: TIE Posr, Middleburg,
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communication &c. must be handed
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a GENTS Wanted for THg CENTENNIAL
"A Bookof BiodRArHY, or tho lives OF tho
great men OF our first 100 years. Send for oir-
Phila., Pa.
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Dauchy 90 Cos Advertisements

ttDYCHOMANCY. or SOUL CHARMING.
L How either scx may iascinnto and gain
thclovc affections Of any person they choose
instantly. This simple mental requirement all
can possess free, by mali for 25c, together
with marriage guide. Egyptian oracle Dreams
Hints to Ladies', Wedding. Night Shirt &c. A
queer book. Address I, WILLIAM b Co.Pubs
Phila.
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OEfANCN CARDS II styics with name iocts
COAgents wanted. J. Is. HvsrDp, Nassau,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

VIII lie found 10 possess those qualities necessary to
the total eradication all bilious attacks prompt
start the secretons of the liver, and give healthy
tone to the entire SYSTEM Indeed, il is ordinary
discovery in medical science have invented rem
cdy for these stubborn complaints, which develop all
the results produced by heretofore free OF Gallo
mel a mineral justly dreaded by mankind, and ac-
knowle,gcd to be destructive in the extreme to the
human system. That the properties of certain vege-
tables comprise all the virtues of caenlel without its
injurious tendencies, is now an admitted fact rem
dercd ndsputahe by scientific researches and those
who the Mandrake Pills will he fully satisfied
that the best medicines those provided hy nature
in the common herbs and roots of the fields
these Pills open the bowels and correct all bilious
arrangements, without salvation any of the in
furious effects Of caomel other poisons. The So
cretion of bile is promoted by these pills, will he
seen by the altered color Of the tools aud disappearing
of the sallow cnupiexio and cleansing Of the tongue
Ample directions for accompany each box OF
pills.
Prepared only by j. II. Schcnrk x Son, nj their
principal Office sixth and Arch Streets Phil
alephia and ior sale by ali druggists and dealers.
+ rice p cents per box.
T.. J. HART Il co, Nos. 10, -, and II Tchoupi-
toulas St. New Otleans Wholesale Agents.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
Foot Comforts.

The Science of Health says: "Never
60 to bed with cold feet. Never try
to sleep without being perfectly GER
tain that you will be able to keep them
warm. To lie one night with cold feet
gives such a strain to the system as
will be felt seriously, perhaps ending
in a fit of sickness. Cold feet show an
unbalanced circulation" The very
best thing to do is to warm them by
exercise if that be practicable if not,
try dipping them in hot and cold
water alternately two or three times
then using vigorous friction. If that
does not warm them and keep them
warm, heat them before the fire, dry
ing them thoroughly, and then correct
your habits or improve your health,
for be sure that one or the other is
wrong, perhaps both. With all the
rest, if you sleep on a hard bed, with
cotton sheets, in cold room, put Oh
an extra covering over the feet. 1t is
very convenient to have a /" foot COM
fort" Just wide enough to cover the
top of the bed and about yard deep.
This may be made of some light ma
terial (perhaps the remains of pretty
dress) filed with cotton, like "com-
Portable" and tackled with some har-
monious color. During the day this
may be threwn over the foot-board and
spread ON the bed at night. The adj
vantage of this is to secure sufficient
covering for the feet without over
burdening the remainder of he body.
If you use a hot brick or an iron put
it in the bed a little beforehand, and
then when retiring remove it. To
sleep with the feet in contact with it
has a tendency to make the feet ten
der. But better than both these, and
to be used with or without them, is
the foot-blanket. This may be Il
square yard of domestic flannel, or
two yards, folded, or Swiss flannel, or
any thing else you like that is warm
enough, only have it nice and clean.
Fold this around your feet and ankles
before you put them down into the
bed. If not very cold this will very
often warm them, especially if you
have rised friction; and, if warm, it
will prevent their becoming cold by
contact with cold sheets. 1t keeps the
warm air around them. 1t does not
make the feet tender, and it is far
more convenient than the hot brick or
Try it, and, if you are
troubled with cold feet, you will be
likely TO keep it by you hereafter.
Whatever you use, always lie at full
length. To "c,ml up" binders free
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PauI's Thorn.

PauPs " thorn in the flesh is conjec-
tured by DIR. John Brown, of E'lin-
burgh, to have been weak eyes, and he
advances evidence for it. The first in
dication is the utter blindness, caused
by lightning, on his way to Damascus,
which lasted some days, and was only
relieved by the aid of AnaDias, "when
there fell from his eyes, rs it had been,
scales The second was the blunder
of Paurs not recognizing the high
priest, in Acts xiii, when he says a
wist not that it was the high priest, :"
though his dress was so distinctive.
Third, his letters to the Galatians: al
bear you record that you would have
plucked out your own eyes and given
them unto me-" Immediately after the
declaration that he had preached the
gospel unto them through infrmity of
the flesh. Then he states that he bears
in his body the mark of the Lord
Jesus, which would suit admirably to
the disabling effect of his conversion,
when Jesus addressed him a personal
remonstrance. Were his eycsight suIf
fering, this would remind him perpetu-
ally of the day when he was struck
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
Bad Literature for the Young.

Odu hlJ0IdbuIO lOI IuO 1OuHS.
In our own country the conditions
of the growth of this bad kind of
literature for boys and girls are to be
seen, some of them at least, lying
plain upon the surface. There is the
rapid increase of the population; the
diffusion of the capacity to read among
the classes whose circumstances are in
other respects most unfavorable to the
formation among them of proper stand
ards of taste and good feeling; and
there is the fact that the young have of
late years been turned out early to earn
their livings and left pretty much to
their own misguidance. Whether n
state of civilization like that of London
and New York can exist without $50
cial deposits" of such kind that these
or similar conditions will always be re-
appearing in some shape is question
on which opinions will differ. But we
believe it is certain that the existence
of this vile literature, whether for old
or young, is comparatively recent
phenomenon. There appears to have
been nothing like it (of course the same
thingcould not have then existed) when
the late DIR. Kitto was engaged in those
struggles after something to read, which
he has so admirably recorded; and
there seems to have been nothing like
it when the Queen came to the throne.
At that date there was much more
broad indecency in caricatures and in
popular literature for adults; but that
is very different matter. Nowadays
we have fiourishing in vile luxuriance
whole jungles of literature, chiefly for
the young, such as Mr.. Anthony Troll
lope and James Greenwood have, each
in his own way, described in magazine
articles. 4 * x The alarming and
dispiriting part of the case is the grad
ual spread, upwards in what is called
the social scale, OF this sort of trash.
Any observant person may notice low
newspapers and low periodicals in
houses of a pretension which would
seem to point to something great
deal better. Respectable people peo-
pie who seem to have influence in
vestries and on school boards-may
every day be seen spending money on
fine dress and furniture, and, while
they go regularly to church and main
tain all the responsibilities, taking in
journals and magazines that one would
beforehand suppose to be quite beneath
their notice. 1t is indeed undeniable
that the last ten years have witnessed
general lowering of the standards in
all strictly popular literature. There
is more amateur or halfamateur litera-
ture; there is more false and vulgar
sentiment, even where there is what is
called "pure Christian teachings
and everywhere there is pandering
to the appetite for luxury and worldly
success. 1t is, perhaps, in the popular
literature of America that we see the
least favorable examples of the man.
ner i'm which recent conditions of 1iv-
ing affect literature for "the masses.
1t is certainly to America that we
must go to see the most barefaced in-
stances of pandering, and the most
ingenious evasions of the higher liter
airy responsibility.-Aierunder &rahan
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Slang of Artists.

The conversation ofartists, when it ha.
reference to their profession, is usual,
patched up with phrases peculiar t.
themselves, and which may not i'm
properly be called the slang of art
This jargon, when heard by persons
unacquainted with its application, i.
apt to lead to awkward mistakes. A
laughable instance occurred lately.
A party of artists were travelling in q
stage-coach, in which, besides them.
selves, sedate, venerable old lady
was the only passenger. The CONVEX
sation among the artists ran as follows
How playful those clouds are!-that
group to the left is sweetly composed,
though perhaps little too solid and
rocky for the others. l have seen
nothing Offs lately. / think he
is clever. He makes all his flesh too
chalky. You must allow, however,
that he is very successful with the
ladies'" The old lady began to exhibit
symptoms of uneasiness, and at the
close of each conversation cast an
anxious and inquiriHg look at the
speaker. Her companions, however,
Of the alarm they were
exciting (for she enter tanned doubts as
to their sanity, went on in the same
style, She heard them, to her in
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.
HOW MIR. KERR's APPOINTMENTS ARE
RECEIVED.

The general feeling appears to he
that, upon the whole the commit
tees will average up very well.
There is still some dissatisfaction, rs
would naturally be anticipated, and
the speaker may congratulate himself
that, in his first important act, he has
made very few enemies. Mr.. Cox is
very much out of humor, but shows no
disposition to kick against the pricks.
He felt that he was entitled to either
the ways and means or the foreign
affairs committee, and complains that,
while he might have rendered good
service on either of them, as it is he Is
compelled to deal with a question on
which he is not so well informed. He
will go to work, however, and do the
best he can. The election of Mr..
Morrison is generally conceded to
have been quite a happy hit. He
served in the thirty-eight and forty.
third congresses; and while he has
never displayed much forensic ability,
he is conceded to be a first-class man,
of solid attainments. With Randall
and Lamar to assist him, he will not
find it difficult to keep his position as
the leader of the house.
A great deal ofsuprise is manifested
at the composition of the Pacific rail
roads committee, of which there is a
clear and indisputable majority in
favor of the Texas Pacific project. In
view of the speakers positive asser-
tions of a few days ago that he would
make committee of strictly impair
tial men, and the adoption of Hol-
mans anti-subsidy resolution last
week, it is extraordinary. The east
ern Democrats, outside of Pennsyl
vania, are disposed to object that the
organization is entirely in the interest
of the west, and Mr.. Tilden's friends
are particularly disgruntled. : Fash
ton Letter.
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For the blood IL the Life."

See Deuteronomy, Xii: 23. The blood being
the source from which the system is built up,
and from which we derive our mental as well
as physical capabilities, how important that
it should be kept pure! If it contain vile,
fostering poisons, all organic functions be-
come enfeebled. Settling upon important
organs, as the lungs, liver, and kidneys, the
effect is most disastrous. Hence it behooves
all to keep their blood in perfectly healthy
condition, and more especially does this apply
at this particular season of the year than at
any other No matter what the exciting
cause may be, the real cause of large pro-
portion of all diseases is bad blood. Now,
DIR. Pierce does not wish to place his Golden
Medical Discovery i'm the catalogue of quack
patent nOstrunis, by recommending it to cure
every disease nor docs he so recommend it !;
on the contrary, there are hundreds of dis
eases that he acknowledges it will not cure /;
but what he does claim is this, that there is
but one form of blood disease that it will not
cure, and that disease is cancer. He does
not recommend his Discovery FOR that dis
else, yet he knows it to be the most searching
blood-cleanser yet discovered, and that it will
free the blood and system of all other blood
poisOns, be they animal, vegetable, or min
eral. The Golden Medical Discovery is scar-
rdnted by him to cure the worst forms of Skin
Diseases, all forms of Blotches, Pimples,
and EruptiOns; also all Glandular Swellings,
and the worst form of Scrofulous and Ulcer
ated Sores of the Neck, Legs, or other parts,
and all ScrOfulOuS Diseases OF the Bones, as
White Swellings, Fever Sores, Hip-joint and
Spinal Diseases,-all of which belong to
Scrofulous diseases.
CONTEMPLATION DISEASE CURED.
w. GROVE STATION, Iowa.
DIR. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear ;Sir-My wife first became lame nine
years ago. Swellings would appear and dis
appear on her hip, and she was gradually
becoming reduced, and her whole system rot
ten with disease. In 1871, a swelling broke
on her hip, discharging large quantities, and
since that time there are several openings.
Have had five doctors, at an expense Of $125,
who say nothing will do any good but sur
gical operation.
July IS, 1873, he writes thus: My wife has
certainly received great benefit from the
use of your Discovery, for she was not able to
get off the bed and was not expected to live
a week when she commenced using it, a year
ago. She has been doing most of her work
for over six months. Has used twenty bot
ties, and still using it. Her recovery is con-
sidered as almost miracle, and we attribute
it all to the use of your valuable medicine. l
can cheerfully recommend it as blood-puri-
fer and strength-restOrer.
J. NJ. ROBINSON.
Golden Medical Discovery is sold by Drug
gists.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

creasing dismay, talk of a farmhouse
trees, and of a gentleman's grounds
wanting repose. AT length they ap-
preached an old village church. A
great many observations were made
about the keeping, ETC., of the scene,
which the old lady bore with tolerable
ma 2nanimity; but at last one of the
party exclaimed, in kind of enthu-
slams, "See lsw well the woman in
the red cloak carries off the tower"
This was too much. The lady scream
ed to the coachman to stop, paid him
her fare, although advanced only half
way on her journey, and expressed her
thankfillness for having escaped alive
from such a set of madmen.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
The Fashion in Diamonds.

Diamonds are now set to show the
stone alone, without any gold being
visible. The crown setting is still i'll
vogue, and to avoid all appearance OF
metal jewellers make the claw that
hold the stone of platinum so nearly
the color of the diamond that it
scarcely shows at all. The favorite
diamond earrings are solitaire knobs
worn as close to the ear as possible. 1t
is better, however, to have them hang
below the ear, as this shows the stone
better than the rosette solitiaires fitted
into the lobe. Most ladies understand
that the clear whiteness of a diamond
is its great beauty, and that diamonds
of the first water, artistically cut, can
rest upon their own merits without the
aid of enamel or other ornament to
develop them. There are diamonds,
however, which, without being " off
color" have a peculiar straw tint of
their own and connoisseurs value these
very highly. There is no denying
that the principal feature Of Il lady's
iewelry now are diamond solitaire ear
rings. After these may be ranked in
estimate, a handsome diamond ring
and cross, or pendant, and perhaps
necklace set with diamonds. An ele
CANT outfit of these may be obtained at
from $500 to $4,000. Many of the
stones are immense in size and pure in
color Pins and finger rings set with
these gems are valued at $50, 600. OF
course, the valuation decreases record
ing as the gem is less pure in color-it
is little affected by the size. A beau
tiful conceit is earrings in black onyx,
cut in the form of leaf The center
Is carved out and in its place Is tastcn-
ed a great diamond, "lucid aud clear
IF the mote which trcmblrs and
throws myriad of lights,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

MOUTH glue is made by dissolving,
with the aid of heat, pure glue, as
parchment glue or geletine, with about
quarter or one-third of its weight OF
coarse brown sugar, in us small guam
tity of boiling water as possible. This,
when perfectly liquid, should be cast
into thin cakes, on fiat surface, very
slightly oiled, and as it cools cut up
into pieces of a convenient size. When
required for use mOisten one end. A
piece kept in the desk or work-box is
exceedingly convenient.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
Profitable Employ ,nent---A PermaneI

Read the large double-column advertise
ment of Kennedy Il Co., in this paper. Read
it all. Study ii and accept their offer. The
advertisers worthy of confidence, and
their assertions be relied on. Parties
RENTING money can be fully assured that
they will receive just what is promised. The
liberality and enterprise of Messrs. Kennedy
& Co. are shown by the fact that they give to
each agent coin silver hunting case watch
We have seen and examined this watch and
are able to say that it is in every way evual
to what is claimed for it. They want an
agent in this county; some lucky reader of
this paper will get it. The remedy they offer
is popular, the profits large, the business all
your own. If you do not wish another to
bear away the prize, answer this advertise
ment at once, and remit Tor sample dozen,
and you will thank lis for advising you, and
thus giving you business us long you live
permanent, profitable, honorable, pleasant.
Who could ask more?
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

down on his prosecuting career by
blindness. Lastly he calls the Callahan
Church to see how large letter he had
written with his own hand; yet the
epistle was one of his shortest; and it
could only have surprised them by be-
ing his own handwriting-not by its
size he being the only Apostle whose
impaired vision obliged him to employ
amanuensis.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
EARLY TIMES IN Virginia

EARLY TINES IN VINGINIA. "A GU
rious old volume entitled "a Complete
Collection of the Laws of Virginia at
Grand Assembly held at James City,
% March, 1862" is owned by gen
tleman in Troy, New York. 1t was
probably printed in Richmond about
1890. Among other acts it provides
that babbling women" who ISLANDER
and scandalize their neighbors, for
which their poor husbands areoOften
involved in chargeable and vexatious
suits, and cast in great damages, shall
he punished by ducking." If the SLAM
der Is so enormous as to merit fine
of more than 500 pounds of tobacco,
then the guilty woman is to be ducked
for each 500 pounds, in case her hus-
band refuse to discharge the fine.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

PIMPLEs on the face, rough skin,
chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous
affections cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use of Juniper Tar Soap.
That made by CasweIl, Hazard d Co., New
York, is the only kind that can be relied on,
there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
Several Good Things.
If you want good Digestion
Ii you want good health,
If you want good baking,
If you want the best stove
If You want the cheapest stove,
If you want good square meal,
Buy a CHARTER OAK STOVE
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

THE VINE AND THE OAK.-Wo-
mans love is likened to vine. Per-
haps it is like it, though it is very
strong in hours of need, as strong as it
is tender. Yes, surely, we will not
deny that it is our nature to ask for
comfort and support, and to seek to
Irvine ourselves about something that
can offer it. And there is no better
reason than this very trait of ours
why we should be careful how we give
our hearts, and make very sure that
the man we choose has also heart-a
strong and honest one-and that his
love is of the kind TO be enduring, and
that he has ingrained in his nature
that most excellent and manly quality
-trustworthiness. He should be an
oak, and not a reed; for, though in
summer weather the vine may drape
the reed very prettily, it will not resist
the tempest. Nor need the vine dread
the ruggedest oak Its bark may be
gnarled, its branches knotted but all
the greener and fresher will be the
foliage that it bears, all the more ten
derby will it shadow that which is
beneath it. There is sweetness in
weakness something very loveable in
MANY faint-wilIed, purposcless and
unenduring man; but two vines can
not support each other They will
only tangle and fall upon the ground.
The stronger, the Drawer, the more
unlike woman Il man Is, the better
for his wife.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

THE use of borax in Europe for
washing is well known, the addition of
a large handful of borax, instead of
soda, to ten gallons of water being suf-
ficient to save half the quantity of
soap ordinarially required. For light
fabrics and cambrics moderate guam
tity is to he used but for articles which
require to be made stiff a strengthened
solution is necessary. Being a neutral
salt, il does not affect the texture of
linen in the slightest degree 4; and as it
soi:ens the hardest water, it is much
used in washing generally.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

cessfully for cataract on his I'D annivcr sary
by DIR. VOORHEES,, the celebrated Oculist, Of
Memphis.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

SALMON skin makes a leather of about
The thickness of dog-skin and as tough as
wash leather. The scale marks leave a
neat pattern.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
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