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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
A Solid Acre of Silver.

One of the most remarkable mines in
California gulch is in leads three feet in
thickness, the ore from which yield
from $40 to 270 ounces Of silver to the
ton, and like coal bank in stratifca-
ton of limestone, dipping about Is de-
grees. Two openings have been made at
points 600 feet apart, and sufficient ore
is in sight to make millions of the dol
lars of our daddies. The diggers have
gone far enough to find out that there is
full acre of the ore in one solid body,
and some conception may be formed of
the amazing richness of this discovery
by brief calculation of its dimensions.
A cubic foot weighs ITO pounds, and as
the ore lies, II cubic feet are ton.
There are 1850 square feet in an acre
of ore, being three feet through, makes
130,6S0 cubic feet, which, with II cubic
feet to the ton, gives 10000 tons, worth
$3.50 per ton, or the enormous value in
the aggregate of s2,T00000. The Ores
cent is another mine worked like coal
bed, the lying horizontally in the large
room that has been opened, the roof be-
ing held up by heavy timbers with very
stout caps and tugging poles. The ore
breasts from foot to three and four
feet, and occasionally very fine speci-
mems of horn and silver are found..-
ROcky Mountain Tourist.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
The Art of Pr0lOnging life.

People generally desire long life and
good health. Sickness and premature death
are almost always due to violations of the
laws that govern our physical being, and Of
which the masses are ignorant. If men knew
better they would do better; but how can
they avoid an evil that they know not of !?
While efforts are made through the public
schools to give each child a so.cailed com.
mon English education, yet the children are
permitted to grow up ana enter upon the
responsible duties of active life, profoundly
ignorant of the structure of their own
bodies, and the laws of physical being upon
which their health and lives depend. They
are sent to school and cranmed with arith-
metic, grammar, and geography, by teach
ers who, in many instances, have never
studied physiology and hygiene. They are
taught to locate the mountains and trace
the rivers of foreign countries, but are never
taught to locate the vital organs and glands
of their own bodies, or trace the veins, ar
teries, and nerves, in their various ramifca.
tons. They are instructed in the flow of
the tides, and the course of the ocean cur-
rents, and the philosophy of winds and
storms; but they have no correct concep-
ton of the relative effects upon their health
of breathing pure or impure air, nor has
their attention ever been called to the i'm
portauce of keeping their bodies clean and
healthy by regular bathing. The criminal
ity of such neglect in teaching becomes APP
parent when we consider that the masses,
ignorantly violating the laws of health,
bring upon themselves sickness, suffering,
and death, that might otherwise be avoided.
In this condition Of things we welcome into
being any work that is calculated to impart
to the masses a knowledge of the struc-
ture of their own bodies, tho laws of
health, and the importance of observing
those laws. We find DR.. Pierce's Common
Sense Medical Advertiser to be just such
work. 1t is physiological ana pathological,
and the major part of it should be convert
ed into a textbook for the use of common
schools. Its careful study will enable the
healthy to preserve their health, and the
sickly to regain health. Every parent should
read it, and as tAeir children becomes Of
proper age instruct them in the all.import-
ant truths it contains. Were this done, much
suffering and premature death would be
prevented, and many youth saved from a
life of shame and RIGHTEOUSNESS. The book
contains nearly one thousand pages, is pro-
fusely illustrated with colored plates and
wood engravings, and can be had by adj
dressing r. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Worlds Dis
pensary and Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Price, postpaid, $1.50.-Umted Brethren Aid
.Jony1lUI
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Mrs. Cutters House.

The other day I nearly broke my neck
over Mrs. Cutters tiger-rug. Why are
there tiger-rugs, / demand to know?
Why must people, in blind subsection to
the tyrant fashion, make their houses
preposterous curiosity-shops? Mrs. Clut-
ter's house, and not your ideal, is the true
example Of the prevailing age. She has
shut out all the light from her windows
with horse-hair curtains an inch thick,
which once would not have been thought
good enough fo1 horse blankets. She has
laid down her floors in many-colored
rugs SO thickly that one might imagine
himself in a carpet-dealer's ware.rooms;
and the visitor must be wary or he be
tripped up by them at every step. She
has covered her walls with gorgeous jugs,
bowls, jars, urns, vases, of every con-
ceivable variety, in which for the most
part ingenuity in the way of ugly designs
has done its worst. She has hung screens
in her door-ways, and cabinets over her
mantels. She has mounted old brass fire.
dogs over her book-shelves, and planted
emblazoned shields of metal over her
door-lintels. She has bought all the old,
worm-eaten furniture she could find, and
invites you to sit down on chairs that
were made for mankind before backbones
were discovered. She has turned the gas
out of the house, and illuminated It with
painted candles. She goes to bed with a
Roman candlestick, sleeps under a
Moorish rug, eats off of cracked china
discovered in a Marblehead fsherman's
cottage, wears medieval gown that is
all straight lines; and she talks
all day of Medicean porcelain,
of Roman amphora, and Etruscan vases;
of gres de Flandre, Dutch delft, and
Rafaellesque and mezza-majolica; of
Palsy and Henri Deux, of Chinese
celestial blue and crackle, Of japanese
cloisonne, old Satsuma and Hispano-M Nor
esque, of Sevres an pate-stT5dte, of Chip
pendale and Eastlake furniture, of Queen
Anne and Renaissance and Marie An
toinette, and SO on cd iafaitHm, with a
skill at quoting catalogues and running
off names that is amazing. In this a
true house that is made up of curious
trifes from the shops-that is, simply a
chaos of colors, and all forms of fantas-
tic foolishness? Are there breadth, hui
mainly, heart, life, dignity, intellect,
felicity, in the tumble OF misnamed art?
Unless art broadens the imagination and
stirs the faculties, there is no excuse for
its being; but the art that Mrs. Clutter
is PROSTATE before dwsrfs the magma
tion, narrows the intellect, and impover-
ishes the whole nature. She hasno SYM
patty with men and women; it is all
absorbed by her teacups and saucers.
She has no perceptions Of life except as
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Song.


OH kiss me once, goodbye, sweetheart
Oh! kiss me once, goodbye!
SiHce bees were made to ream, dear love,
And birds were made to fly,
And your light heart SO lightly loves,
Then kiss me once-goOd-bye!
Dear kiss me once goodbye!
Stayl Love me for one little hour
In all the lonesome years
IN hold that hour shining gem,
Too sweet to dim with tears;
One star in all my weary night,
Too high above ali tears, dear love-
Too sacred sweet for tears!
Ali kiss me once, tits my hearts cry
My love, my sweet, my knight!
As royalty you pass me by
Into the brave sunlight!
See, am kneeling in the dust!
There--l'll not weep nor sigh,
But pitifully smiling crave
One kiss. my love-good-bye!
I've laid my heart beneath your feet
Is it not worth one kiss?
All! grandly paid, my king, my sweet!
I'd hold it by such bliss
What-cold as winters cruel breath!
Nay, stoop and kiss me ere | die
For am wounded to the death,
And you pass scatheless by!
Yet, kiss me once goodbye, sweetheart
Good-bye-it is good-bye ...
N. Y. Sunday World.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
A Guinea for a Sixpence.

A firm in New York seems unfamiliar
with the London story of the man who Of
fered to sell real guineas at tritle, but
could fluid no buyers. Geo. P. Roweh &
GOETHE Newspaper Advertising Bureau"
propose, for one hundred ( y dollars, to put
a ten-line advertisement in some thirty
standard weeklies, and to slide it into a
thousand other weeklies free. Do they ex-
pect people to take the offer? Any one &C.
4uainted with the high rates of these stand
ard weeklies can see that the thing is ride
ulous Rowel Il Co. must know very well
that acceptance of the offer would be so
many items to charge to profit and loss
We retract our nsinuation about their ig-
norance of that London story. They prob.
ably know it too well, and are shrewd
enough. by taking advantage OF that human
trait at which the story hits, to make a
stroke for fame as men Of startling libera.ity,
and at the same time run no risk of pecu-
MARY loss
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

surrender of the mind to her paltry
toys, and she is more concerned in the
downfall of cracked plate than in the
wars and calamities that afflct the world
outside of her bazaar. Her children are
hidden away in nurseries; she dares not
permit them to bring their active bodies
and restless spirits into her rooms, lest
they knock down her glass screens or
break her precious jars--Appleton's Jour.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

! married wife about thirty-fve
years ago. The ceremony was performed
about o'clock in the morning. Before
retiring that evening we had good
talk with each other, and the result has
sweetened our entire lives. We agreed
that each should always be watchful and
careful, never, by word or act, to hurt
the feelings of the other. Wewere both
young, hot-tempered, both positive in
our likes and dislikes, and both some
what exacting and infexihle-just the
material for life of conjugal warfare.
Well, for few years we found it hard
work to always live by our agreement.
Occasionally (not often) word or look
would slip off the tongue or face before
it could be caught or suppressed; but we
never allowed the sun to 90 down upon
our wrath. Before retiring at night'on
such occasions there was always confess
sion and forgiveness, and the culprit
would become more careful in future.
Our tempers and dispositions became
gradually more congenial, so that after
4 few years we came to be one in reality,
as the marital ceremony had pronounced
us nominally. In thinking back we find
that for more than twenty years our lit
tie agreement has been unbroken, and
there has been no occasion for confession
and forgiveness. In business we have
had adversely and prosperity, failure
and success. We raised a family of
children, and now have our grandchil-
dren about us, and we are simple enough
to believe that we have better children,
and better grandchildren because of our
little agreement. Under such contract
religiously kept, no ill-natured children
will be reared, and no boys will find the
home. To make a good wife or good
husband requires the cooperation of
hoth.-A Religious Editor.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
How Willy Thief Hoped to Obtain
His Liberty.

When Tom Brown was brought from
San Quentin few days ago, says the
Chico Record, there was found upon his
person two fine saws, one of which which
was sewed in the neckband of his shirt
and the other in the waistband of his
drawers. Tom is probably the most willy
outlaw in the state, but he must have
felt cheap when his tools were taken from
him, as no doubt he saw liberty almost
within sight. But he had friends on the
outside who were determined to assist
him, and, as it afterward proved, they
adopted a rather novel method of giving
the prisoner aid and assistance. When
on his way up on the cars it was noticed
that he had bunch of cigarettes which
he occasionally used, bat hardly often
enough to justify the number of times
he took them from his pocket, SO he
aroused the suspicious of Deputy Sheriff
Kennedy, of Shasta, who had him in
charge, and the officer determined to
watch Tom and the bunch Of cigarettes.
When a short distance above Chico,
Kennedy left Toms side and back in the
car, at the same time closely watching the
prisoner. In few minutes the deputy
heard the click of something, and he
hurried to the seat in time to find Brown
with one of his hands free, and about H.
make a bold dash for liberty. Kennedy
put his hand on TOMS shoulder and said !:
Let me try one of those@' So he took
the whole bunch, put them in his pocket,
and relocked the manacles on TOMS
wrists On arriving at Shasta, the bunch
of cigarettes was examined, and found
to contain skillfully made keys and wires
for opening handouts and shackles.
Brown is one of the most dangerous men
in San Quentin, and the officers have to
watch him carefully all the time, for
they know that on the first opportunity
Tom will turn up missing.
How He Will Get Even.
Mr. F. A. Buck, editor Of the Spirit Of
the Tines, lately had a clock stolen from
his desk. Mentioning the fact to his
friend E. A. Sothern, that practical
joker, as stated in yesterdays Sun, sent
MIR. Buck the property clock in the
" Crushed T-agedian." This clock is
painted on canvas upon a wooden frame,
and Mr.. Sothern warranted it "not to
vary second in twenty years." Mr..
Sothern had apparently forgotten this
little pleasantly when he asked Mr.. Buck
to provide him with reading matter for
his trip across the ocean. A large pack
age of books, bearing Mr. Bucks card,
was accordingly presented to Mr.. Soth-
ern just before the steamer sailed last
Saturday and lord Dundreary ordered it
sent to hisstate-room. When the package
is opened, however, Mr.. Sothern will be
surprised to find that it only contains a
number of sporting books printed in the
Russian language. Mr.. Sothern does not
read Russian, and Mr.. Buck told the
story with great glee.
Mr.. RUsKIN's health has 50 rapidly
&c 1o+o 4l,% H. 10, Ioo~ IL 1,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
Mothers Advice to Eliza.

Eliza" said fond mother to her off
spring recently, as that offspring was
about going forth in tow of young man
who worships the very sidewalk she walks
upon, ego to the breadbox and eat
good crust of bread before you 60 out"
why" replied the blushing girl, ~
don't feel the least hungry. We have
only just had tea" 81 know it, but
you will be hungry before you get back;
and, when Adol plus takes you into
restaurant you'll eat ice cream and
sponge cake, and ham sandwiches and
oysters enough to scare him out of
years growth. Beware how you sit
down on the budding fame of cupid.
OF course Adolphus will spend the
money you save him on billiards and
things, but that makes no difference.
When he asks you to go in and have
some oysters, even if you are hungry,
don't Say you do not approve of girls
wasting the money of their future hus
bands on TRIES when it might be ap-
piled toward furnishing house. Point
out that for the price of an oyster stew
you might purchase couple of towels,
now that toweling is so cheap, and thata
Saddle Rock roast is the equivalent of a
silver fork, plated of course, but not
easily distinguished from solid silver. or
a glass sugar bowl. This always takes
the young men; it sets them to thinking
of housekeeping and matrimony; it
makes them believe you are the incarna-
ton of economy and would make an ex-
cellent wife; and so they often say things
which give you hold over them, and
are effective before a jury" Eliza treas
ured up the sagacious counsels and acted
upon them with such earnestness and
effect that when she came home she was
an engaged woman Worcester Gazette.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
American Exhibits at Paris.
PARIS, Wednesday, May I, ISIs
Rr ahla To tLn A ssaciatel Press

By Cable to the Associated Press.
The display of scales by Fairbanks 4 Co.,
New York, is very grand, and creditable to
the exhibitors, showing the advancement
made by them over those of any other
American or foreign manufacturers, and re.
fleets great credit on American workman
ship. The exhibit surpasses all others in
merit at the Paris Worlds Fair.
Mason & Hamlin who took the first
medal for their cabinet organs at the Expo
sition in 1867, and have won the highest
honors at every world exhibition since, are
here in competition with fine lot of organs.
Several other American makers exhibit, but
few ii any of them will venture to compete.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

A SON of Senator Sackett, at Berlin,
owns Shetland pony which has given
birth to colt that only weighs ten
pounds. 1t is said to the smallest piece
Of horse flesh in the country, and little
beauty.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
DOES Your Heart ever seem to stop

DOES your Heart ever seem to stop
beating and you feel on almost deathli Ike
sensation? Do you ever have sud den pains
in the region OF your heart, or does your
heart ever palpitate? that is, does it double
it's pulsations? If you have any of these
symptoms we should pronounce it unmis.
takably Heart Disease. Do not neglect it, it
is but forerunner of worse that will fol.
low. Among the many forms of Heart Dis
ease are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms
of the Heart Stoppage OF the Action OF the
Heart, Trembling all over and about the
Heart, Justification or Bony Formation of
the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility
and Sinking of the Spirits To cure this
dangerous disease we offer you DR.. Graves
HEART REGULATOR, IA preparation in
dorsed by thousands who have tried and
testify to its cures. Send your name to F.
j.. INGALLS,, Concord, n. H., fora pamphlet
containing a list of testimonials of cures, &c.
For sale by druggists at so cents and,$l y
bottle. ... .....
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04
Al this Season Of the Year,

The human system is liable to become dsordcred
from the insufficient efforts of the liver to discho rye
the excess of bile If nature is not assisted in her
efforts severe bilious attacks prostrating feyers
necessarily follow causing great suffering and even
death. little timely plecauiion, however. will
prevent all this, and may be found in that favorte
household remedy, StmM ONs' Liver Reg La or
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

AN English veterinary surgeon now in
this conntry says that "Sheridans Cavalry
Condition Powders are superior to any he
knows of in England, as theyare absolutely
pure" He denounces the large package
fraud and warns people not to buy them.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

The Greatest Discovery Of the Age is Dr.
Tobias Celebrated Venetian Lininient! SO years be
fore the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhes.
Dysentery, Colic and Spasms taken internally; and
Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore r..foats, Cuts
Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back,
end Chest, externally. II has never failed. No fam
lily win ever be without IL after giving II fair
trial Price, 40 cents. DR.. TOBIAS VENETIAN
HORSE EMINENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar,
is warranted superior to sny other or NO PAY. for
the OF Collie Cuts Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold
by all Druggists. Depot-IO Park Place. New York
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-04

Mr.. RUsKIN's health has so rapidly
improved of late that he has been able
to leave his room ant walk in the grounds
adjoining his mansion.
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years. Sent on Is days test trial. Money ro-
funded and freight charges paid by mo each way il
not satisfactory. Retail Price $3.50. ~ For
Cash with order, will sell this beautiful In
s,rument in order to have 1T introduced at
once, for only $3.50. Beware Of xmi.
tation. Newspaper with much information about
cost of Pianos and Organs, SENT FREE
Please Address, DANIEL :. BEATTY, Warrington, y.
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DR.. I. S. JOHNSON & Co., of Bangor,
Maine, proprietors Of Johnson's Anodyns
Eminent, will send free to all who will
write for it, reliable information how to pre-
vent diphtheria-th most to be dreaded of
all dreadful diseases Write your name,
postotfice address, county and state plainly.
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Get the Genuine.

The genuine DOoLEY's YEAST Pow
DER is sold only in cans. Always refuse it
if offered loose or in bulk. 1t is the prac-
tice of many grccers and dealers to keep
cheap Baking or Yeast Powder loose, and
sell it for any brand that is called for. We,
therefore, caution purchasers to see that
they ge: it only in cans, under the Label
and Trade Mark OF the Manufacturers,
DOOLEY & BROTHER, New York.
MOTHERS! MoTHERs!! MoTHERs!!!
Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing S,ru for all diseases incident to the
period of teething in children. 1t relieves
the child from pain, cures wind collie, regu.
lates the bowels, and by giving relief and
health to the child, gives rest to the mother
II is an old and well-tried remedy. ~
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~ a. a. r1sONS
Organ for
koo4n!IXssS9s,s0o
Golden Tongue.
Style Nosl4eO.
Three Set
Reeds, ii2,
twelve stops.
! twoGrandK nee
swells, Solid
Walnut Case
withheavy rais-
ed French We
neered Panels, !
etc. A Superb
Cabinet or Par
lorCrgar.ev
onethathasseen
this.ir strument
IL delighted.
WarrnutaS1 IN
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-30
zIaeFai Notice.

toi " !. l.. HOLLAND, late chairman
~ the Relief Com mitteH, departed this life
al , 30 a. NJ, thi- morning, aged 80 years, {
months sud - DAYS.
Holly springs. Mss, Oct. 25th, 1873.
The insatiate destroyer which has
struck down the truest and best of our
land. has had another sacrificial offering
in the death recorded in the above fun
eral notice. W J l.. Holland was a
conspicuous member of the Mississippi
press; and was worthy of his calling
He was active, useful and public spirited
in his profession. His form was q model
of manly beauty and strength, and was
a fitting tenement Tor his brave and gem
tie spirit. When the dreadful destroyer
made It's appearance in the community
where he lived and was loved with the
soul OF a hero he confronted it and went
about doing good regardless of self as if
it was life business with him. He wrote
Of his comrades with tears; committed
their dust to its native dust with tender
hands, and then returned to his work of
danger and Of love to alleviate the suf,
fering of others. For this high purpose
he tore himself from the pleasures of
life and its bright promises His SYM
pathetic heart was touched by every
wall Of distress and echoed back its
notes. He viii be sadly missed from the
ranks of the fraternity of which he was
an ornament. He viii be sadly missed at
the annual reunion of its members, for
his genial nature shed light and warmth
wherever he moved. Even when the
pestiIence ragged, his presence twas like
moonlight on troubled sea, Frightening
the storm it could not calm Fare
well. brave and generous friend. No
of marble is needed to rer-
petuate your memory. It will live in
the good deeds which you laid down
your life in doing.