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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-28

Two wedding couples presented them
selves at the mayoralty in suburb of
Paris to carry out the civil portion of
their marriage contract. They ranged
themselves on opposite sides of the
mayors official throne, and faced one
another. The mayor was asking ques-
ton of one of the bridegrooms, whose
attention was thus distracted from his
bride. On turning round to look at her
when he had answered the question, he
caught her making" sleeps eyes" at the
bridegroom opposite. Beingot a jealous
temperament, he laid his hand roughly
on her arm, and said, sharply: Made
moiselle, which of the two brides are
you? You are mine, I believe; then
oblige me by combining your glances to
me-" The bride was young woman OF
spirit, and, resenting the tone in which
the reprimand was made, retorted, "Ah,
monsieur, if you are jealous already, |
am likely to lead a pleasant life with
youw The jealous bridegroom made an
angry reply. and then the other bride
groom must needs put his oar in. "Pah !
monsieur, why should you make such a
fuss because Mademoiselle chooses to ia
vor me with glancew Thereat his bride
turned savage upon him and exclaimed,
cha, monsieur, it would seem, then,
that you like to have ladies make eyes at
you. Now | know what to expect from
you but you mi ght at least have had
the decency to keep this proof of your
faithlessness concealed from me here. !"
And with this fierce thrust she bursts
into tears. In vain the mayor attempt
ed to pacify both parties. The bride
grooms stormed at each other, and the
brides, between their hysterical sobs,
mutually accused each other OF pertidy.
What was to be done? At last the may
or, losing temper, cried out, cam | to
proceed with this ceremony, or am |
not?" The two brides, with one accord,
screamed "Now "Perhaps," said the
mayor, whose wrath had again cooled
down, "you could arrange matters be-
tween yourselves if you were left alone.
The clerk will show you to my private
room. | will give you half an hour"
At the expiration of that time the par
ties were summoned to appear again be-
fore the mayor. "Have you settled
your diferences? he inquired. eyes,
Monsieur lie Maire," exclaimed both
bridegrooms at once. "Oh, then | may
proceed with the ceremony?'' Yes,
Monster lie Marie; but--but-." =" Well,
what is it?' owe have effected a
change, Monsieur lie Marie" % a change
What do you mean?'' "a change of
brides, Monsieur lie Marie" And so it
was-the jealous bridegroom had taken
the jealous bride, and the young lady of
the tickle glances had taken the gentle
man who liked ladies to "make eyes" at
him. The astonished mayor looked at
them in silent amazement for q moment
or two, but they met his look unabashed,
so he shrugged his shoulders and said,
DWELL, if you are satisfied, it is no bust
ness of mine. l Will proceed with the
ceremony And married they were.-
Harper's Weekly.
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A Pen Picture.

A few months, or even weeks since,
her pallid countenance was the very type of
ruddy health-the delight of The school and
the pride of the household. She was always
welcome wherever duty or pleasure led her.
Diilgent, punctual and exemplary, in the
classroom, obedient and loving at home.
she won the hearts of all, But alas those
glowing cheeks and lips are now blanched
by consumption. The voice once so en-.
chanting in laugh and song is feeble, husky
and broken by a hollow cough. Let us ap-
proach her couch and gently take her blood.
less hand in our own. Do not shudder
because OF It's feeble, passionless grasp. The
hand once so warm and plump shows its
bony outlines, while the cords and tortuouy
veins are plainly mapped upon its surface.
The pulse that bounded with repletion, inn
partl"g beauty, vivaeity, health and strength
to the system, is delicate to the touch The
enervated heart feeb'y prope's the thin,
scanty bic cd Must We lose her while vel
so young and so fair? No. There is relief.
But something more is required than the
observance Of hyg.nic rules, for enfeebed
nature calls for aid and she must have it..
Administer this pleasant medicine. 1t is
invigorating. 1t allays the irritable cough,
improves the appetite and digestion. and
sends a healthy Jingle through her whole
Delng. Inc DlOOu is eDflcneu, nervous power
increased, and the heart bounds with a new
impulse. Her face brightens-thes blood is
returning, her voice is clearer, and her re-
quests are no longer delivered in that peev-
ish, fretful tone so deadening to sympathy.
Her step is still falterng, but strength is
rapidly returning. Let us take her out in
the warm, life.giving sunshine. In few
weeks she will 60 without our aid and be
able to join her companonsin their pleasant
pastimes and feel her whole being warmed
and expanded into perfect lfe." The
charge is so great that we think she issweet-
er and nobler than ever before. Aud the
medicine which has wrought this transfer
nation, we look upon as a blessing to
humanity, for there are other loved ones to
be rescued from the grasp of the insidious
destroyer. DR.. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery has raised her. 1t will Use
others.
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A Spiders Strategy.

DR.. J. Lawrence Hamilton writes to
the London Times that he saw boy re-
move small spider and place it in the
center of big SPIDERS web which was
hung among foliage, and distant some
four feet from the ground. The larger
animal soon rushed from its hiding place
under leaf to attack the intruder, who
ran up one of the ascending lines by
which the web was secured. The big in
sect gained rapidly upon its desired prey,
the smaller creature spiders are canni-
balls, notably the larger females, who are
given to devouring their smaller male
loversl. When the little spider was
barely an inch in advance of its pursuer,
it cut with one of its posterior legs the
line behind itself, so that the stronger
insect fell to the ground, thus afording
time and opportunity for the diminuSive
spider to escape along the ascending rope
of the web. This is not the only fact
which seems to indicate that spiders
instinct may also equal re ason.
The Washington Post calls Benefits
Hibernian force the EDITORIAL corps of
the New York Herald"
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The Good Virtue of Gadtling.

Simplicity becomes everybody, and it
is cheap, and costs little time and work,
and does not vex mothers to death, and
keep them coopcd up in prison-houses
on sunny afternoons when they should
be outdoors, a-gadding for health and
fun, and fishing in the sunlit sea for jo-
cund spirits. AS it is now, a great many
women, able to hire Homework done,
are victims of this nonsense of over-dress
for themselves and their daughters, and
for ornamenting' their houses with
iim-cracks that mean absolutely nothing.
They ought to put intellect into house
ornaments, as we'll as dress. You go
into many homes and find meaningless
pictures stuck around on walls, and a
superAuity of tides, rugs, gew-gaws,
brackets, bric-a- brac, etc, rooms crowd
ed with ''elegant trumpery, and you'd
like to sweep it all into the street. It's
pleasanter to 60 into back-east big barns
ornamented only with mud-nests on the
rafters, with swallows darting through
the windows, singing songs that mean
more than the idiotic cheeping of i'm
prisoned canaries. We do not mean to
be cynical and ascetic, but strive simply
TO express the conviction that women
fool away too much time and nerve force
on unworthy things, and they are race
of invalids, as a consequence OF this fool
ish, self-imposed slavery to house and
children. Too many of them have con-
founded female diseases, and broken
backs, and sallow faces that call for flour,
and they have to call in the doctor and
clergyman for pills and spiritual comfort
more than is good for them or even nee.
essary if they would not enslave them
selves with tasks that amount to nothing
after they are done. There's good deal
hard sense in Wait Whitman Char
barrie yawp" about loafng and inviting
your SOUL" and we'd like to see every
woman in this town who is able to keep
a domestic, to spend at least half of each
pleasant afternoon on the street. They
don't promenade or "gad' half enough
for their physical and mental good.
Never mind what foolish gessips say
bout your "gadding;;" that's the way to
keep health, and to recover it when gone,
and such idleness is worth 10000 times
over, the industry" that consists in
making cotton-batting dogs and dress OF
the same frivolous character.
We said these vain devotions not only
ruin health, but actually narrow the
mind. The proof of it is in the fact,
noted by all, thot such admirable women
as De Stael, Lady Blessington, and oul
own Gail Hamilton, Clemmer Ames, the
three noted Beecher women, ct al, make
their way and win admiration, not by
store clothes, but by an excellent wit;
and when woman has eloyatea sense
information, a fine wit, a delicious
humor, and can manage mild satire as
deity as train, she can afford to dis
dsin millinery and do without personal
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Tattlcrs

Every community is cursed by the
presence Of a class of people who make
it their business to attend to everybody
business but their own. Such people are
the meanest specimens of depraved hui
mainly which an all-wise Providence
permits to exist on this earth. 1t is well
known that almost every person is dis
posed to speak evil Of Others, and tattling
is sin from which very few can claim
to be entirely exempt.
But the object of our present article is
to speak of that distinct class of tattlers
who make tale-bearing the constant
business OF their lives. They pry into
the private affairs of every fami y in the
neig hborhood; they know the exact
state of ones nei ghbor's feelings toward
another; they understand everybody's
faults, and no little blunder or INSIDE
meanor ever escapes their vigiiant watch
fulness. They are particularly we'll
posted upon everything connected with
courtship and matrimony, know who are
going to marry whom, and can guess the
exact time when it will take place. They
watch every movement of parties sus-
pected of matrimonial intentions, and if
there is the slightest chance to create a
disturbance, excite jealousy or "break
up a match, they take immediate adj
vantage of it, and no all in their power
to keep people in constant state of
vexation. They glide quietly from gen
tleman to lady, from mother to daugh-
ter, from father to son; and in the ears
of all they pour their dark, bitter whis-
pers of SANDER and abuse, and at the
same time pretend to be the most sincere
friend of those they talk to. Their
black and nauseous pills of malicious
SANDER are sugar coated with smiles and
honeyed words of friendship.
Tattlers are confined to no particular
class of society. They belong to all
classes and operate in all. We find them
among the rich and the poor-"upper
ten" and " lower million''-in the church
and out of it. They are people who have
no higher ambition than to be well-in-
formed in regard to other peoples
private business, to retail scandal to
their neighbor, and to exult in fiendish
triumph over the wounded feelings and
bruised hearts of their innocent victims.
Beauless old maids and childless matrons
make the most accomplished scandal
mongers in the world. They seem to
take to tattling from the prompting of a
natural instinct, and they prosecute 1t
with an energy that would do internal
honor to their great leader-the prince
of darkness himself. Our contempt for
such graceless creatures knows no
bounds, and we can find no words in
which to express its infamy.
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"a Farmers Son or Daughter ."See Advt.

The Greatest Discovery Of the Age is Dr.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Liniment! 30 years be.
fore the public, and warranted to Diarrhma
Dysentery, Collie and Spasms. taken internally; and
Group, Chronic rheumatism, Sore ThroatS Cuts
Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back
and Chest, externally. 1t has never failed No fam
lily will ever be without it after giving it fail
trial. Price, 40 cents. DIR. TOBIAS VENETIAN
HORSE IMMINENT, in Pint Bottles, Mt One Dollar
is warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, for
the of Collie, Cuts, Bruises. Old Sores, etc Sold
! all Druggists. Depot-lO Park PIac-. New York
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Where Nancy Is Made.


Chop Ihear some New York boys
say; "no need to tell us that. Every
body knows that New York is the place
to make money. Look at the men in
Wall street."
Indeed! And what will you say if I
tell you that there is not dollar of
money made in New York; nor in Chi
cage, neither; though / know my young
friends who live there are eager to speak
up and claim the honor There are but
three cities in all the Union where money
is actually made; that is where metals
are coined. The principal mint of the
United States is in Philadelphia. Here
are made all the copper and nickel coins,
one, two, and five cent pieces, and a
large part of the gold and silver coins
used in the country. There are also
branch minis at San Francisco and Car
son City. And at these places gold and
silver coins of every value are coined in
great quantities.
Those of you who have been in Phila-
delphia will remember, on the north
side of Chestnut street, near Broad, a
Grccian building of white marble, some.
what gray from age, with tall chimney
rising from the center, and the United
States flag flying from the roof. This is
the mint, Let us climb the long fight
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Wait,
BY DORA READ GOODALE.

BY DORA READ GooDALE.
When the icy snow is deep,
Covering the frozen land,
Do the little tlowerets peep
To be crushed by winters hand?
No, they wait for brighter days,
Wait for bees and butterflies;
Then their dainty heads they raise
10 the sunny, sunny skies.
When the cruel north winds sigh,
When tits cold with wind and rain,
Do the brides homeward fly
Only to go back again?
No. they wait for spring to come,
Wait for gladstone sun and showers;
Then they seek their northern home,
Seek its lcafy, fragrant bowers.
Trustfu as the tirds and flowers,
Tho our spring of JOY be late,
Tho We long for brighter hours,
We must ever learn to wait.
81. Nicholas
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COM PTiON T!
CAN RECUKElD.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT!

A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH! A WOMAN DISfIGuRED FOR
LIFE, AND VALUABLE PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Such word meet the eye in nearly every wsparer,
nd such may be the misfortune OF anyone who uses
the rdinary keros, ne lamp. Your family is in dah-
str ycd Car n I'd 10 ,ake th- risk when 20:
might prevent 1t triiiins Gvpt Weihs TIC Saiy
n soiutcy safe keroecHe Lamp tie wuri,t. Seifd
stamp for uust raed rcular and prize list For
sale by d 5asrs. Isur, is5x smith, ffoprie ors
o., Jaresvlle Safety Lamp Fact n.y. Gainesville, WIS.
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Why He Never Wore Il Collar.

It was a fact observed by many, that
Gov. Briggs for several years before his
death never wore collar. When he
was the honored chief magistrate of Mas
sachusetts, he appeared at his levees and
on all public occasions without a collar.
There were comparatively few who knew
the reason of this. But the secret is
most interesting and suggestive. He had
a ncighbor, whom he very highly esteem
ed, who had fallen into the habitof using
intoxicating liquor. He was already the
slave of appetite. Governor Briggs re.
monstrated with him. The man replied,
81 will never drink again. if you will
never again wear a collar" Agreed
said the governor. The man gave up the
Intoxicating cup, and the governor laid
aside his collar. He never wore it again,
but he saved his neighbor. The adverse
criticisms to which this seeming lack Of
attention to his dress and personal ap
pearance exposed him, never moved him
from his urpose.
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A LIFE SAVED FOR THIRTY-FIyE
CENTs.-A lady in Boston had diphtheria
and was almost dead from strangulation.
She was instantly relieved and finally cured
by Johnsop's Anodyne Lintment. Every
family should have bottle ready for in
slant use.
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PROFITABLE INvEsTMENT.-One dol
lars worth of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders, fed to coop of thirty hens, will
yield profit OF So, besides preventing all
manner of disease.
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Delicious Cookery.

Light, white, wholesome biscuits, rolls,
bread, and elegant cake, cruiiers, waffies,
doughnuts, mullins, and griddle cakes OF
every kind, are always possible to every ta
BILE bv using DooLEY's YEAST POWDER.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-28

DOES your Heart ever seem to stop
beating and you feel an almost dea.hiike
sensation? Do you ever have sudden pains
in the region of your Heart, or does your
Heart ever palpitate? that is. does it double
its pulsations? If you have any of these
symptoms we should pronounce it unmis-
takably Heart Disease. Donot neglect it, it
is but q 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, a preparation in
-dorsed by thousands who have tried and
testify to its cures. Send your name to F.
E. INGALLS,, Concord, N. H., for pamphlet
containing list of testimonials of cures, &c.
For sale by druggists at so cents and 81 p
bottle.
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IT was the fault of the compositor.
The editor headed report of the we'd
ding, Another Happy Pair" and the
printer made it read, "Another Sappy
Pair" and the BRIDEGROOM is mad about
it. He stopped his paper and withdrew
his advertisement-and yet some persons
think the printer was more nearly cor
rect than the editor.
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MOTHERS! MoTHERs!! MoTHERs!! II

Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup 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.
is an old and well-tried remedy.
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In peace beside the winter sea,
4 white grave glimmers In the moon;
And waves are fresh, and clouds are free
And shril winds Lipe careless tune.
One sleeps beneath the dark blue wave,
And one upon the lonely shore
But, joined in love, hey ond the grave
They part no more! they part no more
There is melancholy satisfaction in the forego-
ing, but in the following called "Rue" the I'M
happy lover cannot even rest in his grave:
The autumn wind is moaning in the leaves,
And the long grass is rustliGg on my grave;
All, would you have me think your heart now
grieves
For her you would not save?
For | am dead; know you not | am dead?
Why will you haunt me in my grave TO night
Standing above and listening overhead,
Whero am buried deep, and out of sight?
Have you not wine and music, in your home,
And her fair form, and ewes so pure and proud
With love OF you? and wherefore do you come
To vex me- lying silent IN my shroud2 .
Seek your new love! She calls you, and the tears
Are warm on her pale face, and her young breast
Is full OF doubt and sOrrOw-tor sh. hears
Low whispering words that startle her from rest.
In from the night! the storm begins to stir
will be near, and ghostly eyes shall see
How you will kiss her lips, and say to her,
Thine, always, love- HIS onc5 Won said to me.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
BY WILLIAM WINTER.

They walked beside the summer sea,
And watched the slowly dying sun;
And 60" she said, " come back to me,
My love, my own, my only one!"
But while he kissed her tears away
The gentle waters kissed the shore,
And sadly whispering, seemed to say,
He'll come no more! he'll come no more!
Alone beside the autumn sea
She watched the sombre death of day;
And ''O," she said, "rt member me,
And love, me, darling, far awayn'
A cold wind swept the watery gloom,
Aud darkly whispering on the shore,
Sighed out the secret of his doom
He'll come no more he'll come no more
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Cabbage and Ditto.

We have Just now heard a cabbage
story, which we will cook up for our
!aughter-loving readers. "Oh, I loves
you like anything" said a young man
to his sweetheart, warmly pressing her
hand. "Ditto," said she, gently return
ing the pressure. The "ardent lover"
not happening to be overlearned, was
sorely puzzled to understand the mean
ing of ditto" but was ashamed to ex-
pose his ignorance by asking the girl
He went home, and the next day, being
at work in the cabbage-yard with his ia.
ther, he spoke out: daddy, what's the
meaning of ditto?" "Why," said the
old man, "this here is one cabbage-head,
amt it," Yes, daddy" "Well, that
ares ditto" "Rot that are good-for-
nothin' gall" calculated the indignant
son, "she called me cabbage head, and
I'll never go to see her again." b..
IT is related of Horace Greeley that
when he was once lecturing in Indiana
when the state banks were in full career
and bank bill could not be carried 9
hundred miles without discount on it.
the lecture committee paid Mr.. Greeley
in bank bills Of that neigh borhood. H
looked at them, and then said, "Coulc
you not give me, instead of this stuff, 9
we'll executed counterfeit on some east
ern bank?"
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Catalogue free. j. ii. EUFfORD'S SONS
RnstAN. (EHtah lishen ls.nl
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SHERIFFbS SALE

by virtue Of twu executions TO me directed. by
the Jerk VI he Cir All Cou,t of Alexander cUun-
~ IN the State Ui Illinois, one In favor Of " IL
ham VI AthenUn, and one In favor Of Juia
Anterior and aIainst \. &. HODGES. Sr,, deceas
ed. have lev e'i upon he 10 lowing dec bed
property, u VT: Lot. Two ~ tour ~ and
SIX ~, IN block Ihree 81; lots one ~, zee (),
five 70, Ind even ~, la ocE four ti) lots Two
~ four t) and sis %, in block Ave o. iots two
~. four 80, six 49,, gut ~ AMI 10 ll0J, in
block six t6l l"t, two ~, our ~ SIX 90,
eight ts) aud ten 40. in oct seven @ iols
Nv (:l. Tour ~. ak u eight ~ an,i leu On +,
In bl * eignt ~ lot len 90, Ia block ,hl-
Teen QSl ols tiSea5) anu tight ~, in block
Fourteen (li); lots three ne u, e Gu ~
aud nl.o (9), IN block dfleen 90 lots Two (2)
fur az and tx " In block sixteen Q6) los
one W, three (y, nv (6) anu seven ~, in bloc
sev hieen %; lots Two ~ lOur ~ and siA t6),
H. block eigh e,n Qs); los one ~, three t3)
five Isl seven Ia, in block nineteen (l9h lots
two %. four ~ III six (b), IN back tw nt5 (2O);
los one " thee (0, i've (5) and seven III in
block twenty-one IN lots two ~, four l4l and
sIx Din block t~enty-two l2ll; lots one az,
three ~, i've 10Y and seven az, in block twerp-
three; lots ~, tour l4l and sif y, in b c.
Wen y-fuur t2). All above descfib,d property
Is silaated in town If HODGES fark, county Of
Alexander and state Of illinois, which ! snail
offer for sale at pu lie yeudue at the front or
weet door Of the Iour, hOu-e, in the City vi
Cairo, counly OF Alexander and state Vt llinois.
on the 18th day Of January, ls7s, VT II o'cloc.
am.
Dated Cairo Illinois, 18th day Of December,
A. ID. 1877. PEER SAUf,
Sheriff of Alexander Louuly, Illinois