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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
Extravagant Habits of Caiifornians

EAtFafiSiHt HiDltS vi OdiiiUi
Californians are proverbially extrava-
giant, whether male or female. They
seem to care little or nothing for money
other than supplying their immediate
needs. This extravaganza is one of the
evils of the early flush times. A man of
bibulant propensities who has only four
bits in his pocket and does not know,
and, parenthetically ! might say, does
not care, where the next half dollar is
coming from, will invite party up to a
bar and spend it all for one round of
drinks. Women never think of asking
the tradesman to take off anything in
the price of the article they are pur-
chasing, but pay just what he wants for
the article. Thousands and thousands
of dollars are squandered by the extrava-
CANT habits of the people here. They
pay whatever is asked and spend as they
60, without regard for the morrow.
Whatever they want they buy, regard
less of cost, and not stopping to inquire
whether they can afford it or not. In
living and dressing these extravagant
habits are manifest. If the fashionables
of Mob Hill in this city wear $500 dresses
on the street the woman in the humber
walks of social life feels herself amply
able to put the months earnings of her
husband on her back, and she does not
begrudge it either. And so with the
men. The best Of everything, and
everything they want, they must have
and will have if it takes the last piece of
coin. There are thousands of dollars
which Californians are swindled out of in
the making Of change. The difficulty
here in making the exact change, owing
to the sort of currency in Use, produces
one of the grossest impositions lever saw
practiced. You cannot buy an article
but what you are bound to be swindled
Californians, however, never complain
or think any thing about it, and the rich
and the poor are alike in this respect
Cor. of the Boston Journal.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Rertte'A Philosophy,

Small boy Berthe,
Drawing on the pane,
Looking at the chickens,
Dragged with the rain.
Little philosopher,
Wrinkles his brow,
Says " / wonder
don't see how.
"Where do chickens come from,
Mamma, please to tell ?''
Yes, | know they come from eggs,
Know that very well.
"Course the old hen Matched 'em,
know that, but then
Won't you tell me truly,
Where they got the hen?
"Spose'n you were my boy.
AL the ore had,
And big folks wouldn't tell you things,
Shouldn't you feel bad?
Every single thing you say
i knew years ago.
Where the first hen came from?
Is lchdt scdat TO kn0,C."
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
Fashion Notes.

GRAPE batiste IS one of the novelties
for summer dresses. 1t is a thin linen
fabric woven in Grape effects, and comes
in all delicate shades of pure bright colors
for evening wear.
o- In round hats the Derby and the Eng
fish walking hat with square crown are
revived, in finer straw and handsome
black chip.
SATIN will be much used for trim
ming spring and summer dresses Some
of the new grenadines are trimmed en-
tirely with black satin.
STUFF goods will be made princesse
lawns and cambrics in skirts, and long
.over-dresses with fancy basques.
/ STOCKINGS entirely checked or open
ankled appear for evening wear-a nov
city in ladies' hosiery.
WHALEBoNEs are no longer used IN
dresses, but steel springs to keepin comedy
shape the form divine.
SETS of tortoise-shell jewelry are in
unique patterns; some of them represent
cherubs, butterflies, pansies and roses
A MARKED feature about new bonnets
is the absence Of all hanging draperies;
they are made to look as compact as
possible.
A NEW design in mits for summer wear
is Isle thread for the hand, with lace
work beginning at the wrist and extend.
ing up to the elbow.
y, MANY black suits are decorated with
small gilt buttons, especially those suit:
with which vest is worn.
LINEN dresses will be made with pc
lonaises, and with belted blouse waists
trimmed with linen fringe, lace and EN-
broidery. r
THE prevailing tints in the finely cord
ed silks are plum, rich brown, severa
shades of blue and green, and bright
clear claret.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
The Japanese Flowers.
BY MARY A. ROE.

The japanese cultivate cherry, plum
and peach trees chiefly for their bios
SONS, and force them to make them
double. The flowers of the plum are
often as large and double as a cabbage
rose. They also have cherry trees dwarf
ed and twisted, and the flowers double
pink. There is an avenue cut of Toxic
lined with these bIossoming cherry trees,
and in the season of bloom every one
goes out there to see them and take re-
freshments in the tea-houses, and it is a
curious and fascinating sight, as Japs
and foreigners are there in crowds. The
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21

CAUTIoN.-We caution our readers to
beware of diphtheria, pneumonia influenza,
bronchitis, congestion of the lungs, coughs
and colds, at this season of the year. Get a
bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and
keep it ready for instant use. 1t may save
your life. 1t has saved thousands.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
WHY Is It!

The truths Of science and progressive
thought have always been compelled to bat
ter down the bulwsrks of prejudice and dis
belief, or remain forever unknown. Why
is it that people arc so reluctant to receive
facts that relate directly to the phenomena
of their own existence? Astronomers, upon
discovering a star, assign it place at once,
and it is forever fixed. The rule by which
a mathematical problem is once solved be-
comes forever an axiom; but no matter
how clearly the principles which govern
health and sickness be demonstrated, some
refuse to believe. DR.. Pierce's family medi-
cines, which are now so generally used, and
deservedIy popular, were, in their earlier
days, very reluctantly received by the peo-
pie. To-day, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery has outrivaled the old-time sarsa-
parillas, his Pellets are in general use III
place of the coarse, huge, drastic pills for
merry SO much employed, while the sales Of
his DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and his Fa.
vorite Prescription are enormous. Where
the skin is sallow and covered with blotches
and pimples, or where there are scrofulous
swelings and affections, few bottles of his
Golden Medical Discovery will effect an
entire cure. If you feel dull, drowsy, de-
bilitated, have sallow color of skin, or
yeH0Wlsn-DrOWn sPOtS on lace OF pouy,
frequent headache or dizziness, bad taste OF
mouth, internal heat or chills alternated
with hot fushes, low spirits and gloomy
forebodings, irregular appetite, and tongue
coated, you are suffering from Torpid LiUert
or % Biiito,sSasSs." In many eases Of Lire'
Complaint" only part of these symptoms arr
experienced. AS remedy for all sucl
cases, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
cry has no equal, as it effects perfect cures
leaving the liver strengthened and healthy
Debilitated females who have undergone al
the tortures of caustic and the knife, ant
yet suffer with these peculiar dragging-doec'
sensations and weaknesses, can have guar
anteed to them prompt and positive relic
By using DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
while constipation and torpid liver, of "bil
iousness" are promptly relieved by tn,
Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Sold by al
druggists
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For Husbands.


Don't think when you have won a wife
that you have won also slave.
Don't think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her rela-
ton to you is simply changed, not her
nature -.
-. Don't think that you can dispense with
all the little civilities Of life toward her
on marrying. She appreciates those
things quite as much as other women. e
Don't be gruff and rude at home. Had
YOU been that sort of a fellow before
marriage, the probabilities are that you
would be sewing on your own buttons
still. SEQ
Don't make your wife feel that she is
an incumbrance on you by giving grudg-
ngly. What she needs, give cheerfully,
as if it were a pleasure to do SO. She
will feel better, and so will you.
Don't NEEDLE in the affairs of the house
under her charge. You have no more
right to be poking your nose into the
kitchen than she has to walk into your
place of business and give directions to
your employees
Don't find fault with her extravaganza
in ribbons, etc., until you have shut
down on cigars, tobacco, whisky, etc.
Don't leave your wife at home to nurse
the children, on the score of economy,
while you bolt down town at night to
see the show or spend dollar on billiards.
a Don't bolt your supper and hurry on
to spend your evenings lounging around
away from your wife. Before marriage
you couldn't spend your evenings enough
with your her. s .
60 Don't prowl in the loafng resorts till
midnight, wasting your time in culpable
idleness, leaving your wife lonely at
home to brood over your neglect and
her disappointment. \
Don't think the woman you promised
to glove, cherish and protect" becomes
your servant as her part OF the contract
Don't think that board and clothes is
sufficient return fer all that wife does
for you.
Don't expect your wife to love and
honor you if you prove brute, unwor.
thy of love or honor.
Don't caress your wife in public, and
snarl and growl at her in private. This
proves you both hypocrite and a dog
Don't wonder that your wife is not as
cheerful as she used to be, when she
labefs from early morn till late at night
to pander to the comfort and caprice q
selfish being, who has not soul enough
to appreciate her.
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6 DO0ley's Yeast Powder"

Said a lady, has made itself indis-
pensable in our kitchen. Our biscuits, cake
watfles, mullins, and such like things with
It's aid are always enjoyable and good, We
would not be without it in our family. We
have used it for over fifteen years, and i,
has never disappointed us yet" ~,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
CHEW
The Celebrated
+" MATCHLESS"
Wood Tag Plug
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston and Chicago.

MOTHERS! MOTHERs!!. MoTHERsli!
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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A Farmers Son or Daughter .'sSee Advt
The Greatest Discovery OF the Age is DR.

The Greatest Discovery of the Age is DR.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Linimentl 90 years be-
fore the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhna
Dysentery, Collie and Spasms. taken internally; anc
Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Threats, Cuts
Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs, Back
and Chest, externally. 1t has never failed No fam
lily will over be without it after giving it faii
trial. Price 40 cents. DR.. TOBIAS VENETIAN
HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar
is warranted superior to any 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, 1878-05-21

AN old-fashioned notion that the sim
plest plan is to bring all the young peo
pie together, and let them amuse them
selves, turns out to be a complete failure
This is not at all what is expected, and
even their parents are disappointed with
the fiasco. That an elaborate toilette
should end in blind mans buff is intoler-
able; and so children party only differs
from full-dress balm the height Of the
dancers. The little lady starts for her
nights dissipation when she ought to be
in bed, ana has the cares Of maturity
on her mind lest her card should not be
filled up in heeyening. She reproduces
the talk Of her mothers boudoir in the
ball-room-and can criticise the dress of
her vis-a-vis after the best models of
well-bred disparagement. She distin-
guishes between the dreamy pleasures of
a waltz and the more athletic enjoyment
of gallop. She shows the attraction of
" supper SET" and can firt with an air
of ingenious simplicity which might
suggest very valuable hints to her elder
sister. She has poor opinion of square
dances, knows that her dress may get
torn in the last figure of Lancers, and
finds that one of "the boreso dancing a
quadrille" is, that the figures are always
changing. With sedulous care she keeps
her programmes, and of malice prepense
is able to lose her pocket-handkerchief.
She is.quite up to the method by which
an undesirable partner may be courteous
ly avoided, and is careful to see how a
gentleman dances before she permits his
autograph on her card. When The even
ing is over, she knows she has utilized
her time, and has engaged herself three
or four deep for the next children's bali
at some neighbor's house. A dance in
January is not forgotten in the ensuing
month, and her correspondence on the
18th of February has reference to some
remembered event in the nights enter
tainment. She has fine contempt for
her own brothers, and with character
istic precocity, affects terror of school
boys generally, but finds herself quite
equal to sustain prolonged conversation
with her elder sisters admirer. That
worshiper having at last withdrawn to
the more appropriate shrine of his devo-
tion she admits to a subsequent partner
that all the time she was bored. There
can be, she says, no real pleasure in talk
ing 60 an engaged man.-MaWair.
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AiUSSiP FOR THE LADIES.
An Old Maids SOlilOQuy.

s& BY DIR. J. g. HOLLAND.
Sitting tonight in my chamber
III An old maid grabbed and lonely,
SE fondle my old cat and pat him
Him and him only.
sit here in the twilight,
M Memories of lovers surround me;
Gents that are married AM single
XIV Rise to confound me;
fSSmoothed- chinned, moustached and whiskered
.# Beaux of every variety
WHO shall say that have not
Had safety?
n oyers-well | remember them
IA Those with smooth chns were the neatest;
Sweet were they all-but oh. those nous
~ TachioS were sweetest
willie was tender and loving;
q His hazel eyes melting and bright;
"A He once was my meat, drink and sunshine,
Air and moonlight.
& Herbert was sweet, feet and flirting,
d Flying hither and thither and yon
Slipping honey, gaily buzzing, moment and
ID Then he was gone.
e Willie sleeps deep in the ocean,
: The blue waves crash over his head
Ye wild winds, breathe low requiem
Over the dead.
\ Herbert has sown ali mis- wild oats;
OF pleasure he's drained the last drop,
/ And now, a grisly old bachelor, he's
Il Gathering the crop.
Robert and James, John and Charlie,
I All are well settled for life,
While Alfred and Harry, disconsolate, still
Sigh for wife.
Clarence is married another
Fills my place in his heart
And curls his moustsche, Whispering" Ny love,
we never will part"
Alas, have lost him Ian angel
With blue eyes and curls makes him blest--
Him loved dearly and truly,
Last and the best!
Thus | sit signing aud thinking,
An old maid grabbed and lonely;
! press my pet cat to my BOSOM aM .H
Him and him only.
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Al this Season Of the Year,

The human system is liable to become dsordered
from the insufficient efforts of the liver to discharge
the excess of bile If nature il not assisted In her
efforts severe bilious attacks, or prostrating fevers
necessarily follow, causing great suffering and even
death. A little timely precaution, however. will
prevent all this, and may be found In that favOrte
household remedy, Simln Ons' Liver Regulator
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21

GAN OUNCE OF PREVENTION, ETC"
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders will
positively prevent all ordinary diseases
common to horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and
fowls, besides constantly improving them in
appearance and value.
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The (,oute,t Of the spin.,ers.

The Hartford Courant repeats from
Rev. Samuel Orcott's history of the
town Of Harrington, in Connecticut, some
amusing features Of the social life Of the
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21
Typical Girls.

Boston WOman's Journal
There is an air of Independent modesty
about genuine Boston girl that not one
of her New York cousins can even as.
sumo. Miss Knickerbocker makes up
for this in fine clothes and in that indie
sscribable breezy something which sails
grandly down upon you and is called by
it,, admirers, style. She also kindly crit
icises and mildly patronizes Miss Pris-
ella Alden, whom she calls provincial,
! and wonders how she can endure to live
so far adown east" where she is sure
they all talk with nasal Etwang and
only half enjoy life. eff she could only
come to New York now" Then she
makes some witty remarks about the
modern Athens and the Hub of the Uni
verse. ~ ,.s J #ss@ IS
Pretty, pink checked Priscilla usually
returns a scathing answer, with a glori-
GUS disregard Of her RS and pronunci-
alton of her as as broad as Miss Knick-
erbocker's is fiat; or else she contents
herself with a brief glance through her
becoming eye glasses, curls almost i'm
perceptibly the tip of her classical little
nose, and returned to her book.
Pattie Knickerbockers heart, when
you have once reached it through the
plaits and frills and founces and airs
and graces that usually guard it, is warm,
strong and generous, if often heedlessly
impuisive. ...
Priscilla's heart is the we'll regulated
little organ that prope]s the blood
through her dainty body and causes her
cheek and brow to mantle with delight.
1t is about as large as her fist, and solely
a part of her animal organization. 1t
1t is the curious power in her head she
cultivates and consults in matters of af-
lection and beneyolence.
And yet Pattie Knickerbocker and
Priscilla Alden are powers in their sepa-
rate worlds, and powersin their common
world. Dutch heart and Puritan head
work side by side for their country's well
fare. God bless them. ..--
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In order to cover the expense of sup
pressing the late rebellion, which
amounted to $42,00O,00O, the japanese
government has resolved to issue ST.
100000 in paper money. and to make
large savings in the ordinary civil ex-
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-21

THERE is another survivor Of the en-.
gagement between the Chesapeake and
the Shannon alive. His name is Luke
Pike. He resides at Chatham. N. B. He
is Sc old, and hale and hearty, and he
eniOyS a DenSiOn ,..... .. .... -.E.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-15

less we must insist that we have a right
to our opinion, and an equal right with
them to express it. We do admire the
talents and bravery Of Mrs. Lake, and
we do repudiate her doctrine Of social
anarchy. Yet we find much food for
thought in her lectures, and we are not
afraid to investigate anything and every
thing. We are only after truth, and let
it lead Us whithersoever it will, we are
ready to follow. In our humble opin-
ion. the Bible does not teach total de-
pravity. fit did, we should be obliged
to differ from the Bible, for proofs to the
contrary are all around Us. There is a
germ Of good in even the most depraved
human being, which the gentle dews Of
heavenly grace can reach and quicken,
else there would be no material in man
out Of which to build a better life. We
are not afraid to search even the Scrip
lures. Let our friend do likewise, and
she will find that Jesus Of Nazareth
taught no such thing as either total de-
pravity or orthodoxy; indeed, he was
crucified for no other reason than that
he was not orthodox.
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STARVATION WAGES.

There is no doubt but that vast ma
iority Of women who are compelled to
earn a livelihood are driven to starva-
ton wages by the wives and daughters
Of wealthy men, who shut them ont Of
avenues Of legitimate occupation, but
fail to provide them with spending
money for the feminine luxuries which
fashionable women will have, If they
must starve others in order to procure
them.
A correspondents of the Woman's Jour
nal tells Of being out of work and obliged
to do something, so she went to a whole
sale under-linen store and applied for a
situation. The proprietor asked if she
was dependent upon her earnings for a
livelihood. She replied that she was.
''Then,n said he, 'I don't think it is
worth while for you to try our work, as
you would not make enough to pay
your expenses"
"Then you do not give a fair price for
your work" replied the lady, ''as L can
work both hard and we'll"
awe give very little, and have it done
we'll, too" he answered; "but, you see,
It is done by married women who like
to have little money independent Of
their husbands, and by young ladies
whose fathers grumble about pin
money"
It is indeed a pitiful spectacle to be-
hold a woman who claims that her
Husband supports her." who claims to
"have all the rights she wants." slyly
undermining the wages of women to
whom the earning of bread and butter
is a necessity, by resorting to these
cheap dodges Of servants without legiti-
mate wages. Yet these are the women
to whom the struggling toilers who ar'
compelled to labor or starve are referred
as being provided for, and who ar
pointed at by men as evidence tha
woman is better Off without freedom
than she could be with it. These ar
the women that crowd their laborin
sisters to the wall, or bring them t
lives Of shame by starvation wages.
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NEW WAY OF RAISING THE WIND.

A certain well-known effete, with a
sporting name, has recently gone to
house keeping with an unfortunate
woman, who, under the plea Of desertion
by her husband, was a public charge on
the city last year, the effete in question
claiming that he has married her. He
gives no proof of the marriage save the
exhibition Of a sealed envelope, in
which he says there is a marriage GER
tiiicate, though he refuses TO account for
the other husband. But he goes to the
homes Of those who say they do not be-
lieve his alleged marriage genuine, and
threatens, i they sag he is not married,
to sue them for damages. We have
heard Of various expedients for raising
money on black mail, but this last
dodge of trying to speculate upon an al
legged marriage certificate by a game OF
bluff caps the climax Of them all.