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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
How to "Take" Well in n Picture.


"T'he question is often asked" said
an experienced photographer, "why
actors and actresses take the most
pleasing pictures. 1t is because they
study the principles of art and good
taste IN their profession, and under.
stand how to dress. Moreover, they
usually bring selection of wells, flow.
ers, curls, braids, laces, and sometime es
costumes, to give the photographer a
choice of accessories. They come
when they are wholly at leisure and
are not flustered. A red face takes
black and they know it. Then they
do not load themselves down with gew-
gaws and haberdasheres, to show what
they have got in worldly goods. Few
persons know how to dress for pic
ture like an actress. The best mater
lals for ladies to wear when about to
SIT for a photograph are such as will
fold or drape nicely, like reps, winceys,
popllns, satins and silks. Lavender,
lilac, sky-blue, purple and French blue
take very light, and are worse for pic
ture than pure white. Corn color and
salmon are better. China pink, rose
pink, magneta, crimson, pea green,
buff, plum color, dark purple, pure
yellor, Mazarine blue, navy blue, fawn
colot, Quaker color dove color, ashes
of roses and stone color show pretty
light drab in the photograph. Scarlet,
claret, garnet, sea green, light orange,
leather color, light Bismarck and slate
color take still darker, and are excel
lent colors to photograph. Cherry,
wine color, light apple green, Meter
mich green, dark apple green, bottle
green, dark orange, golden and red
brown show nearly the same agreeable
color in the picture. A black silk al
ways looks well, and it takes well if
not bedecked with ribbons and laces
that will not take white. Dark Bis
marck and snuff brown usually take
blacker than a blacker silk or satin,
and are not easy to drape. A silk, be-
cause it has more gloss and reflects
more light, usually takes lighter than a
woOlen dress. Ladies with dark or
brown hair should avoid contrasts in
their costumes, rs light substances
photograph more quickly than dark,
and ladies with light hair should dress
in som ething lighter than those whose
hair is dark or brown. Few ladies un-
derstand how to arrange their hair so
as to harmonic with the form of the
head, but blindly follow the fashion, be
the neck long or short Or the face mar
row or broad. A broad face appears
more 80 if the hair is arranged low
over the forehead or is parted at the
side, and long neck becomes stork-
like when the hair is built up high,
while a few curls would make a most
agreeable change in the effect. Pow
dered hair gives good effect, and
powder should be bestowed upon
freckles."
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
FOREIGN.

Blythe end of this week there will be
$4,000 British troops in Ireland.
THE census recently taken in London
shows a population of 3,Sl4,57l.
The last batch of communists have
returned to Paris from Caledonia.
CAR ALEXANDER received deputation
of Turcomans and made them presents.
THE London Times accuses Parnell of be-
ing the cause of the troubled condition of
Ireland.
The Theatre Royal, at Belfast, Ireland,
with a seating capacity of 2,300, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
sTHE probable failure of the foreign
grain crop promises to make great de-
mand for American cereals.
TIMOTHY HARRINGTON, of the Kerry
Sentinel, Tralee, Ireland is one ofthe many
recent arrests under the coercion act
A BODY of Turkish troops, in fight
near Salonica with brigands, killed twenty
one and took their heads into town
ADvICFs from Russia chronicle the ar
rest of thirty officers of the army, includ-
ing the colonel of the imperial guard,
during the past month.
AMoB at Skibbereen, ireland, wrecked
the branch bank of Munster and tore up
the railway track. A party of fifty ma
rines was stoned away from Ballydehob
by a crowd of several thousand. At Dro-
! more process server was beaten nearly
! to death. The gunboat Goshawk lies oa
Skull.
TURKEY has yielded the ceded territory
to Greece, and that government has sent
force of 1000 men to take, possession. II
will now be in order for the inhabitants
of the ceded territory to object.
BULGARIA is determined to preserve hel
newly acquired constitution nality and will
not allow her ruler to hold the relns on
the Russian plan. Prince Walter, OF Den
marx. il spoken of as a successor to Prince
Alexander by the liberal party.
ANOTHER American victory in England
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CRIME.

DIR. f. f. WETHERBEE, of Mazomanie,
Wis, who has been serving a term in
Madison jail, escaped again.
JANIS Hogan. of Monticello, Iowa, fired
a revolver six times at his wife and then
pu: bullet through his own temple.
AT Edgewood, Pa, William Murphy
nearly killed Il woman from whom he had
been divorced, and then made two attempts
to blow out his own brains.
FATHER MALoNEY. of Erie, Pa, the pre-
tended worker Of Miracles has been ar
rested for obtaining money under false
| pretenses. r.,- Y .-.a.-'rr
THREE steamship captains were ar
rested in New York and held in bail of
from 5000 to $25, 700, for carrying an ex-
cessive number of passengers.
ROBBERS took bunch of keys from the
pocket Of the county treasurer at Pawnee
City. Neb., and obtained from his safe cur
rency to the amount of $3.50.
FRANCIS j. KENNETH, of Chicago caused
the arrest of William L. Hall, at St. Louis,
for the fraudulent removal of grain from,
an elevator at keokuk. ..- .s"2---
MooNsHINE" stills are being rapidly
Impressed in the state of Georgia, The
leading newspapers are espousing the
cause of the government against the illicit
distillers. .7FF
REVENUE COLLECTOR Clark, of Atlanta,
Ga., reports that in a recent encounter
with moonshiners his dupty, Mr.. Bolton
was wounded. Two moonshiners were
also badly hurt t38
r A Judgement for 5000 has been enter.
ed at Cincinnati against the bondsmen for
Thomas Ambrose, the defaulting court
clerk, The fugitive was last heard from
in Manitoba.
Dr.. SYLVESTER RANKIN, who was surgeon
of Kit Carson's regiment and afterward in
the Mexican army. was murdered at Vic.
toria City, Mexico, on May %, and robbed
of his money and jewelry.
In the matter of the railway disaster al
Cedar Rapids the coroner's jury found
that two deaths occurred from the crimi-
nal negligence of Charles B. Lewis, night
operator, and he has been arrested
DwlGHT KIDDER, jr.. fatally shot his
half brother at Springfield, Mass. The
dispute which ended with the killing arose
about a statement made by the murdered
man that his mother was desirous of his
fathers death, that she might obtain
5000 on his life. The murderer was
held in SIC, 900 BAIL
SAMUEL III. GAINES, who was imprison
ed at Thomaston Me-. for the murder Of
a guard, attempted to escape and was sho
dead. DR.. Ball, who is imprisoned Al
Tyler, Tex, on charge of murder, at
tempted, in company with six others, lt
break jail. Ball and three of his com
panions were recaptured. The other
made good their escape.
The regular monthly mail robbery ha
occurred to puzzle the postal authoritie
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
TIE DISMAL SWAMP.
Visit to spot Of Unrelieved DesOia
tiON.

When We left home there was but
one thing i'll the entire south we wished
to see and that was the great swamp.
We felt about as we imagined the dis
nal swamp looked. We had planned
to go to Suffolk, and thence by the
canal to Lake Drummond. But there
was no conveyances. We were out OF
season, and it was perilous to risk the
long trip by private boat an mule team,
as it would compel a shelterless night
camp on the borders of the lake. We
had, therefore to content ourselves
with a journey of about twenty miles
in the swamp, but in section by no
means equal to its more desolate parts.
We were satisfied. A very moderate
amount of desolation fills the measure
of our ambition. The dream of our
youth has ended; we are convalescent
from our infatuation for the dead
heroine, who
"Allnight long by fire fly lamp,
Paddles her light canoe,'
on the lake of the Dismal swamp.
We were always good deal stirred
up that they should make for "a soul
so true, a grave so cold and Damp"
but we find they had to do it, for the
swamp is half under water. 1t is
singular what strange power this wicrd
ballad of MOore's has over many minds.
1t is strange that the wierd should
hold the mind by stronger
spell than the simple beauti-
full possesses. The eye of the
basilisk compels fatal admiration we
prolong, by every art, our dreams Of
agony; with endless iteration we re-
hearse the tortures Of our inner spirits,
and sit down to no banquet with such
ghastly yet enhancing pleasures as
when we "sup of horrors" The sec
ton of the swamp seen by us was I'M
relieved desolation. Lofty trees of cy-
press, with great swollen trunks rising
from spongy soil, with great arching
limbs, draperied with tangled vines
narrow channels running into dense
thickets, walled with matted reeds, with
dry bushes of hay and juniper with
tatters Of old mosses pendant from the
trees, with great black pools of Shiny
water, with fallen trees rotting with de-
cay, and the somberness of a dull, col
orless March sky brooding over all the
limitless waste
Excursions are frequent in the sum.
mer season from Norfolk. Several
years ago, the governor of the state,
while on one of these extra convivial
parties, being somewhat the worse for
extra libations, threw over the stove of
the yacht; and now, whenever the
careless pilot runs his boat upon a snag,
it is said he enters i'll the log-books,
Grounded on the governors stove"
The water of lake Drummond is beau
tiful as wine, the color being given to
it by the roots Of the cyress trees. 1t
is of singular purity. When first taken
from the lake it undergoes fermenta-
ton, and after twenty years of voyaging
on shipboard has been known to be
sweet
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, June 4.-Tiour--Quiet but firm
common to choice western springs. 4,OQa5 50, do
Minnesota, 4.OOaj.75; patents 6.oOa7 80; evinte,
wheats, 5.O0a6.25; low grades, 1jOa4.00 Wheat
Active, firm and higher. rather excited; unset,
tied irregular; No. 2, red winter, 107ul.ll;
No. Chicago spring, l.llsG for seller cash
and june ll3!.al.l3l4 for seller J uly la 4
a.l4h for seller August; l.l24 for see,
September; sales, l.l2H9l.l39s for seller July
Legality for seller August No. 3 Chicago
spring, $50 LOO; rejected 74@75 Germ
Moderately active and higher; ~. for seller
cash and June; 4AG441. for seller July; 45H
g45@ for seller August, 4G9s for seller Sep,
tember; rejected, 3S. Oats-Strons and higher
3S1i for seller cash and June 37l4 for sele,
July; 2Sha2S9s for seller August; 27fa27 :.
for seller September; rejected 3lsla32. Rye
Steady and unchanged at l.Ol. Barlcy-Steady
and unchanged. l.lOal.12 Flax seed Higher
good crushing, at 1.2Oal .2OK. Pork-Modcr,
ately active and higher 16.25a16. 30 for selle,
cash.. 1888 for seller July; 1850 for selle,
August. Lard-Demand light, holders firm
lo.1oal072h tor seller cash; IO.77KalO.sO fol
seller July; lO.sOalO.s211 for seller August
le7eale.ic for seller September. The "Droycrs
journal" reports: Hogs - Receipts, 27,OOO
ss'!p;eits, 1905; moderately active; 5alOc lower
good quality; declined nominay on lower quail
ty mixed packing, o.50a5.SO; light, $500
$50; choice heavy, packing and shipping 5S5a
6,lo. Castle-Receipts. $500; shipments, l,7CO
best steady; poor weak; exports, 6.OOa6.25; goot
to choice shipping, 5.GOaj.9O; poor to fair
5.3eaj59; butchers, fairly active and stoady
common to choice, 2,50ai.75; thorough gras
Texans, steady, 4.3Oa4.6O; stockers and feeders
3.5Oa5lO. sheep-Receipts, $500; shipments
900: weak; no extra here, poor to good shearing
S5oa4.25; extra, 4.20a 100 prices fully l4a,ic.
lower than last week. H
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Largest Grain Elevator in the World.

Dow's grain elevator, the largest in
the country, is, in operation. 1t ad-
joins the Columbia stores, South Brook.
lyn. This elevator has been over a
year building and has cost its owner,
David Dows, over $2,O00,OO0. 1t has a
capacity of 100000 bushels for stor-
age, besides extra transfer facilities and
dockage for half dozen vessels or
more, which can be loaded at 4 time,
differing from all elevators hitherto
built. 1t has three enormous towers as
high as the building on which they
rest. These with the engine-house con
tain all Of the machinery and gearing.
The warehouse proper is fire-proof,
without an opening for belt or shaft,
consisting of large number of separate
fire-proof stores,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

EVIDENCE of the adaptability Of the
waters of Lake Michigan to the sue.
cessful culture of the California salmon
has been furnished by the. capture Of
one Of the noble fish weighing twelve
pounds in the lake off Cedar Grove,
Wis. Six years ago the experiment
of salmon planting in Lake Michigan
was made by the Wisconsin Fish Com
missioners, and this is the first proof Of
the success Of that experiment. The
prospect of some day seeing the big
lake stocked with millions Of we'll
grown members of the salmon family
Is one to make an epicure's mouth
water.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

Col. CHARLES r. O'FARRELL has been
writing caustic articles on Mr. d. S.
Lewis in the Harrisonburgh Va. Old
Commonwealth, and Mr.. Lewis has been
retorting in the Rockingham Register.
Both gentlemen met in the streets of
Harrisonburg the other day. The Hi
berno- Virginian blood Of OFarrell was
up, and so was the Virginian blood Of
Lewis. Theyraoaine e to blows, when some
policemen stepped in and took the
bellicose gentlemen to jail.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
yAilwankee Market.

MILWAUKEE, June l4-Flour.-Quict and
unchanged. Wheat-opened strong and excited
No. hard, No. l nominal; No. 2 hard
nominal; No. 2, Liz; Lib LOS for sellei
June; l.l3h for seller July; 1.l4h for seller
August; l.l2'i for seller September; Ill Sor
eller october;No. 3. at 991z; No. 4, nominal:
rejected, nominal. Corn-Ilisher; No. 2, i3.
oats-Weaker; No. 2, 36h. Rye-Dull and
lover No. l. l.0l. Barley Unsettled and
lower; No. 2, l07.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

PRISONS connected with the manage
ment OF the star-route cases say that
mere mere probably will be one hundred in
dlctments, including members Of both
political parties, and that the trials
VIII occupy the time of the criminal
ts court at Washington during most of the
fall and winter. The conspiracy stat
ute, under which the indictments will
be passed, is Of the most sweeping
character, and holds all persons respon-
slole who have participated in the pro-
ceeds Of frauds against the govern
ment,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

The brakemen on the Central Rail
way have received orders to appear in
the following uniform in blue: Cutaway
coat with two brass buttons on each
sleeve, two on the rear and four on the
front !; six brass buttons on the vest
with blue cap with three white bands
and a brass badge lettered, 'Train
hand" and a fashionably cut pair Of
pants.-Syracuse Sunday Times.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
Prejudice Kills,

eleven years our daughter suffered
on a bed of misery under the care of
several of the best land some of the
worst) physicians, who gave her disease
various names but no relief, and now
she is restored to us in good health by
as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters, that
we had poohed at for two years, before
using it. We earnestly hope and pray
that no enc else will let their sick snfie,
as we. did, on account of prejudice
against so good medicine as Hop Bit.
ters. The Parents.-IeLegram.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

BRADY, ex-star-route manipulation in
the Post-Office Department evidently
intends to be prepared for the worst in
the prosecution soon to be inaugurated
by the Department Of Justice. He has
retained Enoch Totten and Shelenbar-
ger & Wilson rs consul to defend him.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16
A Hint to the Lean,

The cause of leanness, when there is no posi-
tive disease which produces it, is an imperfect as
similation of the food. The weight of the body
undoubtedly bears a marked relation to, and in
properly nourished with fesh-making blood.
Hence when we see a tall person with Slab
sides and hollow cheeks, we have right to infer
that his blood is thin and watery and his consttu-
ton delicate. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is pc
culiary serviceab!c 70 thin delicate people, since
it strengthens the digestive and assmative organs
and is consequently powerful auxiliary in the
blood manufacturing processes, which in state
of health ought to be, and arc, thoroughly per-
formed. An increase of muscle, us well as fat, i.
q result of using this sovereign anti dyspeptic
appetizing and generally corrective cordial.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

THE English holders of the Confed-
crate bonds are a somewhat hopeful
set of persons. They cling to the idea
that the bonds are worth more than
waste. paper, and haye agreed to pay
25 cents for every $500 of the bonds
which they hold to defray the expenses
of urging our government to pay them.
1t is to be feared that the Britons are
being.fooled to the top of their bent by
some adroit American claim agent.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

BADEAU's so-called History of the
War of the Rebellion is sharply CRITICS
ed among military men for what they
allege to be its gross inaccuracies and
unjust criticisms. The work is sure
to receive thorough overhauling at
the hands of an officer who held high
command in the Army of the Poto-
mac, and who has since filled a prom
inent military pOsitiOn, 49,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

JOHN w. MACKEY, who returned
rather suddenly from Europe, gave a
dinner in New York to Thomas l..
Young, of Ohio, at which many mining
magnates were in attendance. The
bonanza king then took his departure
for Nevada. la.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

THE partisans of the revised version
Of the New Testament are using great
efforts to modify the general hostile
verdict in England, with slight success.
Lord, Selborne's letter warning clergy
men not to incur the danger of commit
ting an illegal act puts stop to the
movement of the revisels' friends to
smuggle the new version into use in the
churchns
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

PRESIDENT A. d. WHITE, United States
Minister at the Imperial German
Court, was rendered a farewell banquet
by members of the lower house Of the
reichstag, which was graced by the
presence of several members Of the i'm
perial cabinet ofBundesrath, and of the
Berlin University. In long speech
Minister White spoke Of the friendship
and sympathy which existed between
Germany and the United States
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

THE lowest bid for supplying post
masters with all official and registered
package envelopes for the year COM
mencing July 1, 1881 is $d724. The
bid is based on the number of -envel-
opes (2S,N7, ,250) used during the year
ending March 81, 1881, and which cost
the United States $1OO,S1O. Mr.. James
does things much better than Mr.. Key.
Brady is not around to look after the
contracts and the contractors.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

Observation-Disclosures in Kansas have
ingenious methods of evading the new
liquor law. "Jug trains are doing a
good business. The friends Of temper
ance believe that the law will eventu-
ally be entirely successful.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

The reasons given by track repairers
for tagging trains are sometimes anus
ing. An Erie engineer was told recent
ly, upon being tagged, that ''De track
videns oud, und de track videns in; de
bolds is out und de spikes is oud, und
you got to go slow on dat section"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

CITIZENS of Chattanooga, Tenn, held
enthusiastic meeting to arrange for the
entertainment of the army of the
Cumberland which will meet there
Sept. 81 and 90. g-...
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-16

A blue-stocking has written an essay
on "The Disadvantage of Beirg Pretty
Most girls are good-natured and willing
to put up with the disadvantages.
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NEWS NOTES.

A NEWS company, to compete with
the American News Company, has
been established in New York, with
one million dollars capital.
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for the year; the negroes Of the region
exult among themselves, and there is a
new political outrage" for the news
papers and politicians.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-04-01
Lightning Rods.

Rugby, like all other baby settle
ments, has been visited by drummers
various, from the man of boots and
shoes to him of notions, by the inevita-
bic sewing-machine man, Though in
this case it was woman and by the
insinuating book agent. Of surety
the lightning-rod man will turn up be-
fore long, with his strange, contorted
wires, his platinum tips, gilded points,
and all the other expensive and non-es-
sential paraphernalia of his little under
stood business. Although no one can
explain exactly what electricity is, we
may say briefly that lightning or the
electrical discharge is caused by the diff
ference of tension between one cloud
and another, or cloud and the earth,
and by the effort of nature to equalize
this difference. The electrical discharge
will always take place through, the best
conductor within reach, and in the abb
sence of any good conductor through
the air, the resistance in this case being
so great that the electricity becomes Wis
IDLE in the form of lightning. The re-
sistance offered by a good conductor
varies inversely as its sectional area, in
other words the thicker the conductor
the better it conducts. The questions
then to be first considered are, what
ought lightning rod to be made of,
and how thick, or what shape should it
be? With regard to the conductivity
Of metals, if silver be taken as having
conducting power of 100, copper will
be represented by II, zinc Fl, iron ID,
and tin II; the first named is of course
far too costly, and practically iron is
found to answer the purpose. 1t may
be coated with zinc, or, as it is COM