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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
90 YOU KNOW HERR


have little friend who doesn't like to mend.
To dust. or set the table, or even make a.bed;
The very thought Of sweeping nearly sets her
on a-weeping, M
And she always goes about It as though her
feet were lead.
She hates" to rock the baby. and says that
some day, maybe.
She'll go away and linger where they have'no
babies round
10 keep folks busy rocking. but really this is
shocking,
And she doesn't mean o word Of what she
says, I will be bound.
'ris true she cannot boar 70 oven walk .
square,
To buy spool Of cotton. or stamps for NAM
mas mall
And its much against her wishes that she 8
set to washing dishes.
While tospeak Of darning stockings Is enough
to make her pale.
In fact, she wants to shirk everything resem-
bling work, n
And the only thing she does enjoy. so far az
can say.
Is to take her doll and books, and within some
quiet nook
To read of elves and fairies, and dream the
hours away.
-E. L Sylvester. In Harper Young People
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14
BURMESE CHILDREN.

The Happy Boys ss,d Girls OF Quaint
Old Country.
: You can find Burma very easily by
consulting your school geography, if
you don't know exactly where it is To-
Gated. Finding the map of India, you
will notice that this strange, interest
ing country IS bordered on one side by
the Chinese lands and on the other by
the country of the Hindus. The thing
that will most interest our readers is
the fact that the Burmese children are
among the happiest youngsters OF
earth.
They live in a gorgeous country, and
their mothers are held in great respect,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14

one Of these spiders in the path, =
large, hairy, black fellow, that had an
ugly look. 1 stopped down and touched
him with my pencil, when he sat up
on his hind legs, opened his jaws and
was ready to fight. touched him
again, when he seized the pencil with
his fangs and left two minute drops OF
poison where they had touched it. His
bite would, no doubt, have been a very
painful one. The spider springs upon
his prey, like a wolf, drags 1t to some
cover, and devours it. Ihave seen one
kill and drag away a very small toad.
1 think it is the wolf spider that digs a
hole or gallery in the ground eight
or ten inches deep, from which he
sallies forth in search of victims. The
top of his hole is lined with silk to keep
the earth from caving in. One day,
while walking through a field,
CHANGED to see one of these holes in
the ground looked into it and saw
two bright. cleaning points in the
darkness at the bottom. They were
the eyes OF the spider. A few days
later l walked that way again. I
stopped and looked in the hole, but saw
no cleaning eyes. Looking closely on
the ground about the entrance, saw
fragments of the dismembered body OF
the spider. Some enemy, some fiercer
wolf, had caught the spider at his door,
or had dragged him forth from his
cave, and devoured him by his own
doorstep.
The most pleasing spider to contem-
plate is the little spider that tides upon
the wind, the flying spider. 1t mounts
some post or other object, shoots out
filament from it's body, which floats
out upon the air, till presently it is
buoyant enough to lift the littlespinner
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Really Remarkable Discovery.

Nature has beautiful habit OF
adapting herself to difficulties and
weakness, whenever that is possible. II
she is choked and hindered in one direo-
ton, she tries to become more vigorous
in another. An English author says
that a man of middle age, with whom
he is acquainted, found one OF his eyes
affected, as he thought, by reading
small print at night, and applied to
famous oculist for advice. The doctor
examined him very carefully, and
presently inquired whether he had
ever suffered any inconvenience from
the other eye, the right one.
"None whatever" was the reply.
"StiIl. :" said the oculist, dryly, 1T Is
very important for you to preserve the
sight of your left eye, inasmuch as you
have never seen with the other since
YOU were born"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14
A Cow, Pecull.r p.rctlen.

Down In Georgia lives a very pecul-
lar black COW. She is very much at
tached to her masters children-so
much so that she is never willingly sepa-
rated from them. If the children are
at home, the cow will stay in a pas
ture with fence three feet high; but
IL they go away the cow will throw
down even high fences to follow them
At different times when the COW would
be in the pasture the farmer hasslipped
the children away from home, but
when she missed them she would get
out and track them as dog would do
until she found them, and then follow
wherever they went
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which is not always the case with the
various races of old India. Some OF the
little Burmese GIRLS nre very pretty
and very graceful They are fond OF
many trinkets, aud, though shy in
their manner, they easily become &C.
quainted with strangers when the lat
ter are lavish enough In their gifts Of
pretty things.
ALI Burmese boys are educated in the
Buddhist monasteries, but 1t has not
hitherto been thought necessary to
teach the girls more than to read and
write. To be pretty, to be religious, to
be amiable and gay-bearted, and to
have q good business instinct is all that
is demanded of girl in Burma; pres
emily, when she comes to learn the adj
vantages which education confers in
dealing with the foreigner, she will
doubtless demand 1t as her right.
To be pretty and to charm is
her aim, and few things human
are more charming than group
Of Burmese girls going up to the
pagoda to worship al a festival. With
her rainbow.tinted silk tamein fastened
tightly round her slender figure, her
spotlessly clean short jacket modestly
covering the bosom, and with her
abundant black tresses smoothly coiled
on to the top of her head, in the braids
of which understanding flowers are
stuck, the Burmese girl knows full well
she Is an object to be admired. Per-
fectly well pleased with herself, and
contented. with her world as it is, she
payly laughs and chats with her COM
panions.
Burmese mammas have some sweet
songs with which they lull their baby
boys and girls to sleep. One of the
prettiest of these is given below. These
verses are translated by Shway Yeo,
learned native poet; see how dainty
they are:
Sweet. my babe, your fathers coming.
Rest and hear the songs I'm hummlng;
He will come and gently tend you,
Rock your cot, and safo defend you;
Mothers setting out his dinner
Oh. you naughty little sinneri
What yell from such wee thing,
Couldn't be worse II you were teethingi
Ny sweet round n ass OF gold
Now pray do what you're told
Be quiet anc good.
As nice boys should
o, now please,
Do not tease.
Do be god,
As babies should
All, yes, Burma is a happy land, and
its people, are all gay and honest, and
sober, End the sunlight is warm and
strong In their land, even as their bodies
are strong and their hearts warm.-N.
Y. Recorder. ..-..,.,,-s--..
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THE VANILLA ORCHID.
How the Plant Is Cultivated In Mexico and
other Countries.

How the Plant Is Cultivated In Mexico and
other Countries.
On the verge of the ice-cream sea-
son, which consumes many hundred
tons of vanilla beans, few persons stop
to think Of the years of preparation
necessary to supply enough OF the
flavor without which the dainty dish
of the summer girl would be as moth
ing. From the time the plant is first
placed in the ground until the bean is
ready to be converted into strip. near
ly four years elapse; years OF constant
watching and delicate care. No COM
mon agriculturist can raise vanilla
beans. Most of the big planters in
Mexico, Peru, Guiana or Reunion are
cultivated gentlemen. 20
The plant is generally set in young
wood where the long tendrils OF the
vine will have good shade and at the
same time good support in the shape
of young saplings to which to cling.
The vines bear fruit in three years
time and die off when about seven
wears old. After the beans are ripe
tleV are Su DInitJcu W uCAASosS ~ 80
process which takes months. The
beans are spread out on blankets in the
sun for several hours day. After
they have absorbed sufficient heat the
blanket is rolled around the beans and
the drying process is continued through
the day. At night the beans are put
into boxes and sweated. -~-s-
This is in fine weather. II the sea
SON be rainy. as it may often be in the
tropics, artificial heat is substituted
for the rays of the sun. The ripe fruit
has no odor. This is special quality
which 1t develops with fermentation. II
the beans are to be grown in treeless
country the planter must raise trees
before planting his vines, as their pro-
lection and support y absolutely
necessary. In Mexico the harvest Is
in December. and 1t il in early spring
that the importations are made In
this country in anticipation Of the big
summer trade The vanilla plant Is
An orchid and its fruit Is improperly
called a bean. Boston Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14

nov 1t Began In Hoosierdom. ~
Ia the boom and blare of a big
oand, with thousands of rooters
Peaeners and stand. the national
q freedoms fair land was opened
ery auspiciously. i
| IN the field did the players de-
mere were bowls of anguish and
n ~. u Joy; OF 1.-THE umpire's rottenp'
mats the boy!" which assailed
4 \ most :, viciously. 2 /
mat yellow-legged outfit from
I OF pine, by courtesy called q
Psll nine, was done up in pack
aeas and fine in a manner decisive
llorious.
onward, ye batsmenl Forward,
we TO forth to battle our honor
y u Il fortune so wills it, the PEN
s sasii wave DER a job lot of Hoo
'0'orious. Observation-Disclosures
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Bound to BE Healthy.

visitor-You must have a remark-
ably efficient board of health in this
town.
Shrewd Native Zone of many)-You
are right about that, can tell you.
Composed of scientists, presumeP'
mo, sir. Scientists are too theo-
retical," aEBtI
physicians. perhapsP"
mot much. We don't allow doctors
on our board of health-no, sir-nor
undertakes, either.
Hunt What sort of men have you
chosen, then"
Life insurance agents. IN. Y. Adj
yertiser.
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The Course OF True Love.

bridget" said Mrs. Huskip, 81 UNI
derstand that you have Tilted the man
who drives the ice-wagon for the milk
man."
"Thrue fer yez, ma'am. Oh hov that
same" was the reply.
And that damp spot on the door
step is all there is to show for the TWEEN.
ty pounds of ice we takeT', Snow 4
"Yis'm."
"Well, Bridget, you can either ar
range to be a sister to both OF them or
YOU can look for another place.
Washington Star.
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Tn. Cookie Boy.

Namma MAIDS avs cookie boys,
Sanding In . row;
with heads and eyes and hands and legs.
They made splendid show.
Alice saw tho cookie boys
Lying In the hall:
Gave each one gentle kiss
And then-she tte them All
-Peytoa Brown. In Our Little ossa
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14
I -ucLIsH FARMHousEs.

ENuI
!. which Elder-Flowex
~ T Hs.% va. compounded. ..,,.,,
WI .he open window, by whicn
s''s Ike my lady's favorite
y , mass the sound Of the hum
~ -. sO bees in the herb garden
q .ae and the snip-snip OF Mar
stfs 'a.ars as she cuts the fragrant
se'' and looks with some salts us,
pdsr, ~. me- promising crops Of dill
" y an When she comes in she
na ~ pOrcas' nimble assistance.
W. ~ little blue blossoms from
' W and, as they are nice and
s'a .av Mace them in a bag OF
7 y the the big earthen pot
y Nv the appellation OF the
4 y no Z in contradistinction to its
AZ ps tbe 'qesser pot" Besides
~ !. lavender water, and the
ss,sslyety-feeling elder-fiower es'
s.hsre must ere the year be
+ |, j added other sweet toilet wa
n oId cabbage-rose tree BY the
IA wall must render assistance.
- .vsl;ns whose delicate scent
r y my Lady Betty's chamber.
efficacy which is now well-nlgh
|o ats although it is still to be
/ Il old farmhouses, is the dam
|s,ese. Why this delightful con-
should be called a cheese beats
(onprehension of mortal man. for
neither like a cheese in shape,
L,t,ctnre. color, nor taste, but a
4 4 i called, and a cheese it will
"A as long as it survives the OPP
|;ou Of its arch enemy, cheap dam
Al, which, by the by, is seldom
Il damsons at all, but OF small
q qualities in the common sloe
A we're well-known to the house
Of old, but are now almost uni
|lly neglected. Sloe wine is NO
tipple, and if kept for some years
pbles port closely. .,....
4 strange, indeed, in these days OF
grafton that sloe port does not
|the place Of logwood sirup. Sloe
Il still 10 some degree popular,
hits composition is commercial.
Dubtful. In the old days some
elsof sloes were each year con.
aby every room worthy Of the /
Elderberries were also in great
nd, and although the wine made
them can hardly be said to be
Or generous, it is, when heated
spices and sugar, a drink not &c
spised on cold winters night.
many and so various were the
hts Of the still room that we in
degenerate days are apt to won
ow all these delicacies were con-
4. Our grandparents, however,
not at loss on this score. 1.-THE
the merrier" was their motto, Il
well they acted up to it. The
! and cousins in London, and, in
town mice generally, were the for.
Z recipients of frequent hampers
lntry commodities. among which
suits Of the labor Of the house,
i and still-room maids were very
icuous Candied orange leaves.
20 cheese and elder-fiower water
things not to be had in perfection
En. The town cousins did not,
'er, return the hampers empty.
with oysters and other
'omestibles, which were easier to
lin London town, so that q sys-
friendly barter was carried on.
things are now no more. No
Ices the stage coach deliver al
aracen's Head or the Elephant
astle baskets containing stout
jars OF Mistress Margery's special
marmalade or picked beans;
nper, when it exists at all, has
Grated into a mere pair of fowls
me butter and eggs. The glory
sui room has departed. Elder |
wine and cowslip water are
OF the past, and the place OF
wood wine knows it no more
q Standard.
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The WOLF SPIDER.
A Very Large Black Insect which Is Roth
Ugly and venOmous.

A bumble-bee sometimes gets into
spiders web, but the web will not hold
him. When the spider secs what big
game he has caught, he runs away to n
place of safety, and looks on and sees
kis net destroyed. After the bee has
escaped the spider repairs the damage.
Some spiders do not have webs. The
wolf spider does not. This Is large
black spider that goes providing about
over the ground seeking something to
devonr. One day, in Suy walk, met
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14

|p;,t D0mestic (who had been out
n - = mat week)-I'm sorry, but
b;s sU " Lannigan's ball tonight.
| |a'ss1 : won't let me. i
a ~ nDOmestic-An' why won't she?
n,s u0mestic-I dunno. Mebby
Weekly. "@sn 'n'''eo'-
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Success Assured

Dashaway-Jagway has just invent
ed a new cocktail. saw him yester-
day, and guess it's going to be . sue
cess
Ceverton-what did he say about its
Dashaway-He couldn't tslk.-Life
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A Kind work..

/ A. s,,sper-Half the things you
= torn to pieces.
s. ; /. mum. but when
! s. .o,n In two or more pieces,
pun. them as only one piece,
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and bear her away. Away she goes
over fields, across valleys, wherever the
breeze drifts her. 1t is the only crea-
ture that know of that makes its own
wings as the occasion requires.-John
Burroughs, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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for his long.lost brother had to learn
English over again. having heard never
a word of his mother tongue from the
night when Aboo, after gagging him,
tumbled him into the boat lying astern
of the dahabeeh until his brothers bull
let brought him back to civilization. Of
his wanderings he could tell little except
that his captor and he had been way
farers for years in the Soudan and along
the desert Highways until the insurrec-
tion broke out. when he was pressed
into the Mahdi's service, Aboo being q
volunteer. After awhile, he told his
brother, he became rather fond of fight
ing.
''Imphm!" said the colonel, as his
elder son translated these remarks,
"there is some Of the Macpherson in him
yet," then. He nodded paternalfy to.
ward Bob, and then, turning to Jack,
said tenderly, "God bless you, my boy,
for bringing back my Benjamin, even
with bullet !"-Toronto Globe.
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BIG WHALES.
HOW THEY ARE CAPTURED, AND
THEIR VALUE.
Jonah's Story Still Unexplained-How
the Sailors Fare on Board-De-
scription of the Struggles With
the Monsters of the Sea, Etc.

The whaling feet generally leaves San
Francisco about the middle of February,
and is upon the grounds about the mid
die of May, when it is considered the
season opens. 1t is necessary to know
how 3 whale looks and what its habits
are in order to understand how they
should be hunted. They are about fifty
or sixty feet long, and look like immense
black logs floating in the water when
their bodies appear on the surface. They
are detected at distance by the stream
Of water they spout through their blow
holes. From one.fourth to one.third
the full length is taken up by the head,
which is from eight to twenty feet long
and nine to twelve feet in thickness.
Whales are entirely destitute of teeth,
but instead the mouth is furnished with
an apparatus of baleen or whalebone, for
the purpose of straining out of the water
the small fish and crustaceans which form
their food. The fbrous structure OF
whalebone, its elasticity and heaviness,
are we'll known. The plates of it in the
mouth are very numerous, several hun.
dred On each side, and placed very close
together, the whole quantity sometimes
amounting to over two tons in weight.
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OBSCURE MARTY RS.

They have no place in storled page
No rest in marble shrine;
Thew are passed and gone with peri.hed
age
They died and made no sign.
Rut work that shall fiud its wages yet,
And deeds .aat their God did not forget,
Done for their love divine
These were the mourners, and these shall
The crowns of their immortality.
Oh. seek them not where sleeps the dead
Ye shall not find their trace;
No craven stone is at their head,
No green grass hides their face;
But sad and unseen is their silent grave
It may be the sand or deep sea wave,
Or lonely desert place;
For they needed no prayers and no mourn
ing bell
They were tombed in true hearts that knew
them well.
They healed sick hearts till theirs were
broken;
And dried sad eyes till theirs lost light;
We shall know at last by certain token
How they fought and fell in the fight
Salt tears of sorrow unbeheld,
Passionate cries unchronicled,
And silent strifes for the right
Angels shall court them and earth shall
sigh
That she left her best children to battle and
die.
-Ed,cin Arnold.
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Mortality by Wild Animals In India

The n ortality caused by wild animals
in India in 1890 is considerably less thar
in the previous year, being a total Of
246O against 2724. The deaths in Ben
gal we're 1921, the Central Provinces 36S,
the Northwest Provinces 22S, Assam
2O1, Madras 1876; and the Punjab cnly
thirty-one. Tigers and leopards &C.
counted for 79S lives, and wolves eighty.
seven. The returns, more or less doubt
full, state that $4,000 cattle were de.
stroyed by wild animals. A marked
decrease has taken place in the number
of wild animals destroyed, as the total for
the year is only IA, 6O4 against II, 6SS in
1889, and the amounts as rewards IN
Madras fell from Rs. 44,75l to Rs. 25,-
s34. The total number OF licences held
for this purpose is now SO, 44O. The
total number of persons killed by snakes
is q, ,412, compared with %, 4sO in 1889,
Bengal and the Northwest Provinces ac-
counting respectively for 10, ,534 and
57yS of these deaths. The number OF
snakes destroyed is returned as 1O,659,
of which four. tifths are said to have oc-
Cured in the Bombay Presidency.-St.
.znraea's' GusAttA
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One would think the sailors on board
q whaler would make quite nice little
stake when it is known they are paid on
sEs,es, but more than four-ffths of them
get only one dollar when the cruise is
finished. Why I cannot tell, but it IS
true, and besides the crew is treated,
generally, in the most brutal manner.
besides having to endure the severe cold
and being constantly drenched with the
icy spray while in the boats. Think OF
running aloft when the rigging is frozen
and covered with snow and ice, and If
one word is heard of dissention, the men
are cuffed about by the brutal mates
worse than dogs. witnessed two mates
thrashing a man who was in double
irons. They kicked and cuffed him un.
til my blood boiled with rage, but I was
powerless to help him. The authorities
know these things, bat still it goes on.
When the ladies learn what dangers
attend the hunting of the whale, they
will wonder why men take such risks
lust for whalebone. It does not take
much whalebohe fer the stays in any one
dress, but there are so many dresses to
be stayed that the demand for whale
bone is always active. When the ladies
call for any article s certain to be
brought.
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Land of the Olive and the Pig.

Some parts of Australia seem to be
admirably suited for tie growth of the
olive. Mr.. Principal Thompson of
Dookic says in recent report that 700
olive trees planted in that district are
robust and healthy, and that they pro.
duce splendid oil. He strongly recon-
mends the planting of olive around
VINEYARDS aud homesteads for shade and
shelter and to give picturesque appear
ance to the rural home. Apart from
making of oil he believes it would pay
handsomely to grow olive berries to feed
pigs alone. Last winter the pigs at
Dookie (about eighty head were allowed
to eat up the fallen berries in the olive
grove; they had no other food for up
ward of two months, and throve amaz-
ingly, Hsjy " their skins having peculiar
shining appearance, characteristic of
animals being we'll fed Chicago Mews.