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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
Walking.

WALKING briskly, with an exciting OBJ
ject of pleasant interest ahead, is the
most healthful of all forms of exercise
except that of encOuragingly remunerative,
steady labor in the open air; and yet null
titudes in the city, whose health urgently
requires exercise, seldom walk when they
can ride, if the distance is a mile or more
1t is worse in the country, especially with
the well-tO-do; horse or carriage must be
brought to the door even if less distances
have to be passed. Under the conditions
first named, walking is bliss; it gives
animation to the mind, it WHITES the cir
culation, it paints the cheeks and spar
kles the eye, and wakes up the whole
being, physical, mental and moral
We know family of children in this
city who, from the age of seven, had to
walk nearly two miles to school, Writer
and summer; whether sleet, or storm, or
rain, or burning sun, they made it an am
bitiOn never to stay away from school on
account of the weather, and never to be
"late;" and one of them was heard to
boast that in seven years it had never
been necessary to give an "eXcuse" for
being one minute behind the time, even
although in winter it was necessary to
dress by gaslight. They did not average
two days sickness in year, and later
they thought nothing of walking twelve
miles at a time in the Swiss mountains
Sometimes they would be caught in
drenching rains and wet to the skin; on
such occasions they made it point to do
one thing-let it rain, and trudged on
more vigorously until every thread was
dry before they reached home.
There is no unmedicinal remedy known
to men of more value in the prevention
of constipation than n few miles joyous
walking; let one follow it up Il week-a
walk of two or three miles in the fore
noon, as much in the afternoon-and, ex-
cept in rare cases, when a longer contin-
uance may be made, the result will be
triumphant; and yet nine persons out of
ten would rather give a dollar bottle for
some nauseOus drops or poisonous pills
than take the trouble to put in practice
the natural remedy of walking. Nor is
there any anodyne among all the drugs in
the world which is the hundredth part so
in securing refreshing. health
full, delicious, glorious sleep, as a judiciOus
Journoi IF HeoiM.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
BeautIfylng Farms.

Great progress, says an Eastern ex-
change, has been made within the last
twenty-five years, among the farmers of
the country, not only in making their
farms more productive, but in making
them more attractive. This, in a large
measure, is the result of prosperous farm
ing. Those who had debts to pay did not
feel able to eXpend much in ornamenting
their places; but since they have freed
themselves from this burden they have
been more disposed to attend to the ap-
pearance of things.
There has been also an advance in taste.
There are not so many now as formerly
who decry all attention to the ornamental
as a waste of time and money. This race
of niggardly and boorish men is fast dy-
ing out. Increasing intelligence, the cul-
tivation of agricultural reading, the fOrma-
ton of agricultural societies, the infusion
of larger element of educated and cult
waited men into the profession, have had
a powerful influence in securing more at
tentiOn to the aesthetics of farming, in
stead of having everything expended for
mere pecuniary returns. And this is a
great advance. 1t ennobles the pursuit
of the farmer. Man is a creature of taste,
and not mere grub; and he who neg
lects to cultivate and to crafty this ele
ment in his nature degrades himself. Any
one may form pretty correct estimate of
the intellectual, if not the moral, state of
his neighbors, by simply looking over
their farms. The one who allows his
buildings and lands to lie in slovenly
state, when he has the means of improv-
ing them, may be a money-loving, but he
will also be slovenly man, with no ele-
waiting instincts.
1t is a great mistake to suppose that
money spent in reasonably improving the
appearance of place is thrown away.
1t may be doubted whether there is any
more direct method to increase its pecu-
MARY value. Certainly it's market value
will depend much on its outward appear
ance. Tasteful and well painted build
ings, wellarranged yards and gardens
with neat fences, shade trees properly dis
posed, good farm fences and cleanlykept
fields, will set off farm to great advan-
tage, and make an amazing difference
when it comes to be sold. And even if it
be not sold, these things will add amaz-
ingly to the enjoyment of it by its posses
sor if he be not blind to everything but
the dollar.
Every man, too, owes it to the commu-
nifty in which he is living to contribute to
general reputation and to public enjoy
ment by making all his surroundings as
attractive as possible. There is such a
thing as paying too much attention to
outside and to show but there is rea-
son in all things, and measure of time
and attention and expense should be de-
voted by every one to making his farm
and his home more attractive every year
that he lives.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

The air, without which no creature could live,
il the source OF diseases of which millions die At
this season, especially, the atmosphere Is full Of
the germs Of many kinds of sickness. Every
globule of the mist and fog which cloud the earth
and sky in spring holds in solution its portion of
miasmatic poison.
The evil effects of this Rrial virus can only be
certainly averted by increasing the vital activity of
the system and securing the full and free exercise
of all its natural functions, and hence It is that
Hostctter's Stomach Btters, the great nerve
strengthened, regulator, and antidOtc to malaria,
is imperatively required in the spring months.
1t is at this time, too, that Dyspepsia assumes its
most distressing typos and that persons of bilious
habit usually suffer most. There is an influence in
the air which depresses the spirits well rs the
physical energies and in order to restore their
elasticity tonic treatment is absolutely necessary
All the world knows that the wonderful efficacy
Of IIosteter's Btters in of indigestion, bill
iousness, nervous prostration and malarious fever
is due to the potency of its tonic. Alternative and
aperient materials. and the absolutely pure stimu
liant with which they are Incorporated.
1t is because the public have been taught by
twenty years experience that the article can be I'M
plicitly trusted-inasnueh as it performs uniform
1y and certainly all that it is advertised to do-that
they prefer this sovereign tonic to every other.
Hence its immense and ever increasing sales. and
hence, too, alas the many counerfeits and imita-
tons against which there is no safeguard except
the close scrutiny of the purchaser.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
ave been made by cutting them into


slaves.
But if not near tannery, then the
bark may be saved by grinding it and
making into "eXtract." This article is
SIMPLY the tanning principle of the bark
in form to be easily transported. A
cord of bark is boiled down to one and a
half or two barrels of extract. The ex-
tract is worth $50 per barrel in New York
and Boston, and there is really no limit
to the demand. To make it on large
scale-that is, as a business-requires ma
chinery of some cost, but any farmer can
grind up his bark, make a strong decoc-
ton of it in hot water, and then boil
very slowly down in copper vessel.
Iron must not be used. A wooden tank,
with steam pipes in it, will be best, if to
be had. In large factories it pays best
to boil the liquid down to the consistency
of n Jelly in vacuum pan.
In the woods of Maine thousands of
tons of hemlock bark are every year
wasted which might in this way be made
to yield revenue to the people and the
manufacturer. In the Northwestern
States there is as great or greater waste
going on. We see it stated by competent
authority that s., 900 will erect works suf-
ficient to make twenty barrels of extract
every day in the most approved manner,
and which should yield profit of at least
80 per barrel If such be the case, may
it not be possible to clear land at profit
and also draw still more revenue from the
disappearing forests of our North and
West.-Ne1o York World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

Lawyer-How do you know him to be
good man?
Witness-Because, whenever there is
any good to be done, he is always
round.
Lawyer-Ahl he is, Ell? Now, will
you tell the jury the shape of that hole
the plaintiff swears he fell down.
Witness-Yes, sill; it was a round
hole
Lawyer-That will do, sir.
The counsel for the defense made stir
ring speech. 1t stirred even me. Says
he:
MAY it please the court, gentlemen of
the jury, call upon you to render me a
verdict without leaving your seats. The
witness just examined is the only witness
that can be produced by the plaintiff, the
only one to sustain him in his dastardly
attempt to defraud my client of his hard
earned wealth. He has the audacity to
stand up in open court, an object of scorn
to all honest men, reptile devoid of
truth, and, proclaim it boldly. per jur-
er. This man, gentlemen, has the auiac-
ity to stand up here and swear before this
intelligent jury that he has known the
plaintiff for years and has always known
to be a square mani With the very next
breath this cheat, this fraud, this infa-
nous scoundrel tells you that he is a
round man! Now, gentlemen, mark well
this point. You all know that the wit
ness swore, standing up there in the
witnessbox, that the hole the plaintiff
fell through was a round one; and l ask
you, gentlemen, how, in the name of
heaven, could square man fall through
round hole? Again, gentlemen, the
plaintiff swore that he saw stars, although
this thing is said to have happened at
noon. The thing spreposterous. In the
words of the immortal Socrates, It's too
thin ?
'Look, gentlemen, into the face of that
mother clasping babe to her breast. See
the tears trickle down her cheeks. She is
the wife of the defendant; and tell me,
gentlemen, does she look like the wife of
a man who owns round coal hole for a
square man to fall through? Look at the
plaintiff, gentlemen. Guilt is written all
over him. No wonder he quivers and
quakes when he sees the just vengeance
of the law about to fall and crush him.
l am done. Give me your
verdict, and let right triumph over
wrong?
In five minutes the jury returned YER
dict of constructive arson against the
plaintiff. ". Y. Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

1t is constant complaint in the well
wooded sections that it costs so heavily
to clear land. And so it does when the
trees are cut down, only a few rails or
posts made and the great mass of the tim
Der piled and burned. Every year thou
sands of dollars worth of material is
thus wasted which is needed in the com
merce and manufacture of the world
Suppose the farmer does split his red,
black, or white oaks into rails, he throws
away the bark, unless happening to be
near a tannery and he himself more than
usually thrifty. Again, the tanner de-
mands bark and the farmer skins his trees
and leaves them too frequently to die.
The neighborhood of every tannery is
full oft he SCARED monuments of thought
less desire for money. Money might
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
GODEY'S IADY'S ROOK.=TI

GODEY's LADY's BOoK.-The number
for May contains a very handsome steel plate, a
rural scene-the feeding of the old mare Maggie,
the pet Of the barnyard; also another of those fine
fashion plates for which the Lady's Book is now
exceling anything of the kind. A grand scene is
given of Miss Lollipop's ball room. colored
plate OF darned square in netting finishes the
extra embellishments of the number. The extern
sion sheet contains unusual number of elegant
designs, and the work department is not behind in
Its instruction for fancy work. story by
Marion Harland is begun in this number
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
Potatoes.

We all have observed the great deteri-
Grafton in our potato crops during the
past ten or twenty years; and what is the
cause of this alarming decrease of tubers?
Can science, can chemistry point out the
reason, or aid in remedying the difficulty?
We think it can, and in order to place
the matter in a clear light, we will point
out the kind and amount of food which
the potato demands.
We had field of potatoes upon the
farm which yielded 300 bushels to the
acre; this may be regarded as an old
fashioned crop. This crop removed
from the soil in tubers and tops at least
400 pounds potash; also it removed I50
pounds phosphoric acid. Now these
amounts are very large, and serve to show
that the potato plant is great consumer
of the two substances, and also it shows
that IN order to restore our potato fields
to their former productive condition, we
must supply phosphate compounds and
substances holding potash in large quaint
ties.
For six or eight generations in New
England our fathers have been exhaust
ing the soil, by removing these agencies
in their potato and other crops, and we
have reached time when the vegetable
is starving in our fields for want of its
proper food. Our farmers have found
that new land gives the best crops, and
this is due to the fact that, such fields af
ford the most potash. But so long as we
crop our pastures SO unreasonably, we
cannot resort to new land as land is not
neo that has had itspotash and phosphate
elements removed by grazing animals.
Remember that potato field which
gives but 100 bushels to the acre requires
at least 100 pounds of potash, but by
allowing the tops to decay upon the field,
sixty pounds of this is restored to the
soil again, as that amount is contained in
them. A medium crop of potatoes
requires twice as much phosphoric acid
as medium crop of wheat, SO that in
two years with wheat the land is depriv-
ed of no more of the agent than it loses
in one year with potatoes.-Boston Jour-
nal of Che1lltsf,U
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

GREAT excitement was caused in a
street in Baltimore, on recent Sunday,
by a mysterious rapping at the window in
the upper room of a business block, which
was unoccupied and securely locked. A
large crowd collected beneath the window,
and various explanations of the mystery
were ventured. 1t was suggested that
some person had been accidently fastened
in, but no response was received to in
quiring shouts. A number of persons in
the crowd insisted that they saw a sheeted,
gibbering ghost at the window. Finally,
a large crowd of police was secured, the
building surrounded, an entrance forced,
and the haunted room entered, the police
men quaking in their boots. They found
a small, frightened, innocent, and alto
neither insignificant red-headed wood
pccker. EreuM spectators
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
EAcnERs AND PARENTS should pro

TEACHERS AND PARENTS should pro-
vide their children with The School Festirdl.
Quarterly Magazine, devoted to new matter and
exercises for School Exhibitions and Public DAYS
1t is live fresh thing, that has long been needed
by all teachers and pupils, and is conducted by the
same Mr.. Sewell who founded and SO long edited
the Little Corporal, assisted by Mrs. Slade and 9TH
er able writers. The April number contains a
beautiful May Queen" Coronation exercise and
many other choice things. ALFRED L. SEwEII i,
Publisher, Chicago, ILL., Price, seventy-five cents
n year; single or sample copy, twenty cents. Pre-
miums to Clubs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

EDITORIAL NOTICES are so common that it
is almost impossible for an editor to express
his honest opinion of the merits of any arti-
Gle without being suspected of interested
motives. This fact, however shall not deter
us from saying what we think of a new ad-
dition to the Materia Medica to which our
attention has been recently directed. We
refer to DR. j. WALKERS CALIFORNIA Vim
EGAR BITTERs, a remedy which is making
its way into more families just now than all
the other advertised medicines put together.
Its popularity, as far as we can judge, is not
based on empty pretention. There seems to
be no question about the potency of its tonic
and Alternative properties, while it possesses
the great negative recommendation of con
tanning neither alcohol nor mineral poison.
That it is a specific for Indigestion, Bilious
ness, Constipation, and many complaints of
nervous origin, we have reason to know
and we are assured on good authority as a
general invigorant, regulating and purifying
medicine, it has equal. 1t is stated that
its ingredients, obtained from the wilds of
California; are new to the medical world ;
and its extraordinary effects certainly war
rant the conclusion that it is a compound of
agents hitherto unknown. If popularity is
any criterion, there can be no doubt of the
efficiency of the VINEGR BITTERs, for the
sale of the article is immense and continually
increasing.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27
How to Ornn ment the Hair.

Al that art can accomplish in identifying,
Strengthening, thickening, and perpetual
ing the human hair, is effected by the use of
BURNETT's COCAINE. There is a stimulat-
ing property in this PREPARATION, which
literally compcls rapid growth of the fibres,
while its emolient action renders them
silky and elastic. II is the best and cheapest
hair-dressing aud inpi9orator in tie world.
SO say the masses who use it. Your drug
Sist has it,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

lie our wants, be il
B reduce them, be il
~, q farmer near Edgarton
sfves grapes over winter "a
d well favored as when first taken
the vines, by merely burying them
re ground deep enough to protect
IN from the frost.
LAY a course in life to pursue, and at all
hazard abide by it; first see that your
course is correct, and when once that is
decided intelligently, and it also has the
appreciation of the best men whether re-
corded or occular, make it your business
to see that this one thing of your life is
strictly adhered to.
NAPoR- BATHS are the latest remedy for
hydrophobia A celebrated French ply
stefan says: IF the disorder has declared
itself, | prescribe a single bath, and leave
the patient in until cure is effected. Hy-
drophobia may last three days. Expert
ence has proved to me that a cure is GER
tain on the first day of the outbreak; on
the second day. doubtful; on the third,
hopeless, on account of the difficulty of
conveying the patient to the bath and
keeping him in. And as hydrophobia
never breaks out before the seventh day,
there is time to perform long journey to
obtain bath"
To prevent hens eating eggs, cores
pondent of the RurM Ne,o Yorker says:
Build a laying-room little dark, so that
they cannot see to do that kind of mis-
chief. Hens naturally like to retire out
of sight to lay, in snug, cozy place 1t
prevents hens that are laying from being
disturbed by going into the house; and
strolling hens do not bother, for they can
not see to pick. A room six by eight feet
is large enough for seventy-tive or one
hundred hens; for it will accommodate
twenty nests or more. Shelves are neces-
sary to set the nests upon, with a projec-
ton in front for the hens to walk on"
A WRITER in the american Bee journal
says: l have been feeding with a very
simple and cheap food. l bought a few
gallons of sorghum molasses at forty cents
a gallon. In this l put water and honey
in the proportion of one quart of water
and one pint of honey to one gallon of
molasses This mixture boiled until it
was of the consistency of thin molasses.
When cooled i poured it into cards of
empty comb, about one quart to the hive.
1t was wonderful how soon, after these
cards were returned to the hives, the bees
would lick up this syrup and deposit it
in other and more convenient parts of the
hives.
WHEN you rise in the morning, form a
resolution to make the day a happy one
to a fellow creature. 1t is easily done; a
eft-of garment to the man who needs it,
a kind word to the sorrowful, an encour-
aging expression to the striving, tritles in
light as air, will do it at least
for the twenty-four hours. And if you
are young, depend upon it, it will tell when
you are old; and if you are old, rest as
sured it will send you gently and happily
Town the stream of time to eternity. By
he most simple arithmetical sum, look at
he result. If you send one person, only
,ne, happily through each day, that is
ng you live forty years only, after you
commence that course, you have made
IA 600 persons happy, at all events, for a
lime.
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A Mammoth Millinery House.

MEssRs. GAGE Bros. IL Co. are now perma-
nently located at 227 and 800 Wabash ave
nue., in their new store of five floors, 54Xl6O
fect-an acre of floor -room-thc largest and
best-lighted Millinery store in the United
States. The basement is for receiving and
packing goods. The first floor front has a
setting of French plate glass, with panes o. :
by Is feet. The offices, ladies' toilct-rooms,
and finishing of black walnut, and the mas
sive chandeliers, are in keeping with the
building and with the immense trade which
their mammoth stock invites and supplies
Here are the silk goods, ribbons, including
the celebrated A A brandt specially with
this house-gros grain and boiled, in all new
and desirable shades; laces and flowers, a
great display, of their own importation. On
the second floor are notions and ladies' fur
nishing and straw goods, in bewilderin% pro-
fusion and variety. The fourth story is for
reserved goods, and for manufacturing hats,
frames, etc. With large capital, long expo
ricnce, magnificent stock, and the best
Millinery salesrooms in Chicago, they may
well aspire to be the champion Millinery
house in the West.
MESSRS- GAGE, CARHART & MALLORY,
Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, Umbrellas, Para
soils, Ladies' Trimmed Hats and Sunshades,
have salesrooms in this building, with ample
facilities for their pdly-increasing bust
ness This new firm succeeds Carhart, Lew
is " Co., with enlarged capital and splendid
business prospects. By consolidating, they
have reduced expenses, and the low prices
at which truck-loads of goods leave their es-
tablishment will give them strong grip on
the trade.-Chicogo Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

WORTH TRYING.-The Country Gentle
man says that sugar smoke is a sure cure
for wounds such as cuts, bruises, lacera-
lions. All that is to be done is to get a
shovelful of burning Goals, sprinkle sugar
over them, and hold the wounded part in
the smoke till all the pain leaves. 1t is
said TO be a sure thing
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

A rRoTEUDING toe II not pretty sight and is
never seen where children wear SIN Err TIPPED
Shoes. They will save half your shoe bills. For
Sale by all Dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

1t is not the correct thing to give boys
revolvers for playthings. This was salts
factorily demonstrated at New York the
other evening, when Peter Donahue,
ged twelve, drew seven-shooter and
pointed it at Thomas Kerwin,
aged fifteen, and fired, killing him in
stantly. 1t would take legal investiga-
ton to determine whether the killing was
accidental or a deliberate murder
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

AN old farmer in New Hampshire re-
Gently killed "A pig, and being asked how
much it weighed, replied that it did not
weigh as much as he expected, and he
never thought it would; 'twouldn't be his
In
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

"A schoolmistress, while taking down
the names and ages of her pupils, and the
names of their parents, at the beginning
of the term, asked one little fellow,
Whats your fathers name ?" go, you
needn't take down his name; he's too
old to go to school to a woman" was the
reply.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-27

VALUABLE AND RELIABLE.--'Broacn's Bron-
chidl Troches" are invaluable to those ex-
posed to sudden changes, affording prompt
relief in Coughs, Colds, etc.