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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14

Scholars enrolled Is; present 10; tern
4 months; salary $50 per month. All
the branches taught. Order good.
This school is in a good working con-
dition. All are interested in their
work. House frame and good.
Same day, p. NJ, visited Sub Dis
trict No. Is, same Township, VIM. w.
Hughes, Teacher, John Reichard Sub
Director. The new Sub Director met
me at the School House. Scholars
enrolled So; present 20; term four
months; salary $50 per month. Order
good. This school is not prospecting
as well as it might and should. House
frame, but wants some repairs.
March s, visited Sub District No. 8,
same Township, Miss Mary E. Aud,
Teacher, w. Momyer, Sub Director.
Scholars enrolled So; present 3S. All
the branches taught, also Algebra;
salary $335 per month; term 4 months.
This is a working Teacher, and the
scholars initiate her example. All
passes pleasantly. This was the last
day of the term. House frame and
good. SAMUEL RIDENoUR,
Co. Sup't.
democrat please copy
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14
Pella City Tax,
Knox vile,
104l 80

nv adding the col lections from the
| mill levy to the Township School
Taxes we have S2l ,O2298 collected in
February for School purposes alone.
Certainly our children ought to be
well educated, if the benefits derived
equal the cost.
Twill add here, that by "School pur-
nosesn | mean to include Teachers
fund. School House and Contingent.
One reason for the large amount OF
School taxes is, to clear the Town
ships from debt, which it will do,
with perhaps one or two exceptions.
The Read Tax collected by the Treas
urer is small, the most of that being
collected in the Townships, and not
returned on the Tax books. The ag-
oregate amount of Tax is more TINS
wear ns7I) than ever before, by sever
al thousand dollars; but by examining
the above table you will see the cause
We can only hope for better times III
regard to Taxes by more attention be-
mo Maid to School matters in each
township and Sub District, by every
individual interested, and not leave 1t
to a few, az at present is too often done.
Taxes for School purposes are, ana
should be, more freely paid than any
other: still they should be reasonable.
7 might close with the remark tnat
Comfy Orders are as good as Green
hacks old Marion being clear OF debt.
Respectfully Yours, T.
Knoxville, March 8, 1879.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

chief home for twenty years, for it never
got any larger. 1t was afiectionatc, play
ful, and no Greek ever looked with more
reverence upon the goddess of wisdom
and her owl than the children did upon
the kind lady, who was known to carry
this familiar wherever she went.
In Boerne County, Texas, lately, suit
was brought to recover $500, the purchase
money of jiackass sold by the plaintiff to
the defendant. The ass was sold on
credit, and the defendant had failed to
come to time. On the case being called
on, the defendant walked into the court
room leading the jack, and made a ten
der of him in open court" Everybody
was convulsed with laughter, even the
Judge. The animals head was decked
with a stove-pipe hat, a pair of linen
pants covered his forc-legs, large pair of
spectaclcs crossed his eyes, and a
placard hung on "A conspicuous part of
the animal, bearing this inscription
''$500-cheap for cash" A ''digest' was
opened before him, and it so worked upon
his feelings that he gave vent to one of
those moving bursts of ''eloquence" for
which these long cared animals are so
much noted. During all this time it was
impossible for the officers of the court to
preserve order or decorum. 1t is need
less to add that the case was discontinued
by the plaintiff
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
How to Make Cheap Cellar Bottoms.

Many farmers, after having built their
houses in prairie country, are more or
less troubled with their cellar bottoms
moist clay is not nice thing to be step
ping about on, and moist clay is the rule
for cellar bottoms in the West. The H.
dustl7al Montly tells how the bottom may
be made secure; but the Western Rural
before paving and grouting. This may
easily be done, where cellar is practical
Bile by means of drain tile.
In sections of the country where there
is an abundance of cobble-stones, collect
a few loads of them about four or five
inches in diameter, grade the bottom of
the cellar, lay the cobbles in rows, and
ram them down onethird their thickness
into the ground, SO that they will not rock
or be sunk below the line of the rows by
any heavy superintendent pressure, such
as the weight of a hogshead of molasses
or tierce of vinegar. The bottom of the
cellar should be graded so that the out
side will be at least two inches lower than
the middle A mistake sometimes occurs
by grading the cellar bottom in such a
manner that the center will be two or
three inches lower than the outside
When this is the case, should water enter
from the outside, it will flow directly
toward the middle. A Strengthened
board should be placed frequently on
each row of stones as they are being
rammed, SO that the upper sides may be
in line with each other. After the
stones are laid and well rammed down,
place few boards on the pavement to
walk on; then make grouting of clean
sand and water-lime, or Rosendale
cement, and pour it on the stones until
all the interstices are filled. As soon as
the grouting has set, spread layer of
good cement mortar one inch thick over
the top of the pavement, and trowel the
surface Off smoothly. In order to spread
the mortar true and even on the surface,
lay an inch board one foot from the wall
on the surface of the pavement, stand on
the board, and fill the space with mortar
even with the top of the board; after
which, move the board one foot, fill the
space with mortar and trowel it Off
smoothly. Such IA floor will cost less
than Il board floor, and will endure as
long as the superstructure is kept in
repair.
A floor made in the foregoing manner
on the ground in the basement of barn,
IA piggerv, or IA stable, would ne rat-proof,
and would be found cheaper and more
scryiceabe than a plank floor. The work
should be done in the former part of the
growing season, SO that the cement may
have sufficient time to become dry and
hard before cold weather.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
Vaccination Not Only Preventive,
But n Cure.

MIR. r. c. FURLEY, L. r. G. S., in a
letter to the Scotsman, says he is able to
prove that vaccination is not only pre-
ventive of disease, but cure. Ii is, he
says, ascertained that, when person liable
to take smallpox is exposed to the in
lection, the poison circulates in the bio I'd
for eight days before producing any febrile
symptoms; then commence headache,
sickness, pain in the back, suffused eyes,
and peculiarly white-furred tongue-a
group of symptoms that belong to no
other disease, and which last for three
days. 1t has been held and acted on since
Jenner's great discovery, more than eighty
years ago, that it is not only wrong, but
fatal, to vaccinate any one during that
stage of the disease, or the subsequent
one when the eruption makes its appear
ance. But Mr.. Furley says he can show,
from cases under his care at the pres
ent time, that, if you vaccinate during
the febrile stage the fever is slightly in
creased, but the eruption does not make
its appearance, and, if you vaccinate dur
ing the eruptive stage, the eruption is
Immediately arrested. The mature lymph
overtakes the immature poison, and the
disease terminates. If the eruption has
gone the length of having white tops,
there is danger of infection; if not, it
dies away as pimples. Mr.. Furley feels
confident that, if every doctor were to
vaccinate each case of smallpox that
comes under his care at once, many hun
dreds of lives would be spared and many
thousands of pounds would be saved.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

ROUTINE is not without its uses, and is
commcndablc when it has good reason
behind it, Without routine the state
would become official anarchy and the
best appointed army n mob. Manufac-
tories and railways and other large enter
priScs could not be managed without the
practice of those fixed habits which lead
Ia instructive action.
But bccnusc the railway car must always
follow the track, furnishes no reason why
the wheel of the farmers wagon must
ALWAYS run in the rut made by others.
There is the most rigid and intelligent
method in the routine of the railway, and
the switch is rs indispensable rs the main
track For the farmer to plod on through
mud and over stones, simply because the
rut leads him there, is simple stupidity
But how is the average farmer, bred to
the pursuit of an agriculture based entire
lv on precedent, and taught to do certain
things periodically because his father did
so. aud without close inquiry INTO the
rcasons-how is he, in the dim twilight
of our imperfect knowledge, to determine
where his true road lies, and at what
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

point he should forsake the old rut and
create new one? How shall he make
routine his servant, instead OF
allowing it to remain his master?
Unless he is man of rare instructive
Judgment, and able to determine what is
truth without reason-and such men are
few-he can only do this by the aid of
arithmetic. By instituting a system of
minute and accurate accounts, his whole
business becomes practically experimental,
and his farm operations, at the end of the
year, separated and indvidualiZed, will
furnish him a series of data by which he
can detect fallacy and verify truth. The
profit and loss of each crop and each pro-
cess of farm management will be made
apparent, and his figures of one year will
become useful guide for the next. The
aggregate of such series of accounts for
several years will supply him with mass
of most interesting and useful facts, by
the aid of which he cannot fail of success
if there is any material for success in HIM.
If these lines should happen to meet
the eye of any farmer whose present
routine is not satisfactory in its results,
and who has never yet seriously under
taken to investigate the causes of his
failure, let me urge him to try the virtue
of figures, and to try it nor.
We are beginning new working year,
and the moment is favorable. If he can
not inaugurate thorough system at once,
let him try partial one, which shall still
be thorough SO far as it goes. He can
take certain number of acres of hay, or
corn, or potatoes, and by strict accuracy
in recording the cost and result of differ
ent modes of culture, or of the different
crops, can make a beg inning that may
mature, hereafter into perfect and in
valuable system. -Lea1M and Home.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

felt. Don't punish twice and skip once.
That is the ruin of all order If a book
is lost, tell the boy where it is likely to
be found, but let him do the hunting
for it.
AS for noise in the house, which is the
prime indictment against the boys, give
them ample playtime out of DOORS and
insist on quiet at other times. Let them
know that boots must be changed for
slippers when they come in, or their soci
ETY. must be dispensed with in the family
circle. A temporary deafness when they
talk loud will soon teach them to moderate
their tones. Keep extreme measures for
extreme cases. Tact goes farther than
force in government.
Fix your authority over them by being
their good providence as well as their
punisher. Don't wait for them to ask
for treats. Study to have them to offer.
When the juggler comes to town, meet
the boys on their return from school at
noon with a demand to know if they
want to see him. Saturday morning
offer them a hunting excursion, or sail,
or visit that hasn't been dreamed of by
the admiring little crew. Tell your boys
confidentially that you must smarter
them up with new jackets, and occa-
sionally consult them about what pud-
ding to have for dinner. Occasionally
oHly, loI inc way sunni paTcHlS nave vi
taking children into counsel on every
thing, upsets order and fairly makes
them bilious with conceit But don't be
afraid of letting your children know you
are fond and proud of them. Praise
them literally when they deserve it, but
don't let them often talk about them
selves. Kill conceit wherever you find it.
The table manners of boys stand in
conspicuous need of reformation. A cap
ital disciplinarian who brought up large
family of children very crcditably, had
but one rule on this subject He never
rebuked a child for had manners at table,
but signed it to leave the room till the
meal was over. 1t was hard, but it fixed
the laws of decorum in young minds as
nothing else would. On this point urge
a special plea for boys, that their mothers
will not, from neglect, suffer them to be
come the annoyance and disgust of older
persons with whom they sit. Boys are
nuisances because they are allowed to be,
and every rude son is reflection on his
parents capabihty or faithfulness, or
both. The greatest .strictncss of manner
taught them is the greatest kindness
Shirlty Dare.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
Results of Carpet-Eag Rule.

The oppressive character of carpet bag
rule in the Southern States is specially
manifested in the case of South Carolina,
where this policy has begun to bear bitter
fruit. Under the carpet -baggers, the State
has been saddled with a debt, escape from
which, except by reputation, seems i'm
possible. The adjournment of the Legis-
lature has left the people without money
and without hope. The free schools were
obliged to suspend on the first of May.
The public institutions, which cannot live
without annual appropriations, must close
their doors. The Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum is about to come to stop The
State Lunatic Asylum, which has been
kept up for some time on private charity,
finds that help no longer forthcoming, and
must soon suspend. The State Peniten-
tiary has no funds, and must, sooner or
ier, close. These institutions are pre-
pairing to bring the State Treasurer into
Court for Withholding IL large part of the
appropriations due them but the punish
ment of a corrupt man cannot supply
them with funds. When once the public in
situations commence to SHccumb it is
only question how soon the private ones
will follow, and, when this happens, soci-
ETY. itself will go TO pieces. There is no
effort at Washington to arrest this tide of
fraud and corruption, for the reason that
II would constitute an argument in the
campaign that the Administration had
confessed to an error and, in the present
hopeless and impoverished condition of
South Carolina, with her people held at
the mercy of these carpet baggers, it is
easier to force an election through. For
this terrible crisis the people of South
Carolina are not responsible. They have
paid their taxes, and the carpet-baggers
have misappropriatcd the funds. Against
such enormous abuses and cOrruptionS rs
these, the Liberal Republican party takes
issue, and calls upon the people to rally
to the rescue of The Southern States he
fore the are reduced to absolute wreck
Chicogo 7fibURe.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

illustrates the intensity of his life-saving
instincts;
Two or three ears ago a company of
Harrisburg firemen succeeded in enticing
Dick away from his selfelected duty-not
an easy thing to do-and took him of
with them on an excursion to Altoona.
Arriving there, Dick straightway forgot
his companions, and fell to guarding the
track as at home. Like many another
public benefactor, Dicks motives were
misjudged. His zeal was attributed to
the wrong spirit, and before his friends
could explain matters he was marched off
to the police station on charge of drunk
enness. Naturally, the supplemented
fellow took his arrest very much to heart;
but that was nothing to his distress on
his return to Harrisburg to find that dur
ing his absence boy had been run over
and killed-the first accident of the kind
that had occurred since Dick came upon
the field
Il done knowed su'thin' would happen
if l went away the poor fellow cried,
deploring his remissness in storm of
weeping. Since then nothing can induce
him to desert his post; and so plainly
beneficial is his mania, that he is allowed
to pursue his mission unchecked, al
though it is only too evident that it must
some day come to tragic end
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
a" Crazy Dick"

THE May number of Scriner's Monthly
contains an illustration of a crazy negro
rushing in front of a locomotive and
clearing the track of people. The PIC
ture is one of several illustrating de
scription of a trip Northward to Mag
ara" We extract that portion relating to
Dick:
An express train follows us into Har-
risburg. AS we press through the wait
ing throng that crowds the platform and
overruns the roadway-for the station is
sadly lacking in capacity wild looking
son of Ham sweeps down the track, hust-
ling men and women right and left, clear
ing the way for the approaching locomo-
tive.
"Crazy Dick" says the executive, as
the apparition speeds past, now dashing
forward to shoulder from the track some
needless loiterer, now falling into heed
less dog-tr scarcely foot ahead of the
cow-catcher
"There seems to be method in his mad
ness"
Indeed there is, and a useful method,
too. Dick saves good many lives in the
course of a year"
I" In the employ of the road ?"
"No; on his own hook. It's craze
he has"
the train passes on and Dick slouchcs
away, looking as if he never had a
thought or "A purpose in his life. His
whole mind seems absorbed by IA single
obiect-tO keep people from being run
over, and nothing but an approaching
train can arouse him to activity. Then
his zeal flames out in n magnificent burst
of action, to be followed by abject list
lessness until the next train is due
"Lire' Oh, Dick is one who takes no
thought for the morrow. The men about
the station see that his board is paid at
the lunch counter; and the engineers,
conductors and other roadmen club to-
getber now and then, and rig him out
with new suit of clothes. He sleeps
anywhere"
Among many incidents in Dicks career
recounted on our way to the Superintcnd
ent's office to make arrangements for to-
morrow's run up the river, one especially
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

WINNING GOLDEN OPINIoNs.--Perhaps
no man living has won more golden opin-
ions than DR.. Walker, as the enormous
and widely increasing sale of his Califor-
mia Vinegar BItters attests. We never
look into one of our exchanges, but there
is a panegyric of the Bitters staring us in
the face Our readers will say that there
must be a reason for all this praise. They
are right. The efficacy of this celebrated
medicine is established by evidence WHICH
it is impossible to doubt. Among the
thousands who have borne testimony to
its excellence there is not one dissentient
voice. In very many phases of inorganic
disease it seems to be unfailing. All dis
eases arising from vitiated state of the
blood are surely eradicated by it. 1t is
an effectual remedy for pulmonary COM
plants, bilious, remittent and intermit-
tent fevers, rheumatism and dyspepsia
1t purges the body of all unhealthy hui
mors, gives tone to the system, and where
the vital powers are enfeebled, restores
their functions TO vigorous and healthy
action. All this it does the more effectu-
ally because its operation is not interfered
with by the presence of alcohol. The
Vinegar Bitters is perfectly free from any
such hurtful ingredient. We have always
believed that plants contain the true
remedies for disease, and all the remedies
necessary. DIR. Walker is ON the line of
real progress, and we hope that he will
not rest on his present discoveries.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

Cooley FOR JUNE.-The steel-plate en-
craving in this number is picture of "A Visit to
the Armorer' 1.-The Supper-Tabe' is the sixth
of the Lolipop etchings, and is an excellent view
of the excitement which attends the feeding of the
guests at such parties as the Miss Loipops of the
day give to their friends. The colored fashion
plate and extension sheet filed with elegant
array of the latest styles of dresses and articles
suited for the toilet A large sheet of braiding
and embroidery patterns is given an extra in
this number. The literary contents usually at
tractve, and the work department is well filed
with useful instruction for fancy work
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

o, THAT 7 WERE BEAUTIFUL is the unspolcn
wish of thousands of women TO whom Nature has
denied the charm of pure, fresh. transparent
complexion. To crafty this wish HAGAN's MAG
EoIIA BALM introduced. The cosmetics of
the day had been pronounced poisonous by the
distinguished chemists. and it also found
their ultimate effect Wither the skin
well as parayze the external nerves. The ladies
hailed with delight the advent healthsl, herbal
and floral preparation capable of mpartng TO their
faces. necls and arms porcelain smoothncss and n
nge like that of the finest oriental pearl They
discovered that ii thing under the sun, -
incompatible and unapproachabe. Unqucstionab1y
the MAGNOLIA BALM has been the great toilet
of the present century.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

RUPTURE can be cured without suffering.
Elastic Trusses are superseding all Others.
Before buying Metal Trusscs or Supporters,
send for Il descriptive circular to the Elastic
Truss Co., 6S3 Broadway, N Y.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER.-Thirty years
have elapsed since the introduction of Davis
Pain Killer to the public, and yet at the
present time it is more popular and com
mands larger sale than ever before. Its
popularity is not confined to this country
alone; all over the world its beneficial effects
in curing the g ills that flesh is heir to-" are
acknowledged and appreciated, and a. Pain
Killer its fame is limited to no country, sect
or race, has never been equaled by any medi-
cine in Europe or America. 1t is sold by all
medicine dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

FACTORIES and machine shops should not
be allowed to day, without Johnso,'s
Anody,ic LinimeAt. In ease of a sudden ac-
cident, an immediate use of it may save
weeks OF suffering, and perhaps limb, or
even Life.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

To PROTECT the understanding of humanity
there is nothing like Leather fastened together by
CABE SCREW WIRE. Boots and Shoes made in
thi. way never rip, leak, come apart
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

.ay@F For Coughs, Bronchitis and Consump-
ton, in its early stages, nothing equals DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 615
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

FROM Maine 10 California millions OF children
are wearing SILVER TIPPED Shoes-Why not
they the cheapest and never through a
the toe. Try them.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

THERE are several kinds If worms which
trouble horses; the pin-worms POINTED at
both ends are the most common and most
dangerous. Se,'idaa's Cacalry Condition
Pooders will in a few days eject the worms,
and the horse will begin to thrive.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDIcINE.-Sdnford's
Li1ey Knrisordtor.-A purely Vegetable CdthdFtic
and 7onicSfor Dyspepsia, Constipation, Debility,
Sick-headache, Bilious Attacks and al derange-
ments of Liver, Stomach and bowels. Ask your
Druggist for it. BelUdfe of limitations.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
COMFY FOR ,JUNE.-The Steel-Dla

THE Best and the Cheapest Hair Dressing
is Burnett's Cocaine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

The last tobacco crop or Wisconsin
aggregated 10000, Oo0 pounds. Cultivat-
ing it is profitable business.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

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w mention the name of this paper.