American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
WORK is the weapon of honor.

NoNh 10 tHC VI hohoi-
NATURE is the domain of liberty.
COMMAND your temper, lest it com
mand you.
PLEASURE is precarious, but virtue is
immortal.
The road of ambition is too narrow for
friendship.
TRUTH sometimes tastes like medicine,
but that is an evidence that we are i'll.
If we get knowledge into our minds
edgewise, it will soon find room to turn.
EVERY member of the Washington
Life Insurance Company is interested in
its success.
DON'T fret, for fretting, instead of re-
lieving from trouble, will lay on you
heavier burdens.
No indulgence of passion destroys the
spiritual nature SO much as respectable
| selfishness.
COFFEE, if drank freely, is said to be
an excellent preventive against disease of
the kidneys.
| 1T is the water outside the ship that
losses it about, but it is the water that
goes into the ship that sinks it.
PoLITENEss knows nothing of better
and worse and the polite person never
assigns inferiority to anyone but himself.
A GOLDEN rule for young lady is to
converse always with her female friends
as if gentleman were of the party and
with young men as if her female compan-
ions were present.
WHEN one is always striving to please
self, there is often a dearth of ways and
means. But let an effort be made to
please others, and what variety of
avenues are opened.
IGNORANCE is not so bad as error the
hi II c1, Iol,
write but the latter is scrubbed one
from which we must first erase. 1gno-
rance is content to stand still; but al
though error moves, it goes in the wrong
direction.
GRAFTON MILK BIscUITs-Boil and
CRATE two white potatoes add two tea
spoonfuls of brown sugar pour boiling
water over these, enough to soften them
When tepid, add one small teacup of
yeast when light, warm three ounces of
butter in one pint of milk, a little salt,
and flour enough to make stiff sponge
when risen, work it on the board !; put it
back in the tray to rise again when risen,
roll into cakes and let them stand half an
hour. Bake in quick oven. These bis
cults are pronounced perfect.
TRANSFERRING PLANTs.-There is no
mode that we ever tried so eflectual in
transplanting tomato, cabbage, canta-
loupe, or any other tender plant from the
hotbed, or from one place to another, as
to prepare a vessel filled with manure
water and rich soil, about the consistency
of thin mush, with which the roots of the
plants should be well coated, and set in a
hole made with round piece of wood or
dibble. After being rather firmly planted,
moisten again with manure water. We
have never failed in any transplanting
when done in this way, and the trouble is
very slight Germanto,cn Telegraph.
HOME MADE CANDY.-Use a new tin
basin; put into it four tablespoons of
water, one pound of ''coffee Az sugar,
one teaspoonful of good cream tartar,
boil, stirring constantly to avoid burning.
After it begins to have soapy appear
ance, try it often, by dropping a little
into cold water, and if done it will at once
become brittle. Butter an earthen dish
and pour the hot candy into it, that it
may cool just enough to handle. Flavor
to taste with oil of peppermint, winter
green, sassafras, or lemon. Two drops
of oil will flavor it strong. For variety,
divide into three or four parts, and flavor
differently, by touching one kind of oil to
each; work in the hands at once; the
more it is pulled the whittier it will GET
Rural Nen Yorker.
AN INDOOR VINE.-To grow a pretty
vine from the sweet potato, put a tuber in
pure sand, or sandy loan, in a hanging
basket, and water occasionally. 1t will
throw out tendrils and beautiful leaves,
and climb freely over the arms of the
basket, and upward toward the top of the
window. A sweet potato set in wide
muuthed bottle containing water enough
to touch the end of the potato, will grow
freely, and make pretty vine.
IT is stated that there are received and
la RI M at ha lnrIfs IN
Newspaper Advertising Agency of Geo.
p. Rowell & Co., New York, no less than
5S2 different American Daily Newspapers,
Sc tri-weeklies, 40 semi-weeklies, 4,662
weeklies, s semi-mOnthles and 800
monthles, making weekly average of
over 8, 800 periodicals of ali kinds which
are regularly filed and kept open for in
spectiOn by advertisers and others who
may be interested The visitor to New
Maine, can find at this establishment the
local paper published at his home.
AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY Valuable
papers and book accounts are things una
vOidable to every business man. Records
of bills, both payable and receivable, are
often of more volue than either the bills
themselves or the amounts represented by
them. These things ought not to be left
where fire, which may come at any time,
VIII surely destroy them, but should De
enclosed in a Marvin's Alum and Dry
Plaster Safe, which is the best protection
known, in the shape of safe, against fire
NIarvin's safes are made of the best mate
rails, the best of workmanship, and are
finished in a manner that renders them an
ornament to any Office. Better than all,
the alum and dry-plaster filling is the best
known filling for safes and vaults. Being
perfectly dry it renders the safe damp
proof and the alum, containing 90 per
ure whenever the fire may come. These
safes are manufactured only by Messrs.
Marvin & Co., who also manufacture bur
glarproo safes, vault work, &c, &c
Messrs. Marvin & Co.'S principal West
ern warehouse is at II South Canal street,
Chicago.
"Charge It,"