American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
NEVER lose your self respect; if that is
lost all is lost


NEVER lose your self respect; if that is
lost, all is lost.
FARMERS are like fowls-neither will
get full crops without industry.
VICE stings us, even in our pleasures;
but virtue consoles us even in our
pains
LARGE type isn't necessary in adver-
Using Blind folks don't read newspa-
pers.
PoLITENEss is like an air cushion
there may be nothing in it, but 1t eases
your jolts wonderfully
DIVIDENDS are applied to keep the
policy in force in the Washington Life, of
New York.
that two pills of gum camphor swallowed
will give relief in twenty minutes.
A PURE character is like polished steel
If dimmed by breath, it almost instantly
RECEIVERS its brightness.
II you would be pungent, be brief; for
it is with words as with sunbeams-
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
If you don't look carefully after the
bits of your horse, you may be one
day looking after the bits of your car
riage.
A POWERFUL disinfectant, especially
adapted to the destruction of insects, is
prepared by passing sulphurous acid into
alcohol
In the long run, tried and proved
character for truth, honor, and honesty
is the best capital, and gives the largest
interest.
TRUE courage teaches us, in the midst
of life's great comforts, to be willing to
die, and in the midst of its greatest crosses
to be willing to live.
A HELPING word to one in trouble is
often like a switch on railroad track
but one inch between a wreck and a
smooth rolling prosperity.
WIT loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice; and
to smile at the jest which plants thorn
in another's breast, is to become princi-
pal in the mischief.
ADVERSELY eXasperates fools, defects
towards, draws out the faculties of the
| wise and industrious, puts the modest to
the necessity of trying their skill, awes
| the opulent, and makes the idle industri-
Gus.
Do not talk about yourself or your
| family to the exclusion of other topics.
| What if you are clever and little more
so than other people, it may not be that
other folks will think so, whatever they
ought to do.
| Is it right for parents to spend all their
care and money upon the educating of
their sons, to give their daughters but a
| pitiful smattering of learning and leave
them to the haphazard chance of their
own energies to carry them through
A MUDDY stream, flowing into one clear
and sparkling, for time runs along by it
| self A little further down they unite
and the whole is impure. So youth,
untouched by sin, may for time keep its
purity in foul company, but a little later
| they unite.
| If girl displays particular talent for
any one thing, special aptitude for
something better than plying her needle,
| cooking of meals, scolding her servants,
or crimping her hair, why should not that
| talent be as carefully developed as though
she were boy
SUGGESTIONS to those who will walk on
railroads First, always walk on the left
hand track, so that an approaching train
| will come toward your face. Second,
when train approaches from either
direction, step wholly outside both tracks.
Third, never walk upon railroad.
How much more intelligent and fascinat-
ing the majority of young ladies would
! be, were they to give little more atten-
ton to newspaper reading. We do not
mean the flash papers of the day, which
| are HlleU WITH nliltcT W nlcn, IL IL uOeS no
harm, can certainly do no good, but to
misrepresentation which make us all ia
miliar with the present character and i'm
provement of the age. 1t is well enough
| to know something of the worlds history,
but it is with the present we have mainly
to deal and we know of no more engag-
ing trait in a lady's character than an in
telligent acquaintance with passing
events. Every young lady should have an
| opinion on the moral, mental, political
and religious subjects of the times, and
the best, and indeed the only way to have
this is to read good newspapers diligently,