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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Conscience Money.

Thackery says he never could read that
SO-and-sO had sent the Chancellor of the
EXchequer ten shillings conscience mo-
ney without wondering how much more
the fellow owed. The wonder with us
has always been that the big rOgues new
er became pcnitent. We have plenty of
50 and $40 cOnsciences, and sometimes, as
the records of the Treasury bear witness,
one so tender as not to bear the bur-
den of Il single cent; but the remorse
seems to grow weak at 81 900. flicker hor-
ribly at $4,000, and go out point-blank
at 81 100000. The occasion of this pecu-
liarity Professor Tyndall might do well
to investigate. He proposes to test pray
er by the healing of an ulcer or setting of
Il bone, and for one who constructs med
ico-ethical yardsuick an ethico- monetary
barometer cannot be difficult.
'Previous to December, 1861" accOr-
ding to Treasurer Spinner's report for
1869, ''nO separate account was kept of
money that had been wrOngfully taken or
retained from the United States, and which
was afterwards retured to the Treasury by
persons who We're prompted by the mo-
nitiOns of an uneasy conscience to make
restitution tn; reof to the Government"
but at this date the aggregate OF these
resolutions is S129,12 a. The record
beginning December l, 1868, and reaching
up to the 18th of this month, it appears
that the average value of the American
conscience, in so far as it is affected by
payments out of the Federal Treasury, is
just $40 p per day. or, goinga little deep
er i'm statistics, each individual conscience
refunds to the extent of just one millionth
part of cent per day. Such an exhibit
ofpublic honesty would be most cheering
were it not for the haunting suspicion
that the thousand-dollar consciences new
er smart.-N. Y World, oct. 2S.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
The Alsatian Immigration.

WHATEVER may be said or thought in
these latter days of the third NapOleOn's
famous declaration that France is the only
country in the world that goes to war for
an idea, it is impossible to deny that the
French of Alsace and of Lorraine at least
have proved themselves capable OF some
thing harder by far than going to war for
an idea. That wonderful social force
which FrOude in his History of England
so eloquently dwells upon as the dominant
characteristic of the greatest period OF
feudal history-the complete subordina-
ton of personal interests to patriotism
has never been more strikingly manifested
than it now is in the sacrifice by thousands
of the Alsatian and Lorraine peasantry of
their homes and hearths to the idea OF 10y
alty to their mother land of France. It's
a cruel loss to France to be obliged to part
with such people. 1t would be prize
beyond provinces to Germany could she
truly conquer the affections of such apeo-
pie And it is great gain to ourselves.
most assuredly, that the misfOrtunes of
Europe have directed to the New World a
portion of this manly, Industrious, and
sturdy race. If it is something that we
can offer them a refuge in their sore trou-
bile. and the hope of new homes in a lard
unvexed as yet by kings and kaisers, it Is
much, too. that they bring with them
uuickening breath of simple heroism and
antique devotion to refresh an atmosphere
all too heavy of late with quite other in
tlucnces.-N. T. World Oct. %.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

There is always something for the trained
hand and eye to do. Even an experienced
5oOtblaek is on the high road to fortune,
if he will only plant himself by the door
way of city hotel. The commonest
tsades have the .urest promise. Crispin
chsn always find employment, so long as
snoeA year out and the Carmelite rule is
not eilIorsed. Even under the vegetarian
Gospei, 1ns work of the baker will be in
oe ,, "A blacksmith in any village
h M, NAVE b,t no cnn rofS leisure than is good for
without his care for M.n S 1 iariliets 10
carts and the boots of .seir cattle? No
reform in fashions can abohsh the indus
try of the milliner, OF leave to neglect one
who can shape feathers and flowers and
f1ounces. A good tradeis permanent ca n
ital, better even in business community
than college education, SO far as mater
al security is concerned. Itcannot be sto-
len or lost. If the mechanic who has won
his millions, loses them by unfortunate in
vestments or by commercial reverses, he
can go back and make scythes or shovels
again-he has no fear of coming to want.
Herald of Health fo7. November.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Careless Distinction.

In cleansing and disinfecting rooms
that have been occupied by persons sick
with contagious diseases, mere exposure
to disinfecting yapors is not enough to
thoroughly rid the apartment of danger
to future inmates. The floors and wood
work require thorough securing with
some disinfecting fluid, and the walls and
ceiling should also be carefully cleaned.
If the walls are covered with paper, MOTH
ing short of its removal will be effactual,
as it unquestionably has the power of alb
sorbing and retaining contagious matters,
that are not reached by the ordinary pro-
cesses of disinfection. And its removal is
all the more necessary where several thick
nesses are plastered on the wall, for then
the deeper layers are quite beyond any
possibility of being cleansed; and, apart
from the danger of contagion, the pres
ence of paste in such quantities, as sever
al thicknesses of paper involve, liable in
warm weather to ferment and decOmpOse,
and at all times furnishing a nest for hosts
ofvermin, is certainly most Objectionable.
That wallpaper does actually furnish
Judgment for cOntagion, and the paste
with which it is stuck on food for vermin,
is proved by the following cases reported
in the Lancet: The wOrkmen engaged in
ripping the paper from the walls of a
house in Manchester, that mad previously
been occupied by persons i'll with fever,
nearly all came down with the same fever,
although previous to their visit the house
had been disinfected with chlorine and car
bOlic acid. In the Knightsbridge bar
racks, where numerous layers Of paper
and paste had been allowed to accumulate,
the walls when examined were found TO
be literally swarming with maggots, that
were leading a most flourishing existence
while subsisting on the paste between the
several thicknesses of paper. The prac-
tice of freshening the walls of rooms by
covering up. instead of removing the
filth, has become extremely common,
hundreds of houses being yearly reiuvena-
ted in this way, TO the serious injury, no
doubt, of their subsequent inmates.-Er-
ckau1e
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Italy's Misfortune.

WHILE His Majesty King Victor EN-
manuel is engaged in the pleasing mon
archical duty of reviewing the Italian fleet
in the Bay of Naples and showing forth
to the eyes of astonished and admiring
thousands the force and power of his iron
clads for war. the simple river waters OF
the historic Pc have swollen to such an
extent as to inundate large portions OF
the national territory, and thus produce
most severe and widespread suffering
among his subjects. The visitation comes,
as it were, to remind him that the control
of man stops with the shore, and that
mighty ocean goes forth ''dread, fathom-
less. alone; the mirror in which the Al
mighty's form glasses itself in tempests."
The suffering of the Italians, in town and
country, in consequence of the inunda-
tiOns, is intense. But this is not the full
measure of their present misfortune. A
province of Sicily has just been swept by
a fearful hurricane. Houses were blown
down, and it is reported that thirty-two
persons have been buried i'm the ruins OF
their dwellings. Such area few of the
symptoms which show forth the majesty
of the unseen power which rules the
checks and balances of our earthly soy
creignties.-N. Y. Herald, October 20.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Our Postal Growth.

RAPID as is the growth of this country
in wealth and population, its postal
growth is yet more wonderful. In 1860,
with population of thirty-one and half
millions, two hundred ard sixty millions
of letters passed through the mails; eight
letters per annum for every man, woman,
and child in the country. In 1870, the
population had grown to thirty-nine mil
lions, while the number of letters had in
creased to six hundred and ten millions,
or sixteen letters per capita per annum
an increase of one hundred per cent. in
letters. to twenty-five per cent. in popula-
ton. In other words. letters increase
four times as fast as population. Part of
this increase may be due to better educa-
ton, but most of it to the expansion of
business. The proportion of letters to
population is far greater in cities than i'm
the country. In Washington's Presiden-
cy, four millions of people sent three hum
dred thousand letters year, only one let
ter for every thirteen persons each year.
During the past fiscal year, the nation has
paid fifteen and half millions of dollars
for the transportation of the mails ; twen-
ty years ago it paid less than five millions.
This would indicate that postal expenses
double themselves every ten years. Each
year puts nine hundred new post-offices in
operation, and carries the mail about sew
en- thousand more miles. In 1917, Mr..
Joseph Dodd was appointed to carry the
g Great Southern Mail'' from the New
York post-office across the ferry. Wheel
ing it to the waters edge in his wheel
barrow, he transported it across the ferry
i'm his open boat to the waiting stage.
During the present year, nearly eight tons
OF Matchmaker daily leave the office of
this city for the South by the Camden
and Amboy Railroad alone. Should the
postal growth of the next half century
equal the percentage of the last, its close
will see large trains of cars laden with
matchmaker alone. No passenger will be
allowed to enter the train, already over
crowded with letters and papers.-Apple-
TOM Journal
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
The Doctrine of Evolution.

On the broad basis of the facts and in
auctions that have been reached by three
centuries of inves'i gation in the several
domains of natural phenomena, rests the
hypothesis of universal erolution. The CO.
ordination of these diverse and alien Or
ders of facts, and the synthesis of induc-
tons, by which the grand generalization
was arrived at, we owe to the genius of
Herbert Spencer. With a knowledge of
modern science that John Stuart Mill has
pronounced encyclopedias" with a grasp
of method and capacity of organization
which, on the authority of the Saturday
ReUieao, has not been equaled in England
since Newton, and with the power of a
"giant mind" as DIR. McCOsh declares,
to WELD and shape his extensive scientific
materials, Mr.. Spencer has worked out
the principle of universal evolution by
the rigid logic of inductive science. In
each division of his exposition the first
step has been to marshal the facts to sift
and methodize the data. The next step
has been to generaliZe the facts, or to es-
tablish the inductiOns warranted by the
data. Finally he verifies these inductions
by showing that they follow from previ-
ously established principles and harmon
ize with them. The conditions by which
all science has been created are thus strict
ly complied with. The conception of all
nature, as in slow process of movement
to higher state-Ofan cver-advancing and
ever-perfecting Order-of a u,,iverse IN evO-
luton, is no fantastic speculation brought
down to us by tradition from the dream
ing childhood of therace, but it is definite
verifiable principle educed from a more
comprehensive range of facts than any
other generalization ever attempted-the
Outgrowth of the ripest knowledge, and
which is coercing the assent of the most
disciplined intellects of the world. The
principle in question is no barren formula
to be classed with the empty a prtori spec
ulations which have figured SO largely in
the past career of the human mind. 1t is
the result of the steady concentration of
the intellect of man for hundreds of years
upon the realities that surround us, and
is the profoundest answer yet given to
mans questionings of the mystery of be-
ing. 1t is the latest Interpretation of the
on goings of the world, and brings with
it the possibility of a new and more stable
philosophy of things than we have yet
known-a philosophy not spun from mys-
cical a p1-iori fancies, but constructed from
the valid truths of science, and anchored
in the depths of demonstrated knowledge.
Popular Science Monthly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne.

THE telegraph has announced the deatis-
at Geneva, of the ecclesiastical historian
Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne, in the 18TH
year of his age. He was born at Faux
Wives, near Geneva, Switzerland, August
10Th, 1894. There he studied, and at Ber-
lin, under Neander, and subsequently be-
came pastor of the French Protestant
Church at Hamburg. Thence, after res
idence of five years, he proceeded to Brus-
sells and became Chaplain to King VIII
liam, who, after the Revolution of 1880,
invited him to Holland as the tutor to the
Prince of Orange. This he declined,
however, and retiring to Geneva took
the propagation of orthodox theology, IN
which he was appointed Professor OF
Church History. With the exception OF
occasional visits to England and Scotland,
he remained constantly at Geneva. The
work by which he is best known to Amer
lean readers is his g History OF the he.
formation in the Sixteenth Century"
three hundred thousand copies of which
are said to have been sold to readers of the
English language. Among his works
may be mentioned the following: Lu-
theranism and the Reformation lSAl:
Germany, England, and Scotland"
QS4S); "Ifhe Protector; or, The English
Republic in the days of CROMWELL (lS4s);
Character of the Reformer and the Re
formation of Geneva Qs62); ''History OF
the Reformation in Europe in the days OF
CALVIN and several other historical
works and volumes of sermons.
D'Aubigne was a most industrious stu
dent, an untiring thinker, and popular atl-
thor. True, as is always the case WITH
persons who write upon ecclesiastical
subjects, he has been severely criticised
by some classes of believers and warmly
commended by others. Few authors OF
works bearing upon religious subjects
have secured so wide a reputation as
D'Aubigne, while his influence upon the
minds of the people of Europe, and OF the
whole civilized world, has been very
oreat-ToLedo Blade.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
A Female ElectOr.

a LETTER from Connecticut says SO Old
NOrwalk, to-day admitted to all the rights
OF an electOr Mrs. Sarah NJ. l.. Hunting
ton. The lady appeared before the board
OF selectmen and town clerk, the officials
by law required to examine and admit all
persons legally entitled to suffrage, and
demanded her rights by virtue of the con-
stitutiOn of the United States. Her argu-
ment was clear and logical, and could
only be answered by the plea that i'm the
opinion of most persons the law did not
contemplate wOmen's voting. Mrs. Hum
tingtOn so ably and deXterOusly knocked
aside the argument that the board were
forced to the unanimous judgment that
she had proved herself equally entitled
with negroes to. vote under the Fifteenth
Amendment, and Selectman Selbeck adj
ministered to her the customary freeman's
oath, her name was placed by the town.
clerk upon the voting list, and she is now
a legally registered voter. Thus NOrwalk
will be entitled to the distinction of being
the first place i'm any State of the Union
where Il female has been permitted to vote
and advanced TO all the rights and privi-
leges of an -American citizen. Two years
ago last April, our State election occurred,
just as the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment was promulgated, and our
board admitted negroes to vote, although
they were denied the privilege in every
other town in the State. Subsequent de
cisions of our abIest lawyers confirmed
the legality of that action"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Something About the Mole.

In THE latter days of June the mole is
amOrOusly inclined, and when he falls in
love, he loves with all the intensity of his
being. He is fearfully Jealous. Let two
male mOles meet when the tender passion
IS upon them, and a desperate fight is the
inevitable result. They fall upon each
other with great fury, scratching, tearing,
and biting, unconscious Of everything
around them, completely lost in the heat
of battle. Often they break through their
burrows in the conflict and struggle fierce
ly i'm the open air. Love seems to lead
the whole world astray. 1t plants jeal-
OuSy in the hearts of men and women,
and the majority of the most fearful TRACE
dies recorded by the daily press are the
outgrowth or result of insane passion.
As in his fury the mole rises from his
dark burrOw and continues the battle in
the pure sunlight of day, we are led to
infer that there are human beings i'm the
world who would keep up in Heaven the
strife began here, if such thing were pos
sible. Alas! how many sins Love will
have to answer for. But to return to
the mole. This little animal eats as furi-
Ously as he fights. He lunches his back,
retracts the head between the shoulders,
and uses the fore paws to assist him in
pushing the worm into his jaws. The food
is quickly torn to pieces and as quickly
devOured. The animal must possess great
energy, or it could not continue for life
time. as it does, to force itself through
the solid earth. The mole is full of cour-
age, and, relatively speaking. is far more
powerful than the lion. DIR. Wood writes:
" Magnify the mole to the size of the lion,
and you will have beast more terrible
than the world has yet seen. Though
nearly blind, and therefore incapable of
following prey by sight, it would be ac-
tive beyond onception-springing this
way and that way as it goes along, so as
to cover large amount of space, leapinS
with lightning quickness upon any animal
which it meets, rending it to pieces in a
moment. thrusting its blood-thirsty snout
into the body of its victim, eating the still
warm and bleeding flesh, and instantly
searching for fresh prey. Such creature
would, without the least hesitation, de
YOUR serpent twenty feet in length, and
so terrible. would be its voracity that it
would eat twenty or thirty such snakes
in the course of day. With one grasp
of its teeth and one stroke of its claws it
could tear an OK asunder, and if it should
happen to enter fold of sheep or an en-
closure of cattle, it would kill them all for
the mere lust of Slaughter Who can
look upon this eloquent pen-picture and
not feel thankful that the mole is not as
large as the lion? We are content to look
upon the animal as it is, not as DR.. Wood
paints it. Wonderful indeed are the ere
atoms of God.-Turf, Field and Farm.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Meat-Eating.

THERE is no civilized country in the
world in which so much meat is eaten. or
in which so much is wasted by bad cook
ing, by profusiOn, and by absolute I'M
thrift, as there is in this country. Wheth-
er this meat-eating is beneficial seems to
our women stronger, healthier, larger
limbed, ruddier, and fairer, than Euro
peans of corresponding occupations and
habits of life? The Irish girls who come
out here, and go into domestic service,
come generally with rosy cheeks and full
figures. They probably have not eaten
fresh meat once week in their lives, in
many cases not Oftener than once month.
Once here. they rush ravenously at the
joints, the steaks, and the chops, which
are to them luXuries and the great signs
of luxurious living. The result is almost
invariably that they lose the figures, and
the rosy cheeks, and the health, that they
brought with them, and that came with,
if not of, diet of potatOes-and-butter-
milk. The more Observant of them have
already begun to notice this themselves.
And in the second generation the change
is very manifest. There is rarely paler
and thinner creature than your Irish girl
of the second generation. In brief, we all
of us here eat too much meat-tOo much
for our health, probably. and certainly
too much for the well-being of our pock-
etS. breal, DfaWny ScOtcnmen live month
after month on oatmeal and buttermilk,
and little whisky. and healthier, har-
der-working class of men it would be diff
cult to find. Why must we be every day
eating flesh and fat 2. In particular, why
should our women and children be, like
Sir Andrew Aguecheek, such great eaters
of beef? Among our more comfortably
situated classes, it is safe to say that they
eat meat twice day. There is no need
OF this; and more, it IS not wholesome.
Women, who are not hard-workers, and
children, are much more healthy upon a
lighter and less-cOncentrated diet. Chill
dren, until they reach their teens, do not
really need meat at all, and are the better
i'm health and in looks for not having it.
-Erehange.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

ert. The forests and trees generally had
been cut away, rainfalls had ceased, and
a process Of desiccation, beginning at one
end of the land, had advanced gradually
and irresistibly upon the island, until for
seven miles it is dried and desolate as the
seashore. Houses and beautiful planta-
tions have been abandoned, and the people
watch the advance of desolatiOn, unable to
arrest it, but knowing almost to a GER
tainty the time when their own hablta-
tons, their gardens, and fresh fields, Will
become part of the waste. The whole
island seems doomed to become desert:
The inhabitants believe, and my friend
confirms their opinion, that this sad re-
suit is due to the destruction of the trees
upon the island some years ago."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Trees and Rain.

A CORRESPONDENT writes thus to the
Bulletin of the To1Tey Botanical Club !:
= The influence of trees upon rain and
the general moisture of the atmosphere,
which has been much discussed of late,
receives strong illustration from the
island of Santa Cruz, West Indies. A
friend who spen: the months OF Febru-
airy. March, and April last, upon this ISL
and, informs me that, when he was there
twenty years ago, the island was garden
of freshness. beauty, and fertility. Woods
covered the hills, trees We're everywhere
abundant, and rains were profuse and
frequent. The memory of its loneliness
called him there ut the beginning Of the
present year, when. to his astonishment,
re found one third of the island. which is
about twenty-five miles long, an utter des-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
The Mechanic.

ALLOWING that the great majority of
workmen will never get rich by their toll
yet there is the consideration that the pO-
sition of the mechanic is comparatively
secure. As Stephen Girard told the
young man whom he aided, after he had
made him skillful artiZan, the mechanic
is safe. rs he has ga good trade to fall
back upon A skilled workman ought
always to he able to earn his own living.
for at no time will there by Il glut of this
class. a painter who knows his trade
can get along anywhere in civilized lands
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
CANTON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

people for their Sovereign ny depictins
their demeanor on a number OF Important
fiattering culogium upon the perso..,I
character. not only Of the Queen and Of
all her children. the Prince OF Wales, the
Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Arthur ard
all the daughters, all of whom she
thought to be models of all the Christian
virtues. Prince Arthur seemed to be her
favorite Prince, and she praised his intel
lecttlal talents very highly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

The Rev. s. Minton, the incumbent of
Eaton Chapel, Pimlico, London, contin-
ues the uncanonical practice of preach
ing in Dissenting meeting houses. He re-
Gently preached in Congregational
church, and expressed his qualification
ut the growth of the union sentiment
among Christians. The religious press of
the English Church are much excited be-
cause the Bishop OF London looks on this
hercsy with indifference