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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

cned faces into view. One face (mine'
had little shame in it, know for l was
the eldest-a great big boy, who ought to
have known better than to take a part il
such tricks on dear, good grandmother,
Who never did us any harm,
No, she didn't "kill mice in fathers
barn." but she really looked for an in
slant as if she could kill us on the spot
Only for an instant, though. The next
she said sorrowfully: 40 children
how could you how could you spoil the,
the" and then, seeing somehow that it
was joke, she added, half laughing, half
scolding, "What does it all mean, you
little witches ?"
ooh its only fun, grandma they're
nothing but imitation" we all cried in
breath: "seel you can blow them off
the table"
eyes" added Charley, "and they're
only just little stuck on the wall with
water. They won't leave any mark on
the paint at all we know they won't"
"Sakes Made out of tin foil, are
they ?" exclaimed grandma, as she picked
up one of the screw heads off the floor.
1t was flat and as thin as paper.
''Yes'um," put in Charlie; 1--WE got the
foil off the chocolate Uncle Will brought
last night, and We linked little strips of
paper and pasted 'em on to make believe
it was the place where you screw 'em.
Jim Scott gave us pattern to make 'em
by. Ho! but it's jolly thought
eyes, and was the one that thought
of putting the tools on the floor" shout
ed little Dick II wanted it to look as if
we'd been doin' it for fair. and"
But grandma didn't wait to hear any
more; she was already at the door calling
mother to come and see what had hap
pened to the table
run quickly, children" she added,
"get behind the curtain againp'
And-do you believe?-grandma actu-
ally ''caught" mother just as she had been
caught herself
Dear me! Mr.. Editor, you never saw
anything like it, and you ought to have
heard us all shout when mother in turn
went to the door, and called, in an alarm
ing tone:
''Children Children r'-Hearth and
Home.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
Now.

If | were to give you motto, to go
through life with, one that would stand
YOU for warning or counsel in any strait
in which you might find yourselves, | be-
lieve l would give it in this one word,
Now.
Don't waste your time, and your
strength, and your opportunities, by al
ways meaning to do something's a.
Only weakness comes of indecisIon.
Why, some people have so accustomed
themselves to this way of dawdling along
from one thing to another, that it really
seems impossible for them to squarcly
make up their minds to anything. They
never quite know what they mean to do
next, and their only pleasure seems TO
consist in putting things off as long as
possible, and then dragging slowly through
them, rather than begin anything else.
Don't live a single hour of your life with
out doing exactly what is to be done in it,
and going straight through it, from be
ginning to end. Work, play, study,
whatever it is, take hold ut once and finish
it up squarely and Clearly, and then to the
next thing, without letting any moments
drop out between. 1t is wonderful to see
how many hours these prompt people con-
trive to make of day; its rs if they
picked up the moments that the dawdlers
lost And if you ever find yourself where
you have SO many things pressing upon
you that you hardly know how to begin,
let me tell you Il secret, take right mold
of the very first one that comes To hand,
and You'll find the rest all fall into file
and follow after like n company of well
drilled soldiers, and though work may he
hard to meet when il charges in squad,
it is easily vanquished if you can bring II
into line You may have often seen the
anecdote of the man who was asked how
he had accomplished SO much in his life.
"My father taught me, was the reply,
"when | had anything to do, to go ana
3O it,"
There is the sccret-the magic word
nor.-LWle Co3p0rdL
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
IS Who Put those Screws in that
Table!'

These are the very words Grandma
Hawkins said the other day, when she en-
tered the sitting room but they look so
quiet on paper, that unless you can pic
turc to yourself full-faced, bustljng
little lady of sixty, with hands lifted in
horror. and eyes staring wildly at the
"ruined" furniture, and can fancy some
thing between II screech and groan
equally distributed over seven very distinct
words, YOU can have no idea at all OF
grandma's feelings
What wonderthc dear soul was shocked,
The neatest Of housekeepcrs and most
loving of grandmothers, how could she
see such dreadful proof of mischief, with
out suspecting chose children - Yes
there were the hammer and the screw
driver on the floor, and there was the poor
table, and oh worse and worse. if they
hadn't gone and put screws into the very
wall
II was too much.
"Childreni Children ~ she screamed,
"Comc here right away y
And we did come quick, for we were
hidden behind the window curtain, and
had only to thrust our laughing, night
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

MY GR1NDM4MNA.

BY sALLIE A. BROCK
SHE tells me she was handsome once,
Her eyes like jewels bright.
The snowy locks upon her brow
As jctty a. the night;
And DER her polished shoulders fell
A shower Of raven curls:
Her lips were of the coral hne.
Her teeth twin rows OF pearls.
The roses on her youthful checks,
Like those that blush in June.
When sky. and earth. and sea, and air,
To beauty all attune:
Her form a sculptor's model rare.
More glorious than her face
While cen her slightest gesture was
The very soul OF grace.
Her voice in tone as softly clear
As song-bird'- liquid note.
When waves OF richest melody
On summer zephyrs float.
L Know It's true: for have heard,
At time that she was wed,
The country round knew none a. fair,
Or so my grandpa said
But now she's withercd. bent, and old;
Her voice Is cracked and shrill;
Her trembling hands almost refuse
The mandates of her will;
Her brow il scanned by burrows deep,
Her eyes are dImmed and blear,
And often on their silvery fringe
There hangs crystal tear.
For she bss seen. like autumn-leaves,
Her dead around her fall,
And followed 10 the church-yard near
Full many a somber pail;
And back again to earth she has
Her dearest treasures given
But looking up. she smiles and says,
80 I'll see them all in heaven.''
And as bend above her head
And stroke her wintry hair.
Or stoop to kiss her brow and checks,
So scanned with lines of care,
1 feel that in my very soul
worship N her shrine,
And pay. to child of mortal birth,
Homage almost divine,
-iPpleton's Jouyn
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
This mixture embraces quite all

This mixture embraces quite all the
great essentials of plant food, but we
think it is too much attenuated The
proportions might be doubled 0eaving
out half the soiD, with advantage, as it
would not be 50 heavy to handle. We
would, however, suggest AN Improvement
in the proportions employed instead of
60 lbs. of sulphatc of ammonia, it had
better be, for cotton, 100 lbs; and good,
true supcrphosphatc might take the place
of bone dust with advantage. The cot
ton plant needs the active influence
of phosphoric acid to push 1t forward
vigorously. If the planters will combine
together and purchase these commercial
articles, good and true, at the lowest
wholesale rates, and make this compost,
they will save the tens of thousands of
dollars thrown away upon the Fictitious
mixtures sold SO freely in the South
Boston J0UTRai If CHEMISTRY.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

THE New York Ecenin9 Mail says
Look out for pure Vermont maple
sugar. They have been boiling man in
it nj Fairfield This man was boiling sap
in forty gallon kettle, hanging on pole,
when he struck his head against the pole
and fell into the kettle. From what we
know of the character of those Vermont
farmers, we have not the least idea that
they will throw away that much sap, SIM
ply because it has had man in it. 1t
will vet appear on our tables in the form
of syrup, and if anybody finds buttons in
theirs, they will please return them TO
Joseph Minor, Fairfield, VT"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
A Very Good Compost.

A gentleman residing at La Grange,
GA wrote to us, some time since, that
the followin" mixture had been used upon
the cotton fields of that section with eN-
cellpnt results
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

SINCE the introduction of Coal-oil re
finercs along the Schuyl>ill and Della
ware, the original fine flavor of the shad
caught in these rivers has been materially
injured, partaking of the rather unpal-
atablc taste of kerosene.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

Ar Louisville, the other day, baby
fell into the river, and would have drown
ed had il not been for Il noble Ncwfound-
land goose, which rushed boldly into the
water and brought the child safe To land.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

THE deepest water of Lake Superior,
and probably in the whole chain of lakes,
is off Copper IIarbor, Mich, where
soundings to the depth Of 900 feet have
been made by the United States Coast
Survey.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25

Men have only 142 different styles of
hats To select from this sprin@.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
Beecher's Friday Night PRAYER Meeting.

Last night l attended this nation-known
institution. I have been reading verba-
tim reports of these meetings for years,
but verbatim reports do not represent the
personnel of the occasion. The house
opened at y o'clock, and by O'Clock the
congregation was all in. The lecture room
with its side gallery was comfortably full.
a gentleman inquired of lady, who is an
admirer of Mr.. Beecher, coming out, how
many she supposed to be present. She
replied "Ab0ut three thousand. He is a
wonderful man." She was within about
two thousand six hundred of being right
as to the number, and still nearer right as
to Mr.. Beecher. The pastor was about the
last one in, and slipped into his chair al
most unnOticed. He looked at some no.
tees on his stand, laid them aside looked
at his watch, leisurely turned through his
hymn book, "Seven fOrty-three," dropped
deity from his lips, and a rustling of
leaves was heard all over the house. The
piano began picking a prelude. and the
singing moved off plainly. A deacon of
fered Beechery prayer. Another hymn
aud another prayer. Said Mr. Beecher
"Nine thirteen. l didn't like the way
you sang that last hymn. Only half of
you sang, and they didn't half sing. All
sing and keep time"
Now a good old Methodist tune, to COOL
old Methodist words, too little used, salut-
ed the ear:
How firm foundation, ye saints Of the Lord.
Mr.. Beecher all this while sat in his
chair, large, and beautifully upholstered.
He now threw himself on its front edge,
crossed his legs, leaned awkwardly on his
stand, and began to talk in answer to a
question about reliance upon the help of
the Spirit in attempting to secure re-
form. He drifted into thoughts on prayer,
and, using beautiful Illustrations of his
thoughts, he delivered a most illogical,
inconsistent, and incomprehensible "lec-
ture room talk
Atits close he threw out challenge for
any questions, from home folks or other
folks.n
A brother asked if the pastor recognized
the human heart to contain the germ of
all goodness, to be developed by the spirit,
as the sun brings out the flower.
Mr.. Beecher said it did.
A stranger modestly related how God
had graciously delivered him from a crav-
ing after tobacco in answer to prayer.
Mr.. Beecher said You are a 'mOnu-
ment of grace"
This brought down the house, and SEEM
ed to satisfy Mr.. Beecher.
Others questioned the pastor, until he
must have seen the inconsistency of his !
own statements, but he turned every an !
swer by kind of pious Witicism, and held |
the field. There were two prayers, no |
Scripture lessons, but little seriousness,
and a great amount of entertainments
Cor. Gin. Gazette.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
Not all in Vain.

A miser living in Kufa had heard that
in Bassaro there dWelt miser more miSer-
lv than himself, to whom he might go to
school, and from whom he might learn
much. He forthwith iourneyed thither
and presented himself to the great master
as an humble commencer in the art of av-
arice, anxious to learn, and under him to
become student.
"Welcome," said the miser of Bassaro );
"we will straight go to the market to make
some purchases.
They went to the baker.
"Hast thou good bread ?'
Good indeed, my masters, and fresh and
soft as butter"
''NTark this, friend" said the man of
Bassaro to the one of Kufa, "hutter is
compared with bread as being the better
of the two; as we can only consume a
small quantity of that, it will also be
cheaper, and we shall therefore act more
wisely, and savingly, too, in being salts
fed with butter.
They went to the butter merchant and
asked if he had good butter.
"Good, indeed" said he, "and favory
and fresh as the finest olive OIL was the
merchants answer.
guest, "oil is compared to the best butter,
and therefore by much ought to be pre-
ferred to the latter"
They next went to the oil vender.
"Have you good oil ,"
''The very best quality; white and trans
parent as water"
mark that, too" said the miser of Bas-
saro to the one of Kufa, "by this rule wa
ter IS the very best. Now at home [ have
a pailfuI, and most Hospitality Herewith
will 1 entertain thee"
And, indeed. on their return home moth
ing but water did he place before his guest,
because they learned that water was better
than oil, oil better than butter and butter
better than bread
"God be praised" said the miser of Kufa,
81 have not journeyed this long distance
in vain.n
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.

Our dispatches this morning announce
the death of the most remarkable man in
many respects that has ever lived on this
continent. James Gordon Bennett, found
er and proprietor of the New York Herald
died yesterday, aged about Y years and
not II as the telegraph reports, was
born about the year $780, at New Mill,
Kerth, Banffshire, Scotland. At the age of
10 he bid farewell to the land of his birth
and sailed for the West in search Of fame
and fortune, both of which he has been
successful in finding to his hearts content.
He first betook himself to the occupation
of teaching in Halifax, but his nature was
too impulsive to admit of his pursuing
this occupation long. Three years after, he
went to New York, which proved the field
of success in journalism, such as has not
often been achieved by man. After short
connection with the press he accepted a
situation on the Charleston Courier and
remained in that connection for several
months, when he again returned to New
York and issued proposals for the estab-
lishment of a commercial school. This
not proving successful, he went into the
Iecturing business, delivering lectures on
political economy. In 1925, he made his
first attempt towards establishing public
journal. He purchased Sunday paper,
the New York Courier, which proved
failure, and he was employed as a writer
and reporter for several New York jour-
nails. He was connected with various
other papers up to May, 1885, when he
issued the first number of the Herald,
with which journal he has been ever since
identified, and which has attained q circu-
latiOn the largest of any daily paper in the
United States He has never stopped for
difficulties, but has pushed his business
with q zeal and energy which at times
appeared to border on recklessness. How
ever much the world may have differed
with him in his views, and in the various
plans resOrted to for the accomplishment
of his ends, all join in admiring his zeal
as worthy of good cause, whether exert
ed in that behalf or otherwise.
He has undertaken and accomplished
enterprises before which common men
would have stood abashed. Though he is
gone, the work of his hands is strongly
established, and when his remains have
mOuldered away in their mother dust, the
Herald will stand as living monument
of the energy and business capacity of
James Gordon Bennett, the poor Scotch
DOy-the American MILL OnairC.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02

COVERING UPTHE SCAR.-A distinguish
ed preacher of London, in speaking of the
proneness of Protestant denominations to
observe each others defect rather than ex-
Cellence, says
When an eminent painter was requested
to paint Alexander the Great so as to give
perfect likeness of the Macedonian con-
queror, he felt difficulty. Alexander in
his way, had been struck by a sword, and
across his forehead was an immense scar.
The painter said, eff retain the scar, it
will be an offense to the admirers of the
monarch, and if omit it, it will fail to be
perfect likeness-what shall I do ~ He
hit upon happy eXpedient; he represent
ed the Emperor leaning on his elbow with
his fore-tinger upon his brow accidentally,
as it seemed, covering the scar upon his
forehead: Might not we represent each
other with the finger of charity upon the
scar, instead of representing the scar deeper
and blacker than it actually is? Might
not Christians learn from heathendOm a
lesson OF charity, of human kindness and
of love?
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
WASHINGTON.
Probable prOIOnsation Of the Session Of
Congress.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-Carpenter con-
tinues the political debate in the Senate
to-day.
The prolongation of the Session Of Con-
gress is considered inevitable.
The West and South, in the House yes
terday, voted almost solidly for uniform
tax of sixteen cents on tobacco. A COM
promise on a twenty cent tax is probable
In the United States District Court or
ders were made for the payment over to
DR.. Cornelius Boyle, II. B. Taylor and the
administrative of c. :. Wallach, of this
city, of the proceeds of the sales of their
property here made under the confscatiOn
act. Under the amnesty act they became
entitled to whatever sum the United States
has received from the cOnfiscatiOn of their
estates, less the costs, which were compar-
atively enormous, amounting in one of the
cases TO one thousand five hundred dol
lars. These parties left here and served in
the Confederate army. H. 3. TAYLOR had
been major of marines in the Federal SER
vice.
Cox is considered c0nvalescent.
The Southern Claims Commission has
suspended oral hearings till October.
The debt statement shows a decrease of
four and One-fOuTth million dollars coin
in the Treasury, ninety-one million dol
lars; currency, eleven and one-fOurth mil
lion dollars.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
Intemperate Zeal of Athens Attorneys.

chancellor Key has been holding court
IN Athens during this week. But one case
excited much attention, which was J. S.
Bridges ct al VS.. D. M. Wilson ct al It is
one which merely involves the question of
| the right to the possession of the Mars Hill
Presbyterian Church at this place by one
of two factiops of the members which I'M
fortunately or otherwise were created or
originated at the close of the war; The
counsel for cOmplainants were Blizzard
and Bradford and Cooke and Van Dyke,
and those of respondents Briaut and Rich
mona. Decision was given in favor of
compartments and against respondents,
from which an appeal was taken
what Occasioned comment was more the
management Of the case by cOmplainants
counsel than anything else: and very
naturally too, for it exhibited strongly the
utter disparaging condition of some of our
courts of law and equity. A wholesale de-
nunciation of the spirit of puritanism in
the New England States, of Northern men.
scalawagS and carpet-baggers was made:
an attack was made on the reconstruction
measures for the Southern States. the or
ganizatiOn of our State government at
Nashville at the close of the nations StruU-
gle for life, and radicals generally: there
was general vituperatiOn on the subject
of missionaries and funds sent South by
the beneyolence of the North, assuming
the object to be the oppression of Southern
people; the Methodist Episcopal Church
was also attacked.
There was an eruption of spleen on the
subject of those who aided and abetted the
rebellion being called rebels. One man
was singled out from among the many re-
SpOndentS, against whom not one unchris-
tian, immoral, dishonest act was specified
and towards him almost every calumnv.
insinuatiOn, epithet and SANDER that could
be invented was hurled with too evident
spirit of hatred and malice-bitter political
speeches by Bradford and Van Dyke full
of the spirit of 1861 and 1862 were ATTEMPT
ed to be substituted for legal argument in |
Il high court of equity. Why this was re-
sorted to is not well understood by those |
who are unprecedented and disposed to look |
at facts nor do those who claim any sense
of propriety, taste, gentlemanly conduct, |
as well as professional etiquette, under |
stand or favor such. If the administra-
ton of Justice, the legal brotherhood and |
public opinion do not frOwn on such. |
where will soon be our courts? and woe |
to Il pure administration of law and |
equity. The course of Briant and Rich |
mond in not retorting with the same
spirit Of bitterness, is universally COM !
and 1t is TACT worthy of no. |
tice that as Col. Cooke and Mr.. Blizzard |
are both claiming the suffrage of the peo-
ple-one as candidate for the Supreme |
Bench and the other for Congress they |
of course are excused for putting forward |
their associates to make Rome tremble." |
and, as some think, open the canvass for
them. If any subsequent canvass gives |
the righteous the disgust that this has, |
their friends had better advise them to |
stay at home. c. NJ. NJ.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
4 Frog Story.

We are informed through a source we
cannot doubt, that Mr.. Samuel Hutchinson
cut white oak tree down, three feet
through, in ObiOn river bottom three or
four miles from Troy, few days since, in
the center of which he found live frog of
ordinary size. The tree was perfectly sol
id, no crack or hollow in it, save a hole or
cell foot in length, and of sufficient
width for his frogship to exercise by climb
ing up, and turning around in it: The
hole or cell was perfectly slick as though
his frogship had exercised daily ever since
it had been in there, which may have been
five hundred or more years. Can any one
tell us how old tree of the above order Is
when it arrives to the dimention above !?
Will some one tell Us how the frog got
there, and how old his frogship is?-Ifoy
Times.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-02
THE CLEVELAND RACES.
AnerOid Again Successful.
to the Dal1y ChronicIc.l

CLEVELAND, Tenn, June L.
The two mile race was won by Anerold
in 3:43-came in on the first mile IN
1:49.
Enthusiastically, ID NJ Nelson; Bush
whacker, ] F Hoge Bay Mack, W W
Cate Wild Pigeon, Joseph Fry Grey
Eagle, f S Rogers Seymour, W W COOK
sey.
The first choice of the track was won by
Grey Eagle. The Wild Pigeon came in
for the second purse Of fifty dollars and
Bay Mack for the third purse of twenty
five dollars, only half the length between
the last two horses. The rider of Bay Mack
claimed foul Kidding by the rider of Wild
Pigeon. The claim was Overruled. Bush
whacker came in fourth and Grey Eagle
fifth, Seymour bringing up the rear.
1t was agreed not to sell pools on Ane-
roid Odds 9 to in favor of Bushwhacker
for the first choice of the pools.
There was considerable excitement during
the progress of the race. Wild Pigeon
passed Bay Mack in two hundred yards of
the stadd.
The mile race between Chas. Morgan
and Mamie Rogers was a misundrstand-
ing as regards the distance for the purse of
the purse of ten dollars and the pools were
withdrawn. Mamie Rogers flew the track,
throwing the rider. He received no in
iuries from the fall. Mamie was then sold
at auction for S102.
We regret to say difficulty occurred at
the Ocoee House at noon. Pistols were
drawn, but nobody hurt much on either
side