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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
Oyer.WOrk.

The complaint is qaite universal that
in our American life we over-strain the
muscle, over-wear the brain and over
burden the heart. Men at the hottest
point of enterprise G i've out, and cOnsump-
ton takes the body, lunacy the mind,
avarice the affections. Prominent men
drop suddenly here and there, when they
are all aglow with perspiration, and di-
lated eye, and absorption of success The
epitaph is, "died of over-work." 1t
should be, "died of mismanaged work
That wheel on the car is not hot because
it rolls faster than the other wheels, nor
because it is weaker or stronger; but be-
cause its. journal was not packed as we'll
because some unusual friction has heated
it. Here is a sewing machine with which
a woman has flung away thread enough
to baist the two hemispheres together at
the equator, and reach the north pole,
and make "A spool of it. And yet 1t has
needed little repair as it sung the dollars
together with its monotonous buzz. Here
is another that is returned, broken in
pieces and radically injured. Lack of
fabrication, misleading or guiding caused
an injury, and then it has been uphill
work ever since, till it has become abso-
lutely worthless.
Men are worked in precisely the same
ways. A man cannot run his body, and
leave his mind behind without harm; nor
his mind and leave his body in the Iurch
and neither, and fling his soul to the dogs.
False work, mis.judged and misguided
work, is the crime of the day. No me-
chanic shall fail in muscle, nor in skill, if
he will fertiliZe his mind as he goes along,
and.feeep window in his soul open to
God. No business or professional man
shall waste in body, or WAIVER in mind, if
he will proportion his intellectual and
physical toll, and not forget his religious
obligations.-Rec. Wn1. -1kein Bartlett, in
the CHicaqO PtlIUlt
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

as wheat, oats, rye or barley should not
be planted, for these rob the trees of cleo
tricity, and thus impair their growth.
After the trees come into a good bearing
condition, the orchard may be sown to
clover and timothy, and these cut for hay
or for soiling, provided that the surface. is
top-dressed with barnyard manure, in
order to supply the waste of plant-food.
After the orchard Is in full bearing, all
that is demanded of the saw and shears is
to keep down the sprouts from the collar
of the trees, and to cut away such branches
as interfere with the team or the NOW
er that is to keep the trees in good
form; but no inside thinning is required,
for such thinning only serves to fill the
head of the tree with water sprouts. In
case of a too full setting of fruit, shake
part of it of, but do not cut away the
leaves and branches, under the plea of
thinning the fruit. Great harm is done
young orchards, for the thinning always
takes out the bearing wood, for the rea-
son that it appears less thrifty than shoots
that contain leaf-buds only. A fruit-bud
is but a leaf-bud modified, and, if one
will look into the head of young bearing
trees, he will soon ascertain that the bear
ing branches have less thrifty appear
ance and are a shade lighter in color.
Many cases might be cited where farmers,
under the false idea that the head of an
apple-tree must be thinned out, have cut
out all the bearing wood, and thus robbed
themselves of the much coveted fruit
Rural" in CHicng0 Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
Direct Your Letters Carefully.

THE Postal Record says that during the
last year there were sent to the Dead Let
ter Office nearly three million letters.
SiXty-eight thousand of these letters
could not be forwarded owing to the care
lessness of the writer's emitting to give
the county or State; AGO. 900 failed to be
sent because the writers forgot to put on
stamps, and over 5000 letters We're put
in the Post Office without any address
whatever. In the letters above named
was found over $4,000 in cash, drafts,
checks, etc, etc, to the value of So ,O0O,-
600. There were 80, 0S9 photographs
contained in the above letters. OF course
nearly all the money and valuables were
returned to the owners, but much need
less delay, many charges OF dishonesty,
Mfeftt OF night hi hetttafEse cb fH faEed if
little more careful, and taken the precau-
ton to see that their letters were in
mailable condition before depositIng them
in the Postoffice. 1t is more than prOba-
BILE that nine-tenths of all the complaints,
losses and delays, which are laid to the
Post Office Department, are in reality due
the carelessnesS of their writer's
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

A PHYSICIAN WHO HEALED HIMSELF
If a railroad director were dashed to every
locomotive, there would be fewer railroad
accidents, and if doctors had to take their
own physic before administering it to
their patients, fewer people would be poi
soned. DIR. Joseph Walker, of California,
took this course when he first compound
ed the famous Vinegar Bitters which now
rank as an inestimable household remedy
in all parts of the United States. He heal
ed himself with this specific before he of
fered it to the world. He introduced it
with simple statement of the manner in
which he had discovered its vegetable in
gradients and been cured, while wander
ing, sick and poor, among the California
tribes. He stated what the preparation
had done for himself, and few sufferers
from dyspepsia, biliousness, rheumatism,
lung diseases, and many other prevalent
disorders, believed him, tried the new re-
storative, and were more than satisfied
with the results. In this way the sale of
the Vinegar Bitters began, and we men
ton the fact as an evidence that in this
age of intelligence and inquiry, nothing
that is really valuable to mankind can
prove pecuniary failure, even though it
may lack the help iof capital, and have to
| fight its way against powerful opposing
interests. Within two or three months
after its introduction, the article became
self-supporting, and now it yields a mag
nificent annual revenue.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
In Case of Accident.

When a serious accident occurs, it is
proper, of course, to send for the doctor;
but it frequently happens, especially in
the country, that a considerable time
must elapse before he can arrive. In such
cases those who are not doctors are often
compelled to do something Immediately
for the sufferer, and few hints for emer-
gcncies of this kind may be acceptable to
our readers. We offer nothing new Ev-
erything we have to say has been said
before, but there are some things which
cannot be too frequently or forcibly i'm
pressed upon the mind, and simple facts
and directions like those which follow
ought to be learned often as they are
forgotten. Our first words are those of
caution. We would give all lay practi-
TONERS the warning that we would give to
the owner of fine clock. To the latter
we would say, clean the case if you will,
even move the hands or regulate the pen
dulum if it is necessary, but be very, very
careful about medling with the works.
Leave that to the clockmaker. The hui
man body is infinitely more complex and
delicate in its mechanism than clock,
and yet its works are meddled with daily
by thousands of ignorant and utterly in
competent people.
Until the arrival of medical man
much may be done for sufferer from
sudden illness or an accident; but, as far
as possible, medicines and meddlings of all
kinds with the internal arrangements of
the body should be avoided.
With this caution we will proceed with
our hints, most of which we owe to an
admirable little work called "Till the
Doctor Comes" recently issued by G. p.
Putnam q Sons, of New York.
| In Case IF BurnS.-lf the victim of the
accident be a woman, it generally hap
| pens that her clothes are burning, and
the first thing to be done is to put out the
fire. Begin by being very cool yourself,
and then he prompt and energetic. Make
her lie down on the floor, and roll over on
the flames until you can come to her as
! sistance. Seize coat, n blanket, or a
piece of carpet, and after covering well
your own hands for another patient will
not be needed ut such time-wrap heI
up and extinguish the flames by smother
ing them. When the fire seems to be
! out, drench the patient well with water,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
Holmes on Lawyers.
In the May number of the Atlantic, o

In the May number of the atlantic, Oil
yer Wendell Holmes says of lawyers:
The lawyers are a picked lot, first
scholars" and the like, but their business
is as unsympathetic as Jack Ketch's.
There is nothing humanizing in their re-
lations with their fellow creatures. They
go for the side that retains them. They
defend the man they know to be a rogue,
and not very rarely throw suspicion on
the man they know to be innocent. Mind
you, 1 am not finding fault with them;
every side of a case has a right to the
best statement it admits of; but l say it
does not tend to make them sympathetic.
Suppose that in case of Fever VS.. Pa
tient the doctor should side with either
party, according to whether the old miser
or his eXpectant heir was his employer.
Suppose the minister should side with the
Lord or the devil, according to the salary
offered and other incidental advantages,
where the soul of sinner was in ques-
ton. You can see what piece of work
it would make of their sympathies. But
the lawyers are quicker-witted than either
of the other professions, and ADLER men
generally. They are good-natured, or, if
they quarrel, their quarrels are above
board l don't think they are as accom-
plished as the ministers, but they have a
way of examining with special knowledge
for a case which leaves certain shallow
sediment of intelligence i'll the memories
about good many things. They are apt
to talk law in mixed company, and they
have way of looking round when they
make point, as if they were addressing
jury; that tits mighty aggravating, as l
had occasion to see when one of 'em-and
a pretty famous onc-put me on the wit
ness stand at a dinner party once.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

his stick and smashing the brandy bottle,
which stood on side table near the
patient.
THE trusses of the old part of the roof
of the Basilica of st. Peter, at Rome,
were framed in SIG, and were sound and
good in 1914, space of nearly thousand
years These trusses are of fir. The
timber work of the external domes of
the Church of St. Mark, Venice, is more
than $40 years old, and still in good
state. There is other extensive timber
work which has successfully withstoOd
the ravages of time for from 400 to 600
wears,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

double what they did in the last year of
| President Lincoln's term. The figures
are $50, 059 900 under Lincoln, against
$67, 901 900 under Grant, in these two &C
counts alone.
| In regard to the cost of collecting the
internal revenue, the figures given by the
authorities are so contradictory that it is
impossible to arrive at an accurate esti-
mate of what it really amounts to. But,
taking the statements the most favorable
to the Administration, it is shown that
the cost of collection, in proportion to the
amount collected, is enormously greater
under Grant than it was under President
Lincoln. 1t is admitted by all that we
have the most cumbersome and eXpen-
sive machinery for the collection of reve-
nue. known in any civilized country; and
it is likely to remain so, for Grants prin-
cipal support comes from fice-holders,
and he wishes to retain as many of them
under pay as possible.
| Secretary Boutwell, has prepared bill
abolishing the offices of Collector and
Assessor of Internal Revenue, and pro-
viding for not more than fifty supervisors
for the whole country, to do all the in
ternal revenue business; but it has no
chance of adoption, because the swarms of
office holders in every part of the country
are neededfor the Presidential campaign.
Millions of dollars might be saved the
Treasury, without detriment to the pub
lie service, by reorganization of the
revenue offices; and the only reason that
it is not done is that the men who fill
these offices are wanted to work for
Grants reelection in opposition to the
desire of the majority of the people. Sir
Charles Dixie has made loud complaint
that Queen Victoria and the royal family
cost Great Britain the imposing sum
e707, 900 year. Grant and his relations
will cost the people of the United States,
for useless expenditures incurred in the
hope of keeping them in office, more
in the single year 1872 than
it will cost Great Britain to support the
Queen and all her numerous princely re-
lations for five years to come.-NeU York
Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
Thu BEST PAPER! TRY IT!

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machinery. novel Inventions Bridges, Engineering
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all News Dealers
PATENTS obtained on the best terms Models
of inventions and sketches examined. and advice
free All patents are published in the Scientific
American the week they Issue. Send for Pamphlet,
no pages containing laws and full directions for OBJ
tanning Patents.
Address for Paper, or CONCERNING Patents, MUM
& co. 81 Park Row, n. Y. Branch Office, cor. aud
18th Sts., Washington, ID. c.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

A MARRIED lady in Rock Island, H.,
had been in the habit, for several years,
of placing needles in her mouth when
ever she found them lying around loose.
OF course she now and then swallowed a
needle, and it was sure to appear in some
strange locality a few months after pass
ing down the throat. During the last five
years seven needles have been extracted
from her body, in different places. Two
needles have been extracted from the re-
gion of the stomach, and short ribs one
from the leg, near the knee, and recently
Il needle was taken from the left temple.
The lady has always enjoyed good health,
and has never suffered any inconvenience
from the needles.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

THE LITTLE CoRPoRAL.-The readers
of this popular little monthly will not be disap-
pointed in the contents of the May number, as
their natural anticipation of entertaining and in
structve reading will be fully met. 1t is capital
magazine for the young. The time for closing up
clubs for 1872 has been extended to July 1. The
Little Corporal is published by JoHN E. MILLER,
Chicago, at 1.50 year.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
Sample of Radical Government.

THE spectacle of a wrecked cOmmuni-
ty, recently prosperous and enjoying the
highest credit at home and abroad, is seen
in Nerth Carolina.
Taxable property of the State in 1860 $e9s a97 zoe
Taxable property in 1870. 130 3lS.622
Taxation for State purposes in $780,. 5f0,643
Taxation for State purposes in 1S7O.... 1,160,4I3
Taxation for county purposes in 1860 25511T
Taxation for county purposes in 1870. !23 62i
Average cost for 1858 1859 and 1SfO... 1887
Average cost for 1868, 1863, and $50. $50 7:,s
Public debt of North Carolina in 1861. 9.699 500
Public debt of North Carolina in 1871. 3f.S71 1865
The taxable property of 1870 was less
than one half what it was in 1860, while
the actual taxation for 1870 was more than
double that of 1860. The taxation for
county purposes increased over four fold,
and the cost of carrying on the State gov
crnment augmented in the same proper
ton. The debt of the State, from being
50, COO, 900 in 1862, rose to S34 100000 in
1871. These are the visible results of Rad
ical government
From North Carolina to Texasthe same
means were employed and the same ennis
sarics enlisted in the Federal service, and
the same tcll-tale results witnessed. If
the President or Cabinet had once enter
tanned the thought that these crimes de-
served punishment, they would not have
been committed.-N Y. Eaprrss.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

HUMANS SHARE WITH HORSES the benefits deriva-
BILE from the world-renowned MEXICAN MUSTA SG
LISIMENT. The most rrefragable testimony estab-
fishes the fact that this wondrous balm excrts the
same soothing and healing influence when applied to
the human cuticie that it does in of SPAWN,
founders rngbone- poll evil scratches, wind gall,
and other ailments of the horse which require
ward treatment. 1t is in fact, the cffectual
all external remedies for rheumatism. govt stiffness
of the neck neuralgia, throat, swellings,
bruises of all kinds.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

CoRS and flour are staple articles but
not more so than JObHS0h'S ioofyne Ijai-
,,cnf, where known. II is good for children
or adults for any internal soreness of the
chest or bowels. and the best Pain Killer pre-
pared under whatever name.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
THE SONG OF TIE OFFICE
HOLDER.

The following scrap Of doggerel, says Leslie's H.
hnsfrnted is significant string of rhymes, telling
its story in the blunt American fashion, peculiar
to our humorous, odd, strong Western people. Ii
is called THE Song of the Office-Holder.n In ex
of preface, as follows: ''Mr. Editor, this is in
tended more for truth than poetry. But yet I'm
no mean scholar, to prove which tell you that
got the style of my verses from Shakespeare
Fool 1ouchstone, in AS You Like tt More: be-
ing only Collar Dog, must perforce write dog;
gerel. Likewise, being very little Grant organ,
am perforce ground out. Also, sir, as n small
Grant machine, my music must be machine music
So let her rip Please, Mr.. Editor, do let her rip
MY place depends on letting her rip!' The
authors motto is, - Who gyinds our ares! Gr1n
and the Tdresi"
It'll breath is scant
I'll pant for Grant!
For Grant I'll pant!
Don't say shant!
i do not rant
IT'S Grant want,
And stop can't!
Oh, Grant! Grant! Grant
Grant! Grant! Grant!
For Grant went
And now for Dent!
Also for Leet
To keep his seat.
Likewise the Ring
also sing!
Ding, ding!
80 lud! I soughter'
Mention Porterl
And Murphy, too,
The sound and true!
And Mr. Jones!
Rise not thy bones,
o Raymond dead!
When Jones is said.
Ring the chimes
For Joness Times.
Whistlei 'Holler'
To the dogs o. the collar
Sing the song,
Ding! dong! dong.
And Daddy Grant,
And Cousin Grant,
And Brother Grant
And Aunty Grant,
Bub-in-law Grant,
Son-in-law Grant,
Sweet Niece Grant.
Sister-in-Iaw Grant,
Half Grant,
Grand-daddy Grant,
I'm ont OF rhymes.
But ring the chimes
Now, fellows 'Holler!
In chorus follow.
Eternally ours,
Be all the Grant powers!
And thus sing,
And so my song
Goes ding, ding, ding!
And dong, dong, dong"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

DoS'T HAWK, HAWK, SPIT, SrlT, BLOW,
BLOW, and disgust everybody with your
Catarrh and its offensive odor, when Dr.
Sage'a Catarrh Remedy will speedily destroy
all odor, arrest the discharge, and cure you.
GA
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

RUPTURE can be cured without suffering.
Elastic Trusses are supcrscding all others.
Before buying Metal Trusses or supporters,
send for II descriptive circular to the Elastic
Truss Co, 6S:i broadway, n. Y.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

A LITTLE boy, who surprised his mates
by the number of useful and helpful
things which he did, explained by saying:
There is almost always time for what
we are bent on; you see, l pick up the
minutes" The suggestion is good one
for older people.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

REMEDY FOR AsTHNA.-Wc think we are
bcnefitting our readers when we inform them
that n relief for the Asthma can be found, in
using Jonas Whitcemb's Remedy.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

PRoTHuDING toe is not pretty sight and is
never seen where children wear SILVER TIPPED
Shoes. They will save half your shoe bills. For
Sale by all Dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

PARENTS lessen your Shoe bills twothirds by
buying only CABLE SCREW WIRE fastened
Boots and Shoes.-Never rip or leak.
All genuine goods bear the Patent Stamp.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

THE all gone feeling which people some
times speak of. is caused by want of proper
action of the liver and heart. These may he
assisted, and the bowels regulated, by R0-
sous's Pfyfofiyt TiltS in small doses.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

A LONG, cold winter has passed by the
time some people have learned to shut the
door after them, and long, hot summer
passes before they learn to keep from
shutting the door when it ought to be
open. Such persons are the remote cause
of half the profanity there is in the
world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18
SONG OF THE SHEARS.

Weary. and not over-stout-
The victim of heartless quiZZers,
An editor sat with his elbows out,
Plying his pencil and scissors.
Clip! Clip! Clip!
In mucilace. tatters and tears!
And still with a voice of dolorous dip,
He sang the Song of the Shears
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

Oh, women with paper curls!
With bustles that rattle and CULVER!
1t is not papers you're wearing out,
But human editors liveri
Clip! Clip! Clip!
Hunting for something new,
Which the managing editor swears after q
Is as old as the wandering Jew!
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

No Person can take these Bftfers accord
ing directions and remain long unwell, provided
their bones destroyed by mineral poison other
means and the vital organs wasted beyond the point
of
Dyspepsia Indigestion. Headache, Pain
illness, Sour Eructatons of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatlon of the
Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions
of the Kidneys and hundred other painful symptoms,
are offsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints
equal and bottle will prove letter guar
antee of its merits than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, IN young or old,
married single, at the dawn OF womanhood, or the
turn of life, these Tonic Bters display SO decided an
influence that marked improvement is soon percep-
tibe.
For Infla mmatory and Chronic Rheu-
mntism and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter-
mtent Fevers Diseases of the Blood Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Btters have equal. Such Dis
caused by Initiated Blood which IS generally
produced by arrangement Of the Digestive Organs.
They are Gentle Purgattve ms well ms
n TOnic possessing also the peculiar merit OF acting
as powerful agent relieving Congestion or Infam-
nation of Liver and Visceral Organs and in Bilious
Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheun, Blotches Spots, Pmpes, Pustues, Bois, Car
bunces, Ring worms, Scald- Head, Sore Eyes, Fry
sipelas Itch, Scur Discooraons of the Skin Hunors
are literally dug up and carried of the system in
short time by the of these Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
the wonderful Invigorant that sustained
the sinking system.
WALKER, Prop'r r.. H. MCDONALD & CO.,
Druggists and Cen Agts, San Francisco and New York
EE SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
w please you snw the advertisement
In this paper.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

EDUCATED ON a SOUND BAsIs-The
drummer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-18

Till the jaws drop open wide;
Till the elbows creak like an old barn door,
And you take that s'stitch" in the side
Enquirers, Tribunes, GaZettes,
And Stars that make you doZe,
Till over the Herald you fall asleep,
And clip off the end of your nose!