American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Washington Life is substantial in
its assets, elevated in its standing, and
carefully energetic in its management
Geo. Z. Hope.
If you wish success in life, make per-
severance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counselor, caution your elder
brother, and hope your guardian genius.
-Addison
IT is said by very good authority that
warm turpentine applied directly to the
wound will work speedy and permanent
cure in most cases of lockjaw. Cold tur-
pentine is also recommended as an appli-
cation to recent cuts and bruises.
CABBAGE LoUsE.-The american Agri-
culturist pronounces as the best remedy,
lime, slaked dry with water, in which
| carbOlic acid has been dissolved, one part,
and dry air slaked lime three parts mix
| together and sprinkle on the leaves, while
wet with dew Where they are very nu-
merous on leaf. it is better to remove it
and destroy the insects by burning.
GRAH,M GEMs.-Take half-pint sweet
milk, half pint cold water; stir into
| it enough >iitsti Graham flour to form a
batter rather thick for griddle cakes; stir
WELL and bake mmediately. Drop into
hot, oiled eem-uans, and bake twenty
minutes in rat. or lot oven, diminishing
heat toward the lust. If preferred, they
may be made al: Of milk or cold water,
or fine flour instead OF Graham, or half of
each.
To get rid of rats, an Iowa man coaxes
them to partake of prison in this man
ner: "Spread a small ;'it ce of bread with
molasses; cut IN pieces il,ree-fourths inch
square, and put where vo,:r rats will get
at it. Repeat this each light for a week,
increasing the quantity each time. BY
this time all your rats are fully baited.
Now take a good slice of bread and mo.
lasses and sprinkle it with arsenic, cut
and put out as before. AS soon as all is
still each rat takes his supper very greed
lily, and runs into the ground to die"
CLEAN SEEDs.-Good seeds are of spe-
cial importance. Be sure that all
whether field, grass, vegetable or flower
seeds-are perfectly clean, and the best of
their kind. If you have homegrown
Seeds none should be sown except the
produce of superior plants. In pur-
chased seeds, of course you must trust to
your seedman for purity. In wheat, fol-
instance, there is nothing so efficacious
in keeping it from stunning to chess" as
sowing clean seed on clean land; and this
illustration will apply to every other seed.
Clean seed on clean land, gre clean crops,
especially if the after culture is good
Western RurA
by the late Agricultural Convention al
Washington, than the following resolu
ton, that, of itself, if it should but lead
to the desired results, would alone be
worthy of the great occasion: Resolved
That we earnestly advise and entreat the
farmers of our whole country, who are
favorably located for the purpose, tC
plant forest trees, not merely for shade
and ornament, but by the acre and hun
/ n dc Of in to fnr
ests, to take the place of those that arc
being SO rapidly and fearfully demolished
in every direction, thereby not only pro
viding for the actual necessities of thost
who are to come after us, but also t.
avert calamities that can neither be i'm
agined nor described, that must eventu
ally ensue whenever our broad land shall
be stripped of its forests and consequent
ly deprived of the numerous benefcen
influences they are known to impart. y
Hearth and Home.
No pain is more dreadful to endur
than fear. Few parents realize how mucl
their children suffer from this cause
There is nothing to hurt you,' is an as
; surance which does not allay the appre
hension. An underlined something, exist
, ing often only in the Imagination, is tn
occasion of Just as real suffering as tn
, most tangible evil could be. This suffer
ing from lear mas DucH 10 90 WITH inc IL
, most universal dislike which childrel
have of going to bed. They are left alon
in some chamber away from the family
a wise arrangement so far quietness
concerned, and judicious entirely if tn
!, child exhibits no fear. But only thos
! who remember what horrors possesse
the imagination when they as children
, were left alone in the dark, can fully rca
. i've the suffering of nervous child =
don't mind your whipping me, father,
said IA little fellow, who had been repeal
! edly punished for crying when put to be
!, alone, eff you will only stay with me-"