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cOnneetiOns are - Follows;
At Burlington, with Chicago, Burling-
ton q Quincy railroad for Chicago, Peoria.
Cincinnati and Louisville, Keokuk, Quirl.
cy and Kansas; with Toledo, Peoria, q
Warsaw railray for Logansport, Column
bus, PItt1burg ana st. LOUIS, via Rock.
ford, Rock Island d SC. Louis Railroad:
with Burlington q Missouri River rail.
road for OttumWa, Red Oak, Nebraska
and Kansas, and with Burlington q
SontnWesseEn for Harrington, Bloomfield,
missouri and Kansas.
Southwestern Railroad for Washington
and LeavenWoyth.
At West Liberty, with Chicago, Rock
Island b Pacific Railroad, for Iowa CITY.
Des Moines and Davenport.
At Nicholg. with Muscatsne Div. B.. G.
Il. = H., for Muscatine.
At Cedar Rapids, with Chicago & North
western Railway for Omaha, Council
Bluns and Chicago, and with Dubuque &
southwestern Railway for Dubuque.
Az waterloo and Cedar Falls, with
Illinois Central Railroad for Indepen-
dence. Dubuque, Fort Dodge and Sioux
At Nora FUNSTON, with milwaukee, &
g. Paul Railway, for Mason City and
Charles City.
At Austin, with Milwaukee d st, Paul
Railway, for all points in Minnesota.
At SC: Paul, for all points on Northern
Pacific Railway, the great Lake Superior
region, and all points north and north.
". 4. PETIB0SR, VIZ. GREENE,
Q. ,. iVEs, cen :: rsI:t Ge.... SeAi ssP'r
Cedar REnl&S. IeWa.
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Familiar Quotations.

The old phrase, "There's many a |
slip 'twiXt the cup and lip" is a |
literal translation of an old Greek |
heXemetre line; and when we talk |
of smiling through tears we are
quoting Homer. The line so often |
attributed to Shakespeare, "a fell |
low feeling makes one wondrous
kind" was written by Garrick in
the occasional'prologue spoken by
him on leaving the stage. Owen
Felthan, the author of the "Resolve,"
is one of those unfortunate men
who have written many good and
pithy things while others have us
urped the credit of them; such for
instance, as without n certain
modicum of chat, the horse is apt
to bolt his oats" which has been
so dexterously applied. Macaulay
has the reputation of many q bril-
liant epigram for which he was in
debted for more to his gigantic
memory than to his originality.
IIerbert's "Iacula Prudentinm," and
Franklin's works are the great
storehouses of many proverbs and
quotations. From the first we have
MAN proposes but God diRposes."
"Of two evils, the less is always TO
be chosen "Early to bed and car
ly to rise makes q man healthy,
wealthy and wise," is from Frank
lin; so also is, "God helps them
that help themselves ;" Gle that
goes n borrowing goes as sorrow
ing :" Continual dropping wears
away stones" though the germ of
this, by the way, Is to be found In
Lucretius and Ovid. Rabelais has
given us many popular phrases,
such as " He thought the moon was
made of green cheese :" by rob-
bling Peter he paid Paul ;" "The
devil was sick, the devil q monk
would be, the devil was well, the
devil a monk was he." The phrase
War even to the knife" was the
answer of Palafox, the Governor of
SaragoZa, when he was summoned
TO surrender by the French, who
were besieging the city in 1903.
One OF the sources from which
many of eur popular quotations
have flowed is Lord Roscommon's
Essay on Translated Verse, for ex-
ample, the couplet so confidently at
tributed to Pope, "Immodest words
admit of no defence, for want of
decency is want of sense; !" and,
Choose an author as you choose q
friend"
Lord Lytton somewhere says that
Horace has supplied, after Shake
spear, the greatest number of quo
tations. 1t is true he is the author
who rises most readily to the lips
of the scholar, and by his marvel
lous powers of uniting happy con-
densation with strong common
sense affords the readiest medium
of expressing the ordinary incl
dents of life in the tersest language;
but curiously enough there are very
few standard quotations to be cui-
led from his works. Terence and
Plantus have furnished us with far
greater number, though we owe q
still larger debt of gratitude to
Virgil and Ovid. In Greek litera-
ture the great storehouses of quota
ton are undoubtedly the fragments
of the tragic and comic poets, par
ticularly Mehander, whose sayings
have been filtered through a thous-
and channels, and form no incon-
siderable part of the sum of the
familiar quotations most in vogue.
london Globe.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Kentucky papers are calling for
their back pay.
Who says there is no such word
rs failf Wall street is full of it.
1t is stated that there are 10000
members of the international so
ciety in Spain.
A good man is kinder to his
enemies than bad men are to their
f'riends.-Bishop Hall.
"Heroism is cheap" said man
the other day, "what the world
wants rs common sense"
"No Gunen Aloud Here" is a
sign intended for the information
of sportsmen down in Maine.
Experience" says Poor Rich
ard, sleeps an expensive school,
hut fools will learn ut no other"
a bachelor editor, who had a
pretty unmarried sister, recently
wrote to one similarly circum-
stanced, "Please exchange"
Mr.. Young, of the bureau of
statistics, says that only $4,000
Americans went to Europe this
year; and our foreign obligations,
all told, are $1,000, 100000.
A Detroit man recently for
warded the following letter to the
Insurance company in which his
wife's life was insured: "Dear
Sir-I take my pen in hand to let
you know that am well, and that
my dear wife, insured in your
company for $4,000, is no more.
She died to-day. Her policy is
No. -. l can truly say that she
was a fond wife and a good moth
er. / have the doctors certificate.
so that there will be no trouble
about the policy. She was only
sick n short time, but suffered
much. Do you give a check in
advance, or must i wait sixty DAYS
for the money? Yours, &C."
a rather amusing incident oc-
CURED on the Cheshire railroad
the other day. One of the pas
sengers considerably annoyed the
conductor by repeatedly asking
him to tell him when they got to |
w. The conductor told him
if he would keep still he would |
tell him when he got there. The
having much to attend |
TO, or from some other cause for
got it until they were two miles
past the station, when, suddenly
it, he rung the bell
and the train was run back to the
station, He then told the gentle
nan that he was at W "An
tight" said he, II was not very
we'll this morning and my wife told
ne to take pill when I got as far
IS here" ,, 49,, 4.ss I'll
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1879
THE PEr.s PARADISE.
BY II. n. STOWE.

Up before the daylight is our olden Hair,
Looking for her petkins, all SO cosy there;
puss and puppy, ere she's
''Bye-lo, bye-lo, baby;'' singing them to
rest.
Like ehattering brookIet, shining in the
While in golden mazes shadows DER it
run.
Sits our bright-cyed baby, with her cloud
Of hair
wavy, gay and cleaning in the morning
air.
Come, my star-eysd darIing-Nnrse you
'No, isn't weady; Kitty amt asleep"
Wicked, brlght-eyed Kitty; many an
hour 'twould take
Many n song 10 shut those eyes, 20 saucy
wide-awake!
Booty, logy puppy seems hopeful case;
Sarcely his eyes are opened in bis sleepy
Wicked Kitty medltates giving him a
With the little prickers in her velvet paw
Little fairy mother, with her earnest eyes,
Softly broods above them. in fiOweFy par
adise,
Nursing, watching, cooling, with tireles'
tenderness.
Motherhood and womanhood in hel
babes carcss.
Kitty is so willful-such wild young
catl
Puppy IS so stupid-what care Is that
In her eyes OF innocence gathers puFpos
deep
"wait a minute, Nursey! I'm dittIn' n
as'ecp"'
All, poor Srown-up mothers, with you
hayward race,
Romping, frisky, stolid, clasped in on
embrace,
How our star-eyed darling, with her bah
cares,
Mirrors forth your larger lives, hopes an
loves and prayers.
Different natures, Earring, held in OF
embrace,
Find within our mothcr-arms their abi'
ing place.
But there is a larger love, us and ou
that bears,
A. we clasp our little one, with her lit
cares.
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p. q. HALLBERG,

EmpOria. Kansas. 81
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Hartford Nursery.
Fruit Trees and Plants.

10000 APPLE TREES
Seventy varieties, Que. two and three
years old. Black berries, raspberries,
straw berries. gooseberries and currAzts,
in large variety. Twenty-Five varieties Of
budded peach trees. P1ums, pears and
cherries. Grape vines, thirty varieties.
Ornamental trees and shrubs. Evergresns
and deciduobs trees. Climbing, monthly
and hybrid perpetual roseA- Lilies, peo-
Ries, gladioluses, altheas, Japan ounces,
and other Towering plants and shrubs.
LiRnEus and victoria rhubarb.
We sell our stock at lowest market
rates. All our stock Is propogsted and
grown by US, and customers visiting the
nursery can choose their trees, vines and
plants, and see them taken mp from the
ground where they grew.
The nursery Is near the Hartford Depot
Of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad.
and the road runs through our nurssFy
grounds. Give Us 4 call.
CHAMBERS & BAYSINGER
Hartford, Lyon ossnty, Kansas
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We buy for CASH, and will not be
undersold. II per cent. interest will be
charged from date for all lumber sold on
credit. L. L. HALLECK,
d. w. GILCHRIEST,
20 WILLIAM JAY.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26

shape of a pancake; his neat frock coat
was hanging in tatters at his back.
"Oh, man." he groaned, as l came in
chow could you leave me in the hands OF
those barbarians? See how I've been
treatedl Why. l was mobbed in that hor-
riblc place. Why did you suffer that
man to drive away and leave me?"
GLOW could l help it?" said l.
Haven't l had desperate work to keep
my own prisoner? Look at my face it
was blood-stained certainly. "Look at my
prisoners" his head was mass of bruises.
''If l hadn't fought to the death, I'd have
lost him.
''And is this the way they generally go
on about here?" said Chandler.
Pretty much about" | said.
Then I'll never return to that horrible
place, never. FL 90 straight back to Som
ersct House and tell them they must send
Il priZe-tighter to take charge of the dis
trict. l shall report very favorably of
you, McAlistcr, and your desperate cour-
age"
So he did, 1 am glad to say, and got
my district soon after, and rise in sala-
ry, and married Katie Stewart. Terence
and l were fast friends from that time, and
when the old grandmother died | helped
him to emigratc to America, where | hear
he's doing very well in the public line;
but | never met with such another adven-
ture.-Belgraria.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Helped off a Barrel.

An incident worth recording happened
in a restaurant on Fifth street, day or
two ago. Connected with the press of
this city is a young man who spent the
years '67, IS and part of go along the
line of the Union Pacific Railroad, then
in process of construction. On the morn
ing in question the newspaper attache went
into the restaurant, and sat down at a
table. Vis-a-rts sat another young man.
who presently accOstcd the newspaper
man:
"SIister, it strikes me I've seen you be-
fore"
"Quite likely" was the response.
~ Weren't you at Cheyenne in the spring
of '6S 80
"Yes.n
''Didn't you and Chance H help a
fellow down off barrel that was set up on
end under tree, one night?''
This was the introduction. 1t renewed
an acquaintance that began by the saving
of a life, when its owner was pinioned, a
rope about his neck, with the other end
tied to the limb of a tree while a savage
and unrelenting Committee of Safety
stood waiting for the barrel, on which the
poor wretch stood, to be kicked out from
under him. The doomed man was a
gambler, but he was quiet, pcaccable
fellow, who harmed no one. One night
he had won a sum of money from man
who belonged to the Committee of Safety,
and the latter attempted to make him give
il back. In the affair which cnsued a
vacancy was made in the committee.
This is what had brought Sam A into
the presence of death there under the tree.
The two men had gone among the mob,
and by cntreaty and expostulation had
succeeded in getting the poor fellows
sudden sentence ''commuted," on condi-
ton that he should leave the town in
thirty minutes. They took him down off
the barrel, united The rope from his neck,
and Cheyenne saw him no more. After
five years he and one of the prescrvers of
his life met thus by odd chance. 1t is
well enough to add that the life was saved
to some purpose, for the man who ''stood
upon the barrel' is now the trusted
agent of a mining company operating in
Montana, and is in all respects useful
citizen. 1t was close shaye.-,St. LOuis
I.eDuJLiruH.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Putting on a Paper Collar.

ONE Of the saddcst comings home is
when the husband and father comes
home TO put on paper collar. The last
collar has resolved into pulpy rolls and
come up back of his ears or disappeared
within the rcccsses of his hair. The
shirt band is moist and helpless and in
clined to roll under, carrying the back
button with it. His neck is wet and
slippery, and all the windows are down,
and the door is drawn to. BY the time
he has found the back button and got
the collar hitchcd to it, it seems as if
the air was about to stitlc him, and as
if he would suddenly melt and spoil
the carpet. He sends up the windows
with Il snap, and kicks the blinds open
with his foot, and brings that door back
with IL velocity that almost scarcs it.
Then he goes To work to tastcn one of
the ends, and while he is AT it the back
button hole suddenly mclts and dissolves
He tries another collar Gets the back
and one end fastened, commences work at
the other end, and is about intoxicated
with his success when the first end sud
denly collapscs. He sits down few mo-
ments before trying the third collar, and
wishes he really knew if there is future
punishment, and wonders where his wife
is. Then he makes another trial with
similar results, and finally dashcS out of
the house, saying that if he had nothing
more to do than gadding to the neighbors'
he would make collars that his husband
could wear. Fortunately his wife is next
door learning a new crochet stich, and
does not hear him. DaRbury Neecs.
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NO.. 80.
Youths Department.
Discomfort.

BY EULA LEE.
A frown on her brow. in her bright eye a tear;
I'm sure L can't
What the trouble can he,
With home 80 pleasant. her parents so kind.
And playthings TO please the most difficult mind
The prettiest doll that ever was seen,
Dressed i'll satin and lace like any young queen.
With n sacquc and hat,
just think of that,
And wee Saratoga full of beautiful clothes =
For trip 10 the springs next summer, -'posc
But kittic's not thinking of what she has got
She is groaning in spirit for what she has not;
She sees Jennie Ray,
just over the way.
In a much finer house. and carriage grand,
With servants TO run at her slightest command.
She thinks herself wrongcd. says it's very unfair
And little Miss Jennie has more than her share,
With never a thought,
That joy is not bought;
1t is not SO much the things possess,
Only just the amount Of content more or less.
There is many a one in palace to-day
Not as happy as you, will venture To say;
So pray be content
With what God has sent:
Live TO be useful. be cheerful and glad,
And not seem unthankful by looking sad.
Our Heavenly Father is wiser than we
And what is best for us He surely can sec,
Then when grim discomfort
Seeks your minds room TO rent
just say, = II is let TO faith and good will
And his troublesome tongue will for ever be still.
-CHit}fen-s I{Our
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Miscellany.
Sin-What Is 1t!

IT is sinful to do what we know, or be-
lieve, to be wrong; as, for instance, to lie.
TO steal, to SANDER. 1t is a sin to deceive
or mislead another to his harm. There
arc many sorts, varieties, and phases of
sin, besides those indicated in the Ten
Commandments. We regard it a sin to
commit excuses in eating, in drinking,
or in doing anything that will impair the
health of the body, affect the mind injuri
Ously, or dwarf the moral or spiritual SEN
sibilities. Through dissipation one be-
comes the parent of an imbecile or an
idiot. Preachers cOnfine their rebukes to
what may be called moral sins, seldom
coming right down to our physical trans
gressions, such as over-eating, drinking,
Chewing, smoking, dosing and dragging,
which are among the chief causes of our
most serious shining.
Let us look at these things as they are.
We sin against the laws of health when
we breathe old and fctid air, such as is
confined in olhouses, public halls,
churches, and even in private dwelling
houses. We sin when we gormandize or
eat more than we need; when we rob our
selves or others of necessary sleep; when
we Overtax the minds of children, render
ing them precOcious and sickly; when we
lace so tightly that we contract our lungs
and impair health; when we spoil our
feet producing corns, bunions, etc, by
tight boots; when we cause headache by
great wads of false hair, or by air-tight
hats; when we go to extremes in anything
whereby we waste vitality and engcnder
disease. Extreme grecdiness is a product
of undue selfishness, and borders on dis
honesty. He who will not do as he would
DC done by is not, by any means, a saint.
Each of us may hold the mirror up to ma
ture, and if we wish to do so we may
''See ourselves others u.s.
Is it not sin to gamble, and get gain
without earning it. Is it not sin to sell
rum to one whose appetite is perverted,
and whose mind is too weak to resist the
temptation? Is it not a sin to seduce or
lead one from life of virtue to life of
vice? Is not pecvish, fretful, violent,
and ungovernable temper sinful? Is not
good nature and cheerful countcnance a
duty? Reader, go on with these questions
of differentiation, and see where you
stand? You can cypher them up, debit
and credit, balance the account, and see
exactly where you are. True penitence
will bring pardon, and, when forgiven
past sins, we may start out with new re-
solves to lead a new life, in accordance
with higher principles than those of
former times. We may overcome beset-
ting sins. We may improve. 1t is our
privilege and our duty SO to do. Let us
try.-PArenol0gicaI Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Better than Gold.

We often hear little boys telling of the
wonders they will do when they grow to
be men. They are looking and longing
for the time when they shall be large
enough to carry cane and wear n tall
hat; and not one of them will say that he
expects to be a poor man, but every one
intends to be rich
Now, money is very good in its place;
but let me tell you, my little boys, what
is great deal better than money, and
what you may be earning all the time you
are waiting to be a tradesman or merchant.
The Bible says that "a good name is rather
to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favor rather than silver or gold" "a
good name" does not mean a name for
being the richest man in the town, or for
owning the largest house. A good name
is name for doing good deeds; name
for wearing a pleasant face and carrying
a cheerful heart; for always doing right,
no matter where we may be.-N. Y. o.
SeTrer.
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A Little Fun with Hopkins.

SOME years ago new fire company was
organized at Reading, and the members
one evening thought they would have
little innocent fun at the expense of Hop
kins, their President. They decided to
rush round with the engine to Hopkins
house after dark, to throw up their lad
ders, pull out their hose, climb on his
roof, and scare him with the belief that his
dwelling was on fire. But that very day
Hopkins moved out of the house and IA
Presbyterian clergyman moved in, without
the company being aware of the change.
So about eight o'clock the humorists dash
ed out, and went through all the move
ments, getting on the roof and splashing
water around, and creating terrible dis
turbancc generally. a rival company,
noticing what was going on, also hurried
TO the scene, and, without understanding
The joke, attached their hose to a plug,
smashed in the front window, and began
to empty wo-inch stream on the family
of that Presbyterian clergyman. They
squirtcd into all the rooms, split up the
window-shutters with an AK, broke
down the front door, ran out the furniture,
tore off the shingles and bawlcd through
trumpcts until the hired girl had convul-
sions on the kitchen stairs. The first
company tried TO explain, but the new
Corners thought an effort was being made
to get them out of the way, and Il ght en-
sued, and presently tiremen were sliding
off the roof, and pcltin% down the Chin
ney, and bleeding over the entry carpet,
and having boistcrous encounters with
spanners and brass horns on the stairs.
And the next morning that Presbyterian
divine and his family moved out. They
said the place seemed 10 be too animated
and sensational for Il quiet, domestic cir
Gle They wanted Il house where there
was more calmncss and peace where they
could have more security for their privacy
and pianos, and for their front doors and
shingles and peace of mind and window
sashcs.-Wdr adder, IN Phjladclphia !Sdtur-
11y Pest
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Hats Off.

Off with your hat, my boy, when you
enter the house. Gentlemen nerer keep
and if YOU always take yours off when
only mamma and the girls are by, you
won't forget yourself and be mortified
when guest or stranger happens to be
in the parlor. Habit is stronger than
anything else, and you will always find
that the easiest way to make sure of
doing right on any special occasion, is to
get in the habit of doing right. Good
manners cannot be put on at Il moments
dnd Home
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
Compositions.

Did you ever have your picture taken?
Then you will never forget how the ope-
rator patted you down, and shook you up
-enjoined you to raise your chin a trifie,
then to drop it hairs breadth-to turn
the least bit to the right until at last, with
one hand on the awful mystery in front
of you, and the other holding the watch
that licked off the dreadful seconds, he
blandly observed,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26

4 BLACK AND WHITE Boy COMBINA-
TIoN.-A remarkable boy was to be seen
at the Nashville depot yesterday; in fact
one of the greatest curiosities of the age
He is half white and half black, not in the
mulatto and misccgnation sense, but the
lower half of his body is whittier than
white folks usually are, while the upper
portion is black as midnight. His moth
er, a coal-b negress, was with him,
and they left on the Nashville train at 2
O'Clock last evening. He is but three
years old, and has already learned to make
money out of his peculiarities. He made
several nickels yesterday in very few
minutes. There is IA round patch, about
three inches in diameter, of perfectly
beautiful hair on the top or his head,
which is surrounded by little kinky negro
wOOl-L0uisytLle Ledger.