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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04
NO. 1.

| thanked and praised each one separately
! and The interview would have been per
feet. had she not inn0"cutiy asked Tom
what was ihe matter with his ey.. To.l'-
eye. Why it WAS the black eye John
Flag gave him. | am sorry 10 say Bill
Floyd sniggcred; but Pat came 10 the
front this time, and said "a man hurt
him.
II say, fellars. I'm going down to the
writiHc-School at the Union" said Pat.
when they got into the street. all of them
being in the mood that conceals emotion.
- say. lets all GO
To this they agreed.
81 say. | went there last week Monday
with Meg McManus. 1 say, tellars, it's
real good fun
The other fellows having on the Infji-
milliar best rig. were well aware that
they must not descend to their familiar
haunts. and all consented.
To the amaZcment of the teacher. these
three hui ing boys allied themselves to
the side of order, took their places rs
they We're biiden. turned the public opin-
ion of the class. and made the Botany
Bay of the school to be its quietest class
that night.
To his amazement the same result fol-
lowed the next hight. And 10 his greater
amaZemcHt. the n, Xt.
To Ali e'S am tZement. she received on
L "tIiitI utiI N.if''iitiht tuttI|Itt
within which. on heavily ruled paper,
were announced these truths:
8 Marin The mitins wur Nora Kill
patric+'s. She lives i'll Water street place
behind the Lager Brewery.
Yours to command,
WILLIAM FLOYD,
THOMAS MULLIGAN,
PATICK CREHORE."
The names which they could copy from
signs. were correctly spelled.
TO Pats amaZement. Tom Muliigan
held on at the writing-school all winter.
When it ended, he wrote the best hand of
any of them.
To my amaZemeHt, ore evening when
looked in ut LOngmans. two'years to a
day after Alice's tree. bright. black eyed
young man, who had tied up for me the
copy of Masson's Milton which had Civ
en- myself for n Chris'm mas present. said:
- Y on don't remember me- [ owned i'll
nOcence.
My name is Muiligan Thomas Nut
ligan. Would you thank Mr.. John Fiagg
if you meet him, for Il Christmas present
he gave me two years ago. at Miss Alice
MacNeil's Christmas tree. 1t was the best
present ever had, and the only one | ever
deserved
And L said would do so.
told Alice afterwaId never 10 think
she was going to catch all the fish there
We're in any school. | told her to whiten
the water with ground-bait enough for
all, and to thank God ii her heavenly
fishing were skil!iul enough Ia save one.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

After supper, accordingly, Pat Crchore
repaired to certain rendezvous OF the
younger life OF the neighborhood known
to him, in search of Bill Floyd. Bill was
not at the first nor at the second, there
being indeed no rule or principle known
to men or even arch-angels by which Bill
presence at any particular spot at any
particular time could be definitely stated.
But Bill also, in his proud free-wili,
obeyed certain general laws, and accord
ingly Pat found him inspecting, as vol
untecr officer of police, the hauling out
and Oiling of certain hose at the house of a
nei%hbOring hose company. Come here.
Bill, got something to show you.'
Bill had already carried home and put
in safe keeping copy of Rout!edge's
''Robinson Crusoe," which had been
given to him.
lie left the hose inspection willingly and
hurried along with Pat, past ma Y at
tractive groups, not even stopping where
brewer horse had fallen on the ground,
till Pat brought HIM in triumph to the
%audy window of a Shoe-ShOp, lighted up
gayly and full OF the wares by which even
shoe shops lure in customers for Christ
mas.
'.See there" said Pat, nearly breathicss.
And he pointed to the very center of the
display, "A pair of slippers made from
bronze ill Kill, and displaying Il iidcouS
blue silk bow upon the giidin F.. For wi.it
class of dancers or OF naSllerS these slip
perS may have been made or by what
canon of beauty know not. Only they
were the center at decor; ton in the sh ne
shoD window. Pat looked nj them with
admiration. as he had often done. and said
again TO Bill Floyd, See there, amt them
handso,ne?'
"Goily :" said Bill, Il guess so.''
'Bill. lets bay them little shoes, and
give 'em to her.
Give 'cm to who?'' said Bill. from
whose mind the Christmas tree had, for
the moment faded, under the rivalry of
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

dvlty and escape, rushed in o the ware
house of the merchant, announcing that
he Saracen lady was near the door. hay
ing drawn ii large crowd 10y the iteration
# the single wOr,l.-Decentbel GaLary.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

want the book, give me them skates =
- OF sha'n't have the skates. III have
en- myself and 50 on. John
Fia~g finally knocked down Tom Mui-
li@an, who had squeezed round behind
tie tree. in an effort to stead something.
and had the satisfaction OF Sendin" him
believing from the room. with his face
covered with blood from his nose. Gil
more. meanwhile, was rapidly distribut-
ing an orange and anapple to each, which.
willie the oranges We're sucked. gave
a moments quiet. Alice and the ladies'
badly frightened, were stripping the tree
as fast as they could. and at last announc-
ed that it was all clear. with almost as
eager joy as half an hour before they Ii ID
announced that it was all full. .'There's
"A candy horn on top give me that Give
me thar little apple" Give me the old
sheep" Hoo! hurrah, for the old sheep
This of Il little lamb which had been piac
ed rs an appropriate ornament i'll front
Then began howl about oranges. Il
want another orange ''Bill's got some,
and I've got none" 81 say, Mister, give
me an orange
To which Mister replied by opening the
window, and speaking into the street,
81 say. Purdy. call for officers and come
up and clear this room.''
The room did no, wait for the officers
it cleared Itself very soon on this order
and was left a scene of wreck aud dirt.
Orange peel trampled down on the floor:
cake thrown down and mashed 20 mud.
intermiXed with that which had come in
on boots and the water which had been
Siobbared over from nasty mugs the SUI
gar pluas which had iallen in scram-
blcs. and little sprays of green too. trod-
den into the mass,-all made an aspect OF
fiji II like a market sidewalk. And poor
Alice was halt crying and half laue hing:
poor Lille was wholly crying. Gilmore
and Fiagg We're explaining to each other
how gladly they would have thrashed the
whole set.
The thought uppermost in Alice's mind
was that she had been Il clear, out and out
fool and that, probably. is the impression
of the greater part of the readers of her
stcry-or would have been the impression
OF any one who only had her point of
view.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

Rev. j. c. White. of J ckson, ILL.,, has
Father Burke to discussion
on the principles ard aspects OF Roman
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

Rev. 5. 5. Bergen, of Franklin. md.
has gone as 4 missionary OF the Pp -
rian BOARD t4-h--st ~ -GsXas--
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

Stock OF I'd mess polk i now given
Il less than 10000 barrels in Chicago.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

BY EDGAR FAwCETT.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
Uncle Josh.

a certain deacon was very much inter
ested in revival that was taking place in
the neighborhood. He had frequently inn
portuned an old neighbor of his-who was
not particularly noted for his profession OF
religion, but was nevertheless highly re-
spected by all who knew him-to attend
one of their evening meetings. Now the
piety and honesty of the deacon was mat
ter of doubt among his fellow-townsmen,
and particularly so with the old man above
mentioned, who for convenience, we may
call Uncle Josh
After repeated calls, Uncle Josh con-
sented to accompany the deacon to one of
the meetings, much to the surprise of all
present. In the course of the evening the
deacon arose with a penitential counte-
nance to tell his experience. He was the
prince of sinners, he said. If he got his
deserts he would be banished forever from
divine favor. After making himself all that
is vile IN man, according TO his interpreta-
ton of @ he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted he sat down with the sublime
sense of having done his duty, and asked
Uncle Josh if he wouldn't tell his eXpe-
rience With some little reluctance, he
meeklv arose amid the breathless attention
of the assembly.
1t was an unknown occurrence for Uncle
Josh to speak in meeting. He said he had
listened with great interest to the remarks
of the deacon, and he could assure the
brethren that, from his long acquaintance
with him, he could fully indorse all the
deacon had said concerning his meanness
and vileness, for he certainly was the mean
est man he ever knew The wrath of the
deacon was terrible. He shook his fist
under Uncle Josh's nose, and exclaimed:
You're confounded liar, and I'll whip
you as soon as you get of church!
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such pittancei Ought not such men to
| &" strileD and with Will, or to have the
well-to-do and enlightened of Christendom
strike off their chains of superstition and
degradation, which keep them so low IL the
scale of being.
How beautiful now in the midst of the
rainy season are the rice fields filled with
the growing grain. And there in the water
courses between the fields is boy grazing a
buffalo, he lazily resting himself by lying
across the slow moulded creatures back.
1t is a saving with the Tamils, if one moves
very slowly. he moves like buffalo Of
course the animal is the opposite OF the
American buffalo.
A little further on was a native black
smith, working in the shade Of tree, with
no anvil but a stone, and with bellows
made Of a goat skin, one in each hand OF a
boy, which he opens to let in the air as he
elcvates them and then closes and presses
down 50 forcing the air through tube IN
the rear of his little mud-walled forge. This
primitive contrivance answers a very useful
purpose.
Last evening, near the shed-like rest
house where / spent the night, there was an
exhbition--a native drama. All was IN
the open air; the audience mostly sat upon
the ground, As did the three performers.
The principal had q drum, (such as are used
by the sOrceresses,) which he beat most Wig
orously; and one of the others, cymbals.
Much Of the play was in song, or in a sing
song tone, while the conversation was
coarse and vulgar, and even obscene |
heard the English word - rascal introduced
two or three times. Sometimes natives add
to their own bad language English low talk
and profanity. Hindoos are very fond Of
dramatic performance, often having cos
tune, though no scenery or theatre In this
case there was no costume even, the three
having only the usual head cloth, and being
naked to the waist.
Friends, do you ask that old question,
" Who is my neighbour" We answer, the
Hindoos How he needs the Savior, Christ,
Who is path, if any be misled,
Who Is a robe, if any naked be;
If any chance to hunger lie is bread
II any be a bondman He is free
If any be but weak, how strong il He.
Yours, sincerely,
T. :. BURNEIID
Melur, near Madura, South India, October
IL 1872.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
4 Good Wife.

The following sentences from Archbishop
Seekers Jeddiag Ring are worth reading
twice; Hast thou a soft heart 1T is OF
Gods breaking. Hast thou a sweet wife ,
she is Of Gods making. The Hebrews
have saying He is not Il man that hath
not woman Though man alone may be
good, vet it is not good that man should
be alone. Every good gift and every per-
feet gift is from above y wife, though
she be not 8 perfect gift, is a good gift, a
beam darted from the son of mercy. How
happy are those marriages where Christ is
at the Wedding! Let none but those who
have found favor IL Gods eve find favor
in yoErs. Husbands should spread a man
tie of charity over their wives inirmities
Do not put out the candle because Of the
snuff Husbands and wives should provoke
one another 10 love; and they should love
one another Notwithstanding provocations.
The tree OF love should grow up in the
midst of the family as the tree of life grew
in the garden Of Eden Good servants are
a great blessing; good children a greater
blessing; but a good wife IS the greatest
blessing; and such a help let him seek for
that lacks one; let him sigh for that hath
lost one; let him delight in that enjoys
one"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
Cheap Pleasures.

Did you ever study the cheapness of
some pleasures p' asks one. Do you know
how little it takes to make a multitude hap
py? Such trihes as aspenny, word, or 4
smile, do the work. There are two0r three
boys passing along-give them each ches-
nut, and how smiling they look! They will
not be cross for some time. A poor widow
lives in the neighboorhood, who is the
mother of half a. dozen children. Send
them half peek of sweet apples, and they
will be happy.
4 child has lost his arrow-the world to
him-and he mourns sadly; help him to
find it, or make him another, and how
quickly will the sunshine play over his
sober face! A boy has as much as he can
do to pile up load of wood assist him a
few moments, or speak a pleasant word to
him, and he forgets his toll, and works
away without mindingit. Your apprentice
has brokon mug, or cIt the vest too large,
or slightly injured a piece of work. Say
" You scoundrel," and he feels miserable !;
but remark, . am sorry, and he will try
to do better.
You employ n man; pay him cheerfully,
and speak pleasant word to him, and he
leaves your house with contented heart, to
light up his own heart with smiles and glad
ness.
As you pass along the street, you meet a
familiar face; you say " Good morning" as
though you felt happy, and it will work adj
mirably in the heart of your neighbor
Pleasure is cheap. Who viii not bestow it
literally? If there are smiles, sunshine,
and flowers all about us, let us not grasp
them with miser's fist, and lock them up
in our hearts. No, rather let US take and
scatter them about us, in the cot of the
widow, among the groups of children in the
crowded mart, where men of business con-
gregate, in our families, and everywhere.
We can make the wretched happy, the dis
contented cheerful, the afflicted resigned, at
an exceedingly cheap rate. Who viii refuse
to do it?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
Saying Hateful " Things.

What Il strange disposition is that which
leads peopole to say hateful things for
the mere pleasure of saying them! You
are never safe with such a person. When
you have done your best TO please, and are
feeling very kindly and pleasantly, out will
pop some underhand stab which you alone
can comprehend sheer which is masked,
but which is too well aimed to be misunder-
stood. 1t may be at your person, your men
tai feeling, your foolish habits of thought,
or some little secret opinions confessed in
moment of genuine confidenee e. 1t matters
not how sacred it may be to you, he will
have its fling at it; and since the wish to
make you suffer, he is all the happier the
nearer he touches your heart just half a
dozen words only for the pleasure of seeing
a cheek flush and an eye lose its brightness,
only spoken because he is afraid you are too
happy or too conceited. Yet they are worse
than so many blows How many sleepless
nights have such mean attacks caused ten
der-hearted men and women How, after
them, one awakes with aching eyes and
head, to remember that speech before every
thing-that bright, sharp, well-aimed needle
of speech that probed the very centre of
your souIi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
A GOOD GRAMMAR.

We advise every little grammarian just en-
tering on the study to commit to memory tbs
following lines, and then they never neet
make errors in speech. The author-whoevei
he is-deserves much credit:
/. Three little words you often see.
Are articles. A, An and THE.
,. A noun 5 the name of anything.
As SCHOOL or GARDEN, HOOP or SWING.
3. Adiectives tell the kind of noun.
As GREAT SMALL, PRETTY. WHITE or GROWN
4. Instead OF nouns the pronouns stand
HER head, HIS face. YoUR arm, Ny hand
>. Verbs tell Of something 10 be done
To READ, COUNT, SING. LAUGH, JUMP. Run.
6. How things are done the adyecbs tell,
As SLOWLY QUICKLY, I'LL or WELL
I. ConjunctiOns join the words together.
As men ASD women, wind OR weather.
s. The propositions stand before
A noun, as OF or THROUGH door.
4. The interjectiOns show surprise
As, All how pretty-oH. ho@ wise
The whole called nine parts of speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
KHOUJS T..
FORTIETH-FIRST DAY.
TUESDAY, March IL, 1873.

TUESDAY, March IL, 1873.
Mr. Handy, of COpiah, by general consent,
introduced an act for the relief of Susan A
Neither.
Mr. Boyd, by general consent, introduced
an Act to authorize the Secretary of State
to furnish Mississippi reports to the Chan
Gerry Court of Tippah county.
INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Grace introduced III relative TO an
amendment to the Constitution of this
State.
Mr. Griggs moved that the resolution be
rejected.
Lost on the following vote:
Yeas, a. Nays, 55.
Referred.
A number of local bills passed.
And the bill, an act in relation To the SET
Element of the Indebtedness of the Y o, j
and G. N r Co of this State, was taken up,
aud under a suspension of the rules, was
read the second time.
And Mr. Roane offered following
amendment:
Amend by adding the following section:
Sec -. Be il further enacted, That no
payment made in railroad subsidy warrants
shall be recognized payment under this
act, whether received heretofore or here
after.
Mr. Sullivan, at 40 O'Clock, moved to
adjourn. Carried.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
Josh Billings Good ResOlushuns for 1873

That wont smoke emmy more cigars, only
at somebody else's expense.
That wont borry or lend-espeshil" lend.
That will live within mi incum, if hav
tew git trusted to do it.
That won't advise emmy body, until kno
'he kind or advice they are anxious to fol-
low
That won't wear emmy more tite boots, If
hav to go barefoot tew do it.
That wont swop dogs with no man, unles
can swop two for one.
That wont sware emmy, unless am under
oath.
That poverty may he a blessing, but if it
L. it is a blessing in disguise.
That i will take my whisky hereafter
straight-straight few the gutter.
That the world owes NE living-pro-
vided earn it.
That wont swop emmy horses with the
deacon.
That no man shall beat me in roliteness,
SO long az politenss kontlnues tew be as cheap
az it IL now.
That if man kalls me phool, won't ask
him tew prove it.
That will lead a moral life even if go
lonesome and loose gOoI deal of plum by it..
That if a man tells me mule wont Xix, i
will teleave what he SCI without trieing it.
That the best time tew repent of blum
der IL Just before the plunder IL MADE
That will try hard TO be honest, but it
will be just my darn luck to miss it.
That wont grow emmy kets. Spontaneous
kats have killed the business.
That love mi mOther-in-low, if it takes
all the money can earn tew do it.
That believe rele good lies are getting
skatser and skarsar every day.
That when hear a man Dragging on his
ancestors wont envy him, bur will pity
the ancestors.
Finally, will sarch for things that are
little. fer things that are lonsum, avoiding all
torch-lite proseshuHs, bands of bross music,
wimmen's rites CONVERSIONS, and grass wild
ders GENERALLY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
How n Man Without Arms Chas.
IiSed His Wife.

Grace Greenwood writes from Wash
ington to the New York Times: 81 am
told there used to be employed in the
coast survey, opposite US, an odd little
monster, without arms, who yet per-
formed the duties of messenger, going
back and forth, with letter bag fastened
about his neck. This armless Quilp,
strangely enough, had wife, good, as
wives go, but occasionally giving him
some trouble and requiring some disci-
pline. 1t seems Providence never leaves
poor unfortunate utterly without re-
source, and this man managed to keep
his better two-thirds in proper SUGGESTION
by adopting the favorite African mode of
attack and defense, known as butting.
Persistent and pitiless, he used to drive
her about the house, up stairs and down,
with his prone, avengfng caput, until his
sovereign wrath was appeased. His neck
grew thick and strong with exercise.
Sometimes he would get the poor little
woman behind the door, and jam it
against her until she was subdued and
ready to cry jams salts -
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Death and the Grave.

Il am hungry" said the Grave, give m
/ food
! Death answered:
L will send forth minister of awful de
| struction, and YOU shall be satisfied.
What minister will you send p
Il will send Alcohol. He shall go in thu
guise of food and medicine, pleasure anC
hospitality. The people shall drink and
die
And the Grave answered;
Il am content"
And now the church bells began to toll
and the mournful procession to advance.
''Who are they bringing now p said the
Grave.
"Ah," said Death, "they are bringing s
household The drunken father aimed q
blow at his wife. He killed the mother and
her child together, and then dashed out his
own life"
"And who" said the Grave, comes next,
followed by a train of weeping children?'
"This is a broken-hearted woman, who
has long pinned away in want, while her hus-
band has wasted his substance at the tavern.
And he, too, is borne behind, killed by the
hand of violence"
" And who next"
4" a young man Of generous impulse, who,
step by step, became dissipated, and squan-
dered his all. My agent turned him out to
be frozen in the street"
"Hushn' said the Grave, now hear a
wall of anguish that will not be silenced."
g Yes, it is the widows cry. 1t is the only
son of his mother. He spurned her love-
reviled her warning, and bloated corpse he
comes to thee. And thus they come-farther
than the eye can reach, the procession crowds
to thy abodes. And still lured by the en-
chanting cup which l have mingled, the
sons of men crowd the paths of dissipation.
Vainly they dream of escape, but l shut
behind them the invisible door of destiny.
They know it not, and with song, and dance,
and riot, they hasten to thee, o Grave!
Then l throw my fatal spell upon the
new throng of youth, and soon they, too,
will be with thee"
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GOOD-BY.-It is a hard word to speak
Some may laugh that it should be, but let
them. ley hearts are never kind. 1t is a
word that has choked many an utterance,
and started many a tear. The hand is
clasped the word is spoken, we part and are
upon the great ocean of time--we go, to
meet where? God only knows 1t may be
soon; it may be never Take care that your
good-by be not a cold one-it may be the
last you can give. Ere you can meet your
friend again, deaths cold hand may have
closed his eyes and chained his lips forever
And he may have died thinking that you
loved him not. Again, it may be a long
separation. Friends crowd onward and
give you their hand. How you detect in
each "good-by" the love that fingers there;
and how You may bear away with you the
memory of those words many, many days.
We must often separate. Tear not yourself
away with careless boldness that defes all
love, but make your last words linger-give
the heart full utterance, and if tears fall,
what Of it? Tears are not humanity.