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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
Telling Children Lies.

A BEAUTIFUL young mother sat by us
during three hours ride in the cars, the
other day, and in her arms she held what
seems to us the fairest ornament a mother
ever wears, her beautiful baby. The little
fellow was very woodworking; some
where near his second birthday, we should
fancy; sturdy and strong, with great blue
eyes like wood violets, cunning little white
teeth even as kernels of corn, and rosy
cheeks that kept dimpling into smiles.
Naturally the confinement of his position
made him restless. He grew tired of sit
ting still on his mothers lap; the cakes
and apples she rather unwisely gave him
lost their charm, and the bright flowers
he kept begging with the prettiest plead
ing from the stranger by his side at last
grew wearisome. Baby wanted TO take IA
to let him. What do you think she did,
gentle reader.
Why, she looked her little wide-awake
boy straight in his innocent face, and
said. gravely:
Harry, if you don't sit still I'll throw
you out of the car Window
In the plainest manner possible she
gave her child lesson in lying. No
earthly power would have made her throw
him out, and nothing would have been
strong enough to tear him from her had
keep him quiet. and so she rushed TO the
resort of the weak-deception If two or
three years hence Harry shall tell her a
lie, she will be exceedingly shocked and
panied, and he will be punished and
prayed for, and his mother will grieve at
his deficiency of moral sense, quite obliv-
ious of the fact that as she has sown she
is beginning to reap.
The fact is that half the babies are
trained to tell falsehoods before they are
able to walk and talk. The thousands of
poor little unfOrtunates, who are dressed
in muslin and lace and given over to the
care and companionship of ignorant hire
lings, are so practiced upon and deceived
and frightened, and, in short, lied to, that
it is wonder that after all most of them
grow up tJlerably truthful. We think it
speaks well for that much maligned thing
human nature. But servants are not the
only nor the chief offenders. We charge
mothers and fathers with being very cul-
pable and wicked in their sins of COM
mission in this regard.
Il have never deceived my child" says
Mrs. Laura Love, who is reading this
number beside her baby's crib When
you pretended, dear lady, the other day,
that you were not going out when you
were, and when you tiptOed off with your
bonnet hidden behind you lest baby
should cry to go, what were you doing
but deceiving him? When you pretended
that the abominably tasting stuff YOU
were about to give him out of a vial was
good, smacking your lips as if you EN-
Joyed it, what were you doing but acting
a 1ie9
Children have very quick perception.
Very young children learn to see through
the ways that are dark and the tricks that
are vain of their foolish elder compan-
Ions. Still, as we look into their soft
eyes, We seem to hear the solemn words
that fell from the tenderest lips that ever
spoke to man: Take heed that we offend
not one of these little ones.''-Hea,M and
Home
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
Brute Language.

A PAIR of loving anserines-in com
mon parlance, a gander and a goose-had
been blessed with an interesting brood of
goslings, which engrossed all their care,
and kept them as usual separated from
the flock. 1t is well known that although
the mother goose does not cover her
brood with her wings like the be IN door
hen, the father goose is quite as devoted
as she in providing them with food, and
in defending them from enemies. By an
unlucky accident, the gander, becoming
very lame, was compelled to forego the
pleasure of rambling with them, and to
confine himself to their sleeping place,
under the mistress portico. His faith
full spouse, however, did not desert him
until driven to it by necessity; she and
their little darlings shared his confine-
ment, and gabbled cheerfully TO him, as
if waiting in hope that he would soon be
well enough to accompany them. AT last
the time came for a change. Their mis-
tress, who was occupying a seat on the
open floor above, heard series of pecu-
liar tones issuing in turn from the two
seniors, as if they were engaged in a sad,
low collOquy. This was continued for
perhaps half an hour, when the wife and
mother was seen to leave the brood in
charge Of their father, and waddle slowly
down to the flock, which was enjoying
their siesf0 upon the lawn, nearly a hun
dred yards away. Then she commenced
an earnest talk, in which she was seen to
address different individuals, from whom
she seemed to receive answers At the
close of the palaver, she returned to her
lame husband, and gabbled to him for a
time, as if reporting the result of her
Grand This brought on another long
talk, conducted in most afiectionale tones
after which the wife goose went IL second
time to the reposing flock, and, to the as
tonishment Of the mistress, was seen to
return accompanied Jyo gander, rho first
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

A PRovIDENTIAL MAN.-This title now
justly belongs to a physician who has
added to the list of medicines a new rem
edy, which appears to include all that is
most valuable in the old pharmacop@ia,
and not to include any of the drawbacks
with which the so-callcd specifics of the
Faculty are chargeable The Providcntial
man is DIR. JOSEPH WALKER, of California,
whose VINEGAR BITTERs have achieved,
in the short space of two years, a degree
of popularity never before attained by any
advertised preparation in this country
We have too much confidence in the
shrewdness of. the American people to
suppose that this sudden and surprising
celebrity is the outgrowth of a deusion
Indeed, we have reason to know that it is
founded on innumerable and well-authen-
ticated cures of almost all the bodily ills
that flesh is heir TO. Not the least among
the merits of the famous Tonic and Re
storatlve, is its entire freedom from alco-
hol, as well as from all mineral drugs. 1t
is composed exclusively of rare vegetable
extracts. -
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
Building Brick ChImney.TOps.

As CHIMNEY-TOPs are exposed to the al
ternate influences of wet and dry, freezing
and thawing, more than any other part of
brick edifice, it is important that the
bricks and the mortar should be of the best
quality. Many brickmasons of the pres
ent day do no appear to know that when
mortar is made of lime and loan for
building chimney-tops both the bricks
and the mortar will absorb rain until the
entire top is thoroughly saturated Then,
in cold weather, before the water has
evaporated, the brick work is frequently
frozen through and through, by which
means such brick as have been burned 10
dark cherry-red color will be disinte-
grated by the frost, and the mortar will
bulge out at every joint. If the chimneys
are not covered with copestone or brick
work rain will flow down on the inside;
and If the chimney extends down through
the attic the wall on the side of the brick
work will be seriously damaged. In many
instances we have known such a volume
of water to fall down the inside of a large
chimney-tOp as to saturate the bottom
bricks to excess, and then pass down be-
yond the closet, or other foundation on
which the chimney rested, to the serious
injury of walls beneath. We have in
mind chimney-tOp standing on a closet
In the attic Of farmers dwelling which
collected such a volume of water during
every protracted storm that colored
liquid would flow down through the bot
tom OF the chimney, and they were oblig
ed to keep washtub beneath to collect
the droppings. After a bushel of sand
was poured down in the top of the Chin
ney no more liquid passed through.
The bricks of every chimney-top should
be SO thoroughly burned that they will
not disintegrate if allowed to lie on the
ground from year to year. Then when
they are laid they should be soaked in
water until they cease to absorb it, When
dry bricks are laid in mortar the moisture
of the mortar will be absorbed Sc readily
by the bricks that the union between the
mortar and bricks will be simply me-
chanical, and there will be comparatively
little strength in the mortar, for the reason
that 1T dries too rapidly. But when wet
and hard burned bricks are laid up in
mortar made of clean sand-say four or
nve parts, one part of good lime Just
Stacked. and one part of prime cement
the mortar will unite with the bricks, dry
slowly and become almost as solid as the
bricks We have in mind large chimney
tops which were built in the foregoing
manner IN the year 1905, and which are in
GOOD condition at the present time, hav-
ing never been repaired during that long
period.
When a chimney collects so much wa
ger that IL soaks through the sides or bot
tom to the injury of the wall. brick arch
should be made over the top, or a cap
stone should cover it, supported at the
four corners by pieces of bricks, so that
there will be free passage beneath the
stone OF not less than four inches on both
sides of the chimney. Half a dollars
worth of good cement, in connection with
good lime and clean sand, will often save
an expense for repairs and damage to
walls amounting to ten or more dollars
". Y. Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
NEW YORK. ls73-4 WEEKLY sEMLwEEKLY, AND DAILY


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briefly follows:
the day will be found it,
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delicate
areca select printed in its
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for
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

walked him and logged him, if he is to
serve in any other than mere draft pur-
poses, put him TO his speed, and keep
him at il for sufficient distance to test
his breathing capacity; then pull him ups
jump from the wagon, and look ut his
Hanks; inspect his nostrils, and put your
ear close To the side OF his chest, in order
to ascertain If the action of the heart is
normal. Ii this exercise has caused him
to perspire freely, all the better; for YOU
can then see, when you take him back To
the stable, whether he dries or quickly,
rs all horses do in perfect health-Rec.
W. u -NnrrnNS Book on the Norsc.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

THE attention of our many readers is called
TO the attractive advertisement of J. N Harris
~ Co, advertising their great and valuable
lung remedy, ALIENS Lung Balsam" This
Balsam has been before the public for ten
years. Notwithstanding this long period it
has never lost one whit of its popularity, or
shown the least sign of becoming unpopular
but, ON the contrary, the call for it has been
constantly increasing, and at no previous time
has the demand been so great or the quantity
made been so large, as at this day. We earn
estly recommend its trial by any one who may
be afflicted with a cough or cold, and we war
rant it to cure if directions are followed II
is sold by all our city druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

iaterchaHged oa5jiiHg ariM his lame brother,
and .fi'o.', thai time .t0lM pertoymed taitAJul-
u the part Of foster father to the brood.
The writer was not himself a witness 10
this fact, but he relates it with the same
confidence rs though he saw it with his
own eyes. Surely, brutes may give to
men lessons in charity, When we use
the term brutal, ought we not TO modify it
by designating what brute we mean? p
I8DEetOH's .y0uTUJL
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

The Hayden expedition has discover
ed that the Middle Park Of Colorado is
intersec;ed to a great extent with bikes of
basatic rock, and in these once melted
rocks are found moss and wood agatcs,
while red and yellow jaspers cover the
hills in great abundance. The Indians of
ancient times used to resort 10 those
places to procure material for their ar
row-hcads, and Clipped tiints and broken
arrow heads occur quite frequently. There
is no doubt that flint arrow heads were in
common use among the Western Indians
before the Introduction of pork barrels
AMI hoop iron.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

The National Life Insurance Company
of the United States of America is in no
respect affected by the suspension of Jay
Cooke & Co. Its investments in Mort
cages and Governments are much larger
than its total liabilities, and its other
assets exceed in value one million dollars
The Company never had dollar in the
Northern Pacific Bonds or Stocks, as col
lateral or otherwise, and never made de
posts with Jay Cooke & Co. Its policy
holders need entertain no question of its
stability. Its future will be prosperous.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

Our Readers should be careful to notice that
Proctor II CANDLES STAMP is upon the bars
of their NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP, as all good
articles are initiated, and this Soap being so
popular, other manufacturers have copied their
STAMP.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

-Coal-Oil for Rohber Bees An old
bee-keeper says that coal-oil sprinl<lcd
about the entrance of the hive is a sure
remedy To drive away rObbcr bees. He
says he has tried it many times, and never
tulled to get the best results from It's use
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

Parsons Pn,gatire Pits will greatly relieve,
if not entirely cure, dyspepsia when everything
else fails They have been tried in some des-
perate cases, and have given more relief than
any other medicine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

WHEN you 90 to Chicago, it will pay you TO
call and see BREWSTER, the great Halter and
Furrier, corner of Clark and Madison streets.
He will furnish You with the finest goods at
the very lowest urIces
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

MANY valuable horses die from the effects
of collie The best thing to do in a case of this
kind is to pour bottle of Johnson's 1no9yae
LiainseRt into longnecked junk bottle, add
half pint of molasses and water then pour the
whole down the horses throat. In len min
utes the horse will begin to eat.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

Prussing's White Wine Vinegar. Warrant
ed pure and to preserve pickles. Ask your
grocer for it, and take no other.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

Df. 81 NdlhcI Sd1IloIHId Ill.
e@ar EitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains Of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERSF' Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
d perfect Renovation and InvigOrator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has Il medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTFRs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative. Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter rritant, Sudoriiic, Altera-
tive. and AutI-Blious
Il. II. MCDONALD d CO.,
Druggists and Gen. 4 CTS. San Francisco California
and cor. of Washington aud Charlton SITS. N Y.
Nv st ii Tpc.a Igr
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18

So SUCCESSFUL. has Dr. Picrce's Golden
Medical Discovery proven, as IA constitutional
treatment for Catarrh when coupled with the
use of DIR. Sagc's Catarrh Remedy, applied
locally by the use of DR.. Pierce's Nasal Douche
tthe only method of reaching the upper and
back cavities OF the head) that the proprietor
OF these medicines has long offered standing
reware of 500 for a case of Catarrh which he
can not cure The two medicines with instru-
mem for 50, by all druggists. "A
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
DR.. A. TRASk'S
DR., A. IRA SKIS
MAGNETIC OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF
INFLAMMAToRY DISEASES.

DR.. Trask was engaged for twenty years in
a course of experiments upon the medicai prop,
critics and power of vegetables, separate ana
combined AT the age of seventy years he sue
ceeded in presenting to the world, as the result
of his experiments, combination OF Vegetanle
extracts the power of which in removing dis
eases is unequaled in the annals OF Medicine.
His discovery consists IN a comona-
ton OF these powerful Vegetable EXTRACTS with
Electricity or Magnetism in the form OF an Cuit-
Certain, it is, that the remarkable and
unprecedented success which has attended ITS
application in the cure of diseases, stamps 1t at
once as the greatest discovery of the age, anu
calls for a trial and close investigation OF us
1t never fails, while there rcma4ls sur
fcient life to restore natural and heaitny nc,
ton to the capillary vessels OF the pody, a,o
euualize the circulation of the blood by TINS
means a controlling power is gained over the
most malignant forms of disease. winch CANNOT
be obtained from any other remedy.
Such Is the power of this comnlna.
tfOri, that it penetrates TO every portion OF
nerve and lisament is searched out and made
sensible of its purifying and healing lnhuehce-
Hence it copes as readily with ihterhai rs eA-
ternal disease.
Numerous instances are on record
where this remedy has restored health TO pa,
tients so near the grave that the most powerful
internal remedies failed to produce any effect.
Such has frequently been the case in lniiainina-
zion of the Bowels
disease where the Magnetic Ointment can be OBJ
tanned
FOR
this Ointment is The most complete remedy ever
prepared. For DiphtAeria or Putrid Sore Throat
1t is unrivaed.
In ninety-nine cases ont OF a
hundred it will afford entire relief to the worst
cases of Nervous Headache in thirty minutes
For Nervous Diseases this medicine Is
of immense value.
Affections Of tl.c Spine, Rheumatism,
Lameness. liberated Sore Throat, Bronchltis,
Pleurisv Group. Collie Cholera Morbus. Ague IN
the Face or Breast, Burns, Scald Head. Scroiula,
Salt Rheum, Erysipclas. Infiamed Eyes, teve,
sores Sores etc. will be Immediately relieved
by the use of Dr. Trask's Magnetic Ointment
ID. RANSOM SoN It Co., Proprs, Buffalo, N Y
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-22
AL Elk A N D r | A.

GRETNA GRKEN.-A young gentleman and
morning, and registered themselves at the City
hotel as John Brush and Miss Susan Braden.
Staunton, Va. The gentleman sent for a minis
ter, and when the Rev. Or. Busey, of the NJ. f.
Shureh South, had arrived, q license was pro-
duced and the couple were soon united in the
hoiy bonds, in the presence of the assembled
guests OF the hotel. The supposition is that the
twain are runaway couple.
, RESIGNED THE CANDIDACY.-Itis understo ID
that H. ). Laws, the cOlored republican candi-
GATE for clerk of the county court, has resigned
his candidacy in favor of Mr.. Louis K. Payne
Stnftnet, last eU6ning.
RAILROAD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT from the
west who arrived here this morning, report tn at
rock almost as large as a locomotive rolled
down the mountain short distance beyond
cumberland, last night, few minutes after the
track watcher had passed the spot, and lodged
upon The track, and that the night train for the
west was wrecked there a few minutes after
wards. The locomotive and baggage car we're
smashed, the engineer and fireman scalded so
badly that they died in short tme after the
accident occurred, and fifteen or twenty pas
sengers injured; some severely.
BURIED MoNEY.-It has just been recOllected
mat the pantaOOns in which the remains Of the
late Mr.. John Doran were buried last Sunday
afternoon contained considerable amount of
money, aud as the family he left can i'll afford
10 lose 1t, the body will PROBABLY be disinterred
ana the buried treasure recovered.
PROPERTY SALEs.-F. A. Kerry, real estate
agent, has sold the three twO-storied framed
houses on the northeast corner of st. Asaph and
stand, that belonged to Mrs. Sarah Ann Spinks,
to MIR. Thomas Dwyer, for $500.
AS THE LEEsBURG TRAIN on its way to thl s
city left Hunters Mill this afternoon a colored
who was cunning picked up stone and threw
II with such force at the locomotive as to break
through the latter's covering Of sheet iron. The
train was stopped and the rascal chased, but
capped.
SNow:-The first snow of the seasonal
"spit," fell last night. 1t lasted about ten min
ntes, melting as soon as it reached the ground.
1t was two and a-half inches deep just west of
Cumberland yesterday, and between Connells-
vile and Cumberland snow fell all day yester-
day and the night before and the mountains
there were white.
PARTIES in Philadelphia, practical men as
well a. capitalists, are making inquiries for a
proper site in this city for an iron furnace and
rolling mill, to be established here at an early
day.
LARGE NUMBERS of wild geese flew over this
city 10, day, on their way south-an indication,
1t is said, of approaching cold weather.-Ga
-gfFs In 81
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Az Inc1nrnr orrnE HArrIEN MAn-r

AN Incident OF THE HAYTIEN WAR-Tred-
son ard Death Of Gen. Gdrcid.-It appears from
letters from San Domingo that the report tele-
graphed from st. Thomas that Garcia, one of
the generals of BaeZ, had gone over TO the Hay
ten side was correct, SO far as the treason of
Garcia was concerned. He was, it is stated
bought with Haytien gold-British sOvereigns-
and bought cheap; but instead of carrying with
him eco men, he only took thirty of his COM
maBd. 1t is stated that Garcia was promptly
killed by his former comrades in his first fight
with them on Dominican soil, and that Luperon
and his men were driven back into Hayti. Pre-
sident Baez's term of six years expires on the
LIST Of April next. It Is understood he positively
declines to be a candidate for reelection. The
two candidates in the feld-for Cabral and Lu-
peron are classed as persons in the United States
class Train and Daniel Pratt-are Gen. Caceres,
the Vice President, ana Louis Derocher. col
lector Of customs at Puerto Plata. Both are
said to be good men and the election of either
would be cheerfully approved by the general
community. Both were warm annexatienists
and regard fayorably the spread 81 American
enterprise on the island