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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14

he himself had done That seemed, l
know, all natural and simple TO him; 1
don't believe that he has ever understood
to this day what anybody wondered at in
it, or made a hero of him for. For the
noblest people are the people who are no.
BILE without knowing it; and the same
rule, | fancy, holds good, too, for dogs.
81 got him to a resting place at last,
after weary ride, and then | had his
wounds dressed; but it was weeks before
he could stand upon his feet again, and
when at last he began to walk he limped,
and he has gone on limping ever since
The bone of one leg was SO crushed that
it couldn't be set properly, and so that
limb is shorter than the other three. He
does MT mind it much, / dare say-I
don't think he ever debut it has been a
pathetic lameness to me, boys It's all an
old story now, you KNOW" said Uncle
Dick, abruptly, but it's one of those
things tn at "a man does MT forget, and that
it would be shame to him if he ever could
forget as long as his life lasts.'
Uncle Dick stopped down again as he
ceased to speak, and Rolf, disturbed by
the silence. raised his head to look about
him. As his master had said, it was a
grand old head still, though the eyes were
growing dim now with age. Uncle Dick
laid his hand upon it, and the bushy tail
began to wag. 1t had wagged at the
touch of that hand for many a long day.
We've been together for fifteen years.
He's getting old now,' said Uncle Dick
Our Young Folks.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY, JUNE "A, 1873

eighty seven dollars, with few small
items of liabilities | have not enumerated,
but which are overcome by bills due not
counted in this statement. | can safely
say | have in my own right over two
thousand"
Then the little difference in results
thus far appears to be on your side; but ii
we consider that my property is secure
from all liability, while yours is encum-
bered by entangling alliances that may at
any time cause you trouble if not loss,
| must claim that my exemption from
debt weighs heavily in my favor replied
Matthew.
After many interchanges of personal
experience, and planning for the future,
the two. friends separated.
Thomas pored over his ledger a few
years, when failing health caused by too
close confinement and facilitating habits,
forced him to retire upon a capital of six
thousand dollars-sufficient, if .iudiciously
handled, to enable him to eat without the
sweat of his brow.
Bernard returned to his plow, and by
hard labor and careful expenditure, in less
than five years more he was able to, and
did, purchase Deacon Howland's farm,
free from encumbrance and well stocked
receiving as free gift Bertha Rowland,
who made him, as he was wont to say,
feel richer than all his acres could"
Studious to a degree, he added fertility to
his original and later purchased acres, un-
til now, in the full strength of manhood,
he is counted as the wcalthest man in
town-all brought about by Hammering it
Through.-Rural Ne,o Yorker.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
Don't Box the Children's Ears.

CHILDREN's ears ought never to be
boxed. We have seen that the passage OF
the ear is closed by thin membrane
especially adapted to be Influenced by
every impulse of the air, and with nothing
but the air to support it internally. What
then, can be more likely to injure this
membrane than sudden and forcible com
preston ofthe air in front of it? If any
one designed to break or overstrefch the
membrane, he could scarcely devise a
more effective means than to bring the
hand suddenly and forcibly down upon
the passage of the ear, thus driving the air
violently before it, with no possibility for
its escape but by the membrane giving
way. And far too often it does give way,
especially if, from any previous disease,
it has been weakened. Many children are
made deaf by boxes on the ear in this way
Nor is this the only way; if there is one
thing which does the nerve of hearing
more harm than almost any other, it is a
sudden jar or shock. Children and grown
persons alike may be entirely deafened by
falls or heavy blows upon the head And
boxing the ears produces a similar effect,
though more slowly and in less degree. 1t
tends to dull the sensibility of the nerve,
even if it did not hurt the membrane. l
knew pitiful case, once, of poor youth
who died from Il terrible disease of the
ear He had discharge from it since he
was a child. OF course his hearing had
been dull; and what had happened
was that his father had often boxed
his ear for inattenlion! Most likely that
boxing on the ear, diseased as it was, had
much to do with his dying. And this
brings me to the second point. Children
should never be blamed for being inatten-
tive, until it has been found out whether
they are little deaf This is easily done
by placing them at few yards distance,
and trying whether they can understand
what is said to them in a rather low tone
of voice. Each ear should be tried,
while the other is stopped by the finger.
do not say that children are never guilty
of inattention, especially to that which
they do not particularly wish to hear; but
do say that very many children are
blamed and punished for inattention when
they really do not hear And there is
nothing at once more cruel and more hurt
full to the character of children than to be
found fault with for what is really their
Three things should be re-
membered here: 1. That slight degrees
of deafness, often lasting only for time,
are very common among children, es-
pecially during or after colds. 2. That
a slight deafness, which does not prevent
Il person from hearing when he is expect
ing to be spoken to, will make him very
dull to what he is not expecting; and, B,
That there is kind of deafness in which
IL person can hear pretty well while lis
tening, but is really very hard of hearing
when not listening.-Popular Science
WoUtdly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14

| how ugly she looked as corpse she
would never have drowned herself. 1t is
| the nature of woman to shrink from the
unseemly and when she cuts her throat
she invariably does so over a basin, to-
keep from spelling the carpets and dab
bling her clothes.
1t might be taken for satire upon the
| superfluous humaneness of our laws that,
while only 81 persons were strangled in
| 1870 by the hangman's rope, 80 hanged
| themselves with their own ropes. In spite
| of Ophelia's fate, the love maniacs hang
rather than drown themselves, nor do they
go much more frequently to the rivers in
May and June and July, when the water
| is inviting enough to wash despair away,
than in December and November. Fire
! arms are not near so much used in sum-
mer as in winter, but poison keeps up
pretty steady average, except in May,when
heartbroken girls fly to Paris green and
the laudanum bottle, and do more eXecu-
ton in that way than the men. In fact
men do not like to poison themselves, and
while the deaths of men from gun-shot
wounds are sixteen times as many as those
of W. men, from the razor over four times
as many as those of women, and from the
rope nearly five times, from poison there
are very few more men die than women.
In an aggregate of 1,345 suicides there
are only Is of colored persons and In
dian. Nothing could better prove the
contented disposition and happy tempera-
ment Of our colored brother than this re-
markable fact, that while the white man
takes his life at the rate of in 100000 the
negro only does so at the rate of 4 in
100000, or in other words t. C white man
commits 10 suicides in proportion to the
negro's 1. The proportion of suicides
among our citizens of foreign birth is rela-
lively greater than that among natives, and
of these much larger than the proper
tionate share falls to the Germans. Thus
Germany has 1,690,410 natives in this
country to 1,S55,S27 natives of Ireland.
But there were 246 suicides of German
birth to only 104 of Irish birth, showing a
proportion of very nearly 3 to 1. The
French fiction of the Englishman's pro-
clivity to suicide is not borne out by these
tables. On the contrary, while 550,6SS
persons English born produced AZ suicides
or in 1900, 1920 persons French
born produced 10 suicides, or in 5000.
If the taking of the census improves in
accuracy as it has done heretofore, we
may hope that in 1880 the class of mot
specified means of suicide and of 'un-
known" nationality will have practically
disappeared In that event, and having
need a Quetelet to derive from our
statistics of suicide, in comparison with
those of other nations, the means towards |
the solution of some of the most important
social problems and biological questions |
that are now stumbling blocks in the way
of political development.-N. Y. World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
What is Intilt.

DURING the earlier visits of the royal
family to Balmoral, Prince Albert, dressed
in very simple manner, was crossing
one of the Scotch lakes in Il steamer, and
was curious to note everything relating to
the management of the vessel, and among
other things, the cooking. Approaching
the galley" where brawny Highlander
was attending to the culinary matters, he
was attracted by the savory odors of a
compound known by the Scotchmen as
..hodge-podge" which the Highlander was
preparing. a.. p.,. ,,o
was not known to the cook.
"Hodee- podge, sir" was the reply.
"How is it made." was the next ques-
ton.
"Why, there's mutton intil't, and turnips
intiTt, and"
YES, yes" said the Prince, who had
not learned that "intil't' means Unto it."
expressed by the contraction "intilt," but
what is intil't?'
..Why there's mutton intil't, and turnips
intil't, and carrots intil't and"
.'Yes, | see; but what is intilt?"
The man looked at him, and seeing that
the Prince was serious replied:
There's mutton intllt, and turnips in
till and"
Eyes, certainly, KNOW" urged the in
ouirer: but what is intilt-intit?"
..Yc daft gowkr' yelled the Highlander,
brandishing his big spoon, lam | ma tell
in YOU what's intilt? There's mutton
intil't, and"
Here the interview was brought to a
close by one of the Princes suite, who
was fortunately passing, who stepped in
Ito save His Royal Highness from being
rapped over the head with big spoon, in
lii search for information from the cook.
3
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
Youths Department.
THE SEASONS.

MARY.
How love the blooming Spring,
When the birds so gayly singl
JOHN.
More the Summer me delights,
With its lovely days and nights.
EMILY
Autumn is the best of all,
With its fruit for great and small.
RICHARD.
Nay! old Winter is the time.
p Jolly then the sleigh bells chimel
GRANDMOTHER
Every Season will be bright,
Children, if you'll live Alright.
The Nursery.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-14
Poetry.
LEFT ALONE At EIGHTY.

ny ALICE RoBBrSs.
WHAT did you say, dear, breakfast!
Yor are very kind. dear Ellie,
Go, tell them not to wait
I'll dress quick a. ever can,
Nv old hands tremble sore,
And Polly, who used to help dear hearth
Lies t'other side o. the door.
Put up the old pipe, deary,
couldn't smoke to-day;
Tn sort o. dazed and frightened,
And don't know what To say.
It's lonesome in the house here,
And lonesome out o. door
never knew what Lonesome meant,
In all my life, before.
The bees 60 humming, the whole day long,
And the hrst June rose has piown'
And am eighty. dear Lord to-dAy,
Too old 10 be left aionei
o, heart Of love so still and cold,
o precious lips! so white
For the fins, sad hours in sixty years,
You were out Of my REACH last night.
You've cut the flower. You're very kind.
She rooted it. last May,
twas only a slip; pulled the rose,
And threw the stem away:
But she. sweet thrifty soul, bent down,
And planted it where she stood;
Dear, maybe the flowers are living" she eaid,
asleep in this Bill Of wood"
I can't rest. deary-I cannot rest;
Let the old man have his will
And wander from porch to garden post
The house Is so deathly still,
Wander, and long for = sight Il the gate
She has left ajar for mo
We had got 80 used to each other, dear,
So used to each other you see.
Sixty years, and so wise and good,
She made me q better man.
From the moment kissed her fair yohng face,
And our lovers life began
And seven fine boys she has given me,
And ont of the seven. not one
But the noblesf father in all the land
Would be proud 10 call his son.
o. WELL dear Lord, I'll be patient,
But feel sore broken up;
AT eighty years. it's an awesome thing
To drain such bitter cup.
I know there's Joseph and John and Hal,
And four good men beside.
But hundred sons couldn't be to me
Like the woman made my bride.
Nv little Polly-so bright and fart
50 winsoms and good and sweet
She had roses twined in her sunny hair,
White shoes on her dainty feet:
And held her hand-was it yesterday
That we stood up TO be wed?
And-No, remember. I'm eighty to-day,
And my dear wife, Polly. is dead,
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-15
THE QUARTERLY COURT.
Proceedings OF the I.asi Meeting.

Proceedings OF the I.ast Meeting.
After the usual reading and approving
of the minutes, the report of the Chair
man was read and adopted.
The entire, aggregate amount OF Knox
county's Indebtedness, up to the first Mon
day in January, 1878, is $50, 034 39i. There
is due and owing to the county in the ag-
gregate, for county revenue from taxes
and other claims, including the follow
ing amount, $7,644 81, due from II. l.,
w. Mynatt, former County Trustee. and
his securities, with interest on the same,
and for which judgment has been rem
dered against the said Mynatt and his. Sc
curities in the Circuit Court of Knox
county, at its October term for 1871, and
upon which judgment executions have
been issued, SAL ,066 -.
The bonded debt for bonds issued to the
KnoXvilleand Charleston, and the Knox
vile and Kentucky Railroad Companies is
100000. Of this sum there has been re-
deemed by the county, from time to time,
81 700, leaving a balance due of said bonds
of Sl57,300. To meet a portion of this
amount the trustee has on hand $l1 900
Tennessee bonds, which, with the interest
due on them, amounts to $lS,3l0. There
have been bridge bonds issued to the
amount of $l35, 900 The interest on the
bridge bonds amounts to Sl0,S0O, and the
interest on the railroad bonds amounts to
50 ,43S, making the total amount of interest
on the bonded debt $50, 23S.
The following gentlemen were appointed
to serve as Grand Jurors ut the next term
of the Criminal Court
First District, M. j. r. Smith; ID, w.
A. A. Conner; Sd, James Clanton; 4th,
Pryor Rutherford and II. Clapp; 5th,
Squire Norris and l.. Il. Shell; 9Th, VIM.
H. Crawford; eth, W.. p. Cline; Sth, II.
Debooth; 9th, ]. M. Yarnell; 10th, S. Il.
Brown; 18th, J. w. Vents, Esq; 18th, G..
w. Weaver and Huston Keith; 18th, Reu-
ben Thurman and Thomas Nation; 18th,
j. p. Ford; 18th, VIM. White; 10Th, Jas
Mcmillan; 18th, G. Munday; 18th, j. NJ.
Caldwell; 10Th, j. NJ. Roberts; Goth, Ben
jamin J. Hartley; 21st, Andrew Goddard.
The following gentlemen were appointed
to serve as Grand Jurors at the next term
of the Circuit Court:
LIST District, David Smith . J. w.
Bounds 3, J. J. Harris; 4, Fred. Coram ;
5 John Lester; 6, Samuel Mckinney
Z, II. c. Ogg and J. NJ. McCloud; s, Ed,
ward Ellis; 9, j. NJ. Galloway; 10, J. S.
Burnett: II, Marcus Smith; II, c. G.
Story; Il, John Lingingfelter Il, c. A.
Swabe; 10, d. +. Diamond and John
| Rose; l6, Henry Gift; Il, j. NJ. Arm
| strong 49, Il. NJ. Epps 10, A. f. Smith /;
20, Albert lookout q, c. G.. Rody.
On motion the Quarterly Court adjourn
ell till court in course.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-15
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
Our city Free schools Their Present
Condition.

On yesterday we made call on Mr..
Baird, the obliging Principal of the city
free schools, and found him as ever willing
to oblige us with all the facts we wished,
and volunteered to accompany us on our
round We found the attendance TO
be very good, and the scholars are begin
ming to get over their fright of smallpox,
&C. The last months average attendance
was small, caused 20 Son!c extent by ac.ua!
sickness among the children, such as chick
enpox and mumps, but to a great extent
by such foolish reports of the smallpox and
other dangerous contagious diseases being
among the scholars. We visited each
school, or class according to their number,
This makes a total enrolment in all the
city free schools of ,02B, and the total nv
erage attendance of the last month 73l
scholars. At our last report, November
2lth, the average utiefIuutice WAS 1857,
something above the enrolment of the
present month. There has been a great
falling Off in the attendance of the schol-
ars during the past month, much of which
was caused, rs before stated, by sickness,
yet in many instances, parents undoubted-
~ are much to blame. The children be-
came rather demoralized during the holt
days, and not being held strictly to their
duty by their parents many of them have
taken two weeks, instead of one for enjoy
ment, having for an excuse the foolish
| rumors Of smallpox being in the families
of some of the children. We are glad to
see, however, that these unfounded rumors
are about dispelled, and that the indica-
tons, judging from the attendance yes
terday, are that during the present month
the schools will again rise to the average
attendance of November, if they do not
make gain on those figures. We regret
that our space is too limited to admit of Il
more extensive notice of each school, but
would here state that all the teachers seem
| to feel II deep interest in popular educa-
ton, and particularly in the cultva-
ting the minds of the children
| placed under their immediate charge. 1t
is to be hoped that this good work of pop
ular education will go bravely on, and that
all our citizens will take deeper interest
in this matter. There are, doubtless, now
numbers of children who are not going to
any school, and who could be easily
brought into the free schools by little
eXertion on the part of the friends of the
cause We would like to be able, at oul
next visit to the schools, to chronicle the
enrolment of at least 800 instead of the
present n"mber of y little over LOCO,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-15

From the Greeneville Sentinel and Re-
porter, of yesterday, we condense as fol-
lows:
On Tuesday at about three o'clock, II. d.,
information was conveyed TO the coroner
that a white man, by the name of jeff
Casey, had come to his Death by voluntary
hanging. The deed was committed in an
open field upon the Remine place, two
miles from town, and near the house of
the deceased. The cause of the suicide was
the INCONSISTENCY of his wife, who had taken
up with certain paramours, and would not
be turned from her evil course by entreaties
or eXpostulations.
Casey had a quarrel with his wife on
Tuesday morning, and attempted then to
shoot himself, but was prevented by his
mother-in law, who was present. He then
left the house, threatening to destroy his
life, and was found by colored man about
noon hanging to the limb of wild Eiutn
tree in The open field. He had used an
old saddle girth for u rope. When cut
down his body was still warm, but life was
extinct. An inquest was held and 2 ver-
diet in accordance with the facts rendered.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-15
From Sullivan County.

BLoUNTvILLE, Tenn, Jan. S, 1878.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: To say we were
barren of news in Sullivan, would he to
tell flat hb, for we have had IA rwo-days
Quarterly County Court, that Matched
gossip enough to spread over ever so many
pages, and then we had merry Christ
mas and happy New Year, but the trou-
bic is we can't get it all in telling shape.
Mcclellan, former Chairman of our Coun-
ty Court, was reelected, as also was
Wolford one Of the Associate Justices !;
the only change being that of James Cole
who was elected to fill the place of the
former Associate, King, who declined q
reelection.
The report of the Chairman showed the
county in r prosperous condition, tiancial-
ly, and that its receipts were several thou
sand in excess of its expenditures, and
that few years more of rigid and skilful
engineering would place the credit of our
county alongside with the most wealthy
counties of the State.
The Indebtedness of our county is now
about eight thousand dollars, and a special
levy was made for the purpose of meeting
the outstanding liabilities, which makes
us easy and shows us honest. Some of our
countrymen are anxious for our present
Legislature to enlarge the jurisdiction OF
County Courts, that is give them power to
hear and determine all grades of crime un-
der felony. We hope they will weigh
the matter well before even touching it,
with even a forty foot pole.
Holiday festivities were blghted some
what by the intensely cold weather,
nevertheless indefatigable Sabbath School
teachers made the dreariest evening cheer
full as May morning. Prof Gale, at this
place, made the little ones happy at their
homes, and joyous and cheerful at their
school room, but best and most Christian
of all he made a sumptuOus New Years
dinner for the poor of the poor house,
and caused their sad hearts to throb with
good cheer and thankfuness for
at least one time in the New
Year. Mr.. Gale in his kind endea-
vor was nobly seconded by the citizens of
Blountville.
The schools of Arcadia had n real social,
happy New Year. Arcadia Union Sab
bath School, led by its faithful Superin-
tendent w. II. II. Gaines, celebrated its
tweuty-tirst anniversary on the beginning
of the New Year, and everything that was
pleasant, interesting and good was there.
All that trouble, patience and expense
would purchase was there to beautify and
instruct; and indeed ii was festive Oc-
casion.
Kingsly Methodist Sabbath School on
the Sabbath afterwards surpassed in some
respects its honored rival, the Arcadia Tn
ion School, in the richness of beauty and
purity of its anniversary exercises. To
measure with the industry and devotion
of Joseph II. Ketron, Superintendent OF
Kingsly NJ. +. Sabbath School, it requires
almost more than human endurance and
Christian energy.
The horse disease has about spent its
force, and Fox and Morgan again fill their
accustomed places, and all that have horses
ride again. HENRY.