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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
The HumOrs of Moving.

THE first Sunday in the new house is a
notable day. There is an entire absence
of old land marks, and a strange, weird
newness on everything, and you can't
find your shaving soap. You start for a
scuttle of coal, but you don't see the scut-
tie. 1t is in the bottom of barrel in the
garnet. You take the dripping-pan.
When you change your shirt you look for
ii first 1t is in one of the bureau draw
ers, which are piled one upon another in the
parlor, and you find you have got to lift a
half ton of carpets and feather-beds before
you can get down to the drawers. After
you have lifted them down and searched
them through, it is remembered by your
wife that the desired garment is in one of
the barrels-the one in the shed, she
thinks, although it may be the one in the
garnet, and yet it would be just like the
stupid carman to have carried that barrel
down-cellar. A bed-quilt comes out first,
then pie-tin, next a piece of cold ham,
neatly done up in your vest and packed
away in the missing scuttle. Below is an
assortment of irOnware and a length of
stovepipe. a half loaf of bread, a couple
of towels, and a rolling pin. You begin to
expect you will eventually come upon a
coal-mine, and perhaps some dead
friend. Then you go down in that barrel
again, and come up with apleasing assort-
uiCut vi anu
cine bottles. The way you come up this
time leads you to consider the barrel itself.
1t has caught in the back of your vest, and
made the cloth let go; it took off one half
of one sleeve, and created a sensation on
the back of your hand as if a bonfire had
ragged there. 1t is quite evident the cooper
who built that barrel was called away be-
fore he commenced to clinch the nails
You inv,luntarily grasp the rolling pin
and look around as if you had expected
to see him. Then you call the girl to re-
pack the BARREL and start upstairs to look
after something that is easier to find, but
finally change your mind, and pass the
balance of the day in digging carpet tacks
and worthless wood from the palms of
your feet, and connecting lies about the
wealth of your uncle; and the moon looks
through the window at night, and touches
up with a glow of FURNISHED silver several
lengths of stovepipe, a half dozen odd
chairs, a sheet of dingy zinc, and a barrel
with bed-quilts foaming over the top
Ddn5ury Meas.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
Mixed Swindling.

CALIFORNIA has this drama: One Whit
ney, having sum of money in bank, and
owing an equal sum, consulted one
Dixon as to the best means of avoiding
payment Dixon promptly counseled
that Whitney should withdraw the money
and lodge ii secretly in his hands, so that
it could not be attached by legal process.
This was done; but when Whitney de-
sired to withdraw the sum from his in
gcnious and guileless friend the latter de-
MED all knowledge of the transaction
Thereupon the despoiled Whitney Graves
the interposition of the law, and makes Il
clean breast of it, The legal myrmidons
overhaul Dixon, and it is at last dis
covered that he has made over the cash to
an evil woman named r. harrison, with
the understanding that both are to fly, re-
Joining each other in a distant CITY, where
they can diffusS the booty in peace
Searching and urgent investigation of this
person disclosed the fact that she had just
perfected her arrangements to throw over
board her fellow felOn and run away with
another man; man of the Hoodlum
color, with taking eye and correct
taste in hair Oil Search for this young
man brought to light the amusing fact
that he had spent quite a portion of the
money in purchasing "a fugitive outfit for
another young woman, who as soon as
she had got the articles, did literally and
actually fly with still another young man
about whom nothing is known, except
that he seems to be the only one in this
strange succession of criminals who has
reaped any of the fruits of the original
crime. Considering the extreme compli-
cation and embarrassment of everybody
concerned, and the small likelihood that
he will ever get any of his money back, it
is possible that Whitney may now almost
wis hot i'm of hicT
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
Kindness is Economy.

WE trust that we may not speak in vain
when we appeal to the boys of the farm, to
the farmers themselves, and to the "hired
men," to exercise the utmost care and
kindness in the treatment Of domestic an
Imals. 1t is standing disgrace to hui
mainly that laws and associations for the
prevention of cruelty to animals are at all
necessary in this country. To the credit
of the farmers, be it said, that among
them the cases of malicious, fragrant cru
city are far less numerous than among
those who have occasion to use and care
for the useful domestic animals in our cit
es and towns. On the farm, ownership
goes great ways in conducting to Il rit-
tional course toward the brute creation. In
the large cities, where so many horses and
mules are entrusted to the hands of hired
drivers, half brutes naturally, and made
still more brutal by the use of liquor, it is
not matter of so much wonder that VIC
lent abuse often occurs that renders neces-
sary the enforcement of laws for protec-
ton, or that societies exist for this specific
purpose. But it is not with the latter that
the Prairie Farmer, very fortunately, has
to do. With this class, reason is out of
the question, even at times of personal in
terview; printed appeals are still more
useless. But on the farm, luckily, such is
not often the case.
With the farmer and his boys, at least,
the ill-treatment of stock, whether used for
work or otherwise, the matter becomes
one of dollars and cents as well as one of
humanity. The horse that is spoiled i
temper or habits by vicious management
is deprecated in value. The COW that is
maltreated becomes habitually vicious
loses her milk product, and her keeping
results in loss instead of profit The
manning, or murder if we may So call il,
of either becomes dead loss to the peck
ct This.is so whether injury results from
wilfIllneSs or hcedlcSsnesS in a moment of
passion, neglect, or injudicious though
well meant treatment But it must in
truth be said that these principles are far
less acted upon by farmers than in all rca
son one would expect. The actual loss To
farmers by culpable ill-trcaiment of do
nestle animals in any of our States would
more than pay the farm taxes thereof;
while those resulting from ignorance and
carelcssness would double the amount
There can he no question concerning the
truth of these statements. For their vcri-
fication let any thoughtful reader take 4
careful survey of the condition of the
matter in his own neighborhood and town
ship. We are all roundly prating about
our unjust taxation caused by the dis
honesty of officials, the rings and mono
poles, which in Heavens name we would
not palliate in the least but while seek
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
Letter From a SchOOlbOy.

MY DEAR GRANDMOTHER: One of
my elbows came through, but the woman
sewed it up again. I've used up both balls
of my Irvine. And my white handled knife
i guess it went through a hole in my
pocket, that | didn't know of till after
my knife was lost. My trowsers grow
pretty short. But she says it's partly my
legs getting long. I'm glad of that. And
partly getting them wet. | stubbed my
toe against a stump, and tumbled down
and scraped hole through the knee of
my Oldest pair. For it was very rotten
cloth. l guess the hole is too crooked to
have her sew it up again. She thinks a
mouse ran up the leg, and knawed the
hole my knife went through to get the
crumbes in the pocket. | don't mean
when they We're on me, but hanging up.
| did what you told me when get wet
! hung my clothes around the kitchen
stove on three chairs, but the cooking
girl, she flung them under the table. So
now go wrinkled, and the boys chase
me to smooth out the wrinkles. | don't
skip over any button-holes in the morning
now, so my jacket comes out even. Why
didn't you tell me l had red head?
They said they'd pull my hair if it weren't
for burning their fingers. Dorry said he
guessed my hair was tired of standing up,
and wanted to lie down to rest. I wish
you would please send me new comb,
for the large end of mine has got all but
five teeth broken out, and the small end
can't get through. can't get it cut, be
cause the barber has raised his price
Send quite a stout one. l have lost two
of my peck and another
went up on Dorry's kite and flew away.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
All the Same.

PERHAPS some women in the world
have thought that if the conventionality
which gives men only the privilege of
proposing marriage could be done away
with, allowing women openly to enter the
field as lovers and pursuers, there would
be some real sincerity in avowals, con
stancy in love, and happiness in wedlock
II looks as if there might be all these adj
vantages, but a case in point proves the
appearance IA delusion.
y beautiful Boston woman lost her rich
husband and becomingly grieved for him.
Where she had enjoyed so much happi-
ness was the worst place in the world to
mourn. She therefore lightened the load
of sorrow as much as possible by leaving
Boston on "A protracted visit to lady
friend in Montreal, also a recent widow.
The two widows cultivated their weeds
together, and made the house quite inter
esting. 1t was especially so to twenty
year old son of the widow friend of the
Boston widow. He deeply sympathized
with the grief of the visitor and to tell
the truth fell madly in love with her The
mother watched him with jealous eyes.
She knew how things were, and thought
1t was improper To thus intrude upon the
grief of her guest The visitor in black
knew how things were, too, but she pre-
tended sorrowful ignorance. The boy had
never told his love, but it spoke SO elo-
quently in attentions, that his mother
thought it To be her duty to send him out
West. A place was provided for him and
he was sent. The Boston lady in black
wept her full and honest year, and she be
gan in time to sympathize with the poor
boy, banished from home, as she well
knew on her account She thought the
matter over-in age she had the advantage
of him only few years, and
well she wrote tn the boy telling
him that the unspoken cause Of his
abrupt alienation from home involved
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
WOmen's Real Needs.
BY EMILY FAITHFUL.

IL England there are now three million
women dependent on their own exertions.
To tell such as these that woman's proper
sphere is home, is mockcry, for they are
forced from their homes to get bread.
Though many barrier to woman's earn
ing a livelihood has been broken down,
there are still terrible difficulties in find
ing employment for women. Specially
onerous is the effort in the case of those
of fallen fortunes. members of the genteel
classes. True it is that young men now
find it hard to get suitable work; they
often have to 90 West But there is no
analogy among them to the wholesale
yearly destruction of consciences, bodies
and souls, among women-destruction too
often brought about by destitution.
How can tendcr-hearted people fold
their hands while so many of their sisters
are driven to the gates of perdition by
want of bread, Statements are published
that capable women, willing to work, can
get employment at good wages. Good,
steady, skilled labor is wanted in just
those departments where women have
gained position. The unremitting, earnest
application required to acquire skill in
these departments, is hard for women to
go through. In them, love Of work, for
its own sake, is no more inherent than in
men Moreover, women are always look
ing for the appearance Of the possible
emancipation. Men have nothing but their
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07

The McEnery militia of Louisiana, in
their prompt surrender to the United
States troops, have given another proof of
their unwillingness to come in collision
with the Federal Government. or to violate
a Federal law. They would not surrender
to kellogg's Metropolitan police, nor sub
nit to the detestable usurpation which the
ignoble task of upholding. They were
prepared for battle with the Metropolitans,
and but for the appearance of the Federal
troops on the field, they would have made
short work of them, and driven Kellogg,
unsupported as he is by any portion of
the Louisiana people, black or white,
from the State. But the moment the
United States Marshal with his posse of
United States troops demanded the sur
render of the militia officers. they deliver
ed their swords and persons to that func-
tionary, and disbanded their forces. Col.
DeBlanc, commanding the militia, in his
report of the disarmament, says:
We separated fully organized. and for one.
only one reason: We did not intend wish 10
eral troops, and by doing. assist those who had
connected plan TO place Us in the alternative of
submitting to the police or committing high treason
against the United Stafes-'
Sooner or later the admirable temper
and good sense which the people of Louis
lana have exhibited in this transaction
and in all their dealings with the Federal
authorities during these unhappy troubles
will bring their reward. Their cause is
gaining ground in the country; indeed,
there is hardly single intelligent man in
the North now who does not concede the
righteousness of their cause, and admit
the unrighteOusness of the usurpation
which President Grant so unwisely re-
solved to recognize. This usurpation is
bound to fall, and, it may be, injure some
very high persOnages in its fall; and if
the people of Louisiana shall continue to
exhibit their patience little while longer.
they will surely see the triumph of their
cause The United States army and its
Commander-in-C Chief are on the side of
Kellogg, but the people of the United
States are not.-.MssourS Republican, Nay
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
The Value of a Receipt.

To SHOW that it is duty which a man
owes to his family to take receipts for all
sums of money which he pays out the
Milwaukee Wisconsin, tells the following
story:
"A case recently came before the Judge
of Probate in this city which was more
than usually interesting and important. A
not mention, but who was known to many
of our readers, died about five years ago
He left considerable though not extern
sive estate, which was not administered
until certain parties filed claims against it,
which would have expired by limitation
at the end of six years. The estate was
brought into court, and the claims were
taken up in regular order. They were
quite numerous, and embraced n large
variety of interests, wOrkingmen, trades
people and professional men. The indi-
vidual amounts of the claims ranged from
SIS up to 5000.
The $1,000 claim was filed by n man
who asserted that he had been interested
in certain real estate transactions with the
deceased; that Il considerable amount of
money was made, but that he Qhe claim
anti had not received his share. A num-
Der of witnesses We're sworn and great
deal of evidence was taken which went TO
substantiate the validity of the claim
against the estate. 1t was generally known
that the gentlemen had been associated to-
gether in real estate speculations, and that
they had made money.
The attorney for the heirs, after having
listened to all the evidence that was
brought to prove the claim, came forward
and produced "A receipt, which, though
not for 5000, was proved to pc a receipt
in full for the actual share ofthe claimant.
This was a brief defense, but it was effec-
tive. OF the other claims we will make
no mention, as they were smaller and less
important than the one detailed. Suffice
to say that of claims to the amount of
$1,000 which were put forward, only $35
was allowed. The estate of the deceased
was found to be in excellent order; he had
receipts for all expenditures, and the
property was saved to the heirs
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
The Louisiana Precedent.

When Attorney General Williams was
asked a few days ago under what law the
United States troops were employed TO
sustain the Kellogg government in Lou
isiana, he replied that he did not know
and did not care, but that the Admins
fration was determined to stand by Kel-
logg i'll any event.
The nations trained under the English
common law are the worshipers and al
most the slaves of precedent Judges of
courts sitting in Westminster Hall, IN
Australia. in Canada, in the Capitol ut
Washington, and in every State of the
Union, frequently decide important ques-
tons in particular way for no other
reason than that like questions were so de
cided by some court two or three hundred
wears ago. The British Parliament and
the American Congress very often Tegu-
late their proceedings and even determ inc
the extent of their powers by hunting for
examples to guide them among the moldy
records of parliaments which sat in the
times of the Tudors and the Stuarts.
When the English nation had driven ont
the last James, and were resolved to place
William of Orange on the throne, Macau-
lay tells us they could not summon cour-
age enough to do it until they had found
a precedent, which seemed 10 cover the
case, away back among the Plantagenets.
To do strange thing or wrong thing
the first time requires firn;ness or audacity
1t is easier to do the one or the other the
second or the third time, while the tenth
repetition will render innovations popu
lar, and cover even crimes with the sane
ton of usage.
These are trite sayings. 1t is their ap-
plication to passing events which invests
IheIi with more than ordinary importance.
The President and his Attorney General
and Secretary of War tell the American
people it is none of their business how they
are employing the army in Louisiana, even
though II be to put down the regularly
elected authorities of the State and uphold
"A corrupt rpet-bagger and his thieving
refainers, who, having first plundered its
citizens, have now usurped control of its
government. The people barely listen to
this, utter a languid exclamation of con-
tempt for what they call a quarrel among
factious politicians, and go on with their
farming, their trading, and their money
getting
But the precedent is established, and
with scarcely protest, that the Federal
Government may use its army to over
throw and set up State Governments at
will And what is done this year under
plausible pretexts in New Orleans, may
be done under some pretence or other ere
long in Albany, Harrisburg, or Columbus;
and much easier done in Northern CAPT
tails then, because it is permitted to be
done now in Louisiana without arousing
such a spirit of resistance all over the
country as would make the Administra-
ton pause.
If Gen. Jackson's Attorney General had
dared to utter such reply as Williams
did, how Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun
would have made the land ring with
patriotic denunciations. But the Websters,
the Clays, and the Calhouns are gone, and
the Pinchbacks, the Claytons, and the
Pattersons have crawled into their seats
Netr York Sun
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
Overwhelming.

THE pernicious habit of overwhelming
particular sections of the air we breathe
in rooms which we have to quit from time
to time 10 dive into sharply cold atmOs-
phere-is one of the most dangerous
habits of our social life. The wonder is
that SO many of our young girls escape
the natural consequences of plunging from
extreme heat into extreme cold half a
dozen times i'm the course of an evening"
as they must do when they leave the din
ing-rOom for Il dart across the pavement,
the close brougham for the open vestibule
of theatre, and the unwholesome and
oppressive warmth of an opera-boX for
still another pause in the cold corridor,
and still another plunge in the street be
fore being whirled home. In many cases
these risks appear to be almost unavoida-
Bile, so long as our present notions of social
amusement remain.
When twenty or thirty people are dane
ing, or pretending to dance, and sixty or
seventy others are standing packed to-
gether, In a room 40x25 feet, the atmos-
phere of that room soon begins to differ
perceptibly from the atmosphere about
the region of the stairs, where a powerful
draught is sure to prevail, and that sharp
difference of temperature is only likely to
have such results upon the Threats and
lungs of incautious dancers as their doc
tors have afterwards to discover. But in
the management of our houses, al ordi-
nary times and seasons, the system of
overheating particular rooms, careless of
any future contact with the outside air, is
carried to most deplorablc extent.
Moreover, with the excessive heat, all
manner of noxious vapors are imprisoned.
Paterfamilias gets home 10 dine. The
dining-room windows have been kept
closed all day, and the fire lit, so as TO
have the APARTMENT COSY and comfortable
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
How to Haul Long Timber.

A SMALL man or even boy with team
can handle a long stick of timber, either
round or square, with comparative ease
if he understands how to load it. Let us
suppose, for example, that one has aquan-
tity of round timber to haul from the for
est perhaps some of the sticks are fifty
feet in length. Take the hind wheels Of
a strong wagon, fit a pole to the axle and
hounds for a tongue, then sling the timber
beneath the aXletree, and lash the end Of
the tongue to the timber. The timber
should be rolled upon Il skid Il foot from
the ground, and the wheels should be Sc
cured to it tritle back of the middle, so
that the forward end will be about one
hundred pounds heavier than the rear end
Then when the team is hitched by chain
to the fore-end, the stick will be kept
clear of the ground. The team can be
hitched to either end in case of necessity.
Timber is frequently slung beneath the
aXletree of a cart or wagon, and the
rear end is allowed to drag on the ground.
BY this means nearly half the load will
drag heavily, requiring double the
amount of team to haul it. Several long
and heavy poles can be hung beneath an
axletree, and transported with ease by
hitching the team to the end. Compare
tivily few persons in the rural districts
have ever heard of this convenient mode
of handling long timber. They should
understand it, as it will often save an
immense amount of heavy drawing.
When going down a hill the weight of
the driver on the fore-end of the timber
will usually be sufficient to control the
rate of speed, except down steep grades
When one employs oxen and IA cart sling
the long timber beneath the axletree,
lash the end of the tongue to the timber,
and hitch the oxen to either end of the
stick. A yoke of oxen could be able to
draw stick in this way with comparative
ease, which they would scarcely move by
hitching one end beneath the aXletree,
and allowing the team to draw by the
tongue of the cart.-4mericun Builder.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07

UNLIKE other Cathartics, DR.. Piercc's Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets 40 not, after their opera
ton, have secondary tendency to render the
bowels more costive- This is an important i'm
provement, as all who have taken MANY pills
or other cathartics for the purpose of overcom-
ing constipation, know to their sorrow that
the secondary effect of all such medicines has
Pellets produce such a SecOn6o5y tonic effect
upon TIE bo,rtfs as to bring about a permanent
healthy action. Hence their great value, taken
in small doses daily for length of time in
habitudl constipation and in Piles, attended and
produced, as they generally are, by torpor OF
the liver and costiveness. Sold by Druggists
at % cents vial. II