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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
My Landlady.

1 board now, and think have one of
the kindest landladies in the world. She
seems to think great deal of me, and /
sometimes almost decided that | should
weep If any harm came to her.
She is very particular about her board
ers. Before she would take me in | was
compelled to get certificate from three
clergymen, two bankers, and a lawyer.
stating that / had never been hung for
murder or sent TO State prison for horse
stealing bargained for IA front room
looking out on the campus martius, and
il was understood that was to have the
room alone. On the third night ! went
home and found a stranger in bed, and
when began to raise a row Mrs. Dolby
caught my arm and whispered:
There, now, be "A good, dear man, and
say no more. He's IA preacher, and, as he
is going away tomorrow, / thought you
wouldn't mind just one night"
AT the end of the week she beckoned
me aside, and smiling like a load of fresh
hay she wanted to know if I would do her
a favOr-a favor which would place her
under eternal obligations to me. Ireplied
that ! would die for her and then she
asked me to give up the room looking out
upon the grand square and take one look
ing out upon grand alley, full of ash
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

California produced 1000, 900 oranges
last year.
Virginia tomatoes have more taste
than Bermuda ones
The New England hay crop is much
above the average this year
Nearly all tropical fruits can be sue
cessiully cultivated in Florida.
- Every tree is subject to disease"
said speaker in a fruit growers CONVEX
ton.
=" What ailment can you find on an
oak" asked the chairman. " A-cornl"
was the triumphant reply.
The average of all crops this year
will probably vastly exceed that of any
previous year in the United States.
An Illinois father Furnishes his re-
fractory sons by making them hoe corn
at night, each one carrying lantern.
A Bay City (NIich) butcher recently
exhibited two Durham cattle in the
streets of that city which weighed 1850
pounds.
"A large number of hogs have died
recently in the Hadley neighborhood,
Warren County, Ky, from eating the
Canada thistle.
Too often are leaves gathered into
piles and burned in the front of gentle
mems places, when, if they would trans
fer them to the stable for bedding, they
would make them more acceptable to
the stock than straw or any coarse hay
litter. besides the manure made by their
use is worth eighth more than that
from straw or hay litter.
If we wish for eggs we must take
good care of the hens. Change the food
frequently; in winter give them warm,
pure water twice day, pound up oyster
or clam shells and give lean meat, though
fat will do. Cheek meat can be had at
the butchers for five cents per pound. If
| hens are cared for in the manner de-
| scribed the common breed are good
as any.
1t must not he forgotten that soils
undergo exhaustion by cont nued crop
| ping, and it is important that the tiller
of the soil should maintain its fertility.
1t is not necessary to define precisely the
chemical or mechanical condition of the
soil, nor to define what exhaustion
means or to explain how it was brought
about; it is enough to know that crop
| ping eXhausts the land and thai it ceases
TO give full return unless means be
taken to restore fertility; and the fertile
quality must he maintained by what is
called cultivation - digging, manuring,
| subsoiiing, draining, when necessary
and keeping the land clean.
Every fruit tree should be examined
early in the season for the boring pests
Examine the tree near the ground. If a
borer is at work spots may be seen in
the bark where the pest is forcing the
litter out through a small hole. In some
trees where there are borers you will see
a rough-looking slit or crack in the bark
about an inch and Il quarter long, with
the borings or sawdust protruding. This
sawdust is sure sign of destruction
within. There are generally four grubs
in each place. They must be dug out, al
whatever sacrifice of bark and patience
or the tree is ruined. Cut into the tree
about an inch above the wound and
carry the knife downward, removing
strip of bark to the bottom of the scar.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
A Defense of Cats.

1t has always been the custom to
abuse cats.
Cats are stigmatizcd as treacherous
ungrateful, thievish, deceitful and so on
through the entire list of adjectivcs of
that class.
Their interesting little nocturnal con-
certs are condemned, and they are re-
warded for their vocal efforts by show
ers of bricks, old boots, broken crOckery,
and any and every other missile which
may be lying around loose.
We believe that cats are wronged.
They are certainly not TO blame for be-
ing in the world, though most people
treat them as if they were.
If there had been no cats, how many
rats and mice would house be likely to
support Talk about rat-traps, indeed I,
There was never a rat-trap invented, and
never will be, which could begin to com
pete with IA sober minded, well-traincd
industrious old tabby, who knows her
business and attends to it.
We have had an experience of years
with cats, and have owned scores of
them, and have never found them treach-
erous-or yet ungrateful for the favors
they have received.
We have always fed them regularly, as
we would any other useful animal; and
in consequence we have had no thieves
among our stock. Our cupboards and
pantrIcs are unmolested, and our felines,
having a place where they are always
fed, go and sit there patiently when they
are hungry, and wait for the food which
they know shall be sure to come
When we go about among our friends,
and notice The way in which their cats
are treated, we cease to wonder that cats
have fallen into such bad repute.
As a general thing family gets a cat
because there is child who wants one
to play with.
Of course, it is kitten; and, notwith-
standing the traditional nine lives, it has
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barrels and oyster cans. She had Il new
boar,ler coming who was awful particular,
and she knew l would do anything to
accommodate her
| made the change, and the grateful
look she gave me was enough to melt
vest button. l had only got fairly set
tied when was told that she wanted to
see me in the parlor after dinner L
found her i'll tears She said that Il very
nice man and his very nice wife wanted
To come and board with her, but she had
no room, and it grieved her to think that
she must turn them away when she was
SO hard pushed to get along
told her that if had hundred lives
| would Law them all down for her and
then borrow hundred more and add to
the pile, and she seized my hand and
said that Heaven would surely reward
me for being good to Il fatherless orphan
| moved into the garnet, the awful partlc-
ular man moved into my room, and the
very nice man and his very nice wife
moved into the front room.
In about another week Mrs. Dolby
whispered to me and wanted to know If
| had a snake in my stomach? She SAID
that she had observed that | was il very
hearty eater, and she didn't know but l
had Il snake. | set her right, and when
| promised to take full lunches down
town and urge the other boarders to do
the same she put her hand on my shoul-
der and remarked that Heaven had Il
place for me.
That night my bed was made without
sheets, and when | went to raise Il row
she took me by the hand and said that
her experience went to show that it was
healthier to sleep Without sheets l was
going to argue the question, when tears
came to her eyes and she hoped
wouldn't say anything to hurt poor,
lone widow whose life had been one long
struggle with poverty. The next night
the feather bed and one of the pillows
went, but didn't say anything. Then
| she wanted to borrow my toothbrush
| tor "A boarder who hadn't any, and she
| took my stove to use in the lower hall.
| | didn't say word until she wanted to
know if | couldn't spare the old rag-car
pet off the floor, and if | wouldn't set
the other boarders an example by drink
ing nothing but water and not taking a
second biscuit Then | told her that was
| going to leave that house and try to tear
| her image from my heart.
| She seized both my hands, tears rolled
down her cheeks, and she asked:
Mister Quad, will you deliberately
| plot to kill lonesome widow who Is
| working her life out to make your posi-
| ton here comfortable, happy and luXuri-
ous?''
couldn't go. I'm there yet. I sleep
on the floor. rut up with cold bites, and
use the boot. jack for a chair when have
company. | wish l wasn't SO tender
hearted, but l can't bear to think of
hurting Mrs. Dolby's feelings by looking
up another place-H Quad, IN Our Fire
side Friend
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
The Cheapest Way to Dispose OF Coarse
Manure.

Touching this subject George Geddes,
an excellent farmer of Central New York,
writes as follows: Drawing out straw
that the cattle have trampled under foot
and spreading it on ground which
farmer intends to SOW to oats next spring,
with intent to pull it into the furrow and
pillow under, will be Il great deal of
work, and | should much prefer drawing
that strawy manure on land that is to be
used next season for pasture. On the
pasture it will give out all the good there
is in it to the top of the ground, where it
is of most value. Plowed under, or
rather pulled by hand labor into a fur
row and then covered up, it will do com
paratively but little good and cost great
deal beside the drawing from the yards
and spreading To reduce my life's ex-
perience on this matter of the handling
of the ordinary strawy barnyard manure
of grain growing farm to single SEN
tence, Draw it from the yard as it is
made and at once apply to pasture land,
not in heaps, but spread as applied.
There let it lie until the pasture is to be
plowed up. This is the minimum of la
Dor and the maximum of benefit. The
loss by evaporation, by being carried
away by thaws and the like, will be
trivial and the cost of thus handling
compared with composing is so little
that only in exceptional cases is com
posting profitable to the great mass of
the farmers of our country. But all the
manure that is made on Il farm where
grain and stock raising are combined,
each department helping the other, can
not be taken to the field rs fast as made.
Perhaps the ground will be too soft to
Justify passing over the fields, and during
six weeks to two months in the spring,
while the stock is yet in the yards, the
teams will all be busy in putting in the
crop of spring grain. So the manure
that is made during this busy period must
lie in the yards After the springs work
is over the contents of the yards should
be either drawn to the fields or put in
piles, having perpendicular sides and flat
tops to hold all the rain that will fall on
them to keep the manure moist so that
it will not rot. About midsummer cut
off the sides of these piles and throw on
top. The interior of the piles will by
that time have become considerably de
cayed, while the sides exposed to the air
will have rotted but little. This throw
ing the outsides on the top will cause the
| whole to be in condition to draw to the
fields of winter wheat to be applied as n
top-dressing on the poorest places.-Ns0
York Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
A Mn IN moth DIspe

tT'""t '"e 81 Lo"eS I.fP""t"""-I
Among the notable physicians OF this
country, Dr. X V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. T.,
stands deservediy high lie has obtained pro
icssiohai einihHhcS through sifictiy Legitimate
means anu luiiN observes ',e cnNlapie rep",
Hltloh Which ne ENJOYS. thorouyh anu
careful preparation Tor MS GAZING ana cxtcn-
sINe reading, during \ long ana unusually
large practice, have made him extraordinarily
successful in his private practice, and gained
the commentator even of his professional
brethren. Bs Gcyoting his attention mainly
to certain specialtics he has been rewarded in
very great degree and in these lines is rec
o@nized as leader. Not a few OF his prcpa-
rations compounded for these special cases
have been adopted ana are used in their
private practice 10y physicians throughout
the country, and his pamphlets and larger
works upon these subjects have been wei
coined as valuable additions to medical litera-
turc. and placed anon" the regular lie xt books
of many medical schools. Acknowledgment
of the services which he has performed for
medical science has been made by presenti-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

plenty of feeling in its tender little body
and can tell rs well as you or l when it
is pinchcd and kicked. The baby car
ries ii by the tail, or one leg, by the ear,
or the skin of its neck, and nobody goes
to its rescue because it is only "A kitten
Kittens have always been treated SO and
are used to it. They don't expect any
thing else.
The baby thinks it is a most wonder
full plaything and he will amuse himself
with il by the hour. He will SINCE its
fur with matches, and pull out its wills
kers, and put pepper in its eyes, and tie
strings around its neck and drag 1t along
after him; and byand-by the wretched
little animal, goaded to desperation,
bites or scratches its graceless tormentor;
and then it is beaten and carried off to
the river and thrown in with II stone tied
to its neck, and the whole family declare
they never want to set eyes on another
cat! Never! Dear little Johnnie, his
eyes were nearly scratched out of his
| head-the poor darling!
Cats, for the most part, are kept half
starved, and it is no wonder they are
thieves. They but obey the dictates of
| their nature in seeking food when they
| are hungry; and if it is to be obtained
in no other way they steal it, just as you
| or would do under the same circum-
| stances.
| If you tease and torment cat she
will growl at you just as anybody else
would do.
| If you treat her kindly you will almost
| invariably find her good-natured.
| Somebody says that nobody likes cats
| but old maids! If this be tue, then il
is only another proof that old maids are
| quite as sensible as their married sisters.
| We do believe that there is something
in the old saw which asserts that II man
VINO is kind to the cat will be kind TO his
| wife.
A few words in regard to the points of
a cat, for this animal has points as well
as horse or dog.
OF all colors, we infinitely prefer the
| tortoise shell, with white feet and breast
| Cats of this color are always docile, af-
| fectionate, tidy, and good mousers. They
are also long-lived.
| Gray cats are quickest-tempered
Black cats are slowest. Maltese cats are
not SO clearly in their habits as those OF
other species.
| Large ears denote sagacity. A lons
| tail is IA sign of a hunter. Yellow eyes
with very small sights are not as desira
BILE as grayish eyes half-covered by the
black pupils.
| But enough of this.
Cats are nothing but cats, and we sup
pose people will go on abusing them to
| the end of time.-Hdte Thorn, IN Da1t5uri
| Nttrs
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

JUST TAKEN HIS BITTERs.-We heard Il
seedy looking individual with an alarm
ingly red nose remark to a brother soaker
that h had Just had his bitters,
but he did not mind taking another nip"
His remark suggested train of retlec-
ton. How was it, we asked ourselves,
that the word ''bitters" had grown to be
a synonym for gin, whisky, rum and
other alcoholic stimulants, to which it
was applied Unfortunately? Bitters,
we reasoned, suggested the idea of a
hcalthful tonic, not of a poisonous stimu-
liant; something invigorating to the sys-
TEN, not an alcoholic irritant, full of
fusel-oil, producing present intoXication
and ultimate insanity, idiocy or prema-
ture death Moreover, our idea of bitters
was totally irreconcilable with gin
cocktails " rum punches, and g brandy
smashes," which, we are informed, are
swcetened with sugar, and rendered
doubly injurious with essences colored
by means of mineral poison. This was
bittersweet with Il vengeance. We men
toned this problem to a friend. He
solved it by exclaiming: ''Why, don't
you know that most of these bitters adj
vertised as remedies are only drains in
disguise? Topers know it If you do not.
| must make one exception, however,
he added, land that's DIR. WAIVERS
CAIIFoRNIA VINEGAR BITTERs; there
isn't a particle of alcohol or fermented
liquor in it, and it is the best vegetable
tonic and Alternative in America"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

THE National Life Insurance Company of
the United States of America had, on the LIST
day of July, S:,,:;fi6. SIS in good and available
assets, while its total liabilities ut the same
date were 81 ,269. The loans secured by
first mortgages amount to considerably more
than the total liabilities. The low rates, the
large capital, the definite contracts and the
liberal policies of the National render it espe-
cially worthy the confidence and the patronage
of the public. 1t is National company, char
tered by Congress. The business is done at
the principal branch Office, Chicago, III. John
V. Farwell, President. Applications for in
surance can be made through any Of the
agents. Applications for agencies should be
made to the Chicago office.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE ToNIC-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts. The highest tes-
tmonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West When men are
con @rc@atcd in large numbers in the neigh
horhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhofts Tonic
will prove Il valuable addition to the stock of
medicines. and will amply reward the compa-
ny in the saving of time, labor and money.
We recommend it to all. WHEELoCK, FINLAY
II Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALI. DRUGGISTS.
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To HAVE the money ncedlcssly spent every
wear would give substantial comfort to almost
every person. To have the money saved by
buying SILVER TIPPED boots and shoes
would buy each parent every year a new pair
of shoes
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

ie Grand Revolution IN MEDICAL TREAT
MENr, which was commenced in 1850 is still in prog.
ress. Nothing stopit, for it is founded ON the
principle, now universally acknowledged, that physi-
visor is the formidable antagonist of all hui
man ailments. and experience has shown that PLAN
TATIoS BITTERs is peerless iuyigorant, well
besl possible safeguard against epidemic diseases.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

"A witty moralist says that "many a
man thinks it's virtue that keeps him
from turning a rascal, when it's only a
full stomach. One should be careful
and not mistake potatoes for principles"
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WANTED-l00000 MEN.-Apply for a
situation at the nearest gents furnishing
store. They will engage you by your paying
the price of a box or more of Elmwood Col
lars, which YOU can take home with you.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15

THE NORTHwESTERN HORSE NAIL Co.'S
I" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
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DIR. J. Walkers California Vim.
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preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges O
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MIA, the medicinal properties of which
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The properties of DIR. WALKERS
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IL. II. MCDONALD x CO.,
Druggists and Gen Agts San Francisco. California
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