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The Rochester Chronicle offers three cents
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ers are not limited as to subjects.
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How to raise a dinner-Go to sea.
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AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative executive
iicia expenses the Government the ending
June treth eighteen hundred and seventyfVe, and for
ether purposes.
Be ii the Senate and House of Representatives
the United of America Congress assembled That
In and the hereby, appropriated
out o, any Treasury otherwise appropriated
r the fiscal ling June thirtieh eIgh
ian hnnie sevenyfve, for the objects hereinafter
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The following sublime and affecting production discOv
cred among the remains published
In recent Oxford edition of Millions works:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
Garments Made WATERPROOF.
writer in an English paper says

IA WIlteI III I'LL EIHSlIsH paper says.
BY the way, speaking of water proofs,
| think | can give travellers Il valuable
hint or two. For many years | have
worn india-rubber water proofs, but will
buy no more, for | have learned that
good SEQ fish tweed can be made entire
ly impervious to rain, and, moreover,
have learned how to make it SO; and, for
the benefit of your readers, | will give
the recipe:
I'm bucket of soft water put half Il
pound of sugar of lead and half a pound
of powdered alum; stir this at inter
walls until it becomes clear; pour it off
into another bucket and put the garment
therein, and let it be in for twenty four
hours and then hang it up to dry with
out wringing it.
1.-Two of my party-a lady and gentle
man-have worn garments thus made in
the widest storms of wind and rain
without getting wet. The rain hangs
upon the cloth in globules. In snort,
they were really waterproof. The gen
tleman, a fortnight ago, walked nine
miles in a storm of rain and wind such
as you rarely see in the south and when
he slipped OIL his overcoat his underwear
was as dry as when he put them on.
This Is, think, secret worth knowing
for cloth, if it can be made to keep out
wet, is in every wav better than what we
know as most waterproofS."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

same suit of clothes he wore twenty years
ago, which are so badly rent as to render
it necessary to fasten them together by
means of twisted hickory withes. He
never works, and unless obliged to go
to the nearest store for ammunition new
er leaves sight of his cave.
His mode of living is peculiar. His
diet consists principally of berries and
fruit during their season, while in the
winter he subsists on various kinds of
wild game. His education was not neg
lectcd during his boyhood, for he is well
read and remarkably intelligent. He is
firm believer in religion, and devotes
most of his time reading the Bible and
other sacred works. He is deaf, and has
been SO for several years, rendering it
necessary to communicate with him by
means of writing. He has the faculty of
charming birds, many of which he Sc
cured in this way and reared. He has
never used a lamp or candle in his cave.
His bed is composed of straw scattered
upon a solid rock. Sheldon enjoys his
peculiar mode of living, and says he ex-
poets to make this cave his final resting
place.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
Facial ASymmetry.

A WRITER in the Popukar Science
Monthiy says: There are many other
facial anomalies which fail to attract at
tention because we have grown accus-
toned to them. We should expect the
convex cast of one side of the face to fit,
line for line, into the concave cast of the
other; but it is doubtful if there is to he
anywhere found one single head of this
ideal perfection. Neither the contour of
the cheeks nor the lines of the counte-
nance are the same on both sides, and
they are all the less so because every
one uncon>ciously tends to perform
many unilatcrial facial movements,
which in time cause IL divergence be
tween the two sides of the face. Besides
the head, projecting as it does freely into
air, is more dependent than we imagine
on wind and weather. Suppose u per
son were to sit constantly at Il window
turning one side to the cooler atmosphere
out of doors and the other toward IA hot
s.ovc-the result would be Il twofold
growth of the facial muscles. One side
of the face might become rounded, the
other flat or concavc; and, though such
faces are not unfrcqucnt we do not no
tice the anomaly simply because we are
accustomed to it. In the Lapp we have
good illustration of this unequal devel-
opment. Just as the trees of his native
land are stunted, So too his features be-
come monstrous, irregu- ar and one -sided I;
the frontal bones are forced, as though
by spasm, down on the maXillarics, pro
duCing the most singular combinations
and contortions of the features. \ not
uncommon form of asymmetry, in more
favored lands, is the presence of dim
pie on one cheek, while the other has no
such indentation, OF but faint one. In
such cases the face has, as it were, u
summer and winter side, just like the
apple, which is round and rudy on its
summer side, but Oh the shade side flat
tened and wan"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
A Pennsylvania Hermit.

In the wilderness, eight miles north
west of Dingman's Ferry, Pike County,
Pa, underneath IA huge rock, in ii small
cave six by eight feet, has lived for up
ward of thirty years human being by
the name of Austin Sheldon. He was
born in Wales and emigrated to this
country about the year 1910. When he
landed in New York he had a small sum
of money, with which he came afoot to
Pike County and purchased a single acre
of wild, uncultivated, scrub-oak land,
situated in Lehman Township, amid Il
dense and dismal forest, several miles
from any habitation.
At the western end of this small strip
of land is small cave, only about six
by eight feet. In this cave, without any
alterations or improvements, this hermit
has for more than thirty years made his
home.
The hermit is nearly seventy years OF
age His face has not been shaven for
FORTY years The sides of his face and
chm and neck are covered with coarse
gray hair, while his beard is several feet in
length and white as snow. He wears the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
form. And this was what they planned

form. And this was what they planned
and actually carried out:
One day when the poor fellow had
again imbibcd such potion of the
ardent spirit that he was completely
overcome and helpless, the associates
laid hold of him, stripped him of his
clothes, put him into bed, and set and
bandaged one of his limbs as if for a
fracture-a compound fracture, and a
very bad one at that. One of the gen
tlemen remained at the bedside to be on
hand when the patient should come to
his senses again; and he was to look
very much alarmed and to insist on
the patients remaining perfectly quiet
and then to inform him very graveiy of
the dreadful accident he had met with
on the preceding day; all of which pro-
gramme was carefully carried out. The
young man was really persuaded his
limb was broken. He soon complained
of very sharp pains and aches, and man
ifestcd much anxiety concerning the
probable results of this accident. He
had Il viole4t fit of fever, and even be
watched at his bedside and took care of
him, one after another, with undisturbed
equanimity and unvarying graveness of
dc ,ncanOr.
When a week elapsed they thought the
punishment had lasted long enough, and
they proceeded to remove the bandages
and splinters. The atfrighted patient set
up a terrific howl and begged them to de-
sist. You are killing meI' he cried.
You are torturing mel You are taking
those off Il great deal too soon! l shall
be a cripple for life! OH what agony"
They had a deal of trouble to quiet
him and convince him of the truth, and
show him plainly how matters stood, so
strongly had his imagination been i'm
pressed with the supposed reality of his
mishap and consequent sutterings. But
their end was attained. He was effectu-
ally cured, for he was so mortified and
so indignant at being thus victimiZed
that he never touched a drop of liquor
afterward.-HearM and Home.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
- The following proportions al

The following proportions are thos
usually given in works on statuary and
painting, and are generally known, but
will bear repetition; The whole human
figure should be SIX times the length of
the feet. Whether the form be slender
or plump, the rule holds good and dcvia-
ton from it is departure from the high
est beauty of proportions. The Greeks
made all their statues according to this
rule The face, from the highest point
OF forehead where the hair begins, to the
chm Is one-tenth of the whole stature.
The hand, from the wrist to the little
hnger, is the same. From the top of the
chest to the highest part of the forehead
is the seventh. If the face, from the
roots OF the hair to the chin, be divided
INTO three equal parts, the first division
determines the place where the eyebrows
meet, and the second the place of the
nost1ils. Height from the feet TO the
top of the head is the distance from the
extremities of the fingers when the arms
are extended.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

THE Lawrence (Mass) Sentinel says,
that "A number of months since Haver-
hill man desired some accommodation
of the Boston & Maine Road, but was
refused. The action SO provoked him
that he determined to get square by some
means. and at length, noticing that there
was no draw in the railroad bridge near
the city, he determined to put the COM
pany to the expense of building one. So
he commenced building a schooner OF
about 200 tons at a point above the
bridge, and now, as it is nearly ready to
launch, he will soon load it with legiti
mate freight, sail down to the bridge and
demand passage, which the railroad peo'
pie must grant him whether or no.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
Selected s#isrelza,,g.
FALLEN LEAVES.

The dying summer had spilled its blood,
oh, the beautiful weather,
On all the oak leaves in the wood
As went out together.
The partridge sprang from the following corn
Oh, the beautiful weather!
And sang the song of bridal morn
As we went ont together.
The wind came gathering up his bands,
oh, the changcful weather.
And n shadow settled on all the lands
As We went out together.
The red leaves tumbled among the rocks,
The cruel. cruel weather.
Like birds shot bleeding out Of nocks,
As we went out together.
made your bed beneath the pines.
Where we had walked together,
hid YOU under the sheltering vines
From the cruel. cruel weather.
But cold rain sobbing on all the leaves,
And the dry grass ON the heather,
The silent heart that aches and gricvcs,
Know il is wintry weather.
W. Wallace Harvey. an LippiHc0tfS XdgdSiHe
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

bad example. That is, when she finds
all the rest of us reaching forth our
thumbs to pluck out the plums, she will
unfold her own thumbs and explore and
exploit; but at present she has no de-
signs in her inmost heart but complete
and devout observance of law. There
may he such thing original sin, but
the sin that | see most is acquired sim
Inl.tLor's Itn-nl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07
=" THE Good Old Ways"

At the West as well as at the East it
seems to me that the happiness and pros
perity of farmers would be increased by
the return-if such return were posi-
ble-to the ~ good old ways" l do not
mean, nor do believe that it is desira-
bic to produce everythi g consumed so
far as possible upon the farm itself, tor
cloth can be woven in mills cheaper than
in private houses, and there are better
advantages for selling home produce
than existed before the era OF railroads.
AT the same time money is too important
Il factor in the life of modern farmers
we have all of us been more or less cor
rupted 10y the high prices and flush
money of the war times, and of the
plentiful paper dollars prevailing since
then, SO that we have made our comfort
depend too much on the ability to spend
money. A farmers income TO be sure,
substantial and satisfactory must be
very largely in other things than money.
An improved home, richer land, more
convenient buildings and more carefully
bred and reared stock-these are within
his reach without the outlay OF much
ready money. Home labor and he capa-
bilities Of the farm will supply them II
properly directed, and, if patiently
waited tor, without the hiring or buy
ing of outside helps. The tendon
cy TO measure prosperity by the
amount of money mat IaTher
has in outside investments, or that he Is
able to spend for his pleasure, is giving
IA wrong direction to our whole system.
Farmers cannot hope to compete IN Tins
respect with merchants and manutactu-
rers whose business is much more specu-
! lative and full of risks, and who TOO often
give Il fictitious evidence of wealth by
spending the money which they hope 10
earn, and which is not seldom lost by
| farmers and other producers who have
trusted them. Taking the whole mer-
chant class of America. including clerks
and porters, they would probably show
at the end of twenty five years less ac-
| tual honest earning than the same num-
| Der of farmers ana farm-lahorcrs- The
! growing tendency to spend money, ana
| to count theiI wealth in dollars ana
| cents, rather than in more substantial
| possessions is assimilating them more
! and more to the speculative classes,
whom they are SO apt to decry. Let us
| get all the real advantage we can oIt OF
/ modern civilization, hut let us ut the
/ same i ime avoid, SO far as we comforta-
| bly, can, all that takes cash money and
/ gives Il tieeting pleasure as our only re-
/ turn.-dmericdH AgricultU'ist.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

MIR. Fitch, the husband of the period,
is thirty-one years old, and has served in
the navy nine years. Mrs. Fitch, the
bride of the period, is a fair young girl,
about twenty-three years of age, by no
means handsome, but possessed of most
lovely and amiable traits of character.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

Mark Twain to Redpath: az Your
offer oil $50, 600 to lecture fifty nights
does not tempt me. l have run about
the world long enough. l mean 10 live
and die at home, now, if l starve al II.
love you, but l cannot lecture any
more
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-07

Rev w. III. Cudworth who has sal
AIRY of s., 800 in Boston, declines Il call
to the Church of the Messiah at New
York, though $4,000 year is offered him,
because he believes that the opportuni-
ties for Christian usefulness are more
promising in Boston than New York"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-04-10


The very sensible query is asked
bv the Scientific american: "Why
should not a child be taught to
write and draw with both hands ?"
The very natural echo is, "why %
The humsn body can be educated
to 10 almost anything. MeE have
written with their toes and done all
sorts OF wonderful thugs with
their teeth; and vet since the crea-
ton of man, that intelligent animal
seems To have regarded the lefi
hand as a sort of tender to the
right. In fact, The left hand is the
LATEST member of the human body.
When the right is scribbling away
for bare life, the left looks on plac.
idly, keeps down the paper with
its fingers and shows its rings. In
truth, the only things in which il
seems to excel, except when oeca.
sionally helping its big brother in
an Indifferent sort of way, consist
in hitting from the shoulder in 6
prize fight, and in using q fork to
| advantage. The left hand is al
ways ID pretty to do any work
Ladies' show off its lines of beauty
| while dclicately resting their lovely
ehins upon its fingers. Let q pool
fellow have his right hand sho
away, aud then just see what the
left can dol In wonderful shor
| space of time it can button a coat
write letter, and do things, which
in its p llmy days, it never dreamp
of. BY all means educate the lef'
hand, and if it will not work, makt
it. There is nothing in the world
to hinder a man writing two letter
at once, like Ristori in Queen Eliz
abeth," and keeping up an animated
conversation with his unruly mem
Der at the same time. The lef
hand was given to man to do it
share in the business of life, just q
much It's twin brother in boots
At resent it is kind of loafes
doing the gentle pressure cuisines
in love affairs, and having all tn
fun. We are down on left hands
and strongly recommend that the
be put to school.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-04-10

a special TO the Inter-Ocean
says:
A terrible fight with a she bear
TOOK place near Lake Poygan, Wis,
by q man named Madden. Mr..
Madden heard a noise and opened
the door. The bear sprang in, and
for two hours the man and the bear
fought in deadly combat. Mad
den's wife and children mounted a
ladder through a hole into the gar
ret, and there were obliged to
watch the combat. Madden's face,
arms, and body were horribly torn
and mutilated by the claws of the
animal, and, when nearly dead, as
sistance arrived, and the bear also
tackled them. One other man also
was injured, and the bear was final.
ly driven of. Madden will proba
bly, recover, though he is terribly
| mangled.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-04-10

A friendly critic on Ralph Wal
do Emerson says, alt makes no
difference whether you begin at
the last paragraph and read back
ward, or begin at what he intend
ed for the beginning, you will al
ways find, if you search, some
thread on which he strings his
pearls, and find it is not accident
al, though it takes a sagacious
reader to find that thread" How
comforting this would have beer
to Friend Lay, a Quaker, who
once took one of his composition
to Benjamin Franklin for publica.
ton. Franklin, having looked
over the manuscript, observed tha
it was deficient In arrangement
at is no matter" replied the sat
isfied author, ''thee can print any
thing thee pleases first"
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Sherin-s Sale.

4. II. Holmes.
vs..
Joseph Brown.
In District court fLyon county, Kansas.
NOTICE is hereby given, that by viz
IN tue of an order of sale, issued ont of
the District court of Lyon county, Kansas,
in the above entitled cause, to me direct
ed, will, on the 9th day of April, 1874,
at 1890 p. M, at the front door of the
court house, in said county, offer for sale,
at public auction, to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described real es-
tate, to-wit: Beginning at the northeast
corner of the southeast quarter of section
Is, township 10, of range 10; west 100
rods, south 100 rods. east 81 81 rods,
north II rods, east az Ia rods. north 100
rods, TO place of beginning. Will be sold
as the property of The defendant, Joseph
Brown, to satisfy said order of sale.
JOHN BAY,
Sheriff of Lyon county.
Emporia, Nan, Mar. ~, 1874. 1Sw5
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Sherin-s &nle-

Lee 5. Sargent,
vs..
a. L. Paige,
In District Court OF 9TH Judicial District.
Lyon county, Kansas.
NOTICE is hereby given that by yir-
IN tue of an order Of sale, issued out OF
the District court of Lyon county, Kan
on the 27th day of April, 1874, at 1880
O'Clock p. M, at the front door OF the
court house in said county, offer for sale
at public auction, to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described real
estate, to-wit: Lots No. 81 and SO, on
Neosho street, in the city of Emporia,
Lyon county, Kansas. Will be sold as
the property of the above named defend
ant, to satisfy said order OF sale.
JOHN BAY,
Sheriff Of Lyon county.
Elnporia, Kan, Mar. 81, 1871, i3-wJ
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EDIToR NEWS: Reform says the
''ring is alarmed - that school district
No. last levy is 90 1-5. We find by
referring to the clerks book that at
the annual meeting of 1873, there was
levied for building purposes, one per
cent; for teachers wages, one-half of
one per cent, which gives the district
for building s6OO.7O, and s3OO.35 for
teachers wages. With the funds the
district had on hand before the last
levy, and with the levy this year, the
district will be able to build first
class house.
The pride of No. is in having first
class teachers for which liberal prices
are paid. The resident Taxpayers OF
the district think the children OF the
district are more precious than green
backs. VIII Reform please drive
ahead? lie will hit the right place
after awhile. If he was in error, hi:
head and not his heart was to blame.
What Is most needed at the present /:
compulsory education. That is the
way we look ut things up this way.
| NUMBER FIVE.
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BENJAMIN PICKETT.
ACiHiutSVTaLOF.
ALMERIN GILLETT,
Atty for Admir-. I:iN3
SHERTFF'S SALE,

NOTICE is hereby given, that by yir-
IN tue Of an order of sale, issued out ofthe
District court, Of Lyon county, Kansas,
70 me directed, will on Monday the 10th
day Of April, 1874. at 10 o'clock \. m, at
the front door of the court house, IN said
.-.santy, offer for sale at public auction, to
the highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described real estate, situate IN Lyon
county, to-wit: Commencing so rods and
10 feet, south of northwest corner. OF
southeast quarter, of section 10, township
10, range IL; east $50 feet, south $50 feet,
west $50 feet, north $50 feet to place of be-
ginning. To. be sold as the property of
John NJ. Mcdonald, and Ellen Mcdonald,
to satisfy a judgment in favor OF T. c.
Watson. JOHN BAY.
Sheriff. Lyon county.
Emporia, Kan, March goth, 1874. 12-5t.
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Administrators Notice.

Y ETTERS of administration on the es-
/ tate of Ruben j. johnson were grant,
on to the undersigned, on the twenty
third ed day Of March. by the Probate
court of Lyon county, Kansas, held at
Emporia- All persons having claims
against said estate are required to present
the same for allowance 20 the administra-
tor within one yesr after date of said let
tiers, or they may be preeluded from any
benefits Of such estate, and If such claims
are not presented within two years from
this date they shall be forever debarred.
J, J.. ". BELL.
Administrator.
March p, 1874. 14w3
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The Chicago Post and Mail dis
courses on the temperance war in
that city as follows.
"The Temperance war presents
no novel phases. The first enthus-
iasm of the crusaders could hardly
be expected to continue after the
novelty of the thing wore of, but
there are evidences that it is substi.
tuted by q quaint determination
| which, in the long run, will prove
equally efIectual. In Chicago there
seems to be a little too much of the
| MCCLELLAN style of strategy, anC
the "On to Richmond" folks arr
somewhat under a cloud since thu
Common Council and CoLvI,
rebuff"
Mcclellan strategy" will neYe
win in this war. We must hav
Graut-persistent, slight it out OF
this line, if it takes all summer."