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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-11-06
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preparation, made chiefly from the native
herbs found on the lower ranges of the
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the sick Of every disease man is heir 10.
They are a gentle Purgative as well as
Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation
Of the Liver and Vi6ceral Organs in Bilious
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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-11-06

The properties of DE-. WALKERS
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CsrIninative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter IrritsDt, Sudorific, Alters-
tive and Anti Bilious.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
A Rich Beggar Dismantled.

YESTERDAY an old man, poorly dressed,
limping as if very lame, and wearing
green glasses entered a saloon on the
River road and asked for money, saying
that he lived at a certain number on
Seventh street, and that his wife was
very ill and he too old and lame to work.
In the saloon was man living at the
very number given on Seventh street, and
he branded the old man as liar. The
beggar then said it was Seventeenth
street, but he was so confused that the
half-dozen men present determined to
see how he was made up. He shouted
police" as they approached him, but the
men locked the door and threw him down.
The green glasses covered as good a pair
of eyes as were in the room, and no
cause for his limping could be found.
He had his left hand tied up, but they
Jerked the rags off and found no hurt or
wound. Lastly, they fished out of his
pockets $3S.45 in small money, as he had
begged it, and discovered that he had a
bank book on il Chicago savings bank
with $3.50. so credited to him. He made
great fuss as they went on to expose
him, and finally promised that he would
leave Detroit by the Pacific express and
never come here again. He claimed to
have begged most of the money in
Toledo. One of the men accompanied
the old knave to the Central depot and
remained there until he saw him move
away on the train.-DetroH Free Press
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
The Perils of lee.

THE high price of ice this year has set
the people thinking. and many reasons
are found why our beverages ought not
to be brought in contact with this delu-
sive and unreasonable luxury. An en-
tcrprising reporter in Cincinnati has been
talking to several dentists about the
effects of iced drinks upon the teeth and
stomach, and they have given him some
facts which, though not quite new, are
interesting at this time.
The temperature of the mouth, say
these gentlemen, is about 80 degrees
Fahrenheit; that of ice 81 degrees. So
that when drink of ice-water is taken
there is sudden change of 66 degrees in
the mouths temperature. This rapid
and excessive variation causes contrac-
ton of the enamel of the teeth, which is
brittle and without elasticity, and the
result is series of fractures which bring
about decay and invite diseases which
involve the loss of the teeth.
The most destructive changes in the
temperature of the mouth occur when.
after partaking of warm drinks that
raise it to 40 degrees or 100 degrees,
the person with teeth attempts to cool
OFF, with drink of ice-water. This
makes a variation of 100 degrees to 1873
degrees in the temperature, and the
wonder is that the outraged teeth do not
leap into the owners palate and assume
an incisive attitude toward him.
The effect of the water on the stomach
is also said to be extremely injurious.
1t absorbs animal heat so rapidly as to
interfere with the circulation of the
blood, and it arrests digestion. DySpep-
STA, consumption and diseases of the
liver and bowels are brought about by its
careless use, and there seems to be no
end to the train of evils accompany
ing it.
The dentists say that ice is only a ne
cessity where food must be preserved,
and that cool water and cold black tea
are the only trustworthy quenchers of
the thirst that RACES in the summer
months. But people will not learn this
any more than they will learn other facts
concerning their health. Alcoholic
drinks. tobacco and other luxuries may
be abandoned in time, but perspiring
America will never give up her ice-water-
-L0uisrilie Courier-yonI.n0L
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
How Humming-Birds Fight.

If two birds foraging come together,
they usually fight; one drives the other
away, and then goes on feeding rs if
nothing had happened, Mr.. Gosse says: " If
two vervain humming birds are about the
moringa tree, one will fly off and suspend
himself in the air few yards distant; the
other presently shoots off to him; and
then, without touching each other, they
mount upward with strong, rushing
wings, perhaps for 500 feet. They then
separate, and each shoots diagonally
toward the ground, like ball from IA
rifle, and, wheeling around, comes up to
the blossoms again, and sucks as if it
had not moved away ut all The figure
of the smaller humming- birds on the
wing, their rapidity, their arrowy course,
and their whole manner of flight, are en-
tirely those of an insect; and one who
has watched the flight of "A large beetle,
or bee, will have very good idea of one
of these tropic gems, painted against the
sky" Again he says: Il once wit
messed a combat between two mango
humming birds, which was prosecuted
with much pertinacity, and prOtracted to
an unusual length. They chased each
other through the labyrinth of twigs and
flowers till, an opportunity occurring, the
and then with loud rustling of their
wings they would twirl together round
and round, until they nearly came to
earth. AT length an encounter took
place pretty close to me, and perceived
that the beak of the one grasped the bcak
of the other, and, thus fastened, both
whirled round and round in their perpen-
dicular descent till when very near the
ground they separated; and the one
chased the other for about a hundred
yards, and then returned in triumph to
the tree. Sometimes they would sus-
pend hostilities to suck few blossoms,
but mutual proximity was sure to bring
them on again, with the same result In
their tortuous and rapid cvolutions
the light from their ruby necks would
now and then flash in the sun with gem
like radiance. The war lasted fully an
hour and then | was called away from
the post of observation."-Pop Science
W0nfI,Iu for JuIV
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
Driving the Seal.

The seals are easily captured; their
captors, the natives, reminding one of
butchers as they go into IA stock-yard to
select and drive out a batch of bullocks,
for the method of procedure is precisely
similar.
To the right and left of the breeding
grounds stretch sand-bcachcs or some
convenient landing, upon which the
"Holluschickie" or the bachelor seals lie
by tens of thousands, extended in every
attitude assumed by them in titful sleep
or animated sport, and down from the vii
lage to these hauling grounds" come the
natives, who, after making a survey of
the swarming myriads, step in among
them and turn aside from the masses two
or three thousand of the most eligible
animals, usually males of not over four
years old and not under two This drove
which they have selected is driven to the
village as flock of sheep would be, the
animals moving in succession of sud
den starts, with frequent resting spells,
at the rate of about half a mile an hour,
providing the weather is cool and foggy
and the ground hard Seals can be
driven at the rate of a mile an hour I'M
der peculiarly favorable conditions of
road and weather; but the loss of life is
great in large drove, so many falling
senseless, gasping and palpitating, some
to rise again within few hours and
others dying at once.
Only four or five men are required to
capture in this way drove of from one
to even fifty thousand, did they ever want
so many; and the labor of driving them
overland to the salt-houses near the vii
lage is light, AS the seals move without
resistance and require but little urging,
only it should be constant and gentle.
They string themselves out in long files
as they travel, and drove of four or
five thousand will stretch over IA path
more than Il mile in length.-Henry w.
Elliott, IN Udrper's .Mdgaztne.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
Do Not Neglect to Thin Ont Young
Fruit.

Young trees should be allowed to bear
only Il few specimens as their growth
and healthy development will be of far
more value titan the fruit. 1t is ruinous
to young trees to mature full crop OF
fruit. This is one reason why we see SO
many stunted trees. 1t seems difficult
for many people to bring their decision
up to IA point which requires them to di-
minish the quantity of fruit upon their
trees. Sometimes they plead want of
time; but this is not admissible, for If
they have not time to attend to the
proper cultivation OF fruit they should
abandon it altogether. The real cause is
their greediness. You can't make them
believe that they are the gamers by de-
strOying a portion of the crop, saying
that nature is the best judge as to the
quantity of fruil. Such persons have no
practical knowledge of fruit raising, and
the sooner they give it up the better it
will be for them, their pockets and rep
utation.
AS soon as pear and peach trees begin
to show their product, the thinning out
process may be begun at almost any
time. 1t is true the operation can be
performed conveniently only upon such
trees as are not over large. But it
should be especially attended to in
young trees, which frequently overbear,
trees well as the quality of the
fruit. To obtain the finest speci-
mems of pears the specimens should not
be allowed to grow in clusters or in con
tact with each other, and all that exhibit
the least imprerfection should be re-
moved. What is lost in number will be
doubly made up in size and flavor. This
should be remembered. Many persons
regard the thinning out of peaches, pears
and apples as so much loss. But they
are not judges of fruit and have no
knowledge of its proper culture. They
want rs large a crop as possible, letting
the quality take care of itself, no matter
how much the tree is damaged and what
effect it may have on the following years
crop.
Our own practice is to pinch off hun
dreds of pears, apples, peaches and other
fruit, leaving only four to ten or twenty
on tree, according to the size. After
IA tree has been growing vigorously for
four or five seasons, it may be allowed to
produce small crop.-N. Y. Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
The Massacre Of Chinese Christians.

The French periodical, Missions Cutie
liques, gives an authentic and detailed
narrative of the recent massacre of Ro-
man Catholic native converts in China
The account, as translated for the Lon
don IuJiet, relates that the massacre
broke out on the 25th of February, when
the Gterates,' As the prosecuting party
is called, opened the campaign by be
heading two men in the service of Pere
Dearc and IA Christian, whom they then
threw into the river. The same day they
burned the three villages of Trun-L LAM
Nio-Vinh and Bau Tach, and massacrcd
the inhabitants that were in them. Those
who succeeded in escaping to the woods
were hunted down with hounds, brought
back, and killed on the following days
The river was covered over with bodies
floating down it from the side of Larcg.
At that time the murderers were massa-
cring the Christians of the parish
of ITolvcn, and were burning their
villages. Those who took refuge iii
the cliffs of the neighborhood were
hunted down and burnt alive. The
Grand Mandarin of Justice was at the
market of SaNam with 800 soldiers, but
remained an inactive spectator of the
massacre of the Christians of Nam
Duong, only few of whom were able to
escape. The literates who were
the heads 81 the militia appointed to
massacre the Christians say that the
work of determination carried out under
the eyes of the Mandarins was concerted
between the court and the litcrates and
was done in reprisal for recent events
The Mandarins have just received orders
from the court not to employ any other
means save those of persuasion to stop
the m,irdcrers in their career One of
The chiefs who had just caused two
Christians to he murdered on the high
road went on the parade before the Gov
ernor of the citadel, by whom he was
dismissed with honor. On his return
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
Teaching a Stove to Talk Chinese.

THE Pal NaU Gozette tells a story
apropos of the appointment of NJ. DE
Saint Denys to the post of Sorbone Pro-
lessor of Chinese, of what happened to
his predecessor in that learned chair
Mr.. Stanislas Julien. When NJ Julien
was nominated to the post, his lectures
were given on Thursday and Saturday of
each week, but for the first month his
audiences consisted solely of the stove
which could scarcely be expected to de
rive much benefit from Il lecture on Ian
guagc. One day, greatly to his surprise,
il large party of fashionably dressed
ladies and gentlemen put in an appear
ance, and NJ Julien, out of gallantry to-
ward the former. began his lecture by
TRANSMITTING Il sonnet by the Chinese poet
Lilo Using, in which woman is compared
to the lotus of the Yellow River" The
audience appeared to follow the lecturer
with deep interest, and NJ Julien hogan
to think that his office would be no sine
cure. There was Il large attendance the
following week, and among the company
the lecturer NOTICED one gentleman who
had been present on the previous occa-
sion, and whom he set down as an en-
thusiastic admircr of the Chinese Ian
@uage. This gentleman continued to at
tend n whole course of the lectures, ac-
companicd on each occasion by ii fresh
ward that NJ Julien discovered that he
was IA guide who showed foreigners the
sights of Paris, one of the most rcmarka-
Bile of which he considered to be IA pro-
fessor teaching stove to talk Chinese
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11

again lend us helping hand, and the
rest of the boards and boxes are piled up
somewhere out of doors for further use.
Nothing is left that can harbor, mold or
undue moisture, not even the vinegar bar
rel and jugs. Only the rubbish on the
cellar bottom reminds us of the generous
store of good things that went down in
November; and when the last veStige of
that is borne away by stout hands we
dismiss our knights of the hoe with
thanks, for the rest of the task is COM
paratively easy.
First, there is a thorough sweeping
overhead, down the walls, and about the
CRATES in the windows and upper half of
the doors; then the gravelly ground,
which by Use has become almost as
smooth and hard as a floor, gets several
sw eepings, till we are quite sure that no
| decaying matter hides in the soil when
| Bridget carries the disabled spiders and
scrapings off to some faraway place.
After some dry lime, such find
partially slaked among the Jumps, has
been sprinkled on the ground close to the
| walls and in the entrance to the drain, we
are ready for embarrassing. Providing
ourselves with an old brush (for the proc
ess is damaging to a new one) and Il ket-
tie of whitewash made of fresh lime, a
handful of salt and sufficient boiling
water to allow the mixture to be spread
on the stones, we give the boards and
| slcepers above, and every stone and crew
ice in the WALL generous brushing. By
| the time they are dry and the air is puri-
| fled by the action of the lime the cellar
| is perfectly sweet and clean, and we aim
to keep it SO. If milk is spilled, it is
wiped up Immediately, and occasionally
| dry lime is sprinkled under the racks to
prevent mold With everything banished
| from the room that could impart an I'M
pleasant odor, we spend many cheerful
summer hours in our dairy.-Ruh Lee, II,
| Rural Nelc Yorker
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
Cleaning the Cellar.

Now, we do not imagine that in the
whole country there is but one thorough
" renovated cellar, but thousands OF
them, if you busy people would only tell
us about them; SO we may be pardoned
for abiding to the way ours is made suit
able for dairy purposes.
One day a neighbor caught us down
cellar, right in the midst of our cleaning
in part of the house which we have
come to regard as more essential to the
well-bcing of the family than the parlor
and while we were giving the timbers
overhead and the nicely painted walls il
good coat of whitewash she expressed
her surprise that anybody should be so
foolish.
Don't you have enough whitewashing
to do upstairs. Is so much extra work
necessary
We mildly answered eyes" TO the first
query, and emphatically yes to the
last, for in lieu of Il cool room above
ground the cellar was to he our milk
room during the heat of summer, SO no
unpleasant odor must linger to taint
cream or butter Our work was soon fin
ished, and the freshly secured milk racks
and tables were in place, when two conf
cal figures, mistress and maid, emerged
from the cellar, well pleased with their
half days work.
After tea our friend followed us down
the stairway, and rewarded us with the
following comment:
How cool and light it seems, Why
/ should like to stay here and skim the
milk myself"
This approval from the skcptic of an
hour or two ago was quite encouraging,
and here is the programme from begin
ming to end: In the spring, just rs soon
as the weather will permit, the windows
and outside cellar door are opened, and
all the dccayng vegetables, rs well rs
empty barrels and bins, are carried out
When it is warm enough to remove the
roots to some out building the men folks
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11

Here, then, we have a grand total prod
uct of over 900 900 900 bushels of wheat
corn and oats produced in ten States
alone of the Union. 1t will be noticed
that Iowa, although one of the Youngest
Commonwealth of the cereal region
surpasses Illinois in the production of
wheat; but Illinois produced, in 1872,
more corn and oats than either of the
other States The rivalry between Hi
nols and Iowa is now very sharp and
close, and the latter will, no doubt, in "a
few years, leave its sister on the other
side of the river in the rear Ohio raised
over 60O,OOO,O00 bushels of corn: but
Wisconsin, Indiana Minnesota and Hi
nois beat her in wheat production for
reasons that are obvious The large reIa-
tive increase of the cereal production in
the States west of the Mississippi River
rs significant and suggestive With the
westward movement of the star of en-
pre- the active force of progress, ad-
Justing itself to the geographical colo
MES, Is now at work toward the center of
the continent, moving in the pathway of
the commercial activity and industry of
American civilization
The value of the farms in the States
composing the cereal region in 1870 was
as follows; Iowa, 1892 .562 AL: Kansas
S9O.321 ,OiO; Nebraska. $50 242 1856: Hi
nois, $3.50, 50G346; Minnesota. 1871
Az; Indiana, $G3i s3i, 1879: Michigan.
1885, 24O,57s; Wisconsin, 5000, 414 .OG4
Missouri, $500, sos, OF: Ohio. 81, 054 l65. -
226 Grand total value of the farms. 81
BEAT, 45g. The value of the farms
in the entire United States in
1872 was 1926, s03, s61 1t will be
seen that the far,As in the cereal re-
gion constitute fully one-l,alf the value
OF the entire farm property in the coun-
try The value of the farming nipple
menfs and machinery in the cereal region
IS estimated at $l6000000O, or about one
half that of the remaining States and
territories. The increase of the value
OF the farms in the cereal region in ten
years has been at the rate of 40 per cent
and In some special instances 60 per
cent Comparing the yield of wheat
corn and oats of the cereal region in
1872 with the total yield of the same
grains in all the States and Territories in
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11

twenty. women or children fell under the
swords of this man and his followers.
In several localities they take an en-
tire family-father, mother and children
bind them together with bamboos, and
then fling the bundle of living humanity
into the waves. First, however, they
take care to cut off the mans head. The
multitude of dead bodies thus fastened
together in groups of from eight to ten
blocks up the principal river, but to the
great surprise of everybody does not send
forth any bad smell There are then
five parishes containing nearly 10000
Christians, which will have to be blotted
out of the mission-namely, Lang,
Thank Huyen, Nam Duong, Hoy en-,
and DoregThank Many of the victims
died in the midst of flames. A village of
more than 400 Christians was attacked
by the literates and soon became prey
to the flames. Among these 400 Chris
tians there were 12O, more or less, who
succeeded in saving themselves by tax
ing refuge in Il village near by. The re-
Manifestations 2OO-were all massacred.
Two small villages of Christians stu
ated two hours walk from the place at
which then was were hemmed in by
the pagans The Mayor visited each
house numbered. the Christians and for
babe them, under the threat of some Sc
we're punishment, to go out of doors. \
few of the Christian women attempted
to go to the market to keep themselves
from starving. They never returned.
Some pagan women that went with them
say that the Christian women were cap
turcd and beheaded. Two men from one
of these same villages hazarded a flight
during the night; they crossed the great
river by swimming, and came to me to
tell their mistortunes. Alas " writes
Archbishop Gauthier, from whose letter
this information is chiefly derived, Il
could do nothing but weep with them,
being unable to do anything to succor
| them. Two or three days afterward l
learned tina tall the men in that village
had had the heads cut off, but the
women and children were spared. And
as their houses were intermingled with
those of the pagans it was forbidden to
burn them down"