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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
Remarkable Adventures OF a Fish
Hook.

SOME eight years ago a lad of thirteen Ia
son of Charles E. Myers, well-known
citizen of Portsmouth,, while fishing
from one of the wharves of that city,
caught hook in the fore finger Of
the right hand, near the roots of the
nail, drawing it in to the bend of the
hook His father saw at once that the
only thing to be done was to open the
finger on line with the hook and take
it out, but preferred to call in their fam
lily physician 10 do it. After looking at
it for moment, the doctor, by sudden
twist, wrenched the hook from the finger
minus the barb and point. The parents
were justly indignant at such rough
treatment and insisted that the hook was
not all removed, while the boy came near
fainting from extreme anguish. The
doctor, however, insisted that no incon
venience would result, and dressed the
finger in some simple and safe manner
and in due time the wound healed. But
the finger and arm troubled him for a
long time. After year or two the lads
health had SO far failed as to become a
subject of serious alarm to his friends,
he being subject to frequent and alarm
ing fainting fits and other spasmodic af-
fections or symptoms. This state of af-
fairs continued for years, with more in
tensity, until year or two ago, when the
boys health became nearly or quite re-
stored. In the spring of 1874 the young
man, while dressing himself one morn
ing, tore a pimple from his left shoulder
and on examining it, he drew from the
flesh the point of the hook which, seven
years before, was imbedded in IL finger
on the opposite side of his Dody.-Doper
IN. ~ Enquirer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
Building Brick Chimney.TOps.

AS cHIMNEY-ToPs are exposed to the
alternate influences of wet and dry,
freezing and thawing, more than any
other part of brick edifice, it is impor-
tant that the bricks and the mortar should
be of the best quality. Many brick-ma
sons at the present day do not appear to
know that when mortar is made of lime
and loan for building chimney-tops
both the bricks and mortar will absorb
rain until the entire top is thoroughly
saturated. Then in cold weather, before
the water has evapOrated, the brick
work Is frequently frozen through and
through, by which means such bricks as
have not been burned to a dark cherry
red color will be disintegrated by the
frost and the mortar will bulge out at
the joints. If the chimneys are not COW
cred with copestone or brick-work rain
will flow on the inside; and if the chin
ney extends down through the attic the
wall on the side of the brick-wOrk will
be seriously damaged. In many instances
we have known such a volume of water
to fall down the inside of a large CHM
ney-top as to saturate the bottom bricks
to excess, and then PASS down beyond
the closet, or rather foundation on which
the chimney rested, to the serious injury
of the walls beneath. We have in mind
chimney-top standing on a closet in
collected such volume of water every
prctracted storm that a colored liquid
would flow down through the bottom of
the chimney, and they were obliged to
keep wash-tub beneath to collect the
droppings. After bushel of sand was
poured down in the top of the chimney
no more liquid passed through.
The brick of every chimney top should
be so thoroughly burned that they will
4 80 oil he
ground from year to year. Then when
laid they should be soaked in water until
they cease to absorb it. When dry brick
are laid in mortar the moisture of the
| mortar will be absorbed SO readily by
the bricks that the union between the
mortar and bricks will be simply me-
chanical, and there will be comparative
ly little strength to the mortar, for the
| reason that it dries too rapidly. But
| when wet and hard burned bricks are
laid up in mortar made of clean sand
say four or five parts, one part of good
lime just Stacked, and one part of prime
cement-the mortar will unite with the
bricks, dry slowly and become almost as
| solid as the bricks. We know of large
chimney-tops which were built in the
foregoing manner in the year 1905, anC
which are in good condition at the pres
ent time, having never been repaired
during that long period.
| When a chimney collects SO mucf
water that it soaks through the sides o.
bottom to the injury of the wall, bricl
arch should be over the top, or a cope
stone should cover it, supported at thu
four corners by pieces of brick, so tina
there will be free passage beneath tn
| stone of not less than four inches OF
both sides of the chimney. Half a dol
lars worth of good cement, in connec
ton with good lime and clean sand, viii
often save an expense for repairs ant
damage to walls amounting to ten dollar
| or mOre.-Mdnufdcture and Builder.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
Treating the Wrong Disease.

Many times Women call upon their family
physicians, one with dyspepsia, another with
palpitation, another with trouble of the
breast, another with pain here and there, and
in this way they all present alike to them
selves and their easy going and Indifferent
doctors separate and distinct diseases, for
which he prescribes his pills and potions, as
Stunning them to be such, when, in reality,
they are all symptoms caused by some uterine
disorder; and while they are thus only able
perhaps to pallate for a time, they are igno-
rant of the cause, and encourage their practice
until large bills are made, when the suffering
patients are no better in the end, but probably
worse for the delay, treatment, and other
complications made, and which a proper
medicine directed to the cause would have
entirely removed, thereby instituting health
and comfort instead of prolonged misery.
Athens Co., Ohio:
"Dr. r. V. Pierce Buffalo, n. Your Fa
vorite Prescription is working almost like a
miracle on me. l am better already than
have been for over two years."
From ELLA A. SCHAFER, GAINESVILLE, Ind:
DIR. Pierce-I received the medicine yot
sent me and began using it Immediately. A.
| a result of the treatment feel better than
have for three years"
From Mrs. JOHN X. HAMLIN, Odell, ILL.,:
"Dr. Pierce-The Favorite Prescription ha;
done me good, which L am very Thankful
for"
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is SOLD
by dealers in medicine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

If man will put dollar out at inter
est at 10 per cent, compromising it every
year, it will double itself in a little over
seven years. This is simple little
truth, but it is the cornerstone of bank
ing, and the secret of the wonderful
success that steady and judicious money
lending sometimes exhibits. The capac-
ity OF single dollar to double itself at
interest in seven years does not strike US
as of much value; but when we reflect
that multiples of one dollar possess the
same capacity; that 800 loaned at 10
per cent, compounded in a little over
seven years, becomes 5000; that 81 900
becomes $4,000; that s., 900 becomes
| SIC, 900, and $40, 900 becomes 10000
the immense value of the quiet, invisible
process becomes apparent. 1t is true
there are hazards in banking and money
lending which retard and impair the
MULTIPLICATION; but the naked truth, as
| we have stated il, is the basis of what
we call legitimate banking, and skill in
finance consists largely, if not mainly,
| in avoiding the risks and dangers to
which the process of increase is exposed.
But banking is not the only vocation
that enjoys the advantage of this capac-
ity of wealth to reproduce and multiply
itself; other vocations may enjoy it in Il
gre alter or less degree-farmlng perhaps,
in a greater degree than all others.
Farmers are accustomed to complain
that they can have nothing but what
they dig out of the earth by hard labor;
but let us see about that. Take farmer
who has not dollar to deposit in
savings bank, but who has grain of corn
to deposit in the rich soil of his farm IT
he makes the deposit under the proper
conditions and does his duty afterward;
if he tills the soil around it, keeps it clear
of weeds, and leaves the rest to nature,
in six months it will return him an hun
dred fold, five hundred fold, a thousand
fold for his trouble. Instead of dollar
doubling itself in seven years he will
have a grain of corn multiplying into a
thousand grains in six months; and, If
he plants the thousand grains the follow
ing season, under proper conditions ana
does his duty they will grow into 1,OOO,-
O0O. grains.
This capacity of a grain of corn to null
tiply itself is the foundation principle
of farming, and the center secret of sue
cess in il, just as the capacity of dollar
loaned at interest to double itself is the
basis of banking. Every grain of corn in
a bushel measure possesses the same
power, and if that bushel of corn be
planted and cultivated it will expand
into thousand bushels, just as single
grain expands into a thousand grains
There are hazards in farming as well as
in banking that must be taken into ac-
count-and here is where the farmers
skill must come in to guard his grain and
every other growing thing on his place
against these risks. All skill in farming
and all the advice and directions given
in agricultural books and papers about
blowing, planting, cultivating, harvest
ing, pruning, feeding, fattening and shell
tering come to this point at last, viz:
the giving to his planted grain, grass,
trees and vines the conditions they
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

that he had heard Charles condemn the
beefsteak on a certain occasion as tough;
and had made other unnecessary remarks
about the food on the table while he was
eating A woman remarked that she had
on several occasions found Charles n
respecter of persons. Another said that
Charles, though Industrious and faithful
in all temperatures, and very able man,
was not religious at all. A man remarked
that Charles was, as others had said,
somewhat spoiled by his own success,
but that it was Il mistake for him to be
SO, for he was certain that Charles
success came mainly from the wisdom
and care with which the society had sur
rounded him with good advisers, who
had guided him, and that Charles ought
therefore to be humble, instead of proud
and naughty, as one who ought to look
outside of himself for the real sources
of his success. Finally, two or three
remarked that he had been in a
certain transaction insinccre toward
another young man, saying one thing
to his face and another to 9th
ers, and in this one or two women
concurred Amid all this very plain
speaking, which have considerably con
densed, giving only the general charges,
Charles sat speechless, looking before
him; but as the accusations multiplied
his face grew paler and drops of perspi-
ration began to stand on his forehead.
The remarks l have reported took up
about half an hour; and now each one
in the circle having spoken, Mr.. Noyes
summed up. He said that Charles had
some serious faults; that he had watched
him with some care and that he thought
the young man was earnestly trying to
cure himself. He spoke in general
praise of his ability, his good character,
and of certain temptations he had re-
sisted in the course of his life. He
thought he saw signs that Charles was
making a real aud earnest attempt to
conquer his faults; and as one evidence
of this he remarked that Charles had
lately come to him to consult upon a
difficult case in which he had had a Sc
we're struggle, but had in the end sue
ceeded in doing right"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
On JAN 10, at II D. M, the thermOme-

On Jan. 10, at II p. M, the thermome-
ter stood 35 degrees below; Jan. II, a.
m, A degrees below; Jan. II, 9 p. m, 80
degrees below. On the evening of Jan.
8, the evening above mentioned, at 10 80
p. m, the register was 40 degrees below.
This is the coolest weather we have had.
Under date of Jan. IA the correspond
ent adds the following news, expressed
in the peculiar style of the West: Jack
Frost held the best hand last night, and
played it as follows: At LAS p. m the
thermometer stood 80 degrees below; at
10 80 p. m, "a degrees below; at IL 80
p m, So degrees below"
The weather locals of the Northeast
make up an interesting collection. The
following are a few specimen bricks:
AS the stage came through Blackfoot
on Tuesday evening nobody could tell
how cold it was; all the thermometers
were frozen. The Independent of Thurs
day, contains an account of the freezing
to death of four Cinnamon, going down
the gulch below town. A couple of gen.
tlemen of this burg intend to procure
and place on the summit of Mount
Powell next fall, to remain through the
winter, registered spirit thermometer,
graduated down about two feet below
zero. The interest of the record would
be increased if they could attach to it a
self-registering almanac.
The worst disguised man in Deer
Lodge this winter is Granville Stuart,
Esq, the most careful thermometrical
observer in Montana. Anticipating q
possible spell of weather that the mer-
curial thermometers would be made
quate to record, he sent to New York for
fine spirit thermometer, for which he
was charged a spirited price. 1t arrived in
good season. but on examining it it was
found to be only graduated to thirty de-
grees below zero. He says it is good
enough summer thermometer, but it isn't
calculated" for this kind of winter
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

White Cake.-One cup of sugar; one
half cup of butter; one-half cup sweet
milk; two cups of flour; the whites of
three eggs; onehalf a teaspoonful of
Soda one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
sifted with the flour. Beat butter and
sugar thoroughly together, and the whites
of eggs beaten to stiff foam, then the
flour and milk and soda the last.
When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select the
smallest cloud you can see. Keep your
eyes upon it, and if it decreases and dis
appears it shows the state of the air
which will be sure to be followed by fine
weather; but if it increases in size take
your great-coat with you if you are going
from home, for falling weather is not far
of The reason is this: When the air is
becoming charged with electricity you
will see every cloud attracting all lesser
ones toward it, until it gathers into Il
shower; and, on the contrary, when the
fluid is passing off or diffusing itself,
then a large cloud will be seen breaking
to pieces and dissolving-!Scientifcd and
Mining Journal.
The Gardeners Monthly says: Basket
plants often suffer from too much or too
little water. If from too little the leaves
curl or fall and the plants have dried
up appearance. If too much they get
yeho" anu uioP vi. ms iulo d oashct
in a warm room should be taken down
once week, soaked in a bucket of
water, then drained and hung up again.
Every day during the rest of the week a
little water may be given the plants and
something put under to catch the drip.
Some baskets have no provision for the
escape of moisture. These are danger
Gus. Still some people manage to watch
closely and do well with them. Fern
cases do best when given little sun I;
for, though ferns are supposed to grow
naturally in shady spots, it is because
there is generally more humid atmos-
phere. If they can get this moisture
they rather like light"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

require for growth and the protection of
them against the risks of weather and
insects. 1t is. nature that makes the
farmer rich; but nature sternly exacts
his cooperation. He must do his part
fully and fairly and she will DO hers.
She will not be defraudcd indeed, she
cannot be dcfrauded; and in this part
nership between nature and the farmer,
in which nature contributes light, heat,
snow rain and vital force, on the simple
condition that the farmer take proper
advantage of them, he must comply with
his part of the agreement If he expects
to become successful. He must plant at
the proper time; he must pillow deep as a
protection against drought; ne must keep
his soil in good heart, either by manur-
ing or by resting, grazing and turning
under green crops; he must keep down
the weeds, and thus allow all the
ply his cows, mares, sows, ewes and chick
ems with the requisite conditions to
healthful and rapid multiplication
abundant feed, water, warmth and shell
ter; he must plant choice fruit trees
plentifully, and in favorable situations,
on his farm, which shall grow while he
sleeps, and bring forth their harvest in
due time; and he must learn by expert
ment and study to pillow, plant, cut,
to his crops the developing forces of ma
ture at the moment of their highest ac-
tivity. Let him do these things, not for
one year, nor for two only, but all the
time, and wait patiently for the result
meantime keeping out of debt and hav-
ing as little to do with those who loan
money at 10 per cent. as possible-and
his reward will come. AT the end of
three years he will begin to perceive the
benefits of the experiment; at the end
of five years he will find that the
few breeding animals he began with
have multiplied five, ten and twenty
fold, and that the amount of annual
products that he has to sell is steadily
increasing; at the end of ten years he will
find that the farm which was worth ten
dollars an acre has grown to be worth
thirty or forty dollars per acre; that
judicious cultivation and fertilizing have
increased the productive capacity of his
soil; and, that the unpromising twigs
and shoots which he planted have
grown, almost without any labor from
him, into orchards and vineyards that
will yield their harvest of fruit, yeaI
after year, as long as he lives. Nature
has done more for him than usury does
for the banker, for, while the banker re.
quires fortune to begin with, he began
with little or nothing, and has become
comfortable and Independent. He finds
that nature is his friend and co-partner
ready and willing to supply him with all
her reproductive forces on the easy con
dition that he use them properly-and
that in this truth lies the secret of what
ever success he may achieve-St. Lout,
Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

The following amusing description of
/" mutual criticism" on which the Oneida
Creek Perfectionists depend for the moral
culture of each other, is taken from Mr.
Nordhoff's Communistic Societies OF
the United States:
"On Sunday afternoon, by the kind
ness of a young man who had offered
himself for criticism, was permitted to
be present. Fifteen persons besides my
self, about half women and about halt
young people under thirty, were seated
in room, mostly on benches placed
against the wall. Among them was Mr.
Noyes himself, who sat in large rock
ing-chair. The young man to be criti
cised, whom win call Charles, sat in.
conspicuously in the midst of the COM
pany. When the doors were closed he
was asked by the leader mot Mr.. Noyes)
whether he desired to say anything. Re-
tanning his seat he said that he had suf-
fered for some time past from certain
intellectual difficulties and doubts
leaning especially toward positivism and
lack OF faith; being drawn away from
God; q tendency to think religion of
small moment; but that he was combat
ing the evil spirit within him and hoped
he had gained somewhat; and so on.
Hereupon man, being called on to
speak, remarked that he thought Charles
had been somewhat hardened by too
great good fortune; that his sue
cess in certain enterprises had some.
what spoiled him; If he had not
succeeded so well he would have been a
better man; that he was somewhat wise
In his own esteem; not given to consult
with others or to seek or take advice
One or two other men agreed generally
with the previous remarks, had noticed
these faults in Charles and that they
made him disagreeable; and gave exam
pies to show his faults. Another con-
CURED in the general testimony, but
added that he thought Charles had lately
made efforts to correct some of his faults,
though there was still much room for
improvement. A young woman next re-
marked that Charles was naughty and
supercilious and thought himself better
than others with whom he was brought
into contact; that he was needlessly curt
sometimes to those with whom he had to
speak. Another young woman added
that Charles was a respecter of persons
that he showed his liking for certain in
dividuals too plainly by calling them pet
names before people; that he seemed to
forget that such things were disagreeable
and wrong. Another woman said that
Charles was often careless in his Ian.
guage; sometimes used slang words
and was apt to give bad inn
preston to strangers. Also that he
did not always conduct himself
at table, especially before visitors, with
careful poiiteness and good manners. A
man concurred in this, and remarked
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
A NATION OF DYsPEpr1cs.-We |

A NATION OF DYsPEPTIcs.-We live
fast-dissipate in everything except
righteousness, and fill early graves. We
drink all kinds of poisoned alcoholic
spirits, and swallow without mastication
pork, grease, and every conceivable car
bonaceous, sOui-dwarfng, life destroy
ing, -clogging, indigestible food.
DR.. WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BrT-
TIERS cannot stop this in radical man
ner-but it will remove the evil effects,
and the recovering patient, with fresh,
pure, vitalized, electrical blood flowing
through his arteries and veins, will have
a clearer head and a cooler judgment,
| which, coupled with experience, will
cause him to abstain in the future.
Good, nutritious, digestible diet, which
the most delicate stomacks may take,
can he found in cracked wheat, corn
bread, tomatoes, raw or soft-boiled eggs,
baked apples, boiled rice, plain rice
pudding, corn-starch, rare beef, mutton
and poultry. With VINEGAR BITTERs and
moderation in eating and drinking there
is no incurable case of dyspepsia. Fl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20
IT is now generally admitted by honest pl

IT is now generally admitted by honest ply
scians that, when once the consumption is
fairly fastened upon the lungs, no human
power can save the patient from death. They
also say that about 50 per cent of those who
die from this disease can trace the cause to a
neglected cough or cold, which might have
been cured by a small bottle of Liquid Opo-
deldoc, or, what is the same thing, johnson S
AnOdyne Liniment.
CUT this notice out and bring it with you.
We are authorized to refund the cash to any
person or persons who shall buy and use Iar-
sons Purgatipe Pills and fail of relief and sat
isfactiou.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

JUST CAUSE FOR BEING ALARMED!-Whel
a cough has been running for a long time
and you begin to feel pain setting in upol
your Lungs, attended with tightness across
the chest, it is high time that you should
awaken to the danger of your disease, whicl
is fast running into fatal Consumption. Nov
before it is too late use Aliens Lung Balsam
which will cure the disease, and all will b.
well with YOU.
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The masculine head that will wear it
doesn't need softeping-Yonkers Gazette.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-20

PRussING's White Wine Vinegar, warranted
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