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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
Rearing Young Stock.

There is as much difference between
the management of different stock raisers
concerning their modes of feeding and
protecting their animals in cold weather
as there is in the management of the soil
they cultivate. One man will endeavor
to keep his stock on the smallest possible
allowance of feed, while his neighbor
will adopt the opposite practice and coax
every one to consume little more than
is actually needed. 1t would seem that
some farmers can never learn that it will
not pay to keep young animals poorly, if
they (the farmers) were to live to the age
of the patriarch Methuselah. They APP
pear to consider it an impossible prac-
tice to have their stock, either young or
old, maintain thrifty condition until
the end of the foddering season, while
many other stock growers will rejoice in
the satisfaction of seeing every animal
as plump and thrifty during all the win
ter as they were when the grazing season
terminated. Although young animals
cannot be expected to gain during the
foddering season as rapidly as when they
subsist on luXuriant grass. still they
should be fed so generously that they will
lose none of the fat and flesh which was
stored up during the grazing season. In
order to do this it is not necessary to
feed large quantities of grain or meal,
although a small allowance per head, if
properly protected from the piercing cold
and pelting storms, will enhance the value
OF the animal much more than the mar
ket value of the grain consumed. When a
calf is half starved the first winter of its
life he will become crooked in the back
his bones will project, his excellent
points will be shriveled up, and he can
not be rendered as valuable at the age of
four years as he would be at three if he
were kept in thrifty condition from
early calfhood until the fully developed
and symmetrical bullock is in superb
condition for the slaughter house. a
great many farmers starve their calves,
young steers and bullocks during the
fOddering season, so that all the fat ac-
cumuiated during the grazing season is
consumed to aid in maintaining proper
degree of animal heat.
In order to produce the most valuable
animals of any kind it is important tC
commence when the calf, the colt, the
lamb, or the pig is only day or two old
If young animal is managed in such a
manner that he is "stunted' in growth
and development, no system of feeding
afterward will ever make him as large
beautiful and symmetrical as if Il proper
supply of nourishing food had beer
given while he was young and of tender
age If it is desirable to rear horse
that will be strong, beautifully-devel
oped in every respect assuming the
breed to be all correct), the colt must bt
| kept in thrifty condition from year tt
year The object cannot be attained II
the young animal is kept on an allow
ance of food so scanty that he will be
come spring-poor' before the fodder
ing season is half passed.--N. Y. Herald
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
How a Woman Posts a Letter.

ANY day when you have time you can
see how she does it by dropping into the
postoffice. She arrives there with the
letter in her hand 1t is sheet of note
inclosed in a white envelope. She halts
in front of the stamp window, opens her
mouth to ask for a stamp, but suddenly
darts away and looks at the letter to see
if she made any errors in names or dates.
1t takes her five minutes to make sure
of this. and then she balances the letter
on her finger and the awful query arises
in her mind, Perhaps it is over-weightr'
She steps to the window and asks the
clerk if he has three cent stamp, fear
ing that he hasn't, and she looks over
every compartment of her porle-monnaie
before she finds the change to pay for it.
The fun begins as she gets the stamp.
She sidles around to one side, removes
her gloves, closely inspects the stamp,
and hesitates whether to lick" it ON or
wet her finger. She finally concludes
that it wouldn't be nice to show her
tongue, and she vets her finger and
passes it over the envelope. She is SO
long picking up the stamp that the
moisture is absorbed and the stamp slides
off the envelope. She tries it twice more
with the same success, and then, getting
desperate, she gives the stamp i" lick"
and it sticks. Then comes the sealing
of the letter She vets her finger again,
but the envelope flies open, and after five
minutes delay she has to pass her tongue
along the streak of dried mucilage. She
holds the letter Il long time to make sure
that the envelope is all right, and finally
appears at the window and asks:
Three cents is enough, is itf''
Yes, ma am"
"And this will go out to-day?"
Certainly"
Twill it go to Chicago without the
name of the county on:'
"Just the same"
"What time will it reach there?"
Tomorrow morning"
She signs, turns the letter over and over
and finally asks:
"Shall drop it into one of those place.
there?"
Yes, ma'am."
She walks up in front of the six orifice'
through which letters fall upon the table
closely scans each one of them, finally
makes a choice, and drops-no, sht
doesn't. She stops to see where it will
fall, pressing her face against the win
dow until she fiattens her nose out o.
shape, and she doesn't drop it into tn,
| place she meant to. She, however, re
leases it at last, looks down to make SURF
that it did not fall on the floor, and turn
| away with sigh of regret that she didn'
take one more look at the superscription
| -DetroitFree Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
Cheap Shelter for Stock.

If person have only one ton of
fodder for his COW it would prove more
economical in point of dollars and cents
to employ nearly half of that fodder for
building a comfortable howell for his COW
than to allow her to be exposed to all the
cold and storms of a Northern winter,
having free access to all the fodder she
would consume Many years ago farm
ers were wont to think that in order to
make a tough horse the colt must be
kept in the open field, with snow-bank
for his bed and the starry canopy for his
covering. But experience in our cold
latitudes has taught the important lesson
that such practice in the management
OF colts checks their growth, retards
their development and tends to enervate
their powers of endurance. We have no
sympathy with the barbarous practice
Of tying young animals of any kind in
stalls. Let them have liberty. The
practice of tying up colts in stalls Is at
tended with more injury to them than to
young cattle, as colts are always more
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

not long before the young lady was back
in the house again, and an observer could
have heard the father eXclaim, with
beating arm, such EXPLANATIONS as:
-" Now, I'll fix you, you worthless loafer."
The young man soon afterward brought
the horses back in a terrible foam and it
looked as though he had been driving
pretty fast. His face was tied up in a
handkerchief, and he complained of the
toothache to the boys in the stable, and
kept cursing his bad luck and intended
father-in-law. We have seen the young
man since and he don't look in a mood
to try the thing over again.-Visalia
mi l.oyf1
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
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l mention this because it seems to me
to shed such a flood of light upon the
subject that any poor, suffering cripple
can rig up machine and cure himself.
Hitherto there has been a cloud of OBJ
security surrounding the application of
electricity to rhematism, but now any
man who has courage enough to make c
equal to E divided by l X plus r
divided by 1000 can drop the ashes out
of his joints fast enough 20 make them
rattle. And l suppose that in extreme
cases where the disease will not yield
readily a daring man might stir in the
rest of the alphabet without danger OF
sizzling his legs off. The manner in
which science is driving pain and sorrow
out of this world is something to make
glad the heart of the philanthropist-
Mar Adeler, IN Ddn6ury Meas.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

A BEAUTIFUL WoMAN-The perceptive
faculty of women is usually keener than
the same chronological organ in men.
Woman knows that beauty rather than
genius IS worshiped by the sterner sex.
A man may talk with his lips of the lat
ter to his lady-love, but the keenness of
the woman knows he is thinking of the
former in his heart. All women have an
innate desire to please their 6eaur. They
are fond of admiration, hence one of
their longings is to be beautiful. The
grand secret of female beauty is health
the secret of health is the power to eat,
digest and assimilate a proper quantity
of wholesome food. Take VINEGAR BIT
TIERS. 1t will cleanse the stomach, tone
the vital organs, give perfect digestion,
purify the blood, clear up the complexion
and produce state of mental and phys
ical electricity which gives symmetry of
form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy
hair and genuine type of female love-
illness which no cosmetic can compare
with. ~
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
A Simple Cure.

Joy to the world! Anybody who has
rheumatism can now be cured. A Phila-
delphia medical journal in an article
upon the cure of rheumatism by cleo
tricity gives the following instructions in
regard to the applications: If five
cells are used the formula will be
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

IMPORTANT TO CoNsUMPTIvEs.-The long
looked for specific for the cure of Pulmonary
diseases is found at last. Aliens Lung Bal
sam has proved to be the most extraordinary
medical preparation for curing Consumption.
1t not only cures Consumption, but relieves
Immediately the incipient stages, such as
Coughs, Colds, Expressions, etc, Pains in the
Chest. 1t breaks up the most distressing
cough in an incredible short time.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

"A young fellow in San Francisco
suddenly snatched a kiss from a lady
friend, and excused his conduct by say
ing that it was sort of temporary insan-
ity that now and then came upon him
When he arose to take his leave the pity
ing damsel said to him: eff you ever
feel any more such fits coming on you
had better come right here, where your
infirmity is known, and We will take care
of you
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

WILuoFT'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-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West. When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's
Tonic will prove Il valuable addition to the
stock of medicines, and will amply reward
the company in the saving of time, labor and
money We recommend it to all. WHEELOOK,
FINLAY Il Co, Proprictors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

THERE are few who need to be told
that the Sherman House is the best hotel
in Chicago. But all may not have learned
that it's prices have recently been mate
rally reduced.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

WE received very pleasant letter OF
thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his
return home, for a bottle of Joh'tson's Ano-
dyne Liniment which We gave him and which
he says has entirely cured him of the trouble
some and dangerous cough he had when
here.
On the death of one of Englands most en-
inent physicians all his effects were sold by
auction, and among other things was a sealed
packet, marked advice to Physicians
which brought a great price. The purchaser
on opening the packet, read as follows:
/" Keep the head cool, the bowels open and
the feet warm" If physic is necessary use
Prrsons Parqatipe PHs; they are the most
scientifically prepared pill that has appeared
in the last hundred years.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

No USE of any longer taking the large, re-
pulsive, gripping, drastic and nauseous pills,
composed of crude and bulky ingredients,
and put up in cheap wood or pasteboard
boxes, when we can, by careful application
of chemical science, extract all the cathartic
valuable roots and herbs, and concentrate
them into a minute Granule,. scarcely larger
than a mustard seed that can be readily swal-
lawed by those of the most sensitive stom-
achs and fastidious tastes. Each of DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets represents,
in a most concentrated form, as much ca
thartic power as is embodied in any of the
large pills found for sale in the drug stores.
From their wonderful cathartic power, in pro-
portion to their size, people who have not tried
them are apt to suppose that they are harsh
or drastic in effect, but such is not at all the
case, the different active medicinal principles
of which they are composed being SO har-
monized, one by the others, as to produce a
most searching and thorough, yet gently and
kindly operating, cathartic The Pellets are
sold by dealers in medicines.
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which will, of course, give practically
the same result as
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

THE NORTHWESTERN HoRsENA1L Coz
" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

AUNT LUCY's SPICE CAKE.-Two cups
of sugar, two-thirds of cup of butter,
two eggs, one cup of buttermilk, one
teaspoonful of soda, one of cloves, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one-half of a
nutmeg, one teacupful of raisins; flour to
make thick
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

NINEsAR.-Molasses one art, yeast
one pint, warm rain water tt. ee gallons /;
put all in a keg and tie a piece of gauze
over the bung to let in air. Set in a
warm place, and in three weeks you will
have good vinegar. If it commences to
die add molasses, yeast and water in the
same proportion, and you will always
have good vinegar.-Csncinnati Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

THE clash in the fashionable world just
now between the girls with pretty feet
who want to wear short dresses and
those with ugly feet who insist upon
having long ones is described by the
fashionable dressmakers as something
fearful.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

active than calves and want to be NOV
ing. If colts cannot be provided with a
yard more than twelve feet square, let
them run loose. Young animals will
endure extremely cold weather with
out injury provided they have no
more than an open howell to keep
them dry during stormy weather
and to shield them from chilling winds
When an animal is not provided with a
suitable supply of food his system will
make draft on the fat that has been
stored up in the body. The temperature
of the system must be maintained. 1t is
an expensive way to keep domestic ami
mails comfortably warm by the consump-
ton of the fat that has been produced at
costly rate.
If one has calves of any respectable
breed it will remunerate the owner in a
generous and satisfactory manner to pro-
vide comfortable shed for them and
give each one not less than a quart of
meal per day, in connection with prime
hay, good corn-stalks, a few roots and an
abundance of clean and bright straw.
In addition to generous feeding and
regular watering, all Illuminating animals
need a comfortable place where they
can lie down quietly every day on a dry
bed and enjoy rumination and quiet rest
If you lack boards set few posts in the
ground, lay on some poles or rails and
cover them with small brush and little
straw or coarse manure, rather than per
nit the poor brutes to be exposed to cold
and storms.-N. Y. Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
German Houses.

NOBODY can draw you a plan of a
dwelling more nicely to scale than a
German, and yet German houses lack
some of the most obvious requisites to
domestic comfort. How, for example,
the good housewives have got on during
these past centuries without closet Ia
q" clothes press" as we call it sometimes
is a most ineXplicable mystery Go into
almost any German dwelling of the
middle classes, and you would think that
the family had just moved in, or were
just moving out, such is the quantity of
wardrobes and bureaus in the front hall.
But when you come to inquire you find
that things have been thus for score of
years, the lack of closets crowding such
furniture into every vacant place. 1t
seems, likewise, a rather singular arrange
ment of a residence to put the kitchen
next to the front door, SO that all your
visitors have to pass it on the way to the
parlor. But such is almost universally
the case with German houses. Truth to
tell, the architect is yet to be born in this
country who will teach the people low
to build with view to living after a
comfortable fashion. Then comes the
matter of ventilation. Probably no PEG.
pie understand the theory of this better
than the Germans, but they all act as il
they had made special arrangement
with divine Providence whereby they
could thrive on carbonic acid gas. In
all places of public assembly fresh all
is the adherence of the Germans. If {
suffering Yankee lets window down OF
opens door he will be assaulted with
such quantity of coughs and sneezes a.
will bring him to repentance if he is no
morally obtuse.-Rep. j. L. Corning, d,
Christian UniOn
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06

ltIIcQ 10 INC UOOL Oh tUc
guarded his masters dinner, and rushed
somewhat furiously against any one who
tempered with it. He was proof against
all temptations save one-it was not safe
to set him to guard over plum-pudding.
An old blind rat took refuge by the
kitchen fire in the house of a physician
and became favoritc until IA strange cat
unfortunately one day made his appear
ance and put an end 10 the harmony. NJ
DE la Tude, in his sad narrative of thirty
five years Imprisonment in the Bastile
describes how he gradually formed an
acquaintance with ten rats IN his dun
geOn; he gave them distinct names
which they recognized, and he got up va
rious kinds of simple gambols or sports
in which they took part.
Of what use is the rat to man? Well
not very much that We know of; yet q
few items may be mentioned Probably
we must not attach much Importance to
the alleged prophetic powers of the
rat-that If he gnaws a persons clothes
that person will speedily die, that if he
suddenly quits house the house will
very shortly be burned down; that if he
deserts a ship the ship is in a sinking
state. A mill at PEBBLES was suddenly
deserted by Il whole colony of rats abou
twenty years ago; two hours atterwarc
the mill was burned down. But il mus
be confessed that the logic is very veal
which proves from these facts the pos
session of any prophetic power by MIR
Rat. James, in his Military Dictionary
says: " Rats are sometimes used in mill
tary operations, particularly in enter
prises for the purpose of setting fire t.
gunpowder. On these occasions
lighted match is tied to the tail of thu
animal. Marshal Vauban commends
therefore, that the walls of powder maya
zines should be made very thick, and thu
passages for light and air so marrow
as not to admit rats" We do no
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