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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-01

BOILED ONIoNs.-Slice them fine (af-
ter paring), boil until tender in enough
water to cover. When tender, season
with butter, pepper and salt They are
much better than when boiled whole.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-01

CRooUETs.-Take any cold meat, mince
it fine put in an onion chopped fine.
Moisten with gravy, make into balls with
yelk of an egg and tlonr, and fry in hot. fat,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-01

WORTH KNoWING.-To correct fetid
breath the following dental wash is most
excellent Tincture of cedar wood, one
pint tincture Of myrrh, one ounce Ii
quid chlorinated soda, half ounce wash
the mouth with q tablespoonful in glass
of water.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-01
GROCERIES, PRODUCE,
Tobacco, Cigars, &C..

5 I A U TON, VIRGINIA
In ADDITION TO COMPLETE AND
L well selected stock of G roceries at lowest
rates, | offer for sale
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

tention to the fact she had that day
broken the handle of her big seven
pound flat-iron and that she must get an
other The other day l met her ON the
street and she told me she had replaced
that flat-iron at last. For thirteen years
fifty two times per year she had used that
broken handled iron to smooth down her
washing, and every time she had said to
herself that she would go uptown next
day and order n new one.
Bristow died last week. We were
warm friends and was with him to the
last. After he had called the family up
one by one and shaken hands and said
good-by, | saw that there was yet some
thing on his mind. | admoni>hed him
to trust me if he had a dying request,
and he grasped my hand and replied:
I've been trying to find time for the
last seventeen years to take the butcher
knife down to the shop ami have it
ground, and, if it wouldn't be asking too
much of you. wish you'd see to it.'
l promised him, but it may be twenty
years before get the knife to the shop,
aud ten years more before l call for it.
lean remember when old Mrs. Bagley
died. She had china teapot in her
house which had belonged to her grand
mother, but she had always kept 1t In
the drawer because the handle was bro
ken and wanted cementing. She gave the
teapot to a neighbor, who waited five
years for bottle of cement, then four
years more to find time, and finally
Knocked the spout off while trying to
mend the handle.
l don't suppose any of us would forget
the day a note was due, but if the knob
should drop off a chamber door l expect
that George Francis Train might be
elected President before we would find
time to replace it. II. quad" an Our
FIreside Friend.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

a middle-aged woman had letter
handed her at the general delivery in
the POstoffice yesterday and she sat
down on window-sill and read it. Her
interest was intense from the start, and
she spoke up and said:
He calls me his little darling. That's
goodr'
After reading a few lines more she
said:
"And he misses my society so muchn'
Half way down the page she spoke
again:
"And he calls me his sunbeam-his
guardian angel"
She climbed up on the sill little
further turned the letter over and
mused:
"And he's lost three pounds of flesh
worrying over my health. He's just a
dear, loving old darling, that's what he
isn
She reached the top of the fourth page
and exclaimed:
what, going to Flint, eh?"
Further down she growled:
"And he met that red-headed Widow
Kernshaw on the cars, eh? I'll see about
that. He probably didn't tell her he was
married"
She got down to the "P. S." glanced
over couple of lines, and then yelled
right out:
mot coming home until next week
Trans showed in, Great press of bust
ness! I'll see whether he isn't coming
Bub, where's the telegraph office?'
And she ran across the street and sent
him dispatch which made the opera
tors hair stand up as he received and
read it-Detr0H Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
One ounce each of muriate of 81

One ounce each of muriate of soda,
cream of tartar and alum boiled in a gal
lon of water gives plate a beautiful
whiteness. Dip the article in the MKT
ure, remove and rub dry.
breakfast Rusk.-Four cups of flour,
one half cup of white sugar, two cups of
milk, two eggs, two teaspOonfuls OF
cream tartar, one small teaspoonful of
soda. Bake in long pan in quick
oven. Cut as you would cut sponge
cake.
An oaken color can be given to new
pine floors and tables by washing them
in solution of copperas dissolved in
strong I've, pound of the former to a
gallon of the latter When dry this
should be oiled and it will look well for
year or two; then renew the oiling.
Prof. Tyndall illustrates the value
of single potato by supposing that
every potato in the world but one was
destroyed; that one would contain in
itself the possibility of again stocking
the world with an invaluable article of
food. If one potato would produce,
when planted, only a crop of ten pota-
toes. in ten years the total product of
the produce of this one potato would be
equal to ten thousand millions, which
would be sufficient to stock the whole
world with seed. The real value of that
single potato, then, would be such that
il would be better that the city of Lon
don or New York should be totally de-
stroyed than that the tuber should be
lost to the world.
Boiled CaDbage.-Quarter the cab
Dage the night before it is required and
remove the hard stock; wash it well and
cut it into small pieces. Next morning
change the water and when ready to
cook skim out the cabbage into 4 large
pot of boiling water with a small tea
spoonful of saleratus added to it. Boil
steadily for forty or fifty minutes, but
take care that the water does not boil
over the range or cooking stove, for this
is one of the chief causes of the disgust
ing odor which fills the house. If you
are cooking corned beef at the same time
after skimming it thoroughly you can
add pint of the liquor in which it is
boiling to the cabbage, as some like the
meaty flavor, and if there is no bee
liquor at hand piece of beef suet will
answer the purpose; but cabbage should
never be boiled in the kettle with salt
meat, as it spoils the flavor of both.
When the cabbage is so well boiled that
it will easily mash skim it out into col
ander and press out all the water anS
season it with butter, salt and pepper
Prepared in this way cabbage really be
comes an inviting dish, and is a very
healthy one, but because it has so often
been badly cooked it has fallen into dis
repute. Ii you prefer to have the cab
bage more in shape il Can only be halved
and the hard stalk cut out; then tie it up
in piece of coarse muslin and boil toI
an hour, always putting it into boiling
of first
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
Preventive Medicine.

THE Chinese, it is said, pay the doctor
while they are well, and cease aging
him as soon as they become i'll. Self
interest thus stimulates the physician to
do his utmost to ward off disease from
his employers and he is ever striving to
diminish his list of patients that he may
increase his income. That practitioner
in the Flowery Kingdom has, of course,
the most success and highest rcpute who
has the fewest sick to treat. Every new
patient must be regarded as a witness
against his skill and charge upon his
purse, and he would rather "stand and
deliver" to highway robber than have a
call to sick man, for to the former he
merely gives up his money while the lat
ter takes from him not only his money,
but his good name also. Preventive
medicine, as it is called, should be, under
circumstances so favorable to it's encour-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
A Snake Fight.

LAST August, as Mr.. Woodbridge, who
lives just above Cloverdale, formerly of
Petaluma, was going ohiaporkin the ear
" morning he saw a strapGe sight, some
. hing which he could not arifrst define
whirlingS wrishing and turning on the
q und- OnA nearer Pproack what was
his astonishnnne TO discover two i'm
mense rattes1see engaged In deadly
other from 1lyo. wi1hinp six Or eight
inches Of the htnds and never for a mo-
ment did they take their eyes off each
other. NoW3end they would slowly
unwind to within one or two coils of the
tail, when with an instantaneous move
ment they would again become involved
to the neck, and, with jaws distended and
fangs exposed. one would strike at the
other, his antagonist invariably lodging
the blow, when in turn he would be
foiled. After repeating their maneu-
vers Tor time they would lie painting
in each others coils, and then slowly
and cautiously unwind only to repeat
the Involvement and striking again. So
fercely did they embrace each other that
one would think surely the life would be
crushed out. Strike after strike was
made on both sides, but never once was
an adversary SO far caught off his guard
As to receive blow. They had been
u8utAuS over space OF uItecn OF twenty
feet, as evidenced by their tracks in the
dust. To all appearances they had been
fighting all night, every inch of ground
bearing marks Of the conflict. After
looking anthem for some time Mr. Wool
bridge cut a pole some eight or ten feet
long, and just then Mr.. Murphy came
up. He took the pole and approaching
the snakes they simultaneously discov-
cred him. when, loosening their hold of
each other with marvellous rapidity, the
larger one rushed at him perfectly furi
GUS; it required the second blow to stop
him. In moment after the other start
ed after Mr.. Murphy, as his now dead
antagonist had done, when he, too, was
slain by a welLdirected blow. One had
sixteen and the other fifteen rattles-
Santa Rosa (CdL) Democrat
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

MY entire household, including the
hired girl, is full of satisfaction tonight
over the fact that have just driven the
ax-handle firmly into the ak and wedged
1t there SO that it cannot under any cir
cumstances come out. 1t may read like
small matter to you, but do you know
that that helve had been loose for nearly
five years? Yes, for five years that AK
has flung itself across the yard whenever
! struck heavy blow, leaving the helve
in my hand, and / suppose 1 have de-
cided more than . thousand times to go
In and get hammer and chisel and
fasten the helve in. l was thrown down
and had my arm broken by the ak flying
of; two hired girls had their noses
broken; we spoiled the stove-boilers,
nearly killed three boys, and yet didn't
get around to fix the AK until to day.
Foster was telling me the other day
that he had finally glued that knob on to
the bureau drawer aud he seemed greatly
relieved. l remember when tina: knob
was knocked -Of-almost seven years
ago. was helping him move the bureau
when the accident occurred, and never
was in the house afterward without
hearing Mrs. Foster say:
Come, Henry, haven't you got time
to fix that knob on this EVENING""
Yes, Martha" he would reply, and
yet it was seven years before he got
to it.
Seven or eight years ago my neighbor,
Mr.. Goodwin, found COW among his
cabbages one day and in driving her out
she jumped over the gate and broke one
of the hinges. He went in and got ham
mer, screw-driver and screws to repair
damages, but his wife called him in to
breakfast just then. After breakfast he
hadn't time, and so it ran along until the
other day. He passed through the gate
an average of five times per day Tor
about seven years, or Ii, 600 times in all
and he had to lift it up, carry it around
and be bothered for half minute each
time. Thirteen thousand times he said
to himself that he would fl that con-
founded gate, and yet he didn't do il
until the other day.
Some twelve or thirteen years ago !
was taking dinner with Turner, over on
Adams avenue, and his wife called at
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
Nursing the Sick.

As MY province is nursing sick friend
in these Gays, prefer to write on that
subject 1t seems SO grievOus to see the
strong arm made weak and helpless that
one longs to remove all annoyances as
well as to procure all the comforts which
would be healthtul for them. In doing
this there should be no sharp or loud
noises, no loud, coarse talking, no bust
ness matters transacted in the presence
of sick persons which would excite or
weary them. No excitement whatever
should be allowed in their presence.
Those who administer TO their wants
should learn to move quietly about, to
speak in low. soothing tones, and refer
| ecerythtag, so far as is consistent, to their
wishes. In some cases of chronic diff
culties their wishes should be consulted
in nearly everything. Where there is a
very slender hold on life careless dis
regard of their wishes will nearly or
quite snap the feeble thread asunder
How cruel to see the weak and helpless
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

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-
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
congrcgat ed in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's
Tonic will prove a 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. WHEELoCK,
FINLAY IL Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
VINEGAR Buffers. T. WALKER. a

VINEGAR BITTERs. DR.. J. WALKER, a
regular practicing physician of Caliior-
mia, has conferred Il priceless boon upon
mankind by the introduction of II " Bit
tiers" compounded from herbs exclusive
ly, which may be truly said to be super
seding all others, and is becoming bitter
dose indeed for the charlatans and
quacks, on account of its immense sale
and universal popularity. Not only are
these VINEGAR BIrTERs, as he calls them,
an invaluable tonic and Alternative, but
they are acknowledged as a standard
MEDICINE, and the astonishing rapidity
with which they cure diseases hitherto
declared incurab1e seems almost ineredi-
BILE. After having been carefully tested
they are kept on hand in thousands of
households and used for any and every
form of disease, many relying upon then.
in prefefence to the most celebrated
pbysicisns. They have become a recog-
nized Gamily Remedy and properly
so. 25
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

The blood being the source from which our
systems are built up and from which we de-
rive our mental as well as our physical capa-
bilities, how important that it should be kept
pure? If it contains vile, fostering poisOns
all organic functions weakened thereby.
Settling upon important organs, as the lungs,
liver or kidneys, the effect is most disastrous.
Hence it behooves every one to keep their
blood in perfectly healthy condition, and
more especially does this apply at this partic-
ular season of the year than at any other. No
matter what the exciting cause may be, the
real cause of large proportion OF all dis
eases is bad blood. Now DIR. Pierce does not
wish to place his Golden Medical Discovery in
the catalogue of quack patent nostrums by
recommending 1t to cure every disease, nor
does he so recommend it; on the contrary
tcere are hundreds Of diseases that he ac-
knowledges it will not cure; but what he does
claim is this: That there is but one form OF
blood disease that it will not cure, and that
disease is cancer. He does not recommend
his Discovery for that disease, yet he knows
it to be the most searching blood cleanser yet
discovered, and that it will free the blood and
system of all other known blood poisonS, be
they animal, vegetable or mineral The
Golden Discovery is warranted by him to cure
the worst forms Of Skin Diseases, as all forms
of Blotches, Pimples and Eruptions, also all
Granular SwelliugS and the worst form OF
Scrofulous and liberated Sores of Neck, Legs
or other parts, and all Scrofulous Diseases OF
the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores,
Hip Joint and Spinal Diseases, all of which
belong to Scrofulous diseases.
CONFERENCE.-THE JOINT DISEASE
w. GROVE STATION, Iowa, July IA, 1872
DIR. PIERCE, Buffalo N Y:
Dear Sii-My wife first became lame nine
wears ago. Swellings would appear and dis
appear upon her hip and she was gradually
becoming reduced and her whole system rot
ten with disease. In 1871 a swelling broke
on her hip, discharging large quantities, and
since that time there are several openings
Have had five doctors, at an expense of $l25
who say nothing will do any good but a sur
gical operation.
July I6, 1878, he writes thus: My wife has
certainly received great benefit from the use
of your Discovery, for she was not able to gel
off the bed, aud was not expected to live a
week when she commenced using it a veal
! ago She has been doing most of her work
for over six months. Has used twenty bot
ties and still using it. Her recovery is con
sidered as almost miracle and we attribute
it to the use of your valuable medicine. lean
chcerfully recommend it blood purifier
and strength restorer. j. NJ. ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

DEATHS BY CoNsUMPTIoN-It is estimated
that 100000 die yearly in the United States
with Consumption. When Consumption first
appears there is pain in the chest and oppres-
sion, attended with difficulty in breathing.
Soon there will be a cough, if this irritation
is not healed, and the effort to raise will still
add fuel to the fire. Aliens Lung Balsam
will at once allay the pain and irritated
parts, stop the cough, and prevent what
would be Consumption. 1t is making cures
of diseased Lungs which were considered in
durable.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

"A loose horse kicking up his heels in
a frolic at the door and careful moth
er with her children shaking their aprons
at him to make him kick up more. That
is-training children to shake their
aprons and say boob" at any horse
and training horse to kick in play at
any flutter of calico. A horse is a dam
gerous playmate for young ones. His
notion of good joke" is to plant his
heels in playmate's ribs.-HdrJord
COUrant.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

IT is rare thing that physicians give any
countenance to medicine the manufacture
of which is a secret. About the only excep-
ton we know of Is Johnsons AnOdy',e Lini-
nent. This, we believe, all indorse, and
many of them use it in their practices with
great success
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

PERSONS requiring purgative pills should
be carefal what they buy. Some pills not
only cause gripping pains, but leave the bowels
in a torpid, costive state. Parsons Purgotire
Pills will relieve the bowels and cleanse the
blood Without injury to the system.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

IMPORTANT INvENTIoN-"In less than ten
wears there will not be metal truss in USE"
was the prediction of one of our most eminent
physicians ON examining the Elastic Truss of
the Elastic Truss Co., Gs3 Broadway, n. Y.
The extensive adoption of these unequaled
instruments, which certainly cure rupture
without torture, will make them the only
trusses used in much less than ten years. We
advise all sufferers to send to the above COM
pany for descriptive circulars, as these trusses
are sent to all parts of the country by mail.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

GLEN FLORA MINERAL WATER.-n YOU
would learn of its wonderful cures address
K. II. Parks, Waukegan, ILL.,, for circulars.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

THE NORTHWESTERN HORSE NAIL Co.:
"Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

A FORTUNE easily made. No capital re-
auired For particulars address Lohman Il
Co., Laramie City, Wyoming.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

ASK for Prussing's White Wine Vinegar,
warranted pure wholesome and palatable.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20
How to Salt Stock.

EXPERIENCE has proved, and many
farmers have acknowledged, that to
force salt upon animals is to commit a
fault of which We have often reason to
regret the effects. In the distribution of
salt we leave the cattle to themselves
and their own judgments as to quantity,
and they have never deceived US.
We simply place in the Manager and at
the door of each of them a lump of rock
salt, which contains, mixed with com
mon kitchen salt, suitable proportions
of soda (Gl1uber salt) and sulphate of
magnesia EPSON salt, substances di-
gestive and slightly laxative and very
favorable to the functions of the stomach
and very important for ruminants.
When an animal feels the effects of indi-
gestion painful he ticks at discretion his
morsel of salt, and recurs to this means
of relief every time he feels the need of
it. l have very often seen ANIMALS
whose digestion operated painfully rise,
lick the salt for 4 time, longer or shorter
according to the need they feel, and
surely guided by their instinct, then lie
down and again rise, lick the salt again,
and SO continue till the rumInation takes
place again, and thus to administer
themselves the remedy for the disorder.
The good effects of this mode of dis
tributing salt to animals have been
proven to us for many years in a man
ner which has led us to attach still more
importance to it. In consequence of the
inundation of the mines from whence
the salt is procured that we make use of
they have been deprived of it for some
| time; and every week we have had to
treat some of them for disordered diges-
ton, of which the least consequences
| were the loss of the labor of the oxen, of
milk of the cows and their falling away
in condition. But rs soon as we have
been enabled to give them this condi-
ment the indigestion has been removed
In the absence of rOck-salt we could al
ways incorporate with the rock-salt en-
plOyed sulphate of soda crystallized
(Glauber salt, and which is sold at a low
price, and which all salts contain in the
proportion of from to per cent. We
consider it to be the best reactive and
perhaps the only one against the incon-
venience of an excessive consumption OF
salt.-Mqrk Lane (Eng.) Erpress.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

And here is the first demonstration
may say it was ever in my power to wit
ness in cowology-a COW coastins"
down hill: The barn stood upon II hill,
at the foot of which the cattle had been
accustomed to go for drink. But last
Monday morning the hill was covered
with ice. and the boy placed tub Of
water near the barn door and let out the
COW, supposing she would Stake her
thirst from that tub. The COW, however,
started off for her old place at the foot
of the hill, and, finding herself slipping
she sqpatted upon her launches, like II
dog, and bracing her feet in front she
slid distance of twenty feet to the bot
tom; and, as she brought up of a sud
den, she recovered her hind feet and
looked around as if to see what had
, happened "-Bostofs Glo5e.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

THE test of time and experience is the
only sure guide in selecting an instru-
ment 1t is of little consequence that a
man makes one or two fine pianos or
organs for n fair and intrigues success
fully for a prize. 1t is the quality o.
eueryddy manufacture that concerns the
buyer-not what exceptional and costly
for exhibition. The SMITH AMERICAN
ORGANS are of high and uniform excel
lence, and are the best for actual use,
having been tried and proved for twenty
five years.
SPANS debt, according to the latest
official statistics, is $4,000, OOO, 900.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

BuRsErr's FLORAL HAND Book. See AdJt
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-20

BURNETT's FLORAL HAND BOOK. See Adyt