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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
Whitewash for Outbuildings.

The following is from the proceedings
of the New York Farmers Club: The
Chairman said that in response to an in
quiry for the best whitewash for barns
and outbuildings he'had received the fol-
lowing: Take a bushel of well-burned
lime, white and unslacked, twenty pounds
of Spanish whiting, seventeen pounds of
rock salt, and twelve pounds of brown
sugar. Stake the lime and sift out any
coarse Jumps and mix it into good white
wash, with about forty gallons of water,
and then add the other Ingredients and
stir the whole together thoroughly, and
put on two or three coats with a common
brush. To make cream color add to the
above three pounds of yellow Ochre; a
fawn color, four pounds lumber, one pound
Indian red, and one of lampblack; if
a gray or stone color is wanted add four
pounds of raw lumber and two of lamp
black. DR.. Smith said that he was of the
opinion that sugar was of no service in
the making of whitewash. 1t was non-
sensical to use it in such a mixture, as it
would do no good and its use would be
simply a waste of money. The rock salt
mentioned he supposed was coarse salt.
He could not say whether or not the latter
would improve the mixture Mr.. Ely
said that he had found in his experience
that tallow was a good ingredient for
whitewash, but DIR. Smith did not agree
with him, as he thought that tallow would
not mix well with lime.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
Truth win Out.

A story with several morals comes from
Windsor, Conn. Forty years ago there
was bank at Windsor One morning
the cashier opened the locked vaults and
found everything in perfect order, includ-
ing an envelope that held, the evening
before. $50, 900. But the money was gone.
Detectives were summoned. They struck
what they thought to be trail, and fol-
lowed it straight to the house of Thomas
Emerson, the President of the bank. The
evidence against him was wholly circum-
stantial, but it seemed pretty clear. With
In a few short weeks Emerson exchanged
his home at Windsor for a cell at Wealth
ersfield-one of those terrible four by
nine cells in which Connecticut used to
suffOcate, as well as starve, her felons.
The ex-President lived several years with
in those gloomy stone walls, and then
came out to find himself an Outcast, hated
by the plundered community which had
once honored him. He lived to be an old
man, but his crime was never forgotten,
and he went down to the grave with
3D." thief" stamped upon him. The verdict
was on record. Everyone knew OF it.
His feeble protests were vain to shake
the settled conviction of his sin. Years
after the grass grew over his body,
chance stroke of workman's hammer
proved his innocence, and showed that he
had been one of the msny victims OF
circumstanhal evidence. The cashier OF
the bank, the man who disc overed the
theft, died about the time the eX-convlct
did The odor 81 sanctity hung about
him. His memory was cherished at
Windsor as that of truly good man. In
an evil moment for his memory the pres
ent occupant of his old house decided to
have it repaired. While the carpenters
we're at work on Monday of last week
blow with hammer sank the
head of that tool into secret cavity in
wall. A moments investigation showed
that the hiding-place held the money
stolen from the Windsor bank forty years
ago. Unless circumstantial evidence is
again playing tricks with the truth the
cashier stole the money, hid it, allowed a
perfect innocent man to drag out his life
with the terrible curse of a conviction for
felony resting on him, and was afraid to
ever use the money for the sake of which
he bartered his soul. The Springfield Re
publican says that til ere is "quite sensa-
ton" in Windsor O n account of this reve-
lation. The fact is not surprising.-CAi-
cdgo Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
Work Around the Barn.

THE ground about barns and stables
should be graded in such a manner that
all manurial substances can be saved.
Hence, when small streams of water are
accustomed to flow into the yard, during
the fall of rain, or when snow may be
melting, burrows should be plowed and
small ridges should be made to turn the
water away from the barn, and especially
from the manure yard. Eavetroughs
should be provided for every roof, SO that
all the water collected on buildings may
be conducted away from the manure yard.
Now is the best time in al the year to at
tend to the jobs which should be per-
formed around the barn. While the full
value of manure IS admitted, how few
farmers have their yards so constructed as
to prepare and preserve the greatest
amount of fertilizing compost. Instead
of barn and stable yards made lowest in
the middle, to retain those liquids which
chemical analysis and actual experience
have shown to be more valuable and to
contain in more concentrated form the
elements of vegetation than solid manure
most farm yards are on sloping ground,
as if constructed purposely for waste, and
not unfrequently with a rivulet near by,
to carry away all that may wash into it.
Instead of yards, in the fall of the year,
filled with compost from the swamp or
from bitches, to be converted into manure,
we see them empty, and usually provided
with ditch to carry off all moisture.
Farmers who mean to be economical,
who indulge in no unnecessary expense,
and who would hesitate to spend shilling
for the qualification of adepraved appetite,
throw away dollars. Swamp mud, turf,
leaves, weeds and, in fine, all the refuse
of farm, useless as manure in a natural
state, when placed in the barnyard or
pigsty, and thoroughly incorporated with
materials there, become the best manure,
amply rcpaying the farmer for the time
spent in collecting them. Whenever one
has access to cobble stones let the yard be
graded true and the surface paved with
cobbles. A cobblc-stone pavement will
keep live stock out of the mud and will
keep the manure up from the ground, so
that it will be less laborious to handle
with forks.-N. Y. He1Mld.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
A Cool Bank Robbery.

The particulars of a recent bold bank
robbery in Huntington, w. Va, show an
extraordinary amount of Goodness on the
part of the robbers. They rode up in
front of the bank IN broad daylight, being
four in number, and three of them enter
ing the bank and Instantly jumping over
the counter wreathed the cashiers head
with the muzzles of four revolvers. The
combination doors to the safe were open,
but the reserve-fund drawer was locked.
They turned the cashiers head in that
direction and ordered him not to attempt
to look any other way, but to open the
drawer. He, thinking, to gain time, re-
fused, but they assured him that they
knew their man and, Notwithstanding his
pluck, meant to kill him instantly if he
did not comply. The four revolvers press
ing against his head were too much to
bear, and the drawer was opened. A col
ored man coming in had a revolver pre-
sented to his head and was commanded TO
keep quiet, which he did The robbers,
finding only 900, accused the cashier
of having more, saying they expected the
bank to have $4,000. They asked the
cashier if he had any personal deposits,
and he answered them no; but while
coolly examining the books they saw that
he had just credited himself with $3.50.
The leader took from the stolen funds this
amount and handed it to him, assuring
him that they did not wish his money. He
replied that if he had got to his revolver
they wouldn't have got the money; but
they told him it wasn't any account any
how, which, on investigation, proved
true, showing it had been tempered with.
They then took the cashier out into the
street, mounted their horses and, assuring
him that he was gentleman, rode away
double quick over the hills and dales to
freedom. The town was soon the scene
of great excitement, and the citizens with
shot-guns and revolvers started in pursuit.
of the robbers, but they had not beef
found at last accounts
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
The Unknown Riches Of the Earth.

Why should we assume the Peruvian
traditions of the lost mines of the 1ncas to
be so untrue, or smile because we are told
that the Ashantees knew where to find
gold in quantities? Why not? The Cali
fornia gold was known a century before it
was found, and, unless geology is all
wrong, the Yankees have not got hold of
the richest section, which is in Lower
California, yet. The Turks must own and
neglect endless mines-some of them, If
tradition Is not all self begotten, mines of
gold-and there is all Southern Asia to be
ransacked by the curious. Where, before
maritime enterprises begun, did all the
silver and copper and lead in those vast
countries come from? The people of India
were 200, 0OO, 900 before the fifteenth cent
ury, and used and boarded silver and cop
per in several forms, and lead, and where
did they get themf There are no silver
mines open now in India. They are work
ing gold diggings in Wynaad on a system
which indicates, if not with certainty, at
least with high degree of probability,
that they have not reached the reefs"
and have only found some ancient de-
posits washed down from them. There
are all manner OF minerals in the Malayan
Peninsula, and indeed throughout the
eastern Archipelago, which, for want of
civilized methods of working. return no.
body anything worth having. Would not
copper be worth searching for in those
regions by men who remember that II they
can only find any metal worth working
there is the boundless reservoir of China
close at hand 10 draw their labor FRONT
Discoveries of tin in the Archipelago have
half ruined Cornwall. and there may be
much more than tin, the existence of
which biologists could predict with GER
tainty. Even leaving aside gold, as q
tempting but abusive metal, which rouses
local cupidity too much, where are the
places in Southern Asia, and especially in
India, where copper ought to exist Lon
don Spectator.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
rARv and HOME.

T-s,snaent Pies.-Take three eggs,
two t.bIes5oonfuls of sugar, one teacup of
nnod crsam, two tablespoonfuls of jelly,
52cnrp.1t is best, one of butter, flavor
Wsn essence of lemon; this will make
1wo pies. Bake with one crust.
Mary Cake.-Two eggs we'll beaten,
one-half cup butter, one and one-half
cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, one tea
spoonful soda, two of cream tartar, three
and one-half heap1ng cups sifted flour :;
this makes two loaves. Use lemon es
sence for favoring.
With the increasing cost of fencing
material it becomes a more interesting
question to the farmer: How can l eco
nomically build new and repair old
fences? A Western man suggests the use
of sods, and writes: "In England and
Ireland they have the sod fence have
seen it in this country occasionally, but
think il our farmers knew its practical
merits we should see it oftener. Only dig
two bitches two feet apart, three feet wide
and two feet deep; throw the dirt from
bitches on the space between, beat it down
till it has some hardness, and give it
enough slant to prevent caving,' and you
have fence for lifetime. In most cases
here we need no turf or 'whin-bushes' as
they do, for in a year the bank will be
covered by luxuriant growth of black
berry bushes, answering every purpose.
Even where timber is plenty we can make
this fence cheaper than almost any other. !"
-PhrenolOgicdl journal.
The idea entertained by Almost every
amateur flower-grower that large amount
of earth is required for the health and
vigor of the plant is erroneous, and is
called by experienced florists over potting
and is laden many times with serious re-
suits to plant life; for the soil in pots,
boxes, tubs, ETC., does not have the action
of the elements to neutralize the acid or
equalize the chemical compounds that are
used up or generated to excess when thus
confined, and the soil often becomes sour
and sodden and necessitates the speedy
removal of the plant into fresh soil, to pre-
vent decay of the roots. Soil best adapted
to nearly every plant grown in pots is
good sandy loan. Good garden soil that
has been enriched until it is soft and mel
low will answer every purpose; but, if
neither of these can be obtained, procure
leafmold from the woods, swamp-muck
and sand. equal parts, thoroughly mixed,
and this will make a most desirable COM
post The addition of little lime will
destroy and prevent worms.-N. 7. Inde-
7endent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

A Paris correspondent relates the fol
lowing story about the great-grandmother
of the Polish Prince Lubomirski, who
writes so cleverly and chatters so inces-
sanity: This unfortunate Princess re-
manned in Paris during the Reign of Ter
ror, imagining that her foreign nationality
would save her from the guiIlotine The
made a mistake She had been the init
mate friend of Princess Lamballc, and
was arrested on groundless suspicion of
being in correspondence with the Austrian
Government, and hurried off to execution
on the day following that which saw
Mime. Roland perish. Princess Lubomir-
ski had one little daughter, whom she
wished to embrace before she died. A
faithful nurse brought the child in her
arms, and at the risk of her own life, to
the very foot of the scaffoId. The wretch
ed mother, wishing that her little one
should be recognized in after years by the
Lubomirski family, and not being al
lowed TO write to them, imagined the fol-
lowing means of identifying her orphaE,
daughter. STOPPING down, she dipped her
finger in the blood of victim who had
just persisted, and wrote these words in
big letters on a scrap of her linen: The
child with the letters L. b. scratched on
its arm is my daughter, Princess Lubo-
mirski.' Then, taking pin, she scratched
the initials on the arm of her child, en-
braced it and, few minutes afterward,
laid her head under the knife. The nurse,
when the Reign of Terror was over, took
the child to Poland, where, being recog-
nized by her mothers family, in the course
of years she married her cousin, Prince
Ladislas Lubomirski. The present Prince
has often seen the initial scar on his
grandmother's arm. The old lady died a
few years ago"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
scHEScK's PuL,foNIc SYRUP, for the

SCHENCK's PuLMONIC STRUPi for the
Cure of Consumption. Coughs and Colds. The
great virtue this medicine is that it ripens the
matter and throws it out of the system, purifies
the blood, and thus effects cure
SoHENcK's SEA WEED Tonic, for the Cure of
Dyspepsia, Indigestion etc. The Tonic produces
q healthy action of the stomach creating an appe-
tite forming chyle, and curing the most obstinate
cases of indigestion.
ScHENcE's MANDRAKE PILLS, for the Cure of
Liver Complaint, etc. These pills are Alternative
and produce healthy action on the liver without
the least danger they are free from caomel, and
yet more effcacious in restoring healthy action
Of the liver
These remedies are o certain cure for Constnp.
ton as the Pulmonie Syrup ripens the matter and
purifies the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon
the liver create healthy bile and remove all dis
eases of the liver. often q cause of Consumption:
The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to
the stomach makes a good digestion. and enables
the organs to form good blood and thus creates
healthy circulation of healthy. blood The COM
bined action of these medicines. thus ex-
planned will cure every case of Con umption, il
taken in time. and the use of the medicines perse-
vered in. .
DIR. Schenck is professionally Mt his principal
office corner SfxTH and ARCH SITS Philadelphia,
every Monday. where all letters for advice must be
addressed. Schenck's medicines for sale by all
Druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
Explosions In Gunpowder Mills by
Electricity.

A correspondent remarked, some time
since, that the mysterious explosions of
some powder-mills may probably be due
to an electric spark given off by persons
dressed in wooden clothing, who, when the
air is dry, may, by friction of their cloth
ing or feet, produce from their finger-ends
. spark of electricity sufficient to ignite
gas Jet. He submitted the question
whether it would not be possible that men
at work in powder-miils may create so
much electricity in their bodies that when
their hands come in contact with metallic
conductors, it may be, if not sufficient to
ignite power, enough to ignite some in
fiammable gas generated from the chem
icals
the London Chemical Reriese, which states
that in England they have often seen in
American journals the statement that an
electric spark, sufficient to ignite gas. may
be given off by the human hand; but the
editor says that he never heard of such
cases on his side of the water. We know
that the air of England and all the coun-
tries of Western Europe is very damp,
owing to the prevailing west winds and
the absence of extensive areas of dry land,
blowing over which the wind would be-
come very dry, as are our west winds,
coming over our prairies.
1t is asked what infiammable gas may
be generated in the manufacture of gun
powder? To this, it may be answered
that, in the manufacture of Eliminates for
percussion caps, infiammable vapors, as
nitrous ether, ETC., are given of, while the
dust of gunpowder and even of charcoal,
when floating in the air in a proper
quantity, may form an explosive mixture.
Even the dust from the minenlgrahamite,
which in its character is very similar to
gunpowder charcoal, has repeatedly ex-
ploded in the mines in Western Virginia
when mixed with air in the right quantity.
1t is well known among electricians that a
weak electric spark will more easily ex-
plode gunpowder than strong, intense
spark; the latter will scatter heap of gum
powder without igniting it, but, when the
spark is weakened by substituting for
part of the conducting metal less con-
Quoting material, such as water or a
moistened thread, then ignition will readi-
ly take place.
We acknowledge that we have no posi-
tive evidence that powder mills have actu-
ally been exploded by electricity; but the
possibility OF such cause was only sug
gested in our paper, and it must be ad-
mitted that thissuggestion is not unworthy
of serious attention.-Scsentsfc American.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
SpOr;smen and Farmers

TnE farmers as class DO not desire to
mar the recreation of any class of men,
and do not object to honorable sportsmen
killing off a portion of the game if they
are only met in a proper spirit. The rule
is that the man of genteel leisure starts
out into the country, armed and equipped
with all the modern appliances for killing
game, and with the idea that he is going
among class of men who are beneath
him in point of intelligence and import
ance. Instead of passing in at the front
gate and asking permission TO shoot over
the stubble and pasture-fields or unculti.
waited portions of the farm he skulks in
from the rear, travels through the growing
crops, leaves gates open and fences down
found, shoots in all directions, regardless
of frightening horses at work or of injur-
ing the men engaged in cultivating the
farm or gathering the crops; and when re-
monstrated with these men of leisure re.
taliate with profane and insol~nt language
and threaten violence to any person who
dare stop them in their pastimes, and not
unfrequently fill their game bags with
poultry that may have strayed from the
barnyard.
Now let us see how farmers are treated
When they have occasion to go to the city
or village they are frequently scoffed and
sneered at by the same genteel idlers, who
sit with heels elevated upon hotel or tav-
ern stoops, their turnout, dress and per.
sonal appearance subjected to the most
ungentlemanly criticism.
If they should attempt to trespass upon
private property an officer has them by
the neck and marches them off to the sta
tion-house like convicted felon. If he
comes for the purpose of selling the prod
uce of his I'm, he is made to pay a rental
for standing his wagon in the filthy gutter
of some narrow street, as is the case in
New York city, where they pay market
fee, but are liable to lie removed by an
officer upon complaint of any huckster or
curbstone Spectator who may choose to
set down few barrels or crates upon the
sidewalk.
After such treatment as this, it is but
natural that hostile feelings should be en-
gendered. and if the sportsmen desire to
enjoy the sport of The field unmolested,
they should interest themselves and see
that the farmers are treated with some
consideration, rather than attempting to
pass arbitrary laws in our legislative halls.
l hope that the sporting men may adopt
milder measures to secure the enjoyment
they so much desire, and interest them
selves in having those privileges accorded
to the farmer which in justice he is en-
titled to.-yohn ODonneA, in Iu1J, ETrld
and Farm.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

The editor of the Rome IN. " Semi.
mel has been shown a design for an up
holstered front gate" which seems de-
signed to become popular. The foot
board is cushioned and there is warm
soap-stone on each side, the inside step
being adjustable, SO that short girl can
bring her lips to the line of any given
mustache without trouble. If the gate is
occupied at 10 30 p. m, an iron hand ex-
tends from one gate-post, takes the young
man by the left ear, turns him around,
and he is at once started home by steel
foot
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

THE Providence Journal, which is
nothing, if not gallant, doesn't believe
that the ladies paint. 1t may be that some
aged dowagers, Jealous of the advances of
time, may avail themselves of the skill of
BARRIERS and perfumers, and strive TO con-
ceal, beneath chemical compounds, the
silvery touches i'm their scattered locks
and the crowsfeet in their withered checks.
But it shocks the Journals faith in human
nature when it is said that women in the
health and flush of youth resort, in the
French capital, to guerlum and piver for
nostrums to heighten the color of the
countenancs and intensity the bloom of
natural rose.-Boston Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
When the Chipmucks 60 to Work.

About Aug. Is they commenced TO work
in real earnest. Instead of the playful
careless creatures that lived from hand to
mouth they became very busy and sober
indeed. Instead of keeping comparative
'ly near home they wandered quite q dis
lance for them. and filling both cheek.
pouches full of corn, chincapins dwarf
chestnuts) and small acorns, home they
would hurry, looking, in the face, like
children with the mumps. This storing
away of food was continued until the first
heavy white frosts, when the chipmucks,
as q member of Congress once said, went
"into state of retiracy."
The food gathered, we believe, is con-
sumed in part on their going into winter
quarters, they spending some time in their
retreats before commencing their hiber-
mating sleep. This belief, on our part, is
based on result of digging out a third
nest on the Sd of November. The last
time we noted down seeing a chipmuck
belonging to q certain nest was Oct %
Twelve days after we very carefully
closed the three passages that led to the
nest and dug down. We found four chip
mucks very costly fixed for winter in a
roomy nest, and all of them thoroughly
wide awake. Their store of provisions
was wholly chestnuts and acorns, and the
shells of these nuts were all pushed into
passages so that there should be no litter
mingled with the soft hay that lined the
nest. How long this underground life
lasts before Information readily COM
mences it is difficult to determine; but as
this torpid state does not continue until
their food supply is again obtainable out
of doors the chipmucks, no doubt, store
away sufficient for their needs throughout
the early spring, and until berries are ripe.
DR.: Abbott, IN Popular Science Monthly
for august.