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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13
The Hunted Surgeon.

A YOUNG surgeon, having tried in vain
to get into practice, at last fell upon the
following expedient to set the ball to roll
ing: He sprang upon his horse once a
day, and rode at full speed through the
town. After an absence of an hour he
his Instruments if he could i'm
press his neighbors that he had practice
they would begin to place conf dence in
his ability.
A wag, who more than suspected the
deceit which he was practicing, deter
mined to know the truth. He according
ly kept his horse in readiness, and the
next time the doctor galloped past his
door sprang on his steed and placed him
self on the young gentleman's trail.
The doctor saw the man following at
uneasIness. At length, however, he
thought it advisable to turn down a mar
row lane. The pursuer followed on like
an evil genius; but the doctor was not dis
couraged, as another road lay short
distance ahead of him, down which he
turned. The other kept close at his heels,
and the doctor grew impatient to return
home. There was no house by the way at
which he could afford any pretext for
stopping. In the meantime his saddle
bags were with him, and he was other
wise equipped for business, so that he
could not return in the face of his
neighbor, without exposing the Sc
crets of the trade in the most palpable
manner Every bound of his stced
carried him farther from his home and
the shades of night began TO fall on hill
and dale. Still the sound of horses boots
were laundering In his cars, and he was
driv en- to his wits end but just as he
turned the angle of wood he heard a low
moan. A man lay PROSTATE near the fence
of a meadow and blood gushed from a
fearful wound in his arm. He had cut an
artery with his scythe and was in danger
| of immediate dissolution. The young
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thou thy Gods thy Countrys


matrimony because of his suspicious, or
because of the lateness of the hour, or of
the absence of witnesses. COlored we'd
dings have always a richly humorous side.
The colored race is a susceptible, imi-
tative one, and when they are fine, as at
weddings, they are generally superfne.
A clergyman was called on upon one
occasion to ofhciate at cOlored wedding.
We assure you, sab" said the gentle
manly darkey, THAT this yere wedding,
sab, is to bevery 'apropos quite a Ia mode,
sab"
every WE'LL" replied the clergyman,
81 will try to do everything in my power
to crafty the wishes of the parties.''
So, after the dinner and dancing and
supping was over, the groom's "best
man" called again on the minister, and
left him ten dollar fee.
1 hope everything was as your friends
desired it?" said the urbane clergyman.
"Well, sab, to tell the truth, Mr.. John
son was little disappointed answered
the groomsman.
"Why, took my robes" said the min
ister
"Yes, sah-it wasn't that"
al adhered to the rubrics of the
church"
"Yes, sab, that was all right"
IL was punctual, and shook hands with
the couple. What more could do?''
"Well, sab, Mr.. johnson, he kind O.
felt hurt, you see, because you didn't sa-
lutte the brtdef''
remember friend who in the early
days of his ministry was met by a couple
as he came out of church, who wanted to
be married. He turned back to oblige the
party, and found at the last that they had
made up their minds to drive off in their
buggy to some other church.
"But may ask" he inquired of the
man, "why you first ask me to marry
you and then change your minds in this
way?"
No answer came from the groom, but
the young woman, lifting up the back
curtain of the buggy, called out: "Well,
you see, hadn't got look at the min
lister afore, and, to tell the truth, you're so
young and innocent-like that Pm kind of
feared you won't marry US right, SO I'd
rather trust myselfto some one who's done
it a good many times, and is sure he
knows how.'-Appletons Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13
Selected sHisreHa,n
BABY LULU.

ONsE upon q summers day
Baby Lulu ran away,
With her cup Of milk and bread,
FOR the birds to eat" she said.
Sang she low little song
A she lightly tripped along;
Bright green leaves above her head,
Leaves below all dry and dead.
Far within the shady wood
Tired Baby Lulu stood;
On q messy root sat she,
Close beside q hollow tree.
In the boughe above the birds
Sang their music without words"
Lulu, smiling, clicked the cup
With her spoon, then held 1t up.
"Bread and milk, dear birdie-see:
Don't you want to eat wiss me?
It win make you sweeter sing"
CoAxed the little cunning thing.
Hank! Q sound In the hollow tree.
Rustling through the dead leaves, see
What comes crawling from its cell
Crawling allow, with wrinkling swell.
Twas . snake as black IS night
Lulu, smiling at the sight,
Said: Dear Blackie, has you come
To invite me to your home?
Sit down on this messy seat.
And the bread and milk well eat.
You one 'poonful, then one
so-till every bit 10 gone.
No, no; take your head away!
Blsckie, be polite, pray.
II you're greedy, san soon
Tap you wiss my silver 'poon."
Thus, with fair division, she
Fed and ate alternately.
Wistful birds were watching near
In the sweet, pine-scented air.
Did but birds that vigil keep?
Hear you not the winnowing sweep
OF Gods angels floating down,
6trAightway from the heavenly thrones
Now, with white and slackening wing,
Der the child they're lowering.
Cries Of - Lului' strike the air.
Lululp " Lulu!" nearer-near.
eunbeama hickering through the leaves
Round the child glory weave.
Eyes made keen by love and dread
See that kolden-tinted head.
Heaven sent help has come at last
Lulu's mother holds her fast
"Oh, my childi my little child
What did tempt thee? what beguiled
Thee from home The little one,
Pointing, said: /" Mamma, tits gone
Back into the hollow tree
Blackie, who did eat wiss me-"
"Ahl q snalre!n the mother cried;
d But for God she would have died.n
Shuddering with . wild dismay,
Through the wood she fed away.
All unhurt, with smiling eyes,
Lulu, with q sweet surprise,
Asked, what makes you CRY, mamma
Il It cause I went 90 fart
Then you go tomorrow day,
Tell dear Blackie whatI say:
II he'll come and play wiss me,
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NO. 46.
0nr Boys and girls.
Il DOLLS WEDDING.

4 DOLLS WEDDING.
SAYS Ivanhoe to Mimi:
at is our wedding day;
And will you promise, dearest,
Your husband to obey?"
And this is Minis answer:
With all my heart, my dear,
If you will never cause me
To drop single tear;
eff you will ask me nothing
But what want to do,
I'll be a sweet, obedient,
Delightful wife to YOU"
Says Mr.. Fenwick, giving
His brown mustache a twist:
shall command you, madam,
To do whate'er listP'
Miss Mimi answers, frowning,
His very soul to freeze:
"Then, sir, shall obey you
Only just when l pleased"
Says 1vanhoe to Mimi:
"Let us to this agree
/ will not speak one word to you
II you'll not speak to me;
"Then we shall never quarrel,
But through our dolly-llfe
I'll be a model husband
And you model wife,"
And now all men and women
Who make them wedding-calls
Look on and almost envy
The bliss of these two dolls.
They seem so very smiling
So graceful, kind and bright!
And gaze upon each other
Quite speechless with delight.
Never one cross word saying,
They stand up side by side,
Patterns of good behavior
To every groom and bride.
Sweethearts, it is far better
This truth they plainly teach
The solid gold of silence
Than the small change of speech
Lucy Laroon, in st. Nicholas for Noven,I
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13

gan to throw kisses to the slender white
lily that grew in the next garden and was
deeply in love with humming- bird
Margaret Eytinge, in ". Y. Independent.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Pope's household consists of 537
persons.
RUSSIA has adopted new principle of
equity, making railroads responsible for
damages to employees.
A FAIR Sicilian maiden lately got on
| top of house in Palermo, anointed her
self with oil of petroleum and burned her.
self alive because the coachman wouldn't
marry her.
THE newly-arrived daughter of the
| Duchess of Edinburgh, increases Queen
| Victoria's tally of grandchildren to TWEEN
| tY-seven, twenty-four of whom are still
alive, and that of her total living progeny
to thirty three, including three unmarried
children and the Princess Louise, who is
married but without family.
THE Princess of Wales went down to
| the dock to see Albert Edward off for
India. Those who witnessed the parting
say it was most affecting. She buried
her head in his bosom and wept. He
played with the French trimmings of her
hat and tried to comfort her. The last
words she uttered were a touching, heart
wrung exclamation: g Albert.''
THE mems and women's dresses are so
much alike in Cochin China that it is
almost impossible to say which is which,
and several French officers who recently
proposed for the hand and fortune of
natives discovered that they had proposed
for the hand of the sterner sex. For the
future, therefore, the men are to have their
hair tied with a different colored ribbon
from that of the ladies.
THE Pail Mall Gazette tells of riotous
fight in which Mrs. Turner fought like
lloness on the right side and saved the
life of policeman against dozen assail-
ants. The Gazette quantity adds: Mrs.
Turner deserves much credit for her per-
fOrmances on the occasion. 1t is not the
custom, nowadays, for man to interfere for
the protection of woman and it therefore
shows singular cOndescension on the part
of woman to lift her arm in defense of
man."
THE Japanese soldier is a Sybarite COM
pared with the average European man-of-
war. He neither builds his own shelter,
digs in the trenches nor cooks his own
food. All this is done by coolies, who
bring him his meals in his tent. The
Japanese rations are extravagantly pro-
fuse, and include beer and spirits; and for
the soldiers comfort when off duty he is
supplied with loose cotton robes and straw
slippers, which are issued to all upon de-
mand.
IT is related that the first money King
Victor Emmanuel ever earned by the work
of his own hands was for shooting fox
that nightly visited farmers poultry
yard The farmer saw the King shoot
hare, and not knowing who he was, Of
fered him a motta worth eight cents) to
kill the fox. The King visited the mount
ain homestead at three O'Clock in the
morning, shot the fox, and received the
mutta.
AN English journal of recent date says:
"A family journal is thing yet unknown
to Mussulman readers, and it is assuredly
sign of the progress of ideas that pub
nf ia
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13

Political canvassp exclaimed Mar
tina Jane, fiinging away the paper. And
know?" Probably" replied Phipps,
because there's so much sail in it."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-13

Of the Spanish Moss, or Old Mans
Beard, Titlandstd usaeotdes, an epiphytal
plant growing on trees in the Southern
States, it appears some 10000 bales are an
nually shipped from New Orleans. 1t is
used for cushions and other upholstery
purposes, as well as for packing and for
naner making
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10
WE WON'T DO 1T.

Scores Of letters are reaching us request
ing us to denounce, in a BETTING man
ner," the Cincinnati Conference and its
abetters. At present, we don't intend to
do any such thing Peace, gentlemen,
peace-let us have peace. We have faith
enough in the intelligence, honesty, and
patriotism Of the gentlemen who will at
tend that conference, and rest assured that
they will sanction no schIsm, endorse nc
crotchet, or countenance any measure
which places self ambition before prin-
ciple. No man-be he who he may
can control the labor movement, or appear
as the great AM The old Adage give q
rogue rope enough and he will hang him
self-wil be illustrated should any such
attempt be made.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10

iuR the average dividends earned by the
numerous Lancashire cotton-spinning and
manufacturing companies, and it is now
generally admitted that the profits Of pub
lie companies in this branch Of industry
are even higher than those Of private
firms, many Of these companies paying
dividends Of from 10 to A. per cent per
annum. The names and dividends Of 20
companies are gwen in proof Of the latter
statement OF these companies the divi-
dends Of five average 10 per cent of
twelve, 20 per cent and Of three, Al per
cent. per snnum."
Truly if this is SO, it may be well for us
to encourage the Changers in exchanging
products (sven by the 1900 mile stretch
RIA the MissiASippD with the English CO.
operators, for the latter already own many
factories, and this interchange will tempt
them to underbid and buy up the cotton
lords, and stop their horrid oppression Of
their poor white slaves. But | want "a
see producers and consumers everywhere
brought together, 50 say there is TO much
manufacture now in England. Let the
cooperative mill owners, as fast as pos
slole, move to our South and West, set up
their manufacturers among the millions Of
our people Who are now feeding them and
using sheir fabrics.
SAMUEL LEAvITT.
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CRUSH1r4 VERY.

A couple Of nondescript- who claim to
publish. and who think the, Dubl;sh a
labor journal, in Pittsburg-one whom
is brainless, sneaking bully, the otho~
characterless adventurer, who never did an
honest days work in his life-and either
Of whom are never happy unless they
can belittle the movement they profess to
serve. to SOW dissension in its ranks (; to
SANDER men whose shoe latchets they are
unworthy to unloose, and give hearing
to any professional curbssone growlsr, have
in a characteristic mAnner attacked the
Industrial Congress- body whom We
have reason to believe would not Permit
either Of them to pollats its deliberations
with their presence.
Our inclination, at frst thought Nas TO
skin them alive-An operation easily per-
termed, the second to remsmber-- that =
skunR can be best punished in his hole,
aad that II pitch is touched the party
fSuching it will be deAied. Knowing a.
We do that they are unworthy of notice /;
that they are regarded with contempt By
sseyy representatives MAN IN Iabor's ranks ;
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FROM OHIO.

A Cleveland Correspondent, under date
of July 9th says
would like your Michigan Correspond
ent, whose articles on the whole l agree
with, to be mere explicit on the subject of
interest | really dc not see the I'M Justice
Of receiving interest on money advanced to
any one for their special use and benefit.
As a general thing | think there Is too
much abuse of capital and capitalists, so
called, such abuse has the tendency to
create an unfriendly feeling between the
capitalists and non-capItalIsts, and breeds
antagonism, which is to be regretted. The
non capitalist Or laboring classes should be
encouraged to become capitalists OF to
utilize their small capital or savings by
uniting together IN some form Of co-opers-
ton, whereby they would be able to receive
the benefits Of their savings. More atten-
ton should be gwen to cooperation in its
several place, so as to educate the masses
70 what would accrue 10 their own benefit
by cooperation. Brains are not wanted,
or money either by the toIllng millions to
establish cooperative industries that
would result IN great benefits to the par
ties. What is wanted Is confidence IN each
other. At present the workingrnen are al
antagonistic to ea,h other as Is capital
and labor, and until that confidence is
fully established there never will be any
successful, cooperation by the laboring
masses. There is no lack of capital in
proof of which, see the amount used every
year in supporting strikes, &c. If the
same amount was used In establishing in
dustries Of different kinds or coal mines,
and worked by the same operators for
their own benefit, some hope Of lettering
the condition Of the masses might be ex-
pected. | must conclude with the hope
that more attention will be given to the
hints here given, and less to exciting ill
feeling between capital and labor.
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FROM ILLINOIS.
BRYANT, July Sd, 1875

BRYANT, July Do, 1910.
To the Editor Of the woKKSeNAS's ADVOCATE.
DEAR SIR Again our little village Of
Bryant has been favored by visit from
that staunch and eloquent speaker in the
cause Of labor, Mr.. Trevellick The chair
was taken by Major s. Burbridge at 3
r. NJ The broad and comprehensive
manner in which the subject Labor and
Money was handled by Mr.. Trevelick,
besides being a rare treat to his hearers,
shows how thoroughly conversant that
gentleman IA on the question regarding
the immense disadvantages which labor
has 70 contend with before it can raise
itself from being as it is at present, drug III
the market, owing to the vast difference IA
the relative rate Of interest commanded by
money to that which labor commands,
making 1t not only an impossibIllty for
labor to obtain its due equivalent, but
even to hold its own against the encroach-
ment Of capital The workingmen, wheth-
er farmers, miners Or mechanics find
themselves in position almost as deplora-
bic as were the negroes Of the Southern
States, seeing their little homes gradually
slipping from their grasp, their farms
mortgaged past redemption, going to in
crease the already ver-gorged capitalists;
| their children uDeducated, and they
themselves, bowed down by adversely in
the prime Of life Oh how long is il that
the workingnlen u America will tamely
submit to the encroachment Of capital, not
capital employed for the development Of
the great resources of the country, but the
present system Of banking corporations
nov IN vogue. Who like leechSs are draw
ing the life blood from them. Suffer they
will until they themselves, not only see
but use the great power which lies in then
thinking man, be he Republican or Demo
crat, Join and vote for the party that viii
never attempt to cripple the energies Of
the nation by advocating the withdraw Of
any portion Of the circulating medium Of
this nation save for the purpose Of substi-
tHting the greenbacks in place Of the pres
ent national bank dollars, then, and not
until they d. this will panics and their at
tendart mlserIes be as thing Of past, not
all the eloguence of thousand Trevellicks
can alter the present dreary outlook, unless
the workingmen men Of this country say
it shall be by using all their influence at
the ballot-box for the good cause thereby
giving the death blow to the vampires,
who are fattening on the vitals of the ma
ton, and TO themselves, more work, better
nay and happy homes. G. 5.
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SOME good reasons Why the worst is past
Is found in the fact that if the Democrats
carry Ohio, the money sharks will be con
WINGED that their plans for wholesale rob
berry cannot be carried out. These money
sharks have been holding their money in
hand for the sole purpose Of buying up
property for mere song now for year
and half Convince them that the crash
i not coming and they will invest their
money IN useful occupations, and set men
to work This conspiracy to force a crash
is what the monopoly papers call want Of
confidence 1t is nothing more nor less
than a desire to rob, under the sanction Of
law. The money robbers, like all other
robbers, like TO frame a plausible excuse
for their thieving propensities, and hence
the endless twaddle about specie pay
ments
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10

ONE Of the vampire monopoly organs is
delighted to learn that a large proportion
Of the people Of Boston live by the " de-
hghtful occupation of cutting off Cupons -
In other words, they roll IL the wealth
created by others. In no State in the
Union are work people treated more like
beasts q burden than in Massachusetts,,
and it is the wealth created by these OPP
pressed workmen which is absorbed BY the
heartless nabobs Of Boston to the infinite
delight of the falshing scribblers Boston
is the centre Of the bullion ring Boston
people are bullionists because they have a
habitual desire to rob. They have robbed
Massachusetts workers until they feel
that they have acquired a -emption
right to rob all other workers in the coun-
try, but their gigantic scheme for plumber
is not going to win. The Industrial classes
propose to settle this currency question
in their own way, and in such manner as
to protect their own interests.
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the MINER.

The coal trade in Ohio is reported to b
very dull indeed.
The Cumberland and Elk Lick Coal Co.
are opening out their mines, and will sooI
be ready to ship coal.
The Gauley- Kanawha Co., are expectin,
to make shipments of their Camel Goa
shortly.
Work in the Dora coal mines, near Har
risonburg, Va, is being pushed rapidly
forward, and with the most hattering re
suits.
A Halifax dispatch says the Cape Breton
coal mining company is about to close its
mines on account of the large quantity o.
coal unsold Other mines will follow the
example.
An unexpected find Of coal has been made
at the Lyndon Colhery, West Bromwich,
of the south Statfordshire Colliery Com
pany Recently the workers in one of the
pits Of the colliery came upon a seam Of
heather coal seven yards thick, and be-
lieved to be in a maiden state, and extend
ing over a considerable area of the estate.
The present company was formed about
two years ago, and commenced working
the mines about August last. The pits had
been worked some years ago, but opera
tions were suspended, owing OF various
causes.
The great need Of the Pacific coast is
coal, and if one-half Of the reported dis
coveries in the past year tum out fsvors-
bly, this need will be speedily met In no
less than six counties of California coal has
been recently reported, ane railways are
already under construction to bring the
products of some Of them 10 market In
Nevada two coal mines have been opened
within q year. In Washington Territory
the mines on BellIngham By and around
Seastle are turning out from 800 to 500
tons daily. TheNanaino coal fields, on
Vancouver's Island, produce about 300 tons
daily, and will soon open new shafts to in
crease the output to 500 this is mostly
sent to San Francisco.
It Is stated by Horseley that near to
Newcastle there was q coslry (colliery)
which is judged by those hest skilled in
such affairs to have been wrought by the
Romans and it is moreover, on record
that in 1862 cinders, in all respects similar
to these derived from coal, we're found in
considerable quantity in thesame county.
Similar evidences Of the use Of coal in the
remote past have also been discovered in
Durham. In the Boldon Book, published
in the reign Of Henry H., here are two
references to coal at Weymouth, then
called Vernouth and at Conden, as stat
ed by Bishop Pudsey, graft Of land was
made in 118O to . collier or providing
Goals to q cartsmith. 1t wodd be easy to
20 on multiplying instances d this kind to
show the early use Of coal for mauufactor-
ing and household purpose, but enough
has been adduced to prove that the resour-
ces Of the northern coalfeld are not BY any
means . modern discovery. We have
proof in the rolls OF Whitby Abbey that In
the year 1896 Goals were shipped from
cumberland, and that 13s. I'D. was paid to
liAm Rede for four chaldrons.
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THE INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS

We are pleased to learn that under
President Wrights exertions the prospects
of the Industrial Congress are brighten
ing. We regard this al the most import
ant labor organization on the American
continent, embracing as it does the inter
ests of every craft and calling. The uni
fication of labor is the necessity of the
hour. We trust its friends throughout the
country will not weary in well doing,
however, and that they will not fail to re-
member that funds are absolutely neces-
sary TO enable Mr. Wright to successfully
prosecute his lnbors.