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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
A LiOn-Tamer's Life Saved by a Lion
eSS.

"WELL, haven't you got some notable
instances of interference between you and
death or harm which you can chalk up to
the credit OF some of your animals ?'
Certainly / have. My pet lioness
Rose h Is saved my life many times by
her good teeth and claws. Several times
when have felt that my time had come
has the noble old girl sprung to the res
cue and given me another chance"
g Is she the only one to whom you owe
debt of gratitude in that way?"
No; but l once had lion that l called
Jimmy who made savage attack on me
when l was performing before the au-
dience. He seized me by the shoulder,
ribs and arm of my right side and threw
me to the bottom of the cage instanter,
and began to gobble up my muscles as
fast as he could. Although his claws had
been clipped and his teeth had some de-
ticiency in penetrating my thick clothing,
he vet was breaking my bones in fine style.
| made as good fight as l could with my
left hand, in which had whip, and the
men outside hurried with iron bars and
spikes as soon as they could, but they
would all have been too late had it not
been for Rose She had been ly ing on
her belly, apparently asleep, though the
sequel showed that She had been watch
ing everything closely. When she
thought things had gone about far
enough she gave one sharp, vicious
growl, and leapeu from her shelf like
thunderbolt. She seized Jimmy by the
neck and shook him as terrier would
rat till he yelled for mercy. l was badly
mauled, but L took my whip in my left
hand and went through the rest of the per
Torrance. l made Jimmy go through all
his Understanding on my back, stand
ing on his hind legs, and all the rest of it.
Rose stood by and watched him. She
noted every motion, and stood ready to
take hold of him again in case OF neces-
sity.'
;.How did Jimmy welcome you."
''Oh, he was glad enough to see me
that sort of animals have little power to
remember spites or injuries"
But don't they remember their keepers
after long absences.''
me- have had my animals recognize me
after an absence of several months. They
would hear my voice and footstep a1i
come rubbing up against the slue
of the cage and Put their paws out
between the bars. Strange to say, thcy
do not seem to know man by his 1eat-
ures but by his dress, and more partlcu-
larlv his voice. If L should go into my
cares with "A strange suit of clothes on and
should not speak the beasts wouldn't
know me- and ten to one would try to do
me a mischief But let me put on the
spanglcd dress again, or let them hear my
voice, and all would be rightly. Y.
.NercJy.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
Mr.. DArres,s Ho usEKEEPER.


WANTkS,sAa. OUSEK sssls, No 0Nh
hixhest fssSssssSfifty need apply. Cali between
the hour. o. three and four Thdrsday, April ., at
No. michigan avenue.
kafe .Ffsnkiin read tins IN the paper
which lay on the counter IN the little
grocery while waiting to have an ounce OF
two OF tea done up ana roll OF bakers
bread.
She repeated the number of the house
over to herself es she received the change
from the grocer
TO the Little hare afuc, ana ate her scanty
meal meehAnlcaly She forgot how IN
satisfied hV appeoee Sill was IN her busy
thought.
A stranger IN . strange place, success
lively she he'd tried TO ind . situation as
teacher, copyist, in a store, sewing. She
had failed in the first three, and was starv-
ing ON the Last.
She would apply for the place, but she
would need references. Only one person
she knew in the whole great city of suf-
ficient in6uenee-Mrs Davenport, the
rich, naughty step-sister, who had ILL
treated her gentle mother while she lived,
and hated Kate herself.
Perhaps, Kate thought, she would per-
have her descnnd % mental employment.
for during her mothers long illness and
her fathers absence she had entire charge
of their large family and splendid house.
But an aelderly woman" Now Kate
was mot an elderly woman. being only
twenty: but she remembered. with a sort
of pleasure that in private theatricals in
happier days she had mitatsd the voice and
assumed the character Of an old woman
with great success. She knew how to
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

1t is suggested in a Boston religious
journal that laymen should be asked, when
convenient, to take part in funeral serv-
ices, and especially that they should be at
liberty to pay their tribute to the dead
whose lives they have known and re-
spected. The editor sees no reasons for
limiting funeral offices to the clerical pro-
fession
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

dren make good wages at the business,
their pay ranging from eighty cents to
one dollar and a half per day. When a
large and well-soaked lump is found the
little rascals divide it, and by so doing
make 80 per cent. on their find.''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

spectacle of "a woman fighting her way I'M
aided through the world, and l take this
opportunity of bidding her, with all my
heart, " God-speed. st. Louis Republi-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

The colored Baptists in Georgia in,
tend to found IL normal and theological
seminary at Atlanta. They have adopted
the Centennial plan of dollar subscriptions
from their own people to secure the neces-
Sary amount
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

In calculating the strength of iron
columns the safe plan is to find the diam
eter of a solid column necessary to bear
the compression, and then distribute the
same area of metal in tube form or a hol-
low column.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
STORY OF LITTLE VIOLET.
ldden under the leafy mold,
iSnugiy garueuted, fold on fold,

@4AWLu ht0Gt INT tt0lI mOiQ,
iSnugly garmeuted, fold on fold,
Lies Violet, fair and sweet.
Zone are the bee AID the butterfly,
The moon sails On thro' the farrell sky,
To the darling al his feet.
Sleep, Little Violet, sleep
UnAer the moss and mold,
hide away from the cold;
Nor dreams where thou dost lie
: SAFE, and happy, and warm;
Sleeu. Lit13e Violet. sleep.
Thee he shall never harm.
The Wild winds come and go;
Under the drifttnE SNOW,
Sleep, Little Violet, sleep!
10 summers unnamed beams
Perplex thee In thy dresmsy
Nay, each must have its day;
Sleep Little Violet sleep
Inc vS.fsry wind away.
Inc QUO oak Wresaes with the bast
winter ewes go norrying past;
ss~s frost. IN coal o. man,
Drops down win MS magic spear,
Ana the angry sieet and hail
On clattering hoofs draw near.
But woe, IN her lowiy oed,
La patient In the dust,
AePng WIN simple trust,
lee promise ever true
sunhgn1 warmth ana oew.
p,.hL, I'm.
s.n n xoies o1 k. .n sh ni
The heart Of the mountain rills,
- ~ ...,is.. ~ - ~ ~ S $3.50 oo"'
p'-@s " 'A'e me-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02

james Russell Lowell is getting
spitched into" by the Eastern folks on
account of his poetic inclination to speak
of the g degeneracy of the times"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
SELECTED s@isrel!asw
ARsAARK-ABLE YoUTHFUL POET

able youthful genius IN the person of little girl
only eleven years old. Her name is Lizzie r.
Wa.ker The is.fowfng beau iful poem is sub
mi,teo oy the P.ansas City Journal as Il sample
o. neI styie and Is the first of her writings ever
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!; The huge, drastic, gripping, sickening pills,
oonstrnde ft1ude, ooaIse and bulky ingre
sdients, are fast superseded BY Dr.. Pieroe's
pleasant Purgative Iellets, Or Sugar Coated,
Concentrated. Riot and Herbal juice, Anti Bill.
lious Granules-the Little Giant" Cathartic
or Multum in Parvo Physic. Modern Chemical
Science enables Or, Pierce to extract from the
Juices Of the most valuable roots and herbs
their active medicinal principles, which, when
worked into little Pellets or Granules,
scarcely larger than mustard seed, renders
each little pellet as active and powerful as =
Large Pm, while IL they are much more p.latable
DR.. Ira A. Thayer, of Bloomsbury, Ohio,
writes: ~ regard your pellets as the best rem:
edy for the conditions for which you prescribe
them ofanything have ever used, SO mild
and certain in effect, and leaving the bowels in
an excellent condition. 1t seems to me they
and medicines"
Lyon & Macomber, druggists, vermillion, D.
T., say. "We think they are going to sell like
hot cakes as soon as people get acquainted with
them and will spoil the pill trade, as those
that have used them like them much better
than large pills."
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are, just as I copied them that evening
4 Cover her; cover her; # =.. Is . :s..
Throw the sod over her,
: Hide her from God. ~ S..-..<..s (: : e.
And then after that and further down
on the sheet is q comic picture. Then
still further down this: :: !: ! !
e ':Hello! Who comes there?' p ~ !
Was it some one knocked? Perhaps it
was : man with dun, and the poor man
knew his step, - ~: 49,. 80 .>s:
I sometimes wonder If the world, the
well.fed, fat, fashionable world, when it
reads with intense pleasure certain poems,
ever recalls the fact that the man wrote
them without his dinner. ..ss .:...s:.r..,.s
What curious pictures and drawings We
came upon = such things as could only
amuse little children. and they were all
patched up and fastened together, here
and there, with waters. H. .., =:
Then the son told me that during the
last few years Of his fathers life he could
not sleep for pain, and so sat up and made
pictures for himself and sister !; and when
hey would wake in the morning they
would find these things pinned and pasted
all about the wall.
Tom Hood is dead. l sit alone before
my task. and shall not 60 on with it for
many days; for what IS the use! Lon;
don is not the London it was.
Here lies letter from those who watch
ed with him to the last. It says he
spoke so often of me, and said I would
write verse to his memory.
No. l cannot begin it. And what if I
did! 1t seems to me to-day that there is
10 good to do anything except to do good
to others.
Death is in the world.
Pardon this rambling sketch. know
that it tells but little Of the story of his
life or the good that was in his heart.
Yet why should it! The first is known
to the world, the latter is known to God.
And that is enough.
Hay this handful Of crumbled leaves
on his grave--leaf and thorn and bios.
som--gathercd to-day loosely and sadly
as went back in memory alone over the
path we walked Il time together. l have
not heart to arrange them better now.
Tom Hood was toilcr for his bread, a
hard-worker. He needed rest, and
know he has it. He was poor, not desti.
tute; but like myself, he belonged to the
great majority-was born poor, lived
poor, and died poor.
Something is surely wrong. A man
may edit journal, or write thing that
makes million people happy, and yet be
left to 60 hungry; while man may fight
battle, that makes thousand people
miserable, and for that get wealth and
honors without end.
~
How black aud worthless all this reads
as turn back and read it over. 1t is
half about myself. But have noticed
that in any great grief or any great Joy
our little selves become the little center
and we can see no further. We stand
alone in the little present. We stand on
''rhe Bridge of Sighs,' that rea.hes from
the dead, dry past to the unborn to.mor'
row, and see none Of the beings that tide.
and toll, and battle, and bleed, and die
about US: Good, gentle, genial friend,
farewell!
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GRAIN RAlSERS REFUSE to submit
70 the wastetul and imperfect work OF other
Thresllers, when posted on the vast supcr:ori-
ty Of this one, tor saving grain, saving time,
and doing fast, thorough and economical work.
HRESIIERMENE FIND lT highly advan
taseous to run machine that has no ''Beaters,"
"Picker$," or "Apron," that handles Damp
Grain, Long Straw, Headings, Flax, Timothy.
millett, and all such difficult grain and seeds,
with ENTIRE EASE AND EFFEC.
TlvENEss. C!eansto perfection; saves the
farmer his thresh bill by extra saving of grain !;
makes no " Litterings;" requires LESS
THAN ONE.fIALF the usual BELTS, Boxes.
Journals, and Clears; easier managed !; less re-
pairs; one that grain raisers prefer to employ
and wait ter, even at advanced prices,
while other machines are tout jobs"
Fur SIS made with 6, 8, 10 and IL
horse Haunted" Power, also special.
" Of operators alone. xprets:y Tor
STEAM POWER, and t. m atch 0the,
If interested in grain raising, CT Tires. ing.
write Tor illustrated Circulars (sent .free) with
fall particulars of sizet, styles, prices, terms,
eto. 7@.s Il. ,ys'rs:: -=
NICH0I&. aIgEPARD Z CO..3
SsxneIe T1eAnh5 1E.e1y~-~
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tom HOOD.

Joaquin Miller in the N. Y. independently
Yesterday came back to London, after
nearly two years wandering in the Old,
Old World, up the Nile. and in en1 about
the tomts Of burned empires and forgot
ten kings. And all this must be written
up. cannot finish a
line; sit here alone, my work in heaps
before me. have sat here all day and
have done nothing.
Tom Hood is dead. He was my first,
my f3rmest friend in London-nay, in oil
the world. I came back yesterday and
missed my warmest welcome.
l called at his little sanctum before
even finding my hotel. rushed in as /
always did before, expecting to find him
there, to call him low.citizcn-this
British subject, this great, good man, al
ways so kind to me; but | found the chair
empty. Hooked over my shoulder at =
boy who had followed me, who said:
"Mr. Hood is dying, sir. He is at his
home in Peckham Rye. They say he
will not live till morning."
= Over London Bridge I drove and on
throus h the great gray fog as fast as the
man would drive; and all the time kept
saying somehow to myself:
One more unfortunate,
Weary Of breath.
And yet the lines had no suggestion Of
this mans life or death. Perhaps it was
the great river under me, wrapped in fog,
and flowing, scarcely visible, dark ant.
death.likc, as I passed, that kept them in
my mind.
On, on through London, five, six. sew.
en- miles, and we touched the high tide
mark Of the great city. Here the new
structures, the new streets, progress had
struck tho old order Of things; old frame
houses: old crazy inns, and knocked
them about and tossed them out of place,
asif = great sea had rolled in, and push.
ing wreck and castaway high up on the
strand, had left them tumbled there.
"A little cottage that looked like farm
er's home in the West, humble and sim
ne home indeed, looking out over the
open field. where the soldiers sometimes
drill, and men play all the time at merry
games, when they come, weary of town
out to this green edge Of it, and there lay
Hood, dying indeed. So
All day, all the year, whenever i had
thought OF London, / had been seeing
his good-natured face, hearing his hearty
welcome back to town. / had not ever
dreamed | should not find him at his Of
fice, as before.
These things change = mans thoughts
he feels no more of much importance
Ambition passes on. He sees but littl,
use in working any more. He feels tina,
there il no good IN isall--no good except
the little good he may do to others.
His only sister. great strong woman
plain, almost ugly, from watching ant
weeping, met me at the door, silent nj
most Us q stone; and all the time tear
kept yelling up, and breaking over, AM
RAINING down, and dropping from he
hee On TO her clasped hands. I neve
- such sorrow. wish she had no
seen 2 ,.s silent. y wish could forge
HI. 2 %5z -, %.ss.; r ;. :: .4s: &C..
a.s.ss 9 .s=s $3.50 =. -, = u
q. Fhat : dark and foggy day it was yes
The mist and the dark seemed /,
! hsVs life. Isaw it move along the street
III I returned to London. saw It cur
I IKE smoke about London Bridge an
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Strong, Well Made, and Does Good
work.
HIGHLAND, Fillmore Co., Mi

HIGHLAND, Fillmore TO-, Mimi.
Messrs. Strother, Conklin & Paine, De.
corah, Iowa The Edward Harvester that
I purchased Of your agent proved to be all
or more than it was recommended. We
cut oil the grain on both places (l10
acres) in good season, without the Leaf ex.
pense for repairs. When took the ma
chine apart to store it for winter, I did
not find any part of it but appeared good
as new. The grain OH my old farm was
cut with Marsh last year. 1t scattered
about two bushels per acre in the wheat.
This year We raked the stuble with a
sulky rake and got one-fourth Of a bushel
per acre. I bound alone on the Edward
Harvester this year in wheat that yield
ed 20 bushels per acre, eight acres and go
rods in eight hours and twenty minutes.
The machine is strong, we'll made, and
does good work. g. ". CARPENTER.
Has the Best Binding Arrangement.
NORWAY, Fillmore Co., Mimi, Aug. S "a
Messrs. Strothcr, Conklin L Paine, De-
corah, Iowa.-The Edward Harvester that
I purchased of you does good work; ele
Yates grain either wet or dry. cut l25
acres Of grain, and averaged Il acres per
day, and the last day cut fifteen acres
Of wheat and two binders bound it. They
had never worked on harvester before,
and l believe the binding arrangement is
better than the one on the Marsh. The
grain saving box is splendid thing. 1
saved one days work six bushels Of
wheat in it, and it does actually save the
shelled grain more than 1 expected when ]
bought it; and, in short, l am we'll pleas.
ed, and would recommend the Edward
Harvester to any one wishing to bny next
year. ..s~...ss~,, =. .,:.> =. r."
Respectfully yours, 2=z#....>
AxDRxw UHRl1rIAMsoN.
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certainly can with this machine, the farmer
has no good reason to complain Of the cost OF
harvesting grain. W. A. HAM

certainly can with this machine, the farmer
has no good reason to complain OF the cost OF
harvesting grain. 7,- w. A. HAM
There was hut ono opinion among all who
saw the machine operate. All were agreed
'"'' 1t Is just '"f DANIEL .HtHf; UNDERWOOD,
Pennington, MINI.
The wire gave no trouble in threshing wheat
ever. There was not a bundle came loose in
stacking. GEO. 4. WILBOUR.
Austin, Mimi.
drove it myself, and any one who can OPP
crate common reaper will ha!" no difficulty
in running one of these. WIN. COWAN,
The Harvester BOUGHT from you far ex,,
ceeds my expectations. can cut right down
to the ground will it; it eievates splendidy.
and the draft is easy. The Locke elf.BiDder,
which can he alta he'd to it, has been working
york, and the draft is not greater than the or
binary reaper 8. S. WOODRUFF
Near St. Paul.
1 am happy to say it has done all for me any
reasonable man could ask for.
O. Il. CHAMBERLAIN,
Vermillion, Dakota County, MINI.
1t was the undivided opinion of all present
that they had never seen a Harvester Of easier
draft, Or one that made cleaner work, hardly
single straw being left on the ground after
cutting. The SelfBinder also worked to per-
lection, never in single instance failing to
perform its work. JOHN SWANSON,
Manager Becker Farm.
No other kind of Harves'er will be sold In
my neiQhbOrhOOd next wear
ANDREW BAILOW,
Town Of Bath, Freebom- County.
Send for Circulars containing drawings
and fuller particulars, with host OF testimon.
ials from leading farmers in the Northwest
The machine is NO EXPERIMENT. II has
been fully tested and is fully warranted.
The WALLER A. WO0D Self@Rake Reap
er and IRON Mo.0er are manufactured in great
er numbers than eper before.
Sample machines may he seen at the variovs
local agencies, and at
No. 42 Sibley Street. st. Paul.
Johnson, Fuller & Co.
General Agents for Minnesota and Northwest
Wisconsin.
A1se Agents for McSherry Seeder and Drill.
Beloit Plow, Buffalo Pitts Thresher, and have
= general assortment of the best makes of farm
machinery.
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MlSCELLANY..
q 4 POEM BY I4oNGFELI4ow.

u : e
The following poem, preaced by the note
pseAxed, has been Contributed +: the Ar,
published in aid Fof "Our Dumb Animals
1Air;' I'm Boston: -" > ~~-.-.-Ss
+assss ~ II &C.,. CAMBRIDGE, Feb. IL, 1875.
M DEAR Sir: wish I had something bet:
tar than the inolesed to send you tor . cause 80
noble. and in which ,eel 50 deep IN interest
But for want Of that something better, please
sooept this, with my best wishes for the success
Of tie Fair Yours faithfully, - g $50.
~ - HENRY w. LONGFELLOW.
~ ANAMRIIss GRAVE
"a soldier Of the Union mustered out"
Ia the inscription on an unknown grave =
AT Newport News, beside the salt sea wave,
7aNamelt IS and dateless; sentinel or scout,
Shot down in skirmisl,, Or disastrous rout
1Ot battlr, when the loud artillery drave
It's iron wedges through the ranks Of brave
. And doomed battalions stormng the r~doubt'
Thou unknown hero, sleeping by the sea
= In thy forgotten grave! With secret shame
:e5I'feel my pulses (eat, my forehead turn,
When remember thou hast given for me
All that thou ha1st-thy life, thy very name,
And can give thee nothing in return.
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LIKE A CHILD.
BIZ LOUISE CHANDLER NouLroN.

Playing there in the sun,
Chasing the butterflies
Il Catching his golden toy,
Holding /: fast till it dies;
Singing to match the birds,
Calling the robins at will,
CHANGING here aud there,
re Never q moment still
Like child.
Going to school, at last,
Learning IT, read and write,
Puzzled over lis slate,
Busy from morn till night,
Striving to win prize,
Careless when tits won,
Finding his joy in the strife,
Not in the thing that's done.
Busy in eager trade,
Buying and selling again,
Chasing a golden prize,
Glad OF q transient gain;
Always beginning anew,
Never the long task DER,
Just AS it used to be-
The butterfly before.
Seeking a woman's heart,
Winning it for his own,
Then, too busy for love,
Letting it turn to stone.
Sure OF his plighted truth,
What more had wife to ask!
Is he not doing for her
Each day his daily taskf
"A child, TO pine and complain!
A child, to grow SO pale
IS
Shall q wonnan's faith faili
Words he said them once
What need Of anything moreS
Does one who has entered room
Go back and wait at the door,
Baby Mary and Kate
Never can climb his knee;
M0therly arms are open
''Father is busy, you see."
Too busy to stop to hear
A babble Of broken talk,
To mend the jumping jack.
Or make the new doll walk.
So busy that when Death comes
He pleads Tor little delay,
If not to finish his work,
q At least q word to say
A word to wife and child,
A sentence to tell the truth,
That he loves them now, at the last,
With the passionate heart Of youth.
The kisses Of Death are cold,
And they turn his lips to stone;
Out Of the warm, bright world
The man goes all alone.
Do angels wait tor him there
Over the sOundless sea?
He goes, rs he came, helpless wight.
+ To new worlds's mystery
Like child.
Harper's Magazine for April.
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TESTIMONIALS.

A few extracts fronts repor and letters are
given:
the grain was short on the othe7 side the
grain was heavy, and on one end it was badly
lodged, but the machine worked equally well
in all these conditions Of grain. The binding
was well done ard much cleaner than is usually
done when bound by hand.
"The machine was operated for some time,
till the committee, as well IS all spectators, Of
fed
'This machine is, in our opinion, an un-
qualified success; and in this opinion all who
saw the machine operate, agreed, so far as we
were able to learn, and there were many prom
inent and substantial farmers present 1T the
trial. ARA BARTON.
''President State Agricultural Society.
"EDWARD c. BULLS"
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SEEDS! SEEDS!

Never use Eastern seeds found at stores,
when You can have better quality, tor les:
money, Of first class, Northern grown Garden,
Field, and fine imported French and German
Flower Seeds, seit by mail, postage paid.
Fine new Clover and Timothy Se>d. Write
for Descriptive Price List.
n. w. Woodvllle Il Co., N ~rtllfield,
an26-e0w-4w Mimi.