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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
New York Fashions.

THE stylish corset waist, hitherto used
for full dress toilets alone, is now being
made up in rich costumes for the street.
This waist is made with six forms in the
back, the seams of which extend the
whole length of the waist, and are fur
nished with bones TO the end of the gar
ment. These bones must be very thin
and supple, in order that they may fall in
with the taper of the waist and expand
over the hips. This corsage is designed
to give the long wasted figure which is
now the fashion, and displays fine forms
to advantage; there is danger, however,
that it will bring about return to tight
lacing and compression of the waist be
low healthy size. The back of the corset
waist is as long as that of an ordinary
basque; but it has none of the fullness
given to basques below the waist; mo-
distes place there two or three long
looped bows made of the dress silk
doubled. A jabot of lace like that worn
around the neck extends down the front,
covering the buttons and thus conccaling
all means of fastening, and makes the waist
appear as if it were nodded on the
figure. This fashion is handsomely car
ried out in costume of black silk
trimmed with thread lace. The edge of
the corset waist is merely piped. The
five seams extend the whole length of the
back. The bows behind are very full.
An English collar of the silk has black
lace frill inside matching the lace of the
jabot. The overskirt forms two aprons
edged with lace, caught up shorter in the
middle of the front, and hanging in deep
points ON the sides; the back drapery is
in shawl shape. On the lower skirt is a
single flat flounce ten inches broad, made
of clusters of side-pleats, three in a
group, with broad box pleat between.
The Josephine basque is another stylish
in the basque front, which has that part
waist, a wide Josephine belt sewed in the
side seams, and a narrow vest, which is
covered with lace The Josephine belt is
slopes narrower toward the middle, and
is buttoned in front by three small but
tons. The back has the six forms of the
corset waist. A distinguished dress made
in this way has sleeves and lower skirt of
one of the new green-blue shades of faille,
with basque and over-skirt of the same
shade striped with Persian colors, in
which cream-color or gold predominates.
The part of the basque that does not meet
below the belt in front is edged with
fringe in which the eam-cOlOr appears,
while the back is merely piped. The
narrow vest is of the plain silk covered
with two rows of white duchesse lace.
The bows behind are of plain silk, also
the Byron collar. The striped over-skirt
forms a deep apron, caught up short on
one side in Ia Boiteuse fashion, and is
edged with fringe. Shirred bands and
pleatings are on the lower skirt.-Harper' $
Bazar.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08

90 Woher dd :" were heard and Rambouillet
hurried along the paths, escaped and dis
appeared from the district.
The next day it was told how the Ger
mans had killed the gamekeeper's wife
and all the neighborhood mustered at her
funeral.
Peace was signed, Rambouillct resumed
his former life. The occupation ceased,
and then everybody ventured to express
the horror excited by SO cowardly crime
committed against woman sitting peace
fully at her hearth. Rambouillet had be-
come more gloomy. A gnawing despair
had penetrated his heart. He had COM
mitted useless crime. Not only had his
vengeance escaped him, but he felt that
any attempt against the gamckeeper would
recall attention to the crime of 1870 and
would divert suspicion from the German
soldiers. His irritation increased every
day and often found vent in threats against
those around him. A few weeks ago one
of these scenes was repeated between
Rambouillct and his sons daughter. ''Ah,
yes" exclaimed the latter, "you want to
serve me as you served the gamekeeper's
wife; but am not afraid of you" Ram
bouillet flinched. The conversation be-
came known and reached the ears of jus
ticc. Rambouillet was arrested, convict
ed, condemned to death. The jury an
ativcly and without cXtenuating circum-
stances. They felt that a man who had
plotted revenge for twenty years must
have acted with generalization. The pris-
oncr's counsel had, of course, urged as an
extenuating circumstance that he mistook
his victim.-Pdris Letter to tie London
Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08

IT is no wonder that We hear this question
on every corner. So many dying sud
denly of diseases of the brain in these days
that everyone is alarmed, and is asking:
"What shall we do!' There is alarm on ac-
count of dizziness of the head, a whirlng
sensation when rising up suddenly, bad
" all gone" sensation at the pit of the stom-
ach like the gnawing of an ulcer, with a
feeling like load after eating, pains in the
back, sides and chest, at times, with costive
bowels, scautv, hgh-colored urine, some
when food is eaten it oftcntimcs distrcsscs;
the skin, after a time, becomes dark, cold
and ciammy, eyes sunkcn and Hinged with
yellow, spirits detected. with evil forcbod-
ings- When any of these symptoms are
present no time should he lost in using a
proper remedy. The one that we have
known to operate with the most certainty l.
the SHAKER EXTRACT OF Roofs OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP mot patent medicinc), sold by
Druggists and A. j. White, 3l9 Pearl street,
New York
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
His Present.

HE said he wanted to deal directly with
the proprietor of the jewelry store, as
times were hard and he must have hard
pan prices. He looked at silver tea-set,
at a gOld-headed cane, at a set of jewelry,
and finally at a gold watch. Then he
said:
q did think of making my wife a
Christmas present, but she's always
growing around and finding fault, and so
I'll let her slide.''
won't you take the cane for your son,
as you proposed ?" asked the jeweler
"No, guess not. Jim loafs around a
good deal, and only the other night he
told me to shut up and go to blazes! If
he wants anything in his stocking let him
behave himself"
"Well, about the watch?''
az guess Pill buy the watch and make
myself present. I never had much of
anything in my stocking, and l feel that
l hain't been used right. What's your
lowest fgger?'
1.-TWO hundred dollars"
Cant do it. You must remember
that these are hard tines
g. Well, say 500"
Cant do it. Times are awful
"I'll make you this watch for $3.50, and
not one cent less,'' said the dealer.
Wall, guess I'll take 'er, though it
looks like big price"
The jeweler placed the watch in the
box, stuffed cotton around 1t, and as he
laid it on the showcase the stranger said
You kin charge it,
"Charge It'll l don't know you!" ex-
claimed the dealer.
"You don't?"
"No. sir''
Don't know a man who has lived
within twenty-eight miles of Detroit for
thirty seven years?''
mo, SIR"
"Never heard of me in your life?''
"No, SIR
Wall, 1 won't take the old watch, -
said the man as he backed off. % You
don't seem to have much git-up and GO
ahead about you, and l always make it a
rule to patronize live firms. You'd better
subscribe to some newspaper and git to
know what's going on
You are no gentleman, sirr' said the
irritated dealer, who had lest full hour
time.
Can'thelp it-wOn't patroniZe no such
slow man-no use talkingr' replied the
stranger, waving his hand, and he paced
out to visit some other firm who did know
a man who had lived within twenty eight
miles of Detroit for thirty seven years
Detroit Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08

AT one of the evening meetings of the
New York State Fair James Miller read a
paper on How to Make the Farm Pay"
from which we reproduce his views on
surface manuring: If this kind of ma
nuring is done .intelligently, he says, it is
highly beneficial. But the soil must be
in condition to be benefited. Manure
should not be applied on old meadows
and pastures which have been trampled
until they are nearly as compact as the
beaten track, and which have little grass
to be benefited. If applied upon grass
lands they should be newly seeded. Dur
ing last fall and winter drew manure
from cow-stables and top-dressed about
half clover field which had been mOwn
once and pastured the latter part of the
season. Upon the portion top-dressed
the roots of the clover were preserved,
and on the other portion they were near
ly all killed by the severe winter. l
pastured it the present season, and
think the half top-dressed afforded four
times as much as the other half. 1t not
only protects the roots of clover and
other grasses, but the soil also. 1t pre-
vents a rapid evaporation and gives 1t
darker color, SO that it absorbs more solar
heat. l have observed the difference
where it had been applied to portion of
the soil fitted for winter wheat, and crop
raised. Upon blowing for another crop
after harvest, as deep as plowed, from
six to eight inches, it was thoroughly
pulverizcd. Soil is in the best condition
to be benefited by it when pulverized. l
have top-dressed portions of fields for
wheat more or less for the past fifteen
years. In every instance it has more
than doubled my crops of wheat and the
grass following. The most cheering
feature to me is that since l commenced
to top dress my soil has constantly in
creased in productiveness, until the yield
of corn has doubled without any other
fertilizer whatever, simply by turning
over sod which had been top dressed
one or more years previous, and this up
on fields where l formerly spread a heavy
coat of manure and plowed under as
soon as possible, to prevent evaporation.
The yield was $50 bushels of ears to the
acre last season, and bids fair to be more
this; and l expect it will increase until can
report 100 bushels Of shelled corn to the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
A POacher's Vengeance.

AT the Haute Marine Assizes a case has
been tried, resulting in a capital sentence,
the circumstances of which deserve pub
1icity. In 1850 aman, still young and of
indifferent character, named Rambouillet,
who carried on poaching with audacity
and success, was surprised by the game
keeper of forest in the Haute Marine. An
information was laid against him, and he
was brought before the Correctional Tribu-
nal, condemned to the forfeiture of his gun,
to fine, and even, believe, to i'm prison
ment. Rambouillet received the sentence
without protest, acknowledging the Of
Tense imputed to him and resolving to
turn over a new leaf. He kept his pledge,
and from 1850 to 1870 he laid himself
open to no reproach. He seemed bent on
blotting out by his good conduct the
stigma of his condemnation. When he
met the gamekeeper he avoided looking
at him, not with the air of man harbor.
ing grudge, but like man prevented
by shame from encountering the witness
of his fault. 1t was observed, however,
that he often isolated himself from 9TH
ers, and frequently passed his time in
wandering about the fields without its be-
ing known whittier he directed his steps.
This also was attributed to regret for his
delinquency. He regained public es-
TEEN, and his son married honorably.
Strange to say, Rambouillet was gov
erned for twenty years by a single idea,
that of vengeance. His apparent contri-
ton, the rectitude of his conduct, his
sadness and his gestures were all directed
toward one aim-vengeance. For twenty
years, morning, noon and night, he lay
in wait for the gamekeeper against whom
he had vowed vengeance, and for twenty
years that vengeance escaped him.
In 1870 the war broke out, the Haute
Marine was invaded, the forest in which
the gamekeeper lived was occupied by
the German troops. One December night
Rambouillet, whom every one supposed
to be at distance from the neighborhood,
took his gun, skunk from tree to tree
through the Germans occupying the for
est, and at the risk of being captured and
shot, facing the greatest perils and resort
ing to the most audacious stratagems,
creeping almost on level with the
ground, he succeeded in reaching the
gamekeeper's lonely cottage. There was
light in the window. The gamekeeper
and his wife, lost in this solitude,
amid hostile troops, were seated side by
side. Rambouillet watched them some
time through the clearing surrounding the
cottage. The gamekeeper remained mo-
tionless by his wife in spite of the furious
barking of the dogs, for since the enemy
had occupied the forest the dogs had al
ways barked every night Rambouillet
fired. Two despairing cries were uttered
inside the cottage, the dogs redoubled
their noise. all around the distant calls of
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
Winter Flowing.

FLOWING land in winter for spring crops
is attended with advantages of which the
thoughtful farmer will not fail to avail
himself. Water in plowed ground, on
becoming frozen, exerts a powerful force
in disintegrating and mellowing the most
tenacious clay soils, and is almost inval-
liable to the farmer who knows how to use
it to the most advantage. 1t hastens
chemical action in many ways. On con-
gealing, the water in mineral and organic
substances is expanded and combinations
inimical TO decay are often broken up
and destroyed-as in the case of an apple
or potato after being frozen. Ice that will
burst an iron pot will meet with very lit
tie difficulty in. disintegrating and CON-
minuting the most obdurate soil and
thereby assist in its improvement. Plow-
ing increases the capacity of soils to hold
water, which, becoming frozen, expands
and commutes it into infinitesimal frag-
ments and is therefore its most efficient
pulverizcr. And thus results are obtained
from the blowing and freezing which
neither alone could secure.
In the preparation of land, therefore,
for next seasons tillage the advantages
of winter blowing are most decided. Of
course lands which are so steep as to wash
badly should not, under most circum-
stances, be plowed in the fall or winter;
but when there is a necessity for doing so
the hillside pillow should be used and the
burrows so directed that the washing rains
or melting SHOWS can do them as little
damage as possible. Another great adj
vantage of fall or winter blowing is that
two or three inches more depth of soil
can be thrown up than in spring blowing,
the frosts of winter so mellowing the raw,
cold subsoil as to render its incorporation
with the surface soil an easy matter.
hot
whenever the ground is not too wet-par-
ticularly where there is large spring
crop in view-it is best to command the
services of Jack Frost in comminutlng
and preparing the soil ready for an early
start in the spring. This great mechani-
cal assistant costs nothing and is always
on hand, if the land has been plowed in
time. 1t is these natural forces that the
farmer should study to utilize to the best
advantage, whether they be solar light,
heat, descending rains of spring, summer
and autumn in bringing down the en-
riching stores of plant food from the at
mosphere, or the hard freezing weather of
winter. The deeper the earth is stirred
and the more its particles are comminuted
the more rain it will absorb and hold, and
consequently the more of those enriching
stores of plant food contained in the at
mOsphere are brought down and secured.
The joint action OF the blowing and frcez-
ing of the soil is therefore of more value
than is generally understood or appre-
ciated. -BdltimOre Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
The ROthschilds.

The combined capital of the Roths-
childs is stated by Emile Burnouf, the
well-known publicist, to have attained in
the present year to the almost incalcula-
BILE sum of seventeen billions of francs, or
$3, 400, 900 600. The significance of these
stupendous figures may be rudely con-
ceived by comparison, but there is moth
ing in the history of private wealth with
which they can be compared. The capital
of the Earrings, the estates of Lord Dudley,
the Marquis of Butte, and the head of the
family of Grosvenor belong relatively to
an humble category, to which the city of
New York has contributed the fortunes
of Astor, Vanderbilt and Stewart. The
financial resources attributed to the
Rothschilds can best be measured by con-
trasting them with the funded debts OF
the richest countries on the globe The
capital OF this house, as estimated by NJ
Burnouf, is about equal to the whole
funded debt of Great Britain, or that of
France, and considerably exceeds the
national debt of the United States. A
single century, or the possible span of
one mans life, has sufficed for the accu-
mutation of this fortune, and the rise of
its authors from a shabby rookery in
Frankfort to the financial domination OF
Europe. AT the period of Rothschild's
first decisive triumph on the London Ex-
change-the day after Waterloo, just sixty
years ago-John Jacob Astor was already
a rich man. The great fortune which the
latter bequeathed is not believed to exceed
$50 900, 900, while the inheritance of his
Hebrew contemporary has been swollen to
more than sixty times that sum. Al
though its territories are not to be found
on any map, and the names of its repre-
sentatives are set off with no princely
dIgnitles, nevertheless the house OF
Rothschild must be reckoned among the
pelling powers of the earthly. Y, Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
The Use Of Paint and Powder.

A writer in the HONS Journal says: No
one has the courage to tell the women who
paint and makeup how visible it all Is,
and what fearful mistake they commit.
The most beautiful woman In society loses
part of her beauty when she tries to add
to il by art, and she who is not beautiful
gains even an added ugliness. But no
one SPEAKS, and silence is taken to mean
ignorance and on-perception of the facts,
which every one reads ~ plainly as print
ed words, and all with one accord con-
DENIM The made-up, too, see for them
selves how great failure all the other
make-ups are; but no one has the wit to
turn the knowledge inward and say: "As
she is, 80 am l." The judicial blindness
that always accompanies vanity falls like
Egyptian darkness ON every eye, and
women sneer and condemn in unmeasured
language the very things of which they
themselves arc guilty. We exempt from
this censurc the manifest makeup which
some women have adopted in forcgone
times for reasons that might have been
perfectly allowable and continue after all
chance Of disguise Is over, and with no
attempt even at disguise They are cir
cumstances continued for convenience,
habit, what not, but scarcely for vanity,
and in NO wise with the desire or design
OF deception. Tho old lady's "top- knot"
~
lady's chignon of streaky white or more
Incorporating brown, matching but
poorly with the front of snow or grizzled
bands-in these there is only conformity
with the outlines of fashion, no attempt TO
assume the conditions of youth. We may
not think such things pretty, but they are
not contemplate, nor to he condemned.
Lace and ribbon would do the work of
hair and padding more according to our
ideas of what is becoming; but the hair
ana padding are so manifestly to fill up,
not to simulate-to supply q deficiency
which something must supply, but which
It is not intended should be supplied by a
trick Of make believe-that no one can OBJ
ject 70 them save in the light of an imper-
feet taste, in no wise in that of an untrue
assumption. Still, while il is the duty of
every woman to make herself beautiful to
the last, il is . dangerous method to go to
artificial aids for this-those aids which
affect to be natural and which are not
manifestly wells, additions, substitutes.
For, as We have said before, those who
employ them never know where to stop,
nor when, and the chances are that the
paint and powder which passed detection
In the quite early days, which they SO
daintily simulated was possible ana nat
ural, become by time and use a monstros-
ity hideous to the sight and impossible to
the epoch, degrading to the person and
offensive In every sense.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08
Shaking Hands, Bowling and Saluting.

Acts of courtesy may be merely conven-
tional, or they may be the outward mani
Hesitation of the highest inward courtesy.
The grasp of the hand had, in all proba.
bility, two Specifications. In the times
referred to, when war was the normal
state, and man little better than fighting
animal, some mistrust naturally accom-
panied proffered friendship; each, there
fore, grasped the weapon hand of the
other as asecurity against treachery. The
other idea of clasping hands was undoubt-
eddy that of =" fastening together in peace
and friendship" as Tyler expresses it;
and he goes on to trace the etymology of
the word peace to this action, finding in
it the Sanscrit "pac," to bind.
1t is now piece of conventionality to
take off the glove before shaking hands
with lady; but this custom began in the
days of chivalry, when the glove was a
steel gauntlet grasp from which might
be painful. The bow and the courtesy
are but authorizations of signs OF submits
sion, but a humanized form of the COVER
ing of an animal before its masters re-
buke. At present it exists in all grada-
tons, from the Chinese "ko-tow'' to the
slight benz of the head in token of rccog-
milton and respect. To uncover the head
meant originally to remove the helmet,
thus laying aside the chief safeguard
and placing the person at the mercy of
those present. Women do not uncover
the head, never having worn head dress
Is q means of defense
The courtesy shown to women, dating
from the age of chivalry, arose not mere
ly from the tenderness of the strong
toward the weak, but also from the recog-
milton of something divine in woman
hood. A something that set her apart
from the sordid, sclf-sceking and hard
ness of heart too prevalent among those
whose work lies in the camp, the forum or
the mart Would that this ideal could be
sustained. 1t is only this elevation of the
sex that can give it claim to that
courteous treatment that has always been
considered its due.-Ine 1Agosy.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-08

SCHENcK's PULroNIc SYRuP SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PILLs.-1hese deservedly celc-
brated and popular medicines have effected rev.
oluion in the healing art, and proved the fallacy
Of several maxims which have for many years OBJ
structed the progress Of medical science. The
false suppostion that " Consumption is incurabe''
deferred physicians from attempting to find RENE
dies for that disease. and patients afflicted with il
reconciled themselves to death without making an
effort to escape from doom which they supposed
to he unavoidable. 1t is now proved. however.
been cured in very great number Of cases (some
of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's
Pulmonic Syrup alone; and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schencks Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, ac-
cordng to the requirements of the case.
DIR. Schenck himself who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, was sup
posed at time, to be at the very gate of death
his physicians having pronounced his case hope
less, and abandoned him to his fate He was
cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery, many thousands similarly affected have
used DR.. Schenck's preparations with the same re-
markable success.
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck
unless patients wish their lungs examined, and
for this purpose he is professionally at his princi
pal Office corner Sixth and Arch streets, Phiadel-
phia, every Monday, where all letters for advice
must be addressed. Schenck's medicines an
sold by all druggists.