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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-27

11OS. NE O w.
Canton, Nov. %. 1879.
IN
Jewelfy,
just received
G. G. Cofys,
South side Square.
Forty years. trial has proved "BLACK-
DRAUGHT" the best liver medicine in
the world.
For sale by w Mosby and Co.
Please
Bear in mind that the Little Giant
Cigar has a full Havana filler. j.
sold at five cents, and exclusively
controlled by II. GwINNER.
JUST RECEIVED.
A new stock of Millinery, Christ.
mas Goods, Toys aud Notions
bought cheap for cash. aud will bt
sold for a SIN all percent. above cost
prices. Call on Mrs. Fannie Jones
at Kuhn'S Store or i'm tue Millinery
room above the store.
Call at W. w. Wishart's, and
examine his large stock of stoves
crOckery and house furnishing
goods. which he is selling very low
for cash He has the celebrated
paper chair bottom, which is super
ior to the wood seat, being more
elastic and durable. Call aud see
them. w. w. WISHART,
sep. 20. Agent.
Query: Why will people suffer with
indigestion when "BlACK-ORAUGHT
will cure them?
For sale by w Mosby and Co.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-27

For sale by W. Mostly and Co.
For Rent or sale.
The "Chambers Place." g. miles
north of Canton.
JNO. CHARLES THOMPSON.
Nov. %, If.
NEW MEAT MARKET.
The undersigned have recently
opened meat market in the old
stone House, and will keep cou.
stantly on hand, choice Beef, Nut
ton, Pork. Sausage Sc, at prices to
suit the times.
They respectfully solicit a liberal
share Of public patronage.
THOS. FREY s. co.
Canton. Nov. %. 1879.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01

man exhausted in body, as natural
consequence in mind also, to perform
either of these offices? No, it is not
possible. The constant strain is too
great Nature gives way beneath It..
She loses health and spirits and hope
fulness, and, more than all, her youth,
the last thing that woman should al
low to slip from her; for, no matter
how old she is in years, she should be
Young in heart and feeling, for the
youth of age is sometimes more attract
i've than youth itself. To the over
worked women this green old age is
out of the question old age comes on
her sere and yellow before its time.
Her disposition is ruined, her temper
is soured, her very nature is changed,
by the burden which, too heavy to car
nv, is dragged along as long as wearled
feet and tired hands can do their part.
Even her affections are blunted, and
she becomes merely "a machine-a wo-
man without the time to be womanly,
a mother without the time to train and
guide her children as only mother
can. a wife without the time to sympa-
thize with and cheer her husband,
woman so OverwOrked during the day
that when night comes her sole thought
and most intense longing is for the rest
and sleep that very probably will not
come, and, even if it should, that she
is too tired to enjoy. Better by far let
everything go unfinished, to live as
best she can, than to entail on herself
and family the curse of OverwOrk.-
Sanitary Magazine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Keep the House Cool.

In these hot days cool apartment is
a real luXury-a luxury to be had far
Oftener than most people suppose pos
sible. The secret consists, not in let
ting i'll cool air, for naturally all do that
whenever they have the chance, but in
keeping out hot air. If the air outside
room or house be cooler than the air
inside, let it in by all means but if it
be hotter, carefully keep it out. A
staircase window left open during the
night will often cool the passages of a
house, and the rooms, too, if their doors
be not shut; but it must be closed at
eight or nine o'clock in the morning. or,
if on the sunny side, at four or five
o'clock, and the blind drawn down.
The mistake people generally make is
to throw open their windows ut all
hours of the day, no matter whether
the atmosphere outside be cool or
scOrching. "Let US have some air."
they say, and in comes the treaeherous
breeze-for even hot air is pleasant
while it is gently blowing, taking away
perspiration, and thereby cooling the
skin; but the apartment is made warm
er, instead of cooler, and as soon as
they move out of the draught they find
their room to be more uncomfortable
than before.
Let in cool air, keep out hot; that is
the only formula to insure the mini
mum of discomfort. Sitting-rooms may
generally be kept cool during the whole
day if the doors be only opened for in
gress and egress, and the windows be
kept closed and shielded from direct
by blind.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Tact on the Half-Shen.

Whatever this subtle attribute may
be called-this happy knack of saying
and doing exactly the best thing that
can be said and done under the circum-
stances-it is certainly highly valua-
BILE one in every department of life. A
lady of this city recently issued invita-
lions for dinner party of twelve, and
on the morning of the appointed day,
when comforting with the head servant,
a very accomplished and well trained
waiter, she discovered that one of the
twelve silver shells in which scallOped
oysters were to be served had been mis-
placed. Rigid search for the missing
articles having proved unavailing, the
lady decided that sooner than give up
that particular course she would simply
decline oysters when they were handed
to her and so the eleven shells would
be sufficient. 1t happened that when
the oysters were served at dinner by
the same accomplished attendant, his
mistress was engaged in very animat-
ed conversation with one or two of her
neIghbors, and, forgetting her deter
mlnatlOn, she took ono of the shells of
oysters and set it before herself. If the
servants heart fell in CONSERVATION at
this, he gave no external sign of it, but
speaking in tones distinct, though low,
said respectfully excuse me, mad
am, but you said 1 was to remind YOU
that the doctor forbade your eating
oysters" His mistress laughed and re-
turned the oysters to the waiter, saying
in explanation to her guests: 81 am so
absent-minded that have to engage
Thomas to remember things for me
sometimes" which, indeed, was literal
ly true. After the dinner was over the
story was told by the lady to one of heI
guests from whom the present writer
had it.-DetrOit Free Press. r.. /
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Young Man, Read This.

Remember, son, that the world is
older than you are, by several years !;
that for thousands of years it has been
so full of smarter and better young men
than yourself, that their feet stuck out
of the dormer windows that when they
died the old. globe went whirling on,
and not one man in ten million went to
the funeral or even heard of the death.
Be as smart as you can, of course.
Know us much as you can, without
blowing the packing out of your cylin-
der heads shed the light of your wis
dom abroad in the world, but don't
dazzle people with it. And don't mag
inc Il thing is so simply because you
say it is. Don't be too sorry for your
father because he knows so much less
than you do; remember the reply of
DR.. Wayland to the student of Brown
university who said it was an easy
enough thing to make proverbs such as
Solomon wrote; "Make few" tersely
replied the man. And we never heard
that the young man made any. Not
more than two OF three, anyhow.
The world has great need of young
men, but no greater need than the
young men have of it. Your clothes fit
you better than your fathers fit him !;
they cost more money, they are more
stylish, your mustache is neater, the
cut of your hair is better, and you are
prettier, oh, far prettier than "pa.n
But, young man, the old gentleman
gets the biggest salary, and his homely
scrambling signature on the business
end of check will drain more money
out of the bank in five minutes, than
you could get out with a ream. of paper
and copper plate signature in six
months. e.-
Young men are useful, son, and they
are ornamental, and we all love them,
and we couldn't engineer picnic sue
cessfully without them. But they are
no novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of
the kind. They have been here before.
Don't be so modest as to shut yourself
clear out, but don't be so fresh you will
have To he pnt away in the cool to
keep from spelling. Don't be afraid
that your merit will not be discovered.
People all over the world are hunting
for you, and if you are worth finding,
they will find you. A diamond isn't SO
easily found as a quartz pebble, but
people search for it all the more intent
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Weary Women.

Nothing is more reprehensible. and
thoroughly wrong than the idea that a
woman fulflls her duty by doing an
amount of work that is far beyond her
strength. She not only does not fulfill
her duty, but she most signally fails in
it and the failure is truly deplOrable.
There can be no saddei sight than that
OF a brOken-dOwn, er-worked wife
and mother-a woman who is tired all
her life through. If the work of the
household cannot be accomplished by
order, system, and moderate work,
without the necessity of wearing, heart
breaking tOil-toil that is never ended
and never begun-without making life
treadmill of labor, then, for the sake
of humanity, let the work go. Better
to live in the midst of disorder than
that order should be purchased at so
high price-the cost of health,
strength, happiness, and all that makes
existence endurabie. The woman who
spends her life in unnecessary labor is
by this very labor untitled for the high
est duties of home. She should be the
haven of rest to which both husband
ana children turn for peace and refresh
ment. She should be the careful, in
telllgent adviser and guide of the one,
the tender confidant and helpmate of
the other. How is it possible for a wo-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Marriage as a Test.

How remarkable it is that whenever
an enthusiast in religion gets new light,
and adopts what he considers "advancr
ed views" he almost invariably begins
to tamper with marriage! In this tam
per1ng he always betrays the charlatan,
ana sufficiently warns all who are
tempted to follow him to beware of
MN. There is no better test of new
system or scheme of life than its rela-
zion to Christian marriage. If it tam
Pers with that it is always bad, and can
py no possibility be good. The Shak-
ers torn community built on this rot
ten foundation: They destroy the fam :
lily, root and branch. ~Fhey have no
place for love, and enter into deter
mined and organized fight with the God
OF Nature, who, by the strongest pas
slons and impulses he has ever implant-
ed In the human soul, has commanded
them to establish families and homes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Words for the Aged.
BY JEAN BUTLER.

Much has been written for the chill
dren, Almost ,eyery. paper has its
"Children's Corner" where stories, puz-
zles, and pleasant talks abound. This
is as it should be, and we would not
have that "corner" smaller, nor its con-
tents less interesting. But we ask Il
small corner for the aged ones.i The
grandmother and grandfather of the
household are very dear to us, and we
want them to feel they are not forgot
ten. They may enjoy the discussion
OF the Chinese question, and the lee
lures of Joseph Cook they will, per-
haps, read WIN Interest Literary
Small Talk" notices of reviews, and
letters from various cities, and always
must enjoy missionary items, aud many
excellent articles in our religious week
lies. r-.
There are some, however. "nearing
the bound of life who are weary Of
discussions and controversies, which.
to the active minds OF younger men and
women, are so interesting. They want
quiet, restful thoughts, and cheering.
soothing words. They long to hear
more about the heavenly home where
they hope to live forever, and more
about Christ, who waits to receive
them. They think less and less about
the "new books, just out" and more
and more about the precious old Book.
which God has given for a slight unto
their path" They care little for the
new preachers and modern Interpreters
of the Word, compared with good old
Scott, Edwards, Baxter and fBunyan.
They think fol a few passing moments
OF new friends, but sit for hours think
FL ing OF old friends, who have passed on
before. They love to hear the children
sing their sweet Sabbath school HYMNS.
put down deep in their hearts they love
best the old, time-honored HYMNS of
Watts, DOddridge, Wesley and Cow
per. '--i- i01,s ittTl W
Let us, then, fill a corner for the AGED
with thoughts of heaven, of God. WHO
will soon ''wipe all tears from thei,
eyes, and of Jesus, through whose in
finite love the pearly gates will be
opened to them. Let us place therein
words of assurance from the grand old
writers, who lived "as seeing Him who
Is INVISIBLE" and who wrote with thai
earnestness and strength which come,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Religinns Reading.
Delivered-from the Power of Darkness
Col l: Is.
There was thick darkness in al

There was thick darkness in all the
land of Egypt three days; they saw
not one another, neither rose any from
his place for three days; but all the
children of Israel had light in their
dwellings. Elk. 10: %.
Ye brethren are not in darkness. l
Thess. 5: 4.
Ye were sometime darkness, but now
are We light in. the Lord: walk as chill
dren of thelight. sEph.l5: g. -
Ye are all children of light. I
Thess. 5: 5.
If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that dark
ness Matt. 6: %.
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may. ;. glorify your Father
which is heaven. Matt. 5: IS.
That We should show forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light. [
Peter 2: g.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
The Bright Side.

Look on the bright side-it is the
right side. The times may be hard,
but it will make them no easier to wear
a gloomy and sad countenance. 1t is
the sunshine and not the cloud that
gives beauty to the flower. There is
always before or around us that which
should cheer and fill the heart with
warmth and gladness. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once. You
have troubles, it may be. So have
others. None are flee from them-and
perhaps it is us well that none should
be. They give sinewland tone to life
-fortitude and courage to man. That
would be dull sea, and the sailors
would never acquire skill, were there
nothing to disturb its surface. 1t is the
duty of everyone 10 extract all the hap
piness and enjoyment he can from
within and without him, and, above all
he should look on the bright side.
What though things do look a little
dark The lane will have turning,
and the night will end in broad day.
In the long run the great balance lights
itself. What appears i'll becomes well
that which appears wrong, right.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Another Opportunity.
BY ELLA A. DRINKwATER.

BY ELLA A. DRINKWATER.
He who gets up wrong has chance
of going to bed right. From the tow
headed urchin who begins the day with
a deluge of tears because he must be
washed and dressed, to the gray-head-
ed OctOgenarian who fills the morning
hours with his evil forebodings, we
have the same excuse, 81 got up wrong"
as if that were sufficient reason for 60
ing to bed wrong.
The middle-aged, who are not what
they wish ebe in character, position,
or attachments, paralyze their energies
with the excuse, 81 did not start right /;
if had begun life in that line all would
have been so different" and of course it
would; but that is no excuse for con-
hauirg wrong, and we may end right,
if we will for of all the blessings to
which we have right, none come TO
us so often as the chances to begin all
over again. -2bCCsD GG9l
If we do not succeed in teaching, if
our classes are inattentive and restless,
if we feel cold and can find no heart in
the lesson, we may look forward to the
next Sundays session us an oppOrtuni-
ty for doing all that seems so ,impOssi-
BILE to be done to-day.
.-Ifa farmer .miscalculate and SOW the
wrong crop, he may plow and SOW
again another spring; if a man study Il
profession for which he is untitled,
there are still others open to him, for
one of which he is peculiarly adapted
if our thirty first birthday find us grOan-
ing over our failures, our thiIty-secOnd
may find us giving thanks for our vic
tories.
The mistakes, the follies, even the
sins, of our youth, need not always
have dominion over us; for, if we
choose, we may at any hour, ut any
moment, with the help of One who
knoweth our frame, turn our backs up
on them all, have them forgiven, cast
behind, -God's back, blotted- out, and
never brought to remembrance, begin
ming all over again with n clean record,
and the helpful though sOrrowful expe-
riences of the past.
Therefore, if we go to bed wrong, if
we finish our lives with our character,
position and attainments other than we
wish them to be, it is not because we
''got up wrong" it is not because we
did not commence right, but because
we continued wrong.
Our choices are the great influence of
our lives. out-weighing all accidents of
birth or education for we are only
what we choose to be, and che succeeds
who believes he CAM We must come
to many sharp conflicts for we have
all got up wrong, more or less, since
the morning dawned on the day of
Adams disobedience but as he, the
earth, and all mankind, are to be so re-
newed that there shall he found upon
them no trace of this earliest wrong up
rising, let us take heart at all our turn
ing points, knowing that, though we
have sinned, we shall not so continue,
but in the end of our long day it shall
be said of us, "He giveth his beloved
Sleeps. s. Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Dissipation at Saratoga.

There is less whiskey being drank in
Saratoga this season than ever and yet
the visitors are not on the high road to
Il place of total abstenance. The whisky
sold is better by 10 per cent and cheaper
by 30 per cent than it was in 1872, but
still the people don't drink it, and
champagne and claret, with an occa-
sional bottle of Burgundy, the swell
thing now, have become the popular
tipple. Don't think people here don't
drink whisky at all they do, and drink
lots of it. OF the line of thirsty men
saw ut the Congress Hall bar just now
eight were taking whisky straight, two
groups were drinking Piper Heidsieck
and tall college youth was toying
with one end of straw whose other
was buried deep in lovely milk punch.
There are five places here where there
is much drinking, the bars of the Grand
Union, United States, Congress Hall
and Clarendon hotels and at MOrrissey's
gambling house. During racing season
$3.50 is fair average return over each
of these bars per day, but at other times
it falls off to about $50. Drinking
over the hotel bars is at its hight from
l in the afternoon till O'clock, when
many people go to drive, and after that
from z till about IL o'clock. Wine
drinking here is growing fashionable,
and it seems to be catching. People
come here to idle away their time to
drink water at the springs in the morn
ing and smoke on the piazzas in the
forenoon; to dine and drive in the af-
ternoon and evening, and therefore,
having much leisure, wine drinking be-
comes with many of them only the eff
feet of an idle and in some cases weak
mind reaching out for occupation
Saratoga Letter IN Philadelphia Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Women's Growing Independence of
Man.

"Perbaps," says the Boston Tran
script, at is because of the growing
scarcity of available men, perhaps it is
because of the increasing independence
of the fair sex-whatever the reason, 1t
is fact patent to all who frequent
places of amusement that ladies ven
ture abroad in the evening without
male escorts, far more frequently than
they did ten years ago, and it is greatly
to the credit of our city that they can
do so with impunity. A lady would
hardly go out alone of an evening, but
if accompanied by another of her sex,
especially if one of them be tOlerably
along in years-it is not necessary to
give exact figures--both feel compare
lively safe. The result is that young
men are not quite so much of necessi-
ty as they once were, and are made to
feel that they are no longer indispensa-
BILE. Time was when a young man,
simply because he was a man, was per-
mitted to feel that he was a very i'm
portant creature, but now that the male
escort can with prOpriety be dispensed
with on occasions, he has been obliged
to descend from his high horse. He
was wont to impose his cheap horse
talk and slang on his lady friends, and
was permitted to parade his conceit
and ignorance, simply because he was
a necessary evil; but times have
changed all that, and he now often finds
that unless he can command respect by
his knowledge, his character or his
gentlemanly department, his room is
considered more desirable than his
company. All of which is having an
excellent effect upon the average young
man of the period.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01

81 SET Your HOUSE ON HIGH GROUND.
The house should be preferably lOca-
ted on spot where the ground falls
away in every direction, in order to Sc
cure good surface drainage but it is
even more important that the subsoil
should be dry or even sandy. If not
dry naturally, then it should by all
means be susceptible of the most tho
rough artificial drainage, with an out
flow that will always keep the pipes
clear. Almost any sacrifice should be
made to secure this important point ;
in fact, we would not advise any man
to build house on a spot where it can
not be secured, no matter what the
other advantages may be. We have
heard surface drainage spoken of with
Indifference and we have seen costly
country houses where the water has
been from one to three feet deep for
many weeks during the winter, the re-
suit of bad drainage. The lower part
of such houses is always damp; the
walls, furniture, and clothing suffer
from dampness, and the family from
in some of its direct forms.
The cellar floor and walls should be
dry wet or damp cellar is not con-
sistent with good health, and its useful
ness is greatly impaired.