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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

PRESIDENT GARFIELD is said to feel
deeply aggrieved at the unfriendly insinus-
tions regarding the Administration con-
tanned in the Washington Republican, the
paper owned by Brady and edited by Cor
ham, and it is intimatcd he will consider
Gorham's election as Secretary of the Senate
rs n personal affrunt.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07

NORTH CARoLINA will vote upon 3
prohfbitory amendment to its Constitution
on the first Monday in August next. A
State Prohibition Convention, recently held
At Raleigh, was attended by delegates from
every county in the State, and an active cam
vass will be inaugurated by the friends of
the movement.
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DRAWING A WAGON ON FIRE.
Adventure of White Mare That Has Curious
History.
Ne,o York SUN.

The residents of East Meadow, in the town
Of Hampstead, were greatly alarmed q few
nights ago by what some of them took to be
the comet coming out of the north drawn by
q white horse. It was near midnight, and
the horse came tearing down the road with
flames streaming above and behind. Finally
a Mr.. Rockefeller, more courageous than his
neighbors, faced the horse as 1t came thun-
dering down the road, and 1t stopped. 1t
proved to be the mare and wagon Of fisher
man named Half, who had stopped at West
bury and left barning torch in his wagon.
A bale of hay in the wagon caught fire, and
the mare started on a run for home. The
FIRE communicated to the wagon, and fish
boxes and all were destroyed.
This mare has wonderful history. She
is nine years old, and it is claimed she can
trot mile to wagon in less than three
minutes. Two years ago she walked into
small pond at Roslyn, and with the wagon
and fish went over the food-gate, and was
rescued after hard struggle She Is the an
imal that was driven by William Rhodes,
the old fisherman that was murdered by Bill
Weeks and the negro seaman, four years ago,
near Hicksville. On that night Weeks, as he
testified In his confession, led her from
Hicksville along the railroad track to q
bridge that crosses culvert underneath
which Rhodes body was found, and threw
her of the bridge to make it appear that
Rhodes had driven OF the bridge. She fell
nearly twenty feet. The wagon was broken
to pieces, but the mare was uniujured, and
was found the next morning standing In q
farmers yard two miles away.
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Summer IN Norw ay.
From the Atlantic.

The Norwegian house is one-half window.
In long winters they need all the sun they
can get not an outside blind, not an inside
shutter, not a dark shade to be seen.
Streaming, flooding, radiating IN and round
about the rooms comes the light, welcome
or unwelcome, early and late. And to the
words "eariy" and alaten there are in q
Norway summer new meanings. The early
light of the summer morning sets in about
half-past 2, the late light of the summer
evening fades into luminous twilight about
IL. Enjoyment Of this species Of perpetual
day soon comes to an end. After the traveller
has written home TO everybody once by
broad daylight, at 10 O'Clock the fun of the
thing Is over; normal sleepiness begins to
hunger for lis rights, and dissatisfaction
takes the place of wondering amusement.
This dissatisfaction reaches its climax in .
few days then, If he is wise, the traveller
provides himself with several pieces of dark
green cambria, which he pins up at his win
dows at bedtime, thereby making II possible
to get seven or eight hours rest for his tired
eyes. But the green cambric will not shut
out sounds aud he is lucky II he Is not kept
awake until or o'clock every night by the
unceasing tread and loud chatter Of the
cheerful Norweig'ans, who have been forced
to form the habit Of sitting up half their
night-time, to get in the course Of : year
their full quota Of daytime.
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SING WHILE you MAY.

A dear little'maid came skipping out
With dancing feet and flowing hair ...
She sang with Joy in the morning air. Pr
"Don't sing before breakfast, you'll cry be-
fore nightw
What croak, TO darken the child's delight
And the stupid old nurse, again and again,
Repeated the ancient dull refrain.
The child paused, trying to understand
But her eyes saw the great world rainbow
... spanned
Her light little feet hardly touched the earth,
And her soul beamed over with innocent
.... mirth.
Never mind--don't listen-o, sweet little
maid. aEEar
Make sure Of your morning song" said;
" And IL pain must meet you, why all the
more ..-.. .. ...
BE glad Of the rapture that came before.
40, tears and sorrow are plenty enough,
Storms may be bitter and paths be rough,
But our tears should fall like the dear Earth's
showers ..
That help TO ripen the fruits and flowers.
SO gladden. the day with your blissful song;
Sing on while you may, dear, sweet and
strong ru
Make sure of your moment Of pure delight,
No matter what trials may come before
night" Wide 4Ddke.
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Division Of California.

NEW YORK, August 31.--The Herald edi-
toriaIly says: Southern California, or, as It
is called, the orange region of the State,
seems anxious to secede from the other sec
tion OF the commonwealth and set up In
business for ITSELF With this object In view
q convention has been summoned TO meet in
Los Angeles next month, when 10 Is believed
measures will be adopted looking to the pro-
posed division. The alleged cause of the
row is feeling Of dissatisfaction with the
State Government, which, It is asserted, IA
vors interests opposed to the southern section.
To cut the State in two on . pretext of this
kind Is simply absurd. On the same theory
New York and the adjacent counties should
have seeded long ago from the northern and
western parts Of this State; tor, however
badly Southern California Is treated by her
northern division, It cannot possibly be in .
worse condition than our own Hudson river
and seabosrd counties. II . policy Of this
kind were to prevail all over the Union, we
should In i short time have IS many States
As We now have counties. The division Of
California, however, Is not . new idea. Be
fore the war, when the slave power was
stretching out for authority, Il epdeavored to
secure partition such a. is now contempla-
ted, the Intention then being TO make IL Z
slave State. u
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POETRY.
THE PRINTING PRESS.

Hearts OF iron and fingers or steel, ..ta
Clamp and lever, and cog and wheel,
Clnk and clatter, and rattle and din,
The long night ont and the long night in
Woe and veal tomorrow a r.-...
Feathers TO fall with the weight of the dew,
PanRs TO saddien the long ljfe through,
Roses and thorns 10 fly on their way,
And thoughts of the years and the waits of a
day,
Hope and love and sorrow
Fiends, that grin with demon Joy,
Delight with humans TO tamper and toy,
Every clamp on the molten bed
l. dream, hope, or promise dead
A chill 10 pulse forever,
The days and months and years go by,
Till the prophet angel leaves rhesk
For the murky room with the rattling wheel,
Its click aud cog and touch of steel,
Its band and seam aad lever!
And side by side in the rolling press,
To curse, 10 cheer, to crush, to bless,
Shaking the very doors of State,
And thrilling through the nationl
Hark how the monster throbs and groans,
Creasing his iron nerves and bones;
What TO him is the pain or please,
JOY from the land or death from the seas
High or lowly station?
Out OF the misty halls below
Hither and thither the white wings go
Tears that pressed shall trickle for aye,
Pains that never and never can die,
In all Tunes rolling surges
Pressman See that the reins are we'll
Every turn of that press shall tell
II may be woe and it may be veal,
Who can say how far they wheel
Into the future urges?
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The language OF Swest Sixteen
Free Press.

Free Press.
"My daughter never uses slang" says
some stsid patelfamilias, who is denouncing
the idea that the Anne, lean young lady speaks
any other than the purest taught English,
and he Is sincere in his belief. But should
some curious senior, with an eye to the truth,
linger near to this vopng lady and her school
friends, ten to one this is an exact and not
overdrawn description of what he would
hear:
"Met me on the ave- this aft aud we will
go to the mat"
"No, not this aft on the ave." e-. -
"Well, good aft" 1s..-
az had q perfectly mag time, and don't
you forget it,"
"Don't give me away, Kate"
"Well, should softly exclaim."
al should blush to murmer."
al should remark"
al should mutter."
al should SMILE"
"Are you going to the musicale?"
"You just bet am"
have you sob your iessoh ih Physiea'
geography ?"
"What do you take me for?"
al told the Gov wanted new handker-
chief dress.n ~
"Did he tumble to the racket"
"Did he trail?'
"Did he catch on?"
" He forked over, girls, and it's my treat. "
These are the sweet girl graduates who
stand up in the month of roses and read
charming essays on "The Real and the Ideal, v
"Life as IL Should Be-" "Reforms," and
| other practical subjects, and who tuin from
admiring teachers to whom they have list
ened with tears I'm their mock-serious eyes to
say In a aside, "He's giving us tafiy.
girls" and who christen everything that does
not please them as "snide."
| This period of slang among school girls Is
infectious. They catch it just as they did
the whooping cough at an earlier age, and II
runs its course aud leaves them about as
harmlessly. Their good, proper mothers and
grandmothers said all their lives, Will you
take a walk?" The "Dare-to-be-Daniel
Of this age says to her chum, stake crawl
on the ave- ?''
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No Mans Land.
50. james Gazette.


The Swiss GeogI aphical Society publishes
in Its last bulletin some interesting particu-
lars about the village community Of Mores-
not, which, situated between Montjoie-on
Roer, in Prussia, and Verviers, in Belgium,
does not belong to either Kingdom. At the
Congress of Vienna, Moresnot, which now
numbers 5000 inhabitants, and possesses
some rich mines of zinc, was omitted from
the list of places made over to Prussia or
the Netherlands; and as neither of them
would give way to the other when the omis-
sion was discovered, 1t was agreed that the
territory IN question should be jointly ad-
ministered by the two powers, bat that
neither of them should enter upon mill
tary occupation of it. So the matter has
stood ever since, except that in 1880, Bel
gium took the place of the Netherlands, and
to this day the Inhabitants of this favored
territory only pay, in the way Of taxes, as
they did In 1914, a sum of rather less than a
hundred pounds, which IL divided in equel
proportions between Belgium and Prussia.
For many years the inhabitants were ex-
empted from military service, but the young
men are now compelled to serve In the Del
GUM or Prussian army, according to their
origin, and in Eases Of litigation the suit
may be heard by the tribunal Of either coun-
try, at the choice of the plaintiff. Belgian
and Prussian goods do not pay any duty
when imported into the territory, which is
under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the
Bishop of Liege, and which has short rail-
way connection with Belgium. The COM
munity Is governed by Burgomaster,
chosen In alternate years from among the
Belgian and the russian inhabitants, a
Communal Council, School Board and a
Committee for the Relief of the Poor. The
community has five schools, and is subject
to the Code of Napoleon, though the regis
try of births, deaths and marriages is always
drawn up In German and lodged at the tri-
bunal Of Aix-la- Chapelle.
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How TO Get Along.

Never stop to tell stories in business hours.
II you have pace of business, be found
there when wanted.
No man can get rich sitting around stores
and saloons.
Never fool +" In business matters.
Have order, system, regularity and prompt
ness. @ Y.E ta ftttsg wa
Do not meddle with buslness you know
nothing about.
De not kick every one in your path.
More miles can be made in day by going
steadily than stopping.
Pay as you go. H
A man Of honor respects his word as his
bond.
Help others when you can. but never give
when you cannot afford to, simply because Ii
Is fashionable.
Learn to say no. No necessity Of snap
ping 1t out dog-fashion, but say 1t firmly and
respectfully. 3
Use your own brains rather than those of
others. IS les.g5l t.,s E-
Learn to think and act for yourself.
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o'DoNNAvoN RossA EXPLAINS
His Talk Was Merely Pickwickian.

O'Donnovan Rosa was interviewed the
other day by reporter IN New York, and he
protested lie was not a pirate.
"Thls newspaper talk about my wanting
to blow up passenger steamers with their
passengers in them is all imagination and
comes from the brains Of reporters. would
not hurt a hair on any ones head, not even
an Englisiman's. / know lots Of English
men, good and honest men, and whoever
says / want to injure them physically lies
like Judas Iscariot. If could blow up ten
thousand Englishmen to-day, aud perhaps !
could do it If wanted to, would not think
of Il for moment. In fact,o said Mr.. Rosa,
warming with his subject, " If was to meet
Queen Victoria on ferry boat and she was
to fall overheard would throw her life
preserver-a good one, with the strings in
order--and nigh. even jump overheard af-
ter her If saw that she was in danger. Now
what have yeu got to say?o
"But how about this paragraph from your
latest proclamation? ?n asked the reporter,
showing Rosa the following sentence:
The convention express the opinion that
after the 1st of September 1t will be we'll for
NIL peaceable people TO avoid patronizing
ships that sail under the protection Of the
English flag. ~
..That is not proclamation at all,r said
Mr.. Rosa, with a show of indignation.
"Those reporters put 1t In that SHAPE for the
convenience of the thing. The real precla.
nation is known only to the members Of the
council and will never see the light OF
print."
Then you don't want to blow up ships
with passengers I"
Not a Bit Of it. We want to destroy
British property without destroying life. We
want TO show England that 1t will cost heI
more to keep Ireland than to let her 60
Some of our friends have done too much
talking. We mean business now. When
you see that ouch and such ship was sunk
at her anchorage or such and such ware.
house was burned down and the water Of the
fremen had no effect on the fire, You will
hear no exultation from this Office. No, sir
there is to be no more talk here. But told
you would not talk, and won't, so yeu
need not try me-"
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szwoH s1t saNa {.
RACING FOR LIFE.
How Locomotive Engineer Prevented Dis
srEt gteF}Fsa aster. t ls# H- N. 1869 g.
Tucson "a. To Journal.

Tucson "A. To Journal.
Deeds of daring are never scarce in frontier
settlements, and the news gstherer, who is
always In search of the sensational and IN
teresting, every day meets with incidents
wherein the heroic nature Of man stands in
prominent relief. Only yesterday the jour
nal contained the particulars OF locomo-
tive trip during which great dangers were
unwaver;ngly faced, and now another act Of
bravery of railroad engineer deserves at
tention. AT Pantano Wednesday afternoon,
the brakes of a fat-car loaded with ties be-
came loosened in some incxplicable manner,
and the car began 70 move down the steep
grade toward Cienesa. A bysianacr jumped
aboard and endeavored to tighten the brakes.
He, however, found them unmanaseable.
Another tried and failed. A regular brake
Inan then boarded the ear, and quickly dis
covered that the brakes were out Of order.
The car by that time had increased rs speed
to nearly twenty miles an hour, aud to re-
main upon it would be almost sure death
when the first wash-out was reached. He,
the car to jump, and this they did. Engineer
Frank Shaw at this time was sitting on his
engine at Pantano, aud attached to his 10
comotive was a car filed with Cinnamon.
He at once realized the terrible result If this
| runaway fat-car was allowed to proceed un-
checked on its way, for score or more of
laborers were engaged far down deep
gulch in the Cienega Pass strengthening the
braces of broken bridge that spanned it,.
| They would not be able to hear the approach
| ing car, and it would soon crash through the
weakened timbers and probably crush many
beneath its weight. As these thoughts
flashed through his mind, he pulled wide
open the throttle valve, and started in pur-
suit of the fast-receding car. 1t was race
for life, and Shaw was soon laundering
down the track at sixty miles al hour, with
the carload of terrified Cinnamon behind
him. The fat-car ahead was increasing
speed at every turn Of The wheels, and the
grade there is very steep. The locomotive
however, kept gaining, and Shaw, placing
the lever in charge of his fireman, crawled
to the cowcatcher, and taking the heavy
coupling rod in his hand, stood in that peril
Gus position waiting until the car was
cached. The chasm where the men were
working came in sight, and still the fugitive
car was 200 yards away. He called to hi
fireman to open wider the. valve, and the la
boring engine made a lurch that showed tha
she Lad felt the increased volume o
steam. They sped on with lightning rapid
ity. The space between them gradual.
lessened. Shaw stood with the rod in ont
hand and acoupling-pin in the other. Final
ly the few feet that interviewed disappeared
and with dexterity that comes of practice
and cool brain, the coupling was made
The locomotive was reversed, and the trail
came to standstill, aud within fifty feet o
d the bridge. This is the way one man save'
many lives.
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sitting BUN $ Children.
Chicaqo Times.

Es Chicago Times.
Sitting Bull is AZ years of age and has
seven children, among them two pairs of
twins, the younger being four winters old.
Their names are Woe-a-na papa, or The
One Whose HEARTS, Changed. In one of
the battles with Miles another child was left
upon the field, and thereafter It's name is
They Fled and Left Him. A third is called
Paparorepa-Swea, meaning one whose heart
is brave, or he who stands and fights. Crow
foot, seven-year-old boy, was designated by
the old warrior to surrender his arms. He
Is a bright little fellow, a twin of the child
Who Brings Word From the Lodges, SO
named from important intelligence brought
by the little fellow from the distant lodges
during one of the most exciting campaigns.
A fourteen-year-old daughter is named She
Who Glances-a Y You-as-S She Walks, from her
disposition to flirt, as It is presumed. A
seventeen-year-old daughter Is named Shook
raota, the Woman With Many Horses, and
another Standing Medicine Won an. Mrs.
Sitting Bull is about 45 years old, and fine
type Of Indian beauty.
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A SPIRITED SPEECH.
Anna Dickinson Enunciates Some Telling Re-
marks at 4 Temperance Meeting.

At Ocean Grove, N. j., Miss Anna Dickin-
by throwing decidedly explosive bombshell
In the temperance camp but fortunately no
body was hurt, and, as the wreck of gossipy
criticism 1t occasloned cleared away, she was
acknowledged the victor of the field. The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union was
in session, and Mrs. Hunt, Of Boston, had
answered one of the queries taken from
what is known as "The inquiry box" The
question was, " What can we do to reclaim
fallen women?" On the temperance side of
the question, Mrs. Hunt took the ground
that women had less power of physical re-
cuperation than men, and when they fall in
many cases they fall beyond reclamation.
The remarks of all the morning had been
unfavorable to the ability or expediency Of
women reforming other women. Miss Dick
inson, who was In the audience, arose and
took up the subject in a masterly manner.
1t was soon whispered about who the speaker
from the first. II am not temperance adj
yocate," she said, shut i can tell you that
woman's proper work is with her sisters, and
not with men. You fall where you can do
the most. The woman who has nothing to
do, the giddy, fashionable creature who
learns TO tipple with refinement the woman
who has too much to do, your laundress-
who does days work getting her husbands
breakfast and attending to her children be-
fore she comes in the morning-these, as
well as the woman who drinks to drown de-
spair, are the ones who need but do not re-
ceive your ministiations. You raise the
man, but you spurn your fellow woman be.
meath your feet" Miss Willard, President
of the Union, afterward called upon Miss
Dickinson, and in the afternoon Quaker
lady publicly prayed for Annals conversion.
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THE FoRTY-MrLE DESERT.
Historic Grounds In Nevada With More
Bones Than q Battlefield.
Reno lNeu.) Gazette.


Twenty years ago the Great American
Desert was the terror Of the overland emil
grant. 1t was impossible to go around it, for
il extended from the Colorado TO the Cas-
cades. All the routes that led to the Land
Of Promise crossed II, and It was soon COW
cred with the bleaching bones of stock and
dotted with human graves. 1t is about forty
miles from the lower end of the Humboldt
sink to the Truckee river at Wardsworth,
and the "Forty y-mile Desert" given TO the
stretch has become known the world over.
There is no water fit TO drink on the whole
distance. The road lies through sandy
sagebrush plain, extending several miles
west Of the lake, where II strikes an alkaii
desert, In the center of which the railroad
has station which It appropriately calls
aWhite PlaIns.- This Ia the lowest point
east of the mountains. Eight miles further
Is Mirage station, which might serve as
memorial To the unfortunates who have been
betrayed from their proper course by the
picture of running water, waving trees ana
fields that existed only In the deceptive air.
Near the middle Of the journey Is beiling
hot spring at the foot Of the mountain, ana
large beds Of salt lie near, from which d. NJ.
I,eete and the Bonanza mines put up and
ship large quantities 70 market. The deposit
has killed vegetation for long distance
around, leaving the fla. old lake bed as bare
M floor. Between there and Wardsworth
are some odd formations. The body OF the
country seems to be q light yellow substance,
probably diatomous, over which lie nign
ridges Of brown hills. The level places are
strewn with heavy rocks of oil sizes ana as
black as coal. There Is no timber anywhere
In sigh., aud even the sage brush y o. IN
ferior size. On either slide are the ever-mo-
notonous brown mountains, carved and
croyed by centuries Of wear and frost into
f,inees Of stone lace. The railroad com
pany has made frequent attempts 70 got
water for ils engines, but without success.
.Tbev bored 1000 feet at Hot SPRING., but
g,,t only brackish mixture Of liquid alkaii.
Thev haul water In tank cars for their &C.
,,o,, man bstween Lovelock's and Wards
worth, and the engines make the run WIN
ore tsnkfull, distance Of sixty-one miles.
they formerly carried N extra CT behind
IN engine with two wooden tanks 70 dfaw
srom but new engines have been built witb
,snL, that hold s,7oo gallons. They ne.
oueptly run seventy 1--WE Iriles without stop
,..ng ma Nick Cole made 100-mile run
F'---sy x1l