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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

.-Boiltwo tablespoonful
of rice and drain it as dry as possible.
Have ready some previousl y-cooked
fish, pulled with forks into nice small
pieces, and free from AL bones and
skin; add it to the rice and make it hot
over the fire. just before serving beat
up two eggs and stir well into the rice
and fish. Add little cayenne and salt
to taste.
Pie Plant Pie.-Slice very thin into
an earthen dish. Allow large coffee
cupful of pie-plant to n large teacup-
full of white sugar and two teaspoon
fuls of four Stir together, let stand
while making the crust.
An inexpensive boiled fruit pud-
ding may be made by mixing one cup
full of sugar, two cupfuls of sweet milk,
one egg, II little salt, half nutmeg,
two cupfuls of dried currants, chopped
raisins or sliced sweet apples. enough
flour for a stiff batter and two tea
spoonfuls OF baking powder. Pour the
batter into a buttered mold, tin pail
or toured pudding-cloth and let it
boil for about three hours in plenty of
water.
AT meeting of the Chemung
County IN. " Tobacco Club, one of
the members said: Il am not in favor
Of hill manuring with any crop.
Manure in hill does not dissolve; the
next year it is still there. Manure APP
piled broadcast becomes thoroughly
incorporated in the soil, and there is no
fear but that the roots will find it, if it
is Op'y there. Manure cannot make
plant food until it has been dissolved"
During the past season the Kansas
State Agricultural College has kept an
exact account of the cost of raising
corn, winter wheat, andoats. Corn,
twenty-five and one-half acres, forty
seven bushels per acre, costing four
teen cents per bushel. Wheat,
seventeen acres, seventeen bushels per
acre, costing fifty-four cents per bushel.
Oats, sixteen acres, yielding twenty
bushels per acre, costing twenty
eight cents per bushel. The ac-
count includes the cost of seeds,
planting, cultivating. harvesting and
marketing, the item of labor being
charged at the average price. The
amount of wheat per acre was very
light.
Some flower seeds cannot be placed
in the soil too early in spring, provided
they have a good mellow bed of fine
earth. Others would rot and never
grow. The former are the hardy sorts;
the latter the tender ones. Without 60
ing into long list of either, they may
be known by observing which has been
most quickly, aud which least affected
by annual frosts. Verbenas, for in
stance, are hardy. and cannot be sown
too early. The morning glory, cypress
vine, ETC., must be left till the soil and
weather becomes warm. The same rule
will apply to vegetables; peas are to be
sown early. beans several weeks after
wards. The first endure a moderate
frost, the latter are killed by it.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

Most cities were fOu nded by accident
There was no deliberate plan. hut
or two grew into a village, village into
a town and a town into city. Lon
don, for instance, had no godfather.
The first barbarian who landed from his
canoe and fixed his habitation under
the hill now crowned by the cathedral
of st. Paul, little knew he was founder
of a city to which Rome at the height of
its glory was insignificant in its proper
tions, its numbers and its wealth. A
place sometimes derived its name from
the physical features which distin-
guished it. Oxford, Cambridge, Mil
ford, Newport, Redhill, Blackwater,
Yarmouth, are instances in point. At
times some natural advantage it pos
sessed was the occasion of its name.
Thus the Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza
named the capital of the State he found
ed in South America Buenos Ayres, to
celebrate the excellent climate and
Valparaiso was so called as an intima-
ton that it's position is such as to be the
very valley of paradise.
The cities founded by the godfather5
after whom they were named are the
most famous in existence. No man
seems to have been above the ambition
of perpetuating himself in that way.
Alexander the Great gave his name to
the Egyptian city which he founded,
and which the Ptolemies made one of
the most magnificent of the ancient
world. In Candahar. too, we recognize
the Asiatic name Uskander) OF the
Cologne (Colonia Agrippina), which
of German unity, owes its name to the
Of xuhn
Saragossa, capital of the old kingdom
of Aragon, is only corruption OF
Cesarea Augusta, so called after Au-
gustus, who rebuilt the Carthagenian
town formerly on its site, and named
the new city after himself. This re-
founding an old town and giving it a
new name was common in antiquity.
When Adrian restored what the ancient
writer's called Uscudama, he imposed
upon it his own name, and thencefor-
ward it was known as Adrian.
ople, just as when Philip III.
of Macedon, formed new city
on the site of Eumolpias. it was
converted into Philippopolis. In the
same way Constantine, when transfer
ring the seat of empire to Byzantium,
renamed the city on the Bosphorus
Constantinople. The representative of
the modern Byzantine Empire has his
seat in city also called afterits founder
st. Petersburg When adventures
from this country named the chief town
in Nova Scotia, they were virtually adj
dressing predatory dedication to the
Earl of Halifax, first Commissioner of
trade and plantations. Charleston was
SO named in honor of Charles H., the
reigning monarch. Baltimore received
its name in 1868 after Lord Baltimore.
1t was only just that when. in 1898, the
foundation stone was laid of the Fed
eral Capital of the United States. the
forthcoming city should be named after
the father of his country-Washington-
In the same way the capital of Victoria
was named after the prime minister Of
the time, Melbourne; that of South
Australia, Adelaide, after the Queen
Dowager; that of New South Wales
after the then Secretary for the Colo
mics, Sydney; and that of New Zealand
after Lord Auckland Globe.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
THROUGH THE SNOW.

Tho cutter stopped before the gate
. Out sprang hdr hIghnesS lightly;
Half coy. half cool. this cruel Kate,
And altogether slightly.
In mock distress reclaimed she: -OhI
How far we must have riddenl
For. under this fast-falling snow,
The walks entirely hidien!'
Entirely hidden it was and moro,
For. as the catch lifted.
Six inches deep. from gate TO door.
saw the snow had drifted-
"Ughr' shuddered she. "You lead the wsyr
Was her command next spoken.
To hear, at once was to obey:
And. through the snow unbrokep,
/ stalked with steady. ample feet;
With lifted skirts she followed,
Daintily stepping. while her neat
Footprints in mine were swallowed.
Back to her mIrthful. pulling faco
looked across my shoulder,
And wondered If she'd smile with grace
On me, should grow holder.
a" Why may not you and t. said.
Through life thus walk together?
I'd break the way with happy tread
Through all lifes snowy weather"
She did not answer me a word,
But one sweet glance permitted,
And then, before me, like a bird,
Into the house she tiitted-
And through the snow and from the gloom
Her fairy footprints drew me
Into the cheerful. coy room,
Where love surrendered to me.
All! in our welded life since then
Snow-storms have broken DER me;
But always, into light again,
It's she has walked before me-
-Scribner's Monrru.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
The COdling Moth.

1t appears from all the accounts
which we receive of the damage done
to the apples by the codling moth that
the evil is spreading rapidly. For some
years past many remedies have been adj
vised as reliable, but still the evil
spreads SO that last year some parties
declared that more than half of their APP
Piles were destroyed by that pest. the
codling moth. Wishing to make my
self more fully acquainted with the hab
its of the codling moth, l collected and
opened several crabs which were in
jured by the pupp of the moth. l took
twelve of those and placed them in two
crabs; then l burnt some earth in the
stove till knew all insect life was de-
stroyed in it: then dampened it a little
and put about three inches of it into
glass jar; on the top of the earth in the
jar placed the crabs in which l had
put the pupn. / then covered the top
of the jar with piece of paper which
pierced with a pin. They soon left the
crabs and went into the earth and were
formed into chrysalis: in that state they
did not remain long. when they came
out the full grown moth. then found
they were very partial to water sweet
ened with honey. In 1879 1 placed
gallon mustard jar in my orchard, in
which had some water sweetened with
honey. and in that l caught large num-
bers of them, and also of many bee
moths. found my apples and crabs
were not SO much injured as they had
previously been. Last year l placed
jars so prepared again, and in two
nights l caught about a hundred moths,
so that very little of my fruit was in
jured, and all who saw my orchard were
quite surprised to see my line fruit, and
so free from the ravages of the moth. l
expect next year to completely exter-
inmate the moths in my orchard.
Any vessel in which the honey and
water are placed should be such as a
gallon mustard jar. SO that the moths
could have easy access to the sweetenej
water, but could not easily get out.
Then the moths should be removed
every two or three days. for if there are
too many left in the water others will
light on them and be able to fly out. The
moths only fly at night.
Those who have bees should be care
full and remove the jars in the day,
otherwise many bees will be lost. 1 Ell
ways in two or three days remove the
moths with piece of wire cloth fast
ened to the end of stick, and kill those
which are alive. Cor. Canada Farmer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

"'He's my papa-my new papa. |
won't stay wiz nobody but HIM.
"Well. you see, to shorten a long
story, the lady and me talked it al over
how she was Laineys mothers friend
how the Indians had killed La ney' 5
mother, and how disease and grief had
killed the father-how disease had
Frustrated the friend-how Lainoy had
wandered off in the desert in the night
how part of Lainey's fathers proper
ty, consisting mostly of fine broodmares,
was left, over in Nevada, temporarily
in charge of the Overland Stage Com
pany~i in fact, how all this business and
this child and this friend needed n man
to look after 'em. So it came about one
way with another, that L married the
lady, fathered the child, and got into
the boss business.
(Which being just about what l
wanted to do. makes me free to say that
wild peremtion in the desert was q
pooty lucky layout"
"Yes, indeed, very lucky" l said.
''But now, after all, don't it seem to
You as if that black dog went off in the
night and stole that young 'un?' Here
the venerable Moasick had a slight
asthmatic paroxysm, and as we walked
toward the gate out of which Quien
Sabe and his rider had made their pic
turesque departure, he finally succeeded
in saying:
"Well! That brown colts yours for
just what | told you. Say the word and
FL hold him for you for mos any rea
sonable length of time"
l said the word, and I'll put up the
money; but I'm not going to be in 5
hurry about taking ''that brown colt
away from the scenes of his childhood.
If were a married man it might be
different-but I've got my eye on Moa'
sick's SGJe?
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
The Parsees Of Bombay.

Seeing for the first time hosts of men
going through the streets wearing what
looks like section of stovepipe glazed
and then dotted all over with intinitesi
NAL gilt specks, said stovepipes minus a
rim and the back bent down toward the
front as if intended to be used as a
whistle in an emergency. the natural
impulse is to shout with laughter; and
it is only when this " shocking bad hat
is understood to be the badge of their
persecution. their cross, put upon them
in derision. which they have carried
gladly and proudly, despising the shame
for faith sake and so elevated to the
dignity of a crown. we bend before il
in respectful reverence. The farsees
are immensely rich and powerful, nc
matter whether that wealth was ac
uuired by inheritance, by frugality or
commerce. Splendid and luxurious
carriages drawn by two and not infre-
quentiy four full-blooded Arabian
horses, with a syce or footman running
on at the head of each. roll through the
streets and throng the "bunder," or
quay. where the band plays at sunset,
end usually from among the cushions
rise the gloomy spire of the Parsee's
improbable hat greatly to the disap-
pointment of sthe ''rounder who has
gazed earnestly expecting that no one
short of Viceroy ora Governor-Gener
al would turn up out of such splendid
surroundings.
But the penance of peculiar dress is
carried to such an extreme by the male
sex that the females have nothing to
do but array themselves like the lilies
of the field, clothed in silks and satins,
whose silken and gold embroidery emit
Il sheen which fairly dazzles western
eyes; loaded with jewels, festooned
with strings of pearls, arms weighed
down with bangles and legs covered
with silver anklets nearly to the knee;
yelled in gold or silver gauze, shod in
sandals of satin which disdain the soil
of the streets. they walk or sit beside
their husbands, the realization OF all
ones early dreams of oriental splen-
dor. Even the children are clothed in
embroidered silks and laden with ban
giles, till one is forced to conclude that
1t is only upon reaching mans estate
one is permitted to wear the dress
which gives him his peculiar place
among the religious people of the east
ern world.-Cor. Springfield (Mass.J
Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
UnderclOthing.

Now that the spring winds have be-
gun to blow. the time of influenza re-
turns. and why? We discussed the
matter in the sitting-room the other
day, and this is the way Aunt Helen
expressed herself: Il truly believe that
more than one half the colds caught,
and iniluehzas from which the women
of farmers families suffer SO much. are
traceable directly to an insufficiency of
undertaking. Nothing like the use
that city people make o. flannel is COM
mon in the country. Many neglect the
matter from a mistaken supposition that
such things are all a matter of habit,
and that to go somewhat thinly clad
hardens the constitution know wives
and daughters of farmers in good cir
cumstances who make almost no change
in their clothing from summer to win
ter. If they add to their calico or de-
laine dresses cotton underwaist and
haste some cotton lining into the
sleeves, it is considered sufficient. Oc-
casionally canton flannel underskirt is
INDUCED in, but real tlannels are es-
chewed; vague notion being enter
tanned that they are heavy and burden
some to carry about. Underwrappers,
to be most serviceable, should be made
of light and soft, but not thin flannel,
and should be moderately close fitting.
There is nothing better for jackets than
soft, flexible red flannel, even though
its old fashioned claims as a specific for
rheumatism be disallowed. The draw
ers should reach to the ankles, and the
skirts gored to avoid too much weight.
The union of warmth with lightness is
the most desirable thing to secure.
Thus protected and with feet well shod,
woman will have no need to invest her.
self in sack or shawl every time she
goes to the open door or window. DO
not suppose that simply wearing warm
outer dress isenoagh for the require
ments of health. Let no woman who
wishes to preserve either her health or
her good looks to a period past middle
age neglect this important matter of
warm undertaking. A knowing look
went round our circle when auntie fin
ished, and we recalled the fact that
Susie was just up from a sick bed in
which she had a severe battle with
pneumonia, and when we asked DIR.
Jalaper, few days before, why Susie
should get pneumonia he replied.
little tartly-though he is generally very
amiable You are doing just right TO
give her pneumonia; you will atUays
succeed if you put that tissue under
clothing on her and send her out on n
cold day!'-- Christian at Work.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

Mrs. General Sherman saws: Il have fire.
quently purchased Durang's Rheumatic Rem
edy for friends suffering with rheumatism,
and in every instance it worked like magic"
General Logan, United States Senator,
writes: ''Some years ago l was troubled
more or less with rheumatism, and have been
q great sufferer in the last year with same
disease. l began to take Durang's Rheu-
matte Remedy, and am satisfied that have
been cured by its use. recommend it to all
sufferers"
Hon. John Cessna, late member Of Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, writes: "In the
space of twelve hours my rheumatism was
gone, having taken three doses Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy. My brother, Of Bed
ford, Pennsylvania, was cured by similar
amount"
1t absolutely cures when every thing else
fails Sold by every Druggist. Send for
free pamphlet to r K. Helphenstine, WASH
ington, D. c.
REDDING's RUSSIA SALvE, the most wonder
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II afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

THE subjo;ned opinion, we perceive, is by
]. A. Daniels, Esq, of Messrs. Stogdill &
Daniels, attorneys, La Crosse, Wis, and ap-
pears in the La Crosse Chronicle: Some time
since, was attacked with pain in and below
one Of my knee joints. A few applications
of st. Jacobs Oil quieted the pain and relieved
the Inflammation. l regard it as valuable
medicine
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

SPEAKING of Governors suggests the men,
ton of an item we received from Mr.. Henry
A. Knight, Foreman at Chas Waters 81 Co.'s
Governor and Valve Works, Boston, Mass. !:
have used st. Jacobs Oil among our en-
ployees and find that it never fails to cure.
The men are delighted with the wonderful
effects of the Oil, it has cured them of
bruises, burns, etc.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

"A young woman, near Greene, Butler
County, Mimi, while making cake,
broke an egg which contained snake
seven inches long and about the size of
q Dipe-stem.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

No ralatial hospital needed for Hop Bit
tiers patients. nor large salaried, talented
buffers to tell what Hop Bitters will do or
cure, as they tell their own story by their
certain and absolute cures at home.-Nea1
York Z,adeUendent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

RAILWAY accidents are becoming SO nu-
merous that even temperate passengers are
often tire ated to smash.-IhddleLpti Chron-
ich
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

policeman with club sometimes be-
lieyes in a pound of cure.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09
Health of the Farmer and His Family.

The early part of spring is peculiarly
trying to the health of the farmer and
his family. There is little occasion for
outdoor work until the ground dries
sufficiently for the pillow, but plenty of
occasion for feastful living. The liv-
ing and the life are combining and con-
stipating, and overlooking and costive-
ness are at the bottom OF uncounted
miseries and troubles. When work
opens and presses as it does in our hur-
ried spring, there will be exposures to
wet and chill, and overheats that often
bring suffering of other kinds, and fire.
quently of the most acute nature.
Medicine, if resorted to, likely enough
promotes the complication more than
it relieves. The wise will lie careful to
prevent evils so difficult to cure, and SO
disturbing to the temper. and distress
ing to all around, by taking plain, di-
gestible diet instead of physic; by Gull
tiyating temperance and moderation;
by keeping the bodily warmth equable,
and by avoiding the insidious germs of
malaria which are everywhere in mala-
rial districts, during the cool and hui
mid hours, but which some negligent
farmers expressly cultivate by leaving
damp decaying matter in drains, Gel
lars or heaps. out of reach of the puri-
flying air. There can be 10 enjoyment
of life, nor any well-founded hope of
its long. continuance, where natures
laws in regard to food and health are
not obeyed and applied with even regu-
larity day by day.-N. y. Tribunc.
-Tea-leaves used for keeping down
the dust when sweeping carpets, are
apt to stain high colors; salt is the best
In tho yyinter and Dew-mnwn GRASS in
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

The man who thinks the boy who
lives next door to him is a good boy
has not been found. --BOston Post -
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

YOUNG men may be too fresh, but eggs
never.-Detrot Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

-Tea-leaves used for keeping down
the dust when sweeping carpets, are
apt to stain high colOrs; salt is the best
in the winter and new-mown grass in
the summer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-09

II afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
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REDDING'S RUSSIA SALvE, the most wonder
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, 1881-06-12
hliMllR-

The Vermont housewife who read that En-
glish mobiles have lots OF harcs in their pre-
serves, says she tried it to the extent of put
ting q whole chlgnOn into some blackberry
Jam, and the Jam didn't seem bit better
for it.
\ newly-1narried lady was telling another
how nicely her husband conlu write. ''Oh,
you should just see some of his lore-lette15r'
"Yes, l know,'' was the freezing reply;
''Fve got q bushel Of them at home III my
trunk
The Buffalo Express gently thides Buf.
falo bride who got married in pair Of stock
inss valued at S153. One hundred and for
ty-line dollars worth OF bonnet and 81 worth
OF stockings would have made more show to
the public.
Ella, is your father at home?" said a
bashful lover to his sweetheart II want to
propose something very Important to him.
No clarence, papa is not athome, but an:
Couldn't, you propose to lie Just as vel" p
And he did with perfec: success.
,"I can't find a place in the city to suit me,'
to her husband. why so, my dtar?" '.Vhy,
because --because-well,, ii you must know,
| can't find !: man1ci long enough for the
lambreuuin n.atie last winter"
Genevieye Ward is shocked beyond all ex-
preston because nlen and women are COM
PEELED to sleep in the same sleeping-car. 1t
is dreadful. We ilaye often worried over tbs
same thing, and been afraid to go to Sleep
lest sone woulln Should gllorofor1n Us and
kiss us In our dreams No man is safe in
mixed sleepiny-car.
"What"' said a young lady to conpa1-
ion, ''yotl are not going to marry that tall,
lean, slender. cuRSum ptiye-stricken fellow,
are you ~ s. fes, she is,'' volunteered the
young ladys little brother. looking up from
ms broken ctTt-wheel: ''She's going to marry
him and USE him for I. .carl,et-stretcherr r The
boy ami the cart-wheel passed out through
the same door