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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-04-18
Keep It to Yourself.

p You have trouble; your feelings
are Injured, your husband unkind,
your wife frets, your home is not
pleasant, your brethren do not treat
you just right, and things in general
move uupleasantIy.
Well what of it? Keep it to
yourself A smouldering fire csn
be found and extinguished; but
when the Goals are scattered who
can pick them UP? Firebrands
when together can be trodded un-
derfoot, but when tied to the tails
of SIMPSONS foxes, it is difficult to
tell where they will burn.
Bury your sorrow. The place
for sad and disgusting things Is un-
der ground. A sore finger is not
improved by pulling off the rag and
sticking it in everybody's face; tie
it up and let it alone; it will get well
itself sooner than you can cure it.
Charity covereth the multitude Of
sins. Things thus covered are Of
ten cured without scar; but when
they are once published and conf
ded to modelling friends there is no
end to the trouble they may cause.
Keep it to yourself. Troubles
are transient, and when a sorrow is
healed and past, what a comfo-t it
is to say, NO one ever knew it was
all over with"
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Nashville Dailes, Courger Journal
and Country Press.

This paragraph appears in the
Uaion and american of March goth
"The indignant Tennessee week
lies pay in advertising for a Louis
vile exchange whose business ii is
daily to decry Nashville energy, en-
terprise and commerce largely more
than the cash subscription price Of
of the paper, and yet abuse and de
nounee the Nashville daiiies because
they only ask the difference in the
price of the papers. Let them go tc
Louisville for their advertising pat
ronage. We have no doubt Louis
vile merchants feel indebted to them
for the course they are pursuing"
The Indignant Tennessee weeklies
do nothing more now for the Louis
vile Courier Journal than they have
been in the habit Of doing and doing
cheerfully for the past five or six.
years for the Nashville Uniou and
American, and which they would have
continued perhaps but for the illib-
beral and narrow policy of that
journal towards them. The differ.
ence is, the Courier Journal appre
ciates the favcrs thus voluntarily and
gratuitoHsly extended, while the
Nashville dailies are too niggardly
and narrow, both in enterprise and
liberality, to see the obligation.
This last effort of the u. & A. to
turn the Nashville merchants and
country weeklies against each other
is the meanest thing it has ever be-
fore attempted, meanest, because
the most contemplate. Itis an at.
tempt to place the enterprise Of
Nashville merchants and manufac-
lures upon a level with its own, and
the latter should become indignant
at the whining appeal made to them
by the selfish, iliiberal, short sight
ed, consumptive sheet which seeks
to array them in a hostile attitude
towards Il power which has always
been friendly towards them, and
which could do them serious injury
il arrayed against them. The coun-
try papers have made no war upon
Nashville enterprise and commerce,
and the U. q A. is perpetrating a
most yillful falsehot in attempting
to create such an impression, hoping
thereby to drag the business men of
Nashville into the controversy be-
tween itself and the country papers.
The patronage extended to country
papers by Nashville merchants 1--WE
speak for the. CIrIzExl las been lib
eral, and We thank them for it most
hearty. ana hope they may continue
it, believing as we do that we give
them value received for their money
spent with us; but we can never
consent to whine around them like
hungry hounds, nor obseqHiously
Gatter the vanity of such unprinci
pied sheets as the Q. & a, simply for
the honor of being allowed to help
build up the trade of Nashville.
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81. For the Citizen.
HOW STRANGE.

How strange It is that men of sense
Should waste their time and pounds and
pence,
Writing prose to expound a creed,
That makes them focls whcue'er you
read,
Delighting crowds with empty brain.
The self-sold, red fool, George +. Train
Assumes to succeed L. ). Grant;
ifHo knave, what pray tci1-I can't T.
Homemade satirists, in sharp prose,
Though our county papers strike those
Who have the thought and judgment
sound,
10 be spouseless, yet happy found.
There's one Fox and Bouifau too,
Whose prose interests God knows
whol;
Wasting time and paper and ink,
Thou sel-proud men who never think.
Their lives were short (their length too
long,;
In this / am right; I can't be wrong.
Unlike the former style of death,
Theirs, for want of tiought-not
breath.
Feminine names Joined in the chase,
But Fox ''giH out and stopped the
race;
Bat hold, I'm for the last-ohl yes
I'm done. TIulvs JoAB BIsQUEz.
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Home, Wife and Saturday Night.

Home, Wife and Saturday Night.
Happy is the man who has lit
tie home aRd a little angel in it OF
Saturday night. A house, no
matter how little, provided it will
holt two or sO-no matter how
humbly furnished, provided there is
hope in it; let the wind blow;
close the curtains. What if they
are plain calico, without border,
tasset or any such thing? Let the
rain come down, heap up the FIRE.
No matter if you haven't a candle
to bless yourself with, for what
beautiful light glowing coal makes,
rendering cloudless. shedding a sun
set through the room, just light
enough to talk hy, not loud as in
the highways; not rapid as in the
hurrying world; but softly, slowly
whisperingly, with pause between,
for the storm without and the
thoughts within 20 fill up With.
Then wheel the sofa around hy the
fire; no matter if the sofa be a sei-
tee, uncushioned at that, If so be il
rs just long enough for two aad a
half in it. How sweetly the music
OF fsilver bells from the time to come
falls on the hearth then. How
mournfnlly swell the chimes Of the
''days that are no more" Under
such circumstance, and at such a
time, one can get at least siXty-nine
and a half miles nearer Kingdom
come than any other point in tins
world laid down in s'Malte Brun.'
May be You smile at this picture,
but there is a secret between as,
viz: 1t is a copy rudely done, but
true as the Pentateueh, of an origi
nal in every human heart.
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From dawn 10 dark, they stood
That long 8lidsHmmer's day!
While fierce and fast the battle-blast
Swept rank on rank away!
From dawn to dark they fought
With legions swept and cleft.
And still the wide, black battle-tide
Poured deadlier on the left!
They closed each ghastly gapi
They dressed each shattered rapk -
They knew how well that Freedom fell
With that exhausted lsnk -
so! for q thousand men.
Like those who melt awayi1
And down they came, with steel and
flame,
Four thousand to the fray!
They leapt the laggard train
The paniing stream might stay
And down they came, with steel and
flame,
-Four thousand for the fray!
Right through the blacl,est cloud
Their lightning path they cleft,
Aud triumph came with desHhless fame
10 our uncOIipIered Left!
Y e, Of your sons secure!
Ye, of our dead bcrcft!
Honor the brave, who die1 to save
Your all, upon our LIFT,
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HappY Faees-H HoW 70 Keen them So.

Garry the radiance of your soul IN
your face Let the world have the
benefit Of it. Let your cheer fulness
be felt for good wherever you are,
and let your smiles be scattered like
suubeams "on the just as we'll as on
the unjust" Such a disposition
will yield You a rich reward, for its
happy effects will come home to you
and brighten your moments of
thought
Cheerfulness is a duty; it makes
the mind clear, gives tone to thought,
and adds grace and beauty to the
cOuntenance- Joubert says, when
you give, give with JOY and smiling"
Smiles are little trifies, cheap ar
ticles, to be fraughJ with so many
blessings both to the giver and re
ceiver-pleasant little ripples to
watch, as we stand on the shcre of
everyday life. They arc our high
er, better natures responses to the
emotions Of the soul
Let the children have the benefit
of them; those little ones Who need
the sunshine of the heart To educate
them. and would find a level for their
bouyant natures in the cheerful low
ing faces of those who lead them.
Let them not be kept from the
middle aged, who need the encsur-
agement they bring.
Give your smiles also to the aged.
They come to them like the quiet
rain Of summer, making fresh and
verdant the long weary path of life.
They look for them from you who
are rejoicing in Ihe fullness of life.
BE gentle and indulgent to all
Love the true, the dutiful, the just,
the holy: in short, be cheerful, and
you win have happy face as long
as you liye.--Phrenolo1 icat Journal
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everything else from last year.
But father might sell something,
COW, ii nothing else
The father entered.
''What is it, Susan?''
Il want a new dress, father.
Mary Stiles has one"
"How Will she get it," interposed
the prudent mother.
IN buy it for her.
But how viii you pay for itl''
"They'h trust me-"
The wife said no more, and Su-
san had the handsomest gown to be
found in the next village, and
Brown had a store bill for the first
time in his life. He thought moth
ing Of it, so many others had the
same. and the merchant encouraged
it. II comes a great deal easier to
say charge it than to hand over
tire bard-0arned cash. They know
this, and take advantage of il, and
so a man who would not have spent
ten dollars at the store if he had to
pay down" has a store bin of per
haps five times that amount to meet
at the end Of the year.
"Aud suppose it can't be met?'
"The merchant puts it IN the
shape of note, payable with inter
est, and starts a fresh account"
''Too bad -
$50 it is; but Susan Brown had
her fine dress, and Brown had his
store bill; and once begun it grew
too large, and how many debts are
not so? The command is wise,
Owe no man anything Most
debts ought never to have been. No
one should have an indulgence that
cannot be paid for at once. Next
year Browns store bill became a
note, with interest, but it did not
trouble him. Next another note
was given, a larger one, including
interest and an unpaid balance Of a
second store bill. Heavier interest
was asked, for money was scarce.
Brown kept falling behind for sever
al years; once sliding downward, it
is hard to recover ones self At
length saw the surveyors at work
on that part of the farm lying next
to mine. II was with them.
"'Going to SELL? 1 asked him."
aim going to give Lyude mort
gage"
"Ah! how's that
'IIe's got some Of my notes, and
wants one
Il piticd him, and with 4 good
reason. He was never the same
man again. An incubus lay upon
him, destroying his industry, his
courage, his very life. If he could
not pay a store bill, how could he
lift n mortgage? His farm must
go; no help for it. The grasping
usurer had done his work, had made
his own the handsome farm which
another man earned by the sweat
and toll Of & life, without the sweat
and toll of an hour, by cunning,
small advantages fastened to a lit
tie store debt. How indignant I
felt, how sorrowful. too, when, my
good nrighbor put his furniture in
to wagons, put his axe, plow and |
hoe, and took his way to an hum
BILE home far from us, to begin life
toll anew; youth all gone, hope al
most dead, courage almost failed, |
muscles and heart weakened. And !
all this ruin grew from q little !
thing, a schoolgirls gown. Do
you wonder 1 hate little foxes?
Look out for them, child watch for
them! don't let them spoil your /
vines, while you think you are safe |
from them. No one is safe
s We rode on in silence, and unused !
and trembled. So many little
things-life made up with them
which shall ruin? which shall bless?
God of wisdom, direct me- I
prayed.
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Payment Of Small Bills.

The payment Of small bills, such
as newspaper. subscriptions, is g
matter of more importance than is
usually attached 10 it. There are
not few who la times when busi-
ness is q litgle depressed. and the
prospects of the future seem more
than usually unsettled, win NOT
hold on - theiF cash in hand, cell
all collectors vino wait on then
with overdue bills TO .caH again.
while the payment would not give
them any seFi0gs Inconvenience and
would accommodate a large and de-
serving class or creditors. Indeed,
we know nothing that IN 8 quiet
way would gn far t. give animation
70 the markets throughout tie
country as the universal rainllmenl
of the l-ttle dehts for the discharge
of which the debtors now have on
hand, sere paid at once. the wheels
or business wot,ld be iubricated snd
jolity soon prevail throughout she
land.
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The story is told that several years
ago a young man by the name Of
George Sutton, residing in Sewer
county, became deranged, and was
so violent that his parents confined
him in seperate building, con
structed with a view to his occupy
ing it, they not wishing to send him
to the asylum at Nashville. A few
days ago he became perfectly ration
nj and asked to be released, stating
that he had but ten days to live and
wished to prepare for death. His
request was complied with and he
resumed his place in the family cir
Gle, clothed in his right mind. He
read the Bible almost constantly,
and, strange to- say, died on the
tenth day afterwards, thus realizing
his ioreboding.
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.sCnssine,,

A lady correspondent desires us
to state why men "cuss" 50 (she
means profane swearing,) as we
have seen fit to state why women
'scold" so.
That question puzzles rs more
than why women "scold," because
it is not only q violation of "good
manners but OF Divine law. No
well bred man uses profaHe language,
but is always content to express his
thoughts (if he has any) in the most
chastc and elegant diction at his
command, knowing that oaths never
carry emphasis, as blackguards think,
but C6cRse. The habit is mostly
confined to those whose associations
have been with the vicious and
dissipate and the habit thereby
acquired becomes second nature"
and through life they keep mp the
practice. Then, again, we do not
doubt but many men are tormcnted
and thereby driven to "cuss" by
having "scolds'' for wives.
So our fair Sinquisitive MOI tails"
will observe that we have not prov
en- the apologist or justified the hab
it Of either swearing or scoldinP.
Both evils are ineXcusable.-Kar-
rietia (Ga., Journal
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The Will of a Drunkard.

I die wretched sinner and ]
leave the world a worthless reputa-
ti0n, wicked example; q memory
that is only fit to perish.
/ leave my parents sorrow and
bitterness of soul all their lives.
/ leave to my brothers and sis
ters shame and grief, and a reproacb
of their acquaintance.
l leave to my wife a widowed
and broken heart, and life OF
lonely struggling with want and
Suffering.
/ leave to my children a tainted
name, ruined position, a pitifuI
ignorance and mortifying rccollec-
tion Of a father, WHO, by his life,
disgraced humanity, and at his pre-
mature death i.Ined the great cunl-
pany of these who are never to en-
ter the Kingdom OF God.
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WHAT LITTLE FOXES. DID.

I was on a visit to my grand
father, ore of the pioneer farmers of
Central New York, and ne had
started cut for ride The first
house VIC passed was in so many re-
Spccts like my grandfather that it
drew my attention.
''Your good neighbor seems to
have had some ideas like yours,
grandfather" / said.
The man that built this house
/ had -. No neighbOr of mine now,
poor man." and my grandfather
drew a long breath:
Then after a pause his voice
changed.
These foxes! these little foxes,
I [ hate them! Nobody fears them,
nobody minds them, yet they ruin
everything. The beasts of prey are
not half so dangerous. The little
foxes" he repeated with emphasis,
and his tone was bitter.
"Wliat little foxes, -grqndfather?t
ANY little foxes, all little foxes:
little sins. little Weaknesses, little
SANDERS, little debts; 1 hate them
all. They 10 so much mischief,
they are so treacherous and ruin
oWsw
"When they are 50 Iittle53
ssIes, and because they are so
little"
My grandfather paused. / waited
in silence, and lie went on.
u never ride by that house with
ont pain and indignation. You sec
what n f1e place it is; good
house; n hundred and fifty acres of
good land; and yet it went for a
silk gown. That was the little
fox. -
a silk gown"
eyes, it went for a silk gown.
And there went with it what was
worth more than all Of it-a whole
family's hope and happiness"
"What is the story, grandfather
"Pll tell you. When l first came
to this part of the country, young
couple by the name of Brown were
settled here in log house. They
were hard working, seltdenying
people, and everything prosPercd !
With them for many Years. They /
paid for their farm aud Kept adding /
to it, till, as I told you, they had a |
and fifty acres. Then,
when had built me new house, |
Brown had TO bpild him /
one, somewhat like minc, as YOU /
see, for he did not want TO be be-
Lind. / sent my oldest children to
an academy in the next town, whore 1
they could have better OppOrtuni-
ties for learning than there. After /
a time neighbor Brown thought 1t
would be a good thing to educate
his children. and sent his 04dcst
faurhser to the same academy. 1t
vas a new expense to him, but be \
net it cheerlnllv, and FOR time all
vent we'll. The young woman
made him stare with her philosophy,
md the fond father was more than
.epaid for all his sacrifice on her
account. But as she increased IN
knowledge, so did she IN love OF 1
lress; aud nothing would do for !
,er but an expensive silk gown.
Ter mother put her off
s,We can't afford it, Susan.
"Whv not, mother? ~
t.I5ecause We have no money 70
,ay for it."
aBut father can pay for 1t IN
l,ings from of the farm.
Nothing can be spared now
last wears grain is all sold; SO Ist
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''Lct us have peace" said Gen.
Grant when he accepted the Chicago
nomination for President. The lot
Of the SoIthern people has been no
common one; their snfferings NO
common su1crings, nor Is what they
nave lost to be measured by any
common standard. Amid it all they
have been brave, stout-hearted,
courageous; but sullen, nor despair
ing, though greatly tempted to des-
pair; but hooking forward, through
present darkness and over present
ealamities, to the dawn Of q better
day: still Grant does not give this
people the peace he pretended to
ffvf,r
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Dolly Warden, the fortunate young
lady after whom the fashionable
dress for next sulnmer is named,
was the charming daughter Of a
London losksmith, Gabriel Var6 en-
and live In The re. On of George
the Third. She afterwards became
Mrs. Joe. Wiilctt. The New York
Mail, which answers a correspondent
on the subject, says: "For further
information we would refer our in
quirer to a certain book of reference
called "Barnaby Rudge," written by
one Charles Dickens, an author Of
some local reputation. Whether
the lady in question was given TO
wearing materials of a startling loud
character in color and pattern this
depOnent has no knowledge nor in
formation sufficient to form a belief.
About year ago, some inspired
naOdiSte rechristened what were then
known as 'cretonnes," and called
them dolly Vardens." The name
was at first confined to chintZes, but
it spread to other materials. At
late dry goods exposition Dolly
Warden silks were exhibited, and
now whole costumes, whose like
was never seen on sea or shore, are
named after the charming and Co
quettish little daughter of a Londen
lOcksmith.'
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There are different ways Of tax
ing a joke. But evidently the right
and philosophical method is to re.
ceiye it with becoming good grace
and good humor. Whenever we do
this we place before us a shield from
which the pointed witticism glances,
and falls harnlessly to the ground.
The pungency of JOKE exists in a
great measure IN the modification
and bad grace which chsracterizes
the victim Of iocose aHusions And
the perpetrators of jokes lose half of
the enjoyment of the occasion when
in a spirit of simple good nature we
receive the harmless shafts. The
worst possible deed that lady or
gentleman conld commit in this
connection is to show temper. A
nod to the wise is sufficient.
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Ten Cents reward is offered for
that garrulous old gossiper known
and distinguished, in every commu-
nifty throughOut this broad land, as
"They Say His adherents are
more numerous than leaves were in
Valambrosia, and his rumors fly
thicker aud fasteU than winged ants
on an Indian-summer day II be
is not omnipresent, he certainly has
the power OF being present in many
places ut the same time. It he is
not inspired with the prophetic ken
Of an Isaiah or Jeremiah, he GER
tainly fOrcSces many events which
come to pass. fhe is not omnis-
cient he certainly knows a great
deal more than most Of folks. He
sees all thugs that transpire, and
many which never do. He pre-
sumes to know everybody and TO be
acquainted with eyerybody's busi-
ness. His sayings are repeated at
all places of pEblic gatherings, in
confidential interviews, around the
social hearthstone, and in private
circles. Heis by far a more popu
lar author and oftener quoted than
Byron, Shakespeare, or any other
writer whose sayings are recorded
in history. lie was never known
to be concerned, bat always man
ages to elude the grasp of his pur
suers. he is evidently a very cN-
troardinary genius, and we want to
SEE. q character so intimately known
in every community and yet never
seen BY mortal eye, and whose foot
prints arc often seen but whose
carcass has never been Overtaken.
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Married.

On the 2Sth of March, at Court
land, Ala, Capt. T. j. Moore, the
accomplished and accommodating
Conductor on the n. & D. r, r. was
united in holy matrimony to Miss
Lucy LIGHTFooT. Light hearted
and lightfooted, the Capt. will now
have pleasant run on tile trip of
life.
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For the citizen.
The Genfleman.


No man is a gentleman who,
without provocation, would treat
with incivility the humble Of his
species. 1t is a vuigarity for
which no accomplishments of
dress or address can atone. Show
me the man who desires TO make
every one happy around him, and
whose greatest solicitudo is never
to give just cause Of oiiense to any
one, and 1 VIII show you a gentle
man by nature and by practice,
though he may never have worn .
suit of broadcloth, nor even heard
af lexicon. 1 am proud to say
for the honor of our species, there
arc men in every thrpb OF whose
heart there is a sOiicitude for the
welfare OF mankind, and whose
every breath is pcrfumed with
Kindness. A. +.