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A Short Snrmhn.

Here is a bit Of philosophy worth
reading. It is an exposure Of
very common deluHon. Il isa good
rendering of an old idea.
"Two things ought to be strongly
impressed upon the young peo-
pie Of our country. The Insecurity
of richos, even when acquired, and
their unsatisfactory character
There is no folly SO universally
cherished as the notion that wealth
is surely a means Of happiness
The care of large property Is one
Of the most burden-some OF earth's
trusts. The only material good that
comes from any estate is to be made
out of q moderate income far more
easily than q large one, and With
fewer attendant Disadvantages
Few thoughtful men would undergo
the entire stewardship of e large es-
tate on q positive bargain that they
should receive no more for taking
into the lap Of the owner, The
scramble after wealth il due TO a
wrong estimate of good when it is
gained.n
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Worth Thinking Ahnnt.

A-story has traversed the rounds
of newspaper notoriety, lately,
which is worth repeating: "When I
began life" said one of our self
made men, 81 dined on crackers
and milk; now I have game, pOul-
try, or whatever I choose, on my ta-
Bile; so my son is commencing as !
end, and enjoys the roast chicken
first. / hope the crackers aren't
waiting for hIm along the road, for
he can't manage them as well as 1
did," A great depth of meaning
lies in this simple anecdote. Ere
quently wealth has tendency to
enervate its -possessors; particular
" if they be young, and enjoy it
by inheritance. In this land, of
which labor is the cornerstone, too
many young men regard wealth as
merely the representative of shade
in warm weather and shelter in
storm, together with immunity from
toll at all times, instead of the con
densed sweat and expanded muscle
of other men, which it really is.
So far from being the models OF
strength, beanty and activity which
their abundant leisure and the
means Of improvement within theiI
reach should make them, they falI
| behind artisans and laborers II
physical and mental Development
The father, absorbed in heaping NJ
riches, scarcely ever has time tC
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-03
All Ahnnt Eyes.

What variety of eyes there are
in the worldl There are loving
eyes, admiring eyes, longing eyes,
inquisitive eyes, jealous eyes, envi-
GUS eyes, malicious eyes, smiling
eyes, shining eyes, fearful eyes, med
dlesome eyes, penetrating eyes,
eyes that look and yet see nothing;
besides many other kinds of eyes
which, in their own peculiar way,
are peering into the worlds myste-
ries.
A good way to make loving eyes
is to be true, devoted and thought
full of home comforts.
To attract aomiring eyes, be
cheerful, tidy and Industrious.
To cure longing eyes call in and
give some supper to the poor, half
starved little creature who is gazing
in at your bountifully supplied Ia
ble.
To satisfy inquisitive eyes, let
them see the very thing they had
rather not.
To avoid jealous eyes, be neither
distrustful nor do thst to another
which you would not have done to
you.
To avoid envious eyes, be sauint.
eyed, pock-marked, hump-baeked
squatty, disagreeable, and no sort
of use to anybody.
To keep clear Of malicious eyes
die at once and go 10 heaven.
To capse smiling eyes speak
kindly aad be light hearted and
merry, remembering life is TO enjoy
Have fearful eyes whenever the
heart is full It is a good way t.
work of troubles and tighten the
spirit.
To avoid meddlesome eyes, staJ
at home, lock all doors and draw
the curtains. Then If they looI
through the kcyhoIe, throw hot wa
ter on them, il you are sensitive
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What A Boy Knows About Girls.

Girls are the most unaccountablest
things in the world-eXcept woman.
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they amt there. 1 can cipher
clean over to improper fractions, and
the teacher says I do it fiIst-rate;
but can't cipher out a girl, proper
or improper, and you can't either
The only rule in arithmetic that hits
their case is the double rule of two.
They are as full of old Nick as their
skin can hold, and they would die
if they couldn't torment somebody.
When they try to be mean they are
as mean as pusley, though they
amt as mean as they let on, except
sometimes, and then they are a good
deal meaner. The only way tn get
along with a girl when she comes at
you with her nonsence, is to give it
to her tit for tat, and that will fun
mux her, and when you get girl
fummuxed she is as nice as a new
pin. A girl can SOW more wild oats
in a day than a boy can SOW in q
year, but girls get their wild oats
sowed after a while, which boys
never do, and then they settle down
as calm and placid as a mudpuddle.
But 1 like girls first rate, and I
guess the boys all do. 1 don't care
how many tricks they play on me
and they don't care either The
hoitytoityist girls in the world can't
always boil over like a glass of soda.
By-and-by they will get into the
traces with somebody they like, and
pull as steady as any old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them.
So let them wave, say; they will
pay for it some day, sewing on but
tons and trying to make decent
man of the fellow they have spliced
on to, and ten chances to one If they
don't get the worst of it.
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Imnarfance Of Reading.

No matter how obscure the posi-
tlon in life of an individual, if nc
can read, be may at viii put him
self in the best society the world
has ever seen. He may converse
with Franklin and Washington
with all the writer's in prose and
poetry. lie may learn how to live;
how to avoid the errors of his pre-
decessors, and to secure blessings,
present and fature, TO himself. lie
may reside in a desert far away
from the habitations Of man; in
solitude, where no human eye looks
upon him with affection or interees;
where no human voice cheers him
with animating tones, if he has
books TO read he can never be
alone. He may choose his compa-
ny and the subject OF conversation,
and thus become eontented and
happy, intelligent, wise and good.
lie thus eleyates his rark in the
world, and becomes independent in
the best sense OF the word.
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they are ,lisinterestediy laboung for
the good of the child. They forget
the large element of a sense of per-
sonaI injury that enters into their
feeling. But the child does not
fail to notice it, and he in turn re-
sents his own wrongs in the same
spirit; but he certainly does not
feel more respect toward the parent
who has failed to exercise a needful
.selfcontroL 1t were better that a
parent should show less feeling in
regard to an offense against him.
self than it really deserves. His
government should he above the
suspicion Of personal resentmeRts.
On a steam engine there is. a use
full little device called "the COVER
nor" which counteracts TO a certain
extent tho irregularities of pressure
and resistance, by letting on more
steam rs the speed decreases and
shutting it OF, when it increases.
1t would be an excellent thing if
parental management could have
some such equalizer, which would
prevent its making children thevic-
tins of moods, When, a child
comes to understand that hot wealth
er, Indigestion or business annoy
ances increase the severity of the
discipline under which he lives, he
is apt to lose his respect for the
discipline. The,wise parent studies
always to- eliminate the personal
equation from his management of
the child. ..-.
For those parents who think that
it is their business to punish a
child's wrong,doing as a personal
offense against themselves, we have
no word. The first thing is to un-
derstand that you are not to innict
chastisement "af.er your own pleas
ure," but according to the example
of God, for the good of the child
Hearth and Home.
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The Power Of the Mind.

The success of almost every en-
terprise depends upon the degree to
which those engaged IN it tax their
power of mind. Works without
faith are almost as futile as "faith
without works" Many things
deemed impossible by the rest OF
the world, have been effected by
those who have brought the full force
Of their mind to bear upon what they
set themselves toaeeomplish.z What
ever may be said Of the difeIe ence in
talent of individuals, if we look at
the successful, and inquire iato the
cause Of their success, we shall find
genius outstripped by moderate tai
ents, when the latter brings its full
powers of mind to the work
Whether in the school-room or in
the everyday business Of life, in the
humble walks of bodily toll or the
professional ayocations, where the
mind is most depended on, in in
vention or execution, in theory, OF
in practice, the question on which
saccecc depends is not, who has the
strongest powers of mind; but, who
brings that power into use:
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HUMOROUS.
Dat Lam and De Mule.

The negroes are beng educated
their Grant leaders up to a compre-
hension of the politics of the coun-
try, as the following from a verbatim
report of a speech delivered by
colored citizen a Laconia, Arkansas,
as published in the st. Louis Repub-
lican will demonstrate:
Grant is gis bout as good as
'lected all ready. All the culled
men viii vote for Grant, de las one
oh dem. I would like to see the
culled gemman dat would vote for
old Greeley, dat old rebel Democrat
dat wants to put US all back in slave
ry. You must vote for Grant, he is
our fren and Iubs us as he lubs his
SELF We all are apple of his eye;
when Grant made the fifteen com
mandment to do cOnsiskusion, he
said we all should hab forty acres
OBJ Ian and a mule. Now tells you,
if we will 'lect him we will get dat
Ian and de mule.
'Dis Libbel Impublican party am
a nest OBJ rebels. Dis is de coon dat
is eaten up your corn. Old Greeley
wants to make a hamnesty, and
make rebels as good as black men
I tell you der is no white man as
good as a black man, 'ceptin it's
Grant and his kin folks. You hear
de white man talkin bout de 'lectral
vote, What oh de 'lectral vote? !
don't care if old greeley gets all de
'lectral votes, and I spect he viii
get mos all OBJ them. De white man
votes de 'lectral vote and all de black
men will vote for Grant, and dar is
bout forty seven fousen million more
culled votes dan dere is white voters
in the 'Nited States. DarfOr, you
see, Grant will be 'lected anyhow
find 1 has said all l has got to say"
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Pretty Fellows.

The Democrats used to abuse
Horace Greeley-now they commend
and say pleasant things of him.
The Radicals less than year ago
swore by him, pinned their faith
implicitly to his sleeves, and swung
lovingly to his coat-tails. When he
took snuff the rank and file of the
party sneezed; if he was threatened
with bellyache the leaders sympa-
thized to the extent of grabbing
their hats and Immediately seeking
some quiet and sequestered spot
As far as we can see, he is the same
Horace Greeley in all essential re-
spects that he has always BEEN
clear, candid, fearlessly out-spoken,
manly, able and honest. Formerly
the Radicals worshipped him as
something only a little lower than
Deity-now they abuse and black
guard him worse than thief and a
cut-purse, and swear that he is with
out capacity enough to fill the office
of hog-reeve in a New England vii
lage. 1t may appear little queer
and odd, the Democracy supporting
their ancient and persistent political
opponent. But surely their incon-
sistency is nothing in comparison
with the monstrous hypocrisy and
shamelessness of those who formerly
worshiped, but now malign, slander
and abuse him. The meanness of
the latter is without parallel in the
history of party contests.-Athens
Post
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Married Life.

Good counsel from a wife and
mother:
q try to make myself and all
around me agreeable. It will not
do to leave a man to himself till he
comes to you, to take no pains to
attrack him, or to appear before him
with a long face. It is not as diff
cult as you think, my child, to be-
have to a husband so that he shall
remain forever in some degree a
husband. I am an old woman, but
you can do as you please. A word
from you at the right time will not
fail of its effect; and what need Of
you to play the suffering virtue?-
''The tear of allowing girl says an
old book, sis like a dew drop on a
rose; but that on the cheek of a wife
is a drop Of poison to her husband ?
Try to appear cheerful and conten-
ted and your husband will be so,
not only in appearance but in real-
ty. Nothing fatters a man SO much
as the happiness of his wife; he is
proud Of himself as causing it. As
soon as you are cheerful he will be
lively and alert; every moment will
afford you an opportunity to let fall
an agreeable word. Your education,
which gives you an immence advan-
tage, will assist you"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-03

The Texas papers chronicle the
death of Miss Kate Ross Wharton, q
rarely gifted child of that State.
This Young lady, who died in the
18th year Of her age, was a poetess,
musician, beautiful in person, gen
tie in manner, lovely in character,
with every attraction and accom-
plishment that wealth and position
could confer. The San Antonio
Herald sas she wasthe grand-daugh-
ter of Gov. johnson, Of South Caro-
lima. also of VIM. II. Wharton, one
of tie patriots and founders OF the
Texas Republic; and more than all
sheswas the only daughter Of that
illustrious chieftain, Gen. John a.
Wharton, 4 peer among peers.
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A priest recently, who was exam
fningsa class in the south@of Ire
land, asked the question, 'What is
the sacrament of matrimonyY" A
little girl at the head of the class
answered: :. 'Tis a state Of torment
which sowls enter to prepare them
for another and better world" ="
Being" said the priest "the an
swer for purgatory." "Put her
down. said the curate; "put her
down to the foot of the class" "
Leave her alone" said the priest;
"for anything you or I ought to
know to the contrary, she may be
perfectly right"
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NUMBER 80.

LandOu C. Haynes His Birthplace
Described by Himself at a Fes-
tival.
When Mr.. Haynes was in Jackson,
Mississippi, last winter to argue a
cause in the Supreme Court of Mis-
sissippi, at a social party of distin.
guished members OF the bar, the
bench and Legislature, Gen. n. B,
Forrest rose and said:
~Gentlemen-I propose the health
of the eloquent gentleman from East
Tennessee, a country sometimes
called the "God-forsaken.'
Mr.. Haynes responded:
"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen-I
plead guilty to the soft impeaeh-
ment.' I was born in East Tennes-
see, ,.on the banks of the Wautaga,
which in the Indian vernacular
means beautiful river and beauti-
full river it is. 1 have stood npon
its banks in my childhood. and look
ed down through its CLASSY waters,
and have seen q heaven below, and
then looked up and beheld a heaven
above, rejecting like two mirrors,
each in the other, It's moons. and
planets, and trembling stars. AVA
from its banks of rock and cliff,
hemlock and laurel, and pine and
cedar, stretches vale back to the
distant mountains as beautiful and
exquisite as any in Italy or SWitzer-
land. There stands the Great Uni
corn, the Great Roam, the Great
Black and the Great Smoky Noun
tains, among the loftiest in the Uni
ted States of North America, on
whose SUBMITS the clouds gather of
their own accord, even on the bright
est day. There I have seen the great
spirit of the storm, after noontide,
go and take his evening nap in his
pavilion of darkness and of clouds.
have then seen him aroused at mid
night, as a giant refreshed by slum-
Der, and cover the heavens with
gloom and darkness; have seen him
awake the tempest, let loose the red
lightnings that run along the noun
tain tops for a thousand miles, swift
er than an eagles flight in heaven.
Then I have seen them stand up and
dance like angles Of light in the
clouds, to the music of the grand
organ of nature, whose keys seemed
to have been touehed by the fingers
of Divinity in the hall of eternity.
that responded in notes Of thunder
through the universe. Then have
seen the darkness drift away be
yOnd the horizon, and the moon get
up from her saffron bed like q queen,
put'on her robes of light, come forth
from her palace in the sun, and stand
tip toe on the misty mountain top,
and while night fed from before her
glorious face TO his bed-chamber at
the pole. She lighted the green
vale and beautiful river, where I was
born and played in childhood, with
a smile of sunshine.
"Oh! beautiful land of the noun
tains, with thy sun-painted cliff,
how can I ever forget theer"
General Forrest stood stupefed
whiie Colonel Haynes pronounced
these marvellous sentences, and said
he would not have been more
amazed if he had been struck by the
lightning's fash from the summit OF
Smoky Mountains. It was festive
speech for a festive occasion.
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Is She, or Is She Not2


Music is a heavenly maid, SO we
are told. But to my thinking, that
depends on circumstances. For in
stance, suppose Music" in the
shape of a brass band, is located
right up against your state room
door in a steamboat, where you had
visions Of dodging Point Judith by
a recumbat posture and a nap?
Music is anything but heavenly
maid about that time.
Orif you are writing, and a wheezy
organ stops before your window
beloved by your neighbor who has
children to be amused, but detested
by your discord-hating ear to the
point of insanity-how about "Mu
sic, the heavenly maid, then?
Or if you are in a street-car, with
a carpet of wet, nasty straw be-
meath your feet, and stack of wet
umbrellas and dripping garments
and mouldy market baskets about
you on all sides, and"Music, heaven
ly maid," appears in the shape of a
starved Italian urchin and dilaplda-
ted accordion, what then2
Or suppose she appears to you in
the shape of a young Miss, the tai
ented daughter of an old friend, who,
having run up and down the scales
two or three times, considers her
self equal to the Battle Of Prague, "
and the "Anvil Chorus"2 tell you
there is nothing but Revolution,
truer than q copy in my old writing
book, that circumstances alter ca
ses." FANNY FERN.
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otherwise, go ahead with your own
affairs in your own way, and let
them meddle.
Penetrating eyes must look up
and try to forget all the secrets dis
covered of the shortcomings Of 9th
ers, only remembering the beautiful
Things which the blind cannot see.
For eyes that look aud see moth
ing there is no cure, excepting an
awakening of soul or intellectual en-
ergies. win it not be in heaven,
when all eyes see clearly and from
kindly motives?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-03

Labor is mans great function.
The earth and the atmosphere are
lis laboratory. With spade and
plow, with mining shafts, and fur
naces, and forges; with fire and
steam, amidst thenoise and whirl of
swift and bright machinery, and
in the silent fields, beneath the roof
ing sky, man was made 10 be work
ing, ever exI erimenting. He is
nothing. he can be nothing, he can
achieve nothing, fulfill nothing,
without working.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-03

Martha Lyons a colored female
emulator of Methuselah, died at La
Grange, Ga, the other day, aged
1O7. She was captured in Africa
and sold by a Boston skipper to a
slave trader of that city, who sent
her with others to Virginia. She
was one of the few remaining relics
of the slave trade in this country.
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The StereOtyped Smile.


Beware of men or women with a
fixed smile. Trust the most hide
Gus scowler before the being who
goes about with an angelic grin
carefully exhibited to all eyes under
any and every circumstances. 1t is
not natural to smile perpetually, and
no one ever assumes a mask with
out being conscious of a necessity
for concealment. Don't misunder-
stand me. There are young women
and few old men, who break into a
smile whenever they speak. These
are not the people mean. The
smile of which ! warn you is a mo-
tionless, hypocritical, fixed express
sion, which I have seen worn during
a silent three hours journey by rail,
without the slightest alter alton
that sort of smile which most mis-
guided lady artists present upon
their canvass when they delineate
martyrs, saints and angels. The
portrait of a lady has a different
smile-the fashion plate simper-
which, though semi idiotic, is not
dangerous. Persons OF no penetFa-
tiOn allude to the chronic smile as
$50 sweet" and any one capable of
holding the muscles Of the face un-
der control, is generally able to
squeal sweetly, to move quietly, and
to use chronic language, measured
tones, in moments of the greatest
excitement, and SO can always place
a better man or woman at a great
disadvantage, and appear injured
and innocent when actually most
guilty.
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A medical fault finder at the
North has opened a furious TRADE
against the harmless game of GRO
quet, and cautions ladies against
playing it. He says it results in
permanent injury, incurring "a dis
proportionately developed right arm,
a curved spine, and an ill-arranged
left leg" Now, how comes he to
know all this?
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look after his children, and the
principal study of mothers and
nurses is to keep them clean and
quiet. Still such fathers marvel
that at one-and- twenty their sons
are not the earnest men that their
memories assure them that they
themselves were, when, with Iands
hardened to the oar by years Of
rowing against the tide of adversi-
ty, they rounded the stake boat of
majority with a cheer. Teachers
may strive to counteract the tenden-
cies of mistaken indulgence at
home, but the tasks set will be
considered toe hard for the pam
pered darlings, and they will be re
moved to a place where their money
will be accepted as an equivalent
for their blunders. Thus it comes
to pass that the boy who begins his
mercantile career by Strengthening
crooked nails in the packing-rOom,
often rises to the head = of the
concern, while the son Of his
old employer may possibly figure as
junior partner, although it more
frequently happens that the old
name disappears from Change al
together. Is this a right state of
affairs? Assuredly not. With
wealth comes superior educational
advantages, which ought to bring
with them superior energy, superior
thought, superior mental powers;
the rich mans son should be no
sluggard, but form one of the crop
of young men destined to become
the rich harvest of an appreciative
nation.
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A Dolly Warden pie: Take about
four yards oflight dough, gather it
up in tuelzs and flounces, crimp the
edges and fill up with fruit, then
lay on the oyersKfrt, fasten it with
buttons Of dough, connected with
frills of the same, and you hays a
tasteful and elegant pie, only you
must eat it, not wear it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-03

A gentleman connected with a
Boston bank as a clerk recently rob
bed the bank. They called him a
"fellow" and other disreputable
names at first and some intimated
that he was a thief-for they thought
he had stolen onlya few dollars; but
it turns ont that he took $4,000,
and is not a thief at all, but de
faulter. He has been bailed out for
the good Of society.
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Every Southern man, not a sol
der, who votes for johnson en-
dorses his arbitrary violation Of the
Constitution and the laws, during
his whole career as military Gov
ernor, and sanctions the supremacy
of military ever civil law Uarks-
vilZs Chronicle.