The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07


find excitement enough in talking over
the events of the day without having to
resort to their usual pastime About
II o'clock the moon rose, and the bod
les were taken out for burial. There
were no funeral ceremonies, but job
Harding remarked as the muf1ed forms
were lowered into the grave, "There
go two as brave men as ever lived -
They were buried deep to keep the
wolves and coyotes from digging them
up, and the earth was heaped up in q
little mound to mark where they slept.
X The London Press.
| Gwatterson's letter to the Courier-Journal.I
The rotund deficiency of the Times
in a constant affront to good manners,
common sense and ordinary intelligence.
1t is printed on faultIess paper in large,
clear type, and to this extent it is worthy
of imitation. 1t has another virtue,
also, which is still higher and rarer, if
does not belong to the advertiser, and
is, ON the whole, to be trusted in small
matters. Nor is there any occasion to
quarrel with its decency. Its cleanli-
ness is undeniable. But when it sets
up for the fsrt journal in the world, and,
by the grace of this pretense, divides its
supercilious twaddle into two parts,
that which is tediously Oracular and
that which is helplessly silent, one is
supposed to look for some solid internal
evidence Y of power. Thus moved to
seek he will fail to find. To-day's
Times Is, like yesterdays Times, a mass
of inadequate gabbIe about European
politics, repetition of last weeks edi-
torial fatulencies, few scraps of desul-
tory and unimportant information, a
line or two from America concerning
the cotton crop and the Modocs, and a
vast and valuable array of crisp and
sparkling advertising matter. You viii
not catch CLEAN of sunshine or ray
of humor in the Times during a twevle-
month. It is habitually belated with
its news. Written IN feeble and finished
English it is, but that is ALL With
faultless Typography, its " "make-up" is
a bundle of bad taste and chance work
with prodigious resources it has neither
variety nor enterprise. Why is it q
power in the land p Because it is repre-
sentative of that slow-moving, ox-eyed,
upper and middle class bourbonism
which has for years obstinately stuck
it's head behind the rotting wooden
walls of England, refusing to budRe out
of sheer perversity, and hating progress
because it sees and knows that there is
good in it. The Times, however, is
losing, slowly but surely, its influence
with its circulation. It is already ex-
ceeded in the latter by the Telegraph,
4 and will presently be equaled by the
News. That it feels this and chafes un-
der it, is shown by the pending contro-
versy it has with the Telegraph, in the
course of which, having the Telegraph
at a disadvantage, it has giggled and
sniggered rather like a JiLJe de chdn1brc
than either fat butler or a Jupiter
Tonans. Its competitors, the Tele
graph and News, are brighter. But
they are miserably behind the American
journals IN everything except theil
moderation and culture, and a certain
good faith IN the matter of advertising
which they found profitable, and which
every newspaper that adopts it will fine
equally so. The Telegraphis certainly
better written than the New York Her
aid, but it is neither so brilliant nor sc
enterp1ising as the New York Tribune
I do not hesitate to say that the Chicago
Tribune and the Cincinnati Commercial
are inferior to the London News only il
typography, or rather in the quality o.
the paper on which they are printed
The London press is obliged to move
within acircle of English hcommonplaees
These are little less than preiudice'
which have hedged society round witl
narrow strip of red tape, the over
leapiDg of which is social death. Their,
is no verve, and very little vigor anC
if there should be it would go foi
naught or prove ruinoTls. Punch, whicl
is still read ia England, is but a du1
ass, and if the Americans had no
demonstrated Martin Farqubar Tuppe,
to be the same sort OF an animal, h.
would be accepted at this moment il
London as a miracle of wisdom anC
philosophy. Even the Pail Mall Gazette
which started out with the purpose o
being bright and readable, is good fol
an after-dinner nap three days in tn,
week.
HINT FOR A DnSNER TABLE SPEECH
If most people talked as we'll in pubht
as in private, public meetings would b,
more interesting. To acquire a CONVEX
/ sational tone, there is something in Ed
ward Hale's theory, that every persoI
who is called on to speak, let us say a
a public dinner, instead of standing NJ
and talking about his surprise at being
, called on, should d simply make his las
/ remark 60 his neighbor at the table th
3 starting point for what he says &
r the whole table. He VIII thus max
] sure OF perfectly natural key to begil
with and can 60 on from this quiet
r g AS was just saying to Mr.. Smith,
TO discuss the gravest question of churc
, or state It breaks the ice for you, lilz
the remark upon the weather wit.
I which we begin our interview with tn
person whom we have longed two year
? to meet Beginning in this way at Ga
flevel 6f the earth's snrfaee. We can joi
hands and rise to the clouds. Begin /
3 the. clouds, as some Of ny most e
tee1aed friends are won't to do, and 70
!, have TO sit down before reaching th
earth.-T. ". Hlqgsnson.
2 Way are you forever humming tha
air Foote asked man without sens
> Of tune IN him. Because II haunts me
p No wonder, said Foote you are foreve
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