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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-17
AGRICULTURAL.
The Wash-House.

For the benefit of our country friends
building farm-houses, IN which comfort
and convenience are desirable to the
help, as well as general cleanliness
TO the household, we give these observa-
hons, of the late Mr.. Loudon, in his En-
encyclopaedia of Architecture:
The wash-house should be we'll
lighted and therefore, if united with
other Offices, itshould, if practicable. be
made a corner building, and have win
dows on two sides.
Instead of portable round tubs
which, as noticed in the preceding
book, are the most announcement of ali
the forms that could DO devised for
washing by hand, oblong trougbs.
about three feet in length. eighteen
inches wide at the top, one foot wide at
bottom and eighteen inches deem.
should be fixed round the two LIGHTED
sides OF the room. Each trough should
have hole and stopper in the bottom
and close under these holes should he
gutter, common to all the trouehs.
which may convey away the waste wa
Ter to the manure tank. In one corner
or side of the room the boiler should be
placed and over it a supply pipe from
cold water cistern. Pipes NAV be
conducted from both the cold water
cistern and the boiler, so as to deliver.
on turning cocks, cold or hot water. at
pleasure, into the trough.
The floor of every bath-house ouebt
to be very carefully paved, with an in
clination of an inch in a yard towards
one corner, in which there ought to be
a trap-drain leading to the manure tank.
The inclination, which will hardly be
perceptible to the eye, or recognized in
standing or walking, will vet be most
useful, by directing all the water
winch must occasionally be split on the
toor, to the point where it will be car
rled Off Close under the ceiling there
ought to be several openings communi-
eating with the outisde air, TO carry off
the steam, and in the bottom of the
door there ought to be corresponding
openings to admit fresh air; both omen
lngs ought TO have shutters sliding in
horizontal grooves with hooks in them
80 as to admit of their being easily
drawn back or pushed forward"
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The Home Gin.
[From the panbury Newal

You can always tell a boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of it look as if they had been
chewed off by an absent-minded horse,
but you tell it by the way he steps on
the street, and wriggles his shoulders.
boys hair, she is careful to guard
against any annoyance and muss by lay
ing sheet on the carpet. 1t has never
yet occurred to her to sit him over a
bare floor, and put the sheet around his
neck. Then she draws the front hair
over his eyes and leaves it there while
she cuts that which is at the back. The
hair which lies over his eyes appears to
be surcharged with electric needles,
and that which is silently dropping
down nnder his shirt-band appears to
be on fire. She has ANONYMOUSLY con
tinued topush his head forward until
his nose presses his breast, and is too
busily engaged to notice the suflng
sound that is becoming alarmingly fire.
quent. In the meantime he is sliced
with an irresistible desire to blow his
nose, but recollects that his handker-
chief is in the other room. Then a fly
lights on his nose, and does it so unex-
pectedly that he fundamentally lodges,
and catches the point of the shears in
his left ear. At this he commences to
cry and wishes he was man. But his
mother doesn't notice him. She merely
hits him on the other ear, to inspire
him with confidence, and goes on with
the work. When she is through, she
holds his jacket collar back from his
neck, and with her mouth blows the
short bits of hair from the top of his
head down his back He calls her at
tention to this fact, but she looks for a
new place on his head and hits him
there, and asks him why he didn't use
his handkerchief. Then he takes his
awfully disfgured head to the mirror
and looks at it. and, young as he is,
shUdders as he thinks of what the bows
on the street will say.
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DESTROYING Potato Beotles.

A Wisconsin correspondent of the
American Rural Home, referring To the
use OF Paris green to destroy potato
beetles, says:
Here, we have been obliged to endure
the infliction of his annual appearance
and depredations upon our potato vines
Tor the last seven years, and after
throwing away thousands of dollars
worth OF flour mixed with Paris green.
1t was discovered that the green mixed
with water was great deal eheaner
and more effectual in the work of killing
them, inasmuoh as it can be applied Al
any time of the day. 1t is much oo,,o
durable and constant DESTROYER 49,
when applied with flour, as after tbe
dew is off it becomes dry and then nv .
little shaking of the vines by the wind
the composition disappears mostly and
after that the plants are not materially
harmed by the bugs.
My method is, TO iii a common s;zo5
water pail with water, and mix n table
spoon even full of the green, bv stirring
WELL which will give the water deem
green color.
l then take part of an old broom or
n new one will do, and with that 7
sprinkle the vines. One pail suf,ioes
for about two rows about twelve rods in
length. One application will suffice
for the present and future generation
I seldom have to make more than two
applications during the season will
further state that it is safer to get the
green of some reliable druggist. as Won
are more likely TO obtain an unadultera-
ted article.
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Paper Made from Granes-


During the past ten or fifteen years
much attention has been given to the
plants of various countries by paper
makers. Almost any plant will yield
paper material but In all there is some
elements which it is more or less costly
to remove before paper can be proftably
made. We have in our own country
many plants which do tolerably we'll.
The common rag-weed, Anbrosia arti-
mesi@folia, has been rather extensively
used the past year or two, and promises
to hold its own pretty well. But the
plant which has become the most popu-
lar in this connection is grass, Lygeum
spartum, known in the trade as Esparto
grass, and which grows naturally in the
marshes of south Spain and the coasts
of the Mediterranean. In England Es-
parto grass for paper-making is being
consumed in immense quantities. The
London Times is printed now entirely on
Sparto-grass paper, and it is the stout
est paper we receive. The native loca-
tions have been found too limited for
the demand, and plantations are being
made of it in various parts of Spain
where it does not naturally grow. 1t is
we'll worthy of trial in this country but
the seed seems difficult to get hold of.
Commissioner Capron had his attention
drawn to its velue when he was at the
head of the agricultural bureau, and
imported seed at some cost but the
plants died out during the heat of the
following summer at the government
gardens at Washington. TWAS thought
it would not adapt itself to this climate;
but this experiment ought not to be re-
garded as desicive, by any means.
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PERHPAs it is scarcely correct to say
that rafting on the lakes is an innova-
ton, as it has been done before. On
Lake Erie, Mr.. Bowen says that 40, 900,
600 feet were RATED last season from
the Huron country to Tonawanda, Buff
falo and other ports, and not log was
lost. In 1862 Mr.. Redmond Prindiville
RATED 100000 feet of dressed lumber
from Saginaw to this city, distance of
500 miles, in eight days. The tugs
John Prindiville and the Mclean did
the towing. Mr.. Prindiville, whose ex-
perience on the lake makes his opinion
valuable in this connection, thinks that
so long as the weather remains fine and
the water smooth rafting is feasible and
safe, but that rough weather might
break up loose lumber, though a raft Of
heavy logs might survive. Chicago
Tb-ibftJae
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Fertilizers for Potatoes.

A correspondent in a recent number
of the Country Gentleman recommends
as a fertilizer for potatoes the following
One part salt, two parts plaster, three
parts lime, and four parts wood ashes,
mixed together, and one tablespoonful
applied to each hill at the time of plant
ing. On land tolerably rich with hui
mus or vegetable substance, like an old
pasture, or bound-out moving lot, the
above fertilizer think would prove an
excellent dressing for potatoes, much
better than barn-yard manure, especial
ly if in its raw, green state. I think 1
shall use some in this way this
season by way of experiment on small
piece of potatoes. But on land such as
I usually grow potatoes, viz, sandy
loan and rather lean in humus or vege-
table substance, I should prefer mod
crate barn-shovelful of ripe compost in
addition to the above named fertilizer,
applied to each hill composed of one
part green barn-yard manure and three
parts good swamp muck. I have had
very excellent luck for a number of
years with this compost in the cultiva-
ton of potatoes on soil as above de-
scribed, and can recommend it. I have
used also with good success all the in
gradients in the above described fertil-
izer except lime, Incorporating them
with compost, and also applying them
tO the hill at the TINA of r1Iaukinor and
to the vines, except the salt, during
their growing state, it serving not only
to promote their growth, but to keep
the vines green and healthy, and I see
nothing why little lime mixed in with
these other ingredients should not be
equally beneficial to promote the growth
of the potato plant.
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{" Across the Plains.
Notes from the Danbury News Mans
TraveIs-Denver and IcIseHvhere.

Notes from the Danbury News Mans |
Travels-Denver and Elsewhere.
In Kansas City they speak of Denver
as a fourishing hamlet, and then shrug |
their shoulders. In Denver they think |
that Kansas City would be a passable |
place if it was on earth.
The favorite expression here is "in
time" Such ''town viii in time be a |
big city" Such ''man viii in time
make a fortune" And so on. SIN time
is the popular qualifer used in every
connection.
They tell me here that grave-yards
are not needed for residents; they are
merely laid out as an act of courtesy to
visitors. This intelligence affected me
very much, and visibly shortened my
stay in Denver. Kindness always did
overcome me.
We passed a number of settlements
on the line of the Kansas Pacific. They
were in furnishing condition, and am
ply provided with printing offices and
churches, but I would bave freely
traded them ali for one buffalo. It is
an awful thing to want to see a buffalo
and not see it.
The markets of Denver are superior,
the saloons are elegant, and IN one of
these places are billiard tables, which
are pronounced by people who know to
be equal to anything in New York To
see shirt-sleeved miners and buIl-whack-
ers punch balls over these tables is next
in impressiveness to the " eternal
SHOWS
We found the populations of the
cities at the depots. The men were
whiting, not slashing off chips as you
see in the east, but softly tapering down
the stick, lovingly fondling it like a
man would do if he was whiting off
the end of his nose. Only the wealthy
whittle, anyway, because timber is
scarce.
These are admirable grazing lands. I
! did not see cattle on a thousand hills,
but L saw a thousand cattle on no hill.
Herd after herd we passed as we
whirled along, and attending them were
rough-looking men on horses. Men
who have been idealized in novels, only
in novels they are known as rangers,
but here they are simply denominated
bull-whackers.
If you come across any statements in
this letter that appear to be rather figu-
rative, so to speak, you must remember
that the letter is written on the cars
while in motion, which are apt to make
the soundest statements and the most
awful truths appear vague-like. The
motion of running train is uncertain.
I start to give some facts which would
make a river open it's mouth, when a
sudden move sends the pencil out of the
golden realms of truth into the obscene
atmosphere of levity. wish now that I
had written this pamphlet at the hotel,
because Denver is. a most delicate sub
ject to handle under the most favorable
circumstances.
P. 81 may be mistaken, but I feel
certain that careful survey of the
above letter will not reveal the least
reference to the Pixies Peak and Longs
Peak as being so far distant and yet so
wonderfully discernible from Denver.
I am the only writer who has performed
this feat, and I feel proportionately
proud of it, but I should hardly at
tempt it again.
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A HINT FOR Town AND STREET Ma
KERs.-It is worthy of remark that the
arranging of the streets according to the
cardinal points involves a sanitary OBJ
lection of no mean import. No fact is
better established than the necessity of
sunlight to the highest degree of animal
health, and no constitution can long en-
dure without i'll effect, the habitual dali
ly privation of its health-giving power.
City houses, at best, can rarely be so
we'll provided for in this respect as those
which stand alone, as is generally the
case in the country. and it is all the
more important that every facility
should be afforded to secure as much as
possible of its general influence. But
every house on the south side of a street
running east and west must have its
front rooms, which are generally its
living rooms, entirely secluded from the
sun during the winter, and for most of
the day during the summer. This fact,
coupled with that of the indoor life of
American, and particularly western wo-
men, is enough to account for very
large share of the nervous debility
which so generally prevails. If the rec
tangular system must be adhered to in
city arrangement, it would be far better
that the lines of streets should be north
west and southeast, and the cross streets
at right angles with them, than as now
disposed.
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Dangers of Modern Life.

There is the profoundest danger of
the collapse of that highest personal
life, the glory of which has been shown
us, before the confusion of the hllf-
lights and half-shadows of the new era.
Completely of every kind is the great
condition of the new Iife-shades of
thought too complex to yield up defn-
tie Opinions-shades of moral obligation
too complex to yield up definite axioms
of duty-shades of insight too various
to yield up definite sentences of approval
or condemnation for the action of others.
On all subjects not strictly scientific, on
all those mental and moral questions
which determine conduct and action,
the growing sence of completely and
difficulty is rapidly producing a relax
ing effect upon the force of Individual
character. In some sense men are
blinded by the excess of light. The
simple old moral law, ''Thou shalt not
kill, +" "Thou shalt not steal, - "Thou
shalt not commit adultery" ''Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbours goods"
is apt to lose half its meaning before
multitudes of distinctions which grad
ually shade off forbidden acts into most
praiseworthy and delicate sentiments,
and leave you wondering where the
spirit of the law ends and the letter be-
gins. There is, at all events, an i'm
mense growth of thisspirit, not amongst
those who have the most hardships and
suffering, but who have least-amongst
those who have chiefly reaped the ad-
vantages of the new science and arts in
easy life, pleasant tastes language, hopes
and loose faiths. The fear is that, if
civilization succeeds, and we trust it
will succeed, in raising the mass of men
to the same level of comparatively sat
isfied material and intellectual wants,
there will be the same disposition to
subside into the limited life of small,
sttainable eniOyments, and to let alone
the struggles for perfect freedom and
perfect life in God. If it were true
that, with the beating back of great
physical wants, the deepest hunger of
human nature is to be laid to sleep, and
life to be frittered away in small enjoy
ments, no one could look upon human
destiny without sigh. Perhaps it may
be thought almost an answer to this
fear to point out that with the growth of
the self-indulgent spirit there is very
apt to grow also very strong feeling of
the worthlessness of life, a feeling that
nothing enjoyed is worth the cost of
obtaining it, that life itself is a doubt
full good, that the spring and elasticity
of youth once over, and the sense of
duty smothered in a sea of speculative
doubt, it is rather from Incidence than
from love of life, that men prolong the
dreary monotony of unsolved problems
and ungranted prayers.-LO,1dOn Spec
tGtOr.
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LITTLE BEGNNNGs.-The steam
which raised the lid of the kettle, led
a philosophic mind to utilize it for
mans benefit. No one dreamed that
we should now be dragged along by it
at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
When Perry Davis made preparation
for the medicinal use of their family,
thirty years ago, neither he or any 9th
er man imagined that it would now be
sold in every land, and prove TO be the
q Pain Killer of the world. It should
always be kept on hand, especially at
this season of the year, when so many
suffer from bowel complaints. There is
nothing so quick to relieve in attacks
of cholera.
Sold at only % cents a bottle, by
merchants generally.
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How to Dress Sheep.

The Western Rural has heretofore
called attention to the offensive taste re-
sulting from the careless dressing of
sheep and shown that the process should
be completed as quick as possible. As
aEoropOs to the same subject the Lon
don Gentleman's Magazine says:
1t may be of interest to some of our
country readers to learn how to dress
a sheep properly; because a great deal
of flavor depends upon how this opera
ton is performed. We give directions
how to avoid this i'll flavor which arises
from the absorption by the meat of the
gazes from the intestines, which, as the
outside of the carcass cools, cannot es-
cape, and are, therefore, absorbed by
the flesh. There is a simple remedy.
As soon as the animal is dead, let the
hide be slit up from the brisket to the
tail, and to the knees, by quick mo-
ton of sharp pointed knife, inserted
beneath the skin. Strip the skin from
the belly and the ribs and legs, so that
it will be out of the way of the intes-
tines. Then open the sheep Immediate
ly, and disembowel it. All this ought
to be the work of about one minute or
two, or if it occupies five there will not
be sufficient time for the carcass TO cool
sufficiently to cause any unpleasant
TASTE Then proceed to strip the skin
from the back of the carcass. A sheep
should be killed by thrusting a sharp
knife through the neck, back of the
windpipe. without touching it, however,
but cutting the arteries and as soon as
the knife is inserted it should be twisted
round as if to make round hole; there
Will then be no mistake made in cutting
the arteries, and the death of the ami
NAL will be comparatively painless and
rapid
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SUB ROSA.
III oEHAI9 MASSEY

The flower you placed within my bsfton-bole,
tias faded but there lives within my soul
Your beauty's self IN its Immortal flower
Ihat makes me rich with an unfatbon1ed wealth
a A. happy IN tho heaven OF its health.
% nFlng-Warm this dainty flower QioWR.
As II sunbeam blushed into n rose.
Win fragrance like a wait from heaven afar.
alu iook as lustrous as the morninq-star.
15 90 tot come 20 crown your beauty, Sweet
but pray that on Loves bosom Il may rest
a. thornless as its likeness in my breast
~ a. ask Hin Who such promise here hath given
To let me see the flower fuIhIled fn heaven.
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RHEUAIATIs1I.-A many remark
able cures by DR.. Trask's Magnetic Ointment,
send you the following; 1 found my friend
Deacon Barber Of this place PROSTATE and
helpless from a severe attack of infiammatory
rheumatism. With his consent made a
thorough application of the ointment to the
diseased parts, rubbing it on with my own
hands 1 used one bottle. The next morning
he was able to come to the breakfast table,
and said he felt like newman though good
Pro- idence had sent me there. Within week
he was perfectly well and At work on his farm.
J. E. Keller, Wheatland, Mich.
See advertisements
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Sheer and OOws Grazing rore.her

[NE .
An experienced correspondent of the
Practical Farmer, from eastern Penn
syiyania, after enumerating a list of
very tempting profits realized from
sheep, advises that farmers do not rusb
headlong into the business but those
who have none, procure and try n few
upon their farms, and see if there he
not profit in keeping them A few
sheep can be Proftably kept on almost
any farm, as they will feed upon Soma
thing that other stock will not toucb
Will entirely eradicate some kinds &c
weeds, and what they thus consume
Will not be missed at the end of the
year. As to grazing sheep and cows on
the same pasture, the writer saws:
L will conclude by giving summa-
ny OF my own experience in sheen bus-
bandry. 1 have been farming and
keeping sheep nineteen years. Dp-
ring the last seven years / have been
keeping thoroughbred southdowns
carefully selected from some of tbe
best focks in the country. NV lambs
have averaged me S10a piece. and the
wool 81 for each sheep. I think I can
keep one sheep and one COW to every
acre, on given amount of pasture
land just as well as to keep the COW
alone. In regard to alleged injurious
effects affirmed by some of keeping
sheep and dairy cows in the same. I will
state that have never observed them
And if there were any injurious effects
resulting from the practice, it would be
confined to the short space of time in
tervening between first turning 10 mas
ture and harvest, say from the middle
OF May to the first or middle of july.
Sheep prefer and will cling to the old
pastures, while cows are continually
seeking and longing for new"
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For loss Of appetite, dyspepsia, indigestion,
depression Of spirits and general debility,
in their various forms, o-PHOsPoRATED
ELTXIR Of CALIsATA, made by CAswELL, HAz-
ARD & Co, New York, and sold by all druggists
Is the best tonic. As a stimulant tonic for pa
TENTS recovering from fever OF other sickness,
it has no equal II taken during the season 1t
prevents fever and ague and other inteFnit-
tent fevers.-Cora
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ink that are packed

ALL articles we think that are packed
and sold FttH Weight should have the
patronage of consumers, also of deal
ers. We are glad to notice In the article
of SOAP that PROCTOR & CANDLES Ex-
IRA OLIVE Soar is always packed actual
WEIGHT.
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wa L--NS SAW
Go feel what I have felt;
Go out at early dawn,
And smell what have smelt."

An ATLANTA doctor advises persons
afraid OF cholera to stand on their heads
for one minute three times a day. He
argues that this arrests abdominal de-
preston, and would be a healthful
gymnastic exercise at any time.
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NENrHATINa STAoKs.-A new inven-
hon had been adopted this year at the
fnnce Consort's farm and the Norfolk
farm at Windsor, England for the pre-
sorvation of hay vicks from the heating
occasioned by confined air and moisture
A long perforated tube fixed in short
lengths which At into each other. is
built into the body of the rick as II is
carried up, and surmounted by n howl
which turns with the wind and pro,
vides constant down current an nm
ward current is also arranged for an in
ner tube, which is solid, opens at the
bottom, and so completes the circula-
tion. The invention is also adapted 70
graneries and ships in transit, but in
those several arms are provided, run
ming out from the central shaft at right
angles, so as TO distribute the air
through the grain.